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By Dxfelcey-Oracle on Sep 10, 2013
Sometimes its desirable to have a client connect to multiple clusters, either because the data is dispersed or for instance the clusters are in different locations for high availability. For an extend or external client, which connects to a Coherence cluster via a proxy service over TCP, this is very straight forward. This post outlines how to do this and comes with a simple Java example you can try out yourself.[Read More]

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If I want to mount a file system at
/myname is it possible by just editing fstab file?
Or should I do more to be safer?
Is any other way to do it, or its not a good idea to do?
If I want to mount a file system at
Is any other way to do it, or its not a good idea to do?
This is the way to do it. By editing the fstab file, you'll have options to maintain the mount across reboot. Also, you'll be able to ask mount to simply
So to answer your question, definitely yes.
You want that partition with a different file system to be mounted in Linux. So there can be two cases:
1. If the partition is to be mounted in every boot:
You have to create an empty directory where you want to mount that file-system. Suppose I want to mount a windows partition(/dev/sda1) to
Now you have to open
Add the following line to the file:
Now since you have changed /etc/fstab file, you have to make the kernel to read the file to mount the entry which you have added just now.
2. If the partition is to be mounted for this time only, but not for every boot:
You can use


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My bad guys have holed themselves up for a couple months. Given little preexisting fortification, what resources are there for for building mechanical and magical defenses? Is there something equivalent to 3e's Mage's Magnificent Mansion? How about Wall of Stone? I don't even know where to begin with magical defenses, but presumably those exist as well.
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The fastest way is to ritually create a stronghold with a level 20 ritual. Assuming you don't have the levels for that,
The article notes:
The article provides the following ritual:
Lower levels have a much more difficult time of it, as the idea of manipulating terrain is something best handled in a skill-challenge rather than mechanically.
My recommendation, if the players don't want a stronghold, is to turn it into an extended skill challenge, with each success in arcana, dun geoneering, history, nature, thievery, etc.. providing some interesting feature which they can blow up/use later in the expected epic defense battle. Every failure wastes time or resources.
Aside from magical powers of any kind there is a historical model of fortification involving simple manual labor that may useful to you.
Roman Legions could construct a "castra", a fortified camp in as little as a few hours even while under attack. These came in many different variations depending on how they were used and how long they would be used. Wikipedia roman legion castra
If your bad guys have any knowledge or experience with fighting and defending, (if not they should) then in a couple months with just manual labor they could build a very respectable fortification with out any magic used at all. Plenty of stakes in the ground, pit falls, walls, gates, and even a few towers if that would be appropriate. They could even have stock piled munitions and fighting supplies at key points in the defenses. All these would be tailored to how they intend to fight and defend. Bad news for an attacking party especially if the bad guys know how the party fights. They would prepare for that.
Since it sounds like you are the DM, don't worry too much about "magic building techniques" and just build the fortification. The party isn't going to be analyzing how it was built, but more on can they survive breaching it.
This is a resource for DnD 3.x, but you may find good spells to turn into rituals for use in 4e. I ran a campaign with it, and it did large-scale battles really well. Eden Odyssey's Fields of Blood: The book of war The Q&A site for it is here.
It has rules for building fortifications, cities, and the like. One of the spells used was a spell that made a 5ft bump of earth, with a 5ft ditch behind it. It was a low-level spell, and the Druid used it a lot. He could also move a ton (many tons, actually) with a stone-shape spell and all but put the construction industry out of business! Each casting of that 3rd level spell could produce 100 squares of 2x5x5ft stone. (20cuft at level 10) See this posting for an answer on translation stone-shape to 4e.
My actual suggestion for the badguys using 4E as-is:
And besides, you're the GM. Do whatever makes the PC's squeal. :D


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Charlotte third baseman Shane Basen (Waxhaw, N.C. / Marvin Ridge HS) was today named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District ® First Team in District Three by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). It was his second-straight year to be named All-District III. Last year, he was the sixth player in program history on the list, joining Mike Ambrose, Rob Lyerly, Ryan Rivers, Cory Tilton and Steve Wagoner. He again advances to the national ballot, where he was named a Second-Team Academic All-America last season, joining Ambrose (2006) and Wagoner (1987 & 1988) in earning Charlotte's only Academic All-America Honors in team history.
The 2013 Capital One Academic All-District ® Baseball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One became the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs in 2011.
The Academic All-District ® teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the first year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moves from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non Division I) and doubles the number of scholar-athletes honored. The teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
Basen sports a 3.97 grade point average in double majors of accounting and finance, in addition to tying for the conference lead with 38 RBI. A 2012 Second-Team All-Conference performer on the field, Basen is currently tied for fourth in the league with 58 hits and tied for seventh in runs scored with 33, and has started the last 140 games for the 49ers entering this weekend. He twice won Player of the Week in the A-10 last season, and was named Co-Player of the Week this season on February 25. He has been on the Chancellor's List in all seven semesters at Charlotte and earned Academic All-Conference in 2011 and 2012. He has started all but one game at third base for Charlotte in the past two seasons. He is on the list of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award.
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I am trying to bring some data from Dynamics CRM 2011 using LINQ. The goal is to bring all Contact records that have changes since certain date OR have a child entity (PERC files) changed since that same date. The query looks like that:
// Bring all students who have changes (at Contact entity) after specific date
// momentInTime or the status of any of their perc files has been changed since
// that date
var students = (from c in ContactSet
join pl in cga_portallogonSet on c.Id equals pl.cga_ContactId.Id
join ef in cga_percfileSet on c.Id equals ef.cga_StudentId.Id
(pl.cga_PortalLogonRole.Value == 284970000) // student
(c.ModifiedOn >= momentInTime || c.CreatedOn > momentInTime)
(ef.cga_statuschangedate >= momentInTime)
select c.cga_StudentNumber).Distinct().ToList();
This produces the following error message:
'Contact' entity doesn't contain attribute with Name = 'cga_statuschangedate'.
I cannot figure out how to do OR on two different entities. The MSDN says you need WHERE clause for each entity:
where Clause
In order to filter the result set, where clauses can be added against one or more of the >entities. Each where clause may only contain conditions against an individual entity type. >A composite condition involving multiple entities is not valid. Instead, each entity >should be filtered in separate where clauses.
Is there another way of achieving what I need?


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I have the following problem:
Considerate the following system:
$$x=\cos(u)+\sin(v) $$
Show that in a neighborhood of $(u_0, v_0, x_0, y_0)=(0,0,1,1), (u,v)$ can be written as differentiable functions of $x$ and $y$. Furthermore,
$$\left(\frac {\partial u}{\partial x}\right)^2 +\left(\frac {\partial u}{\partial y}\right)^2=\left(\frac {\partial v}{\partial x}\right)^2+\left(\frac {\partial v}{\partial y}\right)^2$$
I made some attempts however I did not succeed in the second part. But related to that , I will try again. I would appreciate any hints in the first part, which I believe is an application of implicit function theorem.
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I do mean any statistics -- some controlled experiments, sieving through surveys, anything. I'm constantly being told old wives' tales by friends and old doctors' tales by doctors. I'm not asking for well-done science here, just if anybody has investigated anything at all -- any data. Not a duplicate.
Can "The risk of a baby not taking to breast after bottlefeeding may be decreased by using a finger and catheter." be backed up by data?
I'm not finding anything recent. I think Rory Alsop is probably correct about it being a "legacy guidance". If your baby is already nursing well, I wouldn't worry about using a bottle at all. If this is still a concern for you, (I see the date of your post was back in May) you can generally trust the pediatrician to have the most up-to-date answers for you. Also, Nipple confusion is one of those things we all get warned against, but then it doesn't happen all that often anyway. I nannied for a young man that had trouble with it though. It wasn't that big of a deal though, because she could still pump and he was still getting the nutrients when it was given to him from a bottle - plus Dad could participate more. It might be disappointing for the mother if that happened but it isn't going to mean the difference between life and death or even success or non-success later in life.


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I have MacBook Pro 15-inch, early-2011. I want to upgrade my RAM from 4 GB (2+2) to 6 GB (2+4). Can I use Kingston RAM (Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 Bus SOD)? Or is there specific RAM made for Macs?
I upgraded the memory in my Early 2011 MacBook Pro from 4 GB (2x2) to 8 Gb (2x4) using the Crucial site, and haven't had any problems at all.
For the record, I also did the same with a brand new iMac, swapping out both memory modules with 2x4 GB from Crucial.
It worked out to be about 1/3 of the price that Apple charges for the same memory.
Any brand of RAM will work, so long as it matches the specs the computer is expecting. (That would be the "DDR3 1333 MHz" part.)
For the most part, Apple uses standard PC hardware, so there's no more restrictions on what types of parts will work than there would be on a non-Mac.
If you aren't sure just use crucial.com's system analyzer. Any RAM brand is fine for the most part, but stick to the more well known companies.
You probably can, as le least one of my friends do. Just go to Intel ARK and make extra sure what kind of RAM and how much of it can the processor handle.
Be careful with 1333 Mhz RAM - I learned the hard way that my MBP expects 1066mhz and won't recognize two sticks of 1333 (one stick of 1333 and one of 1066 works b/c it downgrades the speed to the slowest stick). Still trying to figure out how to use both sticks of 1333.


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KILLEEN (January 9, 2013)—A Killeen man was being held Wednesday in the Bell County Jail charged in the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.
The Bell County Jail Log lists Michael Lorance Lee, Jr., who shows an address on Tiffany Circle, in Killeen, as ordered held on a $100,000 bond.
Killeen police arrested Lee Tuesday after the victim reported the incident.
Police records indicate the incident happened December 29 at a Killeen home but was not reported until last Sunday.
An arrest affidavit said the victim reported a man entered her bedroom and inappropriately touched her.
In an interview after his arrest, police said, Lee denied contact with the victim, but later changed his story and told police he touched the girl in an attempt to teach her how to defend herself against inappropriate assaults in the future.


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I am not very good at grammar. Is there someone who would go through and correct your grammatical mistakes, even if you are not good at grammar? Who would this person be?
The problem is that there are so many people out there trying to get published who ARE good at grammar. If an editor is looking at your MS and at an MS with an equally good story, characterization, writing style, etc., but with better grammar, the editor is going to chose the story with better grammar.
So before submission, you could try to find an editor to fix the issues for you, but you'd be VERY lucky to find anyone willing to do it for free, and you might find that some of the corrections affect the style of writing you wanted.
It's not impossible to be selected for publication even if a lot of work is needed to make your MS publishable, but everything else about your work will have to be that much better in order to make up for the grammar deficit.
Yes, you should be good at grammar to expect to get published. It's highly unlikely you will get your foot in the door if your manuscript has basic grammatical errors from the outset, because this will detract from your overall story. From a business perspective, poor grammar can also mean it may cost someone more money to publish your book, because it would need a lot more editing compared to someone who has taken the time edit their own work, and fix the grammar as best as possible.
Edit: Forgot to add that, obviously, you yourself could pay someone to edit the work for you, but you definitely need your manuscript at a reasonable standard to expect to get published.
The title of the person you'd be looking for is a copy editor. And you'd have to pay them to beat your manuscript into shape. You could go to a site like elance, but you're going to get what you pay for, TBH.
Let me be harsh but direct: I very sincerely doubt that someone who's not good at grammar is a good writer.
Not because grammar is somehow an ineluctable part of good writing -- it isn't -- but because good writing is writing that rings true in the reader's ear, and good grammar is good because it rings true. Let me give you an (admittedly contrived) example:
Hearing that, the grammarian will shriek "Dangling participle! Dangling participle!" like a car alarm going off. That's not, by itself, important.
What is important is that the reader, hearing that, will say, "What? Huh? 'Knowing' ... 'party' ... I doan get it. I wonder what's on ESPN ..."
The writer who dangles a lot of participles is going to get a lot of his readers watching Sports Center, because reading bad writing is a chore and it's more fun to watch TV.
The grammarian -- even that inner grammarian who complains not only about real mistakes like misplaced modifiers and subject-verb disagreement but also about split infinitives and sentences beginning with conjunctions -- that guy who sits on your shoulder and tries to suck the fun out of writing is really your early-warning system. When he says this-or-that is ungrammatical, what you should hear is, people may not read it. And he may be wrong, but he may be right.
I think that grammar is important, but more because you may have trouble expressing yourself in the way you intended without it. Books are full of characters with poor or unusual grammar, but that should be a conscious choice. Picasso may have created simple, abstract works - but he had a thorough mastery of craft first.


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Giving good clues that offer just enough information can be difficult. I think I tend to not give the players enough information and then to overcompensate with a reveal that comes too easily. Anyone have tips?
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If what you're looking to do is create mysteries for the players to solve, Chris Lehrich on the Forge had a good idea he called "abduction". It's deduction taken back end up, so to speak. In abduction, the players come up with their theory about what happened. Then they theorize clues that must exist if the theory is true; then they look for those clues.
The important part of this process is that the players must do their thinking out loud, so that the game master can hear it. Because the GM probably hasn't placed those specific clues at the scene yet, but the GM does know how the crime/mystery happened. If their theory is correct and it means the clue must exist, then the clue does, in fact, exist for them to find—even though the GM doesn't have it in their notes.
The players can't just say that their characters are looking in the flowerbed, however. They must say why they are looking in the flowerbed.
The key seems to be to hide way more clues than you think are necessary, but to not have any one clue be too revealing. Think lots of small clues that are relatively easy to find but don't reveal anything individually. The players should have to combine them to get any useful info from them.
Another good technique is to have lots of clues in various places that all point to the same information, but only give the players the first clue they find that provides that information. That way you can be relatively sure that they'll learn what they need to learn no matter where they look, but they don't get constant reminders of the facts.
Also, this depends a lot on what kind of game you're running. If it's a traditional murder mystery-style game, the players are likely stuck with whatever info you give them. Players in a game like D&D have more options with regard to divination spells, etc., and you can be more sparing with clues since they have the means to find out a lot without them.
Always keep in mind:
The various games based on the GUMSHOE system (Esoterrorists, Trail of Cthulhu, Mutant City Blues) approach the investigation genre with a fairly cool approach - you automatically find the basic clues if you look for them at a scene. Then you worry more about interpreting the clues. You can get more details and whatnot if you do better or bring specific skills to bear. I think the general approach can be applied to any system.
They way I do it is to keep back many of the clues and then when the player team starts to get stuck, I feed them a little bit more to keep the game going.
Alternatively, I always offer the players lots of different options of things they can do. If they get stuck on one problem, then the can do something else and come back to it when they have accumulated more information.
Clues are fun. Hidden clues that nobody finds aren't fun.
You can try to 'give them without hesitation, but at a price'. Perhaps your character will have to pay something dear, a favor, have to rough up a witness... what are you willing to do to get that clue?
In addition to some great answers...
To the players, everything the GM says has the same shade of grey. Whether the GM has just made it up on the spot and is utterly irrelevant or it is a major clue will be a shade of grey. This can be a huge problem where the GM knows what is important and the players have no clue whatsoever -- bad pun intended. Not because they do not have the clues but because they cannot see them in the sea of information.
The way I deal with this is to guide the players by giving information to the characters. So, if they fixate on a clue that is not relevant, I tell whoever plays the clever character that this is probably not fitting in.
Also, my players are well conditioned to draw spider diagrams (also known as mind maps). Those become quiet complex but if an piece of information does not fit, then it quickly becomes apparent. Again, sometimes, I give the clever character a nudge by pointing out that moving X to the centre will yield some better results.


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We have discussed the importance of creating associations in your child's mind between the physical sensations that precede elimination and the act of urinating or having a bowel movement. As you begin to observe your child picking up on this association—announcing that she needs to poop, removing her diaper when it's wet, or hiding when she's about to have a bowel movement—you can step up these reminders. When you are at home with no outsiders present, make a habit of having the same-sex parent or other adult announce the need to use the bathroom and invite the child to accompany him or her to the bathroom.
Encourage other members of the family to demonstrate bathroom use as well—particularly older siblings, whom toddlers and preschoolers love to imitate. If you have twins, invite both to observe your or another relative's bathroom use, but don't be surprised if one shows interest and the other doesn't. Eventually, the other twin's interest will kick in, and by that time she may have her sibling's potty-training example to help speed her toward potty success herself.
As your child observes the elimination process, explain to her what is happening ("See, Cindy—the pee comes out of Allie and goes into the potty. Then she flushes the pee away, and she stays nice and dry. Soon you'll be able to stay dry, too."). It doesn't matter if your child understands everything you are telling her at first. Eventually the meaning of your words will start to sink in. In the meantime, be sure to avoid comparing your untrained child negatively to the toilet-trained person she is observing. Remind her instead that soon she, too, will start using the bathroom "just like a big girl"—thus inspiring her to do her best.
During this preparatory phase of toilet training, it's important to explain and demonstrate every step of the process. Skipping steps now can create habits that may be hard to change later. Point out each time how she will need to:
Explain in simple terms that we always wash our hands after we poop or pee to be sure they are clean. If your child's increasing curiosity about toilet use prompts her to try to play with her feces, you will need to calmly stop her and explain, "This is something to flush away, not to be played with." Keep in mind that your facial expression and body language are as important as what you say. Avoid implying a sense of shame or blame. Your child is highly attuned to your emotional responses and will "learn" that toilet use is healthy and positive or dirty and nasty, depending on what you communicate.


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What is the dimension of the subspace of $P_2$ given by
$ W = span \{2+ x^2, 4-2x+3x^2, 1+x\} ?$
I know dimension is the number of vectors in the basis, so I want to know if W's vectors are each linearly independent...
But I have no convenient way of telling if the vectors are linearly independent. The Wronskian is no good - it just evaluates to 0 for various substitutions ($x=0,1)$, which doesn't give me information. I'm looking for an efficient way to answer this problem.
I've also considered the rank-nullity theorem. dim$(P_2) = 3$, but does that tell me anything about the dim$(W)?$
Thanks in advance.


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10 Old-Timey Medical Treatments Inspired by Your Nightmares
In the course of 10 pictures, we're going to make you feel way better about the fact that you weren't born 100 years earlier. Because we're telling you right now, medicine used to be terrifying. And we're not just talking about the fact that it took a really long time to convince doctors to wash their hands before surgery. We're talking about walking into a hospital and seeing things like ...
#10. Pedicle Grafts
Wait, what the hell? These are supposed to be old medical photos -- we thought it was going to be like antique stethoscopes and stuff. So why does this guy have alien tentacles growing out of his goddamned mouth? And why doesn't he seem more upset about it?
It's because he's getting a new face. What you are actually looking at is a pedicle graft, a procedure developed by Dr. Harold Gillies to treat disfigured soldiers during World War I, back when skin grafts and reconstructive plastic surgery had about a zero percent success rate. First, a flap of skin from an unaffected area of the patient's body was sewn into a tube and temporarily grafted to wherever the new body part was needed:
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You just have to look like a Seussian horror elephant for a month or so.
The tube maintained a blood supply to the grafted area, which dramatically decreased the chance of rejection and/or infection while simultaneously increasing the number of children that would never come near you ever again.
Despite the "before" pictures having all the grace and subtlety of Eli Roth, the "after" photos of Gillies' procedure are strikingly impressive, especially considering he came up with it almost a hundred freaking years ago. Patients would go from huge gaping hole in their face, to the grotesque sewn-on graft ...
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This guy's potential employers are basically limited to Sauron or Gringotts.
... to pretty much looking normal again:
#9. Heliotherapy
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This photo is one of those rare situations where "UFO cult induction ritual" is the best case scenario. When you see a ring of mostly nude children holding hands in a darkened room around an alien glow, do you automatically hear gothic chanting in your mind? Or is it just us?
They're actually standing around a sun lamp. Starting in the late 1800s, kids who suffered from lupus and tuberculosis were sent to hospitals and clinics to receive heliotherapy to treat it. The children's skin produced vitamin D in response to the light, and as a result they were better able to fight off TB and other bacterial infections, as well as seriously alarm any child welfare worker that happened to catch a glimpse of the treatment.
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"Children, meet the Molesto-Tron 3000"
#8. Electro-Stimulation of Facial Muscles
That man isn't actually screaming in horror -- those wires are electrodes, and he's making that expression because electrical currents are contorting his facial muscles against his will. Okay, he may also be screaming in horror.
The mutton chops on the right there belong to Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne, a French neurologist who electrocuted the shit out of a mental patient's head meat to make him pull goofy faces, and then photographed those faces in the pursuit of knowledge. Consequently, it looks like a still from Howdy Doody if Howdy was the taxidermied corpse of a homeless man rigged with the same wires they used to make Mr. Ed speak.
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"We'll call him 'Mr. Dead' and make millions."
Duchenne originally intended to explore the muscles of the hands, but ultimately decided that it was his scientific duty to put electrodes onto peoples' faces. He kept a detailed photo record of his study, because he knew the Internet would be invented someday.
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"See? He's smiling."
"Yes Doctor, but what are you treating?"
#7. Iron Lungs
This picture of mounted child heads and a bizarrely cheerful nurse was presumably taken in a wing of Willy Wonka's factory not featured on the tour, wherein he straight-up murders children without any of that candy-themed "life lesson" pretense and saves their heads for glazing.
Unfortunately, the reality here isn't much more pleasant than that -- it's a bunch of kids in iron lungs. These devices were in popular use during the first half of the 20th century to treat victims of the rampaging polio epidemic, because it isn't medicine unless it's mechanically sterile and terrifying.
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"This is better than death in the same way a condom of bees is better than castration."
Polio caused paralysis, right down to the muscles the patient used to breathe. The iron lungs were huge machines that did their breathing for them, and as such, a patient could expect to be imprisoned in one of those things for weeks, months or even years. All that time with just their head poking out, unable to do anything except just lay there, motionless and be happy to be alive.
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And sometimes a mean nurse would just stand there flicking your ear for 12 hours straight.
#6. Rib Resection
This is one you have to look at for a moment before you realize holy shit that guy is missing like 20 percent of his torso and cannot possibly be alive.
Don't worry, all that's happened there is ... oh, wait, it's exactly what it looks like. The guy is having his ribs resected to drain the pus out of his lungs before he drowns in it. In the days before antibiotics, this was a common side-effect of pneumonia. The ribs were often removed so the lungs could be more easily accessed for incision and draining, a procedure which killed exactly as many patients as it sounds like.
"Perfect. I can get my whole hand up in there now."


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Porting from NetBeans to Eclipse
I am having an issue porting my application from Netbeans to Eclipse. I have it mostly setup but when I compile it in Eclipse none of the styling is there. I checked the output from the compilation and I noticed that the css and images directories for GXT is not present. I then went to test by creating a new project in Eclipse with a very simple GXT Window but again the window is created (i see the title and if I click on the title I can move it) but the CSS and images directory is not being generated so there is no styling. I have the necessary inherits and reference the CSS in the html file but for some reason when it compiles those directories are not being generated. Is there something else that needs to be done in Eclipse? I am using GWT 1.6.4, GXT 2.0 and Eclipse 3.4
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With GXT 2 the images are not in the classpath. You need to copy them to the final destination by hand
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Thanks so much. That was it. I must've missed reading that somewhere.
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Another thing; the footage from the match engine looked pretty cool, and it was good to spot a few new things, either new things (the keeper with his head in his hands) or things that should have been better simulated in the FM10 match engine but were problematically absent (someone above mentioned the jumping wall and a free-kick on target that went over the wall and back down, something with a 0% chance of occurrence in 10.3). But for the most part what we saw in the new footage was stuff that already happens in the current engine.
What would be really interesting for me would be for the next batch of Match footage to show that the new engine has rectified a few more of those problematic absences. I'll put in a couple of requests for things to show, which for me would really demonstrate that the match engine is evolving. If it's not currently possible to find footage of them in the Engine, they might provide a nice little list of details to work on. Their total absence from the 10.3 match engine is a problem, it would be great to see them in FM11.
- A player through one on one rounding the keeper with a dummy.
- A player through one on one waiting for the keeper to go to ground and dinking it over him.
- some more solid player physics for collisions etc (players in 10.3 don't often seem to bump into each other, and they go through each other like ghosts to often)
- A player making a mazy run based on dribbling and dummying rather than pace
- a static player making space for a shot or a cross by dropping his shoulder to send the player guarding him the wrong way.
- a defender shepherding the ball out of play with his upper-body strength blocking another player from getting in behind him
- a player sticking out a leg to block a shot
- a player making a sliding interception
that's just a list of things I'd like to see the engine capable of, since they're a routine part of every single football match. Anyone else have any suggestions of normal football situations that they'd like to see FM11 footage of?
Anyhow, I'm really excited for FM11, keep up the good work.


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With Apple claiming the Tap to Zoom and Pinch to Zoom patents and possibly enforcing them, what is an alternative that is intuitive and still distinct from tap/pinch?
Let's assume for a moment that we're talking about a touch interface without any other controls.
Direct Manipulation
As noted in the comments above, there are a limited number of gestures for directly manipulating content. From gestureworks:
This leaves for direct manipulation either a rotation gesture (screw-to-zoom?) or a difficult to control hold gesture. Neither are ideal.
There are three primary methods for zooming using controls. These are:
Overall, methods using controls are likely to be the best bet when using a touch interface for zooming, assuming that we're unable to use pinching or tapping (which, in my opinion, are the most obvious and intuitive of the gestures and would otherwise be the preferred solution).
This won't work with just thumb, but neither does pinch.
Have the user put 4 fingers spread on the screen, the map then zooms in so that the polygon whose vertices are your fingers fills the whole screen. To me this seems much more intuitive than pinch zoom, especially for pictures and maps. For instance, if I have a picture with a face in it, I just put my fingers in a little box shape around the face and boom it zooms in to exactly what I want.
This is like the boundary boxes idea, except instead of drawing a boundary box, you just place your fingers to be the vertices. It will also work with just 3 fingers (boundary triangle) but might be less intuitive.
Put fingers on screen:
Figure out bounding box:
Zoom to have bounding box fill screen:
The thing with Touch is despite all the talk of "gestures" there are really only a few basic gestures humanly possible:
As you'll note even these gestures you're partially repeating yourself; tap and hold is just a longer tap, swiping is just dragging but letting go quickly.
Tapping is the basic action. Pinch is the obvious choice. But for he context of this question we have to ignore those; I am not considering those "illegal" nor would I encourage you to avoid them, I'm just playing the thinking game.
Basically what we have left are swipe/drag and tap and hold left. Tap and hold doesn't make sense, and it's a one way action. It's also not very discoverable; I'll consider it excluded.
Swiping or dragging up/down for zoom in out is a legitimate possibility, but it complicates the potential for a drag gesture to pan. I wouldn't recommend swipe/drag if any form of panning/scrolling is involved.
So that's all direct manipulation options excluded. What's left? Buttons. A viable option for large screens is the slider like Google Maps desktop uses:
Alternately, plain old plus minus buttons (maybe in a magnifying glass):
Basically if you really want something that clearly and intuitively indicates zoom, you have to go back to visual controls if you're not allowed pinch to zoom.
The browser that shipped with the Nokia N900 used a 'circle-to-zoom' - you made a circle shape with your finger or thumb to zoom, clockwise to zoom in and counterclockwise to zoom out.
What about 2-finger swipes up & down? Granted, it may not be immediately intuitive since pinch is the accepted "norm" but it seems like it would be easy to catch on, and is different enough from a 1-finger swipe used for panning or sliding.
I agree that if a touch method isn't necessary, control buttons would be the easiest for a user to learn.
There is also the old Android method pressing with both thumbs at the same time and tilting the device. Very janky and awkward.


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A new access pass, called the Georgia Outdoor Recreation Pass (GORP), will be required for visitors to some wildlife areas beginning Jan. 1, 2012, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division. Those that potentially will need the pass include hikers, birders, cavers, cyclists and other non-traditional user groups of wildlife management areas, public fishing areas and some natural areas.
Wildlife Resources Director Dan Forster said the GORP answers a long-realized need for those users to help cover the cost of providing the property. The new system allows a broader range of constituents -- beyond hunters and anglers -- to contribute more equitably. He added that the fee structure developed in the GORP "is the result of a broad-based and extensive public involvement process."
The GORP will be required on 32 affected properties in Georgia. Each area is managed for wildlife, habitat and outdoors activities, work that previously was funded mostly by revenue from hunting and fishing licenses. However, these same areas often were heavily used by secondary activities such as hiking, cycling, birding and more.
A GORP for an individual costs $3.50 (three days) and $19 (annual) for individuals. For groups of eight or fewer people, a GORP is $10 (three days) and $35 (annual). The pass is required for visitors ages 16-64, but not for those who have a valid WMA, honorary, sportsmen's, lifetime or three-day hunting and fishing license.
The GORP will go on sale beginning Nov. 1, 2011. It is available at www.georgiawildlife.com/recreational-licenses [1] , by calling 1.800.366.2661 or via retail license agents. A high-value version called GORP Plus ($3.50) is available only to Georgia residents and covers three days access plus hunting and fishing privileges.
For more information or to see a list of areas, visit www.georgiawildlife.com/Georgia-Outdoor-Recreational-Pass [2] .
EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is a list of User Fee Areas where a Georgia Outdoor Recreational Pass will be required, starting January 1, 2012.
List by Area, Facilities within the Area, County
Wildlife Management Area (WMA), Public Fishing Area (PFA), Natural Area (NA)
1. Altamaha WMA, Butler and Champney Islands and McGowan Lake Tract, McIntosh County
2. Beaverdam WMA, Shooting Range, Laurens County
3. Big Hammock WMA, Shooting Range, Tattnall County
4. Big Lazer Creek WMA, Shooting Range and PFA, Talbot County
5. Bullard Creek WMA, Shooting Range, Jeff Davis County
6. Chickasawhatchee WMA, Shooting Range, Baker County
7. Clayhole Swamp WMA, Campground and Ponds, Glynn County
8. Clybel WMA, Entire Area including Marben PFA but excluding Charlie Elliott Wildlife Center, Jasper County
9. Crockford-Pigeon Mountain WMA, Entire Area, Walker County
10. Dawson Forest WMA, North of GA Hwy 53, Dawson County
11. Dixon Memorial WMA, Shooting Range, Ware County
12. Dodge County PFA, Entire Area, Dodge County
13. Evans County PFA, Entire Area, Evans County
14. Flat Creek PFA, Entire Area, Houston County
15. Grand Bay WMA, Entire Area, Lowndes County
16. Hannahatchee WMA, Shooting Range, Stewart County
17. Hugh M. Gillis PFA, Entire Area, Laurens County
18. J.L. Lester WMA, Entire Area, Polk County
19. Mayhaw WMA, Shooting Range, Miller County
20. McDuffie PFA, Entire Area, McDuffie County
21. McGraw Ford WMA, Entire Area, Cherokee County
22. Ocmulgee WMA, Shooting Range and PFA, Pulaski County
23. Paradise PFA, Entire Area, Berrien County
24. Rich Mountain WMA - Cartecay Tract, Entire Area, Gilmer County
25. Richmond Hill WMA, Shooting Range, Bryan County
26. Silver Lake WMA (NA), Riding Trails Access, Decatur County
27. Sprewell Bluff WMA, East of the Flint River, Upson County
28. Tuckahoe WMA, Campground, Screven County
29. Walton WMA, Shooting Ranges, Walton County
30. Wilson Shoals WMA, Shooting Range, Banks County
31. Yuchi WMA, Shooting Range, Burke County
32. Zahnd WMA (NA), Entire Area, Walker County
[1] http://www.georgiawildlife.com/recreational-licenses
[2] http://www.georgiawildlife.com/Georgia-Outdoor-Recreational-Pass


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To me, this is kind of tricky. Our environment contains a client/server architecture that involves using Unix servers to store DB information and executable scripts to transact against that information. However, the Vendor that created the system chose to use a Windows client front end for opperation. The Vendor chose to preserve case sensitiviy for search functionality, IE, if a script named
DO.THIS resides on the server, searching
do.this will yield 0 results.
I find this completely understanble coming from developer's perspective having some Linux/Unix experience. However, from a UX perspective, those that are expected to use this system typically have minimal computer experience with Windows as their only exposure. Needless to say, it's been a challenge trying to explain "why" they can find files using their Windows based search function using either casing but doens't translate very well using this one application. I have accepted the world I live in.
I happen to like the idea of doing the Windows/Unix infrastructure and considering doing something similar for a project we have coming up. I plan on preserving what our vendor has done for the sake of keeping things consistent here. But I if had chance to start from scratch, would the extra effort in translating casing result in a better UX experience, or is it the expected norm that *Nix system will always be case sensitive?


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For hand wringers scared off by lots of words, nighmarish formatting and the fair use doctrine...... you'll find no relief here,
excerpts from a discussion on 5x5 from Glenn Pendlay...very helpful I found in ways to think about working with basic templates like those laid out Rippatoe's in Starting Strength and Practical Programming..
there seem to be a lot of people who do the style of training we usually call "5 by 5" for a while, then wonder "whats next".
one general comment i would make, is that if this style of training has been successfull for you, why change it? and by style of training, im not talking about one specific program, but the general style of doing whole body exercises, training the whole body or at least most of the body in each workout, and doing multiple sets not taken to failure.
i do, however, understand the mental side... you do the same thing over and over and you want something different. there are lots of ways you can change things without totally changing to a "new" program. switching back and forth between widely differing types of training isnt that good of an idea... small and systematic changes over time in what you are doing however IS a good idea.
for instance... say youve been squatting 3 times a week. how about changing one of the workouts to front squat, hell you could change 2 of the workouts to front squat. i hate leg presses, but if you really wanted to, you could squat on monday, front squat on wednesday, and leg press on friday!!! if youve been doing only rows for back, change one or two of the workouts to chinups... substitute stiff legged deadlifts for deadlifts, change mondays workout to 3 sets of 8 for a month, change fridays squat or bench workout to 5 singles, etc, etc, etc.
ive even seen people who after a while on a 3 day a week program, switched to a 4 day split, doing squats and pressing exercises on monday and thursday, back and pulling exercises on wed and saturday. i dont see this as retreating from the principles of the 5 by 5 at all. you are STILL working your whole body, or very nearly so, every training day. squats work the back, they work everything... and deadlifts or stiff legged deadlifts work the legs, not as much as squats, but they still work them. this is in fact the favored program of mike stone, probably the best ex phys guy on the planet and former head of sports science at the olympic training center.
the main thing is to go about it in a systematic way.
one of my lifters, josh wells, who made the junior world team in 2004 in weightlifting, and can jerk close to 400lbs weighing around 180lbs as a teenager, did this program about a year ago in his "off season" to try to gain some general strength.
monday, squats (5 sets of 3), push presses (3 sets of 5) then glute ham raises or reverse hypers
wednesday, snatch pulls (5 sets of 2), powercleans (5 sets of 2), chinups (5 sets of 10 with extra weight, hanging from a 2" bar)
thursday, front squats (6 sets of 2), push jerks (5 sets of 2), military press (3 sets of 5), then glute ham raises or reverse hypers.
saturday, powersnatches (5 sets of 2), clean pulls (5 sets of 5), barbell rows, (5 sets of 5)
obviously this is geared toward olympic weightlifting, and not really what most of you would be doing. im not sure many here have that much interest in doing so many snatch and clean pulls. and hes using lower reps, because of course for him strength is a bigger deal than size, but even his reps changed over time, sometimes were higher, sometimes lower. this is just as representative of the 5 by 5 training style as the simpler 3 day programs... because we did it systematically, sets across instead of failure, gradually moving the weights up, gradually adding then subtracting volume of training to force the body to adapt
the important thing is to think thru the changes, dont make too many at one time, but make them slowly and steadily.
the real value of the "5 by 5" style of training isnt that it can or will add a certain amount of muscle or strength in an 8 week cycle. the real value is that it is a framework that when used right can work for years, slowly changing and morphing along the way to fit itself to your particular goals, and making for steady progress for 3, 4, or more years. it is more than anything, a mindset. a mindset of writing your workouts down, being systematic, knowing what you are going to do before you go to the gym, having a plan, and knowing that 5lbs a month is 60lbs a year and 180lbs in 3 years.
and more than that it is a mindset of THINKING, thinking about training, and rejecting the latest and greatest thing that forces many, even most, to run from one program to the next, changing things totally every time they get bored or have a bad workout. by recording everything, thinking a lot, planning, making small changes instead of wholesale ones, going back and looking at your workout log and looking at the last month, 6 months, year, etc, and planning the next month... within a year or two you know more about your body and what to do than me or anyone else could ever tell you.
now... last comment. i have, in a big drawer, a record of every single workout i have ever done, from the time i was 15 back in 1975 to my last month of competitive training in 2003. every single one. i also have descriptions and comments, tables in the back of the logs that showed weight gain and strength gain on a yearly basis, monthly, etc. comments on what happened to weight/strength when i changed exercises, changed reps, etc. there is very little i dont know about how my body responded, what worked and what didnt, etc. you all should do the same thing. approach training like a scientist working an experiment.
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becky came here with a best set of 5 on the back squat of 178lbs. she is a big and strong looking girl, so i was kind of amazed that she couldnt squat more... but i witnessed her doing about that for sets a few times, and sure enough it was damn hard.
roughly 3 months ago she decided her squat wasnt going up with what she had been doing, and decided to try to do what i had been trying to get her to do... to go along with her trying a new workout i bet her $20 that she would squat 220lbs for 5 sets of 5 reps before the arnold, which as i remember it was at that time about 10 weeks away. she took the bet as her squat had been stuck for over a year and she really didnt think she could make that sort of progress in that amount of time. this is how we approached improving her squat, which is representative of how we usually do things
first workout on monday we loaded 178lbs and i told her we were going to do not one set, but 5 sets of 5 with it. she was skeptical, but willing to try. luckily we had a full training room, plenty of people to yell and scream at her. she was really grinding them out, but the second and third sets were just like the first, absolutely limit but she made them. she failed on the last rep of the 4th or 5th set, but good effort.
2 days later, we did 165lbs for 5 sets of 5. 2 days later we loaded 183lbs and she did it for two set of 5, that was on a friday.
next week on monday she did 178lbs for 5 set of 5. wednesday she did 165lbs for 5 sets of 5. friday she did 183lbs for 5 sets of 5, making all the sets.
next monday she did 183lbs for 5 sets of 5. wednesday she did 165 for 5 sets of 5, and friday she did 183lbs for 5 set of 5.
next week monday she did 183 for 5 sets of 5, and on wednesday she did 172lbs for 5 sets of 5, then on friday did 183 for 5 sets of 5.
(that was a heavy period, she was tired all the time, not seeming to get much stronger)
next monday she did 154lbs for 3 sets of 5, and on wednesday did 198lbs for one set of 5, then on friday did 187 for 5 sets of 5.
next monday she did 154lbs for 3 sets of 5, then on wednesday did 203 for one set of 5, then on friday did some front squats to max.
next monday she did 193 for 1 sets of 5, wednesday front squats to max, then friday did 198 for 5 sets of 5.
(those 3 weeks were less load, she was recovering and feeling stronger, only 2 really hard workouts in those 3 weeks, last workout a big one that showed she was recovering well nad getting much stronger)
next monday we didnt plan to go all that heavy, but she was looking strong, so we did 209 for one set of 5, rest of the week was taken off of squatting becasue of collegiate nationals.
monday we did 178 for 3 sets of 5, wednesday we did 198 for 1 sets of 5, and friday we did 215 1 sets of 5.
next monday we did 178 for three sets of 5, wednesday light front sqauts, and friday 215 for one set of 5, which surprisingly enough was a really easy set.
(these 3 weeks also easy, the sets with 209 and 215 were getting easier as she was recovering more)
based on last ffriday being easy, we tried the 220lbs for 5 sets of 5, and she made it on monday, i won the $20, which is still unpaid, and she took the rest of the week off from squatting for the arnold.
not a perfect sqaut cycle, remember that becky was training often 2 times per day doing snatches and clean and jerks, and sometimes 3 times per day. sometimes what we WANTED to do with squats was not an option based on her going to heavy weights so often on snatch and clean and jerk, and having to back off sometimes on squat to allow her to consistently lift at least %90 to %95 on the competitive lifts. becky was able to succeed with 70kilo snatches and 85kilo clean and jerks consistently throughout this training period, these weights were her maxes before we started this. she occasionally did 72 snatch and 87 clean and jerk, but she was doing 70/85 3 days a week, and doing the 70 snatch often 2 or 3 workouts a day. on her light days she did about 65 snatch and 75 or 80 clean and jerk.
her workouts looked basically like monday, wed, friday, take a morning light workout of 65snatch and 80kilo clean and jerk, then in afternoon take 70/85 and sometimes then start over and work to 70/85 again, then squat, then often in evening come back for something like 70/80. light days were done with 65/75 in the afternoon, then 65/80 in the evening. if tired, she only worked out one on light days instead of twice, or only worked out two times instead of 3 times on heavy days.
id say becky averaged about 12 workouts a week not counting the week directly before collegiate nationals... highest number of workouts was 15 in a week, lowest i think was 10.
at the arnold she did 75 snatch with a stupid miss at 77.5 that showed she was physically ready but not mentally ready, and then a solid clean and jerk with 92.5k. her squat best set of 5 went up 42lbs, with the higher weight actually being done for multiple sets.
i think her success in raising her squat was due to a few factors...
1. she was obviously ready to squat more, but for some reason wasnt. not everyone could make that much progress in a short time, she obviously had a little more in her than she was showing
2. she had never loaded really heavy, she was used to doing a certain thing and really was physciclly ready to respond to something different.
3. she was in good shape with no real injuries (her only injury is a knee problem which is left over from her former career as a track and field athletete, but with enough yelling and screaming and disgusted looks its effects on her training are minimized), so was able to do a fairly heavy loading period with about 12-15 sets of 5 a week for several weeks without breaking down too much. she also had a LOT of support in the gym to keep her motivated when she was tired and still had to do hard sets.
4. she trains with a girl who is smaller than her but outsquats her by a LOT and i suppose this pissed her off and motivated her.
5. by the end of the 4th or 5th week she was beginning to believe in what she was doing, and this gave her the confidenct to put weight on the bar and know she should be able to do it when the time came to rest a little bit and start going after the heavier weights. if you dont believe you are ready, you can fail even if you can physically do it.
we have upped the bet to double or nothing that she squats 242lbs for 1 set of 5 before senior nationals, which is about 7 weeks away.
this will be more difficult, because whe will be loading much harder with the competitive lifts as well as some things like drop snatches and other exercises picked to try to abolish her mental and physical problems catching a snatch. she will drop snatch 90kilos about 2-3 weeks out from the nationals, which will be up 10kilos from her current max. that will take some work, and that plus more snatching and clean and jerking will take a little away from her ability to squat hard. we also will not be able to load the squats with quite so many high rep sets this close to a big meet like nationals. so she will have to rely more on front squats lower volume, higher intensity training.
for our hard training for nationals, becky will approximately double the number of attamps over %90 that she takes in the snatch and clean and jerk for several weeks, along with adding in a couple of assistance exercises that she hasnt done in the past, and adding more front squats. this will make doing 5 sets of 5 in the squat with high weights impossible. so her squatting will include some workouts of 5 sets of 5 with fairly small weights, and more workouts of 1 set of 3-5 reps done at maximal weights.
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I like words Dave. More please.
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What James said.
"And for crying out loud. Don't go into the pain cave. I can't stress this enough. Your Totem Animal won't be in there to help you. You'll be on your own. The Pain Cave is for cowards.
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This is such terrific insight into the practical applications of 5x5 and Rippetoe's concepts -- particularly in the context of olympic lifting.
Thanks for posting this (formatting and fair use doctrine be damned!).
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Definitely good words. I like the KISS approach.
Any thoughts on adding metcon to this? I used to do Bill Starr's "The Strongest Shall Survive" routine three days a week and ran 4 to 10 miles three days a week which seemed to work well.
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Definitely good words. I like the KISS approach.
Any thoughts on adding metcon to this? I used to do Bill Starr's "The Strongest Shall Survive" routine three days a week and ran 4 to 10 miles three days a week which seemed to work well.
Why? Do you need fitness?
Anytime you "add" something your performance and gains (in strength in this case) are always going to suffer.
intended as professional medical, training or nutrition advice.
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I agree with Steven. focus on one or the other. doing both will lead to sub-optimal performance in both.
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One always needs fitness. GPP is like insurance, it's wise to have some, but how much is enough? I've just begun competing in HIghlands Games events which biases my training toward strength, but I'm not one dimensional. I still want to maintain a good level of overall fitness.
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One always needs fitness. GPP is like insurance, it's wise to have some, but how much is enough? I've just begun competing in HIghlands Games events which biases my training toward strength, but I'm not one dimensional. I still want to maintain a good level of overall fitness.
For certain. I'm interested in how you balance that out. HG training seems to need so much skill work it's probably tough to fit in much besides the power work and skills.
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I have lots of components installed - trouble is when I want to find one I rarely use it takes ages to find it. I can look at the ALL choice which lists all components but finding one with say 'grid' in the title is still very time consuming. Is there a database of titles or (preferably) a text file I could interrogate and search?
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Try DDevExtensions 1.61, it add ability to search for components for Delphi from version 5 and above, with other many improvement for the IDE.
Which version of Delphi? In recent versions, just click on the top of the palette and type "grid". Ctrl-Alt-P will focus the palette, and then you can just start typing.
In RAD2009 and RS2010, do this and it'll find all components with "grid" anywhere in the title.
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1) In older versions (D7 and before), you can right click on the component palette to see the properties. This shows all of the components you have installed one page at a time. It isn't searchable, but at least the list shows each component's name and package, so it's easier than using the popup hints on each individual component.
2) In Delphi 7, you can select View|Component List, which brings up a searchable alphabetical list of all components. Unfortunately, it only matches on the first part of the component name. The first version of the "new" tool palette had this same limitation.
3) DDevExtensions (free) allows partial string matches in the old component palette (D5-D7), and restores something like the old palette in newer versions of Delphi (D2005 and up). It's also included in Delphi 2010 for people who prefer that style. I like how the search works in Delphi 7, but in Delphi 2010, the filtering seems a little awkward to me. It filters the components and palette pages, but if you have matching components on more than one page, they aren't all shown at the same time. You still have to click on each individual page.
4) My favourite. I prefer the new tool palette (Delphi 2005 and up). Very configurable, lets me see the component names, shows components on more than one page at a time, dockable, etc.
Bottom line. If you don't have or don't like the new tool palette, get DDevExtensions.
Before Delphi 2005: Install DDevExtensions, then choose Tools -> DDevExtensions Options -> Component Selector -> Check the "Active" box, click OK
Delphi 2005 and later: Click in the component palette and type the name of the one you want.
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