I know I can create rectangle and put inside a text but is it any easy way to get text with rectangle around it?
I frequently create labels that follow the same format: white text on a 75% opaque black background, with 10px of margin around the text. Currently, I have to manually build these labels, which takes a lot of work.  In one method, I write the text, figure out its height and width, then create a separate rectangle and place it behind it. This takes a lot of clicking around for every label.  In the other method, I draw out a text box, select it directly, give it the correct background and margins, and then insert the text. However, I must then resize the box manually, meaning more clicking around and greater imprecision. There doesn't seem to be a way to directly select a text box once it has text inside it.  I tried using the script contained in  to resize the text box to the content, but it only resizes the box vertically, and removes my color and margins.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to resolve these problems, or for a better method? I'm using CS3.
Why is looping over find's output bad practice? This question is inspired by    I see these constructs  for file in `find . -type f -name ...`; do smth with ${file}; done   and  for dir in $(find . -type d -name ...); do smth with ${dir}; done   being used here almost on a daily basis even if some people take the time to comment on those posts explaining why this kind of stuff should be avoided... Seeing the number of such posts (and the fact that sometimes those comments are simply ignored) I thought I might as well ask a question:  Why is looping over find's output bad practice and what's the proper way to run one or more commands for each file name/path returned by find ? What form of the verb is used with compound subjects containing "or"? This is my first time through playing Elder Scrolls and initially I grabbed every quest that has come available...  At first I thought I wanted to be part of the Imperial Legion but I feel like I picked the wrong side and am now regretting my choice.  So...is there any way to un-join the Legion and join up with the Stormcloaks, or will I have to wait and join them next time? Does Devil's Fruit power gained depend on how much of it is eaten? Luffy accidentally ate the Gomu-Gomu (Rubber-Rubber) fruit, but was interrupted by Shanks after a few bites. It was too late and Luffy got the Devil's Fruit powers anyway. If he had instead eaten the whole of it, would he have got even more power from the fruit? Brief Description:  I need my Ethernet card (en0) to see all traffic under 192.168.2.xxx.  However I also need to use WiFi card (en1) for all other traffic.  OS: OS X Lion    I am using a separate network location to deal with this specific use (since this is a for a robotics project that communicates via Ethernet). Ethernet (en0) had to be set up as a static IP (192.168.2.10) per the requirements for the device I am connecting to. All connections on the Ethernet card (en0) should be 192.168.2.xxx as specified above. WiFi (en1) is set up as DHCP to a router since their is no point in assigning it as a static for general purpose traffic. Ethernet (en0) is set up as priority over WiFi (en1).  I would also like to keep this under the network location preferences if at all possible since I do not require this feature to be on all the time.  I would really appreciate your help on this. No one I have talked to knows how to solve this. Hill Cipher known plaintext attack I know a plaintext - ciphertext couple of length 6 for a hill cipher where its key is a [3x3] matrix.  Based on what I've read and learned, to attack and crack keys of [n x n], if we know a plaintext - ciphertext duo of length $n^2$ then we have our set of n equations with n variables, and this is generally solvable. However in my case there is only length of $6$ instead of $n^2 = 9$ .   My question is, how will I solve this problem and find the key? Or, since this is an obvious homework question, what should be my way of thinking? I cannot think of anything else but matrix multiplications and inverses but they do not help me at all. In some cases, questions and answers that have been deleted are still showing up on /review pages. They do not have "Improve" buttons, but they can still be approved or rejected. I'm not sure what causes a post to end up in this limbo state instead of being removed from the queue entirely, which I think is what's supposed to happen.  The suggested edit I noticed this on was , but it just leads to a "Page Not Found" message now.  Tim Stone provided the following screenshot of another instance : I am using Ubuntu 17.10 on my desktop PC, I've been monitoring network traffic with Etherape. I noticed HTTP requests from my PC(casa hostname) to googleusercontent.com (104.198.143.177). So I used lsof and ss to 'identify' process behind these requests.    Using lsof -i:   NetworkMa  778            root   20u  IPv4 546772      0t0  TCP casa:53671-&gt;177.143.198.104.bc.googleusercontent.com:http (SYN_SENT) NetworkMa  778            root   20u  IPv4 546772      0t0  TCP casa:53671-&gt;177.143.198.104.bc.googleusercontent.com:http (ESTABLISHED)   Using ss -rep dst 104.198.143.177:    tcp    SYN-SENT   0      1      casa%enp4s0:53671    177.143.198.104.bc.googleusercontent.com:http  users:(("NetworkManager",pid=778,fd=20)) timer:(on,964ms,0) ino:546772 sk:6df &lt;-&gt; tcp    ESTAB      0      87     casa%enp4s0:53671    177.143.198.104.bc.googleusercontent.com:http  users:(("NetworkManager",pid=778,fd=20)) timer:(on,300ms,0) ino:546772 sk:6df &lt;-&gt;   It seems NetworkManager (pid 778) is sending requests to googleusercontent, and it happens every 5 minutes exactly.   I have to say, no applications were launched at the moment, no background process, no network activities,no online account and it was a 'Ubuntu fresh install'. So why NM would sent requests to googleusercontent? Why current in series circuit is the same? I have read in the internet that the charges do not have any other path to go and they must go through the same in a series circuit,hence the current is same.  It was quite convincing but what confused me was: "A resistor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that implements electrical resistance as a circuit element. Resistors act to reduce current flow..."(according to the Wikipedia). This means that the resistors slow down the rate of flow of charges. By definition, electric current is the rate of flow of charges. Then must not the current be reduced in a resistor even when the amount of charge is same? How to train students to write high-quality research papers? As someone supervising postgrad students, I wonder what is the best way to train these students to write high-quality research papers?    The best way seems to be through coauthorship but ...  On the one hand I can be hands-off and rather give them feedback as best as I can but let them do most of the work themselves, sort of like a "sink or swim" strategy.  On the other hand I can be hands-on and rewrite the paper (or large parts of it) and hope that they learn from the example I give.  On the one hand I want them to learn to write papers without me some day and I want them to learn as quickly as possible to take load off me.  On the other hand I want us to publish in the best place possible with as little stress as possible.  On the one hand I want them to see the peer review comments from what they themselves have written.  On the other hand I do not want them to be discouraged by the peer review system early on and do not want to submit papers I know we could have written better.  On the one hand I want them to get confidence by being published and presenting work at good venues.  On the other hand I wonder if they need to get there themselves to get that confidence boost.    At the moment I'm very hands on. There's a few factors for this: I don't like submitting papers that are not up to a certain standard, I'm a native English speaker in a non-English speaking country with non-native speaking students, publications are a high priority for me, etc.  But recently a friend/colleague warned me that I should not be so hands-on with the writing of the papers of my students. He pointed to recently graduated researchers in my area that published good work as students but who struggled after leaving their PhD supervisor saying their supervisor did them no favours in the long term ... that by being so hands on, while the students have success getting published and so forth with me, I'm not really doing the most important thing a good supervisor should do: making myself obsolete.    My question is how to train students to write good research papers and in what ways can I balance being hands-on and hands-off?  I'm also interested in methods not directly involving coauthorship. convexity proof of a function including ln and sums I watched a video on  and read a few  which say that human beings see 3D because we have two eyes. But does that mean when I close one of my eyes, I should see 2D? It doesn't happen so. Why am i still able to be understand depth? Would a person with one eye not be able to perceive depths? I am trying to under stand how to build a barrel shifter using multiplexers. I understand how the barrel shifter works but I don't get how you decide the number of multiplexers to use, and how the shifting is done with the multiplexer basically.  So far wikipedia doen't help much. And the best I have so far is   But it does not really answer my question. I have a PostGIS database and have successfully consumed a table into GeoServer and published a WFS.  Are there REST endpoints available for these WFS' akin to ESRI's feature services?  How are parameters to be constructed? How many people have undergone carbon freezing in Star Wars? We all know the story of Han Solo being a guinea pig for the planned freezing of Luke Skywalker, but how often are people "stored" in this way? "A few" takes a singular or plural verb in present simple tense? Does "a few" take a singular or plural verb in present simple tense?        A few men lifts the table.   A few men lift the table.   A few frogs jumps out of the lake.   A few frogs jump out of the lake.      I have searched the same question in google, but I see both answers. Which one is correct? How come "a few" is plural? Even though it refers to many, "a" makes "few" a singular, so it should take a singular verb, right?  Should I always put "a" in front of "few"? For example, are the following correct?        Few men lift the table.   Few frogs jump out of the lake. In short, :     If you go before the Board of   Directors and ask for 1.5 billion   dollars to build a nuclear reactor, no   one will review or discuss the details   of the plant. They will assume that   experts have been over every inch of   the plans, and not want to look   foolish by asking a silly question.      However, if you ask the same group to   approve a 30 dollar expenditure for   lumber with which to build a bikeshed   (presumably a British term for the   smallest possible building) then be   prepared for a 45 minute discussion   about all aspects of the bikeshed,   including the color of the paint. The   explanation for this is that everyone   can grasp the scale of a bikeshed.   To transform this problem to Stack Overflow terms, questions that are trivial such as "How to convert a C string to a QString or "What is the difference between . and ->" get a lot more views, answers and votes than real questions of the form "How do I frob this widget" that bother real professionals. Fewer views mean less possible votes for good answers and hence less incentive for people to answer.  How can Stack Exchange solve this problem? My internal storage capacity is running low,  what can I do? Currently, my internal storage is running low on space.    What can I do besides moving applications to the external memory, as to free up more space, but preserve my current applications and avoid uninstalling?  (Some of them won't be moved) Can every even integer be expressed as the difference of two primes? Linethrough/strikethrough a whole HTML table row