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I would like to move from AOL to Gmail. What do I need to do to make it a easy, efficient, transition98.210.136.2 (talk) 01:22, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
I'm thinking of using an ESP8266 device to control some lights from a Raspberry Pi. I was planning to use this project on GitHub [1] but I notice in the configuration file, it has a place for the Wi-Fi password to be stored in plain text. I was just wondering what kind of security risk that poses, if any? It's just a home network so probably not a lucrative target or anything but I wondered whether it was any kind of risk. 213.205.242.130 (talk) 12:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Having years of experience in working with computers, designing software, etc, I am confronted now with a task to draw an artificial hand with elements of pure geometry and elements following curved lines of natural objects. I've never owned a tablet and have no idea how to choose. The multitude of choices confuse me. On the one hand I can buy a tablet but it will lack the ability to draw on the level I need, so I will have to purchase an application to draw what I want, however, some applications might be more designed to draw architectural elements, etc. It is all confusing to me.
What I want is to buy a tablet, like Microsoft Surface [2], even professional, I can afford the best, and be able to open a project, draw lines and click on a feature/button that will straighten this line or if it is a closed line to make a perfect circle out of it. If the circle is not the correct diameter, I want the tablet to enlarge or shorten it, in terms of circumference, etc on demand, and even draw ellipses of given axes.
I also want to be able to move elements of the design on the screen and even take into account 3-D features and if necessary to hide some parts of elements behind others. IN SHORT I WANT THIS PIECE OF HARDWARE TO ASSIST ME IN MY DESIGN.
Then there is this Facebook portal: [3]. What does it do?
Is it possible to buy a tablet like this?
Thanks, - AboutFace 22 (talk) 18:27, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
Thank you, @TheMrP. It is very helpful
A friend of mine recently wrote on Facebook that he almost ran this command in Unix: sudo cp PID.py /home/measurer/GC
.
According to him, it would have overwritten the directory /home/measurer/GC
with the file PID.py
. He said he had intended it as sudo cp PID.py /home/measurer/GC/
(note the slash at the end), which would have put the file inside the directory.
Now as we all know, it will put the file inside the directory either way, so the command would have worked.
But is it possible in Unix to actually overwrite a directory with a file this way? And if so, what happens to the files and subdirectories inside the directory? JIP | Talk 18:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)