...tion, or whatever. These are only useful when the main program is running, and it's okay to kill them off once the other, non-daemon, threads have exited. Without daemon threads, you'd have to keep track of them, and tell them to exit, before your program can completely quit. By setting them as dae...

... If you can guarantee the 7-zip app will be installed (and in the path) on all target machines, you can offload by calling the command line app 7z. Not the most elegant solution but it is the least work. ...

... Shell scripts are run inside a subshell, and each subshell has its own concept of what the current directory is. The cd succeeds, but as soon as the subshell exits, you're back in the interactive shell and nothing ever changed there. One way to get around this is t...

...entation: from-image; } According to the spec as of Jan 25 2016, Firefox and iOS Safari (behind a prefix) are the only browsers that support this. I'm seeing issues with Safari and Chrome still. However, mobile Safari seems to natively support orientation without the CSS tag. I suppose we'll have...

...Message to a file. However, they are written in the culture of the client. And Turkish errors don't mean a lot to me. 16 An...

...ests that it might be a firewall problem: I have just had this problem and found it was my firewall. I use PCTools Firewall Plus and it wasn't allowing full access to MySQL. Once I changed that it was fine. Hope that helps. Could that be it? Also, someone here suggests that it might be becaus...

I am a bootstrap newbie and I have a 100% wide template that I want to code with bootstrap. The first column begins at the left corner and I have a Google map the stretches to the rightmost. I thought I could do this with container-fluid class, but that doesn't seem to be available any longer. I h...

I am making a stopwatch type program in python and I would like to know how to detect if a key is pressed (such as p for pause and s for stop), and I would not like it to be something like raw_input that waits for the user's input before continuing execution. Anyone know how to do this in a while lo...

In my script in bash, there are lot of variables, and I have to make something to save them to file. My question is how to list all variables declared in my script and get list like this: ...

... A common and simple solution to this problem that feels like a hack but is fairly portable is to add a randomly generated query string to each request for the dynamic image. So, for example - <img src="image.png" /> Would be...