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Six foot tall, a herd of elephant: special use of the singular in certain syntactic contexts

CambridgeGEL, page 1588 readsExamples like She’s six foot tall involve a special use of thesingular form rather than a base plural: the difference between thisand How many feet...

English Language & Usage Asked on 2 years ago

Meaning: in a whirl of excitement

There is a phrase in Daddy-Long-Legs: "in a whirl of excitement". I searched for its meaning but I could not find something precise for that. Please let me know what...

English Language & Usage Asked on 2 years ago

speech terminology

I was in a large group of friends andMy friend said, "Big Bear is the best place on Earth."I responded, "to go skiing." My intention was to specify...

English Language & Usage Asked on 2 years ago

How to capture details of multiple items

I have to capture details of 30 sportsmen through a web form. Data can be the same for all the players but some could also have different values. I am...

User Experience Asked by UXbychoice on 2 years ago

How can I show the relationship between two progress/health bars?

In a turn based game I'm building you manage a few resources, two of which are related.Speed: a frequently changing value that you consume over the course of a turn...

User Experience Asked on 2 years ago

Create DNS query with Netcat or /dev/udp/

I'm trying to send a valid DNS request with either nc or bash and /dev/udp/. I created a valid DNS packet to use as a template:tcpdump -XX port 53Then,...

Unix & Linux Asked by user424280 on 2 years ago

How to select/delete until end of file in vim/gvim?

Accidentally I managed to copy-paste a paragraph in vim a zillion times.How do I select and then delete the text from my current position to the end of file?...

Unix & Linux Asked on 2 years ago

How can I get bash to exit on backtick failure in a similar way to pipefail?

So I like to harden my bash scripts wherever I can (and when not able to delegate to a language like Python/Ruby) to ensure errors do not go uncaught. In...

Unix & Linux Asked by Danny Staple on 2 years ago

Using --exclude with the du command

This is probably something basic but I'm not able to make it work. I'm trying to use DU to get a total size of files minus certain directories. I need...

Unix & Linux Asked on 2 years ago

Change screen resolution of Xenserver Console for a CentOS VM

I need to increase screen resolution to 1024x800 for my XEN console. I tried to placevga=791at the end of kernel line the file /boot/grub/grub.conf but it seems that most...

Unix & Linux Asked by Max Cuttins on 2 years ago

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