I have updated my system and I want to do some tests needed to remove the cache. I know the command download the packages list from the repositories,but where is the local database to store this infomation.
I have 20 to 3o computers on my network and I have a copy of the debian packages on /var/cache/apt/archives but when I take this downloaded copy to any other machine I need to hit an "apt-get update" , How do I avoid this ? Where is the list of packages which is updated by that command stored. I need to copy them as well, and use it on a computer which is completely offline.
We know that if you (using Polyjuice), take the form of someone who had been injured, you assume that injured form (e.g. Barty/Moody). If you are injured, presumably you would be uninjured while under Polyjuice. My question is, is this in real-time? That is, if you take a Polyjuice, and while you're still under its effects, the person being transformed into gets injured (or even dies), will that injury be transferred onto you? And conversely, if you get injured while in someone else's body, will that transfer over to your real body after the Polyjuice wears off, will it disappear, or will it go to the person you turned into? Where to start looking up if there's something wrong with cck field variables? in short: Something in my zen-based custom theme is keeping a couple of cck fields from being display on my page. 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The theme for my site is a zen-based custom theme.   So then even later, after I made a view for this node type and started adding css to that view I noticed at some point that my image field and two other fields are missing. It's hard to tell if they disappeared because of things that I did when creating the view and adding css (which would surprise me) How to keep any Window "Always on Top"? Some software have an option for their window to be "Always on Top". Is there any way to get the same functionality for any window. Let me give an example where this would be useful.  Suppose I have a small browser window with real time stats from a game. The window is automatically updated at the rate of once every 10 seconds. I would like the small window to be always on top. so that I can just look at it whenever I want to, without actually going to it and at the same time I could continue working in my main application, which is at full screen.  Is there any Windows hack or App which can give me this functionality? How do you create product mock-ups? This is a question to experienced people that might help us shed some light on the issue.   We noticed a very strange behavior on our site, in Google Analytics. Some dude from Finland, namely, from Kouvola city is hitting one of our pages - only one page on our site, 'bout a hundred times per day, all with an average bounce rate of 90%+...  This is causing our overall bounce rate to go up by 1 to 3% per day... which is very disturbing.. since we're trying to do our best in order to keep it as low as possible. And obviously having it jumped from ~24% to 27%, just because of that crazy dude is not making us happy at all... We tried implementing a geo-targeted script in order to catch this particular visitor and deliver him a juicy message, and it seemed like it helped in the beginning, it has stopped for a day or two, but now he's back...   The geo-targeted script was also logging all IP addresses for page requests originating from Finland in order to find out more details and (in order to block them on the server level, later).. but thing is, it was all mainly cable or DSL connections with various, but not constantly repeating IPs... we are all wondering what is he up to really ?   I think that this page should be kept updated with ideas on how to combat this and perhaps someone could also shed light on what it might be ? What is the reason for doing this "bounce-rate attack", as I call it?  There was a similar question asked on stackoverflow earlier, with no meaningful answer - here - My wife wants a 4th baby, but I don't Does a shortcode with a single attribute have to use an array? I want to build a shortcode that takes a single attribute.  Everything online is telling me to make it using an array:  // Add Shortcode function bg_comparison_points_shortcode( $atts ) {     // Attributes     $atts = shortcode_atts(         array(             'custom_field' =&gt; '',         ),         $atts,         'comparison_points'     );     return bg_calculate_points($custom_field); } add_shortcode( 'comparison_points', 'bg_comparison_points_shortcode' );   But in my mind something like this would be much simpler  // Add Shortcode function bg_comparison_points_shortcode( $custom_field ) {     return bg_calculate_points($custom_field); } add_shortcode( 'comparison_points', 'bg_comparison_points_shortcode' );   Is there a problem doing this simpler version? Can I make `find` return non-0 when no matching files are found? How is the zero flag set in terms of hardware? 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