When i ping 8.8.8.8 from my home computer (europe) i get around 26 ms latency. When i ping 8.8.8.8 from a server(US) i get around 1 ms latency. When i ping my (US) server from home (europe) i have 130 ms latency.   I know that i can setup a custom DNS/nameservers and attach it to my domain so it can be used to geographically resolve domain names / route traffic to the closest server/loadbalancer.    However, as my experiment above showed apparently something similar is possible with ip's?  Can someone explain to me how this works / how i can replicate it?
I'd never heard of anycast until a few seconds ago when I read "".  The wikipedia "" article on it is quite formal and doesn't really evoke a mental picture of how it would be used.  Can someone explain in a few informal sentences what "anycast" is, how you configure it (just in a general sense), and what its benefits are (what does it make easier)?
href to an image label - how to jump to the image instead of the caption below the image? How do I select background music for my RPG campaign? Music is an essential component of my games. When running games set in the Star Wars universe, the music of John Williams adds a new dimension to the experience, both for me and for my players. Now that I'm starting a fantasy campaign, I'm a bit more uncertain about which music to use.  How do I create a soundtrack suitable for using in a fantasy campaign?  Specifically:   What sort of characteristics make for good back ground music? What makes for bad background music? What should I look for to get a fantasy feel? Which genres/sub-genres support fantasy games? What are good sources for fantasy background music?   A few notes:   Because the music will be used in the background of game sessions, most of the tracks should be one minute or longer, to avoid repetitive loops. Likewise, soundtracks with a variety of themes are preferred, so that they can easily support different modes of the game: exploration, combat, and chases, to name a few. Orchestral or acoustic music is preferred over music with vocals or electric instruments. I am aware    but I ask this regarding SE-2.0 sites, as the example I will take gaming:  Both answers on the question  make perfect sense to me, i.e. on the one hand this might overuse the tagging system but on the other hand it would help a lot for filtering.  Therefore I suggest a system which, in this case, would internally store the platforms to which a tag is relevant and   if a question is tagged with one of these platforms, nothing special will happen and the question is to be considered platform specific (e.g. a bug which only appears on the PS3 version) if the question is not tagged with a platform, the only result will be that the tag filter mechanism works a bit different compared to what would happen if the question was (invisibly) tagged with all platform tags:   If the invisible tagging is definite on interesting or ignore (i.e. there is not at least one ignored and one interesting tag) the usual mechanism works. if the tagging is ambiguous (i.e. contains both interesting and ignored tags), no filtering happens at all    The actually attributed tags must of course override this behaviour. That way questions about a game one likes but which is available for a platform one doesn't care about will still be highlighted unless specifically tagged with that platform, but no additional tags have to be used to filter a game which is only available on ignored platforms.  This can of course easily be extended to other sites, e.g. the  may be interesting both general and for c++ but totally uninteresting if the question is only about a JavaScript implementation.  I am only unsure whether search should include those hidden tags, too. Example to show the distance between two closed sets can be 0 even if the two sets are disjoint Let $A$ and $B$ be two sets of real numbers. Define the distance from $A$ to $B$ by $$\rho (A,B) = \inf \{ |a-b| : a \in A, b \in B\} \;.$$ Give an example to show that the distance between two closed sets can be $0$ even if the two sets are disjoint. Does an Action Surge grant a second bonus action? We were trying to understand how the "Action Surge" rule works, and after some discussion we came to a standstill.      Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action   The keyword "possible" is what threw us off. Half the group thought it meant "additional action or bonus action", and the other half thought it was "additional action and bonus action".  So which is it? I'm working on the question     Let $G$ be the group of invertible real matrices of the form $\left [\begin{array}{c c}a &amp; b\\ &amp; a^2\end{array}\right ]$. Determine the Lie algebra $L$ of $G$, and compute the bracket on $L$.   I'm familiar with how to derive the Lie algebra for a linear group like $U_n$, $SU_n$, etc. but I'm not sure what to do in a more explicit case like this. How do I identify which features have NULL attributes in the attribute table of a shapefile?  When i try [field]= 'NULL' it selects the features with value = 0 (see picture) Caption issue when placing figure side by side I placed 2 figures side by side using the minipage method from , and the figures look perfectly fine. However, the caption of the right figure stick out into the margin, why is that and how can I fix it?    My code is like this:  \begin{figure}[htbp]   \centering   \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}     \centering     \includegraphics[width=6.6cm]{figure1.png}     \caption{Caption for figure 1.}     \label{fig:fig1}   \end{minipage}%   \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}     \centering     \includegraphics[width=6.6cm]{figure2.png}     \caption{Caption for figure 2, but longer.}     \label{fig:fig2}   \end{minipage} \end{figure} Downloading all photos from iCloud Photo Library without Photos app Search field with or without a button? I can see two broad patterns as far as the design of the search field is concerned. One like we see on Google has a button that the user can hit to initiate Search. (They could also hit enter to do so)  The other pattern much like what is on this site (stackexchange) do not have a button. So the only way the user can initiate search is by hitting enter.   Has anyone done any research or analysis of this pattern ? What I have noticed is that search fields without the explicit search button (that normally is a magnifying glass) have "Search" as placeholder text, left aligned, whereas when there is no button the placeholder is usually a "Magnifying glass icon" with "Search" all left aligned. Typing the ZIP code doesn't yield the company page It'd be nice to see reputation updates in the app, as we get on both the desktop and mobile sites.  Mock-up of how this would look:        Other possible icon states:        While I understand reputation is shown in the feed, it's a bit unwieldy, and has no notification.   With this feature implemented, the feed could arguably lose both reputation and inbox items, and be left with the interesting questions that fill it up. This would make for a much more consistent UX across app and desktop. Proper way to exit iPhone application? I am programming an iPhone app, and I need to force it to exit due to certain user actions.  After cleaning up memory the app allocated, what's the appropriate method to call to terminate the application? I'm writing a php program that pulls from a database source. Some of the varchars have quotes that are displaying as black diamonds with a question mark in them (�, , I assume from Microsoft Word text).  How can I use php to strip these characters out? How was this character killed without Avada Kedavra? Google crawlers screen size Imagine a I have two types of images (A and AAA(heavier)) for the same website: depending on the size of the screen it will show one image or other.   Now I'm wondering what images (A or AAA) loads the Google crawler when it visits my site.   In other words: has the Google crawlers any "screen size"?  I suppose, in case the it loads the A images, the page-speed puntuation will be better than if it loads the images AAA. Why does the Community user approve and reject edits? Why does the Community user sometimes approve or reject edits? How does a machine know if my edit is valid? What does it mean if my edit was rejected by Community?     See also: How to validate an email address in JavaScript Is there a regular expression to validate an email address in JavaScript? How do you remove a default program association for file types in Windows 7? I somehow have set the default file type association for a file type in Windows 7. It doesn't appear to be possible to delete it from the "Change the file type associated with a file extension" options screen. Is it possible to remove it? From :     Importantly, the DDH assumption does not hold in the multiplicative group $\mathbb {Z} _{p}^{*}$, where $p$ is prime. This is because given $g^{a}$ and $g^{b}$, one can efficiently compute the Legendre symbol of $g^{ab}$, giving a successful method to distinguish $g^{ab}$ from a random group element.   The only way I can think of to distinguish $g^c$ from $g^{ab}$ is:    If $\left(\frac{g}{p}\right)=-1$, then $\left(\frac{g^{ab}}{p}\right) = 1$ if and only if $a$ or $b$ is even (which is $3/4$ of the times). So if $\left(\frac{g^c}{p}\right) =-1$, probably $g^c\neq g^{ab}$. Nothing is certain.   How'd do you compute $\left(\frac{g^{ab}}{p}\right)$ given $g^a$ and $g^b$?