irrupt (verb): to suddenly arrive, or else increase. A population can irrupt, for instance.
Source:
Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Following up yesterday’s post:
From the premise that the directory newdirname already exists, let’s imagine the command
move olddirname newdirname
Now, olddirname will be moved to a subdirectory of its same name within newdirname.
From the original directory, if I then recreate the directory olddirname:
mkdir olddirname
and next repeat the move command
move olddirname newdirname
I am asked if I want to overwrite. If I say Yes, I am told Access is denied.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.The following behaviour I’ve observed in Windows 7 command prompt:
To move a directory to another, the command is
move olddirname newdirname
If newdirname already exists, olddirname will be stored as a subdirectory within newdirname.Source:
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.I mention a black-capped chickadee in my post from April 15, wherein I mention that some sources don’t acknowledge its presence here.
Apparently, others report seeing black-capped chickadees around here: one such report is from July 2014, at Mt Washington, which is around 50km from here.
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Aliasing refers to the jagged “stairway” pattern that can develop on a computer-generated curve or oblique line. It can occur when visual units are squares whose edges are horizontal and vertical.
Anti-aliasing attempts to smooth out the jagged, boxy effect you might otherwise see from aliasing. Imagined simply, anti-aliasing works by adjusting pixels’ colors along the edge, blending them more similar to the neighbouring colors.
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Today, checking a backup directory, I noticed that, in Windows Explorer, the backup folder for Desktop (desktop_backup) isn’t there. Rather, Desktop is. Yet, in command prompt, Desktop isn’t there, but desktop_backup is.
Checking the dates last modified, I found them the same: apparently, on my backup drive, Desktop and desktop_backup match. Why different names, one in Windows Explorer, the other in Command Prompt?
My reading seems to indicate that desktop.ini is the reason: it gets copied right along with the other desktop contents. Normally hidden, it tells Windows Explorer how to display the folder. Since desktop_backup is a copy of Desktop, it contains desktop.ini, so displays as Desktop in Windows Explorer. Yet, the Command Prompt shows it by its real name, desktop_backup.
Interesting, eh?
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.relict (noun): a population that was once included by a larger one, but has grown isolated due to changing conditions.
Changing climatic conditions can cause relicts, as can changing geography (collapse of a land bridge, for instance).
Source:
Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Reading today about black-capped chickadees, numerous sources suggest they don’t live on Vancouver Island. While I don’t want to be controversial, I believe that they do live here, and that I see them often.
A story about one: Early last February, late on a Sunday afternoon, my younger son and I went for a walk in the woods. We intended to retrace steps from when he was much younger; back then, my two sons and I walked in the woods every weekend. In recent years, we’ve all but stopped. Therefore, returning to the woods that afternoon was a welcome, yet somewhat melancholy, occasion.
The temp was around -4C, the day dry, but gray. Apart from us, the woods were well-nigh deserted. We arrived at one of the destinations the kids loved to visit when they were younger, then casually milled about, talking about life.
The woods were cold and still; the sun was trying to break though the clouds before it set. I wondered how life could return to this frozen place.
Suddenly, a quiet sound reached my ears, and I turned toward a light bustle near the ground. Close by, a bird flitted in and out of view. I asked my son to describe it, but I saw it as well: it looked to me like a black-capped chickadee.
The bird often made a single-note call as it darted nearer and further away, sometimes keeping just out of sight behind a wide tree. Its call I would describe as the “tseet” that Lesley mentions in her video among the sources below.
Lesley describes “tseet” as a call made towards strangers. Were we, indeed, being formally contacted by the chickadee? Its presence reassured me that indeed, nature would restore life to that quiet hollow.
I hope to return there and reconnect with that chickadee: Perhaps we’re no longer strangers:)
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Regular expressions can be used in Notepad++ Search and Replace. For instance, suppose you want to change the variable names test2 test39 test991 to test_2 test_39 test_991 . In Notepad++, such change would be possible using Search with a regular expression
Replace (test)([0-9]+) with \1_\2
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.Perhaps Easter is the most noted time for some Christians, because it commemorates the actual sacrifice of Jesus and His subsequent return to life.
As Jesus’s body yields on the cross, Luke observes the following:
Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began praising God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent.” -Luke 23.47
The Romans viewed Jesus with objectivity the Jews could hardly manage. As Jesus observes,
Truly I say to you, no prophet is welcome in his home town. -Luke 4.24
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Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.