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Why are the British confused about us calling bread rolls “biscuits” when they call bread rolls “puddings”?
We aren’t, and we don’t. You are misinformed. In Britain, the word ‘biscuit’ means a hard baked cookie, like a graham cracker. Since this is the normal use of this word in the UK, we don’t automatically think of the plain scone-type baked goods for which Americans use the word ‘biscuit’. US EnglishRead more
We aren’t, and we don’t. You are misinformed.
In Britain, the word ‘biscuit’ means a hard baked cookie, like a graham cracker. Since this is the normal use of this word in the UK, we don’t automatically think of the plain scone-type baked goods for which Americans use the word ‘biscuit’. US English is a different dialect of English, and there are many words which have different meanings from U.K. English (jumper, braces, suspenders, tap etc.)
What on earth makes you think we call bread rolls ‘puddings’? In the U.K., pudding is any dessert, not just the blancmange-stuff which Americans use that word for. It is correct in the U.K. to say “I’m having apple pie for pudding.”.
See lessApache Cookbook – Recipe 1.1 Installing from Red Hat Linux’s Packages
Solution If you are a member of the Red Hat Network (RHN), Red Hat’s subscription service, you can use Red Hat’s up2date tool to maintain your Apache package: # up2date -ui apache apache-devel apache-manual If you’re running a more recent version: # up2date -ui httpd httpd-devel httpd-manual If youRead more
If you are a member of the Red Hat Network (RHN), Red Hat’s
subscription service, you can use Red Hat’s up2date tool to maintain
your Apache package:
# up2date -ui apache apache-devel apache-manual
If you’re running a more recent version:
# up2date -ui httpd httpd-devel httpd-manual
If you aren’t a member of RHN, you can still download the packages
from one of Red Hat’s servers (either ftp://ftp.redhat.com/ or
ftp://updates.redhat.com/), and install it with the following
command:
# rpm -Uvh apache
The -Uvh option to the rpm command tells it to:
Upgrade any existing version of the package already on the
system or install it for the first time if it isn’t.
Explain the process, so you can receive positive feedback that
the installation is proceeding smoothly.
Display a pretty line of octothorpes (#) across the screen,
marking the progress of the installation.
If you use the packages Red Hat maintains for its own platform, you
will benefit from a simple and relatively standard installation.
However, you can only update versions that Red Hat has put together
an RPM package for, which typically means that you may be lagging
weeks to months behind the latest stable version.
There is also the issue of platform compatibility; for instance, at
some point the version of Apache provided for Red Hat Linux changed
from 1.3 to 2.0, and newer versions of the operating system will
probably only have the 2.0 packages available. Similarly, if you run
an older version of Red Hat Linux, the newer packages will probably
not install properly on your system.
It’s a good idea to install the apache-devel package as well. It’s quite
small, so it won’t have much impact on your disk usage; however, it
includes files and features that a lot of third-party modules will need
to install properly.
Red Hat’s full platform release archive at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/
See lessRed Hat’s incremental update (errata) archive at
ftp://updates.redhat.com/
Is this statement, “i see him last night” can be understood as “I saw him last night”?
Yes, I understand it. I hear a lot of this incorrect grammar from my wife. I would expect that the person that spoke this was possibly Chinese. In Chinese there are no tenses or plurals. No he or she pronouns. The context tells all. So it might have been a direct translation from Chinese.
Yes, I understand it. I hear a lot of this incorrect grammar from my wife. I would expect that the person that spoke this was possibly Chinese. In Chinese there are no tenses or plurals. No he or she pronouns. The context tells all. So it might have been a direct translation from Chinese.
See lessGoogle Analytics reads like a seismic chart lately
My clients have seen big changes the last couple of weeks, but all for the good thankfully. The “Fred” update was a biggie and it looks like some websites that have massive ads with little quality content got hit hard. I saw one post where their traffic plummeted 95% and they are virtually invisibleRead more
My clients have seen big changes the last couple of weeks, but all for the good thankfully. The “Fred” update was a biggie and it looks like some websites that have massive ads with little quality content got hit hard. I saw one post where their traffic plummeted 95% and they are virtually invisible in search now……it is times like these I am thrilled I only do white-hat work….sometimes I scratch my head and am tempted when I see competitors outrank me with crappy sites with no backlinks…but I have hope their day will come! 🙂
See lessWhat is a nice way to end an interview that is clearly going badly?
I’ve also ended interviews as a candidate on the phone myself. They asked a question that I didn’t’ have the answer to and I told them that I didn’t know. The next 2 questions were in that same direction, with them knowing that I’d already said I wasn’t particularly fluent in that area but they keptRead more
I’ve also ended interviews as a candidate on the phone myself. They asked a question that I didn’t’ have the answer to and I told them that I didn’t know. The next 2 questions were in that same direction, with them knowing that I’d already said I wasn’t particularly fluent in that area but they kept on. At that point I said, “Let’s just stop here. We both know that I’m not doing well answering your questions and to be honest, that you’re restating the same topic after being told that already I don’t know probably means we wouldn’t be a good fit.” Too many people forget that it’s a two-way street and they seems shocked that anyone would actually end their interview.
See lessDoes Google force employees who have offers from Facebook to leave immediately?
When I was at Facebook, 2013–2016, the rumor I heard was the opposite. It was my understanding that Google practically had a policy of counter-offering anyone who got an offer from Facebook, and that seeking an offer from Facebook was a strategy Googlers used to up their compensation. Ironically, FaRead more
When I was at Facebook, 2013–2016, the rumor I heard was the opposite.
It was my understanding that Google practically had a policy of counter-offering anyone who got an offer from Facebook, and that seeking an offer from Facebook was a strategy Googlers used to up their compensation.
Ironically, Facebook had the opposite policy: If you get an offer from elsewhere, it was Facebook’s policy not to counter-offer. Facebook’s view is that if they start counter-offering, they will get into a compensation arms race. And besides, if you really want to go work somewhere else, then maybe you should. There are lots of people who would love to work at Facebook; they don’t need to try to convince you to stay if you want to leave. And if you’re just bluffing, well good on them for not falling for it.
See lessIs there an English equivalent to the French expression: “il faut d’abord apprendre à marcher avant de courir”?
While we do say this literally sometimes in English, we have a more common idiom that many people would probably think of first, if they weren’t translating. You have to crawl before you can walk. At least in American English, this idiom is very popular.
While we do say this literally sometimes in English, we have a more common idiom that many people would probably think of first, if they weren’t translating.
You have to crawl before you can walk.
At least in American English, this idiom is very popular.
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