If you installed infinality-bundle or the patched freetype2-infinality you'll most likely recently have run into an error relating to the harfbuzz package (>= 1.4.1-1), specifically something like: /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates.

This is because the packages provided by the Infinality repositories or even the freetype2-infinality on AUR are and have been outdated for quite some time, since infinality-bundle's creator, bohoomil, has been missing/unresponsive for the past few months. freetype2 since has gotten new features and a changed ABI, one of which is a symbol named FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates which the updated libharfbuzz tries to reference.

What this means for you is: you'll need a freetype2 version >= 2.7.1 where this change was initially introduced. Since the future of the infinality-bundle is uncertain this is a good time as any to bite the bullet and remove it completely from your system until more is known. The font rendering won't be exactly the same, but with a few tweaks it will at least be similar.

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Nationally, children are often homeless because they run away from violence in their home or they’ve aged out of the foster-care system. In Silicon Valley’s case, the problem is the cost of living, The Guardian reports. A full 1,147 children are defined as homeless. Many of them end up mostly sharing homes with friends or family members because their parents can’t afford housing. Others live in RVs and shelters.

The most recent national data, from 2013 outlines a record level of homelessness for 2.5 million children, while another 15 million children live in poverty, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty and the American Institute of Research. That’s more than 1 in 5 children in the United States who go to bed hungry, don’t have clean clothes for school or struggle to find a place to sleep — despite record levels stock market.

For a fan of 80s culture, retro wave is well known as a modern take on the retro soundtracks of the time, which emerged in the mid-2000s as a style in its own right. It is heavily inspired by the new wave and soundtrack of classic 1980s films, videogames, cartoons and television shows. It is commonly known for its retro-futuristic style emulating science fiction and actions movies from that decade. With this in mind we’ve created this effect for anyone feeling nostalgic about 1980s culture or embracing this relatively new musical style. Simply enter your text and see it transform into visual retro-futuristic wave.

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I graduated from art school.

I didn't go to art school to pursue a career in art. The art school I went to basically said, "don't" - it's a lottery anyways. The people who can make a living as an artist are a few dozen worldwide.

I went to art school to think laterally and critically. I went to have my own ideas of what creativity is exhaustively challenged.

You can also go to art school to make those social connections to the larger art world - the art world is nothing but a huge web of social ties. I found that part of it pretty dark and disgusting, really. I just wasn't willing to stab so many people in the back to get ahead.

My curriculum was not centered around skills and technique - you were to learn that yourself. It was centered around your ideas - get your ideas out of your head and onto a stage basically. The school and my program were influenced by the Black Mountain school in N. Carolina where individuals like B. Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage taught. Interdisciplinary. It was all a living experiment, and all my higher level courses had, "Experimental" in their name.

I don't regret one second of art school. You get out what you get in. I still would never, ever pursue a career as an artist. I've done lots of creatively amazing projects, but it wasn't for the money - this country I live in (USA) at least really doesn't find monetary value in the arts.

Pourquoi ?

• Parce-que nous sommes une radio libre et indépendante
• Parce-que nous sommes contre toute forme de publicité
• Parce-que nous sommes la radio des sans voix

Un site malveillant a contraint des amis sincères de FPP à créer un "contre site"
Ce site apporte des informations qui se trouvent déjà sur notre site : rfpp.net
Insupportable Facebook

Facebook est omniprésent, omniscient, omnichiant. La présence de liens Facebook sur les stickers, flyers, jaquettes, forums, et même dans les mails est insupportable. Toutes ces mentions fonctionnent comme autant d’impacts publicitaires pour cette marque américaine, multinationale de la vente de données personnelles, source illimitée d’information pour toutes les polices du monde, et parasite social qui transforme les internautes en clientèle zombie du "like".

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that allows you to review a MySQL installation quickly and make adjustments to increase performance and stability. The current configuration variables and status data is retrieved and presented in a brief format along with some basic performance suggestions.

MySQLTuner supports in this last version ~250 indicators for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server.

MySQLTuner is maintained and indicator collect is increasing week after week supporting a lot of configurtion sush as:

The demo page for Pure CSS speech bubbles.

For a detailed explanation view the CSS file. It is heavily commented.

All examples use simple, semantic HTML. No empty elements, no unnecessary extra elements, no JavaScript, no images (apart from that Twitter logo). Have a look at the source code.

The lack of good ways to vertically center elements in CSS has been a dark blemish on its reputation for pretty much its entire existence.

What makes matters worse is the techniques that do work for vertical centering are obscure and unintuitive, while the obvious choices (like vertical-align:middle) never seem to work when you need them.

The current landscape of vertical centering options ranges from negative margins to display:table-cell to ridiculous hacks involving full-height pseudo-elements. Yet even though these techniques sometimes get the job done, they don’t work in every situation. What if the thing you want to center is of unknown dimensions and isn’t the only child of its parent? What if you could use the pseudo-element hack, but you need those pseudo-elements for something else?

With Flexbox, you can stop worrying. You can align anything (vertically or horizontally) quite painlessly with the align-items, align-self, and justify-content properties.

Learn by example: cssreference.io is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.

Modern computer science is dominated by men. But it hasn't always been this way.

A lot of computing pioneers — the people who programmed the first digital computers — were women. And for decades, the number of women studying computer science was growing faster than the number of men. But in 1984, something changed. The percentage of women in computer science flattened, and then plunged, even as the share of women in other technical and professional fields kept rising.

What happened?

We spent the past few weeks trying to answer this question, and there's no clear, single answer.

But here's a good starting place: The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.

These early personal computers weren't much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing. And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys.

Dreams do come true — even for canines.

This week, a 7-year-old dog named Duke was elected mayor of Cormorant, a small town in Minnesota. The 12 residents each paid one dollar to cast their vote, local outlets report.

A Twitter poll from Wikileaks (26th of july) giving a good idea of the results that will happen 4 months later and who will become POTUS

License information for images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

If you're new to this website, these are probably ten things you may not know about images on Wikipedia. We hope this gives you a better idea of the whats and whys of illustrating the world's most popular encyclopedia. If you're more experienced with images on Wikipedia, you probably know most of these—but maybe you've never seen them written down, or you don't know where to point other people who want a quick and easy (sometimes complicated) explanation of a subject.