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I'm looking to limit the size of migration waves. The last wave I had was 29 dwarfs my first spring -- too many. I just started playing again after a while. I have jobs ready for maybe 1/2 of them, but the rest?

I used to just kill them off, but it seems now with dfhack and other tools - can I limit them?

If I lower the overall population target, can I grow the target later? If you have a running fort and change the pop targets in the settings file, do you have to re-gen a new world? Or does it affect current saves, too?

(Posting on behalf of my partner who does not reddit)

Stuck in Mobile-area for about two weeks due to unforeseen events. Staying in a hotel room for two weeks is terrible, so we need stuff to do! What kind of fun things are there to do for a mid-30s male and my dad?

Small biz, 60ish employees. We've accumulated a lot of random crap over the past 6 years and are cleaning out in Jan/Feb. Most of it isn't worth anything even as a refurb unit (crappy old laptops, a few CRTs, maybe some semi-decent super-low end PCs but not sure yet).

I know where I live, the county has a free drop off for residents. It doesn't seem to apply for large quantities of crap, though.

Any tips?

I also had to buy a small desk fan to add white noise that my old, louder PC used to make.

Small team. We're running a fair number of servers of various types (the big ones are primarily FreeBSD). I'm looking to get near-real time alerts of public service outages (like https being unreachable on boxes 1-N, http being too slow on boxes Y or Z, smtp being down, etc) from an external service, preferrably one that can monitor from several locations at once.

I know there are a lot of services out there, that are relatively inexpensive.

What does r/sysadmin recommend? Any fan favorites?

(SMS and email notification are a must; voice notification is even better.)

I'm using PyYAML right now, but I'm not against using another YAML library.

I have dozens of fixtures that my large application uses. Through code branches, they receive a lot of edits that sometimes end up conflicting when the branches are merged together. Sometimes we end up with duplicate keys in each mapping:

-
    id: 1
    value: 394
-
    id: 2
    value: 200
    value: 300

I also have a "linting" script that knows what each fixture should look like and warns me (the developer) when it doesn't match. For example, it will warn me if the fixture above expects value to be a number, and my YAML record says value: foobar.

I also want the linter to warn a

On Windows 7, pressing the Windows key + Ctrl + Arrow key (left/right/up/down) makes the active window go half-screen along the left or right edge. It's like Aero Snap, which I already have disabled in the control panel.

Win+Ctrl+Arrow is also used by LogMeIn to switch remote screens when remoting into PC. When I hit the hotkey, it does both -- switches screen and resizes windows.

How can I disable this stupid Windows hotkey without disabling all windows hotkeys?

See: http://i.imgur.com/Lvhot.jpg

This is a house plant in central Florida, has never been kept outside and has been healthy and growing for 2+ years. Recently this white stuff started spreading over a few leaves and stems. It's also spreading over another plant that was kept nearby.

I've moved my other plants away from these two: so, what is it, can I treat it? Or do I pitch the plants and start over?

Is the entire are blanketed in smoke? I can't find news anywhere about it, nothing on local news sites...