Maybe some kind of virus? Cannot open AntiVirus www sites Win XP. Any browser (Firefox, Opera) cannot open several antivirus sites:   eset.com drweb.com freedrweb.com avira.com bitdefender.com   (but usual sites are all OK opened.) I checked: hosts file is clean; ping for AV sites doesn't work too (all packets lost); inet connection to these sites ok from another PC; Windows safe mode: all is OK, sites work.  I have ESET Smart Security on this PC. I performed full check with:    ESET SS  DrWeb CureIt (I could copy it from another PC),  Avira (could copy it too) MS Sec Essentials.    No resuts. What can be a reason?
I can't open/ping any antivirus sites I have a problem with a virus in windows 7, I don't know what kind of virus is infected my OS, I installed kasersky antivirus, and clear all detected viruses. After that I can't open any antivirus sites, can't ping any antivirus sites. example:  C:\Windows\system32&gt;ping kaspersky.com Pinging kaspersky.com [38.117.98.231] with 32 bytes of data: General failure. General failure. General failure. General failure.  Ping statistics for 38.117.98.231:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),   When I ping to other sites, I get reply normally: example woth pinging to google.com  C:\Windows\system32&gt;ping google.com  Pinging google.com [31.7.160.224] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=61 Reply from 31.7.160.224: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=61  Ping statistics for 31.7.160.224:     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:     Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 1ms   I tryed any antispyware/antimalware softwares, but null results.  Anyone else encountered this problem?
A lot of people write makefiles that say something like  paper.pdf: paper.tex         pdflatex paper         bibtex paper         pdflatex paper         pdflatex paper   To handle re-running TeX to get new/changed references and so forth. Is there a better way to do this? Cannot turn Bluetooth off pgfplots -> contour gnuplot with lualatex instead of pdflatex Is “fortnight” an outdated word? I'm studying English vocabulary books, I find this word in each unit describing time words (days, weeks, months...).      There are 2 weeks in a fortnight.   Almost I haven't seen this word before in social websites, emails or movies. the only place I heard this word is in historical movies.  So, is it a outdated word or native speakers still use it? Server 2012 deduplication: run on Hyper-V host or guest VM? I have a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host with VMs on a dedicated RAID-5 volume. One VM is also running Server 2012 and is being used to serve files. The other VMs are smaller and mostly used for temporary testing scenarios.   The main file server VM has two dynamically expanding VHDX files - one for the OS and one for storage. The VHDX being used for storage has quite a few duplicated files on it.  Should I run Server 2012 deduplication on the volume containing the storage VHDX file on the host, or within the file server VM itself? I understand that running it within the VM will not decrease the size of the VHDX file on the host, but my goal is to enable as much storage capacity within the VHDX file itself. I also understand that if I run it on the host, I will have to take the VM offline to do it. Downtime isn't a concern in this instance, just the best way to do this. Get selected value in dropdown list using JavaScript Can Superman see through his eyelids? I was trying to prove this inequality using induction, but couldn't do.  Question: Suppose $a$ and $b$ are real numbers with $0 &lt; b &lt; a$. Prove that if $n$ is a positive integer, then:  $$a^n-b^n \leq na^{n-1}(a-b)$$ Group by alias (Oracle) How to 'group by' a query using an alias, for example:  select count(*), (select * from....) as alias_column  from table  group by alias_column   I get 'alias_column' : INVALID_IDENTIFIER error message. Why? How to group this query? How can I switch back to Nvidia card from Intel with Nvidia-prime So I updated to Ubuntu 14.04 and found that the primusrun command no longer works, so ditched bumblebee in favour of nvidia-prime. This lets you switch video card from nvidia-settings rather than running through the command line (I prefer the old method, but want the primus performance).  The problem is that after switching to Intel from nvidia-settings, I can no longer open it up again to switch back to the nvidia card. When I open nvidia-settings I get a segmentation fault (according to the terminal).  Is there any way to open nvidia-settings switch back? I would like the ability to be able to switch between the two since having the nvidia card on all the time kills my battery and heats up the laptop a lot. Show $f$ can't be irreducible over a finite field if $f^\prime$ is the zero polynomial. How to remove a vector QgsVectorLayer from QGIS python plugin I managed to add QgsVectorLayer in QGIS through a python plugin, for example:  vl = self.iface.addVectorLayer(uri.uri(), layerName, self.dbConn.getProviderName())   But how can I remove it? Strange GET requests in logs I'm getting the following GET requests in my apache logs:  109.230.251.14 - - [29/Mar/2011:16:28:18 +0100] "GET http://209.191.92.114/config/pwtoken_get?login=jackmcphee232&amp;src=ygodgw&amp;passwd=e59e2240415e6f1aba3da72b8f189f4e&amp;challenge=9TbU_9yfZhKmzlHtK9X4OkQlesTH&amp;md5=1 HTTP/1.0" 404 1226 "-" "-"   Any idea what it could be and how is that possibly a get request? That IP address seems to point to Yahoo! I'm very confused. Why does printf() not print anything before sleep()? How do I convince someone that $1+1=2$ may not necessarily be true? Me and my friend were arguing over this &quot;fact&quot; that we all know and hold dear. However, I do know that $1+1=2$ is an axiom. That is why I beg to differ. Neither of us have the required mathematical knowledge to convince each other. And that is why, we decided to turn to Math Stackexchange for help. What would be stack's opinion? Correct tracked camera orientation I have been playing around with camera tracking and I'm happy enough with the tracking and alignment of the markers with the footage when viewed through the camera.    The problem is, when I am not looking through the camera I can see that the grid isn't aligned to the camera.    How do you correctly align the grid to this tracked camera? I have set a floor and two points for scale, also clicked setup tracking scene, but this just added cube and plane which were on the grid. Earth Engine convert list with coordinates and values into a feature collection for export I need to create a feature collection from a list containing coordinates and band values.  These are extracted from a landsat image as shown in this linked script.    I'm unable to find a solution in creating a feature collection.  Here is the tail end code.  var valuesList = joinedImage.reduceRegion({   reducer: ee.Reducer.toList(4),   geometry: myGeometry }).values().get(0);  var feature = ee.Feature(null, valuesList);   // Wrap the Feature in a FeatureCollection for export. var myFeatures = ee.FeatureCollection([feature]);   // Export the image, specifying scale and region. Export.table.toDrive(myFeatures, "data", "myData", "B4-B5",  "CSV");   This doesn't work, because it is clearly the wrong way to create the feature collection.  I've tried to create it similar to Rodrigo E. Principe's solution of mapping a Feature Collection but I can't seem to create the initial feature collection to start with. Let mods see the names of the flaggers for chat offensive flags There have been    (not to pick on the Bridge, just that these are the ones I found) occurrences where users abuse chat flags to cause drama. Random stuff gets flagged, and users from other rooms are needlessly summoned into the room. The issue is, while mods can tell the room to stop flagging random things, there's no way to enforce this. Spam/offensive flags in chat are anonymous, and can be abused with impunity without the mods finding out. I don't think there's anything stopping a user from letting out an endless stream of flags, annoying everyone. Can mods have the ability to see who flagged a message in chat? Book series where they collect either stones or gems I'm looking for a fantasy book I read about 10 years ago. I don't remember a lot of it, but there are a few things I still know:   The setting was in medieval times. There was no traveling dimensions. I can't recall whether there was magic or not. It wasn't on Earth, but on some invented world. I believe it was a trilogy, with a focus on the son of some nobility. The goal for the characters was to collect a certain number of stones or gems (I believe there were 5 of them), all in certain colours. Every stone has a certain power attached to it. I believe it started out with one or two characters, but the group grew and every character had a certain colour stone at the end. What is important about the gems is that they are unique. It's not part of a bigger magic system, but they are artefacts from somewhere.   There are some minor incidents I can recall vividly:   They build up a fellowship with some stereotypical fantasy builds: an old school fighter, a minstrel, a female archer and probably more. At one point, they mention that if one of the guards in a country falls asleep on duty, he will be kept awake by his garrison/brothers in arms for seven days. At some point the minstrel falls asleep, and the old fighter teaches him how to stay awake. They travel through a forest full of leeches and other insects to reach one of the stones. Also, I seem to recall there was a member of an underground evil organisation among the nobility, who tried to poison someone and were able to do that because they built up an immunity to the poison.   Does anyone has a clue what this series might be?   Suggestions by kind people, but not what I'm looking for, are:   The Seventh Tower Deltora Quest Diadem Westria Sword of Heavens series Does wide angle equivalent in crop sensor skew image? I see many posts on both this forum and elsewhere the discuss the use of a wide angle on a crop sensor.  For example, they discuss how at 14mm lens is 14mm on a 35mm film or full frame, but with a 1.6x crop sensor it is an effective 28mm.  My question is, is a 14mm on a crop sensor the same image as a 28mm on a full frame.  Or does "effective" include some other conotation.  I read that a 14mm can create distortion on a full frame and some vignette, so people seem to say using it on a crop takes out some of those edge problems. My confusion is how the lens is actually taking in the extra image.  Reading kenrockwells blog I learned that wide angle keeps lines straight, while fish eye actually skews the lines.    So with this as my understanding, I am still a bit confused how a lens that is curved in order to get a greater angle of view, will be the same as a cropped version of a less curved lens.  Or does "effective" only refer to the objects to the sides but not to the distortion of the image.  Or, if it is different, is it so small that for photography it does not matter?  A technically description would be welcome as long as a basic understanding of the situation.  Thanks!  Edit: To be more clear after the comments,  I am specifically talking about the end resulting 2d projection from 3d space.  I have read both those previous answers.  the first one is closer to what I am talking about.  However, it is still confusing for me.  I have experience with 3d modeling and projection matricies, which might be confusing me with this.  But for example, i dont understand the images having a 50 mm lens being drawn Starting from the sensor, so it shows a different fov for crop and full frame . If the lens is the same, it takes the same amount of information from the world, which makes a ray from a certain degree off the last lens projected into a smaller space, there is no projection from the sensor, so drawing the line from the sensor doesnt make sense to me.  The distance of the sensor to the rear of the lens must have some impact on the light projected but is not represented in the images.  Further, again from that first answer it says cropping is the same as zoom, but from what i understand from how perspective works, it is different, since a wide angle will project lines differently than a small fov to the same size, so cropping the center of a wide angle and zooming into something is very different.  This is easily recreated in an opengl application with varying fov projection matrix, i imagine in painting class people learn this as well.  A fisheye would be a good example, since if cropping was the same as zooming, a fish eye lens would keep the center exactly like a normal lens and then a gradient weighted towards the outside would rapidly create a warped perspective, but from what I see, it is even.  To me those images just look like its comparing cropped with full frame in regards to orthogonal projections.