How can I recursively delete empty folders?   "Empty" is considered to be true if the directory has no directory and no files exist except for useless auto-generated files (Thumbs.db, .DS_Store, etc.)
I have a directory on my Windows 7 machine that has hundreds if not thousands of sub-directories.  Some of them have files, some do not.  I want to delete all the empty directories.  Looking at the del and rmdir DOS command, it does not look like you can recursively do this without deleting all the files.  Is there a way to do this from the command line?
Thread Confinement What is the right way to apply an image texture over a glass or plastic material? I am trying to put a label over the transparent plastic bottle, but i was unable to do so, because when i build the bottle material(plastic) and mix it with the diffuse shader(using the label texture), the label gets faded. So the solution i found was to duplicate the bottle and scale a little bit and apply the label material on it. So it looks its the same material, but in reality its one material over the other. How can I make my plastic material be under my label material(image)? Here's how it looks:   Here's my material setting for the plastic bottle:   Thanks in advance. Standard normal distribution is truncated to the left by 2 Would you please show me how to write the pdf distributions of the following   Standard normal distribution is truncated to the left by 2  Exponential distribution is truncated to the left by 2  Cauchy distribution is truncated to the left by 2  i do not know what does mean by truncated to the left by 2 Integer solutions to the equation $a^3+b^3+c^3=30$ If I get rid of the last Pokemon I have from a family do I still keep the candies from that family when I catch another one of the same family? Extraneous solution from substituting in equations I came across this example of how you could end up with an extraneous solution but I was wondering how it arose. We have the equation: $$x^2+x+1=0 $$ Since x=0 does not satisfy the equation, you can divide by x on both sides which yields: $$x+1+\frac{1}{x}=0$$ which is equivalent to our first equation. From our first eqution we can conclude that: $$-x^2=x+1$$ We now substitute that into the second equation to get:$$x^2=\frac{1}{x}$$ which results in $$x^3=1$$ which is equivalent to our previous equation since x cannot be 0. However, one solution from our last equation is x=1, which is not a solution to our original equation. I have a vague idea that it may have to do with the fact that you get a cubic equation and you began with a quadratic, and that steps imply the following and not vice versa, but can you provide a very detailed answer as to why it arises? Can you please provide more examples? Short circuit or disconnect to bypass a compressor Finding the nth non square free number We all know what  numbers are. I was more interested in checking an efficient way to find nth non square free number. How to get a JavaScript object's class? Why is ANOVA taught / used as if it is a different research methodology compared to linear regression? ANOVA is equivalent to linear regression with the use of suitable dummy variables. The conclusions remain the same irrespective of whether you use ANOVA or linear regression.   In light of their equivalence, is there any reason why ANOVA is used instead of linear regression?   Note: I am particularly interested in hearing about technical reasons for the use of ANOVA instead of linear regression.   Edit  Here is one example using one-way ANOVA. Suppose, you want to know if the average height of male and females is the same. To test for your hypothesis you would collect data from a random   sample of male and females (say 30 each) and perform the ANOVA analysis (i.e., sum of squares for gender and error) to decide whether an effect exists.  You could also use linear regression to test for this as follows:  Define:  $\text{Gender} = 1$ if respondent is a male and $0$ otherwise. $$ \text{Height} = \text{Intercept} + \beta * \text{Gender} + \text{error} $$ where: $\text{error}\sim\mathcal N(0,\sigma^2)$  Then a test of whether $\beta = 0$ is a an equivalent test for your hypothesis. I need to prove the following identity:  $\sum_{{{\underset{k-even}{k=0}}}}^{n}{n \choose k}2^{k}=\frac{3^{n}+(-1)^{n}}{2}$  I know that -   $\sum_{k=0}^{n}{n \choose k}2^{k}=3^{n}$  but don't know how to continue. How to set shell to wrap words for long commands? Set of limit points of a subset of a Hausdorff space is closed. Let $X$ be a Hausdorff space and $A\subset X$.  Define $A'=\{x\in X\mid x\text{ is a limit point of }A\}$.  Prove that $A'$ is closed in $X$.  Relevant information:  (1.) Every neighborhood of a point $x\in A'$ contains a point $y\in A'$ distinct from $x$ (in fact, in a Hausdorff space, every neighborhood of $x$ contains $\infty$-many points of $A$ distinct from $x$)  (2.) In a Hausdorff space, every sequence has a unique limit.  On first glance, it should be an easy proof, but I've made little progress.  I was planning on showing $\overline{A'}=A'$.  Firstly, $A'\subset \overline{A'}$ trivially.  To show $\overline{A'}\subset A'$, proceed by contradiction.  Assume there exists $x\in\overline{A'}$ such that $x\not\in A'$.  This should yield an easy contradiction but I don't see it.  In particular, I'm unsure if the fact that $x\in\overline{A'}$ implies that there actually exists a sequence in $A'$ converging to $x$.  By (2) we know all sequences have unique limits, but do we know that elements in the closure are limits of sequences?  If this is true, it should yield an easy contradiction.  Any help? 'Possible duplicate' comment not appearing for questions with deleted comments containing the link I plan on buying Windows 7 Ultimate Edition to run on an old Pentium 4. I also want to run Windows 7 virtual machines inside Windows 7. My question is two fold:   Do I need a license for each Virtual Machine? Does the answer change if I use a third party virtualization platform (e.g. , , , etc) as opposed to ? $y'=$ ${-x+\sqrt{(x^2+4y)}}\over 2$ , $y(2)=-1$ Prove that the solutions $y_1$ and $y_2$ for the initial value problem   $y'=$${-x+\sqrt{(x^2+4y)}}\over 2$ , $y(2)=-1$  are:  $y_1=1-x$  $y_2={{-x^2}\over 4}$  And explain why the two solutions not contradiction with the theory of existence and uniqueness.  ( sorry I don't speak English well )  My answer:  For the initial condition :  $y_1=1-x$ Satisfy the initial condition  $y(2)=-1$  $y_1=1-2=-1$   And Satisfy the differential equation  ${y_1}^{\prime}=-1$  ${{-x+\sqrt{x^2+4y}}\over 2}={{-x+\sqrt{x^2+4(1-x)}}\over 2}$  $={{-x+\sqrt{(x-2)^2}}\over 2}$  $={{-x+x-2}\over 2}=-1$  L.h.s.=R.h.s.  $y^{\prime}={{-x+\sqrt{x^2+4y}}\over 2}$  Also $y_2$ Satisfy the initial condition  $y_2={{-x^2}\over4}={-4\over4}=-1$   And satisfy the differential equation.   $y_2^{\prime}={-x\over 2}$  ${{-x+\sqrt{x^2+4y}}\over 2}={{-x+\sqrt{x^2+4({-x^2\over 4})}}\over 2}={-x\over 2}$  And for second part of exercise:  ${\partial f\over \partial y}={1\over \sqrt{x^2+4y}}$  and this not defined when $x=2, \ y=-1$  So $f(x,y)$ no satisfy lipshtize condition in any rectangular has (2,-1), Lipshtize condition including uniqueness of solution, so no contradict with the existence and uniqueness.  True ?  If this also wrong I well be delet it , I answered by the same way of my teacher :( So I need to compress a directory with max compression.   How can I do it with xz? I mean I will need tar too because I can't compress a directory with only xz. Is there a oneliner to produce e.g. foo.tar.xz? Capturing URL parameters in request.GET I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict object. I'd like to learn how to do this without a library, so I can get to know Django better. Webforms and jQuery, how to match the ID's? I want to use jQuery with asp.net webfoms.  Do I need to get a special toolkit so the .net controls spit out friendly Control ID's?  Reason being, I don't want to write javascript referencing my html ID's like control_123_asdfcontrol_234.  Has this been addressed in version 3.5?  (I remember reading you have to get some special dll that makes ID's friendly). List manipulation: position & max value combination