Since yesterday, March 10, 2015 I find that anything from i.stack.imgur.com won't load anymore (unless I still have it cached..), loading never finishes, images are not displayed..  Question: does anybody else see this?  My provider is 1und1 in Germany; I have contacted them, but would like to hear from other customers, if they experience the same issue?  I tried several browsers on several machines, all with the same result; and also on other folks machines with different IPSs, all of which work fine..  The issue is both with any StackExchange site (with images on  imgur) and also with loading images from there directly, e.g.:    http://i.stack.imgur.com/j4y77.png   Update Seems like the problem has been fixed by today (March 12 '15). No explanation yet; I suspect it got onto a Blacklist..
I use Firefox 35.0 on my Macbook to access Stack Exchange. Recently whenever I access a message or Community site, the "spinning circle" indicating activity starts, and never stops. This doesn't seem to happen on other non-Stack Exchange sites.  Has there been any change to the SE code which may have caused this.    The Web Developer Console shows  The connection to ws://qa.sockets.stackexchange.com/ was interrupted while the page was loading. full.en.js:1 Use of getPreventDefault() is deprecated.  Use defaultPrevented instead. jquery.min.js:3
What does $dx$ mean? $dx$ appears in differential equations, such us derivatives and integrals.  For example, a function $f(x)$ its first derivative is $\dfrac{d}{dx}f(x)$ and its integral $\displaystyle\int f(x)dx$. But I don't really understand what $dx$ is. Terminal returns not found for most commands Mac OSX How can I connect the top loop to the down loop with faces Hey I want to connect the bottom loop with the top loop so that it forms a solid.  I have tried selecting multiple vertices and pressing F but that just creates a large face which I do not want. I have tried using grid fill bu that doesn't work either. The solution that seems to work is by selecting four vertices and pressing F and then selecting the next 4 and pressing F and on and on. That just takes too long. I am getting the error:   touch: cannot touch `/opt/tsrm/compliance/cme/log/20121207.log`: No such file or directory   on the touch command: touch $LOGFILE  I also checked the link: , But I didn't understand the answer.   Note: I was also getting mkdir: cannot create directory; I fixed this by adding the -p option.   Could this be something with the version of Linux I am working in? Updates for a private plugin? If I write a private plugin, is there any way to use the WordPress auto-update mechanism to update it?  I want to encapsulate the functionality, but it's specific to my own 5 or so blogs, so it's not a good candidate for the public plugins resource. But I love the easy-updating mechanism.  Is there a way to do this? Access NSMutableArray from another class - Objective C I am trying to calculate the final velocities of two equal mass 2-dimensional circles after an elastic collision. I have tried to figure it out using formulas I know from high school physics, but nothing seems to work. My known variables are:   initial x and y velocities for each circle x and y distances between the centres of the circles at the time of the collision   The variables I would like to solve for are:   final x and y velocities for each circle   Here are diagrams showing all the variables: In a batch file I need to extract a month, day, year from the date command.  So I used the following, which essentially parses the Date command to extract its sub strings into a variable:  set Day=%Date:~3,2% set Mth=%Date:~0,2% set Yr=%Date:~6,4%   This is all great, but if I deploy this batch file to a machine with a different regional/country settings, it fails because month, day and year are in different locations.   How can I extract month, day and year regardless of the date format? dimension of a subspace spanned by two subspaces If $M$ and $ N$ be the subspaces of a vector space $V$ then prove that  $(\dim M) + (\dim N) = (\dim M+N) + (\dim M \cap N)$. Fixed background image with ios7 Number of ways to pair off $2n$ points such that no chords intersect For $n \geq 0$ evenly distribute $2n$ points on the circumference of a circle, and label these point cyclically with the numbers $1, 2 . . . , 2n$ Let $h_n$ be the number of ways in which these $2n$ points can be paired off as $n$ chords where no two chords intersect  I want to find a recursive formula for $h_n$.  First I find $h_1,h_2,h_3$ to see the recursive nature.    $h_1 = 1$ as their only one way to make one chord  $h_2 = 2$   Now $\require{enclose}      \enclose{horizontalstrike}{h_3=4}h_3=5$ ((1,4), (2,3), (5,6) case is missed in image)  I found a wikipedia link    and it is very close to my problem, But in this link you don't need to pair off $n$ chords.  But I can't get to come up with a recursive formula for my question.  If I would to guess I would say $h_n = 2 \times h_{n-1}$, And would this means that $h_4 = 8$ ?? I have created the custom setting with the hierarchy type    I have added some fields to the custom settings  phone field is added to the custom settings  custom setting Name:Order_Configuration__c  Phone :12345 - one profile  phone:456798 - another profile   Is it possible to access the different values for different profiles in custom settings using apex trigger code Using while loop to ssh to multiple servers I have a file servers.txt, with list of servers:  server1.mydomain.com server2.mydomain.com server3.mydomain.com   when I read the file line by line with while and echo each line, all works as expected. All lines are printed.  $ while read HOST ; do echo $HOST ; done &lt; servers.txt server1.mydomain.com server2.mydomain.com server3.mydomain.com   However, when I want to ssh to all servers and execute a command, suddenly my while loop stops working:  $ while read HOST ; do ssh $HOST "uname -a" ; done &lt; servers.txt Linux server1 2.6.30.4-1 #1 SMP Wed Aug 12 19:55:12 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux   This only connects to the first server in the list, not to all of them. I don't understand what is happening here. Can somebody please explain?  This is even stranger, since using for loop works fine:  $ for HOST in $(cat servers.txt ) ; do ssh $HOST "uname -a" ; done Linux server1 2.6.30.4-1 #1 SMP Wed Aug 12 19:55:12 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Linux server2 2.6.30.4-1 #1 SMP Wed Aug 12 19:55:12 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Linux server3 2.6.30.4-1 #1 SMP Wed Aug 12 19:55:12 EDT 2009 i686 GNU/Linux   It must be something specific to ssh, because other commands work fine, such as ping:  $ while read HOST ; do ping -c 1 $HOST ; done &lt; servers.txt How can I blow out the background when shooting down for clothing on the ground? In my book, the following are described to be the steps that one must follow if he wishes to find the direction of static friction force acting on an object:  &quot;(1) Draw the F.B.D(free body diagram) of the object in question with respect to the other object on which it is kept. (2) Include the pseudo force also, if the contact surface is accelerating. (3) Decide the direction of the resultant force and resolve this force into two components; one along the surface of contact and the other along the normal to this surface. (4) The direction of static friction is opposite to the component of the result force along the contact surface.&quot;  Firstly, are these steps correct? Will I always obtain the correct answer by following these steps? Secondly, consider the following problem:  In questions like these, when I try to find the resultant force and then assign the direction to static friction, I find that my answer is incorrect! Are there some other steps to follow when I know that the object is definitely accelerating in one direction or another? Edit 1: I approached the above question by doing exactly what my book suggests; first, I identified all the forces acting on the smaller block, being the normal force applied by the block A and its weight mg downward. Adding these two forces, I get another force that actually acts on the body like so:  I wonder if I'm not supposed to take either of the contact forces into consideration when drawing the F.B.D to figure out the direction of static friction acting on the body. Also, are there other steps for finding the direction of kinetic friction? Edit 2: From Judge's answer, I have been able to figure out my mistake, it being that I completely missed step (3) and didn't resolve the resultant force into components! Sheesh. Sorry! Much thanks in advance! :) Regards. Should I worry about an Amazon AWS doomsday scenario? How to calculate $\lim_{x\to 1^+} \log (x)^{\log(x)}$? How to calculate $\lim_{x\to 1^+} \log (x)^{\log(x)}$ ? i know that its "1", but why? How can i calculate this?  Thank you very very much =) Arrays in Unix Bourne Shell I am trying to use arrays in Bourne shell (/bin/sh). I found that the way to initialize array elements is:  arr=(1 2 3)   But it is encountering an error:  syntax error at line 8: `arr=' unexpected   Now the post where I found this syntax says it is for bash, but I could not find any separate syntax for Bourne shell. Does the syntax stand the same for /bin/sh as well? Should spam posts be edited? I noticed that the posts of the recent spam surge on Ask Ubuntu were all edited by community members into something like     EDITED - REMOVED SPAM ANSWER   or similar.  While I understand why the users have done this and I too don't want to leave the spam content visible for longer than absolutely necessary, it made flagging more time consuming for me.  I had to check the revision for every of those possible spam posts to check if it is actually spam, instead of being able to flag directly from the review site. Spam flags carry a serious penalty, I'm not willing to add my spam flag without checking that it's really spam.  I see the benefit of editing spam, but it also causes some more effort for the later flaggers. Should we as a general policy edit out the content of spam posts, or should we deal with them solely by flagging? What’s the point in having “www” in a URL? Other than for historical reasons, is there is reason to have “www” in a URL?  Should I create a permanent redirect from www.xyz.com to xyz.com, or from xyz.com to www.xyz.com? Which one would you suggest and why?