I have manually copied the skyrim directory of steamapps from my old computer to a new one.  After installing Steam again, I tried to copy all files back again to start the game, but, when I start steam, it doesn't recognize Skyrim as installed, and need to download again 10Gb of game. :-/  I didn't know about the Steam Backup feature, so, someone can help me, I think it is a Windows Registry Keys that are missing, but I can't find anything on web related to that!  Any suggests?
I have just bought a new computer and I have everything migrated over except for my Steam games.  I looked in Program Files/Steam/ and I found a folder full of the games I have downloaded, but I do not know if it is safe to just copy these folders from one computer to another (seeing as a lot of other applications will not work if you do this), or is there another recommended way?  I don't really feel like re-downloading all my games. I don't have the time nor bandwidth to download 20GB over a 1.5mbps connection.  Is it possible to contact Valve and get a disk with the games on it?
I'm a teacher and will ask my students to either bring their laptops with Ubuntu installed with an specific list of packages preinstalled or bring a USB Drive or External Hard Drive with Ubuntu and the packages preinstalled.  For those who are going to bring the USB are two posibilities:   Install with the Ubuntu's "Startup disk creator" program, and telling it to reserve some space for persistence. Boot with a LiveCD and Install Ubuntu in the USB drive.   Then, in either case, boot with that media and install the packages.  So, for my purpose or any other purpose:   What is the best choice and why? Do we have another option? full explanation please. A little background:  I do not know what the specifics are, but I've noticed that a quick edit after a post will often times not result in an edit being posted. It's as if there was no edit. Edit: According to Bart this amount of time is five minutes.  The problem:  A user made a really bad post (said that ~ in C# wrt integers was used for deconstruction). I down-voted said post. Post quickly disappeared (I guess poster realized they screwed up and took back the post). Later, I come back and see my down vote but the answer is now correct (that ~ is the bitwise complement operator). I try to get rid of my down vote because it is no longer appropriate. However, it has been about half an hour and there is no edit posted (presumably the poster made an edit within the non-posting edit window) so I can't take my vote back.  Suggested solution:  If post gets edited (even within the non-post edit window) mark all the votes as changeable. I would guess that this would either involve an update on a table of votes or adding a column for last edit time which is not bypassed by the grace period. I realize that this may be an entirely non-trivial change, but unless the non-posting of edits is somehow changed to make sure the edit was trivial it seems this is necessary. How can I unload Oracle database tables into a csv files? I need to retrieve certain data from an Oracle 11g release 1 database and provide it as one or more CSV files. The data resides in multiple tables and/or views. All this should work via the command line. What would be the best approach to this? Does Reincarnation allows skills to be passed into other classes I'm mainly asking this for Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, given I have enough Mana to reincarnate a character into 4 different types of Mages (Green, Blue, Red, Star), a Cleric and then a Warrior, would the Warrior have all the spells learned from the previous classes? I met an interesting issue about C#. I have code like below.  List&lt;Func&lt;int&gt;&gt; actions = new List&lt;Func&lt;int&gt;&gt;();  int variable = 0; while (variable &lt; 5) {     actions.Add(() =&gt; variable * 2);     ++ variable; }  foreach (var act in actions) {     Console.WriteLine(act.Invoke()); }   I expect it to output 0, 2, 4, 6, 8. However, it actually outputs five 10s.  It seems that it is due to all actions referring to one captured variable. As a result, when they get invoked, they all have same output.  Is there a way to work round this limit to have each action instance have its own captured variable? What is the value of $\sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty\dfrac{1}{p_{p_i}}$ where $p_n$ is the nth prime (and so $p_{p_n}$ is the $k$th prime, where $k$ is the $n$th prime) ?  Thus $\frac{1}{3}+\frac{1}{5}+\frac{1}{11}+...=$ ??  How do I efficiently decide if $\sum_{i=1}^\infty\dfrac{1}{p_{p_i}}\gt1$ is true without using a computer ?  I assume this infinite sum is an irrational number. Has this already been proven ? Is it possible to "hack" a MacBook so as to be able to install macOS Mojave? TikZ externalization with absolute path and MiKTeX distribution This code:  \documentclass[11pt,openright]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \usepackage[british]{babel}  \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{external} \tikzexternalize[prefix={"C:/Users/MyName MySurname/Documents/LaTeX/Figures/"}]  %\tikzexternalize[prefix={Figures/}]   \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}     \draw (0,0) circle (1cm); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   gives me the error:     ! I can't write on file `"C:/Users/MyName   MySurname/Documents/LaTeX/Figures/MyMWE-figure0.md5"'.   I'm working with Windows 10, MiKTeX 2.9 distibution.  Following the advice Tarass gave me on a comment of this question:  and as indicated here:  I've registered a user-managed TEXMF directory but I still get the same error.  With \tikzexternalize[prefix={Figures/}] all works perfectly but, since I'm using LyX, the files are stored in a LyX temp dir, hence I loose them when I close the program (making externalization useless), so I need to use an absolute path. I have an URL structure like the following:     sitename.com/cellphone/nokia/galaxy-5678-nokia-cellphone-from-abc/   For more example:     sitename.com/cellphone/motorolla/new-motorolla-gta800-cellphone-from-zxy/   The directory structure is like the cellphone is the main directory of the module and the words like Motorolla and Nokia are subdirectories which are categories and then comes the title of the cellphone.  Here the word cellphone and Nokia in the first link and cellphone and Motorolla in the second link are repeated.  Is it any kind of keyword stuffing? will it be penalized by Google? Mac-like alt-tab replacement for Windows 7? Is there an alt-tab replacement for Windows 7 that works in the same manner as command-tab and command-tick (tilde) on OS X?  Requirements:  1. Completely keyboard-shortcut-based, no mouse action should be necessary.  2. 2 keyboard shortcuts with the following behavior:  a.) alt+tab:       cycles through open applications (NOT windows... applications, meaning even if i have 10 firefox windows open, I only want to see firefox once in the list that comes up when i hit this shortcut)  b.) alt+`:     cycles through WINDOWS that are instances of the currently active application (meaning if firefox is my active window and i hit shortcut2, it will cycle through those 10 firefox windows, while ignoring any other windows from ANY other application).    Update 08:40 5/21: I tried out eidylon's suggestion, TopDesk.  It doesn't provide any of the functionality described here.  Other apps I've already tried:   VistaSwitcher Switcher Dexpot (awesome app, still using, but doesn't do what I want in this case... also looked for plugins but couldn't find one that does it) UltraMon Nvidia nView   update: Unfortunately I still haven't found a solution for this.  update: made this a community wiki in case anyone is ever able to find a solution for this. Generate two random numbers with constraints Why "Dark Energy" is called energy instead of force? The overly simplified explanation I'm giving myself right now is  causes the opposite of what gravity does, that's why the universe is expanding. Now where gravity is a force, why dark energy is "energy"? Why it's not called "Dark Force" instead? I think I must be missing something here. How to print a string at a fixed width? How to boot from a USB drive in VirtualBox? The question is simple and straight forward:  How to boot from an USB drive in VirtualBox?  EDIT:  I have attached usb to VirtualBox as shown in the screenshot.    But it is not possible to boot from an USB drive even when attached  .  So I would like to know if there is any other possiblity to boot from an USB drive? No option to create a new Managed Path inside Office 365 SharePoint online 2013 I am working on an Office 365 SharePoint online 2013. Now when I wanted to create a new private site collection, inside the online SharePoint admin center, I did not find the option to create new managed path, as I use to get when creating a site collection inside SharePoint on-premise. So how do I create a new managed paths inside SharePoint online? My 5 year- old daughter is constantly defiant! My 5-year old daughter is very defiant.  It started getting bad about 6 months ago. She doesn't do what she is told, and any time she hears the word "no" she throws terrible, dramatic fits, screaming ridiculously loud, and in some cases hitting.  She refuses to make eye contact when I warn her to stop doing something even when I am down at her eye level and it takes multiple orders to finally get her to look at me. She constantly tells me no.  I feel like I constantly tell her no and that she feels this gives her the right to tell her father and I no.  I have tried time outs which are not effective at all; she only throws a fit the whole time, never seeming to run out of wind. Spankings are only effective until the shock of the action itself wears off and then she returns to the same behavior.  My husband and I recently took away ALL of her toys/ possessions being she is a pretty materialistic child (she loves getting toys and always wants something new). We told her that if she was good and listened and stopped telling us no and throwing fits, that after three days we would let her choose three boxes of toys to bring back in her room. This worked but as soon as she got those three boxes unpacked, we packed them back up because she went right back to the no's and fit-throwing within a few hours.  I am mainly the one disciplining her and I feel she is definitely the most defiant with me. I believe in explaining to her why things are not OK and why I tell her no, but I really don't feel it helps and I never feel as if she listens to what I tell her.  I am at my wits' end and feel like a failure of a mother. She is my first and only child, and the only grandchild on both sides of our family. She is an angel at school but home is completely different.  I need help figuring this out but nobody I talk to really has any advice for me. I am at the point where I am wondering if she or I need counseling because I feel out of options. Why is the mol a fundamental physical quantity? I am starting to study physics in detail and as I read about physical quantities, I was puzzled why mol (amount of substance) is taken as a physical quantity.  A physical quantity is any quantity which we can measure and has a unit associated with it. But a mol represents the amount of substance by telling the number of particles (atoms, molecules, ions, etc.) present. So it is a pure number and numbers are dimensionless. So mol should not be considered a physical quantity.  Also, fundamental physical quantities should be independent of each other. I am wondering whether mass and mol are independent. This is so as they surely affect each other as we can evidently see while calculating the number of moles and using the mass of that sample for calculation.  So how is the mol a fundamental physical quantity and independent of mass? Calculating projected area of polygons with field calculator in ArcMap? Assume you are given two objects whose exact locations are unknown, but are distributed according to normal distributions with known parameters (e.g. $a \sim N(m, s)$ and $b \sim N(v, t))$. We can assume these are both bivariate normals, such that the positions are described by a distribution over $(x,y)$ coordinates (i.e. $m$ and $v$ are vectors containing the expected $(x,y)$ coordinates for $a$ and $b$ respectively). We will also assume the objects are independent.  Does anyone know if the distribution of the squared Euclidean distance between these two objects is a known parametric distribution? Or how to derive the PDF / CDF for this function analytically? How to prove there are no more positive integers that are products of 2 and 3 consecutive numbers? $6$ and $210$ share the property that both are the products of both two and three consecutive numbers. $6$ is $2\times3$ and $1\times2\times3$ and $210$ is $14\times15$ and $5\times6\times7$. It was easy enough to write a program to search for more numbers with this property, I found that there were no more up to at least $1{,}000{,}000{,}000{,}000$ ($1$ Trillion). But it is beyond me to prove that there are either no more numbers like this or to find the next one. Any ideas?