Does a viewfinder cover really make a difference? I've heard opinions from people that they are essential for scenarios such as shooting long exposure pictures. I'm just wondering if it is only a slight difference or a major one.
A rubber viewfinder cover is connected to my camera strap.  What's it for, and when do I use it?  What happens to a photo if I don't use it?
I would like to get a USB token to secure my keys. My use case is protection of 3 GnuPG keys that I will be using 10 times per day at least. I plan to create a new key ring from scratch. Because ECC seems more future-oriented than RSA, this is what I chose to use. I'm wondering which USB token to choose as well as which curve.  On  it is said that many people think curves recommended by the NIST or defined by Brainpool have a doubtful origin; therefore, they recommend the non-standardized Bernstein’s Curve 25519. On  one poster says that    He is not aware of any profound criticism of Brainpool curves, and Bernstein’s Curve 25519 is hard to protect against side-channel attacks when implemented in embedded devices.   As a result, I'm a bit lost as to which key/curve to choose. Get bytes from std::string in C++ I'm working in a C++ unmanaged project.  I need to know how can I take a string like this "some data to encrypt" and get a byte[] array which I'm gonna use as the source for Encrypt.  In C# I do    for (int i = 0; i &lt; text.Length; i++)     buffer[i] = (byte)text[i];   What I need to know is how to do the same but using unmanaged C++.  Thanks! Order of calling base class constructor from derived class initialization list In previous versions of the OS in the security pane, you are provided an option of:    But in this version there is no option anywhere:    Is there a way that I can turn on anywhere? (via Terminal maybe?) Prove that there is no retraction (i.e. continuous function constant on the codomain) $r: M \rightarrow S^1 = \partial M$ where $M$ is the Möbius strip.  I've tried to find a contradiction using $r_*$ homomorphism between the fundamental groups, but they are both $\mathbb{Z}$ and nothing seems to go wrong... Eclipse: How to build an executable jar with external jar? I am trying to build an executable jar program which depends on external jar downloaded. In my project, I included them in the build path and can be run and debug within eclipse.  When I tried to export it to a jar, I can run the program but I can't when I try to press a button which includes function calls and classes from the external jar. I have edited the environment variables (Windows XP) CLASSPATH to include paths of all the external jar, but it doesn't work.  A point to note is that I got compile warnings while exporting my executable jar, but it doesn't show up any description about the warnings.  Would someone kindly provide a thorough guide on how to include an external jar program using eclipse? Should actors in a game be responsible for drawing themselves? I am very new to game development, but not to programming.  I am (again) playing around with a Pong type game using JavaScript's canvas element.  I have created a Paddle object which has the following properties...   width height x y colour   I also have a Pong object which has properties such as...   width height backgroundColour draw().   The draw() method currently is resetting the canvas and that is where a question came up.  Should the Paddle object have a draw() method responsible for its drawing, or should the draw() of the Pong object be responsible for drawing its actors (I assume that is the correct term, please correct me if I'm incorrect).  I figured that it would be advantagous for the Paddle to draw itself, as I instantiate two objects, Player and Enemy. If it were not in the Pong's draw(), I'd need to write similar code twice.  What is the best practice here?  Thanks. Finite Series - reciprocals of sines Find the sum of the finite series $$\sum _{k=1}^{k=89} \frac{1}{\sin(k^{\circ})\sin((k+1)^{\circ})}$$ This problem was asked in a test in my school. The answer seems to be $\dfrac{\cos1^{\circ}}{\sin^21^{\circ}}$ but I do not know how. I have tried reducing it using sum to product formulae and found out the actual value and it agrees well. Haven't been successful in telescoping it. Laptop power supplies, does current matter? I have two laptops (same manufacture), with the same type of power connector.  However, the power supplies/transformers are slightly different.    The output on the first laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 8.0&nbsp;A. The output on the second laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 5&nbsp;A.  Clearly the voltages are the same, but the currents are different. I assume the second laptop's power supply can not be used on the first, because it can't supply enough power to the laptop.   However, can the first laptop's power supply be safely used on the second laptop? How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space? Every few days I get notices on my MacBook that it's running or run out of hard drive space. Curiously, restarting the computer will enable me to recover gigabytes of space (this past time, it was able to recover about 2.2GB). However, I can't identify anything in my personal activity that consumed that space.  It's possible that it's a rogue iTunes podcast or a huge software update that my Mac is automatically downloading - would either of these reclaim the space upon a restart?  One possibility that I can think of is that FileVault has some sort of disk leak, allocating but not freeing files. Does this make sense? Is there a tool that I can run to determine where this space is going? Assuming it is FileVault, should I try to disable it? What's the best way to turn of FileVault on a nearly full computer? I see that the code in many packages and examples contains percent signs % at the end of (many) lines. What are they used for? Do they affect the parsing of those lines? We are beginning to go down the path of mobile browser support for an enterprise e-commerce webapp (Java/Servlet based).  Of course there are many decisions to be made, but it seems to me the cornerstone is to be able to reliably detect mobile browsers, and make decisions on the content to be returned accordingly.  Is there a standard way to make this determination (quickly) based on the http request, and ideally glean more information about the given browser and device making the request (screen size, html capabilities, etc?).  I would also appreciate any supplemental information that would be of use from someone who has gone down this path of taking an existing large scale enterprise webapp and architect-ing out mobile browser support from the development side.  [edit] I certainly understand the request header and the information about a database of standard user agents is a great help.  For those talking about 'other' request header properties, if you could include similar standardized name / resource of values that would be a big help.  [edit] Several users have proposed solutions that involve a call over the wire to some web service that will do the detection.  While I'm sure this works, it is not a good solution for an enterprise e-commerce site for two reasons: 1) speed.  A call over the wire for every page request to a third party would have huge performance implications.  2) dependency/legal.  We'd tie our website response time and key functionality to their service, which is horrible for legal and risk reasons. Another domain name pointing to my server IP? I was checking out my reverse-DNS entry of my domain the other day which is run from a dedicated server.   I noticed that another person/company had their domain pointing to my server? I have no idea who this company is or why they are pointing their domain at my server IP?  How can I go about stopping this or forcing them to change? Why should the Standard Model be renormalizable? Effective theories like Little Higgs models or Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model are non-renormalizable and there is no problem with it, since an effective theory does not need to be renormalizable. These theories are valid until a scale $\Lambda$ (ultraviolet cutoff), after this scale an effective theory need a UV completion, a more "general" theory.  The Standard Model, as an effective theory of particle physics, needs a more general theory that addresses the phenomena beyond the Standard Model (an UV completion?). So, why should the Standard Model be renormalizable? How can I make a bash script executable by double clicking just like .exe files in Windows? I tried , but there are two consequences:   the terminal twinkles, disappears, and nothing is done. you must specify to run in terminal in order to work.   I have a script that installs tomcat on an offline PC, including all dependencies of tomcat in the script. I need to make the script work on double clicking like windows since most who use the script will not be familiar with Ubuntu.  Forget the above explanation. I want to make a script that can be run by double-clicking on it, without using the terminal. Anybody knows how? How to ask "If you have any problem then ask me" in polite manner Hide page numbering but retain header/footer I would like to remove page numbering on a specific page. However, the header and footer should remain intact. If I try:  \thispagestyle{empty}   The header and footer disappear. What is the recommended way of removing just the page number? How to disable auto-complete braces in TEXStudio? I want to disable auto-complete for braces in TeXstudio. In its simplest form, when I type {  I do not want it to automatically add a }.  When it does this, many times I end up deleting the brace, which is a hassle.  Also, when I hit Ctrl+I to get into italics mode I don't want it to auto-complete the ending brace either.  I have gone to Options -&gt; Configure TeXstudio... -&gt; Completion -&gt; Show Advanced Options and disabled everything.  But it still auto-completes them.  In case it matters the version I have is TeXstudio 2.8.4. For example I want to use \iint from ams package  and also mathabx package in one file together. Actually I want a command that neutralizes ams package effect and replace it with mathabx package effect from here on in my file. Thanks for your responsibility.  This is my example minimal file:  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report} \usepackage{amsmath}  \usepackage{mathabx}  \begin{document} i want this one in ams style:        \[ \iiint\,\iiint\, \iiint\,\oint\, \] text text text text text text text text text text text text   and this one in mathabx style:   \[ \iiint\,\iiint\, \iiint\,\oint\, \]   but both of them are the same and i don't like it ..... \end{document} I've been having an argument with a colleague about this sentence, could you please let me know which one of us is correct:     There are no shortage of applications for our product in this   space.   She is convinced that are should be replaced by is, and I think it should stand as it is. Thanks for your help!