In , the OP admitted to deleting his question and then reposting it. I feel like this user has successfully "gamed" the system. His post is not technically a dupe (since he deleted the original), and it's not offensive (in content) or spam, so it's not flag-worthy.  I left a comment attempting to educate the user. But what else can be done here? I would hate to see this catch on as a way of getting more attention for your post.
A user has asked  which did not receive much attention, and thus the user deleted the post. After some time, the user asked the  (with just slight changes to the title and a tag change), so that it could receive a bit more attention. The strange thing is that the question was not downvoted or poorly written, and yet the user deleted the original post. Now, since the original question was deleted, I could not mark the new one as a duplicate (it threw an error). My question is, how do we handle such questions? Just let them be as such or let the user know about it or is there another way to handle such situations?
C++ inlining class methods causes undefined reference Force fsck.ext4 on reboot, but really "forceful" One of my Ubuntu 10.04 servers is giving me trouble. When I run fsck.ext4 -n /dev/sda5 it tells me there are errors in the free inode count, free block count, and more.  I have tried:  touch /forcefsck   Also tried:  shutdown -rF now   and still, after reboot, I see errors.  I also just checked on my eeePC netbook, Ubuntu 10.10, and have the same issue!  How can I force a really "forced" "forceful" "seriously fix my filesystem" fsck of the "/" filesystem on reboot?  Clarification: I run fsck.ext4 -n because it's a mounted filesystem, to check if there are errors. This tells me that there are. I thought that the automatic fsck every 30 mounts during the boot-up process is precisely to take care of errors in the root filesystem. But it doesn't do it in my case. I could reboot with a LiveCD and fix the errors, and then reboot again, but that's some serious downtime for a live server. A reboot, auto fsck, then continue booting is much more sustainable on a live server, and I believe should be the right behaviour.  Additional info: Here is the output. It looks like something that the autofsck would fix, doesn't it?  root@server:~# fsck.ext4 -n /dev/sda5 e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) Warning!  /dev/sda5 is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. /dev/sda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong (1849368, counted=1948909). Fix? no  Free inodes count wrong (545504, counted=552134). Fix? no   /dev/sda5: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors **********  /dev/sda5: 116752/662256 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 795324/2644692 blocks Moderncv has a line of empty space between address and phone/email, like this:   MWE:  \documentclass[12pt]{moderncv} \moderncvstyle{banking} \name{Sherlock}{Holmes} \address{221B Baker Street}{London}{U.K.} % Your current address \phone[mobile] {+44~(0)71234 00000}    % Your mobile phone number \email{superdetective@mail.com}  \begin{document} \makecvtitle \end{document}   How do I remove/decrease that space by shifting the phone and email line up? Counter ions and charge of a complex how can I add the charge and the counter ions to my complex? I'm using chemfig.  \schemestart \chemname{\chemleft[\chemfig{Ni (&lt;:[1]OH_2) (-[2]OH_2) (&lt;:[3]OH_2) (&lt;[5]OH_2) (-[6]OH_2) (&lt;[7]OH_2) }\chemright]}{\ce{[Ni(OH2)6]Cl2}} \schemestop     Thanks! Kill some processes by .exe file name Famously:     "Try not. Do or do not. There is no try."           -- Yoda   Thing is, this is from a movie. A writer wrote it and a voice actor spoke it. Is there a correct form of attribution for a case like this? If so, what? I have a problem when a lot of figures are in question. Some figures tend to "fly around", that is, be a paragraph below, although I placed them before that paragraph. I use code:  \begin{figure}[ht] \begin{center} \advance\leftskip-3cm \advance\rightskip-3cm \includegraphics[keepaspectratio=true,scale=0.6]{slike/visina8} \caption{} \label{visina8} \end{center}\end{figure}   to place my figures. How can I tell latex I REALLY want the figure in that specific place, no matter how much whitespace will be left? I checked my  to see whether I can find something similar to the main-site flag-history for chat-flags, but didn't find anything. I recently had the (dis)pleasure of regularly having to deal with a user, that has been deleted multiple times. Whenever they show up (with the same nick-name) again I have to flag them again. I'd like to get an overview of how often I had to do that, and whether my flags were helpful for the moderators. As such I propose the implementation of a flag-history as it is already in place for the main-site for chat-flags, that request moderator intervention. To be completely clear I am not talking about the 10k user flags, which are acted on in a matter of sometimes seconds with instantly visible results, but about moderator attention flags from this menu: How can I check for Python version in a program that uses new language features? If I have a Python script that requires at least a particular version of Python, what is the correct way to fail gracefully when an earlier version of Python is used to launch the script?  How do I get control early enough to issue an error message and exit?  For example, I have a program that uses the ternery operator (new in 2.5) and "with" blocks (new in 2.6).  I wrote a simple little interpreter-version checker routine which is the first thing the script would call ... except it doesn't get that far. Instead, the script fails during python compilation, before my routines are even called. Thus the user of the script sees some very obscure synax error tracebacks - which pretty much require an expert to deduce that it is simply the case of running the wrong version of Python.  I know how to check the version of Python. The issue is that some syntax is illegal in older versions of Python. Consider this program:  import sys if sys.version_info &lt; (2, 4):     raise "must use python 2.5 or greater" else:     # syntax error in 2.4, ok in 2.5     x = 1 if True else 2     print x   When run under 2.4, I want this result  $ ~/bin/python2.4 tern.py  must use python 2.5 or greater   and not this result:  $ ~/bin/python2.4 tern.py    File "tern.py", line 5     x = 1 if True else 2            ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax   (Channeling for a coworker.) Visiting the US after overstaying as a minor 13 years ago? Tsunami dampening mechanisms Encouraged by the zeitgeist let me ask the following:  Is it feasible (now or in the future) to build systems a certain distance of a vulnerable coastline which can serve to dampen a tsunami before it reaches the coast itself?  The following picture comes to mind. We have some device which is small enough to be mounted on a buoy. An array of such buoys can be anchored some distance off the coastline, controlled by computers which are linked into the global tsunami warning network. This setup is quite feasible given what a cell phone can do today.  On the detection of an oceanic earthquake or other tsunami generating event (such as a piece of the Rock of Gibraltar falling into the sea) and given present environmental conditions one can calculate the expected path of the tsunami and its intensity. If a TDS (Tsunami Dampening System) of the type I describe above happens to be deployed in range of the tsunami, all relevant information is conveyed to the TDS controllers by the global tsunami warning system. All this happen in a matter of moments.  This leaves plenty of time (25min - 2hr) for the devices in the TDS array to be activated and to do their job. The question in this case would be - what form could such devices take? Perhaps mini-turbines which could dissipate the incoming energy into the ocean by first converting it to electrical energy.  Any such undertaking involves physical estimates for the size and shape of such an array, the precise capabilities of each device, etc. Many of these concerns involve simple physical questions.  Can you come up with the details of such a system or alternatively outline your own design? If you think that this idea would never work in the first place - for technological, physical or some other reasons - please explain what you think would be the prime obstacle and why? Abnormal behavior with iwlwifi driver: the device is shown as not working Loading multiple CSV files into QGIS 2.10 How can I load multiple CSV files into QGIS with Longitude/Latitude already included in it. I downloaded the &quot;Load Them All&quot; plug-in, however, the result loaded was converted as text files and cannot be visualize on the map canvass. Any help? Are there any available plug-ins that can load multiple CSV file that will work fine in QGIS? In a complete metric space with no isolated points, any countable intersection of open dense sets is uncountable? Proof verification: column rank = row rank $\newcommand{\span}{\operatorname{span}}\newcommand{\rank}{\operatorname{rank}}$I would like to prove that for every martix, column rank = row rank Let $A\in M_{m\times n}$ be some matrix. fix $R_A$ = vector space of the rows of $A$ , $C_A$ = vector space of the columns of $A$  $$\rank (R_A) = dim \ (\span \{R_1, R_2, \ldots, R_m\})$$ $$\rank (C_A) = dim \ (\span \{C_1, C_2, \ldots, C_n\})$$  let $x$ be some vector. $$x\in \operatorname{Null}(A) \Leftrightarrow \forall i  \ \ (1 \leq i \leq m) : \langle x,R_i\rangle = 0$$ (to be clear - I'm referring to the inner product of $x$ with each row of $A$) Using the rank nullity theorem, $\dim \operatorname{Null}(A) =  n - \rank(R_A)$ as $n$ =  number of columns. what I would like to do is to say: $$\dim \operatorname{Null}(A) =  n - \rank(R_A)$$ $$\dim \operatorname{Null}(A) = n - \rank(C_A)$$ therefore,  $\dim \operatorname{Null}(A) = n - \rank(R_A)= n - \rank(C_A)  \Longrightarrow \rank(R_A) = \rank(C_A) $ it that false? is using the rank- nullity  theorem this way is cheating? or just doesn't prove what needs to be proven formally? How do I make a fully statically linked .exe with Visual Studio Express 2005? My current preferred C++ environment is the free and largely excellent Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express edition. From time to time I have sent release .exe files to other people with pleasing results. However recently I made the disturbing discovery that the pleasing results were based on more luck that I would like. Attempting to run one of these programs on an old (2001 vintage, not scrupulously updated) XP box gave me nothing but a nasty "System cannot run x.exe" (or similar) message.  Some googling revealed that with this toolset, even specifying static linking results in a simple hello-world.exe actually relying on extra .dll files (msvcm80.dll etc.). An incredibly elaborate version scheming system (manifest files anyone?) then will not let the .exe run without exactly the right .dll versions. I don't want or need this stuff, I just want an old fashioned self contained .exe that does nothing but lowest common denominator Win32 operations and runs on any old win32 OS.  Does anyone know if its possible to do what I want to do with my existing toolset ?  Thank you. Introductory text for lattice theory I'm having some problems with listings and UTF-8 in my document. Maybe someone can help me? Some characters work, like é and ó, but á and others appear at the beginning of words...  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{scrbook} \KOMAoptions{twoside=false,open=any,chapterprefix=on,parskip=full,fontsize=14pt}  \usepackage[portuguese]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{listingsutf8}  \usepackage{inconsolata} \lstset{     language=bash, %% Troque para PHP, C, Java, etc... bash é o padrão     basicstyle=\ttfamily\small,     numberstyle=\footnotesize,     numbers=left,     backgroundcolor=\color{gray!10},     frame=single,     tabsize=2,     rulecolor=\color{black!30},     title=\lstname,     escapeinside={\%*}{*)},     breaklines=true,     breakatwhitespace=true,     framextopmargin=2pt,     framexbottommargin=2pt,     extendedchars=false,     inputencoding=utf8 }  \begin{document} \begin{lstlisting} &lt;?php  echo 'Olá mundo!'; print 'Olá mundo!'; \end{lstlisting}  \end{document} \end{lstlisting} Analytic solution for $x=\ln(x+1)$ How do I calculate the CRC32 (Cyclic Redundancy Checksum) of a string in .NET?