I am looking for a word to describe a situation where one wants to do good things but ends up with something bad.  It generally happens with me, I always think of doing something good but sometimes end up with something bad.
I want to say "someone (or something) intends to help, but instead it makes things worse". Is there any succinct expression or phrase for this?  Thanks.
How can we sum up $\sin$ and $\cos$ series when the angles are in arithmetic progression? What's a recommended alternative to Quickbooks pro? I've just installed Ubuntu to replace Windows. I can't seem to find a good alternative to  to run on Ubuntu. Any help would be appreciated. How do I make environment variable changes stick in Python? From what I've read, any changes to the environment variables in a Python instance are only available within that instance, and disappear once the instance is closed.  Is there any way to make them stick by committing them to the system?  The reason I need to do this is because at the studio where I work, tools like Maya rely heavily on environment variables to configure paths across multiple platforms.  My test code is  import os os.environ['FAKE'] = 'C:\\'   Opening another instance of Python and requesting os.environ['FAKE'] yields a KeyError.  NOTE: Portability will be an issue, but the small API I'm writing will be able to check OS version and trigger different commands if necessary.  That said, I've gone the route of using the Windows registry technique and will simply write alternative methods that will call shell scripts on other platforms as they become requirements. More than one private key for RSA In an RSA-encryption scenario, Bob's public key pair $(n, e)$ is $(143, 43)$. An attacker Mallory tries brute-force and comes to $d = 7$ as the private key. The value of $φ(143) = 120$ is not known to Mallory. However from $43 \cdot d \equiv 1 \bmod 120)$, one can calculate the first positive element $d = 67$ from multiplicative group $d = 120 + 67n$ and $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ $d = 7$ clearly doesn't fit in that multiplicative group, so how come it can successfully decrypt the encryption? When I restart httpd, I get the following error.  What am I missing?  [root@localhost ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ] Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 22 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/sites.conf: Invalid command 'SSLEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration   I have installed mod_ssl using yum install mod_ssl openssh  Package 1:mod_ssl-2.2.15-15.el6.centos.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package openssh-5.3p1-70.el6_2.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version   My sites.conf looks like this  &lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt; #    ServerName shop.itmanx.com     ServerAdmin webmaster@itmanx.com      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento     &lt;Directory /var/www/html&gt;         Options -Indexes         AllowOverride All     &lt;/Directory&gt;      ErrorLog logs/shop-error.log     CustomLog logs/shop-access.log &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;  &lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;     ServerName secure.itmanx.com     ServerAdmin webmaster@itmanx.com      SSLEngine on     SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/server.crt     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/server.key     SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/httpd/ssl/secure.itmanx.com/chain.crt      DocumentRoot /var/www/html/magento     &lt;Directory /var/www/html&gt;         Options -Indexes         AllowOverride All     &lt;/Directory&gt;      ErrorLog logs/shop-ssl-error.log     CustomLog logs/shop-ssl-access.log     &lt;/VirtualHost&gt; For a while now I've noticed that if I take a cup of hot tea and pour it into two cups and leave it then both cups will cool faster than the single cup.  How is it that nature cools two cups of tea in parallel more quickly? It's still the same amount of tea but it gets cooled quicker if I have two cups. Live USB "Check disk for defects” finds defects but doesn't list them I downloaded the iso file for XUbuntu. I created a live usb using Pen Drive Linux. I turned on my computer, booted to the XUbuntu installation screen, and selected "check disk for defects".  A minute later, it says that it found one defect. How do I figure out what this defect is? Where to place log4j.xml What developer text editors are available for Ubuntu? Batch export Photoshop layers to individual PNG files I am a web dev and competent in Fireworks, but not so much in Photoshop.  I have just received a layered PSD file to turn into a web page.  Can anyone tell me the easiest way to export all layers to individual png files?  There are lots of layers and doing this manually seems wrong.  I have seen  but it does seem there should be native functionality for this in PS.  I have access to Photoshop CS4. Any pointers appreciated. I am wondering what the differences are between mixed and unmixed GLMs. For instance, in SPSS the drop down menu allows users to fit either:   analyze-&gt; generalized linear models-&gt; generalized linear models &amp; analyze-&gt; mixed models-&gt; generalized linear     Do they deal with missing values differently?    My dependent variable is binary and I have several categorical and continuous independent variables. Executing .bat file How accurate is the GPS on the iPhone's Find My iPhone app?  I used Find My iPhone app to track a friend. The first 3 stops were dead on but when it refreshed it showed them to be several streets over from actual location. What could cause that? Why can some holodeck matter leave the holodeck, while other holodeck matter (notably people) cannot? $n,a,b \mathbb \in \mathbb Z^+$ , such that $n\mid a^n-b^n$ ; to show $n\mid \frac {a^n-b^n}{a-b}$ The Frobenius Coin Problem I am asked to prove that:       For integers $n, x,y &gt; 0$, where $x,y$ are relatively prime,        every $n \ge (x-1) (y-1)$ can be expressed as $xa + yb$, with nonnegative integers $a,b \ge0$.   How should I approach this? I have very limited knowledge in number theory. macOS Mojave won't install updates past 10.14.1 due to requirement for APFS formatting I have a MBP 2012 I upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave after it came out as GA. I don't recall if I was asked about upgrading to APFS when Id id that, but at this time the main volume is Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  My current About This Mac...version is Mojave 10.14.1 (18B75). Now, when updates are advertised from the App Store, I'm unable to upgrade because 10.14.3 is required.  No OS updates show in the App Store, and when I searched for the updaters (10.14.2 Combo, etc), I can't install because the installer reports "macOS 10.14.2 Update can't be installed on this disk. This Mac can only install macOS on APFS-formatted drives."  I tried the search results recommending to boot in Recovery Mode and use Disk Utility, but APFS is not available as a type.  I have good backups and I can reformat the boot volume if I need to, but I have not done this before. Should I get a 10.14.3 installer to do this and boot from an external drive? The only guies and message boards I've found just keep saying to install 10.14.3 (I can't) or convert the disk in Recovery Mode (APFS is not available as an option.)  Any known-good ways to get my 10.14.1 upgraded so I can keep getting App Store updates? Big O, how do you calculate/approximate it? Most people with a degree in CS will certainly know what . It helps us to measure how well an algorithm scales.   But I'm curious, how do you calculate or approximate the complexity of your algorithms? Branch of the n-th root of a holomorphic function is holomorphic It is true that given a domain $D$ and a function $f$ that is holomorphic and not vanishing in $D$, then a branch $\varphi$ (with $\varphi$ continuous) of $f^{1/n}$ in $D$ is holomorphic in $D$ ().   My question is, does the statement remain true if we remove the non-vanishing condition? I haven't been able to find a counterexample or a proof on that more general case. What's the difference between struct and class in .NET?