I accidentally typed cd // instead of cd .. and something weird happened. The directory // doesn't exist, what's going on here exactly.  root@root:/var/www/html# cd // root@root://# pwd // root@root://# cd .. root@root://#
I mistakenly typed cd // instead of cd /. To my surprise, current directory showed up as //.   What is that directory? Why does it exist?  apple@snipped $ pwd /home/apple apple@snipped $ cd / apple@snipped $ pwd / apple@snipped $ cd // apple@snipped $ pwd // apple@snipped $ cd /// apple@snipped $ pwd /
What does Superman do with his regular clothes after changing in the phone booth? We all know that Superman changes in the phone booth. But where does he put his regular clothes while he's on a mission? He doesn't throw it out, because he changes back. But we don't see him carrying a bag of dirty laundry while he's on a mission.  ("In his right hand, Superman has Lois Lane, and in his left hand he seems to be holding... boxers??)  And I can't imagine he leaves it in the phone booth.  So where does Superman leave his regular clothes after he changes? So, the spiffy new wi-fi thermostats want power on the C wire from thermostat, but the old thermostat doesn't have a C wire at it.  What's the easiest way to add the C wire/24 volt to the thermostat location? How can I convert a std::string to int? I imagine a point-like particle can only experience the local properties of spacetime. But locally there is no curvature and no gravity, as it is often stated that     Locally, as expressed in the equivalence principle, spacetime is Minkowskian, and the laws of physics exhibit local Lorentz invariance. ()   But if this is the case how does a point-like particle know, which direction it should follow in a gravitational field?   Can this be a seen as a hint that point-like particles cannot be used as underlying concept for a field theory like general relativity? How do I make a bootable USB OS X installer on a Mac? Does anyone have a Terminal command-line recipe for making a new bootable USB flash drive for one of the new MacBook Air's?  Is there a way to dd copy the USB boot device that comes in the box and make the new copy bootable?  I'd like to make a new backup copy of the USB rescue device for my MBA, preferably on a much larger flash drive with room for a backup of some of my working directories.  Added:  And is it possible to make, not just a rescue drive, but a bootable USB drive that will boot a fully updated version of the OS (say 10.6.8 or later)?  If so how on a MacBook Air 11, and how big a USB stick will this require? I have 4 copies of the Hot Questions widgets.  Sometimes, possibly after they reload on their own, I can only tap to open the last widget I added. If I tap on the question of any others nothing happens.  If I refresh each one then tapping works on the one I refreshed. Run command whenever someone joins a Minecraft server Is there any way to run a command automatically when a player joins the server? I need to do this without the use of a Bukkit plugin. I think it's possible with MCP but I want to know how! Is it possible to convert a Physical Ubuntu Install (Intel based PC with Ubuntu 10.10) to a virtual box disk, so that I can use that same environment on a separate pc or can keep it virtual for testing?  Something similar to "Disk2VHD" which converts a physical Windows 2K3 and above box into a VHD or VMware image.  Will be grateful for your assistance ! Kind Regards Computing $ \int_0^\infty \frac{\log x}{\exp x} \ dx $ I want to schedule my script for last Saturday of every month. I have come up with the below:  45 23 22-28 * *  test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 &amp;&amp; echo "4th Saturday"  &amp;&amp; sh  /folder/script.sh    Is this correct or I need to change it? I can't test it right now as it will be invoked only on last saturday. Please advise.  I have the below for last sunday of every month but i can't understand much of it. The first part gives 24 which is sunday and after -eq gives 7 which i don't know what it means:  00 17  * * 0 [ $(cal -s | tail -2 | awk '{print $1}') -eq $(date | awk '{print $3}') ] &amp;&amp; /folder/script.sh   Can i modify the above to get last saturday?  With Romeo's help I was help to come up with the below answer:  00 17 * * 6 [ $(cal -s | tail -2 | awk '{print $7}') -eq $(date | awk '{print $3}') ] &amp;&amp; /folder/script.sh Evaluation of $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\frac{1}{2n}\cdot \ln \binom{2n}{n}$ How can I find a saved Wi-Fi password? An example of a non-abelian group $G$ where, for all $a,b\in G$, the equality $(ab)^{n}=a^{n}b^{n}$ holds for two consecutive integers $n$ I am looking for an example of a group $G$ where the equality $(ab)^{n}=a^{n}b^{n}$ holds for two consecutive integers $n$, but $G$ is not an abelian group. I've started do some calculations in the group $D_{4}$ (I gave up!) Do you know where I can find that example? Is it possible find such example without doing a lot of calculations?  Thanks for your help! Add/Show comments focuses text box by default If I open a post using the mobile theme, which has many comments, there is a link at the footer "add/show n more comments". If this link is clicked, the comments are loaded and displayed.   At the moment the text area is automatically focused which is not a great experience (in my opinion), as you have to close the editor and scroll back to the top if you just wanted to read the comments, without adding a new one.  Would it be possible to either   not focus the text area by default and to load only the comments add a new link for adding a comment How to shift graphics/adjust placement of figure with \includegraphics I composed a diagram that takes up the entire sheet of paper in landscape mode, called diagram.tex (compiled it to generate pdf). I'm trying to include that into an article, but only half of it is showing; the bottom half is cut off by the right end of the paper.  I was able to get it in the proper orientation by using  \includegraphics[angle=90]{diagram.pdf}  But because the bottom half of it is cut off, I need some sort of option where I can do something like this:  \includegraphics[angle=90, shift left = 5cm]{diagram.pdf}  to pull the rest of the image left (or up, depending on how you're looking at it).     So how can I move the figure around?   I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I'm using the following documentclass and packages in my paper:  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article} \usepackage{tikz, graphicx}     Edit:  This is not an issue with pushing it past the margins. Half of the picture is not on the paper (sort of like if you stuck half of your left hand behind the left side of your monitor). I need to pull the paper left (just like you would shift your hand left to see it). How can I vertically align the numerators of two fractions? Forcing linebreaks in \url This question led to a new package:      I wish to typeset some relatively long URLs in a piece of text, and when I use \url{..}, the resulting text does not respect the margin boundaries that govern the main text body, instead going all the way to the edge of the paper before wrapping around.   For reference, my preamble looks like this:  \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}   and example of the url I'm including is:  \begin{itemize} \item Some text  \url{very-long-url} ... \end{itemize}   I'm compiling using pdflatex, although I doubt this makes a difference. Letter O with vertical line: operator null I have removed the mentioned libraries. Then my system disconnected from NIS service and many packages are being removed. The problem is I am not even able to login in my system. When i restarted it is showing "low graphics mode error". I do not know what to do Please help me. I am a beginner to Ubuntu. How many ways can $133$ be written as sum of only $1s$ and $2s$ Since last week I have been working on a way, how to sum $1$ and $2$ to have $133$.  So for instance we can have $133$ $1s$ or $61$ $s$2 and one and so on. Looking back to the example: if we sum: $1 + 1... + 1 = 133$ there is only one way. But for the second one there will be $131$ possible ways. And I have to do this for every possible combination. I am stuck with it and I have no idea whatsoever on how to begin.  Any ideas or methods I could use guys?