Random audio ads Audio ads appear at random and last for around 5-10 seconds before turning off. I've run spy-bot on my entire system and still ads appear. No recent program installations are appearing either.  Any suggestions (apart from muting my laptop which I will consider if I can't find a solution) ?
How to determine which program is making a certain sound in windows 7? I'm experiencing an annoying "female robotic" sound effect saying "loading complete" at uncertain interval in windows 7.  I want to shut down that noise for good. To do that, I have to determine which program is making this sound. I tried to open the "sound mixer" window, only to find to program last made any sound, one is official GTalk client, one is system sound. I tried to close GTalk and the sound still existed.  I started experiencing this issue not long after I installed a "driver" program for Rapoo E9198 wireless keyboard.
PhD Student : Publish Paper with Wife? Localisation is isomorphic to a quotient of polynomial ring Understanding slice notation Why does ltablex skip a number in captions? The below example presents two tables with an tabularx environment (taken from package ltablex) and a caption. After each tabularx-table, the table counter skips one, as if both the caption and the tabularx environment increase it, while the latter shouldn't.  \documentclass{report} \usepackage{ltablex} \begin{document}  \begin{table} \caption{Caption 1.} % "Table 1" \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|} empty table \end{tabularx} \end{table}  \begin{table} \caption{Caption 2.} % "Table 3" \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|c|} empty table \end{tabularx} \end{table}  \end{document}   My reputation doesn't allow me to upload a picture, but the captions are Table 1 and Table 3 respectively. List all directories that do NOT have a file with a given file name inside How would I go into listing all directories that do not have a file with a given file name inside? e.g. given this tree  /   /a      README      file001      file002   /b      README      file001   /c      file003   I want to list the directories that do not have a file named README, in this case it would be directory /c. How would I do that? I can't think of any syntax using e.g. find. Delete all files except in a certain subdirectory with find I want to recursively delete all files not accessed in a while in folder a, except all files in the subfolder b.  find a \( -name b -prune \) -o -type f -delete   However, I get an error message:     find: The -delete action automatically turns on -depth, but -prune does   nothing when -depth is in effect.  If you want to carry on anyway,   just explicitly use the -depth option.   Adding -depth causes all files in b to be included, which must not happen.  Anyone know a safe way to make this work? What is the difference between an int and an Integer in Java and C#? Get latest Flash player on Ubuntu I know, it's been asked before but I couldn't really get a satisfying answer for some details/backgrounds and I guess it's an important question for many.    Some application seem only to be running with Adobe Flash 15 (or at least I know it does, because I have that version on my Windows Partition).  The official Adobe website says:     NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.   Some search on the web like "Ubuntu Adobe Flash 15" or similar does not return any good websites.  I found something that says   (using a "pepper-based version"), and  .   Is it impossible to use this for Firefox too? Would it be a privacy risk?  Are there no alternative projects (I know it's closed source but there are so many so very bright people out there using something similar to wine but just for the plugin....)?  How about the Mac-Version? Shouldn't someone be able to port that one to Linux? How do I use RelativeSource with WPF bindings and what are the different use-cases? Transvection matrices generate $ \operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{R}) $ First order differential equations with 2 varriables Does anybody know how to solve the following differntial equation?  $$w^2\cdot r+\frac{dw}{dt}\cdot r+\frac{dr}{dt}\cdot w=3g$$  where w and r are a function of time so $w(t)$ and $r(t)$. $g$ is a constant  EDIT: This equation came from a thought problem of mine which I will now explain since I still do not know how to approach the problem.  Basically I want to design a spiral track in which a vehicle will accelerate. However the total acceleration needs to be constant.   The vehicle will have 2 acceleration components, a radial component ($a_r$) and a change in speed component ($a_s$). Since we want constant acceleration: $a_r + a_s = constant$  From circular motion we know that $a_r = \omega ^2 r$ where $r$ is the radius, and $\omega$    Further we know that $v=\omega*r$, therefore: $a_s=\frac{d}{dt}(\omega r)$  For constant acceleration $a_{total} = a_r + a_s = \omega ^2 r + \frac{d}{dt}(\omega r) =constant$  Further usefull information: Length of the track covered at a certain time $l=v*t=\omega r t$  With all this the radius will be a function of time, $r(t)$ and the angular velocity will be a function of time, $\omega (t)$  Boundary conditions: $r(0)  = 0$ $\omega (0) = 0$  Now I would like to find a possible set of solutions to create a track by implementing end boundary conditions that i choose e.g. $v(t_{end})=100 [m/s]$ and $l(t_{end})=5000 [m]$  Here is a diagram for clarity: Precedence between implication and bi-implication I came across this question:  Let p, q, and r be the propositions  p : Grizzly bears have been seen in the area. q : Hiking is safe on the trail. r : Berries are ripe along the trail. Write these propositions using p, q, and r and logical connectives (including negations).     If berries are ripe along the trail, hiking is safe if and   only if grizzly bears have not been seen in the area.   I see an If r,q iff ~p where If r,q is the part "If berries are ripe along the trail, hiking is safe" and ~p is "grizzly bears have not been seen in the area"  and I came up with (r -&gt; q) &lt;-&gt; ~p  But the answer given is: r -&gt; (q &lt;-&gt; ~p)  Can someone please explain the difference in precedence? Resetting Ubuntu to factory settings The times they are a-changin' Taking a skyline photo with a person closer to the camera during night time How can I take a photo which shows the skyline and the person who is standing around six feet away from the camera with proper lighting at night?   For taking just the skyline I've used long shutter speed and it turned out great, but when including a person on it, the person becomes  blurry because it's impossible for a person to remain static for that long.   Ps.  I do have two flashes, 35mm prime lens as well as 18-300mm zoom lenses as well. The camera I use is Nikon D7200. Set normal orientation of origin I want to change the orientation of my object to a specified direction.  Say I have an axle of a train whose normal orientation is set off by 90° from the global orientation:    The green arrow (Y-axis) points to the back of the train (along the global X-axis). But I want it to point to the sides of the train, so all I want is to rotate the orientation by 90° without rotating the object itself.  In other words, I want the normal and global orientation of the axle to be the identical:    Is this possible and if so, how?  Background: The game engine to use this model will move the bogies and the axles according to their orientations. After importing this train into the game the axles rotated 90° off. I'm working on an app that requires no user input, but I don't want the iPhone to enter the power saving mode.  Is it possible to disable power saving from an app? What is the relation between computational security and provable security? I read the book "Introduction modern cryptography". It gives the notion of computational security of private-key encryption at first which comes from perfect security and statistical security.     Let $(E,D)$ be an encryption scheme that uses $n$-bits keys to encrypt $l(n)$-length messages. $(E,D)$ is computationally secure if    $$E_{U_{n}}(x_{0}) \approx E_{U_{n}}(x_1)$$   And then it introduces the secure game (e.g. CPA, CCA)? I think it is a part of provable security.  "Unconditional security" (or "information-theoretic security" or "perfectly secrecy") and "computational security" are two opposite classes of security. But I do not think "computational security" and "provable security" are two independent classes of security. I know that computational security emphasizes the power of attacker is bounded (polynomial-time algorithm). And the provable emphasizes the mathematical assumptions or cryptography primitives. But it also related to the computational power. Can you quickly tell me if this pseudocode makes sense or not? Finding the null space of symmetric matrix generated by outer product Let $p, q \in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that $\|p\| = \|q\| = 1$ and define $$A = pq^T + qp^T$$ Find the null space of $A$.    I am not having very much luck. I have managed to show that $p + q$ and $p - q$ are eigenvectors, but I can't seem to connect those two. I know that since $A$ is generated by an outer product, it is of rank one. That implies that the rank of the null space is $n - 1$, but I can't seem to get any further. Can anyone help?