Sorry for my choice of words yesterday.  Hope this is better explained:  ground water flooded two finished rooms in my basement.   Took out rotting, mildewed drywall, studs, sill plate, insulation.   A contractor dug a trench 10" wide in the floor at the base of the exterior walls, installed a floor-to-ceiling vapor barrier that drains any/all incoming moisture into that trench and out via a shiny new sump pump.  (For the first time in 30+ years, no water ingress.)   Now, I'm replacing those walls.  The trench the contractor dug was about 15" deep, lined with gravel, fitted with a porous pipe, covered with more gravel and finished with a layer of cement - how thick?  Maybe an inch or so...  There already are some cracks in the stuff.  But the gravel/pipe combo is working very well so no problems yet.    Except I need to put down a new sill-plate on the floor and am concerned that trying to drive anything into this cement will shatter it.  So I want to use liquid nails.  Think I can?
Replacing walls in basement due to flooding.  Contractor installed sump and drain pipe around the inside of the cinder block wall.  I want to put in new wall, concerned that TapCon or other hammer/gun attachments will compromise the cement cover over that pipe.  Can I just use liquid nails?
Populate an entire pre-configured workspace in i3wm Is it possible with I3Wm to populate an entire workspace with determined size, position and commands for each window?  I know I can do i3-msg "exec xterm -e 'ls; bash'" to create a new window, but I can't specify his position and size.  Maybe there is also an alternative by declaring via JSON the layout or something like that? Hi is it possible to get images from go daddy  to visual force pages.if it possible can you explain clearly how the process is. top command in cygwin? I am starting to use Cygwin(64) on my Windows 8 laptop, however, the top command is not recognized. I have read online that I need to get the procps package, but it is not available on the 'Cygwin Setup' package selections. How should I go about installing the procps package so that I can use top?  ps. for whatever reason ps and kill both work so I would think top would be included in whatever package allowed those guys to work, but there is no top command. How to change background-color on text links on hover but not image links Prove that $(ma, mb) = |m|(a, b)\ $ [GCD & LCM Distributive Law] I have something like this:  &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;A&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;B&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;C&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   When one of these links is clicked, I want to perform the .hide() function on the links that are not clicked. I understand jQuery has the :not selector, but I can't figure out how to use it in this case because it is necessary that I select the links using $(".content a")  I want to do something like  $(".content a").click(function() {     $(".content a:not(this)").hide("slow"); });   but I can't figure out how to use the :not selector properly in this case. Copy files from a list to a folder Automatically turn on VPN on computer unlock Ubuntu 18.04 When I wake the laptop from the sleep I need to get the VPN state as I left it (turned on). Can't find the setting of autoconnect in VPN settings... Need some easy way to ask the system to autoconnect the VPN when the internet is available.  Edit based on comments:  Ubuntu 18.04 has no option to Always connect to VPN when using using this connection. I've noticed that in comments, when you create `code region` with backticks, the backslash will still work as an escape character within that region (but it should not, IMHO).  To clarify:   In comments, `\\` will be rendered as \, but it should be rendered as \\ In the post body itself, `\\` will be rendered as \\ (i.e., correctly)   This is especially confusing when you enter regular expressions into a comment, since backslash-escaping is very common there, and confusion increases if you are dealing with a regex that is double-escaped for representation in a string.   At some point you lose track how many backslashes you must make so the comment renders correctly, or you don't notice fast enough (or at all) and the comment contains wrong code where the same markup in a question or answer would come out as perfectly correct.   It's just that comments can't be corrected anymore after the grace period, leaving you with the choice of either deleting the comment, thus crippling the conversation, or engaging in a trial-and-error game of writing another comment with even more backslashes to explain the issue.  My question is two-fold:   Will this error be corrected? If yes, existing comments should probably be searched and "fixed" by a routine that tries to do the right thing (this is probably somewhere between hard and impossible) Or, can I rest assured that never ever the behavior of the backslash in comments is going to be changed, so I can start working around this issue by hand, knowing that they won't start displaying incorrectly at some point in the future? Cannot delete directory with Directory.Delete(path, true) Drag and drop not working inside Nautilus on Ubuntu 17.10 Where are the default settings saved for the Command Prompt defaults?  Are they stored in the registry somewhere, or in a file?  I would love to make a .reg file to set my default preferences when logging into a machine for the first time.  I'm talking about the default application settings: QuickEdit mode, buffer size, text color, etc. Conventions for function notation I'm in year 11 right now and I just had a brief discussion with my maths teacher about function notation in trigonometry.  For a test, I wrote this,   sin(50)^2   I assumed that would be interpreted as sin(50)*sin(50)  But I was told the correct notation for this is is  sin^2 (50)   or optionally  (sin (50))^2   I'm curious if that is the 'proper' mathematical convention, or just how things are taught in high schools?  I'm Australian, in case there are some regional differences.  Thanks for the help! Is it possible to create individual power settings for each hard drive? I have a number of different drives that I use for different purposes but I only use two of them frequently. I would like for the others to enter sleep mode when not in use, but never my main two.  Is there any way to edit power saving settings for individual drives? Is there any way to debug bash script without using echo and logging?  I'm talking about using breakpoints and stuff like that. I saw a commercial on televison for preparing spaghetti without boiling the noodles, just place them in water for about on hour.  Can this be done? Suppose $n$ is a non negative integer $\geq 4$ and $\sigma\in S_n$ a permutation. Conjugacy classes in $S_n$ are completley determined by the cycle structure of $\sigma$. If we let the alternating group $A_n$.act on $S_n$ by conjugation, the orbits coincide with the conjugacy classes in $S_n$ except for those (even) permutations whose cycle structure is composed of even cycles (which corresponds to cycles of uneven length) of distinct order (fixed points are treated as cycles of length $1$.) See   For instance a $3$-cycle in $A_4$ has cycle structure $[3,1]$ which fits the bill, and a $5$-cycle in $A_5$ or $A_6$ works too, since the cycle structure is $[5]$ and $[5,1]$ respectively. On the other hand, a $3$-cycle in $A_5$ will does not satisfy the criteria as it has cycle structure $[3,1,1]$ with two fixed points.  In this case, the conjugacy class of $\sigma$ inside $S_n$ splits in $2$ orbits of the conjugation action of $A_n$, and if $\tau$ is any odd permutation, for instance $(12)$, then we have $$\mathrm{Conj}_{S_n}(\sigma)=\mathcal{O}(\sigma)\coprod\mathcal{O}(\tau\sigma\tau^{-1})$$  My question is How can we differentiate between the two orbits? Does it have geometric meaning?    I can see that this information can be useful when looking at representations of the alternating groups, since there are as many irreducible representations as conjugacy classes. As for some geometric interpretation, I ask because there is one for the three cycles in $A_4$. If $S_4$ is understood as the group of symmetries of a regular tetrahedron, then $A_4$ is the subgroup of direct symmetries, and a $3$-cycle corresponds to a rotation of angle $\frac{2\pi}{3}$ or $\frac{4\pi}{3}$ with axis passing through one of the vertices. Conjugacy classes inside $A_n$ preserve the angle, and that's how we can tell them apart. In this case the computations are so simple we don't really need this picture, but I think it is a nice way to understand the fact $3$-cycles in are not all conjugate inside $A_4$... While modeling an Audi R8 I have the following problem. The thing I want to create is seen in this image:    I want to create a sharp crease (outlined in red) which starts around the first exhaust and then goes to the second.  Is there an efficient way to do this (I also use the Subdivision Surface Modifier for this model). When on the road as a tourist, I often do not carry a reflector of flash. Now I am at a location with very strong sunlight and I want to take a photo of a companion in front of a nice scenery or building, the classic "we have been here" photo.  With very strong sunlight however, specially at a slight angle, I either get it into the person's eyes and they squint like crazy, or they are in the shade and their whole face is black.  Please note that I do not have aspirations to take a professional photo in such circumstances, but at least something acceptable.  Is there an easy trick to deal with that? To which extent is general relativity a gauge theory?