I want to be able to change and store all the settings blender has in a configuration file. Eventually I would like to be able to make self-contained blender plugins that also affect the configuration of blender. I'm sure there must also exist some settings that are not available in the GUI. For example, I would like to able to configure vim-like keychords for changing the focus of split views, creating them, etc. and in general being able to configure my keys very flexibly.
I constantly stay up to date with each new release of Blender, but this means my preferences are wiped clean each time. How do I export/import these preferences to avoid loosing my carefully crafted set up each time?
My prof gave us this definition of an Echelon system:     A system of m linear equations in n variables is called an echelon system if         m ≤ n.   Every variable is the leading variable of at most one equation.   Every leading variable is to the left of the leading variables of all lower equations.   Every equation has a leading variable.      I don't understand this definition at all.  Q1)If you have this system of equations:  $ax_1 + bx_2 + cx_3 = z$  $dx_1 + ex_2 + fx_3 = z$  its not an echelon system because of multiple equations having the same variable as the leading variable and therefore violating rule #2.  But if you switch around variables and rewrite the equation as:  $ax_1 + bx_2 + cx_3 = z$  $ex_2 + dx_1 + fx_3 = z$  It becomes an echelon system! Why would the way you write a system of equations affect its definition?  Q2)Why would point number three matter? Can't you just move around the equations so that they are in order of variables?  Q3)Why would point number four matter? If you have a equation in the system that doesn't have a leading variable can't you just disregard it? For example if you have the equation $0x = 0$ in the equation can't you just ignore it to have a echelon system since it doesn't affect the solution of the system? Why is "chmod -R 777 /" destructive? This is a  about File Permission and Why 777 is "destructive".   I'm not asking how to fix this problem, as there are a ton of references of that already on Server Fault (reinstall OS). Why does it do anything destructive at all?  If you've ever ran this command you pretty much immediately destroy your operating system. I'm not clear why removing restrictions has any impact on existing processes. For example, if I don't have read access to something and after a quick mistype in the terminal suddenly I now have access well... why does that cause Linux to break? When I launch certain programs from the command line like eclipse and document viewer in 11.10 it spews a load of information that seems inconsequential.   Also when they are run in the background they sometimes continue to produce output to the terminal which I am currently working on, which is irritating.  I would like them just launch and keep the background stuff in the background. My reasoning is that if you launch these programs through the GUI (eg double clicking on an icon) these messages are never shown to me, so I don't need them in the command line. How can I link to an external resource in a community-friendly way? I would like to help my fellow Stackizens, using material from my blog or other website.  But external links are sometimes viewed as excessive promotion.  From the FAQ:     Be careful, because the community   frowns on overt self-promotion and   tends to vote it down and flag it as   spam. Post good, relevant answers, and   if they happen to be about your   product or website, so be it. However,   you must disclose your affiliation in   your answers. Also, if a huge   percentage of your posts include a   mention of your product or website,   you're probably here for the wrong   reasons.   I have tried posting answers that reference my blog, and I have followed the above rules, but my answers still get flagged as spam.  How can I craft an answer that references my blog, website or other resource, but is still acceptable to the community? The median minimizes the sum of absolute deviations (the $ {\ell}_{1} $ norm) Suppose we have a set $S$ of real numbers. Show that   $$\sum_{s\in S}|s-x| $$   is minimal if $x$ is equal to the median.    This is a sample exam question of one of the exams that I need to take and I don't know how to proceed. Creating a new DOM element from an HTML string using built-in DOM methods or Prototype I have an HTML string representing an element: '&lt;li&gt;text&lt;/li&gt;'. I'd like to append it to an element in the DOM (a ul in my case). How can I do this with Prototype or with DOM methods?  (I know i could do this easily in jQuery, but unfortunately we're not using jQuery.) How to calculate the number of days you can stay in Taiwan on a tourist visa? Tourist visas to Taiwan have an associated "maximum stay" of 30 days. For those visas, how are the days counted? Does the stay begin on the partial day that the traveler arrives or the first full day spent in the country? Does it end on the last full day spent in the country, or the actual day the traveler departs? Can you use Magical Secrets to choose high level spells when multiclassing as a Bard? Say you have a Wizard 7/Bard 9. You gain your 17th level and choose to gain the level in Bard (which grants you Magical Secrets). According to the Multiclass Spellcaster: Spell Slots per Spell Level table, you now have a single 9th level spell slot. Can the spells you choose from Magical Secrets be 9th level spells even though you can only cast up to 5th level Bard spells? Problem. Use Tutte's 1-factor theorem to prove that every 3-regular graph with no bridges has a 1-factor.  I honestly have no idea how to approach this problem. I have drawn a couple of graphs to gain some insight to no avail. Any hints or tips will be greatly appreciated. How would one prove that $$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} \frac{F_{n+1}}{F_n}=\frac{\sqrt{5}+1}{2}=\varphi$$  where $F_n$ is the nth Fibonacci number and $\varphi$ is the Golden Ratio? Can someone identify the fonts used in the words "nature methods" in the following image?    I think that the word "nature" is in Times or Times New Roman (?) but can't figure out what font the word "methods" is in.  Any ideas? Standard value of PATH variable Windows 10 After having poorly handled the PATH system variable (resulting in deletion), I'm now looking to reinstate the variable with the original value. I found answers like  about Windows 8 and below, but not for Windows 10. I guess values are virtually identical, but I'd like to know the exact string so I'm not missing anything. EDIT: Also, Regedit tree have changed and I'm not able to locate the variable Formation of ammonia from air and moisture On extended bicycle trips I sometimes slept under a plastic sheet, which helped with mosquitoes on hot nights. But there was a noticeable build-up of ammonia which made this almost impossible for more than an hour or so at a time.   Air is mostly nitrogen $(N_2)$ and there is always water (containing hydrogen) on a humid day. But I wonder about the mechanism for the formation of ammonia under these circumstances? There are (according to Wiki) trace amounts of methane and $H_2$ in the air. But methane and hydrogen (g) are I think pretty stable.   I wonder if the presence of exhaled air (containing $CO_2)$ could be a factor?  Thanks for any ideas. The square roots of different primes are linearly independent over the field of rationals I need to find a way of proving that the square roots of a finite set    of different primes are linearly independent over the field of    rationals.    I've tried to solve the problem using elementary algebra  and also using the theory of field extensions, without success. To  prove linear independence of two primes is easy but then my problems  arise. I would be very thankful for an answer to this question. Let $x &gt; 1$ and $a$, $b$ be positive integers. I know that $a$ divides $b$ implies that $x^a - 1$ divides $x^b - 1$. If $b = qa$, then  $$x^b - 1 = (x^a)^q - 1^q = (x^a - 1)((x^a)^{q-1} + \ldots + x^a + 1).$$  I'm interested in the converse of the statement. If $x^a - 1$ divides $x^b - 1$, does this imply that $a$ divides $b$? What is C# analog of C++ std::pair? I'm interested: What is C#'s analog of std::pair in C++? I found System.Web.UI.Pair class, but I'd prefer something template-based.  Thank you! I am writing a script, which I would like to spice up a bit.  What I need, is a loop, which takes one letter at a time, including space, and then write it on the screen, like an old typewriter would do.  I would write some kind of pause/sleep between the typing, so it would look retro like. cp vs. mv: which operation is more efficient? I find myself moving reasonably large amount of data (20+ GB) from one directory tree to other. Often times they are on the same filesystem but sometimes they are on different ones. I do cp just to preserve the original data just-in-case. Once the copy is done I delete the original data after verifying that the data has been copied alright. Sometimes I just do mv if I feel too lazy to clean original data afterwards. However, I am wondering, from purely technical point of view, which operation is more efficient? Why? Divisibility by 7 rule, and Congruence Arithmetic Laws Microsoft recommends using Rowversion over timestamp, but I can not find "rowversion" data type inside my sql server 2008 R2 Microsoft  mentioned that we should use the rowversion data type over Timestamps. Now inside my SQL Server 2008 R2, I want to create a column with the Rowversion data type. But in my SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio, I cannot find such a data type:  Also when I tried altering existing column named timestamp which is of type timestamp using this statement: ALTER TABLE [SkillManagement].[dbo].[Customer] ALTER COLUMN timestamp rowversion   I get this error: Msg 4927, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot alter column 'timestamp' to be data type timestamp  Can anyone advise? EDIT