How do I lock a hard disk drive to a certain drive letter? I have an external hard disk drive that I have set to drive F which contains some programs that I have shortcuts on the desktop to. I have a second external hard disk drive which I store my music on which is auto assigned to drive E, due to someone thinking that Australians love to have wings on power plugs for hard drives while power boards have each socket close together. I can have both of these hard drives set at the same time.  My music hard drive I normally only plug in when I synchronise music to my iPod, but on occasion when I unplug my music hard drive and plug my old one back in or at times when I turn on my computer with the music hard disk drive in, turn off my computer and turn it back on with my old hard drive, its drive letter gets switched to E.  I get annoyed having to always go into disk management and change the drive letter back to F when this happens so   Can I lock my hard drive to always be F? If anything else tries to be F, it can fail for all I care. Is there a batch file I can use that'll go though all the steps of Disk Management to change a drive's letter, that way I can set it up in the startup folder?   EDIT:      I get annoyed having to always go into disk management and change the drive letter back to F when this happens   I am just pointing it out in case someone missed it, because I already use Disk Management to change the drive letter back to F. If it stayed there then I would have a problem.
How to assign permanent drive letters to removable USB hard drives I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters (e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E:, but it's now F:, therefore my scripts will fail), depending on the order of how the drives are plugged into my laptop.  In Windows 7, how do I assign a permanent drive letter to a drive?
"1 in 10 are" or "1 in 10 is"? Take the examples:   "One in ten children are dyslexic."  "One in ten children is dyslexic." "One in ten children has dyslexia." "One in ten children have dyslexia."   The "one" is singular so 2 and 3 should be correct. But the "one in ten" is a fraction" so 1 and 4 should be correct. And yet I think I usually say 1 and 3. Which is/are correct?! I just learned about the Monty Hall problem and found it quite amazing. So I thought about extending the problem a bit to understand more about it. In this modification of the Monty Hall Problem, instead of three doors, we have four (or maybe $n$) doors, one with a car and the other three (or $n-1$) with a goat each (I want the car).  We need to choose any one of the doors. After we have chosen the door, Monty deliberately reveals one of the doors that has a goat and asks us if we wish to change our choice.  So should we switch the door we have chosen, or does it not matter if we switch or stay with our choice?  It would be even better if we knew the probability of winning upon switching given that Monty opens $k$ doors. How to check if a binary is 16 bit on Windows Prove that the subsequence of a convergent series with nonnegative terms converges Can we have discussions? Guys, I just wonder if people are allowed to have civilized discussion (on any IT topic) on this forum without actually being accused of starting a row. I'm asking this question for a reason that few days I've asked few questions referring to VM, JIT etc. and compared them to C++ way and despite the fact that I've explained myself that I'm not starting any agro with anyone, that I'm really just genuinely curious, my post was first closed and then removed. I'm asking: What's wrong with asking nonstandard questions which sometimes my be quite difficult to answer? Thanks I need this desperately but can't find it. Am I doing something wrong? Is voting to balance in the spirit of the site? The other day I saw an answer which was ok. Not great but not bad. So no reason to upvote or downvote. However the answer already had a single downvote. I felt this was unfair so upvoted the answer to keep it at what I felt was a fair score. It wasn't until afterward that it occurred to me that I should have perhaps solely voted on the content of the answer.  Is this a reasonable reason for an upvote or should I have left the answer alone? How to I deal with unwrapped UVs orientation?   Delete the default Cube. Add a Cylinder Edit mode and edge select the Top and the Bottom and a single connecting edge. Make them into seams UV Unwrap (standard Unwrap mode)   The unwrapped UV now shows two circles above a row of quads. I can save this and open it in an image editor and paint over those areas and get the texture to align on the cylinder back in blender.  But, the pattern(just happens to be text) that was inserted in place of the row of quads is now upside down on the model. Any attempt to flip or align just makes things worse, from upside down to mirrored or the Top/Bottom not aligning.  So my real question is how could I have known that the quads represented an upside down view of the world?  Do other blender users export UVs and mark them with arrows and colours just to see how they align on a model before actually painting for real?  I tried selecting the edges in step 3 in different orders before making them into seams and it made no difference.  I also looked at the Normals but they appear to be only Inside/Outside not Up/Down.  Blender 2.70 How to ensure that all traffic goes through VPN connection once it has been started? I connect to the internet through a VPN provider along with other precautions in order to ensure privacy (against traffic analysis by agencies of a repressive government). I currently use  to configure and establish the VPN connection. Tunnelblick does not allow automatically connecting to the provider at or before login so I need to connect manually each time, and sometimes the connection is lost.  I need any and all traffic to go through the VPN connection at all times; whenever the VPN isn't connectable for whatever reason, I want the fallback to be no connection. I need to ensure   that OS X does not connect to the internet on my regular internet connection, or at all, during boot (until the login screen, for time synchronization and other possible "call home" stuff etc.). What services, if any, try to do this, and how can I practically analyze and change what's going on with networking during boot? Is there a way to connect to VPN earlier than right after login? that if my VPN connection is temporarily lost, applications do not continue to communicate over my regular unencrypted connection.    I basically want the system to act as if the network connection is lost altogether if the VPN connection fails, but currently they just continue to work as if nothing happened. What can I do to my system so that once a VPN is established, all traffic can only flow through that connection and no traffic can flow if the connection drops? Why does a query run slower in a Stored Procedure than in the Query window? Embed vimeo video into the body field How to make Outlook 2010 minimize when I try to close it? When clicking the X button or ALT+F4, how can I get Outlook to minimze to the tray instead of close?  Several programs have this behavior, and it's annoying that Outlook behaves different... Why doesn't a commutator cause the rotation to reverse periodically or stop? I understand the field magnets attracting/repelling the armature/coil so that it turns one half-turn and then, because the commutator is turned, its contact with the brushes has switched sides, and the current goes in the opposite direction, reversing the electromagnetic polarity. Then, because the polarity is swapped, it attracts/repels to complete the second half-turn. The thing is, isn't it a bit of a gamble that it will turn in the same direction? Couldn't the it just be pulled/pushed back, more or less undoing the half-turn?  I'm also a bit confused how the rotation doesn't just stop once the commutator is oriented so that the brushes are contacting both sides of the commutator. In other words, there's a brief period just as the commutator switches the current directions where each both the brushes are in contact with both sides of the commutator where the current is neutralized. Shouldn't this stop the motor?    For reference, I'm just talking about a simple DC motor. I have a server running with the timezone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).  Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp files, is running on EDT and stores files that I need to copy in the format /path/to/filename/data20120913  I looked at trying to rsync files using something like find's -mtime -1 flag for files modified in the last day, but I didn't have any luck.  I don't mind just using scp to copy the current day's file, but as of right now there is a 4-hour window where running date +%Y%m%d will give a different day on each server and that bugs me a little.  Looking through man date I see that I can have the time output as UTC, but I don't see a way to have it output as another timezone like EDT  I suppose I could also use something like the GNU date extension date -d 20100909 +%s to get the date in seconds from the epoch, apply a manual 4 * 60 * 60 second calculation, and see about rendering that as a date - but then when daylight time kicks in it will still be an hour off.  Is there a simpler way to output the date in a YYYYMMDD format for EDT on a server that is set to UTC ? How to modify the space between the numbers and text of sectioning titles in the table of contents? Let's say a 10N cube (in air, on Earth) rests flat on a scale at the bottom of a tank of water, and the scale reads 8N, so there is 2N of buoyant force on the cube.  How does the buoyant force manifest itself on the cube?  I assume the force is normal to the surface of the scale, but if there isn't any water under the cube, how does the water push up on the cube? The full question: suppose N is normal in G and $[G:N]=p$ is a prime. Prove that for any $K \leq G$, either (1) $K \leq N$ or (2)$KN=G$ and $[K:K \cap N]=p$.  Since $N,K \leq G$, it is of course possible that $K \leq N$ could happen.  but for (2), we can show $KN \subseteq G$  but how can we show $KN=G$?  And what information does "$[G:N]=p$" give us? My number is associated with iMessage on other phone, how to remove it? Good day everyone. For only 1 hour (!) I used my relatives iPhone with my sim card and that's it, he keeps receiving all of my iMessages. I tried checking in iTunes all devices associated with my account and his device is not listed. I tried to log in and log out to/from iMessage on his phone with his apple ID, still won't help. How can I stop this nightmare!? When I go to iMessage settings>Send &amp; Receive on his device, there is only my phone number listed, how do I remove it without smashing phone to the wall?! Thanks and have a great day  EDIT. After talking to apple support for some time, they removed my phone number from my friend's iMessage. So I guess if you are facing same problem you have to contact support. Google spreadsheet sorting messes up cell comments I'm running into this weird problem with Google spreadsheets: if the cells have comments on them and I sort the spreadsheet, the rows sort but the comments stay in the same position, and don't move with the cells they're attached to.  In other words, the cells look like this:  A C  &lt;-- comment on this cell B   and then I sort by this column:  A B  &lt;-- comment remains on this cell (stays in position) C  &lt;-- comment should have remained attached to this cell   This means that sorting is completely broken and I can't use it at all, because I clearly need the cell comments to stay with the cell they're attached to.  Is this a bad bug in Google Spreadsheets, or am I missing something here? What is a simple example of a limit in the real world?