I have got banned from asking questions and answers? I have improved some of my questions. Will deleting my answers help?  Thanks
If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you  to understand what has happened and how to regain the permissions that you lost. While trying to ask a question, one could see:  We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See  to learn more.  Likewise, for answers:  We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See  to learn more.   Why am I getting this message? Are deleted posts taken into account too? Is a question/answer ban the same as a suspension? How do I avoid getting a question ban? How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account? Can I simply create a new account? I'll just ask somewhere else on the SE network, and they'll migrate my question to the correct site! Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my standing on other sites in the network? Does this apply to meta sites too? My account is in good standing. Why am I still blocked?
Mac OS X Darwin: how to reset admin password? Today I bought an ibook G4 from a garage sale. The people who sold it to me didn't know the password for the 2 accounts on it. Apparently it was the guys late father's laptop. Any suggestions on how to get into the laptop and set a new admin account and password? GUI for watching logs (tail and grep) Could you recommend a GUI application with powerful log watching capabilities?  Generally it would work as tail -f in GUI, but on top of that following features would be very useful:   filtering out some lines based on (regular) expressions  coloring some lines based on (regular) expressions interactive search saveable configuration easily applicable to different files notifications based on (regular) expressions   A similar tool on Windows is  and its paid version - Problem installing .deb in Software Install Ubuntu 20.04 I tried to install some .deb files in Ubuntu 20.04 from GitHub and other internet sources, but when I open it with Software Install it gives me  problem (Failed to install file: not supported). The only way for me to install them is to go to the downloaded file and do sudo dpkg -i file.deb. Can anyone help? I don't know what to do and I don't want to use the terminal every time. Any help would be appreciated, thanks EDIT: that's NOT a problem with .deb in Ubuntu, it is a problem with Software install. I can install every .deb through the terminal but not with Software install, and Ubuntu suggests to install .deb with Software install. That's not a dependencies problem or anything similar, that's an issue with installing .deb WITH Software install and I would like to know how I can fix Software installer Solve recurrence relation $ a_{n+1} = (n+1)a_n + 1 $ $a_0 = 1 \\ a_{n+1} = (n+1)a_n + 1 $  Could you help me solve this? And maybe someone know good source explaining how to solve recurrence relations? Use worksheet name as a variable in a lookup Understanding of Material Implication I just started doing logic and everything is going fine. But we just got to Material Implication and I don't really understand it. From for example $q$, we can get $q \lor \lnot p$ by Disjunction, and from there, using Material Implication, we can get $p \to q$.   The thing I don't understand is how is this valid. Let's say    $p$ is "it's raining", and  $q$ is "the floor is wet",    and $p \to q$ holds. But just because the floor is wet, doesn't mean that it's raining. So how can we conclude that $p \to q$ just from $q$?  I'm sorry if it's confusing. What font is "z" in "z-score"? Can I still use a usb flash drive after spilling water on it? So a few months ago I accidentally spilled a little water on a few of my usb flash drives. I really want to test and see if they work, but before I do, I just want to make sure that there's no risk of damaging my computer. I'm pretty sure it's fine, but I just got a new laptop and would hate to ruin it over something stupid. Install software from packages, or build it from source? End of javascript sidebar workarounds? (Salesforce Classic / Aloha) I was readng Wikipedia article (English one) about radiation pressure because there is something I still cannot figure out. As I understand it, radiation pressure emerges from conservation of momentum. Photons or electromagnetic waves possess momentum and when they are absorbed, reflected or even emitted, the aborber/reflector/emitter experiences a pressure that is proportional to the irradiance (in watts per square meter). OK. In the case of a perfect reflector that does nothing but reflecting incoming radiation, it would seem the reflector is pushed and the radiation is reflected in opposite directions. But the radiation has not lost anything, it has only changed direction. And I do not understand how something can be set in motion (the reflector), which amounts to do work, yet the source of this work does not lose energy. I mean, if the radiation, after a U turn, meets a second reflector, it would have pushed two reflectors a way, yet it would continue in its original direction as if nothing happened...? What am I missing here? Should not photons lose something? Is the Stack Overflow source code available? In PHP 5, what is the difference between using self and $this?  When is each appropriate? The Bash command :(){ :|:& };: will spawn processes to kernel death. Can you explain the syntax? I looked at  and can't understand how this works.  This command "exponentially spawns subprocesses until your box locks up".  But why? What I understand less are the colons.  user@host$ :(){ :|:&amp; };: Money transfer from India to USA My daughter is a US Citizen. We (parents)are also planning to permanently settle in US. We will go their as Permanent Resident,as per US Law. We have a house here in India worth Rs.2 Crores.  We want to sell it and take money with us. We have ordinary savings Bank account here in India.  My US Citizen Daughter is a Income Tax payer.  Now your advises are required as under:   What are the routes to take money from India to US and our tax liabilities Can I gift this whole amount to my US Citizen Daughter or what is the maximum limit of Gift amount.  What will be the tax liability on me and on my Daughter in case of Gift   Whether I have to show it in my Income Tax Return or in my Daughter's Tax Return. What US Income Tax Laws says. What will be the procedure to send money as Gift to my Daughter. Will the money will go directly from my Bank Act.to my Daughter's Bank Account. Will there will be wire transfer from bank to bank Can I send money through other money sender Certified Companies also.    Please advise. If there is something more on the subject to make me understand, please advise. Thanks, Multiple object instances represented by two slightly shifted rectangles In a software diagram, I'd like to be able to represent multiple instances of an object by two rectangles with one of them slightly shifted. I recently learned about the pic style so I'm using it with two nodes to achieve what I want.  The following example does work, but I'd like to know if I can do the same without using the fill=white. My hack kind of assumes the entire picture background is white and that may not always hold. I'd like to be able to crop the unwanted picture part out.  \documentclass[crop,border=3pt]{standalone}  \usepackage{pgf,tikz} \usetikzlibrary{positioning}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[     every node/.style={font=\sffamily\small},     block/.style={         rectangle, draw, align=center, minimum width=2cm,         minimum height=1.4cm, font=\sffamily\small     },     multinode/.pic={         \node [block] at (0.1,0.1) {};         \node [block, \tikzpictextoptions, fill=white] at (0,0) {\tikzpictext};% &lt;-- FILL WHITE     } ]     \node [block] (STG) at (2,5) {single\\instance};     \pic [pic text={multi\\instance}] at (5,5) {multinode}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   The following images show first one version with the fill white hack, and then one version without it. How can I get the source directory of a Bash script from within the script itself? How to start a background process in Python? When should I use "shall" versus "will"? How to make use of Devel debugging functions on large or complex objects I am having trouble making real use of Devel's debugging functions kint() and dpm() in my modules and twig templates. They work fine for primitive variables, flat arrays and such, but if I want to inspect into some object like an EntityRerefenceFieldItemList they either cause the site to crash (white page) or generate so much data such that the scripts for expanding the list no longer work.  How do I circumvent these problems?