Google Street View is good idea. But I don't know any way to make similar thing myself. Is there any? What equipment would I need to make 1000 km of my own street view at once?
I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this.  What I would like to see: - decent resolution: at least 1920x1080. - and 30fps  I can't settle for an alternative that's not vertically 360 degrees (or at least much more than 180 degrees).  I've seen the ball camera, which isn't out yet, but would be really well suited for my case, given it does video as well.
Prevent direct access to a php include file I have a php file which I will be using as exclusively as an include. Therefore I would like to throw an error instead of executing it when it's accessed directly by typing in the URL instead of being included.  Basically I need to do a check as follows in the php file:  if ( $REQUEST_URL == $URL_OF_CURRENT_PAGE ) die ("Direct access not premitted");   Is there an easy way to do this? Subdivision surface modifier problem Hello!   I've recently started learning Blender and faced one problem.  After applying subdivision surface modifier I have plenty of extra faces. I've watched some teaching videos and I suppose additional faces shouldn't be added. Is it OK ? How to avoid this problem if it isn't. This integral is very closely related to the sophmores dream that states  $$ \int_0^1 x^{-x}\mathrm{d}x = \sum_{n=1}^\infty n^{-n} = 1.27\ldots $$  For example here   Now I want to bound the integral, and showing that is less that 2.  For the interval $[0,1]$ a good bound is rewriting it to $\exp(x\log x)$ and using the expansion   $$ 1 - x \log(x) + \frac12 (-x \log(x))^2$$  but how does one handle $[1,\infty)$ ? In this answer here     gives bounds to the integral, but they are not tight enough.. So to taste my question again, how does one prove that   $$ \int_0^\infty \frac{\mathrm{d}x}{x^x} \leq 2 $$ How do I check the integrity of a storage medium (hard disk or flash drive)? I've run across (personally or by proxy) a bunch of storage media that exhibited physical problems during their life. Hard disks, solid state drives and other flash storage media all fail after some time. The situation is worse with USB flash drives and flash cards because of the large amount of suppliers with inferior flash cell and flash controller quality.  How can I reliably detect if a storage drive suffers from physical damage?  Note that this question isn't about file system integrity (which can be checked with ). Evaluating $\int_0^\infty \sin x^2\, dx$ with real methods? About two weeks ago I had a problem with my PC that my brother wrote a question about at .  I still haven't solved the problem, so my PC is unusable now.  Now I think that it would be simpler to re-install both Win7 &amp; Ubuntu than repair them, but there're some data on their partitions. I want to recover this data.  These partitions are not mountable for some reason. I don't know why.  sudo fdisk -l about the problematic partitions:     Device    Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048     147912703    73955328   83 Linux /dev/sdb2            206848   174079999    86936576    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT   And in GParted:      And the error of the mount command:  Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?   And the exact same message for /dev/sda1  How can I recover my data from those HDDs?  EDIT     I have tried to specify the type of the drive:  $ sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /olddisk mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,        missing codepage or helper program, or other error        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try        dmesg | tail  or so $ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb2 /olddisk NTFS signature is missing. Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?   EDIT     sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb2 returns:  Mounting volume... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Attempting to correct errors... NTFS signature is missing. FAILED Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument NTFS signature is missing. Trying the alternate boot sector Unrecoverable error Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk. I want to see all URLs that for packages that would be downloaded for apt install &lt;pkg&gt; without actually installing the package.  Normally, the URLs can be extracted from the screen output after installing the package (as above).  An example of a URL I want to list:    Is it only possible to get such list of URLs beforehand by looking through all the apt's package source lists? If you have two envelopes, and ... Where are the proprietary NVIDIA drivers in 16.04? The proprietary NVIDIA drivers "disappeared" with my latest update:    The option of "Proprietary drivers for devices" is correctly set under the "Ubuntu Software" tab. I have the graphics-driver PPA (ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa) correctly added to my sources.  Any ideas on how to bring the proprietary drivers back?  PS1: I need them because some of the games I play under wine don't work without them, for whatever reason.  PS2: Also, this feels like it should have a straightforward answer, but I've been looking online for a while without luck. What happens when one is affected by something such as energy drain, and permanently loses levels when one only has racial HD? Does the victim of the spell die? Or do they permanently lose racial HD? $f:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous such that $f(f(f(x)))=x,\forall x \in \mathbb R$ , is $f(x)=x , \forall x \in \mathbb R$? Let $f:\mathbb R \to \mathbb R$ be a continuous function such that $f(f(f(x)))=x,\forall x \in \mathbb R$ , then is it true that $f(x)=x , \forall x \in \mathbb R$ ? I can see that $f$ is bijective , hence strictly monotone . But I cannot progress further . Please help. Thanks in advance How to create local total counters? I would like to write page numbers like this '7/9' in all minted environments of my document. The first number ('7') is the current page and the second number ('9') is the maximum number of page breaks the source file has been split into.  I was planning to use the package totcount but I realized that it was only considering the last value of the counter at the end of the document and it couldn't manage counters locally to an environment.  Here is a totally stupid example, but it illustrate the problem:  \documentclass{report}  \usepackage{totcount} \newtotcounter{sectnum}  \let\oldsection\section \renewcommand{\section}{%   \setcounter{sectnum}{0}%   \regtotcounter{sectnum}%   \oldsection% }  \let\oldsubsection\subsection \renewcommand{\subsection}{%   \stepcounter{sectnum}%   \oldsubsection% }  \begin{document}  \section*{One}  \subsection*{SectionOne} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}  \subsection*{SectionTwo} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}  \subsection*{SectionThree} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}  \subsection*{SectionFour} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}   \section*{Two}  \subsection*{SectionOne} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}  \subsection*{SectionTwo} \thesectnum / \total{sectnum}  \end{document}   Gives:    Where we would have liked to have: '1/4', '2/4', '3/4', '4/4' and '1/2', '2/2'.  So, is there a way to get this kind of feature ? I downloaded Facade from the official website. After installing it, I tried to play it, but after the initial loading screen, the game vanished into just the outline of the window it was in. The sound works fine, and the hand still appears where the mouse is, and I can type responses, but there is no visual at all. I tried adjusting my computer to the resolution it mentions on the website but my computer's resolution won't go low enough. Is there a way to fix this or is the game not compatible with my pc?   Device Manager lists my graphics card as:     Mobile Intel (R) 45 Express Chipset Family (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM1.1) How do I say what is the current UTC in eastern zone Are the groups $\mathbb{C}$ and $\mathbb{R}$ isomorphic? If we look at light as a collection of little particles, we can say that dimmer light has its photons more spread out.  But if we look at light as a wave, then there no gaps unless specifically placed there on purpose.  So how can one interpret the formation of gaps between the photons? What is the equation for the scale factor of the universe, a(t), for the best fit of data to the $\Lambda CDM$ Model of Cosmology? Ideally I like a single formula or multiple formulas for different time ranges that would cover the time from the end of inflation through 100+ billion years after the big bang using  the $\Lambda CDM$ Model.  I know that from the end of inflation back to the time of the big bang would be much more speculative, but some wild estimate would be appreciated for that time range also!  The Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker metric defines the scale factor, a(t), from the metric: $$-c^2d\tau^2 = -c^2dt^2+a(t)^2d\Sigma^2$$ where $d\Sigma^2$ ranges over the 3 dimensional space of the universe and does not depend on time. Usually the scale of the scale factor is set by defining  $a(t_{now}) = a(13.78 B yr) \equiv 1$ Why do people have darker skin in sunnier climates? I don't understand why darker skin is advantageous in hotter climates. Wouldn't it absorb more of the heat? I have heard that it reduces the incidence of cancer, but I would think absorbing more radiation would increase the risk? How do I delete my commands quickly? I use terminal for almost all tasks. Let's say I have entered a huge command like this:  sudo a-huge-command   What is the easiest way to delete the whole command with a single shortcut, rather than keep on hitting backspace key?  I'm a Ubuntu newbie looking to use Ubuntu in a professional way. How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables? When I execute a program without specifying the full path to the executable, and Bash must search the directories in $PATH to find the binary, it seems that Bash remembers the path in some sort of cache. For example, I installed a build of Subversion from source to /usr/local, then typed svnsync help at the Bash prompt. Bash located the binary /usr/local/bin/svnsync for "svnsync" and executed it. Then when I deleted the installation of Subversion in /usr/local and re-ran svnsync help, Bash responds:  bash: /usr/local/bin/svnsync: No such file or directory   But, when I start a new instance of Bash, it finds and executes /usr/bin/svnsync.  How do I clear the cache of paths to executables?