Due to my dissatisfaction with std iostream and stdio, I decided to create my own io library. And it is good for my education.  But I have a slight problem. Linux read(), when operating on a terminal file descriptor, won't return until new line. So if I ask it for 10 bytes, Even if I type 20 bytes it won't return. To make matters worse, those 10 extra bytes are not recorded in the buffer I pass it.  What happened to those 10 extra bytes? Does Linux have a buffer it uses for reads? Can I access this buffer instead of providing my own?
I can never remember how I do this because it comes up so infrequently for me. But in C or C++, what is the best way to read a character from standard input without waiting for a newline (press enter).  Also ideally it wouldn't echo the input character to the screen. I just want to capture keystrokes with out effecting the console screen.
How to redirect output of a running program to /dev/null I know that in order to suppress the output of a program I can redirect it to /dev/null, for example to hide all error and warning messages from chromium I can start the program like this  chromium-browser 2&gt; /dev/null &amp;   However, if I happen to forget about the error messages and type  chromium-browser &amp;   (which is quite annoying when they appear in the middle of a command) I don't know what to do except for stopping the application and starting it again properly.  Can I somehow redirect error output without restarting the application? What is the relation between linear purity and von Neumann entropy of a state? Given a density matrix $\rho$, its linear purity is $\mathrm{Tr} \rho^2$, its von Neumann entropy is $-\mathrm{Tr} \rho \log \rho$. Knowing one how do I calculate the other?  Edit:   My thought is that the linear purity and the von Neumann entropy are a parallel set of benchmarks for mixedness. Their inter-conversion should be like unit conversion.  See it this way, as a state goes from a pure state to a maximally mixed state, $\mathrm{Tr} \rho^2$ goes from $1$ to $0$, and $-\mathrm{Tr} \rho \log \rho$ goes from $0$ to $\log d$, like two rulers. A point on one should correspond to a point on the other. Visas to travel the world I understand that you have to have visas to enter some countries, but I was wondering whether you have to pay for each visa separately or you can get a visa to go everywhere. You see videos and lists on what you should pack to travel the world, but no lists on the documentation needed. How can I sort arrays and data in PHP? Let $(X,d)$ and $(Y,\rho)$ be metric spaces and $f:X\to Y$ be a function and suppose for any Cauchy sequence $(a_n)$ in $X$, $(f(a_n))$ is a Cauchy sequence in $Y$.  Is $f$ continuous?  Let $f$ be continuous, is it uniformly continuous? Flames with no gravity? I was watching  today, and noticed this: in some moment the space station changed orbit and the people inside experienced zero-gravity. At that moment, a candlestick passed floating in the air, with the candles burning ().   But in our environment the flames go upward because the hot air is less dense, and that effect should disappear when no gravity is present, am I right? How would a candle flame look then? What is the exact difference between an autoregressive (AR) and vector autoregressive model (VAR)?  I always thought that VAR would just be for more than two variables, until I learned that AR can also have more than two variables. I.e. I had a misunderstanding(?) that AR models are not always bivariate.  Before I write too much potentially false assumptions about the difference between AR and VAR, it would rather be interested to see if anyone can make provide a quick and good summary. Grepping logs for IP addresses $f(x,y)=4x^3y^2$ Dealing with Directional Derivatives and Vectors Let $f(x,y)=4x^3y^2$  How do I find the directional derivative of $f$ at $(2,1)$ in the direction of the vector $3i-4j$? What would be a unit vector in the direction in which $f$ decreases most rapidly from the point $(2,1)$? And, what is the rate of change of $f$ in the direction given in the second question?  My Work (What I have done so far):  For the first question: $\nabla f(x,y)=12x^2y^2$i$+8x^3y$j$\nabla f(2,1)=48$i$+64$j$u=(3/5)$i$-(4/5)$j $\therefore D_u f=\nabla f\bullet u=0$  I'm not entirely sure if this is right? Can someone please verify?  For the second question: $u=(3/5)$i$-(4/5)$j $\therefore -||\nabla f(2,1)||=$? How do I find this? And am I doing this right?  I have no idea what to do for the third question. Can anyone help me out with how to make Bing Picture to my Desktop Wallpaper?    So it works by downloading the highest quality of todays picture. Then storing it ex in the Picture folder of your account. After that automatically changing the picture itself.  It should continue the same everyday without hassle in the background.  Probably something I have to add in the Startup Applications. Any differences between Ubuntu versions?    -Do I have to write a script?  This would be appreciated by many others too! Thank You in Advance :) bash command for each file in a folder I have a set of files on which I would like to apply the same command and the output should contain the same name as the processed file but with a different extension.  Currently I am doing rename /my/data/Andrew.doc to /my/data/Andrew.txt I would like to do this for all the .doc files from the /my/data/ folder and to preserve the name.  I tried several versions but I guess I have something wrong in the syntax as I an new to linux. What is `^M` and how do I get rid of it? When I open the file in Vim, I see strange ^M characters.  Unfortunately, the world's favorite search engine does not do well with special characters in queries, so I'm asking here:   What is this ^M character? How could it have got there? How do I get rid of it? At this point, I am unclear as to how to handle encounter XP. Does each surviving party member receive a proportional share, or the full amount? That is, assume a 4-character party had completed an encounter worth 400 XP. Would each party member receive 100 XP, or 400 XP? I read (or do I say "have read"?) many rules for when to use the present perfect. I found them complex and hard to understand (or do I say "have found"?). I am finding it hard to apply these rules in real sentences.  Is there a simple and clear way to explain the difference between past simple and present perfect? If there is a simple explanation, please tell it! If there is no simple explanation, please tell why it is so complicated. Maybe if I knew why there is no simple explanation, that would help me understand what work I need to do in order to learn the difference. need to make salesforce app available in multiple language I want to make my appexchange app available in multiple language like Spanish, dutch etc. so that depend on the language of the user they can access the app.  Is it possible in any way..  any help will be appreciated.. Thanks Selecting features that do NOT intersect in ArcGIS Desktop? Suppose that $X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n$ is a random sample from a distribution with probability function:  $$p_X(x)=\begin{cases} 1/2 &amp;x=-1,1 \\ 0 &amp; \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$$  Now if we define the average   $\bar{X}= \frac{1}{n} \sum X_i$, I need to show that that for an odd $n$ the probability function for $\bar{X}$ is:  $$p_{\bar{X}} (x)= \frac{\binom{n}{\frac{n}{2} (x+1)}}{2^n}$$ for $x=\pm 1/n,\pm 3/n,\ldots,\pm 1$, $0$ otherwise.    Since $P[\sum X_i=k] =P [\bar{X}=k/n ]$, I thought it would be easier to first derive the probability function for the sum. Since they are still $2^n$ n-tuples and each one is equilikely, I need to count the ones whose sum is $k$ for:  $k=\pm 1,\pm 3,\ldots \pm n-2,\pm n$ (since even numbers are not a feasible combination)  The problem here though is that I do not immediately recognize how I could count all these tuples. Could you please help me with this? If it is easier to proceed another way, I am of course all ears. I've been making a map for 1.10 and it's going great, but 1.11 shows great mobs to use for it. However, most things have channged in command syntax. For example, /kill @e[type=ArmorStand,r=6] is now /kill @e[type=Armor_Stand,r=6]  What about /testfor? I can't find a way to testfor a player to stand on a block and give them an effect.   What's is going on in this image is that a redstone clock is running into this command /testfor @a[1117,20,507,r=1] (if I was to stand on them cords the comparator would turn on and power that command block), but it only works in 1.10... from 1.11 snapshots, I've seen some errors of it, like it now needs to have {} at the beginning and end of it. (e.g. /testfor @a{[1117,20,507,r=1]})   It's still not working, though, so does anyone know how to get it to work? How can I show that $n^2&lt;n!$ for all $n\geq 4$ Step 1 For $n=1$, the LHS=$4^2=16$ and RHS=$4!=24$. So LHS$&lt;$ RHS. Step 2 Suppose the result be true for $n=k$  i.e., $k^2&lt;k!$ Step 3 For $n=k+1$ $(k+1)^2=k^2+2k+1$ What will be the next step? I am trying to help my daughter on her math homework and I am having some trouble on some equation solving steps. My current major concern relies on understanding why $\sqrt{8}/2$ equal to $\sqrt{2}$.  Thanks in advance