Recently, I have seen item names on servers and on this very website with odd characters preceding them. I was thinking "well, this changes everything!".  Can you make item name act like JSON text using this method? (i.e. any colour, bold, italic, obfuscated?)   Please list methods/preceders below.    Edit  What I am looking for is the colour of the item names, not sign block data or written books with coloured text. For example, when you go on a server, you often see items with coloured or obfuscated names.
I came across a map and when I was playing I found some coloured and bolded item names. I thought it isn't possible as at most you can only use the custom name tag to rename things! Is there a way to colour and bold item names in vanilla Minecraft? External programs are OK. Oh, and the wiki page of formatting codes doesn't really do much.
After the latest Win8.1x64 Updates, my system got stuck restarting or shutting down.. When I installed the last Windows update, all seemed fine except it got stuck doing the restart.  I waited about 5 minutes then used the power button.  Startup was normal.    But then when I told it to shut down it closed the programs then went to the "Shutting Down" screen and just stays there.    Disk activity lights aren't showing any activity.  Here is a screen grab of the most recent updates:    Before I do anything I wanted some input.  Question:  Any ideas of how I can figure out how to fix it? How can I search the bash history and rerun a command? Can I search history in bash and run the result? I got this question in my maths paper     Test the condition for convergence of $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n(n+1)(n+2)}$$   and find the sum if it exists.   I managed to show that the series converges but I was unable to find the sum. Any help/hint will go a long way. Thank you. When do you use at the office? And when do you use in the office? What's the difference between the phrases? Question:  Is it possible to get multiple correct results when evaluating an indefinite integral?  If I use two different techniques to evaluate an integral, and I get two different answers, have I necessarily done something wrong?    Often, an indefinite integral can be evaluated using different techniques.  For example, an integrand might be simplified via partial fractions or other algebraic techniques before integration, or it might be amenable to a clever substitution.  These techniques give different results.  For example, looking over a few other questions on MSE:      From : evaluate $$ \int x(x^2+2)^4\,\mathrm{d}x. $$    Via the substitution $u = x^2+2$, this becomes $$ \int x(x^2+2)^4\,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac{1}{10}x^{10} + x^8 + 4x^6 + 8x^4 + 8x^2 + \frac{32}{5} + C.     $$ However, multiplying out the polynomial and integrating using the power rule gives $$ \int x(x^2+2)^4\,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac{1}{10}x^{10} + x^8 + 4x^6 + 8x^4 + 8x^2 + C    $$     From :  evaluate   $$ \int \frac{1-x}{(x+1)^2} \,\mathrm{d}x. $$    Simplifying the integrand using partial fractions then integrating gives $$ \int \frac{1-x}{(x+1)^2} \,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac{-2}{(x+1)} - \ln|x+1| + C.    $$ Via integration by parts, we get $$ \int \frac{1-x}{(x+1)^2} \,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac{x-1}{(x+1)} - \ln|x+1| + C.    $$     From : evaluate   $$ \int \frac {\tan(\pi x)\sec^2(\pi x)}2\,\mathrm{d}x. $$    Using the substitution $u = \sec(\pi x)$, this becomes $$ \int \frac {\tan(\pi x)\sec^2(\pi x)}2\,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac {\sec^2(\pi x)}{4\pi} + C.    $$ Using the substitution $u = \tan(\pi x)$, this becomes $$ \int \frac {\tan(\pi x)\sec^2(\pi x)}2\,\mathrm{d}x       = \frac {\tan^2(\pi x)}{4\pi} + C.    $$ Let $X\sim B(n,p_h)$ and $Y\sim B(n,p_\ell)$ be two random variables following a respective binomial distribution, where $p_h&gt;p_\ell$. I want to show that  $$P(X\ge\alpha)\ge P(Y\ge\alpha),$$ for any $\alpha\in\{0,1,\dots,n\}$. In other words, I want to show  $$P(X\ge\alpha)=\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_h^i(1-p_h)^{n-i}\ge P(Y\ge\alpha)=\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_\ell^i(1-p_\ell)^{n-i}.$$  The statement to be proven is obviously true, but proving it is extremely difficult (at least for me). Can anyone give me some guidance on proving it?  It would be nice if someone can give an algebraic proof too, that is, show that  $$\sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_h^i(1-p_h)^{n-i}\ge \sum_{i=\alpha}^{n}\binom{n}{i}p_\ell^i(1-p_\ell)^{n-i}.$$  Thank you very much! How do you express that your understanding of something is completely changed? When something blows your mind and changes your understanding of something that you've believed in for years, how do you express it (formally or informally)? he became firm friend or friends? Difference between DispatchQueue.main.async and DispatchQueue.main.sync How to prove $A+ A^T$ symmetric, $A-A^T$ skew-symmetric. Why is $\frac{\operatorname dy'}{\operatorname dy}$ zero, since $y'$ depends on $y$? I know that $\frac{dy'(x)}{dy}=0$ (where $y'=\frac{dy(x)}{dx}$). The reason explained is that $y'$  does not depend explicitly on $y$. But intuitively, $y'$ depends on $y$, since if you vary $y$ you will modify $y'$. Why is my reasoning wrong (my reasoning sounds like it's related to functional calculus, instead of standard calculus)?  I tried to write  $\frac{dy'(x)}{dy}=\frac{d}{dy}\frac{dy}{dx}=\frac{d}{dx}\frac{dy}{dy}=\frac{d}{dx}1=0$, but this proof doesn't convince me.  I think that other way to see this is saying that if a function is of the form $f(y)$, it will not dependend on the variable $y'$.  But the same way you write $f(y)=y^2$, you could write $f(y)=\frac{d}{dx}y$, which clearly depends on $y'$. So I don't know if there are some types of operations which are restricted (for example, taking limits):  Note: The problem raises in the context of Classical Mechanics, where: $\frac{\partial L(\dot{x},t)}{\partial x}=0$. Story with VR worlds for the wealthy Get program execution time in the shell I want to execute something in a linux shell under a few different conditions, and be able to output the execution time of each execution.  I know I could write a perl or python script that would do this, but is there a way I can do it in the shell? (which happens to be bash) Opening a file with std::string Interpretation of ROC curve Change the passphrase of an ecryptfs directory How do I turn on workspaces? (Why do I only have one workspace?) What's a common interjection for the reaction to something creepy and disgusting (like some insects or spooky places, etc.)? Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider is not registered I have a Visual Studio 2008 solution with two projects (a Word-Template project and a VB.Net console application for testing).  Both projects reference a database project which opens a connection to an MS-Access 2007 database file and have references to System.Data.OleDb.  In the database project I have a function which retrieves a data table as follows   private class AdminDatabase    ' stores the connection string which is set in the New() method    dim strAdminConnection as string     public sub New()    ...    adminName = dlgopen.FileName    conAdminDB = New OleDbConnection    conAdminDB.ConnectionString = "Data Source='" + adminName + "';" + _        "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0"     ' store the connection string in strAdminConnection    strAdminConnection = conAdminDB.ConnectionString.ToString()    My.Settings.SetUserOverride("AdminConnectionString", strAdminConnection)    ...    End Sub     ' retrieves data from the database    Public Function getDataTable(ByVal sqlStatement As String) As DataTable         Dim ds As New DataSet         Dim dt As New DataTable         Dim da As New OleDbDataAdapter         Dim localCon As New OleDbConnection           localCon.ConnectionString = strAdminConnection          Using localCon             Dim command As OleDbCommand = localCon.CreateCommand()             command.CommandText = sqlStatement             localCon.Open()             da.SelectCommand = command             da.Fill(dt)             getDataTable = dt         End Using      End Function End Class   When I call this function from my Word 2007 Template project everything works fine; no errors. But when I run it from the console application it throws the following exception     ex = {"The 'Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0'   provider is not registered on the   local machine."}   Both projects have the same reference and the console application did work when I first wrote it (a while ago) but now it has stopped work.  I must be missing something but I don't know what.  Any ideas? More Question Filtering options I realize that this may be a big request, but...  I think that instead of tabs on the recent question activity pages, or more likely as a new tab, adding a more advanced filtering option.  For instance, being allowed to exclude tags, filter by accepted answers or not, and, most importantly, being able to combine multiple filters!  E.g.: Filtering posts with tag Javascript without tags Jquery and AngularJS with no accepted answers and a score >= 0.  I feel like this is a biggish change that, if implemented as a new tab, wouldn't be that hard to implement, but would be very useful.