Where would I get a symbol for a spiral galaxy? I was hoping there was some astronomy or astrology symbol for the Milky Way, but no luck so far. Anyone have a clever way I could make such a symbol, perhaps one that resembles a spiral galaxy?  Some people have taken this question to be about printing a simple spiral in LaTeX. But most spiral galaxies do not resemble spirals. The Milky Way, for example, has quite a few arms.  One might argue that it resembles an asterisk whose pixels undergo a rotation about the asterisk center, where the angle of rotation is proportional to the pixel radius. But I'm not sure how one would accomplish that kind of rotation in LaTeX &mdash; it's just the best thought I've had so far.  I've also looked through the comprehensive list of LaTeX symbols, and I do not see one which resembles a spiral galaxy.
How can I write a spiral symbol? How can I get a spiral like    There seems to be a spiral-like unicode codepoint:   I tried  \documentclass[varwidth=true, border=2pt]{standalone} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Color \usepackage{color} \definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.95}  \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{43612}{\spiral}  %document \begin{document}{\textcolor{lightgray}{a}}\spiral{\textcolor{lightgray}{b}} \end{document}   but I got  ! Undefined control sequence. l.13 ...document}{\textcolor{lightgray}{a}}\spiral                                               {\textcolor{lightgray}{b}}   edit: I know . None of the answers gave me a spiral symbol.
CSV API for Java Can anyone recommend a simple API that will allow me to use read a CSV input file, do some simple transformations, and then write it.  A quick google has found  which looks promising.  I just wanted to check what others are using before I couple myself to this API. I have an external hard disk, and for some reason, it is reporting wrong free space.  In Windows Explorer, it is showing the used space is 378 GB.    I tried running chkdsk H: /f /r, it seems to report the same usage as Windows Explorer, and it says that there is no problem.    But when I tried selecting all the files inside this drive, it is showing much lesser usage.    I've already set the setting to show all hidden files and folders, also show the protected OS files, but it still cannot find about those missing files. And the difference is huge (282 GB). I've already cleaned the Recycle bin as well.    What I am missing here and how do I identify those missing spaces?  [UPDATE]: I used  to help identify and it seems to find some gigantic files, of which filename is quite weird. Anyone knows what this is and is it safe to delete? php SimpleXML check if a child exists Software/App for electronic research notebooks I want to keep a research notebook for my computational "experiments". Basically, I should at least be able to write text and attach images like plots. Other nice features to have would be   linking to past experiments/pages latex equations uploading papers, or other urls being able to transfer data dating and version control open-source tool   I am already familiar with trello and tiddlywiki. Trello is good for attaching stuff and organising tasks, but I need a notebook where I attach a plot, write stuff around it, attach another below it. It doesn't have a paper or canvas. Tiddlywiki is a little painful for attaching pics and equations, the file bloats, it seems I am keeping a blog.  What is a good, free electronic notebook tool for research/lab work? Why does the browser renders a newline as space? Sandbox modifies subject on email sent from trigger I am writing a trigger in a sandbox, and am sending an email through the sandbox. I've added a the Account Name to the Subject in my trigger.   When the email is sent from the trigger, Salesforce appends "Sandbox:" before the subject I wrote in apex.   Is there a way to remove the "Sandbox:" subject from emails send out of a sandbox? How do I install and manage GNOME Shell extensions? Join CSV file to shapefile Why am I seeing two JPG files instead of RAW + JPG with a Canon 1100D? My internet connection used to be a direct LAN connection to my provider. Back then, everything would load fine on both Windows and Ubuntu (dual boot). However, a while ago they started needing me to dial (PPPoE) using a username and password. Gateway, subnet mask, IP, DNS servers all stayed the same. But since then, I haven't been able to browse certain websites on Ubuntu, even though there have been no such issues on Windows. Some example websites are -  (although share.ovi.com loads fine, and nokia.com loads fine),  (works on Chrome(ium) and Opera but not on Firefox (both 3.6 and 4)) Mozilla  and other random websites.  Some of the websites that don't load show timeout messages and for some websites (like the moz addons one), the browser will keep trying to load without an end (I've left it like that even for hours but not noticed anything different happen).  I have tried changing the DNS servers to public ones. I have even tried booting from a Fedora LiveCD and then changing the DNS to those (and even to the ones of OpenDNS), but the exact same thing happens. What could be inherently wrong with some config within Linux itself that is causing this problem?  Does anyone know why this is happening and how it can be fixed?  Note: This question has been  on SU, but not gotten any responses.  Update: Just saw  that someone else was having similar problem and solved it by putting a NetworkManager.conf file in /etc/NetworkManager. What needs to be in that file? Can a PC be a lich? The heading says it all, can a PC be a lich? If so, how? The DMG hints that the Book of Vile Darkness contains the secrets of how; there is nothing official otherwise. Right identity and Right inverse implies a group Let $(G, *)$ be a semi-group. Suppose   $ \exists e \in G$ such that $\forall a \in G,\  ae = a$;  $\forall a \in G, \exists a^{-1} \in G$ such that $aa^{-1} = e$.    How can we prove that $(G,*)$ is a group? MySQL Hashing Function Implementation I know that php has md5(), sha1(), and the hash() functions, but I want to create a hash using the MySQL PASSWORD() function.  So far, the only way I can think of is to just query the server, but I want a function (preferably in php or Perl) that will do the same thing without querying MySQL at all.  For example:  MySQL hash -> 464bb2cb3cf18b66  MySQL5 hash -> *01D01F5CA7CA8BA771E03F4AC55EC73C11EFA229  Thanks! I have a NetGear WGR614 wireless router.  There is a 'region' setting in the wireless options.  I'm wondering what technical purpose of this setting is?  The admin help states:     It may not be legal to operate the router in a region other than the region shown here.    Which makes me wonder if it could be adjusting it's max power output based on regional radio laws? I am using \tableofcontents to create TOC in my document. however it is appearing as shown in the image. As the numbers increase the gap between the number and text is reducing.   Thanks for your help Aku Can't update because the word prox* is blocked I live in Ethiopia and the government blocks all urls with the word "proxy" in them. I couldn't use that word in the title above because that would make the url contain the word proxy.   When I apt-get upgrade I get errors because some packages like libproxy1, libproxy1-plugin-gsettings, libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager, python-libproxy all contain the p word.  Therefore, it is all blocked. I tried putting the urls into proxy sites, but they all just returned to their home page.   Are there any other solutions? Convert stored procedure result to model object My DOM looks like this:  &lt;div id="d1"&gt;    &lt;div class="c1"&gt;             &lt;a href="#"&gt;&lt;img src="img1_on.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;             &lt;a href="#"&gt;&lt;img src="img2_on.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   When someone clicks on an image, I want the image src to change to &lt;img src="imgx_off.gif"&gt; where x represents the image number 1 or 2.  Is this possible or do I have to use CSS to change the images? Batch renaming files I have a directory full of images:  image0001.png image0002.png image0003.png ...   And I would like a one-liner to rename them to (say).  0001.png 0002.png 0003.png ...   How do I do this? Why is complete strong induction a valid proof method and not need to explicitly proof the base cases?