Where may I escalate continuing video issues with Blender? I don't have the &quot;status&quot; to make a bug report. Blender's continuing problems with video support is disqualifying. The latest release of Blender had already refused to work on three of my four machines. Only one laptop was able to run Blender at all, and then only after reverting to v2.81. This laptop ran blender fine until last night. Today Blender wont boot and generates the all too familiar &quot;Blender requires OGL 3.3 to run...&quot;. The last box to die has OGL4.0 and Direct X 11. Yes, all of my boxes meet the stated video/hardware requirements, have current drivers, and OGL exceeding 3.3. It's a real problem that the only support for video problems is to parrot the OGL3.3/current drivers advice. While helpful for a few beginners, it is clear that Blender has video issues beyond currency. Is there a contact available to deal with Blender's persistent video problems directly? Thanks.
What websites or other resources do users of Blender have available to them to report bugs or problems with the program?  I would like to get this issue cleared in Q&amp;A format so that we can link new users with bug-report-style questions to this post.
I'm writing a set of course notes that has an appendix containing many activities.   I do not wish the activities to be shown in the Table of Contents, but I do wish them to be numbered. Here is the solution I was using:  In the preamble:  \newcommand{\activity}[2]{\bgroup\let\addcontentsline=\nocontentsline#1{#2}\egroup}   and now my "activity" starts out with:  \newpage \activity\section{A Fun Educational Activity}   There is only one problem. The activity starts out indented, as opposed to not indented, as a section should be.   How do I make my activity start out without an indent?  I realize I could simply add \noindent but it seems to me that there should be a more elegant solution. Is commitment necessary to participate in beta (as of June 2015)? There's this proposal for a new S.E. site which is about to enter the beta phase. It reads  This proposal is in: Commitment A successful site needs people to commit to use it. This proposal is 100% complete. Committed users will be invited to the private beta soon.  I'd like to participate in the beta but I don't want to commit (due to a full name being required). Will I be unable to participate in the beta if I don't commit? How can I make an object show up on different layers I'm using Ubuntu and I'm trying to connect to another machine in a different network using remote desktop.   In Windows7 I have made the following in order to activate remote desktop:   I've gone to computer -> properties -> remote settings I've selected the option: "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop I've opened "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" In inbound rules I've enabled the rules for remote desktop (public and domain)   I have also installed Remmina in the Ubuntu machine.  For configuring it I did the following steps:   Selected the RDP protocol In the server input I have written the Windows machine public IP. In username / password I have typed my login credentials (the same as my Windows admin account)   But when I try to connect I get this error message:  "Unable to connect to RDP server 89.130.251.160"  If I ping my Windows7 machine, I have a correct response.  Any suggestions? sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 To run programs as sudo without password, I edited /etc/sudoers with wrong content.   Then I re-edited it with Mac's default text editor(course sudo cannot be used when /etc/sudoers is wrong).  I tried to run sudo agin, and get this error:   sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting   What should I do? I cannot remember the root password (maybe I haven't ever set root password before). Is there an integer $N>0$ such that $\varphi(n) = N$ has infinitely many solutions? Let $\varphi: \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ be the totient function.   Is there an integer $N &gt; 0$ such that there are infinitely many integers $n &gt; 0$ such that $$\varphi(n) = N?$$ CommonMark regression: image embed exclamation sign syntax broken after  tag Wavy stream of liquid How can I store and retrieve a custom list in a blend file? I am trying to create a script that will allow me to generate a list and store it in the blend file. The list starts out blank and then strings get added to the list, resulting in: [&quot;test1&quot;,&quot;test2&quot;,&quot;test3&quot;] I create a PropertyGroup Class for the enum, define a new scene property as a CollectionProperty type with access to that enum Class, before appending a new item into the enum: import bpy  class item_set(bpy.types.PropertyGroup):     myItems = []     enums = bpy.props.EnumProperty(name=&quot;My Items&quot;, items=myItems) bpy.utils.register_class(item_set)  bpy.types.Scene.myItemSet = bpy.props.CollectionProperty(type=item_set)      newItem = bpy.context.scene.myItemSet.add() newItem.myItems.append(&quot;test&quot;)    I need to be able to add items to the list, save the blend file, re-open the file, run the script again and retrieve the list from the scene. However, the  states:  One thing to keep in mind is that after saving and reloading your blend-file, your new property will have disappeared...    ...To make the values you assigned in a previous session available again, you need to redefine the property. So after reopening the blend-file you need to rerun: bpy.types.Object.myProperty = bpy.props.StringProperty()   I can do the appending into and retrieval of the property values absolutely fine upon an initial run, but as the documentation states, the property is unavailable when trying to view it's contents on a reload of the file (after having run the script, saved and re-opened the file), but I am unsure how to redefine it without clearing all it's values. If I redefined the scene property, it would presumably also need the enum Class to be available, which would currently set myItems back to [] (empty). Do I need to change the way I am initially setting the items in the class or am I on entirely the wrong track with all of this? All I need to do is store a list in the blend file, so if there is a better way please let me know. Thanks. (I would hope, eventually, to be able to store sub lists [[&quot;a&quot;,&quot;b&quot;],[&quot;c&quot;,&quot;d&quot;],[&quot;e&quot;,&quot;f&quot;]], I'm just trying to get normal lists to work first.) Gparted: move extended partition on the left In an  about The Force Awakens, the author suggests that:      Rey is Luke’s daughter.   I’ve missed any indicators of any such relationship while watching the movie.       For instance, I took neither Luke’s lightsaber calling out to Rey, nor her hug of consolation with General Organa as such. Is there any evidence that Luke is Rey’s father?    Is it known who Rey’s parents are? arithmetic progression of primes Prove that there is no arithmetic progression that consists only of primes.  A question that I've been set; I'm guessing it makes use of primes being written in the form 4k+1 and 4k+3? Not sure where to start.  Thanks. During my calculations I ended up with the following product: $$P=\prod_{n=1}^\infty e\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^{n}\sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}$$ I tried to express it in terms of series by taking the logarithm  $$S=\ln P=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \ln\left(e\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^{n}\sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}\right)$$ but I also got stuck. Numerical calculation suggests that it is equal to $$P\stackrel{?}=\frac{\sqrt{2\pi}}{e}$$ but I am not able to prove the conjecture. Any idea about how to evaluate the product? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Is there a keyboard command for 'show desktop'? Like Windows, I want to hit Super+D to jump to the desktop or minimize all windows. I don't see command like that in Keyboard Shortcuts. Any idea? Sharepoint 2010 - Deploy webpart as Feature scope = web I want to create and deploy a web part as web-scoped feature.  In Visual Studio 2010, when I make the feature scope=web, I cannot add the webpart to that feature as I am able to do when scope=site. How do I inspect the view hierarchy in iOS? Is there a license / royalty free DRM available for protecting and distributing video content? I have basic programming skills (I program simple vba python and lisp scripts and had gone through a java course a long time ago), but it seems to me (judging by ESRI publications) that there is no escaping the need to learn .NET for future relevance in the GIS job market (even as an analyst). I've gone through a basic c# course and can program (regrettably) quite poor programs, but I have no idea how to link the c# knowledge to actually programming for ArcGIS in order to progress.  I know the differences aren't big, but does ArcGIS use .NET or C#?  I know the best way to further my experience in .NET is to program more and more but are there any good .NET programming books or courses I can learn techniques from?  In your opinion, what is the best way to learn to program in .NET for ArcGIS? Are there any useful books or websites?   I seek your comments regarding ArcGIS 10 (and will be saving them for later) but also for ArcGIS 9.3.1. Does the command pwd in a shell script output the directory the shell script is in? Var[A+B+C] = Var [A] + Var [B] + Var [C] I know that this relationship is correct when A,B and C are pairwise independent. However, I'm finding it difficult to calculate it.  Let's say that: Var [A] = Var [B] = Var [C] = 0.25. How can I prove that Var[A+B+C] = 0.75?  I started to work with the formula: Var[A+B+C] =E[(A+B+C)^2]−(E[A+B+C])^2 but I got stuck.  Thanks!