I want to cut this image   Into a 3D blender object, how do i do this?
Say I want to automate making extruded-text or a 3d logo from an image.    An answer that uses extruding a monochrome image of the ubuntu logo to an arbitrary number of units with a python script taking only the number of units and the monochrome image as a starting point will receive extra this was awesome re-posts from me.  This could be useful for lots of things.
Disk Utility cannot erase USB drive (error -69877: couldn't open device) Disk Utility (macOS Catalina 10.15.2) fails to erase my USB drive (64GB key, currently formatted in exFAT).  /dev/disk2 (external, physical):    #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER    0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *64.1 GB    disk2    1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1    2:       Microsoft Basic Data Lexar                   63.9 GB    disk2s2   I've tried a bunch of commands that I've found here and there in the terminal, but none of them worked, like:  ➜  ~ diskutil eraseVolume exFAT MyName /dev/disk2 Started erase on disk2 Unmounting disk Error: -69888: Couldn't unmount disk   ➜  ~ diskutil eraseVolume exFAT MyName /dev/disk2s2     Started erase on disk2s2 Lexar Unmounting disk Erasing Error: -69760: Unable to write to the last block of the device   ➜  ~ diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYSD MBRFormat /dev/disk2 Started erase on disk2 Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Error: -69877: Couldn't open device   ➜  ~ diskutil eraseDisk free EMPTY /dev/disk2 Started erase on disk2 Unmounting disk Creating the partition map Error: -69877: Couldn't open device   My USB drive appears as read only when i do CMD+I, I tried repairing the permissions but that failed too.  ➜  ~ diskutil resetUserPermissions /dev/disk2 `id -u` Ready to reset user permissions on disk2 Error encountered attempting to reset permissions for user 501 home directory on disk2: Permissions are not enabled on the disk (-69861)   Thx in advance for the help :) I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 and I'm experiencing a fuzzy/blurry screen and bad support for multiple screens.  I realized that Ubuntu installs nouveau as default, but I need to install nvidia drivers, so I tried this:   sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates apt-get update apt-get install nvidia-current apt-get upgrade       Now that nvidia is installed, you need to blacklist the nouveau driver   so it don’t pop out when you will reboot. Create or edit the following   file:  nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf       …and add these lines at the end:  blacklist nouveau blacklist lbm-nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 alias nouveau off alias lbm-nouveau off    I checked via the software &amp; updates if nvidia driver got installed successfully, and it says the driver installed is nvidia 304.117  I then tried to run:  lshw -c video | grep 'configuration'   and the result is that the driver is still nouveau:  configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0   So how do I install and use the nvidia drivers? Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time? Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time?  For example: I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Ubuntu is running on a single 500gb HDD, Windows 7 is running on 1TB RAID 1 mirror. To switch between the two OS's, a reboot is required. Is it possible to switch between the two OS's without a reboot?  NOTE: I'm fully aware of the capabilities of VirtualBox and VMWare Player - I use both. Please don't answer "Use Virtualization!"  EDIT: If this is not possible can you share why it's not possible? To me, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult. Keep in mind that my vision is unencumbered by knowledge! Ubuntu 18.10: visual artifacts (black bar) in dock if extend-height is disabled I am using the default Ubuntu dock with bottom placement and org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock extend-height set to false. With Ubuntu 18.10 this produces a noticeable visual glitch, note the black empty spaces at the edges of the dock:    I am getting this both on an upgraded system and on a clean install inside a VM. This was working fine in Ubuntu 18.04. Also happens if the theme is set to something else than Yaru (the default theme in Ubuntu 18.10). Reboot does not help. Dock looks OK if extend-height is enabled.  Any ideas on how to fix this? Is it appropriate to put a comma before "which"? Combinatorics identity question Looking for title & author - short story - possibly called "Arms Race" - about rediscovery of manual arithmetic short story - possibly called "Arms Race" - about rediscovery of manual arithmetic.   The hero rediscovers manual calculation - e.g., how to do long division with pencil and paper - in a world where everyone has ben using calculators for aeons. Brought before the president to demonstrate this, the great line in the story is the president, after using his calculator to check the hero's answer, says, "My God -- he's right." A great national project to exploit this advance over the enemy is obviously necessary... I would like to create a minecraft server for me and and my boyfriend to play on.  How do I set it up? Do I need any additional software? Do you have some links to walkthroughs or tutorials?  I have tried to set this up a few times but have failed every time. Lightning New Case action override I have action override on New Case button which runs our custom component.  As you know, we can create a new Case from different places in org, e.g. from related lists. When creating a Case from related list on Account using standard action in Lightning we have prepopulated AccountId to the lookup field. Is it possible to do the same with custom component? I can't catch the AccountId using force:hasRecordId, because action override redirects me to the new page with custom component where I don't have a context of Account. URL also doesn't contain its Id. What can I do to grab Id of context object and populate it to my component? How to remove uninstalled wine app icons from unity dash? I installed  (for Windows) using wine but turns out LAN Messenger is also available for linux as well. So..   I uninstalled LAN Messenger from wine. I also removed wine. deleted the .wine directory. after that sudo apt-get autoremove and sudo apt-get autoclean. then I installed LAN Messenger using dpkg -i pkgname.deb and it installed successfully.   The problem is that now I get this in dash:   Any Help is highly appreciated.  [NOTE] I am using ubuntu 12.10 Is there exist a function defined on the real or complex numbers that, restricted to the integers, is equal to the factorial? Getting hyperref to work with \citeyear and \citeyearpar in biblatex Should I use the singular or plural verb in mathematical formulae ("Two and two make/makes four")? Historical locks are sometimes applied to questions.   What is a historical lock? What is the purpose of a historical lock? How are questions affected by historical locking? When is it appropriate to lock a question for historical reasons?  When is it not appropriate? How do I request a historical lock for a question? What should I do if I notice a serious problem with a historically-locked question or one of its answers? Which lenses should be included in a travel photography kit? On a crop sensor camera, e.g. Canon EOS 7D, what would be the best kit to travel with around Europe for a few weeks? My shooting style will focus on landscape, architecture, and general travel shots (of note would be my lack of interest for portraits).     Limit to around 1-3 lenses, and I prefer light ones.   Crop sensor camera chosen to save on weight over a full frame option. Question is open to all brands for general guidance, but I will be using a Canon body.   Cost is not a factor, I will rent the lenses I do not already own.   Quality is of paramount importance. I will not have a tripod.   I understand some may consider this subjective, but I do believe that for a crop sensor body, with weight as a consideration, and a limit to the amount of lenses, a true best kit can be determined. MBR recovery - Corrupted MBR after it changed to dynamic & testdisk gives up . No backup sector found I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:     cannot write MBR   It gave me an option to put an MBR somewhere else or to boot without MBR. None of these options worked and it became a useless install. After this failed dual boot attempt, Windows would give a BSOD wit Code 007 ending - translated to inaccessible boot device. That is a huge NTFS partition and I don't think I have any other media to back it up before formatting it.  My only option is somehow rebuilding the old MBR. Hence I started creating a whole bunch of live USB boot environments  including Super GRUB Disk and MiniTool Partition Editor Live CD, but none of this could ever help me recover my lost MBR.  Win PE 4.0 reported the partition as bad disc and the latest version did not even have an option for MBR. I managed to create a live USB with Testdisk Running on Ubuntu. Whatever partition was seen as HPFS on quick  search was written in the MBR and after this the disc is totally unreadable. Earlier I could see my data through Linux and now I can see nothing.  Here are my questions:   When some data could be read (but Windows would not boot) the MBR was shown as dynamic MBR. As far as I know dynamic MBR is a Windows concept and my Linux attempt would not have converted it. While installing Linux I tried to delete 2 primary partitions which I found to be not really useful (I backed up their data first). So I am not sure what created the dynamic MBR.  Did my dual install convert those basic MBR to dynamic MBR? How did that happen? Here is a screenshot of my deep search attempt with TestDisk which is still in progress. I can see 4 NTFS partitions and one of these two system partitions should be the original MBR. When I tried to write both these system partitions (after stopping the deep search momentarily) I got an error like "partition not found". The file system utility showed me that there is no backup sector and that may be the reason why it cannot be read.  What other Resorts do I have, other than doing a plain format and then using some recovery tool to recover all my lost data? I am not even sure I will recover the folder names.  What other options should I be trying to restore my old MBR so Windows can boot?      Update  as of last I managed to create a live USB w/ W7  I used AOMEI Partition assistant 6.0 and on deeper  search I can see the 909 gb partition - it wont let me select it for recovery. I am sorry if my earlier Q was not clear. I referred to restoring an MBR from a partition . What happened earlier  - superficial search revealed all old partitions but NOT this one   and the later partitions showed up on Deep search &amp; I can select Other partitions for recovery but for this one. It wont let me select the partition I want  Here are some more screen shots    So in summary all that happened is   4 primary windows 7 partition -->  wanted to install Linux so I deleted 2 non bootable partitions after backing them up  ended up with BSOD ( inaccessible boot device ) and noticed that some windows partitions showed up as Dynamic MBR  (using Live USB Linux,gparted )  Use standard testdisk procedure to write MBR from the superficial NTFS-HDFS partition.  this is where I screwed up . Hindsight I should have really done a deep search and caught the 901gb partition to write MBR. I am not sure if I can undo this action  after this - life gets worse. I am  on a ventilator ! Now C is unreadable by windows and linux both and testdisk cannot list file ( see screenshots ) and I have been using a series of live USB's with some recovery s/w but no luck. ALL I want is to recreate that 901gb partition and the boot partition and put the MBR on the latter so I can get my windows 7 back again The answer is, according to the book: $(m-1)!\cdot \binom{m+r-1}{r}$ I get why this is true. You arrange $m$ people in their seats in $(m-1)!$ ways and then you put $r$ empty spots inbetween them.I was thinking - choose $m$ seats out of $m+r$ to put the people on => $\binom{m+r}{m}$ Arrange them once you've chosen the seats $\to (m-1)!$ So in total: $\binom{m+r}{m} \cdot (m-1)!$ This is obviously not true. What's wrong with the way I'm thinking? In  as well as on Wikipedia the radial coordinate of the Schwarzschild metric is described as follows:     ...the r co-ordinate is the value you get by dividing the circumference of the circle by 2π.   This circumvents (no pun intended) the problem of talking about the path outwards from the singularity, but what about the circle itself: does it have the length we would measure when flying around it (however this is done) or is it a virtual circle assuming flat space, i.e. no mass at the center. How do electromagnetic waves travel in a vacuum? This is perhaps a total newbie question, and I will try to formulate it the best I can, so here it goes. How does an electromagnetic wave travel through for example, the vacuum of space?   I usually see that waves are explained using analogies with water, pieces of rope, the strings of a guitar, etc, but it seems to me that all those waves need a medium to propagate. In fact, from my point of view, in those examples the wave as a "thing" does not exist, it's just the medium that moves (involuntary reference to The Matrix, sorry).   But in space there is no medium, so how does a wave travel? Are there free particles of some sort in this "vacuum" or something? I believe , so supposedly there isn't a medium for the wave to travel through.   Moreover, I've seen other answers that describe light as a perturbation of the electromagnetic field, but isn't the existence of the field, potential until disturbed? How can it travel through something it does not exist until it's disturbed by the traveling light in the first place? (this last sentence is probably a big misconception by me). When does the set enter set theory? I wonder about the foundations of set theory and my question can be stated in some related forms:   If we base Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory on first order logic, does that mean first order logic is not allowed to contain the notion of sets? The axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory seem to already expect the notion of a set to be defined. Is there are pre-definition of what we are dealing with? And where? In set theory, if a function is defined as a set using tuples, why or how does first order logic and the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory contain parameter dependend properties $\psi(u_1,u_2,q,...)$, which basically are functions?