I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor like paint 3d. This has been pretty time consuming as each scan is followed by 4 crop operations. Scanning each image individually would possibly be even more time consuming. I'm on windows 10. Is there any software (other than photoshop) or simple plugin that does this job?
I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor like Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery. This has been pretty time consuming as each scan is followed by 4 crop operations. Scanning each image individually would possibly be even more time consuming.  Is there any software or simple plugin (preferably free) that does this job? The best solution I have found is in , but that's an overkill. Is there a similar feature for one of the free photo editors like Paint.NET or GIMP?
Show that    $$\frac{\sum_{i=0}^n\binom{k}{i}\binom{M-k}{n-i}\frac{k-i}{M-n}}{\binom{M}{n}}=\frac{k}{M},$$ where $M-k&gt;n$ and $k&gt;n$   From Vandermonde's identity, I get $\sum_{i=0}^n\binom{k}{i}\binom{M-k}{n-i}=\binom{M}{n}$.   But what about the sum of the product in the numerator? Any hint will be helpful. Count total number of files in particular directory with specific extension I want to count the total number of files in particular directory that ends with ".mp4" extension.  I am getting following command:  ls -F |grep -v / | wc -l   It count all the files in particular directory, but I want the count of files that end with .mp4 extension.  Is there any Ubuntu command for that? The limit to solve is $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\frac{n^2+2}{2n^2+1}\right)^{n^2}$$ I tried to use L'Hôpital's rule but the derivatives are quite complex. Using (or not) the word "to" in a sentence ending with "be able" What are routed events and how it's different from normal events I tried to create a script by echo'ing the contents into a file, instead of opening it with a editor  echo -e "#!/bin/bash \n /usr/bin/command args"  &gt; .scripts/command   The output:     bash: !/bin/bash: event not found   I've isolated this strange behavior to the .  $ echo ! !    $ echo "!" bash: !: event not found  $ echo \#! #!  $ echo \#!/bin/bash bash: !/bin/bash: event not found    Why is bang causing this?   What are these "events" that bash refers to?     How do I get past this problem and print "#!/bin/bash" to the screen or my file? When looking at my objects in 3d view I'm seeing a gray cone that seems to be hiding other objects.   Can anyone help me turn this off and explain what it is please.  Screenshots attached. I was surprised recently to find that it's possible to have a return statement in a finally block in Java.  It seems like lots of people think it's a bad thing to do as described in ''. Scratching a little deeper, I also found '' which shows some pretty horrible examples of other types of flow control in finally blocks.  So, my question is, can anyone give me an example where a return statement (or other flow control) in a finally block produces better / more readable code? I have a WordPress install on a dedicated server with decent memory (upwards of 8GB).  The WordPress install includes many plugins - 50 active plugins. Most important to note is the  plugin to make WordPress multilingual. The theme is .  The stack is LAMP - CentOS 6.3, Apache 2.4.4, Percona MySQL, PHP-FPM.  I have been quite stupid, and didn't set up a test or staging server.  Everything was running fine till I updated to WordPress 3.8, and also updated several plugins at the same time.  I didn't pay attention at the time, but all my widgets got messed up, and so did any sort of navigation etc.  I enabled error_log for a bit, i.e.  ini_set('log_errors',TRUE); ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL); ini_set('error_log', dirname(__FILE__) . '/error_log.txt');   This resulted in an immense file - basically the error_log grows by about a GB every 4 minutes or so.  The primary error I found in the error log was database server disconnect, better known as      MySQL server has gone away   The first priority was to patch the problem. So I installed  plugin. This mostly, though not completely solved the issue. Many of the widgets came back.  However, the special (non-English) characters are all messed up (converted to question marks). I tried to fix this by opening wp-mysql-ping.php and commenting out   if ( !DB_CHARSET &amp;&amp; version_compare(mysql_get_server_info($this-&gt;dbh), '4.1.0', '&gt;='))                                     {                                         $this-&gt;query("SET NAMES '" . DB_CHARSET . "'");                                     }   Didn't help.  Besides, the plugin is not a permanent or complete solution. So leaving the site in this messed up state, I started working on other possibilities:  As suggested at , I edited my.cnf to add  wait_timeout = 60   Didn't help.  Also added caching to my.cnf  query_cache_type = 1 query_cache_limit = 8M query_cache_size = 512M   Didn't help.  (and yes, I restarted mysql every time I edited my.cnf)  Also tried the method : In wp-db.php before  $this-&gt;select( $this-&gt;dbname, $this-&gt;dbh );   I added  $this-&gt;query("set session wait_timeout=600" );   Didn't help.  I'm at my wit's end. Please help! How to print the name of missing files in a folder? Is the .minecraft folder hidden on a Mac? Why is Linux reporting "free" memory strangely? This is a  about how Unix operating systems report memory usage.   Similar Questions:                    I have production server that is running Debian 6.0.6 Squeeze  #uname -a  Linux debsrv 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 13:49:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux   Every day cron executes backup script as root:  #crontab -e  0 5 * * * /root/sites_backup.sh &gt; /dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1   #nano /root/sites_backup.sh  #!/bin/bash str=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S` tar pzcf /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.tar.gz /var/sites/mysite/public_html/www mysqldump -u mysite -pmypass mysite | gzip -9 &gt; /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.sql.gz cd /home/backups/sites/ sha512sum mysite-$str* &gt; /home/backups/sites/mysite-$str.tar.gz.DIGESTS cd ~   Everything works perfectly, but I notice that Munin's memory graph shows increase of cache and buffers after backup.  Then I just download backup files and delete them. After deletion Munin's memory graph returns cache and buffers to the state that was before backup.  Here's Munin graph:  Externally hosted image was a dead link. Application of Liouville's Theorem Let $f(z)$ be an entire function such that $$|f(z)|&lt;\frac{1}{|\text{Im}(z)|},\qquad z\in\Bbb C-\Bbb R.$$ The question asked me to prove that $f(z)=0$. At least looking at it, it really seems to have an application of Liouville's theorem lurking around somewhere, but I haven't found it.   My thoughts first led me to think about doing this by contradiction and using Picard's little theorem. So, I've considered a strip containing the real axis (say of width $2$ for simplicity). This will imply the complement maps into the unit disk, which implies that this strip has to map almost everywhere else on the complex plane. Now, on the imaginary axis, I know that $f(z)$ will vanish as $z\to\infty$, and this seems like it might be useful. I'm sort of under the impression $f(z)$ might have an essential singularity at $\infty$, which would mean $f(1/z)$ has an essential singularity at $0$. Either way, it of course can't have a pole at $\infty$ because of $f(z)$ vanishing on the imaginary axis, and if it is a removable singularity, it must be $0$, which still gives the solution. Therefore, I think it must have something to do with $f(z)$ having an essential singularity at $\infty$.   I was hoping to combine this with the above inequality and deduce a contradiction, but I haven't thought of one yet.   Any hints or suggestions? I'm studying for a prelim. exam, so this isn't homework.  Update: So, in the spirit of searching methods using the essential singularity at $z=0$, we have $$\left|f\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)\right|\leq\frac{1}{\left|\text{Im}\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)\right|}=\frac{|z|^2}{|y|}.$$ Thus, for $|y|&gt;1$, we have $$\left|f\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)\right|&lt;|y|\left|f\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)\right|&lt;|z|^2.$$ Thus, if I can show that $|f(1/z)|$ is a polynomial, we'll know it can't have an essential singularity at the origin, concluding my proof. Why would the First Order have lightsaber-resistant batons? In The Force Awakens there is a new Stormtroopr who is equipped with a lightsaber-resistant baton.    Except for one thing:   In Revenge of the Sith, most of the Jedi are killed. During the original Star Wars trilogy the last few remaining Jedi — except for Luke Skywalker — die.     And before The Force Awakens Kylo Ren kills off everyone at Luke’s school and drives Luke into exile.    There are practically no lightsabers in existence, so why are these weapons deployed at all if their only use is in counter-lightsaber combat? I have a directory containing a large number of files. I want to delete all files except for file.txt . How do I do this?  There are too many files to remove the unwanted ones individually and their names are too diverse to use * to remove them all except this one file.  Someone suggested using   rm !(file.txt)   But it doesn't work. It returns:  Badly placed ()'s    My OS is Scientific Linux 6.  Any ideas? Sphere inside a conical vessel touches the lid A conical vessel with semi-vertical angle 30 degrees and height 10.5 cm has a thin lid. A sphere kept in the vessel touches the lid. The radius of the sphere in cm is ... Since humans are not large in mass, do we exert enough gravitational force for a small object to orbit around us? (Assuming that the only gravitational force acting on the object is from the human). Using Newton's law of gravity and using myself as the human mass, I exert a 10^-8 force on a 1 kg object .5 meter away, but I am not sure if even this small of a force will be acceptable. What is the baseline "force" between two objects for 1 to orbit another?  Edit: I am not sure if this is a SpaceExchange question. The double cone is not a surface. Outlining in Blender? I am currently working on converting my logo vectored as a SVG to a 3D model using the 2.72 version. I ran into a problem with my logo because it contains a black stroke and an orange stroke (see both images below), but currently all I have is the interior color of each shape. I was wondering whether or not there was a simple way to add in these strokes, and how exactly to go about creating the strokes. Thank you in advance community! "Pandora's Box" metaphors The majority of definitions give the same meaning - "Pandora's box" is a synonym for "a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems."  Are there any other metaphors with the same meaning?