Sometimes I want my question to reach a wider range of audience, are there any ways or &quot;hacks&quot; that can be used to achieved that?
I asked a question almost as soon as I got my account. I got a few decent answers, but none of them helped solve my problem. The question has long since become buried by newer questions, and there's still no accepted answer. Unfortunately, because there are quite a few answers with votes, to a casual observer it probably looks like the question was answered and I just neglected to mark an answer as accepted, and the system does not consider it "unanswered".  Or, I asked a question that was a bit more difficult to answer. After waiting for some time, I received no answers, little or no comments, and only a few views. The question does show up in the "unanswered" list, but no one has answered my question.  In either case, what's the protocol for me to try to get this question answered?  I see several options:   Post the question a second time, possibly linking to the original, to get attention for the original question. This is encouraged on sites like Reddit.  However, it's probably not appropriate here, since we're encouraged to check for duplicates and not submit a question that's already been asked by someone else, so this probably falls under that heading. Wait for some kind of wiki-like talk page to be implemented, then post a plea on the talk page for input and hope that activity on the talk page bumps up the question. Edit the question, but do nothing further on the Stack Exchange site. If I edit my post to say that I haven't accepted any of the current answers but am looking for more, then the question might get answered eventually by people browsing through old questions to find something they can answer. Post the question on other sites, but link to my original question on Stack Exchange. People will either answer here, or they'll answer on the other site and I can post the accepted answer here myself.  This might be considered spamming, so it might be better to do this without the link.      For more information, see the "" page in the .
Chance of objects going against greater entropy? My book uses the argument that the multiplicities of a few macrostates in a macroscopic object take up an extraordinarily large share of all possible microstates, such that even over the entire lifetime of the universe, if each microstate had an equal chance of being accessed, fluctuations away from equilibrium would never occur.  My question to this statistical proof is this: In the real world, is there really an infinitesimal but nonzero chance that macroscopic systems could access some of the more unlikely macrostates (e.g. heat transfer from a cold object to a hot object)? How do I stop orca from starting up on login? Orca keeps starting up after system starting, and I'm not able to find it in "Startup Applications".  How to stop it? Is it possible for more than two particles to be entangled in a quantum way? So I know that two particles can be entangled in a quantum way, but is it possible that more than two particles be entangled in a quantum way? Most descriptions provide with two-particles cases, so I wonder. (It's hard to think of three particles entangled in spin, or so.) Mac OS X 10.6 executable not found without full path I just installed Apache via MacPorts. It seems that my Mac was absolutely confused about which version of the Apache executables to run.  After moving the Apache executables that ship with the Mac to a directory that is not listed in the PATH variable, trying to run the httpd built by MacPorts fails even though the correct directory (/opt/local/apache2/bin) is listed in the PATH variable.  If I navigate to the directory /opt/local/apache2/bin and type the command httpd I still get the error message     -bash: httpd: command not found   If I type the command with the full path /opt/local/apache2/bin/httpd it works fine.  I've run the command alias to see if something was clashing but the only thing listed is:  alias wget='curl -O'   How do I find what is intercepting the command and preventing the executable being found in the directory, even when I'm inside the same directory?  By the way, the httpd file is executable:  -rwxr-xr-x  1 root      admin  442496  9 May  2012 httpd I can copy, move, create, and delete them. I can rename them using the REN command from a command prompt. I cannot rename folders through Windows Explorer anywhere on my machine, including on other drives.   When I try to do so, I receive an error titled "Rename Folder" that says "Can't find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." Then when I click Try Again or Cancel, I get another error titled "Rename" that says "The file or folder does not exist."  As far as I can tell, nothing else is wrong with my computer, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this problem. I don't know for sure if superuser is the right place to ask this question, but feel free to redirect me.  Summary of Failed Attempts:   Booted into Safe Mode  Made a New User Account System Restore Point (two days ago, 9 days ago)  Deleting / Restoring / Modifying FolderDescriptions registry entries SFC /scannow  Removing windows update KB2984006  Scanned for viruses using Nod32  Scanned for malware using MalwareBytes   Details:  Tried rolling back to two different system restore points, both immediately before I observed the problem and one release prior to that.  Tried restoring FolderDescriptions registry entries as found here:   Booting in safe mode as suggested here:   SFC /scannow as suggested here:   Tried removing registry keys and windows update KB2984006 as suggested here:   Tried exporting folderdescriptions from other machine and importing as suggested here:   Compared my exported registry with other machine's exported registry for both:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions   My FolderDescriptions branch of the registry in both cases are binary equal to those exported from my wife's Windows 8.1 laptop which works fine. Four tasks in parallel... how do I do that? I have a bunch of PNG images on a directory. I have an application called pngout that I run to compress these images. This application is called by a script I did. The problem is that this script does one at a time, something like this:  FILES=(./*.png) for f in  "${FILES[@]}" do         echo "Processing $f file..."         # take action on each file. $f store current file name         ./pngout -s0 $f R${f/\.\//} done   Processing just one file at a time, takes a lot of time. After running this app, I see that the CPU is just 10%. So I discovered that I can divide these files in 4 batches, put each batch in a directory and fire 4, from four terminal windows, four processes, so I have four instances of my script, at the same time, processing those images and the job takes 1/4 of the time.  The second problem is that I lost time dividing the images and batches and copying the script to four directories, open 4 terminal windows, bla bla...  How do that with one script, without having to divide anything?  I mean two things: first how do I from a bash script, fire a process to the background ? (just add &amp; to the end?) Second: how do I stop sending tasks to the background after sending the fourth tasks and put the script to wait until the tasks end? I mean, just sending a new task to the background as one tasks end, keeping always 4 tasks in parallel? if I do not do that the loop will fire zillions of tasks to the background and the CPU will clog. Tips for getting latte or soda out of your keyboard? I have been trying to solve this problem for quite a while. I am still unsure of whether any of the avenues I have pursued have been of any use. Any advice will be much appreciated. Question: Let $V$ be a finite-dimensional inner product space, and let $E$ be an idempotent linear operator on $V$. Prove that if $EE^* = E^*E$, then $E$ is self-adjoint. (This is essentially exercise 5(a) in sec. 80 on p.162 of Paul R. Halmos, Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces, but Halmos didn't assume that the dimension of $V$ is finite.) A real $2 \times 2 $ matrix $M$ such that $M^2 = \tiny \begin{pmatrix} -1&0 \\ 0&-1-\epsilon \\ \end{pmatrix}$ , then : A real $2 \times 2 $ matrix $M$ such that $$M^2 =  \begin{pmatrix} -1&amp;0 \\ 0&amp;-1-\epsilon  \\   \end{pmatrix}$$ (a) exists for all $\epsilon &gt; 0$. (b) does not exist for any $\epsilon &gt; 0$. (c) exists for some $\epsilon &gt; 0$. (d) None of the above is true.  Attempt: I couldn't think of any theory base to prove / disprove the existence of such a matrix. Could someone please give me a hint on how to go about this problem? Thank you very much for your help in this regard. I had an (extremely minor) identity crisis when I clicked on my username and saw a different identicon than I'd had previously. :)  According to , your identicon is based on a hash of your last known IP address.  Since a user's profile picture part of their identity, I would prefer if my profile picture only changed through deliberate action on my part.  Since the user's IP hash is already saved (the identicon has to be displayed to people even during the unthinkable periods when we're not actively browsing), I propose preserving the first one assigned to a user, and not updating it even if the user's IP address changes.  Are there any upsides to the current behavior that I haven't thought of? Remember my "sort by" setting when browsing favorite site feeds Opening the menu and selecting an item from the "Favorite Sites" menu allows us to see a feed for a specific site. In the top right corner of this page is a drop-down which allows us to select the "sort order" for the posts. The default is "Active" with other options like "Newest", "Hot", etc.  The problem is that when I select "Newest" or any other option. This preference is not remembered when I change between a different "Favorite Site".  So I am requesting that the selection is persisted when changing between site feeds. I have no preference whether this is implemented per site (to allow a different default for each site) or just one single preferred default that works on all sites (last option selected). I just want it to remember that I have selected "Newest" when I am flicking though the sites. Problem: Evaluate $$ L=\displaystyle \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{1}{n} \sum_{k=1}^{n} \left(  \left\lfloor \frac{2n}{k} \right\rfloor -2\left\lfloor \frac{n}{k}\right \rfloor \right).$$  Please help me with this one.  I tried using the sandwich theorem by first constructing the following  $$ 2 \geq \left\lfloor \frac{2n}{k} \right\rfloor -2\left\lfloor \frac{n}{k} \right\rfloor \geq -1 $$ and then summing over. But the limit of the two bounds are different so sandwich theorem doesn't help!. Is it possible to construct sharper bounds?  Also I observed that if we ignore question of continuity, etc. then we can write,  $L= \displaystyle \int ^{1}_{0}\left\lfloor \frac{2}{x} \right\rfloor -2\left\lfloor \frac{1}{x} \right\rfloor dx$  Now I am able to compute the above integral. But is the above process correct? If then how can make it rigorous? Or if any other approach is possible, please tell. Why can't I transform faces, edges, or vertices without transforming the whole object? How to take the gradient of the quadratic form? It's stated that the gradient of:  $$\frac{1}{2}x^TAx - b^Tx +c$$  is   $$\frac{1}{2}A^Tx + \frac{1}{2}Ax - b$$  How do you grind out this equation? Or specifically, how do you get from $x^TAx$ to $A^Tx + Ax$? My inline-block elements are not lining up properly "Distribution worker" vs. "distributed worker" I cannot differentiate the meanings of the two words. Could you please clarify?   In general, when should I use a noun (distribution) or an adjective (distributed) for verbs similar to distribute, like organize, create? I have georeferenced some images (ArcGIS -> Update Georeferencing) which creates a *.tfwx file with the new parameters for georeferencing.   I renamed it to *.tfw but QGIS is not able to read the georeferencing information.   Does anybody has any useful tips how to fix this? How to share data between forms? I'm trying to use Python to place a camera. I know the camera's location, and the forward and up vectors for the camera (i.e. the direction it's pointing and its orientation). How do I do this?  I know that it's possible to calculate a raw world matrix from the above information, which I can then apply to the camera, but I was rather hoping not to have to. Is there an easier way? Flex-box: Align last row to grid