On screen lock mac goes to sleep impacting the downloads &amp; etc.  Is there any way I can lock the screen with password protection and not loose the connections ?  OS version: EL Captain  Currently
I want to leave my Mac awake overnight so it syncs 4GB of data from Dropbox. I need to prevent the machine from going to sleep because that pauses the Dropbox sync  I've been using  to keep the computer awake, but it also keeps the computer unlocked which is insecure.  I need a method to keep my Mac awake (so that Dropbox can sync overnight) but also locked (so no one can read my email). It'd be great if this method also turned off the screen (to preserve power), but honestly that's not even 100% necessary.
We have some new hardware in our office which runs its own customized Linux OS.   How do I go about figuring which distro it's based on? Why close and not migrate? Why didn't the Order of the Phoenix assist with the trio (i.e.  Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger) in the Horcrux hunt? Matching a space in regex I need to match a space character in a PHP regular expression. Anyone got any ideas?  I mean like "gavin schulz", the space in between the two words. I am using a regular expression to make sure that I only allow letters, number and a space. But I'm not sure how to find the space. This is what I have right now:  $newtag = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9s|]/", "", $tag); A ring $R$ is a Boolean ring provided that $a^2=a$ for every $a \in R$. How can we show that every Boolean ring is commutative? is the Turkish version of mancala, with its own set of rules.  I am planning on doing a project in it. Are there any game engines that either specifically play it, or universal Mancala players that plays it after supplying the options?  EDIT:  I am not looking for an app, but for a game engine. For example in chess,  is a playing app, while  is an open-source engine. Resistance between two points in an infinite metal sphere/cube Let's imagine that we have a tridimensional metal object of infinite size, and decide to calculate the resistance between two arbitrary points. How would we go about doing this?  I have thought of two possibilities for calculating this, the first one being an adaptation of the conductivity (S/m) using the Pythagorean theorem to find a distance and isolating the resistance from there, treating it like we would treat an electrolytic liquid.  The second possibility I have been thinking about would be a 3-dimentional adaptation of the infinite-resistors problem (which I have only seen in 2d).  Would one of these methods result in giving a decent approximation, or would another method give better results? How do I interpret the Mann-Whitney U when using R's formula interface Why does resistivity increase with temperature?  The explanations I have heard so far are that increasing temperature increases vibrations in the lattice structure resulting in the number of collisions increasing.  But the vibrations from thermal energy are random, so around half of the vibrations would result in the atoms moving out of the electrons way and half would result in atoms moving into the way of the electrons.  And since half of the vibrations result in increasing the drift speed and half reduce it, shouldn't the average drift speed remain the same? Confidence interval interpretation in linear regression when errors are not normally distributed I recently received this rather amusing message while reviewing a user's first post:  Congratulations! This was only a test, designed to make sure you were paying attention. This post has already been removed, but thanks for taking time to leave feedback for the author.   What is the purpose of this test? How does the audit work? What happens if I fail? Why was the system expecting me to negatively review a good post, or positively review a bad post? A review is obviously an audit. Should I report it? Do review audits count toward the Reviewer badge? Do robo-reviewers dream of electric sheep? Windows 10 64-bit requirements: Does my CPU support CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF? I'm currently trying to find out whether or not it would be a good idea to update my slightly dated notebook (Windows 7, 64-bit) to Windows 10. The problem is that Microsoft states in their  that to use the 64-bit version of Windows 10, a processor which supports CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF is needed. I know that my processor is 64-bit (Intel Core i5-2430M @ 2.40 GHz) but I don't know how to find out whether it supports CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW and LAHF/SAHF, and I have no idea what these mean.  I tried using Google and got no results that made sense to me, only some comparison of my i5 and a similar AMD processor. I also checked Intel's ARK website. If somebody could point me to where I can get more info I would be really grateful. How can I get very vivid colors in night cityscape pictures? Hump, Rump, Lump, Bump I’m referring to the similar definitions of these four nouns – something raised and rounded.  Why do these four rhyming words have similar meanings?  I have not found very specific sources for these words on the  and . Hump is “probably from Dutch homp.” Rump is “from a Scandinavian source,” “from Old Norse rumpr” ultimately from Proto-Germanic “rumpo.” Lump is “perhaps from a Scandinavian source” and finally, Bump is “perhaps from Scandinavian,” “probably of North Germanic origin.”   Could these words come from the same root? Other than the fact that they all might come from northern Europe, the only hint I have in this direction is the following from , tracing the origin of Hump through Dutch, Middle Low German, Old Saxon and Proto-Germanic, to Proto-Indo-European *kumb-, *kumbʰ- (“curved”). Could this PIE root, which is not given in these online sources for any of the other three words, be a common root to all four words? I find myself looking at other –ump words and “seeing” a curved or rounded line: jump (a curved trajectory), grump (a downturned mouth), pump (the action of the pump handle), clump (a rounded clod of earth, not sharp), etc. Am I just seeing this because the words sound similar, or is there something more to my tendency? For example, the  suggests the origin of jump is "perhaps onomatopoeic (cf. bump)" although this view is not echoed on Wiktionary. Is it possible that these words do all share a common root and are simply onomatopoeic variations of each other? Are there other pairs or groups of words like these in English? (Wham! Bam! Ka-blam!) Does     this phenomenon have a name? Is it costly to do array.length or list.count in a loop I know that in JavaScript, creating a for loop like this: for(int i = 0; i &lt; arr.length; i++) is costly as it computes the array length each time. Is this behavior costly in c# for lists and arrays as well. Or at compile-time is it optimized?  Also what about other languages such as Java, how is this handled? Why is the main page showing only the user login form? what does ∇ (upside down triangle) symbol mean in this problem Given $f(x) = \frac{1}{2}x^TAx + b^Tx + \alpha $   where A is an nxn symmetric matrix, b is an n-dimensional vector, and alpha a scalar. Show that  $\bigtriangledown _{x}f(x) = Ax + b$   and  $H = \bigtriangledown ^{2}_{x}f(x) = A$   Is this simply a matter of taking a derivative with respect to X, how would you attack this one? Prove that the number of $\alpha\in\mathbb{F}_{27}$ such that $|A_\alpha|=26 $ equals 12. Let $\mathbb{F}_{27}$ denote the finite field of size 27. For each $\alpha\in\mathbb{F}_{27}$ , define $ A_{\alpha}$ $=$ { $ 1, 1+\alpha , 1+\alpha+{\alpha}^2 , 1+\alpha+{\alpha}^2+{\alpha}^3 , .... $} . Then  prove that  the number of  $\alpha\in\mathbb{F}_{27}$ such that $|A_\alpha|$=26 equals 12.  $ 0\in A_\alpha $ if and only if $\alpha\neq 0$ For the first proof , the multiplicative group of the field $\mathbb{F}_{27}$ is cyclic and its order is 26  , so there are 12 generators in that group.   Now  I need  to  show  that  $ 1+\alpha+{\alpha}^2+.. {\alpha}^{25} $ =0  , where order of $\alpha$=26 . Since   $\alpha ^{26}$ =1 ($\alpha$-1)(1+$\alpha$+${\alpha}^2$+...+${\alpha}^{25}$)=0 , since $\alpha\neq 1$  , So $ 1+\alpha+...+{\alpha}^{25} $ =0 My question is , can I write these last two  lines?  I mean are those two lines alright to write? If those two lines are invalid then I need some help to show  $ 1+\alpha+{\alpha}^2+..+{\alpha}^{25} $=0  .Thanks Code for looping through all excel files in a specified folder, and pulling data from specific cells Could there be a bit of reputation leakage between the sites, please?