I have two unused coax cables in my the garage. Considering that Ethernet uses only 4 conductors, can I use these two coax cables as my 4 conductors? I could wire the ends to Cat 5 connectors.
My office is a converted garage about 30 feet from my house.   I have a coaxial cable already running from my house to the office.   I want to attach a Ethernet cable from my DSL modem, in my office, to a computer in my house.   Since I already have the coaxial cable installed, I bought two coax to Ethernet converters (NVA-P-860-BP78 Video Balun), but when I hooked them up I am getting no signal. It was my understanding that an Ethernet signal could travel over a coaxial cable.   Is that wrong? Any ideas why this isn't working?
^x^y unix trick for all instances in last command? One of my favorite Unix tricks is ^x^y, which will take the last command and replace the first instance of "x" with "y". However, I'm wondering if a similar trick works to replace all instances of "x" with "y" in the last command? The default is that clicking on the folder in the unity dock opens the home directory.   Since there are shortcuts for all the sub-folders of the home directory in the sidebar already, I'd prefer the default directory to move to a different location (~/Documents).  How can I achieve this? Question for any programmer—and cat lover—working from his home office. So many times my keyboard is taken over violently by my two cats who think it’s the right place for a nap. And almost every time when they do this I’m was in this precious 100% concentration phases before I get interrupted.  I tried it with a burning an anti-mosquito coil under the desk but they got used to the smell pretty fast.  EDIT: And no I don’t want to keep the cats away completey from my room. Opening Careers notification crashes app Add an image to an object I want to put a 2D image on a 3D object in Blender. How do I do that?  I have found the "textures" tab in the "properties" window, but I can't figure out what to do with it.  Preferably, I would like to click and drag an image off my desktop right onto the object. Limit of sequences $V(n)$ and $U(n)$ Understanding MCMC and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm Over the past few days I have been trying to understand how Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) works. In particular I have been trying to understand and implement the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. So far I think I have an overall understanding of the algorithm but there are a couple of things that are not clear to me yet. I want to use MCMC to fit some models to data. Because of this I will describe my understanding of Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for fitting a straight line $f(x)=ax$ to some observed data $D$:  1) Make an initial guess for $a$. Set this $a$ as our current $a$ ($a_0$). Also add $a$ at the end of the Markov Chain ($C$).  2) Repeat the steps bellow a number of times.  3) Evaluate current likelihood (${\cal L_0}$) given $a_0$ and $D$.  4) Propose a new $a$ ($a_1$) by sampling from a normal distribution with $\mu=a_0$ and $\sigma=stepsize$. For now, $stepsize$ is constant.  5) Evaluate new likelihood (${\cal L_1}$) given $a_1$ and $D$.  6) If ${\cal L_1}$ is bigger than ${\cal L_0}$, accept $a_1$ as the new $a_0$, append it at the end of $C$ and go to step 2.  7) If ${\cal L_1}$ is smaller than ${\cal L_0}$ generate a number ($U$) in range [0,1] from a uniform distribution  8) If $U$ is smaller than the difference between the two likelihoods (${\cal L_1}$ - ${\cal L_0}$), accept $a_1$ as the new $a_0$, append it at the end of $C$ and go to step 2.  9) If $U$ is bigger than the difference between the two likelihoods (${\cal L_1}$ - ${\cal L_0}$), append the $a_0$ at the end of $C$, keep using the same $a_0$, go to step 2.  10) End of Repeat.  11) Remove some elements from the start of $C$ (burn-in phase).  12) Now take the average of the values in $C$. This average is the estimated $a$.  Now I have some questions regarding the above steps:   How do I construct the likelihood function for $f(x)=ax$ but also for any arbitrary function? Is this a correct implementation of Metropolis-Hastings algorithm? How the selection of the random number generation method at Step 7 can change the results? How is this algorithm going to change if I have multiple model parameters? For example, if I had the model $f(x)=ax+b$.   Notes/Credits: The main structure of the algorithm described above is based on the code from an MPIA Python Workshop. When playing with the complete elliptic integral of the first kind and its Fourier-Legendre expansion, I discovered that a consequence of $\sum_{n\geq 0}\binom{2n}{n}^2\frac{1}{16^n(4n+1)}=\frac{1}{16\pi^2}\,\Gamma\left(\frac{1}{4}\right)^4 $ is:     $$\int_{0}^{1}\frac{\arctan x}{\sqrt{x(1-x^2)}}\,dx = \tfrac{1}{32}\sqrt{2\pi}\,\Gamma\left(\tfrac{1}{4}\right)^2\tag{A}$$   which might be regarded as a sort of Ahmed's integral under steroids.  I already have a proof of this statement (through Fourier-Legendre expansions), but I would be happy to see a more direct and elementary proof of it, also because it might have some consequences about the moments of $K(x)$ of the form $\int_{0}^{1}K(x)\,x^{m\pm 1/4}\,dx$, which are associated with peculiar hypergeometric functions. "The thing is, is that..." Catching exceptions from a constructor's initializer list Can I uninstall and reinstall Ubuntu Software Center? "Me and Joey's" or "mine and Joey's" Which of the following should I use?     Today is me and Joey's anniversary   Today is mine and Joey's anniversary deals with various ways of rewarding the finding of duplicates, a tough and increasingly necessary janitorial task.  Here's a concrete suggestion:   Reward the finder of a duplicate with +10 points if the question gets closed as a dupe. If multiple duplicates are found, reward all finders whose suggestion was voted for at least once by another user. (The limitation is to avoid gaming by making frivolous suggestions when it's obvious that a question is going to get closed as a duplicate.) Reward each following closevoter who picks one of the previously suggested dupes with +2 points if the question gets closed. Punish everyone involved (dupe-finders and dupe-voters) with -5 points, and revoke all rep gained from the dupe-voting, if a question closed as duplicate gets reopened.   A punishment for mis-voting is going to be controversial but in my eyes, it is absolutely essential. Finding a good dupe is a work of love: You need to make sure you understand the OP's question, and you need to scan every potential duplicate for whether it really contains an answer that will help the OP. Everyone dupe-votes carelessly from time to time, so the threat of punishment needs to be present to keep everyone on their toes, just as the threat of downvoting does when you post an answer.  If you think +10 is too high a reward: Consider that finding a duplicate can often be more work than writing an answer, and a correct answer usually nets you at least 10 points, if not much more.   If you think -5 is too much of a punishment: -2 might work as well, although I really think there should be a harsh punishment on an unfair dupe-closing. Has a free neutron ever been shown to absorb/emit/interact with a photon? Protons only 'interact with' very high-energy photons, whether inside a nucleus or free, right?  I'm assuming the same about neutrons....  Neutrons have a small magnetic moment and a slight electric 'moment' (dipole?), correct?  They are sometimes considered to consist of a negative charge surrounding a positive charge?  I would assume that neutrons, in a nucleus or free, interact with photons even less often than protons, and that the gamma photon has to have an even higher energy than one interacting with a proton....  Lastly, I have read about 'photodisintegration', in which a nucleon is kicked out of a nucleus by a gamma ray.  It seems to happen to neutrons sometimes...  But, I am mostly curious about experimental evidence of free neutrons interacting with photons, how often it happens compared to free protons, and whether the interacting photon's energy has to be extremely high, higher even than a photon interacting with a proton... Currently, moderators have the ability to reset a user's username and/or profile text, and propagate that to the rest of the network, resetting it everywhere. However, often, the user's stackexchange.com network profile will also need to be reset, and this is currently only possible to do by either the user in question or staff.  Instead of bothering staff every time, moderators should have something available similar to chat, where moderators can change a user's parent site and have access to a "refresh profile" button, which will fetch updated information such as username and avatar from the parent site.  Currently, the only thing that moderators can do on stackexchange.com is to see hidden accounts. It would make sense for moderators to be able to refresh profiles there, like chat, and avoid pinging CMs every time this comes up. shebang line not working with cr-lf "It looks straightforward, but actually it isn't" In , I asked about proof of statements which are simple but incorrect.   Here, I ask about statements which seems, at a first glance, straightforward, but if we try to write a proof, we can see it's much harder than it looked. So I expect the answers to contain:   the statement; why it looks easy to prove; why actually it isn't. Long-distance Mind Trick Calculate the sum of the infinite series $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{n}{4^n}$ A previous problem had us solving $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{1}{4^n}$ which I calculated to be $\frac{4}{3}$ using a bit of mathematical manipulation.   Wonderful. Thank you for all the prompt responses.  Could anyone suggest an alternate technique that does not involve differentiation? OS: Windows 7. I want install Linux Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive USB 2.0. I read a variety of methods, but I'm confused by contradictory advices and methods. Actually, installing Ubuntu on anything other than clean PC looks much more complicated than installing Windows. I need to have Ubuntu package + Python 2.7 + C compiler installed. My external hard drive is partially filled, I need to keep all files.   Will Ubuntu run entirely on external hardrive, without writing anythinhg to Windows system folders and to registry?  Can anyone post detailed guide how install Ubuntu on external hard drive?