I have a folder in /home/downloads that's called wonderdraft. I wish for this folder to be owned by my user. How do I do this? Thank you in advance.
I would like the user to have full rights on this folder (as well as all sub-directories and files in it):  ~/.blabla   currently owned by root.  I have found numerous posts (in this forum and elsewhere) on how to do this for files but I can't find a way to do it for whole folders.
Do all accepted students in top-tier engineering programs get invited to interview before getting admitted? Character vs Charm - Pronunciation Is there a rule to understand how the group "Cha" has to be pronounced?  "Character" sounds with a hard first syllable, while "Charm" sound softer, but I don't find how to tell which sound to use before earing someone saying the word. It could be because of the double consonant "rm" vs "ra"? Or is it just a matter of knowing the rule for every single word?  EDIT: More specifically, let's talk about UK English pronunciation. 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! I got a brand new Windows 7 machine, installed the operating system, created one account and forgot its password. What can I do?  There is no external CD, the operating system is loaded from somewhere inside the machine.  I already tried to remember passwords and tried all candidates with all possible combinations of caps lock, num lock etc. What exactly is a bad backlink that is Disavow worthy? I have been reading Webmasters SE and many other blogs on this topic but I could not understand how do we truly evaluate a bad link that we must disavow in GWT. Everybody seem to have a different opinion on this.  A little background  I am a WordPress developer and 3 years ago I gave away a WordPress theme to my blog visitors which has a dofollow link back to my business website. Like this.  WordPress theme designed by &lt;a href="http://domain.com"&gt;MyBusinessName&lt;/a&gt;   From last 2 years I was not paying any attention on organic traffic to my business website because of other projects.  That free WordPress theme helped us getting ~10K backlinks from variety of domains and websites. All most 99% backlinks are from non-related websites and in many different languages.  Now  Last week it came to my attention that in October 2013, organic traffic from Google started decreasing and in just 2 months it became as low as 25% of October. Before October it was gradually increasing ~5-10% per month.  So I researched and draw to the conclusion that it could be because of Penguin Update. Since  was introduced at the same time.  Now I need information on what a bad/toxic link is.  I was about to disavow almost all links but after reading many topics on Webmasters SE I think I need more information on how to identify a bad link.   Does credit link in footer consider as spam because it build thousands of backlinks? Do foreign language website backlinks consider as spam? Should I remove all backlinks from theme users because almost all are from non-related content domains? Although some links from non-related content domains have nice DA/PA. Should I remove those too? I understand foreign language anchor text backlink could be a spam but what if it is from related foreign language content.   The question is how exactly one can find a link that is bad and must be removed. How can I setup a Material in Cycles for Z-Transparency? Your Mileage May Vary In the United States we have a saying, "your mileage may vary", which means "your experience may be different".  In English-speaking countries that don't use Imperial miles, is there an equivalent expression? Projecting sp objects in R I have a number of shapefiles in different CRSs (mostly WGS84 lat/lon) that I'd like to transform into a common projection (likely Albers Equal Area Conic, but I may ask for help on choosing in another question once my problem gets better-defined).  I spent a few months doing spatial stats stuff in R, but it was 5 years ago.  For the life of me, I cannot remember how to transform an sp object (e.g. SpatialPolygonsDataFrame) from one projection to another.  Example code:  P4S.latlon &lt;- CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84") hrr.shp &lt;- readShapePoly("HRR_Bdry"), verbose=TRUE, proj4string=P4S.latlon)  # Shapefile available at  #   http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/geography/hrr_bdry.zip  #   but you must rename all the filenames to have the same  #   capitalization for it to work in R   Now I have a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with appropriate projection information, but I'd like to transform it to the desired projection.  I recall there being a somewhat unintuitively-named function for this, but I can't remember what it is.  Note that I do not want just to change the CRS but to change the coordinates to match ("reproject", "transform", etc.).  Edit  Excluding AK/HI which are annoyingly placed in Mexico for this shapefile:  library(taRifx.geo) hrr.shp &lt;-    subset(hrr.shp, !(grepl( "AK-" , hrr.shp@data$HRRCITY ) |                                      grepl( "HI-" , hrr.shp@data$HRRCITY )) ) proj4string(hrr.shp) &lt;- P4S.latlon How to install TP-LINK Archer T4U driver? Kernel of composition of linear transformations Let $f : U \to V$ and $g : V \to W$ be linear transformations on the vector spaces $U$, $V$, and $W$. Supposedly,  $$ \dim(\ker(g \circ f)) = \dim(\ker(f)) + \dim(\ker(g) \cap \operatorname{im}(f)). $$  How might I go about proving that?    (Attempt:) The $\dim(\ker(g)\cap\operatorname{im}(f))$ term suggests to me that I should define a vector space $V' = \ker(g) + \operatorname{im}(f)$ to invoke the theorem that  $$ \dim(V') = \dim(\ker(g)) + \dim(\operatorname{im}(f)) - \dim(\ker(g) \cap \operatorname{im}(f)), $$  but I don't really see where to go from there. When are you supposed to use escape instead of encodeURI / encodeURIComponent? How does the bounty system work? It's possible to offer and award bounties of reputation on questions.   What is a bounty? How can I find questions that have a bounty attached? How do I start a bounty? When can I start a bounty? Why is the system requiring me to choose a bounty amount that's higher than the minimum? Can I use Markdown formatting in the bounty remarks? Can I edit the remark? How long is the bounty period? How do I award a bounty? Can I award a bounty to my own answer? Can I award a bounty to an old answer? If I offer a bounty on someone else's question, can I award the bounty to their answer? After awarding the bounty, can I remove it or move it to another answer at a later time? What happens if there's no answer after the bounty period? What happens if I feel my question is still unanswered? What is automatic awarding? Are bounty awards exempt from the 200 points/day reputation limit? How does Community Wiki mode affect bounties? How does user deletion or post dissociation affect bounties? Can I award a bounty to an answer from a deleted user or one where the author was dissociated? Can I offer a second bounty after the first one has expired? Can I raise my bounty? What happens if a bounty question is closed or deleted? Why can't I vote to close or migrate a bounty question? What happens if I delete my account while I have an active bounty? Do I keep an awarded bounty when I delete my answer? What happens if a question where I awarded a bounty later gets deleted or migrated? Can I cancel my bounty? Can I affect / divide / share part of my bounty to two (or more) users? How many outstanding bounties can a single user have?      See also:  in the Help Center What are Extension Tubes? What are Extension Tubes? So, I thought I had a good understanding of this, but just ran a test (in response to a conversation where I disagreed with someone) and found that my understanding is flawed...  In as much detail as possible what exactly happens when I execute a file in my shell? What I mean is, if I type: ./somefile some arguments into my shell and press return (and somefile exists in the cwd, and I have read+execute permissions on somefile) then what happens under the hood?  I thought the answer was:   The shell make a syscall to exec, passing the path to somefile The kernel examines somefile and looks at  of the file to determine if it is a format the processor can handle If the magic number indicates that the file is in a format the processor can execute, then   a new process is created (with an entry in the process table) somefile is read/mapped to memory. A stack is created and execution jumps to the entry point of the code of somefile, with ARGV initialized to an array of the parameters (a char**, ["some","arguments"])  If the magic number is a  then exec() spawns a new process as above, but the executable used is the interpreter referenced by the shebang (e.g. /bin/bash or /bin/perl) and somefile is passed to STDIN If the file doesn't have a valid magic number, then an error like "invalid file (bad magic number): Exec format error" occurs   However someone told me that if the file is plain text, then the shell tries to execute the commands (as if I had typed bash somefile). I didn't believe this, but I just tried it, and it was correct. So I clearly have some misconceptions about what actually happens here, and would like to understand the mechanics.  What exactly happens when I execute a file in my shell? (in as much detail is reasonable...) Find the radius of the inscribed circle of a right triangle. Find the radius of the inscribed circle of a right triangle. The triangle's height is $\sqrt{6} + \sqrt{2}$ while the bisector of the right angle is 4.  This seemed like a generic similar triangles problem but it isn't that simple when I tried to solve it. Any help?  EDIT: Here is a picture of the problem PHP & MySQL: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given given a polynomial $p(x,y)$ from $\mathbb Z[x,y]$. I want to substitute $x=1$ leaving $y$ as it is. The command Value(p,[1,y]) does not work. Can you give me a hint?  After that it gets a little more complicated. Let  $$p(x,y)=x^6+y^6$$ After substituting $x=1$ we have $p(1,y)=1+y^6$. Given a natural number $j$. I want to find all expressions $y^j$ in $p$ and substitute these $y^j$ by $1$ and the others by $0$. In this case (and for $j=6$) we would get $1+1=2$. If $$p(x,y)=x^4y^2+x^2y^6$$ we should get $0+1=1$. Is there any way to do this?  Thanks for reading! edit: Well, it turns out I used the function Value wrong. The right code for my problem would be Value(p,[x,y],[1,y]). So my first question is solved. Best practice: card expiry date on checkout What is the best format for gathering the card expiry data during the checkout process on an eCommerce website?  So we need to collect the month of expiry and the date of expiry (as standard on all web card transactions).  I have seen this done differently on websites so it would be good to know the best practice. I would very much like that the the appendix sections of the Table of Contents doesn't have a section numbers, dots, and page numbers. If I do the following  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tocloft} \addtocontents{toc}{\cftpagenumbersoff{section}} \renewcommand{\cftdot}{} \begin{document} \tableofcontents \newpage \section{Appendix} \section*{Another Letter} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Another Letter} \end{document}   then the section "Another Letter" is left aligned, so it doesn't look like the  others.  Question  Is it possible to have "Another Letter" styled the same way as normal TOC entries, but just without section number, dots, and page number? Evaluate forecasting ability of GARCH models with RMSE and MAE