How to do 360 Polar Panorama in Photography? I Have here a 360 Panorama picture from random Web search:    I want to ask how to do this, do I need some special lens or any equipment to do this?  It's kind a tricky I guess.
How are "Little Planet" photos created? How do you make mini-planet photos like this one?   By Guido Radig (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (, via Wikimedia Commons  Here are some examples of what I mean on Flickr:  - though I would be open to a better source of examples.
I just installed Ubuntu 13.10, and I can't configure my wi-fi Epson TX430W printer.  Using the Settings-&gt;Printers interface, I can detect the printer. When I click add, I briefly see a "Searching for drivers" dialog. It dissapears, and then I'm left with the printer forever in "Installing" status.  If I close the window and reopen Printers, it doesn't show up on the list.  How can I solve, or at least diagnose the problem? Is there a higher register word that means to criticize something highly specific and inconsequential? Any synonym I can think of seems a little too vernacular, e.g. "to split hairs", "to nitpick". What's a more professional/academic way of saying this? I'd prefer a single word if one exists. Why does the field of an electric dipole drop off as $1/r^3$? Electric field of a point charge drops off inverse squarely but that of a dipole varies as $1/r^3$. Why the field drops off more quickly for a dipole? Re-number a list when a new entry is inserted I have a text file of numbered entries:  1. foo 2. bar 100% 3. kittens 4. eat cake 5. unicorns 6. rainbows   and so on up to some large number. Then after an empty line, a new block starts from 1.  I insert a new entry, replacing, say, 4. and I need to renumber all the subsequent entries in the block:  1. foo 2. bar 100% 3. kittens 4. sunshine &lt; 5. eat cake 6. unicorns 7. rainbows Why must an English learners should know Grammar first? Why must everyone understand Grammar first before learning to speak? How to read one filesystem from a whole disk image file? I ran these commands:  VBoxManage clonehd d6b9f0a5-98df-48ca-83c8-91a0809ec349 --format RAW Debian.raw sudo dd if=~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/Debian.raw of=/dev/sda5   When I try to mount the partition, I get this complaint:  EXT4-fs (sda5): VFS: Can't find ext4 filesystem   Now I know that the VM had an ext4 partition. What did I do wrong? How to call shell commands from Ruby How can I import an obj sequence into blender? I have an obj sequence of a fluid simulation from Realflow. I've found a few tools that can import an obj sequence into blender, but most are outdated and don't work. Are there any scripts or plug-ins that can do that? SQL Switch/Case in 'where' clause Why does an open interval NOT have measure zero? What are the criteria for questions to be selected for Hot Network Questions? In English, the number 0 is treated as plural. It is then:   0 seconds 1 second    1.2 seconds   2 seconds     Shouldn't it be "nobody want to go there," instead of "nobody wants to go there"?  I also saw in TOEFL that "any __" should be used with a singular.  But I see it very common that it is a plural also.  Why is that?  (updated: example, "we don't have any apples any more" vs "If you get any apple, please let me know.") Suppose $A$ is a 4x4 matrix such that $\det(A)=\frac{1}{64}$ NSdate Assuming wrong time zone What is the formal definition of polynomial ring of several variables? Let's consider a polynomial ring of single variable. One can define them informally by saying $P(X)=\sum_{i=1}^n a_n X^n$ while $X$ is an indeterminate variable. However, since mathematics is based on first-order logic, one can only talk about something that actually exists (as a set). So as its name says, indeterminate variable is not a sentence in $ZFC$. Nevertheless, we can formally define a polynomial ring $R[X]$ as a subset of $R^\omega$ whose support is finite. ($R$ is a commutative ring with unity) Just like a single variable, I want to know what would be the formal definition of a polynomial ring of several variables. What would be a formal definition? === I have figured out a candidate. That is,  Candidate for a &quot;Definition of a polynomial ring $R[X_1,...,X_n]$&quot;. ($R$ is a commutative ring with unity) Let $R[X_1,...,X_n]$ be the set of all functions $f:\omega^n \rightarrow R$ whose support is finite. Define $(f+g)(a,b,c)=f(a,b,c)+g(a,b,c)$ and $(f•g)(a'',b'',c'')=\sum_{a+a'=a''} f(a,b,c)•g(a',b',c')$ (Note that in this way, $+,•$ are well defined.) Then, it can be checked that $(R[X_1,...,X_n],+,•)$ is a ring.  Is this a formal definition of a polynomial ring? Finding the Public IP address in a shell script I can find my IP address using ifconfig or hostname -i command.  But how do I find my Public IP?  (I have a static public IP but I want to find it out using unix command) What is the result of $ \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{ \sum^n_{i=1} i^k}{n^{k+1}},\ k \in \mathbb{R} $ and why? What is the result of the next limit:   $$ \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{ \sum^n_{i=1} i^k}{n^{k+1}},\ k \in \mathbb{R} $$  Why (theorem)? Storing datetime values in Shapefiles using QGIS? I have a shapefile with date in a string field. I create a new field with date type and use the calculator to make the conversion. But the result only provide the date part, the time part is removed. Even when the preview show the correct conversion.  Here you can see the original string field time and the result date time2. And the use of the conversion function to_datetime() and the preview result at the end    If you go to the layer properties you can change the edit mode to date/time. Then if go to the data and try to edit time2 you get the current date/time. So is possible save date and time in the same field. But the update tool still doesn't work as expected      As J.R said. Even when you can change QGIS edit to allow Date/Time the save to shapefile will discard the time. Reference to the Table of Contents page I thought that someone must have asked this, but my searches didn't find it.  I am looking to refer back to the table of contents from places in my document. How can I do this? How to concatenate text from multiple rows into a single text string in SQL server? Consider a database table holding names, with three rows:  Peter Paul Mary   Is there an easy way to turn this into a single string of Peter, Paul, Mary?