Would an Antimagic Field block telepathic communication with a familiar? Ichabod the Inscrutable has an imp familiar and is exploring a dungeon. He comes across a series of trapped rooms that have Antimagic Fields in them, and he wants to send his familiar in to do some exploring.The Antimagic Fields completely fill each room, but do not extend beyond their walls. Ichabod is currently standing outside of the first room. Would an Antimagic Field block telepathic communication with a familiar?
Which features of a wizard's familiar, if any, are considered magical? The  spell has a duration of instantaneous, which implies that the familiar itself is not an ongoing magical effect. However, the spell provides a number of ongoing features that are definitely supernatural:    The familiar disappears when it drops to 0 HP. The wizard can temporarily or permanently dismiss the familiar. The wizard can communicate with the familiar telepathically. The wizard can observe through the familiar's eyes and ears. The familiar can deliver touch spells on behalf of the wizard.   Which of these features are considered magical? For example, would any of them show up to a detect magic spell or be suppressed by an antimagic field? In addition, is my assumption above correct that the familiar itself is not considered magical?
Font corruption: lines through characters I have a problem where a one-pixel high white line is displayed through certain letters of text. Almost always only a single character type is affected at once, and only in one font size (though that size can change over time). Most of the time things are fine, but this happens several times a day. It happens frequently in Firefox, but system dialogs, menus, etc. can also be affected. It's been happening ever since I upgraded to 10.10. Only restarting seems to fix it.  Two examples (in the first, only the larger "r" is corrupted):     Any help would be appreciated, thanks.  Edit: I've since noticed that I can (sometimes) make the fonts appear correctly by zooming in/out all the way and returning to the default in Firefox (one or two steps, then going back, does nothing) seems to make the problem go away temporarily.  Edit 2: I figure it's worth noting that the solution below doesn't fully work for me any longer (I'm now using Ubuntu 11.10). It does significantly reduce the frequency of this problem occurring.  Edit 3: Still around in 12.04. The fix provided by Vanni works perfectly now for me, but apparently doesn't for some.  Edit 4: This seems to be an xorg problem, with Vanni's answer fixing it for many Intel video cards. I've had this occasionally happen with AMD graphics cards in 13.10 and 14.04, but very rarely (only two or three times). How can I search an Excel spreadsheet in SharePoint? Looking to be able to search an Excel spreadsheet from the SharePoint mobile app.  I have a spreadsheet with Postal Codes/Zip Codes with corresponding information. I would like to be able to search as you would in Excel.  When I upload a test spreadsheet, it opens as like a PDF. User has "Read" permissions for the document library the spreadsheet is located in.  Thanks in advance, Infinite distinct factorizations into irreducibles for an element Consider the factorization into irreducibles of $6$ in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-5}]$. We have $6=2 \times 3$ and  $6=(1+\sqrt{-5}) \times (1-\sqrt{-5})$, i.e. $2$ distinct factorizations. And,  $$6^2=3 \times 3\times2\times2$$ $$=(1+\sqrt{-5}) \times (1-\sqrt{-5}) \times (1+\sqrt{-5}) \times (1-\sqrt{-5})$$ $$=(1+\sqrt{-5}) \times (1-\sqrt{-5})\times3\times2.$$ More generally, $6^n$ will have $n+1$ distinct factorizations into irreducibles in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{-5}]$ by a simple combinatorial argument. But, can we construct a ring in which there exists an element that has an infinite number of distinct factorizations into irreducibles? To make life harder, can we construct an extension of $\mathbb{Z}$ in which this happens? I have been thinking about this for a while and have managed to find no foothold.. Any help is appreciated. How do I determine if my integrated Intel graphics support "Shader Model 3"? I am trying to play a Steam game on Ubuntu.  The game requires "Graphics: Shader model 3".  How do I determine if my integrated Intel graphics support Shader Model 3?  At present, when I launch the game, I hear the audio, but the screen is entirely black.  Running glxinfo | grep OpenGL yields:  OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile  OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.2.2 OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile OpenGL core profile extensions: OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 18.2.2 OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30 OpenGL context flags: (none) OpenGL extensions: OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 18.2.2 OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10 OpenGL ES profile extensions:   I am not sure which (if any) of the above lines answer my question. The Bash Manual says   { list; }        Placing a list of commands between curly braces causes the list to be executed in the current shell context. No subshell is   created. The semicolon (or newline) following list is required.      The braces are reserved words, so they must be separated from the list   by blanks or other shell metacharacters.       The parentheses are operators, and are recognized as separate tokens   by the shell even if they are not separated from the list by   whitespace.   If I remove the semicolon, like this:  $ { date } &gt;    Why does it expect stdin input? A metacharacter is a character that separates words.  The semicolon and whitespace are both "shell metacharacters". Why can't whitespace separate words date and }? Why do we need a semicolon instead of a whitespace for separating the words? Say I have a code to draw a flow chart, I want now a arrow from node 3 to node 1, how can I do that?  1&lt;--| |   | 2   | |   | 3----   MWE  \documentclass[class=article,border=0pt]{standalone}  \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}  % Define block styles \tikzset{     block/.style={rectangle, draw, line width=0.5mm, black, text width=5em, text centered,                   rounded corners, minimum height=2em},     line/.style={draw, -latex} }% &lt;- if you insist in using this in the document add this % here. \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[node distance = 1cm, auto]     % Place nodes     \node [block] (BLOCK1) {a};     \node [block, below of=BLOCK1] (BLOCK2) {b};     \node [block, below of=BLOCK2, node distance=1cm] (BLOCK3) {c};     % Draw edges     \path [line] (BLOCK1) -- (BLOCK2);     \path [line] (BLOCK2) -- (BLOCK3); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} Why does water pouring from a glass sometimes travel down the side of the glass? If you have a glass of water, say, three quarters full and you pour it at an angle of say, $45^{\circ}$ with respect to the the table, the water comes out of the glass and goes directly down towards the floor.  However, when the glass is more full, or even three quarters full and the 'angle of pouring' is far less with respect the table, when the water comes out of the glass, rather than going straight down it kind of stays stuck to the glass and travels down the outside of it.  Why does this happen? (I'm sure many of you have observed it yourself by accident and ended up making a mess). Fast calculation for $\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\log x}{x^2+1}dx=0$ I want to show that $\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\log x}{x^2+1}dx=0$, but is there a faster method than finding the contour and doing all computations?  Otherwise my idea is to do the substitution $x=e^t$, integral than changes to $\int _{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{t e^t}{1+e^{2t}}dt$. Next step is to take the contour $-r,r,r+i\pi,-r+i\pi$ and integrate over it... With the following circuits as examples :    and    How will the current I know how much to flow? Would any other wave travel first in the circuit and then come back and say so much current should flow? Can I make my Ubuntu make sounds when I press Caps Lock etc.? Triggering actions when a variable is set Converting from shapefile or raster formats to LAS? It is stated as a problem in Spivak's Calculus and I can't wrap my head around it. GUI does not start Initially, the computer was showing the error as mentioned in   question. Fixing it resulted in the above error.  Please take look at the last line   Started GNOME display manager... and deal with any system changes..p link was shut down.....     One more thing before all this problem I have edited xorg.conf file to use  as suggested on .  I don't know if that's the reason but I thought it is important to share. $\forall a > 0$ $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} f(na)$ is convergent. Prove that $\int_{0}^{\infty}f(x) dx$ is convergent. Is there any way to set a MacBook Pro to not sleep when you close the lid? How can timelapse sequences be shot without in-camera support? How can timelapse sequences be shot without having in-camera support for it?  Which third-party tools are recommended? Value of Vandermonde type determinant This is a general, community wiki  question to address non-specific "I need a CMS or Wiki that does x, y, and z..." questions.  If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient answer, please open a discussion on .    I have a list of features that I want for my website's Content Management System (CMS) - where can I find a [free] script that includes all of them? How can I assign custom icons to folders?