Recently I bought an LG External DVD Writer that is TV compatible. But after a couple of times it stopped working on my Sony LED TV. It would start spinning, but stop after two seconds. This would go on and on.  I assumed that it wasn't receiving enough power from the TV USB port (the DVD writer was rated to 1.6A). So I made a simple USB Y-connector where I took two male USB plugs and one female. Connected the red and black of the female to one of the male USB and the green and yellow alone to the second male USB plug.   I connected the data Male USB to my PC and plugged in the power male USB to a USB power adapter rated to 2.1A. Finally I plugged in a USB thumb drive to the female USB plug to test it out.   But there doesn't seem to be any activity.  Is there something wrong with the wiring itself or simply because there is an improper connection made.
Is it possible to split micro USB to USB cable so two cables (data + and data -) go to the PC with USB and two other power cables go to power brick?
Does an Animagus's animal form change along with their Patronus? In the two examples shown of an Animagus capable of casting a corporeal Patronus (Minerva McGonagall and James Potter) both had the same animal as their Patronus and as their Animagus animal.  Now, it is also shown that extreme circumstances can change one's Patronus. I think the only example of this was Tonks, which turned from a jackrabbit into a wolf in response for her love of Lupin.  If Tonks (or any other wizard who had their Patronus change) had been an animagus, would her animagus have changed as well? Can the cometd library be used in Salesforce to listen to external buses? I'll confess up front that my knowledge of event architecture is limited:  Can the cometd library that we can use to listen for Streaming API and Platform Events also be used to listen to external (i.e. non-Salesforce) event buses?  We're hoping to make Salesforce a subscriber to replace polling integrations through the REST API. I have been trying to teach myself QGIS by using this forum and others to help. Most of my questions can be answered by downloading plugins that are available through 3rd party repositories but for some reason I am not able to connect with these. Anyone have any ideas why this is the case? Just downloaded a .zip file from the internet. I want to use the terminal to unzip the file. What is the correct way to do this? How to declare a structure in a header that is to be used by multiple files in c? If I have a source.c file with a struct:  struct a {      int i;     struct b {         int j;     } };   How can this struct be used in another file (i.e. func.c)?  Should I create a new header file, declare the struct there and include that header in func.c?  Or should I define the whole struct in a header file and include that in both source.c and func.c?  How can the struct be declared extern in both files?  Should I typedef it? If so, how? How do you set password-hash for OpenLDAP? Does the faction of your armor/clothes affect character interactions in Skryim? Invoking JavaScript code in an iframe from the parent page Basically, I have an iframe embedded in a page and the iframe has some  routines I need to invoke from the parent page.  Now the opposite is quite simple as you only need to call parent.functionName(), but unfortunately, I need exactly the opposite of that.  Please note that my problem is not changing the source  of the iframe, but invoking a function defined in the iframe. I would like to associate the last installed version of my Mac OS X application with a certain type of file. A little experimentation shows that the info.plist file seems to be read and interpreted by the operating system when launching the application, not when dragging the application bundle to the disk.  does not say much on that topic.  Is there any way, using a simple .dmg image as installation medium, to make sure the system associates that particular file type with my newly installed app without having to launch it first?  I should clarify that I want this to be done automatically during the installation (I don't want my users to have to do it themselves). Both  (if you take a list of values, the distribution of the most significant digit is rougly proportional to the logarithm of the digit) and  (given a corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table) are not theorems in a mathematical sense, but they work quite good in the real life.   Does anyone have an idea why this happens?  (see also ) Calculate all integer solutions $(x,y,z)\in\mathbb{Z}^3$ of the equation $x^2+y^2+z^2 = 2xyz$.   My Attempt:  We will calculate for $x,y,z&gt;0$. Then, using the AM-GM Inequality, we have  $$ \begin{cases} x^2+y^2\geq 2xy\\ y^2+z^2\geq 2yz\\ z^2+x^2\geq 2zx\\ \end{cases} $$  So $x^2+y^2+z^2\geq xy+yz+zx$. How can I solve for $(x,y,z)$ after this? Got a working screen via HDMI, but the DVI won't go past 1360x768 (a PackardBell Maestro monitor). Had no issues in Windows 7.  I've tried all the xrandr tricks, see the output below:   xrandr  Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3280 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-0 connected primary 1920x1080+1360+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 510mm x 287mm    1920x1080      60.0*+   59.9     50.0      1680x1050      60.0      1600x900       60.0      1440x900       59.9      1280x1024      75.0     60.0      1280x800       59.8      1280x720       60.0     59.9     50.0      1152x864       75.0      1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0      800x600        75.0     72.2     60.3     56.2      720x576        50.0      720x480        59.9      640x480        75.0     72.8     59.9   DVI-D-1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm    1024x768       60.0 +    1360x768       60.0*    59.8      1152x864       60.0      800x600        72.2     60.3     56.2      680x384        60.0     59.8      640x480        59.9      512x384        60.0      400x300        72.2      320x240        60.1     cvt 1920 1080 # 1920x1080 59.96 Hz (CVT 2.07M9) hsync: 67.16 kHz; pclk: 173.00 MHz Modeline "1920x1080_60.00"  173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync  xrandr --newmode "test" 173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576  1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync  xrandr --addmode DVI-D-1 test X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)   Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR)   Minor opcode of failed request:  18 (RRAddOutputMode)   Serial number of failed request:  37   Current serial number in output stream:  38    I'm using the latest driver from Nvidia (binary, 352.63) because Nouveau would show a black screen on my second monitor.  I got stuck on manually finding/creating a xorg.conf file and adding some monitor hacks, can anyone help me? How can I monitor my Samba traffic? What size images do I need for common print sizes, such as wallet size, 8x10, and 16x20?  Is there a general formula?  How could that size change if, for example, a 16x20 was printed on canvas rather than photopaper? Can I do anything about a Nikon d750 taking 5 minutes to power on after taking saltwater damage? I have had a Nikon d750 for a year or so, and 6 months ago it took on a bit of saltwater damage. It still works, but twice in the past it wouldn't power on, once for two weeks and once for two days.   Now it is at a point where it takes around 5 minutes to power on, and when i switch the camera to 'off' or standby, it completely powers off as if the battery drops out, then it takes another 5 mins or so for it to power back on, if it does at all. So I have switched the standby timer in the settings to 'infinity' so it just stays powered on.  I am taking it in to have it looked at, I just hope the damage isn't too fatal. I wonder if anyone has experienced anything similar to this, or can help me diagnose the actual problem. I have tried different batteries, and everything else possible really. Camera itself works fine, just power issues.  thanks in advance. Attributing contributions to academic work that occur in Stack Exchange Sometimes we may ask questions on stack exchange or online forums wherein the response is helpful or even essential to a piece of work that gets published in an academic journal. If this occurs, how should credit be given to those involved in the exchange? Should they all be included as authors? Should a link to the forum be included as a reference in the paper?  Once something is in a stack exchange or forum, it's "published". Perhaps in the future, the current peer review model will transform into people writing blogs and posting in forums and databases. But for now, how might this issue be dealt with while forums, blogs, etc coexist with journals? How do I install nVidia graphics drivers from “X-Swat” ppa? How am I supposed to install nvidia drivers from xorg-edgers? I try  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-graphics-drivers-331   and I get  E: Unable to locate package nvidia-graphics-drivers-331   The   nvidia-graphics-drivers-331 for trusty, why wouldn't it install? Why are the two versions of Chromium and VLC available in Ubuntu software of different sizes? Isometries of the sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n}$ how I can draw an skew cylinder (rotate around x axis) and fill it (in 3D tikz)?