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On the back of the switch, the top two ports have black wires and the bottom right has the one red wire.  There are two black pigtail wires coming off the black capped wires. I tried to connect a separate switch to control a ceiling fan with remote. I ran new wire making the old switch box into a two switch. I ran 14/2 gauge wire to ceiling for fan / light remote combo. Fan didn’t work after multiple re-wiring  combinations. The breaker did pop and half click when it popped. Then I thought to re-wire the ceiling fan wires as if I was going to make it into outlet only and use a tester to indicate an open ground, or a wiring error but the two light on tester are both orange indicating correct wiring. I heard that sometimes the ceiling fan remote transformer goes bad. Should I check batteries and/or unit placement? I’m really confused at this point why the light is not working at least with remote after follow wiring installation instructions that were included with the fan. I think it’s my wiring with the switch. The way I left the wiring is that it has constant power. As if we’re a outlet the current switch does not turn it off. Proper fstab entry to mount a samba share on boot? 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Note: Solutions like: gnome-terminal --tab-with-profile=Implicit &amp;&amp; exit   are excluded because I prefer not to close and open another terminal or get another terminal window in this process of changing the profile. Explanation behind Second Derivative of a Parametric Equation Formula Read a file line by line in reverse order How to change hair color along length of strand? At some point (not right away), I'll be wanting to make a character model which has multicolor hair.  Namely, it will be one color closer to the roots, and another color closer to the tips.  Is there any way to do this in blender?  I would be using Cycles for this. How to disable the touchpad? I want my touchpad to be disabled when I use my mouse. How can I do that? touchpad-indicator has stopped working on 11.10. It used to work on 11.04. Gnome3 is not a solution as I don't like it and find it buggy. How Do Dementors Communicate with Wizards? What is the "continue" keyword and how does it work in Java? I saw this keyword for the first time and I was wondering if someone could explain to me what it does.   What is the continue keyword? How does it work? When is it used? event.returnValue is deprecated. Please use the standard event.preventDefault() instead First post review queue: answers are questions, questions are answers I believe there is a typo in the  review queue. When reviewing a question, the information message asks the user to review the answer. Take a look at the image below.    Similarly, when an answer is posted in the queue, the description box calls it a question instead. Has anyone else noticed this? Upgrading from Yosemite to El Capitan, but not Sierra I am trying to animate in 2d. I do it with planes that have textures on them. I recently came up with the idea of having a plane with an image sequence of mouths because animating actual lip syncing by hand takes too long and isn't really necessary for what I'm trying to acomplish. However, when playing back the animation in textured viewport shading the animated texture stays at the last frame until the animation stops. I can use the arrow keys and it works fine as well as scrubbing through the timeline, just not when playing back the animation with alt+a. Can anyone help me with this problem? As a grad student, I just find it tremendously frustrating when emails are ignored by faculty (both at my institution and at other places). Is this acceptable? I'd be content with a simple response with one line along the lines of "I have read this email and am busy right now, will respond in X days when I can write a more detailed email." I understand that, as a first year student in my field, I'm not really in a position to request anything of anyone, but it just seems like common decency.  Instead, I never hear back, as if my email has been jettisoned off into oblivion. Showing margins/frames in beamer slides I'm trying to create a signature and date line in a document.  I need the date line to always be in the same spot on the page no matter what name is under the signature line, such as:  ----------------------   ---------------------- Representative           Date  ----------------------   ---------------------- Program Manager          Date   Here is the code I currently have:  \makebox[2.5in]{\hrulefill} \hspace {1.0in}\makebox[2.5in]{\hrulefill} \\ User Representative \makebox[2.5in][r]{Date} \\  \vspace{.2in} \makebox[2.5in]{\hrulefill} \hspace {1.0in}\makebox[2.5in]{\hrulefill} \\ Program Manager \makebox[2.5in][r]{Date} \   I want to be able to change the names, such as change Program Manager to Joe Foo and have the word 'Date' stay in the exact place.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm still a newbie at TeX so please forgive my ignorance. What should my Objective-C singleton look like? 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