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"He was neither seer nor prophet" How would you explain the absence of an article? Here's a fragment from Jack London's Star Rover:     Wordsworth knew. He was neither seer nor prophet, but just ordinary man like you or any man. What he knew you know, any man knows. But he most aptly stated it in his passage that begins "Not in utter nakedness, not in entire forgetfulness.   To the best of my — admittedly sketchy — knowledge of grammar, the second sentence should read neither a seer nor (a) prophet, but just an ordinary man. Even if we accept the seer and the prophet as "poetic entities" ("father and son," "robber and robbed," "man to man," or whatever), logic would still dictate that ordinary man should be preceded by an an.  It is a well-known fact that Jack London's usage wasn't always up to par; his grammar, on the other hand, was always top-notch.  Logically, the sentence is grammatically incorrect (correct me if I'm wrong: no pun intended).  Illogically, it reads smoothly: intuitively, a native speaker understands that there's nothing wrong here.  However, those to whom English is not the first language cannot be expected to be intuitive in this case and would want an explanation. Any suggestions? What does ** (double star/asterisk) and * (star/asterisk) do for parameters? In the following method definitions, what does the * and ** do for param2?  def foo(param1, *param2): def bar(param1, **param2): Kubuntu - can not enter wifi credentials after adding external wifi card My ethernet connection is quite unreliable (It uses powerline adapters) so I bought an external wifi adapter. I have plugged it in and run the command sudo ip address add 192.168.0.39/24 brd + dev enp7s0, and KDE has detected it. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to realise it is a wireless network and therefore needs credentials. Where I could normally find a place to enter credentials (the network widget, system settings) there are none. KDE reports that the device is connected in the UI. How do I make it work out that it is wireless and therefore needs credentials? Edit: With ethernet plugged out, (USB) adapter plugged in: $ ip address show 1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever     inet6 ::1/128 scope host         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp7s0: &lt;NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000     link/ether 04:d9:f5:8a:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  With ethernet plugged in, adapter plugged in: 1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever     inet6 ::1/128 scope host         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp7s0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000     link/ether 04:d9:f5:8a:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff     inet 192.168.0.51/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp7s0        valid_lft 863988sec preferred_lft 863988sec     inet6 fe80::7eb1:eca2:96a0:fe5c/64 scope link noprefixroute         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever  With just ethernet: 1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever     inet6 ::1/128 scope host         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp7s0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000     link/ether 04:d9:f5:8a:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff     inet 192.168.0.51/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp7s0        valid_lft 863960sec preferred_lft 863960sec     inet6 fe80::7eb1:eca2:96a0:fe5c/64 scope link noprefixroute         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever  With nothing: 1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever     inet6 ::1/128 scope host         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp7s0: &lt;NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000     link/ether 04:d9:f5:8a:f5:e0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  lsusb, adapter plugged in: Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1d57:32da Xenta 2.4GHz Receiver (Keyboard and Mouse) Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub  I'm not adding it with it plugged out because it's obviously the Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:b812 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC. There were no restarts between any of these changes. Garbage Collection: Is it necessary to set large objects to null in a Dispose method? Why does this sort ignore the +/- character prefix? Add space between headings and body in the home of the iPad app It's a pain in the ass for me to quit the app, draw a red circle in another app and return to the app, so...    If you notice the three questions in the bottom, you will notice that the emboldened headings (New Answer, Comment) are stick to the next character. Imperfect.    App Version: 1.4.0.249 Device: iPad 2 (GSM) OS Version: Version 9.1 (Build 13B143) Why {are you / you are} making noise? What does increased caster level affect? A  adds +1 caster level, what does this affect?   Damage from spells? (Like fireball) Duration and area of effect? "Amount" of effect (Like number of missiles from magic missile) Spells known by a wizard (ie +1 caster level mean a level 2 wizard gets the spells as if they were level 3?) Anything else? Headers of \chapters* take the headers of their previous \chapter When using book.cls and using \chapter* after a \chapter, the header used in \chapter* is wrong. An example is pasted below.   Is there any known workaround for that? I have tried quite some tricks without success.   \documentclass[]{book}  \begin{document}  \chapter{First Chapter} aslkjdf  \chapter*{Unnumbered Chapter} The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.  The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.  To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.  For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.  Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.  For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software. For both users' and authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous versions.  Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.  Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.  \end{document} What software works well for viewing massive TIFF images on Windows 7? Turning off and on images in figures Is it possible to prevent the contents of a figure from being rendered? I have a large book document, and to speed up compiling while working on a draft, I would like to have some way of ignoring the content of the images, but ensuring that the figure size remains.  In several cases I am using a line like:  \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{figure.pdf}     so I do not know the actual size of the image. How to Check If A Plugin Is Enabled Through API? How can I have  for Ubuntu? How to redirect output of a program to a ZIP file? Locating stolen phone after factory reset I assume any reasonable thief will wipe the phone as soon as possible, thus removing any tracking apps and user accounts.  I there a method to track the phone any way?  A possible method is to use a tracking app (and it's configuration) that's embedded in a custom ROM. In .NET, which loop runs faster, 'for' or 'foreach'? New "[tag:" syntax interferes with Markdown links Links in [link text][number] format don't work properly if they follow a tag using the new [tag:tagName] format. Here's the result of [tag:python] [gold badge page][1]:      [gold badge page]   Putting the tag inside the link is worse. Here's the result of [[meta-tag:bug] some text][2], where [2] is google.com:        The part of the link outside the tag just disappears silently.  EDIT: To be more precise, the entire link to [2] disappears. The markup that is produced contains (invalid) nested anchor tags, as shown here from Firefox's "View Source":  &lt;a href="http://google.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;a href="/questions/tagged/bug" class="post-tag required-tag" title="show questions tagged 'bug'" rel="tag"&gt;bug&lt;/a&gt; some text&lt;/a&gt;   So the tag is still a link, but it is a link to the tag page, which is the behavior it would have if the link to [2] didn't exist at all. The user's desired behavior in this case is... ambiguous, to be charitable.  EDIT 2: I briefly included markup from Firebug here, but it turned out to be irrelevant. It has now been removed to improve readability. See  if you're interested. I have two systems installed previously Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I was trying to reinstall Ubuntu and format the Ubuntu OS partition using a tool in Windows 7.   When I have Ubuntu ready on a USB stick and restart my laptop, it prompts me with the GRUB rescue screen. If I boot from USB to install Ubuntu, it just hangs.   Anyway, I messed up everything. So my question is how can I boot Windows 7 now? How much longer will my 10 year old frame last? How to kill the process using the name of the program instead of PID? I started my Python program in the background using nohup as mentioned below -   nohup zook.py &amp;   Now I am trying to kill this process so I did the ps command as mentioned below  root@phxdbx1145:/home/david/zook# ps ax | grep zook.py 16352 pts/6    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto zook.py   But somehow, everytime its PID getting changed, I don't know why. Whenever I do like this -   kill -9 16352   It always say, No Such Process.  And when I do px command again, I see that PID got changed automatically..  So I am not sure how do I kill this process?  Is there any way I can kill the process with the name somehow?  UPDATE:-  This is what I am getting. I did pkill -9 zook.py and then I did ps command as mentioned below and it is shwoing zook.py constantly?  root@dbx1145:/home/david/zook# pkill -9 zook.py  root@dbx1145:/home/david/zook# ps ax | grep zook.py 23870 pts/6    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto zook.py  root@dbx1145:/home/david/zook# ps ax | grep zook.py 23872 pts/6    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto zook.py  root@dbx1145:/home/david/zook# ps ax | grep zook.py 23874 pts/6    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto zook.py  root@dbx1145:/home/david/zook# ps ax | grep zook.py 23876 pts/6    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto zook.py