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Can't kill a sleeping process How do I automatically restart docky after a crash? I read a novel when I was 12 or 13 (late 80's, early 90's) about two timelines combining on Earth.  It was a full length novel for adults that I swiped from my mom (she doesn't remember it at all.)  I've been trying to figure out what the title is for some time but my google-fu is unable to find the right search terms.    The book was published in the 80's or perhaps early 90's.  The story: It was set on Earth and featured two timelines running concurrently (in the 80's?)  Timeline 1:  The nuclear missile crisis had gone badly and a low level nuclear war had more or less destroyed the US, but small towns still survived but are slowly fading away.  Much of the story was about the scarcity of goods, and the protagonist in the main thread of the book started the story by finding a 6 pack of Coke buried in a ruined house.  Throughout the story people were finding things that had grown scarce (deer, bullets, human beings.)  One strange scene I recall involved mutant/radioactive sweet potatoes that had driven a man insane.  Eventually people in this timeline began having dreams of their lives in Timeline 2.  Some of the people were not having dreams, and it was eventually discovered that they had died in Timeline 2.    Timeline 2:  There is panic in a world recognizable as our 1980's as nuclear war draws near.  Since more and stronger missiles have been developed, the end of humanity is at hand.  Things start disappearing from that world as the war begins.  Timeline 2 was mostly seen as vignettes of panicked people running around.  Combination of Timelines: In a weird, incongruous, almost surely poorly written scene, Gaia (yes, Earth itself) is seen to be combining a dying timeline with a doomed timeline in order to save humanity.  At the end of the novel, kids from Timeline 2 are transported into Timeline 1 in order to repopulate.  The new kids drink all the Coke, in case you were wondering...  Any help finding the title would be welcome.  I recall enjoying the book a lot when I was a kid, but I suspect my mom traded it in at our local used book store because at some point it just disappeared. Suppose that f is continuous on $(a,b)$ and $\lim_{x\to a^+}  f(x) = \lim_{x\to b^-} f(x) = \infty$. Prove that $f$ has a minimum on all of $(a,b)$.  I was thinking of applying the extreme value theorem, but I realized that it applies only to closed intervals. So I was thinking of defining a closed interval that is in $(a,b)$, and using the definition of one sided limits to go about the problem, but I don't know how to proceed. Help please? How do I make log4j clear a log at startup? IS or ARE? "The only thing that I want you to hit right now IS/ARE the books" In this sentence, which is the right word?     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For example:  sh-3.2$ limittime -t 30 'myscript.sh'   or   sh-3.2$ limittime -t 30 'grep func *.c'   Under cygwin the ulimit command doesn't seem to work.   I am open to any ideas. I'm writing a mildly dystopian scenario where competition is taken to vicious extremes, and I was wondering if there was a word that I could use (specifically a noun that was a synonym of "competition") to describe the sort of vicious, cutthroat ... _________ (the word that I want) that was going on.  I'm specifically looking for a word that doesn't refer to a one-off event (like "contest" or "tug-of-war"), but rather is more about the state of things. I currently have a setup where I send a char using a Tx of 434MHz and an Uno to a Mega with a Rx. The Mega counts how many times it receives the char and then if it falls below a certain number it triggers an alarm. Is this a viable way to measure the distance between two microcontrollers while indoors or is there a better way.  Transmitter (Mega)  #include &lt;SoftwareSerial.h&gt;  int rxPin=2; //Goes to the Receiver Pin int txPin=5; //Make sure it is set to pin 5 going to input of receiver  SoftwareSerial txSerial = SoftwareSerial(rxPin, txPin); SoftwareSerial rxSerial = SoftwareSerial(txPin, rxPin); char sendChar ='H';  void setup() {   pinMode(rxPin, INPUT);   pinMode(txPin,OUTPUT);   txSerial.begin(2400);   rxSerial.begin(2400); }  void loop() {   txSerial.println(sendChar);   Serial.print(sendChar); }   Receiver  #include &lt;SoftwareSerial.h&gt;  //Make sure it is set to pin 5 going to the data input of the transmitter int rxPin=5;  int txPin=3; //Don't need to make connections int LED=13; int BUZZ=9; int t=0;  char incomingChar = 0; int counter = 0;  SoftwareSerial rxSerial = SoftwareSerial(rxPin, txPin);  void setup() {   pinMode(rxPin, INPUT); //initilize rxpin as input   pinMode(BUZZ, OUTPUT); //initilize buzz for output   pinMode(LED, OUTPUT); //initilize led for output   rxSerial.begin(2400); //set baud rate for transmission   Serial.begin(2400); //see above }  void loop() {   for(int i=0; i&lt;200; i++) {     incomingChar = rxSerial.read(); //read incoming msg from tx      if (incomingChar =='H') {       counter++; //if we get bit "h" count it       }     delay(5); //delay of 10 secs   }   Serial.println(incomingChar);   Serial.println(counter); //prints the the bits we recieved    if(counter&lt;55) {     //if we receive less than 100 bits than print out of range triggers alarm     Serial.println("out of range");      tone(BUZZ,5000,500);digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);   }   else {     noTone(BUZZ);digitalWrite(LED, LOW);     //if we get more than 100 bits than we are within range turn off alarm     Serial.println("in range");    }    counter = 0;   incomingChar=0; } An integrable and periodic function $f(x)$ satisfies $\int_{0}^{T}f(x)dx=\int_{a}^{a+T}f(x)dx$. I want to prove:     For an integrable function $f(x)$ and periodic with period $T$, for every $a \in \mathbb{R}$, $$\int_{0}^{T}f(x)\;dx=\int_{a}^{a+T}f(x)\;dx.$$   I tried to change the values and define $y=a+x$ so that $dy=dx$ and the limits of the integrals are as we want, but I'm not sure how to use the fact that $f(x)$ is periodic.  Thanks a lot! Indenting a whole paragraph How do I indent a whole paragraph at the same distance from my left margin, with the simplest command or environment? Rollback Committed transaction in SQL Server Is it possible to rollback a committed transaction?  I have deleted all the data in a table. The delete statement is inside Begin Transaction and I have committed the transaction with a commit transaction command. Now is it possible to rollback and get the data back? So I am running on Windows 7 (64-bit) Home Premium with 12 GB RAM (Intel Core i7 920).  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