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When clicking between "Week", "Month", "Quarter", "Year" and "All" on the users page, the name I have typed in to filter on disappears. I feel like it should stay there, so that I can type in my name, and see how I've done in a week/month/etc. Change the default editor when sudo visudo When doing sudo visudo, the default editor is nano. I want to change it to vi or vim.     I already made vim the default editor, and use it as a substitute for gedit to open php, .txt, .c and .h files, by placing a vim.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ and by correctly editing either  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list or /etc/gnome/defaults.list. However apparently this does not apply to nano.    Any clue ? USB sticks and multiple partitions So I decided to install my copy of Ableton (v9.1) on my computer now that I've upgraded to a machine that isn't ancient. HOWEVER Despite WineHQ reporting that Ableton is platinum-certified, I can't get the dern thing to open.  It crashes out just as the splash screen pops up.  Sometimes I see it, sometimes not.  It tells me that some catastrophic error has occurred, and it needs to close.  I've tried this on two different systems running two different versions of wine  (One runs the up-to-date public distro 1.6.2, while the machine I actually want to install it on is running the 1.7.19)  I don't know what to do.  I'd really just like to get this working, as my friends really like the look and feel of Ableton, and I really don't like LMMS (Linux-y free Audio Software).  Any idea what's going on here? I've found a couple of other people who seem to be having the same problem as me, but no dice on any solutions.  None provided, really.  Specs: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  8 Gig ram  i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz × 8  Lots of free space... yadda yadda yadda   Error message: RemoveDuplicates gives 1004 error Pre-declare all private/local variables? MySQL Syntax error message "Operand should contain 1 column(s)" I tried running the following statement:  INSERT INTO VOUCHER (VOUCHER_NUMBER, BOOK_ID, DENOMINATION) SELECT (a.number, b.ID, b.DENOMINATION)  FROM temp_cheques a, BOOK b WHERE a.number BETWEEN b.START_NUMBER AND b.START_NUMBER+b.UNITS-1;   which, as I understand it, should insert into VOUCHER each record from temp_cheques with the ID and DENOMINATION fields corresponding to entries in the BOOK table (temp_cheques comes from a database backup, which I'm trying to recreate in a different format). However, when I run it, I get an error:  Error: Operand should contain 1 column(s) SQLState:  21000 ErrorCode: 1241   I'm running this in SQuirrel and have not had issues with any other queries. Is there something wrong with the syntax of my query?  EDIT:  The structure of BOOK is:  ID  int(11) START_NUMBER    int(11) UNITS   int(11) DENOMINATION    double(5,2)   The structure of temp_cheques is:  ID  int(11) number  varchar(20) Everything that I have read says that iWorks/ iMovie etc should be free for Mac users after 1 September 2013.   I already bought Pages but want Numbers and iMovie. My MacBook Pro with retina is early 2015 and I am being charged.    Why is this please? Was it just coincidence that Tahir Mahmood went on stage? In episode 3 of “Bodyguard,” Tahir Mahmood steps onto stage at St. Mary’s college as the Home Secretary is speaking and the two of them, plus others, are blown up by a bomb. In the next episode we discover that the stage had a weight trigger and that his arrival set it off. This heavily implies that whoever asked him to go on stage was affiliated with those who planted the bomb.  We know that Mahmood was sent on stage by advisor Rob Macdonald as part of a scheme, together with other members of the home secretary’s staff, to embarrass her. The audience knows that some of the people in on this scheme have been plotting with the U.K. security services. This, together with interference in video recordings of the event, characteristic of the security services, implicates the security services in the assassination.  In the final episode it is revealed that the bomb had been set by members of an organized crime gang who had gotten the explosives from an Islamic terrorist. A senior member of the police force had been helping them by leaking information. So, were the security services involved? If so, why? If not, who got Mahmood to go up on the stage? Was it just coincidence that he went up there at the right time? Shortest one-line shell script to print all special characters Prove that : $a_n>0$, Then, $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ converges iff $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \sin(a_n)$ converges. I am given the problem: Let $a_n&gt;0$, prove $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ converges if and only if $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \sin(a_n)$ converges.  We have this problem in a homework, and I don't believe it can be true. The statement being biconditional implies that when $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \sin(a_n)$ converges, so too does $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$, but if we take $a_n=\pi n$ or even $a_n=\pi$, then $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \sin(a_n)$ converges while $\sum_{n=1}^\infty a_n$ diverges. Is my thinking incorrect? I am trying to set up an operator to use the BoolTool after I set a position and modifier on Selected object and a different one on the Active object. I basically need to move the selected object up in Z and add a solidify modifier at .3 thickness, and to the Active I need to add a solidify at .1 thickness and remain in original position.  I thought I understood how to get this to work, but all I get is both modifiers on the Active object. Any hint as to where to go from here?  class SolidfyDifference(bpy.types.Operator): """Solidify and Difference Mask""" bl_idname = "object.solidfy_difference" bl_label = "Add Solidy and Difference Bool" bl_options = { 'REGISTER','UNDO' }  def execute(self, context):     scene = context.scene      sel = bpy.context.selected_objects     act = bpy.context.active_object        for obj in sel:         if obj != act:             bpy.ops.object.modifier_add(type='SOLIDIFY')             bpy.context.object.modifiers["Solidify"].thickness = 0.1        return {'FINISHED'} If Anakin Skywalker didn't get what he wanted as a Sith (to save Padmé), why was he still a Sith? In the prequels, the primary reason Anakin was willing to become  is because he wanted to save Padmé;     ANAKIN: I will do whatever you ask.       PALPATINE: Good.       ANAKIN: Just help me save Padme's life. I can't live without her. If she dies, I don't know what I will do.      PALPATINE: To cheat death is a power only one has achieved, but if we work together, I know we can discover the secret.       ANAKIN kneels before PALPATINE.       ANAKIN: I pledge myself to your teachings. To the ways of the Sith.   Given that he didn't manage to save her, why did he still become a Sith? Mark my own question as favorite? For the Quadratic Form $X^TAX; X\in\mathbb{R}^n, A\in\mathbb{R}^{n \times n}$ (which simplifies to $\Sigma_{i=0}^n\Sigma_{j=0}^nA_{ij}x_ix_j$), I tried to take the derivative wrt. X ($\Delta_X X^TAX$) and ended up with the following:  The $k^{th}$ element of the derivative represented as  $\Delta_{X_k}X^TAX=[\Sigma_{i=1}^n(A_{ik}x_k+A_{ki})x_i] + A_{kk}x_k(1-x_k)$  Does this result look right? Is there an alternative form?  I'm trying to get to the $\mu_0$ of Gaussian Discriminant Analysis by maximizing the log likelihood and I need to take the derivative of a Quadratic form. Either the result I mentioned above is wrong (shouldn't be because I went over my arithmetic several times) or the form I arrived at above is not the terribly useful to my problem (because I'm unable to proceed).  I can give more details about the problem or the steps I put down to arrive at the above result, but I didn't want to clutter to start off. Please let me know if more details are necessary.  Any link to related material is also much appreciated. Compute the limit of $\sqrt{1-a}\sum\limits_{n=0}^{+\infty} a^{n^2}$ when $a\to1^-$ I need some suggestions, hints for the limit when $a \to 1^{-}$ of $$\sqrt{\,1 - a\,}\,\sum_{n = 0}^{\infty}a^{n^{2}}.$$ Multi-OS Portable TeX system I'm looking to treat myself to a totally portable TeX system and was wondering: is it possible to devise an installation scheme that would run on Windows, Linux and MacOS at the "same" time?  I think TeXLive is the best choice here, but I'd much rather avoid having to maintain three separate TeXLive installations. I'd like the three installations to share the package databases for instance.  I'll be using a 32Gb USB stick, in case it matters.  PS: I think I'm onto something here... will post back when I have a working prototype.  Edit: after reading  I managed to format a USB stick with UDF and have it read and written in Linux and Windows (need to perform some tests on Mac yet). This is the first step towards interoperability.  Edit 2: well, as it turns out, the previous note was useless (the partition table breaks under Windows), I've found  and it works like a charm. The only remaining step is writing a couple of scripts to set the environmental variables and we're done ;) We have a few Win32 applications (coded in Delphi 2006) where sometimes the user gets an error message saying "System Error. Code: 8. Not enough storage is available to process this command.".  From the stacktrace it looks like it is always during CreateWnd call  Main ($1edc): 004146cc +070 app.exe SysUtils               RaiseLastOSError 00414655 +005 app.exe SysUtils               RaiseLastOSError 004ce44c +130 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.CreateWnd 00535a72 +022 app.exe cxControls             TcxControl.CreateWnd 004ce82a +016 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.CreateHandle 00553d21 +005 app.exe cxContainer            TcxContainer.CreateHandle 00586ef1 +005 app.exe cxEdit                 TcxCustomEdit.CreateHandle 005c331d +005 app.exe cxDropDownEdit         TcxCustomDropDownEdit.CreateHandle 004ceaf0 +074 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.UpdateShowing 004ceb1e +0a2 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.UpdateShowing 004cebdc +03c app.exe Controls               TWinControl.UpdateControlState 004d118a +026 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.CMVisibleChanged 004cb713 +2bb app.exe Controls               TControl.WndProc 004cf569 +499 app.exe Controls               TWinControl.WndProc 004b727d +4c1 app.exe Forms                  TCustomForm.WndProc 004cb3a0 +024 app.exe Controls               TControl.Perform 004c9f6a +026 app.exe Controls               TControl.SetVisible 004b6c46 +03a app.exe Forms                  TCustomForm.SetVisible 004baf1b +007 app.exe Forms                  TCustomForm.Show 004bb151 +14d app.exe Forms                  TCustomForm.ShowModal 007869c7 +0d3 app.exe UfrmPrice      770 +19 TfrmPrice.EditPrice 0078655d +009 app.exe UfrmPrice      628  +0 TfrmPrice.actNewBidExecute 00431ce7 +00f app.exe Classes                TBasicAction.Execute 004c2cb5 +031 app.exe ActnList               TContainedAction.Execute 004c397c +050 app.exe ActnList               TCustomAction.Execute 00431bb3 +013 app.exe Classes                TBasicActionLink.Execute 004af384 +090 app.exe Menus                  TMenuItem.Click 004b059f +013 app.exe Menus                  TMenu.DispatchCommand 004b16fe +082 app.exe Menus                  TPopupList.WndProc 004b164d +01d app.exe Menus                  TPopupList.MainWndProc 004329a8 +014 app.exe Classes                StdWndProc 7e4196b2 +00a USER32.dll                     DispatchMessageA 004bea60 +0fc app.exe Forms                  TApplication.ProcessMessage 004bea9a +00a app.exe Forms                  TApplication.HandleMessage 004becba +096 app.exe Forms                  TApplication.Run 008482c5 +215 app.exe AppName        129 +42 initialization   I've never been able to get to the bottom of what causes this and as it happens fairly seldom I haven't been to concerned, but I would like to find out what causes it and hopefully rectify it...  EDIT: Full Stacktrace  EDIT 2: More info... The client who experienced this today has had my app installed for about 4 months and it is running on his PC 8 hours a day. The problem only appeared today and kept reappearing even though he killed my app and restarted it. None of the other apps on his system behaved strangely. After a reboot the problem goes away completely. Does this point towards the heap shortage that Steve mentions?  EDIT 3: Interesting msdn blog post  and  on the topic of the desktop heap. Though I'm not sure whether this is the cause of the problem it certainly looks likely. According to the well ordering theorem "". Whenever we have a well ordering on a set, it is not difficult to construct a new well ordering with a largest element. My question is:     For a given infinite set, can we find a well ordering on it such that there is no largest element? I have a Java process that opens a file using a FileReader. How can I prevent another (Java) process from opening this file, or at least notify that second process that the file is already opened? Does this automatically make the second process get an exception if the file is open (which solves my problem) or do I have to explicitly open it in the first process with some sort of flag or argument? To clarify: I have a Java app that lists a folder and opens each file in the listing for processing it. It processes each file after the other. The processing of each file consists of reading it and doing some calculations based on the contents and it takes about 2 minutes. I also have another Java app that does the same thing but instead writes on the file. What I want is to be able to run these apps at the same time so the scenario goes like this. ReadApp lists the folder and finds files A, B, C. It opens file A and starts the reading. WriteApp lists the folder and finds files A, B, C. It opens file A, sees that is is open (by an exception or whatever way) and goes to file B. ReadApp finishes file A and continues to B. It sees that it is open and continues to C. It is crucial that WriteApp doesn't write while ReadApp is reading the same file or vice versa. They are different processes.