Is there any way to change MAC-address of built-in Bluetooth adapter?
Change MAC address in OS X Yosemite
What is the setting in bash for globbing, to control whether * matches dot files I was surprised recently when I did something like mv ./* ../somedirectory and found that files like .gitignore were not moved.  I do most of my work in zsh on OS X, and this surprise bit me in bash on CentOS.  I tried bash on OS X and found the same behavior: * does not match dot files.  This seems very undesirable to me, but apparently it's the bash default.  (It may be the zsh default too for all I remember, but I may have changed it years ago in my .zshrc and forgotten it ever worked differently.)  How can I configure bash to behave as I expected: for * to match all files, and not ignore dot files.  In case this is at all unclear, here's how to reproduce it    cd /tmp mkdir {t,d}est touch test/{.,}{1,2,3,4,5,6,7} ls -hal test mv test/* dest ls -hal test     # notice dot files are still there ls -hal dest     # notice only some files were mv'ed Is a GUID unique 100% of the time? Invalid group name: Group names must begin with a word character I received the following exception when I was using the Regex class with the regular expression: (?'named a'asdf)  System.ArgumentException: parsing \"(?'named a'asdf)\" - Invalid group name: Group names must begin with a word character.   What is the problem with my regular expression? I'm in a freshmen level physics class now, so I don't know much, but something I heard today intrigued me. My TA was talking about how at the research facility he worked at, they were able to accelerate some certain particle to "99.99% the speed of light". I said why not 100%, and I didn't quite understand his explanation, but he said it wasn't possible. This confused me. Since the speed of light is a finite number, why can we go so close to its speed but not quite?  Edit: I read all the answers, and I think I'm sort of understanding it. Another silly question though: If we are getting this particle to 99.99% the speed of light by giving it some sort of finite acceleration, and increasing it more and more, why cant we increase it just a little more? Sorry I know this is a silly question. I totally accept the fact we cant reach 100%, but I'm just trying to break it down. If we've gotten so close by giving it larger and larger acceleration every time, why cant we just supply it with more acceleration? And how much of a difference is there between 99.99% the speed of light, and the speed of light? (I'm not really sure if "difference" is a good word to use, but hopefully you get what I'm asking). Placing a single algorithm in two columns Elysia cron module does not execute cron job automatically I have installed the elysia cron module and setup the cron job. My module has a cron function test_cron() which inserts some data into a table.  This function lists in the elysia cron status page. I have setup the the default scheduled rule to */1 * * * * to run the cron after every minute.  When I click on the run infront of the test_cron() the cron runs and some data inserts into the database.  But this the manual method, I want to execute the cron after every minute therefore I defined the scheduled time for the test_cron(),  but it does not executed automatically after every minute.  What should I do? Is there any other configuration which I should do to run the cron automatically? How can I start Hoard of the Dragon Queen with 4th level characters? I'm pretty new to DM'ing and was just wondering if there would be a way to start the hoard of the dragon queen adventure with a group of 4th level characters?  There don't really seem to be any modules for that level range yet.  We just finished a short module that took our party to level 4, but id really like to play through this adventure because it seems awesome. Also I couldn't really find any other ones that start around that level so rather than re-roll characters we'll just start a little of the way in. I tried running Android 4.1.1 in VirtualBox, but it was too slow and sluggish to do anything. I came across Windroy which runs Android as a Windows app, but it won't run Google Play.  I want to run this on my laptop.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. As someone who doesn't play Team Fortress 2, I occasionally get people asking me to trade, but I have no idea what's a "fair" price for these items. I don't really get this whole trading thing (I've seen people ask for "63 buds", I have zero idea what that means), but I don't want to get ripped off.   Some recent  examples would be:        How can I figure out how much an item is worth? What "lingo" do I need to know in order to trade? I can't open google-related sites I'm  getting timeout errors on google-related sites. If I try to open google.com, gmail.com, etc, it will keep displaying the "waiting reply" on the browser bottom, and the page won't open. If I am browsing another site that includes, say, www.google-analytics.com, ajax.googleapis.com, google fonts, etc, then it start loading, displaying a "connecting to [google-related site]" on the browser bottom, and stall at that point for a long time.  I can browse other sites fine and they load quickly. I can ping the domains with 0% loss and &lt;100ms times. I can ping 8.8.8.8, I am not behind a proxy, there is nothing on my hosts file, I am not at work or in a networked environment: it is a home network behind a router. I connect using wifi (I am too distant to use wired).   Other users on the same network don't have the issue. I can both ping and browse the sites. I have pinged ajax.googleapis.com from my android and my other laptop, and they return the same IP than on this laptop. They also share the same external IP address, according to   The issue happens on ubuntu 12.04, and as it is cyclic but not frequent enough to make sure, I don't honestly remember if it happens on Windows 7 as well (it is a dual-boot machine). Rebooting the router won't help. Rebooting the computer fixes the problem, until it happens again.  It's been happening for a few months now. The last time it happened (earlier today) I performed a ping before and after the reboot. Here's the results:  before  $ping ajax.googleapis.com PING googleapis.l.google.com (74.125.21.95) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=157 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time=163 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=3 ttl=47 time=156 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=4 ttl=47 time=165 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=5 ttl=47 time=157 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=6 ttl=47 time=155 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=7 ttl=47 time=159 ms 64 bytes from yv-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.21.95): icmp_req=8 ttl=47 time=157 ms   after  $ping ajax.googleapis.com PING googleapis.l.google.com (74.125.134.95) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=207 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time=154 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=3 ttl=47 time=154 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=4 ttl=47 time=152 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=5 ttl=47 time=157 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=6 ttl=47 time=160 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=7 ttl=47 time=154 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=8 ttl=47 time=157 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=10 ttl=47 time=154 ms 64 bytes from gg-in-f95.1e100.net (74.125.134.95): icmp_req=11 ttl=47 time=152 ms   The issue happens on different browsers, I installed epiphany and it shows the same behaviour.  I have inspected the network tab on firefox and it shows a single, unreplied GET request:   I installed wireshark and listened for HTTP GET requests; on other sites it pops up on the report, but on ajax.googleapis it shows nothing. I listened then for DNS requests, there are some differences:     If connect via telnet to the port 80 of a random site and perform a GET it works, but I can't telnet to ajax.googleapis.com (or it's IP), the connection never completes. solving third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation Suppose we have a random variable $X \sim f(x|\theta)$. If $\theta_0$ were the true parameter, the the likelihood function should be maximized and the derivative equal to zero. This is the basic principle behind the maximum likelihood estimator.   As I understand it, Fisher information is defined as   $$I(\theta) = \Bbb E \Bigg[\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial \theta}f(X|\theta)\right)^2\Bigg ]$$  Thus, if $\theta_0$ is the true parameter, $I(\theta) = 0$. But if it $\theta_0$ is not the true parameter, then we will have a larger amount of Fisher information.   my questions    Does Fisher information measure the "error" of a given MLE? In other words, doesn't the existence of positive Fisher information imply my MLE can't be ideal?  How does this definition of "information" differ from that used by Shannon? Why do we call it information? Why are so many different types of objects white, yet appear gray when they are wet? There are many things with different textures that appear white – salt, beer foam, paper, shaving cream, snow, talcum powder, white paint, etc. The most common answer is all of the frequencies must be reflected in order for us to perceive white, which I already know. There must be more underlining details why such a huge variety of things are white. Furthermore, if you wet paper, snow or talcum powder, they appear off-white or gray. Why is this? How to solve this equation $x^{2}=2^{x}$? How to solve this equation $$x^{2}=2^{x}$$   where $x \in \mathbb{R}$.  Por tentativa erro consegui descobri que $2$ é uma solução, mas não encontrei um método pra isso. Alguma sugestão?(*)  (Translation: By trying different values I've found that $2$ is a solution, but I couldn't find any method to this though. Any suggestions? ) Is it possible to use the laptop's audio via headphone jack and Bluetooth speakers at the same time? Lolo Joe wants earphone jack to plug and use big speakers but at the same time he wants to partner the music coming out the earphone jack and his Bluetooth system and speakers. Is it even possible to use the earplug connection and the Bluetooth system and devices at the same time? SD Card showing weird file names and files are lost I just plugged my SD Card to my PC after a long videography day, and I suddenly got this problem:    It is also not showing all the videos I took on my camera so what is the solution? "Which" vs. "what" — what's the difference and when should you use one or the other? How can I connect a texture node to a material with Python? I'm in UV Editor and trying to snap the 2d cursor to the vertex ( while the vertices are visible). I turn ON snap and set it to 'vertex mode' , but the 2d cursor won't snap to any visible vertex at all. I can only make it snap to the grid (increment node). Is it a bug ? or did i miss something here ? i'm using 2.8. Code for looping through all excel files in a specified folder, and pulling data from specific cells