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What's the best way to develop old, exposed film? A friend of mine just found 3 rolls of exposed 135 (i.e. 35mm) film. They are at least 10 years old. He'd like to know if it is even worth taking them to the local hour photo lab but also if he should give them any special instructions. Encrypting/Decrypting a single file in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I need to be able to encrypt/decrypt a single text file stored on my external HD in 12.04 LTS, preferably a GUI application, if any, or the command line otherwise. Thank you. Topical example:  'There was a scuffle outside the local pub. There appears to be no connection with religious extremists.'  ...but now you're wondering if there was. It's a nasty tactic used to raise fear and doubt - deliberately calling attention to something by explicitly denying it.  What's the term for this? Background: I'm making a retro style game for both fun, and an unofficial contest.   I have bought a song, song X. However, I then found notation for song X, and all the instruments. So basically, it's a program recreating song X in a sense.  I took the notation, and used another program to make it sound like a chiptune does (just for the fun of it, and it sounds good :P). However, I would like to use this in my game. It's non-commercial, but is this allowed? I would've said yes, because I'm not actually using the original, copyrighted song.  I think the main point is can I:   Use the music with no reference to the author Use the music with a reference, since it's non-profit. Not use the music at all since the melody and rhythm is copyright. How to collapse unused parameters in moderncv? I am writing my CV using the moderncv package. I already have adjusted the CV to meet my needs. Therefore I amplified the maximum number of parameters possible in the \cventry command. However, now I have some ugly spacing in case I do NOT use all parameters (see second \cventry in the MWE for illustration):  Any suggestions to make the spacing collapse in case not all parameters are occupied? As you can see from the MWE I already have adjusted for \ifthenelse command. I use texlive 2014.  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} \moderncvstyle{banking} \moderncvcolor{blue} \usepackage[scale=0.7]{geometry} \name{John}{Doe} \title{Resume title} \address{street and number}{postcode city}{country} \phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}  \renewcommand*{\cventry}[9][.4em]{%  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}%  \ifthenelse{\equal{\bfseries #4}{}}{}{{\bfseries #4}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{\bfseries #5}{}}{}{{\bfseries #5}} \\%   \ifthenelse{\equal{\itshape #3}{}}{}{{\itshape #3\ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{, #6}}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{\itshape #2}{}}{}{{\itshape #2}}\\%  \ifthenelse{\equal{#7}{}}{}{{#7}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{#8}{}}{}{\\ {#8} &amp; \\}% \end{tabular*}%  }  \begin{document} \makecvtitle \section{Education} \cventry{Grade}{Degree}{Institution}{year--year}{M.Sc.}{Majors}{Majors}{} \cventry{}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{}{}{}{} \cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{Grade}{Majors}{Majors}{} \end{document} What does the word treats mean in this context? I don't think it means entertainment, food, drink etc.. Maybe it is an old usage of this word? Does it mean influencing factors or something like that?  This is the first part of the title of the first chapter of the novel "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens. The whole title reads:     Treats of the Place Where Oliver Twist was Born and of the Circumstances Attending His Birth I have a 12-hour layover in Istanbul. Will I be able to leave the airport to do some sightseeing in the city? I'm flying to Barcelona from Israel via Istanbul. The layover in Istanbul is 12 hours, and I'm thinking about leaving the airport and entering the country for a couple of hours. Would that be possible? Are there any Border/Airline restrictions?  I'm Traveling with Turkish airlines, and hold a passport which does not require a visa to enter Turkey.  I've done this in the past, but only inside the Schengen area, so this question is Turkey-specific. As far as I can tell downvoting is mostly useless.     For questions the only people who get downvoted are lower rep users, or incredibly stupid questions    most questions that are downvoted get closed anyway which should be sufficient downvoting doesn't have too much affect on your rep anyway a negative comment is more useful and more of a push too change or delete the question  For answers downvoting is often used incorrectly as well   people commonly competitively downvote (downvoting another answer to a question that you also answered) obviously not a good behavior downvoting (and upvoting) are contagious, meaning one downvote leads to a bunch of others even though downvotes don't effect rep that much they create a negative environment, no one wants their post downvoted, on the other hand criticizing comments, I think, are far more welcome      So basically in a nutshell a downvote serves no real purpose even if a post deserves it. Flagging, closing and commenting are much more useful to everyone including the poster than downvoting so why have it.    I now see from the answers and comments that downvotes do serve a purpose and would like to retract my request. Resetting crontab file to default How can I change the default date format? When I paste a date into Excel 2010 in the format "2012-12-07 00:00:00.000" I'd like it to be displayed by default as "2012-12-07", but it is actually displayed as "00:00.0".   I know I can work around this by prepending a ' or changing the cell format, but I'm interested in changing the default format.  An approach that almost works is going to Control Panel->Region and Language->Long Time format and changing it to something like "h". This results in Excel displaying the dates I paste in as "2012-12-07 00:00:00.000", but screws up times displayed outside of Excel.  The dates I'm pasting in are from SQL Server. Format SQL in SQL Server Management Studio In Visual Studio &amp; other IDEs, you can easily auto format your code with a keyboard shortcut, through the menu, or automatically as you type.  I was wondering if there is yet a way to enable this standard feature in SQL Server Management Studio?  I'm working with some large-ish stored procs that are a mangled mess of poorly formatted SQL and it'd be nice if I could just go "Select All -> Format SQL" Derivation of the formula for Ordinary Least Squares Linear Regression What is average distance from center of square to some point? How can I connect two different DC power sources together? How can I connecting two different DC power sources together? for example 15Vdc(5Amp) with 5Vdc(2Amp). I want to make one DC source (20Vdc,7Amp) by more powerful supplies. Statement of Purpose Template I am trying, loosely based on  to make a template for my Statement of Purpose. How could I remove the empty extra line between the horizontal rule and the text? Moreover, how could be the first letter be of larger font in the title?  Any other suggestion is more than welcomed.  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}  \newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}} \newcommand{\Hrule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.3mm}}  \makeatletter% since there's an at-sign (@) in the command name \renewcommand{\@maketitle}{   \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block   \begin{center}     \MakeUppercase{\Large \bf \@title}     \HRule%   \end{center}%   \textit{\@author \hfill \@date}   \par } \makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)  \title{Statement of Purpose} \author{name} \date{Ph.D. Applicant}  \begin{document}  \maketitle% prints the title block  Emergency medicine has always been a passion of mine\ldots  \end{document} Fundamental particles identical or just differences very small? I have read that all electrons are identical and I assume the same for protons, etc. That is, all electrons are of the exact same mass and charge.  But do we really know this? Could there be slightly heavier electrons with slightly higher charge or is there a reason why such particles could not exist or would be unstable? What does echelon mean? When you solve a system of linear equations, you write down the augmented matrix and reduce this to reduced row echelon form. What is the meaning of the word echelon? I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this.  What I would like to see: - decent resolution: at least 1920x1080. - and 30fps  I can't settle for an alternative that's not vertically 360 degrees (or at least much more than 180 degrees).  I've seen the ball camera, which isn't out yet, but would be really well suited for my case, given it does video as well. Position of a relative clause before/after a verb "Examine whether the given progressions converge (eventually improperly) and determine their limits where applicable.  (a) $$(a_n)_{n\in\mathbb{N}}:=\frac{n^n}{n!}$$  [...]"  I am having problems getting this homework done as I have no clue about convergency at all. Through Mathematica I know that $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}a_n=+\infty$ however I don't know how to proove it! During my research I found out that for sufficient big $n$ the inequality $x^n\leq n!\leq n^n$ for $x\in\mathbb{R}$ and $n\in\mathbb{N}$ is true. However this doesn't help me at all. Having a look at our lecture notes I developed the following statement: every $x^n$ with $|x| \geq 1$ diverges as $x^n$ is unbounded and therefore has the improper limit $\lim\limits_{n\to\infty}x^n=+\infty$. Furthermore it seems obvious to me that I need to express the terms in a simpler way, like fractions converging to 0 etc, but I don't know how. Neither some work with the $\varepsilon$-definition of limits in combination with the triangle inequality helped me out. Any suggestions or hints?  Information: This is "Analysis for computer scientist" and therefore we haven't "officially" learned any fancy tricks like L'Hôpital's rule etc. just basic properties of $\mathbb{R}$ and some inequalities as this is an introductory lecture.