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How do I run Command & Conquer Gold on Windows 7 64-bit (in XP mode)? I downloaded the first Command &amp; Conquer game  and burnt some CDs. I couldn't get the Setup.exe program to run in Windows 7 64-bit, as it must need some old DLLs. So I ran up the Windows XP Mode virtual machine, and was able to install it fine.   However, when I try to run the program, I just get an empty message box with an "OK" button. I've set the compatibility to Windows 95, and checked all of the options in the Compatibility tab, but it's not running. I also downloaded the patch suggested by EA, which is an updated version of the THIPX32.DLL file (copied into the C&amp;C installation folder).  Has anyone managed to get this working? I'd like to use a background image for my world, but I'm not sure how to do it.   Right now I am using the sun as a lightpoint and it looks like sky and a flat plane (not realistic). I was thinking of just using a mountain background image for the world.  I've done that through textures etc. but I don't see ANYTHING in render even though it shows in worlds?  What am I doing wrong?    Also what's a cheap quick fix for cases like mine so it looks like the world isn't JUST blue sky?  Thanks guys! What is the C# equivalent of friend? Possible Duplicate:          I'd like the private member variables of a class to be accessible to a Tester class without exposing them to other classes.   In C++ I'd just declare the Tester class as a friend, how do I do this in C#? Can someone give me an example? Blender 2.79b is installed (from .exe) on my computer, currently. And I just downloaded the Blender 2.8 release candidate 2 (.zip).  When I create something in Blender 2.8, after I save it, I cannot open it again because the computer tries to open the blend file in version 2.79b. And manually selecting the 2.8 version from zip file does not work.  How can I open my blender 2.8 files? Do I have to delete Blender 2.79b? How can black hole increase its mass? Measures of residuals heteroscedasticity This wikipedia  lists a number of techniques to detect OLS residuals heteroscedasticity. I would like to learn which hands-on technique is more efficient in detecting regions affected by heteroscedasticity.  For example, here the central region in the OLS 'Residuals vs Fitted' plot seen to have higher variance than the sides of the plot (I am not entirely sure in facts, but let's assume it's the case for the sake of the question). To confirm, looking at the error labels in the QQ plot we can see that they match the error labels in the center of the Residuals plot.  But how can we quantify the residuals region that has significantly higher variance? Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX MacBook Pro stuck in gray screen when booting I've got a Late-2011 15" MacBook Pro stuck in the gray screen when booting AFTER login. I've tried removing the drive (it's non-retina) and booting from a working bootable Yosemite installer, no luck. (it sees the startup USB drive, the progress bar progresses, but stuck at the gray screen again even without a drive.  Tried NVRAM reset (cmd option P R), it has reset (the login sound's volume changed) but nothing changed.  Tried holding D on startup, AHT doesn't start, instead, it tries to boot into the OS.  Tried Cmd V, it sometimes works and displays the verbose output, sometimes, it acts like I haven't even pressed. Again, stuck after login.  Tried booting again from USB, I select USB (after seeing both drives correctly), but no luck, it's also stuck.  I've stumbled upon this:    I've tried booting into single user mode with Cmd S, it worked ONCE, I've disabled the graphics extensions just as shown at that post, restarted, but again, nothing changed.  More weirdly, now the Cmd S doesn't work either. It just takes me to login screen without showing the terminal, just as I haven't pressed anything.  Why would this happen? Why would a Mac refuse to enter hardware test mode, single user mode, or refuse to boot from a working bootable Yosemite drive both with or without the main drive installed?  UPDATE: I've run the AHT and got an error:  4MEM/66/40000000: 0x84e0ec98  It looks like a memory issue, but I'm not sure.   UPDATE 2: I've tried reinserting the RAMs and the the problem is not reported anymore. However, the Mac still won't boot. Is there a term for solving a sub-sub problem of a problem so far removed from the main problem the link is not clear? In some situations, trying to solve a problem uncovers another problem. Attempts to fix that uncover yet another. A few more rounds and one can be doing something seemingly completely unrelated to the main problem. Is there an expression for that? Windows vs Linux Local Time? How to apply a texture to only one side of a plane How can you have an image as a texture (in this case on cloth) that is only applied to one side of a plane?  I would like the reverse side to be a solid color.  Please see below image where the cloth has the image texture on both sides. Why can't Mathematica integrate this? What is wrong with my date regex? In C, how do I restrict the scope of a global variable to the file in which it's declared? Adding a CTAN package to a MacPorts-maintained TeX installation I have installed TeXlive through MacPorts and now discover that I am missing some package. For clarity let's use a trivial example and say I am missing lipsum.sty.  I now have two options:  Option 1  I go to a CTAN site, look for lipsum.sty, download it, and install it in ~/Library/texmf/tex.  This is not bad, but it leaves it possible that I will end up with a second lipsum at some point. That's why the second option is desirable.  Option 2  2.1-- I find out which MacPorts package includes lipsum.sty  and  2.2-- I sudo port install the necessary package.  How do I do 2.1? Convert and redirect URL in uppercase to lowercase using .htaccess I would like to redirect a URL with uppercase characters http://localhost/A/B to a lowercase version http://localhost/a/b using the .htaccess file. Using regex I can capture A and B but is it possible to convert them to lowercase? What is the difference between Ubuntu and its derivatives? What does closed form solution usually mean? This is motivated by  and the fact that I have no access to Timothy Chow's paper  indicated there by Qiaochu Yuan.  If an equation $f(x)=0$ has no closed form solution, what does it normally mean? Added: $f$ may depend (and normally does) on parameters.   To me this is equivalent to say that one cannot solve it for $x$ in the sense that there is no elementary expression $g(c_{1},c_{2},\ldots ,c_{p})$ consisting only of a finite number of polynomials, rational functions, roots, exponentials, logarithmic and trigonometric functions, absolute values, integer and fractional parts, such that   $f(g(c_{1},c_{2},\ldots ,c_{p}))=0$. Maybe this is an easy question, maybe not.  I have a select box where I hardcode with width. Say 120px.    &lt;select style="width: 120px"&gt;   &lt;option&gt;REALLY LONG TEXT, REALLY LONG TEXT, REALLY LONG TEXT&lt;/option&gt;   &lt;option&gt;ABC&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt;     I want to be able to show the second option so that the user can see the full length of the text.  Like everything else.  This works fine in Firefox, but doesn't work with Internet Explorer6. I have run out of space on my WinXP virtual machine, which I only gave 10 GB space for when I created it.  Is there an easy way to increase it to, say, 20 GB?  I can't see any obvious option in VirtualBox settings.    The suggestion below gives this error  wim@wim-ubuntu:/media/data/winxp_vm$ VBoxManage modifyhd wim.vdi --resize 20000 VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk '/media/data/winxp_vm/wim.vdi' {46284957-2c09-4e70-8a49-bfbe0f7f681d} because a hard disk '/home/wim/VirtualBox VMs/winxp_vm/wim.vdi' with UUID {46284957-2c09-4e70-8a49-bfbe0f7f681d} already exists VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports Context: "OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, AccessMode_ReadWrite, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())" at line 210 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp     Removing the .vdi from VirtualBox before calling VBoxManage command, then adding it back in, was successful.  But now I can't boot the virtual machine, I get this worrying screen:    By the way, it says FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium!  System halted.    The vdi must be reattached to the VM after VBoxManage command.  Further, the partition will need to be resized from WITHIN windows, because you will have this empty space:    I was able to resize the partition easily using a bit of freeware called .