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Where can I find out about Stack Overflow history? I'd like to know how Stack Overflow and other sites started - which was first, who initiated it (OK, that's on the link below) and why, how the different sites evolved, how the rules evolved, etc.  Where can I find such information?  Of course, I know I can look at  for a brief overview but I'm wondering if there is info on this site, particularly more detailed.. Save entire process for continuation after reboot When, if ever, should voting override answer acceptance for answer sorting? The accepted answer always appears at the top of the list, regardless of sort order. This can be misleading if the question author accepted an invalid solution and a better solution was proposed later, and eventually got more votes. I have seen somewhat obscure questions where the accepted answer has a negative score and the next answer has 10 or more up-votes. How to get the date in a batch file in a predictable format? In a batch file I need to extract a month, day, year from the date command.  So I used the following, which essentially parses the Date command to extract its sub strings into a variable:  set Day=%Date:~3,2% set Mth=%Date:~0,2% set Yr=%Date:~6,4%   This is all great, but if I deploy this batch file to a machine with a different regional/country settings, it fails because month, day and year are in different locations.   How can I extract month, day and year regardless of the date format? Ubuntu 14.04 doesn' t boot after upgrade from 12.04 installed inside Windows 8.1 I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed like an app on windows 8.1 (Ubuntu 12.04 allow to be installed like an app in Windows 8.1 and it can be removed when you don't need it any more from Control Panel). Usually, to chose what os to boot when you start the laptop, you can choose between windows 8.1 and Ubuntu after windows logo appeared at start up and that was ok until I made this upgrade. Now when I try to choose Ubuntu the laptop try to boot it but, after that full colored screen is showed the screen go black and this messages appear:  mount: mounting /dev/loop0/ on /root failed : Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn' t have requested /sbin/init No init found. Try passing init = bootarg.  BusyBox v1.21.1 (Ubuntu 1:1:21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands  (initramfs) _   I don' t know what to do after this screen appears. Please help ! Can an html element have multiple ids? I understand that an id must be unique within an HTML/XHTML page.  My question is, for a given element, can I assign multiple ids to it?  &lt;div id="nested_element_123 task_123"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   I realize I have an easy solution with simply using a class. I'm just curious about using ids in this manner. Split a string by spaces -- preserving quoted substrings -- in Python How can I use asymmetric encryption, such as RSA, to encrypt an arbitrary length of plaintext? RSA is not designed to be used on long blocks of plaintext like a block cipher, but I need to use it to send a large (encrypted) message.  How can I do this? Task manager for Ubuntu Why 32bits OSs can't address more than 3.2/3.2 gb of memory? Don't know if this is the right place to ask this question.  I've been reading that 32bit OSs (like the Ubuntu i'm running right now) can't adress more than 3.2gb or 3.3gb of RAM memory.  I remember for my old Computer Architecture course that the memory limitation was 2^32 "pointers" (don't remember the right word). I mean, the memory was represented like an array where the CPU can acces it directly, but up to its limit. If the CPU is 32 bit, then it can address 2^32 words, if it's 64 bits 2^64, etc.  So, if what i said before is right, then, my OS should be able to address 2^32 = 4294967296 = 4Gb.  I'm thinking maybe some sort of space is reserved to the particular use of the Kernel, cache, buffering or swapping. But don't have the correct answer.  Can you give me a hint? What is the speed of sound in space? Teen fantasy book series about a world where people who showed creativity could learn magic, and were killed for it Just installed Ubuntu for the first time... Is there any simple way to browse installed programs?  On Mac there is the Applications top-level folder... here I see Desktop, Documents, Downloads etc but no Apps? That'd be a good idea, no? (is there some way to create this myself?)  On Windows there is the Start menu...  Here it seems like I have to click the 'Dash Home' and then I can see 'Recent Apps' ... I can search for them (I'd rather not)  ...or I can click the ruler/pencil icon at the bottom and see 'Recent Apps' and click to expand 'Installed Apps' ...ok that's all of them - is it possible to get a straight list view instead of the hard-to-scan wrapped rows?  Also, is there any way to get rid of the pointless random selection of 'Apps available for download' at the bottom? Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time? Are these intended activities legal to do in the USA under the VWP? I'm a British citizen traveling to the USA next month with an ESTA to see my fiancee. I'm traveling there to plan our wedding, talk about a location to get married, and probably finalise a date and a booking with my fiancee (US citizen). This is the primary reason for my trip to the USA. Am I allowed to do this as a tourist? I would like to know for when the CBP officer asks me if this thing is allowed.  Am I allowed to enter the USA, on a separate trip (probably later this year), for the sole purpose of marrying my fiancee, provided I can persuade the CBP officer I intend to leave at the end of my trip? My fiancee and I are moving to the UK next year. Reading ODBC connection using QGIS? I have a co-worker who manages a large MS Access database that contains X &amp; Y fields for various locations he tracks.  We have previously exported the data to CSV and used the QGIS Delimited Text Plugin to plot the locations.  We would now like to be plot this data directly in QGIS by connecting to the MS Access db via an ODBC connection (as opposed to export to CSV).   Can QGIS consume the data from the ODBC connection to plot the X-Y locations? Can it be "live linked" to the ODBC connection so that when a project is re-opened, the layer "replots" all old and newly added locations dynamically (as opposed to exporting to shapefile, which would create a snapshot in time)? Can you create tabular ODBC connections that can be joined to spatial tables within QGIS?   You can do all of this in ArcGIS ("Add XY Data" tool), so it would be great if this capability existed in QGIS. I just cannot find anywhere that mentions its existence.  I am not planning to move to a spatial database.  As a GIS person myself, yes I know that it makes sense to move to a spatial database, and yes I have used PostGIS to manage this kind of data.  But these are not options right now.  The user is not a GIS person nor wants to be, and he manages his own database in MS Access and that will not change.  I am and am pulling him kicking and screaming into the GIS world and want to make it easy as possible.  He can live with exporting to CSV, I was just hoping there is a better solution USING ODBC FOR MS ACCESS and displaying the XY data in QGIS. Springer llncs TOC not working I can't get the TOC to work. I remember it worked before, but there was something I did (unfortunately I can't remember what it was), and after that the TOC just stopped working.  Here is a part from my document:  \documentclass[deutsch]{llncs}  \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[labelformat=empty]{caption} \usepackage{subcaption} \captionsetup{compatibility=false}  \bibliographystyle{unsrt}  \pagestyle{headings} \begin{document}  \sffamily  \begin{titlepage}     %Some stuff here \end{titlepage}  \thispagestyle{headings} \tableofcontents \newpage %more stuff here blablabla \section{test} \subsection{test2} \end{document} This is not a duplicate question because I am looking for an explanation directed to a general audience as to the mistakes (if any) in  (reproduced below). (Numberphile is a YouTube channel devoted to pop-math and this particular video has garnered over 3m views.)   By general audience, I mean the same sort of audience as the millions who watch Numberphile. (Which would mean, ideally, making little or no mention of things that a general audience will never have heard of - e.g. Riemann zeta functions, analytic continuations, Casimir forces; and avoiding tactics like appealing to the fact that physicists and other clever people use it in string theory, so therefore it must be correct.)  Numberphile's Proof.  The proof proceeds by evaluating each of the following:  $S_1 = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + \ldots$   $S_2 = 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + \ldots $   $S = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \ldots $   "Now the first one is really easy to evaluate ... You stop this at any point. If you stop it at an odd point, you're going to get the answer $1$. If you stop it at an even point, you get the answer $0$. Clearly, that's obvious, right? ... So what number are we going to attach to this infinite sum? Do we stop at an odd or an even point? We don't know, so we take the average of the two. So the answer's a half."   Next:  $S_2 \ \ = 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + \cdots$  $S_2 \ \ = \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + \cdots$  Adding the above two lines, we get:  $2S_2 = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + \cdots$  Therefore, $2S_2=S_1=\frac{1}{2}$ and so $S_2=\frac{1}{4}$.  Finally, take  \begin{align} S - S_2 &amp; = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + \cdots           \\ &amp; - (1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + \cdots)          \\ &amp; =   0 + 4 + 0 + 8 + \cdots           \\ &amp; = 4 + 8 + 12 + \cdots           \\ &amp; = 4S \end{align}  Hence $-S_2=3S$ or $-\frac{1}{4}=3S$.  And so $S=-\frac{1}{12}$. $\blacksquare$ permission denied BASH As a developer of free software, I want to get my application into Ubuntu.  Should I provide a source tarball and ask for packaging? Or should I create a package myself? Should I target Ubuntu directly, or should I try to get into Debian and then into Ubuntu automatically?