Remove xticks in a matplotlib plot?
Hiding axis text in matplotlib plots
Is there a reliable way to determine the OS upgrade history leading to Windows 10 or if it was a fresh install? How to make an alias permanent? I have created an alias:  alias shh='sqlplus hfdora/hfdora@hfd1"     After creating this alias I was able to enter my database only by typing shh.  But after closing my shell, I wasn't able to find the alias next time. Even after typing only alias, shh was not showing in the list.  Is there any file to make an alias permanent so that it will not be erased? 301 redirect instead of 404 when URL is a prefix of a post or page name? hey all! i have an odd problem with URL routing. when i request a URL that doesn't exist, e.g. , wordpress correctly returns a 404. however, if that URL is a prefix of a post or page name, it instead returns a 301 redirect to the post or page.  for example, if i have a post on 10/1/2010 named Food Post, it will return a 301 with Location:  (my permalink structure). likewise, if i have a page named Food Page, it will return a 301 with Location: .  you can see this in action on my live site,  . e.g.  redirects to  .  turning off permalinks (ie switching to "default") fixes it, for both posts and pages, but naturally i don't really want to do that.  i see this on three different installations, all wordpress 3.0.1 and apache 2.2, two ubuntu lucid/mysql 5.1 and one freebsd 7.3/mysql 5.0. i've deactivated all plugins and removed everything from my .htaccess except the lines for wordpress below, verbatim, but no luck.  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^wordpress/index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]   thanks in advance... Determine file type of an image I'm downloading some images from a service that doesn't always include a content-type and doesn't provide an extension for the file I'm downloading (ugh, don't ask).  What's the best way to determine the image format in .NET?  The application that is reading these downloaded images needs to have a proper file extension or all hell breaks loose. I have some plasterboard screws like this:     However, without a drill I have a job getting them into the wall. Am I safe to use normal screws on hangings that aren't going to be taking a great deal of weight? In this case it is a rack of coat hooks. If $f \in \mathcal{L}^1(\mathbb{R})$ then $\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\int_{-\infty}^\infty |f(x+h)-f(x)|dx\rightarrow 0$ I am working on some past prelim problems and one of them is the following: If $f \in \mathcal{L}^1(\mathbb{R})$ then $\lim_{h\rightarrow 0}\int_{-\infty}^\infty |f(x+h)-f(x)|dx\rightarrow 0$   Update: Following Jackie Chong's advice, I am attempting this problem with the dominated convergence theorem. Since $f\in L^1(\mathbb{R})$, $f$ can be approximated from below by a sequence of continuous functions $f_n$. Then, I believe I can say that, for all $n$ sufficiently large, $|f_n(x+\frac{1}{n})-f_n(x)|\le 2|f(x)|$. (I'm not sure of this part thought). Then $2|f(x)|$ is integrable and hence a dominating function for $|f_n(x+\frac{1}{n})-f_n(x)|$. So by the dominated convergence theorem we can take the limit inside $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}\int|f_n(x+\frac{1}{n})-f(x)|dx=\int \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}|f_n(x+\frac{1}{n})-f(x)|dx=0$ Is this on the right track?  Another approach that I thought may work, but which I'm less certain of is the following: If $f$ can be approximated by $C^1$ functions (I have no real justification for this, so please correct me if its wrong), then for each $n$ and each $x$ there is some $y(x,n)\in B_{1/n}(x)$ such that $|f(x+\frac{1}{n}-f(x)|=\frac{1}{n}|f'(y(x,n)|$ but from here I don't see how to proceed, because just because $|f|$ is integrable, I can't justify $|f'|$ being integrable, but if there is some way to fix this approach, hints would be appreciated.   Another thing I was thinking was to first approximate $f$ from below by continuous functions $f_n$ then to define $g_{m,n}=|f_n(x+\frac{1}{m})-f_n(x)| \chi_{[-m,m]}$. Then, for each $n$, the function $g_{m,n}$ is continuous on its support, and since it support is compact, it is uniformly continuous there. Can this be used to justify bringing the limit $\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}$ inside the integral? Then apply the monotone convergence theorem? I know this idea is probably even more sketchy than my previous one, but if it can be fixed please let me know :)  Thanks! Why was this very low quality flag declined? Question (since closed and deleted): . I know about the  of VLQ flags, and I can't fathom why anyone would think that question wouldn't be a candidate for removal.  Question text, for posterity:     Hey I want a Cyrus beck line algorithm program in c or c++. I have   searched a lot but hadn't got anything over Web..!!      If anyone of you have Program please give it to me and help me out.      Thank you in advance :)   I find  not compelling because it requires me to accept the premise that this question was not "unlikely to be salvageable". Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time? Is it possible to dual boot two OS's at the same time?  For example: I'm currently dual booting Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Ubuntu is running on a single 500gb HDD, Windows 7 is running on 1TB RAID 1 mirror. To switch between the two OS's, a reboot is required. Is it possible to switch between the two OS's without a reboot?  NOTE: I'm fully aware of the capabilities of VirtualBox and VMWare Player - I use both. Please don't answer "Use Virtualization!"  EDIT: If this is not possible can you share why it's not possible? To me, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult. Keep in mind that my vision is unencumbered by knowledge! Taylor Expansion $\log(\frac{1+z}{1-z})$ How did Thanos know about the power of "The Snap"? In the scene on Titan with Doctor Strange in Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos said,     With all six Infinity Stones, I will simply snap my fingers and it would all cease to exist.   Then again, in the very first scene with Thor and Loki, when Maw gave Thanos the Space Stone, he said that no one has ever worn two Infinity Stones together.   So how come Thanos knew about the power of the Snap? Because as Wong puts it to Tony, the Big Bang hurled the six Infinity Stones across the universe.   So if no one had collected all the six stones before Thanos, then how did he know about the ability to "Snap"? I'm trying to load a field value (machine name: field_theme_image) from a content of node value 3, in "page--front.tpl.php".  &lt;?php   $node=node_load(3);   print $node-&gt;field_theme_image[$node-&gt;language][0]['uri']; ?&gt;   Using the above code I'm not getting full URL value. Please see the image below. I can see the path value in Devel themer. How do I type Arabic text in Photoshop? I want to type Arabic text in Photoshop, but the text appears disjointed and the letters do not connect at all. For example محمد appears as م ح م د.   I'm using Photoshop CS6 on OSX Mountain Lion. Grammatical number agreement in a complex phrase using singular "they" another question, I used the following phrase:     Your reader is [...], but they are a busy person.   I have two difficulties here:   In the first phrase, a reader, being singular noun, certainly implies is; In the second phrase, they, being a plural pronoun (regardless that it refers a single person), still requires are, but are implies the plural for busy persons which sounds awkward (a reader &lrarr; persons);   Obviously, if I used "...but he is a busy person", everything works fine, but I'm trying to use a gender-agnostic form.  What is the proper number agreement here? How to remove "onclick" with JQuery? We login to applications almost every day. The password is stored in our fingers, as an automated process (if they have used it long enough). When users realize they have entered a wrong character (before hitting login-button) they erase the whole password, and retype the entire password – instead of just the last wrong character. Question is why?         &ndash; Wireframes created with Stack Overflow has HTTPS in some places! However, this breaks most existing image links. Could those be made protocol-relative, or react to the requesting protocol, or just always use HTTPS?  The same applies to .sponsor-tag-img. I am currently thinking about open-sourcing a project of mine and am in the process of preparing the source code and project structure to be released to the public. Now I got one question: how should I handle the signature key for my assemblies? Should I create a new key for the open-source version and publish it along with the other files to the SVN repository? Should I leave the key out and everyone who wants to compile the code should generate his own key?  How do you handle this? I feel a little bit uncomfortable with releasing a signature key to the public. What constitutes an observation/measurement in QM? Fundamental notions of QM have to do with observation, a major example being The Uncertainty Principle.    What is the technical definition of an observation/?  If I look at a QM system, it will collapse. But how is that any different from a bunch of matter "looking" at the same system?  Can the system tell the difference between a person's eyes and the bunch of matter?  If not, how can the system remain QM?  Am I on the right track? If $G$ is a group and $G'$ is generated by $\{xyx^{-1}y^{-1}|x,y\in G\}$, then $G'\trianglelefteq G$ and  $G/G'$ is Abelian.  At first, I thought this is easy because I thought $g[x,y]g^{-1}=[gxg^{-1},gyg^{-1}]$. But it was a mistake. I could not prove that it is also subgroup of G and $G/G'$ is abelian. I need help. PHP validation/regex for URL I've been looking for a simple regex for URLs, does anybody have one handy that works well?  I didn't find one with the zend framework validation classes and have seen several implementations.