Make a bootable USB stick for MacBook Air, with wifi drivers?
Installing "firmware-b43-installer" offline
C# datetime parse issue When a/an precedes a parenthetical aside (sometimes seen in informal/conversational writing), should the vowel rule depend on the first word in parentheses, or the next word in the "regular" flow of the sentence?     I need a (memorable) idiom (preceding an m word; use a)   or     I need an (memorable) idiom (preceding an i word; use an) Stone-Weierstrass theorem with $p(1/x)$ I read it in English in the United States, somewhere in the 1990s. I got it off of the big bookshelf in our family room, which means it could be a good bit older; some of the books were my Dad's. At the beginning, a young boy (maybe an early teen?) leaves his house, where he lives with his parent or parents, and takes a test to become a spaceship pilot for the military. Part of the test judges reaction speed, and he fails the test. He later learns (I think when he's approached by an agent of the government) that he "failed" because he has some sort of enhanced fortune that meant that he was actually giving the results before they could be displayed on the screen. At the time, I remember thinking that the book felt a bit like a Star Wars rip-off.  Years later, I read that one of the Star Wars books (probably now Legends) had Luke similarly failing the Imperial Academy test because he gave his answers too quickly, and it amused me that I was uncertain as to which had come first.  I don't remember anything concrete about the cover, although I have a general impression that it was white. Definitely futuristic. My impression was that the boy was wearing a white uniform for the testing and that the government agent who spoke to him had a grey beard, but I might be mixing bits of Star Wars in there. I flew a long range flight carrying my laptop, a quite heavy one, inside a neoprene briefcase in the passenger cabin. The recommendation by the aircrew was to place it in the overhead compartment or under the seat in front of me. However, during take-off and landing, the vibrations on the plane are quite strong and, as a result, it received minor damage.   Placing them in the overhead compartment might be equivalent to placing it on the floor under the seat, with the added issue of additional luggage in the compartment shifting.  I considered the alternative of holding the laptop by the handle while sitting, so it won't be any contact with the aircraft's floor. This is impracticable during cruise, but I thought it could be better during the take-off and landing segments. Another option I considered is to wrap it with completely with bubble wrap before boarding the plane.   Which is the safest way to transport a laptop during flight? How to put a brace on the right, not left, to group cases? Is it possible to paint only inside a stroke on illustrator? what i actually want to do is paint the same stroke with different colors in diferent segments of it but i can't do it...   Also... I've seen some tutorials that include editing a gradient but that would be very complicated and so would be to make a new stroke over this one, I just hope theres an easyer way XD  Edit per comment:  thats cool but not really what im looking for, what i want is lets say my stroke has the shape of a burger i want part of i to be bread color and part of it to be meat color... not one stroke over the other... i want something like this, imagine the jelly worm is my stroke: What is the name for the grammatical figure, where the present tense is substituted for a past event? I am preparing a book for publication which contains the following passage:     Stromberg in Religious Liberalism in Eighteenth-Century England   (1954) noted that 'the critical moment in the emergence of a positive   spirit of reform...consisted in the awareness of evil as being social   and remediable. It begins about 1750.'   My proof reader (my wife) has picked this out suggesting it should be the past tense. However if I say It began about 1750 it seems to convey too much certainty about the exact date. I just want to convey an impression of it being something which emerges in the mid-eighteenth century. I believe use of the present tense is the way to go.   But what is this artifice called, this use of the present to convey mild uncertainty? How to find and replace using sed on records starting with Specific number Java Strings: "String s = new String("silly");" I'm a C++ guy learning Java. I'm reading Effective Java and something confused me. It says never to write code like this:  String s = new String("silly");   Because it creates unnecessary String objects. But instead it should be written like this:  String s = "No longer silly";   Ok fine so far...However, given this class:  public final class CaseInsensitiveString {     private String s;     public CaseInsensitiveString(String s) {         if (s == null) {             throw new NullPointerException();         }         this.s = s;     }     :     : }  CaseInsensitiveString cis = new CaseInsensitiveString("Polish"); String s = "polish";    Why is the first statement ok? Shouldn't it be   CaseInsensitiveString cis = "Polish"; How do I make CaseInsensitiveString behave like String so the above statement is OK (with and without extending String)? What is it about String that makes it OK to just be able to pass it a literal like that? From my understanding there is no "copy constructor" concept in Java? What's "Another Way In"? There's a new achievement and I'm stumped as to how to get it:     Start a game without breaking the laboratory wall   I assume it has something to do with the new Gadgets but none of them sound like they'd help. How do I get this achievement? Why do we use GLM? Lille Metro schedule... is it 24/7? The M1 and M2 lines in Lille, France have a confusing . It's 7 days per week, but it looks like it's "running" basically 24h hours per day (minus some ten-minute delay). I never took the metro later than 11 PM when I was in Lille last year, but people told me that it stops just before midnight. But... it looks like it starts right back up again immediately, after about 10 minutes.  What are the actual hours of the Lille M1 and M2 lines? I have a hard time believing that they're 24/7... Filter a Python list by predicate I would want to do something like:  &gt;&gt;&gt; lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] &gt;&gt;&gt; lst.find(lambda x: x % 2 == 0) 2 &gt;&gt;&gt; lst.findall(lambda x: x % 2 == 0) [2, 4]   Is there anything nearing such behavior in Python's standard libraries?  I know it's very easy to roll-your-own here, but I'm looking for a more standard way. How can one format a cell to have word wrap in Google Sheets?  I've tried Shift+Enter, but that doesn't seem to work.  One thing I know works is to place  and then if you edit your cell you can have word wrap in it.  But is there a way to do this without switching modes? How can I integrate $$\ln \left( x+\sqrt{1+x^2} \right) $$   The problem is from IA Maron Calculus, Problem 4.3.17. The problem is under the heading 'Integration by parts'. I have tried it, but it just leads to 2 unsolvable integrals What is the probability that all three tosses result in the same outcome? A coin is tossed three times: The probability of zero heads is 1/8 and the probability of zero tails is 1/8.  And my question is: What is the probability that all three tosses result in the same outcome?   So, if P(zero heads)= 1/8 , then that should be the same of p(all tails)?  If so, we could use the Addition Rule which is $P(A \cup B) = P(A) + P(B)$  where A and B are disjoint events, i.e. $A \cap B = \emptyset$, A is the event of tossing all heads and B is the event of tossing all tails.  I'm not sure how to continue after that... would the complement be used? How to include custom non-system folder under This PC in Windows 8.1? I've recently upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 and noticed the restructured This PC folder, formerly Computer.   What I want to achieve is to include custom folder under "This PC".    What I've found after googling is that what is displayed under "This PC" is stored in registries under   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace  However those folders (such as Desktop, Documents, etc) are referenced via CLSID and the folder I want to include in the list does not have CLSID. What does it mean to say "a divides b" I am not a number theorist and I am learning about relations.  I encountered a relation that says      $a \leq b$ if $a$ divides $b$   Can someone clarify what it means to a number to divide another number?  Does it mean what I think? $a$ divides $b$ if $a | b \in \mathbb{Z}$?     So given a set $S = \{a, a^2, a^3, \ldots\}$, with relation $a | b \leftrightarrow a \leq b$, does the relation hold   going from left to right or right to left? i.e. $a|a^2, a^2|a^3, \ldots$ cp -r is meant to copy files recursively, and cp -R for copying directories recursively. But I've checked, and both appear to copy both files and directories, the same thing. So, what's the difference actually?