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Where can I find a reference to the format of the comment field (field 5) of the /etc/passwd file? In the /etc/passwd file on my system, the "comment" field, field 5, is inconsistent in its contents.  I thought that I could extract it to get the full name of the user.  fullname=`awk -F: '$1 == name {print $5}' name=$LOGNAME /etc/passwd`   However this returns with $fullname containing a name with 0, 3, or 4 commas following.  Exploring the man page (man 5 passwd) provides no details of this field other than describing it as "user name or comment field."  Perhaps there is additional information that is stored along with the user name? How to search for upcoming conferences that will be held in a specific subject I use Internet Explorer for some things and Chrome for others. I'd like to have a choice when I click on a link of which browser to open the link in. Is this possible in Windows? I am currently running Windows 8, although there should be similarities between versions.  To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible. I was considering playing a Summoner in my next Pathfinder campaign, and I decided that I wanted my Eidolon to be a a four-armed giant (the character being a Gnome with a height complex).  Well, I thought to myself: If it has four arms, then shouldn't it be able to wield two two-handed weapons?  As far as I can tell, it should work. That said, how would that work, exactly? I would assume that it would work like usual two-weapon wielding as far as feats and the like, and it would gain all the bonuses from two-weapon wielding as well. However, as this isn't exactly something that happens often, and thus there are no rules for it (that I can find) I can't be sure of any of this. Does anyone know of anything that could help me with this? How can I manage the "Open with Explorer" button based on user permissions? es.SO questions aren't excluded from the Hot Questions list As figured out in  localized SE sites must not be displayed in the HNQ's. But  actually is.        Has to be fixed I guess? True for every formula. For a formula $ \gamma = r \iff (p_1 \vee p_2) $ there is true that: $\rho \models \gamma \iff \rho(r) = \max(\rho(p_1), \rho(p_2))$  Is it a true for every formula r? Continuous probability distribution with no first moment but the characteristic function is differentiable I am looking for an example of a continuous distribution function where the first moment does not exist but the characteristic function is differentiable everywhere.  Cauchy distributions do not fulfill this, as their characteristic functions are not differentiable at $0$. Does anybody here have an example? Do the following negations mean the same thing? I don't think you understood me. / I think you misunderstood me.    Do these senteces mean the same thing? If not, what's the difference?  Edit: I just realized that I asked something different from what I originally wanted. So I am also interested in the following comparison:     I don't think you understand me. / I think you don't understand me. My equation is not showing big bracket and not showing in next line \begin{equation} g(f,t) = \begin{cases}          \bigl{b^Nt^N^-^1e^2^\pi^b^t cos(2\pi ft),  \text{t\geq 0;}\\          0 \text{ $ otherwise $}          \end{cases} \end{equation} Suppose I have BaseClass with public methods A and B, and I create DerivedClass through inheritance.  e.g.  public DerivedClass : BaseClass {}   Now I want to develop a method C in DerivedClass that uses A and B.  Is there a way I can override methods A and B to be private in DerivedClass so that only method C is exposed to someone who wants to use my DerivedClass? Show that the Sorgenfrey line does not have a countable basis. How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive? OS: Windows 7. I want install Linux Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive USB 2.0. I read a variety of methods, but I'm confused by contradictory advices and methods. Actually, installing Ubuntu on anything other than clean PC looks much more complicated than installing Windows. I need to have Ubuntu package + Python 2.7 + C compiler installed. My external hard drive is partially filled, I need to keep all files.   Will Ubuntu run entirely on external hardrive, without writing anythinhg to Windows system folders and to registry?  Can anyone post detailed guide how install Ubuntu on external hard drive? How can I make a more realistic glass shader? How to accomplish SQL Server 2012+2014 high availability Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing, but I can't see how I can do this.  I have two servers:   Server A (has SQL Server 2012 installed) Server B (has SQL Server 2014 installed)   Server A provides an API via IIS. The code both inserts and gets data from the database depending on the API call.  Server B does exactly the same for its local database.  I would like to have it so that the two databases are consistent copies of each other. I do believe this is what HA accomplishes.   So a load balancer, for example, might direct API calls to A sometimes, and B sometimes, but the data needs to be consistent either way.  I found some documentation on HA for SQL Server 2012, but not on how to do this for a mixed environment of 2012 and 2014.  Any help or pointers to documentation would be great! Thanks. Why do DNGs only show in low resolution on Google Photos? How can I use the instant messenger program Kik - most commonly installed on smartphones and other mobile devices - on a laptop or desktop running Win7Pro, without a phone being involved and without needing any kind of Google account?  The two ways of using Kik from my laptop that I have so far found are both inadequate, or at least I do not how to tweak them to make them meet the requirements.  The first is to install on my laptop the Bluestacks emulator of Google's Android operating system, and then to run Kik on it. Unfortunately to run Kik on Bluestacks requires (or at least I have not found a way to avoid) having a Google Play account.  The second is to run Bluestacks on Manymo, the online emulator of Google's Android OS. Unfortunately, using Kik on Manymo similarly requires a Google Play account.  I realise Kik was made for use on a mobile OS, but it is supposed to be cross-platform where mobile OSes are concerned, and therefore not to be tied into Google's mobile OS - or, as far as I know, into any other software supplied by Google or any procedure prescribed by that company, such as giving it personal information - so I am optimistic that someone will be able to advise on what I am asking for here.  I notice that Microsoft have made a , so there might be a way to get Kik to work on this without dealing with Google. I couldn't find anything online about this, though. Is it wrong to say $ \sqrt{x} \times \sqrt{x} =\pm x,\forall x \in \mathbb{R}$? Is it wrong to say $$ \sqrt{x} \times \sqrt{x} =\sqrt{x^2}= \pm x$$ I am quite sure that  $\sqrt{(x)^2} = \pm(x)$  But, does $\sqrt{x } \times \sqrt{x} =- (x)$ doesn't holds in $\mathbb{R}$ but if we assume $\mathbb{C}$ it holds right? What setting causes OS X to let you resize windows behind the dock? I've set up my fair share of Macs over the years, but I've never been able to pinpoint what setting tells OS X that you're ok with being able to drag-resize a window vertically so that it goes behind the dock (assuming the dock is in its default position at the bottom of the screen), as opposed to only being able to resize it vertically so that it is touching the top of the dock's "space".  My work computer is a 21" iMac Core 2 Duo and it drives me crazy because I'll quickly drag-resize a window larger by pulling down and to the right but instead of staying locked vertically above the dock it'll slide behind it which I don't like so then I've gotta jiggle the window around to get it all back into visible space... my home computer (6 core tower) doesn't have this problem even though I've, from what I can tell, set it up nearly identically.  Both machines running the latest version of snow leopard.  Here's a video captured from my machine at home showing the window resize behaviour I prefer. If it helps at all I can do another one from my work machine tomorrow showing the windows resizing behind the dock. Require reputation earned on the main site to vote on a per-site meta Upvoting requires 15 reputation, but the association bonus is taken into account, so if you have at least 200 reputation on any site, you can upvote on all sites in the network.  This is a bit problematic when it comes to per-site metas. The votes there are used to gauge the opinion of the community, and they are often taken into account when implementing new policies.  What can happen is that a post from a per-site meta is linked in an unrelated high-traffic chat room, usually because there is some entertaining drama going on or because someone posted a particularly bad idea. This can lead to an influx of votes from external users that usually wouldn't visit or use the site, but currently still can vote on their meta due to the association bonus.  I think a very low minimum participation on the site should be required to vote on meta issues. This would make the votes on the per-site meta more robust and less easily skewed by being linked from outside.  Not counting the association bonus for the upvote privilege would be enough, then all users would have to earn 14 reputation on the site itself.