Syncing Ipod Shuffle
What is the current state of apple device (iPhone, iPod, etc.) support?
How do I set up Ruby on Rails? I am interested in setting up a Ruby on Rails environment on my 10.10 laptop.   Is there anything special I need to keep in mind for installation (i.e. that could be new or unique to 10.10)?   Are there any suggested walkthroughs that I could follow along with?  Thanks in advance. HDD SMART interpretation - Possible impending drive failure I've just had an issue pop up related to my drives.  First things first, I was working in my case when I clumsily shifted the foot of the case off of my desk. Case shifted and hit the desk somewhat hard, but only fell an inch or two. It had been properly shut down so this may not have anything to do with the issue.  After booting up, I noticed that when playing a video from my F: Drive (Seagate), it produced a whine, almost a chirping sound coming from the hard drive bay. I think I may have heard this before the drop, but quieter.  Fearing impending failure I downloaded GSmartControl and inspected the drive information. The Seagate drive displayed a high Raw Read Error Rate, as well as a high Seek Error Rate.  I've read some of these values can be high on Seagate drives from the start. This drive is about 6 months old and the producer of the noise.  I also checked my Toshiba drive, which came with a refurbished prebuilt I bought about a year ago. It showed more normal SMART data, but displayed some concerning statistics (2 "Mechanical Start Failures" and 2 "Reported Uncorrectable Errors").  Both of the drives passed the basic SMART test, but the noise was quite alarming. It would stop as soon as a paused the video and start right up again as soon as I resumed playing.  Here is an album with 3 photos of the SMART data, the Seagate did not display statistics.  Could I please have help interpreting the SMART data, and whether this may indicate an impending failure?   Thank you for your time.   Here are images of the SMART data. Unexpected workspace change? My friend who has only recently downloaded blender has come across a workspace issue. He said he accidentally pressed a button and it has entirely changed his user interface/ Workspace. He can't open, save or do anything with the change.    This is a full window image! 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. How to yield from parallel tasks in .NET 4.5 I have reviewed this:   but it does not answer my question. The suggested fixes in this question is to set up FB, IG, and other social media pages. We have had these for months. We have 576 Instagram followers, 293 followers on Facebook, 17,425 views on Vimeo, Youtube, Pinterest and LinkedIn presence. Here is the response in a YouTube search:  Let's be clear. If you search for my company name and product name YT changes the spelling to something that doesn't exist and suggests a video with no matching result terms (using either spelling) disparaging OTHER luxury handbags, while insinuating it is referring to my handbags. When a user searches for our business, , Google and Youtube changes the spelling to Aslan Vaughn and displays these results:  For the first few months it just seemed like it was taking some time to percolate, but over 7 months we have had 17,500 unique visitors and nearly 90 backlinks.  The only results for Aslan Vaugn is the birth announcement of the second child of a musician in New Jersey. It is a Facebook post and has 14 likes. Google is favoring a spelling that has only two results with 14+ views over dozens of links and tens of thousands of views. How is this possible? An FB post with 14 likes is that much more popular than a business with 17,500 unique visitors (despite the Google obfuscation)? Is my company on some list? On other search engines my company covers the first few pages in results. Through Google, you cannot find our company no matter how many pages in you go. Unless you search for the term in quotes, . In which case we cover the first few pages here as well: In comments, moderators have their diamonds in the OP rectangle:        And in the review (suggested edits), mods have their diamonds outside the blue OP background highlight rectangle:        Of course, it Doesn't Really Matter At All, but it is a small discrepancy (I am not saying that in the review, OP rectangles have a bigger padding). ASP.NET Web Site or ASP.NET Web Application? When I start a new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio, I can create an ASP.NET Web Application or I can create an ASP.NET Web Site.  What is the difference between ASP.NET Web Application and ASP.NET Web Site? Why would I choose one over other?  Is the answer different based on which version of Visual Studio I am using? Can we have discussions? Guys, I just wonder if people are allowed to have civilized discussion (on any IT topic) on this forum without actually being accused of starting a row. I'm asking this question for a reason that few days I've asked few questions referring to VM, JIT etc. and compared them to C++ way and despite the fact that I've explained myself that I'm not starting any agro with anyone, that I'm really just genuinely curious, my post was first closed and then removed. I'm asking: What's wrong with asking nonstandard questions which sometimes my be quite difficult to answer? Thanks Narrow-phase collision detection algorithms If I live in the US, for example, where current interest rates are practically nil, how can I take advantage of the fact that ? 3 more votes from other users are needed to close this question.   This is the message I got hovering the mouse over close voting tab.   I wonder can we begin any sentence with a numeric value? Is it good practice? What is the default root password? I installed  (Precise Pangolin), 64 bit. Nowhere was I asked to set password for root.  I just installed  software. It was installed under the /root folder by default. Now I try do something on that folder. I tried with su to switch to root, but I don't know its password.   Should I always use sudo or get the default root password, if any?  How do I create a  for software installed inside the /root directory? Can Objective C determine the caller object reference at runtime (reflection)? I saw many saying that the latest version of Ubuntu 16.04 includes an opensource driver for ATI. I have an HP laptop with AMD 6770m + Intel HD 3000 hybrid graphics and wants to install Kubuntu on it. I created a bootable USB drive of Kubuntu 16.04 and booted from it just to check everything works perfectly (I don't want to install it separately and ruin bootloader as of now). But my laptop is getting too hot and the battery is not lasting for more than 30 mins. Also the brightness control is not working at all and it stays high always.   How can I get hybrid graphics on Kubuntu/Ubuntu working well? I am ready to turn off the ATI card since I am not going to play any games on Linux. I just need the Intel graphics + Cool Laptop + Good battery Life + Brightness control.  My BIOS setting for switchable graphics mode is FIXED. Do I need to change it to DYNAMIC?  UPDATE  I wasn't able to make things work in 16.04 so installed 14.04 LTS along with the AMD Catalyst driver. Now everything works perfectly fine. Below are the steps.   Clean install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Install the fglrx catalyst drivers using “Additional Drivers” window. This will enable us to switch graphics Restart Ubuntu FAN Noise Fix - Refer this  and install i8kutils Brightness Control - Check this     is the official documentation for AMD/Intel hybrid graphics Can Wubi use the ISO I already have? The Windows Installer for Ubuntu desktop instructions say that an ISO image for Ubuntu is downloaded during the installation process.  But what if I already have an ISO image for Ubuntu. Can I make the Windows Installer use that, so it doesn't have to download an ISO image again?  12.04 LTS and 12.10 are the versions of Ubuntu I'm interested in installing, in case that matters. A thought experiment: Imagine the Sun is suddenly removed. We wouldn't notice a difference for 8 minutes, because that's how long light takes to get from the Sun's surface to Earth.   However, what about the Sun's gravitational effect? If gravity propagates at the speed of light, for 8 minutes the Earth will continue to follow an orbit around nothing. If however, gravity is due to a distortion of spacetime, this distortion will cease to exist as soon as the mass is removed, thus the Earth will leave through the orbit tangent, so we could observe the Sun's disappearance more quickly.  What is the state of the research around such a thought experiment? Can this be inferred from observation? Hypothetically, should I pay off the smaller + higher interest rate loan first, or the larger + higher absolute interest cost? I have this hypothetical situation on my mind and I am not sure which is the best solution. Given:  Loan 1: $340,000 at an interest rate of 1.69% per year Loan 2: $40,000 at an interest rate of  3.6% per year  I have a fixed amount available to pay these, let's say, $1,500 monthly and I can decide how much I want to pay each one (I could pay 750/750, 1000/500, 1500/0 for instance). I do not have a time limit to pay these. My question: What is the optimal way to pay these? What I always heard is: pay the debt that has the highest interest first. This would lead me to a solution: pay loan 2 as fast as possible. But the total amount of interest on 340,000 is higher (in this case, $5780 annually) than the amount over $40,000 (1440, in this case), so, to me, it feels I should pay the Loan 1 first. I would love to run some simulations, but I have no idea how to calculate these things (I don't even have a clue on how to research it). ps: this is really a hypothetical situation, I am not getting such loans without being able to calculate it, don't worry ;) Why aren't we sterilizing N95 masks? Creating a responsive menu system for a site with a lot of content I am currently creating a website which has a lot of content - text. For this I need a serious menu structure with 5-10 menu items per menu and at least 15 menu-blocks per main menu item.   Further it has to be accessible via mobile.   Till now I have used panels and added menus inside the panels. But mobile isn't to happy about that and the list-names in the menus overlap the content.   How would you go about solving this issue? I trust you experts here! :-)