Combine Sky texture with other layers with alpha channel
Alpha over layers but maintain environment background
Is there a difference here:        It happened that he did not go to work today.   As it happened, he did not go to work today.      Do "it happened that" and "as it happened" have different meanings? How do you disable browser autocomplete on web form field / input tags? How to sort columns independently? How do I get a remote host IP address if I don't have ping, and don't have any bind utilities like dig, nslookup, etc?  I need an answer that does not include 'install X' or 'use sidecar container'. I am looking for something that relies on nothing more than bash and the basic shell commands. I can copy, move, create, and delete them. I can rename them using the REN command from a command prompt. I cannot rename folders through Windows Explorer anywhere on my machine, including on other drives.   When I try to do so, I receive an error titled "Rename Folder" that says "Can't find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name." Then when I click Try Again or Cancel, I get another error titled "Rename" that says "The file or folder does not exist."  As far as I can tell, nothing else is wrong with my computer, but I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this problem. I don't know for sure if superuser is the right place to ask this question, but feel free to redirect me.  Summary of Failed Attempts:   Booted into Safe Mode  Made a New User Account System Restore Point (two days ago, 9 days ago)  Deleting / Restoring / Modifying FolderDescriptions registry entries SFC /scannow  Removing windows update KB2984006  Scanned for viruses using Nod32  Scanned for malware using MalwareBytes   Details:  Tried rolling back to two different system restore points, both immediately before I observed the problem and one release prior to that.  Tried restoring FolderDescriptions registry entries as found here:   Booting in safe mode as suggested here:   SFC /scannow as suggested here:   Tried removing registry keys and windows update KB2984006 as suggested here:   Tried exporting folderdescriptions from other machine and importing as suggested here:   Compared my exported registry with other machine's exported registry for both:  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions   My FolderDescriptions branch of the registry in both cases are binary equal to those exported from my wife's Windows 8.1 laptop which works fine. I've created a series of DEM files using the  tool from LAStools; however since I don't have a licensed version they have black streaks running across them. Does anyone know a good method for removing these streaks? Didn't understand relationship 'AccountContactRelation' in FROM part of query call I'm getting the following error message:     System.QueryException: Didn't understand relationship 'AccountContactRelation' in FROM part of query call. If you are attempting to use a custom relationship, be sure to append the '__r' after the custom relationship name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for the appropriate names.   Select Email, Id, (Select ContactId, AccountId From AccountContactRelation) From Contact  In AccountContactRelation object there are two lookup fields for Account and for Contact.  Please advise how to avoid such error message? Dynamic SELECT TOP @var In SQL Server How can I have a dynamic variable setting the amount of rows to return in SQL Server? Below is not valid syntax in SQL Server 2005+:  DECLARE @count int SET @count = 20  SELECT TOP @count * FROM SomeTable Typical software & tools short-list for *manual* QA specialist (tester) working environment For QA workstations preparation (Windows-based PCs) our IT department uses typical batch deployment tools. I'm not at all interested in the details of such process, but IT guys ask me:  What typical set of software you need for everyday manual testing tasks? We could include these in our deployment so that you guys could save more time for testing, not for environment prep &amp; tuning.  Sure thing we do test various range of projects, from web applications to standalone solutions, and each application requires its own set of tools for manual testing, e.g.:  Browsers Virtualization utilities DB clients Screens capturing tools FTP clients XML editors etc.  However, and that's for sure - there's a list of tools every QA MUST have installed on its PC, regardless of project types under testing. My area of experience is mostly standalone / complex web apps, that's why my vision on the task is a bit subjective. So, your suggestions of what are tools / software an average QA specialist can't live without will be highly appreciated. 2 assumptions:  Manual testing is a point of interest. Let's limit the list to not more than 15 (better 10) items.  Thanks in advance! How to remove time from date? Is there a good way to determine the value of magic items in 5e? 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Eclipse Shortcut to Split Long Strings I swear I've seen someone do this, but I can't find it in the various lists of shortcuts.  Given:  String s = "A very long ............................ String";   Is there an Eclipse shortcut to turn it into:  String s = "A very long ............................ "      + "String"; Can a wizard use his familiar's senses to enlarge his "you can see" area? I'm going to encrypt the characters Zhu, and decrypt them using RSA. I'm using the public key $\{e, n\}$ and private key $\{d, n\}$. The values of $e$, $d$ and $p$ I get from my textbook: $e = 17$, $d = 53$, $n = 77$.  It works fine when the number is smaller than 76, but in my example below, it doesn't work:  z = 90  h = 104  u = 107  e = 17 d = 53 n = 77  print z,h,u  c_z = z ** e % n c_h = h ** e % n c_u = u ** e % n  print c_z, c_h, c_u  p_z = c_z ** d % n p_h = c_h ** d % n p_u = c_u ** d % n  print p_z, p_h, p_u   The outputs are:  90 104 107 62 69 46 13 27 30     Do you have any idea what's going wrong? What is the simplest way to generate a dodecahedron? I've been thinking of animating some dice and while most are easy to make, I'm having some trouble figuring out a way to generate a regular dodecahedron. I could hand build it but it would be potentially uneven. Would using the base of a 5 sided cylinder and then some variation on spin be the best option or is there a better way? Where did the convention of using single dashes for letters and doubles dashes for words come from and why is continued to be used?  For example if I type in ls --help, you see:    -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .   -A, --almost-all           do not list implied . and ..       --author               with -l, print the author of each file   -b, --escape               print octal escapes for nongraphic characters       --block-size=SIZE      use SIZE-byte blocks   -B, --ignore-backups       do not list implied entries ending with ~ ...   I tried googling - and -- convention even with quotes with little success. Can I use a present-tense verb when writing about a past event? Number of factors of a big number How to find the number of factors of $884466000$ without using a calculator? What is the scope of variables in JavaScript? What is the scope of variables in javascript? Do they have the same scope inside as opposed to outside a function? Or does it even matter? Also, where are the variables stored if they are defined globally?