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Can I shrink the transaction log file on a mirror database? This is a followup question to  about why I couldn't shrink the log file on the principal database.  To make a long story short, I setup database mirroring but forgot to make sure the job that backed up the transaction log was running again, and the transaction log grew to almost 60GB.   Since mirroring was set up, this size increase was duplicated on the mirrored server, and eventually took up all the disk space and made the mirror database unusable.  Per  about transaction log maintenance on a mirror database, you can't back up the log on the mirror, but when asked specifically in  about how to shrink an overgrown log file on a mirror database, a  was left that      One way to do this would be to failover to the mirrored database and   do the shrink there. Thoroughly test this out in a non-production   environment to ensure it has the behavior you want/expect.   This seems to suggest that there might be other ways to shrink the log file on a mirror, and this method might not necessarily be safe to do on a production server.  Is there a way to safely shrink the transaction log file on a database mirror? How to prove that $z\gcd(a,b)=\gcd(za,zb)$ I need to prove that $z\gcd(a,b)=\gcd(za,zb)$.    I tried a lot, for example, looking at set of common divisors of the two sides, but I can't conclude anything from that. Can you please give me some advice how I can handle this problem? And $a,b,z \in \mathbb{Z}$. How to be sure API calls are using TLS 1.2 We are using .Net to make web service calls the Salesforce API. Is there a way to know for sure that the calls are using TLS 1.2? Are there any API logs or records of the protocol is use in Salesforce we can review to be confident the change is working? Why General Leibniz rule and Newton's Binomial are so similar? The binomial expansion:  $$(x+y)^{n} = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n}{k} x^k y^{n-k}$$  The General Leibniz rule (used as a generalization of the product rule for derivatives):  $$(fg)^{(n)} = \sum_{k=0}^{n} \binom{n}{k} f^{(k)} g^{(n-k)}$$  Both formulas can be obtained simply by induction; Newton's binomial also has a combinatorial proof . It's striking how these formulas are similar; is there a possible connection between them? I was thinking that maybe the General Leibniz rule could be obtained using a combinatorial argument as well (hence the binomial coefficients)... I had installed VirtualBox but it started giving me problems. So I uninstalled it using:-  sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-\* sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-\*   But when I reinstalled VirtualBox it again resumed to previous settings and started giving same problems. How can i completely remove VirtualBox from my laptop and then reinstall it such that it wont give same problem again? Logistic regression is predicting all 1, and no 0 I am running an analysis on the probability of loan default using logistic regression and random forests.    When I use logistic regression, the prediction is always all '1' (which means good loan).  I have never seen this before, and do not know where to start in terms of trying to sort out the issue.  There are 22 columns with 600K rows.  When I decrease the # of columns I get the same result with logistic regression.   Why could the logistic regression be so wrong?  **Actual from the data**  0 :   41932  1 :   573426  **Logistic regression output**   prediction for 1 when actually 0: 41932 prediction for 1 when actually 1:573426  A**s you can see, it always predicts a 1**   **Random forests does better:**  actual 0, pred 0 : 38800  actual 1, pred 0 : 27  actual 0, pred 1 : 3132 actual 1, pred 1 : 573399 Given that $x^y=y^x$, what could $x$ and $y$ be? How do ideal quotients behave with respect to localization? Suppose $R$ is commutative ring with unity. For ideals $I$, $J \subseteq R$, the ideal quotient $(J:I)$ is $$(J:I) := \{x\in R \, : \, xI \subseteq J\}$$ Let $S\subset R$ be a multiplicative set. When does localization at $S$ commute with taking quotients, i.e. when does the equality $$(S^{-1} J : S^{-1} I) = S^{-1} (J:I)$$ hold? More generally, when is it true that $$S^{-1} \text{Ann}_{R} (M) = \text{Ann}_{S^{-1} R} (S^{-1} M)$$ for an $R$-module $M$? How do I protect Python code from being read by users? I am developing a piece of software in Python that will be distributed to my employer's customers. My employer wants to limit the usage of the software with a time restricted license file. If we distribute the .py files or even .pyc files it will be easy to (decompile and) remove the code that checks the license file. Another aspect is that my employer does not want the code to be read by our customers, fearing that the code may be stolen or at least the &quot;novel ideas&quot;. Is there a good way to handle this problem? What are the criteria for posts to be included in "Top network posts" on new profile page? From the name of it, certainly it looks for posts with the highest scores. However, recently I found that some of the posts are not listed. Example: My  (not sure if it's that good, just because hot network question) was included in some point, but then it's not listed on . I guess it's because the question was closed, e.g as a dupe? (I don't have any hidden communities on the settings)    However, it's listed normally on .    Also, what other criteria that makes the posts to be included/excluded in &quot;Top network posts&quot;? Why did the gamma ray burst from GW170817 lag two seconds behind the gravitational wave? , reporting on the announcement of gravitational wave GW170817, explained that for the first time we could identify the precise source of a gravitational wave because we also observed the event in the electromagnetic spectrum. It notes however that the gamma ray burst detected by the FERMI space telescope was observed nearly two seconds later than the gravitational wave.   Did the gamma ray burst actually arrive at Earth two seconds after the gravitational wave, or is this time delay just some kind of observational artefact? If the delay is real, what is its cause? Is the delay due to the gamma ray burst somehow being slowed, or was it 'emitted' at a different time in the merger event? What does a delay even mean when the gravitational wave was detected for over 100 seconds? Is it a delay from peak GW to peak gamma ray? Why does this cloth go down past the top surface of the cube? I was following a , and the presenter said that he did not change the default options other than enabling self-collision and increasing the collision object's friction from 5 to 10. His looks like the first image below, but when I tried that, the cloth goes down past the top surface and stops at the bottom surface (second and third images below). Why is it so?   I had a previous problem with cloth, and it was due to the objects' small size. This time, I made sure that both the cloth and the cube are large enough. (Cloth=7.68*8.22*1.99m, cube = 7.68*7.68*0.897m)  The project file can be . Where does matter go after reaching singularity in uncharged black holes? I am a layman in physics and just read about black holes on the internet. I read that matter encounters geodesic incompleteness in the singularity in an uncharged black hole.  I heard an analogy of geodesic incompleteness as a straight line on a paper reach a hole on the paper, so it cannot continue. But in this analogy, isn't the straight line possible to continue into 3D (continue down the paper)? So, if matter reaches the singularity, is it possible too (to reach another dimension)?   I also heard that the matter is annihilated when reaching the singularity, does it mean it disappear from this world, and violates conservation of energy? Mass Uninstalling Just been working on a new laptop today (Acer) and it was pre-installed with all sorts of crapware. Mostly games and "backup utilities" and McAfee. I had to manually uninstall about 30 apps via Vista's Programs and Features  So it got me wondering is there any way of mass uninstalling or queuing an app to be uninstalled? Through Vista/XP you need to wait for Install Shield or whatever to close before beginning to uninstall the next app. Took way more time than it should have.  Just another one of those Windows annoyances! Any help appreciated as I often need to do this when I come across a slow machine that's just been clogged with a bunch of useless apps Are there any cheap, fast lenses capable of highschool sports photography? I recently took on my first paying client, and she is also into photgraphy. She usually does sports for her highschool yearbook. They just have an entry level Canon DSLR with a kit zoom on it that goes up to 200mm, but it's not very fast (f/4 or 5.6 or so). She told me that she has a tough time - especially at basketball games - getting shots with any kind of reasonable lighting, and has to do a lot of work in post just to get them reasonable.   mentions the Cannon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM II for professional sports photographers. At $6k USD I suspect the yearbook won't be springing for that lens anytime soon.  So I was curious, are there any reasonable quality, fast lenses for Canon cameras that are lower priced (certainly no more than say, $1k)? I'd love to be able to point them to a couple of options. I assume the largest print they'd be making would be a full spread in the yearbook - maybe two 17"x11" (two 8.5" side by side) Resuming and Finishing the flow Created a flow in the sandbox to capture a survey.  I have enabled the ability to Pause the flow and added the component to Home page.   All the screens for the flow is complete and when I test run below 2 issues are found.  1. In the last screen I do not find the Finish Button. There is a record update after last screen. When I add a screen after record update It shows the finish screen But if click the previous button present there it moves to the first and create a new record. Is there any possibility to finish without going on the previous screens   When I resume a Paused flow, after clicking on the last screen, instead of redirected to the Account page, the flow is restarting. Appreciate your help.   On pause going to first screen is normal functionality , Is there any modification that can be done. Irreducibility of reciprocal polynomials Given that  $f(x)=\sum\limits_{k=0}^n a_kx^k$ is an irreducible polynomial, show that $g(x)=\sum\limits_{k=0}^n a_kx^{n-k}$ is irreducible too. I don't see how this specific coefficient exchange would preserve the irreducibility. Is there something else I should be looking at? Please have a look at this sentence:     We haven't gotten a lot of Finnish groups that we liked here at Bananas but I'm pretty happy with this four tracker from Helsinki, apparently recorded in the same place where the Ramones played in the 70's.     The first verb is in present perfect (up to now) and the second is in simple past tense. I don't understand the simple past for the second verb.  Why "like" is not in its present perfect form as the first verb is? Why does $1+2+3+\cdots = -\frac{1}{12}$? $\displaystyle\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^s}$ only converges to $\zeta(s)$ if $\text{Re}(s) &gt; 1$.  Why should analytically continuing to $\zeta(-1)$ give the right answer? How can I see the source of built-in JavaScript functions?