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Fullscreen Vista's Command Prompt, or Replacement How can I print the table of contents multiple times in my document? I am trying to think/know about something, but I don't know if my base premise is plausible. Here we go.  Sometimes when I'm talking with people about pure mathematics, they usually dismiss it because it has no practical utility, but I guess that according to the history of mathematics, the math that is useful today was once pure mathematics (I'm not so sure but I guess that when the calculus was invented, it hadn't a practical application).  Also, I guess that the development of pure mathematics is important because it allows us to think about non-intuitive objects before encountering some phenomena that is similar to these mathematical non-intuitive objects, with this in mind can you provide me historical examples of pure mathematics becoming "useful"? How to change the shadow color in Blender Cycles? I want to change the color of the shadow casting by a cube to green. While it's very easy to do it in Blender Internal (you select the lamp, go to the Lamp data header and change the shadow's color in the Shadow panel) in Cycles there're no such options. How to achieve it in Cycles? RSA when N=pq and p = q When I was a kid we had a VHS tape of some Disney live action (not animated) sci-fi movie. It may have been a mini-series or a made-for-tv movie, but I'm not sure. I'm also not sure about the year but it would probably have been late 80s or early 90s based on when I would have seen it. I know it was Disney because they had some live action Goofy and Mickey running around the movie's set as an introduction discussing the plot with a host before the movie.  The plot is basically as follows:   A starship is loaded with mostly children and teenagers as a cross-galaxy human settling effort. Accidents (which are not really accidents and later revealed) cause adult crew members to be killed.  They travel to another planet and face all sorts of troubles. It arrives at the new planet after overcoming obstacles.   Other memorable scenes that may help:   Navigating out of earth's asteroid belt made out of space junk. One of the adults was killed via an airlock malfunction. The ship was supposed to be peaceful with no weapons. At one point they bring on board some crazy guy who puts together a rail gun. There's a memorable line like "Do you want no weapons at all or a well aimed rock?"  There's a planet or space station (I can't remember which) that has a fight scene with the evil bad guy. This scene takes place on what looks to be a carnival or fairground. The bad guys are trying to steal the ship the kids are on because it has some kind of really good futuristic space drive.   Hopefully you remember it better than I do! I've tried looking online for it before with no luck. I would like to update VirtualBox on my 32 bit Ubuntu 15.04 machine from 4.3.26 to 4.3.28, using a Debian package I manually downloaded from . But simply double-clicking the package opens up the Software Centre which gives an error that installing it would break an existing package (the exact message was:   Breaks existing package 'virtualbox' conflict: virtualbox-4.3 ()   and it does not appear to have an option to ignore this and proceed with the installation anyway. Is there a command-line work-around this problem, perhaps? Why don't we include $\rho g h$ in a hydraulic jack below? Consider a hydraulic jack with massless pistons as follows.    The famous equation for this system is   $$ \frac{F_1}{A_1}=\frac{F_2}{A_2} $$  My question is why isn't the equation as follows?  $$ \frac{F_1}{A_1}=\frac{F_2}{A_2} + \rho g h $$  It is based on  my understanding that any points in the same horizontal line have the same pressure.  Could you spot my misconception? I have the following query that sort of works, but I find it to be kludgy and inefficient.  Is there a better way to write this query?  I know this is a bit of an odd query, else I would probably have found some advice when searching, but it is necessary for our business logic.  We've been doing this in Hibernate queries and using software to output the file but we're needing to improve performance drastically and that means using raw sql.  The output of this query is to be used to partially populate a helper table that we query to figure out which of our 40-odd product tables a particular item is contained in.  Could the following query be replicated using something like GROUP_CONCAT in reverse? Note that the second and third column must be repeated on each line.  The fields all contain the same type of data.  SELECT 'Pn', 'Mfg', 'TableId', 'SourceColumn', 'OtherData' SELECT PN1, Mfg, '26', 'PN1', OtherData FROM Table  UNION ALL SELECT PN2, Mfg, '26', 'PN2', OtherData FROM Table UNION ALL SELECT PN3, Mfg, '26', 'PN3', OtherData FROM Table UNION ALL SELECT PN4, Mfg, '26', 'PN4', OtherData  INTO OUTFILE 'XXX.dat' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' ESCAPED BY '\\' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM Table d;   Input looks like the following table:       |  PN1  |  PN2  |  PN3    |  PN4    |  MFG  |  TableId  |  OtherData  |     -----------------------------------------------------------------------     |  asdf |  abde |  12354  |  asdfc  |  2    |  26       |  0.2456     |     |  nupo |  1354 |  null   |  null   |  2    |  26       |  1.53       |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |     |  ...  |  ...  |  ...    |  ...    |  ...  |  ...      |  ...        |   I want the output .dat file to look like this:       "Pn","Mfg","TableId","SourceColumn","OtherData"     "asdf",2,26,"PN1",0.2456     "abde",2,26,"PN2",0.2456     "12354",2,26,"PN3",0.2456     "asdfc",2,26,"PN4",0.2456     "nupo",2,26,"PN1",1.53     "1354",2,26,"PN2",1.53     ...     ...     ...   If I take the INTO OUTFILE clause out, I get an output that looks like this:       |  Pn      |  Mfg     |  TableId    |  SourceColumn  | OtherData  |     -----------------------------------------------------------------     |  "Pn"    |  {blob}  |  "TableId"  |  "PN"          |  {blob}    |     |  "asdf"  |  {blob}  |  "PN1"      |  "PN1"         |  {blob}    |     |  "abde"  |  {blob}  |  "PN2"      |  "PN2"         |  {blob}    |     |  "12354" |  {blob}  |  "PN3"      |  "PN3"         |  {blob}    |     |  "asdfc" |  {blob}  |  "PN4"      |  "PN4"         |  {blob}    |     |  "nupo"  |  {blob}  |  "PN1"      |  "PN1"         |  {blob}    |     |  "1354"  |  {blob}  |  "PN2"      |  "PN2"         |  {blob}    |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      |     |  ...     |  ...     |  ...        |   ...          |   ...      | Suppose we have a sample of size n= 9, where the sum equals 27, and the sum of the squaredvalues equals 113. Sample mean is 27/9=3 and mean of squared values is 113/9 = 12.56 Can we then say that the sample variance $S^2 = E(\overline X^2) - E(\overline X)^2 = 12.55 - 9 = 3.56$ ? Why is the method executed immediately when I use setTimeout? How to customize the ubuntu gnome 3 desktop? This is maybe a stupid question, but how can I choose my own background image on ubuntu gnome 3?? I click on Settings -> Background -> then I click on the current background preview to change it but I see only the defaults images! No + symbol to add or something. On the 'Pictures' tab there is nothing to select, I get an empty white page? I am running ubuntu gnome 13.04 3.9.6-030906-generic.  Thanks! I am trying to define an rgb color. More specifically I want to create this color    which in rgb mode it's (98,190,177).  I tried to define this color using the following code  \documentclass{standalone}  \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document}  \definecolor{tank}{rgb}{0.098,0.190,0.177}  %\definecolor{tank}{rgb}{98,190,177}  \begin{tikzpicture}   \coordinate (tank) at (0,0);   \draw[red, fill=tank] (-2,0.5)--(-0.5,1)--(0.5,1)--(2,0.5)--(2,-0.5)--(0.5,-1)--(-0.5,-1)--(-2,-0.5)--cycle;  \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   but the output is totally different from what I am trying to achieve    I also tried to use \definecolor{tank}{rgb}{98,190,177} but I get no color at all. How to properly define an rgb color? How do I draw text at an angle using python's PIL? Using Python I want to be able to draw text at different angles using PIL.  For example, imagine you were drawing the number around the face of a clock.  The number 3 would appear as expected whereas 12 would we drawn rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees.  Therefore, I need to be able to draw many different strings at many different angles. How do I replace the *first instance* of a string in .NET? I want to replace the first occurrence in a given string.   How can I accomplish this in .NET? How can I run a DSLR from AC power? My wife has a Nikon D3100 that I've been using to film, but the battery typically won't last through long shoots.  I've gathered from searching around that I can't charge the camera with USB, but I wondered if there's ANY way to do that. It seems at least possible that an adapter could exist that would fill in for the battery and plug into the wall, but I haven't been able to find such a thing.  Is there such a product or technique? It would be nice to not buy a second battery, I'm really hoping for a "set it and forget it" solution. Can't read filenames in save dialog box. Names are too faint I want to click on file to inherit the name for the file being saved. I can't read file names in the dialog box because the color is too faint. This is the same question as   That question does not have an answer but I don't have enough points to interact there so I have to post a new question.    Edited to add screen shots I tried to calibrate the monitor which no effect and did not change the readability of "unavailable" file names. I have added screenshots of previous operating systems to compare: Please tell me how Mojave is not to blame here: In eevee, shadows are clipped by camera distance As shown in the gif, the shadow in eevee is clipped by the camera distance. The same is true for F12 rendering. Where are the options to improve this issue? Similar to my old question about  are there any limits to the animal forms an Animagus can be?     We know that the animal form can be much smaller than human (cat, rat, beetle) so I don't think size is a factor.   I'm not aware of any Animagus who transforms into a magical creature (e.g. unicorn or phoenix) so maybe those aren't possible.   Ultimately, what I'd like to know is whether there could be a T-Rex Animagus... (prompted by ) Evaluate the integral $$\int^{\frac{\pi}{2}}_0 \frac{\sin^3x}{\sin^3x+\cos^3x}\, \mathrm dx.$$  How can i evaluate this one? Didn't find any clever substitute and integration by parts doesn't lead anywhere (I think).  Any guidelines please?