How was the invisibility cloak actually made?
How was the Cloak of Invisibility Created?
I need to make Windows 7 STOP disabling the wifi adapter when the wired LAN is connected This is a Dell Latitude E6430. There is a setting in the bios to control this behavior and I have DISABLED it but it still happens. I am also running the latest bios.  When I plug in a network cable the wifi adapter becomes disabled. I need it to stay enabled. What else could be making this happen?  EDIT: The reason I need to do this is because with NETSH WLAN commands you can create a wifi hotspot by sharing the internet connection on the wired adapter and broadcasting a ssid on the virtual wifi nic. I do this all the time but it's not working on this laptop. I'm wondering if it's a network security thing where I am. I'm going to try from my hotel tonight and report back. After update to OS X 10.11 I started having these bugs:   Finder sidebar text flashing  Very high CPU load:      I have Macbook Pro Retina 13" Mid 2014  I reset NVRAM.  I deleted com.apple.finder.plist, it didn't help.  Also I did this: , no longer flashes. (Sorry to re-post this, I have lost access to my original account.)  I've recently installed Kubuntu 18.04.3 on a new AMD Ryzen 3000-series-based system. The system is installed on a SATA SSD, specifically on an Ext4 partition, with a SATA HDD formatted in NTFS mounted for storage. The system has been in use for a few days, with a maximum uptime of two days (so far).  My issue is this: the HDD indicator light on the case flashes every 1-3 seconds, even when the system is idle, and there is no obvious reason to access the disk. The flashes are not regular: sometimes the light is dark for as long as 3 seconds (obviously it is difficult to time such short intervals -- I am approximating), sometimes there are a few quick pulses less than a second apart. The flashes seem to vary in duration as well -- sometimes very brief, sometimes nearly a second. Unmounting the secondary HDD does not appear to have any effect.  Some searching lead me to try iotop. I ran sudo iotop -Pao, and waited until 10 flashes of the HDD light had occurred. This is the result:   6887 be/4 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.02 % [kworker/u64:1-events_power_efficient]   433 be/3 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.02 % [jbd2/sda2-8]  6302 be/4 root          0.00 B      0.00 B  0.00 %  0.01 % [kworker/u64:0-events_unbound]   The "kworker" processes seem to switch between various states, such as "events_power_efficient", "events_unbound", and "events_freezable_power_". The jdb2 process does sometimes write to disk, though that was not observed here (even though, as I said, 10 flashes of the HDD light occurred). The computer was otherwise idle during this test.  My searches also lead me to check /var/log. The result of ls -lth | head is as follows:  -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             951K Aug 27 19:49 kern.log -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             594K Aug 27 19:49 syslog -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm             528K Aug 27 19:49 ufw.log -rw-r-----  1 syslog adm              53K Aug 27 19:48 auth.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root             40K Aug 27 19:15 Xorg.0.log -rw-rw-r--  1 root   utmp             79K Aug 27 18:29 wtmp -rw-r--r--  1 root   root              55 Aug 27 16:28 prime-offload.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root              30 Aug 27 16:28 prime-supported.log -rw-r--r--  1 root   root            1.2K Aug 27 16:28 gpu-manager.log   I have no experience interpreting log files, so I don't know if anything here is out of the ordinary.  If the kernel version is relevant, the output of uname -r is 5.0.0-25-generic.  My questions are, 1. Why is my HDD light flashing, even though there is no obvious disk activity, 2. Does this indicate some kind of problem with my system that needs to be fixed, and 3. If so, how do I fix it? The light itself does not bother me -- if this is just a sign of a normal, healthy Ubuntu install, then no problem. My concern is that something is wrong, and if so, I would like to fix it.  Thanks in advance for your time.  In response to heynnema (in the original posting of this question), the issue occurs even at the log-in screen, before I log in. So, it is not tied to my user account. However, it does not occur in the BIOS, suggesting that it is specific to Kubuntu (or at least, to the SSD Kubuntu is installed on). How to design partitions for SSHD? I'm going to install Linux on Lenovo B5400, which contains:   500GB Hybrid SSHD with a 8 GB SSD and 500 GB HDD   Designing partitions for my 2 Linux distros was quite easy before, when I had only HDD. I always had:   10GB for Linux distro (mounted as "/") 10GB for another distro (again "/"; for another distro; for testing purposes or to assure continuity when switching distros) 2GB for swap (used for both distros; no need to separate) 300GB+ for "/home" (used for both distros; different usernames eliminates possible conflicts)   It's simple, isn't it? I would like to keep this approach, but I know that SSD has its own specificity - it prefers to be read, continuous writing may affect its life span. I don't want to kill SSD in a year, so I would like to move some system partitions to HDD in order to protect SSD. As far as I know /tmp is one of often read&amp;written locations. How much space it needs? What else should be placed on HDD?  Or: how to design partitions to achieve exactly the same effect and to keep SSD as safe as possible?  I'd be grateful for your help. As part of the definition of a cone spell in the handbook:     A cone's point of origin is not included in the cone's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.   As an example, what would either case be for a casting of Burning Hands?   Could the caster include themselves? or does this mean that they can exclude the first square of the cone? Let the ring of fractions be denoted as $S^{-1}R$.       Proposition (from Robert Ash's textbook "Basic Abstract Algebra")      Define $f: R \rightarrow S^{-1}R$ by $f(a) = a/1$. Then f is a ring homomorphism. If S has no zero divisors then f is a monomorphism, and we say that R can be embedded in $S^{-1}R$. In particular:      (i) A commutative ring R cna be embedded in its complete (or *full) ring of fractions ($S^{-1}R$, where S consists of all non-divisors of zero in R).       (ii) An integral domain can be embedded in its quotient field.    Why does the proposition say "If S has no zero divisors..."? If S really had zero divisors, then this wouldn't even be properly defined, right? Because we would have a/0 for some a in R. I am having some issues trying to show multiple fields for a single label in QGIS. In QGIS2.6, attempting to display labels for a feature consisting of multiple fields results in an empty label if one of the fields is null. So for example, in the label expression dialog:  concat("Temp Site",'\n',"Notes",'\n',"Function")   will function normally unless one of the fields is null, then it results in no label being shown. Using the '||' operator instead in the expression dialog also results in the same behaviour:  "Temp Site" || '\n'  ||  "Notes" || '\n'  ||  "Function"   Is there a way to display the labels even if one of the fields is null? "Outside" or "outside of"? listings package in XeLaTeX: every tab in lstlisting compiles to "^^I" in the pdf In beamer class, when i compile using LaTeX, the output pdf results perfectly the way i expect it to. But when i change it to XeLaTeX, in the lstlisting environment, every tab in the code results in a "^^I"-Placeholder (See output-pdf below). How do I fix this?   if( Bedingung ) {  ^^I//Code, der nur ausgefuehrt wird, wenn die Bedingung wahr ist   }  ^^I^^I   LaTeX-Code (Reduced to the minimum, one frame as an example):  \begin{document}     \begin{frame}[fragile]{if-Statements}         \begin{block}{Syntax}                \begin{lstlisting} if( Bedingung ) {     //Code, der nur ausgefuehrt wird, wenn die Bedingung wahr ist }                    \end{lstlisting}         \end{block}         \begin{block}{Logik}                 \begin{itemize}                  \item Alles innerhalb eines if-Blocks wird nur ausgeführt, wenn die Bedingung (in Klammern) wahr ist.             \end{itemize}         \end{block}     \end{frame} \end{document} Solving $\sqrt{x+5} = x - 1$ I'm currently learning about radicals and simplifying them, and I came across this problem on the internet and tried to solve it:  $$\sqrt{x+5} = x - 1$$  So I used this logic:  $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{x+5} &amp;= x - 1 \\ x + 5 &amp;= (x-1)^2 \\ x + 5 &amp;= (x-1)(x-1) \\ x + 5 &amp;= x^2 - 2x + 1 \\ 0 &amp;= x^2 - 3x - 4 \\ 0 &amp;= (x-4)(x+1) \\ \end{align} $$  Therefore, $x = -1$ and $x = 4$ satisfy the equation $0 = (x-4)(x+1)$.  But then I tried to plug them in the original problem $\sqrt{x+5}=x-1$:  $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{4 + 5} &amp;= 4 - 1 \\ \sqrt{9} &amp;= 3 \\ 3 &amp;= 3 \end{align} $$  So using 4 works as expected, but when using $-1$:  $$ \begin{align} \sqrt{-1 + 5} &amp;= -1 - 1 \\ \sqrt{4} &amp;= -2 \\ 2 &amp;\ne -2 \end{align} $$  At what stage am I going wrong?  And according the , the solution is $x = 4$. Deleting polygon defined area from raster layer in ArcGIS Desktop? Which tool do I use in ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop to exclude areas covered by vector polygon layers from a raster layer?   I want to keep portions of the raster layers that exclude the portions covered by the vector layer. Django model with 2 foreign keys from the same table Is there an MD5 Fixed Point where md5(x) == x? Is there a fixed point in the MD5 transformation, i.e. does there exist x such that md5(x) == x? The problem is, when I open applications I need to always right click, select run as admin.     When I don't do it getting unexpected application errors. BTW, I turned off UAC.   It's annoying. Is there any way to change behavior of double left-click to act as "Run as administrator" action? I mean to make "Run as administrator" action by default. Thx in advance Is "until" inclusive or exclusive? I sent an email to someone and got an auto-reply saying:     I am out of the office until 09/15/2014.   Does this mean he will be available on the morning of the 15th? A Question On Euler's Proof Of the Basel Problem I've studied the proof that Euler gave for the famous , and it would seem that while it is technically correct, he does not justify all of his steps properly. Namely, he assumes that   $$\frac{\sin(x)}{x}=\left(1-\frac{x}{\pi}\right)\left(1+\frac{x}{\pi}\right)\left(1-\frac{x}{2\pi}\right)\left(1+\frac{x}{2\pi}\right)\dots$$  simply because they have the same roots, which is really not a strong enough condition. How do you really show that the equality holds?  He then notices that if you use the above equality, and consider it against the Taylor expansion for $\frac{\sin(x)}{x}$, then you can equate the coefficients of the two infinite expansions at each order, and the result of the Basel problem follows. But how do you know that if you have two different expansions for a function, then their coefficients at each order must be equal?  I would really appreciate if someone could show me how to make these two intuitive, yet informal, steps rigorous. inverted breve accent in math mode Ice skater increase of energy This may be a very basic question but I am not seeing how it works. Consider the standard example of an ice skate rotating about his/her center of mass and pulling in his/her arms. The torque is zero so we have conservation of angular momentum. This implies that $\omega$ increases to keep $I\omega$ constant, but then $K_{rot}=\frac{1}{2}I\omega^2$ doesn't stay constant, it increases. This implies that there is work done, but what force is doing this work? In a  question, an answerer says:  an empty bag is a bag with nothing inside it.  Makes sense, but I'm reading a textbook right now that says:  The empty set has only one subset (namely, itself).  Which seems odd to me. If a set is empty, why would it contain a subset? Regardless of whether or not the subset is also an empty set, the &quot;empty set&quot; still contains a subset, so how is it really &quot;empty&quot;? To go back to the empty bag analogy, it just sounds like my text book is saying:  an empty bag is a bag with nothing but an empty bag inside it.  Which doesn't make sense because then the bag isn't empty. I can't wrap my head around this concept. It would be nice to allow users to mark a change in an answer (or question) as minor (e.g. for a simple spelling or grammar correction). A change marked as minor wouldn't push the question on top of the list of questions on the home page or in the feeds. It wouldn't trigger any notification. This could be implemented with a "Minor change" checkbox when editing an entry (a la Confluence). What do you think?