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How do I join my partitions? How do I know I have the correct exposure when shooting in manual mode? I have a Canon XTI which I've been using for a few years now. Most of the time I'm been shooting in one of the "semi-manual" modes like aperture priority or shutter priority, but now I'd like to try using full manual mode. I should have a new EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 delivered when I get home today. Before I was using a variable aperture Sigma 17-70 which made manual mode more difficult with the aperture changing arbitrarily.  I understand the effect of changing aperture and shutter speed, but right now I'm accustomed  to only controlling one at a time. The camera is usually setting the other to get the right exposure automatically for me. So if I'm controlling both how do I know I have the correct exposure? I understand I need to use the metering in my camera but I'm not sure exactly how do do that.   First when should I be using each of the metering modes (Evaluative, Partial, Center weighted, or Spot)? These just change the area of the scene which is metered correct?  How do I know what the meter should read off a specific object? Obviously if I just happen to be shooting a 18% gray wall then it should be at zero, but that can't apply to everything? If I'm shooting a black cat and take a spot meter reading off of the cat then the meter should read less then zero right? But how do I know how much less then zero? Are there rules of thumb I can follow? I've ordered a couple gray cards with my new lens. So experimenting with those should help.  How often should I be changing these settings? Say I'm at a party indoors which is consistently lit. I should be able to set the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and just forget about it unless the lighting changes correct? Does the same apply to outdoor scenes? I've been hesitant to use manual mode in the past because I felt like I was spending a lot of times messing with settings before each shot. But not I'm realizing that this is really only the case when the lighting changes, or I want a different style of photo such as a different depth of field.  Finally, does exposure change with distance to the subject? For example say I want to take a picture of a statue with correct exposure using a gray card. I'd place the card on the statue, and while being careful not the block the light on the card find the correct exposure by spot metering the card. If I were then to step back 20' to get the whole statue in frame would I still have the correct exposure? Old Budrys(?) end-of-world/alien invasion of NYC story This one, from the late 1950s or early 60s (I think), features the last girl in NYC, who drives her jeep up the stairs of the main library (with the lions). She feels bad about breaking the lock, but what's a girl to do, if she wants something to read? In summertime, she drives topless and, the author writes, her bosom dances enchantingly on the steps. She lives in the boathouse on the lake in Central Park. Mysterious insect-like aliens are eating the buildings in the City.... I didn't recognize a title in Budrys or Bester's isfdb bibliogs, so I may be wrong about the author. But not about the story details: it's a memorable one. Thanks in advance for helping ID this one! Asymptotics of uniformly continuous functions over $\mathbb R$ Which one should should I use? For some reason I have always used "towards", but I see some people saying "toward", like :     A great deal of his work in economic   theory has been directed toward   strengthening the foundations of our   understanding of central banking and   social insurance--indeed, one of my   most advanced macroeconomic classes   was nothing but a set of changes rung   upon a particular model that Peter   Diamond had advanced at...   Is there a difference between the two? When should they be used? This question is also open on EL&amp;U:   Considering the amount of controversy it aroused, I believe it's past "Learners'" level.    An edit was suggested to my sentence.     There was were an orange, some grapes, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   In my native language plurality of the verb always follows plurality of the first element on the list. There were an orange,... sounds awkward to me, no matter what follows up. My simple solution was reordering:     There were some grapes, an orange, two apples and a small pile of cherries on the plate.   But that's not the first time I faced this situation and I'd like to know what the rules of grammar say about that — was my editor overzealous or am I trying to copy rules of my language that don't apply in English? I need to set the text within a DIV element dynamically. What is the best, browser safe approach? I have prototypejs and scriptaculous available.  &lt;div id="panel"&gt;   &lt;div id="field_name"&gt;TEXT GOES HERE&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   Here's what the function will look like:  function showPanel(fieldName) {   var fieldNameElement = document.getElementById('field_name');   //Make replacement here } I want to convert .mov to .mp4! I saved the video from iMovie but it is in .mov format! How do I convert it to .mp4?  I'm using a MacBook and I want to share it to my phone, but my phone can't open .mov format video. "This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat." Is something similar to Robin's theorem known for possible exceptions to Lagarias' inequality? Robin's theorem says that if $$\sigma(n)&lt;e^\gamma n\log\log n$$ holds for all $n&gt;5040$, where $\sigma(n)$ is the sum of divisors of $n$, then the Riemann hypothesis is true, but if there are any counterexamples, then they are colossally abundant numbers, and there are infinitely many counterexamples.  Lagarias' theorem says $$\sigma(n)\leq H_n+e^{H_n}\log(H_n)$$ holding for all natural numbers $n$ is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, where $H_n$ is the $n$th harmonic number, the sum of the reciprocals of the first $n$ positive integers. It looks like Lagarias' inequality is sharper than Robin's, so any counterexamples to Robin's inequality must also be counterexamples to Lagarias'. Is known to be impossible for integers that aren't colossally abundant numbers or of some similar more general type to be exceptions to Lagarias' inequality? ICANN charges 18¢ per domain name registered regardless of its extension, but I pay $10 for a domain name per year with my registrar.   What do domain name registrars do for its customers to justify this extra $9.82?  Is there something that they do for our domain names other than registering it with ICANN?   I just read about the 7 people who hold the ICANN database key and got a little bit curious to know what the domain name servers do for us to justify this extra amount (12 times the actual fee)? When I set up a site in multiple languages, how should I set up my URLs for search engines and usability?  Let's say my site is www.example.com, and I'm translating into French and Spanish. What is best for usability and SEO?  Directory option:  http://www.example.com/sample.html http://www.example.com/fr/sample.html http://www.example.com/es/sample.html   Subdomain option:  http://www.example.com/sample.html http://fr.example.com/sample.html http://es.example.com/sample.html   Filename option:  http://www.example.com/sample.html http://www.example.com/sample.fr.html http://www.example.com/sample.es.html   Accept-Language header:  Or should I simply parse the  header and generate content server-side to suit that header?  Is there another way to do this? If the different language versions don't have different urls, what do I do about the search engines?    UPDATE 2011-12-06  Google has new recommendations for meta tags for explicitly pointing to other language content: .  UPDATE 2012-05-25  Related but not precisely:   UPDATE 2013-06-12  includes discussion of several URL schemes directly relevant to the question. Derivative of function with 2 variables I've leart in Calculus 1 that the derivetive of $f(x)$ is:  $$\lim_{h\to0} \frac{f(x+h) - f(x)}{h}$$.  suppose $f(x,y)$ is a function with 2 variables,  does $$f'(x,y) = \lim_{h\to0} \frac{f(x+h, y+h) - f(x,y)}{h}$$ ?  If not , what is the derivetive of function with 2 variables? How to show $\alpha\int_a^cf(x)dx+\beta \int_c^b f(x)dx =0$ means $f(x)=0$ everywhere $?$ Question :  Let $$f\ :\ [a,b]\rightarrow \mathbb R$$   be  continuous . And  there  exist  constants  $\alpha$  $\beta$  such  that  $\forall c\in [a,b]$  $$\alpha \int_a^c f(x)dx +\beta \int_c^b f(x)dx =0 $$   Prove  that  $f=0$  allover  $[a,b]$.  Attempt :(not much useful )   Since  the  equation  holds  for  all  $c\in [a,b]$   , if  take  $c=a$  then  we  have $$\beta \int_a^b f(x)dx =0 $$  And  taking  $c=b$  we  get $$\alpha \int_a^b f(x)dx=0 $$  See  if  both  $\alpha=0$  and  $\beta=0$  hold  then  there  is  nothing  to  do . If  only  one  of  them  is  $0$   and  the  other  is  non-zero  then  from  the  last  two  equations  we  get $$\int_a^b f(x)dx =0 $$ and  this  does   not  ensure   $f$'s  being  identically  $0$  on  $[a,b]$ (for  example : $f(x)=sin x$  and $a=0$,$b=2\pi $ ) .   So  our  only  possibility  is  that  both $\alpha \neq 0$  and $\beta \neq 0$  must  hold .  Now  I  cannot  proceed  any  further  from  this  point . Please  give  me  some   hints  as  to  what  to  do  next .  Thaanks. Problem with IPv6 sudo apt-get update/upgrade I am using Ubuntu 16.04 Beta 2 at the moment and every time I try to update at home via sudo apt-get update or upgrade trough sudo apt-get upgrade I wont get any feedback. Even installing of anything will have the same result. It will just "hang up" on 0% while fetching data.  $ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for niclas:  0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com (2001:67c:1560:8001::11)] [Connecting to archive.canonical.com (2001:67c:1360:8c01::1b)]   I have no idea how to solve the problem. I already tried to ping6 archive.ubuntu.com with 100% packet loss while just ping wont have any loss.  I changed the DNS-Server (IPv4 &amp; IPv6) to Google's one no solution either. How do I disable negative scaling? By default blender allows you to scale past 0 - how do I prevent this?  i.e. it's common in other 3D modelling software to resize a set of vertices against an axis to align them - however this isn't possible when negative scaling is enabled. Which stats / gear can get the best our of wasteland exploration? Trying to get the best out of wasteland exploration here! I get it that you'd obviously need a big gun for survival out there, but apart from that, I'm wondering which stats / gear can get the best out of exploration.    How would you choose who to send out exploring from your dwellers. Which stat is the most important to choose explorers? Strength or endurance maybe? Does it make much of a difference equipping combat outfits? If so, whats the most important stat to boost through outfits? I exported a map and everything looks fine when viewing the PDF. But when printing it on my plotter, all the text disappears. The scale bar would bring but the text associated to the scale bar wouldn't. The title block also disappears. I've tried messing around with the settings. I've checked/unchecked &quot;Embed All Document Fonts&quot; and &quot;Convert Marker Symbols to Polygons&quot;. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. What's weird is I exported this map a few weeks ago and it printed just fine. Today, I needed to make a change to the map and exported it out, and now I am experiencing this issue. I must have changed one of the export settings in the past few weeks but I'm not sure what it is. Has anyone experienced this? How do I get a selected vertex and it's corresponding uv vertex?  A vertex I can get with  bpy.context.active_object.data.vertices[0]   A uv vertex I can get with  bpy.context.active_object.data.uv_layers['UVMap'].data[0]   But the index is not the same for uv and mesh vertex. 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?