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Headers of \chapters* take the headers of their previous \chapter When using book.cls and using \chapter* after a \chapter, the header used in \chapter* is wrong. An example is pasted below.   Is there any known workaround for that? I have tried quite some tricks without success.   \documentclass[]{book}  \begin{document}  \chapter{First Chapter} aslkjdf  \chapter*{Unnumbered Chapter} The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.  The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program--to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.  When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.  To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.  For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.  Developers that use the GNU GPL protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License giving you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify it.  For the developers' and authors' protection, the GPL clearly explains that there is no warranty for this free software. For both users' and authors' sake, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, so that their problems will not be attributed erroneously to authors of previous versions.  Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software. The systematic pattern of such abuse occurs in the area of products for individuals to use, which is precisely where it is most unacceptable. Therefore, we have designed this version of the GPL to prohibit the practice for those products. If such problems arise substantially in other domains, we stand ready to extend this provision to those domains in future versions of the GPL, as needed to protect the freedom of users.  Finally, every program is threatened constantly by software patents. States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free.  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification follow.  \end{document} Why do I have blurred vision and how do I fix it? Can anyone explain to me why I would want to use IList over List in C#?  Related question: This is a story that was read on BBC radio about thirty years ago, and this is about as right as I can remember it: The human pilot of a spacecraft is doing some reconnaissance on an alien planet. He crashes but survives. For some reason, no one will know where to look for him. He sees something in the distance that looks like a building of some sort. When he gets there, it seems to be a home. Very much like a human home. There's furniture, but it's strange and uncomfortable . There's food, but it's inedible. There's a faucet but what comes out of it seems more like acid. Everything looks as though it should be right, but it's not. He leaves the house, wanders and after a few days is desperate for water. But there isn't any water anywhere. He's close to death, crawling on the ground and then something happens. There are cracks in the soil and there appears to be water bubbling up from perhaps some underground stream. The water revives him. He goes back to the house and tries the food again. It's delicious and he eats enough to gain back his strength. Then he decides to try the water again. It's pure and wonderful. He takes a shower and the last line of the story is how refreshing the water is on his skin and something about him lifting his tail. How can I mirror one of the screens in a 3-monitor setup? This is irritating me. I seen several suggestions (all using different files and syntax) and none of them worked.  How do I set an environment variable for a specific user? I am on debian squeeze. What is the exact syntax I should put in the file to make ABC = "123"? /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set I have run following command accidentally   sudo chown [username] -hR /   Now sudo su getting error:  sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set   How to Solve This? How can I disable Alt-Scroll zoom in XFCE4 (Xubuntu) In XFCE4 desktop environments, alt+scroll wheel zooms my entire desktop. I'm finding this very annoying because sometimes I flick the scroll wheel to go to the top of a document then press the alt key for a some unrelated keyboard shortcut and find myself zoomed in so far I can't see anything at all. Is there any way to disable this feature? Reasons not to use a 741 op-amp? View the change history of a file using Git versioning How can I view the change history of an individual file in Git, complete details with what has changed?  I have got as far as:   git log -- [filename]   which shows me the commit history of the file, but how do I get at the content of each of the file changes?  I'm trying to make the transition from MS SourceSafe and that used to be a simple right-click → show history. GZip of drive image created by using `dd` command I created yesterday a drive image using GZip.  I opened the 51.3 GiB file named ssd.img.gz to see one icon thats a package of 3.9 GiB, yes, thats THree point Nine Gigabytes in size and has the name of the image as ssd.img  That does not seem right to me, has the image creation worked or not?  Yes the drives have data and an operating system on it.  Should I have used cat instead? only I did and it kept on saying that it had nothing to do.  Would using the | zip instead be a better option?    ** EDIT **  The command used was:  mark@zotac:~$ sudo -l Enter password:&lt;entered password to get in to root&gt; root@zotac:~# dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c &gt; "/media/mark/Seagate External Drive/ssd.img.gz   the terminal spent the best part of 10 Hours at building the image, something in itself that I also found suspect, why so log when copying the files to a folder that I wanted, some 40GiB took 45 minutes...  The source drive /dev/sda had no mounted partitions.     ** EDIT **  Just to clarify, I am trying to make an image of the drive to back up later if things go wrong with a repair, the drive itself needs to be a file on a drive as the target drive partition is using almost all of the drive, the partitions can't be resized on it without formatting it and I am not about to lose 1.4TB of data.   So the dd if=/dev/sda of=/&lt;target&gt; isn't what I need, what I do need is an image of the drive that I can restore the image from to the drive should the repair go wrong.  So what command do I use, dd or cat? Why does | zip keep telling me it has nothing to do when used with cat but no error or warning with dd Is this an instance of Priori Incantatem? During the climax of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Tina briefly duels with Graves and their wands appear to lock with each other (see picture). I believe this also happens some other times in the later Harry Potter films other than Harry and Voldemort's duel in the graveyard during Goblet of Fire.    We know that this is definitely a case of Priori Incantatem for the graveyard duel in Goblet of Fire, as the wands are locked for a sufficient amount of time for past spells to begin showing themselves (significantly, showing the people Voldemort had murdered), but is this the case for the other instances of wands locking? If so, does that mean there are a lot more wands out there with shared cores, as it was my understanding this could only happen if that criteria was satisfied? What does rate of change actually mean? If we have a function, say, $y=x^2$, then $dy/dx=2x$. Now $y=1,4,9,16...$ for $x=1,2,3,4...$ and $dy/dx=2,4,6,8...$ for $x=1,2,3,4...$ Now as $dy/dx$ represents rate of change of y w.r.t x but I can't understand how these particluar values of $dy/dx$ represent change ? I mean for x=3, the rate of change is 6. What does it mean ? Beautiful table samples I'm interested in learning about some nice-looking table samples. Colors can make a huge difference, and just providing some color to headers, background, or borders can dramatically change presentation. Any samples you're proud to share?  (BTW here's a sample I like, but unfortunately, not TeX...) I wonder which of the two is correct:        I have a red and a blue car.   I have a red and a blue cars.      or        Everyone has a left and a right arms.   Everyone has a left and a right arm.      My (non-native) inclination would be for option 1, as it sounds better.  On the other hand, in the following examples, the plural sounds better to me.    Everyone has left and right arms. I have old and new cars. (when I only have only one old car and one new car) The left and the right arms are...   But are they correct? How to sort lines with >> double angle brackets? It seems that sort behaves strangely on lines such as &gt;&gt;b    $ cat test a &gt;&gt;b b c &gt; &gt;&gt;  $ sort test &gt; &gt;&gt; a b &gt;&gt;b c   I would expect the &gt;&gt;b line to be the third line output by sort but it is the fifth. Why does it do this and is there a way to make sort give my expected output?    I'm using GNU/Linux Ubuntu 16.04. Error: Account is Not Allowed To Suggest Edits I get this message while trying to edit a post on SuperUser while using the iOS mobile app. I have at least 101 reputation on SU, more than enough to be able to edit posts. This appears to be a bug. What is the name of the operation $v^T H v$? To find out how something is called is the one thing I don't know how to use Google for.  If I have a vector $v$ and a symmetric matrix $H$, then the operation $v^T H v$ gives me some sort of projection of the matrix $H$ on the vector $v$. For example if $H$ is the Hessian, the operation gives me the second derivative in the direction of $v$.  What is the name of this operation? Defend against flag spam in chat We have incidents where we get 10+ flags from the same room in rapid succession. This happens on multiple occasions and we have reason to believe it's a single user doing this.  I don't think it's of value to allow a single user to flag more then n messages in a small time period.  If we could have some anti-flag spam measures put in place, then that would be great. Is soaking beans 24 hours unrefrigerated safe?