micro ampere measurements
How to measure supply currents ranging from 1μA to 10mA?
pgAdmin 4: How to establish a connection through an SSH tunnel/interface in Windows I installed the latest pgAdmin 4 (v2.1) but I found out that (), for the moment, the only way to establish a connection through an SSH tunneling is using another outside process, an  says:  I setup a tunnel as follows: ssh -f dpage(at)hostname(dot)enterprisedb(dot)com -L 5999: hostname.enterprisedb.com:5432 -N  (...) I was running on Mac, but the same procedure should work on Linux. On Windows, there's a tunnelling app in Putty iirc, but I don't know how to use it offhand.  I have found a simple . The connection is established but it seems, when I try to connect through pgAdmin it fails or is refused (using 127.0.0.1:3306 or 127.0.0.1:5432 as the tunnel's destination). Why? Identifying a short story about advertising Has a double slit experiment ever been done using a track chamber or even contemplated? I tried searches and the question has been posed in other fora, but no experiment came up.   Track chambers (cloud chambers, bubble chambers , time projection chambers, solid state detectors like the vertex detectors at LHC)  give the track of the particle as it ionizes the  medium, and could be carried out in geometry after the particle has passed the double slit. The straight track should be pointing back to the slit it came from and its record could be used as the points on the screen in the classical double slit experiment.  The set up as I see it would be the classical setup for single electron through the double slits but instead of a "screen" one has a detector and detects the track.  It should be a long enough detector to get an accuracy less than the slit difference so it could point back to the slit, as the interslit distance is of the order of 100 microns and detectors are giving order of microns accuracies.  This experiment, if possible,  would resolve the controversy whether the detection of the slit destroys the interference pattern or the  at the slits change the boundary conditions and destroy the interference pattern.  An expert's opinion is necessary whether the experiment is possible, whether the energies of the electrons to show interference with a specific d separation is enough to create an accurate track in a solid state detector. If not a cloud chamber would do , but again the energy of the electron would be important because it would have to pass the barrier air/chamber.  It could succeed if the double slits were within a cloud/ bubble chamber; the beam count was low  (10 to twelve per picture) but it was spread in the vertical direction. If the beam could be focused on the slits , it should be doable. During the First Wizarding War, why didn't Dumbledore just hunt Voldemort down, as he had done with Grindelwald?  By 'hunting down', I mean finding, defeating and imprisoning him, exactly as in Gridelwald's case, and not, say killing him, something which Dumbledore would not do, as the answers to a previous question (as to him not hunting down Death Eaters) show.  Dumbledore knew that Voldemort had delved into the Dark Arts deeper than anyone else in history and hence "had powers he will never have". But he must have also known well that he could have defeated Voldemort at a direct confrontation, given that he had defeated Grindelwald earlier even against the Elder Wand, and now had that same wand at his disposal. He is seen confident about this throughout the series.  At the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, he did not go beyond outweighing Voldemort and forcing him to flee, probably because, by then, he had reasons to suspect that there was more to Voldemort's survival than his physical body, and thus, destroying that body which had Harry's blood without permanently disposing him off would not have been wise.  But why did he not do that at the First Wizarding War? Is it just that they could not track him down, or did he suspect even then that Voldemort had more sinister things about his soul? is there any canon confirmation of the latter suspicion? What is the difference between IQueryable and IEnumerable? What is the difference between IQueryable&lt;T&gt; and IEnumerable&lt;T&gt;?    See also  that overlaps with this question. Construct a network of citations Qt signaling across threads, one is GUI thread? What does "65" mean? Account not acting as an administrator correctly My account, david, is in the Administrators group on a Windows 7 machine.  I am still having problems with programs that I should be able to use, such as SQL Server. Specifically, my account seems to not have correct permissions when I am working.  I know with an Administrator account I should have full access. How can I force my account (david) to act like an admin account and have full access to everything? How to find previous boot log after Ubuntu 16.04+ restarts? My question is, how can I find boot log from previous system boot attempt?  Today when first powering on my PC, boot process stopped on Ubuntu logo, when I pressed Esc I have seen several lines containing some kernel error and restart required at the bottom, so I pressed Ctrl+ALt+Del and next boot went OK without problems.  I have trouble finding messages from the screen I have seen during the first unsuccessful boot. Should I have taken picture to my phone?  /var/log/boot is there but empty, I searched  and  for strings I remembered with today's date like error but found nothing familiar to what I have seen on previous boot screen.  $ journalctl -b -1 gives me only kernel messages during boot, I can find that elsewhere too, and they are not what was appearing on screen during boot, journalctl is useless for me, I am looking for messages appearing on screen during boot time.  For now, only option is take a photo of write the message on paper. "approach to address" or "approach to addressing"? Depending on our point of view, we offer different approaches to address(ing?) a same issue.   Should I use &mdash;ing in this context, and if yes, why? Index of the center of a group in the group is not a prime number The question is to prove index of $Z(G)$ in $G$ is not a prime number.    We know that $|G:Z(G)|=|G:C_G (x)||C_G (x):Z(G)|$ where $C_G (x)$ means centralizer of $x \in G$  I want to mention that we do not want to use $G⁄Z(G)$ theorem.   We may assume that $|G:Z(G)|=p$ where $p$ is a prime. What does asterisk * mean in Python? Does * have a special meaning in Python as it does in C? I saw a function like this in the Python Cookbook:  def get(self, *a, **kw)   Would you please explain it to me or point out where I can find an answer (Google interprets the * as wild card character and thus I cannot find a satisfactory answer). says that a photon of  to $10^{-62}$ kg has been detected:     10×10−62 kg   Mass equivalent of the energy of the lightest photon   detected [citation needed]   This equates ($mc^2=E=hf=h\frac{c}{\lambda}$) to a wavelength of $\lambda=2.2\times 10^{20}$ m (roughly a million ly)! Can anyone provide a citation for this measurement? And how can such a large wavelength/low energy photon be detected?  Edit  Apart from the quotation (true/false un/reliable un/documented ....), I'd like to learn about the lightest photon detected, or about the instrumental limit: what is the lower limit of energy that can be registerd by an intrument (or the greatest wavelength), and how it is done? For example, can you detect a radiowave of 1 Hz? How do I get useful SQL Server database performance statistics? We currently have several shared SQL Server servers and instances in our organization. They are going with a different architecture where business units will get their own SQL Server instances. We have SQL Server 2008R2.  In the past, databases were put on servers in a more or less random fashion -- business use and disk space were the main drivers.  I've been tasked with coming up with a plan for allocating our 50+ databases across 3 servers (one instance per server). My criteria for divvying them up is as follows:   Business critical db's should be spread across the servers. i.e. avoid lumping a bunch of business critical db's all one server.   For the remainder of the non-mission critical db's, consider: a. Disk space usage b. I/O usage -- memory, CPU, etc.     1 and 2a are easy for me to figure out. I know how to get data file sizes.   My question is with that last bit - 2b. I do not know how relevant this is, what specific stats to look at, or how to get them.   Frankly, I'm not 100% sure how to phrase this question! I think I basically want to know is, "How 'busy' is this db -- however you define 'busy'?" Or maybe, "How does this db impact the performance of the server?"  I mean, disk space is important -- but it could (in theory) have a ton of rows or binary objects in there that are not written very often, so it has little impact on the performance of the server. I think I would want to know how much impact a db within a date range.  Is there a way to get these kind of general stats? I'm not looking for expensive queries, detailed user stats, or query optimization here. I'm aware of the SSMS reports, but they seem to be more real-time. The end goal is to divide up our current databases into evenly balanced buckets, and I would think performance is one way to do that.  Thoughts? Wisdom? Any other ideas on how to divvy up the db's?  Thanks! Tom How to skip kernel update? I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS i686 on VirtulBox. Every time I check the updates, there's a new Linux kernel. If I install the new kernel, I have to install the Virtulbox Guest Additions again and reboot the server. I don't want to do this every week. I know I can manually uncheck the kernel packages from update manager, but is there a way to skip the kernel update automatically? I found an answer here, but it's for Ubuntu 10. Thanks. number of ways to make $2.00 Sum of indepedent random variables and a constant Let $X_1$ and $X_2$ be independent Normal random variables with mean $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$, and variances $\sigma_1$ and $\sigma_2$. Let $Y = X_2-X_1 + c$, where $c$ is a constant. For notational simplicity, let $Y = X' + c$, where $X' = X_2-X_1$ The moment generating function of a Normal random variable $X_n\sim N(μ_n,σ_n^2)$ is $$M_{X_n } (t)=\text{exp}\Big(μ_n t+\frac{σ_n^2 t^2}{2}\Big)$$ Then, $$M_{X'} (t)=\text{exp}\Big[t(\mu_1+\mu_2)+\frac{t^2}{2}(\sigma^2_1+\sigma^2_2)\Big]$$ Thus, by the uniqueness property of moment generating function, $X'$ is said to follow a Normal distribution with mean $(\mu_1+\mu_2)$ and variance $(\sigma^2_1+\sigma^2_2)$. How do I proceed from here to derive the following:  First, I want to establish that $Y$ is also a Normal random variable using the moment generating function. The constant $c$ bugs me, but I cannot ignore it. As per my understanding, $Y\sim N\big(c+\mu_1+\mu_2,\sigma^2_1+\sigma^2_2\big)$ (and I could be completely wrong). But I don't understand how to apply the moment generating function to prove that.  Secondly, I want to derive $P(Y \leq a)$, where $a$ is a constant. If I am not mistaken, $P(Y \leq a)$ can be written as $$P(Y \leq a)=\Phi\Bigg(\frac{a-X_2-X_1 + c}{\sqrt{2(\sigma^2_1+\sigma^2_2)}}\Bigg).$$ But how do I arrive at that.   Any help is high solicited and appreciated. Traditional statistical tests, like the two sample t-test, focus on trying to eliminate the hypothesis that there is no difference between a function of two independent samples. Then, we choose a confidence level and say that if the difference of means is beyond the 95% level, we can reject the null hypothesis. If not, we "can't reject the null hypothesis". This seems to imply that we can't accept it either. Does it mean we're not sure if the null hypothesis is true?   Now, I want to design a test where my hypothesis is that a function of two samples is the same (which is the opposite of traditional statistics tests where the hypothesis is that the two samples are different). So, my null hypothesis becomes that the two samples are different. How should I design such a test? Will it be as simple as saying that if the p-value is lesser than 5% we can accept the hypothesis that there is no significant difference? I have a problem understanding the proof of Rencontres numbers (Derangements)