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How can I disable creepers' block damage on my Minecraft server? Please note that these are NOT acceptable solutions:   Completely disabling monsters (peaceful mode) Completely removing creepers Completely disabling explosions (TNT + Creepers) Disabling creeper explosions   More exactly, I want the creepers to be able to spawn and explode, but without doing their terrain damage (they should still be doing health damage to the players).  I'm fine with the use of mods but I'd prefer a built-in solution if possible. What is the closure of an open ball $B_X(\mathbf{a},r)$ in $X=\mathbb{R}^n$? Suppose we have the open ball $B_{X}(\mathbf{a},r)$ and the closed ball $\bar{B}_{X}(\mathbf{a},r)$ of radius $r$ about $\mathbf{a}\in\mathbb{R}^n=X$ with the Euclidean metric $d_2$.  What is the closure of an open ball $B_{X}(\mathbf{a},r)$ in $(\mathbb{R}^n,d_2)$?  First, I have defined the sets like this:  $$B_X(\mathbf{a},r)=\{\mathbf{y}\in\mathbb{R}^n:d_2(\mathbf{a},\mathbf{y})&lt;r\}$$ $$\bar{B}_X(\mathbf{a},r)=\{\mathbf{y}\in\mathbb{R}^n:d_2(\mathbf{a},\mathbf{y})\le r\}$$  Then, let $U=B_X(\mathbf{a},r)$ and claim the closure is $$\bar{U}=\{\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n:\exists (\mathbf{x}_n)\in U\text{s.t}~\mathbf{x}_n\to \mathbf{x}\}=\bar{B}_X(\mathbf{a},r).$$  Since closed balls are closed then we have $$\bar{U}\subset\bar{B}_X(\mathbf{a},r).$$  But, how can I prove the other direction $\bar{B}_X(\mathbf{a},r)\subset\bar{U}$?  Since it's a containment argument I know that I have to take any element from $\bar{B}_X(\mathbf{a},r)$ and show it is in $\bar{U}=\{\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n:\exists (\mathbf{x}_n)\in U\text{s.t}~\mathbf{x}_n\to \mathbf{x}\}$.  But I do not know how to get an expression for $\mathbf{x}_n$.  I would appreciate any help. What would be the quickest way to construct a Python binding to a C or C++ library?  (I am using Windows if this matters.) Multivariable limit proof: $\lim\limits_{(x,y)\rightarrow (0,0)}\frac{\left|x\right|^a\left|y\right|^b}{\left|x\right|^c + \left|y\right|^d} = 0$ I have some trouble with this: Show that if $a, b \ge 0$, $c, d &gt; 0$ and $\frac{a}{c} + \frac{b}{d} &gt; 1$ then   $$\lim_{(x,y)\rightarrow (0,0)}\frac{\left|x\right|^a\left|y\right|^b}{\left|x\right|^c + \left|y\right|^d} = 0$$  we were not really shown how to evaluate multivariable limits other than trying different paths, which wouldn't work when the limit exists, or by applying the squeeze theorem which is my initial plan. Unfortunately I cannot find a proper bound for the denominator and so I am quite lost right now. Any help would be appreciated. Caps-lock remapping stops working I have caps-lock key remapped to control, which usually works fine, but after some uptime and one/more suspend/awake cycles* this mapping breaks, and caps-lock reverts back to the default behavior -- i.e. turning on the led and capitalizing whatever I type. (Even though the Tweaks UI still shows it as being mapped to Ctrl -- see picture below.)  Questions:  Is this a known issue (with maybe a known fix)? (Could not find anything relevant with a quick search.) Is there a way to debug the problem, preferably from the command line?  *Remark: I'm not sure it is the suspend/awake cycle that causes the problem, but I can't connect it to anything else... Remark2: removing and readding the mapping (or rebooting) solves the problem, but it would be nice to find a more permanent solution. How to convince airport security that I am not dangerous when having metallic parts in my body? I had an operation some time ago and now I have small screws in my shoulder which will not be removed anymore. When I decided to fly for vacation, I supposed that these will may bring me into trouble at the airport when going through the metal detector.  So I asked my doctor and at the hospital if there is any kind of "passport" or something similar which confirms the screws in my shoulder so that I do not get into many problems. Unfortunately, they told me such things do only exist if you get a new knee or something, not if you just have a few screws in your body.  When I flew from Vienna to Amsterdam and back, my fears were confirmed: The security staff inspected me very precise, and I had to explain them my story. Thank god I have some scars left so they believed me!  However this is not a permanent solution for the future. Is there any international "passport" which my doctor and hospital do not know about? If not, what else are my possibilities?  I am not that afraid when travelling within the EU, however I fear that this situation might get quite dangerous when I'm in other countries... how many conditional sentence types are possible? I wonder how many conditional sentence types are possible. Basically, there are four main and two mixed types. By mixing tenses, it could be up to nine of them. Are the rest viable?  I came across the following examples in Full Spate Pre-Profficiency Primer:   After you have just sold alcohol to a young guy. If he is if under eighteen, you should not have sold him the alcohol. If he promised to bring the drinks, he will. If you will take a seat, the doctor will see you shortly. (Likely, the former will demonstrates politeness only.) I would be grateful if you would tell me a little about your friends. (The same politeness, but would instead.) If he will keep eating all those biscuits, he can not expect to stay as slim as he used to be.   I would be grateful if someone could shed more light on the topic. How to reduce memory usage on a Unix webserver I'm currently using a Joyent Accelerator to host my webapps, and it's working fine, however I need to reduce costs so I'm downgrading my current plan and that imposes some new memory limits (256M rss, 512M swap). I wasn't too far over them yesterday, but after restarting Apache several times today, I'm now 411M rss, 721M swap (prstat -Z -s cpu).  Searching in Server Fault only gives me lots of ways and specific tools to monitor the server, but no advice on how to reduce/optimize it's memory usage. I've also seen , but I don't think it's good for this particular (or may I say generic?) situation.  The server is running Solaris on a shared CPU, and I'm using a Apache + MySQL + PHP stack.  I'm interested in knowing the steps one can take to troubleshot this and solve the issues. However, I'm also running out of time to lower my memory foot print and downgrade the plan before the current ends, so anything that can make magic and save the day is welcome as well :) QThread and QTimer I'm trying to process some data in Excel. The data includes numeric account numbers and other long numeric strings (like cell phone MEIDs). I am not doing math operations on these strings, so I want Excel to treat them as plain text.  Here is what is making me nuts (this is Excel 2010):   Take a long number like 1240800388917 and paste it in a cell in a new worksheet. Excel's default cell format is general, so the string is presented in scientific notation as 1.2408E+12 Right click on the cell, select Format Cells, set the format to Text   The cell is still displayed in scientific notation, even though the format has been set to text.  Now, if I do the steps in a different order:   Format an empty cell as text. Right click on the cell, select Format Cells, set the format to Text Take a long number like 1240800388917 and paste it in to the text formatted cell   Now, the cell is displayed as a string and not in scientific notation.  The results remaining in scientific notation even though the cell is formatted as text just seems broken to me. I've seen suggested work-arounds like: use CSV import and set the format to text, add a space character to the beginning of each numeric string, and others.  Is there a simple good work around to easily keep these strings formatted as text?  Why on earth does Excel do this?  Related SU questions I found:  and How were the solar masses and distance of the GW150914 merger event calculated from the signal? 1.7.4 Problem with mobs spawning What is terminal velocity? I've heard the term especially when the Discovery Channel is covering something about sky diving. Also, it is commonly known that HALO (Hi-Altitude, Lo-Opening) infantry reaches terminal velocity before their chutes open.    Can the terminal velocity be different for one individual weighing 180 pounds versus an individual weighing 250 pounds? Windows 7 sleeping during operations I've got Windows 7 set up on my media box.  It's set to sleep after 30 mins of inactivity, but it doesn't seem to work as advertised. In the last two weeks it's gone to sleep during a file copy operation and again while encoding an MP4 file.  Is there any way to get Windows to realise that it's actually busy? Why is my Wi-Fi process using 3GB of memory? What limitations does converting question links to links with titles have? On this  there are more than 50 links to Stack Overflow questions. However, the last 6 links aren't converted to titles (http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/6530420/control-the-image-that-facebook-shows-when-i-like-a-url should be converted to ).   However:  all http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/... into http://stackoverflow.com/... fixes this, both in the preview and the final result. Also, the preview won't show any title for http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/... links.  My question is, what limitations does this converting have? How are these question titles retreived? Via API? Through database?  I'm not sure about title, feel free to edit that Rotating hatch labels based on orientation changes in Data Driven Pages Strip maps? I've created a strip map for a linear feature and have it loaded as a data driven page.  I want to show stationing for the line.  The stationing displays properly on the first data driven page but on each subsequent page the stationing labels get messed up as the map orientation changes. I want the stationing labels perpendicular to the linear feature as shown in the first image.  The tick marks seem to rotate and stay perpendicular to the line but the labels won't.  How can I fix this? Where to find the Mac OS X Lion security configuration guide? Are there number systems corresponding to higher cardinalities than the real numbers? I've been wondering what makes the  such an important model. What I came up with:   It is a (relatively) simple system, making it a perfect example for physics students to learn principles of classical and quantum mechanics. The harmonic oscillator potential can be used as a model to approximate many physical phenomena quite well.   The first point is sort of meaningless though, I think the real reason is my second point. I'm looking for some materials to read about the different applications of the HO in different areas of physics.