I'm somewhat new to Blender. I have a simple mesh that I used proportional editing on. Now I want to straighten out the outer four corner edges. (ie the selected vertices when the .blend file opens) I've seen some answers but can't get them to work. Thanks for any ideas to try.  Here's the copied link to the .blend file:    Thanks for any ideas.  edit: okay, thanks, here's a picture...wondering how to straighten out that line of vertices, thanks again for any ideas  edit: @Brian, Okay, so now my question is how to make it so, in this second image, these two selected vertices are on an axis? Then I can then select and scale the rest of the line of vertices and scale them to that axis. I don't know how to align these two vertices to any axis. Thanks.  (Well, forget that second image, not enough reputation to post two links, so the vertices I'm talking about are on the left side of the first image, the topmost vertice, and the fourth up from the bottom.)  @Jesse Can you get the line of vertices I refer to to line up in a straight line between the two vertices I'm referring to with this technique? I couldn't do it.
I have some edges that are not on the x, y or z axis. What is a simple way to straighten them? For example, I can scale and then use Shift+Z to straighten on the x and y axis.  Any shortcuts other than temporarily rotating the entire object to put the edges on an axis?
Permissions problems with /var/www/html and my own home directory for a website document root I'm trying to not give 777 permission in my /var/www/html folder, but I want to edit my files without sudo. So I though in create a symlink of a folder in my home directory within /var/www/html. I created it using sudo ln -sT /home/andre/www/moodle/ moodle , and the ls -la output is this:  andre@andre-270E5G:/var/www/html$ ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mai  4 10:20 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Abr 29 14:29 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   23 Mai  4 10:20 moodle -&gt; /home/andre/www/moodle/   So, my moodle folder has read, write and execute permissions for everyone, and thats not what I want. I used the command sudo chmod -R 775 moodle/ trying to change it, but it stayed with read, write and execute permissions to all. I tried the same with the moodle folder in /home/andre/www/moodle, but it stayed the same. The output of ls -la in /home/andre/www/ is:  andre@andre-270E5G:~/www$ ls -la total 28 drwxrwxr-x  3 andre andre  4096 Mai  4 10:02 . drwx------ 49 andre andre 20480 Mai  4 10:01 .. drwxrwxr-x 41 andre andre  4096 Mai  4 10:02 moodle   So the folder moodle in /home/andre/www/ has the permissions I want.  As an additional problem, when I access localhost/moodle I get 403 Forbidden error.  What am I doing wrong here? Prove that if $A$ is an infinite set then $A \times 2$ is equipotent to $A$ I want to prove that if $A$ in an infinite set, then the cartesian product of $A$ with 2 (the set whose only elements are 0 and 1) is equipotent to $A$.  I'm allowed to use Zorn's Lemma, but I can't use anything about cardinal numbers or cardinal arithmetic (since we haven't sotten to that topic in the course).  I read a proof of the fact that if $a$ is an infinite cardinal number, then $a+a=a$, which is something similar to what I want to prove.   Any suggestions will be appreciated :) Does $\sum_{n=3}^\infty \frac {1}{(\log n)^{\log(\log(n)}}$ converge? Does the following series converge:  $$\sum_{n=3}^\infty \frac {1}{(\log n)^{\log(\log(n)}}$$  I've tried all test I know... Any ideas ? Python interpreter error, x takes no arguments (1 given) How to remove the switch user account option in Unity 2D? We are looking for a way to permanently remove the Switch User Account function from our install of Ubuntu Unity. Note, this function appears when you right or left click on the user name in the upper right-hand corner. It then displays a list of 5-10 users that have logged in along with the option to Switch User Account. We know that we can do this by defaulting to gnome, but we would like the option of using Unity as well, but without the Switch User Account option.  We have already tried dconf-editor, gsettings and several other options to remove the users name list, Switch User Account option from appearing in the drop-down list. We know this can be done for one user at a time, but we are wanting to do this for all users on roughly 160 workstations.  Some options that we have already tried are:       This is a visual of what we are trying to remove: What's the best way of handling permissions for Apache 2's user www-data in /var/www? Has anyone got a nice solution for handling files in /var/www? We're running Name Based Virtual Hosts and the Apache 2 user is www-data.  We've got two regular users &amp; root. So when messing with files in /var/www, rather than having to...  chown -R www-data:www-data   ...all the time, what's a good way of handling this?  Supplementary question: How hardcore do you then go on permissions?  This one has always been a problem in collaborative development environments. 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But recently I bought a SSD. Since I mostly use linux I have Linux installed in it. But can I use it to speed up Windows also? How? I don't have Smart Response... (I run Windows 8.1). The SSD is only 64GB. An irreducible $f\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, whose image in every $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})[x]$ has a root? Problem: Is there an irreducible $f\in \mathbb{Z}[x]$, whose image in every $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z})[x]$ has a root for $p$ prime? If there is, what is the minimal degree possible?   I can only prove that $x^2-c$ is impossible, by quadratic reciprocity and Chinese remainder theorem. Even the case of $a x^2 - c$ is unknown to me.  Meanwhile, if $f$ is not required  to be irreducible, but only have no root in $\mathbb{Z}$, then $(x^2-a)(x^2-b)(x^2-ab)$ is a solution for non-sqaure $a,b,ab$, since if both $a,b$ are not squares in $\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}$, then $ab$ is a square. Yet I still don't know if this is of minimal degree.  Also, it is natural to pose generalizations   When $p$ is not necessarily prime (equivalently for all prime powers). When $p$ is odd prime. When $p$ represents sufficiently large primes (equivalently all but a finite number left). I'm trying to solve this problem from Hatcher 3.3.24.  Let $M$ be a closed connected 3-manifold, and write $H_1(M, \mathbb{Z})$ as $\mathbb{Z^r} \oplus T$ where $T$ is torsion. Show that $H_2(M, \mathbb{Z})$ is $\mathbb{Z^r}$ if $M$ is orientable or $\mathbb{Z^{r-1}} \oplus \mathbb{Z_2}$ if $M$ is not orientable. In particular $r \geq 1$ if $M$ is not orientable. Using exercise 6 construct examples showing there are no other restrictions on the homology groups of closed 3-manifolds. (In the nonorientable case consider the manifold $N$ obtained from $S^2 \times I$ by identifying $S^2 \times \{0\}$ with $S^2 \times \{1\}$ via a reflection of $S^2$.)  I think I've solved the first part, here's my proof:   First note the following theorem: If $M$ is a closed connected and orientable n-manifold then $H_n(M, \mathbb{Z}) = \mathbb{Z}$ and $Tors(H_{n-1}(M, \mathbb{Z})) = 0$. If nonorientable, then $H_n(M, \mathbb{Z}) = 0$, $Tors(H_{n-1}(M, \mathbb{Z})) = \mathbb{Z_2}$.  Now note by Poincare duality and UCT we have that $H_2(M) \cong H^1(M) \cong \mathbb{Z^r} \oplus T_0 \cong \mathbb{Z^r}$.   In the nonorientable case consider the exact sequence:  $0 \longrightarrow H_2(M) \longrightarrow H_1(M) \longrightarrow H_0(M) \longrightarrow 0$  But we know $H_1(M) = \mathbb{Z^r} \oplus Z_2$ from the earlier theorem and $H_0(M) = \mathbb{Z}$.   Therefore $H_2(M) \cong ker(\mathbb{Z^r} \oplus Z_2 \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}) \cong \mathbb{Z^{r-1}} \oplus \mathbb{Z_2}$.   For the rest of the question I'm quite lost. Relationship between Binomial and Beta distributions I'm more of a programmer than a statistician, so I hope this question isn't too naive.  It happens in sampling program executions at random times. If I take N=10 random-time samples of the program's state, I could see function Foo being executed on, for example, I=3 of those samples. I'm interested in what that tells me about the actual fraction of time F that Foo is in execution.  I understand that I is binomially distributed with mean F*N. I also know that, given I and N, F follows a beta distribution. In fact I've verified by program the relationship between those two distributions, which is  cdfBeta(I, N-I+1, F) + cdfBinomial(N, F, I-1) = 1   The problem is I don't have an intuitive feel for the relationship. I can't "picture" why it works.  EDIT: All the answers were challenging, especially @whuber's, which I still need to grok, but bringing in order statistics was very helpful. Nevertheless I've realized I should have asked a more basic question: Given I and N, what is the distribution for F? Everyone has pointed out that it's Beta, which I knew. I finally figured out from Wikipedia () that it appears to be Beta(I+1, N-I+1). After exploring it with a program, it appears to be the right answer. So, I would like to know if I'm wrong. And, I'm still confused about the relationship between the two cdfs shown above, why they sum to 1, and if they even have anything to do with what I really wanted to know. Featured On Meta section doesn't list MSE posts on meta sites What is the best way to execute a script when entering into a directory? When I move into a new directory I would like bash to execute the projectSettings.bash script much like RVM does. Redirect a portion of a bash script to a file to capture set -x output How to compute $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}e^{-n}\left(1+n+\frac{n^2}{2!}\cdots+\frac{n^n}{n!}\right)$ There is a probabilistic method to solve it. But I am not familiar with probability. I am trying to compute it by analytic method, such as using L Hospital's rule or Stolz formula, but they are not working. Does Blender support any form of collaborative editing? Can houseplants actually improve air quality? Someone edited my message on StackOverflow, but it really bugs me out.  I'm not sure what's wrong with it:   As you see, the bigger the circle becomes, the more vertices I need for hiding the straight lines. As you see, the bigger the circle becomes, the more vertices I need to hide the straight lines.   The latter (corrected) sentence just bugs me out for some reason. It would sound better if there was a comma after the word "need", perhaps, but I guess that would be even worse in means of grammatical correctness.  Can someone explain why is the first sentence bad and the second sentence correct? And could there even be better solution to fix the first sentence?