I have an OEM Windows 7 Professional install on my machine.  I want to install Windows 7 Professional on the same machine, on another hard disk, without removing the first install.  I do not want boot multi-loaders. I am choosing manually the boot disk via BIOS at machine start-up. (That means the installation's should not be aware of each other regarding boot priority.)  My question is: Can i legally use the same license key? Will the new installation activate?
I plan on buying Windows 7 Ultimate Edition to run on an old Pentium 4. I also want to run Windows 7 virtual machines inside Windows 7. My question is two fold:   Do I need a license for each Virtual Machine? Does the answer change if I use a third party virtualization platform (e.g. , , , etc) as opposed to ?
What regular expression will match valid international phone numbers? Delay answer downvote rep loss to voter to help hide voter's identity A while back, I posted an answer to SO, which was downvoted.  I wasn't sure who did it, but had a suspicion because I thought I had seen a particular user lose a reputation point.  When I deleted the answer, my suspicion was confirmed by a point gain in reputation by the particular user.  Now, I wasn't going to attempt any sort of retaliation (and did deserve the downvote) but this seems like it could lead to abuse.  My suggestion is to apply answer downvote rep loss/gain at a particular time of day, and not immediately after the vote or answer deletion. After using the simple LM317 on breadboard variable power supply for a while, a need for a more rugged and reliable bench power supply has arose.    Short on money, i decided to build it as many other amateurs like me did. The thing is that, for my current needs i don't need a giant digitally controlled multi-channel 500 watt beast or something like that.  Instead what i really want is a low wattage positive and negative low voltage ouput -12v-0v-12v for example. However i really like that my power supply to be safe, reliable and fool-proof as far as possible. So after searching the web here and there, i found many designs that from my point of view fell in one of two divisions:-   Ones that use discrete op-amps and transistors. And ones that use integrated voltage regulators.   So -at least for me- i think that the ones with discrete op-amps and transistors are more prone to malfunctions and issues compared to the integrated ones with all of their internal over current and thermal protection circuits which would need to be discretely implemented in the bench power supplies that utilize discrete op-amps, however those designs have the advantage of ease of customization and more importantly that it is easier to have 0V output compared to 1.2V in integrated voltage regulator ones.    So i like advice to help me choose between circuits that utilize discrete op-amps like this circuit for example:-  Or ones that use integrated voltage regulators with their intrinsic robustness and low form factor.    Also as a side but related question i have seen many designs on the web that utilize negative voltage fed to the adjust or like pins to achieve 0V output from integrated voltage regulators like this single positive power supply:-     Or a positive and negative channels power supply that i really like its design because of simplicity (not because of laziness but to avoid the drawbacks that may come with complex designs especially when implemented by an amateur like me):- And the question is      Is it wrong or a system safety and reliability lowering act to feed negative voltage to adjust pin for LM317 for example?     I ask this question because the datasheet clearly states that the working output range is 1.2V-37V for LM317 for example, also no similar circuit is mentioned in the Typical Applications section except for the following one:- And even in that circuit, however the adjust pin is tied to the negative rail, it does't regulate during this interval instead it is shut until the next half wave at least that what i understand.    So at last to sum it up which alternative is best suited for my needs, its pros and cons and suggested circuits if possible. What solutions does the equation 4x≡2mod10 have? (Hint, it will have more that one.) What about solutions to an equation ax≡dmodn, where d=gcd(a,n)? What solutions does the equation $4x\equiv2\mod10$ have? (Hint, it will have more that one.) What about solutions to an equation $ax\equiv d\mod n$, where $d=\gcd(a,n)$?  This is the question that appeared in our universities last year paper. But it seems very difficult for me like for first part I am able to solve by simplifications I got $x=5\cdot Z +3$ as solution which makes sense and seems fair but for the second one, I have no idea how can I approach that. Can you please help me out with that one. I tried to simplify that by using Euclidean algorithm but still, I didn't get any idea that what actually the solution will be. My final exam is on 2nd of next month and because of covid I am unable to contact in person for any help. So any help from this site will be appreciated. Thank you for looking at this question! Exit of "> " mode in Unix shell In sh (not Bash), how would we abort execution of command when the prompt is in &gt; mode?  For example, when entering a string with quotes only at the beginning, it makes the prompt look like &gt;, without the ability to quit it normally, unless hitting Ctrl + D. Example:  root@MyPC:~# echo "hello &gt; I am &gt; (How do I exit of this mode?)   In case that I don't know which character delimits the string (" or ' or simply escaping a newline/spaces with backslash), is there a way to let Bash know that I want to abort the execution of the current command? How do I remap multi-key sequences to individual keys? How can I install MonoDevelop v4 on 12.04? I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I can install v2.8.6.3 of Monodevelop from software center but I need at least v3 to use Monogame v3 or higher. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?   Thanks From time to time certain chat rooms (JavaScript and probably PHP, too) attract the attention of a fellow help vampire who thinks he can start sucking from the people in there.  Often their message end up being flagged as offensive (and those flags are likely to be validated, too, because people are annoyed by such behaviour) but it's kind of an inappropriate use of those flags.  I'm proposing a new chat flag type, which is especially meant for help vampires. Flagging it would present the flag to 10k users and owners of the room where the flag originated (no matter how much rep they have). When the flag is validated it would cause messages from this user to be shown with a low opacity for maybe three hours. It could also notify the user that help vampirism is a bad thing and that he needs to improve his behaviour.  Repeated flags of this type - obviously with some time in between in case multiple message which are really part of the same conversation are flagged - should then result in a temporary ban from the room where the messages got flagged. If that doesn't help the next step would probably be a temporary ban from all chat rooms.    For clarification, I'm not talking about the quick "this line doesn't work, why?" stuff but the kind of help vampires who get cocky even though they just got e.g. a link to a SO question which has a perfectly fine and fitting answer. Because hey, you didn't give them teh codez! Determinant of a specially structured matrix ($a$'s on the diagonal, all other entries equal to $b$) I have the following $n\times n$ matrix:  $$A=\begin{bmatrix} a &amp; b &amp; \ldots &amp; b\\ b &amp; a &amp; \ldots &amp; b\\ \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; \ddots &amp; \vdots\\ b &amp; b &amp; \ldots &amp; a\end{bmatrix}$$  where $0 &lt; b &lt; a$.  I am interested in the expression for the determinant $\det[A]$ in terms of $a$, $b$ and $n$.  This seems like a trivial problem, as the matrix $A$ has such a nice structure, but my linear algebra skills are pretty rusty and I can't figure it out.  Any help would be appreciated. What is the Ubuntu equivalent of this interface?    I am looking for a user-friendly method that the owner of a computer can use to log off other users without having to restart.  The case I'm concerned about is of the beginner-level user who needs administrative control over the computer because they are the owner, but probably isn't concerned with most of the tasks we would usually associate with system administration. Can the “while attuned” powers of Solarian stellar revelations be used while attuned to either mode, or only the matching one? Iterating through columns in table using ModelBuilder? I am unable to find any info on how to use ModelBuilder to run a certain spatial analysis function on each column in a table.  I have a table to sample locations and at each location there are a series of measures (e.g. temperature, flow rate, number of certain species).  For each of those attributes (columns in the table), I was to run the IDW function from the surface tools.  This would be easy if I had each attribute in a separate shp/feature class, but not very efficient.  I tried Iterate Feature Selection, but was unable to pass the field name as the Z value in the IDW function.  This is for ArcGIS 10.1 (Basic and Spatial Analyst license) Apple Macbook Dual Monitor MST Using OpenSUSE leap 15.1 10.2.29-lp151.2.9.1-x86_64 from vendor OpenSUSE (installed)  CREATE TABLE testtab2(     my_id2 INT AUTO_INCREMENT,     name2 VARCHAR(10),     comment2 VARCHAR(20),     PRIMARY KEY (my_id2) );   testtab.txt:  |Roger |hurray   | |George|today    | |Paul  |yesterday| |John  |last year| |Ringo |tomorrow |   LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'testtab.txt' INTO TABLE testtab FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|';   works fine with linenumbers (my_id) 1-5  INSERT INTO testtab (name,comment) VALUES ('Beatles','band');   this gets linenumber (my_id) 8 - should be 6.  If testtab.txt have 8 records and using INSERT INTO 1 record this gets linenr (my_id) 16. This happens in other tables too - one moved from 199 to 256.  Anyone who can solve the problem? Can thebibliography be sorted by citation order? Or is there a solution with an inlined bibliography that can be sorted?  Not having an additional .bib file would be preferable.  My current bilbiography is inluded in the rest of the article inside a thebibliography block.  \begin{document} \section{Example} The citations in\cite{ne} the bibliography should\cite{flowers} be ordered  according which order they appear in the text.   \begin{thebibliography}{9}  \bibitem{fetebok} \emph{Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals}  \bibitem{ne} \emph{Förbränningsmotorer}  \bibitem{flowers} \emph{HCCI Research Towards Development for Stationary Power  Applications}  \end{thebibliography}   Should output:  The citations in[1] the bibliography should[2] be ordered  according which order they appear in the text.   Bilbiography [1] Förbränningsmotorer [2] HCCI Research Towards Development for Stationary Power Applications [3] Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals Is there a way to do concurrent editing? Is there a MediaWiki-like method for supporting concurrent editing of text bodies in Drupal 7?  If no feature currently exists, what are some decent PHP diff libraries that could be wrapped up by a Drupal module that could do the job? Extra "lines" are being added when creating/editing questions/answers in Edge Lately, I've noticed that extra lines are being added when I create questions/answers. For example, if I write:   Your problem is X, Y, Z. Fix it by doing:      Code  Then maybe also do some other thing.  Oh, and some other thing as well.   When I post it, then go back into the editor, it's been changed to:   Your problem is X, Y, Z. Fix it by doing:       Code   Then maybe also do some other thing.   Oh, and some other thing as well.   Which is mildly annoying since that causes less to be displayed in the box at once, but whatever.  The weird thing is though, the added line isn't properly treated as a newline, even though it does appear to be caused by a newline. A lot of lines that look like they should be empty don't even get rendered. If I delete the original lines that I entered leaving only the "new" newlines, I get weird behavior:    I tried selecting the characters involved and inspecting them in Python, and they just appear to be newlines, so I have no idea what the problem is.    The only browser I've been able to reproduce it in is Edge (version 44.18362.329.0). It does not happen in Chrome. This has been happening for ~3 days now.    There is also a problem with link embedding and code formatting. If while editing I highlight some text and either try to embed a link (interlinked circle button) or format it as code ({} button), it often puts the wrong text between the […]s when embedding, or formats code that I didn't highlight (and doesn't format the code that I did highlight). I have an object at a fixed position in 3D space. I would like the camera to circle around it while facing it. I want to path of the camera to be circular in 2D, meaning that it does not move up or down.  I need this to be pretty accurate. I don't want to manually set a keyframe every frame for position and rotation. I would like to do this maybe with an expression, not with manual keyframing. I am not sure how to go about this but I think it is going to involve Python as well as some trigonometry. Today I had some time and felt like writing a relatively good answer on Stack Overflow; explaining both the underlying mechanisms and good practices, unlike usual declarative answers in a "do that" style.  It took me like an hour of time, $50 if I were free lance. It'll bring me nothing but 3-5 occasional views, and - if I get lucky - some ignorant comments.  You know, it's quite discouraging.  Instead of pride for the job that was done, I feel frustrated. I know, this answer may offer help to the OP, if he ever notices it (being already satisfied with other answers).  So the only fate the answer will meet is to sink forever, below thousands other questions, falling like snow.  So, being a programmer, I am thinking of efficiency. It's a waste of time to spend so much effort to answer one question when there is no way to [actually] reuse it. So, I wouldn't do it again but just turn back into short answers mode without explanations.       Seeing other answers, I don't think I am only one with such feeling.  The current policy is driving knowledgeable and educational users away, yet it attracts inexperienced ones in numbers. Ones who will tell you to use [some technology] which they never have laid their hands upon. Ones who write answers just because they have learned some "good practice" from other questions, and this "knowledge" becomes an endless source of rep points.  The idea of Stack Overflow is rotten. It was excellent when trees were high and traffic was low.  It turned bad now; it has become a honeypot for all the "enthusiast programmers" of the world, eager to share their 2 cents faster than you can say the word "close".  You're killing a great resource. Despite all the nice words and proper declarations, it discourages the reuse of the knowledge. And encourages fast on-site answers.  Of course, the rules will tell you contrary. It's all nice and proper (if you don't mind it's strict mutual exclusivity). But mechanically, technologically it works in the way I described.  I tried to write a tag wiki. You know, it was biggest waste of time in my life. As a matter of fact, it is not a wiki at all; you can't even link to a certain section. Not to mention that nobody ever has the idea to read tag wikis.  Reference questions? Don't make me laugh. There is no good mechanism to store and categorize links. Favorites, although intended for the different purpose, are a chunk of crap when you want to use it as a reference. So, you can't compete with 30-seconds answers: a question will get 5 answers before you can even find an appropriate link.  Okay, I can organize links myself but, there are some problems:   I am just a human. I cannot remember everything I am just a human and I cannot answer questions at rate of 1 qpm. One person cannot fight the Tide. It's helpless. When technology makes people writing fast [incomplete] answers -  no good will of proper declarations can do a thing.  Even if a question gets finally closed, it won't hurt anyone - the hydra grew two more already.   You'll call me a brute for insulting honest users and innocent volunteers, but that's fact: There are much more inexperienced users than experienced ones. And inexperienced users have much more spare time to hang over than experts who have their job to do. So, from that fact we can conclude that most of the answers on Stack Overflow have a low quality. Nobody cares. But I do.   There should be a technical way to limit the activity of not-so-knowledgeable-yet-eager-to-answer users. There should be a technical preference for the closing a question over answering it (have a silly answer for the silly question? welcome to comments). There should be a technical solution to accumulate and structure knowledge, a system that lets you choose a good answer instead of writing it by hand.   That's the only way. Otherwise Stack Overflow will remain an automated dispenser of bad practices.  Well, I just felt like letting it out again. Thank you for reading. close votes vs votes remaining I am new to the review part of Stack Overflow and I am trying to understand what is the meaning of votes remaining in the Review | Close Vote.  For example: Today I was at my 39 vote and it said that there was still 21 votes remaining.        However, after my 40 vote:        So, apparently I have started with 60 votes but I can use only 40?