Latex is numbering my references from the very document beginning including the List of Figures. As a consequence, the first reference to be cited (in the introduction) is already number&nbsp;5.  How can I set LaTeX to start the counting in introduction only?
When using the \cite command in figure captions and the ieeetr bibliography style, then  BibTeX numbers the citations as appearing earlier than they do in reality (i.e. the first citation in the document ends up being [42]).  Is there any way to get BibTeX to ignore the \listoffigures section when numbering?
How to return only the Date from a SQL Server DateTime datatype I just got this error message for the first time (I was getting this as the response to any request on the SE network for about the last five minutes, until now):     We're sorry...      There are an unusual number of requests coming from this IP address.   To protect our users, we can't process any more requests from this IP   address right now. We'll restore access as quickly as possible, so try   again soon. If you believe you have reached this page in error,   contact us.   As far as I know, I was not spamming SE or participating in DOS attack, and I find it unlikely that any of my office coworkers who share my IP address were doing so either.  Granted, I was pressing F5 a lot. But I've always pressed F5 a lot on SE, and have never gotten this message before. So my question is: Is it possible to get this error message simply by refreshing too much or too often? Or is that message reserved for a truly massive number of requests that are unlikely to be caused by one person refreshing a lot? (In the former case, I can't explain why I've never gotten it before; in the latter case, I can't explain why I just got it now). How to install a deb file, by dpkg -i or by apt? Just posted a bug report, and found another one :p    (lame hand-drawn cursor coz windows doesn't capture the real cursor)  Oh yeah, I'm on Firefox. Is it possible to cancel or clear a notification created by using notify-send? So I wrote a little script that makes sure a certain user plugs in a laptop when he logs on (it disables if he doesn't). The script uses notify-send to tell him to plug it in. If he plugs it in, the script quits. Is it possible to clear the notification automatically when he plugs it in? I'm thinking it might require somehow getting the process id spawned by notify-send and killing that PID, but I don't know how to do this.  Here's the current script:  #!/bin/bash   cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status OUTPUT="$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)" echo "${OUTPUT}" if [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Charging" ] || [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Unknown" ]; then     echo charging or full elif [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Discharging" ]; then     notify-send -i /home/evamvid/Documents/Programming/OokiNoUse/power25.png "Hey there brother" "plug it in"     COUNTER=0 while [ "$COUNTER" -le 12 ] do     cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status     OUTPUT="$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)"     echo "${OUTPUT}"     if [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Charging" ] || [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Unknown" ]; then         exit     elif [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Discharging" ]; then         COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))         echo $COUNTER         sleep 1     fi done fi Programmatically get own phone number in iOS Is there any way to get own phone number by standard APIs from iPhone SDK? I tried to install Xubuntu 13.10 on an older computer. I noticed some difficulties during installation that may be relevant to my problems. Notably:   The screen resolution was extremely low. The windows were much larger than the screen and I had to move them around to get to the "Next" button. The mouse cursor was a blur of colours that was flashing all the time.   The installation finished and I tried to reboot the computer. Immediately I got:  error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'.  Entering rescue mode...  grub rescue&gt;   I made a  USB disk, booted it and chose the default repair. The application told me that the problem is repaired and that If this does not solve my problem I should show  to someone who can help me.  What should I do next? I already tried to install Ubuntu and Xubuntu, both with no success.  EDIT:  I found a workaround.   Insert the Xubuntu live USB Select "try Xubuntu" In the settings menu select "install Xubuntu"   This fixed the problem for me. Since it is solved I cannot test the answer. Finding the number of non-negative integral solutions of $x + y + z = 10$ I can't read beta sites' chat logos! Here, you try:  If it weren't for the text shadow, it might as well be entirely invisible...  The cause is a CSS rule lurking in the transcripts for beta sites only:  #transcript-logo {   background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #273A5D; }   The problem is the #273A5D - a bluish colour not dissimilar to that used for the site name in the beta theme. Disabling that rule yields the much more manageable  I'll admit it is a little hard to read the "beta" in that shot. But if you had to choose which part was readable, wouldn't you choose the bit that tells you the name of the site?  Edit: It happens when actually in a chat room too! Automating "Stay Awake" I use my personal Android smartphone for development. Every morning, I go to Settings \ Developer Options \ Stay Awake and check the box.  At the end of the day, I uncheck the box — since otherwise any notification (including the "fully charged" one) will trigger the screen on, and it will stay on from that point on.  How can these two operations be automated? I would like to know the model of my graphics card. I think it may be an ATI, but I want to be sure!   I have Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit) and an Asus A6 VA laptop. example.com is hosted on IP address c.c.c.c at host1, no access any windows server admin at all blog.example.com is  on IP a.a.a.a at host2, full access to Linux server admin, using WordPress   So basically, I can fiddle with subdomain all I want.  I can't 301 redirect because the content on host 1 is an eCommerce site that I have no server control over. Can't put WordPress on it, can't run scripts, can't do anything on the server period.  Is there a method to "mask" all the URLs on root blog.example.com so they appear as example.com/blog/ folder?  They can't actually be sent to example.com/blog/ as that doesn't exist. It just needs to look to the surfer as if they are there.  Can this be done with some kind of masking or something?  Will this be better for SEO as hopefully search engines will see the blog in a directory on the main domain? How do I give players already enchanted Tools/Armour/Weapons I'm making a map where I want players to be able to choose there kits/classes. The problem I'm having with it though is giving players already enchanted Tools/Armour/Weapons.  I'm not sure if you can use the /give [player] [item] [amount] because you'll have to use the whole {} thing and I'm not sure how to make enchanted Tools/Armour/Weapons using that.  Can anyone help? I have two $2\times 2$ matrices, $A$ and $B$, with the same determinant. I want to know if they are similar or not.  I solved this by using a matrix called $S$: $$\left(\begin{array}{cc} a&amp; b\\ c&amp; d \end{array}\right)$$ and its inverse in terms of $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$, then showing that there was no solution to $A = SBS^{-1}$. That worked fine, but what will I do if I have $3\times 3$ or $9\times 9$ matrices? I can't possibly make system that complex and solve it.  How can I know if any two matrices represent the "same" linear transformation with different bases?  That is, how can I find $S$ that change of basis matrix?  I tried making $A$ and $B$ into linear transformations... but without the bases for the linear transformations I had no way of comparing them.  (I have read that similar matrices will have the same eigenvalues... and the same "trace" --but my class has not studied these yet. Also, it may be the case that some matrices with the same trace and eigenvalues are not similar so this will not solve my problem.)  I have one idea. Maybe if I look at the reduced col. and row echelon forms that will tell me something about the basis for the linear transformation? I'm not really certain how this would work though? Please help. A more specific question about a tricky redirect case Statistics module doesn't show the "Enable access log" checkbox I dont know what to do to show "Enable access log" option.  I activated logging all messages and checked all statistics permissions.  Thanks. Where does a spinning figure skater's energy go when she slows down? Lost passport with Schengen visa Count number of occurences for each unique value proving $\left(1+\frac 1n\right)^{n} = 1 + \sum_{k=1}^n \{\frac 1{k!}\prod_{r=0}^{k-1}(1-\frac rn)\}$ using the binomial theorem