Using a simple PCB with copper on both sides but naturally in between, is it feasible for a hobbyist to make through-hole vias like this:    It seems there is copper in the via itself, isn't there?   If it is not easy to do, what would be the best solution? Simply fill the hole with solder? Or should I put a miniature wire or some component's lead to connect the two sides?
My local hackerspace has a CNC machine.  I can give them my Gerbers and they can print out the PCB.  The machine does not plate VIAs.  I need to do this after the CNC machine is finished.  What is the best process and materials to use?
Microsoft recommends using Rowversion over timestamp, but I can not find "rowversion" data type inside my sql server 2008 R2 Microsoft  mentioned that we should use the rowversion data type over Timestamps. Now inside my SQL Server 2008 R2, I want to create a column with the Rowversion data type. But in my SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio, I cannot find such a data type:  Also when I tried altering existing column named timestamp which is of type timestamp using this statement: ALTER TABLE [SkillManagement].[dbo].[Customer] ALTER COLUMN timestamp rowversion   I get this error: Msg 4927, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot alter column 'timestamp' to be data type timestamp  Can anyone advise? EDIT Bind application to a specific network interface I have tried ForceBindIP, but it has a significant downside - it doesn't affect the children of the application I'm trying to bind, it only affects the application itself. It also can't force an application to always run through a specified interface, it has to be run through forcebindip.exe every time. It becomes a problem with applications like League of Legends where the process tree looks like that:    The launcher runs the patcher, the patcher run the client, etc. I can only affect the parent of all these processes in the tree, so the actual game is not bound to the interface I want, making this whole venture pointless.  Is there a more modern alternative to ForceBindIP for Windows 7? There are many questions similar to this one on this site, but they are mostly old. Maybe there is now a better way to solve this problem?  My current idea is to do the following:   Set up local 3proxy server bound to the desired interface. Run the game through Proxifier or similar software configured to run through that local proxy.   I'm not sure if that will work, but even if it will, it seems like a sub-optimal solution. Do you guys have any better ideas?  Edit: My idea didn't work :(  Edit 2: Basically, what I'm trying to achieve is bind a few applications to a regular interface, while VPN is running. The reason is that I need to connect through VPN most of the time, but some applications (such as games) don't work properly this way, because of higher ping and other issues. How to show/hide a column at runtime? I'd like to show/hide a column at runtime based on a particular condition. I'm using "Print when expression" to conditionally show/hide this column (and it's header) in my report. When the column is hidden, the space it would have occupied is left blank, which is not particularly attractive.  I would prefer if the extra space was used in a more effective manner, possibilities include:   the width of the report is reduced by the width of the hidden column the extra space is distributed among the remaining columns   In theory, I could achieve the first by setting the width of the column (and header) to 0, but also indicate that the column should resize to fit its contents. But JasperReports does not provide a "resize width to fit contents" option.  Another possibility is to generate reports using the Jasper API instead of defining the report template in XML. But that seems like a lot of effort for such a simple requirement. Prove $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2)\ge (ac+bd)^2$ for all $a,b,c,d\in\mathbb{R}$. Prove $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2)\ge (ac+bd)^2$ for all $a,b,c,d\in\mathbb{R}$.  So $(a^2+b^2)(c^2+d^2) = a^2c^2+a^2d^2+b^2c^2+b^2d^2$  and $(ac+bd)^2 = a^2c^2+2acbd+b^2d^2$  So the problem is reduced to proving that $a^2d^2+b^2c^2\ge2acbd$ but I am not sure how to show that What is the sponsored party called? Google results for sponsee have scattered definitions in unreliable sources, so it does not appear that is a real word. I'm looking for something similar, a single word.  The specific context is a social group membership application where new members must be sponsored (as in definition 2, here - "one who assumes responsibility for some other person or thing") by existing members. I am looking for a single word to describe the target of such a sponsorship. I am about to sponsor a fraternity, but I would like to have a more general word for what I'm sponsoring. Next time, the fraternity could well be a study club, or something else.  Therefore, what is the sponsored party also called? E.g. if I sponsor somebody, that person is my __? Why does Google not consider dot in usernames of Gmail addresses? E.g.: If your Gmail ID is abc.xyz@gmail.com, it considers this the same as abcxyz@gmail.com.  Why is this so? Conditional expectation on more than one sigma-algebra Passive POE: Need 5V @ 2A at the destination How is it that questions posted to the Stack Overflow show up as #1 in Google search results just minutes after being submitted? What SEO practices are being used to generate this sort of up-to-the-minute accuracy? Floor a date in SQL server In SQL Server, how do I "floor" a DATETIME to the second/minute/hour/day/year?  Let's say that I have a date of 2008-09-17 12:56:53.430, then the output of flooring should be:   Year:  2008-01-01 00:00:00.000 Month: 2008-09-01 00:00:00.000 Day: 2008-09-17 00:00:00.000 Hour: 2008-09-17 12:00:00.000 Minute: 2008-09-17 12:56:00.000 Second: 2008-09-17 12:56:53.000 Primary question: A common speaking mistake is to exchange syllables of words, saying "It's trace rhyme!" instead of saying "It's race time!", or pronouncing "kickin' chackatory" instead of "chicken cacciatore." Is there an existing name in poetry, linguistics, or English studies for switching syllables of (quasi-)consecutive words? I am not especially interested in the case when switching syllables results in interpretable homonyms or portmanteaus, like in the first example.  Secondary question: if not, what would you call it?  Tertiary question: is there somewhere a (playful?) taxonomy of fruitful or unfruitful lingual aberrations? Why do we use residuals to test the assumptions on errors in regression? Suppose that we have a model $Y_i = \beta_0 + \beta_1X_{i1} + \beta_2X_{i2} + \dots + \beta_kX_{ik} + \epsilon_i$.  Regression has a number of assumptions, such as that the errors $\epsilon_i$ should be normally distributed with mean zero and constant variance. I have been taught to check these assumptions using a normal QQ plot to test for normality of the residuals $e_i = Y_i - \hat{Y}_i$ and a residuals vs. fitted plot to check that the residuals vary around zero with constant variance.  However, these tests are all on the residuals, not the errors.  From what I understand, the errors are defined as the deviation of each observation from their 'true' mean value. So, we can write $\epsilon_i = Y_i - \mathbb{E}[Y_i]$. These errors cannot be observed by us. *  My question is this: how good of a job do the residuals do in mimicking the errors?   If the assumptions appear to be satisfied on the residuals, does this mean they are satisfied on the errors too? Are there other (better) ways to test the assumptions, like fitting the model to a testing dataset and getting the residuals from there?    * Furthermore, does this not require that the model is specified correctly? That is, that the response really does have a relationship with the predictors $X_1, X_2,$ etc. in the way specified by the model.  If we are missing some predictors (say, $X_{k+1}\ \text{to}\ X_p$), then the expectation $\mathbb{E}[Y_i] = \beta_0 + \beta_1X_{i1} + \beta_2X_{i2} + \dots + \beta_kX_{ik}$ would not even be the true mean, and further analysis on an incorrect model seems pointless.  How do we check whether the model is a correct one? Why are all nonzero eigenvalues of the skew-symmetric real matrices pure imaginary? Assume that $A$ is an $n\times n$  real matrix, i.e. $$A^T=-A.$$  Since $\det(A-\lambda I)=\det(A^T-\lambda I)$, $A$ and $A^T$ have the same eigenvalues. On the other hand, $A^T$ and $-A$ also have the same eigenvalues. Thus if $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of $A$, so is $-\lambda$. If $n$ is odd, $\lambda = 0 $ is an eigenvalue.  A curious search in Google returns  the nonzero eigenvalues of $A$ are all pure imaginary and thus are of the form $iλ_1, −iλ_1, iλ_2, −iλ_2,$ … where each of the $λ_k$ are real.   Here is my question:     How can I prove the fact that "the nonzero eigenvalues of $A$ are all pure imaginary"? A gold reviewer badge? I always see pictures of the solar system where our sun is in the middle and the planets surround the sun. All these planets move on orbits on the same layer. Why? expected true to respond to true? I have a scenario where i want to calculate sum of column   SAL|CAL|TAG|VAL 12.11"|"1.1"|"2.1"|"1.1 13.11"|"1.1"|"2.2"|"2.2 14.11"|"1.1"|"2.4"|"2.4   My below code not giving output giving output as 0.00  I need output for this column CAL VAL  awk -F'|' '{T+=$2} END { printf "%.2f\n", T }' demo.txt   output :  6.7 5.7 I have damaged the screen on my phone, so much so, it will not allow me to get the data to transfer onto my laptop. On opening Samsung Kies, it is saying that the connected device is locked. Please enter password on the connected device. I can only assume its the pattern lock they are referring to as I have managed to unlock the sim.  As I am unable to do this due to the screen being cracked, I wondered whether there is any other way of doing this, before sending the same onto my insurance company, as they are saying that I will lose all the data! Cant see why seeing as its just the hardware that is damaged and not the software. Let $f(z)=\frac{1}{(z-1)(z-2)}$ and $g(z)=\frac{z}{(z-1)(z-2)}$. Let $\gamma$ be the circle of radius 4 centered at the origin and traveled once in the counterclockwise direction. Let $A=\{ z \in \mathbb{C}: |z|&gt;3 \}$  1) I need to show there is no analytic function $G: A \to \mathbb{C}$ such that $G'(z)=g(z)$ for all $z$ in $A$.   2) I also need to show that there is an analytic function $F:A \to \mathbb{C}$ such that $F'(z)=f(z)$ for all $z$ in $A$.  Do I have to integrate to find such function? I am working on plugin to Drupal Commerce, and I started getting this error:   DatabaseTransactionOutOfOrderException: in DatabaseConnection-&gt;rollback() (line 1058 of /Library/WebServer/Documents/includes/database/database.inc).   Can anyone shed some light on what this error means? If I install a fresh drupal and reinstall my plugin, is that likely to clear things up?   Any advice?   Thanks!