My company has very restrictive IT policies. I am not allowed to install LaTeX and the company rules won't let IT install anything that doesn't appear on their list of safe software. I think I see a safe and legal workaround though. I have an application for viewing videos that can produce standalone executables. These standalone executables allow someone without admin rights to use a limited version of the video software just by placing the .exe file on their computer and opening it.  Has anyone created something similiar for LaTeX? Does anyone have any ideas for a good workaround? (Safe and legal)
I want to install a portable Tex Live in windows 10. But after searching online I just get this from .  The -portable installer option (or V command in the text installer or corresponding GUI option) creates a completely self-contained TEX Live installation under a common root and forgoes system integration. You can create such an installation directly on a USB stick, or copy it to a USB stick afterwards. To run TEX using this portable installation, you need to add the appropriate binary directory to the search path during your terminal session, as usual. On Windows, you can double-click tl-tray-menu at the root of the installation and create a temporary ‘tray menu’ offering a choice of a few common tasks, as shown in this . The ‘More…’ entry explains how you can customize this menu.  Any more instructions in detail? What should I do?
How to convert a unix timestamp (seconds since epoch) to Ruby DateTime? How to launch terminal on login How could I get the terminal to be launched once I have logged in, so that typing commands is much simpler? Need to develop a tapered spacer for under a car lift on an angled concrete slab I need to fabricate/develop an angled spacer.  13 inch wide by 10 inch long, by 3/4 inch to 1 3/8 inch thick. This spacer is needed to go under two of the posts of a hobbyist car lift in my garage. The garage floor is angled by the door where two of the four corner posts will go. These two rear posts need to be on a flat surface and at the same level as the two front posts.  Each post pad will need to handle approximately 2000 pounds. I was thinking of building a 4-sided mold where the column pads would be on the angled concrete and pouring some type of epoxy, resin, or cement into the mold. Which the metal plate from car lift posts would sit on. enter image description here Java obfuscators I'm looking for a good Java obfuscator.  I've done initial research into the following Java obfuscators: proguard, yguard, retroguard, dasho, allatori, jshrink, smokescreen, jobfuscate, marvin, jbco, jode, javaguard, jarg, joga, cafebabe, donquixote, mwobfu, bbmug, zelix klassmaster, sandmark, jcloak, thicket, blufuscator, and java code protector.  I tried proguard and it has a really nice GUI, seems really stable, and seems to be the most popular, but it seemed to not like some enumeration on a referenced jar file (not within the code I was trying to obfuscate) which was weird.  Yguard seems to require some interaction with ant, which I didn't know too much about.  What is a good java obfuscator?  It doesn't need to be free, it just needs to work well and be easy to use. How to avoid bad box with long words with no hyphenation? Printing pointers in C I was trying to understand something with pointers, so I wrote this code:  #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;  int main(void) {     char s[] = "asd";     char **p = &amp;s;      printf("The value of s is: %p\n", s);     printf("The direction of s is: %p\n", &amp;s);      printf("The value of p is: %p\n", p);     printf("The direction of p is: %p\n", &amp;p);      printf("The direction of s[0] is: %p\n", &amp;s[0]);     printf("The direction of s[1] is: %p\n", &amp;s[1]);     printf("The direction of s[2] is: %p\n", &amp;s[2]);      return 0; }   When compiling it with gcc I get these warnings:  $ gcc main.c -o main-bin -ansi -pedantic -Wall -lm main.c: In function ‘main’: main.c:6: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type main.c:9: warning: format ‘%p’ expects type ‘void *’, but argument 2 has type ‘char (*)[4]’ main.c:11: warning: format ‘%p’ expects type ‘void *’, but argument 2 has type ‘char **’ main.c:12: warning: format ‘%p’ expects type ‘void *’, but argument 2 has type ‘char ***’   (The flags for gcc are because I must be C89)  Why incompatible types of pointer? Isn't the name of an array a pointer to it's first element? So if s is a pointer to 'a', &amp;s must be a char **, no? And why do I get the other warnings? Do I have to cast the pointers with (void *) in order to print them?   And when running I get something like this:  $ ./main-bin The value of s is: 0xbfb7c860 The direction of s is: 0xbfb7c860 The value of p is: 0xbfb7c860 The direction of p is: 0xbfb7c85c The direction of s[0] is: 0xbfb7c860 The direction of s[1] is: 0xbfb7c861 The direction of s[2] is: 0xbfb7c862   How can the value of s and it's direction (and of course the value of p) be the same? Polynomial $p(a) = 1$, why does it have at most 2 integer roots? The question that I am trying to answer is :  Suppose is $p(x)$ is a polynomial with integer coefficients. Show that if $p(a) = 1$ for some integer a then $p(x)$ has at most two integer roots.  I have no idea how to get started. Any help would be awesome! Proving $\frac{a}{a^2-a+1}+\frac{b}{b^2-b+1}+\frac{c}{c^2-c+1}+\frac{d}{d^2-d+1}\le \frac{8}{3}$ given $a+b+c+d=2$ Let $a,b,c,d\in \mathbb{R}$ and $a+b+c+d=2$. Prove that $$\frac{a}{a^2-a+1}+\frac{b}{b^2-b+1}+\frac{c}{c^2-c+1}+\frac{d}{d^2-d+1}\le \frac{8}{3}.$$   We have $$\frac{a}{a^2-a+1}\le \frac{4}{3}a\Longleftrightarrow \frac{-a\left(2a-1\right)^2}{3\left(a^2-a+1\right)}\le 0,$$ (Right)  So $$LHS\le \frac{4}{3}\left(a+b+c+d\right)=\frac{8}{3}=RHS$$  When $a=b=c=d=\frac{1}{2}$  But also $a=b=c=1;d=-1$ i don't know how to solve it. Which is correct: "__ is different from __" or "__ is different than __"? As someone who learned English later on in life, I was taught that different from is the correct grammar to use: this is different from that. However, it seems these days everyone uses different than instead. I know it's incorrect usage, but does the language evolve if the majority wins?  Edit: Some commented different than is American English and different from is British English, both are OK. IMO, this isn't like color versus colour, though.   Than is used after a comparative adjective, e.g. taller than, whiter than. The word different isn't a comparative adjective, unless used in more different than. Logically, it makes no sense to say different than. If A is a finite set and B is an infinite set, then B\A is an infinite set Prove: If $A$ is a finite set and $B$ is an infinite set, then $B \setminus A$ is an infinite set.   I've tried proving the contrapositive, that if $B \setminus A$ is a finite set then $A$ is infinite or $B$ is finite, but I don't think this is the way to go. Let $g_n= {2^2}^n +1 $. Prove $g_0 · g_1 · · · g_{n−1} = g_{n} − 2$ Let $g_n= {2^2}^n +1 $. Prove $g_0 · g_1 · · · g_{n−1} = g_{n} − 2$.    I'm not sure how to start this proof, if it should be done algebraically or if I should try to use a proof by induction. Which one is correct? (Maybe both are correct.)     He passed away on the morning of March 5.   Or      He passed away in the morning of March 5. Availability of MXD file for OpenStreetMap data in Esri Geodatabase? From what I understand, an ArcGIS mxd file contains the "styling" information on how to show data.  I downloaded and imported OpenStreetMap data into my geodatabase. Now I need to show them.  Is there any available mxd file match the OpenStreetMap fields/values that I can use?  I check this question(), but the links are all dead.  ps: right now the all the highway/roads/trail display as a single line in my map. I want to use mxd to show them in a better way, like Mapnik or google. Trouble downloading packages list due to a "Hash sum mismatch" error How do you create a simple, custom rule using the jQuery Validate plugin (using ) that doesn't use a regex?  For example, what function would create a rule that validates only if at least one of a group of checkboxes is checked? Where do the files go if you mount a drive to a folder that already contains files? I just accidentally mounted a new drive to a folder that already contained files.  I don't care about them and have them somewhere else, but that folder appears empty now.  I'm curious what happened to the files.  Are they simply deleted by Linux? Version tags reloaded I'm getting sick of version numbers in tag names (aka version tags). Look,      I just want them all to be just . They are all about JSF. I browse and answer questions about JSF. I don't want to browse in all those different tags. I don't want gold badges for both  and . I can't hammer a duplicate  question because I don't have a gold badge for that. Across years I observed that a version tag is usually only picked by the asker when a &quot;relatively new&quot; or &quot;relatively old&quot; version is being treated in the question. When the &quot;currently mainstream&quot; version is being treated,  or when the asker is &quot;more proficient&quot; in the language, then askers often just pick the versionless . While moving in time, this may cause confusion by future readers when the version isn't explicitly specified anywhere in the question. I try to maintain them by adding/removing the version tag depending on its relevance, and by adding the versionless tag when it's absent. It only feels a neverending story. I'm sure other tag caretakers also have mixed feelings on this. I propose to normalize the version from the tag name:  Ban version numbers in tag names in the model (not in the UI). Add an optional single-choice version field to the Tag entity in the model. Users with edit privileges (no suggested edits please) must be able to change versions. Users with gold tagbadges must be able to add and edit versions. I'd imagine the version edit thing to be reachable via that tag info popover (when you hover the tag). Tags themselves however should look exactly the same, the version just separated with e.g. a hyphen from the tag name.  When in place, migration of existing version tags should be piece of cake. There's apparently already a script in place which recognizes version tags, it could be reused to re-match current tags and extract the version from it into the new version field. The alternative would be to automatically add the versionless tag when a version tag is being used. But this is IMO only tag pollution.  I'm posting this on meta.se instead of meta.so because version numbers aren't only on SO a problem, but on basically all HW/SW related sites. Does anyone know the (specific) reasons that it is recommended that old LTS server users wait until the point release to upgrade?  Is it just a matter of bug fixes and waiting for improved stability for production servers, or is there something more fundamental than that? Use fixed keyboard for a given app I would like to tell my Android that when I'm in a given app it should switch to a given keyboard. My use case is that I want to use Hacker keyboard with Connectbot. Is FFmpeg missing from the official repositories in 14.04? I tried to install ffmpeg in trusty/Ubuntu 14.04 and got the following message:  $sudo apt-get install ffmpeg  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package ffmpeg is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'ffmpeg' has no installation candidate   Why isn't the package available?