I have a file named con.php. I tried to remove it through the Windows command line but it returns an error:  Syntax for filename, directory name, or volume label is incorrect.
I have a Windows XP box (NTFS filesystem) on which I found a file named NUL. I have not been able to remove this file in any usual way. The file appears to be owned by Administrator in the SYSTEM group, unlike any other file in the same directory (the other files are owned by my user id).  How do I get rid of this file? Where did it come from?
Suppose your git history looks like this:  1 2 3 4 5  1–5 are separate revisions. You need to remove 3 while still keeping 1, 2, 4 and 5. How can this be done?  Is there an efficient method when there are hundreds of revisions after the one to be deleted? Mac turns off randomly and has lines on screen No group of order 200 is simple Show that any group of order 200 is not a simple group.   I have started with the sylow 5-subgroup, but the sylow 2 subgroups i found that they are 25 subgroup but i couldnt proceed in the proof any more! Please help. I keep getting asked to do wedding photography - what is a fair price to ask? This may sound like a silly post...but, I need some "outside" opinion from people who know what they are doing.  I took up amateur photography as a hobby a couple of years ago...most of it being portrait photography of my children.  As I have posted my pictures on facebook, a plethora of people have loved my "work" and have been contacting me about my "photography" business.  I have been very up-front and honest with every one of them about only being an amateur, and never professionally trained.  That being said, people still hound me to take their pictures.  I am comfortable with my ability to take portrait style pictures....and I have even started charging $60 for a two hour shoot with the rights to the cd of prints.  I do not do my own printing.    Now, I have done three weddings for family members just over this last summer....and only as a wedding gift to them (in other words, I have not charged.)  But now, I am having others, who are not family members, wanting to "hire" me for their weddings.  Again....I have tried to tell them I don't do professional photography, only to be met with all of them still wanting to hire me.    My question is...what is a fair price to ask of these people?  They obviously still want me to work for them, knowing that I have no credentials.....but I have no idea how or what to charge for.  Can anyone give me some ideas? My question is similar to  except it's about VMware Workstation Player instead of VirtualBox.  How do I disable mouse integration? I want the VM to "capture" my mouse. One option is to pass my mouse directly to the VM, but that's more difficult if I need to exit the VM (I want to just use Ctrl+Alt).  I'm using "VMware Workstation 15 Player (Non-commercial use only)" Sneak Damage multiplier: Does it apply to magical damage too? Example:   Dagger 1 = 18 Damage, 25 Shock  Dagger 2 = 33 Damage, no magic  Using the above, when I sneak attack and have the 15x multiple then is the damage caused by Dagger 1 is (18+25)*15 or (18*15)+25 ?  Same question with bows and arrows, does the multiplier apply to potion damage or/and the magical(enchanted)?  In other words, do the multipliers apply to the base damage only or to the final damage being caused by the weapon (base+magical+skill+potion+perks etc)?  I am confused. :-? If I just render the default cube it will look like this:   It is rendered with color depth 16. I can see there are artefacts consisting of visible "line strokes" on some of the cube faces.  The bands seems to not go darker and darker, but alternates between light and dark, or is my eye fooled?  Why?  Edit  Here comes a gradient created by gimp without banding, using the same computer: How can I remap a keyboard key? I dropped my camera while on holiday last summer. Thankfully, my camera wasn't damaged but the kit lens has lost the ability to autofocus and the UV filter and 58mm to 52mm filter step-down (I use it to attach a fisheye filter to the lens) I had on its end are stuck and won't come off.  I've replaced the lens with an 18-200 zoom lens so I don't especially need it. I was wondering if it was worth getting the lens looked at and possibly repaired?  I've heard many places will charge you £50 or so just to look at the lens and given the cost of the kit lens I'm not sure it's worth it. If I'm playing the Hilltop farm in co-op - what farmer's mining level is used for the hilltop spawns? How can I add new autostart programs in Lubuntu? In Lubuntu, there's no 'Add New Program...' button in Desktop Session Settings. Is there an easy way to add new autostart programs in Lubuntu? What are the limits of house-elf apparition? I know Wizards can't apparate where they want on the Earth, except if they are very powerful but what about a house-elf ? Their magic is different so I was wondering if they can apparate wherever they want or if they have a limit too. crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc Some English words only differ in their vowels: crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc. Is there a name for them? Why do the big nuts always remain at top? The Brazil-nut Effect Most of the time when I mixed different nuts in a bowl, I observed that the big Brazil nuts were always on top while the small peanuts settled near the base. No matter how you take it, if the big nuts are put at the bottom and then the small nuts are poured, then also after some time the big ones will come to the top. Will not the gravity attract those big nuts more and eventually will they not remain at the base? But it doesn't happen!   I googled it and found the term Brazil-nut Effect but couldn't find any proper explanation. What is the physical explanation for this effect? Completing a 3x3 correlation matrix: two coefficients of the three given I was asked this question in an interview.  Lets say we have a correlation matrix of the form \begin{bmatrix}1&amp;0.6&amp;0.8\\0.6&amp;1&amp;\gamma\\0.8&amp;\gamma&amp;1\end{bmatrix}  I was asked to find the value of gamma, given this correlation matrix. I thought I could do something with the eigenvalues, since they should be all greater than or equal to 0.(Matrix should be positive semidefinite) - but I don't think this approach will yield the answer. I am missing a trick.  Could you please provide a hint to solve for the same? So far, I didn't have the chance to use either of these services. Before starting, I would like to hear your opinions. What are the advantages and disadvantages? Why should I choose one over the other? I am mainly interested in the technical side, but I would also love to hear comments also regarding the plans and prices. Is it possible to make the -init method private in Objective-C? How to grep for text in a file and display the paragraph that has the text? Trouble Viewing Whole HDR Image as cycles world When I load an HDR image into an environment texture using Cycles Render, only a small fraction of the image appears. I have a feeling it's an easy fix, but I can not find what needs to be changed. Please provide a way to download SEDE data via an API I recently suggested on the Stack Apps site that , and it was suggested I reference the feature request here, for visibility.  My use case is a query that the API does not support, so I thought it would be interesting to get it programmatically from SEDE instead. I wonder if this feature might be of interest to others here?  outlines the current ways that SE data is available via various APIs and UIs.  I wonder if my use case (retrieving revisions filtered by user) might have been supported by OData,  since April of this year.  This question has sort-of , though that was not an explicit feature request, and is now rather out of date. It would be good to find out what the current views are on this topic, and indeed whether there is much demand.  My use-case does not urgently require this, since I can use public SE screen scraping or SEDE CSV downloading. From reading around the SE Meta network, both of these approaches seem to be tolerated, as long as it is done with careful regard to frequency and bandwidth.