I just earned a New Year's hat on Dec 8
Winter Bash 2019 bugs with the "glasses with a number on top" hat and the "Philanthropist" hat
Makeindex error when ! used in \index in align environment See MWE below. The symbol ! in the \index causes an error. This is only the case in align environments (not in equation). So it seems to have to do something with amsmath. If ! is put in an \mbox there is no error. But then of course the font size is not adjusted to subindices. Curiously enough, \index{$C_{K!!}$} (two exclamation marks) doesn't cause any error.    \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{imakeidx} \makeindex \begin{document} \begin{align} y\index{$C_{K!}$} \end{align} \printindex \end{document}     Any solutions suggested? Bluetooth Broadcom 43142 isn't working What are reaching fouls in the NBA? When a player tries to steal the ball from a dribbling player, the referees sometimes award a "reaching foul". I just can't see any difference between a steal and a foul Compute $\Gamma(2.7)$ All I know of the Gamma function is $$\Gamma(\alpha) = \int\limits_{0}^{\infty}x^{\alpha - 1}e^{-x}\text{ d}x$$ and the recursive formula $$\Gamma(\alpha) = (\alpha-1)\Gamma(\alpha - 1)\text{.}$$ A friend asked me to try to find $\Gamma(2.7)$. I assume this involves complex analysis, which I have absolutely no background on (except for the basic Euler formula). Using Wolfram, I found that  $$\Gamma(2.7) = e^{0.434821}$$ which suggests to me perhaps writing out $e^{-x}$ as a Taylor series: $$\Gamma(\alpha) = \int\limits_{0}^{\infty}x^{\alpha - 1}\sum\limits_{i=1}^{\infty}\dfrac{(-x)^{i}}{i!}\text{ d}x$$ but alas, this doesn't look helpful.  How does one derive that $\Gamma(2.7) = e^{0.434821}$? I want to validate a set of credentials against the domain controller. e.g.:  Username: STACKOVERFLOW\joel Password: splotchy   Method 1. Query Active Directory with Impersonation  A lot of people suggest querying the Active Directory for something. If an exception is thrown, then you know the credentials are not valid - as is suggested in .  There are some serious  however:   You are not only authenticating a domain account, but you are also doing an implicit authorization check. That is, you are reading properties from the AD using an impersonation token. What if the otherwise valid account has no rights to read from the AD? By default all users have read access, but domain policies can be set to disable access permissions for restricted accounts (and or groups). Binding against the AD has a serious overhead, the AD schema cache has to be loaded at the client (ADSI cache in the ADSI provider used by DirectoryServices). This is both network, and AD server, resource consuming - and is too expensive for a simple operation like authenticating a user account. You're relying on an exception failure for a non-exceptional case, and assuming that means invalid username and password. Other problems (e.g. network failure, AD connectivity failure, memory allocation error, etc) are then mis-intrepreted as authentication failure.   Method 2. LogonUser Win32 API   have suggested using the  API function. This sounds nice, but unfortunately the calling user sometimes needs a permission usually only given to the operating system itself:     The process calling LogonUser requires   the SE_TCB_NAME privilege. If the   calling process does not have this   privilege, LogonUser fails and   GetLastError returns   ERROR_PRIVILEGE_NOT_HELD.       In some   cases, the process that calls   LogonUser must also have the   SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME privilege   enabled; otherwise, LogonUser fails   and GetLastError returns   ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. This privilege is   not required for the local system   account or accounts that are members   of the administrators group. By   default, SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME is   enabled for all users, but some   administrators may disable it for   everyone.   Handing out the "Act as a part of the operating system" privilege is not something you want to do willy-nilly - as Microsoft points out in a :     ...the process that is calling   LogonUser must have the SE_TCB_NAME   privilege (in User Manager, this is   the "Act as part of the Operating   System" right). The SE_TCB_NAME   privilege is very powerful and   should not be granted to any arbitrary user just so that they can   run an application that needs to   validate credentials.   Additionally, a call to LogonUser() will fail if a blank password is specified.    What is the proper way to authenticate a set of domain credentials?    I happen to be calling from managed code, but this is a a general Windows question. It can be assumed that the customers have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. After enabling hibernate grub menu appears on start-up with 30s timeout My system is not dual boot just single OS UBUNTU 16.04. Prior to making the following changes, the Grub screen would not appear at start-up (OK).  After following these steps from  to enable hibernate in the system menu:   Open terminal and enter;   sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla  add the lines into the empty file;  [Re-enable hibernate by default in upower] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate ResultActive=yes  [Re-enable hibernate by default in logind] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.handle-hibernate-key;org.freedesktop.login1;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-ignore-inhibit ResultActive=yes  ^X then Y to save (a filename was suggested and I accepted without taking note).  Reboot for the changes to take effect.   hibernate now works and appears in the menu (OK) but whenever I reboot I now get a Grub menu at start up with a full 30 second timeout (NOK). I tried playing around with the Grub menu timeout settings but still get the full 30 sec timeout.  How do I stop the Grub menu from appearing and reduce my boot time to what it was before I made these changes.   Current Grub settings;   GRUB_DEFAULT="0" GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT="0" GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET="true" GRUB_TIMEOUT="1" GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="`lsb_release -i -s 2&gt; /dev/null || echo Debian`" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" What is the difference between procfs and sysfs? What is the difference between procfs and sysfs?  Why are they made as file systems? As I understand it, proc is just something to store the immediate info regarding the processes running in the system. TikZ \foreach loop with macro-defined list I have a small problem with the TikZ \foreach loop whenever the list, over which we loop, is defined my a macro. The following code example will show my problem:  \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} Picture one:  \begin{tikzpicture} \foreach \x/\y in {1.0/2.0, 3.0/4.0} \node[draw] at (\x,\y) {\x--\y}; \end{tikzpicture}  Picture two:  \newcommand{\mymacro}{1.0/2.0, 3.0/4.0} \begin{tikzpicture} \foreach \x/\y in {\mymacro} \node[draw] at (\x,\y) {\x--\y}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   The expected result is that both images should look the same. But in the second image, I only get one node - and both \x and \y are each time expanded to 1.0/2.0, 3.0/4.0. I hope someone can help. Prevent applications from opening browser Is there a free application out there that will intercept requests from applications to open a URL and prompt me as to whether or not I want the URL to be opened? (For instance, after Adobe Reader installs, it opens its website to get feedback about the install process.)  Ideally, it would be lightweight software for just this task, but if a larger firewall/security app provides this feature, that would be acceptable.  I'm using windows 7 32-bit.  As stating in a comment below, the idea is that you don't want the browser to open (assume it's not already running), so an extension (e.g. for Chrome, ffox) wouldn't be relevant. Are the tags shown in a particular order? Given this HTML:  &lt;div&gt;foo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;bar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;baz&lt;/div&gt;   How do you make them display inline like this:     foo bar baz   not like this:     foo   bar   baz How could C-3PO see Luke? Failed to upload an image, "An error occurred at imgur" Currently I'm unable to upload an image to anywhere on site: e.g. posts or chat.                Is this problem with Imgur? Counter example for a result of intersection of subspaces I am struggling with this question from Halmos's text, please ignore the imperative language.  "Suppose that $L, M$  and $N$ are subspaces of a vector space. Show that the equation    $$L \cap (M + N) = (L \cap M) + (L \cap N)$$   is not necessarily true.  Since each of these subspaces has origin in them, clearly there intersections could not be empty. I wasn't able to formulate an example where this result did n't hold. Any help would be highly appreciated. I was so excited about the Spring '14  as a way to present data visualizations on a public site, and now it looks like that's not possible.  I created a page that looks basically like the release notes sample:  &lt;apex:page &gt;     &lt;analytics:reportChart reportId="00OW0000000Spru"&gt;&lt;/analytics:reportChart&gt; &lt;/apex:page&gt;   I tested it inside the authenticated environment, where it works fine, then added it to a Site. There, I get the error: To view the report chart, you need both the Run Reports permission and access to the report's folder. But, Run Reports is not a permission I can grant to the Site Guest User.  Anybody have any ideas for a workaround? Or is it not going to be possible to show report charts on a public site? I used an SRTM DEM to create a hillshade in QGIS 2.2.0. However, the resultant hillshade seems to be vertically exaggerated. Also, changing the settings for scale and z-factor does not have any effect on the resultant hillshade. I have tried both options in QGIS, Analysis-> DEM (Terrain models) and Terrain analysis -> Hillshade. Both methods gave the same results.  Is this an isolated incident, a bug, or am I missing something? How can I extract text from images?  I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; or when you photograph a page from a recipe book and want the recipe in text format.  Any free and open software for that?  I tried tesseract, and the results were awful. automatically apply special formatting to selected words in text Sending an HTTP request using QNetworkAccessManager Is there a way to set my current location manually on Windows 8? Is there a way to set my current location manually on Windows 8? I don't have a GPS module, but the device is always located at the same place. The automatic detection via network sets a place 200 kilometers from here.  I searched for a setting that allows me to set the location by hand, but I didn't find one.