I've recently moved houses, but unfortunately my new place is in a part of town where the only economical way to get an internet connection is via a prepaid data modem (DSL in my building is super expensive for a super slow speed) and as such large downloads aren't really possible unless I pay about $12 in local currency for every 15 gigs of prepaid data - not really an option.  I have two computers, a laptop and a desktop, both running steam, and my family doens't mind if i leave the laptop around their place to download large files (they live in a different part of town with MUCH faster internet). I was wondering if it's feasible for me to download games onto an external hard drive by bringing my laptop over there, then installing them or transferring them onto my desktop PC over at my new place. I know it's possible to copy steam games over to an external hard drive, but i'm concerned that downloading the game using a different computer than the one that'll actually run it might cause issues. Both computers are running 64-bit Windows 10.
I have successfully transferred "Killing Floor" from my brother's laptop to my own via external hard drive. The problem, now that I have all the files, is that I don't know how to launch the game through Steam. All I did was copy files from his Laptop to the hard drive, then from the hard drive to my laptop, then I put the files in the "Steamapps" folder under "Steam" in my laptops hard drive. So the question is, how do I start up the game through Steam?
Why does chown report "Operation not permitted" on OS X? I am trying to do the following on my Mac (10.6.7):  sudo chown myusername:wheel ./entries   but Unix/Mac is returning "Operation not permitted". When I ls -lash the culprit file, it looks as follows:  8 -rwxrwxrwx   1 myusername  staff   394B Apr 26 23:26 entries   I've tried sudo and sudo su; nothing works. Any ideas what's up?  I'm trying to chmod files I've copied from my old Ubuntu box. Most of the files have successfully chmod'ed recursively; just this one is stuck and I don't understand why. How do I get list of all tables in a database using TSQL? What is the best way to get the names of all of the tables in a specific database on SQL Server? Impossible to hide navigation bars in Safari iOS 7 for iPhone/iPod touch How is listed DPS calculated when dual-wielding weapons? I was trying out the dual-wielding in Diablo 3, when I noticed really strange. When I equipped my off-hand, which has 0.5 less damage than my main-hand. My overall damage actually went down. So my question is, how does the dual-wielding mechanic work for calculating damage? It seems rather odd that my overall damage should be more with one weapon than with two. Linux genisoimage Batch Is it possible to encrypt a message in such a way that multiple keys can independently decrypt it?  In other words:  Having knowledge of $key_1, key_2 ...key_N$, which are different symmetrical keys, is it possible to generate a ciphertext that can be independently decrypted using either $key_1$ or $key_2$ or $key_N$, in such a way that the length of the ciphertext is less than directly proportional to $N$? Obtaining consistent one-hot encoding of train / production data I am installing an overhead automatic garage door opener. My only power source close to where I will be hanging the motor is an overhead light socket that is operated by a switch on the wall next to the house entry door.   I wanted to know if it is possible to rewire the light socket with a standard electrical plug outlet AND to remove the switch &amp; wire it to provide constant power to the new outlet. The overhead light is on my 15A garage GFI circuit &amp; the opener lists 120V/6A as its power requirements.  I live in the US. Prove $ \sin(A+B)\sin(A-B)=\sin^2A-\sin^2B $ How would I verify the following double angle identity. $$ \sin(A+B)\sin(A-B)=\sin^2A-\sin^2B $$ So far I have done this. $$ (\sin A\cos B+\cos A\sin B)(\sin A\cos B-\cos A\sin B)  $$But I am not sure how to proceed. For the following pretty straightforward task: query a list of products from a DB and present it on a webpage, consider 2 setups:  Setup1: PHP script queries. All content is built on the server and the entire page is served back to the client.  Setup2: Static HTML "page skeleton" requesting content using AJAX. Received content is parsed on the client side using Javascript and rendered using innerHTML or similar.  Of course the second setup only makes sense when you have pages, categories and tags for the client user to choose from.  I need to compare these two, at least by means of:   time it will take content to be served user experience (setup1 is delivered as a whole, setup2 is delivered in "two parts") scalability - how do the setups compare when I have 100,000 queries daily   Any thoughts on the issue will be much appreciated. Let's say you tell me to produce randomly a number from 1-100, and I choose the number 47. Can it be said that there is a specific reason I chose the number 47, and that it is not completely random? By random I mean that there is absolutely no reason this number in particular was chosen.    It seems odd to me, since it seems like since I have applied conscious effort to produce or choose a number within that range, or even without range, that it can't be truly random, but there might be a reason why I chose that number amongst the many others I could have chosen.  I guess the general question, which I'm interested to know if any philosophers in the past have discussed, is whether our thoughts are necessarily based on prior thoughts, or if thoughts can be truly spontaneous and random? How would you explain why $e^{i\pi}+1=0$ to a middle school student? Hi I was asked by a friends child who is in middle school why $e^{i\pi}+1=0$. Now I couldn't think of a way to explain it so he would understand. Albert Einstein once said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” so how would I explain it. RAII and smart pointers in C++ In practice with C++, what is , what are , how are these implemented in a program and what are the benefits of using RAII with smart pointers? Deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations) I've been using Texmaker for ~5 years now and prefer it over other editors because of its flexibility.   Is there a way to auto-indent LaTeX code in TeXmaker so that the code becomes more manageable ? How can I parse integers passed to an application as command line arguments if the app is unicode?  Unicode apps have a main like this:  int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])   argv[?] is a wchar_t*. That means i can't use atoi. How can I convert it to an integer? Is stringstream the best option? Triangle Inequality of the Cartesian product with Max function Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space.  Define $$d'((x,y),(z,w))=max\{d(x,z),d(y,w)\}.$$   I'm trying to prove the triangle inequality for this, but really don't have a clue how.  Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Task manager for Ubuntu How can I use JavaScript on the client side to detect if the page was encrypted? Is it possible to detect, on the client side, whether the user is using an encrypted page or not?  Put another way -- I want to know if the URL of the current page starts with http or https. How to unit test an object with database queries I've heard that unit testing is "totally awesome", "really cool" and "all manner of good things" but 70% or more of my files involve database access (some read and some write) and I'm not sure how to write a unit test for these files.  I'm using PHP and Python but I think it's a question that applies to most/all languages that use database access.