Are there Free And Open Source Software Tools to orthorectify Pleiades, Worldview And Quickbird imagery as we do with COST tools such as ERDAS Imagine, PCI, ENVI, etc.?
Could someone recommend a free and/or open source GIS application that can orthorectify map images?
How can I find local IP addresses (i.e. 192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x) in Python platform independently and using only the standard library? Multivariate polynomial with no mixed terms What is the proper way to explain the twin paradox? The paradox in the  is that the situation appears symmetrical so each twin should think the other has aged less, which is of course impossible.  There are a thousand explanations out there for why this doesn't happen, but they all end up saying something vague like it's because one twin is accelerating or you need general relativity to understand it.  Please will someone give a simple and definitive explanation for why both twins agree on which twin is younger when they meet for the second time? The Safari Back Button Problem I do some minor programming and web work for a local community college. Work that includes maintaining a very large and soul destroying website that consists of a hodge podge of VBScript, javascript, Dreamweaver generated cruft and a collection of add-ons that various conmen have convinced them to buy over the years.   A few days ago I got a call "The website is locking up for people using Safari!" Okay, step one download Safari(v3.1.2), step two surf to the site. Everything appears to work fine.  Long story short I finally isolated the problem and it relates to Safari's back button. The website uses a fancy-pants javascript menu that works in every browser I've tried including Safari, the first time around. But in Safari if you follow a link off the page and then hit the back button the menu no longer works.  I made a pared down webpage to illustrate the principle.  &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Safari Back Button Test&lt;/title&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body onload="alert('Hello');"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.codinghorror.com"&gt;Coding Horror&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;   Load the page and you see the alert box. Then follow the link off the page and hit the back button. In IE and Firefox you see the alert box again, in Safari you do not.  After a vigorous googling I've discovered others with similar problems but no really satisfactory answers. So my question is how can I make my pages work the same way in Safari after the user hits the back button as they do in other browsers?  If this is a stupid question please be gentle, javascript is somewhat new to me. doGet and doPost in Servlets What should the order of DNS servers be for an AD Domain Controller and Why? This is a  about Active Directory DNS Settings. Related:     Assuming an environment with multiple domain controllers (assume that they all run DNS as well):  in what order should the DNS servers be listed in the network adapters for each domain controller? Should 127.0.0.1 be used as the primary DNS server for each domain controller? Does it make any difference, if so what versions are affected and how? Is there a *simple* example of how the axiom of choice can lead to a counterintuitive result? In this case I'm filtering by the tag [tag:css*], but it's showing this as [css*] and showing the  tag's exerpt. I would like the user to have full rights on this folder (as well as all sub-directories and files in it):  ~/.blabla   currently owned by root.  I have found numerous posts (in this forum and elsewhere) on how to do this for files but I can't find a way to do it for whole folders. How to make a bootable ISO image from a bootable DVD? So the stories of the Hunger Games are set in , a post-apocalyptic society situated in North America. Is there anything to explain what caused the Apocalypse? Whether from the main books, any extra material or interviews? (No fanfic please.)  As well as the cause, is there any indication of when the apocalypse happened? And how long after the apocalypse are the events of the Hunger Games? ASP.NET MVC Default Project Structure and the Scripts Folder This is similar to , but I believe it's a bit different*.  Sites like GMail support a preference that pushes all traffic through the SSL edition of the site rather than the plain-text protocol.   For sites that don't offer such preferences (or ones that may, but I have been unable to find, like facebook), is there a way using only the browser (perhaps with a plugin or addon) to always try SSL first, and fall-back to plain-text iff SSL fails?  Is that solution available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux? Just one?     * The previous question was looking for external applications that would accomplish this goal. Where can I find a Java to C# converter? I needed to convert a Java 1.5se app to C# 2.0.  Does anyone know of a tool (preferably free/open source) to do this? Intersection of two lists in Bash How can I select a point without selecting its reflected side There was the following sentence in an article titled, “Like, Degrading the Language? No Way” in New York Times (April 5), in which the author says Americans are moving backward on language:     “(Like the use of ‘like’) the use of “totally” mines the same vein.   “He’s totally going to call you” does not mean “He is going to call   you in a total fashion.” It has a more specific meaning, although only   handled subconsciously by speakers, as so much of language is. “He’s   totally going to call you” contains an implication: that someone has   said otherwise or that the chances of it may seem slim at first glance   but in fact aren’t. As with “like,” “totally” tracks and nods to the   opinions of others. It’s totally civilized.”      Although the author explains “totally going to call you” contains an implication of someone having said otherwise, I’m not still clear with the meaning of “He’s totally going to call you.”   What does it mean? He’s totally going to call you “what”?   How does “He’s totally going to call you.” differ from “He’s going to call you.”? Is this expression (use of totally) ubiquitous today as the author asserts? The question asks us to classify all distributions in $\mathbb{R}^2$, say $u$, such that $$(xy)u(x,y) = (x^2-y^2)u(x,y)= 0.$$ I am genuinely stuck, any help is extremely appreciated. Python idiom to return first item or None I'm sure there's a simpler way of doing this that's just not occurring to me.  I'm calling a bunch of methods that return a list.  The list may be empty.  If the list is non-empty, I want to return the first item; otherwise, I want to return None.  This code works:  my_list = get_list() if len(my_list) &gt; 0: return my_list[0] return None   It seems to me that there should be a simple one-line idiom for doing this, but for the life of me I can't think of it.  Is there?  Edit:  The reason that I'm looking for a one-line expression here is not that I like incredibly terse code, but because I'm having to write a lot of code like this:  x = get_first_list() if x:     # do something with x[0]     # inevitably forget the [0] part, and have a bug to fix y = get_second_list() if y:     # do something with y[0]     # inevitably forget the [0] part AGAIN, and have another bug to fix   What I'd like to be doing can certainly be accomplished with a function (and probably will be):  def first_item(list_or_none):     if list_or_none: return list_or_none[0]  x = first_item(get_first_list()) if x:     # do something with x y = first_item(get_second_list()) if y:     # do something with y   I posted the question because I'm frequently surprised by what simple expressions in Python can do, and I thought that writing a function was a silly thing to do if there was a simple expression could do the trick.  But seeing these answers, it seems like a function is the simple solution. Undoing a git rebase