I have a car that I purchased for $6k. It drives fine, but needs a new computer, which will cost $2.8k. The diagnosis already cost $400. Given that doing this repair will be 46% of the car value, I am trying to consider ways to reclaim value for the car. The car is valued by  at $4k. Doing the repair only raises the value (good to excellent) to $4.9k  What options do I have to regain the value of the vehicle? Tax deduction, sale, etc.
Recently I paid a lot (almost one month of my salary) for repairing my car. I am wondering if there is a way to get deduction on federal or state taxes (USA, California).
I execute quite a lot of sudo commands.  I noticed that if I execute one and then another one within few minutes, the 2nd time I don't get the message:     [sudo] password for my_username:   but I do get it when there is more time between the execution of the two commands.  What's the period of time in which the message is not appearing? How can we check it / update it? Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated. How to rewrite this statement? Who in the DC Universe can stop Superman if he has a breakdown? Is there anything or anyone in the DC universe that can defeat Superman just in case he goes berserk on everybody?  Maybe Batman stores kryptonite in his Cave or something. I don't know if Batman actually has kyptonite, the example was just a theoretical example.  Who can stop Superman if needed, and how? I'm using Ubuntu and I'm trying to connect to another machine in a different network using remote desktop.   In Windows7 I have made the following in order to activate remote desktop:   I've gone to computer -> properties -> remote settings I've selected the option: "Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop I've opened "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" In inbound rules I've enabled the rules for remote desktop (public and domain)   I have also installed Remmina in the Ubuntu machine.  For configuring it I did the following steps:   Selected the RDP protocol In the server input I have written the Windows machine public IP. In username / password I have typed my login credentials (the same as my Windows admin account)   But when I try to connect I get this error message:  "Unable to connect to RDP server 89.130.251.160"  If I ping my Windows7 machine, I have a correct response.  Any suggestions? How to choose a circle for default stream in Google Plus? How can I choose a specific circle for the default stream in Google+ ? Many extensions don't work, and are not comfortable if using another PC. I'm not quite sure how this happened, but somehow a completely empty hierarchy of directories has ended up in my repository:  com/ com/companyname/ com/companyname/blah/ com/sun/ com/sun/java/ com/sun/java/jax_rpc_ri/   I think what happened was that these directories did have files in them, but then a developer realized he/she shouldn't have checked them in in the first place since these are by-products of the build process, so he/she removed the files but somehow the empty directories are left in the repository as ancient relics.  How can I remove this from CVS? The only results I seem to be able to find on google say that there shouldn't be a need to remove empty directories as CVS won't keep them around in the first place, and that the -P (prune) options to cvs update should remove them from the working directory  - which is zero help if you actually have empty directories in your repository.  A cvs remove and cvs commit doesn't seem to take care of this situation:  $ cvs remove -Rf com cvs remove: Removing com cvs remove: Removing com/companyname cvs remove: Removing com/companyname/blah cvs remove: Removing com/sun cvs remove: Removing com/sun/java cvs remove: Removing com/sun/java/jax_rpc_ri $ cvs commit com cvs commit: Examining com cvs commit: Examining com/companyname cvs commit: Examining com/companyname/blah cvs commit: Examining com/sun cvs commit: Examining com/sun/java cvs commit: Examining com/sun/java/jax_rpc_ri $ ls -l com total 24 drwxrwxr-x  2 matt matt 4096 Oct 15 14:38 CVS drwxrwxr-x  9 matt matt 4096 Oct 15 14:38 companyname drwxrwxr-x  4 matt matt 4096 Oct 15 14:38 sun   It's still there!  Does SVN have this weird behavior too? I think it would be nice to have a "friends list" on Stack Overflow. This would allow us to be able to follow the questions and answers that are posted by users that we want to watch/monitor.  I suggest it be implemented in the same fashion as DotNetKicks.com; where you can add someone to your "friends list" without them needing to approve you the way that other social networks do it. It should be completely open for us to add anyone to our "friends list" that we like. QGIS calculates main soil type of polygons from another polygon layer Why don't digital cameras shoot video at full sensor resolution, or do continuous drive at video framerates? How can I check if a directory exists in a Bash shell script? What command can be used to check if a directory exists or not, within a Bash shell script? Sci-fi story where all 'citizens' had shares in a global company Not everyone was a citizen though, there was a significant underclass who had no shares.  One character was a celebrity in some sort of combat game who was followed by camera drones &amp; used drugs to suppress puberty so he waa an eternal 'child', I have the impression that medical science allowed virtual immortality short of accidents.  One character (may have been the same one) had had a 'previous life' &amp; had committed personality suicide by some form of mind wipe bequeathing his worldly possessions to the new personality that would eventually develop in his old body.  I think the motive for this 'suicide' was essentially boredom, he'd lived a long time.  The mind wipe in question was pretty extensive &amp; all encompassing, he had to be cared for &amp; educated from scratch as if a newborn baby in an adult body, nappies &amp; all (but I'm pretty sure this was purely backstory in the book I read).  He also had miniature nano organisms (or bots?) like miniature worms or millipedes that complimented his immune system &amp; aided healing, they were self replicating, pretty sure they were some sort of bioengineered organism tailored to his DNA rather than bots  but not 100% on that.  There was an organism spanning a large area on the planet that absorbed (or consumed) anything that wandered into it but saved the DNA of anything it had previously absorbed &amp; might randomly reproduce any animal plant or individual it had previously absorbed fully formed.  One of the characters fell into this but got pulled out before the full effects took hold, as a result he grew leaves from his head &amp; his immune system was then constantly battling with the 'infection'.  When did I read this? probably some time in the 80's in the UK.  When was it written? I haven't a clue, sorry.  It was a paperback, probably something I had out of a library, because I never get rid of anything I've bought myself so I'd still have it &amp; be able to dig it out if it wasn't a library loan.  I have lots of fragments of world background &amp; 'colour' that seem to have stuck in my mind there, but a complete lack of any story arc to go with them. Can ASP.NET MVC generate elements with lower case name and id attributes What equipment is necessary/preferred for real estate photography? What equipment is necessary for real estate photography, and what is preferred?  I'm starting into real estate photography, and I'm trying to figure out what I need and what I will want to plan on adding to my kit as I go.  I'm thinking especially along the lines of lighting equipment and lenses (focal lengths).  For example, is an ultra-wide actually necessary? Or is a general walk around sufficient. Concurrent updates to GDAL (to 2.1.3) and QGIS (to 2.18.5) on Linux Mint 18.1 from the Ubuntugis repos breaks QGIS, with a noted dependency for the virtual package gdal-abi-2-1-2 being uninstallable.    The stable Ubuntugis ppa currently supplies GDAL 2.1.0 (gdal-abi-2-1-0) while the Ubuntugis-unstable ppa has been updated to GDAL 2.1.3 (gdal-abi-2-1-3).  Has anyone found a way around this?    Update:  QGIS bug report for those interested is here:     UPDATE 2  The ticket has been closed as fixed. Everything should be back to normal now. Limiting floats to two decimal points Square of a second derivative is the fourth derivative I have a simple question for you guys, if I have this:  $$\left(\frac{d^2}{{dx}^2}\right)^2$$  Is it equal to this:  $$\frac{d^4}{{dx}^4}$$  Such that if I have an arbitrary function $f(x)$ I can get:  $$\left(\frac{d^2 f(x)}{{dx}^2}\right)^2 = \frac{d^4 f(x)}{{dx}^4}$$  Sorry if it's a pretty simple question, but I was trying to simplify something like this:  $$\left(a \cdot \frac{d^2}{{dx}^2} - f(x)\right)^2 g(x)$$ that's where it came up. I have a button created by my script. I wonder how I can display what the system console displays but inside blender's console. CoDEmanX did this by running a script inside it as shown , but I want to display what happens in the system console inside blender's console.  My .blend file can be found here: I want to bake some displacement maps for Unity Engine. I want to use Cycles renderer. I have read that it's only available in Experimental version of Cycles, but when I changed Cycles to Experimental version there isn't baking type for Displacement map, there are UV, Normals, Shadows etc. but there isn't any Displacement/Depth map choice. I have Blender 2.78a (2016-10-24) downloaded yesterday. Where can I find this option or how can I enable it? Now that the , I've been seeing tag-only suggested edits from 1500-rep users.  For example, one had the summary of 'burninating [tagThatWasRemoved]'.  It's very tempting to reject these as Too Minor, but I know that these users used to have a Retag privilege (and are obviously trying to participate in a burnination.)  What should we do for tag-only edits from high(er) rep users? I have the following prompt in bash which shows the current git branch:  PS1+="$(git_prompt)" #git_prompt is a function in my .bashrc   which works when I source the .bashrc, but not when I change the branch, so the PS1 var gets only evaluated when I source the .bashrc, but it should be evaluated every time a new prompt is displayed. How can this be accomplished with bash 4.3 ?