We just moved into a new house with some iron fencing around the backyard and a large double gate to allow access to the backyard. Unfortunately one side of the gate was damaged at some point in the past and the two sides don't meet anymore and the latch doesn't close. Even worse the gap is big enough for my dog to slip through.    How can I bend that one bar back closer to true so that the two sides meet and my dog won't be able to run away? Trying to save myself the large expense of having to get a whole new gate.  My first thought was to use my car's scissor jack as recommended in , but I don't think I could get it to fit in between the two bars in the right spot. The clamp spreader I feel is probably a good option, but I'm not sure how to use anything that spreads while preventing the bar next to it from bending instead -- which seems like the most likely outcome given the inward bent.
Someone's car hit our metal bar gate, so one of the rods is bent as shown in the photo. What kind of a tool can I use to bend this back, so it's straight? Thank you!
I want to put a link to my SO profile on my homepage. I remember a codesnippet i saw somewhere that would basically display my Username and my reputation. Where was that? I have recently started using blender and one of the models I'm working on has dark shadows along edges. I started this model from scratch. I can't remember them being there when I first started the model, but I had trouble joining areas together and think I've pressed something I shouldn't have. However, there are so many options I'm not sure what I did.  Here is an image of what I mean   The one on the left has the shadow. As a test I started a new model, which is on the right in the image, and as you can see it doesn't have any shadows.  Also, occluded vertices partially show through the model. Occlusion doesn't work properly.   In orthogonal view small darkened triangles appear along the the edges.    I don't really want to start the model again from scratch so any ideas on how to remove this shadow would be great. Thanks. Recommended way to initialize srand? Select an area in rep graph not working on Chrome The "select an area by dragging across the lower chart" thing is not working on Chrome.  Tested with Chrome 13.0.782.220 m, works with Firefox 6.0.1 and IE 8  Quirk: For some reason, if I open an incognito window, it works. Tried clearing the cache and cookies, still not working. I've heard Google's algorithm is based on PageRank, and that it has something to do with the links to your site. Can someone explain it, and more importantly, how I can increase my site's PageRank? I've been having trouble getting my server to send email and I haven't for the life of me figured out how to fix it. If anyone could give me some simple pointers, that would be muchly appreciated!  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[213.171.216.115], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavaila$ May 19 15:36:03 ubuntu-12 sm-mta[2487]: s4JFa3jp002484: s4JFa3jp002487: DSN: Service unavailable May 19 15:36:03 ubuntu-12 sm-mta[2487]: s4JFa3jp002487: to=&lt;www-data@ubuntu-12.04-production&gt;, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30000, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Selling a car with a lien I own a car personally, but it is mortgaged to a bank. I want to sell it to an individual. I haven't the funds to repay the loan until I'm paid for the car. The buyer doesn't want to pay me without a lien release (or guarantee that one is coming). The bank won't release the lien until it gets the funds. What do people do in a case like this? It must be a common case. What should I do? Why do I get "Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent" when I call Response.Redirect()? When I call Response.Redirect(someUrl) I get the following HttpException:     Cannot redirect after HTTP headers have been sent.   Why do I get this? And how can I fix this issue? What is the importance of the Diophantine inequality $\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} + \frac{1}{r} > 1$? In Humphreys' book  Introduction to Lie algebras and Representation Theory(3rd printing, p.62), the Diophantine inequality $$\frac{1}{p} + \frac{1}{q} + \frac{1}{r} &gt; 1$$ appeared while classifying all Coxeter graphs of irreducible root systems. Under the assumption $p \geq q \geq r \geq 2 $, the possible triples turn out to be $(p,2,2), (3,3,2),(4,3,2),(5,3,2)$, which correspond to the Coxeter graph $\text{D}_{p+2}, \text{E}_6, \text{E}_7, \text{E}_8$, respectively.  It seems quite straightforward to solve the inequality in positive integers, but Humphreys said that      This inequality, by the way, has a long mathematical history.   without further comment. So I want to know if this Diophantine inequality has any important significance, or if it has appeared in other context (maybe relevant history) before. 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However, today I am unable to use a  which I think is because it was created using ArcGIS Desktop 10.5.x when I am using 10.2.1.01. When I rename this *.gpk as *.zip and try to examine it in Windows Explorer I get:     Compressed (zipped) Folders Error      Windows cannot open the folder      The Compressed (zipped) Folder ....zip is invalid.     Is it possible to unzip a geoprocessing package (*.gpk) file to see whether it may contain some useful ArcPy code when that *.gpk cannot be unpacked to provide a usable toolbox? I recently ran the iTunes 10 installer in Wine and everything seemed to go well. Then, when I tried to run it, it would constantly crash/and the appearance would be glitchy. After looking at the Wine website, it turns out that iTunes 10 has a 'garbage' rating of Wine compatability.  Now I'm trying to remove/uninstall iTunes, QuickTime, and the other applications that come default with installing iTunes (such as Bonjour, etc.). However, when I run the 'uninstaller' that wine provides for the programs, it instead executes what appears to actually be the original installer! I've tried deleting all the configuration/data files in my Wine's file-system, but to no avail.  Any help is greatly appreciated!  Edit1: After re-running the uninstall process and then rebooting, the program (iTunes 10) still remained installed. How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I've heard many times that it's bad to use display: none for SEO reasons, as it could be an attempt to push in irrelevant popular keywords. A few questions:   Is that still received wisdom? Does it make a difference if you're only hiding a single word, or perhaps a single character? If you should avoid any use of it, what are the preferred techniques for hiding (in situations where you need it to become visible again on certain conditions)?   Some references I've found so far:       If you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or have-a-logo-but-also-have-text is spam; I answered that last one at a conference when I said "imagine how it would look to a visitor, a competitor, or someone checking out a spam report. If you show your company's name and it's Expo Markers instead of an Expo Markers logo, you should be fine. If the text you decide to show is 'Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo Markers sale ...' then I would be more cautious, because that can look bad."   And  on the same article     We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater.   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Find & Delete duplicated files on multiple harddisks at once I have 4 hard disks and want to find out which files on this four harddisks (including sub directories) are duplicates. It should be checked not only within a harddisk but against all the others as well.  The hard disks are large (3TB) therefor it has to be efficient (first filename than checksum checks or so) How to show $\omega^n$ is a volume form in a symplectic manifold $(M, \omega)$? I already know how to do it on Mac OS X (plenty of instructions online).  But is it possible to do it on Ubuntu? If yes, how? Is a hexagonal house feasible? Recently I have been considering the economics and feasability of building a house versus buying a used one. In my design I settled on a hexagon as the logical shape for the frame, which I am considering for masonry construction. This would be a big house, each side being at least 30 feet wide (footprint 2340 sq ft). The advantages of a hexagon are obvious: simple roof shape, no valleys, space efficient, heat efficient (this would be in New England and subject to cold winters), good wind resistance.  What I can't understand is why there seems to be no-one building hexagonal houses? The only notable building I could find at all was the Supreme Court.  Possible explanations would be that the shape is expensive for small houses due to the 6 corners, but for a large house like mine the room shapes work out fine, in fact they are better than a box house. Maybe its just tradition? People don't like it because it looks like church? Builders have some objection to 60-degree angles?  What is the reason there are no hexagonal houses?