I asked  about whether I need to re-apply for my mortgage in order to not have to pay private mortgage insurance anymore. All answers mentioned that this is not necessary.  However, I'm wondering if the answers apply only to the original appraised value. In other words, do I need to remortgage if I appraise my house again, and the house is appraised at a higher value and therefore I end up owning a higher percentage of the home than before? Can lenders request me to apply for a new mortgage in order to get rid of PMI based on a new appraisal?
I called my lender last week. I am close to owning 20% of my home and want to get rid of PMI. They said I can only do it by remortgaging my house. Is that true? With the mortgage rates increasing, I will definitely lose some money by remortgaging the house.  Also, I know that I can request the PMI charge to stop if I own 20% of the value of the home, or it will stop automatically once I own 22% of the value. Is it possible that the lender meant I can't do it with 20% but it will be done at 22% automatically without the need to remortgage the house?
On this  there are more than 50 links to Stack Overflow questions. However, the last 6 links aren't converted to titles (http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/6530420/control-the-image-that-facebook-shows-when-i-like-a-url should be converted to ).   However:  all http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/... into http://stackoverflow.com/... fixes this, both in the preview and the final result. Also, the preview won't show any title for http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/... links.  My question is, what limitations does this converting have? How are these question titles retreived? Via API? Through database?  I'm not sure about title, feel free to edit that How can I balance uniformity of style files against modularity? I'm using Windows/TeXworks/MiKTeX, and I would like to have one style file I can use anywhere in any document in my top-level folder. If I want to add a new command or renew an old one, I'd like that to be available in all documents recursively contained in my top-level folder. I have a very hierarchical structure to my top-level folder. So this would seem to point to having a single file that TeXworks knows about. Could I add a path in Preferences -> Typesetting -> Paths for TeX and related programs? I've tried that, possibly superficially, without any success. Adding the correct folder to the Windows PATH variable doesn't seem to do the trick, either.   On the other hand, suppose I want to send someone a TeX file? It would be nice in such circumstances to be able to have the style file in the same folder as the TeX file. If I do that, how could I ensure that it's always up-to-date? Is there a script available somewhere that could take my master style file and push it down to all pre-existing lower-level locations?   Just to reiterate: I want uniformity of my style files in my very hierarchical folder structure. However, I would also like modularity, in that each folder is self-contained. How can I achieve that?  Also, out of curiosity, since I may acquire a Linux computer soon, how would I do this in, say, *ubuntu with TeXlive? Joining multiple records to single feature using QGIS I'm trying to create a join/relate in QGIS where I have a shapefile of buildings and to that I would like to join a non-spatial table (.csv-file) containing people who work in each building. So I have multiple records in my table that I would like to be able to join to my single features in my shapefile. I can only run a join in QGIS where the first record is joined to the shapefile feature (ie building) but subsequent records get removed. Could someone let me know how to complete this join/relate in QGIS? Using headset controls like a smart phone How can I customize a system locale? Minecraft item right/left click detection I want to install OpenOffice. What can I do to install it on my computer? I have an instance of an application running in the cloud on Amazon EC2 instance, and I need to connect it from my local Ubuntu. It works fine on one of local ubuntu and also laptop. I got message "Permission denied (publickey)" when trying to access SSH to EC2 on another local Ubuntu. It's so strange to me.  I'm thinking some sort of problems with security settings on the Amazon EC2 which has limited IPs access to one instance or certificate may need to regenerate.  Does anyone know a solution? Reference: What is variable scope, which variables are accessible from where and what are "undefined variable" errors? I have heard that most spam filters use a reverse DNS lookup on the originating IP address of the sending SMTP server (or something like that) as part of the verification process.  I want to make sure my emails will pass this check.  How exactly can I verify that my emails are OK?  In researching it, I've noticed that if I look at the header of a valid email message coming from Gmail, I will see something like this:  Received: from mail-pz0-f185.google.com (mail-pz0-f185.google.com [209.85.222.185])         by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 10si2346996pxi.164.2009.07.22.22.26.19;         Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:26:19 -0700 (PDT)   When I do an nslookup on 209.85.222.18, it responds with mail-pz0-f185.google.com, which is what I would expect.  If it responded with a different domain, then I assume that would indicate a problem and it would fail the check.  Is this what the reverse DNS lookup is all about or am I barking up the wrong tree? Preventing itemize environment to insert initial vertical space I'm using itemize and tables like the following  \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{&gt;{\ttfamily}llX}  \toprule  \textbf{\rmfamily Operator} &amp; \textbf{Typen} &amp; \textbf{Regel} \\  \midrule  = &amp; Alle Typen &amp;   \begin{itemize}    \item This is how we roll    \item Maybe we can talk?   \end{itemize} \\  \bottomrule \end{tabularx}   But it keeps inserting a vertical space before the itemized list. How can I prevent it from doing so? Create an item in sharepoint calender when infopath form is submitted in sharepoint 2010 through workflow Do messages in archive count to your inbox space? Pretty much as the title says, do messages in archive count to your total inbox space? How to approach proving $f^{-1}(B\setminus C)=A\setminus f^{-1}(C)$? I've been given a proof that shows the following:  If $f:[a,b]\to \mathbb C$ is a continuous function and $f(t)=u(t)+iv(t)$ then $$\left| \int_a^b f(t) dt \right| \leq \int_a^b \left| f(t) \right| dt$$ The proof begins by letting $\theta$ be the principle argument of the complex number $\int_a^b f(t)dt$ and there is one step in the proof I don't understand; can anyone explain to me why $$\int_a^b e^{-i\theta}f(t) dt=\Re\bigg(\int_a^be^{-i\theta}f(t)dt\bigg)$$  Would this not imply that the imaginary part of the left hand side is equal to $0$? I'm not sure why the LHS and RHS would be equal here. Including pdf_tex images from inkscape The Problem For a small mass a distance $R_i$ away from the center of the Earth, how long would it take for the object to fall to the surface of the Earth, assuming that the only force acting upon the object is the Earth's gravitational force?  Relevant Information The following discussion seems to have solved exactly the same problem:   However, upon working out the mathematics, I'm not exactly sure how to evaluate the constant of integration.   A Partial Solution $$ F=\frac {-GMm}{s^2} $$ $$ a=\frac {-GM}{s^2} $$ $$ \frac {dv}{dt} = \frac {-GM}{s^2} $$ Multiplying by $v$ and then integrating by $dt$ on both sides, we have $$\frac {1}{2} v^2=\frac {GM}{s} +c_1$$ where $c_1$ is a constant of integration. Substituting initial conditions of $v=0, s=R$, we have $$\frac {1}{2} v^2=GM(\frac {1}{s}-\frac{1}{R})$$  At this point of time, when I use Wolfram Alpha, I get  $$c_2+\sqrt{\frac{2}{R}}t=\frac{\sqrt{s}(s-R)+R\sqrt{R-s}\times{\tan^{-1}(\sqrt{\frac{s}{R-s}})}}{\sqrt{GM(R-s)}}$$  where $c_2$ is a constant of integration. Substituting initial conditions of s=R, t=0, we find that the term $$\tan^{-1}(\sqrt{\frac{s}{R-s}})$$ is undefined. At this point, I'm stuck. Any ideas on where I've made the mistake here?  (For those interested, this question was inspired by the Greek myth which states that a bronze hammer dropped from heaven would take 9 days to hit the Earth and would reach on the tenth). git-upload-pack: command not found, when cloning remote Git repo I have been using git to keep two copies of my project in sync, one is my local box, the other the test server. This is an issue which occurs when I log onto our remote development server using ssh;  git clone me@me.mydevbox.com:/home/chris/myproject Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/myproject/.git/ Password: bash: git-upload-pack: command not found fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fetch-pack from 'me@me.mydevbox.com:/home/chris/myproject' failed.   (the file-names have been changed to protect the guilty... !)   Both boxes run Solaris 10 AMD. I have done some digging,  if I add --upload-pack=$(which git-upload-pack) the command works, (and proves that $PATH contains the path to 'git-upload-pack' as per the RTFM solution)  but this is really annoying, plus 'git push' doesn't work, because I don't think there is a --unpack= option.    Incidentally, all the git commands work fine from my local box, it is the same version of the software (1.5.4.2), installed on the same NFS mount at /usr/local/bin.    Can anybody help? Why "was" not "were" in "Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account" I've always said "$100 were taken" not "$100 was taken" because I thought $100 is plural. Could you explain why "was" not "were"? Any other helpful notes about the issue would be appreciated.     Nearly £20 was taken from my bank account I've tried to setup an autologin, but that isn't possible, because my home is encrypted. What are the reasons for this?  PS. Here I have described my problem: .