I finally found the solution to a problem that was killing me. Before I found it, I asked an SO question about it, and had even started a bounty on the question. Can I now post a self-answer and, if no better answers get posted before the bounty expires, award myself the bounty?
Consider this question on .  I put out a 200 bounty on the question, but did not get an answer from anyone other than myself that worked.    In fact, my answer is also the highest up-voted on it at this point.  I know that allowing OP's to retract a bounty can be a slippery slope; in fact I think that once the bounty is put up it should stay up.  But why not allow the OP to answer their own questions with a bounty and reward it to them if they receive the same up-votes as others?  Yes, I am fully aware that bounties are a risk.  People will use them for numerous reasons such as trying to draw extra attention to their issues.  However, in my specific question, the only valid answer is the one that I gave.  Had it been anyone else's question, I would have received the bounty, but since it was my own I did not.
Can I use a Thunderbolt display for a macbook pro with a mini display port? What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only? When I plug in my USB flash drive, it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on it. I also cannot repartition or reformat the drive using Windows Disk Management, DiskPart, GParted, or other tools. The drive does not have a write-protect switch.  Why did this happen and what can I do about it? Is there a way to remove the write protection?  (Note that this can happen with some memory cards, too, as they often use controllers similar to those used in flash drives. In some cases, the system may report that the drive or card was formatted successfully even though it was never actually formatted; the original data reappears when the device is reinserted.)     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details. Have there been any anime with actual product placement? In Steins;Gate, Dr. Pepper is mentioned several times as the "An Intellectual Drink, For The Chosen Ones".    I've seen a lot of other shows that have stores or products with similar names to the real-life brand, so that the producers can avoid copyright issues.     Even though the inclusion of Dr.Pepper wasn't asked for by the Dr.Pepper company, after the release of Steins;Gate the sales in Japan for Dr.Pepper shot up. .   Have there been any anime where a company has paid for their product to be included in the show? Do I need both a UK visa and a Schengen visa? More options when flagging for migration Awaken monit daemon every few hours for all monitored processes In terms of purely set theory, the axiom of choice says that for any set $A$, its power set (with empty set removed) has a choice function, i.e. there exists a function $f\colon \mathcal{P}^*(A)\rightarrow A$ such that for any subset $S$ of $A$, $f(S)\in S.$ Is this correct?  My question then is about proving this fact, so that we do not need to put it as an axiom. Now as per the research done on this single object- Axiom of Choice, I believe here that there should be some falsity in my argument. I do not find the mistake.  For any $S\in \mathcal{P}^*(A)$, since $S\neq \emptyset$, $\exists s\in S$. Define $f(S)=s$. Then $f$ is a choice function.  This was showing me that the axiom of choice is proved, but then why it had been put as an axiom? For example, in  book, the author asserts that      It is a metatheorem of mathematical logic that it is impossible to specify the function that assigns to each non-empty subset of $\mathbb{R}$, an element of itself.     There are several notes and books on axiom of choice, but here I am trying to understand through doing some argument for some problem, where problem actually arises. Deleting files from Remote FTP-Server older than x days i've got a remote FTP server where i store some backups via cronjob.  The Problem is that i only got a little amount of space so im doing incremental backups. I want to keep the backups about 14 days.  I don't have any other access to the server except FTP and i don't now how to delete files older than x days. Every file got a name with a date in it  yxzNamezxy-date-y-m-d.tar.bz2 (datev-20100111.tar.bz2(   Hope to get some help here.  Cheers and thanks for the hopefully coming answeres,  Dennis  /Edit  I'm trying to use the curl thing which is mantioned in an answere with this part of code  curl ftp://$FTP_SERVER --user $FTP_USER:$FTP_PASS --list-only &gt; files.tmp declare -a aFiles let iCount=0 exec &lt; files.tmp while read sLine do         aFiles[$iCount]=$sLine         ((iCount++)) done  echo -e "\n Files: \n\n\n" echo ${aFiles[@]}  echo -e "\nfor ...\n\n\n" for sFile in $aFiles do         echo -e "\nFile:" $sFile done   but the secound loop doesn't give me more than 1 filename  Cheers,  Dennis How to cite sources written in a different language than English? I'm working on a map in Bedrock Edition, and I need to have a command block at the end that says "Congratulations [player], you win!" Because it's a map, I cant just have it say a specific player's name, and I've seen maps that do exactly what I want mine to do. How do I format the command to allow this? Did other meta-humans enter a coma? In the first episode of The Flash (2014), Barry's struck by lightning, some chemicals fall on him, and he enters a coma for 9 months.  This happens when the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator is turned on for the first time.  9 months later, he wakes up and has powers.  He then starts fighting crime, especially other meta-humans who were created by the same particle accelerator accident.  However, this is all 9 months after the accident, where were the other meta-humans during those 9 months?  The S.T.A.R. Labs people make it sound like they hadn't seen any meta-humans active during the 9 months Barry was out.  Did all people granted powers by the particle accelerator accident also fall into comas?  Why weren't they active heroes/villains during the 9 month gap? I often have to write up reports based on the analysis of some data. I use R to analyse the data and export tables, figures, and text. This is then included into a LaTeX document either using input or Sweave ().  However, when I collaborate with others, I sometimes need to provide a document in Open Office / MS Word format.  Question:  Thus, assume the simplest scenario   I have a LaTeX document with text, tables, and figures I need to export this reliably into Open Office or MS Word format: this includes mathematical formulas, table formatting, and quality figures) I don't need to go back from MS Word to LaTeX   What is a reliable, efficient, and preferably free process?  Initial Thoughts:   Export to HTML,  LaTeX - LyX - ODF Use odfWeave  that deals with some specific issues associated with LaTeX to Open Office conversion    I was hoping that there is an expert out there who has worked out a good system already. Apply for Schengen visa in a third country Can a Kenyan citizen studying in Russia and temporarily visiting family in Kenya apply for a Schengen visa in Nairobi and not in Russia, where he has his residence? 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I want the header of the first page to look like this (with an empty footer):   And the footer from the second page on to look like this: I just did my first install of any Linux OS, and I accidentally selected "Desktop GUI" in the install, but I want to build everything myself. Is there any way by which I can remove the GUI environment without re-installing OS?