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Loopback to forwarded Public IP address from local network - Hairpin NAT Does flying to Panama from the US reset the ESTA time counter? Family in GLM - how to choose the right one? When modeling data sampled in the field, I often come across the problem of determining the Family of the dependent variable for GLM (or GLMM). An example: in an ecological study, I have ~ 60 patches.  I have sampled territories of an animal species within these patches as well as a set of explanatory variables.  The number of territories per patch (NTP) is the dependent variable in a GLM.   NTP is integer with values between 0 and 14:      How can I test for the family of NTP?  Any help appreciated as this is an issue many ecologists come across each time they conduct statistical analysis. Use #ifdefs and #define to optionally turn a function call into a comment Is it possible to do something like this  #ifdef SOMETHING #define foo // #else #define foo MyFunction #endif   The idea is that if SOMETHING is defined, then calls to foo(...) become comments (or something that doesn't get evaluated or compiled), otherwise it becomes a call to MyFunction.  I've seen __noop used, but I don't believe I can use that.  EDIT(s):  I don't think I can really use a macro here, because MyFunction takes a variable number of arguments.  Also, I'd like to make it so the arguments are NOT evaluated!  (So doing something like commenting out the body of MyFunction doesn't really give me what I need, as the arguments will still be evaluated) Let $f : \mathbb R^n \rightarrow \mathbb R$ be a measurable function.  We know that $f$ is not necessarily locally integrable - but how hard can a measurable $f$ fail to be so? For example, is it true that $f$ is locally integrable outside of a negligible set $N \subset \mathbb R^n$?   Edit: In consideration of the comment by zhs, let me correct the phrasing of the question. I was originally wondering whether the 'singular' behaviour of a measurable function can be localized to a 'small' set.   A motivational example is $f(x) = 1/x$ over the real line. It is locally integrable in the complement of the origin. Hence, a conceivable phenomenon, which I had in mind originally when asking the question, could be that a measurable $f$ is integrable over open sets that are compactly contained in the complement of some negligible sets. How to list .txt files with specific content? How do I list all .txt files with their full path that have a word 'Ubuntu' in them. Ignore non-text files. When comparing values you should ignore the case i.e. UBUNTU or ubuNtu or UbUnTu are treated as equal to the search phrase given. How to create a local APT repository? I would like to build my own local repository on my LAN, so that machines on the LAN can update and upgrade from it. I want to download the packages and store them on my local server so that I can update, upgrade, install, etc, from it without using the internet. How do I run Command & Conquer Gold on Windows 7 64-bit (in XP mode)? I downloaded the first Command &amp; Conquer game  and burnt some CDs. I couldn't get the Setup.exe program to run in Windows 7 64-bit, as it must need some old DLLs. So I ran up the Windows XP Mode virtual machine, and was able to install it fine.   However, when I try to run the program, I just get an empty message box with an "OK" button. I've set the compatibility to Windows 95, and checked all of the options in the Compatibility tab, but it's not running. I also downloaded the patch suggested by EA, which is an updated version of the THIPX32.DLL file (copied into the C&amp;C installation folder).  Has anyone managed to get this working? The question I want to ask is related to the answer of this question:  .   My aim is to separate my bibliography into two parts : one part for a personnal bibliography, and a second one for the regular bibliography.  To do that, I use the technique of the post I cited :  \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage[style=alphabetic,maxnames=6,natbib=true]{biblatex} \bibliography{biblatex-examples}  % Variants of each could be added \newcommand{\firstname}{Donald~E.} \newcommand{\lastname}{Knuth}  \DeclareBibliographyCategory{byname}  \DeclareIndexNameFormat{byname}{% Test could be refined   \ifboolexpr{ test {\ifdefstring{\lastname}{#1}}            and test {\ifdefstring{\firstname}{#3}}               } {\addtocategory{byname}{\thefield{entrykey}}} {}}  \AtDataInput{%   \indexnames[byname]{author}}  \begin{document}  \section{Knuth's books}  \begin{refsection}  \nocite{*}  \printbibliography[category=byname,heading=none]  \end{refsection}  \section{Not Knuth's books}  \printbibliography[notcategory=byname,heading=none] \end{document}   The problem is that only the second bibliography appears, and when I remove the refsection, then all the bibtex entries of my input files are printed, separated as they should.  EDIT: the aim is to have all publications (even the ones not cited) by author knuth in the first section and all the other cited publications in the second one. I have a registered StackOverflow account which I normally log into using OpenID.  Recently I logged out in order to post a question anonymously (supplying a fake name and of my secondary email addresses).  The problem now is that I'm logged in to StackOverflow as this "dummy" user, unable to see a way to log out.  The top menu normally has a "logout" link, but when you aren't fully registered this link is replaced with "register".  There is no "logout" link for me. :(  So..   When logged out there is a "login" link. When logged in there is a "logout" link. When "logged in" with an unregistered account, there is only a "register" link (no "logout"). Is there a characterization of the nonconstant entire functions $f$ that satisfy $|f(z)|=1$ for all $|z|=1$?   Clearly, $f(z)=z^n$ works for all $n$. Also, it's not difficult to show that if $f$ is such an entire function, then $f$ must vanish somewhere inside the unit disk. What else can be said about those functions?  Thank you. Does a sorcerer's metamagic work for non-sorcerer spells? Can a multiclass sorcerer/cleric use the Metamagic class ability with non-sorcerer spells? For example, using Twinned Spell when casting cure wounds to heal two creatures instead of just one? Can someone explain collection_select to me in clear, simple terms? Why does WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) keep spiking my CPU? I generally keep my laptop on 24x7, and at the end of the day it's really annoying to have my thighs burnt because over overheating.   The overheating seems to be a result of WMI Provider Host (WmiPrvSE.exe) spiking the CPU utilization to 25% every few minutes.  Why does this happen?  I have an HP Envy 14 (with the HP bundled crap) running on Windows 7 Home Premium.  (Note: Based on @nhinkle's , it seems that HP Wireless Manager might be the culprit, is there any way to confirm this?)     This question was a .   Read the Feb 28, 2011  for more details or  Question of the Week. Tips for getting latte or soda out of your keyboard? A story about the world split into three realms This is a series I read partially something like 15 years ago (I think). It is set in a universe with magic of some sort - I think the magic was derived from geological processes (?). One of the things I remember - which was the reason I abandoned the series - was that it grew ever more gory; when I stopped reading, one of the main protagonists was flayed alive.   I only remember fragments - there were hints that the universe had been magically split into three or four parts, three relatively normal parts and The Void. I remember there was a powerful person/ruler called Tensor, and a kind of monstrous race with powerful magic, called 'Lorsk', which originated in the void and had evolved from humans that had been trapped there.  I'm a bit ambivalent about reading the series again - it seemed to be a never-ending death spiral of soap operatic proportions, but I'd like to see if my impression from then was actually right. SCP through multiple hosts describes how to SSH into a machine that can only be accessed through one or more hosts (that can also be SSH'd into).  Is there an equivalent way of using scp? That is, copy a file to my local machine from the far machine (assuming I have password or key access to all machines along the way)? How to declare a structure in a header that is to be used by multiple files in c? If I have a source.c file with a struct:  struct a {      int i;     struct b {         int j;     } };   How can this struct be used in another file (i.e. func.c)?  Should I create a new header file, declare the struct there and include that header in func.c?  Or should I define the whole struct in a header file and include that in both source.c and func.c?  How can the struct be declared extern in both files?  Should I typedef it? If so, how? Find Documents in MongoDB whose with an array field is a subset of a query array If "No One" uses a face from the Hall of Faces to become someone then how did he do this In season five of Game of Thrones, when Arya becomes blind there is a very interesting detail most of us might have missed.   Let's not stretch the question:    Arya returns after assassinating Ser Meryn Trant Jaqen H'ghar "No one" comes in the scene, Waif is present as well Arya and Jaqen talks, he appears to be giving the poison to Arya but drinks it and dies. Arya cries, says he was her friend when Waif asked her something (I don't recall what) Waif removes her face, reveals she is actually Jaqen Arya removes face of Jaqen from the dead body, keeps removing it until her own face appears.   What sorcery is going on in here? How could they use a face of a person who is still alive. They remove the faces of a dead person for a reason? So that the face can be used by the Faceless-men.   Is there something I am missing or can the Faceless-men do these kinds of magic as well?