I'm out with a new problem. I've downloaded a jdk7.sh file. Now I'm unable to change the permission of the file to allow executing the file as a program. I mark the check box and again it disappears.
How can I execute a file without giving myself execute permissions (with chmod u+x) for it?   If I try and tick the 'Allow executing file as program' checkmark, the checkmark is immediately removed.
iOS 9.2 double touch fingerprint sensor I was messing around this morning and found that if I quickly double touch (NOT double-click) the fingerprint sensor on my iPhone 6S+ (iOS 9.2), the current app (or the home screen) slides down to the bottom half-screen, showing a blurred home screen background on the top half.  It doesn't matter if I use a finger that the sensor recognizes.  It goes back to normal after about 8 seconds or if you double-touch again, but I can't figure out what this mode is for??  Is this a bug or some hidden feature I haven't heard about yet? Reason for strange "canyons" of dust on the cooling platform I took apart my cooling platform Something like this :  And I found something like this inside :       I wonder why around the hollows are the "canyon like" structures.  PS: I also drop this platform on the floor, maybe this could be a reason ?   EDIT :  Everybody seems (except Brandon Enright answer) to ignore the word "dust" in this question. Those structures are not in the plastic itself. It is dust ON the plastic.  Proof :     Completely wiped out with my finger : replacing the default console emulator under Windows XP How can I replace the default program providing console windows under Windows XP?  I know of , and I have a shortcut to start cmd.exe in . But now I want console applications to start in Console2 rather than the default console program, even when I have no control over the program that starts the console application. (I.e. a non-console program starts consoleapp.exe, and I can't change it to start Console2 instead, but I still want the application to be started inside a new instance of Console2.)  (Note that I want to replace the console itself, that is, the window in which console (i.e. text mode) applications run. And I must be able to run arbitrary, unmodified console applications: a substitute for a specific console program such as Cmd won't do me any good.)  EDIT: So what I'm after is a , which           OT: I want to know when Microsoft is going to make a decent CSRSS replacement. Not being able to adjust the width of a "terminal" by resizing the window is a complete joke.         Go download the ISE already. (It's included in Win7/2008R2.)   But as far as I understand this ISE is an , not a general console emulator. Identify story: Overpopulation problem causes people to live one day a week This story is about a man that is able to live every day of the week, while everybody else has a single day of wakefulness assigned to them. Due to overpopulation, each human spends 6 out of 7 days of the week in stasis, and has jobs assigned to them in daily shifts. 1/7 of the population works on Monday. 1/7 works on Tuesday, &amp; so on. The main character has found away to circumvent the process and illegally live out his days consecutively by skipping the stasis program that is imposed on the general population and by working a different job everyday. Can somebody name this scifi story? software updater failed to download repository information When I run software updater it says that it failed to download repository information and to check Internet connectivity.  I have Internet connectivity.  How do I fix this?  editing to add content of sources,list:  sorry I can't figure out how to paste in the content of sources.list without making a huge mess.  Some of it previews as really large bold print.  I tried to follow the block quoting and code rules but it is a huge mess anyway. HP laptop F1-12 keys inverted with Fn I recently bought an HP laptop. I'm pleased with it, save for one thing.  All the F1-12 keys are inverted. I mean the following:  All the F-keys have a symbol on it. Normally you would press Fn + your to use it. On this laptop, it's reversed. The symbol is what you get when you press the button normally and you have to press Fn + F-key to get the usual action.  So, if I want to refresh a webpage, instead of just F5, I have to do Fn + F5  I want to change this to regular behavior. Anybody know how I can do this?  Running Win7 Home premium, 64-bit. I'm going down my huge backlog of unplayed Steam games and I'm thinking the best way to tackle the list is to go through the shortest games first and then concentrate on the 20+ hour ones. I'm wondering if there's a website or something else that has an estimated amount of gameplay time for games.   Is there anything like that? How could I define function with function such as Coefficient? When does the placement of a resistor matter? I've been a programmer for years but am very new to electronic engineering. So far I see people saying it doesn't matter where a resistor goes in your LED circuit as long as it is present, but it sounds like that's the nature of the basic LED circuit.  When does the placement of a resistor start to become important? How can you accelerate without moving? Partitioning sum of squares Is there a way to transfer money and items from iOS to Android? I've been playing Jetpack Joyride on iOS, and I just got an Android device. Can I move my things, such as money and unlocks, from my iOS device to Android? Just noticed a minor css issue on this question:    The related questions on the right hand side have some overlapping text in Chrome:        (This only applies to this very site, Meta Stack Exchange) "Install Spotify" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software I'm running macOS 10.15 Catalina Beta.  When I try to install Spotify I see the following error:    Is this a Spotify issue or a Catalina issue?  Thanks. Embedded quotes in arcpy.CalculateField_management expression I'm using arcpy.CalculateField_management to populate a field.  The expression:  "'https://anystate.gov/someportal/DisplayQueryResults.aspx?Prompts=Spill%20Number="!ID!"&amp;Database=OfficeDocs&amp;Query=DEP_Spill_Projects&amp;QuerySet=Portal_Queries&amp;User=Portal.DEP&amp;Password=DEPPortal1'"   will work when entered into the Calculate Field Tool.  The url is completed by pulling in values from the ID field.  However, the Python code snippet pasted into my script results in a syntax error. It's worth noting the expression is bounded by """"'....'"""" (4 double quotes outside a single quote.  I tried Midavalo's suggestion a couple of different ways. First attempt set  expression = 'https://anystate.gov/someserver/…{0}&amp;Database=OfficeDocs&amp;Query=DEP_Sp‌​ill_Projects&amp;QuerySe‌​t=Portal_Queries&amp;Use‌​r=Portal.DEP&amp;Passwor‌​d=DEPPortal1'.format‌​(!ID!)   Resulting in invalid syntax  Based on the Python link, the second try included single quotes:   'https://....'.format('!ID!')    But the result was a syntax error Is my mobile AMD card being used? How to increase Scrollback lines in Ubuntu(14.04.2) server edition? I can see only limited lines on terminal by using shift+ pageup. in Ubuntu desktop version, there is option to make scroll-back lines unlimited. how to do it in Ubuntu server version. please suggest. What's the easiest way to install a missing Perl module? My laptop has a function key which turns F keys into keys which change volume or brightness. I would like to swap a number of them so that they perform that function under normal operation and are an Fx key while the function key is being held.  I assumed that the function keys were just normal keys codes with the set of keys being large enough to include all the possible speical keys. I tried to so as this tutorial suggests () and use xev to obtain the key codes and then would use xmodmap to swap their value.  This does not seem to work though. The F12 key gives the xev output:  KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x4a00001,     root 0xb1, subw 0x0, time 468005, (23,-15), root:(89,37),     state 0x10, keycode 96 (keysym 0xffc9, F12), same_screen YES,     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:      XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:      XFilterEvent returns: False   Which I think is to be expected. However, the Increase Volume button give this response:  KeymapNotify event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x0,     keys:  65  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0               0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0    And so does the Decrease Volume key. How can I perform the swapping of the keys that I would like?  Thank you Mac-like alt-tab replacement for Windows 7? Is there an alt-tab replacement for Windows 7 that works in the same manner as command-tab and command-tick (tilde) on OS X?  Requirements:  1. Completely keyboard-shortcut-based, no mouse action should be necessary.  2. 2 keyboard shortcuts with the following behavior:  a.) alt+tab:       cycles through open applications (NOT windows... applications, meaning even if i have 10 firefox windows open, I only want to see firefox once in the list that comes up when i hit this shortcut)  b.) alt+`:     cycles through WINDOWS that are instances of the currently active application (meaning if firefox is my active window and i hit shortcut2, it will cycle through those 10 firefox windows, while ignoring any other windows from ANY other application).    Update 08:40 5/21: I tried out eidylon's suggestion, TopDesk.  It doesn't provide any of the functionality described here.  Other apps I've already tried:   VistaSwitcher Switcher Dexpot (awesome app, still using, but doesn't do what I want in this case... also looked for plugins but couldn't find one that does it) UltraMon Nvidia nView   update: Unfortunately I still haven't found a solution for this.  update: made this a community wiki in case anyone is ever able to find a solution for this.