I changed my laptop from a Lenovo U310 to a Dell Inspiron 7537. The Lenovo had a special key for turning off and on the screen, but the Dell doesn't have it. I want to know if there is a command for turning off and on the screen by using the same keyboard shortcut (something like CTRL+A, or similar).
How can I make a script (or make some changes) to allow me to turn the screen off in Ubuntu (12.04) whenever I want, the way thevscreen can be turned off in Cellphones?  And how can I make a combination of keys (a shortcut) to execute that script?  I want to conserve power.  I've seen this question    but there is no hotkey for it.  Moreover, in the answer, it is said that there are many ways to accomplish this so I'd like to know more.
Get file size before uploading Is there any way to increase the number of candy made? In Candy Box 2, the candies are being produced at a rate of 1 candy per second. Is there any way to increase the potential amount of candy made at a faster rate? (notice that I am only up to the part where the person with the cellar in their house gives me a map. The  says that public class SomeObject {   public void SomeOperation()   {     lock(this)     {       //Access instance variables     }   } }  is &quot;a problem if the instance can be accessed publicly&quot;. I'm wondering why? Is it because the lock will be held longer than necessary? Or is there some more insidious reason? How does the telepathy supernatural ability work? According to the MM books, telepathy is described as:     A creature with this ability (supernatural) can communicate telepathically with any other creature within a certain range (specified in the creature's entry, usually 100 feet) that has a language. It is possible to address multiple creatures at once telepathically, although maintaining a telepathic conversation with more than one creature at a time is just as difficult as simultaneously speaking and listening to multiple people at the same time.   Source: MM, MM3   My questions:   If a creature with telepathy knows that someone is within 100ft, can the creature communicate with that person, even if there is no line of effect or sight?  My answer would be yes, because no book says that telepathy is blocked by walls, etc. Normally, a supernatural ability is a standard action to start. If the creature wanted to communicate for more than one round using telepathy, does the creature need to use up a standard action every round they are communicating or only in the first round?  My answer is only in the first round, since the description says that maintaining telepathy is hard as speaking and listening normally. If a person the creature is communicating with moves out of the 100ft range, and then moves back into the range. Does the telepathic link need to be established again?  My answer is yes, another standard action is needed to establish the telepathy between the two creatures.   I should add the telepathy is supernatural, and a character is looking at getting it from the Mindbender class (from Complete Arcane). And also get the Mindsight feat (Lords of Madness). I couldn't find anywhere to rule whether a supernatural ability should take a standard action every round it is on. Failed to Login : Invalid session (Try restarting your game) Minecraft Error When I try to connect to servers or join up on lan worlds in Minecraft it says "Failed to Login : Invalid session (Try restarting your game)". Multiplayer used to work fine but now keeps coming up with this error. Can anybody help? Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged - does a better way exist? Setting NTP on Windows 2008 Domain Making an MFC application international I've got several large MFC applications here, and converting them into any other format is out of the question.  We're expanding into other markets, and would like to make the apps work in other languages and cultures.  So far, I've found occasional references as to what to do with Visual C++ version 6, with one mention that later versions of MFC have additional relevant features.  Searching MSDN gives me instructions on how to convert the apps to Unicode, which we already did.  I found nothing on MSDN on how to make languages multilingual once they're in Unicode, only a few older things using Google, and one book about internationalization using VC++6.  (We're using Visual Studio 2008 now, on XP and Vista.)    I make no claims for the strength of my Google-fu, and would be happy to be directed to things I've missed.  Is it reasonable to use the methods of VC++6, or should I use later features?  If I should use features later than that, where can I find some reference to them?  Is there something I should worry about other than setting the locale, converting all strings to resources, and duplicating resources in different languages?  I can find more things about .NET internationalization, but I'm inexperienced in .NET.  What will I find there that's applicable to VC++ and MFC?  Edit:  I just ran into difficulties trying to put Unicode strings into the String Table resource.  (As far as I can tell, Unicode strings need to be entered into the .rc file with a text editor, in L"0x0034" form.  I haven't found a resource editor way to do that.)  Any tips on that?  Any other resource I can use in VS2008 using VC++ and MFC?  Edit:  Somebody on a Microsoft forum suggested that I open the offending .rc file in Notepad, and save it in Unicode.  Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to fix the dialogs, although the stringtable seems to be working in Japanese. How to install Python 3.6? I'd like to install the latest Python, which is 3.6 at the time of this post. However, the repository is saying that Python 3.4.2 is the newest version.  I've tried:   $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install python3  python3 is already the newest version.  $ python -V  Python 3.4.2   To upgrade to Python 3.6 on my Windows workstation, I simply downloaded an exe, clicked "next" a few times, and it's done. What's the proper and officially accepted procedure to install Python 3.6 on Debian Jessie? Bibliography with page numbers In GKP's Concrete Mathematics, there is a useful and interesting feature I would like to see in more books. The bibliography entries include:   a - the page numbers where the book or article is cited in the document. b - a few lines of review of the cited work.   It is a kind of mix between bibliography, index and review.  Are there stable LaTeX packages/BibTeX styles to do (a) and (b) ?  EDIT: I wrote (b) initially as "comments about the work cited". It could be understood as "gathering comments made in the book about the work and reproducing them in the bibliography".  This is not what I meant but this could be something useful for others. Having a UITextField in a UITableViewCell I'm trying to do that for a couple of days now, and after reading tons of messages of people trying to do that too, I'm still unable to have a fully working UITextField in some of my UITableViewCells, just like in this example:     Either I have the form working but the text is not visible (although I set its color to blue), the keyboard goes on the field when I click on it and I haven't been able to correctly implement the keyboard events. I tried with a bunch of examples from Apple (mainly UICatalog, where there is a kinda similar control) but it's still not working correctly.  Can somebody help me (and all the people trying to realize this control) and post a simple implementation of a UITextField in a UITableViewCell, that works fine? If $f(1)=1$, then is it true that $f(n)=n$ for all $n \in \mathbb{N}\cup\{0\}$. Can "what kind" be plural? Is it correct to say, "What kind of patents are being issued in these sophisticated times?" It seems like it should be What kind of patents is being issued..., but that sounds wrong.  What kind of patent is being issued... is correct and sounds right, but loses a little bit of the original meaning.  Is there something magic about what kind that allows it to be plural, or do people just misuse it a lot? Integral $\int\!\sqrt{\cot x}\,dx $ What if the Earth stops in its orbit and instead falls straight towards the Sun? The Earth orbits around the Sun because it has angular momentum. If we stopped the Earth in orbit and then let it fall straight towards the Sun, how long would it take to reach the Sun in seconds?  Details and assumptions  The mass of the sun is 2*10^30 Kg. The mass of the earth is 6*10^24 Kg. The earth is 149,600,000 Km from the Sun. You may treat the Earth and Sun as point masses. When is $2^n \pm 1$ a perfect power Is there an easy way of showing that $2^n \pm 1$ is never a perfect power, except for $2^3 + 1 = 3^2 $?  I know that   gives the result directly, but I'm hopefully for a more elementary method.    I can show that it is never a square, except for $2^3 + 1$.  Proof: Cases $n=1, 2, 3$ are easily dealt with. Henceforth, let $n\geq4$.  $2^n -1 \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$ hence is never a square.     If $2^n +1 =x^2$, then $2^n = (x-1)(x+1)$ and both of these are powers of 2. Thus we must have $(x-1) = 2, (x+1) = 4$. This gives the solution of $2^3 + 1 = 3^2$.    Let's now do an odd prime.  Say $2^n +1 = x^p$. Then $2^n = x^p - 1 = (x-1)(x^{p-1}+x^{p-2} + \ldots +1)$, so both terms are powers of 2. We have $ x = 2^m+1$ is odd. But the other term is the sum of $p$ odd numbers, hence is odd. Since this is clearly greater than 1, we get a contradiction.  Say $2^n -1 = x^p$. Then $2^n = x^p + 1 = (x+1)(x^{p-1} - x^{p-2} + \ldots -x +1 )$, so both terms are powers of 2. We have $x = 2^m -1$ is odd. But the other term is the sum of $p$ odd numbers, hence is odd. Since $x^p + 1 \neq x+1$ except for $p=1$, this means that the term is greater than 1. Hence we get a contradiction. How to install and configure Wine? I am looking for a step by step instruction to guide me in the ways of installing, configuring and debugging many of the issues new users have when dealing with Wine in Ubuntu.  What is the recommended way of installing Wine, some of the key issues that it has and how to solve them?  If I have a specific problem with an App in Wine, how do I go about solving it? What are the recommended steps to ensure that I can fix a problem related to an app I wish to use? Double calculation producing odd result problem with surfaces on tkz-fct i am using this wonderful tool that tkz-fct is for creating nice documents but I have a weird result from recently. This is my document :  \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{pifont}                     %pour utiliser la police Ding \usepackage[left=1.5cm,right=1.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} %marges du document \usepackage[french]{babel} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[L]{thmbox} \usepackage{eurosym} \usepackage{enumitem}               %pour modifer itemize et enumerate \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb} \usepackage{mathrsfs}               %pour utiliser mathscr \usepackage{array,multirow,makecell} \usepackage{fancyhdr}               %package pour modifier les en-têtes \usepackage{fancybox}               %pour boîtes spéciales \usepackage{tikz,tkz-tab,tkz-fct} \usepackage{tikz-dependency}        %permet de créer des schemas \usepackage{sectsty}                %permet de modifier les styles des sections (voir \sectionfont l.21) \usepackage{fourier-orns} \usepackage{shadethm}               %pour theoremes en gris \setcellgapes{1pt} \makegapedcells \newcolumntype{R}[1]{&gt;{\raggedleft\arraybackslash }b{#1}}   %pour redéfinir les colonnes dans tabular \newcolumntype{L}[1]{&gt;{\raggedright\arraybackslash }b{#1}} \newcolumntype{C}[1]{&gt;{\centering\arraybackslash }b{#1}} \renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}} %permet de changer la numérotation en chiffres romains des sections \newshadetheorem{defi}{Définition}  %crée un nouveau type de théorème \newshadetheorem{thm}{Théorème} \newshadetheorem{ppte}{Propriété} \sectionfont{\sectionrule{3ex}{3pt}{-1.5ex}{1pt}} %mettre un trait de séparation dans les sections (package sectsty) \pagestyle{fancy} %style en-têtes \lhead{} %en-tête gauche \chead{Lois à densité} %en-tête centrale \rhead{T\up{ale}} %en-tête droite \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}      \tkzInit[xmin=-4,xmax=4,ymax=1]      \tkzDrawX[label={},noticks]      %\tkzDrawY      \tkzFct[domain=-2:2]{exp(-x**2)}      \tkzDrawArea[color=blue, domain = -0.5:1]      \tkzText(-1,0.75){$\mathscr{C}_{f}$} \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   But from now, it doesn't produce the result I would like as the surface start from the point (-0.5,f(-0.5)) and not as an integral from -0.5 to 1. This is a picture of the result :   Which is obviously not what I would like and this extends now to all my "old" docs which were "normal" before. I don't think I have done anything special except updating my Tex distribution ... If someone has an idea ?? I am using ffmpeg to cut out a section of a large file like this: ffmpeg -i input.wmv -ss 60 -t 60 -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.wmv  The -ss part works fine but the -t is ignored. It correctly removes the initial specified seconds specified with -ss but then keeps going to the end of the input with the copy. Is there a way to use ffmpeg to cut off the end of a video without recoding it?