My laptop used to connect to company domain server, so it inherited from the global domain policy. Now I no longer have this laptop connect to the company domain, and would like to change the password policy settings (e.g. max/min pwd characters, password complexity). However, in gpedit.msc, the password settings are all greyed out.  How do I make it editable again in gpedit.msc? I know these settings would be overwritten by domain server once connecting to it again. Though like I said, I won't use this laptop connect to company network anymore.
It is a win7 ultimate x64 machine. The machine was in a domain where it got those group policy settings. Now it has left the domain but it still receives the settings from the group policy. For example, the power options. I set a certain power option but soon it will be reset to another power option which is endorsed by the domain.  Is there a way to remove the settings?
Electrical potential energy stored in vacumm for a single point charge? I have come to know the electrostatic potential energy in vacuum is given by $${\frac{1}{2}} \epsilon_0\int d^3x {E^2} $$ and this energy  is due to the mutual electrostatic coulomb potential energy. So only a single point charge in space also contributes to some electrostatic potential energy according to $${\frac{1}{2}} \epsilon_0 \int d^3x {E^2} $$  as due to a single point charge also we have an electric field at every point in space. Now I am not getting it physically, why should there be any Coulomb energy in this case as there is no other charge to provide the electrostatic coulomb potential energy? How can I initialize normal array member variable in initializer list? so I've recently installed my first Ubuntu, to be precise, a daily build of 16.04, on my new laptop since the hardware was to new for 15.10. Now I'm in the process of setting it up and I want to install php5 and some extensions.  When I execute sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 I get the error message that there is no installation package available for php5 and libapache2.  The error message is in german, so I doubt that this would help, but anyways here it is. :-) E: For package »libapache2-mod-php5« existiert kein Installationskandidat.  Do I need to add a apt-get repository? Or what am I doing wrong? I masked an image in the UV/Image editor masking section. I then used that mask in the compositor for background replacement. However, the mask size seems to be different. Why is that? Here's a screenshot: Almost all passports I have seen have a place of birth field on them. For instance, on the US Passport,    Is there a specific reason to this? Consequence of the Hahn-Banach Theorem From wikipedia's page on the Hahn-Banach Theorem:  If $V$ is a normed vector space with linear subspace $U$ (not necessarily closed) and if $z$ is an element of $V$ not in the closure of $U$, then there exists a continuous linear map $ψ : V → K$ with $ψ(x) = 0$ for all $x$ in $U$, $ψ(z) = 1$, and $||ψ|| = dist(z, U)^{−1}.$  How is this a consequence of the Hahn-Banach Theorem? Folding a cube (animation) I'm trying to fold a cube with an animation. I've tried inverse kinetics with no luck. Here are some images that explain what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make this so that    when the upper bone is pushed down, the box is folded to the ground. when the upper bone is pulled up, it unfolds the box. How can I extract text from images?  I am not talking about scanned files, but garden variety images, such as when you take a high-def picture of a blackboard at class, and it is nicely handwritten; or when you photograph a page from a recipe book and want the recipe in text format.  Any free and open software for that?  I tried tesseract, and the results were awful. Evaluation of $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(n^4+n^2+1)n!}$ Iterating through a Collection, avoiding ConcurrentModificationException when removing objects in a loop We all know you can't do the following because of ConcurrentModificationException:  for (Object i : l) {     if (condition(i)) {         l.remove(i);     } }   But this apparently works sometimes, but not always. Here's some specific code:  public static void main(String[] args) {     Collection&lt;Integer&gt; l = new ArrayList&lt;&gt;();      for (int i = 0; i &lt; 10; ++i) {         l.add(4);         l.add(5);         l.add(6);     }      for (int i : l) {         if (i == 5) {             l.remove(i);         }     }      System.out.println(l); }   This, of course, results in:  Exception in thread "main" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException   Even though multiple threads aren't doing it. Anyway.  What's the best solution to this problem? How can I remove an item from the collection in a loop without throwing this exception?  I'm also using an arbitrary Collection here, not necessarily an ArrayList, so you can't rely on get. How to fix "sudo: unable to open ... Read-only file system"? The title might not be as descriptive as I would like it to be but couldn't come up with a better one.  My server's file system went into Read-only. And I don't understand why it does so and how to solve it.  I can SSH into the server and when trying to start apache2 for example I get the following :  username@srv1:~$ sudo service apache2 start [sudo] password for username: sudo: unable to open /var/lib/sudo/username/1: Read-only file system  * Starting web server apache2                                                                                                                                                                                                               (30)Read-only file system: apache2: could not open error log file /var/log/apache2/error.log. Unable to open logs Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information.   When I try restarting the server I get :  username@srv1:~$ sudo shutdown -r now [sudo] password for username: sudo: unable to open /var/lib/sudo/username/1: Read-only file system   Once I restart it manually it just start up without any warning or message saying something is wrong.  I hope somebody could point me into the right direction to resolve this issue. I've noticed confusing definitions about permutation and substitution, preventing me from understanding the difference.  A permutation changes the order of distinct elements of a set, but this can be written as a function changing one element by another, exactly as a substitution.  So, how exactly can we distinguish between these two notions?  This question is interesting since we have these two notions in block ciphers, in which S-boxes perform substitution. The problem is that this table is used to replace one element by another, exactly like a permutation. A field that is conservative must have a curl of zero everywhere. However, I was wondering whether the opposite holds for functions continuous everywhere: if the curl is zero, is the field conservative? Can someone please give me an intuitive explanation and insight into this, and if it is true, why? Also, please try to not be too rigorous (only in grade 9). Which of the following is most correct?      The distance of the shortest path must not be higher than 10km.   The distance of the shortest path must not be greater than 10km.   The distance of the shortest path must not be bigger than 10km.   Or is there an even better word? Is there a CSS selector for elements containing certain text? combine 2 fields in 1 to use it in the "group by" section of the reports is it possible to combine two fields in one and use that field to group by in reports? for example, i would like to combine ee id and ee name fields in 1 and show as 1 field in the "group by" section on reports. LWC Get Pick-list Field Values In LWC, is it possible to get a pick-list field's possible values?  I'm writing a component that is embded into a lightning record page. I need my component to be able to load the record from the page, get data from the fields and use that data to pre-populate my search form with default values.  I have this working with city/state and checkbox fields. Right now the city/state fields are built pull data from an aggregate query of contacts to find all possible state/city combinations (I know this is doomed to fail when the records reach over 50k contacts but Its good enough for now).  I have a pick-list field on my object called skill level, I need to be able to build a combo box that has all the possible values for skill level and set the default value to the value on the associated record.  I'd like to avoid hard-coding the available options if possible.  In LWC, is it possible to get a pick-list field's possible values? Story with multiple 'third planet' races I'm looking for the name and author of a novel (or possibly novella). I first read this in the seventies, and might be older than that. It might have been written for teenagers.  The story takes place on a planet inhabited by a primitive humanoid race, roughly stone age if I remember rightly. Visiting this planet is a small team from a more advanced race, also humanoid and with spacefaring technology (obviously!). They are either there to help or observe, no nefarious purposes. I think they are avoiding contact with the primitives, at least initially. It's explicitly mentioned that the planet they are visiting is the third one of a medium sized star, just like their own homeworld. Also orbiting round the planet is an even more advanced race, using high tech to remain hidden from both the others. They are observing the whole situation, and again its mentioned that this is a 'third planet', like their own homeworld.  I'm a little bit hazy on the rest of the plot, but I think the super-advanced race end up revealing themselves, even though they are not supposed to.  The story is told from the viewpoints of both the second and third races (maybe also the first, I forget)  EDIT: For the record it turns out my recollection was faulty, and the second race are indeed coming to the planet for nefarious purposes. And the planet is at the medieval stage, not stone age. What is the best (idiomatic) way to check the type of a Python variable? I need to know if a variable in Python is a string or a dict.  Is there anything wrong with the following code?  if type(x) == type(str()):     do_something_with_a_string(x) elif type(x) == type(dict()):     do_somethting_with_a_dict(x) else:     raise ValueError   Update: I accepted avisser's answer (though I will change my mind if someone explains why isinstance is preferred over type(x) is).  But thanks to nakedfanatic for reminding me that it's often cleaner to use a dict (as a case statement) than an if/elif/else series.  Let me elaborate on my use case.  If a variable is a string, I need to put it in a list.  If it's a dict, I need a list of the unique values.  Here's what I came up with:  def value_list(x):     cases = {str: lambda t: [t],              dict: lambda t: list(set(t.values()))}     try:         return cases[type(x)](x)     except KeyError:         return None   If isinstance is preferred, how would you write this value_list() function? I live in Hong Kong, and the Play Store displays everything in the local Cantonese language. I have set everything I can (Android language, Account language, even the app locale via Xposed Module "App Settings") to English, but I still see all the categories in the store in Chinese. Can someone help me change those to English?  (Click image to enlarge)