How to write the fancy O I thought this is italic theta. I tried \textit{\theta}, \textit{$\mathcal{O}$} . But, I couldn't get this letter.
How to look up a symbol or identify a letter from a math alphabet or other character? I know what my symbol or character looks like, but I don't know what the command is or which math alphabet it came from. How do I go about finding this out?
Do systemd unit files have to be reloaded when modified? Let's say I write a mine.service file. Then I use systemctl enable mine.service.  If I later decide to edit mine.service, do I have to tell systemd that mine.service was changed? If so, how do I do that? Setting a document in MS Word-12pt (12bp) Warning  If you're looking for advice how to make your document look like it's been written in Word, this is most likely not the question you're looking for. This question is mostly of theoretical nature, as it results in tiny differences, which will most likely not be noticed by someone who doesn't allow the use of LaTeX.  Questions that might be more helpful for this matter are:           Question  I learned that MS Word uses a slightly different version of the unit "point" (pt) than TeX does:     The 12 point of Word will be PostScript point, which in TeX would be called 12bp. A TeX pt is slightly smaller: it's 1/72.27 inch, while a bp/PostScript point is 1/72 inch. See also    ( in )  I'm writing a paper that would usually be expected to be "typeset" in MS Word, thus I want to use the same font size as Word would.  How do I set a document e.g. in the "12pt" font size that MS Word would use?  In case it matters, I'm using the article document class, Latin Modern (lmodern) as a font with the T1 font encoding and compile with pdfLaTeX, but input on different set-ups is more than welcome. Why does the beta distribution become U shaped when $\alpha$ and $\beta$ <1? In the Beta distribution (used to model Bernoulli probabilities), the $\alpha$ and $\beta$ parameters can be interpreted as the number of heads$+1$ and the number of tails$+1$ seen. So, if they were both $2$, it would lean towards the coin being fair and have a maximum at $0.5$. If they are both $20$, the distribution would become even surer we're dealing with a fair coin and peak even more at $p=0.5$.  What I don't get is its behavior when $\alpha$ and $\beta$ both become $&lt;1$.   In that case, it becomes U-shaped and the density peaks at $p=0$ and $p=1$. Meaning the coin is likely to be two-sided. I know there is an intuition for this since I think I had an idea about it a long time ago. However, I've been trying to recollect all day and can't piece it together. Does anyone have an intuition? Get string inside parentheses, removing parentheses, with regex Let $X, Y$ be independent standard normal random variables.  We already know that $X+Y$ is normal with mean 0 and variance 2. However, I am trying to prove this result in a slightly different way than usual, i.e., using convolutions.  We can address the problem in the following way: the sum of the two variables has a density $h(x)$ given by the convolution product of the densities of the two variables, say $f$ and $g$, so that   $$ h(x) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x-y)g(y)dy. $$  However,  $$ f(y) = g(y) = \frac{1}{\sqrt {2\pi}}\exp(-y^2/2). $$  Hence now the integral becomes:  $$ h(x) =\frac{1}{2\pi}\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\exp(-(x-y)^2/2)\exp(-y^2/2)dy. $$  However, I am puzzled here. How should we go on from here? I cannot see how to transform this integral into the integral of a normal r.v of type $N(0,2)$. Thanks in advance for your help. Is Linux Virtual Server old, or is it standing still? Based on this question: , LVS may be the right solution for my problem.   But when I went to its homepage , I found that LVS has been updated since Nov, 2008. The world's moving fast, and I don't know if LVS was obsolete or not.  Is LVS standing still, or there're some better solutions to replace it?  Thank you so much. 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This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source  E: Package 'gksu' has no installation candidate   How can I install this software on ubuntu 18.04 (I download it yesturday so it is the most recent version on upwork website) ? removeClass and fade animation Why don't the colonists wear spacesuits in Alien: Covenant? In the beginning of the Alien: Covenant movie, a group of colonists from the main ship make a landing on an unknown planet, which they found out accidentally after ship has been bombarded by an unknown wave from a star collapse and what bothers me, is that they don't wear any spacesuits, any protective gear, any air filter systems, just nothing.  Is that really the way future space expeditions gonna explore new possible planets presumed as possible habitable homes for humanity?  Every 5th grader knows, from the biology school lessons, that water, air, and even earth itself contains and gives life to a thousands of viruses, bacteria, and microorganisms.  You can breathe in bacteria, or virus, and be dead in a seconds.  Do film makers really suppose we will take it as realistic depiction of extraterrestrial expedition?   Reality check just screams out loud.  What do you think can be their motivation for such a decision? "debconf: DbDriver "config": config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable" while installing packages In Harry Potter, Who is Merlin? In Harry Potter, who is Merlin and what is his role in wizarding history?  His contribution to the wizarding history is apparently known from the fact that some special honors are named after him, such as the Order of Merlin (First Class, Second Class and so on...). Did he live around the time of the four founders of Hogwarts? Is volunteer work allowed in the US while visiting under the VWP or a B1/B2 visa? I am going to Santa Monica for 4 weeks to polish my English in July and would like to volunteer at the Planetary Society located in Pasadena.  I am a Swiss citizen and have a biometric passport. However, I don't have any special visa, as there is no visa needed for the school I am attending and using the Visa Waiver Program, I am allowed to stay up to 90 days in the US.  Am I allowed to do volunteer work during my stay? How to permanently switch Caps Lock and Esc How can I permanently switch the Caps Lock and Esc key functions in Saucy? I can use this command to do it temporarily (until reboot):  /usr/bin/setxkbmap -option "caps:swapescape"   I tried adding that command as a Startup Application, but it doesn't seem to do anything. How do I properly clean up Excel interop objects? I'm using the Excel interop in C# (ApplicationClass) and have placed the following code in my finally clause:  while (System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(excelSheet) != 0) { } excelSheet = null; GC.Collect(); GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers();   Although this kind of works, the Excel.exe process is still in the background even after I close Excel. It is only released once my application is manually closed.  What am I doing wrong, or is there an alternative to ensure interop objects are properly disposed of? Cannot install a version of GDAL via Anaconda that permits reading BigTIFFs What is the difference between the two "worlds" when going thru the day/night wormhole at the altar? I have an HTML (not XHTML) document that renders fine in Firefox 3 and IE 7.  It uses fairly basic CSS to style it and renders fine in HTML.  I'm now after a way of converting it to PDF.  I have tried:   : it had huge problems with tables.  I factored out my large nested tables and it helped (before it was just consuming up to 128M of memory then dying--thats my limit on memory in php.ini) but it makes a complete mess of tables and doesn't seem to get images.  The tables were just basic stuff with some border styles to add some lines at various points; : I actually had better luck with this.  It rendered some of the images (all the images are Google Chart URLs) and the table formatting was much better but it seemed to have some complexity problem I haven't figured out yet and kept dying with unknown node_type() errors.  Not sure where to go from here; and : this seems to work fine on basic HTML but has almost no support for CSS whatsoever so you have to do everything in HTML (I didn't realize it was still 2001 in Htmldoc-land...) so it's useless to me.   I tried a Windows app called Html2Pdf Pilot that actually did a pretty decent job but I need something that at a minimum runs on Linux and ideally runs on-demand via PHP on the Webserver.  What am I missing, or how can I resolve this issue? I'm running the following script on Ubuntu 14.04:  #!/bin/bash  apt-get purge -y nginx apt-get install -y nginx  date   When I run it like cat /tmp/script | bash, apt-get starts installing, then "date" is printed (not the actual date, but the command name), then the remaining apt-get output is printed.  If however I run the script like /tmp/script, it works as expected: printing the date after apt-get finished.  Why does this happen and how can I force bash to work when being piped to the same way it does when invoked directly? One might expect the sum of the tracert latencies to equal 267ms: