Fantasy book: girl and her familiar frog, cat and fish escape their witch jailor and search for who they are It is a single book story about a girl who, along with a fish, a cat, a frog and maybe some other familiars, escapes the witch who was holding them captive.  The fish had a pearl in its mouth, the frog a stone on its head, the cat had something in its paw and the girl, something in her stomach.  I don't remember much more than it being their journey to finding out who they really are and why the witch had captured them.
Fantasy novel with amnesiac witch, impotent soldier and cursed animals The story is set in a vaguely medieval world in which a young woman has been cursed by the evil witch who has enslaved her and caused her to lose her memory. With the aid of her talking animal friends who have also been cursed (toad has a huge stone under his tongue meaning he can't feed and a crow with a gem embedded in its wing and there's a little grey kitten too who never grows up) she sets out on a journey to break the curse for herself and her friends. Along the way she meets an injured unicorn and a horny-but-moral soldier rendered impotent by a curse after refusing the disguised witch's sexual advances.  After adventures there's a 'happy ever after' for all of the heroes and the witch meets a sticky end.    In the UK the book had a deep red cover with an illustration. I read it in either the 1990's or the early 2000's. Cracking book, definitely for adults given some of the situations, language and humour.
Importing users that will be installed by programs Graphics issues after/while installing Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 with NVIDIA graphics I have Solaris 8 OS installed in French.  Is it possible to switch from French to English without reinstalling the OS ? If yes how ?  When locale -a i have this :  POSIX common en_US.UTF-8 C iso_8859_1 en_CA en_CA.ISO8859-1 en_US en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15 en_US.ISO8859-15@euro fr_CA fr_CA.ISO8859-1 iso_8859_15 th th_TH th_TH.TIS620   Even when I try to edit /etc/default/init with :  LANG=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-15   and reboot : nothing happens.  To verify the result i always use date and when i reboot : i also have the date in french.  P.S : I have to do this configuration in a computer which isn't here in my office, so i have to this manipulation in a an another computer here in my office and if it works, i'll do it to the other computer.  So the computer here is configured in English and i have to switch it to French. Here is the content of my ~./dt :  C                     errorlog              sessionlogs Desktop               errorlog.old          sessions Trash                 errorlog.older        simulateur.dtwmrc appconfig             help                  startlog appmanager            icons                 startlog.old asr.dtwmrc            outils.dtwmrc         startlog.older bin                   palettes              tmp bookmarks             sdtfonts              types dtwmrc                sdtpcaction.conf      wsmenu en_US.ISO8859-15      sdtpcaction.conf.bak   Thanks Just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and it seems that the keyboard layout switching has changed its behavior.  In the previous version of Ubuntu (such as 16.04 Unity), if I have 3 different keyboard layouts (for example EN-TH-JA), hitting Super+Space would always cycle to the next layout in the same order (e.g. EN to TH to JA then back to EN).  However since Ubuntu 17.10, this is no longer the case. It cycles through the layout in the MRU (Most Recently Used) ordering. So suppose that the layout starts with EN, then I cycled to TH. Next time I hit Super+Space, it would give me EN instead of JA.   I tried to dig up and found that the culprit is the newly implemented DCONF settings inside org.gnome.desktop.input-sources and there seems to be no way to change this behavior.   So my question is: Is there a way to change this behavior to "static ordering" of keyboard layout switching?    (As a side-note, the new behavior is very bad when we have three or more layouts. Most of the time we as a user couldn't remember the MRU layouts, so layout switching is very inconvenient and much slower than already knowing what the next layout would be if static ordering is used.)  If there is no settings to change this behavior, where should I report this as a bug or a feature request? Input file1 is:  dog 123 4335 cat 13123 23424  deer 2131 213132 bear 2313 21313   I give the match the  pattern from in other file ( like dog 123 4335 from   file2).  I match the pattern of the line is dog 123 4335 and after printing all lines without match line my output is:   cat 13123 23424 deer 2131 213132 bear 2313 21313   If only use without address of line only use the pattern, for example 1s how to  match and  print the lines? Evaluating indefinite integrals of the form $\int \frac{x^2 \,dx}{a x^5 + b}$ Evaluate the indefinite integral   $$\int \frac{x^2 \,dx}{a x^5 + b},$$   for real parameters $a, b \neq 0$.   No apparent substitutions simplify the expression (if the exponent of $x$ were an integral multiple of $3$, this would suggest the substitution $u = x^3$, $du = 3 x^2 \,dx$, but the exponent is not). Applying integration by parts with $u = a x^5 + b$, $dv = x^2 dx$ is straightforward, but it produces an integrand with a much larger degree in the denominator and so appears only to make the situation worse. Applying integration by parts instead with $dw = \frac{x^k dx}{a x^5 + b}$ results in integrating $\frac{x^k dx}{a x^5 + b}$, which except when $k \equiv 4 \pmod 5$ (which doesn't appear immediately fruitful), doesn't appear much easier than the given integral. Why is uniq ignoring Unicode and lines with a single letter? I'm trying to combine both the American and British dictionaries into one large dictionaries, and I'm trying to remove all the duplicates from the superset, but it seems that uniq is not outputting words like, "épée" or single letters.  This is what I've tried using:  LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 cat american-english british-english |sort|uniq -u &gt; unique_sorted_combined_dict   If I just do this:  LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 cat american-english british-english |sort &gt; sorted_combined_dict   "épée" and other such words do show up, along with single letters.  Is there something I'm missing here with uniq?  I should note that I'm using uniq from the GNU coreutils on Ubuntu 12.10, if that makes any difference. I have this:  If String.IsNullOrEmpty(editTransactionRow.pay_id.ToString()) = False Then     stTransactionPaymentID = editTransactionRow.pay_id 'Check for null value End If   Now, when editTransactionRow.pay_id is Null Visual Basic throws an exception. Is there something wrong with this code? Which airlines allow in-cabin pets on transatlantic flights? how to fix the width of the columns in the latex table? I have a table with long heading names. I want to fix the the width of the columns. When I do so the text flows out if the column. Any suggestion about fixing it.  Here is the example   \begin{table*}[ht] \begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|r|r|} \hline Image &amp; Score  &amp; here is a lot of text &amp; agian a lot &amp;a lot and a lot&amp; and the same here\\ \hline a \(left\) &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1  \\ \hline b \(right\)&amp;  1 &amp;1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1  \\  \end{tabular}  \end{table*} Elements of $\mathbb{F}_p$ having cube roots in $\mathbb{F}_p$ Let $p$ be a prime number, and let $\mathbb{F}_p$ be the field with $p$ elements. How many elements of $\mathbb{F}_p$ have cube roots in $\mathbb{F}_p$?   I had this question on an exam and after reviewing I am still not sure. Any help would be appreciated. My adoptable storage is full. How can I move the data to a bigger MicroSD card? I've got a Moto G 2014 LTE running CM13. When I found out about the whole 'adopt SD card as internal storage' thing, I was quite excited, as the actual internal storage on this phone is tiny. I set up a 16gb micro SD, the biggest I had at the time, and have been using it with minimal problems.  Fast-forward to this day, and I now have a 64gb micro SD that I want to use instead of the 16gb one. However, I'm at a loss as to the best way to copy the data over onto the new one, or if it's even possible. The ideas I've got so far include:   Titanium Backup all [system] apps, factory reset, format new SD and then restore (should work, but a massive pain) NANDroid the SD card onto a USB OTG stick, then restore to the new one (pretty sure this is a bad idea and won't work, but...) Copy all the stuff onto my computer via my phone through a file manager of some sort (I have a linux/linux/windows triple boot, so file format isn't a problem), format the new SD into phone, and copy back (can't be that simple, can it? Hidden/inaccessible files?) Copy the files onto USB OTG with a root file explorer app, reformat the SD as portable, format the new one as adopted, and then copy them back (could work, except for the point below)  with the command adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true, use a root browser to copy all the data over from the old SD, format the old SD as external and remove it, and take the new SD and put it in the SD card slot (seems overly complicated, and also suffers the below pitfall)   The other thing that worries me is mount points: will the apps with externally-stored data know to look at the new SD card for it? Will I have to remount it in a specific location with the shell each boot (or use an init.d script perhaps)? I suppose that it can always be accessed through /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0, but I'm not 100% sure what goes on behind the scenes.  I've got recent NANDroid backups, so if anyone can eliminate the options that definitely won't work (or say which one[s] probably will), I can try them and report back in case someone stumbles across this question in the future.  EDIT: So, my phone further bit the dust and got to the point where it got into a pretty major bootloop. Ended up having to flash a whole new ROM. As such, I probably won't be able to test the full image/decryption/etc. method that I was originally planning. However, I will write up what I've discovered so far in case anyone wants to take up this particular method in the future:   Image the old SD with dd as follows: sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~/SDCardBackup.img, where /dev/mmcblk0 is the location of the sd card as obtainable through lsblk Restore the image you just made to the NEW sd card : sudo dd bs=4M if=~/SDCardBackup.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 (you may have to unmount it first) From here on in, I was following  (thanks @beeshyams!) tutorial, which explains the next steps way better than I ever could have done. The plan was to decrypt the storage and resize the main partition with gparted. I had no idea whether it would work or not, but I felt it was worth a try. However, when I came to run the actual decryption command using the key I'd extracted, I got an error (which I believe was my shoddy linux skills more than anything).   As I say, I have no idea if the above method would work or not even if everything did go to plan. Also, feel free to correct any of my commands above if I mis-typed them (I'm on Windows currently, so this is all from memory.) If this info helps anyone, then good. But until then,  should work fine.  Thanks, Jackdafish Would a female Jedi be referred to as Jedi Mistress instead of Jedi Master? Likewise would a Sith female be referred to as a Sith Lady instead of a Sith Lord? In the cases of black holes that form from supernova and collapse of a massive star, I understand that in most of these cases, the star loses significant amounts of mass from the explosion. Presumably, after this point as the remaining mass becomes more dense as it further collapses unto itself, it eventually becomes a black hole with gravitational force greater than that of its parent star. But, if gravity is based on mass, how can the black hole have greater gravitational force than the star from which it is formed? 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Give users a way to see their "Positive Question Record" score I have a manuscript that is under review in a major journal which is a main result out of a few recent years of my research. When applying for faculty positions, I would like to send the draft as a part of my writing sample. But since the material is not yet published, I am not sure if it is a good idea.  What are the foreseeable disadvantages of sending an article in review to the faculty search committee?  My area is neuroscience / biomedical engineering.  Update: The paper got into a high-profile journal, and I got a job at a different place which did not require a writing sample. How often did Gandalf return to Hobbiton after the events of The Hobbit? It has been a while since I read the Lord of the Rings novels (don't have a copy at the moment) but I seem to recall he went to Hobbiton at least once, as the young hobbits were always excited to see him.   Did he travel there often? Why do cars gain lift while going at a high speed? I've been researching the physics involved with spoilers and I've just been turning up the same information about spoilers giving the back wheels of a car more traction by acting as an up side down airfoil.   So my question is, what exactly causes the car to apparently gain lift while moving quickly, so as to merit the use of a spoiler, and is this entirely due to the aerodynamics of the vehicle in question?   Edit: Clarity of question.