I have only one OS in my PC -- UBUNTU.  I wish to double the RAM.  So, if I got a table to verify the size of the swap area space, it would be very useful (without going deep into the details); especially for installation.  I mean, the range for 1GB, 2GB, 4GB etc.  If possible please tell me a preferable swap area for each.   I wish to know the minimum &amp; preferable PERCENTAGE of space for Root "/" when the Hard Disk is considered.
What partitioning scheme do you recommend for a desktop? I've always created three or four primary partitions -- root, swap, home, and sometimes a separate boot partition. Ubuntu's default install offers LVMs. I've never had to add additional drives or space, so it never seemed like a big deal. Whenever I do a fresh install, though, I always think there might be a better way.
I'd wish to visit Dubai with my girlfriend, but after reading  and  I started to get a little worried about it. How should I book an hotel? Must I book two singles? Could it be a problem if we walk together in the city and go together to restaurants and malls without being married? Drawing a square root spiral How do I change the shortcut-key of show the unity dash? I don't want to use the Super for that, I want to use Alt+Space instead. Are there any good tools besides SeleniumRC that can fetch webpages including content post-painted by JavaScript? Merging columns from two separate files How was Will aware of the lights? In  (2016) Will Byers gets taken to the "Upside Down". But he manages to communicate with his mother, e.g through the christmas lights.  &nbsp;   When Joyce is in the cupboard and says "Once for YES, twice for NO.", how would Will make that happen? He can't see his mother, but does he see the lights she is holding?  &nbsp;   Does the alphabet Joyce draws just appear on the wall in the Upside Down, together with the lights?  In the last episode Joyce and Hopper enter the house in the Upside Down, and when they go through the hallway the kids on the other side see the lights go on (suggesting that just standing close to those lights is enough to make them turn on).    But those lights don't seem to be there in the Upside Down.    My Question:   Is there a reasonable explanation on how Will managed to communicate with his mother through the christmas lights? How do I hide the GRUB menu showing up at the beginning of boot? I stopped dual booting and I don't want to have to choose the OS any more. I want to boot into Ubuntu 12.04 directly without seeing the GRUB menu.  How can I achieve that? In transformers, the ratio of the voltages equals the ratio of the turns - so double the output coil's turns and the output voltage doubles. Then, in order to conserve energy, current halves.  This makes perfect sense in terms of $\mathrm{P=VI}$, but what happened to $\mathrm{V=IR}$? Doubling voltage and halving the current seems to completely contradict this basic law. That is, of course, unless the resistance in the output circuit changes, with R proportional to $\mathrm{V^2}$ - but I don't see how this is possible.  So how can a transformer obey both laws? Can resistance change or am I missing something else? Can a function be differentiable at the end points of its (closed interval) domain? Assume $f$ has a domain of $[a,b]$. Is it possible that $f$ is differentiable on the closed interval $[a,b]$, or must the maximal domain for $f'$ be $(a,b)$? What prefixes should be used on reference designators for components of various types?  I think we can all agree that "R##" refers to a resistor, "C##" refers to a capacitor, and "L##" refers to an inductor.  Beyond that, it appears to be a mishmash of conventions.    I've seen both "IC" and "U" used for chips.   "Q", "T", and "M" have been used for transistors and MOSFETs.  Ordinarily, "D##" is used for diodes, but LEDs and Zeners get special treatment on some boards.    What standards are available for reference, and who endorses them?  JEDEC, ISO, IEEE, and other standardization bodies are welcome references (though I'd prefer an inexpensive standard), but I'm also curious to see what's used at various companies other than my own.    Edit:  What I'd really like to see is a list in an answer here which complies with the standard (even if it's just a quote). What color would you see if you place 2 mirrors in opposit when one is a one way mirror Is every metric space a subspace of some connected metric space? Fourier transform of the indicator of the unit ball How many elements of order $k$ are in $S_n$? How do we show that equality holds in the triangle inequality $|a+b|=|a|+|b|$ iff both numbers are positive, both are negative or one is zero? I already showed that equality holds when one of the three conditions happens. Any way to have CPU temperature in the menu bar? I tried  and  but it does not update the temperature and I do not wish to change the fan speed. Zooming to WMS layer after CQL filter in OpenLayers? I created a layer that contains points and I added it to a map as WMS layer in OpenLayers. I did a CQL filter and it works but I'd like to zoom to the selected point when I worked with getextent or getdataextent it doesn't zoom to the right place. It missed with a few Km. Here is my the code of filter:   function filterNom(){             var filterType ="cql";             var filter = document.getElementById('batima').value;             // by default, reset all filters             var filterParams = {cql_filter: null};             if (OpenLayers.String.trim(filter) != "") {                 if (filterType == "cql")                      filterParams["cql_filter"] = "batiment='"+filter+"'";              }             // merge the new filter definitions             wfs_layer.mergeNewParams(filterParams);             var bounds =  new OpenLayers.Bounds             bounds = wfs_layer.getExtent()             map.setCenter(wfs_layer.getExtent(),18);             var center = map.getCenter();             center.transform(new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"), new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"));             alert(center.toString()); }   and here is the code to add the WMS layer:    wfs_layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS("Patrimoines",         "http:// localhost/geoserver/cite/wms",          {layers: 'cite:patrimoine' , transparent: true },         {isBaseLayer: false, opacity: 1, singleTile: true, visibility: true,          projection: 'EPSG:900913'}); Overview:  Lots of games with RPG-like statistics allow for character "buffs", ranging from simple "Deal 25% extra damage" to more complicated things like "Deal 15 damage back to attackers when hit."  The specifics of each type of buff aren't really relevant.  I'm looking for a (presumably object-oriented) way to handle arbitrary buffs.  Details:  In my particular case, I have multiple characters in a turn-based battle environment, so I envisioned buffs being tied to events like "OnTurnStart", "OnReceiveDamage", etc.  Perhaps each buff is a subclass of a main Buff abstract class, where only the relevant events are overloaded.  Then each character could have a vector of buffs currently applied.  Does this solution make sense?  I can certainly see dozens of event types being necessary, it feels like making a new subclass for each buff is overkill, and it doesn't seem to allow for any buff "interactions".  That is, if I wanted to implement a cap on damage boosts so that even if you had 10 different buffs which all give 25% extra damage, you only do 100% extra instead of 250% extra.  And there's more complicated situations that ideally I could control.  I'm sure everyone can come up with examples of how more sophisticated buffs can potentially interact with each other in a way that as a game developer I may not want.  As a relatively inexperienced C++ programmer (I generally have used C in embedded systems), I feel like my solution is simplistic and probably doesn't take full advantage of the object-oriented language.  Thoughts?  Has anyone here designed a fairly robust buff system before?  Edit: Regarding Answer(s):  I selected an answer primarily based on good detail and a solid answer to the question I asked, but reading the responses gave me some more insight.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the different systems or tweaked systems seem to apply better to certain situations.  What system works best for my game will depend on the types, variance, and number of buffs I intend to be able to apply.  For a game like Diablo 3 (mentioned below), where nearly any bit of equipment can change a buff's strength, the buffs are just character stats system seems like a good idea whenever possible.  For the turn-based situation I'm in, the event-based approach may be more suitable.  In any case, I'm still hoping someone comes along with a fancy "OO" magic bullet which will allow for me to apply a +2 move distance per turn buff, a deal 50% of damage taken back to the attacker buff, and a automatically teleport to a nearby tile when attacked from 3 or more tiles away buff in a single system without turning a +5 strength buff into its own subclass.  I think the closest thing is the answer I marked, but the floor is still open.  Thanks to everyone for the input. How do I change my login provider(s)? I no longer use the service that I originally used to register, and would like to change the service I use to log in, or at least add a second account.  Is this possible? How do I change my login provider or associate a backup method to log in?     For more information, see "" in the . I want to install Windows XP on my desktop computer (only XP), but my CD drive is not working.  I've only found installation tutorials on how to install it on the pen drive rather than from the pen drive.  How can I install Windows XP from a USB flash drive?