While booting Ubuntu 16.04 I got the following message for the first time. That message was displayed 2 times and the booting was a lot slower than usual. What is the problem and why did that happen?  /dev/sda1: recovering journal /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49910977 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909604 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=32768) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909603 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100600, size=31780) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909500 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100640, size=85) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49918132 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49917725 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49917436 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909685 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100600, size=262144) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 3939849 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=8192) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909471 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49909480 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: Clearing orphaned inode 49905527 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100664, size=16773) /dev/sda1: clean, 333655/60911568 files, 7757819/243171328 blocks
After starting Ubuntu, I see the following lines. Should I be worried?  /dev/sda6: recovering journal /dev/sda6: clean, 355773/1835008 files, 470404803/7335680 blocks
Why does an argument similiar to 0.999...=1 show 999...=-1? What does an ampersand after this assignment operator mean? During Order of the Phoenix, Voldemort tries his best to lure Harry to the Ministry so that Harry retrieves the prophecy for him. In the aftermath, while Harry follows Bellatrix towards the exit, he raises a valid question:  ”Why couldn’t he (Voldemort) come and get it (the prophecy) himself?”  This is a valid question, the prophecy is labeled as referring to the Dark Lord and maybe Harry Potter. Only those mentioned can retrieve the prophecy, so Voldemort should have been able to get it, assuming he is the Dark Lord of the prophecy. Bellatrix gives a good answer:  “Get it himself?” shrieked Bellatrix on a cackle of mad laughter. “The Dark Lord, walk into the Ministry of Magic, when they are so sweetly ignoring his return? The Dark Lord, reveal himself to the Aurors, when at the moment they are wasting their time on my dear cousin?”  Despite the cackle of mad laughter, the reasoning is sound, Voldemort didn't want to reveal himself. Yet he does exactly that when he appears in the Ministry and is seen by the Minister himself, and he exposes himself for no gain. Bellatrix may or may not have been able to escape without his help, but he couldn't know that before he came, and his other followers that were captured were freed again a few months later, so it wouldn't have mattered much, he would have freed her, too. So why did he go to the Ministry and reveal himself? In what occasion could the word “precious” be taken disapprovingly, or sarcastically? I understand that the word “precious” in the following quote of Maureen Dowd’s article “Heart of Darkness” (NYT, March 20) literally means “2. valuable or important and not to be wasted” as defined in OALD:     Congressman Jones read an e-mail from a former boss of General   Allen’s, giving the congressman this unvarnished assessment:   “Attempting to find a true military and political answer to the   problems in Afghanistan would take decades. Would drain our nation of   precious resources, with the most precious being our sons and daughters. Simply put, the United States cannot solve the Afghan   problem, no matter how brave and determined our troops are.   But I didn’t know “precious” has another meaning as defined in OALD: 5. (disapproving, people and their behavior) very formal, exaggerated and not natural, and Readers English Dictionary: 2.(colloquial) terrible, almost worthless, until I was told by my respected forum mate a few days ago.   Being encouraged by his suggestion for me to “ask another question if I’m not sure of what he means by describing his input as “precious” is actually rather “precious” phrasing, I would like to ask:   What is an example of “precious” being used as “disapproving” or sarcastic way (as neither OALD nor CALD provides examples)? Is there an easy way to discern the instance “precious” being used as “disapproving” from the case being used in the sense of genuine “great value” as used in the above quote other than judging from the context? Many of the Ringbearers (particularly those who carried it longer) used the word "precious" to describe it. Isildur described it as:     "But for my part I will risk no hurt to this thing: of all the works of Sauron the only fair. It is precious to me, though I buy it with great pain."   Bilbo himself used it at least once, when arguing with Gandalf about leaving it behind when he was leaving Bag End (this exchange and the lines were different in the movie, but the word is still there):     "Well, if you want my ring yourself, say so!" cried Bilbo. "But you won’t get it. I won’t give my precious away, I tell you."   And Gollum used it incredibly frequently, almost as if it was the ring's name. It was even his last words:     "Precious, precious, precious!" Gollum cried. "My Precious! O my Precious!"   So my question: Why "Precious"? It wasn't part of the inscription. It wasn't part of the poem that included the inscription. Was it somehow part of Sauron's crafting spell? Did Tolkien ever indicate why the Ringbearers would use that word in particular, other than that it sounded good? What is the definition and purpose of a pre-amplifier? I find in many places mentions of pre-amplifiers being used to boost audio signals prior to feeding to a power amplifier.  Wikipedia's article on  gives some hints at their usage, but it doesn't really explain why it would be necessary to have two amplifiers in series rather than a single one with greater gain.  If a pre-amp is just a power amp with a smaller gain, what's the point, and why the distinction between the two kinds? Is the distinction in function, or simply purpose? Minipage: 2 tables side by side isn't working I have the following code to layout two tables side by side:  \begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth} \begin{tabular}{c | c | c | c | c | c | c} F &amp; D &amp; E &amp; G &amp; P &amp; A &amp; L\\ \hline C &amp; H &amp; I &amp; I &amp; U &amp; G &amp; F\\ \hline G &amp; Z &amp; G &amp; A &amp; F &amp; Z &amp; U\\ \hline F &amp; R &amp; \textbf{H} &amp; \textbf{A} &amp; \textbf{U} &amp; \textbf{S} &amp; Z\\ \hline R &amp; P &amp; L &amp; I &amp; N &amp; F &amp; H\\ \hline L &amp; U &amp; G &amp; I &amp; A &amp; C &amp; T\\ \hline A &amp; B &amp; D &amp; N &amp; E &amp; R &amp; Z\\ \end{tabular}  \end{minipage}  \begin{minipage}{0.3\textwidth} \begin{tabular}{c | c | c | c | c | c | c} F &amp; D &amp; E &amp; G &amp; P &amp; A &amp; L\\ \hline C &amp; H &amp; I &amp; I &amp; U &amp; G &amp; F\\ \hline G &amp; Z &amp; G &amp; A &amp; F &amp; Z &amp; U\\ \hline F &amp; R &amp; \textbf{H} &amp; \textbf{A} &amp; \textbf{U} &amp; \textbf{S} &amp; Z\\ \hline R &amp; P &amp; L &amp; I &amp; N &amp; F &amp; H\\ \hline L &amp; U &amp; G &amp; I &amp; A &amp; C &amp; T\\ \hline A &amp; B &amp; D &amp; N &amp; E &amp; R &amp; Z\\ \end{tabular}  \end{minipage}   But it doesn't work. The tables are one below the other. What am I doing wrong? Linearization of PDE: $0$ is an eigenvalue since all translates of travelling waves are also travelling waves In how many inequivalent ways can 8 people be seated at a round table? How many different arrangements are there of eight people seated at a round table, where two arrangements are considered the same if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation? K&R Exercise 1.16 - Limitation on line length Correctly typesetting a tilde How do I set the tilde (~) character correctly in LaTeX?  There’s a  on Stack Overflow, with a lot of answers. But dare I say it? They all suck:   \textasciitilde is too high, \texttildelow is too low. $\sim$ can be tweaked to look more or less acceptable: {\raise.17ex\hbox{$\scriptstyle\sim$}} – but even that is a hack and uses the wrong symbol.   The point is – the tilde character is definitely an existing glyph in any font I am tempted to use. How can I just access and typeset that character, please? Without resorting to some other, similar-looking glyph that first needs to be nudged into place using a cunning combination of font size and raised boxes?  There must be a possibility to access that glyph directly from the font definition.  To demonstrate, look at this screenshot which attempts simply to display a C++ destructor of a type T (~T):    Compare this with the symbol we get in the browser: ~ – that’s what I want. How can I install a Canon printer or scanner driver? When an account is deleted, don't auto delete its negatively scored posts on the meta site Meta is different. Negatively scored questions are not always bad questions, and sometimes they have merit and draw good answers, especially discussions.  When an account (in the main site) is deleted, either by self deletion or by a moderator, all questions with score of -1 or less are being deleted regardless of their answers, both in the main and meta site.  Can you please change this behavior so that the questions on the per-site meta will survive and won't be auto-deleted? Refreshing open attribute table in ArcMap using ArcPy rather than ArcObjects? I am running the Calculate Field GP tool from the arcpy in ArcMap. When a row value is updated, it does not show up untill I use the Reload Cache tool (Table Options > Reload Cache). How do I refresh the attribute table automatically without using ArcObjects?  I have tried updating the definition query as @blah238 suggested , but this doesn't help. Resetting the data source is not an option because the feature class might be in the editing session and I don't want to lose the connection to the source data. I want the entries in the TOC for the indices to align with the Chapter entries. I can do this with \addcontents. \printindex also puts an entry in the TOC but it is aligned with the section entries.   So I want to:    change how printindex makes its entry into the TOC or  to eliminate printindex entry.   MWE:  \documentclass{book} \usepackage{multind}        % create the indices \makeindex{names}            \makeindex{subject} \newcommand{\Ndx}[1] { \index{names}{#1} }     % define the type of entry \newcommand{\Sdx}[1] { \index{subject}{#1} }   % to the indices \usepackage[headings]{fullpage}         % 8-1/2, 11 page with 1" margins \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \begin{document} \fancyhead{} \fancyfoot{} \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection.\ #1}} \fancyhead[LE,RO]{\rightmark} \fancyhead[RE,LO]{\thepage} \tableofcontents        % put table of contents here  \chapter{\bf Logic, Plausibility, and Probability} \label{Ch:Logic} \section{Logical Arguments and Reasoning } It is obvious that logical arguments are essential to the judicial system. The logic must be able to treat syllogisms\Sdx{syllogism} that range from deductive\Sdx{syllogism!deductive} to abductive\Sdx{syllogism!abductive}, that is from strong to weak syllogisms \Sdx{syllogism!weak}\Sdx{syllogism!strong} as illustrated in the table taken from Author \Ndx{Author} \Ndx{Cohen} \Sdx{Cohen on probability} \clearpage \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Subject Index} \printindex{subject}{Subject Index} \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Name Index} \printindex{names}{Name Index} \end{document} How does the PPA fit into the scenario of publishing an application to the Ubuntu Software Center? I've been going through docs for the past couple of hours but I haven't understood what the PPA is? I have a cross-platform Java application that I'd like to publish to the Ubuntu Software Center. My application is open-source and I'm using Github.   Apparently, publishing applications to the store isn't as simple as uploading a deb package - am I right? I need to create an account on Launchpad and put all my code there.  I don't intend to move from Git to Bzr merely for the sake of publishing to the app store but luckily, one is able to set up source-code mirroring from Github to Launchpad.  Since my application is still very premature, it'll have updates fairly often. When I build my application on my machine, do I simply go my Ubuntu App Developer page and upload the new DEB package or do they build my application from source?  What exactly is the PPA for? I don't think I'll need too many of the Launchpad features so I'd like to stick to Github if possible. Can you use Dispel Magic on the source of a spell (ie, the caster)? I want to use input from a user as a regex pattern for a search over some text.  It works, but how I can handle cases where user puts characters that have meaning in regex? For example, the user wants to search for Word (s): regex engine will take the (s) as a group.  I want it to treat it like a string &quot;(s)&quot; .  I can run replace on user input and replace the ( with \( and the ) with \) but the problem is I will need to do replace for every possible regex symbol. Do you know some better way ? Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say:  *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc.).  Shouldn't it be:  *I have an item called SoAndSo.  Is "named" an acceptable word in this context?  Are those words specific to a particular English speakers, e.g. UK vs. USA vs. Australia, etc.? Is there any way to get real-time compilation for LaTeX? I would really love to have a software or tool which provided real time compilation of my LaTeX document (to be able to see the final pdf or dvi document as I type the latex code), especially for when I am drawing pictures using tikZ. So far, I know of two things, but none of them work for me. They are:   : This is only for tikZ, which would be perfect for me, but unfortunately as far as I know it only works with Ubuntu and Debian, and I use Mac OS X (so I have never actually tried it, though I did dig a lot to see whether I would be able to install on my mac and from what I see it is really what I want - I am even considering installing Ubuntu just to use it!). : This is a minor mode for Emacs. It was extremely hard to get it to work on the mac (see my quest ), and it is not all that fast. The speed is not all that big of a deal for me, but the fact that it does not work with tikZ pictures is (the nodes all collapse in one point so that the words are all one on the top of the other).   So my question is: is there a software ideally like KtikZ or another type of editor which provides real-time compilation and that I can use on my mac? I guess if you know of a Windows/Linux option I would also like to know, and the same for a way to set up a script to get the document compiled every 5 seconds or so (I am sure I have seen this written somewhere, but I don't know whether I can do it with a mac or whether it is editor/pdf viewer dependent), but what I really want is a software/tool which would work with a mac.  To be clear, I am not after something like LyX, that is, I am not after a WYSIWYG-type thing, but rather something where I can type real LaTeX and see my code, but have at the same time another window showing me the pdf (or dvi) file compiled.