I want to update my ubuntu on my desktop.  I cant use usb too boot as it have old BIOS.  It can boot from cd but then ubuntu needs 1,1 GB so cd will not work.  my desktop also cant boot from DVD .. Old bios.  I have .iso file on my computer. Is it any way i can install/ upgrade ubuntu?
Recently I have installed an older version of Ubuntu on my old machine. Whenever I try to install any software, I get an error saying it couldn't be found:  $ sudo apt-get install vlc Reading package lists... Done                Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done     E: Couldn't find package vlc
When adding image from Wikimedia Commons, automatically add author/license/link Many Stack Exchange questions and answers embed images from Wikimedia Commons. It is probably the most used image source here. Good news Thanks to their license, all images from Wikimedia Commons can be legally used inside Stack Exchange. Bad news The only requirement is to cite the author/license (), an easy task, but we are totally failing at it, only maybe 1% of Commons images used here are properly cited. That makes our use of these images illegal, and could expose Stack Exchange to various legal threats. Not my problem, you could say, but this is also important because , bringing Stack Exchange closer to closed-data sites like Yahoo! Answers or Experts-Exchange. Proposed solution When using the image addition widget, the widget should detect whether the image's URL has a *.wikimedia.org domain, and if yes:  (optional) Transfer the image to imgur, for perennity reasons. Retrieve the author name and license name from Commons (there is a very reliable API that gives that). Concatenate into a proper citation, maybe something like &quot;*Credit: [&quot; + author + &quot;](&quot; + commonsPageURL + &quot;) , [&quot; + license + &quot;](&quot; + licenseURL + &quot;)*&quot; Insert the citation at the same time as the image's MarkDown.  Benefits:  Remove a large part of Stack Exchange's copyright violations. Makes us a good citizen in the open data world. Remember what happens to sites who disregard ethics (Experts Exchange). Consistent citations. Zero added burden for the users. Interpreting the residuals vs. fitted values plot for verifying the assumptions of a linear model Can a single vertex be rotated? In the duplication options for the dupli verts there is a option for Rotation. Witch brings me to my question, is there anyway to rotate a vertex? Vertex's have normals, is there any way to control which way the normal of a single unconnected vertex points? How to configure Jaybird with hibernate How can I handle autocorrelated residuals? In the Breusch-Godfrey test we use a model  $$ e_t = \varepsilon_t + \beta_1 \varepsilon_{t-1} + \dots+ \beta_p \varepsilon_{t-p}. $$  If we reject the null hypotesis of no serial auotocorrelation of the error, it means that the residuals follow an auto-regressive model of order ($p$).  If I want to avoid this problem, I must add a certain number of lags of the response variable $y$ as regressors in the original model. However, in some cases this method is not useful.   Are there other options to consider? Whole disk unallocated? Gparted error or partition overlapping? Why $SU(3)$ and not $U(3)$? How to get Drupal 7 installed in a sub-folder / sub-directory properly? Currently i'm trying to installing a drupal 7 installation in a subfolder of another drupal public_html folder, but it doesnt seem to work. I am getting a redirect loop error in chrome. I already modified the .htaccess in the parent drupal installation to ignore the sub-folder and i also set the $base_url in the sub-directory drupal installation. Minimal polynomials and cyclic subspaces I'm trying to make my way through two problems in Curtis's Linear Algebra, chapter 25.  One of the two problems is this one, #5:     Prove that $V$ is cyclic relative to a linear transformation $T \in \mathcal{L}(V)$ if and only if the minimal polynomial of $T$ is equal to the characteristic polynomial.   Part of the issue is that I'm not really sure what it's asking. The statement that $V$ is cyclic seems to suggest that the entire vector space (say it has dimension $n$) is generated by some vector $v \in V$, along with $Tv, T^2v, \ldots T^{n-1}v$; Curtis's definition of a cyclic subspace (as opposed to a space, though I can't see why there should be a difference) seems to reinforce this:     A $T$-invariant subspace $V_1$ of $V$ is called cyclic relative to $T$ if $V_1 \neq 0$ and there exists a vector $v_1 \in V_1$ such that $V_1$ is generated by $\{ v_1, Tv_1, T^2v_1, \ldots T^kv_1 \}$ for some $k$.   However, I've seen several examples that seem to directly contradict this interpretation. For example, we recently had a take-home midterm that required we find elementary divisors, rational canonical form, etc., of a $6\times 6$ matrix; a classmate who received a perfect score on her test found that her matrix's characteristic polynomial was equal to its minimal polynomial &#151; it was $(x+8)^2 (x+14)^2 (x^2+61x+80)$ &#151; and yet the vector space could be written as $\left&lt; v_6 \right&gt; \oplus \left&lt; v_4 \right&gt; \oplus \left&lt; -v_2+v_3+v_6 \right&gt;$ &#151; i.e., as the direct sum of three cyclic subspaces, not as one cyclic subspace.  So that suggests that "$V$ is cyclic" might mean the direct sum of cyclic subspaces. However, while working on the exercise that follows (#6), I came across this:  $$S= \left(\begin{array}{ccc} -1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\ 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0 &amp; 0\\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 &amp; 0\\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 2 \end{array}\right)$$  Here, the characteristic polynomial is not equal to the minimal polynomial, which is $m(x) = (x-1)(x+1)(x+2)$. The eigenspace associated with $\lambda = 1$ has dimension $2$. And so it seems as though, if $V$ has basis $\{ v_1, v_2, v_3, v_4 \}$, we can write $V = \left&lt; v_1 \right&gt; \oplus \left&lt; v_2 \right&gt; \oplus \left&lt; v_3 \right&gt; \oplus \left&lt; v_4 \right&gt; $. This would seem to contradict my second interpretation of the original question.  Obviously I'm missing something. Could someone fill me in on what it might be? (I've tried to be thorough, but I'm also trying not to make this ridiculously long; if I've left out necessary information, I'll be happy to append it.) How to make sure I'm not using any proprietary software after installation? I know I can check the currently installed non-free software with the following command (assuming aptitude is FOSS):  aptitude search '?installed (?section(restricted) | ?section(multiverse))'   And I can remove the "restricted" and "multiverse" sources (and not add any PPA's) to keep that list empty. I'm assuming from this point, whenever I apt install something, that something is either in the allowed sources or it is not found.  Is this enough? Does this make sure all software I'm running (in Ubuntu) is open-source? Does the war have an ending in Planetside 2? As enemy bases are captured, they just seem to respawn right in the middle of friendly captured territory. This is looking like a perpetual cycle, and none of the three teams ever gets closer than to the very edge of winning the whole continent, only to lose lots of territory again.  So is this by design? Is Planetside 2 eternally to be at war, with no winner ever? I was hoping it would be more like a 'match'. I admit that both are almost the same thing, but there is at least the closure of winning/losing sides this way. I have dual boot configured with Windows 7 (32bit) and Ubuntu 12.04(64bit). I installed Ubuntu after windows, now my windows is corrupt due to some virus and I need to reinstall it. Currently when I start my PC, grub loader comes up and I need to select Ubuntu or Windows.   I was wondering how can I install windows again and still have my Ubuntu install? Is there a way to do this?  I do not want to install Ubuntu again and lose my settings and data there.   Thanks, Ketan Could a website force the browser to go into fullscreen mode? I want to run a psychological study for which participants have to look at large images.  The experiment is done on the web and therefore in a browser window. Is it possible to tell the browser to go into fullscreen, for example on button press?  I know there is the possibility to open a fixed-size popup window. Do you think this would be a feasable alternative? And if, what would be the best way to do it? Are there elegant ways of detecting a popup-blocker, to fallback and run the study in the original browser window.  The main concern is that the participants of this study are not familiar with technical details and should not be bothered by them. How can I split multiple joined words? I have an array of 1000 or so entries, with examples below:  wickedweather liquidweather driveourtrucks gocompact slimprojector   I would like to be able to split these into their respective words, as:  wicked weather liquid weather drive our trucks go compact slim projector   I was hoping a regular expression my do the trick.  But, since there is no boundary to stop on, nor is there any sort of capitalization that I could possibly key on, I am thinking, that some sort of reference to a dictionary might be necessary?    I suppose it could be done by hand, but why - when it can be done with code! =)  But this has stumped me.  Any ideas? failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/utserver’: File exists Intuition on proof of Cauchy Schwarz inequality To prove Cauchy Schwarz inequality for two vectors $x$ and $y$ we take the inner product of $w$ and $w$ where $w=y-kx$ where $k=\frac{(x,y)}{|x|^2}$ ($(x,y)$ is the inner product of $x$ and $y$) and use the fact that $(w,w) \ge0$ . I want to know the intuition behind this selection. I know that if we assume this we will be able to prove the theorem, but the intuition is not clear to me. I would like to redirect a URL with uppercase characters http://localhost/A/B to a lowercase version http://localhost/a/b using the .htaccess file. Using regex I can capture A and B but is it possible to convert them to lowercase? How can I get rid of ants in an environmently friendly way? How to share files through the local network? I have a desktop (Ubuntu 13.04 &amp; Win 7 Home Premium) and a Laptop (Ubuntu 12.04), both having WiFi adapters. I also have a WiFi router connected to internet which both my computers can access.  I want to share files between my desktop and my laptop using WiFi (similar to Homegroup on Windows 7 but without using Ethernet cables).  How do I set-up that?  I want to share files using both OSs, if anyone have have information about sharing files with any of the OS please answer! Does Windows Defender update if Windows Update is set to manual?