I know that rm -rf \deletes everything in the root. How does it work? To be more specific, when the files are getting deleted, won't the files associated with the 'deleting process' or the core files that execute the command get affected and crash?
If you are root, and you issue   rm -rf /    Then how far can the command go? Can you recover data from this kind of an action? Even after the binaries are gone, would the running processes still be active? What would it take to make the same physical machine boot again? What files would you need to restore to make this happen?  I could try this on a VM and see, but I want to know the rationale behind what to expect if I do this.
Installing titling.sty onto an offline Windows machine I'm trying to compile a file for which I need titling.sty:  ! LaTeX Error: File `titling.sty` not found.  The two biggest issues are 1) it's on a Windows machine (I'm really only &quot;comfortable&quot; with the Unix command line) and 2) the machine cannot be connected to the internet (so automatic approaches are impossible). Assuming the error means I'm missing a package and following some related advice (e.g., ), I downloaded the file , transferred it to the offline machine, and unzipped it, then tried to run: latex titling.ins  But this gave me an error (given I can't copy-paste, I'm including what I think may be relevant):  ******************************************************** * No Configuration file found, using default settings. * ******************************************************** ! ************************************************** * Could not find your \batchfile=titling.ins. **************************************************. \processbatchFile ...****************************}                                                  \fi \else \ifDefault \Msg ... 1.1092 \process@first@batchfile  I have no idea how to proceed from this. How can I install titling.sty on this machine? Close and flag links do nothing on mobile site This morning (it's about six AM here) I find that I can no longer submit close votes; the link just jumps to the beginning of the page.  I'm on iOS, using a third-party browser called Grazing, but a brief check with Mobile Safari shows the same problem there.   Here on Meta, where my score is much lower, I only get a "delete" link on my own question, and that works fine. (Oops :-))   Update: As per comments, this affects the "flag" link, too, which doesn't even scroll to the top of the page. Update 2: Latest comment suggests this affects Android, too. Update 3: This also affects desktop computers when viewing mobile (when you click "mobile" in the footer) Update 4:  mentions Windows 8, too; simply deleting platform-specific tags Kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. How can I install Lubuntu/Ubuntu? There is some unwanted extra spaces in between each site in the Your Sites section.  Steps to reproduce:   Touch the Nav Icon in the left top corner Touch the EDIT link in YOUR SITES Scroll the screen; there is unwanted spaces in between the each site   For reference I recorded the same:    Configurations:   App Version: 1.0.85 Device Manufacturer: Motorola Device Model: XT1033 OS Version: 5.1 (2) How is Bohr's model related to electron cloud models via the correspondence principle? How to manually parse a floating point number from a string Computing dominant area in polygon using ArcGIS Desktop? Why and how does ([![]]+[][[]])[+!+[]+[+[]]] evaluate to the letter "i"? Find the Galois group of $x^3-5$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. In this case, the roots of $x^3-5$ are $\{\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5},\omega^2\sqrt[3]{5}\}.$ I think $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5})$ is the splitting field of $x^3-5.$ Then, $[\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt[3]{5},\omega\sqrt[3]{5}):\mathbb{Q}]=3,$ I think the automorphisms are: $$id$$ $$\sigma:\sigma(\sqrt[3]{5})=-\sqrt[3]{5}$$ $$\tau:\tau(\omega\sqrt[3]{5})=-\omega\sqrt[3]{5}$$ I'm not sure about what I have done. But how to determine the Galois group based on this? And how to determine the solvability of this polynomial? Access denied when creating keystore for Android app Random errors on various sites when viewing main page Occasionally (very occasionally) when returning to the main page of a site by clicking on the logo I get the following message:     It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error.   This is odd because I'm not performing a tag search.  So far this has happened on both Movies &amp; TV and Cooking.  I have heard that others are getting this same message. When searching for the desired SE site, the down arrow key (down) should work in order to choose the site one is looking for and hit enter to visit it, instead of using the mouse point to choose it. Would be pretty convenient. Suppose that I have a group $G$ of order $p^{2}q$ for two distinct primes $p$ and $q$.  I need to first show that one of its Sylow subgroups is normal.  I start by letting $H$ be a Sylow $p$-subgroup and $K$ be a Sylow $q$-subgroup.  If $K$ is not normal, then letting $r$ denote the number of Sylow $q$-subgroups, I have that $r|p^{2}$ and $r\equiv 1$(mod $q$).  I also have by the second Sylow theorem that $r\neq 1$.  So $r = p$ or $p^{2}$.  If $r = p^{2}$, I can write out the Sylow $q$-subgroups, and count their combined elements to show that $H$ is uniquely determined and then again imply Sylow number $2$ to obtain that $H$ is normal.  But if $r = p$, then I cannot see how to proceed.  Can anyone give any advice?  Thank you.  ( I am happy to provide more detail for the $r = p^{2}$ case if it is desired or appropriate. ) Display solution/file path in the Visual Studio IDE I frequently work with multiple instances of Visual Studio, often working on different branches of the same solution.   used to display the full path of the current source file in its title bar, but Visual&nbsp;Studio 2005 doesn't appear to do this. This makes it slightly more awkward than it should be to work out which branch of the solution I'm currently looking at (the quickest way I know of is to hover over a tab so you get the source file's path as a tooltip).  Is there a way to get the full solution or file path into the title bar, or at least somewhere that's always visible, so I can quickly tell which branch is loaded into each instance? How do I upgrade to the unreleased version of Ubuntu for testing? My server is constantly being attacked I am fairly new to the system administration world. I've been working on an application recently and when I check my application server logs, I constantly get various IP addresses trying to ssh into my server by brute force. Here is an example of my server log:   Feb 14 04:07:20 foodwiz3 sshd[1264]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key Feb 14 04:07:21 foodwiz3 sshd[1264]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for coenamor.columbiansabbatical.com [23.249.167.223] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Feb 14 04:07:21 foodwiz3 sshd[1264]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=23.249.167.223  user=root Feb 14 04:07:23 foodwiz3 sshd[1264]: Failed password for root from 23.249.167.223 port 32997 ssh2 Feb 14 04:07:23 foodwiz3 sshd[1264]: Received disconnect from 23.249.167.223: 11: Bye Bye [preauth] Feb 14 04:13:04 foodwiz3 sshd[1289]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key Feb 14 04:13:05 foodwiz3 sshd[1289]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for coenamor.columbiansabbatical.com [23.249.167.223] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! Feb 14 04:13:05 foodwiz3 sshd[1289]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=23.249.167.223  user=root Feb 14 04:13:07 foodwiz3 sshd[1289]: Failed password for root from 23.249.167.223 port 41562 ssh2   Is this something that is fairly normal, or should I be worried/doing something about it? UnboundLocalError: local variable 'url_request' referenced before assignment I'm trying to load a field value (machine name: field_theme_image) from a content of node value 3, in "page--front.tpl.php".  &lt;?php   $node=node_load(3);   print $node-&gt;field_theme_image[$node-&gt;language][0]['uri']; ?&gt;   Using the above code I'm not getting full URL value. Please see the image below. I can see the path value in Devel themer. My created page with link  The 404 page after following my new url. Weapon damage bonuses and critical hits