Want to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows XP on an pld PC MS Windows XP Professsional SP2 Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.66GHz, 991MB RAM, VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP My PC is fairly old, about 5 yrs to be exact. Want to install Ubuntu 13.04 alongside Windows XP. Please give me the detailed procedure to install it. I am a novice at it so no jargon please. Ok. Thnx. :)
How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements? For a given hardware configuration, how do I find out if Ubuntu will run on it? What considerations should I take into account when choosing an Ubuntu version and  such as:    with a lighter desktop than the usual Gnome and Unity  with the even lighter LXDE desktop   Obviously Ubuntu does not run on some processor architectures. So how do I go about choosing the right version and derivate. How can I find out the minmal system requirements?
My Ubuntu is stuck in a login loop when trying to enter my desktop. When I login, the screen gets black and soon after that the login screen comes back.   I've read that the problem might be caused by an error depending on the graphics, here's my graphics card: ATI Radeon 7670M How to solve 'I found no database files--while read file something.aux' Hi I am trying to include references into my paper but it keeps showing the following when I compile. I am using texstudio. Message: I'm skipping whatever remains of this command The style file: plain.bst I found no database files---while reading file term paper.aux Warning--I didn't find a database entry for "Astrov"  My code is like this:   \documentclass[letter,scriptaddress,twocolumn, prl,showkeys]{revtex4}  \usepackage{amssymb, amsmath, amstext, amscd, verbatim, mathtools, graphicx, float, caption, subcaption} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{natbib} \begin{document} This is my reference\cite[1]{Astrov}. \bibliography{term paper} \bibliographystyle{plain} \end{document}   They are all in the same directory. I am really panicing about this at the moment and apologize if similar questions have been asked before. Thanks in advance for your help! Adding the PHP json extension Does it have or has? Proving by induction that $1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + \ldots + n^3 = \left[\frac{n(n+1)}{2}\right]^2$ Need guidance on this proof by mathematical induction. I am new to this type of math and don't know how exactly to get started.   $$ 1^3  +  2^3  +  3^3  +  \ldots  +  n^3  =  \left[\frac{n(n+1)}{2}\right]^2 $$ Your UK visa application has been issued.      PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE VISA APPLICATION CENTRE BEFORE THEY CONTACT YOU.      You will be contacted by the Visa Application Centre when your documents are ready for collection, or have been dispatched via courier where this is relevant.       You are reminded that you should avoid making travel plans until you have collected your passport, as the outcome of your visa application is not final until you receive your passport.      Please ensure you check the details on your visa when collecting your passport. If you need to contact us you can do so via our International Enquiry Service at www.gov.uk/contact-ukvi-outside-uk      Kind regards,      UK Visas and Immigration   British Embassy Abu Dhabi     Your UK visa application has been issued.   I know words like processed, forwarded, received, refused but never heard anything like that, so I am confused. How do I enable hibernation on Wubi? I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 Sager laptop using Wubi. Hibernate (i.e. suspend to disc) is not an option from the power icon, only suspend, shutdown, etc. Hibernate is also not an option from my battery/lid close options. I understand that hibernation is disabled by default in Ubuntu 12.04. I tried running pm-hibernate but I get the following message:  Looking for splash system... none  s2disk: Snapshotting system   and then the computer just hangs with a black screen. According to the documentation  if this fails then I can't enable hibernate but it offers no help in making pm-hibernate succeed.  Could swap be my problem? It looks like I have very small swap:  user@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk            file        262140  0   -1   The advice on  is only for the author's set up (e.g. I don't have an Ubuntu install disk since I used Wubi) and he says that 'INFO: This will not work for 12.04, resume from hibernate work differently in 12.04.'  Any advice? I really need to get hibernate working to use my laptop as a, er, laptop.  Thanks Any practical uses of machine learning for cryptography? System.Drawing in Windows or ASP.NET services According to , it is not a particularly good idea to use classes within the System.Drawing namespace in a Windows Service or ASP.NET Service. Now I am developing a class library which might need to access this particular namespace (for measuring fonts) but it cannot be guaranteed that the host process is not a service.  Now there is a less optimal method I can fall back to if System.Drawing is unavailable, but if it is possible, I would rather use classes in System.Drawing. So what I would like to do is to determine at runtume if System.Drawing is safe or not, and if it is, use it, otherwise fall back to the suboptimal option.  My problem is: How could I possibly detect if System.Drawing is safe to use?  I think I should either   Detect if the current process is a Windows Service or ASP.NET service Detect if GDI is available Or maybe there is a way to ask System.Drawing.dll itself if it is safe to use   Unfortunately, I cannot come up with a way to implement any of these approaches. Does anyone have any idea? I am looking for a transparent screensaver. Or a way for there to be no screen saver, but instead of locking, it disables the mouse and most of the keyboard, until I hit an unlock key. What are the rules for splitting words at the end of a line? What are the rules in English language to split words at the end of a line?   Where exactly must the hyphen split the word? I'm trying to run an interactive command through paramiko.  The cmd execution tries to prompt for a password but I do not know how to supply the password through paramiko's exec_command and the execution hangs.  Is there a way to send values to the terminal if a cmd execution expects input interactively?  ssh = paramiko.SSHClient() ssh.connect(server, username=username, password=password) ssh_stdin, ssh_stdout, ssh_stderr = ssh.exec_command("psql -U factory -d factory -f /tmp/data.sql")   Does anyone know how this can addressed? Thank you. What will happen with Blender 2.8 game engine? Blender has just purged the entire game engine from 2.8. There is no "Game Engine" mode anymore and there isn't even a logic editor. I tried installing a GitHub Blender release with the game engine mode working but it failed to install because all the game code was gutted. Does this mean that Blender 2.8 is going to lose the game engine, or is the game engine just being redone for better compatibility and whatnot? I'm a bit confused about the concept of ground, and perhaps voltage as well, particularly when trying to analyze a circuit. When I learned about Ohm's law in grade school, I learned how to apply the law to calculate current, voltage, and resistance of simple circuits.   For instance, if we were given the following circuit:    We would be could be asked to calculate the current passing through the circuit. At the time, I'd simply compute (based on the rules given) 1.5V/1Ohms=1.5A.  Later on, however, I learned that the reason the voltage of the resistor would be 1.5V is because voltage is really the difference in potential between two points, and that the difference of the voltage across the battery would be the same as that of the resistor (correct me if I'm mistaken), or 1.5V. I got confused, however, after the introduction of the concept of ground.   The first time I tried to do the current calculation for a circuit similar to the previous circuit on a simulator, the program complained about not having a ground and "floating voltage sources". After a bit of searching, I learned that circuits need ground as a reference point or for safety reasons. It was mentioned in one explanation that one can pick any node for ground, although it's customary to design circuits so there is a "easy place" to pick ground.   Thus for this circuit    I picked ground at the bottom, but would it be okay to pick ground between the 7 ohm and 2 ohm resistor - or any other place? And what would be the difference when analyzing the circuit?  I've read that there are 3 typical ground symbols with different meanings - chassis ground, earth ground, and signal ground. A lot of circuits I've seen used in exercises either use earth ground or signal ground. What purpose is there in using earth ground? What is the signal ground connected to?  Another question: since the ground is at unknown potential, wouldn't there be current flowing to or from ground to the circuit? From what I've read we treat the ground as 0V, but wouldn't there be some sort of effect because of a difference in potential of the circuit and ground? Would the effect be different depending on what ground was used?  Finally: In nodal analysis, one customarily picks a ground at the negative terminal of the battery. However, when there are multiple voltage sources, some of them are "floating". What meaning does the voltage of a floating voltage source have? The problem is to prove the following equivalence:  $$2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_1 \iff \exists\ A,B\in\mathbb{R}^2:\\ \textrm{a)}A\cup B=\mathbb{R}^2 \\\textrm{b)}\ \forall\ \textrm{lines } l\ \textrm{parallel to x-axis, } |A\cap l|\leq\aleph_0 \\\textrm{c)}\ \forall\ \textrm{lines } l\ \textrm{parallel to y-axis, } |B\cap l|\leq\aleph_0$$  I think I know how to prove "$\impliedby$":  Let's assume the RHS and that $2^{\aleph_0}\geq\aleph_2$. Now let's take a sequence $\langle x_{\alpha}:\ \alpha&lt;\omega_1\rangle$. Since $\bigcup_\limits{\alpha&lt;\omega_1}|B\cap x_{\alpha}|\leq \aleph_1\cdot\aleph_0=\aleph_1$ there is such a $y$-coordinate that neither of $(x_{\alpha},y)$ is in $B$. But hence we obtain $\aleph_1$ point which all lie on the same line parallel to $x$-axis. Since $A\cup B=\mathbb{R}^2$ they all must be contained in $A$ $-$ a contradiction as $A$ has at most countably many of those points.  But what about the other implication? Do I contruct these sets by induction? Over all lines or something else? I haven't come up with anything yet, perhaps you could help me. Evaluating this integral $ \small\int \frac {x^2 dx} {(x\sin x+\cos x)^2} $ The question:      Compute$$ \int \frac {x^2 \, \operatorname{d}\!x} {(x\sin x+\cos x)^2} $$   Tried integration by parts. That didn't work.  How do I proceed? I have a WordPress website that I recently discovered had this error on the login page:     ERROR: Cookies are blocked due to unexpected output. For help, please   see this documentation or try the support forums.   I can only access the login page from wp-login.php, since /wp-admin/ displays a blank white page.  I've searched the web and tried many things with no success:   Removing ?&gt; and space at end of the functions.php Ensuring both functions.php and wp-config.php had no spaces at beginning or end of file Opening wp-config.php and functions.php in Notepad++ and converting to UTF-8 (people recommend 'without BOM' but that is only an option in the newest version of Notepad++ - I'm guessing UTF-8 does that now) I've set WP_DEBUG to true and have received no errors in debug.log,  except for 2 that relate to when I hadn't fully uploaded some files. That particular error mentioned nav-menu.php; this confirmed that it is reporting errors, just not related to my login issues I renamed each plugin folder with _tmp at the end to try and rule out any plugins causing the problem I also renamed the plugins folder to rule out all plugins at the same time   Given these things I've tried, and that I'm not receiving any PHP errors, what else could I try? What is the probability that $x_1+x_2+...+x_n \le n$? Given that $X_1, X_2...$ are mutually independent random variables. For each $i$ with $1\le i \le n$   the variable $X_i$ is equal to either $0$ or $n+1$ $E(X_i)$ = $1$   also.. if $X_i$ is equal to either $0$ or $n+1$, doesn't that mean that all $X_i$ need to be $0$?  Thanks Is the set of real matrices diagonalizable in $\mathcal M_n(C)$ dense in the set of all companion matrices? Let $\mathcal E=\{A \in \mathcal M_n(\mathbb R): A \text{ is of companion form} \}$. That is, $A$ has the following form \begin{align*} A=\begin{pmatrix}  0 &amp; \cdots &amp; 0&amp; -a_{0} \\  1 &amp; \cdots &amp; 0 &amp; -a_{1}\\ \vdots &amp;\ddots &amp; \vdots &amp;\vdots \\ 0 &amp;\cdots &amp; 1 &amp; -a_{n-1} \end{pmatrix}. \end{align*} Let $\mathcal D = \{A \in \mathcal M_n(\mathbb R): A \text{ is diagonalizable in $\mathcal M_n(\mathbb C)$}\}$. We know $\mathcal D$ is dense in $\mathcal M_n(\mathbb R)$. I am wondering whether $\mathcal E \cap \mathcal D$ is dense in $\mathcal E$. The set $\mathcal E$ is closed. It is not clear to me whether this statement is true. Is this box bonded properly to the ground? The receptacle is from the mid-1950's and my multimeter shows that it is grounded. There are a solid 120 volts when testing between live and ground. I noticed a bare copper wire coming from the cloth wiring in the back tied to a screw connected to the box. I looked around for usable screw holes in the box to screw a ground screw into but they were all way too large. Does this look okay? I get good continuity here between the green insulated copper ground wire I added and the rest of the box.  The green wire goes to the ground screw on the new outlet in this case.