My son has built a computer. It has no operating system. We want to install ubuntu via a usb. His computer has no internet access, so I want to download ubuntu to a usb through my laptop, then use the usb to install it on his. The usb is Fat/32. It looks like the instructions I find on this site are for installing on machines with existing Microsoft or Apple operating systems.
I would like to see a full how-to guide on how to install Ubuntu.
Integral of $\sin (x^3)dx$ $$\int \sin (x^3)dx$$ I have tried some substitutions, but I haven't reached the goal... Can you help me? What is the best (idiomatic) way to check the type of a Python variable? I need to know if a variable in Python is a string or a dict.  Is there anything wrong with the following code?  if type(x) == type(str()):     do_something_with_a_string(x) elif type(x) == type(dict()):     do_somethting_with_a_dict(x) else:     raise ValueError   Update: I accepted avisser's answer (though I will change my mind if someone explains why isinstance is preferred over type(x) is).  But thanks to nakedfanatic for reminding me that it's often cleaner to use a dict (as a case statement) than an if/elif/else series.  Let me elaborate on my use case.  If a variable is a string, I need to put it in a list.  If it's a dict, I need a list of the unique values.  Here's what I came up with:  def value_list(x):     cases = {str: lambda t: [t],              dict: lambda t: list(set(t.values()))}     try:         return cases[type(x)](x)     except KeyError:         return None   If isinstance is preferred, how would you write this value_list() function? I know that Dirichlet function has uncountable many discontinuities. I think they are removable, because the discontinuities can be removed by redefining the function values of the rational numbers as 0.  So Dirichlet function is a function that has uncountable many removable discontinuities, then my question is can we construct a function with uncountable  many jump discontinuities? If not, how do we prove it is impossible? Thank you.  An odd but similar question is can we have a function that has uncountable many infinite discontinuities? How did humans and vulcans communicate in Star Trek: First Contact? What are the use cases for different scoping constructs? How to Sort a 2D array? Can we get our personal voting data displayed on the Questions lists? There's been several times where I have been surfing the site, and noticed a question that I am not sure I've checked. Even if I've checked the question before, I can't recall off-hand whether or not I've voted on it or its answer.  Is there a way we can have our personal voting history reflected to some degree or another, in the Questions listing? For example, could there be an indicator as to whether or not we have already voted (up or down) on a question, and perhaps maybe an additional indicator as to whether we've up-voted any of its answers?  It would be very convenient to have some of this data available up-front, without actually having to view the question again. Why does camera this tracking fail completely even when the solution value is very low? The attached animated gif shows some frames of a video with a mesh box placed at each tracking marker used to successfully track (solution error &lt;.4) an 800 frame chunk of video.   The point is to illustrate just how poorly the camera tracker calculated: when the box is at a marker placed at the top of a faraway building on the left, it is actually visually much larger than when it is at the tracking marker closest to where the real camera was. I went to great lengths to be sure that the camera's sensor size and focal length are correct, and manually placed and followed all markers to be sure they were accurately tracking.   There is not a lot of parallax motion over the 800 frames, but there should have been enough to at least know that the point closest to the camera moved more than the point furthest away. Sometimes it seems to work, sometimes it doesn't. Does anybody know how to improve this? sqlite database default time value 'now' When a holomorphy ring is a PID? I will use the notation and language of Stichtenoth, Algebraic Function Fields and Codes.  Let $F$ be a function field over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$, $S$ a non empty set of places (possibly infinite) and $O_S$ the holomorphy ring of $S$, i.e., $O_S:=\bigcap_{P\in S} O_P$ (being $O_P$ the valuation ring of the place $P$).  Give necessary and sufficient conditions for $O_S$ to be a Principal Ideal Domain.  Many thanks in advance!  G. For me at least,  has answers that are not sorted by score:    Is this normal?  I've tried refreshing the page a few times, but the order doesn't change... Does it make a difference if your URL path ends in a trailing slash or not? Does it make any difference to SEO ratings what-so-ever if your url has a trailing slash:  http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths/   as opposed to one that does not:  http://www.example.com/some/slug/paths On the street, temperatures at night are about -5 &deg;С and about 8 &deg;C during the day. In the apartment it is about 25 &deg;C. So, there is condensation on the windows and I don't want to wipe the windows every time.  How do I prevent condensation on the balcony windows? The derivation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation using canonical transformations is typically done involving a type-2 generating function.  Is it possible to use a another type of generating function, namely type 1, 3 or 4? It is usually said that existence of discrete spacetime violates Lorentz symmetry. What quantity is used to quantify such violation? I mean could someone points a reference for a derivation that shows such analysis.  My other question is: if Lorentz symmetry is violated, does that imply space-time is discrete? or not necessarily?) Which are the safety recommendations for soldering? Footnote to an item in a description environment It seems like it's not possible to put footnote inside a description list item.  For example in the following code first footnote appears at the bottom of the page, but the second - doesn't:  \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}  \begin{document}     Text text text.\footnote{This footnote is working}     \begin{description}         \item[Label\footnote{This footnote is not working}] Some description     \end{description} \end{document}   Why it's not working this way? And is there any way to put footnote to a list item? What is the entropy of the universe today? What's the entropy of the universe today? How does one go about calculating this? I've heard the statement that black holes account for the bulk of the entropy in the universe today, but don't know why this would be true or the relationship between black holes and entropy. I have an object already created in blender, a tree, or a human, or a pipe.. and I need this to be drilled with multiple holes.   The holes are painted in an image, that is, it is an image that has a repeating an images pattern (they can be circles, squares, or any form).  Here are some examples for drilling-pattern: Can a hyphen be used without anything on the right side?