I have this file inside DCIM on internal memory. It takes up a lot of space and I'm getting short of it. So I checked what is taking that much space and found out this file alone takes space upto a GB. So can I remove it and will my mobile malfunction if it is removed?
I have recently noticed a huge (>3.5GB) file in the DCIM/.thumbnails folder. I have tried deleting it, but the next time I open the Camera app it rebuilds the file (and locks up the phone, sometimes displaying a "media scanning in progress" message, in the process.)  The total file size of all the (approximately 2,000) photos displayed in the Gallery is around 500MB. There are in addition around 35,000 images in folders which contain .nomedia files to instruct Android to ignore the media therein. The total file size of these is around 1.5GB. The Gallery app is correctly ignoring these images, but I wonder whether the Camera app is misbehaving and actually processing them.  I think this problem has emerged since the ICS upgrade ... either when the phone (Samsung Galaxy Note) was first updated from Gingerbread or at some later date.  Any ideas, please?
Why can Arwen decide her mortality? Looking for a short story about an artist and a forger Back in the late 1970s to early 1980s, I read a short story about an artist and a forger.  Between the two of them, they managed to start a revolution that brought down a corrupt dictatorship.  It was science fiction:   The dictatorship was interplanetary, maybe interstellar.   The artist used some kind of advanced technology to make his art works.   Plot:  The artist is one of the best (if not the best) at what he does.  The dictator wants the artist to make what amounts to a family portrait in whatever medium it is he works in.  Think of it like painting - you create the image manually (not a photograph) but it is much more than just a flat image.    The artist doesn't like the dictator - maybe on general principles, maybe because he knows the dictator personally - and refuses to make the "portrait."  The dictator has the artist arrested, and will only let the artist free again if he makes the portrait.  The artists makes the portrait.  He does the work while in the prison or jail.  That's where the forger comes into things. The forger is also in jail for something or other.  The forger makes copies of art works.  He of course recognizes the artist, and knows what the artist works with.  The forger can somehow see what the artist is working on.  The artist finishes the portrait.  At first the dictator is thrilled.  It looks exactly the way he wanted it.  As time goes by, though, the people looking at the picture see that it represents the vileness and corruption of the dictator.  The more you look at it, the more of the evilness of the dictator you see in it.  That is the genius of the artist, and whatever medium he is using.  Once you notice the hidden levels of the portrait, you can't unsee them and you see more and more of it as you look.  I think the effect carries over into reality as well.  Once you've seen the dictator's corruption in the portrait you also begin to see it in the dictator and his works as well.  This of course seriously pisses off the dictator, who has the artist killed and the portrait destroyed.  While in prison, the forger watched as the artist created his masterpiece, and recognized it for the subversive thing it is.  He also recognized it as the ultimate rebellion from the artist - the artist knows what will be seen, and that he will be killed for it.  All of that inspires the forger to do something more meaningful with his life than make forgeries for the money.  The forger is released from prison.  He saw the completed portrait, and knows how it was made.  He begins making forgeries of the portrait - like, hundreds if not thousands of them.  These are distrubuted throughout the nation/empire.  The people realize what evil is controlling them once they see it in the copies of the portrait, and eventually a revolution rises and brings down the dictatorship.  It was probably older than the 1970s.  I expect earlier than 1960.  Any ideas? "every" vs "each"? Zooming in to a selection of vertices with the period key does not work as expected I am following through the exercises in BlenderBasics_4thEdition2011.pdf and have gotten to the section on texturing.  The book goes through the creation of a Lighthouse and now I am texturing it.  I want to have a closeup view of the roof of the lighthouse after partitioning it as the lesson describes on page 54.    In order to get a close up view I selected the roof and want to center the screen on the vertices of it so I pressed the Numpad . key.  When I do that the view zooms so that the roof is off the screen.    What am I am doing wrong?    I tried Ray's answer and was able to move the origin but pressing the Numpad . key still did not work.  The centering was still on the bottom of the lighthouse, as if the origin was still there. How do I store binary data in ? Both  (if you take a list of values, the distribution of the most significant digit is rougly proportional to the logarithm of the digit) and  (given a corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table) are not theorems in a mathematical sense, but they work quite good in the real life.   Does anyone have an idea why this happens?  (see also ) How to configure preferred network for internet? I am connected to a LAN network and wireless network. Both provide access to internet.  Sometimes when the internet on LAN is not working, the browser simply throws an exception instead of switching to Wireless. (Wireless is on and local peer computers on wireless are connectible).  Apparently it is giving more priority to LAN. How do I increase the priority of Wireless or set it as an automatic fall back? Show alert popup on standard page layout on click of standard button "Save" General integral to find resistance What is the first movie to show this hard work message at the very end? What is the first movie to show this hard work message at the very end? Bijection from $\mathbb R$ to $\mathbb {R^N}$ How does one create an explicit bijection from the reals to the set of all sequences of reals? I know how to make a .  I have an idea but I am not sure if it will work. I will post it as my own answer because I don't want to anchor your answers and I want to see what other possible ways of doing this are. Even though a question may be closed by receiving 5 close votes, the votes do not necessarily need to agree.  I think this is a good behavior, but  (which it was) and found the question was closed as "not a real question".  This is unfortunate, while I'm happy to display my username and acknowledge that I voted to close, I'd like some additional transparency.  That is, if it was a 4-1 vote for "not a real question" vs "exact duplicate" I'd be interested in seeing that level of information.  The point is to be transparent about why the question was closed, and though 5 users may agree the question needs to be closed they may not agree why.  It's important to recognize all the reasons for closure, not just the majority reason.  I'd suggest displaying this information as something like:     closed on Jun 21 at 4:26 as:         not a real question by foo, bar, baz   exact duplicate by alice, bob      Once a question has been closed I'd argue it's more important to understand the rationale than it is to worry about an extra 2 lines of text. If the votes are 2,1,1,1 perhaps keep just 2 bullets, the first showing the majority vote, the second saying "for other reasons" as a summary of the change.  The point is to aggregate the summary by reason. Does the pilot of a rocket ship experience an asymptotic approach to the speed of light? A question has recently come up that goes beyond my knowledge of special relativity.  Suppose a pilot has his foot on the gas pedal of a rocket ship and keeps it applied to achieve a constant acceleration, and he has a magical engine that can maintain the thrust needed to accomplish such acceleration even as the vehicle acquires mass.  He measures his acceleration at periodic intervals and sums it up as he goes.  Observers perceive the rocket to increase in speed and gradually approach the speed of light (but never reach it). Two possibilities are being debated for what the pilot observes, and my preference is for the first:   Time dilation gives him the impression that the summation of his readings are approaching light speed at a constant rate, but there is an asymptote involved here even in the inertial frame such that he never actually perceives himself to reach, let alone exceed, $c$, because time slows down to a crawl (as seen from the reference frame) before this can happen. Although to observers he is only approaching $c$, it is possible for the summation of the measurements on his accelerometer to indicate that he has surpassed $c$ and is now traveling faster than light.  From the reference frame he is approaching $c$ and his instruments in the inertial frame tell him that he has surpassed it.   I assume (1) is true beyond a doubt?  If so, is there a straightforward explanation for this? Is it possible to use the startup.blend UI layout in older files? Yesterday, I tried to dualboot Ubuntu 16.04 onto my hard drive, creating a new partition for Ubuntu alongside my existing Windows 8. First, I disabled the fast-boot option in Windows 8, and still GRUB did not load, and it went directly to Windows boot-up. Then I did some research and found this article:     Basically, I issued the BCDEdit command in Windows, and entered in the following code:  bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi   When I reboot, I get a basic GRUB2 terminal, and after I type in the exit command, then a second Shell prompt appears, and after typing the exit command again, the GRUB2 menu to select the OS to boot finally appears... with only Ubuntu and Ubuntu memory test as options, not Windows 8.  After booting into Ubuntu, I tried to run the Boot-repair Utility, but that shows this following error:   How do I approach this problem? The Pastebin log is here:   Thanks for the help! Grammar checking program for LibreOffice Is there a tool for checking grammar in LibreOffice? My group of 8 level 3 players are about to run through the Thundertree Ruins and will probably have a hand at fighting the dragon. My question stems from the fact that a single poison breath attack from the dragon will outright kill all but 1 player assuming they fail their saving throws.  I understand this encounter is supposed to be ridiculously deadly, but I don't want to be punishing my players for testing the lengths at which they can fight stuff. A fight should be challenging and they should be able to try and run away, but instant obliteration seems a bit much.  All PCs are level 3 (HP in parenthesis):   Wood elf moon druid  (27) dwarven frenzy barbarian (44) fire genasi archer ranger (37) (pseudodragon companion (12)) wood elf assassin rogue (27) human wild magic sorcerer (22) dragonborn fighter (29) human monk (24) human fighter (32) What is the 64-bit Firefox Beta PPA? I recently discovered that my computer is 64-bit. I have backed up my Home folder, and reinstalled Ubuntu. The reinstall wasn't nearly as painful as I thought. There is one thing that I can't quite seem to figure out: how do I get the 64-bit Firefox Beta build? I always get the Beta builds, but I want to take advantage of the 64-bit architecture of my computer.  says that Mozilla has come out with a 64-bit version of Firefox, but I can't seem to find it.  I do understand  of using a 64-bit browser, but I've decided to jump right in and do it anyway. (Flash and Java are already 64-bit, and who cares about Silverlight, since it's not for Linux anyway?)  There's only one issue, and it's a big one: I can't find the 64-bit Beta PPA!!! (I really hate using .tar.gz files, but I'd be willing to do that as long as I could still access Firefox via the Launcher. Oh, speaking of which, I don't understand .tar.gz files. Once, I managed to run one (the Dropbox Beta build,) but I have no idea whatsoever on how to install them: as in, click on the icon and go.) Why don't wizards always use multiple wands? Is there a way to make IE8 honour opacity on an `:before` pseudo element?