I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 but it runs very slow. Whenever I open any window like "Dash Home" or "Firefox", it takes more time than another computer.  Graphics of my Sony Vaio:- Intel® 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a Dell laptop with 1.7Ghz Pentium M and 1Gbyte memory.  Graphics are Intel® 852GM/855GM x86/MMX/SSE2, OS type is 32bit.  The whole system is VERY slow. When I launch the applications manager, for example, I need to wait in order to see the letters I typed appear!  It is as if the CPU was overloaded and no memory available, but I only have Firefox running.  How can I make the system run smoother? It used to have Windows XP installed and it worked fine.
$(12)$ and $(123\dots n)$ are generators of $S_n$ How do you link to applications in the Android market? When posting app links, I'm always using a link on Cyrket or AppBrain -- becuase I can't get a link to anything in the official Android Market.  But I have seen some links out there for use w/ Android itself ( ''market://'' protocol ):  market://details?id=de.schildbach.oeffi   (as seen @ )  Is it possible to web-link to apps in the Market so that a non-Android user can link to the appropriate Market page in a non-Android web browser? I'd like to find out why  \begin{align} \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{n^2}{2^n} = 6 \end{align}  I tried to rewrite it into a geometric series  \begin{align} \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{n^2}{2^n} = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \Big(\frac{1}{2}\Big)^nn^2 \end{align}  But I don't know what to do with the $n^2$. Why does "start winword" work but just "winword" doesn't? Assume Microsoft Office is installed. Consider the following batch file:  REM the following line successfully launches Microsoft Word start winword  REM none of the following commands work to launch Microsoft Word winword winword.exe winword.com winword.bat winword.cmd winword.vbs winword.vbe winword.js winword.jse winword.wsf winword.wsh winword.msc   What is it about the "start" instruction that allows the launching of Microsoft Word using the name "winword"?  My curiosity stems from my interest in the mechanics of the "start" verb - I don't need suggestions on other ways to start Microsoft Office.  Please don't suggest that I add the Microsoft Office directory to my PATH environment variable - I know what that would do.    How is start finding "winword" when cmd cannot find it directly? polyglossia or bidi bug: [\d\.] gets inverted to [\.\d] After bidi was updated to v. 19.6 (2016-05-23), using at least one RTL language with polyglossia leads to number and following dot being inverted. Cf.  \documentclass{book} \usepackage{polyglossia} \setotherlanguage{hebrew} \begin{document} 6. \end{document}   with and without \setotherlanguage{hebrew}. Note that it is not necessary to actually use that language.  I do not know whether this is a bug in bidi or an incompatible change which polyglossia needs to adapt to. Because of this I have not opened an issue on polyglossia's github page. Sadly, bidi's contact information are outdated – the sourceforge referred to on CTAN is unused and the github page that is mentioned in the package's readme and PDF does not seem to exist any more either.  The problem might be something along the lines of     Does anybody have the previous version of bidi at hand?  TIA, Dario How can I convert raster (stream segments result of a watershed analysis) to vector polylines, preferably shapefile. In ArcGIS this is easily acomplished with the Raster to Polyline tool.  I only see Polygonize (Raster to Vector) tool under the Raster -> Conversion menu. I need to include code in the appendix of my thesis. The code contains comments and the compilation instantly breaks returning:  Unicode char �\lst@FillFixed@ (U+5A8) (inputenc)                not set up for use with LaTeX. l.160       if (lastArg &lt; 0, lastArg = 360°                                               + lastArg);   This is only one of many characters which produce problems. I cannot change my entire code just because this won't compile. Is there any way to include code with arbitrary unicode characters? Thank you.   Edit: complete sample code, as requested.  \RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}   \documentclass[headsepline,footsepline,footinclude=false,oneside,fontsize=11pt,paper=a4,listof=totoc,bibliography=totoc]{scrbook} % one-sided   \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \lstset{     inputencoding=utf8,   extendedchars=true,   basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,   showstringspaces=false,   showspaces=false,   numbers=left,   numberstyle=\footnotesize,   numbersep=9pt,   tabsize=2,   breaklines=true,   showtabs=false,   captionpos=b,     literate={ö}{{\"o}}1 {ä}{{\"a}}1 {ü}{{\"u}}1  }  \begin{document}  \begin{appendices} \lstinputlisting{code/power_series.html} \end{appendices}  \end{document}   Relevant content of power_series.html:  if (lastArg &lt; 0, lastArg = 360° + lastArg);   There really is not much to say about this problem. I only want to be able to use all unicode characters inside a listing. Thank you. What follows if we fail to reject the null hypothesis? What conclusions can we draw if $p&gt;\alpha$? Does not rejecting the $H_0$ mean anything? $ a\in \Bbb Z_n$ is invertible $\,\Rightarrow\gcd (a,n) =1$ Disk full, du tells different. How to further investigate? I have a SCSI disk in a server (hardware Raid 1), 32G, ext3 filesytem. df tells me that the disk is 100% full. If I delete 1G this is correctly shown.  However, if I run a du -h -x / then du tells me that only 12G are used (I use -x because of some Samba mounts).  So my question is not about subtle differences between the du and df commands but about how I can find out what causes this huge difference?  I rebooted the machine for a fsck that went w/out errors. Should I run badblocks? lsof shows me no open deleted files, lost+found is empty and there is no obvious warn/err/fail statement in the messages file.  Feel free to ask for further details of the setup. Installing a 16-bit Windows 95 game on 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium Cards changing mana color What cards across all sets allow the utilization of mana, either colorless or otherwise, as colored mana of another color?  One early example with an unlimited  1:1 ratio:     Sunglasses of Urza   Continuous Artifact: White mana in your mana pool can also be used as red mana.   What other cards have similar abilities? Why (in relatively non-technical terms) are Calabi-Yau manifolds favored for compactified dimensions in string theory? I appreciate the mechanisms which help bring attention to new answers to old questions - front page sorting, and the moderation tool explicitly designed for it. But I wonder if we can do more. I'm particularly interested in addressing answers whose validity has changed. In the worst case, they were correct when they were posted, but no longer are, so they mislead all the current users who find their way to them looking for an answer. More benignly, perhaps the best answer was good, but slightly flawed.  At this point, a helpful user may post a new answer, which is much better than existing upvoted and accepted answers. It can be difficult to overcome that momentum. What if the default sorting method took this into account? A naive suggestion: if a new answer has a large positive vote velocity, and an old answer has a negative vote velocity, perhaps the default sorting should place the new answer above the old answer. This could help make new answers visible to users who need a correct answer, and also help garner more votes to increase the confidence of the sorting decision.  I know this would be a fairly low-impact change, but nothing is permanent, and I'm afraid of answers with 100 upvotes being pinned at the top for years after they've become obsolete.  Edit: I would welcome other proposals that accomplish the same goal - my naive suggestion wasn't intended to be a complete solution, just one thing that a better sorting method would do. Usage of singular or plural SI base units when written in both symbol as well as name I have multiple doubts related to the usage of singular or plural SI base units when written in both symbol as well as name.  I have framed this question under two parts, namely, Part (a) and Part (b). Each part has three sentences which I have written on the basis of my understanding.  Please answer these 6 sentences/questions.   Part (a):   says that while using prefix for e.g., centi as in centimeter, it is   l = 75 cm long.(correct) l = 75 cms long. (wrong)    Does this rule is used for all SI prefixes (having powers of 10)? In this regard, we should be saying, or writing that, "how many cm are there in one metre?" (while saying we should say centimter or centimetres?) Please strike-through the wrong SI unit in the following sentences.  My weight is 70 kg / kgs,  or My weight is 70 kilogram / kilograms.   Part (b):  and the page next to above web link says, we should write:  2.6 m/s, or 2.6 metres per second.   In this regard, we should say, or write:   Its speed is 0.26 metres per second.  This pipe is 0.75 metres long. How many cm are there in 2 metres? Why does the Euclidean algorithm work for polynomials? What is the proof? Excel function that evaluates a string as if it were a formula? How to make a circle with grid on the outside ring I made something like this:    I did this with the Ellipse Tool and the Line Tool.  Now the circle is accurate, but the lines inside are very inaccurate. Is there another tool that does the same thing but with a lot more accuracy? I don't know how to solve $7^x-3^y=4$... I tried to see something $\pmod 7$ and $\pmod 3$ but it doesn't help at all. Can anyone give me some hints about it? $\{\emptyset\}$ is a set containing the empty set. Is $\{\emptyset\}$ a subset of $\{\{\emptyset\}\}$?  My hypothesis is yes by looking at the form of "the superset $\{\{\emptyset\}\}$" which contains "the subset $\{\emptyset\}$".