I am looking to buy either of the following two laptops but wanted to ensure they were compatible with Ubuntu. Both seem to match laptop names as 'okay' but the details of the specs seem to be slightly different, which leaves me confused!   HPM6-1205SO/i5/8GB (HP Envy M6 ??)  HP15-J028EO/i5/12G (HP Envy 15 ??)   Your help much appreciated.  Many thanks, Melanie
How can I find out if Ubuntu supports a particular hardware component, that is, if it works in Ubuntu?  I am going to put together a computer and I am choosing components.   How do I know if Ubuntu supports this or that motherboard, or this or that sound card, or this or that graphics card, etc? How do I know that there is no conflict in Ubuntu between this and that hardware component?   What resources are there to help with such situations?  I know that there are computers with Ubuntu pre-installed and that there are  for whole computers but this is not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for resources to find out support for particular hardware components and conflicts among particular hardware components.
My number is associated with iMessage on other phone, how to remove it? Good day everyone. For only 1 hour (!) I used my relatives iPhone with my sim card and that's it, he keeps receiving all of my iMessages. I tried checking in iTunes all devices associated with my account and his device is not listed. I tried to log in and log out to/from iMessage on his phone with his apple ID, still won't help. How can I stop this nightmare!? When I go to iMessage settings>Send &amp; Receive on his device, there is only my phone number listed, how do I remove it without smashing phone to the wall?! Thanks and have a great day  EDIT. After talking to apple support for some time, they removed my phone number from my friend's iMessage. So I guess if you are facing same problem you have to contact support. How can I make subsections lose the section number within the section and gain the section number outside it? For a paper I am typesetting, the author wants subsections to be written with single numerals.  So far, OK,   \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{subsection}}   does the job.  Yet frequently, he wants to cite the subsection in a later section, and wants both section and subsection numbers in references; i.e., he wants to quote Section 1.1 from Section 2.      My current workaround is to give both the section and subsection numbers in the reference.   MWE  \documentclass[11pt]{amsart} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage[backend=bibtex,citestyle=alphabetic]{biblatex} \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{subsection}}  \begin{document} \section{A section} \label{sec:first} \subsection{A subsection} \label{subsect:first} Something cool. \section{New section} Now I want to cite the coolness in Section~\ref{sec:first}.\ref{subsect:first}. \end{document}     This works fine, except that the hyperref is set up so that if you click on the first 1, you go to Section 1, not Subsection 1.  Yet I would prefer that both numerals go to the same place in the hyperref links.       I could just wrap each such citation in \renewcommand{\thesubsection}'s, but is there  an easier way to add section numbers when citing subsections from a different section?   Note: Since I'm using biblatex, titlesec is not applicable. How to find a global minimum for $\frac{1}{2}x^tQx-b^tx$ Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX What is the best way to call a script from another script? Is there a case insensitive jQuery :contains selector? Is there a case insensitive version of the  jQuery selector or should I do the work manually by looping over all elements and comparing their .text() to my string? How to set up Dolphin as default file manager? Return multiple values from a SQL Server function How would I return multiple values (say, a number and a string) from a user-defined function in SQL Server? Moving one object causes other to move another (already tried unlinking) If you have the ability to cast a spell without a spell slot, can you cast that spell using a spell slot? A 10th level Drow warlock (for instance) has the following Drow Magic racial trait (PHB p. 24), in addition to its warlock spellcasting abilities:  You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once per day. When you reach 5th level, you can also cast the darkness spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.  Can the Drow warlock cast faerie fire (which is not on the warlock spell list) using a warlock spell slot? Can it cast darkness (which is on the warlock spell list) using a warlock spell slot?  The  says this about the Magic Initiate feat:  If you’re a spellcaster, can you pick your own class when you gain the Magic Initiate feat? Yes, the feat doesn’t say you can’t. For example, if you’re a wizard and gain the Magic Initiate feat, you can choose wizard and thereby learn two more wizard cantrips and another 1st-level wizard spell. If you have spell slots, can you use them to cast the 1st-level spell you learn with the Magic Initiate feat? Yes, but only if the class you pick for the feat is one of your classes. For example, if you pick sorcerer and you are a sorcerer, the Spellcasting feature for that class tells you that you can use your spell slots to cast the sorcerer spells you know, so you can use your spell slots to cast the 1st-level sorcerer spell you learn from Magic Initiate. Similarly, if you are a wizard and pick that class for the feat, you learn a 1st-level wizard spell, which you could add to your spellbook and subsequently prepare.  But this specifically requires you to pick the feat for one of your classes to be able to cast the spell learnt using your class spell slots, and does not seem directly applicable. A Warlock can use warlock Pact Magic spell slots to cast spells learnt from levels of another spellcasting class, per the multiclass spellcasting rules (PHB p. 164):  If you have both the Spellcasting class feature and the Pact Magic class feature from the warlock class, you can use the spell slots you gain from the Pact Magic feature to cast spells you know or have prepared from classes with the Spellcasting class feature, and you can use the spell slots you gain from the Spellcasting class feature to cast warlock spells you know.  Similarly, if the warlock has learnt the invocation Mask of Many Faces (PHB p. 112)...  You can cast disguise self at will, without expending a spell slot.  ...Can the warlock cast disguise self using a spell slot, e.g. to decrease the chance it can be dispelled? What is the best way to detect if a user leaves a web page?  The onunload JavaScript event doesn't work every time (the HTTP request takes longer than the time required to terminate the browser).  Creating one will probably be blocked by current browsers. I am a new user of Ubuntu 12.04.   I installed Ubuntu and Windows XP, and I want to use both operating systems. When I restart or boot my PC the GRUB menu does not appear.  How can I solve this problem? Could I have a hint for testing the convergence of the following series please?  $$\sum_{n=2}^\infty\frac{1}{(\ln n)^{\ln n}}$$  Edit  The integral test does not work because $\int_1^n\frac{1}{(\ln x)^{\ln x}}dx$ has not an elementary primitive.  Thank You. I'm using MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT field and InnoDB to support transactions. I noticed when I rollback the transaction, the AUTO_INCREMENT field is not rollbacked? I found out that it was designed this way but are there any workarounds to this? Does "Going Infinite" necessarily end the game? Show Log of the Sql statements that QGIS generates to retrieve Data from Postgis Is there a ways to  - make QGis log its generated SQL Statement or to - force POSTGIS to log all interaction with QGIS?  There is something strange happening to the WFS layer I retrieve in QGIS, since it does  not select all data available in the respective database table. I need to find out, what criteria QGIS chooses in order to narrow down the select set. Sufficient condition(s) for $f'$ to be Riemann integrable Is this an instance of Priori Incantatem? During the climax of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Tina briefly duels with Graves and their wands appear to lock with each other (see picture). I believe this also happens some other times in the later Harry Potter films other than Harry and Voldemort's duel in the graveyard during Goblet of Fire.    We know that this is definitely a case of Priori Incantatem for the graveyard duel in Goblet of Fire, as the wands are locked for a sufficient amount of time for past spells to begin showing themselves (significantly, showing the people Voldemort had murdered), but is this the case for the other instances of wands locking? If so, does that mean there are a lot more wands out there with shared cores, as it was my understanding this could only happen if that criteria was satisfied? What, precisely, is a confidence interval? I know roughly and informally what a confidence interval is.  However, I can't seem to wrap my head around one rather important detail:  According to Wikipedia:     A confidence interval does not predict that the true value of the parameter has a particular probability of being in the confidence interval given the data actually obtained.     I've also seen similar points made in several places on this site.  A more correct definition, also from Wikipedia, is:     if confidence intervals are constructed across many separate data analyses of repeated (and possibly different) experiments, the proportion of such intervals that contain the true value of the parameter will approximately match the confidence level   Again, I've seen similar points made in several places on this site.  I don't get it.  If, under repeated experiments, the fraction of computed confidence intervals that contain the true parameter $\theta$ is $(1 - \alpha)$, then how can the probability that $\theta$ is in the confidence interval computed for the actual experiment be anything other than $(1 - \alpha)$?  I'm looking for the following in an answer:   Clarification of the distinction between the incorrect and correct definitions above. A formal, precise definition of a confidence interval that clearly shows why the first definition is wrong. A concrete example of a case where the first definition is spectacularly wrong, even if the underlying model is correct. Is there a tool to get the lines in one file that are not in another?