I was wondering if you need to reinstall Ubuntu everytime there is a new non LTS version or can you update it onto your installed version? I am new to Linux and I want something in between the LTS versions and the bleeding edge distros, so does the normal non-LTS version update automatically and you have to install it once like manjaro and every couple of months it updates to the new version or not?
What are the differences between an Ubuntu Long Term Support release (LTS) and a normal release?
I followed  to create a soccer ball.  Now I want to texture it in a way that every pentagon has an image inside itself and the exagons are white, but I also want everything to be a little glossy. I managed to successfully UV Map the ball and paint the texture in photoshop but now I am having big problems in applying the texture material to the mesh.    I've created a new material in Blender Render mode with Diffuse and the texture applied to it. I also set the Texture mapping to UV. I've gone in edit mode, selected all the mesh and applied the material. Unfortunately in Texture View Mode I see just a white ball and while rendering I see everything's black.      If I try to do this in Cycles Render and use a Mix Shader with the FAC set to the texture image I get what I want in the Texture View Mode but while rendering I just see everything black and white of my colored images.        I hope I've been clear enough and that someone will help me in this easy/difficult task! Thank you in advance From the  article on Wikipedia, the following with regard to the Coriolis Effect on a rotating sphere:     By setting vn = 0, it can be seen immediately that (for positive φ and ω) a movement due east results in an acceleration due south. Similarly, setting ve = 0, it is seen that a movement due north results in an acceleration due east. In general, observed horizontally, looking along the direction of the movement causing the acceleration, the acceleration always is turned 90° to the right and of the same size regardless of the horizontal orientation.   My intuitive (but possibly incorrect) understanding is that if there are two points, Point A and Point B, at different latitudes in the Northern hemisphere, the Eastward velocities of these points are different because they are at different distances from the Earth's axis of rotation, and this causes the Coriolis effect for a rotating sphere.  If a projectile is fired due North from Point A near the Equator towards Point B near the North Pole, the projectile will start off with the higher Eastward velocity of Point A, and will land to the East of Point B, which is moving East at a slower velocity than the projectile.  Firstly, is that correct?  If that IS correct, that brings me to the quote off Wikipedia. The quote implies that, if a projectile is fired due East, it will experience a Coriolis force to the South. My intuitive explanation based on differences in velocities between origin and destination does not account for a Southwards movement at all, since the Point A and Point B velocities are identical if the points are on the same latitude.  What am I missing? Would a projectile fired due East or due West experience any North or South drift caused by the Coriolis effect (or anything else for that matter)?  Why? Pre-print service like arXiv but with private option, so I can correct my mistakes without publicly advertising my mistakes? As a student, I make mistakes all the time, and stealing my idea will not face heavy retaliation. I don't mind if someone comes up with concurrent works, but I do mind if my key idea is leaked. Many graduate students in my field therefore only use pre-print services if their papers are either publicly presented or conditionally accepted. I am looking for a website that can do most of what ArXiv does, with an additional private option or limited visibility, for example an option to make the paper unindexed by search engines. This way, my paper cannot be seen for at least a few months. By doing so, I can at least claim that I am one of the first few researchers who got the idea right. And most importantly, I can privately correct my mistakes, if any. Publishing mistakes is embarrassing and sometimes harms one's career. Many mistakes will be revealed during the peer-review processes and I have a chance to correct them before publicizing. Please kindly think twice before giving ethically and &quot;politically correct&quot; comments like no one will scoop me, everyone will cite me, and the scoopers will be punished. At least in my field, scooping and idea-stealing is commonly observable, and big-names don't care about publicizing pre-prints because they have resources to punish the scoopers. I do understand that keeping my work private might harm the community as the information becomes less transparent. However, it could also be possible that my un-reviewed flawed works misguide the community, and a paper reviewed will benefit the society more. I personally wasted six months because of someone else's mistake in a published work.  I heard that in molecular biology there is a widely-used service to upload your research data, like protein structure and sequencing, to get a timestamp. The uploaded materials can be set to be private for a period, and fully disclosed later. A lot of people do use this function. This is not exactly what I am looking for but shares some similar ideas. If I remember correctly, there is an interesting paper studying the scooping patterns with the aid of this database.  Solutions found!  and some other university-run pre-print services do have an embargo function. Moreover,  is a widely used repository, that, unlike arxiv, only displays the newest version to the general public, although still keeps a tag on the first submitted date! Prove or give a counterexample:  $$(A ∪ B = A ∪ C) \land (A ∩ B = A ∩ C) \implies B = C.$$  I think this is true, but I am not sure how to show it. I don't know if there are any manipulations with unions and intersections that allows me to move things around. Thanks in advance for any hints. What keeps mass from turning into energy? Prove that $\frac{ 5^{125}-1}{ 5^{25}-1}$ is a composite number How to redirect a URL to a custom IP address? I have an Ubuntu machine that I'm using as my home Internet router.  It uses a USB mobile broadband modem as its Internet connection, and shares this with another router (via the router's "Internet" port) which I use as my LAN.  How do I redirect requests from within my LAN for a given URL to a custom IP address (ex have google.com redirect to x.x.x.x)? How to find sum of power series $\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{1}{n!(n+2)}$ by differentiation and integration? Let $$ S = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n!(n+2)} $$  Integrate the Taylor Series of $xe^x$ to show that S = 1  Also, Differentiate the Taylor series of $\frac{e^x - 1}{x}$ to show that S = 1  For the integration one, I got $\int xe^x dx$ = $x^2\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{1}{n!(n+2)} x^n$ and pretty much stuck. I can see the S term but i have no idea how to move on from there The product of $n$ consecutive integers is divisible by $n$ factorial I searched wide and far and couldn't come up with a title for a movie I watched somewhere around the mid-90ies up to early 00's as a rerun in late-night television (in Germany, specifically on Vox; but I'm sure it was an American movie to begin with).  Basically, what I remember from the story revolves around a crew in a space station or maybe space ship of some sort. Some crew members murder other crew members and there is some kind of door they are not supposed/unable to go through. Late in the movie they do go through the door and I'm pretty sure one of the first views is a skeleton of a dead security guard. It turns out the whole thing was some kind of simulation gone wrong and they find themselves to be in a (nuclear?) wasteland. And that's pretty much the revelation/wrap-up of the movie, as I recall it.  I would be delighted if somebody had any idea what movie this could be :) Thanks!  EDIT: The whole movie was in color and I think it was feature-length, not just 45 mins. After finishing The Cayo Perico Heist, how long will it be set in hard mode? After I finished The Cayo Perico Heist, I tried setting up another heist in the Kosatka, and got this message :  The setup cost for The Cayo Perico Heist is $25000. Setting up now will set the heist to Hard Mode. Do you wish to proceed?  It seems that there is a cooldown period before the heist reverts to normal mode from hard mode. How long will it take before it reverts to normal mode? Also, does the cooldown timer run even if you're logged out of GTA Online? E.g., if I quit GTA Online just after finishing the heist, the next time I log back in, will I have to wait for the cooldown period to finish before it reverts to normal mode? Why is rabies incurable? I'm still not sure about the mechanics that lead to rabies being incurable. I know that it can be treated before any symptoms show up, but why is it that once symptoms show the person is a dead man walking? What is the importance of eigenvalues/eigenvectors? How to rename wp-includes folder? Is there a way that we could rename wp-includes folder   I have found out there are ways to do for other folders. But how do we do it for wp-includes folder? I have a SQL script that creates a package with a comment containing an ampersand (&amp;). When I run the script from SQL Plus, I am prompted to enter a substitute value for the string starting with &amp;. How do I disable this feature so that SQL Plus ignores the ampersand? It is a question of Nautilus file manager of Ubuntu 18.04. Is there a simple way to create a Folder when file list is full of items? The representative point of a cluster or cluster center for the k-means algorithm is the component-wise mean of the points in its cluster. The mean is chosen because it helps to minimize the within cluster variances (which is to say that it is minimizing within cluster squared Euclidean distance, since its the same). Now, when I want to use a different distance metric, like L1 (Manhattan distance), I would be minimizing the within cluster absolute deviations (if I choose to). I was looking at what the centers calculation would be like, because the mean won't reduce the new objective function, and I found this on the Matlab documentation of their kmeans function for the distance parameter     cityblock - Sum of absolute differences, i.e., the L1 distance. Each centroid is the component-wise median of the points in that cluster.   Now, how did they come up with the component-wise median? How does a median minimize absolute deviations? Efficient online linear regression Statement of Purpose Template I am trying, loosely based on  to make a template for my Statement of Purpose. How could I remove the empty extra line between the horizontal rule and the text? Moreover, how could be the first letter be of larger font in the title?  Any other suggestion is more than welcomed.  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}  \newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}} \newcommand{\Hrule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.3mm}}  \makeatletter% since there's an at-sign (@) in the command name \renewcommand{\@maketitle}{   \parindent=0pt% don't indent paragraphs in the title block   \begin{center}     \MakeUppercase{\Large \bf \@title}     \HRule%   \end{center}%   \textit{\@author \hfill \@date}   \par } \makeatother% resets the meaning of the at-sign (@)  \title{Statement of Purpose} \author{name} \date{Ph.D. Applicant}  \begin{document}  \maketitle% prints the title block  Emergency medicine has always been a passion of mine\ldots  \end{document} Is there a way to get new dwellers with higher than normal stats?