I need to execute some tests on a script of mine which requires a lot of CPU cycles. Is there a way to kill the GUI? I tried but it always restarts by itself.
I need to enter the command line alone with no GUI to install the official NVIDIA drivers. I'm trying to get my computer to work over HDMI and someone on Youtube shows how but you have to be in the Nvidia settings program.
Etiquette for username changes I'm thinking of changing my username to my real name. Given that I have a presence on some of the sites here (mostly codegolf), what etiquette should I follow when choosing my new name?  As my username is currently Quincunx, I'm thinking of changing it to MyRealName (formerly Quincunx). Or perhaps MyRealName (né Quincunx). Maybe just MyRealName (Quincunx). If I do use these usernames, will people be able to recognize who I am? Or is there already a standard way to change usernames (such as relying on the profile picture)? Finding the limit of $\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^n$ Replace identical lines with just one line at end in Notepad++ Can I replace identical lines with just one line at the end in Notepad++? E.g. from:  1st January 2013 //some text1 1st January 2013 //some text2 1st January 2013 //some text3 1st January 2013   to:  //some text1 //some text2 //some text3 1st January 2013   Also is it possible, if I have all dates from 1 to 30 or 31, to replace them individually at their last appearance? I have successfully transferred "Killing Floor" from my brother's laptop to my own via external hard drive. The problem, now that I have all the files, is that I don't know how to launch the game through Steam. All I did was copy files from his Laptop to the hard drive, then from the hard drive to my laptop, then I put the files in the "Steamapps" folder under "Steam" in my laptops hard drive. So the question is, how do I start up the game through Steam? This is a  about CNAMEs at the apices (or roots) of zones   It's relatively common knowledge that CNAME records at the apex of a domain are a taboo practice.  Example: example.com. IN CNAME ithurts.example.net.  In a best case scenario nameserver software might refuse to load the configuration, and in the worst case it might accept this configuration and invalidate the configuration for example.com.  Recently I had a webhosting company pass instructions to a business unit that we needed to CNAME the apex of our domain to a new record. Knowing that this would be a suicide config when fed to BIND, I advised them that we would not be able to comply and that this was bunk advice in general. The webhosting company took the stance that it is not outright forbidden by standard defining RFCs and that their software supports it. If we could not CNAME the apex, their advice was to have no apex record at all and they would not provide a redirecting webserver. ...What?  Most of us know that  insists that A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data., but let's be honest with ourselves here, that RFC is only Informational. The closest I know to verbiage that forbids the practice is from :     If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be   present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name and its aliases   cannot be different.   Unfortunately I've been in the industry long enough to know that "should not" is not the same as "must not", and that's enough rope for most software designers to hang themselves with. Knowing that anything short of a concise link to a slam dunk would be a waste of my time, I ended up letting the company get away with a scolding for recommending configurations that could break commonly used software without proper disclosure.  This brings us to the Q&amp;A. For once I'd like us to get really technical about the insanity of apex CNAMEs, and not skirt around the issue like we usually do when someone posts on the subject.  is off limits, as are any other Informational RFC applicable here that I didn't think of. Let's shut this baby down. Which version of NFS is my NFS server using? I'm mounting a NFS filesystem on my machine.  How do I figure out what version of the NFS protocol the server uses?  I don't have access to the NFS server machine, but I do have root on my client machine.  Is there anything I can run on my client machine to identify what version of the NFS protocol is being used by the server, or what versions it supports?  I wasn't able to find any useful information in /var/log/messages or kernel debugging output (dmesg).  I have tried running nfsstat, but I'm not sure if it is giving me any useful information.  However, when I run nfsstat -s to request information about the server, I don't see anything useful:  # nfsstat -s Server rpc stats: calls      badcalls   badfmt     badauth    badclnt 0          0          0          0          0          When I run nfsstat -c to request information about the client, I do see some information about Client nfs v3, but I'm not sure how to interpret this.  Does this tell me anything about the protocol being used between my client machine and the NFS server?  Does it mean I am currently using v3 of the NFS protocol?  Does it tell me anything about what versions of the NFS protocol the server supports, e.g., NFS v4? While studying the problem of determining the orbit of a binary star system, my astronomy notes say: "the projection of an ellipse onto a plane is still an ellipse (except the special case in which it's a segment)". How could I prove this?  EDIT: As suggested i'm adding what I know about ellipses. I know the basics of ellipses in the plane, the equation of an ellipse in a plane in cartesia coordinates, the equation of an ellipse in polar coordinates, the fact that ellipses can be obtained by the intersection of planes with a cone. In my geometry course we defined ellipses as the the points of the plane such that the ratio between the distance from a point and a line is constant and less than 1. I also know that the sum of the distances of the points of the ellipse from the foci is constant. Superluminal neutrinos I was quite surprised to read this all over the news today:     Elusive, nearly massive subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein's theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light.   &mdash;  Apparently a CERN/Gran Sasso team measured a faster-than-light speed for neutrinos.   Is this even remotely possible? If so, would it be a real violation of Lorentz invariance or an "" effect?   The ; a webcast is/was planned .  News conference video Deleting missing data with CountryData Is my logic straight? Logistic regressions in R Keep old kernels Write space with TCPDF into a PDF file Why particle hole symmetry and chiral symmetry are called symmetries? $PHP^{-1}=-H$ (particle-hole symmetry) and   $\Gamma H \Gamma^{-1}=-H$ (chiral symmetry)   I understand why we get the negative signs but im just a bit confused as to why such equalities mean $H$ is particle hole and chiral symmetric.   When we say $H$ is symmetric under some operation, like time reversal,  don't we usually mean that $H$ is invariant under the said transformation?  $THT^{-1}=H$ if $H$  is time reversal symmetric.  On the contrary, we say $H$ is symmetric under particle hole and chiral operations when $H$ picks up a negative sign. This seems to contradict our usual convention of what we mean by $H$ being symmetric(invariant). I've heard of kits that can fix your Xbox 360 if you happen to get the . Do any of these work, and do they void your warranty? Are there any other noteworthy tips or tricks? I am stuck while calculating the peak current in the boost converter through the inductor.  Can you please check if I am right?  Ipeak=(Max Voltage/ R2) = 18/1000=0.018. So, my peak current through the inductor is just 18mA? Am I doing it correct. If this is correct, how will I account for the Vce drop inside the pin1 and pin2 of the IC. The darlington transistor inside the IC is just like a normal transistor. I have added two transistor outside the IC instead of using the darlington switch in the IC for thermal purposes.   Can you please help me with the calculation of Vswce and Ipeak. The calculation of Vswce is not mentioned in the datasheet. So, please help. And the calculation of Peak current is mentioned in the datasheet. But is my approach of calculating the peak current through the inductor right? This is intended to be a canonical question regarding possible endings of the game.  For each question, assume a single proper strike was made, and note where an improper strike would change the game outcome (beyond an additional point for the opponent).  If the Queen has been covered:     What happens if I pocket my last C/m and the Striker? What happens if I pocket my opponent's last C/m? What happens if I pocket my opponent's last C/m and the Striker? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m and the Striker?     If the shot covers the Queen:     What happens if I pocket my last C/m and the Queen? What happens if I pocket my last C/m, the Queen and the Striker? What happens if I pocket my opponents' last C/m and the Queen? What happens if I pocket my opponents' last C/m, the Queen and the Striker? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m and the Queen? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m, the Queen and the Striker?     If the Queen is left on the board:     What happens if I pocket my last C/m, leaving the Queen? What happens if I pocket my last C/m and the Striker, leaving the Queen? What happens if I pocket my opponent's last C/m, leaving the Queen? What happens if I pocket my opponent's last C/m and the Striker, leaving the Queen? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m, leaving the Queen? What happens if I pocket both players' last C/m and the Striker, leaving the Queen? I've upgraded from 12.04 to 14.04 via command-line when my system froze, had to do REISUB and dpkg --configure -a to recover from crash after rebooting.  Now everything seems to work except automatically mounting external thumb drives and external hard disk drives. After plugging in said drives, they fail to show up on the left pane and remains unmounted. I can see the device if I run lsusb and fdisk though, so it's possibly to manually mount it but I'd rather resolve why it's not automatically mounting. Suppose that f is continuous on $(a,b)$ and $\lim_{x\to a^+}  f(x) = \lim_{x\to b^-} f(x) = \infty$. Prove that $f$ has a minimum on all of $(a,b)$.  I was thinking of applying the extreme value theorem, but I realized that it applies only to closed intervals. So I was thinking of defining a closed interval that is in $(a,b)$, and using the definition of one sided limits to go about the problem, but I don't know how to proceed. Help please? When should I use the subjunctive mood? Prove that the Interior of the Boundary is Empty Suppose X is a Metric Space  Let S $\subset X$  Prove that if S is Closed then, the Interior of the Boundary of S is Empty  Totally stuck on how to solve this.