I want to upgrade from 12.10 to 16.0.4 LTS I would like to upgrade (can do gradually to 13, 14, 15 etc) but none of the site are available.  Tried:  sudo apt-get upgrade  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade  sudo update-manager -d   Nothing works. I cannot even install aptitude. I am stuck for good?
Can I skip over releases when upgrading? I am currently using Ubuntu 10.04. I know there is a 10.10 release, but can I upgrade directly to 11.04? Could you walk me through the steps please?
Why is the shape of lightning or an electric spark a zig-zag line? Why is the shape of the  (or an electric spark) always of a zig-zag nature? Why is it never just a straight line?     . Can you add new statements (like print, raise, with) to Python's syntax?  Say, to allow..  mystatement "Something"   Or,  new_if True:     print "example"   Not so much if you should, but rather if it's possible (short of modifying the python interpreters code) Do I need a visa for Paris, if my connecting flight stops for 24 hours in Paris? Do I need visa for Paris, if my connecting flight stops at Paris for 24hrs and I want to visit Paris during that 24hrs? I have US B1 visa. I'll be travelling from San Francisco to Bangalore (India) via Paris. I hold Indian passport. If yes, what is the procedure for that visa? Limit with inverse trignometry We have to find the value of $$\lim_{n\to \infty}\sum_{k=2}^n\arccos\left(\frac{1+\sqrt{(k-1)k(k+1)(k+2)}}{k(k+1)}\right)$$  I tried it a lot but could not find any start.   Please help me in this . Do you use degrees or radians for trig functions? I was just wondering if you use degrees or radians in trig functions. For example if I have a degree of 0.5 would I do: Sin(0.5) or would I have to convert that to radians?  Or does it not matter either way? Would particles behave the same way as a satellite orbiting earth, only far more compact and rapid correlating to the gravitational force of the black hole? How to backup an Android device? Can anyone recommend a good way to backup Android devices? Ideally I would like to do this wirelessly and, not only backup my data, but also my user settings. Is it possible to backup an image of an Android device - so that one doesn't even need to reinstall apps? It would be particularly useful to hear from users that have restored backups, as to how easy, and complete, their processes were. Thanks So I have a Palm Pre (original P100EWW) model that I enabled developer mode on, and installed a Debian Squeeze chroot.  Works great.  I have plans to use this for ANYTHING (bittorrent peer, web server) but a phone.  I noticed if I do a cat /dev/urandom &gt; /dev/fb0 it actually writes random pixels to the screen until a No space left on device error is generated.  Awesome, now I can use the display.  So what kind of utilites are there that will either A) let me use /dev/fb0 as a console I can output text to or B) render text on /dev/fb0 from the command line.  I don't know about recompiling the kernel for this yet (I'd love to eventually strip WebOS off entirely and turn this into a minimal ARM server) so userspace tools if they exist is what I'm asking about.  Also would prefer to render directly to /dev/fb0 and not use X. How to extend the background of an image? Let $f$ be a nonconstant element of ring $\mathbb Z[x]$. Prove that $\langle f \rangle$ is not maximal in $\mathbb Z[x]$.   Let us assume $\langle f \rangle$ is maximal. Then $\mathbb Z[x] / \langle f \rangle$ would be a field. Let $a \in \mathbb{Z}$. Then $a + \langle f \rangle$ is a nonzero element of this field, hence a unit. Let $g + \langle f \rangle$ be its inverse. Then $a g - 1 \in \langle f \rangle$, hence $ag(x)-1 = f(x)h(x)$ for some $h \in Z[x]$, hence $ag(0) + f(0)h(0) = 1$, thus $(a,f(0))=1$ for all $a \in \Bbb Z$, contradiction, hence the proof.  Is my argument correct? Is there any other method? What is the rigor behind U subsitution? Text not very readable on different image backgrounds Does a first generation iPod touch have the ability to download apps and use emojis? I am getting a 1st gen iPod touch for a friend and I was wondering if you can download like apps and games on it and if it has emojis? It would help to get an answer before I buy it! Function $f(z)$ such that $|f(z)| > |z|$ for every $z\in\mathbb{C}, 1/f(z)$ $f(z)$ is a function such that $|f(z)| &gt; |z|$ for all $z\in\mathbb{C}$  How would you prove the function $\frac{1}{f(z)}$ is bounded. I think you have to use the $|f(z)|\leq M$ but I'm not sure. What's wrong with this experiment showing that either FTL communication is possible or complementarity doesn't hold? The assumptions are:    Alice and Bob have perfectly synchronized clocks Alice and Bob have successfully exchanged a pair of entangled photons   The idea is simply to have Alice and Bob perform the Quantum Eraser Experiment (doesn't need to be the delayed choice).   Alice and Bob agree on a specific time when Bob's photon will be between the "path marker" (which is usually just after the slits) and the detector.  If Alice acts collpasing the wave-function on her photon, the interference pattern will disappear. If not it won't.  Alice and Bob can be spatially separated...  What am I misunderstanding?   The only meaningful difference from this spatially separated quantum eraser experiment to one done on tabletop is that you won't be able to use a coincidence detector, but that is not impeditive to identifying the interference pattern, just will make errors more probable. Which we should be able to deal with a appropriate protocol...  There is a experimental paper with a small amount of citations pointing out to the breaking of complementarity in a very similar setup: Let $\Bbb R^+$ be the set of positive real numbers. Use Zorn's Lemma to show that $\Bbb R^+$ is the union of two disjoint, non-empty subsets, each closed under addition. Automatically convert links to popular mobile pages (such as the mobile Wikipedia) to point to the corresponding regular pages This issue came up  on Worldbuilding:  If somebody is on a mobile device and wants to cite, e.g., Wikipedia, they usually insert a link to the  instead of the regular one. This is annoying for users with immobile devices, while it poses no benefit to users with mobile devices, who should get redirected to the mobile Wikipedia anyway.  I thus request that links to mobile versions of popular web pages are automatically converted to regular ones either in the post source or when rendering the page.  As  mentioned, an author may sometimes explicitly want to link to the mobile version of a webpage but as far as I can tell, this should be the exception. At least for Wikipedia, an automatic conversion would do much more good than harm, because it is very often cited as a resource. For example, until recently, there were at least 82 posts with links to the mobile Wikipedia on Worldbuilding alone (going by  edit spree to remove them) Let $G$ be a non abelian group of order $p^3$, with $p$ prime.  I'm proving that $Z(G)$ (its center) is of order $p$. I already know how to do it by saying that its order can't be $p^3$, nor 1, and if it's $p^2$ then $G/Z(G)$ is cyclic then G is abelian, Abs!  But I've been reading another way of proving it and the author supposes that $|Z(G)|=p^2$. Then, she says: "$\exists\ x$ outside the center of $G$, of order $p$." Could someone give me a hint? Thanks! If an opponent casts  to gain control of  then sacrifices it who will draw the card? Connect Tikz nodes via two parallel arrows I am just starting to learn using Tikz and am a little lost within its seemingly infinite amount of options and possibilities.  What I am trying to do is visualize a few Matlab function interaction (which one calls which one, what is the in- and output). Since there are only about six subroutines, I place each one manually as a node. This is an example:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,positioning}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}[auto] \node           [rounded rectangle,draw]        (node1)     {Node 1}; \coordinate [above=of node1]                                (input); \node           [rounded rectangle,draw]    at  (-10:6cm) (node2)       {Node 2}; \draw           [-&gt;,very thick]             ([xshift=0.1cm]  input.south)  --                  node {right}                ([xshift=0.1cm]  node1.north); \draw           [-&gt;,very thick]             ([xshift=-0.1cm] node1.north) --                  node {left}                 ([xshift=-0.1cm] input.south); \draw                                            (node1) -- (node2);  \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}     Now I would like to apply these double in/out arrows I (probably pretty awkwardly) created using xshift to all node connections, so in this example also for the connection between Node 1 and Node 2. Ideally, the space between these two arrows would be the same, independant of their angle and they would nicely connect to the outer line of the nodes. Any idea how I could achieve this? Similar questions I have found only used rectangle and orthogonal lines.