I'm running a "nettop" computer which is a rather low-end performer. It can probably run better (=faster) than it does simply by adjusting it in some way, because I guess that the standard installation includes things that I don't need which slow the system down.   I think the biggest problem is the graphics... I've had to ditch Unity because it demanded way too much of the machine. I'm now running plain "Gnome Fallback (no effects)" and that helped immensely, but when I run only Firefox with 15 open tabs (no browser extensions) and no other apps, the system is still pretty lame.   These are the specs:   Intel Atom CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz × 4  Nvidia ION/PCIe/SSE2 2,0 GiB RAM Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit   Being a nettop, its hardware can't be replaced or expanded. It already has the maximum RAM. I am configuring a new computer as my primary machine (because this one just sucks too much) but I still want to get some decent use out of this one.   What are the most obvious, most efficient performance-boosting software adjustments I can make?
What are your tips for improving overall system performance on ubuntu? Inspired by this  I realized that some default settings may be rather conservative on Ubuntu and that it's possible to tweak it with little or no risk if you wish to make it faster.  This is not meant to be application specific (e.g. make firefox load pages faster), but system wide.  Preferably 1 tip per answer, with enough detail for people to implement it.  A couple of mine would be:   Install  (via Software Center or sudo apt-get install preload); Change  value - "which controls the degree to which the kernel prefers to swap when it tries to free memory";   What are yours?  PS: Since this is not intended to have a unique answer but rather, several useful tips, I'm making this community wiki out-of-the-box.
Is the ideal $(2,X+1)\subset\Bbb{Z}[X]$ prime, maximal or neither? I'm currently considering the ideal $(2,X+1)\subset\Bbb{Z}[X]$. I'm trying to figure out if this is a prime ideal, a maximal ideal, or neither. So far I have attempted to look at the quotient ring $\Bbb{Z}[X]/(2,X+1)$. I know that if this quotient ring is a field, then our ideal is maximal, since $\Bbb{Z}[X]$ is commutative. However I'm stuck on how I should be viewing this quotient ring. Prove that if 51 positive integers between 1 and 100 are chosen, then one of them must divide another. Given $51$ integers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_{51}$ satisfying $1 \leq a_i \leq 100$. Prove that there exist $i$ and $j$ such that $a_i \mid a_j$.   I'm a little unsure how to approach this problem. Thanks for any help. How many 6-letter permutations can be formed using only the letters of the word, MISSISSIPPI? I understand the trivial case where there are no repeating letters in the word (for arranging smaller words) but I stumble when this isn't satisfied. I'm wondering if there's a simpler way to computing all the possible permutations, as an alternative to manually calculating all the possible 6-letter combinations and summing the corresponding permutations of each. In addition, is there a method to generalize the result based on any P number of letters in a set with repeating letters, to calculate the number of n-letter permutations?  Sorry if this question (or similar) has been asked before, but if it has, please link me to the relevant page. I also apologize if the explanation is unclear, or if I've incorrectly used any terminology (I'm only a high-school student.) If so, please comment. :-) How do I pass a string into subprocess.Popen (using the stdin argument)? How to say that you have plans to go to the movies tonight? How to say that you have plans to go to the movies tonight (but you are not sure yet, maybe you will have a pizza)? I mean there are options:     I am going to the cinema tonight.   Way too much certainty in this. For me it means that you have already bought tickets, the least.     I am going to go to the cinema tonight.   Sounds a bit awkward.     I will go to the cinema tonight.   Sounds too formal to me. Movie with humans battling aliens piloting giant animalistic, water-walking robots or sea warships I have memories of watching it a few years ago (I was a kid then) in the early 2000s probably; before 2010 I think. It was a movie with giant robots, and the enemies were aliens piloting what I remember as giant, more animalistic robots. I remember those animalistic ones running on water. The aliens themselves were a little taller than humans but mostly humanoid. I remember what the aliens look like a bit; most of the movie they were clad in some kind of armor, but the scene I mentioned showed one's face, if I remember well, grey skin, vividly green eyes, a beard made of some kind of quills, bald. I have this one scene that stayed crystal clear in my memories. The heroes had captured an injured alien, and other aliens attack to, in the end, just retrieve the injured one, leaving with this one without attacking further this time. I also remember the aliens going through a city in some machine (I'm actually not sure this one was piloted though) and destroying anything it perceived as a threat, from cars to security cameras. My memories are coming from years ago, so I might be wrong in a bunch of things there, but this one scene, I can assure is correct. This might remind a bit of Pacific Rim, but it isn't. (It's watching Pacific Rim that reminded me of this movie.) It doesn't seem to show up on any giant robot movie list on internet, weirdly, so I hope you can help me. And now I'm starting to wonder if there was really robots on the heroes' side. Maybe it was warships (sea ones, not spaceships). As I said it was some time ago and I was young, so bad memories are likely. Where can I ask a question about finding general software that meets certain requirements? With the listings package, I would like to color the integers out of strings and comments and out of keywords too. The question for coloring numbers     . Some answer handle the numbers occurring within comments, strings or barewords, but no solution given work when a keyword contain a number. Which is annoying because C and C++ have a lot of types with a number in them, like uint32_t.  Here is a small example.  \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{listings}  \definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0.18,0.54,0.34} \definecolor{maroon}{rgb}{0.64,0.16,0.16} \definecolor{darkpink}{rgb}{0.75,0.25,0.5}  \lstdefinestyle{myc++}{     language=[ISO]C++,     keywordstyle=\color{darkgreen}\bfseries,     commentstyle=\color{blue}\textit,     stringstyle=\color{darkpink}\ttfamily, %     literate=*     {0}{{{\textcolor{red}0}}}1     {1}{{{\textcolor{red}1}}}1     {2}{{{\textcolor{red}2}}}1     {3}{{{\textcolor{red}3}}}1     {4}{{{\textcolor{red}4}}}1     {5}{{{\textcolor{red}5}}}1     {6}{{{\textcolor{red}6}}}1     {7}{{{\textcolor{red}7}}}1     {8}{{{\textcolor{red}8}}}1     {9}{{{\textcolor{red}9}}}1,     escapeinside={|}{|}, %     morekeywords={int32_t} }  \begin{document}  \begin{lstlisting}[style=myc++] // In comment: 42 int32_t in_keyword = 80085; char *in_identifier|2| = "And in string 1337\n"; \end{lstlisting}  \end{document}   And the result:    The star for literate avoid to coloring the digits inside comments or strings. The escapeinside avoid coloring the digits inside a bareword when specifically marked. But I have yet to find how to color int32_t as a keyword. MySQL GUI Tools Zero dimensional points do not take up space, so then wouldn't everything in the universe be literally empty? Or is there something that I'm missing? A single word or phrase for something that necessarily causes both harm and benefit? What is a single word, or phrase, for something that necessarily causes both harm and benefit? For example, a coal-fired power plant will harm human health through air pollution, but will bring electricity and economic development to a poor area. Italics/roman in BibTeX I use a BibTeX style which automatically italicises booktitles (using \emph). I have certain entries which contain italicised words in the title. I would like these to appear non-italicised (in roman) in the final PDF output. Using any of \emph or \textit or \textrm on these items doesn't seem to make any difference -- the whole title still appears in italics.  Minimal .bib entry  @PHDTHESIS{klein1974, author = {Klein, Jared S.}, title = {The Particle \emph{u} in the {R}igveda}, school = {Yale}, year = {1974}, address = {New Haven, CT}, timestamp = {2009.12.04} }   Minimal .bbl entry generated by sp.bst:  \bibitem[{Klein(1974)}]{klein1974} Klein, Jared~S. 1974. \newblock \emph{The particle \emph{u} in the {R}igveda}. \newblock New Haven, CT: Yale dissertation. This button is in the new Firefox, but what is the name of it? jquery mobile external panel not taking on styling I think the term "back and forth" gets thrown around a lot without much thought.  From Dictionary.com:         [fawrth, fohrth]      adverb    1.  onward or outward in place or space; forward: to come forth; go forth.   Wouldn't the term be more meaningful if "forth" was used first since you have to have a starting place before you can go "back"?  Examples:        I've been going back and forth from Houston to New York.   I've been going forth and back from Houston to New York.      Which is more correct? This is not for homework. (I am a grader for a class.)  The case in which $G$ is finite is trivial. (That is, use a corollary to Lagrange's Theorem, and set $[G:H] = \dfrac{|G|}{|H|}$, and similarly for $[H:K]$.) How do you prove this for when $G$ is infinite?   The proof of this statement that I know well tries to show that $[G:K]$ is finite iff $[G:H]$ and $[H:K]$ are finite, but I am not a fan of that proof. For pedagogical purposes, I'm looking for a better proof. (The course uses right cosets by convention.)  The course has just started covering normal subgroups, so things like the Isomorphism Theorems are not known yet. How to bind RadioButtons to an enum? I've got an enum like this:  public enum MyLovelyEnum {     FirstSelection,     TheOtherSelection,     YetAnotherOne };   I got a property in my DataContext:  public MyLovelyEnum VeryLovelyEnum { get; set; }   And I got three RadioButtons in my WPF client.  &lt;RadioButton Margin="3"&gt;First Selection&lt;/RadioButton&gt; &lt;RadioButton Margin="3"&gt;The Other Selection&lt;/RadioButton&gt; &lt;RadioButton Margin="3"&gt;Yet Another one&lt;/RadioButton&gt;   Now how do I bind the RadioButtons to the property for a proper two-way binding? Getting Acquaintances to become Friends I am a PhD student in mechE. After paying the first year tuition out of pocket, I accepted a PhD project due to desperation for funding. However, after an year I realized that I hate the project. Here I made a mistake of not leaving/changing the project, I just waited out hoping I would like the project. I also asked my advisor a couple for a different project and he did not want to change my project due to sponsor obligations. For some reason I couldn’t assert myself and stayed on. However my hate for the project only grew with time and now I am in my fifth year. I have reached a stage where I absolutely hate the project and don’t know what to do. I can hardly do any work. I feel like quitting everyday and still feel it is wrong to quit this late. I have a very substandard thesis. I am lost and feel stuck, please advise on what to do. Thanks SR Flip-Flop: NOR or NAND?