What's the proper way to install NVidia drivers now? BACKGROUND:  Once upon a time, when I installed Ubuntu 10.x on an older machine, and kept upgrading it until 13.04 or 13.10, there was an easy-to-find option in Settings that allowed to install NVidia's proprietary drivers and keep them up to date (or not, because sometimes they released a new version with a bunch of awful regressions).  Now, when I installed 13.10 on my new laptop, which I then upgraded to 14.04, I haven't ever been able to find that option anywhere.  An attempt to install nvidia drivers with apt-get dont-remember-what resulted in a screwed up system that wouldn't properly start Unity (or even xorg, not sure), roughly equivalent to an unbootable system. But I managed to revert that.  I seem to understand that there are some sort of opensource drivers called "nouveau" that come by default in Ubuntu which kind of provide an alternative to NVidia's proprietary drivers. Is that so?   THE PRACTICAL QUESTIONS:   Is it ok to not install NVidia's drivers, or am I underutilizing the potential of the GPU (i.e. not using all the available hardware acceleration)? Or in other words: is there a test I can run to check whether hardware acceleration of my GPU is being properly used with my current setup (nouveau or whatever it is)? What's the proper recommended way to install NVidia proprietary drivers now on Ubuntu 14.04, without bricking the system?
How do I install the Nvidia drivers? I just ordered the Nvidia GTX card. I have a dilemma, though. Should I keep using the driver which is available in "additional drivers" in Ubuntu, or should I install the driver from the Nvidia site?  So which driver is the best for me?
What's the default value for an 'object' in java? Biber 2.14 - Puzzling repeated error : "Invalid format '2020-01-01' of date field 'date' - ignoring" $(i)$ $a&gt;0,b&gt;0,p&gt;0,q&gt;0$   $(ii)$ $\frac{1}{p}+\frac{1}{q}=1$     How can we prove it?   ${a}{b}≤\frac{a^p}{p}+\frac{b^q}{q}$ SQL Services Wont Start After Removing TLS References for multivariable calculus Due to my ignorance, I find that most of the references for mathematical analysis (real analysis or advanced calculus) I have read do not talk much about the "multivariate calculus". After dealing with the single variable calculus theoretically, it usually directly goes to the topic of measure theory.    After reading the wiki article "", I'd like to find the rigorous proof for this test. The first book comes to my mind is Courant's Introduction to Calculus and Analysis which includes the multivariate case in the second volume.   Motivated by this, I'd like to put the question here:     What are the usual references for the   theoretical treatment for   ? I'm setting up a Cronjob that will backup a MySQL database I have in my server, but I don't want it to keep overwriting the same file over and over again. Instead, I want to have an array of backups to choose from, done automatically. For example:  ## Cronjob, run May 21st, 2011: mysqldump -u username -ppasword database &gt; /path/to/file/21-03-2011.sql  ## SAME Conjob, run May 28th, 2011: mysqldump -u username -ppasword database &gt; /path/to/file/28-03-2011.sql   And so on.  Is there any way that I can use the system date and/or time as some kind of variable in my Cronjob? If not, what are your suggestions to accomplish the same? Does Moore's law apply to quantum computing? Plain and simple. Does  apply to quantum computing, or is it similar but with the numbers adjusted (ex. triples every 2 years). Also, if Moore's law doesn't apply, why do qubits change it? Is a GUID unique 100% of the time? FireFox 66 Quantum disabled all my extensions at midnight! This morning I woke up to:    and the FireFox help page doesn't really help...  Help!  What should I do now??? I need NoScript and AdBlock Plus to improve my surfing speed!!! 0:-) Particle energy in general relativity? Assume that a particle is moving with four-velocity $u^\mu$ through a spacetime with metric $g_{\mu\nu}$ ($-+++$ signature).  Let us also assume that there exists a time-like vector field $t^\mu=(1,0,0,0)$.  Is it generally true that the energy $E$ of a particle is given by the following expression:  \begin{eqnarray*} E &amp;=&amp; -mt_\mu u^\mu\\ &amp;=&amp; -mg_{\mu\nu} t^\nu u^\mu\\ &amp;=&amp; -mg_{00}u^0\\ &amp;=&amp; -mg_{00}\frac{dt}{d\tau}? \end{eqnarray*}  In the special case that $t^\mu$ is a Killing vector and $u^\mu$ is tangent to a geodesic then $E$ is a constant of motion of the particle. But the energy of a particle need not remain constant in the general case - is that true?  If $E=-mt_\mu u^\mu$ is indeed the particle mass/energy then does it act as a source of spacetime curvature given that it depends on the $00$-component of the spacetime metric ifself? I suppose that is not a problem. Allow all reviewers to see deleted posts they reviewed So moderators just got . Often, these bans are due to specific very bad reviews, like approving spam or non-answers. It will be common for us to give links to these bad reviews in the ban message that the reviewers will be presented with.  However, many of these reviewers lack the necessary reputation to see deleted posts. If we're banning someone from review for approving spam or non-answers, almost all of the time those posts will be deleted. If we give them links to the reviews they performed, they won't see the now-deleted posts that they approved, and won't have a chance to learn what they did wrong.  As examples of this, I had to actually take a screenshot to show the reviewers  and  the posts that triggered their ban, because they could no longer see them.  I propose that reviewers of any reputation level be able to see posts that they reviewed, even ones that were later deleted, if they are presented with a link to their review. They already saw the post once, so there's no harm in showing it to them again, and reviewers are going to need to see why they made a bad call on a particular review. I don't know about anyone else, but I have a reasonable list of favourites now, and it can be rather difficult to find the relevant ones at any given time. Sometimes, I have a specific one in mind, others I just want to see all favourites relating to a specific topic. It would be nice if there were a way to organise my favourites by tag, or OP, or possibly just search them.  How can we improve the favourites feature?  Please post your ideas on how we might improve the favourites feature of the Stack&nbsp;Exchange sites. Try to keep each answer to one idea so that the votes reflect the popularity of a single idea. When users create a node, they should be redirected to a payment page; if payment is successful, the user can see the node.  Is there any way to achieve this? I'm currently reading Evans' PDE book. In it he claims that for $f \in C^2_c(\mathbb{R}^n)$ $$\frac{f(x + he_i) - f(x)}{h} \to \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}f(x)$$ and $$\frac{\frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}f(x + he_j) - \frac{\partial}{\partial x_i}f(x)}{h} \to \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x_jx_i}f(x)$$ uniformly as $h \to 0$.  My question is why must the convergence be uniform?  Thanks in advance. Remove line containing certain string and the following line AUC and class imbalance in training/test dataset I just start to learn the Area under the ROC curve (AUC). I am told that AUC is not reflected by data imbalance. I think it means that AUC is insensitive to imbalance in test data, rather than imbalance in training data.  In other words, only changing the distribution of positive and negative classes in the test data, the AUC value may not change much. But if we change the distribution in the training data, the AUC value may largely change. The reason is that the classifier cannot be learned well. In this case, we have to use undersampling and oversampling. Am I right? I just want to make sure my understanding on AUC is correct. Online calculators such as  (view page source) use the below formulas to get meters per degree. I understand in general how distance per degree varies depending on latitude location, but I do not understand how that translates to the below. More specifically, where do the constants, the 3 "cos" terms in each formula, and coefficients (2, 4, 6; 3, and 5) for "lat" come from?      // Set up "Constants"     m1 = 111132.92;     // latitude calculation term 1     m2 = -559.82;       // latitude calculation term 2     m3 = 1.175;         // latitude calculation term 3     m4 = -0.0023;       // latitude calculation term 4     p1 = 111412.84;     // longitude calculation term 1     p2 = -93.5;         // longitude calculation term 2     p3 = 0.118;         // longitude calculation term 3      // Calculate the length of a degree of latitude and longitude in meters     latlen = m1 + (m2 * Math.cos(2 * lat)) + (m3 * Math.cos(4 * lat)) +             (m4 * Math.cos(6 * lat));     longlen = (p1 * Math.cos(lat)) + (p2 * Math.cos(3 * lat)) +                 (p3 * Math.cos(5 * lat)); Is it safe to check floating point values for equality to 0? I know you can't rely on equality between double or decimal type values normally, but I'm wondering if 0 is a special case.  While I can understand imprecisions between 0.00000000000001 and 0.00000000000002, 0 itself seems pretty hard to mess up since it's just nothing.  If you're imprecise on nothing, it's not nothing anymore.  But I don't know much about this topic so it's not for me to say.  double x = 0.0; return (x == 0.0) ? true : false;   Will that always return true? Is it possible to mark or segregate bad blocks on HDD? Hello I want to know if is it possible to mark bad blocks on HDD for OS to not use them. I don't want to save data written on this blocks, just want to get rid of them.  I found some article where author describe how to partition disk to avoid using bad blocks of HDD.  I count how many MB from the start are OK. And also how many MB from end are OK. It looks like I will lost about 50GB of storage space but it is quite fine for me when the disk will run one year more.  First I split disk to 2 partitions:   From beginning to around 190 GB From 190GB to the end   Then I made surface scan of 2nd partition and everything was OK. I was really happy cause i though that finally I will succeed.  Than I wanted to copy all data from 1st partition to 2nd BUT in some data a problem occurs. I/O error. I'd say it is Read problem but when I open file on which copying failed it runs OK, for example some pdf files didn't copied but I opened them.  What can be problem can it be a Write problem? But why there is a problem when surface scan on whole 2nd partition was fine?  What can I do(except buying new HDD)? Can I somehow do this partitioning and use just partition with good sectors? Will it work? How are data stored on the disk? Can I determine where the data will be written? What's a better way to define individual link colours for a url in a macro? I've got a document where I'd like two colours of links - cyan for links in headers that since it's brighter, and navy blue for links in the main body which is more subtle/less distracting. I already tried using the xcolor package and changing the text colour with textcolor, like \textcolor{cyan}{\href{url.com}{link name}}, but it doesn't override whatever link or url colour I have defined in hypersetup.   So this is what I've done:   I've defined the colour navy:   \definecolor{navy}{HTML}{2F729C}    And also imported the hyperref package and defined commands to set the global link/url colours to cyan / navy.   \usepackage{hyperref}                         \hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=navy,urlcolor=navy}                        \newcommand{\navylinks}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=navy,urlcolor=navy}}               \newcommand{\bluelinks}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=cyan,urlcolor=cyan}}     Then I've defined another command specifically for the header links, where I turn on cyan links globally, include the header text and link, and then turn on navy links again:   \newcommand{\headerlink}[1]{\bluelinks\href{#2}{#1}\navylinks}   My issue with this is that I feel like there could be a better way to do it than to set the global link colour every time I use a link macro; is there a way to define the link colour just for one link, like one would do with \textcolor{...}, that would be able to override hypersetup?