It also is built by myself. It is blank. I have tried from a usb and cd, nothing seems to work.  I have downloaded ubuntu live for my computer onto a blank cd.
I want to burn Ubuntu Minimal CD ISO to an old, 1 GB USB thumbdrive. Regular ISO doesn't fit. I already tried Startup Disk Creator and Unetbootin but both failed. I tried installing GRUB and pointing it to boot like this:  insmod part_msdos linux /linux initrd /initrd.gz   but it doesn't work. I also tried dd but I ended up with not bootable drive.  Rufus worked on Windows with the same thumbdrive but I no longer use Windows.  What else can I do?
Will reformatting my hard drive fix bad sectors on it? I wonder about the Adjustments to Cost Basis after a wash sale occur. Considering this  ( from marketwatch.com) where someone: On 1 Dec, 2018 used an amount of money in his account to buy 100 shares of XYZ Co., for $2000 (to make it simple , let's say 1 Feb, 2019 to turn all the transactions into the same year) On 1 Apr, 2019 he sells the shares for $1200, and incurred a loss of 800$. On 10 Apr, 2019 he bought back 100 shares for $1300, and had a wash sale. The 800$ loss gets added to the cost basis of this transaction( and the basis becomes $2100) Now, If on 13 Apr 2019, he sold 100 shares for $1400; I'm pretty sure that the realized Gain/Loss record of this transaction would show something like this: &quot; XYZ Co. shares  100 , Proceeds $1400 , Cost basis  $2100(adjusted), Short-term Gain/Loss  -$700 &quot;. So, even though the Gain/Loss shows a negative number, he still got an actual profit of $100 from this sale, right? I'm a beginner with blender so this is probably a very basic question.  I have this basic model below. I've ended up with a lot of unwanted geometry that I want to simplify. I wanted to start by merging the two selected faces below but no matter what I try to delete or merge it just destroys the geometry.  How can I achieve what I want to do (which is combining all of the unwanted geometry, either starting with this merge or some other way?) prove that if two real valued  functions are uniformly continuous on some interval $I$  and each is bounded on $I$ then their product $f\cdot g=f(x)\cdot g(x)$ is also uniformly continuous on $I$ . Is boundedness of each function  on $I$ is  necessary for the product Why the middle mouse button in Blender 2.80 changes the orthographic view to perspective? If I choose an orthographic view by using the numpad and then try to orbit the geometry by clicking the middle mouse button Blender goes from orthographic to perspective. Why is that the default now? Wouldn't it be more logical if instead of that Blender kept the orthographic mode? In other words: Why Auto Perspective is turned on by default? Looking for a book I read in the 90's (not sure if it was published in the 90's or not).  The story as far as I can remember goes like this. Human-looking aliens evolve on a very hostile planet. They encounter some big bad threat and they cast about for help. They encounter a rich industrialist on Earth and they send a woman to recruit him. She teaches the guy to use magic and how to transform his body. They build a ship and travel to her planet but just before they arrive, she vanishes and he crash lands on this hostile planet.  He goes through many trials and tribulations in order to get to her and eventually he has enough and uses the ability she teaches him on how to transform his body. He transforms himself into a half-man, half-dragon-like creature which allows him to travel to the other side of the planet to get to the girl. On the way he manages to neurally link into a large flying creature that flies very fast, only to discover that it is intelligent and they soon become friends. When he gets to the girl she doesn't recognise him so he gets mad and starts attacking only to realise that it's all been a test set up by these people to allow him to reach higher levels of magic.   There were supposed to be sequels but I never got around to reading them.  I remember the cover art depicted a large dragon like creature with a torso of a man and a woman standing in front of it looking back at him.  Any idea what this book may be? Why an R-module is an R/I-module precisely when it is annihilated by I? Let $I$ be an ideal of $R$ and let $M$ be an $R$-module. Prove that the formula $(r + I) \cdot m = r \cdot m$ for $r + I \in R/I$, and $m \in M$ makes $M$ into an $R/I$-module if and only if $i \cdot m = 0$ for all $i \in I, m \in M$.   I don't quite understand why we must have $i \cdot m = 0$ instead of $I \cdot m \in M$. This is for proving the only if part. Copying and pasting text between applications without style When pasting text, some applications (Chrome, Microsoft Office, etc.) will do what they can to re-render copied text with style, and some of those applications do not appear to offer an option to paste without style.  This results in spending lots of time removing formatting (where it is even possible) and then cleaning up the mess left behind, just to get clean text.  I want to prevent text styling from attaching itself to text that I copy and paste between applications. Is there an OS-level way to do this, i.e. one that can apply to all applications? Failing that, is there a per-application way to tell Chrome, Safari, Word etc. not to copy and/or paste with style? Is it acceptable to publish a paper using an affiliation with a former employer? Recently I've changed jobs, and consequently the field of research has also changed. But I'm still getting proposals for publications in the previous field, and it is interesting for me to accept some of them. My concern is about which affiliation to use: on one hand I gain all the knowledge in that field while working on the previous employer, also I hope they can cover my expenses related to the publication. On the other hand, I do not work for them anymore, and my current company has very little interest in my old field of research, and probably will not support it financially, but I think it is wise to mention them as well. As a compromise I'm thinking to put the previous employer in the affiliation, and the name of my new employer in the footnote, something like "currently at XYZ". Surely I'll discuss this issue with both, although the opinion of the community is also very valuable. If I change the password for the root user is that going to automatically change the password for the user account?   I found this link for root:    How do I change the user account password? How are the number of views in a question calculated? I saw it's not just a page views number, because, if I press F5 several times, it won't increase the number of views.  They could store my IP address in a table, but wouldn't that make it slow? They would need to query a database one more time for each request. Given an infinite number of monkeys and an infinite amount of time, would one of them write Hamlet? Of course, we've all heard the colloquialism "If a bunch of monkeys pound on a typewriter, eventually one of them will write Hamlet."  I have a (not very mathematically intelligent) friend who presented it as if it were a mathematical fact, which got me thinking... Is this really true?  Of course, I've learned that dealing with infinity can be tricky, but my intuition says that time is countably infinite while the number of works the monkeys could produce is uncountably infinite.  Therefore, it isn't necessarily given that the monkeys would write Hamlet.  Could someone who's better at this kind of math than me tell me if this is correct?  Or is there more to it than I'm thinking? Adding a Method to an Existing Object Instance I've read that it is possible to add a method to an existing object (i.e., not in the class definition) in Python.   I understand that it's not always good to do so. But how might one do this? Fundamental group of $S^2$ with north and south pole identified Consider the quotient space obtained by identifying the north and south pole of $S^2$. I think the fundamental group should be infinite cyclic, but I do not know how to prove this.   If it is infinite cyclic, would this and $S^1$ be an example of two spaces which have isomorphic fundamental groups but are not of the same homotopy type? Does someone know how to set a command block with a command inside using the setblock command?  I have created this code /setblock &lt;x&gt; &lt;y&gt; &lt;z&gt; command_block {TileEntityData:{Command:"testfor @p[_=1]"}} but it doesn't works.  Do someone know how to do that? Let $S=\{\{x\}\mid x \in \mathbb{R}\}$. Is $\sigma(S)$ included in the Borel $\sigma$-algebra on $\mathbb{R}$? Is $\sigma(S)$ equivalent to the Borel $\sigma$-algbrea on $\mathbb{R}$?    I think the answer to the first question is yes. Because the Borel sets include singletons, the Borel $\sigma$-algebra must contain the smallest sigma-algebra of the set of all singletons.   Here's my attempt at the second question: my answer would be no. Countable unions (or intersections) of countable sets are countable, so that any $X \in \sigma(S)$ is either countable or a compliment of a countable set. Therefore, the interval $(0,1) \not \in \sigma (S)$ but it is included in the Borel $\sigma$-algebra. My issue here is that I don't know how to formalize this statement, if it is even correct. Will Winterbash promote mass spamming due to its short time frame? Is there any concern that , due to their time-limited nature, will encourage mass spamming of posts? Cosmopolitan, for example, can only be achieved by posting to Meta. There are over one million users on Stack Overflow who may want this hat, and have only until January 4th to get it, and their only means of doing so is to invent some reason to post to Meta. Simple way to transpose columns and rows in SQL? Short brandable domain vs. long keyword domain Using awk to sum the values of a column, based on the values of another column I am trying to sum certain numbers in a column using awk. I would like to sum just column 3 of the "smiths" to get a total of 212. I can sum the whole column using awk but not just the "smiths". I have:  awk 'BEGIN {FS = "|"} ; {sum+=$3} END {print sum}' filename.txt   Also I am using putty. Thank you for any help.  smiths|Login|2 olivert|Login|10 denniss|Payroll|100 smiths|Time|200 smiths|Logout|10