I've downloaded a patch from some site and trying to apply it (twisted, python web framework).  Several hunks failed.   How do I automate manual patching process using vim?  Details:  I'm trying to automate the process of applying failed hunks.  Many tiny changes, each about adding/removing 1-2 chars. Difficult to see.   I Have to create two new temporary files and :diffthis them manually to see the difference. Yes, outside VCS.  I can imagine a neat way to deal with it using git, but I would prefer to avoid creating git repo for that.
I'm having trouble applying a patch to my source tree, and it's not the usual -p stripping problem. patch is able to find the file to patch.  Specifically, my question is how to read / interpret the .rej files patch creates when it fails on a few hunks. Most discussions of patch/diff I have seen don't include this.
Is "Don't do it" a valid answer? I havent used my Ubuntu for quite a long time.  Today, when I booted Ubuntu (14.04 LTS), the software updater and Software &amp; Updates (from Settings) are not working.  The software updater's window will show up for around 1 sec, but it will close automatically. Software &amp; Updates is never shown, no matter how many times I click the icon. Note that neither of them show any error message.  Those 2 features were working perfectly the last time I used Ubuntu. I want to do some system upgrade and update.  For now, I use sudo apt-get update &amp;&amp; sudo apt-get upgrade. This command runs very fast, meaning (I think) my Ubuntu is not updated properly. The update from software updater always has a big size hence the download should be slower.  What should I do?   Can I just uninstall and reinstall both of them? If I can, how to do it?  Just to clarify, I don't want to upgrade my Ubuntu version (I want the LTS one), I just want to upgrade the software/packages I used.  Thanks for your time. Is sum of two orthogonal matrices singular? I am trying to solve following problem.      Let $A, B \in \mathbb{R}^{n\times n}$ be an orthogonal matrices and $\det(A) = -\det(B)$. How can it be proven that $A+B$ is singular?   I could start with implication:  $\det(A)=-\det(B) \Rightarrow B$ is created from $A$ by swapping two lines or columns.   But I am not sure if this implication is correct. What's the function of the "|" (pipe) operator? How to get Lookup ID from Search API with REST I'm trying to get the ID of a lookup field when using search api. My query looks something like this:  /_api/Search/query?querytext='ListId:12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012'&amp;selectproperties='Title,Company'   Where Company is the lookup field, in a specific list.  The result looks like this:  &lt;d:element m:type="SP.KeyValue"&gt;   &lt;d:Key&gt;Company&lt;/d:Key&gt;   &lt;d:Value&gt;Some company&lt;/d:Value&gt;   &lt;d:ValueType&gt;Edm.String&lt;/d:ValueType&gt; &lt;/d:element&gt;   I have created a managed property which looks like this: Is FFmpeg missing from the official repositories in 14.04? New top bar quick reference guide / Where has the link to  gone? Since the new top bar has been rolled out - a number of different people, established and new users alike, have asked questions on where a specific link has disappeared to with the new top bar design. Where has the link to &lt;X&gt; gone? Find a bijection from $\mathbb R \to  \mathbb R-\mathbb N$. I want to set my function up such that all natural numbers get mapped to $n+.1$ and reals of the form $n+.1$ to $2n+.1$ is this correct? I have heard that there are some Pokémon that are region specific.  Could someone please clarify which Pokémon are region specific and in which regions that they can be found in? Calculating p-values for two tail test for population variance A sporting goods manufacturer claims that the variance of string tensions for any decent tennis racquet should be about 9 pounds. The string tensions of 18 randomly selected tennis racquets produced a variance of 8.13 pounds. Find the p-value to test the manufacturer's claim (assume the population is normally distributed).  I tried attempting the question as follows: ${H_o}: {\sigma ^2} = 9$ ${H_1}: {\sigma ^2} \ne 9$ We are also given the following: $n=18$ $s^2 = 8.13$ Test Statistics: $\chi^2 = {{(n-1)S^2}\over{\sigma^2}}$ Calculating Test Statistics under $H_o$ gives us: $\chi^2 = {{(18-1)8.13}\over 9} = 15.35667$  For calculating the p-value I proceeded as follows: $p-value = 2\min\{P[\chi^2&gt;15.35667],\ P[\chi^2&lt;15.35667]\}\ =2\times 0.430192 = 0.860384$  I am not certain if my method for calculating the p-value is correct or not. Can someone please tell if the above process is valid?  Thanks in advance! Recently, the titles to some questions have been displaying as "undefined":    "undefined" is replaced with the question's true title upon refreshing the page. Is this a bug? Create a virtual file that is actually a command Is there any way to create a virtual file, such that reading from the file actually reads from the stdout of a command; writing to the file is acually writing to the stdin of a command?  So far I have kludged this with an inotifywait on a file, which calls a command when the file is modified, taking it's input from the file and writing back to it.  I don't like that the inotifywait has to be constantly restarted though (and I have to ensure that it is always running). I only use this file perhaps twice a week. The English alphabet has a common pronunciation. For example, the letter b is pronounced like the word bee, the letter c like the word see, and the letter i like the word aye.  Is there a formal spelling for the letter names? change whole font of beamer to arial bold italic? how to change the font of the content to bold italic ?  thank you   here my cool superbe example:  \documentclass[14pt,t]{beamer} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{grffile} \begin{frame}\maketitle\end{frame} \begin{frame} \frametitle{test0} \begin{itemize} \item test \item test \begin{itemize} \item test \end{itemize} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}   A possible solution would be to use:  \usepackage{helvet} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{phv} \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{phv} %\renewcommand{\mddefault}{b}   % this content bold with b \renewcommand{\bfdefault}{phv} % Helvetica has no bx series \renewcommand{\updefault}{sl}   But it does do helvel arial bold for the whole document, and maybe there are ways to have the items/text of the slides in bold italic, and to keep normal phv for the top of the slide (frame title)? 32-bit, 64-bit CPU op-mode on Linux I'm confused. Running Fedora Linux, lscpu yields:  Architecture:            i686 CPU op-mode(s):          32-bit, 64-bit ...   But when I try to install a 64-bit program (Chrome) I get error like:     Package /....x86_64.rpm has incompatible architecture x86_64. Valid architectures are ['i686', 'i586', 'i486', i386']   I'm less interested in being able to install Chrome and more interested in why lscpu says that my CPU can run in 64-bit mode; clearly this can't mean I can run 64-bit programs. Can anyone clarify? Can I perform a DNS lookup (hostname to IP address) using client-side Javascript? Is it purely a 'gotta-have-them-all' mindset, or do they actually serve some purpose?  I notice that you are able to sell them on a community market. For a test I listed one, and someone bought it for 50p. Not exactly a huge amount, but I don't understand why someone would spend real money on them.  Am I missing something?   Are they redeemable for games or money off vouchers or something 'tangible' that I'm missing? If GCD $(a_1,\ldots, a_n)=1$ then there's a matrix in $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ with first row $(a_1,\ldots, a_n)$ Let $n \geq 2$. Let $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ be $n$ integers such that $\gcd\left(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n\right) = 1$. Prove that there exists a matrix in $\operatorname{SL}_n\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$ whose first row is $\left(a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n\right)$.   Since the gcd of the integers $a_1,\ldots, a_n$ is $1$, there exists weights $x_i \in \mathbb{Z}$ such that $a_1x_1+\cdots+ a_nx_n=1$. My two ideas are (a) to brute force construct an $n\times n$ matrix with first row $a_1,\ldots ,a_n$ and to construct the remaining rows such that the determinant is $\sum a_ix_i=1$ or (b) to use induction.  (a) (Constructive) This is tedious since once I find a way to construct the remaining $n-1$ rows to ensure that $a_1x_1$ appears in the determinant, I am not sure how to modify these $n-1$ rows to ensure  that only the terms $a_ix_i$ appear in the cofactor expansion. If such a matrix exists, I'd like to see it.  (ii) (Non-constructive) If I proceed by induction then the base case $n=2$ is settled since I can choose the 2nd row to be $-x_2, x_1$ so that the determinant is $a_1x_1-a_2(-x_2)=1$. However, I'm not sure how to use the inductive hypothesis to show that if I can construct such an $n\times n$-matrix then I can construct an $\left(n+1\right) \times \left(n+1\right)$-matrix with the desired property. In particular, if the gcd $(a_1,\ldots ,a_{n+1})$ is $1$, it is not necesarry that the gcd of any $n$ of these terms is $1$, so induction may not even apply here.  How can I construct such a matrix or prove that one exists (without necessarily constructing it)? Proving that expression is equivalent to the definition of derivative Let $f$ be differentiable at $x=a$.   Prove that if $x_n \to a^+$ and $y_n \to a^-$ then:  $$\lim_{n\to \infty} \frac{f(x_n)-f(y_n)}{x_n-y_n}=f'(a).$$  Every option that I think about seems to my very trivial, so I believe that I am doing something wrong.  Both numerator and denominator approach zero as $n\to\infty$ as the case of the formal definition of derivative, but it isn't guaranteed that the limits are equal (“$\frac{0}{0}$”).   Any direction? Contacting prospective advisors before graduate school applications - courtesy or annoyance? Last year, rather late during the MSc application cycle (after one round of funding was allocated - tardiness due to an abrupt change in my life situation), I emailed two professors from two schools that I most wanted to go to. I had perused their webpages and decided these professors had the specific research interests closest to my own.  My reason for contacting them before finishing my applications for their respective schools was that the applications included a large section for specific research questions that I wanted to investigate. So, I emailed these professors asking a bit about their work, because their webpages of course featured surface-level stuff.  One professor was very receptive and invited me to Skype with her so she could better explain herself and I could ask her questions. With her support, I was able to write an application that met her standards quite quickly.  The other professor told me - paraphrasing, of course - that he was too far into the process of choosing a new student for his research group to spend time helping me finish the application.  Let me be clear that the latter professor didn't say any harsh words and I have nothing bad to say about him. That said, the purpose of my question is to decide whether it's better for me as a prospective MSc student to email professors ahead of time like this. Was the latter's rejection likely due to my tardiness rather my emailing him? The more receptive professor made the point that she always wanted to have prospective MSc students write their own research proposals and get her approval before submitting the application. Is this common? If so, then I guess reaching out beforehand is a good thing to do, but earlier in the application cycle?  Thank you.