I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on an Intel Quad Q9450@ 2.66GHzx4, 64 bit. I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04.3. Afte downloading the iso file and clickimg it, a series of folders is saved, and there is no executable file or the like. I have also tried burning a dvd within ubuntu of the new os files by right clicking on the iso and burning ot to dvd, however, the dvd contains the same series of files and no executable, and no expanation text. I am new to ubuntu and the cumputer was given to me. How do inStall/upgrade? Thanks
This is the third time I've tried to install Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 64-bit on the same laptop, and each time it caused different problems.  Each time I wrote the same iso image to a USB flash drive by using a different application and OS.   Universal USB Installer (pendrivelinux.com) from Windows WinImage writer from Windows built-in image writer from Linux Mint 17.2    The iso image is the same in all three cases, the USB flash drive is the same, and the laptop is the same. However each time the installation of Ubuntu gave me different installation options. For example, the last time I installed Ubuntu, it didn't show all the packages to choose while installing (Basic Ubuntu server, etc.).
This question is a bit more subjective, but I'm hoping to get some new perspective.  I'm so used to designing for certain screen size (typically 1024x768) that I find that size to not be a problem.  Expanding the size to 1280x1024 doesn't buy you enough screen real estate to make an appreciable difference, but will give me a little more breathing room.  Basically, I just expand my "grid size" and the same basic design for the slightly smaller screen still works.  However, in the last couple of projects, my clients were all using 1080p (1920x1080) screens and they wanted solutions to use as much of that real estate as possible.  1920 pixels across provides just under twice the width I am used to, and the widescreen makes some of my old go to design approaches not to work as well.  The problem I'm running into is that when presented with so much space, I'm confronted with some major problems.   How many columns should I use?  The wide-format lends itself to a 3 column split with a 2:1:1 split (i.e. the content column bigger than the other two).  However, if I go with three columns what do I do with that extra column? How do I make efficient use of the screen real estate?  There's a temptation to put everything on the screen at once, but too much information actually makes the application harder to use.  White space is important to help make sense of complex information, but too much makes related concepts look too separate. I'm usually working with web applications that have complex data, and visualization and presentation is key to making sense of the raw data.  When your user also has a large screen (at least 24"), some information is out of eyesight and you need to move the pointer a long distance. How do you make sure everything that's needed stays within the visual hot points? Simple sites like blogs actually do better when the width is constrained, which results in a lot of wasted real estate.  I kind of wonder if having the text box and the text preview side by side would be a big benefit for the admin side of that type of screen? (1:1 two-column split).   For your answers, I know almost everything in the design is "it depends".  What I'm looking for is:   General principles you use How your approach to design has changed   I'm finding that I have to retrain myself how to work with this different format.  Every bump in the resolution I've worked through to date has been about 25%: 640 to 800 (25% increase), 800 to 1024 (28% increase), and 1024 to 1280 (25% increase).  However, the jump from 1280 to 1920 is a good 50% increase in space--the equivalent from jumping from 640 straight to 1024.  There was no commonly used middle size to help learn lessons more gradually.    To help focus the question a little bit, I had a project that was somewhat similar to Atlassian JIRA, an issue management system.  There were about six different types of records the client wanted to keep, all of them could potentially be related to each other.  Gathering data wasn't the core problem, although it did play a part.  The more important side of the problem was creating a system which would suggest potential relationships between the records and helped the analysts recognize patterns in the reported incidents.  There were different types of analysts that focused on the different problem domains, and due to the nature of their exploratory type of work, they didn't know what they wanted.  They just knew they had to make sense of a lot of data, draw correlations, and characterize classes of issues.    (Originally asked here: , but told that this might be more appropriate)    For the bounty: Stretch your minds a bit.  The pat answer "Make everything bigger" has a limit to how useful the answer is.  We are talking about users who have to make sense of a lot of data and find relationships between records.  If I simply bump up the size on everything they are going to be very limited in what they can see on the screen--particularly because the vertical is so constrained. “between” vs. “among” What's the best way to scan in hundreds of pictures? I have thousands of old pictures which were sitting in a photo album. Unfortunately, instead of the photo album protecting the pictures, the plastic coverings yellowed, and the pictures themselves had to be carefully extracted from the books. There is also quite a bit of powdered paper (the backings on the books pretty much fell apart while we extracted the pictures), and the fronts of the images are still a bit sticky.  These pictures are 30+ years old, are often extremely faded, and were originally taken on (what I think is) "110 film" -- they are approximately 2.5" squares.  Anyway, I need to scan all these images in to preserve them from further decay. Unfortunately, it's taking forever -- going through less than 100 images took an entire day, even if one discounts any time spent in Photoshop trying to remove some of the photo album's artifacts on the images.  What I really need is some method of scanning the images in faster. Most automated solutions aren't going to work because they accept 4x6s as their smallest image size, and even if that was not the case, the adhesives still stuck to the prints would probably ruin any such device in 5 seconds flat.  Is there a better way of doing this (i.e. fast scanner?) that wouldn't take so much time? C# LINQ find duplicates in List Using echo "20+5" literally produces the text "20+5".  What command can I use to get the numeric sum, 25 in this case?  Also, what's the easiest way to do it just using bash for floating point? For example, echo $((3224/3807.0)) prints 0 :(.  I am looking for answers using either the basic command shell ('command line') itself or through using languages that are available from the command line. I am looking for one word to describe someone who always does what he loves.   Loving means enjoying something very much, free-spirited means not restrained by convention. Is there a hybrid word?   I mean a word that describes someone who is independent and always does what he loves. Please also try to not make the word too esoteric. Also, the word needs to be positive.  How will it be used?  I am submitting an application for college, and they require me to supply a word to describe myself. I have always done what I love. So, I require a word to describe someone who loves what they want. There is no sentence, in particular, just a prompt asking me to describe myself in one word. Splitting a large document into several files My homework has this problem:     Prove that there exist irrational numbers $x$ and $y$ such that $x +  y$ is rational.   There is an easy solution that I found on mathbitsnotebook.com:     \begin{align} \left(2+6\sqrt{7}\right) + \left(-6\sqrt{7}\right) = 2.\end{align}   Can we prove the same without using subtraction? How do I just restart the nautilus after adding a nautilus script without having to log out. How to to resize an ext4 partition from the command line? What's the easiest way to resize an ext4 partition (or any type partition depending on the method) from the command line (potentially with the fewest commands, but also the easiest to understand)?  Using a tool like Gparted is obviously easy in a GUI, but what about in the command line? I guess text-based GUIs can count for the answer too since it's technically still in the command line. It just needs to be easy.  By partition I mean a simple partition on a single disk of a personal computer (e.g. on a laptop). For example, I want to resize /dev/sda4. There's no RAIDs, there's not more than one disk drive, there's not anything complicated here. Just a simple partition on a single disk (/dev/sdaX on /dev/sda). How to say that the phone is held between shoulder and ear? What are common phrases an English native speaker would use for the pose of speaking on the phone where you use your shoulder to keep the receiver against your ear (and mouth), so your hands are free?  I have some ideas, but they all sound wooden, and I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe this pose in words. It's also pretty much impossible to google for a pose or look it up on leo.org or other dictionaries.  OK, since people keep asking for what phrasings I found, I'll provide two, though I was hoping I could avoid influencing people who answer here by not providing them: "balance on one's shoulder", "held/nestled/sandwiched between shoulder and ear". OED says:     doobie: a marijuana cigarette    Origin unknown. A relationship with dobby has been suggested.    dobby/dobbie: A silly old man, a dotard, a booby. Dialectal.      First citations:    1967   J. B. Williams Narcotics &amp; Hallucinogenics. Dubbe, Negro slang for a marijuana roach.    1982   A. Maupin Further Tales of City 95,  I smoke a doobie at lunch.   But I just chanced upon  in Yahoo Answers (don't laugh! :) where someone posted:     "It's obvious that Shaggy's a , I'm sure he's been feeding Scoob a bit of his hash and whatnot."    Scoob = , cartoon "pet" dog of constantly-hungry hippie/village idiot Shaggy (from 1969)   I'm not entirely convinced that 1967 dubbe was necessarily a significant factor in the appearance of  since around 1970 (the hippie era, some might say).  So I'd like to know whether it's credible to claim the usage arose (primarily?) through association with the TV show (specifically, the two characters therein closely associated with marijuana). I tried many ways to make a bigger screen in VirtualBox because I do not like the small size of the guest window? Is there is a way to make it big? How do you remove the axis multiplier? A chart with data in the range of 200,000 and small difference between max and min values, will be assigned a 10^5 multiplier to the entire axis. This results in the ticks becoming meaningless, since all become 2.   Example:-  \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}   \addplot coordinates {   (100,200001)   (200,200003)   (300,200005)   };     \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}   When this is plotted the y-axis has 5 ticks, all of which are 2. The y-axis has a multiplier of 10^5. This has effectively removed all information from the graph.  I may use the below to set the explicit value of the tick values but this does not implement change in the display "style" of the axis ticks.  ytick = {200000, 200005, 200010}   I have also tried increasing the precision of the tick label to 5. However this only results in the graph showing labels such as 2.00000, 2.00005, 2.00010 with a 10^5 axis multiplier.  yticklabel style={precision = 5,}   My question is "How do I remove/change this 10^5 multiplier, such that the y-axis ticks are displayed in the form 200000, 200005, 200010. Why does the /boot partition get updated when I install software Based on some recommendations I read online, on install of a new (Ubuntu) system, I made my /boot partition separate from / and small in size (only around 50 MB). It makes sense to me that you would only need limited files in that partition, and the boot sequence only needs so much data initial data on boot so no need (or so goes my thinking) to make it much larger.   I was surprised as I started using my system and installing software was failing due to the following (or similar) issue:  gzip: stdout: No space left on device cpio: write error: Broken pipe E: mkinitramfs failure cpio 1 gzip 1 update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-18-generic with 1.   I have already seen  and am planning on doing a reinstall with a larger /boot partition. My questions are:  Why does the /boot partition data get updated when I am only installing software?  obviously 50 MB is too small for my needs, so what would be a reasonable /boot partition size?  Does it even make sense to have separate boot partition? after all it could simply use all the disk space it wants in the / partition. why are the best questions the ones which have been closed? I frequently come across a really useful answer on StackOverflow which has been closed because it doesn't match the Q&amp;A format.  Examples include  ,  ,   ,  and there are others.  Where should this information be exchanged if it's not on stackoverflow?  It seems the moderators are often somewhat overzealous...  ---edit  When I say best, I mean they are informative and useful for someone who's looking for an answer to them.  Even if they do become a bit of a discussion, I value other people's opinions on the relative merits of the different JPA frameworks.  I come here looking to choose one and the answer helps me.  So what if it's not a definitive answer?  ---edit  I don't care how popular a question is, nor how interesting it is.  Users are interested in stuff that's useful to them.  Plenty of those were useful (as judged by the upvotes on the answers: 'This answer is useful'), but closed because they didn't have a definitive answer, as far as I can tell.  ---edit  Seems I'm not the first person to think this: there are various similar questions to mine like this one:   In it the user lists lots of other useful questions which have been closed:                    So isn't there a place on stackoverflow for these questions?  A discussion section, maybe? How can I remap keyboard keys in windows 8.1? I'm looking for a simple utility which will modify registry and would not require running at startup. I tried sharpkeys but, it does not seem to work in windows 8.1. Any other suggestions? Or a simple how-to tutorial for windows 8.1?  Edit: Keytweak isn't working either. Actually I want to map an unused key to function key (fn) and neither sharpkeys nor keytweak detect the keystroke for that key.   Thanks Earlier today, I was suspended from chat due to an inappropriate message (I totally deserved it, but that's not the point). I looked at my phone, and this is all that it told me:    ...which confused me because chat was still moving as normal. I didn't realize that I had been suspended until I checked on my computer to see what the heck was going on.  To me, "This room is read-only" sounds like some sort of database lockup or something related specifically to the room, not the user. It doesn't give any feedback to indicate that the room will be "read-only" for 30 minutes, and doesn't mention that all other rooms are also "read-only". Even a message saying just "You have been suspended from chat" would be more helpful. Vortex in liquid collects particles in center At xmas, I had a cup of tea with some debris at the bottom from the leaves.  With less than an inch of tea left, I'd shake the cup to get a little vortex going, then stop shaking and watch it spin.  At first, the particles were dispersed fairly evenly throughout the liquid, but as time went on (and the vortex slowed, although I don't know if it's relevant) the particles would collect in the middle, until, by the time the liquid appeared to almost no longer be turning, all the little bits were collected in this nice neat pile in the center.  What's the physical explanation of the accumulation of particles in the middle?  My guess is that it's something to do with a larger radius costing the particles more work through friction... Determine Whether Two Date Ranges Overlap