Does software update application in ubuntu 14.04 like sudo apt-get update command?
I am wondering what sudo apt-get update does?  What does it update?
This story was in one of the first SF anthologies I ever read, in the mid-1960s. A meteor lands near to a house. The householder finds it and carries it into his house (meteor is grapefruit/football sized). It’s actually a crashed spaceship, crewed by beings the size of beetles or cockroaches. They emerge, and are spotted by the householder, who of course thinks they’re insects, but notices one seems to be holding a tiny tube. He reaches towards it and the alien shoots his hand (the tube being a gun, of course), stinging him. I can’t recall how the story ends, but I’d love to know what the story was called, and who its author was, as I’m trying to assemble a list of the early SF that fired my enthusiasm for the genre. I'm travelling to country X. I want to install an application which isn't available in my country, but is available in country X; but I prefer to download and install it in advance, while the data connection is still cheap.  Unfortunately, the Play Stores does not allow me to install this app. Is there any way to circumvent this limitation? Impact of deleting 100GB table on Mirroring I'm about to delete a large table which is approximately 100GB in size.  I'd like to understand the impact on the mirroring that's in place on this db.  Can anyone confirm? I read a short story (I think, but it might have been a novel), where most races discover a very easy way to travel faster than light at a certain point in their technological development.   What I remember:   The guys in wooden ships bounced around subjugating the people without FTL travel. Earth had never figured out the FTL, and so had poured its effort in a different path, achieving present day technology. The aliens were freaking out about handing the humans FTL travel. The story was told from the point of view of the aliens. I read it in the last 10 years, but there is no telling how old it actually was, although I do remember them mentioning F-18s or F-14s. Probability of people attending same and different places $5$ tourists plan to attend Octoberfest. Each attends a location at random from the choices: Alpine, Bingeman, Concordia, Kitchener, Queens, Schwaben, Transylvania. Q What is the probability that two attend one location and three attend another same location?  I get that there are $\binom{5}{2}$ possibilities to create 2 groups. There are $\binom{7}{2}$ ways to choose 2 places so shouldn't it be $\frac{\binom{7}{2}\binom{5}{2}}{7^5}$? How can animals in the wizarding world go close to extinction? reason for exec in wrapper scripts Prove: $\gcd(a,b) = \gcd(a, b + at)$. I know that $\gcd(a,b)$ divides $a$ and $b$, and must also then divide $(a)(t)$ ($t$ being some integer).  This makes sense to me, but how do I prove it?  It seems that the addition of $(a)(t)$ is a continuation of the linear combination of $\gcd(a,b) = av + bu$ for some $v$, $u$ being elements of $\mathbb{Z}$.    Any help? Is “I medalled in volleyball” a grammatically correct sentence? According to OED, medal is a verb and a noun. I haven't seen any usage of the word as a verb, but I am assuming the above sentence is correct. Old Budrys(?) end-of-world/alien invasion of NYC story This one, from the late 1950s or early 60s (I think), features the last girl in NYC, who drives her jeep up the stairs of the main library (with the lions). She feels bad about breaking the lock, but what's a girl to do, if she wants something to read? In summertime, she drives topless and, the author writes, her bosom dances enchantingly on the steps. She lives in the boathouse on the lake in Central Park. Mysterious insect-like aliens are eating the buildings in the City.... I didn't recognize a title in Budrys or Bester's isfdb bibliogs, so I may be wrong about the author. But not about the story details: it's a memorable one. Thanks in advance for helping ID this one! Is something similar to Robin's theorem known for possible exceptions to Lagarias' inequality? Robin's theorem says that if $$\sigma(n)&lt;e^\gamma n\log\log n$$ holds for all $n&gt;5040$, where $\sigma(n)$ is the sum of divisors of $n$, then the Riemann hypothesis is true, but if there are any counterexamples, then they are colossally abundant numbers, and there are infinitely many counterexamples.  Lagarias' theorem says $$\sigma(n)\leq H_n+e^{H_n}\log(H_n)$$ holding for all natural numbers $n$ is equivalent to the Riemann hypothesis, where $H_n$ is the $n$th harmonic number, the sum of the reciprocals of the first $n$ positive integers. It looks like Lagarias' inequality is sharper than Robin's, so any counterexamples to Robin's inequality must also be counterexamples to Lagarias'. Is known to be impossible for integers that aren't colossally abundant numbers or of some similar more general type to be exceptions to Lagarias' inequality? In doing instanton problems or when connecting quantum field theory to statistical mechanics, I often see people trying the Wick rotation trick by defining an imaginary time $\tau\equiv it$. So, in this case, we should make sure that $\tau$ is imaginary, right? However, I often see places where people seem to handle $\tau$ as a real number, for example setting $\tau$ to $\pm\infty$. Moreover, I remember in one of my quantum mechanics classes, the professor said the Euclidean time $\tau$ was real. I am so confused and need some good explanations. I have a mouse with lots of buttons, but it's not a mainstream make like Logitech. For Windows, I have a driver that lets me assign actions like close-window (Ctrl+W) or next-tab (Ctrl+Tab), but I don't have a Linux driver. Since Linux is so flexible, I thought perhaps there is a general way to do this, regardless of brand?  Update: Based on input from Cyrex, I installed and ran sudo apt-get install btnx which found several but not all mouse buttons. Found: left, right, wheel, wheelclick, thumb fwd, thumb back. Not found: wheel left, wheel right, thumb middle button. Vendor ID is 0x04d9, Model ID is 0xa015.  Update 2: In System>Prefs>Mouse there's a lightbulb icon for testing double-click speed. Every working button can turn the bulb on&amp;off, but the missing buttons can't. It would seem that Ubuntu isn't aware of these buttons and thus doesn't register their clicks. I guess I need to hunt for a driver, though a mainstream mouse is probably the easier way. When should I use "shall" versus "will"? Which is the correct use of these two words, and in which context should one be used rather than the other? What is the icon next to Spotlight in menu bar, and how to remove it? What is this icon   in OS X menu bar and how do you remove it? Show that: $\lim\limits_{r\to\infty}\int\limits_{0}^{\pi/2}e^{-r\sin \theta}\text d\theta=0$ I would like to show $\lim\limits_{r\to\infty}\int_{0}^{\pi/2}e^{-r\sin \theta}\text d\theta=0$.  Now, of course, the integrand does not converge uniformly to $0$ on $\theta\in [0, \pi/2]$, since it has value $1$ at $\theta =0$ for all $r\in \mathbb{R}$.   If $F(r) = \int_{0}^{\pi/2}e^{-r\sin \theta}\text d\theta$, we can find the $j$th derivative $F^{(j)}(r) = (-1)^j\int_{0}^{\pi/2}\sin^{j}(\theta)e^{-r\sin\theta}\text d\theta$, but I don't see how this is helping.  The function is strictly decreasing on $[0,\pi/2]$, since $\partial_{\theta}(e^{-r\sin\theta})=-r\cos\theta e^{-r\sin \theta}$, which is strictly negative on $(0,\pi/2)$.  Any ideas? What are the recommended textbooks for introductory calculus? Do I require airport transit visa at Frankfurt? Motor to spin slowly, low torque How to install Flash player on Ubuntu? Even though I have the latest Adobe Flash player 11.2 for Linux in Firefox -   - a particular online flash game still requests that I update to the latest flash player.  I've tried this online game on my laptop (Windows 8 with Flash Player 11.8) and it has no problems.  Is there a way to trick Ubuntu or this game into thinking Flash Player 11.8 is "installed"?