I am using 12.04 on my server.  I created a new user using adduser me and passwd me and added it to sudo.  When I log in this is what I see.  Could not chdir to home directory /home/me: No such file or directory     $   I type bash and it begins to look "normal"  $ bash me@server:/$   How can I avoid typing bash every time I login?
How do I do this? I created a user without a home directory and now I want to create one. Not just a folder called new_user, I want the default home directory with all it's folders and hidden files, etc.
Is "You are correct" correct? It seems to me that "You are correct" means that the person in question is supposedly "correct" in their quiddity. "That is correct" or "You are right" seems a lot better.  I also would like to know if someone is using correct(ly) correctly, as to correct someone who is potentially using correctly incorrectly. How to create my own list of things pdflatex, \includegraphics, and multi-page PDF files I have a PDF file with multiple figures; each figure is a separate page in the PDF file.  I am using pdflatex, and I would like to use \includegraphics or equivalent to include some of the figures.  Of course I could use an external tool to split the PDF file into multiple one-page PDF files. Then I could use \includegraphics as usual. However, I would have a much simpler workflow if I could avoid this extra step. Hence the question:  How can I include, e.g., page 3 of foo.pdf as a figure?  I am aware that there is a Latex package called pdfpages, but it seems to be designed for something else: with pdfpages, each page in the input file will produce a full page in the final document, not just a box. Any software for windows Writing custom (intelligent) microsoft windows firewall extension (C#/C++/C) Writing custom (intelligent) firewall for windows Installing nginx etc. on the same computer and use it as proxy with rules.   "You could not solve all Ddos problems with software" is not answer for this question.I want to reduce Ddos vulnarebility of my server.(It will stop low-level Ddos attacks)  Hosted solutions or cloud services are not related with this question.  Closing some of the ports and protocols via Microsot Windows Firewall is not related with this question.  Any idea?  EDIT After Questions  Low level: sample scenerio: 500 zombie clients and each of them sending 100 Custom Get/Post requests per second)   Web Application is on IIS. I want to stop attacks before they reach to IIS.  EDIT After Helpful Comment  How can the DDOS attack achieve its aim?   Exhausting bandwidth ( Not related with my question) Exhausting network hardware of server (NIC) ( Not related with my question) Exhausting server resources (RAM,CPU)  (Yep, I mean this)   If you stop attacks late, then you lost more resources! (Is this false?)   You can stop attacks on Web Application Level (in Asp.net MVc Code or in Handler) You can stop attacks on IIS (Dynamic Ip Restrictions)  You can stop attacks on lower levels (Firewall ..)   EXTRA INFO ABOUT THE LAST ATTACK (7 Hours ago)  When I connected server during the attack IIS Cpu Utilization was %92-%99. And when I try to connect homepage I got this error:  A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the pre-login handshake. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The wait operation timed out.) I want to buy a home, but I'm not interested in using a realtor as a buyer's agent.  I know that in MLS systems, when a realtor lists a house they specify what commission a buyer's agent will be paid.  Since I am the one who is bringing a qualified buyer to the listing agent, I feel that I would should get the commission (even if it is in the form of a discount on the house).    Essentially, the seller would get the same amount of money at closing... the listing agent would get the same commission as they normally would for showing the house to someone with a buyer's agent... but I would pay less for the house.  Is there a tactful way to negotiate this with the listing realtor?  For example, should I make a side contract with the realtor to pay me the commission at closing?  Or perhaps I can specify in my offer that they should reduce their fees to the seller by the commission amount if the offer is accepted, in order to make my offer more attractive?  Are these types of deals ever done, and if so, is there a conventional way to make it happen?  Thanks ID for Contact portion of Person Account Is it possible to get the ID of a Contact which is part of a Person Account?  I have a custom object which has a custom field referencing the Person Account, though it seems to be referencing the Contact directly. I have created a button which I am using to pass the ID into a Visualforce Page.  With the Insert Field drop-down on the create/edit button page I can put in {!Account.Id} or {!Contact.Id} but neither of these work. The Account ID is placed in the URL but is not the correct ID and the Contact ID is blank, which I assume is because the button is on a Person Account page and not a Contact Page. Let $A$ be an $n \times n$ matrix with real enteries. Define $\langle x,y\rangle_A = \langle Ax,Ay\rangle, \quad x,y \in \mathbb R^n$ , where $\langle,\rangle$ is a standard inner product on $\mathbb R^n$. Then  $\langle x,y\rangle_A$ is an inner product iff  1)  $\ker A = \{0\}$.  2) $\operatorname{rank} A= n$.  3) all eigenvalues of $A$ are positive.  4) all eigen value of $A$ are non negative.  Clearly if $\ker A \neq \{0\}$, then there exist $x \neq 0$ such that $Ax =0$, then $\langle Ax, Ax\rangle_A = 0$, then $\langle ,\rangle_A$ is not inner product, so $\ker A = \{0\}$, thus rank of $A$ is $n$.  I am unable to check the 3) and 4) option. Please help to check the other option. Thank you How do I fix a "Failed to download package files" error? What is the minimum distribution for LaTeX I am a seafarer (marine engineer) and I have to often visit different countries. This time I received my sign-off from Iran and they stamped my passport. Would this cause a problem for getting a US C1D1 visa since my next company wants me to have this visa? I am an indian national. Search for singleton tags on questions Is there any way to search for questions that have a specific tag and only that lonely tag?  In other words, I'd like to be able to do something like the following to find questions that have a single tag and no other:  [mytag] tagcount:1   This would be very useful for tag cleanup situations to be able to do house-cleaning before nuking a tag. Steady-State Current I am in the process of completing some homework and have come across a question that says: "What is the steady-state current?" It is asking in reference to a circuit that includes two capacitors in parrallel and a DC source of 24V and an AC source given by $\epsilon = 20 \cos(120 \pi t)\ \text{V}$, where $t$ is in seconds. I assume that it is asking when the current is constant. Because naturally the current is not constant due to the AC source, would I just consider the DC source for this? "Give him a box that everyone knows what it contains."  Is this correct English? It sounds wrong to me. Bootable USB of Ubuntu Minimal 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? Shoot, Shoot At I have a question about the difference between the verb "shoot" and "shoot at":          Police shot the suspect.     Police shot at the suspect.        Are they just the same? I read a novel when I was 12 or 13 (late 80's, early 90's) about two timelines combining on Earth.  It was a full length novel for adults that I swiped from my mom (she doesn't remember it at all.)  I've been trying to figure out what the title is for some time but my google-fu is unable to find the right search terms.    The book was published in the 80's or perhaps early 90's.  The story: It was set on Earth and featured two timelines running concurrently (in the 80's?)  Timeline 1:  The nuclear missile crisis had gone badly and a low level nuclear war had more or less destroyed the US, but small towns still survived but are slowly fading away.  Much of the story was about the scarcity of goods, and the protagonist in the main thread of the book started the story by finding a 6 pack of Coke buried in a ruined house.  Throughout the story people were finding things that had grown scarce (deer, bullets, human beings.)  One strange scene I recall involved mutant/radioactive sweet potatoes that had driven a man insane.  Eventually people in this timeline began having dreams of their lives in Timeline 2.  Some of the people were not having dreams, and it was eventually discovered that they had died in Timeline 2.    Timeline 2:  There is panic in a world recognizable as our 1980's as nuclear war draws near.  Since more and stronger missiles have been developed, the end of humanity is at hand.  Things start disappearing from that world as the war begins.  Timeline 2 was mostly seen as vignettes of panicked people running around.  Combination of Timelines: In a weird, incongruous, almost surely poorly written scene, Gaia (yes, Earth itself) is seen to be combining a dying timeline with a doomed timeline in order to save humanity.  At the end of the novel, kids from Timeline 2 are transported into Timeline 1 in order to repopulate.  The new kids drink all the Coke, in case you were wondering...  Any help finding the title would be welcome.  I recall enjoying the book a lot when I was a kid, but I suspect my mom traded it in at our local used book store because at some point it just disappeared. When editing a profile’s “About me” section, or a tag wiki, and hitting CtrlG, or clicking the “Image” button from the formatting bar to insert an image, the Imgur upload modal dialog will appear. The same modal will also appear when uploading a profile picture. This is different from questions and answers where an uploader overlay bar (technically referred to as inline-dialog) appears. This modal dialog has an × button for closing, but it does nothing when clicked. I also can’t try tabbing to it and hit Enter, because it’s a regular &lt;div&gt; with no tabindex attribute, so it’s not tabbable and not an interactive element. (After manually inserting a tabindex and pressing Enter, it also did nothing, of course.)  There are no errors produced in the console of any browser. It doesn’t even seem to have any event listener bound to it. Pressing the Esc key or clicking outside of the modal dialog will dismiss the dialog, but the × button is currently useless. An obvious possible  would be to unify all Imgur upload dialogs to the way they appear on questions and answers, as an inline-dialog. But for the profile picture uploader, this dialog doesn’t have an obvious alternative, so in this instance, it’s necessary to redesign the close button so that it acts as a normal button (interactive element, tabbable) and closes the modal popup.  Related   and  — showing this modal in action; closing it used to work.  — for an older dialog design. Limit of $2^{1/n}$ as $n\to\infty$ is 1 How do I prove that:   $\lim \limits_{n\to \infty}2^{1/n}=1$  Thank you very much. Mathematica Sec and Csc "have" vs."have got" in American and British English I have looked through several questions and answers on EL&amp;U, and often there is an indication that American English prefers "have" while British English prefers "have got". In addition, there are several references to "have got" being more informal than "have" (e.g.: , ). But where is it considered more informal? In American English alone or both American and British English?   This point may seem obvious to those who made the above mentioned references, but the fact is that even the most fluent users of English in my country will say without a doubt that 'have got' is the preferred usage in the UK and, therefore, it must also be more formal. Why? Because in an academic environment, the more informal structures are generally frowned upon, outside some specific spoken exercises. And if the teachers insist on using "have got", it follows it isn't informal.  So, is the teaching of (British) English in our schools transmitting the wrong idea?  EDIT: I'm adding some information in answer to the comments.  I'm mainly concerned with the idea of possession:      I have got a cat vs. I have a cat and She has got a dog vs. She has a dog   As mentioned in the comments, every (Portuguese) student will be told that "have" and "have got", when it comes to the idea of possession, are absolute synonyms, the only two differences being:    "have got" is preferred by British English, "have" is preferred by American English   the negative and interrogative structures differ    I have never heard of any distinction in formality. In fact, I was rather surprised when I went through the EL&amp;U archives and read about it.  So, would "I have got a cat" be as formal/informal as "I have a cat"?   And how do British and American English look at its formality/informality? Is it the same?