I'm new to Ubuntu, running 14.04 and I realize how could I get some more speed with 2GB of RAM.   If someone could bring some fine tuning advices just to speed things up a quite bit would be great.
This question exists as it fills a specific criterion.  While you are encouraged to help maintain its answers, please understand that "big list" questions are not generally allowed on Ask Ubuntu and will likely be closed per the . More information on the .   What kind of desktop environments or shells are there for Ubuntu users to install?  Please list a desktop environment or shell for each:   a description on why you like or suggest it (features, performance, etc.). a good screenshot, preferably of it running on Ubuntu and showing off some of its features. the minimal requirement for it to be usable, If there's any setting to lower it's requirement (Like kde's low-fat profile); how to enable the said setting some instructions on how to set it up if in the repositories, please provide a software centre link
How can we prove that for every pair $N \in \mathbb{N}$, and natural number $\beta\in [2, \infty)$ there exists a unique set of integers $x_i \in [0, \beta -1]$, $k\in [0,\infty)$ such that:  $$N = \sum_{i=0}^{k}\beta^ix_{i}, \quad $$  It's a question if every positive integer has its unique representation in every base $\beta$. Is the validity of above statement somehow related to Horner's rule? Sarrus Rule with LaTeX Is the sorting algorithm used by .NET's Array.Sort() method a  algorithm? What is JSON and what is it used for? nginx open reverse proxy? I would like to convert a large LaTeX project (i.e. spanning multiple files) into plain text. The purpose is generation of statistics, so representing mathematics is not an issue. In fact, all mathematics is ideally ignored.  I have found  but could not get it to run. It seems unfinished, but is exactly what I am looking for otherwise. How can I display just a portion of an image in HTML/CSS? Is it correct to use the word "birthday" for the deceased, or is there a better alternative? How does one refer to the birthdate of someone who is no more, we usually say  Today is my uncle's 80th birth anniversary (Common in Indian English, not sure if it's correct)  or  Today would have been my uncle's 80th birthday   Is it right to say  "Today is my uncle's 80th birthday" for an uncle who is dead? I'm trying to debug a Python script by placing a print("foo=" + foo) statement in my code.  But where does the output appear?     It doesn't appear on the Python Console, and it doesn't appear on the area that appears when you drag the lower edge of the infobar downwards (what is the name for this area? My script errors show up in red here.) Are \( and \) preferable to dollar signs for math mode? I have a rather long footnote which breaks a listing in two parts, unnecessarily.  Since the listing is more important then the footnote I'd rather lake to have the footnote split.   Can I customize (one or all) footnotes to have a maximal length before they are continued on the next page? Or can I manually split a footnote in two to get the effect? Vortex in liquid collects particles in center so I stumbled upon this equation/formula, and I have no idea how to prove it. I don't know how should I approach it: $$ \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{2 + \cdots + \sqrt{2 + \sqrt{\vphantom{\large A}2\,}\,}\,}\,}\ =\ 2\cos\left(\vphantom{\Large A}\pi \over 2^{n + 1}\right) $$  where $n\in\mathbb N$ and the square root sign appears $n$-times.  I thought about using sequences and limits, to express the LHS as a recurrence relation but I didn't get anywhere.  edit: Solved, thanks for your answers and comments. How do I recover or "undelete" files that I accidentally deleted? I've accidentally deleted some really important files on my machine, and I'm looking to find out how to recover them.  Using the Trash bins "restore" isn't an option, as the files aren't there (mostly likely I wasn't paying attention and permanently deleted them from there).  Is there any way that I can un-delete these files? Let $a_n=\cos(a_{n-1}), L=[a_1,a_2,...,a_n,...].$ Is there an $a_0$ such that $L$ is dense in$[-1,1]?$ What Does it Really Mean to Have Different Kinds of Infinities? How did Bill and Percy get 12 OWLs? In Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione took 12 subjects, and needed a Time-Turner to do so. However, it is mentioned in the series that both Bill and Percy Weasley got 12 OWLs, so would have taken 12 subjects as well, so both would have needed Time-Turners for three years to do this. Doesn't this seem a little unusual, given how strict the Ministry is over the use of Time-Turners,  that they would give them to several Hogwarts students? I am going to change my machine: from a laptop with Ubuntu to another laptop where I am going to install Ubuntu...  I am quite happy with the current system, what I am afraid of is having to rebuild everything from 0.  So what do people often do to clone an Ubuntu system? That may include the data, packages, shortcut settings, etc... Test if a website is alive from a C# application I am looking for the best way to test if a website is alive from a C# application. Background My application consists of a Winforms UI, a backend WCF service and a website to publish content to the UI and other consumers. To prevent the situation where the UI starts up and fails to work properly because of a missing WCF service or website being down I have added an app startup check to ensure that all everything is alive. The application is being written in C#, .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 Current Solution Currently I am making a web request to a test page on the website that will inturn test the web site and then display a result. WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(&quot;http://localhost/myContentSite/test.aspx&quot;); WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();  I am assuming that if there are no exceptions thown during this call then all is well and the UI can start. Question Is this the simplest, right way or is there some other sneaky call that I don't know about in C# or a better way to do it. Hide a Subdomain from Google/Search Engine SEO Result?