On Xubuntu 20.04 is there an option to beep while toggling Caps Lock and Num Lock?
Can I make my Ubuntu make sounds when I press Caps Lock etc.?
Labeling Multiple Equations Per Row of a Table Viruses: Adaptation to a new host through repeated host jumps Blurring/Feathering a Procedural Pointiness Mask I'm trying to create a procedural mask to affect the sharp edges of my model using the Pointiness output from the Geometry node, leading to the eventual idea of using it to create customisable weathering effects, such as .  This is the base setup that I've got so far.   How is it possible to blur/feather the black edges of the mask so that they would essentially expand across the object until the whole object is rendered black?   I've had a look at both of the go-to texture blur methods suggested for cycles found  and  however these seem to rely on there being a vector input/output for the texture, which is not the case in my example.  The Procedural Cracks tutorial by CGMasters came closest to what I was trying to achieve with the 'Worn Edges' section of the , but I didn't have any success trying to convert it to my situation.  Any ideas would be massively appreciated! :)  EDIT: Not sure if it was clear enough from the description but I'm trying to steer clear of baking/UV-Unwrapping/the Works on this one... Purely procedural :)  UPDATE: I've made a couple of updates to the shader which has given me slightly better results, although it's still not quite there and the mask blur/expansion issue is still not successful.  This is what it now looks like:   The issue is now coming from the grey values of the mask 'leaking' out across the whole mesh and not stemming from the black values... if that makes sense? :P   In researching weathering effects in blender, I stumbled across , which is exactly what I want to achieve?  UPDATE 2: Still no luck achieving the desired effect in the gif, however I feel I'm slightly closer from adding another colour ramp node after the previous ones.    Does anyone have any more ideas?  UPDATE 3: Found a working solution, added an answer below if people are interested :) How to create bootable ISO from an installed OS? Say I have two systems A and B.  I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on system A and need same set of settings in system B, for which I am thinking to make a bootable iso from System A(creating as a backup). so that I can make Live USB from the generated iso and boot the System B which will be now the replica of System A.  Could you please tell is there any method or tool in doing this process? Split a string by spaces -- preserving quoted substrings -- in Python I'm trying to determine the best way to truncate or drop extra decimal places in SQL without rounding.  For example:  declare @value decimal(18,2)  set @value = 123.456   This will automatically round @value to be 123.46, which is good in most cases.  However, for this project, I don't need that.  Is there a simple way to truncate the decimals I don't need?  I know I can use the left() function and convert back to a decimal.  Are there any other ways? It's common in C++ to name member variables with some kind of prefix to denote the fact that they're member variables, rather than local variables or parameters. If you've come from an MFC background, you'll probably use m_foo. I've also seen myFoo occasionally.  C# (or possibly just .NET) seems to recommend using just an underscore, as in _foo. Is this allowed by the C++ standard? Why are site stats graph for beta sites not available to public? Currently, on all beta sites, the current site stats is placed prominently on the front page, which is great for knowing how the site is currently doing.  However, it doesn't say anything about the trend of the numbers - whether the site is sailing or it is sinking compared to the last month. According to Madara Uchiha, our moderator on Anime &amp; Manga SE, . Disregarding data which are not already public, , I can't see any reason why we are not allowed access to graphical representation of public site statistics. In fact, there is already a third-party app that scraps the information from the home page and . Can we have a beautiful visualization on how our beta sites evolve over time, from pony to unicorn?   Images stolen borrowed from Bulbapedia Just want to get clarification on something we're noticing in our org. Its regarding a new integration user we've created for an external application to connect to Salesforce. We also created a Connected App for this application to authenticate using OAuth. All of this is setup and working up to this point.   But one thing that we don't understand is there is a related list on the integration user detail page named "OAuth Connected Apps". We're concerned because although we are connecting fine and data is getting return to the external application no records are showing up in this "OAuth Connected Apps" related list. Should we expect to see Authorization or Access tokens in this list?   We just want to make sure we aren't bypassing the connected app in anyway, which we assume not, but just want to run it by the community and see. All comments are appreciated. Thanks ahead of time for the support. Teenage girl in life-sustaining valley on poisoned Earth visited by another survivor I'm trying to identify a book I read in school, though I can't recall at what grade level; let's say it had to have been published before I graduated high school in 2000. Despite being required reading, it didn't feel much like a classic.  The story took place on Earth, after some catastrophe had caused the air to become poisonous. However, one teenage girl was able to survive because her house was in a valley which was somehow protected from the poisonous winds and was able to sustain its own ecosystem. One day, a man wearing a protective full-body suit and gas mask appears in the valley, and both are rather surprised to find someone else alive. She feeds and shelters the man and shows him how she had come to survive in the valley. Rather abruptly…      the man attempts to rape her, but she overpowers him somehow. She steals his protective suit and starts to leave the valley. He tells her that he had seen birds in a certain direction away from the valley, indicating there might be life there as well, and she leaves.   I believe there was an author's note either at the beginning or end of the book stating that the author had actually died while writing the manuscript, and that their friends or family had finished the book by going off the author's original notes, which I suppose may explain the abruptness of the ending.  In case it wasn't clear from the above, I didn't really like the book. But I'm curious about it regardless. Why is 128==128 false but 127==127 is true when comparing Integer wrappers in Java? I can't seem to edit and save config files in the root system (eg: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.config); it just says "permission denied" or the save option is blocked in the text editor.  I'm pretty sure I'm a root user, but how do I make sure? If I am a root user, how do I fix this? Creaking from cranks/spindle. How to fix? Ring of rational-coefficient power series defining entire functions Best practice when analysing pre-post treatment-control designs Imagine the following common design:   100 participants are randomly allocated to either a treatment or a control group the dependent variable is numeric and measured pre- and post- treatment   Three obvious options for analysing such data are:   Test the group by time interaction effect in mixed ANOVA Do an ANCOVA with condition as the IV and the pre- measure as the covariate and post measure as the DV Do a t-test with condition as the IV and pre-post change scores as the DV   Question:    What is the best way to analyse such data?  Are there reasons to prefer one approach over another? This week I saw the definition of a measurable set for an outer measure.     Let $\mu^*$ be an outer measure on a set $X$. We call $A \subseteq X$ measurable if $$\mu^*(E) = \mu^*(A\cap E) + \mu^*(A^c\cap E)$$ for every $E \subseteq X$.   This is not the first time I've seen this definition. Unlike most other things in mathematics, over time I have gained absolutely no intuition as to why this is the definition.   The only explanation I've ever seen is that a set is measurable if it 'breaks up' other sets in the way you'd want. I don't really see why this is the motivation though. One reason I am not comfortable with it is that you require a measurable set to break up sets which, according to this definition, are non-measurable; why would you require that? Of course, you can't say what a non-measurable set is without first defining what it means to be measurable so I suppose no matter what your condition is, it will have to apply to all subsets of $X$.     Is there an intuitive way to think about the definition of measurable sets? Is there a good reason why we should use this definition, aside from "it works"? How do I find out which process is eating up my bandwidth? I think I'm being the victim of a bug here. Sometimes while I'm working (I still don't know why), my network traffic goes up to 200 KB/s and stays that way, even tough I'm not doing anything internet-related.   This sometimes happens to me with the CPU usage. When it does, I just run a top command to find out which process is responsible and then kill it. Problem is: I have no way of knowing which process is responsible for my high network usage. Both the resource monitor and the top command only tell me my total network usage, neither of them tells me process specific network info.  I've found questions here about monitoring total bandwidth usage, but, as I mentioned, that's not what I need. Is there another command I can use to find out which process is getting out of hand?  The command iftop gives results that disagree entirely with the information reported by System Monitor. While the latter claims there's high network traffic, the former claims there's barely 1 KB/s.  I've already tried killing all the obvious ones (Firefox, update-manager, Pidgin, etc) with no luck. So far, restarting the machine is the only way I found of getting rid of the issue. Store won't open after upgrade How much web can Spider-Man produce? NIST randomness test p values I have a binary sequence of length $2^{20}$. I am using the NIST statistical test, assess.   What should be taken for ./assess and  How many bitstreams? in this test? In the final Analysis report, what p-values should be there to pass this test?