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Any way to tell apart a CPU defect from a mainboard defect? I have a fairly modern desktop computer, an AMD Athlon II X2 based silent PC, that does not work.  When turned on, it will start physically (all fans are rotating, disks start up...) but not give a signal on any of the graphics ports (DVI, VGA, and HDMI, I tried all three). Also, the reset button does not seem to have any effect.  I have stripped the mainboard bare of all SATA connections, extension cards, and the one 2GB RAM chip to eliminate them as the problem source, but to no avail, so I think it's fair to assume it's either the mainboard or the processor that are at fault.  However, I have neither a replacement mainboard, nor a replacement processor handy to identify which one is broken. The cause of the defect is unknown, so for all I know, it could be both. Therefore, I'm reluctant to buy replacement hardware blindly before knowing more.   Is there any way to further diagnose (or at least get some indication) which component is broken without buying replacement hardware? How to get only filename using sed How can I get only the filename using sed? I've this  out_file=$(echo $in_file|sed "s/\(.*\.\).*/\1mp4/g")   But I get the path too /root/video.mp4, and I want only video.mp4. So I have a Palm Pre (original P100EWW) model that I enabled developer mode on, and installed a Debian Squeeze chroot.  Works great.  I have plans to use this for ANYTHING (bittorrent peer, web server) but a phone.  I noticed if I do a cat /dev/urandom &gt; /dev/fb0 it actually writes random pixels to the screen until a No space left on device error is generated.  Awesome, now I can use the display.  So what kind of utilites are there that will either A) let me use /dev/fb0 as a console I can output text to or B) render text on /dev/fb0 from the command line.  I don't know about recompiling the kernel for this yet (I'd love to eventually strip WebOS off entirely and turn this into a minimal ARM server) so userspace tools if they exist is what I'm asking about.  Also would prefer to render directly to /dev/fb0 and not use X. What is the method to make files in a USB Flash Drive undeletable? Does these method work with USB 3.0 interface?  (I have surveyed some Flash Drive manufacturers, and I only see undeletable files for USB 2.0 drives, and not 3.0 drives. One manufacturer claimed that USB 3.0 cannot do undeletable file, so I am curious whether the claim is correct...) I would like to know the equipment and the step by step process, as I have already tried to do it, but it didn't work.  I have already watched several videos, but it is not the same to talk to someone that really loves, and knows how to do it. I don't know anybody that knows how to brew anything xD I use dd in its simplest form to clone a hard drive:  dd if=INPUT of=OUTPUT   However, I read in the manpage that dd knows a blocksize parameter. Is there an optimal value for the blocksize parameter that will speed up the cloning procedure? Why is $l^\infty$ not separable? How to run a command that requires sudo at login Let $G$ be a group and $H$ be a normal subgroup of index $p$ ( a prime ) ; suppose $K$ is a subgroup of $G$ not contained in $H$ , then is it true that $G=HK$ ? ( I know that the fact is true if $p=2$ , but I don't know for the general case . Please help . Thanks in advance ) Word/phrase for the activity of hiding mistakes What word/phrase can I use to describe the activity of hiding a stupid mistake/incident, such as quickly cleaning up tea spilled by accident before anyone could notice? I can not update  on a Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) server to get rid of the discovered vulnerability:  bash --version GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)  apt-get update apt-get install bash Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done bash is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.   Can I use Squeeze-LTS for this server just to update Bash? After one week I will be on another server, so I will not make any other updates.  uname -m x86_64  lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 (squeeze) Release:        6.0.5 Codename:       squeeze If $p,q,r$ are all primes,and $p|qr-1$,$q|pr-1$ and $r|pq-1$,find all possible values of $pqr$. If $p,q,r$ are all primes,and $p|qr-1$$~~~~~~~~~~~~~$$q|pr-1$$~~~~~~~~~~$ and $~r|pq-1$. Find all possible values of $pqr$.    My work: $qr-1=pk_1$ $pr-1=qk_2$ $pq-1=rk_3$ From the above equations, we can conclude that either $k_1,k_2,k_3$ are all even or one of the primes is $2$. I can also get that, $p^2q^2r^2=(pk_1+1)(qk_2+1)(rk_3+1)$ Now, I cannot proceed. Please help! Show that a connected metric space is $\epsilon$-chainable for $\epsilon>0$ Show a connected metric space (X,d) is $\epsilon$-chainable for $\epsilon &gt;0$       $\epsilon$-chainable Definition      (X,d) is $\epsilon$-chainable if given any two points $a,b \in X$, $\exists$ a finite set $\{ x_0,x_1,...,x_n\}$ of points in X with $x_0 = a$, $x_n=b$ and $d(x_{n-1},x_n)&lt;\epsilon$, $\forall$ n      Clopen Definition      A set is clopen $iff$ its boundary is empty      Connected Metric Definition      Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space. It is connected $iff$ it has no proper subsets which are clopen      The following are equivalent:         $X$ is connected   The only subsets of $X$ that are clopen are $\emptyset$ and $X$   $\nexists$ non-empty, disjoint, open sets $A$ and $B$ such that $X=A\bigcup B$   $\nexists$ non-empty, disjoint, closed sets $A$ and $B$ such that $X=A\bigcup B$         Theorem      Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space, and let $S$ be any subset of $X$. Then $S$ is closed $iff$ $S^c$ is open.     So how would someone show this exactly?  Let the set $A$ be the set of all elements in $(X,d)$ that can be reached from $a\in X$ in a finite number of steps with length less than $\epsilon$.  Does this mean that there should be no isolated points? (an isolated point would be at distance infinity from any other point, or distance zero from itself, since $\epsilon &gt;0$ we don't want this?)  Knowing that $X$ is connected $\implies$the only subsets of X that are clopen are $\emptyset$ and $X$  Also, by construction of A;   A is the set of all $\epsilon$-chains between any element and $a$  And, so $A^c = \emptyset$ if $A$ was $\epsilon$-chainable (because A has to have a path from all elements to a, for this to be true, the complement wouldn't have anything in it)  Leaving only $A$ as the remaining clopen set  Does this make any sense? Or should an alternative be used, and how to formalize it.  Thanks. How to get a vertical bar which is longer than \mid ? sometimes when writing mathematical expression with partial derivatives, one needs to write a vertical bar afterwards and write the value at the which the partial derivatives are being computed as subscripts. See for example the bottom post here:    However, the \mid symbol doesn't produce a tall bar that corresponds to the size of the partial derivatives term. Is there a way to have a taller bar?   PS: Some other posts here mention \middle| but this doesn't compile on my computer.  Thanks in advance.... Help me understand Bayesian prior and posterior distributions In a group of students, there are 2 out of 18 that are left-handed. Find the posterior distribution of left-handed students in the population assuming uninformative prior. Summarize the results. According to the literature 5-20% of people are left-handed. Take this information into account in your prior and calculate new posterior.    I know the beta distribution should be used here. First, with $\alpha$ and $\beta$ values as 1? The equation I found in the material for posterior is   $$\pi(r \vert Y ) \propto r^{(Y +−1)} \times (1 − r)^{(N−Y +−1)} \\ $$  $Y=2$, $N=18$  Why is that $r$ in the equation? ($r$ denoting the proportion of left-handed people). It is unknown, so how can it be in this equation? To me it seems ridiculous to calculate $r$ given $Y$ and use that $r$ in the equation giving $r$. Well, with the sample $r=2/18$ the result was $0,0019$. The $f$ should I deduce from that?  The equation giving an expected value of $R$ given known $Y$ and $N$ worked better and gave me $0,15$ which sounds about right. The equation being $E(r | X, N, α, β) = (α + X)/(α + β + N)$ with value $1$ assigned to $α$ and $β$. What values should I give $α$ and $β$ to take into account prior information?  Some tips would be much appreciated. A general lecture on prior and posterior distributions wouldn't hurt either (I have vague understanding what they are but only vague) Also bear in mind I'm not very advanced statistician (actually I'm a political scientist by my main trade) so advanced mathematics will probably fly over my head. I just read a book "Linear Algebra and Its Applications 4E" by David C. Lay. The book is (should be) LaTeX typeset. The matrix and equations are so nice, please see the following 3 examples:        It's so beautiful, so I want get the same effect inside my paper. Here is my code:   \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{colortbl} \newcommand\y{\cellcolor{clight2}} \definecolor{clight2}{RGB}{212, 237, 244}%  %%% \[A=\left[ \begin{array}{ccccc} \y 0 &amp; -3 &amp; -6 &amp; 4 &amp; 9 \\    -1 &amp; \y -2 &amp; -1 &amp; 3 &amp; 1 \\ -2 &amp; -3 &amp; 0 &amp; \y 3 &amp; -1 \\ 1 &amp; 4 &amp; 5 &amp; -9 &amp; -7      \end{array} \right]\]  \[A=\left[\begin{array}{cccccc} \rowcolor{clight2} 3 &amp; -9 &amp; 12 &amp; -9 &amp; 6 &amp; 15\\ 0 &amp; 2 &amp; -4 &amp; 4 &amp; 2 &amp; -6 \\ 0 &amp; 3 &amp; -6 &amp; 6 &amp; 4 &amp; -5 \end{array} \right]\]   And the result:     But how to add these arrows?? is there an easy way or photoshop plugin to distribute words in evenly spaced formation Pandas Merging 101 Which year does Spider-Man: Homecoming take place in? Blender 2.8 - How to access material nodes?