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Fancy chapter headings Constant Amortized Time What is meant by "Constant Amortized Time" when talking about time complexity of an algorithm? HP PSC 1410 all scanner's images are black I have a HP PSC 1410 printer with scanner inside.  I've been scanning documents and images with it for the last couple of years.  Recently my scanner has stopped performing as excepted and i can't scan or copy images\documents.  My problem is that every images\document i'm trying to scan - the result from the printer is a black page.  I've been googling about this issue and couldn't find any helpful stuff beside replacing the whole printer - which is something i'm trying to avoid.  Any ideas ? I've read something about the shipping lock of the scanner but couldn't find any information about how to check it.. The default in lyx is to have   I. First part (roman number)   Section 1   1.1 Subsection 1  and I'd like to have   First part (arabic number)   1.1 Section 1  1.1.1 Subsection 1  etc.   Any suggestion? Thanks a lot in advance! alias or bash function does not work When I create  alias wd='ps -ef | grep java | awk {'print $2 " " $9'} | egrep "(A|B|C|D)"'   or  function wd () {     ps -ef | grep java | awk '{print $2}' ... }   in my .bashrc file, I get errors.  Interestingly, if I source my .bashrc file with the function, it 'compiles', but when executing, gives me:   context is      &gt;&gt;&gt; \ &lt;&lt;&lt; {\print     missing }   Can someone help me with this, and also answer when its better to put something in a function versus in an alias? 99% of the time, I'm clear on when I should use "a" versus "an." There's one case, though, where people &amp; references I respect disagree.  Which of the following would you precede with "a" or "an," and why?   FAQ FUBAR SCUBA   [Note: I've read the questions  and , but the rules given there don't necessarily apply here.]    [Edited to add]  Here's a shorter (and hopefully clearer) version of the question…  In written English, which is correct (and why): "a FAQ" or "an FAQ"?  Some references with differing opinions:   an: the  and  a: the Microsoft Manual of Style for Tech Publications, 3e either: the  and Can I get back my saved data? Why so many files in /usr/share/app-install/desktop? For 14.04, I'm trying out Lubuntu LTS.  If I run ls -l /usr/share/app-install/desktop, I get a list of 3085 .desktop files. All except one are dated Apr 18. The exception is:  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6328 Mar 28  2013 applications.menu   From the dates, it's clear that all these are installed by default and not by me.   Doesn't each GUI-based program bring in its own .desktop file at the time it's installed (mostly in /usr/share/applications)? Then why are these thousands of other .desktop files needed? From their names, most of them haven't anything to do with Lubuntu. Their names are different from regular .desktop files (such as those in /usr/share/applications): many, not all, are like name:name.desktop whereas the regular ones are just name.desktop. The ones I looked at all have a line with X-AppInstall-Popcon=nnn where nnn is a string of digits. I know that Popcon "gathers statistics determining which packages are the most popular with Ubuntu users". But why is that part of these .desktop files? My Father passed away - next test(s) on what remains of his DNA sample? I posted this general question over at the forum on FamilyTreeDNA. Though I received a reply, there is still no answer to my question, so I thought I'd try my luck at posting here.  Anyhow, in early 2009 I bought two kits for the Genographic Project and dutifully had my father do his cheek swabs: one kit for his Y-Chromosome, and one for his mtDNA. Once that was completed, I had his samples transferred to Family Tree DNA.  Then, late in 2009 I paid to have an mtFullSequence done on his mtDNA sample.  My father passed away in 2015. In early 2016, I phoned FTNDA to discuss. The first thing they did was arrange to merge his two original samples into one kit. Then, they suggested doing Family Finder. I did that and recently obtained the interesting results.  So, all told what I have done on my father is:   Y-12 (originally done for the Genographic Project) mtFullSequence Family Finder   My father's Y Haplogroup is R-M269 and I am being presented with the M343 SNP pack on FTNDA.  My question is, what now? My father is gone so the sample that remains with FTDNA is old and finite (their customer service says they still have "one container" of his DNA). His siblings have all passed away -- unfortunately, with no samples taken. What is the best way to make use of the sample of my father's DNA that is left?  Should I refine the Y-Chromosome to Y-111? That seems the most natural (though I'm a male and carry it too). Should any SNP tests best be done on his remaining sample as opposed to on me? Or, should I do nothing and just let his 2009 samples continue to sit at FTDNA?  By phone, FTDNA said that they should have enough left to do the Y-111 and a SNP pack which is great, but I'd love to know independent of their customer service if that is the wisest way to make use of the remaining DNA sample which they have?  Full disclosure: I did have my father do 23andMe in 2010 and I did have his blood drawn and sent to a DNA Bank. I hope to never touch his banked DNA (except maybe to do a full sequence someday), but at least it does exist. My question now is solely how to best make use of my father's remaining sample at Family Tree DNA? What does "Suit yourself" mean? how to launch Bluez on Lubuntu Trying to launch a BT adapter/manager(default installed on Lubu)a little window informs me that it cannot because there's no Bluez launched.  In terminal: sudo apt install bluez, it answers: Bluez is already the new version (5.46-0ubuntu3) Then invites me to remove a couple of obsolete packages.  So where's Bluez Daemon to launch?  Writing:systemctl status bluetooth.service ; hcitool dev  Answer:   bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset    Active: inactive (dead)      Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)   Command:lspci -k | grep -A3 -i "wireless\|network\|bluetooth" Answer: 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)     Subsystem: Quanta Microsystems, Inc AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)     Kernel driver in use: ath5k     Kernel modules: ath5k 0f:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller oem@oem-Extensa-5220:~$ Can I use a 23 W CFL in a fixture that's rated for a 60 W incandescent? I have a lamp that is rated at 60 Watts for an incandescent bulb with a disclaimer to use a 13 Watt bulb instead when using a CFL replacement. Do I really need to respect that disclaimer? Would not a 23 Watt CFL be just as safe to use? It still draws less power than a 60 Watt incandescent, right? How to force Mac window to foreground? Render shadows over a transparent background in cycles I'm trying to make a logo that will be on the header of a website. What I'd like to achieve, and the reason I'm using Blender, is the projected shadows on the background looking perfectly real (as opposed to doing a drop-shadow in Photoshop).  The only thing is, the background has to be transparent because the website might use different background colors / gradients that make it impossible to match with the exported 3D background.  I made this dummy file (not the real logo... duh!):    If I use the file as is, the grey borders of the image will be impossible to match with the website's background color.  Here what I want:    So obviously, I tried masking the plane, which made the shadows disappear. I tried having a plane set to glass, which didn't work either.  And I looked around for a similar question, but didn't find one.   I am not trying to render , or a . I've seen  which has a very difficult solution to this problem, and  that is very similar but in Blender Internal.  is similar too but has never been solved. I'm only a beginner at Compositor, and I'm trying to learn more any chance I get, so any solution in Compositor is welcome if detailed enough. Although if there's a simpler or faster way, it's welcome too!  .blend file: How can I find out what is using the hard disk? Possible Duplicates:             Once or twice a day my computer starts writing significantly hard to the hard drive, the HD led is ON and the performance hit is noticeable. A strange observation is that the Task Viewer does not show I/O activity - even Process Explorer shows no CPU activity and no I/O bytes read or written.  Is there a way to know which application is using the hard drive and how much data is it reading or writing? Function pointers, Closures, and Lambda I am just now learning about function pointers and, as I was reading the K&amp;R chapter on the subject, the first thing that hit me was, "Hey, this is kinda like a closure." I knew this assumption is fundamentally wrong somehow and after a search online I didn't find really any analysis of this comparison.  So why are C-style function pointers fundamentally different from closures or lambdas? As far as I can tell it has to do with the fact that the function pointer still points to a defined (named) function as opposed to the practice of anonymously defining the function.  Why is passing a function to a function seen as more powerful in the second case, where it is unnamed, than the first where it is just a normal, everyday function that is being passed?  Please tell me how and why I am wrong to compare the two so closely.  Thanks. How to prove $\sum_{k=1}^{n}F_k = F_{n+2}-1$ by induction when $F_n$ is the Fibonacci sequence Let $F_n$ be the Fibonacci sequence where  $F_0$ = 0  , $F_1$ = 1 and  $F_n$ = $F_{n-1}$ + $F_{n-2}$.                   I want to prove the following by induction. $$\sum_{k=1}^{n}F_k = F_{n+2}-1$$ Here is what I have so far.  Can anybody tell me if I am right?  Base case = n=1  $F_k$ = 1 = LHS  $F_{1+2}$ - 1 = 2 - 1 = 1 = RHS  Statement is true for n=1.  Assume statement is true for n=i.  $$\sum_{k=1}^{i}F_k = F_{i+2}-1$$  Prove statement is true for n=i+1.  $$\sum_{k=1}^{i+1}F_{k} = F_{((i+1)+2)}-1$$  $F_1$ + $F_2$ +...+ $F_i$ + $F_{i+1}$ = $F_{((i+1)+2)}-1$  $F_{i+2}$ - 1 + $F_{i+1}$ = $F_{((i+1)+2)}-1$  $F_{((i+1)+2)}-1$ = $F_{((i+1)+2)}-1$  Statement holds for n=i+1 What commands are there for horizontal spacing? I know that \: in LaTeX produces a space when rendered.  Are there any alternatives, because my LaTeX renderer doesn't support \: (it renders it as text), and there is no help / FAQ that I can find. What does "All things X" mean? Let me add or change edit summary during edit window (grace period)