Ubuntu 18 edit root files
How do I edit a file in /proc that can be viewed with cat, but is not editable by mousepad and abiword?
What is the number of triangles with integer sides, given the length of the longest side? Suppose $a,b,c \in\mathbb N$, and the value of $c$ is known and fixed, while $a$ and $b$ are unknown and are both smaller than $c$. What is the total number of unique triangles possible with $a, b$ and $c$ as its sides? Adjust space between entries in LoF and LoT Government investigating home library of missing inventor This is a short story from the 50s or 60s.  A scientist or inventor has invented either teleportation or a space drive and has disappeared - leaving no documentation or clues except his extensive home library.  The government gathers all types of scientists to attempt to duplicate his research.  Several months later, as they are about to launch the first space drive space ship, the officer in charge reveals that there was no 'disappeared inventor'.  The greatest step toward a new impossible concept is knowing that it has already been done. Cycles in permutations of a given size I am thinking about buying a new lens specifically to take photos of distant targets (birds, bears, etc). I currently own the Canon 70-300 IS USM, which is a nice lens, but I find that if I want to take a photo of anything further away than about 10 meters, the target does not fill a large amount of the frame (meaning I have to significantly crop in post production).  I am currently looking at the Canon prime 400mm, however I would like to determine at what distance an object will fill a reasonable proportion of the frame.  Is there a formula or rule of thumb I can apply that will help me in this situation? I realise the size of the target I am shooting will play a role here, so if we need to make an assumption about the size of the target please let me know. Test for the convergence of the sequence $S_n =\frac1n \left(1 + \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{3} + \cdots+ \frac{1}{n}\right)$ Proving $\left(1+\dfrac{1}{1^3}\right)\left(1+\dfrac{1}{2^3}\right)\cdots\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n^3}\right)<3$ for all positive integers $n$ Prove that $\left(1+\dfrac{1}{1^3}\right)\left(1+\dfrac{1}{2^3}\right)\cdots\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n^3}\right)&lt;3$   for all positive integers $n$   This problem is copied from Math Olympiad Treasures by Titu Andreescu and Bogdan Enescu.They start by stating that induction wouldn't directly work here since the right hand side stays constant while the left increases.They get rid of this problem by strengthening the hypothesis.$$\left(1+\dfrac{1}{1^3}\right)\left(1+\dfrac{1}{2^3}\right)\cdots\left(1+\dfrac{1}{n^3}\right)\le3-\dfrac{1}{n}$$ and then proceed by induction.  The problem is that I can't find a motivation for the above change.I mean,we could have subtracted a lot of things from the RHS but what should nudge us to try $\dfrac{1}{n}$?The rest of the proof is quite standard,but I can't see how I am supposed to have thought of it.Is it just experience?Or is it a standard technique?A little guidance and motivation will be appreciated. says:  SSH_ASKPASS    If  ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the    current terminal if it was run from a terminal.  If ssh does not    have  a  terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS    are set, it will execute the program  specified  by  SSH_ASKPASS    and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.   I'd like SSH to use an askpass program even if it was run from a terminal.  On occasion, I have to connect to servers, where there's some delay in showing a password prompt (maybe due to network issues, maybe due to attempted reverse DNS lookups, …). I get annoyed and switch to something else, and forget about the attempted connection. (Insert joke about attention span of a goldfish.) When I finally get back to it, the prompt's timed out and even a correct password would just result in a closed connection.  Keys would be one solution, but not every system I use has my usual SSH keys. However, I usually use Ubuntu systems, and Ubuntu has an SSH askpass program installed by default.  If an askpass window popped up, however, I'd be immediately aware of it. That's a good enough compromise for me, if only I can get it to work. I just watched Planet Hulk. At the end the Hulk ends up with someone seemingly almost as powerful as he is. Are the Hulks (Green, Red, and She-Hulk) able to have children? I tried to use the usb-creator.exe from Ubuntu 10.10 desktop i386 ISO image and it does create an USB stick that doesn't boot. When I try to boot from it I get:     Operating System not found.   I try to do this from Windows 7 x64. I'm not looking to create a live Ubuntu media, only an installation USB disk.  I repeated the process several times and I even tried to reformat the USB drive (FAT32), no success yet.  The USB stick is a 8GB one. A sequence $\{x_j\}$ is said to be fast-Cauchy if $\sum_1^\infty d(x_j,x_{j+1})&lt;+\infty$. Show that every Cauchy sequence has a fast-Cauchy subsequence.   **My attempt:**Argue by contradiction, suppose there is no such subsequence. Then for any subsequence $\{{x_j}_k\}$,  $\sum_1^\infty d({x_j}_k,{x_j}_{k+1})$ diverges. Vaguely recall from an analysis course, if a series diverges, it doesn't not satisfy the Cauchy criterion. That is to say, there exists $\epsilon&gt;0$ such that for all $k$ and all $p\ge1$, $d({x_j}_{k+1},{x_j}_{k+2})+...+d({x_j}_{k+p}+{x_j}_{k+p+1})\ge\epsilon$.  Then I intuitively think that this is a contradiction, since if the original series is Cauchy, then after a large $N$, since $d(x_m,x_n)$ has to be very small, so that their sum should be smaller than given $\epsilon$, which is a contradiction. But I don't know how I can write down the concrete proof? We all know that the amount of current flowing b/w the plates is independent of the frequency. If I were to ask why doesn't it depend then you'd probably say that it depends on the number of electrons rather than the frequency or you might show me a current vs frequency graph.  But here is my theoretical argument. Electric current is defined as the amount of charge flowing through a point/space/wire per unit time. Let I be current due to photo electrons ejected by photons of some frequency. Now if I would increase the frequency, the kinetic energy of the ejected electron would increases, therefore it will move faster and therefore contribute more current (charge will through the same point many times per unit time) . Thereby, giving a net current greater than I.  What is wrong with my argument?  After thinking a lot, I came up with a possible reason. However fast the electrons may move, but when they hit the metal plate, they would lose their velocity and start moving in drift velocity. Now there is a problem with this argument. If this were to be true then I should expect to see a big chunk of extra electrons getting stuck at the anode.  If my reasoning was correct, then why can't I see a big charge buildup at the anode. Word for phrase Good for you, bad for us There is a phrase I have heard quite a bit recently dealing with people that are leaving the department for promotions, etc. When a person leaves, it is good for them, but bad for us.  It is good for them because they will be pursuing a new opportunity, but not so good for the department since they will have to be replaced, and others will have to pick up the slack until someone else can be hired and get up to speed.  Is there a word that means that a deal is good for one party, but not necessarily the other? Why is a method not identical to itself? Is it possible to have multiple bevel objects along a curve? I'm wondering if it's possible to define multiple bevel objects along a curve and have Blender interpolate between the bevels like keyframes. Where do I get the key for the first house? How to set the command prompt's color in Bash? Purpose of asterisk before a CSS property Looking for a short story about a robot evolving to have supernatural powers I'm looking for a short story from about 50 years ago about a robot who escapes after being slated to be melted down and discovers while in hiding that it has evolved to have some supernatural powers. After reading a couple of answers and comments on some SQL questions here, and also hearing that a friend of mine works at a place which has a policy which bans them, I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with using backticks around field names in MySQL.  That is:  SELECT `id`, `name`, `anotherfield` ... -- vs -- SELECT id, name, anotherfield ...