What Version of Ubuntu 12.04 should i use?
Is the 64-Bit version of Ubuntu only compatible with AMD CPUs?
I read this short story about 20 years ago, and I'd love to find the title and author. This is what I can recall about the story:   It takes place in a classroom full of kids (around 10 years old?) The planet always gets rain The kids lock the main character (a girl, I think) in the closet during the very rare occurrence of sunlight and she misses the entire event.    I know it's not much to go on, but I hope it rings a bell for someone! How to include a PDF image into a PDFLaTeX document How to add a modifier to a collection? My goal is to reduce the faces of an object using the decimate modifier. The object I'm editing has lots of vertex groups. Blender 2.8 only lets me add the decimate modifier to a single group at once which would take quite some time. I have already put all groups in a single collection.  How can I add the decimate modifier to the entire collection?  Do I have to add the modifier group by group? Hi I would like to know whether the trace of the inverse of a symmetric positive definite matrix $\mathrm{trace}(S^{-1})$ is convex.  Actually I know that the trace of a symmetric positive definite matrix $S\in M_{m,m}$ is convex since we can find $B\in M_{n,m}$ such that $S=B^T\times B$ then we can write the trace as the sum of scalar quadratic forms, i.e. $\mathrm{trace}(S)=\mathrm{trace}(B^T\times B)=\sum_{j=1}^mb_j^T\times b_j$ where $b_j$ is the $j^{th}$ column of $B$.  for instance if we have  $trace([\begin{array}{cc} 1 &amp; 2  \\ 3 &amp; 4  \\ \end{array}] \times [\begin{array}{cc} 1 &amp; 3  \\ 2 &amp; 4  \\ \end{array}])= [\begin{array}{cc} 1 &amp; 2  \\ \end{array}]\times [\begin{array}{c} 1   \\ 2   \\ \end{array}]+ [\begin{array}{cc} 3 &amp; 4  \\ \end{array}]\times [\begin{array}{c} 3   \\ 4   \\ \end{array}]=30$  And so I wonder if $\mathrm{trace}(S^{-1})$ is convex too.. Accessing an array out of bounds gives no error, why? Gparted: move extended partition on the left What does the explicit keyword mean in C++? How to turn off magic quotes on shared hosting? I want to turn off PHP's magic quotes.  I don't have access to php.ini.  When I tried to add php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off to my .htaccess file, I get a 500 internal server error. This is what my .htaccess file looks like:  AddType x-mapp-php5 .php php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off   Then I tried to use ini_set('magic_quotes_gpc', 'O'), but that had no effect.  How do I turn magic quotes off? How do I edit the boot order in the GRUB menu to have Windows first? I have a dual boot on my computer of Windows 7 and Xubuntu 12.10. The Linux boot is 1st and the Windows 2nd. I would like to reverse the boot order in the GRUB menu. I need to know the steps to go about editing GRUB. I do most of my work on Windows and need it to be 1st so I can boot up and not watch it. How to use "fit" to frame the nodes and labels I'm using the fit TikZ library to fit a rectangle around two nodes which include labels. However, the rectangle is only fit around the actual nodes, not about their labels:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{fit}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}   \node [label=label1,draw] (node1) {Node1}; \node [label=label2,draw] (node2) at (4,2){Node2};  \node[fit=(node1)(node2), draw] {}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}     How to fit the rectangle also around the node labels? A murder of crows? I love the subset of collective nouns known as the terms of venery. These are collective nouns specific to a particular group of animals. Some of the more inventive examples are: a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, a mischief of mice, and a puddling of ducks (specifically swimming ducks).  Is there a standard for these group names and is there a central reference for them as with other zoological taxonomy?  I can see in the Wikipedia articles that the practice has its origins in Medieval Hunting tradition, but the Kangaroo (Mob), for instance would have been unknown at that time, so how do new collections come into being? How do we compare the size of numbers that are around the size of Graham's number or larger? When numbers get as large as Graham's number, or somewhere around the point where we can't write them as numerical values, how do we compare them?  For example:  $$G&gt;S^{S^{S^{\dots}}}$$  Where $G$ is Graham's number and $S^{S^{S^{\dots}}}$ is $S$ raised to itself $S$ times and $S$ is Skewes number.  It appears obvious (I think) that Graham's number is indeed larger, but how does one go about proving that if both numbers are "so large" that they become hard to compare?  More generally, how do we compare numbers of this general size?  As a much harder problem than the above, imagine a function $G(x,y)$ where $G(64,3)=$ Graham's number.  The function $G(x,y)$ is as follows:  $$G(x,y)=y\uparrow^{(G(x-1,y))}y$$  Where $G(0,y)$ is given.  I ask to compare $G(60,S)$ and $G(64,3)$ How to show the solution of $\dot{x} = Ax $ is an invariant subspace? Consider the linear dynamical system $\dot{x} = Ax $ in $V$ a finite dimensional vector space.  The definition of an invariant subspace $U$ is as follows:  For all $x_0 \in U$, (initial condition), the solution $x(t)$ with initial condition $x(0)=x_0$ lies in $U$, i.e. $x(t) \in U$ for all $t \in \mathbb{R}$. Intuitively, it means if we start in a subspace we never leave that subspace.  Prove that a subspace $U \subset V$ is an invariant subspace if and only if $AU \subset U$. Short description of the scoping rules? What exactly are the Python scoping rules?  If I have some code:  code1 class Foo:    code2    def spam.....       code3       for code4..:        code5        x()   Where is x found?  Some possible choices include the list below:   In the enclosing source file In the class namespace In the function definition In the for loop index variable Inside the for loop   Also there is the context during execution, when the function spam is passed somewhere else. And maybe  pass a bit differently?  There must be a simple reference or algorithm somewhere.  It's a confusing world for intermediate Python programmers. What steps must an educational institution wanting to recruit good faculty take? There is a cycle in the academia:    Good doctorates from top universities invariably join other top universities as faculty members.  Good students aspire to study in top universities under excellent faculty members.   Suppose a new educational institution or department springs up and desires to set up a top-quality group, how does it break into this cycle? I suppose this could take some years, but is money-power the only thing that could be wielded by the institute to achieve its end? How to prevent iMessage syncing without access to device I foolishly logged into someone's iPad with my Apple ID. This person is now receiving my full communications on iMessage. I know I can remove my account from that iPad but I don't have access to it. How can I stop the device from getting my iMessages without physical access? Why is Euler's Totient function always even? I want to prove why $\phi(n)$ is even for $n&gt;3$.  So far I am attempting to split this into 2 cases.  Case 1: $n$ is a power of $2$. Hence $n=2^k$. So $\phi(n)=2^k-2^{k-1}$. Clearly that will always be even.  Case 2: $n$ is not a power of $2$. This is where I am unsure where to go. I figure I will end up using the fact that $\phi(n)$ is multiplicative, and I think I'll get a $(p-1)$ somewhere in the resulting product which will make the whole thing positive, as $p$ is prime implies $(p-1)$ is even. Get image pixels of prescribed color I want to install Ubuntu on the C: partition where my Windows 7 is, simply to replace the systems. I've also tried to install it on another partition (without formating it), which failed!  All I get is:      No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.   I want to install Ubuntu without formatting any of my partitions. Is that possible? Constant term in Lagrangian Why can we always drop any constant term in a Lagrangian density in quantum field theory?  This issue is somehow related to the constant term being some kind of cosmological constant.  Can you please explain this issue?