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Are PPAs safe to add to my system and what are some "red flags" to watch out for? How to install h.264 decoder? I tried playing videos in movie player but only the audio could be heard. I tried playing the video with dragon player but here also only the audio could be heard.  A message box appeared showing the following message:     Python (v2.7) requires to install plugins to play media files of the following type: H.264 decoder   I tried installing the plugin but it couldn't be installed. It isn't available in the software center too. How can I get this plugin? $ not defined using jQuery in WordPress Why do I always hear remote train horn at night? This is definitely not an illusion, as many people have the same experience. I have usually lived in places miles away from train stations, which makes it unlikely to hear any train horns during the day. However at night, occasionally train horns can be heard. I hope if any one can explain the physics of this effect, like possibly sound travels faster at low temperature. Movie about gene therapy and genetics-based jobs I saw a movie several years ago and I have not been able to find it since.  It was about a dystopian society where parents could modify the genes of their children before birth.  Some individuals, including the protagonist, had not had this done, and so had a somewhat inferior genetic makeup.  Jobs are based on the results of genetic tests, and the protagonist, a male, was slated for a less than ideal job. In the movie, he fakes his identity and has major surgery to make him a little taller to match his ID. He is trying to get his dream job (astronaut?).  The only other parts I remember are   the protagonist, to keep up the ruse, managing to run on a treadmill faster than his  genetic limit a very suspicious character pulling the protagonist's DNA from a hair left in a comb Does the Planck scale imply that spacetime is discrete? Inequality involving sides of a triangle How can one show that for triangles of sides $a,b,c$ that   $$\frac{a}{b+c}+\frac{b}{c+a}+\frac{c}{a+b} &lt; 2$$  My proof is long winded, which is why I am posting the problem here.   Step 1: let $a=x+y$, $b=y+z$, $c=x+z$, and let $x+y+z=1$ to get   $\frac{1-x}{1+x}+\frac{1-y}{1+y}+\frac{1-z}{1+z}&lt;2$  Step 2: consider the function $f(x)=\frac{1-x}{1+x}$, and note that it is convex on the interval (0,1), so the minimum of   $\frac{1-x}{1+x}+\frac{1-y}{1+y}+\frac{1-z}{1+z}$  is reached when the function takes the extreme points. i.e. $x=y=0, z=1$.    But going back to the fact that this is a triangle, we note that $x=y=0 \implies a=0$ which is not possible, so the inequality is strict. Movement arrow in gloss Viruses in wine? The Story  I installed wine some time ago, and after trying out some versions of Cinema 4D that were "free", I looked in the comments of the videos, and saw some people complaining about viruses. I got worried, downloaded and installed MalwareBytes, and scanned my "system". Of course, since MalwareBytes was runnning through Wine, it only scanned ~/.wine/C:. It found many viruses/trojans and I opted to delete them. I did so.  Questions:   Assuming there is any malware left, can this malware spread into my OS? Tell me the entire truth on what can happen. I deleted my entire .wine directory and am planning to uninstall wine later. I am the only user out of the three on this system that runs wine programs, but wine is installed for all. Is that enough, or must I do more? Please be specific on what I should do because I want to be 100% sure that there are no viruses.   I am sure that many others have these questions too, so please answer this question to the point.   Additional information:  Wine was installed with sudo-apt get. The exact commands can be found here:   Commands:  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.6 -y   I did try to install a font that was a ttf font. I tried to convert it to otf with no success. Then, I placed it in the fonts directory directly. I then saw that some people said it was malicious, and I removed it.  This question was flagged as  a duplicate of this question:  It is not the same. This question is more precise, as it specifies two scenarios involving viruses, not risks of viruses. The other question talked about Internet Explorer; this one does not mention the installation of any programs.  Note: wine was installed with sudo privileges, so does that mean it runs with sudo privileges? Number of reflexive relations defined on a set A with n elements Update 02/02/2019 I appreciate all the responses and help but unfortunately i must have not seen the emails stating there were responses! I am now looking into a NEST thermostat and was curious if they too, use the same connections. Lastly, looking for a quick recommendation on which WiFi Compatible therms are preferred by the memebers that respond! Thanks again your knowledge is highly appreciated! Bob  I Purchased the Honeywell WiFi Prog Thermostat to replace my Round Digital Honeywell Thermostat. I have separate Heating and Cooling (Heating is a Weil McLain Boiler for Hot water baseboard and Hot water(no tank) and Cooling is a separate unit that was added later.)  Wires:  RC Cool R Heat W Heat Y Cool G Cool   3 wires from AC unit and 2 from Heater.  If I were to go the separate transformer route to power the thermostat, where would I land the 2 wires?  C and ??? What do the different colours in Ubuntu's ls command mean? For example, when I type the ls command in one of my folders, I get one of the files in light green, the other (which is a folder) in blue with green highlighting.   What do those colours mean, and there is any manual about all the colours? I need scale up video from one DOS game using . But with  on left side and  filter on the other one.  Input (320x200)    Output (1280x800)    Here is a command, where's xBR processing whole screen...  ffmpeg     -i input.avi     -sws_flags neighbor     -vcodec libx264 -strict -2     -preset veryslow -qp 0     -filter:v "xbr=4"     output.mp4 What happens if my ESTA expires on the day of arrival? Is Angular momentum conserved in Impure rolling How do I get rid of "U3 System" on my USB drive? I have a USB drive (SanDisk SDCZ40-016G) that mounts in a way I've never seen before. When inserted, two items appear in Places -> Computer:    "SanDisk Ultra Backup: 16GB" contains my data, and "CD Drive: U3 System" contains a Windows executable. The part with the Windows executable doesn't look useful to me so I'd like to remove it. I used GParted to delete the only partition listed on the device and then I created and formatted a new partition:    Strangely, the "CD Drive" containing the Windows executable was perfectly intact after this operation.  What's going on? How do I disable Bootchart? I dont want a Bootchart to be generated on every startup. How do I disable bootchart ?  Once disabled, how do I re-enable bootchart ?  I don't mean uninstall. What does "no long range" mean on the soulknife rogue subclass mean? If user input is inserted without modification into an SQL query, then the application becomes vulnerable to , like in the following example:  $unsafe_variable = $_POST['user_input'];   mysql_query("INSERT INTO `table` (`column`) VALUES ('$unsafe_variable')");   That's because the user can input something like value'); DROP TABLE table;--, and the query becomes:  INSERT INTO `table` (`column`) VALUES('value'); DROP TABLE table;--')   What can be done to prevent this from happening? rails - outputting user input with Paragraph Returns?