Ubuntu boot problem
My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I have to fix it?
I have a samba share on my LAN that requires a username and password to obtain write access (otherwise it defaults to read-only).  I can't figure out where in the Unity desktop I can connect to the share and be prompted for my login credentials.  I can mount the drive, of course, but then I'm browsing as a guest (read-only).  What gives? Children's book with "square triangles" in parallel universe? I would like to count the number of unique selections from a column that contains multiple selections from a drop down list.  For example, column B3 contains,     Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday   The count function returns a value of 1 instead of 3 - is there any way to count the three days distinctly? Thank you!  Multiple selections from a drop down list was made possible using the VBA code from: Let $(M,d)$ be a metric space, and $A\subset M$. By definition, $A$ is said to be compact if every open cover of $A$ contains a finite subcover.  What is wrong with saying that, in $\mathbb{R}$, if $I=(0,1)$, we can choose $G=\{(0,\frac{3}{4}), (\frac{1}{4}, 1)\}$, which satisfies $I \subset \bigcup_{U\in G} U$, but we can't extract a finite subcover, so $I$ is not compact. Is $G$ a finite subcover of $G$, so it is not a valid cover for proving this? I would take $\cup_{n\in\mathbb{N}} (\frac{1}{n},1)$ in order to prove this, can we conclude that every open cover is necessarily a infinite union of open sets $\neq \emptyset$? Why is $1$ not considered a prime number?  Or, why is the definition of prime numbers given for integers greater than $1$? Proving inequality $\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{3\sqrt[3]{abc}}{a+b+c} \geq 4$ I started to study inequalities - I try to solve a lot of inequlites and read interesting .solutions . I have a good pdf, you can view from  . The inequality which I tried to solve and I didn't manage to find a solution can be found in that pdf but I will write here to be more explicitly.  Exercise 1.3.4(a) Let $a,b,c$ be positive real numbers. Prove that $$\displaystyle \frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}+\frac{3\sqrt[3]{abc}}{a+b+c} \geq 4.$$ (b) For real numbers $a,b,c \gt0$ and $n \leq3$ prove that: $$\displaystyle \frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{c}+\frac{c}{a}+n\left(\frac{3\sqrt[3]{abc}}{a+b+c} \right)\geq 3+n.$$ Arguments for/against same birthday for siblings? My son is born on October 1st three years ago. My wife is pregnant again and the calculated delivery date is October 22nd. Both children are boys, 3 years apart. We might end in a situation where the delivery is earlier, for reasons irrelevant to this question.   I believe that around their birthdays is the only time in the whole year that the actual date matters. It really does boil down to practical considerations around patience (gifts) and planning. I think that if there is, say, a week or more between the birthdays then it's easy to separate but if the difference is only a very few days then it gets complicated, and that's the situation I'd like to avoid.  I know from friends that having the same birthday makes events easier to plan, from the parents' perspective. It would also remove the unhappiness of a small child saying "why does he get presents today and I don't." Being a twin, and married to one, I know that there's nothing problematic in sharing a birthday as long as both get their fair share of attention.    What are practical arguments for, and against, choosing the same birthday for the second child? What considerations apply when the second child's birthday is only a very few days after the elder sibling's? I have often wondered at the practice on Stack&nbsp;Overflow, Server&nbsp;Fault, and the other sites where someone will ask a question and an answer will come in that says Look here: http://link elsewhere. Rarely will the link have exactly the answer necessary -- often it's an entire article -- yet these answers get voted up.  Why is that, exactly? I realize this is subjective, but my own thoughts are that one should try and give the answer (even if the answer is 'no, it can't be done' or 'no, I don't think it can be done' -- very different answers) and then if you have a link that explains it, go ahead and post it within the answer.  What does the community think about this?     For more information, see  in the . How to forward specific log file outside of /var/log with rsyslog to remote server? How can I forward message from a specific log file like /www/myapp/log/test.log with rsyslog client to remote rsyslog server? This log file is outside of the directory /var/log. Nothing happens when I press "Submit" on duplicate suggestion For example, in . How to open a terminal from within Atom? I'm currently working with Atom, and sometimes I want to open a terminal on the directory my working file is. To do this, I usually have to open the folder in nautilus (right clicking the file in atom) and then I open a terminal on that directory from nautilus (right click).  I wonder if there is a way to open the terminal in the file directory without having to open nautilus first. Explain reflection laws at the atomic level The "equal angles" law of refection on a flat mirror is a macroscopic phenomenon. To put it in anthropomorphic terms, how do individual photons know the orientation of the mirror so as to bounce off in the correct direction? Viruses: Adaptation to a new host through repeated host jumps The problems that appear in difficult math competitions such as the IMO or the Putnam exam are usually very difficult and require some ingenuity to solve. They also usually don't look like they can be solved by simply knowing more advanced theory and the such.  How do people typically come up with these problems? Do they arise naturally from advanced mathematics (the somewhat infamous 'grasshopper problem' from the 2009 IMO comes to mind - to my not exactly knowledgeable mind this problem looks like it popped out of basically nowhere)? What is the perspective that mathematicians take when seemingly "inventing" these problems with no theoretical motivation to them whatsoever? How much willpower do gravely wounded soldiers lose? The text says they suffer a permanent reduction? How can I measure the actual memory usage of an application or process? This question is covered  in great detail. How do you measure the memory usage of an application or process in Linux? From the blog article of , ps is not an accurate tool to use for this intent.  Why ps is &quot;wrong&quot; Depending on how you look at it, ps is not reporting the real memory usage of processes. What it is really doing is showing how much real memory each process would take up if it were the only process running. Of course, a typical Linux machine has several dozen processes running at any given time, which means that the VSZ and RSS numbers reported by ps are almost definitely wrong. Block IPs if they access a resource Does Stack Exchange use caching and if so, how? Recently, I read this  about how they have some of their infrastructure laid out. I was curious to know, does Stack Exchange use caching (both at the application layer and/or database layer) and if so, how? How do I remove an alias? I want to remove gs alias from my PC. When I type gs it will open GhostScript. But I checked everywhere in the home directory .alias  .bash_aliases .bashrc  I also overwrite the gs with my custom alias.   I can't remove it. And I also type alias in terminal, in the list I couldn't find it.   Please I want to remove it... How should a user's death be handled?