When should we contact the editor to follow up on our submitted manuscript?
What does the typical workflow of a journal look like?
I've been reading the  and it mentions about virtual terminals which, if I understood it correctly, it is a Linux-specific feature (not in Unix) to allow multiple login consoles in a non X11 system. You create virtual terminals by pressing ALT-F2. I'm running Linux Mint and in my /dev folder though I see many tty devices and I don't know what they are for. Here is the grepped output:  crw-rw-rw-  1 root tty       5,   0 Jan  2 19:45 tty crw--w----  1 root tty       4,   0 Jan  2 19:10 tty0 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   1 Jan  2 19:10 tty1 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  10 Jan  2 19:10 tty10 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  11 Jan  2 19:10 tty11 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  12 Jan  2 19:10 tty12 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  13 Jan  2 19:10 tty13 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  14 Jan  2 19:10 tty14 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  15 Jan  2 19:10 tty15 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  16 Jan  2 19:10 tty16 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  17 Jan  2 19:10 tty17 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  18 Jan  2 19:10 tty18 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  19 Jan  2 19:10 tty19 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   2 Jan  2 19:10 tty2 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  20 Jan  2 19:10 tty20 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  21 Jan  2 19:10 tty21 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  22 Jan  2 19:10 tty22 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  23 Jan  2 19:10 tty23 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  24 Jan  2 19:10 tty24 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  25 Jan  2 19:10 tty25 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  26 Jan  2 19:10 tty26 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  27 Jan  2 19:10 tty27 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  28 Jan  2 19:10 tty28 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  29 Jan  2 19:10 tty29 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   3 Jan  2 19:10 tty3 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  30 Jan  2 19:10 tty30 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  31 Jan  2 19:10 tty31 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  32 Jan  2 19:10 tty32 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  33 Jan  2 19:10 tty33 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  34 Jan  2 19:10 tty34 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  35 Jan  2 19:10 tty35 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  36 Jan  2 19:10 tty36 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  37 Jan  2 19:10 tty37 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  38 Jan  2 19:10 tty38 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  39 Jan  2 19:10 tty39 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   4 Jan  2 19:10 tty4 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  40 Jan  2 19:10 tty40 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  41 Jan  2 19:10 tty41 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  42 Jan  2 19:10 tty42 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  43 Jan  2 19:10 tty43 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  44 Jan  2 19:10 tty44 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  45 Jan  2 19:10 tty45 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  46 Jan  2 19:10 tty46 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  47 Jan  2 19:10 tty47 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  48 Jan  2 19:10 tty48 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  49 Jan  2 19:10 tty49 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   5 Jan  2 19:10 tty5 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  50 Jan  2 19:10 tty50 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  51 Jan  2 19:10 tty51 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  52 Jan  2 19:10 tty52 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  53 Jan  2 19:10 tty53 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  54 Jan  2 19:10 tty54 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  55 Jan  2 19:10 tty55 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  56 Jan  2 19:10 tty56 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  57 Jan  2 19:10 tty57 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  58 Jan  2 19:10 tty58 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  59 Jan  2 19:10 tty59 crw-rw----  1 root tty       4,   6 Jan  2 19:10 tty6 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  60 Jan  2 19:10 tty60 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  61 Jan  2 19:10 tty61 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  62 Jan  2 19:10 tty62 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,  63 Jan  2 19:10 tty63 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,   7 Jan  2 19:10 tty7 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,   8 Jan  2 19:10 tty8 crw--w----  1 root tty       4,   9 Jan  2 19:10 tty9 Short sci-fi story about Earth blockaded by other human colonies Like the subject: short sci-fi story about Earth blockaded by other human colonies.  The best humans have colonized some stellar systems. But they begin to treat humans of earth like inferiors. A war began, colonies won the war and blockaded the earth, but despite this the earth won. Who is the author? What items are mutually exclusive between worlds? As of 1.2, some features are mutually exclusive between worlds.  In the case of ores at least, .  However, a  gives you the chance for a  (and the upgraded Sweetheart Necklace) which does not seem to have an equivalent version in the Corruption.    What items, if any, are truly mutually exclusive in function between worlds? When installing or booting from USB flash drive screen goes blank When I was installing Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my new PC from a flash drive since the only computers I have do not have disk drives, I ran into a problem.  After the ASUS logo when switching on the PC, and pressing F8 to select the USB flash drive, there was the options thing as normal that allows me to select to either boot form the flash drive or install on the HDD, when I do either of these, there is a bunch of text on a black background, as I would expect, but after a few seconds the screen goes blank and the monitor says No signal.  I have previously installed Ubuntu with a flash drive to fix issues caused my Windows and ran into no problems.  Is it a problem with the pen drive I am using? Or maybe a problem with the system? I tried it in my USB 3.0 ports at the back and the USB 2.0 ones as well.  My Specs are:   &nbsp;&nbsp;AMD Phenom II x4 965BE &nbsp;&nbsp;ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6670 &nbsp;&nbsp;ASUS M5-L75 USB3 (typing this from memory, it's an AM3+ ASUS board with USB3.0 in the AMD700 chipet or something) &nbsp;&nbsp;Corsair XMS3 DDR3 4GB(2x2GB) 1333MHz RAM    I ran the memtest program on the flash drive as well, and it came out clean. How can I prove that $\,ax\equiv b\pmod{\! n}\,$ has a unique solution if $\,\gcd(a,n) = 1$?  I suspect that the Bezout identity for $\,\gcd(a,b) = 1$ is the key but I don't see how to proceed. What to do with meta questions referring to currently non-existing features? I sometimes come across such questions like that:    The "Not a real question" close reason doesn't exist for long time. It doesn't make sense to answer, comment, or even up/downvote (since there's nothing more to vote for/against it).   Shouldn't such questions be locked as historical ones? Should I flag them for moderator attention or just ignore them? I'm doing some architectural cleanup that involves moving a bunch of classes into different projects and/or namespaces. Currently I'm moving the files by hand, building, and then manually adding using Foo statements as needed to resolve compilation errors. Anyone know of a smarter way of doing this? (We're a CodeRush and Refactor! shop, but I'd be interested to hear if Resharper has support for this) How to derive variance-covariance matrix of coefficients in linear regression I have a laptop with win7 installed. I have now made a 60gb partition which I want to install ubuntu into. The question I have, before I do the installation, is how large each of the root, swap, and home partition should be? I have read some place that root could be as small as 8GB, but isn't that too small? Since I guess beside ubuntu all the softwares installed will reside there as well? And I think I'm going to set my swap to be 2GB large.  My main concern is how large should the root partition should be. I'm mainly going to use ubuntu for programming and browse the web. I haven't been able to find my favorite questions in the official Stack Exchange Android app.  Looking at my accounts page gives nothing on them. What is the purpose of the three part circuit? I'm studying for my final on introduction to circuits and came across a question about this circuit:  The question is:  Identify and describe the three parts of the circuit used for a measurement system for signal conditioning. Describe the signal conditioning one intends to use the circuit for.  From what I can tell the R1 and R2 resistors are the first part of the circuit used to use a fraction of the incoming voltage. The second part is the voltage follower used to move all of the incoming voltage to another circuit. Lastly there is a low pass filter used to filter off the high frequency voltage. The second question I'm not sure of the answer. Is losing privileges after placing bounty OK? My rep went over 2,000 today which meant I could edit other people's posts. Great! Then I added a bounty to a previous question, which brought me back down to 1,984...and I can no longer edit other posts. Should this changed? Or is this ideal? FireFox 66 Quantum disabled all my extensions at midnight! Is there an easy way to convert a number to a word in PHP? How do I withdraw a paper from a journal after it was accepted but before it was fully published? On the advice of a senior colleague, I decided that I do not want to publish the paper anymore and with that journal. I wrote the editor several times; he has received the emails, but refuses to reply. I know he gets the emails because if its on other matters he has replied but not on the paper. I am ready to forfeit the processing fee I gave them but they refuse to reply and have already published the abstract of the paper to their site but not the full paper. Is legal action an option and do I have the right to sue? What are the guidelines in matters like these? Function is Continuous When Restricted to Closed Sets Which Cover the Space Suppose that $\{A_i\}$ is a finite collection of closed sets in $X$ such that $X = \bigcup A_i$, and $f : X \to Y$ restricted to each $A_i$ is continuous. Then $f$ is continuous.   Okay. The base case ($n=2$) is just the pasting lemma. I am having a little trouble with the inductive case, specifically with what the hypothesis is and how to deal with continuity with respect to subspaces. I believe the inductive hypothesis is to assume that any function over a topological space that is the union of $n-1$ closed sets such that the function restricted to each of these $n-1$ closed set is continuous must be continuous over the whole space. Then I assume I have a topological space $X = \bigcup_{i=1}^n A_i$, where each $A_i$ is closed, and a function $f : X \to Y$ such that $f|_{A_i}$ is continuous for each $i$. Thus $X = \bigcup_{i=1}^{n-1} A_i \cup A_n$, where $C = \bigcup_{i=1}^{n-1} A_i$ is closed since it is a finite union of closed sets. If I can show $f|_C$ is continuous, then I simply apply the pasting lemma to finish the problem. Give $C$ the subspace topology, and notice that each $A_i$ is closed in $C$. Thus we have a topological space $C$ that is the union of $n-1$ closed. But do I still have continuity $f$ restricted to $A_i$ since I am no longer considering them subspaces of $X$ but of $C$? When one says $f|_{A_i}$ is continuous, is one saying that $f$ is continuous when restricted to $A_i$ and $A_i$ is given the subspace topology?  EDIT:  I think I figured out the lemma I need. Claim: Let $A$ and $C$ be subspaces of $X$ such that $A \subseteq C$. Topologize $C$ with subspace topology with respect to $X$. Then the subspace topology on $A$ as a subspace of $X$ (call it $\tau_X$) is the same as the subspace topology of $A$ as a subspace of $C$ (call it $\tau_C$).   Proof: Let $U$ be open in $X$. Then $A \cap U$ is some open set in $A$ as a subspace of $X$. Since $C$ is a subspace of $X$, $C \cap U$ is open in $C$ as a subspace of $X$. Then $A \cap (C \cap U) = (A \cap C) \cap U = A \cap U$ is open in $A$ as a subspace of $C$, thereby proving $\tau_X \subseteq \tau_C$. Now let $O$ be some open set in $C$ as a subspace of $X$. Then $A \cap O$ is some open subset of $A$ as a subspace of $C$. But $O = C \cap U$ for some open set in $X$. Therefore $A \cap O = A \cap (C \cap U)= A \cap U$, which is also open in $A$ as a subspace of $X$. Hence $\tau_C \subseteq \tau_X$  Kind of obvious. But it was hard to spot the need for this lemma when I was considering subspace of subspaces and continuous functions, etc. Am I right in thinking this is the lemma I need? Importance of normal distribution Why did the normal distribution become such a popular (important) distribution? I know one reason is because of CLT. Can you please give more reasons? Topical example:  'There was a scuffle outside the local pub. There appears to be no connection with religious extremists.'  ...but now you're wondering if there was. It's a nasty tactic used to raise fear and doubt - deliberately calling attention to something by explicitly denying it.  What's the term for this? What is so bad about singletons? How do I compare two string variables in an 'if' statement in Bash?