Download entire Ubuntu One folders from the web client?
How to download all files from Ubuntu One?
Suppose $R$ is a ring and every prime ideal of $R$ is also a maximal ideal of $R$. Then what can we say about the ring $R$? Is it possible to cross the Wagan border by car? I was planning a trip by car when I found something a bit weird in :if you try to cross from Lahore to India, it tells that you have to 6457 km detour.  Is it possible to cross this border driving? If not, is there another way to cross without having to make more than 6000 km? Randomly place and scale objects? How soon can I re-apply for a UK visa after getting a refusal? Apparently, there are $\frac{(2n)!}{2^nn!}$ ways to break $2n$ people into partnerships. Why?   An explanation reads that there are $2n!$ ways to line people up. If we just pair adjacent people in the line up, we would have overcounted. So we must divide by $2^n n!$.  My question is why do we divide by $2^n n!$ specifically to adjust for overcounting?  Furthermore, this problem can apparently be solved by taking a skip factorial of odd values:  $(2n-1)(2n-3)(2n-5) ... (5)(3)(1)$  Why is that so? What does this skip factorial have to do with the problem? The process substitution &lt;(cat) doesn't work. Why?  head &lt;(cat)  cat: -: Input/output error   I can use an extra file descriptor, but I don't understand why the above doesn't work.  # Using file descriptor 3 to reroute the input (head &lt;(cat &lt;&amp;3)) 3&lt;&amp;0 Determining if a game is CPU- or GPU-limited What is a reliable, but not too time-consuming way to determine if a certain game is limited by the graphics card or by the processor speed?  I have some preconceptions about whether I'm mostly GPU or CPU limited, but I'd like to verify if I'm right about that. I have some ideas how I would go around and test that but performing accurate benchmarks is notoriously tricky and I don't have much experience with it.   So I'm wondering what would be an easy way to determine the bottleneck, having only one computer with a certain configuration available? What tools would I use for that purpose?  It would also be interesting to determine if the amount of VRAM on my graphics card is a limiting factor. Getting "'file' is different from the same file on the system" when I attempt to update through synaptic Encountered an error while updating through Synaptic Manager. Subsequent updates gave the error at the bottom of the output. I'm a noob so any help is appreciated.  al@al:~$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following NEW packages will be installed:   libjack-jackd2-0:i386 The following packages have been kept back:   linux-headers-generic skype 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/202 kB of archives. After this operation, 493 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 310056 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libjack-jackd2-0:i386 (from .../libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb (--unpack):  './usr/share/doc/libjack-jackd2-0/buildinfo.gz' is different from the same file on the system dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing:  /var/cache/apt/archives/libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.2-1precise1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How can I refinance or get out of a car loan I am upside down on? I purchased a car a little over 1 year ago a 2012 Dodge Avenger and recently went to get it refinanced and found out that because I'm so upside down that I can't get it refinanced I still owe over 15,000 and the car is only worth about 8000. I'm so bothered by this a few days ago I received a pre-approval letter from capital one bank for 35,000 so how can I go about doing this if I trade the car in I will have to put down a substantial amount of money in order to get out of this car. Can I just get the other car and turn the other one in. What should I do This is a follow up from this .  I'm using this slightly modified script to enumerate all installed MSI packages:  strComputer = "."  Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" &amp; _     "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" &amp; _     strComputer &amp; _     "\root\cimv2")  Set colSoftware = objWMIService.ExecQuery _     ("SELECT * FROM Win32_Product")     If colSoftware.Count &gt; 0 Then     For Each objSoftware in colSoftware         WScript.Echo objSoftware.Caption &amp; vbtab &amp; _         objSoftware.Version     Next Else     WScript.Echo "Cannot retrieve software from this computer." End If   What is surprising however, is its abysmal performance. Enumerating the 34 installed MSI packages on my XP box takes between 3 and 5 minutes !  By comparison, the Linux box that sits besides is taking 7s to enumerate 1400+ RPMs... sigh  Any clues on this ? Can I backup my entire Ubuntu installation to ISO DVD? How many rectangles or triangles. I have come across numerous questions where I am given the picture such as the above one been asked "how many rectangles are there?". I have even come across some slightly different images that instead of rectangles you are supposed to find the number of triangles. Well, I was thinking whether there is any formula or strategy that is used to solve these problems without having to manually count every shape.  Help would be appreciated.  Thank you :) What is the difference between [0-9]+ and [0-9]++? Rigorous proof that surjectivity implies injectivity for finite sets So Black Holes Actually Merge! In 1/5th of a Second - How? I've read a lot of conflicting answers in these forums. However, today saw the awesome announcement of gravitational waves. Two black holes merged:   Not only that, they merged FAST. In 1/5th of a second revolving around each other 250 times a second. The entire event was quicker than a heartbeat. Moreover, we observed this happening as distant outsiders. So now we can say for sure:   Objects approaching the event horizon DO NOT appear to slow down Black holes CAN merge in a finite (and quick) amount of time And all this is wrt a frame of reference far, far away   To quote the NYTimes article:  One of them was 36 times as massive as the sun, the other 29. As they approached the end, at half the speed of light, they were circling each other 250 times a second.  And then the ringing stopped as the two holes coalesced into a single black hole, a trapdoor in space with the equivalent mass of 62 suns. All in a fifth of a second, Earth time.  However, everything I've read so far has let me to believe that an outside observer should never be able to measure the collision happening in a finite time. So what exactly is happening here? I must have read at lest 5 different versions of this so far everywhere in these forums over the past several years. Showing that $\int\limits_{-a}^a \frac{f(x)}{1+e^{x}} \mathrm dx = \int\limits_0^a f(x) \mathrm dx$, when $f$ is even I have a question:     Suppose $f$ is continuous and even on $[-a,a]$, $a&gt;0$ then prove that   $$\int\limits_{-a}^a \frac{f(x)}{1+e^{x}} \mathrm dx = \int\limits_0^a f(x) \mathrm dx$$   How can I do this? Don't know how to start. Get OS-level system information Use character string as function argument Find all n such that $\phi(n) = n/2$ My idea for the solution is something like this:  Since $2 | n$, $n = 2^a p_1^{e1} p_2^{e2} \cdots p_t^{et}$ where $a \geq 1$.  Then, $n/2 = \phi(2^a) \phi(p_1^{e1}) \phi(p_2^{e2}) \cdots \phi(p_t^{et})$.  Looking at the case that $t = 0$,  $n/2 = \phi(2^a) = 2^{a-1}$, and therefore $n = 2^a$.  Otherwise, $n = 2^a \phi(p_1^{e1}) \phi(p_2^{e2}) \cdots \phi(p_t^{et}) = n = 2^a p_1^{e1} p_2^{e2} \cdots p_t^{et}$. Since $\phi(n) &lt; n$, this is a contradiction, and therefore, the only $n$'s that apply are the powers of 2.  Is this right? Also, we were asked to find $n$ such that $\phi(n) = n/3$. How would I go about that one? Apt "could not find a distribution template" error When I attempt to install anything using apt-get I get the following error:  Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 60, in &lt;module&gt;     sp = SoftwareProperties()      File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 90, in __init__     self.reload_sourceslist()   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 538, in reload_sourceslist     self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)       File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 90, in get_sources     raise NoDistroTemplateException("Error: could not find a " aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template   Any idea what this means and how to resolve it?