Which lines do change after a sync in /proc/meminfo ?
Can I watch the progress of a `sync` operation?
Look at  edit. I didn't really expect that I would able to suggest adding  tag, but I could!  How is it possible? (seems that usual users can add mod-only tags without moderator help!)  Edit  Oded removed  back :-( Show that $d_2$ defined by $d_2(x,y)=\frac{|x-y|}{1+|x-y|}$ is a metric "Didn't use to get" or "Didn't used to get"? I just made a minor , and  the grammar correction was unnecessary.  The original text was     Another factor--sometimes life happens and you can't fly. In the old days you could simply sell your ticket to someone else, now you either have to eat a hefty change fee or lose it outright. That's money in their pockets that they didn't used to get.   It was corrected to:     Another factor--sometimes life happens and you can't fly. In the old days you could simply sell your ticket to someone else, now you either have to eat a hefty change fee or lose it outright. That's money in their pockets that they didn't use to get.    Was this grammatical correction an improvement? Was the original text grammatically correct? Is the edited text grammatically correct? I accidentally issued some commands I thought were safe in the terminal, and I ended up with no System Settings and lots of other missing functionality, but the OS still boots normally. I've decided I want to install Lubuntu instead of fixing Ubuntu for a fresh start and since my laptop is running on a 1GHz dual core AMD CPU.  I created a bootable USB as I usually do and placed Lubuntu 17.10 amd64 using Rufus 2.14.1086. I have GRUB that was installed with Ubuntu upon first install I still have Win8.1 which I still want to keep.  PS: I also tried creating a startup disk from Ubuntu  The question is: How can I boot from USB with GRUB2 so I can overwrite Ubuntu? Is the following scheme for generating $p_n=(1/3)^n$ stable or not. $p_n=(5/6)p_{n-1}-(1/6)p_{n-2}$. "I will appreciate your help" I encounter the phrase "I will appreciate your help" from time to time and it doesn't sound too honest to me. To be more specific, I don't have a problem with this phrase coming from a friend, because he will appreciate my help by "owing me one". But a stranger from the Internet, that's different, methinks.  "How will you appreciate it?" pops in my mind every time I see it, because to me, appreciation equals reward and, well, you can't reward people over the internet much. It is quite possible that I am just wrong and this is a perfectly fine figure of speech. Old post apocalyptic cartoon where the main character has red hair and lives with a nomadic group I am looking for an animated TV series which was probably made in the '80s or '90s.  The main character had red hair.  The cartoon is set in a post apocalyptic environment and the character lives with his mother and an old man —his mentor I guess— with a nomadic group.  In one early episode, one of the group is wounded in an ambush, he is taken back to the camp where the mentor performs surgery which is revealed he learned during the war. The wound is caused by a bullet, then the mentor is surprised saying that guns were lost and forgotten.  In another episode the main character is captured and sent to a prison. Then after he escapes with other prisoners, they look outside the gate and see grass and soil which they either didn't see in their lives or were in the prison for a long time.  The main character later finds a sword like Excalibur which can cause some sort of electrical disruptions.  I think his mother was kidnapped in the beginning. Calculating difference in dates in Java I find it funny that Java (or the java.util library) does not have a built-in function to calculate difference in dates. I want to subtract one date from another to get the elapsed time between them. What is the best way to do this?   I know the simple way is to take the difference of the time in milliseconds and then convert that into days. However, I wanted to know if this works in all cases (with daylight saving, etc.). What's the best way to communicate between view controllers? Being new to objective-c, cocoa, and iPhone dev in general, I have a strong desire to get the most out of the language and the frameworks.  One of the resources I'm using is Stanford's CS193P class notes that they have left on the web.  It includes lecture notes, assignments and sample code, and since the course was given by Apple dev's, I definitely consider it to be "from the horse's mouth".  Class Website:   Lecture 08 is related to an assignment to build a UINavigationController based app that has multiple UIViewControllers pushed onto the UINavigationController stack.  That's how the UINavigationController works.  That's logical.  However, there are some stern warnings in the slide about communicating between your UIViewControllers.  I'm going to quote from this serious of slides:   Page 16/51:     How Not To Share Data         Global Variables or singletons         This includes your application delegate      Direct dependencies make your code less reusable         And more difficult to debug &amp; test         Ok.  I'm down with that.  Don't blindly toss all your methods that will be used for communicating between the viewcontroller into your app delegate and reference the viewcontroller instances in the app delegate methods.  Fair 'nuff.  A bit further on, we get this slide telling us what we should do.  Page 18/51:     Best Practices for Data Flow         Figure out exactly what needs to be communicated   Define input parameters for your view controller   For communicating back up the hierarchy, use loose coupling         Define a generic interface for observers (like delegation)         This slide is then followed by what appears to be a place holder slide where the lecturer then apparently demonstrates the best practices using an example with the UIImagePickerController.  I wish the videos were available! :(  Ok, so... I'm afraid my objc-fu is not so strong.  I'm also a bit confused by the final line in the above quote.  I've been doing my fair share of googling about this and I found what appears to be a decent article talking about the various methods of Observing/Notification techniques:   Method #5 even indicates delegates as an method!  Except.... objects can only set one delegate at a time.  So when I have multiple viewcontroller communication, what am I to do?  Ok, that's the set up gang.  I know I can easily do my communication methods in the app delegate by reference's the multiple viewcontroller instances in my appdelegate but I want to do this sort of thing the right way.  Please help me "do the right thing" by answering the following questions:   When I am trying to push a new viewcontroller on the UINavigationController stack, who should be doing this push.  Which class/file in my code is the correct place? When I want to affect some piece of data (value of an iVar) in one of my UIViewControllers when I am in a different UIViewController, what is the "right" way to do this? Give that we can only have one delegate set at a time in an object, what would the implementation look like for when the lecturer says "Define a generic interface for observers (like delegation)".  A pseudocode example would be awfully helpful here if possible. Why didn't the rebels on Hoth use X-Wings to fight AT-ATs? do a good job explaining why the Imperial forces didn't have fighter protection for their ground force on Hoth.  But nothing there explains why the Rebels didn't use X-Wings to easily dispatch the AT-ATs and buy more time. They obviously had them available because they were sending them off with transports and some of these were obviously not sent until after "defending" the base (since a few of the pilots of the X-Wings were the Rogue Squadron pilots fighting in the Battle of Hoth).  This happens in the EU in the book  (in fact, the cover picture shows this scene) with great success and Wedge actually comments, on page 120:     Back then we were in airspeeders - undergunned and overmatched... Not the case this time [referring to being in X-Wings against AT-ATs instead of speeders on Hoth]   This indicates X-Wings can perform in cold conditions - there was snow in this environment as described by Corran Horn after he is shot down. The temperature difference between day-time on Hoth and here is unknown however.  Additionally, the X-Wings were able to destroy the AT-ATs with their laser cannons only - no grappling was required.  I suspect the answer is basically "because that would have been boring to watch on-screen" but it seems there may have been an actual in-universe reason outside of this. Cancel/kill window.setTimeout() before it happens I have a few places where I use the line below to clear out a status, for example.  I have a few of these that hang out for 10 seconds or more and if the user gets clicking around the action can occur at incorrect time intervals.  window.setTimeout(function() { removeStatusIndicator(); }, statusTimeout);   Is it possible to cancel or kill this with some jQuery or JavaScript code, so I don't have this process hanging around? How to choose input method on Kubuntu 18.04? Which is correct?        She was told that it was against the law to steal.      Or        She was told that it is against the law to steal.        Background information: The original context is that I was relating an incident via email, where my colleague told a customer that some of our actions were part of the organisation's policy. The policy is still valid, but the statement I used to relate the incident in my email went like this:    "Mr Jay was informed that it was our policy to do this."   And I received feedback that it should go like this instead:    "Mr Jay was informed that it is our policy to do this." Where did Harry's parents get all of their money from? So, at the beginning of Harry Potter, Harry is found to have a large vault of gold at Gringotts. Where did all of that money come from? What did James (I assume it came from him, as Lily was muggle-born, and they were both young) do to get all of that cash? I use (and have it much bigger) drive D: to store all my user data and games, but I have installed the Steam client on drive C:. When I was installing a first game (Warhammer 40000), I've chosen to place my library folder on drive D: and the game went there.  But now as I've got installed the second game (Portal), I can see that it was put on drive C: despite to the choice I've done previously. When I open Steam - Settings - Downloads + Cloud - Steam library folders, I can see both installation places in the list. Can I merge them into one?  I would even agree to use the default drive C: library (as I've replaced it with a symlink already). When I press to remove one library it says it can only remove empty ones. Non-finite clause complementation of complex transitive verbs This question has been bothering me for a while. It came up when I was reading Chapter 16 of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language."   How to explain the grammatical structure of the following four sentences?    "We knew him to be a spy." "I saw her leave the room." "I heard someone shouting." "I got the watch repaired."    What category do the four non-finite clauses in boldface fall into? They do not seem to fall into any of relative, nominal, comparative and adverbial clauses. What is the difference between == and === in php. I am unsure when to use both.  Updated note: So that it shows up in StackOverflow search, the difference between == and === is the same as the difference between != and !==. Is there a website with historical temperatures and weather data? I am interested in hiking this fall in France and camping along the way. In order to figure what gear I need to pack to camp (particularly for the sleeping bag), I would like to know what temperatures to expect.  I am interested in historical temperatures to figure the usual temperature and I might look at them for other seasons. If that matters, I am thinking about hiking in the Pays Basque (South West of France), the mountainous part.  Where (ideally online and for free) can I find such data? Are there resources that cover Europe, or even the whole world? How to get Beamer Math to look like Article Math In a LaTeX article, the math characters are more "curvy" than the text characters:  \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document}  $x^2 + y^2 = z^2$ \end{document}     In a beamer presentation, the math characters do not have the same curves:  \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame}  $x^2 + y^2 = z^2$ \end{frame} \end{document}     Question  How can I get the beamer math to look just like the article math?  I would prefer if the solution was a single line (that I could place at the top of my LaTeX file) as opposed to something that needs to appear next to every piece of math. I have two PHP scripts, both using the same session by calling session_name('MySessID').  When the first script calls the second script using curl, the second script hangs when session_start() is called.  Why would this happend?