I know this sounds naive but, why can't I log on as root or give my ID root permissions? Why do I have to use Terminal?  I mounted a drive and now want to give permissions to other PC on my network to access the drive.
Why does Ubuntu not allow the GUI users to login as root at the time of system start up like administrator in Windows?  Why they are restricting us to login only through the terminal?
Why don't shell builtins have proper man pages? All shell builtins share the same manual page:  BUILTIN(1)                BSD General Commands Manual               BUILTIN(1)  NAME      builtin, !   etc.   Then there is a little text describing what shell builtins are, and then a list that  looks something like this:    Command       External    csh(1)    sh(1)        !             No          No        Yes        %             No          Yes       No   But if we do man grep we get sections such as   Bugs History See also Standards Description   etc.  Don't shell builtins have their own history, description and arguments like -A or -r? Why isn't that provided in the manual pages and how would I learn to use them correctly and efficiently? Texture mapping with multiple UV maps So, as a newbie relatively new to blender, I started doing some texture mapping (blender internal Render). I created a texture for the main object and a couple of transparent decals to decorate it. (basic effects made in GIMP). Simple stuff, just to know how it works.  After unwrapping, having 2 UV maps made, creating both new material and textures, enabling UV mapping coordination I always end up with:  - all - 1 faces of the cube being covered nicely in the main texture  - 1 face covered in blank material with a decal in the middle of it  - the whole thing partly coated by a huge "stain" of a decal  So, the problem is that I can't layer textures correctly. Is there a way to have one texture covering everything and more transparent ones on top of it? I am working on a bigger project right now and having this ability would be useful Can a lambda function call itself recursively in Python? A regular function can contain a call to itself in its definition, no problem.  I can't figure out how to do it with a lambda function though for the simple reason that the lambda function has no name to refer back to.  Is there a way to do it?  How? How does the drift velocity of electrons in a conductor depend on the temperature? How does the drift velocity of electrons in a conductor depend on the temperature?  I have two contradicting views for this.    First, we can say that increasing the temperature of the conductor will increase the kinetic energy of the electrons. Hence, their drift velocity should increase with increase in temperature.  Or, from the relation $v_d = \frac{eE}{m}T$ ($T$ is the relaxation time) we can say that the drift velocity is directly proportional to the relaxation time. Increasing the temperature will obviously decrease the relaxation time - as collisions will become more frequent - and thus decrease the drift velocity. Hence, an increase in the temperature will cause a decrease in the drift velocity.   So which view is correct? Using Android as network server I want to use my Android device as a network server. In the same kind of way you would make it a Wi-Fi hotspot, but I don't want to allow connected computers to access the internet, I would like them to be able to communicate together.  Possible uses:   Playing games via LAN (e.g., Quake) Allow computers to share files Bonjour (Macs) etc...   Is there any way to achieve this? Any apps out there that will set up a wireless network server? Why is "letter" not plural in "two letter words"? Why is "letter" not plural in "two letter words"?  For me it's very strange as the equivalent in French would be plural but my English friend finds it totally normal. Batch files: How to read a file? How you can read a file (text or binary) from a batch file? There is a way to read it in a binary mode or text mode? What is the best prepaid SIM card for data in France? I'm going to travel to Paris in two weeks for 5 days. I'd like to buy a prepaid SIM card for my phone, no calls or SMS needed - only data is sufficient. I've looked through French mobile operators and found nothing really acceptable. For example, in Finland I bought SIM card for €5 with 3GB of data.   So, the question is - what is the best SIM card for me, assuming that 1GB is enough (considering the prices) and that I am actually will be able to use it (I've read that some operators turn on mobile data only after 5 days which is unacceptable for me considering that I'll be there for 5 days only)? Cardinality of the Cartesian Product of Two Equinumerous Infinite Sets Is the cardinality of the Cartesian product of two equinumerous infinite sets the same as the cardinality of any one of the sets? I couldn't find this explicitly stated in any handout or text. This certainly seems to be true from the examples I have seen:  The Cartesian product of two infinitely countable sets is again infinitely countable. The Cartesian product of two sets with cardinality of continuum again has cardinality of continuum. why does loop-cut-and-slide ignore some faces but not others? How do I get the Ender Dragon egg and what does it do? So I finally killed the Ender Dragon! As I was climbing the portal back to the world, I noticed that on top of the column there was an egg. So I attacked, mined, clicked and nothing happened, it just teleported away. What does the egg do and how do I get it? Why didn't the Hobbits get frostbite? This is a question that's been bothering me for the last couple of days:  How is it that the hobbits of the Fellowship were able to survive such cold temperatures throughout their travels without having any foot protection?   I know it's said that they have thick "leather like" soles, with ample amounts of hair for warmth but still, I don't understand how that could provide much more warmth than for instance a regular leather shoe. On top of this I know that multiple days (or even weeks) of their journey was spent crossing mountain ranges, which, near a summit would have a temperature far below freezing. This combined with the assumption that they only have the warmth of shoes on there feet would have presumably resulted in some level of frostbite. But to my knowledge there is no such mention of these problems in the novels or movies aside from the odd "It's cold".  Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone has some form of explanation to this phenomenon or do hobbits just have really durable feet? No internet connection after ubuntu server 20.04 install, ifconfig not available I recently installed Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS on my desktop, and found out there was no internet connection even though I had the LAN cable connected. ifconfig and iwconfig failed saying the corresponding packages net-tools and wireless-tools were not installed.   EDIT  Here is the info requested. Please find the image What I am looking for is the equivalent of System.Windows.SystemParameters.WorkArea for the monitor that the window is currently on.  Clarification:  The window in question is WPF, not WinForm. Where is my Minecraft folder on Windows? I don't have a minecraft folder. I've looked through forums and videos, followed all the steps. I just don't have one. I have windows 7, and I have "view hidden files" turned on. I have look in the roaming folder of my app data folder, with hidden files turned on. I want to find my folder so I can install a mod, could someone please tell me why my folder isn't showing up? I am writing a report in a 2 column page format. Now I want to insert a rather large picture that requires to use full width of the page and cut the columns horizontally. How can I achiveve this? Please see the images below for what I mean : How to calculate Network Service Areas in QGIS? Clearing Recently used coordinate reference systems using QGIS? After using some non usual SRC for demonstration purpose, I wish to clear my  "Recently used coordinate reference systems" list for the sake of praticity.  Is it possible?   I am using QGIS 2.10.1. How to get world-space matrix of any pose bone? Is there a command for getting world-space matrix of pose bones, same as obj.matrix_world for objects? I found pose_bone.matrix, but it gives weird result for me. Equation numbers are shown in reverse parentheses I am using   \begin{equation} a = b \end{equation}   to write the equations in my paper. However, the problem is that the number related to each equation is not shown in the correct format like the picture   How can I fix this?  This is what I have at the first of my code:  \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[justification=centering]{caption} \usepackage{float} \usepackage{url}% typeset urls \usepackage{times} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{latexsym} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{polyglossia} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{bidi} \newfontfamily\faFont[Script=Arabic]{Yas}  \newenvironment{Fa}{\begin{RTL}\faFont}{\end{RTL}} \newcommand{\fa}[1]{{\faFont\RL{#1}}} \newcommand\Mark[1]{\textsuperscript#1} \definecolor{backcolour}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.92} \definecolor{darkblue}{rgb}{0.95,0.95,0.92} \setmainlanguage{english} \setotherlanguage{farsi} \newfontfamily\farsifont[Script=Arabic]{Yas}