I am a very new user of Ubuntu and am not very tech savy at all!   I have just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and am trying to set up skype on my Dell Inspiron 6400. My Mikomi DC-7120 webcam works but audio input does not. When I go to the sound manager on the system setting tool it shows the audio input device is present  but if I make a noise it does not register this at all. I thought perhaps the microphone on the webcam was not recognized so I tried plugging a set of headphones into the audio input jack: The system recognizes that another input device is present but will not register any sound being "heard" no matter how loud I am.
I have an internal microphone in my laptop. I think it uses Intel High Definition Audio. But I can't get it to work with Ubuntu. It doesn't work with either the Sound Recorder or Skype.  On the Input tab in 'Sound Preferences', I just see Internal Analog Input Device...
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My question comes from Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis," or "Baby Rudin," Ch 1, Example 1.1 on p. 2.  In the second version of the proof, showing that sets A and B do not have greatest or lowest elements respectively, he presents a seemingly arbitrary assignment of a number $q$ that satisfies equations (3) and (4), plus other conditions needed to show that $q$ is the right number for the proof.  As an exercise, I tried to derive his choice of $q$ so that I may learn more about the problem.  If we write equations (3) as $q = p - (p^2 - 2)x$, we can write (4) as   $$ q^2 - 2 = (p^2 - 2)[1 - 2px + (p^2 - 2)x^2]. $$  Here, we need a rational $x &gt; 0$, chosen such that the expression in $[...]$ is positive.  Using the quadratic formula and the sign of $(p^2 - 2)$, it can be shown that we need   $$ x \in \left(0, \frac{1}{p + \sqrt{2}}\right) \mbox{ for } p \in A, $$  or, for $p \in B$, $x &lt; 1/\left(p + \sqrt{2}\right)$ or $x &gt; 1/\left(p - \sqrt{2}\right)$.  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However, MSE is different because you are voting for the entirety of the Stack Exchange network and you shouldn't need to be active on MSE itself to have a voice on changes to the entire network.  This is especially important for questions like  because it will effect every network to do with coding at all. This was brought up in .  I would suggest reducing the rep required to downvote on MSE down to 100 (or 101) rep. This is the amount you get for the site association bonus. This is given once you achieve 200 rep on any network site and shows that you are active in at least one community. I think this would be the perfect use of the association bonus in showing that you are a member of the Stack Exchange community. I am presenting a paper at a computer science conference.  The paper I submitted to the conference mentioned future work that would significantly enhance the utility of the method.  This work was work that was always planned to be part of the same "project" as the work in the paper, indeed the conference paper is presented as a part way step towards doing X, and the future work is what takes it all the way.  The extension was quite involved (and not quite complete when I submitted the paper for review). They day before I left for the conference that work was "completed", in that a journal article about it was submitted for review.  Now when I present at the conference, in the conclusion I want to mention the future work&nbsp;&ndash; at least to the extent that it was described in the conference paper. Should I go into more detail? Should I even mention that "This work is now complete, and is under review for publication"? Center figure that is wider than \textwidth How to add days to current Date using JavaScript. Does JavaScript have a built in function like .Net's AddDay? If $a > b$, is $a^2 > b^2$? 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I do not want to have to join two objects, nor have to extrude an object. I just want to have a simple eight-sided die created with one mesh. How to bake to vertex colors in blender cycles? Careers - Search Book JS error Searching for books in the careers profile section throws JS errors for me. Inspecting it seems like the AJAX call is fine, just the JS parsing is throwing errors:   Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: &lt;div class="book"&gt; How to search only unanswered questions with an open bounty ? Which statistical test to analyse? I am trying to find out how inflammatory markers change in response to a mechanical device change. I have daily readings for the 5 days before the event and for the 5 days after the event. I am expecting a rise in inflammatory markers in the pre readings followed by a fall after the device change. I also need to find out how the change differs in two subgroups (sample sizes of the subgroups are n=21 and n=88). 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