I cannot type the @ sign using Shift+2.  I get " instead. I have tried all sorts of language selection. Why do none of the English selection work.  Setting up email is impossible with no @ sign!
I have Ubuntu on my MacBook 2007 with a Spanish keyboard, on MacOS the @-sign was typed using Alt (Option) + 2, but on Ubuntu I have no idea. I have to copy and paste it every time. How do I type an at sign?
How do I calculate the distance of an object in a photo? how to create facebook event in an android app? Why would the command "ls *" generate an error about invalid options? There is a thread that talks about ls "*" not showing any files, but I actually wonder why the simple  ls *   command doesn't output anything in my terminal other than  ls: invalid option -- '|' Try 'ls --help' for more information.   while   ls   will list all the files in the current directories as    1                  ferol                      readme.txt  2                  fichier                    sarku  2018               GameShell                  Templates  22223333          '-|h4k3r|-'                 test  3                  hs_err_pid2301.log         test2  CA.txt             important.top.secret.txt   toto.text  CA.zip             JavaBlueJProject           tp1_inf1070  countryInfo.txt    liendur                   'tp1_inf1070_A19(2) (1)'  currency           liensymbolique             tp1_inf1070_A19.tar  curreny            LOL                        Videos  Desktop            Longueuil                 'VirtualBox VMs'  Documents          Music                      words  douffos            numbers                    Zip.zip  Downloads          Pictures  examples.desktop   Public   Any ideas as to why the globbing doesn't take effect here? I'm on Ubuntu, working in the terminal, I don't know if it makes a difference.  Thanks. How should one interpret the comparison of means from different sample sizes? Take the case of book ratings on a website. Book A is rated by 10,000 people with an average rating of 4.25 and the variance $\sigma = 0.5$. Similarly Book B is rated by 100 people and has a rating of 4.5 with $\sigma = 0.25$.   Now because of the large sample size of Book A the 'mean stabilized' to 4.25. Now for 100 people, it may be that if more people read Book B the mean rating may fall to 4 or 4.25.   how should one interpret the comparison of means from different samples and what are the best conclusions one can/should draw?    For example - can we really say Book B is better than Book A. When installing OpenBSD 5.1, I got the question:   Do you expect to run the X Windows System?   What change does the installer make to my system if I say "yes"? I know what X Windows is, but I don't know why the installer wants to know if I plan to use it. Does it enable/disable X somehow based on my answer? How can I find tv shows/films similar to one I like? As a general case, how can I find movies or TV shows similar to an existing movie or TV show that I like? How do I manage double-faced cards in Innistrad (MTG) tournament play? How would I go about creating a 3D MMORPG Mouse Look? How would I go about creating a 3D MMORPG Mouse Look? I have created a 3D Space Rpg that is almost finished with success so far. However, I didn't have a clue, how I would attempt to make a Mouse Look method where if a user right clickes and then holds the right mouse button and moves it around the camera moves around with the mouse. The camera can not move away from your character/ship, it should act as if the character/ship is it's origin and that it rotates all around the origin.  I don't mind coding this with python either. Advice is welcome! My question is simple, why do we believe  to be absurd? Is the Ultra-violet catastrophe incorrect or is it only because we can not create or know of a perfect emitter? I am a bit confused as to why Quanta was necessary. $$\frac{1}{n+1}&lt; \log(1+ 1/n)$$  Any ideas? I tried estimating the difference between $1/n$ and the logarithm and comparing with $1/n-1/(n+1)$ but I miserably failed. Why is the MacTeX distribution so large? Is there anything smaller for OS X? I would like to know how to install LaTeX on Mac 10.6 or higher.  But the MacTeX is some 1.28 GB file! Is there a smaller distribution I could install?  What exactly is TeX Live? How to Make Multi User Objects Single User? I duplicated a few objects with Alt+D and now I want to apply some modifiers to them, however I can't, because they are multi-user objects.  I tried U > Objects but I still can't apply the modifier.  How to make multi user objects single user? Let $f$ be defined on $\mathbb{R}$ by $f(x) = e^{-1/x^2}$ for $x$ not equal to $0$. and $f(0)= 0$. Prove that $f^{(n)}(0)=0$ for all $n = 1, 2,3$ ...  Do I need to use Taylor expansion from calculus class?  Any hint would be appreciated. Port error while changing chrome extension from manifest v1 to v2 I've seen animated GIF images of screen casts (like the one below) promoted a few times on this site as a way to improve answers.    What toolchain is being used to create these? Is there a program that does this automagically, or are people taking screencasts, converting them into a series of static frames, and then creating the GIF images? Showing that a sequence is monotone and thus convergent Here's the original question:     Let $(a_n)$ be bounded. Assume that $a_{n+1} \ge a_{n} - 2^{-n}$. Show   that $(a_n)$ is convergent.   Okay, I know that if I can show that if the sequence is monotone, I can conclude that it is convergent. But I am not sure how to show that it is monotone.  I know that  $$a_n \le a_{n+1} + \frac{1}{2^n} &lt; a_{n+1} + \frac{1}{n}$$  It looks to me as if it is monotonically increasing but I'm quite not sure how to prove my claim. Any hints would be appreciated. Is $C[0,1]$ a Banach space for the $L^1$ norm? Is $C[0,1]$ a Banach space with respect to the norm $\|f\| = \int\limits_0^1|f(t)| \, dt$?   People keep telling me it is, but lets consider: $f_n(x) = x^n$. This function defines a Cauchy sequence, yet the limit clearly isn't a continuous function! Command to italicize text with slanted numbers I often find myself adding a lot of \textsl{} around inside \emph{} or \textit{} blocks because I find italicized digits to look too "showoffy" and "baroque" and to hinder legibility (I'm using $$ when the number has a mathematical sense, but this situation occurs in less technical texts like CVs, and such.).  Could someone help me write a renewcommand to automate this, or better, a single low level command that makes \emph, \itshape, \textit and friends choose slanted over italic for numbers? I'm not too familiar with the low level latex font selection system nor with a way to detect digits from regular letters.  Edit: MWE of what I need and what I want to avoid  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} He thought: '\emph{Why 1234567890 apples?}' then he realized '\emph{ah yes, he has \textsl{1234567890} childs}' \end{document}   gives:   I find the italicized version (first one) of 2,3,4 and 7 to look especially bad. Use of Predictable Network Interface Names with alternate kernels Almost constantly, I use kernels from the , or kernels I have compiled myself, using the Ubuntu kernel configuration.  The problem is when I am using the stock kernel it seems to default to using predictable network interface names (i.e. "p4p1"), but when I use any alternate kernel it seems to default to using the old method (i.e. "eth0").  While not really relevant to this question, I had a hard disk failure on my test computer and am doing a new install of Ubuntu Server 14.04.2.  I have not been able to determine what is the difference between the kernels. I suspect a kernel configuration parameter, but have been unable to identify which one.  My question: How can I make predictable network interface names work consistently across all kernels?  Additional notes: Somewhere I saw to disable predictable network interface names to add this to grub:  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"   so, I thought the opposite might help:  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=1 biosdevname=1"   but it made no difference. Actually, I can never get the non-stock kernel to use biosdevname, no matter the setting. And I can never get the stock kernel to generate a /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file (even though, that is not what I want), no matter the setting of net.ifnames. If I have net.ifnames=1, then at least the non-stock kernel doesn't generate an incorrect /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file.  Excerpts from /var/log/udev: stock kernel:  KERNEL[9.216730] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/p4p1 (net) ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/p4p1 IFINDEX=2 INTERFACE=p4p1 SEQNUM=1945 SUBSYSTEM=net ... UDEV  [9.241073] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/p4p1 (net) ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/p4p1 ID_BUS=pci ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=P8P67 and other motherboards ID_MODEL_ID=0x8168 ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enxf46d04652d8e ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp3s0 ID_OUI_FROM_DATABASE=ASUSTek COMPUTER INC. ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Network controller ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Ethernet controller ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ID_VENDOR_ID=0x10ec IFINDEX=2 INTERFACE=p4p1   From Ubuntu PPA kernel 4.1RC5:  KERNEL[10.772566] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0 (net) ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0 IFINDEX=2 INTERFACE=eth0 SEQNUM=1962 SUBSYSTEM=net ... UDEV  [11.185866] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0 (net) ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0 ID_BUS=pci ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE=P8P67 and other motherboards ID_MODEL_ID=0x8168 ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enxf46d04652d8e ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp3s0 ID_OUI_FROM_DATABASE=ASUSTek COMPUTER INC. ID_PCI_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Network controller ID_PCI_SUBCLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Ethernet controller ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ID_VENDOR_ID=0x10ec IFINDEX=2 INTERFACE=eth0 SEQNUM=1962 SUBSYSTEM=net USEC_INITIALIZED=3227   Note: I have temporarily moved past this issue by allowing a /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file to be created, and then editing it for proper device names. Ultimately, I would like to get rid of the file. Which pronoun to refer to "person"? It? He or She? They? "When he found his seat on the plane, Sam recognized the person who was sitting in the seat next to his. It? She? was a woman he knew."  Which is more common/natural? Isn't 'it' more correct – grammatically speaking – than 'she', since 'a person' can be a 'he' or a 'she', and obviously you cannot use the singular 'they' here?