I had horrible experience installing Ubuntu on my machine with Nvidia. Just want to hear some expert advice. Currently using Linux Mint but want to switch back to any Ubuntu flavor, just not sure which is best.
For a given hardware configuration, how do I find out if Ubuntu will run on it? What considerations should I take into account when choosing an Ubuntu version and  such as:    with a lighter desktop than the usual Gnome and Unity  with the even lighter LXDE desktop   Obviously Ubuntu does not run on some processor architectures. So how do I go about choosing the right version and derivate. How can I find out the minmal system requirements?
Showing a recursive sequence isn't bounded $a_{n+1}=a_n+\frac 1 {a_n}$ Careers: What does "allows remote" mean? When a posting is marked "allows remote", does it mean work in the office some days, work from home some days?  Or does it mean you could actually live out of town and maybe fly in as needed?  The reason I ask is I'm really interested in public facing software rather than internal/enterprise stuff, and most of that seems to happen in a few very expensive cities.  Given it's so hard to hire in places like SV/NYC, it seems like it could be a good scenario for companies if a developer had a really solid list of accomplishments, but I don't know how many companies think this way. Help with this trigonometry problem Prove the given identity.  $$\left(\sin\frac {9\pi}{70}+ \sin\frac {29\pi}{70} - \sin\frac {31\pi}{70}\right) \left(\sin\frac {\pi}{70}-\sin\frac {11\pi}{70} - \sin\frac {19\pi}{70}\right) =\frac {\sqrt {5} -4}{4}$$  Please help, I could not gather enough ideas, even on how to get to the first step. I thought of using the transformation formula (from sum to product) but did not find a fruitful result.   UPDATE 1.:  $\left(-\frac{1 +\sqrt{5}}{8} + \frac{1}{8} \sqrt{14\left(5 - \sqrt{5} \right)}\right)\left(-\frac{ 1+ \sqrt{5}}{8} -\frac{1}{8} \sqrt{14 \left(5 -\sqrt{5} \right)}\right) $,    I noticed that Alexis had got to this point.  Can anyone explain me how did he get here, with calculations. Please help.  Thanks in Advance. In Portal, we are promised cake and a party at the end of our tests. However;       we soon discover that the cake is a lie.     Then, at the final scene;       there really is a cake (and my companion cube is waiting for me).   What's the meaning of this?  Was GLADOS not deceiving me? Her comments seem to suggest that;       ...she had the intention of killing me. Was the cake for us (player) and not for the character in the game? How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely? Maintenance plan for creating transaction log backups I have a database that is set to the 'Full' recovery model, and I'm creating a maintenance plan to backup the Transaction Log every 15 minutes. A full backup is then taken once every 24 hours.  I was wondering: will the maintenance plan for the transaction logs create a lot of different files every 15 minutes, or will it by default append to the same file for 24 hours?  Also: what is preferred? I couldn't find anything on this subject (or maybe I was Googling the wrong words).  Thanks for any pointers anyone can give me.  EDIT: I also see that the checkmark "Verify backup integrity" is OFF by default. Is there a risk with turning it on? It seems to be that it should be on by default, so is there a reason for not using this? I was wondering in C++ if I have an enum can I access the value at the second index?  For example I have  enum Test{hi, bye};   if I want 'hi', can I do something like Test[0], thanks. Evolution threads extra lines before signature In-universe explanation for single line of planetary entry/departure in Star Wars The last two digits of $9^{9^9}$ I tried to calculate the last two digits of $9^{9^9}$ using Euler's Totient theorem, what I got is that it is same as the last two digits of $9^9$.   How do I proceed further? I had a Windows 7 installation on my 1TB SSD laptop with 4 primary partitions. I wanted to install Lubuntu Linux but the process failed with an error which kind of said:     cannot write MBR   It gave me an option to put an MBR somewhere else or to boot without MBR. None of these options worked and it became a useless install. After this failed dual boot attempt, Windows would give a BSOD wit Code 007 ending - translated to inaccessible boot device. That is a huge NTFS partition and I don't think I have any other media to back it up before formatting it.  My only option is somehow rebuilding the old MBR. Hence I started creating a whole bunch of live USB boot environments  including Super GRUB Disk and MiniTool Partition Editor Live CD, but none of this could ever help me recover my lost MBR.  Win PE 4.0 reported the partition as bad disc and the latest version did not even have an option for MBR. I managed to create a live USB with Testdisk Running on Ubuntu. Whatever partition was seen as HPFS on quick  search was written in the MBR and after this the disc is totally unreadable. Earlier I could see my data through Linux and now I can see nothing.  Here are my questions:   When some data could be read (but Windows would not boot) the MBR was shown as dynamic MBR. As far as I know dynamic MBR is a Windows concept and my Linux attempt would not have converted it. While installing Linux I tried to delete 2 primary partitions which I found to be not really useful (I backed up their data first). So I am not sure what created the dynamic MBR.  Did my dual install convert those basic MBR to dynamic MBR? How did that happen? Here is a screenshot of my deep search attempt with TestDisk which is still in progress. I can see 4 NTFS partitions and one of these two system partitions should be the original MBR. When I tried to write both these system partitions (after stopping the deep search momentarily) I got an error like "partition not found". The file system utility showed me that there is no backup sector and that may be the reason why it cannot be read.  What other Resorts do I have, other than doing a plain format and then using some recovery tool to recover all my lost data? I am not even sure I will recover the folder names.  What other options should I be trying to restore my old MBR so Windows can boot?      Update  as of last I managed to create a live USB w/ W7  I used AOMEI Partition assistant 6.0 and on deeper  search I can see the 909 gb partition - it wont let me select it for recovery. I am sorry if my earlier Q was not clear. I referred to restoring an MBR from a partition . What happened earlier  - superficial search revealed all old partitions but NOT this one   and the later partitions showed up on Deep search &amp; I can select Other partitions for recovery but for this one. It wont let me select the partition I want  Here are some more screen shots    So in summary all that happened is   4 primary windows 7 partition -->  wanted to install Linux so I deleted 2 non bootable partitions after backing them up  ended up with BSOD ( inaccessible boot device ) and noticed that some windows partitions showed up as Dynamic MBR  (using Live USB Linux,gparted )  Use standard testdisk procedure to write MBR from the superficial NTFS-HDFS partition.  this is where I screwed up . Hindsight I should have really done a deep search and caught the 901gb partition to write MBR. I am not sure if I can undo this action  after this - life gets worse. I am  on a ventilator ! Now C is unreadable by windows and linux both and testdisk cannot list file ( see screenshots ) and I have been using a series of live USB's with some recovery s/w but no luck. ALL I want is to recreate that 901gb partition and the boot partition and put the MBR on the latter so I can get my windows 7 back again difference between not to verb , to not + verb "Name three things that, if you were told were part of the job, would cause you to not take the position. "   I've just come across this sentence while reading the news.   Question is: Why to not is used instead of not to? This usage in this way imposes different meaning? Can unconscious characters be willing? This situation came up last week during our session. The party was facing a pretty difficult mob of enemies and one of the party members was knocked unconscious. Seeing the situation worsening, one of the players decided to use the  (DMG p. 197). In the text, it says:     The rod then instantly transports you and up to 199 other willing creatures you can see to a paradise that exists in an extraplanar space.   At first glance I thought this was actually a pretty good time to use the rod. The question came up though, what about the party member who is unconscious? In the end I made the call that the character went with them to keep things moving and more fun.  However, I'm feeling like back pedaling a bit and notifying my players that for future uses, the line "... willing creatures..." will be more strictly enforced as I don't feel like an unconscious creature could be willing.  Did I handle this the right way? How can I tell which cards or sets are currently legal in various formats? Vertical space in lists What is the best way to globally change the amount of vertical space between items in list environments? Why did Dumbledore 'put on' the Resurrection Stone (Ring)? Dumbledore put on Marvolo's ring, knowing that it was the Resurrection Stone which was on the ring. He also knew (even though he &quot;lost his head&quot; in his excitement to see his family again) that the ring was a Horcrux and would &quot;surely carry a curse&quot;:  When I discovered it, after all those years, buried in the abandoned home of the Gaunts - the Hallow I had craved most of all, though in my youth I had wanted it for very different reasons - I lost my head, Harry. I quite forgot that it was now a Horcrux, that the ring was sure to carry a curse. I picked it up, and I put it on...  -Deathly Hallows, Ch 35 - KING'S CROSS Now when Harry realised that the Resurrection Stone was inside the Snitch, all he had to do was turn it three times for it to 'work':  He closed his eyes and turned the stone over in his hand three times. He knew it had happened, because he heard slight movements around him that suggested frail bodies shifting their footing on the earthy, twig-strewn ground that marked the outer edge of the forest.  -Deathly Hallows, Ch 34 - THE FOREST AGAIN I may be missing something, but did Dumbledore incorrectly use the Resurrection Stone? or did Harry just 'think' that he had to turn it thrice? I'm assuming the answer may have been that Dumbledore wanted to have the ring on, and then turn it thrice whenever he felt like conjuring up his family; or that he simply &quot;lost his head&quot;; but he surely didn't need to put it on right? What is the correct way to use the Resurrection Stone? When I´m in a secure part of a web-site I´m developing (entering a specific page or folder using https), the relative links to the normal pages are automatically converted to https as well. Is there a way to tell an &lt;a&gt; tag to always use the http protocol instead of the https protocol (or the other way around)? I know it´s easy using the complete link ( or ), but I would like it to work with relative links (index.html, ../index.html, etc.). How can I create a progress bar with bash?  This is my script :  #!/bin/bash  pass='number1 number12 number13 number14 number15 number16'  chk='number14'  for i in $pass ; do    if [ "$i" == "$chk" ]; then      echo ' Found ^_^'    else      echo 'loading 50%'    fi  done   I want to replace echo 'loading 50%' with anything to create an progress bar. Good tool for finding photo duplicates based on image data What is a good (and preferably free) tool for finding photo duplicates based on the photos themselves?  So, not filename, filesize etc., but how the photos look like. It would be nice if it managed to match photos that were the same image, but not exactly the same size for example too. 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