I have an old desktop(2010) which has certain limitations - no boot possible from USB or DVD...so i need to go with mini.iso of ubuntu 14.0.4 and then installed ubuntu along side Windows 10. This desktop has 7 GB of RAM, dual core processor(AMD Athlon X2), 256 MB Graphics card and around 1.7 TB of hard drive...overall good configuration to run Ubuntu into Xwindows mode(default Ubuntu Desktop). How i can upgrade to the Ubuntu Desktop 14.0.4 or Ubuntu Desktop 15.x? What i am seeing is a very basic CLI kind of interface after using this mini.iso....Moreover my keyboard is not fully mapped it seems...how to fix that?  Bottomline i need to get into the XWindows mode(default ubuntu Desktop) and then use this as a regular Ubuntu Desktop system. CLI is very limited according to me.  Found some other issues with mini.iso installation - because it's more like a command line installation....good amount of manual stuff(selection of packages etc... required on my side)...Keyboard layout was wrongly set..and some other issues. I am talking about mini.iso which has Ubuntu Desktop 64 bit image. Desktop should have the XWindows kind of interface rather than just CLI.
Trying to run a Ubuntu server for the first time... But everything is in a terminal. Is there a way to switch to a GUI?
So here is the problem      Solve $$4^x + 6^x = 9^x$$ for $x$.   I am trying to find its real solution.  I was trying in this way!! $$6^x\left( \frac {4^x}{6^x} + 1\right) = 9^x$$ $$\left({\frac 23}\right)^x +1=\left({\frac 32}\right)^x$$ but I'm stuck . . . Will anyone help ? Is there something like Linux console in Mac OS X? Like "terminal", but without running graphics environment. A word for something that is deeper, more compelling than what is obvious or visible How long can a flag remain active? I have flagged the following question as a duplicate.    Now I want to know: after how long time will it be stated as active?  I do not have problem with anything here. I just want to know after how long time the request (of a duplicate question) will automatically be rejected or approved.  OK, I got the things, so it will remain active until moderators will have a look at it...  But don't you think we should have a limit that after a certain number of days this kind of request will be dropped (or cancelled)? Unable to format internal drive as APFS on 2018 MacBook Pro I’ve recently ran a semi-routine clean install on my 2018 MacBook Pro. This involves the following steps (in the given order):   Creating a USB installer with the latest macOS Mojave 10.14.2. Booting into the USB (Pressing Option key on boot). Using the Disk Utility, erasing the Disk and formatting it as APFS with a GPT Partition scheme. Using the Terminal, unmounting the disk diskutil unmountDisk disk0, where disk0 is the internal NVME drive. Using the Terminal, running gpt destroy disk0 where disk0. Using the Terminal, running diskutil zeroDisk disk0. Once that process is complete, I use the Disk Utility application to reformat as APFS, and install macOS.   Nothing super crazy, maybe a little redundant in steps, maybe a little overkill, maybe a little unnecessary.  Recently, however, on the final step where I format it as a APFS drive, it fails in creating the APFS container and says Internal State Error. It appears to first format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) then create an APFS container, then add a APFS Volume. It fails when adding a Volume with An internal error occurred.  I have tried many things, including:   Securely erasing the drive diskutil secureErase 0 disk0. Simply zeroing the disk again diskutil zeroDisk disk0 (I’m not sure what the actual difference between these two are). Reformatting the drive as other things, such as ExFAT / FAT / MacOS Journaled, then trying to format as APFS. Reformatting the drive through the command line instead: diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ NAME disk0 → diskutil apfs createContainer /dev/disk0s2 → diskutil apfs addVolume disk0s2 APFS NAME (It fails here with Error starting APFS Container creation: The given disk is not an APFS Container Reference (-69630), even though I just made a container there. Also, trying to add a volume to where it actually made the container (i don't know what it does this) diskutil apfs addVolume disk24 APFS NAME also fails with Error: -69624: Unable to add a new APFS Volume to an APFS Container Reformatting the drive using this: diskutil eraseDisk APFS NAME disk0 Restarting and trying these again. Using a different installer than the USB (The one from Command + R, Command + Shift + R, and whatever the other combo is), and trying these again.   All end up at the same thing - the final step fails. I would expect especially after a secure wipe that the drive would be removed from whatever state it was put in, or that if it was a bug with the 10.14.2 installer, that it still wouldn’t happen again in the High Sierra installer. In Disk Utility, I’m left with the following structure:  - APPLE SSD AP(...) // “Container disk24” takes up all space      - Container disk24 // or some other number. “Used” is 207.2MB and “Free” is 1TB.   Please note even though I can format as JHFS+, it won’t let me install the OS to such a formatted volume. The installer tells me this computer forces me to only install on APFS formatted volumes.  Any direction is greatly appreciated. I have never had such a silly problem before. Also, note that I have no Time Machine backup. Ruby block and unparenthesized arguments I extracted simple example:  require 'pp' x = 1..3 pp x.map do |i| {:value =&gt; i, :double =&gt; (i*2)} end pp x.map { |i| {:value =&gt; i, :double =&gt; (i*2)} }  pp(x.map do |i| {:value =&gt; i, :double =&gt; (i*2)} end) pp(x.map { |i| {:value =&gt; i, :double =&gt; (i*2)} })   I am wondering why first pp produces:  [1, 2, 3]   While all the oders are giving:  [{:value=&gt;1, :double=&gt;2}, {:value=&gt;2, :double=&gt;4}, {:value=&gt;3, :double=&gt;6}]   I assume it has something to do with operator precedence. Where can I find good explanation? How can I list all user names and/or home directories? I want to list all the users dirs on the machine.Usually, I will do:  ls -l /home   But I use it in a script that will be deployed on others machines and maybe on that machines they don't call it home (e.g. myHome). So I want to generalize it to ls -l ~. But it just lists my users home dirs instead of all users home dirs name (basically I want to get a list of the users names on the machine). How can I generalize it? 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? How to get distance when acceleration is not constant? I have a background in calculus but don't really know anything about physics.  Forgive me if this is a really basic question.  The equation for distance of an accelerating object with constant acceleration is:  $$d=ut        +\frac{1}{2}at^2$$  which can also be expressed  $$d=\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{\mathrm{d}t}t+\frac{\mathrm{d^2}x}{\mathrm{d}t^2}\frac{t^2}{2}$$  (where x(t) is the position of the object at time t)  That's fine for a canonball or something like that, but what about a car accelerating from 0 to cruising speed?  The acceleration is obviously not constant, but what about the change in acceleration?  Is it constant?  I suspect not.  And then what about the change in the change of acceleration, etc. etc.?  In other words, how does one know how many additional terms to add in the series?  $$d=\frac{\mathrm{d}x}{\mathrm{d}t}t+\frac{\mathrm{d^2}x}{\mathrm{d}t^2}\frac{t^2}{2}+\frac{\mathrm{d^3}x}{\mathrm{d}t^3}\frac{t^3}{3}+\frac{\mathrm{d^4}x}{\mathrm{d}t^4}\frac{t^4}{4}\cdot etc. \cdot ?$$ If $(\log_4 x)^2= (\log_2 x)(\log_a x)$ (the $4$ is the little number next to log by the way) , find the value of $a$. Couldn't find hvm kernel for Ubuntu tree This command:  virt-install   \    --name bla  \    --ram=1024  \    --disk path=/home/me/libvirt/images/bla.qcow2,bus=virtio,size=10  \    --location /home/me/Downloads/ubuntu-18.10-desktop-amd64.iso   Reports:  ERROR    Couldn't find hvm kernel for Ubuntu tree.   How can I fix this?  (Since there are many duplicate posts and answers with regard to this issue, I am answering it, too.) Evaluate $\lim_{n\to \infty} \sum_{r=1}^n \frac {1}{2^r}\tan \left(\frac {1}{2^r}\right)$ Evaluate $$\lim_{n\to \infty} \sum_{r=1}^n \frac {1}{2^r}\tan \left(\frac {1}{2^r}\right)$$   I tried to create a telescoping sum but I couldn't. The last step I could reach was turning the limit into $$\lim_{n\to \infty} \sum_{r=1}^n \left(\frac {1}{2^r(1-\tan (2^{-r+1})} -\frac {1}{2^r(1+\tan (2^{-r+1})}\right) $$  But couldn't proceed further. Also I thought about Riemann sums but it was a pure dead end.  Any help would be greatly appreciated Choice of personal pronoun in single-author papers Which personal pronoun is appropriate in single-author papers - 'I' or 'we'? Could the use of 'I' be considered egotistical? Or will the use of 'we' be considered to be grammatically incorrect? How can I confirm that my I-94 form was correctly processed after leaving the US in 2007? I recently bought one of these ESR meters, a 'MESR-100':       It claims to be able to test capacitor ESR with the caps left in-circuit.  It appears to work well from my tests so far.  However, how much can I trust the in-circuit readings?  Are they going to be less accurate?  Are there certain circuit configurations where it wouldn't be possible to measure ESR in-circuit accurately?  [EDIT: Added the model as requested] : Do you use degrees or radians for trig functions? I was just wondering if you use degrees or radians in trig functions. For example if I have a degree of 0.5 would I do: Sin(0.5) or would I have to convert that to radians?  Or does it not matter either way? A mod-only section of the help center Well, luckily I got this error on my test environment. I'm so scared about this error that I disabled all logon triggers I was using on production environment.   I created the famous logon trigger, and I put a database in offline mode just to mess with something else. Then I discover that because the trigger can't find the table, I can't access the instance anymore. There are plenty of questions related to this, but even doing everything I could find, I still can't acces the instance, not even with SQLCMD.  I'm doing this:  sqlcmd -S server\instance -U sa -P &lt;pass&gt;  -A   If I don't use -A I receive the famous error:  logon failed for sa due trigger execution.   If I use -A:     Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server : SQL Server   Network Interfaces: An error occurred while obtaining the dedicated   administrator connection (DAC) port. Make sure that SQL Browser is   running, or check the error log for the port number [xFFFFFFFF]. .   Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server : Login timeout   expired. Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server : A   network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while   establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not   accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL Server is   configured to allow remote connections. For more information see SQL   Server Books Online..   Why i'm not able to connect to the sql server    sql server express here.  I could enable SQL Browser, but I still can't access it.  I don't think this question is duplicated because is not about the trigger, is about Why I can't access the server with SQLCMD. I pretty much know how to fix this. I just don't know how can I acces sql server without triggering the trigger. Is there a way for me to download the full list of tags (and synonyms) used on Stack Overflow? My intent is to import these tags into an SQLite database as part of a process to convert all of my delicious bookmarks and tags to the ones used here on Stack Overflow. Interior of cartesian product is cartesian product of interiors I have to prove that:  $$Int(A\times B) = Int(A)\times Int(B)$$  Where $A\subset M$ and $B\subset N$, both $M$ and $N$ metric spaces.  The problem is that the exercise does not specify the metric, so I need to try to prove it using a generic metric.  If $x\in Int(A\times B)$, then an open ball can be centered at $(x,y)$ such that it is contained in $A\times B$. Therefore, this open ball, $B((x,y),r)\subset A\times B$. It means that $d((x,y),a)&lt;r$ for any $a\in A\times B$ for some $r&gt;0$. I guess that if I can take from here that $d(x,a)&lt;r$ and $d(y,a)&lt;r$ I can prove thhat $Int(A\times B)\subset Int(A)\times Int(B)$, but I still have to prove the other way around.   Any ideas?