How can I change the desktop wallpaper from the command line in Ubuntu Desktop 13.04?  I most recent tried the following, but it did not work:  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file://$HOME/NaturalHistoryMuseum_EN-US7862662491_1920x1200.jpg   Update: as commented by @Lucio below, the command worked if I used a path without a variable:  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri file:///home/user/NaturalHistoryMuseum_EN-US7862662491_1920x1200.jpg
I have a script that updates my desktop background every day with the NASA APOD. Since upgrading to 11.10, that script stopped working, presumably because I'm using gconftool-2 to actually update the desktop background. Is there a new way to do this under Unity?
Explicit norm on $\mathcal{C}^0(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$ Do you know an explicit norm on $\mathcal{C}^0(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$? Using the axiom of choice, every vector space admits a norm but have you an explicit formula on  $\mathcal{C}^0(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$?  A related question is: Can we proved that $\mathcal{C}^0(\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})$ has a norm without the axiom of choice? Suppose I have BaseClass with public methods A and B, and I create DerivedClass through inheritance.  e.g.  public DerivedClass : BaseClass {}   Now I want to develop a method C in DerivedClass that uses A and B.  Is there a way I can override methods A and B to be private in DerivedClass so that only method C is exposed to someone who wants to use my DerivedClass? Why does connecting a high-current device to my digital circuit cause weird behavior? I would like to create a reminder on Google Calendar every month on the 15th, but if the 15th in that month is a Friday/Saturday, I want it automatically to set it to the closest Sunday/Thursday. Is this possible? I lost my Italian residence permit abroad, how can I obtain a duplicate so that I can fly back to Italy? Sweden is going to ban me from flying if I can't show them my lost permesso di soggiorno from Italy. It was issued in Florence because my old one expired while I was in school. How do I get a copy? Can I nohup/screen an already-started process? I know that who is used when asking about a subject (Who is at the door?) and whom is used when asking about an object (By whom was the door opened?). How do you determine which one to use when the object becomes the subject of another clause?   For example, take the sentence:      I gave the prize to ____ deserved it most.   Would it be whomever because it's the object of "gave," or would it be whoever because it's the subject of "deserved"? Is their a hard-and-fast rule to rely on in situations like this? Electrons have spin 1/2, and as they are charged, they also have an associated magnetic moment, which can be measured by an electron beam splitting up in an inhomogeneous magnetic field or through the interaction of the electrons's magnetic moment with an external magnetic field in spectroscopic measurements.   On the other hand, a photon is neutral - how can one measure its spin if there's no magnetic moment? How do we know it has spin 1? Sci-fi book about a male entering a competition that he wins and gets recruited by millitary Since I am a regular Stack Overflow follower, I came across this and was shocked a bit regarding the design and user experience perspective.  Attaching picture 1 - it states that I can click any site and view a synopsis about it. Clear!!!    Attaching Picture 2 - you can see that when I clicked Webmasters, the design wants me to scroll horizontally to view all information and basically it hides information.    It would be nice, if it did something like below : Have you ever notice the sunset's image in the sea? It's like long light path to the end of the horizon! I've attached a sample of this:     How can we explain this? I know that it can happen even in wave less sea or lake! Why is this path so continuous? I expected that sea should act like a mirror! How to use a decimal range() step value? NOTE: this question is sorta like a follow-on question to  I asked. In that question, the main suggestion was that I was trying to show two polys. Now, I'm asking about a SINGLE poly.  I have the following GEOGRPAHY of Los Angeles in my Sql Server 2008 :-     (or in )  It's bascially ..  -- Shape of Los Angeles.  DECLARE @WKT VARCHAR(MAX) = 'POLYGON ((-118.66815700000011 34.181235000000029, ... )) SELECT GEOGRAPHY::STGeomFromText(@WKT, 4326)   Now when I just try and render this out, It now looks like this (NOTE: this is different, but still not correct .. compared to my previous GIS Question).    Now, in the previous question people were suggesting that the previous data was a MULTIPOLYGON so there was some bad stuff I must have been doing, trying to render out holes in polys.  This time, this is a single polygon. So i'm assuming the hole theory still doesn't work. Now, I understand that by looking at this image, there's a number of holes ... but the Well Known Text data which Sql Server gives me is a POLYGON which to me means .. one single shape. So i'm not sure how I can fix this :(  This is why i'm asking the a similar question to my previous one.  Can anyone help? Can they see the data I've posted and see what happens in other systems? (I don't have any other software besides Sql Server 2008).  Maybe I need to extract all my data from Sql Server 2008 .. and clean it up (whatever that means) through another system. For example. If Sql Server is saying that the shape of Los Angeles is a single Polygon .. but when cleaned up .. it's actually 7 Polygons .. and then those shapes then get rendered correctly .. then we have a solution!   Any suggestions?  Can -anyone- render this shape onto a Google map? Microsoft Excel mangles Diacritics in .csv files? I am programmatically exporting data (using PHP 5.2) into a .csv test file. Example data:   Numéro 1 (note the accented e). The data is utf-8 (no prepended BOM).  When I open this file in MS Excel is displays as NumÃ©ro 1.  I am able to open this in a text editor (UltraEdit) which displays it correctly.  UE reports the character is decimal 233.  How can I export text data in a .csv file so that MS Excel will correctly render it, preferably without forcing the use of the import wizard, or non-default wizard settings? Can an observed event in fact be of zero probability? Can an observed event in fact be of zero probability?  Of course, I know that there exist non-empty events of zero probability. Mu question is the reverse: given that we have observed an event (and we have no other information about it, just the fact that it has been observed), is it possible that the event has in fact zero probability? Or does an observation necessarily mean that the probability is strictly positive?    Example context for the question:  Suppose $x_i$ (countably many) are i.i.d on $[0,1]$, but we do not know the distribution they come from. It may be uniform on $[0,1]$, may be discrete, may be any legitimate distribution (discrete or continuous). Just imagine we have some sort of a machine that shows us one by one a list of randomly drawn numbers between $0$ and $1$. We are comparing the observed numbers one by one to some special number chosen beforehand, for example $\frac12$. Now, given that at some iteration we have observed that special number at least once, does that mean that $\frac12$ has some positive probability under that (unknown) distribution? And if the probability can be zero, can we nevertheless say that we will necessarily observe $\frac12$ again later, if we continue the experiment ad infimum?  Also, disregard the "real world limitations" such as an inability to produce truly uniformly distibuted numbers, or rounding errors or any such thing. This is NOT an installation problem question. I've had both op sys working fine side-by-side for a couple of weeks now. I'm using Ubunutu 12.04 64-bit.  This morning when I tried to switch from Win8 to Ubuntu, it just rebooted into Win8. No grub screen whatsoever. This is the 3rd machine I've had dual-booting &amp; have never seen this, but then Win8 is a 1st for me &amp; has thrown some pretty awesome blocks in the path to get to here. Atrocious op sys...  I'm assuming the ASUS updater did this yesterday. (ASUS R503U)  So, do I just put the Ubuntu disk in &amp; reinstall grub? how to disable system apps without root? How to disable system apps without root?  My phone model is vivo x5 max+ and android 4.4.4  I have tried Debloater but it failed to connect (I am sure I've allowed USB debugging). So, I was just assaulted by a trio of fairly well armed thugs while walking out of Riften. Before attacking me, they informed me that they were 'here to teach me a lesson.'  After dispatching them in due course, I found this on the body of what I can only assume to be the leader, given his vastly superior armaments:   Orgnar is the innkeeper in Riverwood. Now, I admit, I've stolen a fair amount, but I pride myself on having never been caught. My total bounty to date is at zero. So, how did he figure out that I stole something, why is he taking the law into his own hands, and if I go back to Riverwood, am I going to get shanked? Why do I have to solve for $x$ in this proof, if I choose not to find a counterexample? Why does:   $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n} k \binom nk p^k (1-p)^{n-k} = np $$ ? Taking the derivative of:   $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n}  \binom nk p^k (1-p)^{n-k} = (1 + [1-P])^n = 1 $$   does not seem useful, since you would get zero. And induction hasn't yet worked for me, since – during the inductive step – I am unable to prove that:   $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n+1} k \binom {n+1}{k} p^k (1-p)^{n+1-k} = (n+1)p  $$   assuming that:   $$ \sum_{k=0}^{n} k \binom {n}{k} p^k (1-p)^{n-k} = np  $$