I have Ubuntu and Windows 7 installed and dual booting via Grub2.  99/100 times I will boot into Ubuntu.  I want to speed up my time for booting into Ubuntu and really the Grub2 prompt is the part that adds the most time.  So, I want to disable the prompt.  I would prefer to be able to set it up so I can hold shift or similar at boot if I wish to show it.  But I don't mind editing a config file or similar in Ubuntu to show it again if need be.  So how can I do this?    My /etc/default/grub file:   # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: #   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'  GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""  # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"  # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) #GRUB_TERMINAL=console  # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480  # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true  # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"  # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start #GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"
Recently I decided to use only Ubuntu and there is no Windows in my laptop. When I turn on my laptop the GRUB menu is showing but I don't need to choose OS anymore.   How can I remove or hide this? And after removing this how could I access to recovery mode?
Is it possible to get the progress of an XMLHttpRequest (bytes uploaded, bytes downloaded)?   This would be useful to show a progress bar when the user is uploading a large file. The standard API doesn't seem to support it, but maybe there's some non-standard extension in any of the browsers out there? It seems like a pretty obvious feature to have after all, since the client knows how many bytes were uploaded/downloaded.  note: I'm aware of the "poll the server for progress" alternative (it's what I'm doing right now). the main problem with this (other than the complicated server-side code) is that typically, while uploading a big file, the user's connection is completely hosed, because most ISPs offer poor upstream. So making extra requests is not as responsive as I'd hoped. I was hoping there'd be a way (maybe non-standard) to get this information, which the browser has at all times. Determining bare earth DEM from unclassified LAS file? I have data in LAS format with RGB values created from aerial photogrammetry using a UAV. I am  trying to find a solution to extract the bare earth DEM from the point cloud.   I have tried SAGA, Fusion, MCC-LIDAR, but it is seems they need the LAS file to be already classified (which it naturally isn't). Can anyone point me in the right direction with a brief explanation of the process?   Generally, I would need to process about 100 mill points at a time (can tile them if needed). The answer to tactical downvoting problem? As we know, the tactical downvoting (I'm talking especially about SO, as I don't know about other sites) is more and more becoming a serious problem, as I see, the community can't stop this behavior without some sacrificing.  As a suggestion, I think it makes sense to prevent an answerer from downvoting any answer on the same question, this -sure- has a harm, but IMO, it's less harmful than the tactical downvoting issue, and to make the things a bit more easier, we can prevent an answerer from downvoting a question without posting a comment to that answer before.  And vice versa, if a user downvoted an answer, he shouldn't be able to post another one unless he posted a comment first, to prevent working-around that system, so a user can't downvote other answers before posting his own to avoid posting comments.  EDIT, more clarification: I don't say wrong answers shouldn't be downvoted, BUT if you want to downvote an answer and post your own, you'll have to post a comment, so we make sure you're not just downvoting right answers tactically. How to get rid of update notifications for a given app in Google Play Store? General question I have an app X installed on my device in version Y. I don't want to update it to any newer version (Y+z) for some reason. Still, the Google Play Store app always lists updates for X, which keeps me from a simple &quot;update all&quot;. My question, put to a single sentence:  How to hide updates for X permanently from the &quot;available updates&quot; list?   Specific examples First, I know there are alternatives as e.g. the , which can handle this quite well (skip this update, skip all future updates). I prefer a &quot;generic solution&quot;, which does not depend on a 3rd party's market app. Second, I know that  includes a &quot;Market doctor&quot;, which can be used to disconnect an app from Google Play.1 However, in my specific case that only worked for a few hours: I disconnected GTalk, as I don't want it replaced by Hangouts. The update notification disappeared for a few hours, then it was back. No idea what restored the &quot;link&quot;. Third, just to make sure: I'm not talking about the &quot;auto update&quot; feature as discussed e.g. in . I was rather hoping for something close to , but without the need to &quot;freeze&quot; the app in question (which I still want to use, but in the version installed, not in a &quot;future version&quot; available). Fourth: No, uninstalling the app in question is no option here, though it would perfectly hide any future updates from being displayed :) Nor is &quot;freezing&quot;, as the app is used regularly. Fifth: There is a related question for my GTalk example:  However, I want the opposite: No update.  It might very well be that &quot;Google Apps&quot; (and other pre-installed apps) are handled in some specific way, and restore their &quot;market links&quot; themselves somehow. For this case, my question includes: How to prevent that from happening?  Update There's a  discussing the very same issue. Until recently, a work-around for &quot;user installed apps&quot; was to uninstall them and then sideload the .apk – but even that stopped working. Well, re-signing the .apk with a different key might work for user-apps. But both would fail for pre-installed apps (can't sideload them to override; different signature would refuse that install completely). Moreover, there's an  on this by some &quot;joel.bou..&quot;. Not hard to guess, though blanked out: that would be Joël Bourquard. If it's really him, then that's really an issue (for those who don't know: Joël is the dev behind Titanium Backup). Let me quote from the issue:  For the record: in the Android Market days it was possible to &quot;Attach&quot; or &quot;Detach&quot; apps (on rooted devices) with a system tool such as Titanium Backup. But nowadays (with the Google Play Store app) this has become nearly impossible to do, because the complete app list seems to sync from Google's servers and the user has no control over that.  Which explains why detaching with apps like Titanium Backup is no longer permanent. And I'm afraid I've asked the impossible. But I thought the same in the past with other questions, and surprisingly got solutions here. So I do not yet give up hope on this one!  1: what that does is explained by eldarerathis  (thanks to  for digging that up!) I was wondering if there are functions for which $$f'(x) &gt; f(x)$$ for all $x$. Only examples I could think of were $e^x - c$ and simply $- c$ in which $c &gt; 0$. Also, is there any significance in a function that is always less than its derivative?    Edit: Thank you very much for all the replies. It seems almost all functions that apply are exponential by nature...  Are there more examples like - 1/x?  Again are there any applications/physical manifestations of these functions? [for example an object with a velocity that is always greater than its position/acceleration  is always greater than its velocity] Over the years I have seen a few people transport a dog on a bike.  What options have you seen?   Please include a photo in your answer if possible. How can I prevent iTunes from auto starting when I plug in an iOS device? Why was a moved question deleted? Moderator to whom deletion is attributed claims they didn't do it A  appears to have been deleted, and deletion is attributed to a moderator,  deleted by Sathyajith Bhat♦ 12 hours ago , however,  (however, they did previously (unsuccessfully) tried migrating it to another site in the network where they're also a moderator, but migration was rejected by another moderator, it was then on hold on webapps, and then the hold was removed, which was supposed to have been the end of it).  Can someone explain what's going on here?  And restore the question that clearly wasn't meant to have been deleted, was a HNQ, and has 75 votes on the question, plus 74 votes on the top answer, and 56 on second answer; and 19 on third?  There's a lot of links to this question, too, and now they're all broken, making SE look like a community hostile to a popular question ontopic for the site it was on. RSA, DES, AES, etc., all use (relatively) complicated mathematics to encrypt some message with some key. For each of these methods, there have been several documented vulnerabilities found over the years. Some even believe that there is a vulnerability in AES known only to the NSA.  On the other hand, the one-time pad is not only ridiculously simple, but also has been shown to be impossible to crack (if used appropriately).  Say you have some message to be encrypted with length n. Simply generate a random string with length m where m is at least as large as n, and perform modular addition of the random string onto the message.  As long as the random string is generated with a high-enough-quality random number generator, and as long as the same one-time pad isn't reused, it should be impossible to crack.  If this is true, all we would need to perfect are fast, cryptographically secure deterministic random number generators. Use the key as a starting seed for the RNG and you have a powerful uncrackable encryption scheme which is simple to understand and implement.  Blum-Blum-Shub is a fast, cryptographically secure PRNG, and there are others too.  I have written a C++ program which uses two 2048-bit primes (which match the necessary criteria) for Blum-Blum-Shub and uses a password which the user enters - converted into a starting seed - to run byte-wise modular addition. The process is fast, deterministic, and if the literature I have read is correct then it should be very secure.  So why is so much time and effort invested in coming up with convoluted encryption cyphers when mathematics shows that the simplest is often the best? How to change symbol for footnote in minipage \renewcommand method does not work  \documentclass{article} \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}} \begin{document}  \begin{minipage}{1.3\textwidth}  test this\footnote{abc} \end{minipage}  \end{document}   In the following example the footnote number is incorrect. Why?  \documentclass{article} \renewcommand{\thempfootnote}{\arabic{mpfootnote}} \begin{document} \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth} test this\footnotemark \footnotetext{abc} \end{minipage} \end{document} When I apply to a PhD program, may I ask a postdoc who closely supervised me to write a recommendation letter? My supervisor also has written one for me, but I believe the postdoc can comment on my research skills in a more detailed and precise way. Does a postdoc have enough authority to convince admission committee? In the following example, is it appropriate to use a or an as the indefinite article, and why?     He ate __ green apple.   I know that in the case of just "apple", it would be "an apple," but I've heard conflicting answers for "green apple," where the noun is separated from the article by an adjective.  Also, which is more appropriate in this case:     He ate  __ enormous Pop-Tart. Will the Lee 100mm filter holder work with a Samyang 14mm autofocus lens? Will this  work with a ? Which adapter ring would I need to buy for it? Thank you, and apologies if any of this comes across as confusing - I'm very new to filters and what-not. I posted on another account yesterday and received some very useful tips, but had to remove it as it was a duplicate account causing me login issues. Thanks, guys! What should I do, as my submitted paper is still under review after 1 year? Splitting string into pair of characters in Ruby I have a string (e.g. "AABBCCDDEEFF") and want to split this into an array with each element containing two characters - ["AA", "BB", "CC", "DD", "EE", "FF"]. how to properly save an architecture in a fpga ic forever This is a followup to my question  . StrongBad, in a comment replying to one of my comments, suggested that I go ahead and ask something along these lines. This question is directed at those who have experienced unwelcoming behavior. I'm so confused over the nature of the unwelcoming behavior that others have alluded to. If I can't figure out what is happening because it gets deleted quickly, there's little I can do to work toward preventing future occurrences. What, specifically, can individuals in the community do to support those who have experienced gender bias? I'm asking you -- those of you who have experienced bias related to being LGBTQ or some other sort of gender bias. What do you want or need us to do so that you feel welcomed?  Are you looking primarily for greater awareness of the issues you commonly face? That is, there is nothing really that specific for us to do except to attend sensitivity training, show greater empathy, etc. Do you want us to be more vigilant in voting down and flagging unwelcoming content so that it gets deleted quicker? Are there a few specific users that you want to be &quot;taught a lesson&quot;, and the rest of us are caught up in the crossfire? Do you want us to proactively ask you for your pronouns or other biographical or identity details before we engage with you? (I apologize for accidentally misgendering Aza in my previous question, but there's nothing on her profile to indicate her gender or that she wants people to be particularly sensitive in this regard towards her. Perhaps I could have sent her a note &quot;Hey Aza, I'm going to reference you in an upcoming post, what are your pronouns?&quot;, but that seems so awkward.) Do you want help with lobbying Stack Exchange into making changes to the existing system such as adding support for adding pronouns, sexual orientation, etc. to user profiles? Radical change of favourite tags doesn't reflect in questions list Origin of electric charge Find generator of multiplicative group of $\mathbb{F}_{27}$ I have a finite field $\mathbb{F}_{27}$. I need to find an element of order 13. I know that multiplicative group of this field is cyclic with order 26. So I want to find a generator $g$ of this cyclic group, then $g^2$ will have order 13. Also I know that all elements of this field can be represented by polynomials from $\mathbb{F}_3[t]$, where t is root of irreducible polynom $x^3-x-1$.  Probably we can find generator of $\mathbb{Z}_{26}$ and than build an isomorphism to $\mathbb{F}_{27}\setminus 0$.  Anyway I don't know were to start.  Thanks!