This is the most insane glitch i've ever seen. My friend's Ubuntu 14.04 has started endlessly continuing a creepy, staticky voice that repeats words in english, mainly numbers like "one hundred one". It happens persistently and consistently, so I could capture a sound clip if anyone wants one. Some other weird things are happening too. BIOS is booting every time we restart when it didn't before, and also every time we muted or unmuted, thunderbird would start and ask if we wanted an account wit gandi.net. We removed thunderbird but that has had no effect on the other problems. Rebooting also has no effect, the talking starts at login. No programs are listed as running in the sidebar. I'm not super familiar with Ubuntu but it seems insane something like this could happen without any program asking for permission to start or anything. Seems kind of like virus symptoms i've seen on windows but isn't Linux immune to that kind of thing?
I accidentally opened Orca Screen Reader from the Dash when I was trying to open Screenshot. Now everything I type or click on is spoken out loud.  How do I make it stop?  For reference, here is a screenshot of Orca Screen Reader running:
Dynamic single-line printing in Python (time?) I am new to linux, but had a question. I am getting in the business of buying old computers, putting Linux on them, then donating them to students who don't have their own computer at home. I have gone through and installed Xubuntu on my system, installed/uninstalled all the software that I want/need, and now want to know if there is a way that I could make an ISO of my system, and put it onto ANOTHER computer, and still have all of my tweaks, and programs ready to go after the ISO has installed. That way I don't need to go through and spend an hour or two on every computer.   What programs would you recommend for creating an ISO like this?   Thanks, Tobin Answer list only displays first 30 answers The answer list only displays first 30 answers, for questions with lots of answers - no pagination or lazy-loading once you reach the bottom, to view the other answers.  Personally counted every answer twice. The system of equations Let $a,b,c\in \mathbb{R}$ that $a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}=1$. We want to find $x,y,z,w$ in the following equations:  $$\begin{align} x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}+w^{2}&amp;=1 \tag{1}\\ x^{2}+y^{2}-z^{2}-w^{2}&amp;=a \tag{2}\\ xw+yz&amp;=2b \tag{3}\\ yw-xz&amp;=2c.\tag{4} \end{align}$$ Positivity of a determinant I'm stuck to prove the following exercise : Given real numbers $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ and $y_1,\ldots,y_n$, show that  $$ \det(e^{\large{x_iy_j}})_{i,j=1}^n&gt;0 $$ provided that $x_1&lt;\cdots&lt;x_n$ and $y_1&lt;\cdots&lt;y_n$.   Any idea ? Why did the slaver in Astapor think Daenerys wouldn't do exactly what she did? Spoilers! (do I have to even say that here?)  I recently rewatched the episode of Game of Thrones where Daenerys is in Astapor. She makes the deal with the master slaver guy, where she trades him one of her dragons for 8,000 of his very tough slaves. I immediately thought this was stupid for two reasons:   Why would he think the dragon would immediately obey him rather than her? Maybe he doesn't quite believe the 'Mother of Dragons' lore, but it's still basically a pet at the very least. This one isn't as bad though, as... Why would he possibly think she wouldn't betray him and use her freshly bought slaves to take back her dragon? He just traded her literally all his slaves and he has not been kind to her so far. He has motivation to not go back on the deal -- he's running a business, basically... but she has no reason not to.   I guess you could argue that he was blinded by greed, but I think that would be poor writing -- he's in a vicious trade, I can't imagine he would've survived long thinking so naively.  Does anyone have a good explanation? Why does the Hilbert curve fill the whole square? Union of a finite set and a countably infinite set is countably infinite Ok, here is the problem statement:     Prove that if $S$ is any finite set of real numbers, then the union of $S$ and the integers is countably infinite.   This seems pretty obvious to me, knowing that 2 countable sets are countable.  But is there some step by step way to prove this?  Like do I need to prove bijectivity or something?  Thanks! If I simply wrap my query with:  BEGIN TRANSACTION    COMMIT TRANSACTION   If anything fails inside of that, will it automatically rollback?  From looking at other code, they seem to check for an error, if there is an error then they do a GOTO statement which then calls ROLLBACK TRANSACTION  But that seems like allot of work, to have to check for IF( @@ERROR &lt;> 0) after every insert/update. When I'm using rendered viewport it initially takes a while before rendering starts, but once it does, I can freely move around and rendering a new view happens almost instantaneously. When on the other hand I'm rendering a movie, for each frame Blender takes a significant amount of time before rendering even starts, usually doing the following:  Synchronizing object, Updating images, Updating meshes, Updating Scene BVH, Packing BVH,  Why does it do this? And is it possible to disable this to increase movie rendering speed? On sites with new responsive theme, word wrap on long titles breaks in the middle of a word For sites that have the new responsive theme enabled, where the "Ask Question" button is in line with the question title on question pages, the word wrap on long titles is not working correctly.  It will break a word across two lines.  Here is an  from Personal Finance and Money:  Maximum width, left nav hidden:   Narrow width:   This is also happening on beta sites.  Here is an  on Sports:    These screenshots were all taken on Firefox, but I am seeing the same problems in Chrome and Internet Explorer.  One more example: Bug Identification: Tiny Bugs Rotate only one screen If I have only the internal monitor (LVDS1) with an xrandr -o left command. Now I want to attach a second monitor, say to HDMI1. Then I'd like to rotate only the internal monitor, but not the external one. I tried the following (with no external attached though, since I am mobile currently), but that does not do anything:  xrandr --output LVDS1 -o left   How can I rotate only one monitor?  I do need some command line, since I want to put this into a script. Heathrow change in terminal flight UK Border control check? I am traveling from NYC to Mumbai via London. Assume my connecting flight belongs to different terminal. If I have to change terminal at Heathrow, do I need to go through UK Border control ? How can I create a zip archive of a whole directory via terminal without hidden files? I have a project with lots of hidden folders / files in it. I want to create a zip-archive of it, but in the archive shouldn't be  any hidden folders / files. If files in a hidden folder are not hidden, they should also not be included.  I know that I can create a zip archive of a directory like this:  zip -r zipfile.zip directory   I also know that I can exclude files with the -x option, so I thought this might work:  zip -r zipfile.zip directory -x .*   It didn't work. All hidden directories were still in the zip-file. Where can I find good literature for beginners? I am trying to find some database tutorials,books and similar, since I have started this course in college, and received some material, but it is really hard to manage through all the info on the net. I searched through the questions on the site but didn't find any. Thankfull for all your input. How can I blow out the background when shooting down for clothing on the ground? Biblatex: submitting to a journal What is the plural form of "Software"? I have an equation contained inside \[...\], which automatically makes a \sum with sub- and superscripts turn big--so that the summation sign looks awkward inside parenthesis.  Any idea how to make the parenthesis completely enclose the whole summation?  \documentclass{article} \begin{document} We have: \[ \sum_{i=1}^n i = (\sum_{i=1}^{n-1} i) + n = \frac{(n-1)(n)}{2} + n = \frac{n(n+1)}{2} \] \end{document}