After restarting Ubuntu due to the pc crashing, I randomly see this:  The entire desktop is covered in icons. I cannot see them in the Desktop folder, nor move them around. Here is the output of cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs &gt; xander@xander:~$ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs &gt; # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update &gt; # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're &gt; # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run. &gt; # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR=&quot;$HOME/yyy&quot;, where yyy is a shell-escaped &gt; # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR=&quot;/yyy&quot;, where /yyy is an &gt; # absolute path. No other format is supported. &gt; #  XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=&quot;$HOME/&quot; XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Downloads&quot; XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Templates&quot; XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Public&quot; &gt; XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Documents&quot; XDG_MUSIC_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Music&quot; &gt; XDG_PICTURES_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Pictures&quot; XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=&quot;$HOME/Videos&quot;  Is this a bug? What can I do? I have this system:
As of now, my desktop has begun showing the contents of my home folder (~) instead of the contents of ~/desktop. I must have changed something, but I have no idea what, or what I was doing exactly when it happened.  How do I re-point gnome to the right folder?  I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.
My bibliography (made with biblatex) has all items close to each other. I would like to introduce some space between them, e.g. half a line.  How can I do this? Why can't I travel onwards if my bag wasn't going to make the flight? I was flying KLM from the UK to the USA with a short layover in Amsterdam.  Because of delays in the UK, I almost missed my flight.  The flight attendant told me my bag wasn't going to make it, but if I walk fast, my gate is just two over.  When I got to the gate, they had already closed the doors, but the counter was opened - I mentioned that my bag was not going to make it, but that's okay.  She said, "hold on," got onto her walkie-talkie, and said,  "Yep, that's what I thought: you can't fly if your bag's not going."  I originally thought that it might be a security concern, but that doesn't really make any sense.  Why can't I travel if my luggage doesn't make the connection?  EDIT: I should clarify that I have no beef with KLM - they treated my overnight in Amsterdam professionally and helpfully; I'm just curious what the reason would be. accessing loop variable within a loop Seeking copy of 19th century South African birth certificate? I'm trying to find the birth certificate of my wife's great grandmother who was probably born in Durban, South Africa in 1884. I'm currently unable to find any online resources for this.  If such a thing does not exist online, is there any other method of retrieving a copy or at least just the details? Can sweetened condensed milk be substituted for whole milk and sugar? I am making a fudge recipe that calls for 1cup whole milk and 5 cups sugar. It also uses 2 sticks of butter and 25 marshmallows. I'm wondering if I can omit the milk and cut back on the sugar by using sweetened condensed milk. How are shorter power-plays counted in power play percentage? Integral $\int_0^1\sqrt{1-x^4}dx$ I am asked to show $\int_0^1\sqrt{1-x^4}dx=\frac{\{\Gamma(1/4)\}^2}{6\sqrt{2\pi}}$. I know the gamma function is defined by $\Gamma(n)=\int_0^\infty x^{n-1}e^{-x}dx$. I tried to substituted $x^2=\sin(t)$ but couldn't go further. I am really questioned how a radical function can convert to an exponential one? :-0 Thank you. The sum of powers of two and two's complement – is there a deeper meaning behind this? prominently sports purple hair.    Is this her natural hair color?  Natural extensions in the answer depending on the correct answer: Is she wholly human and humans in the Galaxy Far Far Away can have this hair color?   Or is she partly human or not human?   Or does she dye her hair?   Or is there another hair color changing technology? I have a simple one line command which works perfectly in terminal, but does not work in the "Startup Applications" app thing.  The line of code is : xmodmap /home/seph/Code/Ubuntu\ Scripts/Xmodmap  It's not that much of a hassle to copy it from "Startup Applications" and paste it into terminal, but I don't really get why it isn't working.  I followed someone else's instructions to do it in the first place, so maybe I did something wrong?  In any case, wouldn't it be the obvious and logical assumption that it just types whatever you put in it into Terminal? Linux Equivalent of Windows Ctrl to show Mouse Pointer In Windows, it is possible to set pressing Ctrl to display the current location of the mouse pointer, as per .  Is there a way of setting a key or key combination to perform the same action in Ubuntu? Note, this is the opposite of turning this function off, as detailed at . Is there really a way to make a true toon shader material in Cycles? Using File Geodatabase coded domain with ArcGIS Online? I created a File GDB and set up a domain, and the domain was assigned to a field in a feature class. The domain behaves as expected on ArcGIS Desktop (dropdown list when editing the content of that field).  But if I zip up the FGDB and upload to ArcGIS Online to created a feature layer and edit the layer online, there is no dropdown when editing.  I don't see any additional step in this tutorial, other than a different mechanism of getting data to ArcGIS Online. I don't think I can do it the same way in ArcGIS 10.0:   Anyone has any idea what's going on? What is the difference between fixed effect, random effect and mixed effect models? In simple terms, how would you explain (perhaps with simple examples) the difference between fixed effect, random effect and mixed effect models? How do I tunnel and browse the server webpage on my laptop? I run a web app in one of my lab servers, and I have already setup X11 Forwarding on those machines. Other lab members can tunnel through SSH, and browse that web app on their local browser at home.  I can't. Last time I checked with them, there is almost nothing I need to do.  When I type 192.168.1.113/webapp I get nothing.   Any tips?  THanks.    I ended up using the second method :)  ssh -L 8080:&lt;server-ip-address&gt;:80 &lt;username&gt;@&lt;remote-addr&gt; -N Finding languages such that $L_{1} \subseteq L_{2} \subseteq L_{3}$ where $L_{1}, L_{3} \notin \mathbb{R}$, $L_{2} \in \mathbb{R}$ I am struggling to find such languages $L_{1}$, $L_{2}$, and $L_{3}$ such that  $$ L_{1} \subseteq L_{2} \subseteq L_{3} $$ where $L_{1}, L_{3} \notin  \mathbb{R}$ and $L_{2} \in  \mathbb{R}$.  I know they exist, I need help finding them. Can I visit the UK with an EU permanent residence card? Let $A$ , $B$ be topological spaces such that there for some subset $D$ of $B$ there is a homeomorphism form $A$ to $D$ and for some subset $E$ of $A$ there is a homeomorphism form $B$ to $E$ ; then must there exist a homeomorphism from $A$ to $B$ ? I want to return two objects from a Java method and was wondering what could be a good way of doing so?  The possible ways I can think of are: return a HashMap (since the two Objects are related) or return an ArrayList of Object objects.  To be more precise, the two objects I want to return are (a) List of objects and (b) comma separated names of the same.  I want to return these two Objects from one method because I dont want to iterate through the list of objects to get the comma separated names (which I can do in the same loop in this method).  Somehow, returning a HashMap does not look a very elegant way of doing so. From this  on Bayesian Least Mean Square estimation:  $$\mathbf E\left[(\Theta -\hat\theta)^2\right] = \rm{var}(\Theta -\hat\theta) + \left(\mathbf E[\Theta -\hat\theta]\right)^2 = \rm{var}(\Theta) + \left(\mathbf E[\Theta -\hat\theta]\right)^2$$  which is to say that $\rm{var}(\Theta -\hat\theta) = \rm{var}(\Theta)$.  I would like to ask how that comes about?  Thanks.  $\Theta$ is the random variable being estimated, and $\hat\theta$ is a constant estimate.