So I have a home server with 4 hdds:  hdd1: 60Gb (SSD - OS drive) hdd2: 4TB  (data drive) hdd3: 2TB  (data drive) hdd4: 1TB  (data drive)      So I intend installing ubuntu server onto hdd1 (ssd drive) with other drives simply being a data drives. So now I'm thinking about partitioning those data drives....  Do I even need to partition data drives? Can I just format them to ext4 and mount them?    Is partitioning always needed?
I ran into something a couple of weeks ago that I'd never seen before: A filesystem (ext3 I believe) installed to a storage device without a partition. In essence /dev/sdb was the entire filesystem. I know many filesystems can be extended into empty space, so doing this allows extending without dealing with LVM or some other kind of volume manager, but are there any other advantages for setting up storage this way?  The specific case I saw was as the ephemeral data volume for a number crunching server, the boot and root volumes were traditional partitions on a different storage device entirely. -
How can I get dramatic shallow DOF with a kit lens? I'm currently using an entry-level DSLR with 18-55mm lens and having great trouble trying to creating a blurred background effect in my photos. Now matter what aperture or shutter speed I choose, I'm not able to get it.  There's a general question about , but what specific things can I do to get this effect with an entry-level lens? Best way to extract a subvector from a vector? Suppose I have a std::vector (let's call it myVec) of size N.  What's the simplest way to construct a new vector consisting of a copy of elements X through Y, where 0 &lt;= X &lt;= Y &lt;= N-1?  For example, myVec [100000] through myVec [100999] in a vector of size 150000.  If this cannot be done efficiently with a vector, is there another STL datatype that I should use instead? Self-deletion and un-deletion without any changes should reinstate the original close/delete votes Were there any canon examples of Harry being an innately powerful wizard? Was Harry Potter an innately powerful/skillful Wizard in any way, based on canon?  It seems that whenever Harry Potter performed some unusually potent bit of magic (potent as far as require raw power AND/OR skill), most of the time we find that it wasn’t innately Harry’s skill, but a combination of:   some extraneous magic forces/rules/powers circumstance great reaction time (which is obviously extraordinary from his Quidditch playing; and is likely a larger factor in his dueling than the strength of his magic) general smartness or (the part that Harry’s detractors, including Voldemort missed) Harry’s strength of character/personality   The only two counter-examples I can think of which show him as having extraordinary or at least obviously above average magical abilities are:   His skill at flying brooms - while a part of it is pure physical skill, at least part is magical. His (corporeal) Patronus charm   As far as examples of his unusual feats being due to reasons listed above:   Obviously, surviving Avada Kedavra as an infant - due to Lily’s sacrifice Parselmouth talent - proxied via Voldemort’s piece of soul. Ability to see the Sorcerer’s Stone in the Mirror of Erised - due to purity of his character, nothing magical. Obvious lack of talent at potion making throughout all of the books (sans cheating in HBP) His win over the Basilisk - due to Hermione’s research, character traits, and as a consequence of the last one, getting Fawkes and Gryffindor’s Sword’s help.  Just to be clear, before someone flames me - what he did was obviously super extraordinary, BUT IMHO he would have achieved the same result if he was turned into a Squib for the duration of Chamber of Secrets fight. TriWizard Tournament entry - wasn’t him, it was Barty Crouch TriWizard Tournament second challenge - a combination of character and outside help (someone told him about Gillyweed) TriWizard Tournament third challenge - Mostly, Barty Crouch’s cheating  Note that I’m omitting the first challenge, since that one was the aforementioned Broom flying skills. His survival in the cemetery after Voldemort’s return - again, a combination of superior strength of character and super powerful wandlore magic that had nothing to do with his skill as a Wizard. The whole “last Horcrux” thing when surviving the second Avada Kedavra from Voldemort His ownership of the Elder Wand in the very last duel with Voldemort.   So, to paraphrase my original question, was there any canon/JKR evidence that Harry was anything but a completely average/mediocre wizard in any way, shape, or form if you take into account only his own magical abilities and skills? In the LaTeX document pasted below, I still see page numbers upon compiling, even though I've included a \pagestyle{empty} command below the \maketitle command. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.  \title{Thesis Abstracts} \author{         Kurt Han Peek } \date{\today}  \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}  \begin{document} \maketitle \pagestyle{empty}  \section*{An Analysis of the Effects of Digital Phase Errors on the Performance of a FMCW-Doppler Radar} In modern frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars, the transmitter is increasingly being implemented using direct digital chirp synthesis (DDCS), which provides improvements in sweep linearity, stability, precision, agility, and versatility over analog techniques. Its main limitations are errors due to sampling of the modulating signal, phase truncation, and digital-to-analog converter (DAC) quantization, which produce spurious signals due to their deterministic nature. This thesis presents an analysis and simulation of the effect of two sources of digital phase errors -- namely, sampling of the modulating signal and phase truncation -- on the performance of a FMCW-Doppler transceiver employing a DDCS in its transmitter. An upper bound for the amplitude of spurious targets resulting from these digital phase errors is established. Further, it is shown that provided the phase errors are periodic with the sweep period, the spurious targets are not offset from the target in Doppler. An algorithm for selecting the digital chirp parameters of a DDCS so as to ensure periodic and phase-continuous sweep transitions, which guarantee periodic phase errors and reduce `spectral splatter', is devised. Finally, we investigate parallels of FMCW radar in the optical domain, and consider the fundamental question whether range resolution is fundamentally limited by the bandwidth of a transmitted signal, or its carrier frequency.  \section*{Estimation and Compensation of Frequency Sweep Nonlinearity in FMCW radar} One of the main issues limiting the range resolution of linear frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radars is nonlinearity of frequency sweep, which results in degradation of contrast and range resolution, especially at long ranges. Two novel, slightly different, methods to correct for frequency sweep nonlinearity by digital post-processing of the deramped signal were introduced independently by Burgos-Garcia et al. (Burgos-Garcia, Castillo et al. 2003) and Meta et al. (Meta, Hoogeboom et al. 2006). In these publications, however, no formal proof of the techniques was given, and no limitations were described. In this thesis, we prove that the algorithm of Meta is exact for temporally infinite chirps, and remains valid for finite chirps with time-bandwidth products which are large compared to unity, provided the maximum frequency component of the phase error function is small compared to the square root of the nominal chirp rate. It is also shown that the algorithm of Meta reduces to that of Burgos-Garcia in this limit. A digital implementation of both methods described. Finally, we propose a novel method to measure the systematic phase errors which are required as input to the compensation algorithm.  \end{document} I live in a town where fresh or whole milk is not readily available. I was wondering if I could make cheese from UHT Milk. If so, what kind of cheese and what method I should use? Or rather, Should I? Where does gravitational waves' energy go? Is there any gold standard for modeling irregularly spaced time series? Is there any text editor which supports Markdown (Ask Ubuntu's formatting style)? How is Mono magical? I'm learning C#, so I made a little C# program that says Hello, World!, then compiled it with mono-csc and ran it with mono:  $ mono-csc Hello.cs $ mono Hello.exe Hello, World!   I noticed that when I hit TAB in bash, Hello.exe was marked executable. Indeed, it runs by just a shell loading the filename!   Hello.exe is not an ELF file with a funny file extension:  $ readelf -a Hello.exe readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start $ xxd Hello.exe | head -n1 00000000: 4d5a 9000 0300 0000 0400 0000 ffff 0000  MZ..............   MZ means it's a Microsoft Windows statically linked executable. Drop it onto a Windows box, and it will (should) run.  I have wine installed, but wine, being a compatibility layer for Windows apps, takes about 5x as long to run Hello.exe as mono and executing it directly do, so it's not wine that runs it.  I'm assuming there's some mono kernel module installed with mono that intercepts the exec syscall/s, or catches binaries that begin with 4D 5A, but lsmod | grep mono and friends return an error.   What's going on here, and how does the kernel know that this executable is special?    Just for proof it's not my shell working magic, I used  (aka sh) to run it and it still runs natively.    Here's the program in full, since a commenter was curious:  using System;  class Hello {   /// &lt;summary&gt;   ///   The main entry point for the application   /// &lt;/summary&gt;   [STAThread]   public static void Main(string[] args) {     System.Console.Write("Hello, World!\n");   } } Please don't refer to 2019 as 'a great year' This poor creature is taken aboard the spaceship and the humans do not know that it is intelligent.  The alien can repeat what it hears, e,g, "pass the sugar".  It is able to escape at night and it communicates messages to its fellow aliens.  It directs that they turn up the heat of the atmosphere (somehow they can do this) so as to force the humans to leave.  The alien protagonist states that it will die w/ the humans or leave with them. Take a look at the following picture:   Why does the light at the bottom of the water form this pattern? I have also seen the same phenomenon in all the swimming pools I've ever visited, of whatever depth they may be. How does this happen? How to make a surface with a transparent background in pygame I`m using the Newton-Raphson method for obtaining MLE for parameters for maximizing my objective function. At each iteration, I want to check that is the Hessian matrix negative definite or not and I see the Hessian matrix is not negative definite at some iterations. So, I want to use the Fisher scoring algorithm ( of derivation) In this situation, the Fisher information matrix is indefinite!! Is it possible? What are the reasons for this? Are the second-order derivatives wrong? Or are values of expectations incorrect? Evaluating $\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{2^n}\right)$ How to create a sub array from another array in Java? Do database engines update when the updated value is the same? Sum of nil right ideals Wi-Fi only works after waking MacBookPro7,1 from sleep Been having some issues with the STA drivers from bcrmwl-kernel-source. While the drivers do function, they only seem to function after putting the laptop to sleep, by either closing the lid, or manually putting it to sleep, and waking it up. The laptop here is a MacBookPro7,1 (Mid 2010 13-inch MacBook Pro), running Ubuntu 17.04.  While the issue isn't bad enough to deter me from using the laptop, it is not an elegant solution, and I believe that there can be a solution found somewhere.  For reference, here are the outputs from the Wireless Info script for both before and after: , . Hopefully these are of some use. If you need additional information about the computer, I will be happy to answer.