I remember seeing red messages like these when I look at my list of questions:  Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?  But I have not seen these (annoying) reminders recently. Did I gain a new privilege that would explain why I no longer see these red reminders when I look at my list of questions?
Sometimes, I notice the following message on the Questions tab in my profile on Stack Exchange site:  Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?  When does this message get displayed? Is it based on time of non-availability of answers or inactivity period?
Solving cubic equations with another method. I want to solve cubic equations with some pattern or formula. My maths teacher told me that if we want to solve cubic equations we have to find any one value for the equation which satisfy it and then divide the main equation by it. But I find that method little useless . Is there any other simplier or good method to solve it. You can explain it by an example. Date Format In RUBY Continuous bijection from $(a,b) \to S^1$? How can I distribute a native executable for a Python program? Inner Product on $\mathbb{R}$ and on $\mathbb{C}$ This is a question of the book Linear Algebra of Kenneth Hoffman.  Describe explicitly all inner products on $\mathbb{R}$ and on $\mathbb{C}$.  I think that if $&lt;,&gt;$ is one inner product on $\mathbb{R}$ (or $\mathbb{C}$) then $&lt; ,&gt;=K[,]$, where $[,]$ is the standard inner product. Is that correct? Links that are italics and bold not showing as links in Mobile Web How to mount an internal HDD on start-up? I have a 500GB internal HDD where I store all my music and photos but it is annoying to manually mount it after a restart and I was wondering how to mount it automatically and make it available to Rhythimbox for playback.  Thanks! Vertical line for the the right margin in Notepad++ Does anyone know if Notepad++ can display a vertical line on the right margin to indicated that the text will or will not fit on a printed page?  I have looked but I cannot find it.  Word wrap does work, but it wraps by my screen width, not by the width of a printed page. I've used following codes and no luck  1  //Hide admin footer from admin function change_footer_admin () {     return ' '; } add_filter('admin_footer_text', 'change_footer_admin', 9999);  function change_footer_version() {     return ' '; } add_filter( 'update_footer', 'change_footer_version', 9999);   2  function wpbeginner_remove_version() { return ''; } add_filter('the_generator', 'wpbeginner_remove_version');   3  function my_footer_shh() {     remove_filter( 'update_footer', 'core_update_footer' );  } add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_footer_shh' );   Still I see those texts and version on my footer.   So what is the accurate way to remove these? I've added these code snippets into my child theme function.php Why I can't scan the WhatsApp QR? Why I can't scan the Whatsapp QR?   I reinstalled WhatsApp  I already have the WhatsApp Web Option  I put it to scan but it just doesn't scan it. I Installed a QR Scanner app and it works perfectly. I uninstalled the QR Scanner app to see if that was the issue and still doesn't work.   My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Ace. When to answer vs when to just comment How do you know if something you want to say should be an answer or just a comment?  I assumed that anything that answers the question should be in an "answer" field, and clarifications should be under "comment". But I found this question () in the English Stackexchange site.  The original question asks for words related to the word "chain" and all the answers so far were provided via comment to the original question, instead of in a separate answer field.  Is this the recommended way to answer a question that requires only one-word answers? Or should the comments to the original question be converted to answers instead? Why can you see virtual images? I am considering buying a Dell XPS 15 laptop. The laptop has a Nvidia 420m card which should work with Linux but I keep reading that the Nvidia Optimus technology isn't supported on Linux. I am not really interested in switching from Nvidia to Intel to save power but need to know that the Nvidia card will in fact work if I installed Ubuntu.  If anyone has experience using a Nvidia card with Optimus technology or even better the exact laptop in question (Dell XPS 15 with 1GB NVIDIA® GeForce®  GT 420M) it would be great.  A major problem holding people back from adopting Linux is this sort of hardware issue. I am a long term Ubuntu user and supporter who can't afford to make a mistake with a purchase like this. I don't want to spend £500+ to find I have no graphics acceleration because Windows 7 is not an option. How is being able to break into any Linux machine through grub2 secure? trigger AccountReplicate on Account (after delete, after insert, after update) {     if ( trigger.isInsert ) {         for ( Account acc : trigger.new ) {             AccountOne__c ac = new AccountOne__c();             ac.Fax__c = acc.Fax;             ac.Phone__c = acc.Phone;             ac.Name =acc.Name;             insert ac;         }     }      if ( trigger.isUpdate ) {         integer  i = 0;         list&lt;AccountOne__c&gt; a2 = new list&lt;AccountOne__c&gt;([SELECT Id                                                         FROM AccountOne__c                                                         WHERE Name =: trigger.old[i].Name ]);         for ( AccountOne__c c1 : a2 ) {             c1.Name = trigger.new[i].name;             c1.Fax__C = trigger.new[i].Fax;             c1.Phone__C = trigger.new[i].Phone;             i++;         }         update a2;     } }   I tried bulk trigger for the update operation, but it's not working can anyone help me? Algebraic Proof that $\sum\limits_{i=0}^n \binom{n}{i}=2^n$ I'm well aware of the combinatorial variant of the proof, i.e. noting that each formula is a different representation for the number of subsets of a set of $n$ elements. I'm curious if there's a series of algebraic manipulations that can lead from $\sum\limits_{i=0}^n \binom{n}{i}$ to $2^n$. Unable to locate package kubuntu-plasma5-desktop on 14.04 I am attempting to install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop on Kubuntu 14.04 amd64, following    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:neon/kf5 sudo apt update sudo apt install project-neon5-session project-neon5-utils project-neon5-konsole  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ci-train-ppa-service/landing-005 sudo apt update sudo apt install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop   Unable to locate package kubuntu-plasma5-desktop  How can I fix this error? If $d(x,y)$ is a metric, then $\frac{d(x,y)}{1 + d(x,y)}$ is also a metric Let $(X,d)$ be a metric space and for $x,y \in X$ define $$d_b(x,y) = \dfrac{d(x,y)}{1 + d(x,y)}$$ a) show that $d_b$ is a metric on $X$  Hint: consider the derivative of $f(t)$ = $\dfrac{t}{1+t}$  b) show that $ d$ and $ d_b $ are equivalent metrics. c) let $(X,d) $ be $(\mathbb{R}, |\cdot|)$ Show that there exists no $ M&gt;0$ such that $ |x-y| $ $\leq$ $Md_b$ $(x,y)$ for all $ x,y$ $\in$ $\mathbb{R}$  I have calculated $f(t)$ and $f'(t)$ and from this I know $f(t)$ is an increasing function as $f'(t)$ is strictly positive. But I don't know where to go from here or how to do parts b) and c) How can I chroot sftp-only SSH users into their homes? I want to give a client access to my server, but I want to limit those users to their home directories. I will bind-mount in any files I want them to be able to see.  I've created a user called bob and added him to a new group called sftponly. They have a home directory at /home/bob. I've changed their shell to /bin/false to stop SSH logins. Here is their /etc/passwd line:  bob:x:1001:1002::/home/bob:/bin/false   I've also changed the /etc/ssh/sshd_config to include the following:  Match Group sftponly         ChrootDirectory /home/%u         ForceCommand internal-sftp         AllowTcpForwarding no   When I try to log in as them, here's what I see   $ sftp bob@server bob@server's password:  Write failed: Broken pipe Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer   If I comment out the ChrootDirectory line I can SFTP in but then they have free rein over the server. I have found that ChrootDirectory /home works, but it still gives them access to any home directory. I have explicitly tried ChrootDirectory /home/bob but that doesn't work either.  What am I doing wrong? How can I limit bob to /home/bob/?  ----EDIT-----  Okay so I just had a look at /var/log/auth.log and saw this:  May  9 14:45:48 nj sshd[5074]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user bob by (uid=0) May  9 14:45:48 nj sshd[5091]: fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory component "/home/bob/" May  9 14:45:48 nj sshd[5074]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user bob   I'm not entirely sure what's going on there,  but it suggests something is wrong with the user directory. Here is the ls -h /home output:  drwxr-xr-x 26 oli      oli      4096 2012-01-19 17:19 oli drwxr-xr-x  3 bob      bob      4096 2012-05-09 14:11 bob The most efficient way to implement an integer based power function pow(int, int)