Is Ubuntu compatible with Dell n4050 laptop?
How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements?
I assume the difference in the number of Stack Exchange sites/communities is a mistake... correct? This problem is from Romanian G.M. and although it is very short, it is also (I think) very hard. Let $x, y, z$ real non-negative numbers such that $x+y+z=3$. Prove that   $$27 \leq (x^2+2)(y^2+2)(z^2+2) \leq 44 $$  I didn't succeed in any of the inequalities, I only managed to find the equality cases ($x=y=z=1$ for the first one and one of them $3$ and the others $0$). Any hint/idea/solution is welcome. Where are Time Machine local backups/snapshots stored? Out of curiosity, I'm wondering where in the file system Time Machine stores its local backups/snapshots. Inequality involving $\limsup$ and $\liminf$: $ \liminf(a_{n+1}/a_n) \le \liminf((a_n)^{(1/n)}) \le \limsup((a_n)^{(1/n)}) \le \limsup(a_{n+1}/a_n)$ This may have been asked before, however I was unable to find any duplicate. This comes from  of "Mathematical Analysis: An Introduction" by Browder. Problem 14:     If $(a_n)$ is a sequence in $\mathbb R$ and $a_n &gt; 0$ for every $n$. Then show:   $$ \liminf(a_{n+1}/a_n) \le \liminf((a_n)^{(1/n)}) \le \limsup((a_n)^{(1/n)}) \le \limsup(a_{n+1}/a_n)$$   The middle inequality is clear. However I am having a hard time showing the ones on the left and right. (It seems like the approach should be similar for each). This is homework, so it'd be great if someone could give me a hint to get started on at least one of the inequalities.  Thanks. A disk is stuck in my slot-loading Dell Studio Hybrid. How can I get it out? The slot-loading optical drive in my Dell Studio Hybrid has been acting up. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it churns and makes some unpleasant sounds. Now I can't even get it to eject the disc that's in there.  Many drives have an "emergency eject" pinhole, but I don't see one here. How can I get the disc out? Change the default editor when sudo visudo When doing sudo visudo, the default editor is nano. I want to change it to vi or vim.     I already made vim the default editor, and use it as a substitute for gedit to open php, .txt, .c and .h files, by placing a vim.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ and by correctly editing either  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list or /etc/gnome/defaults.list. However apparently this does not apply to nano.    Any clue ? Anyone know of a custom GPS ROM for Samsung Galaxy 5? Possible Duplicate:          I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy 5 (model number GT-I5500) and I'm new to the android world.   I'm not satisfied with the performance of the GPS on my cell phone so I thought it would be interesting to use a custom ROM to see if it improves a bit.   Anyone knows of a ROM that was tested in this model? Looking for a short story about a man who is visiting a planet where you get your position/job through playing a game I read this story 8-15 years ago in German. I'm not sure but I think the book had 2 short, totally different stories in it.  The story was about a man who was sent (I think kinda forced to go) to a planet where he should play a game everyone on that planet plays. I think the goal was to beat their leader and conquer the world like this?  The better you are at the game, the higher is your position in the society. I remember that at the end he was playing against the leader and they had a long back and forth game, but I'm not sure who won.  They played the game on a different planet that had only one stripe of forest around the whole planet and a fire that goes around it. But thats only the location they were playing.  The man was chosen because he was the best player in every game if I remember correctly.  The game was a board like game where you have troops or armies that you move around. It was not an easy game everyone just could play. How to troubleshoot booting to a black screen on VirtualBox I was using 13.04 as a guest OS on my VirtualBox 14.2.18. Host is Windows 8. After upgrade to 13.10 Ubuntu does not start. I can see a black screen and blinking cursor. I am pretty new to Ubuntu. I suspect a problem with graphics drivers. I can access tty and all files (/home) are there. Convert a string to an enum in C# What's the best way to convert a string to an enumeration value in C#? I have an HTML select tag containing the values of an enumeration. When the page is posted, I want to pick up the value (which will be in the form of a string) and convert it to the corresponding enumeration value. In an ideal world, I could do something like this: StatusEnum MyStatus = StatusEnum.Parse(&quot;Active&quot;);  but that isn't a valid code. Jump/Scroll to selected object in the outliner? Explicitly accept change for PPA 'Label' When I run apt-get update on my ubuntu 17.10 I receive the following error:  E: Repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu artful InRelease' changed its 'Label' value from '***** The main PPA for PHP (5.6, 7.0, 7.1) with many PECL extensions *****' to '***** The main PPA for supported PHP versions with many PECL extensions *****' N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details."   The man page doesn't really point to a solution.  My question is, how do I explicitly accept the change? Fantasy novel: magic school, talking rabbit, character bites off another character's fingers The plotline as a whole is completely lost to me, but it was a big inspiration to my preteen self at the time and has shaped my creative development up to now. I'll list some of the big points that I can recall from it, if anyone has the vaguest idea what book I am referring to I would be so appreciative for any guess! I just want to reread it.   Main character is a delinquent of sorts, goes to a magic school. I don't remember there being any pictures in this book. There is a threesome between the main character and his two friends I believe it is a talking rabbit that says something along the lines of "My dear child, you are incensed", followed by one of the characters saying something like "Damn right I am!" A character that had been mentioned earlier but never made an appearance (he was banned for doing bad magic I think) shows up to fight and he bites off another character's fingers. Main character seeks out a magical white stag near the end of the novel because the stag can grant a wish if it's caught because he wishes to reset his timeline. The stag is able to speak. How typeset a numeric table from a CSV file I have a CSV file (db.txt)like this:  30.0,   0.0,    0.0 60.0,   1.9098, 5.8779 90.0,   6.9098, 9.5106 120.0,  13.09,  9.5106 150.0,  18.09,  5.8779 180.0,  20.0,   0.0   I need to typeset it. My problem is related with the wrong alignment of decimal point and the number of decimals (must be a constant for each column):  \renewcommand*{\dtlrealalign}{r}  \DTLloaddb[     noheader,     keys={x,y,theta},     headers={         \shortstack{$\boldsymbol{\theta_{2,i}}$},         \shortstack{X},         \shortstack{Y}              }   ]{db}{db.txt} \begin{table}[t]   \caption{Database file}   \centering   \DTLdisplaydb{db} \end{table}     Any advice, please? Complex zeros of the polynomials $\sum_{k=0}^{n} z^k/k!$, inside balls this is a question from a Temple prelim exam, and i'm trapped in it! We have $p_n(z)=\sum_{k=0}^n\frac{z^k}{k!}$ and we have to prove that $\forall r&gt;0 \quad \exists N\in\mathbb{N}$ s.t. $p_n(z)$ has no zeros in $B_r(0)$ for $n&gt;N$.  I tried to use Rouche's theorem observing that $1+\frac{z^n}{n!}$ has the nth roots of $n!$ as complex zeros, which are outside a fixed ball for n sufficiently large, but i'm having trouble proving that $|1+\frac{z^n}{n!}|&gt;|z+\cdots+\frac{z^{n-1}}{(n-1)!}|$ in $|z|=r$ (if this is true). If anyone could help.. The result of ls * , ls ** and ls *** I know using the command ls will list all the directories. But what does the ls * command do ? I used it and it just lists the directories. Does the star in front of ls mean how deep it will list the directories? Set myself as owner of /etc with chown command now getting all kinds of errors I needed to edit a .config file (which I know for a fact is not creating these problems, just to clear that up) and it wouldn't let me save it, so I took ownership of /etc and all contents with the command chown -hR username /etc and that let me edit the .config file but now whenever I try to install any packages or use any sudo commands, it doesn't work  (I've checked for errors in the sudo file in sudoers.d and there was nothing wrong with that).   So how do I return it to the previous owner? What formula would you use to add up a column based on results from two drop down menus? QGIS Align Rasters how to retain pixel values? I am attempting to align and then merge a number of rasters of the same resolution and extent, but where the pixels are slightly misaligned (creating small gaps when merged). This works fine using the Align Rasters tool, except that the pixel values are not retained and instead given a value of something like -3.23879e+8. I mostly want to keep the nodata pixels. Is this possible? Can I programmatically open the devtools from a Google Chrome extension?