First time install. Have attempted to install UBUNTU 14.04 server version from a USB key a couple of times now. After installation it would appear the Grub boot process fails and the screen goes into "Out of range" mode. I have read a few posts about this problem, have attempted to follow these recommendations, all without any success. Getting a little frustrated, that I appear to have installed everything, but the boot process is letting me down. What can I do to get a vanilla version of Ubuntu running with the LAMP stack? Are there alternatives to the GRUB boot loader, so I can get this install up and running?
I get “signal out of range” displayed on screen after boot up from fresh Ubuntu installation, if flashes grup in corner for half a sec then it goes to “No Input Signal”, anyone got a clue how to get the grub to load in diffrent resolution with out have access to the file system?   if not i guess my only option is to boot from the cd and edit som files to get grub to load in diffrent resolution?   as it is now i cant get access to grub menu, and i cant get access to login screen, all will give me “No Input Signal”, anyone worked around this?
What is the difference between \big[ (or equivalently \big() and \bigl[? Is it always necessary to mention l (left) and r (right)? James Paterson in his novel writes, “she was shrink by trade, a forensic profiler, and Jack Morgan’s number two at Private “.   What does whole sentence mean? Tangent and Normal lines that pass through the origin Let $\alpha$ be a regular curve in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and let all of its tangent lines pass through the origin. Also, let $\beta$ be a regular curve in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and let all of its normal lines pass through the origin.   How can I show that $\alpha$ is contained in a straight line through the origin and that $\beta$ is contained in a circle around the origin?  I know that the tangent line $\alpha(t)$ is the line that points in the direction of the tangent vector $T(t)$ and that the normal line of $\beta(t)$ is the line that points in the direction of $N(t)$, but how can I put this all together to complete the proof? I use the native Clock app, and my alarm used to just have a normal ringtone. I assume there was some automatic update recently because this morning, in addition to the normal ringtone, there was a robotic voice saying "It is 7:25 AM." Then later I got a notification from the native Calendar app, and in addition to my normal ringtone, the robotic voice announced the text of the notification.  How do I shut this off? It's really annoying and I don't see an option in Settings. The FAQ mentions bounty, but sometimes a question just doesn't really have a right answer:   No solution exists The question as written is unanswerable and unsalvageable There may be a technically correct answer, but the asker is unable to utilize it for some reason.   In these cases, a bounty, and more answers, won't really help. What is the appropriate etiquette in these cases? Should the question be closed? Left hanging? Wouldn't it be nice if we have a command to end an environment in a generic way? Example:  \begin{itemize}    \item Apple    \item Banana \endenv       % replaces / is an alternative to, \end{itemize} or any other environments.   so that if I change my mind, I can just replace the first line with, for instance, \begin{enumerate}, without changing the closing part. This is also useful when one changes from normal to starred environment, etc.  This feature would serve as an alternative to the normal closing, which will still be available. And this hypothetical \endenv can be restricted to work only for 'normal' environment, and will not work for complex ones such as verbatim, frame, listings.  Should we have that \endenv? Is there already a package for this feature?  Edit:  To future visitors: from the accepted answer below one can see that this is not a very good idea. If one still demands the presumed convenience, this kind of thing should/can be delegated to the editor. What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time(1)? $ time foo real        0m0.003s user        0m0.000s sys         0m0.004s $   What do 'real', 'user' and 'sys' mean in the output of time?  Which one is meaningful when benchmarking my app? Mod shows up with OP background when viewing deleted comments I can run faster than _____. (1) him (2) he? Consider the sentence &quot;I can run faster than 15 miles per hour.&quot; Its meaning is clear and to my eyes obviously grammatically correct. Now let me present some variations that have given me trouble for a long time.  I am faster than 15 miles per hour. – To me this is clearly incorrect. Directly comparing me to a speed doesn't seem right. We need to compare my speed to a speed, or me to another person.  I can run faster than him. – Compared to the base sentence, there is a distinct shift in meaning of the comparison. While before I named a speed faster than which I can run, now I am naming a person. It doesn't seem quite right. I realize the parts of speech can change, but my initial objection is that &quot;him&quot; is not a speed.  I can run faster than he. – This seems most correct to me, but still somehow feels objectionable. Is this in fact the correct way to say it? And if so, is it proper as is or need I say &quot;... faster than he can&quot; or even &quot;... faster than he can run?&quot;  I am faster than him. – With &quot;am&quot; instead of &quot;can run&quot; it now seems slightly more correct. But is it?  I am faster than he. – I'm in doubt here. It doesn't seem wrong to me to say, &quot;I am faster than he is&quot; or even &quot;I am faster than he is fast.&quot; (Though I suppose that is a given since I could hardly properly compare to some other category as in &quot;I am faster than he is smart.&quot;)  My speed is faster than his. – Hmm. This seems more proper as &quot;my speed is greater than his.&quot;   So which of these constructions is correct and which is incorrect? Is there a general rule that I can follow? UPDATE The scholarly article  may be of great interest to some readers!  Once we accept that the elided constituent and its antecedent can differ in form, it becomes reasonable to ask how large this difference can be. The answer in Rooth (1992), Fiengo and May (1994), Chung et al. (1995) and subsequent work is that the wiggle room is actually quite small: the elided constituent and its antecedent are allowed to differ only in the realization of inﬂectional morphology. Other than that, both constituents have to be syntactically and lexically isomorphic. Can you grab the blue shirts and socks?   Is the above sentence stating that both the shirts and the socks are blue? Or only the shirts?  At this stage, I am leaning towards the earlier (only the shirts) — though writing "Can you grab the blue shirts and blue socks?" seems redundant. $\Bbb Q$-linear is equivalent to additive Why doesn't Zorn's lemma apply to $[0,1)$? How to print without newline or space? I'd like to do it in Python. What I'd like to do in this example in C: #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;  int main() {     int i;     for (i=0; i&lt;10; i++) printf(&quot;.&quot;);     return 0; }  Output: ..........  In Python: &gt;&gt;&gt; for i in range(10): print('.') . . . . . . . . . . &gt;&gt;&gt; print('.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.') . . . . . . . . . .  In Python print will add a \n or space, how can I avoid that? Now, it's just an example, don't tell me I can first build a string then print it. I'd like to know how to &quot;append&quot; strings to stdout. I was getting the usual 4-8mbps in 12.04 when copying files via usb sticks. However after upgrading to 12.10, I only get 200-300kbps when I try to perform the same operation.   I have tried different usb sticks (which work flawlessly on Windows 7) and still experience the same issue. I experienced the same issue sometime ago on 11.10 but everything was normal when I upgraded to 12.04 so it might be a kernel issue.  Here's the output of dmseg |tail:      mysterio@mysterio-HP-Pavilion-dv6700-Notebook-PC:~$ dmesg |tail   [  871.023093] sdb: sdb1  [  871.026909] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present  [  871.026920] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through  [  871.026927] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk  [ 1036.226206] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1036.233561] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A  [ 1086.342973] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1086.343010] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A  [ 1173.971357] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1173.971441] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A   I have updated my system with the latest updates. What could be wrong? Probability that a quadratic polynomial with random coefficients has real roots What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD? Website with a collection of sci fi stories set in the same universe; powerful AIs being regarded as Gods, one named Gaia, and a "technopocalypse" There is a site with lots of stories all set in a future with super powerful AIs regarded as Gods, the most powerful being matrioshka brains. They have a specific terminology but I can't remember their names. Earth has been converted into a similiar godlike computer called "Gaia" and has expelled all humans creating a dystopian exodus across the solar system. And something about rogue Von Neumann machines causing a huge crisis dubbed the "technopocalypse". How do you convert LPCWSTR to const char *? Let's say I write a mine.service file. Then I use systemctl enable mine.service.  If I later decide to edit mine.service, do I have to tell systemd that mine.service was changed? If so, how do I do that? Boot to console (standard method fails) I'm trying to get Ubuntu to boot directly to the console. I don't want to completely remove the GUI because I still kind of need it for training wheels sometimes, but I don't want to deal with it if I don't need it. In the past I have been able to achieve this pretty easily in previous versions by editing /etc/default/grub, but for some reason it's not working on 15.10. Here is my /etc/default/grub file: # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: #   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'  GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=10 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2&gt; /dev/null || echo Debian` #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&quot;quiet splash&quot; GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=&quot;text&quot;  # Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs # This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM=&quot;0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef&quot;  # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) GRUB_TERMINAL=console  # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo' #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480  # Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass &quot;root=UUID=xxx&quot; parameter to Linux #GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true  # Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries #GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=&quot;true&quot;  # Uncomment to get a beep at grub start GRUB_INIT_TUNE=&quot;480 440 1&quot;  As you can see, I have commented out quiet splash, changed the value of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX to &quot;text&quot;, and uncommented GRUB_INIT_TUNE. However, the only thing that seems to make a difference is the quiet boot. When I add and remove the hash from that line it affects the behavior when the machine boots, so I know grub is updating when I tell it to. But no matter what I do it still loads the GUI immediately.