Basically, not a techie at all, but trying to be. And I can follow directions well. Have a cheap old Lenovo laptop, and Ubuntu is too slow for me. I have 2GB of RAM and 1.6GHz.  Wanting to switch to Lubuntu, but have no idea how. I don't really know what it technically is called, but someone will ask...I don't insert a USB to boot, I just turn my computer on, and Ubuntu is first in the boot load.  I already installed lubuntu-desktop, but from what I understand, that just installs the desktop environment, but all of the Ubuntu processes that slow down older computers will still be running (and it certainly seems like it's still slow to me).  Are there any videos or step-by-step guides on how exactly to make the switch? I can re-install all of my apps, and re-login to all of my stuff, it's no problem. What might be the best way to do this? Factory reset, possibly? Not sure. Just trying to make the most out of my old laptop, so I can get rid of my MacBook finally.
I accidentally issued some commands I thought were safe in the terminal, and I ended up with no System Settings and lots of other missing functionality, but the OS still boots normally. I've decided I want to install Lubuntu instead of fixing Ubuntu for a fresh start and since my laptop is running on a 1GHz dual core AMD CPU.  I created a bootable USB as I usually do and placed Lubuntu 17.10 amd64 using Rufus 2.14.1086. I have GRUB that was installed with Ubuntu upon first install I still have Win8.1 which I still want to keep.  PS: I also tried creating a startup disk from Ubuntu  The question is: How can I boot from USB with GRUB2 so I can overwrite Ubuntu?
Finding the unique rock with its weight I have 12 rocks, all have the same weight except for one rock, but I don‘t know which rock is. How do I know which rock is different from other, and also know that rock heavier or lighter, with maximum 3 comparating steps. My only tool is just a balance that can only compare the weight between the rocks. I'm trying to use the eVis plugin in QGIS 3.16.3 to display geotagged photos (as I have in the past without difficulty), but the plugin has totally disappeared. Not only can't I find it as an icon or under the Database menu, but it doesn't appear in the list of plugins (and yes, I am looking in the complete list of all plugins!). Has it been moved somewhere I haven't come across or is it a bug? Let $C_k$ be the set obtained in the $k-$th stage of building the Cantor set, where  $$C_1=[0,\frac{1}{3}]\cup[\frac{1}{3},\frac{2}{3}]$$  $$C_2=[0,\frac{1}{9}]\cup[\frac{2}{9},\frac{1}{3}]\cup[\frac{2}{3},\frac{7}{9}]\cup[\frac{8}{9},1]$$  $$\dots$$  So we have   $$C_k=\bigcup_{j=1}^{2^k}I_{k,j}$$  where $I_{k,j}$ are pairwise disjoint closed intervals of length $3^{-k}$ in $[0,1]$, let  $$[0,1]\setminus C_k=\bigcup_{j=1}^{2^k-1}J_{k,j}$$  where $J_{k,j}$ are pairwise disjoint open intervals and each $J_{k,j}$ are located between intervals $I_{k,j},I_{k,j+1}$  define  $$F_k:[0,1]\to[0,1]$$  where  $$F_k(0)=0,F_k(1)=1,F_k(x)=\frac{j}{2^k}\quad x\in J_{k,j}$$  and $F_k$ is linear on each subinterval of $C_k$. We can show that $F_k$ converges to the Cantor function $F:[0,1]\to[0,1]$. Moreover, it can be shown that  $$|F_k(x)-F_k(y)|\leq\frac{3^k}{2^k}|x-y|$$  How can we show that $F$ is Hölder continuous of order $\log_32$ ? Density function for RV The density function for a random variable X is given in terms of a constant $c$.  Find the value of $c$.  What is the corresponding distribution function?  Sketch both the density and the distribution functions. Finally, find the probabilities.  5.1 $f(x)=0$ for $x&lt;0$ and $f(x)=\frac{c}{(x+1)^4}$ for $0&gt;x$   $P(X&gt;4)$  $P(X&lt;2)$  $P(1\le\ X&lt;3)$   I get $c=3$ by taking the integral, and then I am a little confused as to why  $F(x)=1-\frac{1}{(x+1)^3}$  Is that because in solving for $c$, I ended up with $1=\frac{c}{3(x+1)^3}$, so substituting c in I get $1=\frac{1}{(x+1)^3}$?  And, then  $P(X&gt;4)=1-P(X\le\ 4)$ $=1-(1-{1}{(1+4)^3})$ $=1/125$  $P(X&lt;2)=1-{1}{(1+2)^3}$ $=26/27$  I guess I am a little confused about what $F(x)$ and $f(x)$ actually MEAN? And thus that leads to my confusion about what the differences between $&gt;$ and $&lt;$ and greater than or equal to are, etc etc in terms of the equations. The ones above I solved by comparing to the book but I still don't understand what they mean really.  So as a result, I don't really get how to solve $P(1\le\ X&lt;3)$.  5.2 $f(x)=ce^x$ for $x&lt;0$ and $f(x)=ce^{-x}$ for $0&gt;x$  5.3 $f(x)=0$ for $x&lt;-1$ or $x&gt;2$ and $f(x)=cx^2$ for $-1&lt;x&lt;2$ Prove: $$ (a+b)^\frac{1}{n} \le a^\frac{1}{n} + b^\frac{1}{n}, \qquad \forall n \in \mathbb{N} $$ I have have tried using the triangle inequlity $ |a + b| \le |a| + |b| $,  without any success. Light clock with mirrors on a moving train Is there a (basic) way to understand why a limit cannot be brought inside of a sum, in certain situations? I have seen that the method of "dominated convergence" implies that sometimes a limit cannot be brought inside of a sum, but is there a more basic way to understand this, preferably without using integrals?   A conceptual or simple answer would be helpful. Thank you! Kill backgrounded SSH when shell exits Atomic clocks were used in Hafele and Keatings experiment which supposedly helped to prove time dilation.    How can we be sure other forces didn't act upon the clocks as a result of their being at different speeds and elevations? Perhaps the elapsed time may have been the same for all and only appeared different as a result of the clock's atoms behaving differently in different environments.  How might the presence of dark matter (presumably all over the place) impacted the clocks if say the dark matter is stationary relative to the earth's rotation?  What experiments have been done to test the constancy of clocks at different speeds and elevations? Gradient borders Find out which process is locking a file or folder in Windows How to maximize any of the views in quad view? I am new to blender. Pressing &#9096; Ctrl&#9095; AltQ opens the quad view. How to maximize any one of the four views of the quad view? Determining true mean from noisy observations I have a large set of data points of the form (mean, stdev). I wish to reduce this to a single (better) mean, and a (hopefully) smaller standard deviation.  Clearly I could simply compute $\frac{\sum data_{mean}}{N}$, however this does not take in to account the fact that some of the data points are significantly more accurate than others.  To put it simply, I wish to preform a weighted average of these data points, but do not know what the weighting function should be in terms of the standard deviation. Why doesn't the tilde (~) expand inside double quotes? According to  and my own understanding, the tilde expands to the home directory:  $ echo ~ /home/braiam   Now, whenever I want the shell expansion to work, i. e. using variable names such $FOO, and do not break due unexpected characters, such spaces, etc. one should use double quotes ":  $ FOO="some string with spaces" $ BAR="echo $FOO" $ echo $BAR echo some string with spaces   Why doesn't this expansion works with the tilde?  $ echo ~/some/path /home/braiam/some/path $ echo "~/some/path" ~/some/path An instructor has an exam of 5 questions and a question bank of 50 questions. Are there $50\choose 5$ or $(50)_5$ possible exams? Determining if an Object is of primitive type I have an Object[] array, and I am trying to find the ones that are primitives. I've tried to use Class.isPrimitive(), but it seems I'm doing something wrong:  int i = 3; Object o = i;  System.out.println(o.getClass().getName() + ", " +                    o.getClass().isPrimitive());   prints java.lang.Integer, false.  Is there a right way or some alternative? In The Matrix Reloaded, the Architect reveals to Neo that Trinity is about to die. I can't help but wonder if Neo would still choose the left door if the Architect had withheld that information.  The Architect could have designed a better choice mechanism so as to trick Neo into making a choice in the machine's favor rather than a highly risky one.   Did I miss anything important in the movie? Possible Duplicate:          I was wondering if there's any good reason to still use blob fields in a database. A couple of years ago I worked with a DB with a bunch of images in it, the DB was very slow and I couldn't see any good reason to keep the images inside the DB, so I got the images out and stored the filenames instead.  Was this a smart move? What would you do in my place? How to generate a random snowflake I am using the Service Console in Lightning Experience, and using the Chatter Feed component on the Case layout to display updates to the Case.  If I use the "Log a Call" Quick Action from the Chatter publisher, these calls are displayed in the Chatter feed.  This is the desired behaviour.  However, if I insert a Log a Call record related to the Case any other way - e.g. using the Developer Console, or my CTI system's custom components - the call does not display in the feed.  If I query the record, it looks exactly the same as the record that is created with the Quick Action.  It just seems that the Chatter post is never made in this situation.  I have checked my Feed Tracking settings:   Task has Enable Feed Tracking and Subject checked Case has All Related Objects checked   How can I enable calls created with a custom component (part of a CTI system) to display in the case feed?