Just downloaded Ubuntu (.iso file) and put it on a USB to install it on another computer.  I am following the documentation provided here:   But when I get to the boot screen and select USB, it says "No USB bootable device found."    However, the USB is inserted and the .iso file is on it too. What am I doing wrong?
How do I make an Bootable Ubuntu USB containing the the latest version of Ubuntu?  For completeness, how would I be able to do this on Ubuntu, Windows, OS X or another Linux distro?
I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example. What would be the proper convention to name image files?  From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name it according to on which site it will be uploaded. It would be waste of resources IMO and unnecessary job to do.  What do you think about this one? Why do I get different values for $x from the snippets below?  #!/bin/bash  x=1 echo fred &gt; junk ; while read var ; do x=55 ; done &lt; junk echo x=$x  #    x=55 .. I'd expect this result  x=1 cat junk | while read var ; do x=55 ; done echo x=$x  #    x=1 .. but why?  x=1 echo fred | while read var ; do x=55 ; done echo x=$x  #    x=1  .. but why? In the original PC release of RollerCoaster Tycoon, if playing in a scenario with a lot of grassland, I would ensure my handymen did not mow the grass as their other services seemed more beneficial to keeping the park tidy, as well as making sure the handymen did not wander off the paths. In the android release, the handymen by default do not mow the grass (that duty by default is set to off).  I know the guests will remark on the scenery and vandalism, but I have not seen anything to suggest that mowing the grass has an effect on the guests or ride construction.  My question is; does mowing the grass have any effects apart from just making the park look tidier? Does allowing it to overgrow have any negative effects? In Windows XP we can search for files that contain a defined keyword (inside all files types).  Windows 7 can look inside files for a keyword, but only for text files. (*.doc, *.txt, *.inf, ...), not (*.conf, *.dat, *.*, ...).   don't contain any filter I can use for this.  How is this possible? I just can't seem to figure this one out.  I want to use the command line to connect to a MySQL database residing on another server.  I went ahead and created the username and password for the user.  I have also granted all privileges on that user for that database.  When using the command: mysql -h &lt;hostname&gt; -u &lt;username&gt; -p, I get the following error:  ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user '&lt;username&gt;'@'&lt;local_machine_hostname&gt;' (using password: YES)   The problem is that it keeps appending the current machine's hostname into the username.  Obviously, that user@&lt;local_machine_hostname&gt; is not correct.  It doesn't matter what I type.  For instance, if I type:  mysql -h &lt;hostname&gt; -u '&lt;username&gt;'@'&lt;hostname&gt;' -p   It does the same, only in the error output, it says:  Access denied for user '&lt;username&gt;@&lt;hostname&gt;'@'&lt;local_machine_hostname&gt;'   Is there a setting in a configuration file which is allowing this to happen?  It's really quite annoying.  I need to set up a tikiwiki server, and it cannot connect because during the step where you set up mysql, it keeps appending the local machine's hostname to the mysql login name. Short story about a man stranded on a red planet with a sentient hand as his friend I remember reading a short story 10 to 15 years ago about a man stranded alone on a red planet, where nothing would be green, and so he would miss that color. There was a sentient hand to keep him company, and it talked to him. I don't remember if the hand was a native life form or his own hallucination.  The story was not very old at that time, so it may have been written in the late 90s or 00s. VLC will not install 14.04 I tried to watch a dvd and found that VLC was not installed. When I went to the Ubuntu software center I got this message when trying to install VLC. I do not know why. Here's the ouput:  "This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing or not installable. Furthermore there could be a conflict between software packages which are not allowed to be installed at the same time.  The following packages have unmet dependencies:  vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1) but 2.1.4-0ubuntu14.04.1 is to be installed      Depends: libc6 (&gt;= 2.15) but 2.19-0ubuntu6.4 is to be installed      Depends: libfreetype6 (&gt;= 2.2.1) but 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.2 is to be installed      Depends: libgcc1 (&gt;= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.9.1-0ubuntu1 is to be installed      Depends: libqtcore4 (&gt;= 4:4.8.0) but 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4 is to be installed      Depends: libqtgui4 (&gt;= 4:4.8.0) but 4:4.8.5+git192-g085f851+dfsg-2ubuntu4 is to be installed      Depends: libstdc++6 (&gt;= 4.6) but 4.8.2-19ubuntu1 is to be installed      Depends: zlib1g (&gt;= 1:1.2.3.3) but 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1 is to be installed"   Thanks in advance for any help. Did Luke attempt to retake the Jedi Temple on Coruscant? After the New Republic gains control of Coruscant through the Galactic Concordance, did Luke Skywalker attempt to reclaim (or even visit) the former and still very much intact Jedi Temple, now converted to be the deceased Emperor's palace?   If Luke is so insistent on saving a tree just because it belongs to the Jedi and the Empire stole it, then shouldn't reclaiming the Jedi Temple be even higher priority?  If he did, is he aware of the Sith shrine beneath it? Which is something even Yoda does not know. And if he didn't, why didn't he? Windows batch command(s) to read first line from text file How can I read the first line from a text file using a Windows batch file? Since the file is large I only want to deal with the first line. Unsolved mystery - I was given a coworker's Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS machine and set up my own (sudo/admin) user on there from the command line. I switched to my user (from his sudo/admin user) and confirmed everything was okay using the groups command and the /etc/passwd file looked great. After months of everything working perfectly, a power outage shut down the machine for the first time since I inherited it.  After booting, my new user disappeared. It's not in the /etc/passwd file and there is no entry in the /home directory. I created the user the same as I did before, and there were no errors to indicate that the user still existed.  What happened?  As requested, here is the output of   olduser@machine:~$ ls -lait /home  total 16  3408126 drwxr-xr-x 2 newuser newuser 4096 Nov 20 10:28 newuser  3407873 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 20 10:28 .  3407874 drwxr-xr-x 36 coworker coworker 4096 Nov 20 10:00 bvillupu  2 drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Oct 3 2012 ..  3408259 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Aug 9 2012 .directory -&gt; /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/directory-home Is there a way to set app-specific volume? I have read , but it was asked in the context of servers not desktops or notebooks.  If a good amount of RAM is installed on a notebook, say 8 GB, do we still need a swap space? How to install latest HPLIP on my Ubuntu to support my HP printer and/or scanner? Evaluating the integral $\int_0^\infty \frac{\sin x} x \,\mathrm dx = \frac \pi 2$? Recently I paid a lot (almost one month of my salary) for repairing my car. I am wondering if there is a way to get deduction on federal or state taxes (USA, California). 'Wouldn't wake up' vs. 'didn't wake up' I'm reading an article about two pets rescuing their owners. After the cat managed to wake up the mother, she tried to wake up other members but they wouldn't wake up.     Cathy tried to tell her husband and son to leave the house, but they wouldn't wake up.   Why wouldn't and not didn't?   (I checked possible duplicates but they weren't convincing at all. Besides, none of the answers were confirmed. One said would is used for permission and another said it's for emphasis!) How to prove that for all natural numbers, $4^n > n^3$? This is a problem set I have, it's not a homework but it's very important practice...  Send me some hints please, I don't want an answer I need to get it by myself but I'm failing miserably...   The problem is:     Prove that for all natural numbers $n$,  $4^n &gt; n^3$ In a multiple regression, the regression coefficient of the two subsamples is opposite to that of the full sample. Both coefficients are significant. The sum of the number of obs in the two subsamples is equal to that of the full sample. Is this normal? What are the possible causes? Thanks. Bounded sequence in a metric space Why does the atmosphere rotate along with the earth? I was reading somewhere about a really cheap way of travelling: using balloons to get ourselves away from the surface of the earth. The idea held that because the earth rotates, we should be able to land in a different place after some time. As we all know, this doesn't happen.  Someone said that the reason why this doesn't happen is because the atmosphere (air, clouds etc.) also revolves around the earth (with the same angular velocity as the earth's rotation). Since we are also part of the atmosphere, our position doesn't change relatively.  Well, I'm not convinced with that answer. Why does the atmosphere rotate along with earth?  Gravitational force is towards the centre of the earth, but I don't see how it's making the atmosphere rotate.