How do I change this direct speech into reported speech?  Father said,"Never say never."
I've been told that I should use simple past in reported speech when the direct speech is in simple present such as I **am** the best   ~>   He said he **was** the best  but what happens for imperative mood direct speech     "Mom said dont trust strangers"   Or     "Mom said didn't trust strangers"   I think I should maintain the first form. But I'm not sure. And I'm not even sure this relates to the sentence mood. I need the best choice and a further explaination for this :)
Copy files from a list to a folder back-up: which patitions to back-up before upgrading/reinstalling I have Ubuntu13.04 on my laptop. I have to upgrade it to the next release or else I would install a fresh release after deleting my current system.  I have already installed and configured my current system a lot and I can't take the burden of doing it all over again if I install the next release. Now I would like to know that what all back-ups are required to be taken beforehand so that I would recover all my files/installations/configurations etc. In other words I should have everything on my new system (simply by restoring from back-ups) that I possess currently.  My current system has /, /boot, /home &amp; swap partitions which were created by me when I had freshly installed the O.S. I want to digitize my old family albums using a scanner and there are lots of photos in them. Thus far, my method has been to scan 4 images at a time and then manually cropping them in a simple editor like Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery. This has been pretty time consuming as each scan is followed by 4 crop operations. Scanning each image individually would possibly be even more time consuming.  Is there any software or simple plugin (preferably free) that does this job? The best solution I have found is in , but that's an overkill. Is there a similar feature for one of the free photo editors like Paint.NET or GIMP? Unknown apps/processes with number only are shown in the battery screen Save site as template using client object model When a user on our site loses his password and heads off to the Lost Password page we need to give him a new temporary password. I don't really mind how random this is, or if it matches all the "needed" strong password rules, all I want to do is give them a password that they can change later.  The application is a Web application written in C#. so I was thinking of being mean and going for the easy route of using part of a Guid. i.e.  Guid.NewGuid().ToString("d").Substring(1,8)   Suggesstions? thoughts? Why does Skynet take prisoners? In the Terminator franchise, extermination camps are often mentioned. But from a machine-logic POV, wouldn't it make more sense to just kill all humans on sight, period? Or herd them into small areas and nuke them? (even today's military electronics are hardened against EMPs and Skynet wouldn't care about the environment.)   IIRC, the reasoning behind ghettoization / concentration camps / extermination camps / gas "showers" is to misdirect or mislead people both inside and outside the country as to what was really going on. But Skynet doesn't have to worry about bad publicity, and can manufacture all the free labor it needs. Is there any in-universe explanation for keeping large groups prisoners? Get current editor toolbar tab via Python? I wanted to take a sneak peek at Windows 7 so I thought of installing it. I have Windows Vista on my laptop which came pre-installed with it. I didn't want to mess with it.  So I created a partition (20 GB) in my USB external hard disk and tried to install Windows 7 on that partition. But when I booted from a Windows 7 DVD and selected the target partition on USB hard disk, it said it cannot be installed.  Is there any way to install Windows on an external USB hard disk? How to get a set $E$ such that $0<\mu(E\cap I)<\mu(E)$ for all interval $I$? Simple one really.  In SQL, if I want to search a text field for a couple of characters, I can do:  SELECT blah FROM blah WHERE blah LIKE '%text%'   The documentation for App Engine makes no mention of how to achieve this, but surely it's a common enough problem? Is a NVIDIA GeForce with Optimus Technology supported by Ubuntu? 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. What are 'user' and 'system' times measuring in R system.time(exp) output? Access denied for user 'root@localhost' (using password:NO) TTY doesn't wait for password Subcaption defaulting to capital letter labels? I seem to be having a unique problem. There are many questions asking about how to change subcaption to a label with capital letters but for me my program is defaulting to capital letters when I would prefer lowercase.  My preamble  \documentclass[12pt,reqno]{amsart} \setlength\parindent{0pt} %no auto indentation for new paragraphs \usepackage{geometry}  \geometry{a4paper}  \usepackage{natbib}  \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, calc, dsfont}    \usepackage{enumerate} \usepackage{subcaption, caption, graphicx} %figure packages \usepackage{authblk} %author affiliations \usepackage{setspace, lineno} %double spaced etc. options, line numbering  \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,chains,automata,positioning}   My figure  \begin{figure}[h!]   \centering   \begin{subfigure}[]{0.48\textwidth}           \includegraphics{Figure1.pdf}           \caption{}           \label{FigPractice}    \end{subfigure}    \begin{subfigure}[]{0.48\textwidth}           \includegraphics{Figure2.pdf}           \caption{}           \label{PracticeAge}   \end{subfigure}   \caption{a caption} \end{figure}   I've also tried \renewcommand{\thesubfigure}{\alph{subfigure}} So I've been experiencing this in the last few days: sometimes when someone replies to my comment, and I reply to the reply, then the "add/show 1 more comment" link appears immediately after I post my comment. However, when I click it, it disappears and nothing is shown.  I don't think it's that OP is posting two comments of which he deletes the second one, because this has happened to me several times, even when I was replying within 2-3 seconds.  I do, however, believe that this is more or less the same bug as , except that I don't have to reload the page in order the link to be gone, and I also seem to be getting the erroneous behavior only if I reply to a comment which is itself a reply to an earlier comment of mine.  Unfortunately, I wasn't careful enough to take a screenshot last time this happened, but here's what I am talking about for those who like visual demonstration better: Including pdf_tex images from inkscape Some questions on abelian category Let  $f: C \longrightarrow D$ be a morphism in an abelian category $\mathfrak{A}$ with kernel and cokernel both zero. How can I show that it is an isomorphism? I am not able to find it's inverse.   Let $g: C \longrightarrow D$ be a morphism in the abelian category $\mathfrak{A}$. Let $i: K \hookrightarrow C$ be the kernel of $g$. How can I prove that the induced map $\text{coker}\ i \rightarrow D$ is a monic?   I don't want to use Mitchell's embedding theorem. A function $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is said to have the intermediate-value property if for any $a$, $b$ and $\lambda \in [f(a),f(b)]$ there is $x \in [a,b]$ such that $f(x)=\lambda$.  A function $f$ is injective if $f(x)=f(y) \Rightarrow x=y$.  Now it is the case that every injective function with the intermediate-value property is continuous. I can prove this using the following steps:   An injective function with the intermediate-value property must be monotonic. A monotonic function possesses left- and right-handed limits at each point. For a function with the intermediate-value property the left- and right-handed limits at $x$, if they exist, equal $f(x)$.   I am not really happy with this proof. Particularly I don't like having to invoke the intermediate-value property twice.  Can there be a shorter or more elegant proof?