I have recently bought a second-hand notebook, which is running Ubuntu 10.10. I am completely new to Ubuntu and bought this machine because I want to get away from Windows. I now realise that 10.10 is no longer supported and I was advised that I needed to download and install Ubuntu 13. I tried to do this, but was required to give a password in order to do so. I do not have the password, as this is a second-hand machine.   I know that I could start from scratch and install 13, but I'm reluctant to do this, owing to my lack of familiarity with Ubuntu and limited technical skills. Is the only way forward for me to do a complete installation of v13, is there a way to bypass the password?   Thanks in anticipation,   Dave
I'm working on a Ubuntu system, and my client has completely forgotten his administrative password. He doesn't even remember entering one; however it is there.  I've tried the suggestions on the website, and I have been unsuccessful in deleting the password so that I can download applets required for running some files. Is there a solution?
Enable replace image feature in LibreOffice There are many tutorials that use a pull-up or pull-down resistor in conjunction with a switch to avoid a floating ground, e.g.        Many of these projects use a 10K resistor, merely remarking that it is a good value.  Given a a particular circuit, how do I determine the appropriate value for a pull-down resistor?  Can it be calculated, or is it best determined by experimentation? Real analysis derivate problem. How can I prove this? Let $f$ be differentiable in $[a,b]$ and $f(a)=0$. If $\exists M \in R$ such that $\vert f'(x) \vert \leq M \vert f(x)\vert \ $,  $\forall x \in [a,b]$, then $f(x)=0, \ \forall x \in [a,b]$.  $\\$ I have an idea, but I can´t see it clear. I have arrived to the inequality $\vert f(x)\vert \leq  K\vert f(y)\vert $ for $y \in (a,x)$, supposing $k&gt;0$ and repeating the process $\vert f(x)\vert \leq  K^n\vert f(z)\vert$ for $a&lt;z&lt;y&lt;x$. If $K&lt;1$, then if $n \rightarrow \infty \ $, $f(x)=0$. That´s a sort of intuitive idea. Where can I get more favourable exchange rate, in general?changing baht to Canadian dollars in Thailand or Canada or make a bank transfer to my Canadian account What is the difference between using a colon and a semi-colon to join two sentences? I've seen a few questions on this site relating to semi-colons, which I believe I correctly understand, but what I'm not as clear about is colons.  For example:     The man ate the apple; it tasted good.   Is this not correctly also written as:     The man ate the apple: it tasted good.   In this case, what is the difference between the two sentences? Is the Formula Logically Valid? Rank of the $n \times n$ matrix with ones on the main diagonal and $a$ off the main diagonal I want to find the rank of this $n\times n$ matrix \begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdots &amp; \cdots &amp; a \\ a &amp; 1 &amp; a &amp; \cdots &amp; \cdots &amp; a \\ a &amp; a &amp; 1 &amp; a &amp; \cdots &amp; a \\ \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; a&amp; \ddots &amp; &amp; \vdots\\ \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; &amp; \ddots &amp; \vdots \\ a &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdots  &amp;\cdots &amp; 1 \end{pmatrix}  that is, the matrix whose diagonals are $1's$ and $a$ otherwise, where $a$ is any real number.  My first observation is when $a=0$ the rank is $n$ and when $a=1$ the rank is $1.$ Then I can assume $a\neq 0, 1$ and proceed row reduction to find its pivot rows. I obtain  \begin{pmatrix} 1 &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdots  &amp; a \\ 0 &amp; 1+a &amp; a &amp; \cdots &amp; a \\ 0 &amp; a &amp; 1+a &amp; \cdots &amp; a \\ \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; \ddots &amp; \vdots \\ 0 &amp; a &amp; a &amp; \cdots  &amp; 1+a \end{pmatrix} by subtracting the first row multiplied $a$ for each row below the first, and then divides the factor $(1-a)$,  and stuck there. Any hints/helps? How to find out if my system is i386 or x86_64 before installing Ubuntu? Using sed with an integer variable I want to sed using a variable.  For example, sed -n '1,10p' file. So, instead of 10, I want to use $k where k is an integer. What's the problem with my Young slits experiment? My Young's slits experiment doesn’t work. I mean I tried to see wave effect of light but I didn’t see any thing expect particles! I’ve sent you a pic of my laser and a short video of the experiment. Is there any problem you think? $M + N$ and $M \cap N$ are finitely generated $A$-modules implies $M$ and $N$ finitely generated using exact sequences Let $0 \to M_1 \to M \to M_2 \to 0$ be an exact sequence of $A$-modules.  i) Prove: If $M_1$ and $M_2$ are finitely generated, then $M$ is too.  ii) Let $M$ and $N$ be sub-modules of an $A$-module $L$. Assume that $M+N$ and $M\cap N$  are finitely generated $A$-modules. Prove that $M$ and $N$ are finitely generated $A$-modules.  If have proved the first part, but i don't see how to do the second part. I tried to use the first part, so to find an exact sequence with $M$ in the middle and finitely generated modules in place of $M_1$ and $M_2$, but I can't find a surjective map $M \to P$ (for some f.g. $A$-module) in the sequence:  $$0 \to M\cap N \to M \to P \to 0$$  any hints/help would be appreciated. More than one 'Open xxxxx here as Administrator' I want the option to open a Command window or Powershell window as Administrator from the drive and directory context menus in Windows.   I can have either by creating and populating the special 'runas' registry keys shown below, but is there a way I can have both listed on the context menu and have both run as Administrator?  [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\runas] ... [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\runas\command] ... [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas] ... [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\runas\command] ... [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\runas] ... [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\runas\command] ... Schengen Visa Refusal: Justification for the purpose and conditions of the intended stay was not reliable Looking for a sci-fi movie in which a human astronaut befriends an alien on a reddish planet This probably wasn't a blockbuster back in its time as I remember the special effects didn't seem all that bombastic, but I do remember a few details.  A human astronaut lands (or crash-lands) on a prominently reddish planet. It might have been Mars, thought it might not have been. I think the atmosphere on said planet was humanly breathable (as in the astronaut does not wear his helmet).  This human astronaut needs to survive. He spots a humanoid alien, apparently also having crash-landed or otherwise in need of survival. He sees this alien consume some sort of greenish orb, apparently for nourishment. He sneaks up to the alien (or the alien craft) in an attempt to grab some of those greenish orbs. I don't remember whether he succeeds, but he does get beaten up by the alien.  The next bit of detail I remember was the human astronaut constructing some sort of shelter to protect both him and the alien from... meteor showers? The human astronaut piles up some rocks to build a hut while the alien, apparently having learned a few English words, says "shiiiiit" and "no solid". The human astronaut asks, incredulous, "No solid?" and punches the hut he just build. "See? Solid!" he proclaims, while the hut collapses a few seconds later. The alien laughs.  Later on the human astronaut is either caught by or accidentally fell into some sort of mouth-in-the-sand creature. He is saved by the alien in the process (or was it the alien who fell into the mouth-creature and was saved by the human astronaut). They witness the mouth-creature spitting out a turtle-like shell (from another local wildlife) of some sort. The human astronaut observes, and I paraphrase, "This stuff must be so tough that even [the mouth-creature] cannot digest it!" He then proceeds to build a meteor shelter from collected shells.  The last bit of detail I remember is when the alien becomes pregnant and is dying. The human astronaut, having thoroughly befriended the alien at this point, asks (and I paraphrase), "What do you mean you're pregnant? Aren't you a male?" to which the alien responds (and again I paraphrase), "For us it comes naturally, unlike for you humans whose pregnancy only comes after a brief period of pleasure". The alien then asks the human astronaut to bring the child to the alien's home planet and recite the names of the child's ancestors in front of... alien rulers, I guess. The last scene of the movie is of the human astronaut, having arrived at the alien's home planet, standing side-by-side (or perhaps hand-in-hand) with the alien child while chanting in an alien language (what I presume to be the names of the child's ancestors). When a polished piece of metal (or steel in particular) is heated to incandescence, how do its reflective properties change?  Given a mirror-like surface, would the object temporarily cease to act like a mirror at a certain temperature?  Would the specular reflection of light turn into diffuse reflection; in other words, would the surface temporarily become matte/dull?  I am not asking about permanent changes to the object such as melting, but rather can there be a temporary change in the reflectivity only while the the object is hot, that disappears when the object is cooled down?  Background of the question: I have a laser scanner that usually has trouble scanning shiny surfaces with high specular/ low diffuse reflectivity; and it seems to work a lot better for hot steel pieces than for cold ones. Glowing steel also looks less shiny to me than cold steel, but of course that is hard to tell with all the glowing Mac turns off randomly and has lines on screen For some reason my iMac keeps turning off around 5 to 10 minutes into boot.  Also just recently it turns on but has shaded lines going down the screen. I have not installed any weird programs and i have not used it in around 3 months.   Any ideas on what the issue is, i don't have any other information about the issue besides whats happening when i use it.  The image i'm showing you was found on google but this looks exactly like mine does.  The model of my imac is the late 2011 model. Vote to close a deleted question - bug? I just successfully added my Close vote to a question on Stack Overflow that had already been deleted by the author.  The question can be found .        The only purpose I see for such functionality is perhaps to stop someone from escaping the initial surge of wrath from critics, then subsequently undeleting their question.  And that would be a pretty strange thing to guard against.  It seems far more likely that this is an oddity that was overlooked.  So I'm just curious - is voting to close a deleted question a bug, or is it ?  If by design, what is the rationale behind it? How do I write an Apex unit test? Boot problem after hanging and manual power off ( Stopping User Manager for UID 121... ) My Ubuntu stalled while running Android's VirtualBox version, so I powered off the system. But after reset it stopped during this line:     Stopping User Manager for UID 121... _ So i googled it and have read  question and tried these steps:  Boot into Recovery Mode, drop to a root shell, and follow the steps below:   Run mount -o rw,remount / to mount the drive in Read-Write mode.Run sudo apt-get purge nvidia-* to purge the NVIDIA driver.You may also need to purge xserver-xorg and reinstall it, which will  require you to enable networking in Recovery.Reboot. You may have to add the nouveau.modeset=0 flag in GRUB to boot properly (Check my Q&amp;A for specifics).   You should be past the screen flicker and be at your desktop.  But in doing this step:  Now reinstall the NVIDIA drivers the proper way:sudo apt-get install  nvidia-367 (or 340, 352, 364, 370, whichever works).Reboot again.  I found i have not internet, and my WiFi is not in ifconfig list!!! By running :     Iw wlp2s0 scan   I get :  N180211 not found I also search for it and not understand why WiFi gone off. Now i thinking to use live USB of ubuntu to download NVIDIA and xserver-xorg and the install the by dpkg command during tty2. Update : in Ubuntu live i have this settings :  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c video   *-display                         description: VGA compatible controller        product: HD Graphics 620        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 02        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0        resources: irq:129 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:6000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff   *-display        description: 3D controller        product: GM108M [GeForce 920MX]        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0        version: a2        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list        configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0        resources: irq:128 memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)  and ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw -c display   *-display                         description: VGA compatible controller        product: HD Graphics 620        vendor: Intel Corporation        physical id: 2        bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0        version: 02        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom        configuration: driver=i915 latency=0        resources: irq:129 memory:a2000000-a2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:6000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff   *-display        description: 3D controller        product: GM108M [GeForce 920MX]        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation        physical id: 0        bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0        version: a2        width: 64 bits        clock: 33MHz        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list        configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0        resources: irq:128 memory:a3000000-a3ffffff memory:90000000-9fffffff memory:a0000000-a1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128)  and : ubuntu@ubuntu:~$  cat /etc/os-release NAME=&quot;Ubuntu&quot; VERSION=&quot;18.04.3 LTS (Bionic Beaver)&quot; ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME=&quot;Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS&quot; VERSION_ID=&quot;18.04&quot; HOME_URL=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/&quot; SUPPORT_URL=&quot;https://help.ubuntu.com/&quot; BUG_REPORT_URL=&quot;https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/&quot; PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=&quot;https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy&quot; VERSION_CODENAME=bionic UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic  please consider the above three output has token form Ubuntu live flash system. What do you suggest and what do you think about reason of this failure? Also do you think it must be reported by me in ubuntu site, or it will be done automatically? Thanks. I've been studying the Huddleston and Pullum book for four months now. So far only one thing confuses me: the identity of gerund. Is it a noun or a verb?        His constant smoking upset me.  smoking seems  noun because of adjective constant.   Him/His constantly smoking upset me. smoking seems to be verb because of adverb constantly.   Him/His smoking cigars upset me. smoking seems to be a verb because of object cigars.      "His smoking upset me." So is this smoking gerund a noun or verb? Because there is no differentiation, is it both verb and noun? Maybe it's new word category?  Also his seems to be both  sometimes a subject and at other times a possessive determiner. Is that correct?