I am using HP15 074tu laptop. Processor is Core i3 4005U 1.70 GHz *4. I am using UBUNTU 18.04.3 LTS and it is working fine.  I want to know if any other laptop with intel Pentium 1.10 GHz processor support UBUNTU 18.04.3 LTS  in same way as my present laptop.
I'm thinking about installing Ubuntu Desktop, but I don't know what flavor is the best for my system. What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements? What kind of CPU? How much memory? Should I have Hardware Acceleration? What flavor should I use?  This is an attempt of a canonical answer. My answers have the &quot;official  requirements&quot;, the recommended are a mix of official sources and opinion based (along with the answer it's told the source). You can comment or edit if you feel that the information is obsolete or incomplete. It is a good rule of thumb that any system capable of running Windows Vista, 7, 8, x86 (Intel) OS X will almost always be a lot faster with any Ubuntu flavor even if they are lower-spec than described below.
Using launchd to update MacPorts I want to use launchd to update my MacPorts tree periodically (i.e. port selfupdate.  I have created /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.selfupdate.plist:   $ ls -l /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.selfupdate.plist -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  669  8 Nov 12:49 /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.selfupdate.plist   It has the following contents:   &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;Label&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;org.macports.selfupdate&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;ProgramArguments&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt;     &lt;string&gt;/opt/local/bin/port&lt;/string&gt;     &lt;string&gt;selfupdate&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;key&gt;StandardOutPath&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;/var/log/org.macports.selfupdate.log&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;StandardErrorPath&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;/var/log/org.macports.selfupdate.err&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;RunAtLoad&lt;/key&gt; &lt;true/&gt; &lt;key&gt;StartInterval&lt;/key&gt; &lt;integer&gt;604800&lt;/integer&gt;&lt;!-- 1 week --&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/plist&gt;   I've loaded it and verified that it's loaded:  $ launchctl list | grep macports -   78  org.macports.selfupdate   But it doesn't look like it actually run.    $ port info wireshark Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'. wireshark @1.12.8_3 (net) ...   What am I missing? Let $D$ be an integral domain and let $a^m=b^m$ and $a^n=b^n$ where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime integers, $a,b \in D$.   How do I show $a=b$? Is it possible to cancel or clear a notification created by using notify-send? So I wrote a little script that makes sure a certain user plugs in a laptop when he logs on (it disables if he doesn't). The script uses notify-send to tell him to plug it in. If he plugs it in, the script quits. Is it possible to clear the notification automatically when he plugs it in? I'm thinking it might require somehow getting the process id spawned by notify-send and killing that PID, but I don't know how to do this.  Here's the current script:  #!/bin/bash   cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status OUTPUT="$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)" echo "${OUTPUT}" if [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Charging" ] || [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Unknown" ]; then     echo charging or full elif [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Discharging" ]; then     notify-send -i /home/evamvid/Documents/Programming/OokiNoUse/power25.png "Hey there brother" "plug it in"     COUNTER=0 while [ "$COUNTER" -le 12 ] do     cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status     OUTPUT="$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)"     echo "${OUTPUT}"     if [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Charging" ] || [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Unknown" ]; then         exit     elif [ "${OUTPUT}" = "Discharging" ]; then         COUNTER=$(($COUNTER+1))         echo $COUNTER         sleep 1     fi done fi As far as I know, it's possible to create a radially polarised ring magnet, where one pole is on the inside, and the field lines cross the circumference at right angles.    So imagine if I made one which was shaped like a sector of a torus.    Then I forced a load of these magnets into a complete torus.     Clearly this magnet is impossible because there's no way for the field lines to get back into the middle. So what happens to the field in this case? Does it disappear completely? Do the magnets blow up? Partition of harddisk lost/unusable If I look through the microwave window I can see through, which means visible radiation can get out. We know also that there is a mesh on the microwave window which prevents microwave from coming out.  My question is how does this work? how come making stripes or mesh of metals can attenuate microwave radiation yet allow visible radiation?  Looks like an electrodynamics problem to me with periodic boundary conditions (because of the partitions on the microwave oven window). Is it discussed in any textbook? Expectation of momentum in the bound state Is it logically correct to assert that the expectation of the momentum $$\langle \hat p \rangle=0$$ for any bound state because it is bound to some finite region? What is the physical interpretation of the fact that $$\langle \hat p \rangle=0$$ in an energy eigenstate $\psi_n(x,t)$  but $$\langle \hat p \rangle\neq0$$ in some superposition state $$\psi(x,t)=c_m\psi_m(x,t)+c_n\psi_n(x,t)~?$$ Here $\psi_n(x,t)$ the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, for example, in the problem of particle in a box (say). How to open and convert CHM documents? I have some documents that are in a .chm format. I wondered if there is a file format that can be easier to navigate, supported and of equal file size in Ubuntu?  If there is, I would like to start converting all those books and probably using them with less hassle on all my Ubuntu PCs and my Android phone. Novel about a teleportation device and a con artist alien In C++, what is a virtual base class? I want to know what a "virtual base class" is and what it means.  Let me show an example:  class Foo { public:     void DoSomething() { /* ... */ } };  class Bar : public virtual Foo { public:     void DoSpecific() { /* ... */ } }; If $xy + yz + zx = 1$, then show that      $$\dfrac{x}{1-x^2} + \dfrac{y}{1-y^2} + \dfrac{z}{1-z^2} = \dfrac{4xyz}{(1-x^2)(1-y^2)(1-z^2)}$$   I tried doing the sum algebraically, that is, by solving the LHS but, that method isn't really getting us anywhere.  Also, I found this sum in an a book on trigonometry. So how can I solve it with trigonometry? Why does $\tan^{-1}(1)+\tan^{-1}(2)+\tan^{-1}(3)=\pi$? Playing around on wolframalpha shows $\tan^{-1}(1)+\tan^{-1}(2)+\tan^{-1}(3)=\pi$. I know $\tan^{-1}(1)=\pi/4$, but how could you compute that $\tan^{-1}(2)+\tan^{-1}(3)=\frac{3}{4}\pi$ to get this result? What statistical test to use for discrete predictor and response variables? I'm doing a statistical analysis of a model for college. It's modelling a bear catching fish and I'm asking will the amount of time taken to digest the fish have an effect on the amount of fish caught? (stupid question I know!) So the predictor variable is the amount of fish the bear can eat before it needs to digest and the response variable is the amount of fish it catches. The predictors varies between 1 and 30 in integers and the response is also in integers. I repeated each level of the predictor 5 times creating a sample size of 150 altogether. I was thinking of just using a simple correlation test such as cor.test in R, but I've read online that this is for continuous data. Does that matter or would this test still be appropriate? Thanks a million, Eamon When I googled stomach flu, there were many questions and statements like      How do you get the stomach flu?    Or     Difference between a stomach flu and food poisoning    Or      Six facts about stomach flu   When do you use the, a or nothing? And which should I use for a sentence like "I got a stomach flu from someone" ? Test if a package (or package option) is loaded [french]{babel} (aka frenchb) is incompatible with some other packages, such as tikz, since it tries to insert \thinspace before semi-colons.  In order to make these two play nice, you have to call \shorthandoff{;} in the document.  Now I have a package that uses tikz and I would like to locally disable the semi-colon for babel, instead of disabling it for the whole document. I could hack the .sty of the package to do that, knowing that I'm using frenchb, but I would rather make something clean and portable.  Is there a way in my package that I can test if frenchb is loaded and disable semi-colon management with babel locally, so the package doesn't have to be hacked?  Edit:  Martin's solution gives me something like this in general:  \RequirePackage{ifthen} \newcommand{\@babel@loaded}{0} \AtBeginDocument{\@ifpackageloaded{babel}                                                    {\renewcommand{\@babel@loaded}{1}}                                                         {\renewcommand{\@babel@loaded}{0}}                                                       } \newcommand{\somecommandusingsemicolon}{   \ifthenelse{\@babel@loaded=1}{\shorthandoff{;}}{}     % code with semi-colon here }   and in the specific case of tikz:  \AtBeginDocument{\@ifpackageloaded{babel}   {%     \g@addto@macro\tikz@installcommands{%       \shorthandoff{;}%     }     \g@addto@macro\tikz@uninstallcommands{%       \shorthandon{;}%     }   }   {\relax} } 'This post has been deleted' appears above the flag bar How do I calculate the determinant of the following $n\times n$ matrices  $$\begin {bmatrix} 0 &amp; 1 &amp; \ldots &amp; 1 \\ 1 &amp; 0 &amp; \ldots &amp; 1 \\ \vdots &amp; \vdots &amp; \ddots &amp; \vdots \\ 1 &amp; 1 &amp; ... &amp; 0 \end {bmatrix}$$  and the same matrix but one of columns replaced only with $1$s?  In the  above matrix all off-diagonal elements are $1$ and diagonal elements are $0$. Looking for sci-fi novel I read about humanity finding alien station on orbit of Earth I am looking for a novel that I'd love to re-read it with my wife (my 13-year old self must be proud of me I guess). Key Plot points The plot was about humanity finding an alien station on an orbit of Earth. (I'm not sure if it wasn't Moon itself). On this station there were thousands of ships ready to travel so there rose a company that paid people to get on those ships and explore the galaxy. The problem was humans didn't understand how to steer those ships so they had to rely on preset targets. Of course there was no telling where particular ship was to go and fair amount of them never returned. Chronology and other relevant information I read it as an early teenager back in early 2000s. It was Polish translation of a foreign (possibly English) story. I think (not sure) that the book wasn't new at the time. It was just one of those books you dig out in a library and take to see if it's good. I don't recall cover either and even if I did it'd be of the Polish version. Additional information could be that the narration was led along the psychoanalytics of the main protagonists where he relives his memories from inside the station and his journeys. If $\int_0^1 f(x)x^n \ dx=0$ for every $n$, then $f=0$. How to check the maximum number of allowed connections to an Oracle database?