I was just watching The Lord of the Rings: The Return  of the King movie adaption, and there was something at the end I didn't quite understand why it happened ?    Why after Sauron is defeated ( when the One Ring is destroyed ) do all the Orcs die, and the ground shatters beneath their feet, but not beneath "the good guys" feet?  Screenshot:
In the Peter Jackson movie, once the One Ring is thrown into the volcano in Mount Doom, why does the mountain and tower collapse, and the ground disappears everywhere where the orcs are standing but not where the humans are? Where are all the orcs running to, what do they do next?
Setting the hostname: FQDN or short name? I've noticed that the "preferred" method of setting the system hostname is fundamentally different between Red Hat/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu systems.   and the  say the hostname should be the FQDN:     HOSTNAME=&lt;value&gt;, where &lt;value&gt; should be the Fully Qualified Domain   Name (FQDN), such as hostname.example.com, but can be whatever   hostname is necessary.   The  is slightly more ambiguous:     Setup prompts you to supply a host name for this computer, either as a   fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) in the format hostname.domainname   or as a short host name in the format hostname.    says the hostname should not use the FQDN:     3.5.5. The hostname      The kernel maintains the system hostname. The init script in runlevel   S which is symlinked to "/etc/init.d/hostname.sh" sets the system   hostname at boot time (using the hostname command) to the name stored   in "/etc/hostname". This file should contain only the system hostname,   not a fully qualified domain name.   I haven't seen any specific recommendations from IBM about which to use, but  seems to have a preference.  My questions:   In a heterogeneous environment, is it better to use the vendor recommendation, or choose one and be consistent across all hosts? What software have you encountered which is sensitive to whether the hostname is set to the FQDN or short name? PHP __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object with my $_SESSION data I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.  I want to remove the digital clock from the lock screen because I just want to see a good wallpaper there, unobstructed.   How do I go about this? What "exactly" happens when someone turns to the Dark Side? Installation of Miktex How come Dropbox gets an icon in Finder sidebar? What is the term for the grandson of my aunt? Where are Time Machine local backups/snapshots stored? Out of curiosity, I'm wondering where in the file system Time Machine stores its local backups/snapshots. Live refresh shows "modified" on tagged questions even when unmodified Is Tolkien prejudiced against the East? In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series, there are generally two groups of Men. The good ones are coming from the West (Dúnedain, Men of the West), and the bad ones, the Easterlings, mostly fight under Morgoth and Sauron.  Why was this so? Filter subscription email is not being delivered (June 2019 - Feb 2020) I have created a custom filter in  and specified that I would like to get email updates:  However, I never got a confirmation mail nor any notifications based on my filter. I tried the &quot;resent confirmation mail&quot; button on the right hand sidebar:  But again nothing happens. The mail address should be fine  I used it for all kinds of notifications from Stack Exchange. For example the rep recalculation email arrived just fine on this address.  I retyped it several times to make sure there really isn't any typo  I double checked that it did not end up in the spam filter  I don't think it is a problem with my particular email provider, users with other mail providers seem to have the same problem, see     This is possibly related to , but this claims to be &quot;status complete&quot;.   EDIT: Although the &quot;status-completed&quot; tag was added, the problem still persists  EDIT 2: As of Feb 2020, it finally works single email limit exceeded salesforce very frequently..? Weird artifacts in my UV mapped texture Any ideas what's causing those chunks of geometric artifacts?  Argh. After writing the FreeNAS IMG to a 16 GB USB flash drive, I can now only use 938 MB. I used the Win32 Disk Imager tool to write the IMG to the device. Then later, when I inserted the the USB drive into my Windows 7 computer it said that it had to be formatted, because it couldn't read it. I believe this is normal. So I formatted it inside Windows using the format option when prompted. So in Windows Explorer now, 938 MB is reported as capacity of this device.    Also, when i check the properties dialog box I can see the same numbers.    And when I check with diskmgmt.msc I can see there are several volumes I don't recognize and unallocated space of 12.79 GB.    Now, I have another 2 GB USB flash drive with the same problem. It too was used for FreeNAS, and it too has a reported capacity of only 938 MB. I thought it was broken there for a while, until I saw the same problem with this 16 GB model.  I tried using diskpart on the 2 GB model, and I saw that there were several partitions there (list partitions) just like on this one. So I used the clean option to try to wipe it, but that wiped off everything so it's totally useless now. I'm not sure how to rebuild it.  Is this a standard routine, like part of the whole "user experience", that whenever you make a bootable USB falsh drive with FreeNAS, it messes up your device? I am new to FreeNAS, so i wouldn't know. But it sure looks like it. Maybe it is in fact the format operation in Windows that messes things up... I don't know. It's not very nice.  How do I restore the capacity back to 16 GB-ish (14.9 GiB)? Should Stack Exchange introduce the ability to upload embedded sounds (maybe via HTML5/Flash, whichever the user has) as part of questions and answers to Stack Exchange?  It could require a certain amount of rep to stop new users from doing it frivolously.  My rationale behind this is the new language &amp; usage sites.  I often find myself thinking that it might be helpful, when discussing a regional dialect or something, for the person answering to just pronounce what they're trying to describe in words. How to contact Canonical? So I am doing a College research project for my Computer Information Systems department and it is about alternative Linux server distribution for small businesses. From my findings I would really like for this research to actually take off into a Distribution project (Using Ubuntu as a base OS).   However I would like to rename the distribution as "Bizbuntu" or something related to that ("Biz" being shorthand for business) however I don't know if I can name the distribution without consent from Canonical.   So my question is do I have to contact Canonical about this, if so, does anyone know a mailing list or email that I can contact them about this? I installed Oneiric as a guest OS in VirtualBox using the Mini CD. I installed the ubuntu-desktop package and everything seems to work fine - well, except for a font issue with the terminal:    As you can see, some of the letters overlap and it's difficult to read. I checked the settings and it the checkbox "Use the system fixed width font" is checked with "Monospace | 12" selected underneath it.    Edit: running the commands mentioned in the comments:  $ fc-match "Monospace" DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book" $ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name Monospace 10 $ debsums ttf-dejavu-core /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/AUTHORS                                        OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/BUGS                                           OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/NEWS.gz                                        OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/README                                         OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/changelog.Debian.gz                            OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/copyright                                      OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/langcover.txt.gz                               OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/status.txt.gz                                  OK /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu-core/unicover.txt.gz                                OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf                      OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf                           OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf                  OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf                       OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf                     OK /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf                          OK How can I run a different command but with the same arguments? For example, I edit and then run the same source.   vim arbit.py python arbit.py   I know I could run it from within vim, but I want a general solution on Bash. I keep finding situations where I reuse arguments.  How can I do that? I'm trying to find a good way to print leading 0, such as 01001 for a . While the number would be stored as 1001, what is a good way to do it? I thought of using either case statements or if to figure out how many digits the number is and then convert it to an char array with extra 0's for printing, but I can't help but think there may be a way to do this with the printf format syntax that is eluding me. Command to switch to tty1? I want to make a list of commands to install everything so it's easier the next time I do it, however, I wanted one of the commands to do CTRL+ALT+F1 for me.