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How do I with ufw deny all outgoing ports excepting the ones I need? This question and answer is a response to a request from Joseph Wright.   Why shouldn't I use getnonfreefonts to install additional fonts? Why shouldn't I use updmap when installing or removing fonts?     Background  There are a number of questions on the site concerning problems caused by people installing additional fonts and using updmap to update the 'map' files on which TeX depends.  One common cause of these problems is the use of getnonfreefonts.  Other causes are the use of other font installation scripts or executing updmap directly. How to install XAMPP? Hi all im a noob on Ubuntu/Linux World,  So i need some that give a full tutorial to How to install  from apachefriends.org correctly on Ubuntu 11.10 + all beyond Ubuntu for 32 bit and also 64 bit Desktop Version.. and also i need this:   Make a Folder on Your Home Folder and Linked to htdocs from Apache Web Server Make a GUI interface for Xmapp Start Xampp when Ubuntu Boot Up or Start Ubuntu   (Note: i ask it for both X86 and X64 so people in the further can see the tutorials)    New Data:  What i did was i download from  for now and i also what to say that I'm currently running Ubuntu 11.10 X64 bit for Dell Studio 1558 processor intel i3  i will let you know guys which solution was the best, and it is for a Desktop Version of Ubuntu 11.10 (Laptop 15 inch screen ^_^ ) not Server Ubuntu I installed Redhat 6 x86_64. I am using the Network connection screen to set a static IP address like below (I want two PC's in my house to see each other: one Redhat PC and one Mac)   192.168.0.5   255.255.255.0   192.168.0.1     When I run ifconfig it displays only lo and virbr0 information. I don't know what these items are (I don't really know much about network settings).   When I try ifconfig -a it displays eth0, lo, sit0 and virbr0. The information for  eth0 is as follows:   Link encap : Ethernet HWaddr 90:2B:34:74:05:30 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes 53811 (52.5 KiB) TX bytes:468 (468.0 b) Interrupt:29 Base address:0xc000   Could someone help me to point out if anything wrong with my setting or how to resolve this problem? A borderline between on-topic questions and questions about library recommendation? I have a consideration about new off-topic close reason:     Questions asking us to recommend a tool, library or favorite off-site   resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract   opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what   has been done so far to solve it.   For example take that question:   It has a close vote with the reason above. But if it would be formed     How to zoom image in an absolute position div to the side?   The answer would be probably also a jQuery plugin or javascript library, but it would follow the patter of most questions about jQuery.  Take that question:   This is the good question about real-life problem. The answer is to use a maven plugin. It is correct, there's no need to reinvent the wheel or rediscover the America.   But  I'm afraid the off-topic text could be misleading and could be misused to close such a questions as that about maven simply because a tool, library or plugin is the answer.   Is it a new guideline that the questions such as cited above should be banned, no matter how they are formed (this would make most how-to-do-in-maven/jquery) questions illegal? Or the close reason should be changed to make more clear what the guidelines are (it's not clear to me now)? set session - custom variable to store user id I want to store user id in custom session variable and use it (read) in trigger procedures to authorize user actions. I found something like this:  set session "myapp.user" = '12345'; ... SELECT current_setting('myapp.user');   and it seems to work - I thought that "myapp.user" should be declared in .conf file but it seems that I can create session variables on the fly (I didn't change .conf file at all).  Is there any disadvantage of doing like this? Does opacity:0 have exactly the same effect as visibility:hidden If so, does it effectively deprecate the visibility property?  (I realize that Internet Explorer does not yet support this CSS2 property.) "Z-level" in TikZ How do Horcruxes work? A few questions regarding the Horcruxes.   Had Voldemort actually succeeded in using a Horcrux, would he come back the same age (biologically and/or aesthetically) he was when he made the Horcrux, or the age he would biologically be if he had never died (half died)? If Harry was a Horcrux, then in the graveyard, when Wormtail added Harry's blood to the potion to bring Voldemort back, didn't that technically use up the Horcrux inside of Harry? So in Deathly Hallows when Voldemort kills Harry, shouldn't Harry have actually died rather than just have the Horcrux inside him destroyed, seeing as it was technically used in the Goblet of Fire? For creating the graphics for my thesis (function graphs, flow charts, line art sketches) I've chosen to use the sans serif font by  \renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault}    However when I use mathematical symbols like $p_{s}$, they are still typeset in roman font and that looks weird:    So I wonder:   how could I force mathematical expressions also be typeset in \sfdefault if I do, are there any negative sideeffects to expect (with greek signs or other special symbols?) OR should I typeset all "mathematical" graphs (axis labels etc.) in roman font, and only make the other graphics like flow charts and sketches with sans serif font? Setting a background image on a JFrame using Swing Suppose $u\in W^{1,1}$ and $\partial u$ is $C^1$. I want to prove the following: $$\int_{\partial\Omega}|u-\bar u|\leq A\int_{\Omega}|\nabla u|$$ where $\bar u=\frac{1}{|\Omega|}\int_{\Omega}u$ and $A&gt;0$. Note that unlike Poincar&eacute; inequality, the left integral is over $\partial\Omega$ and not $\Omega$. How can I do that?  I tried to prove in a similar way to Poincare inequality proof (arguing by contradiction), but with no success. I think I am missing something because of the  $\partial\Omega$ issue. How to use SSH to run a local shell script on a remote machine? I have to run a local shell script (windows/Linux) on a remote machine. I have SSH configured on both machine A and B. My script is on machine A which will run some of my code on a remote machine, machine B. The local and remote computers can be either Windows or Unix based system. Is there a way to run do this using plink/ssh? Limit of $s_n = \int\limits_0^1 \frac{nx^{n-1}}{1+x} dx$ as $n \to \infty$ Let $s_n$ be a sequence defined as given below for $n \geq 1$. Then find out $\lim\limits_{n \to \infty} s_n$.   \begin{align}   s_n = \int\limits_0^1 \frac{nx^{n-1}}{1+x} dx  \end{align}  I have written a solution of my own, but I would like to know it is completely correct, and also I would like if people post more alternative solutions. How does order-preserving encryption work? Order-preserving encryption (OPE) is, apparently, a method of encrypting data so that it's possible to make efficient inequality comparisons on the encrypted items without decrypting them.  I've been coming across this term in various places (including ) lately, but I have no idea how such encryption schemes are supposed to work.  Any obvious methods I can think of to allow such comparisons on encrypted data would result in catastrophic security failure.  Certainly, I assume that OPE must involve some kind of security tradeoff compared to traditional encryption, but given that it seems to be actively  and , it seems that it must be possible to implement in a way that retains at least some level of useful security.  I just don't see how.  Given that  didn't turn up any convenient Wikipedia articles or other popular summaries of OPE, I figured I'd try asking for one here before diving into the academic literature.  (At worst, I may try to answer my own question later, if nobody else beats me to it.)  So, to summarize, my question is: How does order-preserving encryption work, and what security properties does it provide? I have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed on a shared machine. Because a lot of the non-developers use Windows, I'd like to change the boot order to make it easier for them.  Currently the boot order looks like the following:   Ubuntu 11.10 kernelgeneric *86 Ubuntu 11.10 kernelgeneric *86 (safe boot)  Memory test Memory test Windows 7 on /dev/sda6   How do I change the default order so that Windows 7 is at the top of the list?   Windows 7 on /dev/sda6 Ubuntu 11.10 kernelgeneric *86 Ubuntu 11.10 kernelgeneric *86 (safe boot)  Memory test Memory test Carry over long sequence of missing values with Postgres I have a table like this:  create table foo (foo_label text, foo_price int, foo_date date);  insert into foo (           values           ('aaa', 100,  '2017-01-01'),           ('aaa', NULL, '2017-02-01'),           ('aaa', NULL, '2017-03-01'),           ('aaa', NULL, '2017-04-01'),           ('aaa', 140,  '2017-05-01'),           ('aaa', NULL, '2017-06-01'),           ('aaa', 180,  '2017-07-01')         );   As you can see a few values on the foo_price column are missing.  What I need is that missing values get filled up with the "previous" available value in this way:   foo_label | fixed_foo_price | foo_date -----------+-----------------+------------  aaa       | 100             | 2017-01-01  aaa       | 100             | 2017-02-01  aaa       | 100             | 2017-03-01  aaa       | 100             | 2017-04-01  aaa       | 140             | 2017-05-01  aaa       | 140             | 2017-06-01  aaa       | 180             | 2017-07-01   My attempt:  select      foo_label,      (case when foo_price is null then previous_foo_price else foo_price end) as fixed_foo_price,     foo_date from (   select        foo_label,        lag(foo_price) OVER (PARTITION BY foo_label order by foo_date::date) as previous_foo_price,        foo_price,       foo_date       from foo ) T;   As you can see from here:    It doesn't fill completely the '100' series.  Any idea how can I get the wanted result? How to specifically use ntfsundelete to recover directory This is a followup on my original post  which may be deleted in the future.  In the process of backing up my audio books, I "permanently" removed a folder (with subfolders) that I had already exclusively moved to that drive. It's path is /media/gratis/Seagate Expansion Drive/Audiobooks/Jason Dark. The sole folder in that should be called John Sinclair; but I'm not sure about that.  Which tool offers the best chances to recover those files? I haven't written plenty on that drive afterwards; so I hope for the best. It's not that other methods failed; I just cant get my head around what to do and I want to be cautious. It's a NTFS Drive.  According to testdisk it has an "EFI GPT" Partition table.  Disk /dev/sdb - 5000 GB / 4657 GiB - CHS 608001 255 63, sector size=512 - Seagate Expansion Desk, FW:9401   Information According to "Disks" (Ubuntu Standard Software):  NTFS; GUID Partition Table; [...] Partition Type: Microsoft Reserved   Attempt 1: First off, ntfsprogs seems to no longer be in repos (those mentioned by another user); but it is already installed on my machine so no problems there. I always get the error:     Access is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened. The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command. You can use force option to avoid this check, but this is not recommended and may lead to data corruption.   Although I only just plugged it in and even quit Nautilus by force (nautilus -q).   Therefore, I ran sudo ntfsundelete /dev/sdb2 -f. That gave me a list of a bunch of files, 205013 to be exact. Now, what I want is the content of the directory .../Audiobooks/Jason\ Dark/ to be restored. What do I have to do? It's contents are .m4b &amp; .opus files and folders, of course. I'm trying to transition from a list of pros to a list of cons, and would like to have some sort of transition quote. Something in the form of,  "But, alas, (((something something quote quote)))"  Everything that has a beginning has an end, something along the lines of that. How to prevent iTerm2 from creating overlaps and broken lines after pasting multiline chunks of text? If I paste multiline chunks of text into iTerm2, I always a get mess of output. It seems limited to only some programs running interactively (such as Bash, IRB - Python / VIM work flawlessly). Using Apple's native Terminal, I can paste whatever I want wherever I want - it works. For example, this sample text ():  echo Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec a diam lectus. echo Sed sit amet ipsum mauris. Maecenas congue ligula ac quam viverra nec consectetur ante hendrerit. echo Donec et mollis dolor. Praesent et diam eget libero egestas mattis sit amet vitae augue. echo Nam tincidunt congue enim, ut porta lorem lacinia consectetur. Donec ut libero sed arcu vehicula ultricies a non tortor. echo Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean ut gravida lorem. Ut turpis felis, pulvinar a semper sed, adipiscing id dolor. echo Pellentesque auctor nisi id magna consequat sagittis. Curabitur dapibus enim sit amet elit pharetra tincidunt feugiat nisl imperdiet. echo Ut convallis libero in urna ultrices accumsan. Donec sed odio eros. Donec viverra mi quis quam pulvinar at malesuada arcu rhoncus. [snip]   pasted into IRB produces this in iTerm2:    while it produces this in native Terminal:    I am running the latest versions of OSX and iTerm2. What's going wrong here?