I normally work with ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. I would like to know  if someone has already istalled ubuntu  in a thinkpad 490s . To know if there is any problem with drivers or any other compatibility issues
I have a device on which I would like to install Ubuntu. How do I find out if Ubuntu will work on it?
What is the result of $\infty - \infty$? I would say $\infty - \infty=0$ because even though $\infty$ is an undetermined number, $\infty = \infty$. So $\infty-\infty=0$. Sudoers blacklist What is the reason that the value "47" is so popular in electrical engineering? How do I make Panel always transparent like the Dock in GNOME 3? I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. I want the Panel to be always transparent instead of dynamic transparency. Can I use the "Scan" button with SANE? I have an HP Deskjet with integrated scanner. It has a "Scan" button on its top, but this button does not interact with the xsane program on my Debian machine: To get a page scanned, I have to initiate the scanning process from xsane.  Is there a setting (or a scan program) that allows me to press the scan button and cause the program to scan a page? Maximum temperature laptop internals can handle? Cooling options? So I have a Compaq CQ50-215CA and my sister was using her laptop on her bed and I was just using it quickly to check my email. The surface of the laptop was really hot and I opened Speccy to see that the CPU and GPU temperature was 96 C. A couple months ago, my laptop was on the desk without a cooling pad and I was playing a game. Using GPU-Z back then, I had a reading of 104 C. Even with a cooling pad on a desk, running several processes/games keeps me around 88-90 C.  Is this normal for a laptop and what's the highest temperature the internals can handle? Besides a cooling pad, are there any other more effective ways of cooling a laptop? Export beamer slides to powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote editable format I usually prepare my talks using powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote, where I explaing programs, pseudocodes, etc. Recently I was thinking about creating text-only, code-only and pseudocode-only slides with beamer and then exporting them somehow to powerpoint where I modify them to add figures or some minor details for polishing the presentation, which are usually hard to do with beamer. I googled a bit around and found that beamer can export to PDF or PS but not to powerpoint. I wonder anyway if you know some possibility of conversion from beamer to on-screen editable powerpoint/openoffice-impress/keynote. Why does Ubuntu only support versions for a limited time (and what does it mean)? Consider a particle on the ground. This particle is raised by a force of magnitude $mg$ to a height $h$ above the ground. At this point, the work done on the particle by the force is $mgh$, which is equal to the potential energy of the particle. But, during this period, the force of gravity also acts on the particle and is displaced by $h$, and so does a work of $-mgh$ on the particle. Shouldn't  the two cancel and no net work should be done on the particle?   If they don't cancel, then where did the energy that came from the work done by the force of gravity go? In a ring, I was trying to prove that for all $a$, $a0 = 0$.  But I found that this depended on a lemma, that is, for all $a$ and $b$, $a(-b) = -ab = (-a)b$.  I am wondering how to prove these directly from the definition of a ring.  Many thanks! grub2 not able to find the new kernel This is very strange issue, i have CentOS7 running on HP server and everything was working till date until i did "yum install kernel" after reboot it drop me in grub&gt; shell that means it won't able to read or find grub.conf file.   in grub&gt; i found grub.conf has still old files there is no new entries of new kernel   I did this, and found there is no new kernel entries but if i boot with old kernel then i can see latest grub.conf (with new kernel)  grub&gt;cat /grub2/grub.conf   Question: where grub2 getting that old file from? why it's not able to find new kernel ? If $A$ is a square matrix and $A^2 = 0$ then $A=0$. Is this true? If not, provide a counter-example. Best practice: card expiry date on checkout My advisor wants me to include a name of someone who has no contribution to the paper My first advisor wants me to include my second advisor's name in a paper that I worked on before she (2nd advisor) came along.   Should I include her name even though she didn't do anything in that paper? I don't think she even read it. Possibly offensive usernames I flagged  as having a  ():    I said "possibly offensive" because it's possible it's a genuine surname I wasn't aware of, but googleing didn't show any evidence and  pretty much matched my definition of it which seems offensive.   Is this really a genuine name? If not how is it possibly not offensive and thus a bad flag?   (I flagged in good faith so even if it is a genuine name declining seems harsh) Play audio with Python Can Ubuntu really run all Windows programs? I'm curious of how illusions would affect spells or abilities that require a target to be looking at something. A good example of this would be Medusa's Petrifying Gaze which has the following effect:  Petrifying Gaze: When a creature that can see the medusa's eyes starts its turn within 30 feet of the medusa, the medusa can force it to make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw if the medusa isn't incapacitated and can see the creature. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is instantly petrified. [...]  So if someone were to cast Minor Illusion to put a bag over Medusa's head, would other player/creatures who do not realize that the bag is an illusion be affected by the gaze if they were looking in the direction of it? Does the illusion block the effect? Is there a way to show statistic info? Google analytics: Tracking Not Installed