After installing 800+ upgrades in ubuntu 12.04 and after restart there is no launch bar on the left side. The screen has only the background image. What to do? Many thanks!
When I login, nothing happens.   I am presented with my desktop wallpaper.    No Dash, no Launcher, nothing.
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I've found  (by Googling) that apparently does what I'm looking for, but I found the code fairly opaque and am wary of using it. Plus I have a feeling there must be a more elegant solution.  The only thing that occurs to me would be to just loop through the decimal integers 1–32768 and convert those to binary, and use the binary representation as a filter to pick out the appropriate numbers.   Does anyone know of a better way? Using map(), maybe? Reverse / invert a dictionary mapping Trying to find a story about an unborn telepathic baby who can save a spaceship from doom There's a spaceship, nearing the end of its journey. Everybody on board is in cryosleep. For some reason the wake-up system malfunctions, and the ship will fly on indefinitely. The people at the space port realise this, and try to wake someone up. Their last resort is finding someone on board who is telepathic, and wake this person up. They find one, but it turns out to be an unborn baby. What would be the differences between a persistent USB Live Session and a installed Ubuntu in a USB drive? I'm a teacher and will ask my students to either bring their laptops with Ubuntu installed with an specific list of packages preinstalled or bring a USB Drive or External Hard Drive with Ubuntu and the packages preinstalled.  For those who are going to bring the USB are two posibilities:   Install with the Ubuntu's "Startup disk creator" program, and telling it to reserve some space for persistence. Boot with a LiveCD and Install Ubuntu in the USB drive.   Then, in either case, boot with that media and install the packages.  So, for my purpose or any other purpose:   What is the best choice and why? Do we have another option? full explanation please. What is "umask" and how does it work? I believe that umask is something that controls , but do not fully understand it.  After running umask 0644 in a , I cannot read the files I create with the command-line text editor nano. I noticed that the permissions of that file are set to 0022 instead of the default 0755.  How does umask work? I thought I could just remove the each digit in the umask from 0777, 7 - 6 = 1 and 7 - 4 = 3, so I expect the permissions to be 0133, but apparently, this is not the case.   What is umask exactly? Explain it to me like I was a "Linux noob" How do I calculate with umask? What are use cases for umask? What does E mean in 9.0122222900391E-5? I often find this at the bottom of pages.  Page generated in 0.00013899803161621  Sometimes, I come across  Page generated in 9.0122222900391E-5  What does that time mean? I tried searching Wikipedia for E and maths but found the . My guess is E stand for Exponential and -5 is the power it is raised to. And the displayed time is a really small number. But that doesn't make sense when compared to the other time in the question. 0.00013899803161621 is bigger than 9.0122222900391E-5. If it means x times $10^{-5}$, then 9.0122222900391E-5 will be 0.000090122222900391 which is smaller than 0.00013899803161621. What does E stand for? I'm writing a php program that pulls from a database source. Some of the varchars have quotes that are displaying as black diamonds with a question mark in them (�, , I assume from Microsoft Word text).  How can I use php to strip these characters out? Solve for $f(x)$ if $f(f(x))=6x-f(x)$ If $f: [0,\infty) \rightarrow [0,\infty)$ and   $f(f(x))=6x-f(x)$ $f(x)&gt;0$ $  \forall x \in (0,\infty) $   Find f(x) How is my laptop ram running in dual channel? What is the best possible way to check if a string can be represented as a number in Python?   The function I currently have right now is:  def is_number(s):     try:         float(s)         return True     except ValueError:         return False   Which, not only is ugly and slow, seems clunky. However I haven't found a better method because calling float in the main function is even worse. I've often come across posts on forums or other websites where you see people joking in such a manner about running/logging in as root as if it's something awful and everyone ought to know about it. However, there isn't much that a search reveals on the matter.   It may be widely known to Linux experts, but I really don't know why. I remember always running as root when I first tried Linux years ago (Redhat and Mandrake) and don't remember running into any problems because of that.   There are actually some distros that have a bright red background with alert signs all over it as wallpaper for the root user (SuSe?). I still use the "Administrator" account for regular use on my Windows installation and haven't ever run into any problems there either. windows command prompt change directory is now changing directory How to upload string as file with jQuery or other js framework On which Stack Exchange site can I ask questions like        When will [some new feature] for [some product] be released?   Where can I download an update for [some product]?   I'm getting errors when accessing the customer portal for [some company] – how can I fix this?   Why was I banned for doing [some action] on [some platform]?   Why is [some company] discontinuing [some product]?   Why is [some company] giving away [some product] for free?   What's the price for [some product]?      or any other product support/customer service questions?  It's not a product related to programming (or I've read  on Meta Stack Overflow) so I know Stack Overflow isn't the right place. Which other site in the network will take these kind of questions? How do I install VMware Player? I am new to Ubuntu and want to install VMWare Player. What is the step by step procedure to install that? Maximal inequality for a sequence of partial sums of independent random variables Let $X_n$, $n=1,2,3,...$ be a sequence of independent (not necessarily identically distributed) random variables, let $S_n=\sum_{i=1}^nX_i$. Prove the following maximal inequality: For all $t&gt;0$,$$\mathbb{P}\left(\max_{1\leq i\leq n}|S_i|\geq t \right)\leq 3\max_{1\leq i\leq n}\mathbb{P}\left(|S_i|\geq\frac{t}{3} \right)$$ how can I open a extra console and run a program in it with one command? So I know if I type gnome-terminal or xterm, a new window will be popped out. Then I checked the man page for these two, nothing relevant found.  Then I noticed under Mac you can do it with the program open. But it seems under Linux it's not that trivial.  Does anyone have experience? I have realized that to pronounce the plural form of words ending in -th, we have to drop the letter "h". e.g. Months is pronounced /mʌnts/. But I have never seen this point mentioned in any context. I just want to make sure that this rule is correct and can be always applied.