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Searching for two factors close to the square root of N is the strength of Fermat's factoring method.

Where trial division starts small and goes up (at least typically), Fermat's method starts...

Try the example described in the accepted StackOverflow answer here. Basically you put the startup command you want in ~/.screenrc, as you seem to have tried. However a bash command alone will...

Thanks for figuring out the reboot angle! I had a similar problem, where I added Chromium to the Launcher bar in Unity, but then icon disappeared/went black after I ran it the first time. Also...

Thanks, John! I'll give it a try.

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Looking more closely at the error messages (see below, emphasis added) it seems to be something to do with the security model:

net.sourceforge.jnlp.LaunchException: Fatal: Launch Error: Could not...

This may not be closely linked to Ubuntu, but if anyone else has tried this I'd be interested in feedback.

I've got the Chromium browser (among others) installed on Ubuntu 11.4 under the Unity...

The term minmax in mathematics or computer science often means a kind of optimization problem in which the objective is minimizing the maximum value of a function (by optimal setting of parameters). ...

I'm trying to do a distribution upgrade on an older machine with a mere 3.2Gbyte hard disk. When it was necessary to move from Feisty to Gutsy, I did the upgrade by the skin of my teeth by removing...

Using a combination of the Gutsy Upgrade guide that nobar pointed to and the suggestions on this thread by mk1w86 (about directly editing /etc/apt/sources.list), I was able to make some progress...

Oops, I waited to upgrade my mother-in-law's Feisty Fawn installation, and now when I try to upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), it stops with an error about not being able to connect to the...

Thanks, Sean. I'm now subscribed to that bug.

However "Launchpad janitor" writes near the current end of that thread:



Synaptics Package Manager tells me that the version I have installed...

I'm aware that the repository versions of Eclipse are not the latest and greatest, but this seems to me an actual bug. Before posting to Launchpad I wanted some feedback...

Installing package...

I installed Hardy Heron on a new box, one built around an NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset and AMD64 X2 processor.

Everything worked fine until I enabled the NVIDIA proprietary driver!

I think the...

Today I got the same error reported above during an upgrade from Edgy to Hardy Heron. There were also some XML errors reported during the subsequent configuration of ekiga that also mention...