Is it normal that there is an MS-DOS FAT32 partition in the hd not made by me? Digging on my slowness my EtreCheck report.. report a 'sound me strange' MS-DOS partition  Disk Information: ⓘ     APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0: (1 TB) (Rotational)     [Show SMART report]         EFI (disk0s1 - MS-DOS FAT32) &lt;not mounted&gt;  [EFI]: 210 MB          MacintoshHD (disk0s2 - Journaled HFS+) /  [Startup]: 999.35 GB (878.07 GB free)         Recovery HD (disk0s3 - Journaled HFS+) &lt;not mounted&gt;  [Recovery]: 650 MB   It is possible to know, maybe via terminal, when it was created and or from which process?  It could be that it has to do with an attempt to install bootcamp done time ago was not successful but then I formatted the disk so it is strange
What is EFI in partition scheme? Recently I changed my partition scheme from MBR to GPT, and during after conversion I saw a another partition named EFI ... I don't have a good idea what does it do or its purpose ... but I think it's use for backup's.  So my question here is can you explain/tell me about EFI and it purpose?
Chrome browser will not connect to intranet web addresses Are C++ enums signed or unsigned? And by extension is it safe to validate an input by checking that it is &lt;= your max value, and leave out >= your min value (assuming you started at 0 and incremented by 1)? Examples and further results about the order of the product of two elements in a group Why doesn't the Enterprise use stealth/invisibility technology like the Romulans and Klingons? The stealth mode of starships plays a huge role in many Star Trek films and episodes and is a strong advantage in combat. I remember an episode revealing that the Federation developed a secret stealth technology (afair on Riker's former ship with another captain appearing in this episode) that even made it possible to fly with the ship through matter.   Nonetheless, while stealth technology seems standard for Romulans, Klingons (Ferengi, Vulcans?) and does not break any intergalactic laws (do these exist at all?), the Federation doesn't use it? System.currentTimeMillis() vs. new Date() vs. Calendar.getInstance().getTime() In Java, what are the performance and resource implications of using  System.currentTimeMillis()    vs.   new Date()    vs.   Calendar.getInstance().getTime()   As I understand it, System.currentTimeMillis() is the most efficient. However, in most applications, that long value would need to be converted to a Date or some similar object to do anything meaningful to humans. Simple Hadamard Circuit gives incorrect results? How to sort text in sqlite3 with specified locale? Sqlite3 by default sorts only by ascii letters. I tried to look in google, but the only thing I found were informations about collations. Sqlite3 has only NOCASE, RTRIM and BIARY collations. How to add support for a specific locale? (I'm using it in Rails application) Formal basis for variable substitution in limits Is it possible to decompose a hermitian and unitrary matrix $A$ into the sum of the Pauli matrix Kronecker products?   For example, I have a matrix 16x16 and want it to be decomposed into something like $$A =\sum_{i,j,k,l}h_{ijkl}\sigma_i\otimes\sigma_j\otimes\sigma_k\otimes\sigma_l$$ I can't find any clear explanation how it can be done. I found only this for two-dimentional case: So I'm trying to power 2 of these  together in series. I know that I have to add the voltage of the two lights together and get a resistor that restricts the power to that level. I have a 9V battery and the lights are 3V each. I brand new to all of this, and understand almost nothing, so any help would be appreciated. Can someone help me choose the correct resistor (And how to identify that resistor with the color branding thing) so two of those lights listed above can be wired in series? Thanks! 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Norms Induced by Inner Products and the Parallelogram Law Show some indication that account is banned from asking new questions What is the effect where some objects are a single bright color but the rest is black and white? There is an option to filter only one color (R,G,B,Y) in my camera. What I want to know is can this effect be achieved in photoshop? And what is this called? I tried googling monochrome and came up with nothing. My camera calls it part color. How do I survive in the Underworld? Like many others, I commonly find myself ending a sentence with a preposition.  Yes, it makes me cringe.  I usually rewrite the sentence, but sometimes (in emails) I just live with it.  To, with... you know who you are.  Should I keep fighting myself on this one, or is it okay in some circumstances? How do I troubleshoot high 'svchost.exe' usage in Windows 7? I'm having a problem with Windows 7 64-bit. I thought it was slow and all, but then I saw that the CPU usage was always around 80% and started searching for a solution.  There are two svchost.exe's consuming around 30% each and in the resources monitor there's a system interrupts consuming 45% all the time. I tried closing the applications, but it makes no difference.  I tried some other things that I've found on Google, like disable system updates, but it didn't work.  I don't know if it will help but here's my specifications:  Core 2 Duo 4400 ATI Radeon 4850 4 GB DDR2 RAM     EDIT  I ran the suggested program and got this information; did I get it right?      EDIT  As you asked here it is, did I get it right now? The other TCP/IP there's nothing.    EDIT  I ran msconfig and took the services that one of the svchost.exe processes was using out of the startup and now my CPU is around 50%, but I still would like to improve it further. I can't lose that much CPU power just because of Windows...    EDIT  Yeah, there's nothing I can do here. I am going to reinstall Windows&nbsp;XP soon, it's really weird... I have a string User name (sales) and I want to extract the text between the brackets, how would I do this?   I suspect sub-string but I can't work out how to read until the closing bracket, the length of text will vary.