I know how to pause update to a certain date. But I want to completely ban updates. Whenever I update Windows, all sorts of problems happen. Sound stops working, microphone stops working, 2nd monitor stops working, display starts to look weird, etc and etc. I had to roll back the update already last time. Now it is sending me the notification to update again, and it will likely force me to update again. I want to completely eradicate updating. This  tells me to type gpedit.msc, but when I do, it simply says &quot;Windows cannot find gpedit.msc. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again&quot;. Why is that?
We've upgraded some machines to Windows 10 and realized there were some updates which updated as required. However, I realized there was no option available to stop the download similar to that on Windows 7 and 8.1. The only way I could stop the download was to stop the Windows Update service.  My question is does anyone know of a way to stop auto updates or is stopping the service is the only solution?
¿Can you help me with axiom of regularity? It is known that all $B$, $C$ and $D$ are $3 \times 3$ matrices. And the eigenvalues of $B$ are $1, 2, 3$; $C$ are $4, 5, 6$; and $D$ are $7, 8, 9$. What are the eigenvalues of the $6 \times 6$ matrix  $$\begin{pmatrix} B &amp; C\\0 &amp; D \end{pmatrix}$$ where $0$ is the $3 \times 3$ matrix whose entries are all $0$.  From my intuition, I think the eigenvalues of the new $6 \times 6$ matrix are the eigenvalues of $B$ and $D$. But how can I show that? Assign z values to depth curves in QGIS I'm new to QGIS and working with GIS in general (student of architecture), so please bear with me.  I have obtained shapefiles with topographic curves of an ocean floor. My intention is to export these as CAD files and render as 3D models of the ocean floor in Revit. I have done this procedure earlier with terrain shapefiles. My problem now is that these files mapping depth does not contain z values, so when exporting them into CAD they are completely flat rather than 3D models.  The depth information in meter exists as attributes in the file (see attached image). What I want is to transform this depth value into real z coordinates for each line so that the curves have different heights when importing as CAD file in Revit.  Thankful for any pointers in the right direction. While browsing Stack Overflow, I noticed that I lost a lot of reputation:        Is this serial downvoting? Will it be corrected by a rep-recalculation? How often are those done?    Here's a second instance: Does a Vietnamese citizen need a transit visa for South Korea? I am a Vietnamese passport holder. I'm going back to Viet Nam from Montreal this December, and I will transit at Incheon Airport for a few hours. Do I need a Korean visa just for transiting, either from Montreal to Hanoi or from Hanoi back to Montreal? I am going to start a phd at the US with an F1 visa. University told me that I could enter the US only 30 days before the date on I-20. Since English is not my first language (and this would be a big change in my life) I would like to go there by June.  The thing is that I have an European passport with a valid ESTA. My plan would be to arrive with this passport, stay 4-6 weeks , go to Canada for a short vacation (maybe flight maybe by land) and come back to the USA with F1 visa.  I have two questions about this:  1) is this possible?   2) If yes, how could I justify knowing I will lose my come-back flight during my first entry? (I would purchase round trip because one-way are too expensive, probably with less than 90 days difference) After seeing a question regarding the acquisition of Data's cat Spot, the point was brought up that Data's  midway through the series.  My question is, how? I have thought up two possibilities (see below to my own answer) but I'm wondering if there aren't possibly others that might fit better. Exhibit A- Spot the Younger  Exhibit B- Spot the Older How did the transdimensional Edo god (Edo lord) come to be the overseer of the Edo? Theorem:   If $x$ is a positive integer and  $x^3$ is even, then $x$ is even.   My Proof by Contrapositive:  I. Assuming that $x$ is odd, then I will show that $x^3$ is odd.  II. $x$ is odd, so $x$ can be expressed as $2k+1$  III. $(2k+1)^3$  IV. $2k(4k^2 + 6k + 3) +1$  V. Since $2k(4k^2 + 6k + 3) + 1$ is an integer, we can conclude $x^3$ is odd.  Did I go about this correctly? Should step V say "$2$ multiplied by an integer and added by $1$ is odd therefore we can conclude $x^3$ is odd"? We have the matrix: $$\left[\begin{array}{rrr} 0.8&amp;0&amp;0\\ 0&amp;1.2&amp;0\\ 0&amp;0&amp;1\\\end{array}\right]$$ Finding the eigenvalues and eigenvectors are easy. But finding ${\bf M}^n$ when $n \rightarrow \infty$ is the hard part. Any suggestions? How to handle a deliberate duplicate question I got  question in review. First sentence is:     I know there is a  question, but no answers.   And indeed the two questions are virtually identical. I started to flag as duplicate - but the original question had no answer at the time, so it wouldn't be correct and apparently . (I didn't go so far as to try to submit the flag).  What is the proper action here? How do we want such a question to be handled? Should both (or more) questions stay open indefinitely until either is answered and somebody gets the good idea to do the duplicate linking?   As the new question is essentially a bump to the front page (perhaps with re-tagging), especially in the case where the OP knows that a previous question exist, perhaps something should be done to enable bumping re-emphasizing without writing the new question.  As I wrote this,  actually got an answer. So the old one should now be closed as a duplicate of the new - but my question remains for the case where all known/found duplicate questions have no answer?  Ironically, just before asking this, the "Questions that may already have your answer" gave me ... (Although the suggestion has no answer). So it has been asked before - the comment there even suggest the ability to re-emphasize. What does the "RW" logo mean in a DVD+R? If you look at this product:    you can clearly see that it is a DVD+R, i.e. once it is written, it cannot be erased/rewritten.  Then what does the "RW" logo (in the lower right corner) mean? I thought it stood for ReWritable, but experimenting with the medium shows that it is not. Capillary action and conservation of energy When I dip a paper towel in a cup of water the water gets drawn up due to . How is this reconciled with conservation of energy, as it would seem on the surface that the potential energy of the system has gone up with no work being done? Strange black shading. Cannot fully light mesh. (Cycles) Here is the viewport in material view.  The node setup is just a PNG texture into a diffuse shader.    And this is in rendered view.  I've tried using environmental lighting as well as a directional light, and while the lit parts become brighter/washed out, the darker parts stay dark.  Normals are correct and there is no z-fighting.  Ambient Occlusion is not enabled.  Changing to Flat shading makes it worse.    Update:  Any modifier that alters the mesh (bevel, subdivide, etc) make the problem go away instantly. I have Solaris 8 OS installed in French.  Is it possible to switch from French to English without reinstalling the OS ? If yes how ?  When locale -a i have this :  POSIX common en_US.UTF-8 C iso_8859_1 en_CA en_CA.ISO8859-1 en_US en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15 en_US.ISO8859-15@euro fr_CA fr_CA.ISO8859-1 iso_8859_15 th th_TH th_TH.TIS620   Even when I try to edit /etc/default/init with :  LANG=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-15 LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-15   and reboot : nothing happens.  To verify the result i always use date and when i reboot : i also have the date in french.  P.S : I have to do this configuration in a computer which isn't here in my office, so i have to this manipulation in a an another computer here in my office and if it works, i'll do it to the other computer.  So the computer here is configured in English and i have to switch it to French. Here is the content of my ~./dt :  C                     errorlog              sessionlogs Desktop               errorlog.old          sessions Trash                 errorlog.older        simulateur.dtwmrc appconfig             help                  startlog appmanager            icons                 startlog.old asr.dtwmrc            outils.dtwmrc         startlog.older bin                   palettes              tmp bookmarks             sdtfonts              types dtwmrc                sdtpcaction.conf      wsmenu en_US.ISO8859-15      sdtpcaction.conf.bak   Thanks GNOME: disable sleep on lid close Is it possible to stop my laptop going to sleep when I close the lid?  GNOME 3.20, Fedora 24.    My laptop does not reliably wake from sleep.  (It happens to be a hardware issue... I think I basically killed it while trying to replace a wifi card.  But I want to keep using it for a while longer). What's a word for lack of confidence? Indefinite integral of secant cubed I need to calculate the following indefinite integral:  $$I=\int \frac{1}{\cos^3(x)}dx$$  I know what the result is (from Mathematica):  $$I=\tanh^{-1}(\tan(x/2))+(1/2)\sec(x)\tan(x)$$  but I don't know how to integrate it myself. I have been trying some substitutions to no avail.   Equivalently, I need to know how to compute:  $$I=\int \sqrt{1+z^2}dz$$  which follows after making the change of variables $z=\tan x$. How to use an optimization solver to get t-stats and p-values for the estimates? Value of $\frac{\sqrt{10+\sqrt{1}}+\sqrt{10+\sqrt{2}}+\cdots+\sqrt{10+\sqrt{99}} }{\sqrt{10-\sqrt{1}}+\sqrt{10-\sqrt{2}}+\cdots+\sqrt{10-\sqrt{99}}}$ Here is the question:     $$\frac{\sqrt{10+\sqrt{1}}+\sqrt{10+\sqrt{2}}+\cdots+\sqrt{10+\sqrt{99}} }{\sqrt{10-\sqrt{1}}+\sqrt{10-\sqrt{2}}+\cdots+\sqrt{10-\sqrt{99}}} = \;?$$   ()  I think we need to simplify it writing it in summation sign as you can see here:  $$\frac{\sum\limits_{n=1}^{99} \sqrt{10 + \sqrt{n}}}{\sum\limits_{n=1}^{99} \sqrt{10 - \sqrt{n}}}$$  or in Wolfram Alpha input in comments.  I can compute it too! It's easy to write a script for this kind of question. I need a way to solve it. How would you solve it on a piece of paper?