I've got a combo box with options, what I want is a function where I send one of the options, and the combo box set that option to the selected one, showing it.  I try  $("#cmbStrategies option:selected").html('Condor');   It works set Condor as the selected option, but adding it has a new option, resulting in two option Condor.  I want just select the option but not adding a new one.
I have a select control, and in a javascript variable I have a text string.  Using jQuery I want to set the selected element of the select control to be the item with the text description I have (as opposed to the value, which I don't have).  I know setting it by value is pretty trivial. e.g.  $("#my-select").val(myVal);   But I'm a bit stumped on doing it via the text description. I guess there must be a way of getting the value out from the text description, but my brain is too Friday afternoon-ed to be able to work it out.
How can I get maximum DoF with no distance markers? I am aware of what hyperfocal distance is and the general principles behind it. However, most of the tutorials I have seen and read regarding it make use of lenses with focus distance indicators. Unfortunately, neither of my lenses (Nikkor 18-55mm &amp; 35mm f1.8) have indicators.  I have read that you can 'cheat' and simply focus a third of the way into the shot (which I have done previously simply by spot-focusing on the lowest focus point in my VF). I also assume you could pace out the distance and note an object to focus on when you get back to the camera (though that might be easier said than done).  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve maximum sharpness from front to back without focus distance markers. A new lens is not an option; global economic crisis and all that! Files list file for package missing -- dpkg warning I want to install Open JDK or Oracle JDK to my machine but I got an error during installation. The error is:  Selecting previously unselected package oracle-java8-installer. dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-gourmet' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-guayadeque' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-gmusicbrowser' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-manpages' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-firefoxbookmarks' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-gdrive' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'unity-scope-home' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)   I searched on Google and try to something for install/reinstall this packages. Finally i try to remove Unity. I faced this error for my every tries. I am using Xmonad. How can I fix this issue? Example where union of increasing sigma algebras is not a sigma algebra How to show that $K\leq S_4$ is a normal subgroup? Let $K=\{(1),(1,2),(3,4),(2,4),(1,4),(2,3)\}$ is a subgrope of $S_4$, we want to show that it is a normal subgroup.  I know that i have to examine the condition of normality in $S_4$ i.e. for all $g\in S_4, g^{-1}Kg=K$. I think this takes times or I am missing something near. Please give me the right hint. Thank you.  Edit: $K = \{(1),(12)(34),(13)(24),(14)(23)\}.$ Recently the keyboard and trackpad on my 2015 13" MacBook Pro have stopped working. This is the second laptop to do this, the same issue happened about 6 months ago and Apple gave me a new one when they could not figure it out.  The issue usually starts with force touch not working then progresses to the keyboard and trackpad not being recognized at all. Currently the power button works and force touch works but all other keys and the trackpad don't work.  When this happens there are a lot of errors in the console regarding the AppleHSSPIController.  4/21/16 6:56:47.000 AM  kernel[0]   Error: AppleHSSPIDevice::start failed to get device descriptor 4/21/16 6:56:47.000 AM  kernel[0]   Error: AppleHSSPIController::_enumerateDevice Start failed 4/21/16 6:56:47.000 AM  kernel[0]   Error: AppleHSSPIController::_handleEnumerationFailureGated Giving up on device   You can see the full log here: There's a problem statement:     For each $m \in \mathbb{N}$, we construct a sequence $m_0$, $m_1$, $m_2,\dots$ denoted $S_m$, recursively via $m_0=m$ and      $$m_{i+1} = m_i + \left\lfloor \sqrt{m_i} \right\rfloor$$      for all $i \ge 0$.   Here, $\lfloor x \rfloor$ is the floor of $x$, the greatest integer less than or equal to $x$.   Hence, we have $\left\lfloor \sqrt{10} \right\rfloor=3$ and $\left\lfloor \sqrt{29} \right\rfloor=5$.      Show that for each positive integer $m$, the sequence $S_m$ contains the square of some integer.   I'm pretty certain that this can be proved with induction. I am just not quite sure what to induct on. Examining examples shows that $S_m$ always results in a perfect square eventually, though I'm not sure how to prove it. Here is a question from my number theory class.  Prove  $$(p-k)!(k-1)!\equiv (-1)^k \text{ mod p} $$ Help please! My Windows 7 has suddenly stopped displaying Unicode symbols For some strange reason, my computer suddenly doesn't show certain unicode characters anymore! I have no idea what happened.  Affected applications include Windows Explorer (should be Japanese characters), Google Chrome (should be a heart), and Winamp (should be stars):      Russian, German etc. characters are displayed normally. Chrome also displays Japanese script on websites, but not in the GUI. How can I fix it?     TL;DR: A workaround is to put a shortcut with a Unicode name on the desktop so that explorer.exe is the first process to display a Unicode string after booting.     Update: I have tried to use System Restore to fix it. I needed to go back in time quite a while because the most recent restore points didn't solve it so I used one from the middle of November. After that restore, Unicode symbols were displayed again. Then I updated my system with Windows Update again because those were removed during the restore. After that, the error occurred again! I then did a restore to a point before my new updates, but the error persists, and the old restore point (which I used before) is gone and there are currently no other snapshots of the system. Any suggestions on what to do now?  Update 2: I could find a workaround:      Control Panel → Region and Language → Administration → Change Language for Unicode-incompatible programs to Japanese (Japan).    All mentioned programs display their symbols correctly again. However, I don't consider this a fix because these programs are not usually Unicode-incompatible, and it also leads to some (non-serious) artifacts in some programs. I still welcome an answer that tells me what went wrong here and how to fix the issue.  Update 3: I think I have isolated the particular Windows Update which causes the error. It is . I have installed all other updates except this one, and the error did not occur again.  Update 4: The true origin of this problem was Chrome, see accepted answer. Workaround: put shortcut with Unicode name on desktop so that explorer.exe is the first process to display a Unicode string after booting. How to add \part only to TOC? Recovering a lost website with no backup? How to export SVG without lines, polylines and polygons? Can't start ubuntu-desktop after upgrade to 18.04 After the restart step of upgrading Ubuntu to 18.04, tty is opening instead ubuntu-desktop. And when I enter my login name and password, I am still in the tty. This is happening again in every restart. How can I start the graphical desktop as normal? How do I remove the proprietary ATI drivers? I've installed 11.10 and the proprietary ATI drivers using "additional drivers" The performance of my system is absolutely awful and it shouldn't be. I tried to remove the proprietary drivers using the Additional Drivers tool and it appears to remove them. However after I reboot I cant get back into my desktop properly (the panel and launcher go missing). This doesn't seem to be an isolated problem in 11.XX.  covers how to restore the desktop (panel and launcher), but the guide doesn't fix my problem though.   Whenever I do sudo unity --reset it runs through its normal processes until it hangs at setting update "run_key" and never gets past that. I must reinstall the proprietary drivers using jockey-text or jockey-gtk in order to get back to my proper desktop.   Interestingly enough the system performance seems improved while it is in its "broken" state (missing panel and launcher).  I think restoring the default drivers may solve my problems but I cant figure out how to do it. XeLaTeX update [20201004] and item ball in Beamer How to disable Ctrl+Shift+U? Ctrl+Shift+U is a combined shortcut in Eclipse. But when I press it, it shows up a u, just like input with an underline. I guess this shortcut has been declared by Ubuntu, so I can't use it. I used to solve this problem by typing Caps Lock first. Is there any better method? Variation of Pythagorean triplets: $x^2+y^2 = z^3$ I need to prove that the equation $x^2 + y^2  = z^3$ has infinitely many solutions for positive $x, y$ and $z$. I got to as far as $4^3 = 8^2$ but that seems to be of no help.  Can some one help me with it? Weird artifacts in my UV mapped texture Any ideas what's causing those chunks of geometric artifacts?  Argh. read.csv warning 'EOF within quoted string' prevents complete reading of file Proof that two spaces that are homotopic have the same de Rham cohomology I know this is true, but how do I prove it? Specifically, I'm trying to calculate the de Rham cohomology of the 3-sphere by using the Mayer-Vietoris sequence and covering $S^3$ with two hemispherical sets $U, V$, such that $U$ intersects $V$ in a "2-band", an equatorial band homotopic to a 2-sphere. I'm using a BooleanToVisibilityConverter in WPF to bind the Visibility property of a control to a Boolean. This works fine, but I'd like one of the controls to hide if the boolean is true, and show if it's false.