I found a fix for reinstalling the Start Button and all its features when it becomes non-responsive i.e. nothing happens when pushed on the keyboard or clicked on.    However, this non-response has recurred many times so I have had to apply the above fix multiple times as well i.e. the fix seems to be only temporary. Does anyone know what in my system might be causing this to happen?
I recently upgraded to windows 10 on my daily driver laptop and I have liked it so far except for one thing. Randomly the windows menu decides to stop working when I press the windows key or I press the button in the corner. Has anybody else experienced this problem? Solutions?  Thanks!
Macros for code annotations Need of the cold body in heat engine Short Story about interminable rain on Venus Merge array items into string The comment pop-up is too far away When you click the add a comment button when you don't have enough rep, you get a pop-up saying that you need more rep in able to comment. Except, it is too far away and users might be confused for a while before realizing the pop-up is on the other side of the page:     Clearly, that is very inconvenient for a lot of people, like me. Can we move the pop-up to be right next to the add a comment button? What's the batched Refactor Fields tool "field mapping" syntax in QGIS? In QGIS, there is this nice tool "Refactor Fields" in the Processing Toolbox :    Using it on a single layer is fairly straightforward.  However, when you plan on using it in a batch mode, one can see the "Fields mapping" textbox. I'm looking for an example of the syntax to be used there.  I haven't found any specific documentation yet. when I look at my Nexus 5 with android 5.1. battery screen, I can see something like this:    Screenshots (click images for larger variants)  Sum of all per-app percentages in list is 10. However as you can see, there is 60% battery consumed (40% remaining). So, what is the deal here? Who consumed 50% battery? Or what do the percentages next to apps mean?  As you can see, screen was on just for few short times, the same for awake, and yet battery life about 18 hours? I dont get it.  Also, I found this issue reported on AOSP, but noone from google seems to care: I work at a nursery and I have a hard time managing the toys that the kids play with. I watch them put things in their mouths, cough and sneeze on the toys, and throw everything on the ground. Even though I see all of these things, it is hard to find the time to clean all of the toys, simply because there are too many and I do not have that much time. Any input would be appreciated! What is covered by CDIC savings deposit insurance? What is the command to truncate a SQL Server log file? I need to empty an LDF file before sending to a colleague.  How do I force SQL Server to truncate the log? Truly destroying a PHP Session? Short story with space microbes latching onto electromagnetic fields This is a sci-fi story set on Earth. From the depths of space comes these microbes that latch onto electromagnetic fields. Anything electronic is rendered useless. There's the usual stuff where governments try to solve the issue but make it ultimately worse. It's only when they realise that the microbes surround the planet that they realise it is futile. The story closes with people having returned to a simpler life, using medieval farming methods, not using electricity in any form, getting about by horse, etc. I think it was a short story. I would like to know the physical meaning of the , if there is any? I've used it in thermodynamics and classical mechanics and it seemed only a change of coordinates? How to resize partitions? Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.  Now I changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed Ubuntu by replacing the entire Windows 7 on the 63 GB partition. The rest of the partitions remain as an NTFS Windows partition and I can still access them both (the 173 and 84 GB partitions).  Now I want to change the two partitions of Windows into an Ubuntu format partitions plus most importantly, I want to extend the 63 GB partition to more than a 100 GB because at the moment I am running out of disk space. Whenever I try to install any application, especially using wine, it always complains for a shortage of disk space.  How do I do the extending activity before I entirely format my laptop again and lose all the important files on my partitions? Finding a 2x2 Matrix raised to the power of 1000 Let $A= \pmatrix{1&amp;4\\ 3&amp;2}$. Find $A^{1000}$.  Does this problem have to do with eigenvalues or is there another formula that is specific to 2x2 matrices? Martingale formulation of Bellman's Optimality Principle From David Williams' Probability with Martingales     Related question:   What I tried: For no 2, if $\ln Z_n - n \alpha$ is a supermartingale, then for $m &lt; n$, $$E[\ln Z_n - n \alpha | \mathscr F_m] \le \ln Z_m - m \alpha$$ $$ \to E[\ln Z_N - N \alpha | \mathscr F_0] \le \ln Z_0 - 0 \alpha$$ $$ \to E[\ln Z_N - N \alpha] \le \ln Z_0$$ $$ \to E[\ln \frac{Z_N}{Z_0}] \le N \alpha$$ Is that right?  For no 1, for $m &lt; n$, $$E[\ln Z_n - n \alpha | \mathscr F_m] = E[\ln Z_n | \mathscr F_m] - n \alpha$$ $$ = E[\ln \frac{Z_n}{Z_0} | \mathscr F_m] - n \alpha + \ln Z_0$$ $$ = E[\ln \frac{Z_n}{Z_{n-1}} | \mathscr F_m] + ... + E[\ln \frac{Z_{m+1}}{Z_{m}} | \mathscr F_m]$$ $$+ \ln \frac{Z_m}{Z_{m-1}} + ... + \ln \frac{Z_{1}}{Z_{0}} - n \alpha + \ln Z_0$$ Note that $$Z_n - Z_{n-1} \le |Z_n - Z_{n-1}| \le C_n |\epsilon_n - \epsilon_{n-1}| \le 2C_n \le 2Z_{n-1}$$ Also, I think $$\ln \frac{Z_n}{Z_{n-1}} \le |Z_n - Z_{n-1}|$$ Hence we have $$E[\ln \frac{Z_n}{Z_{n-1}} | \mathscr F_m] + ... + E[\ln \frac{Z_{m+1}}{Z_{m}} | \mathscr F_m]$$ $$+ \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ $$\le E[2Z_{n-1} | \mathscr F_m] + ... + E[2Z_{m} | \mathscr F_m]$$ $$+ \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ $$= 2(E[Z_{n-1} | \mathscr F_m] + ... + E[Z_{m} | \mathscr F_m])$$ $$+ \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ One thing to do would be to show that $$2E[Z_{n-1} | \mathscr F_m] + ... + 2E[Z_{m} | \mathscr F_m] \le (n-m) \alpha$$ possibly by showing that $2E[Z_{\{\cdot\}} | \mathscr F_m] \le \alpha$ How would I do that? Something else: $$E[\ln \frac{Z_n}{Z_m} | \mathscr F_m] + \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ $$ \le E[|Z_n - Z_m| | \mathscr F_m] + \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ $$ \le E[2Z_m | \mathscr F_m] + \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ $$ \le 2Z_m + \ln Z_m - n \alpha$$ Now $2Z_m \le (n-m) \alpha?$ We have $$2Z_m = 2\sum_{k=1}^{m} C_k(\epsilon_k - \epsilon_{k-1})$$ $$\le 2\sum_{k=1}^{m} Z_{k-1}$$ I'm not quite sure how to show that $$2\sum_{k=1}^{m} Z_{k-1} \le (n-m)\alpha$$ if that's even true. How can/else can I approach this problem?  For no 3, no idea. Any hints? I think it has something to do with a stopping time. Might we have to use the ff lemma (red box):    ? If i click on Ubuntu Software, it doesn't open. I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04. I tried try to upgrade all packages, but it doesn't fix this problem.  If I try to run killall software-center there is no process with this name, and software-center returns command not found. If I try to reinstall it with apt I have these results:  $ sudo apt-get --purge --reinstall install software-center Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Package oracle-java8-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'software-center' has no installation candidate I tried control+shift+power button as well as command+shift+power button. Neither seem to work. I am about to sell my old desktop PC and I am cautious about some of my sensitive information being available to the purchaser, even after reformatting the hard-drive, using data recovery software.  How can I securely wipe the hard drive so that the data on it cannot be recovered?  Although I specifically want help with my Windows PC, it wouldn't hurt if there were suggestions for Macs as well. The Pauli group for $n$-qubits is defined as $G_n=\{I,X,Y,Z \}^{\otimes n}$, that is as the group containing all the possible tensor products between $n$ Pauli matrices. It is clear that the Pauli matrices form a basis for the $2\times 2$ complex matrix vector spaces, that is $\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2}$. Apart from it, from the definition of the tensor product, it is known that the $n$-qubit Pauli group will form a basis for the tensor product space $(\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2})^{\otimes n}$.  I am wondering if the Pauli group in $n$-qubits forms a basis for the complex vector space where the elements of this tensor product space act, that is $\mathbb{C}^{2^n\times 2^n}$. Summarizing, the question would be, is $(\mathbb{C}^{2\times 2})^{\otimes n}=\mathbb{C}^{2^n\times 2^n}$ true?  I have been trying to prove it using arguments about the dimensions of both spaces, but I have not been able to get anything yet.