I'm trying to format my hard drive, and at the same time change it to GPT. I'll replace ubuntu with windows so I'm okay with losing all the data :)   I searched disks, chose the main hard drive, format (GPT),  Fail.  Device is busy.  What to do?
I'm trying to install Windows 7 with a 4GB flash drive, but my error that comes up is that my hard drive I'm trying to install on is in ext4. I need to format it to read NTFS. I can't seem to find any topics on how to format an active hard drive. I found a topic that explains how to move Ubuntu to a new drive, but it's a bit confusing to me.
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I remember the technology to work like this: consider the space as a flat surface, and on this surface, a disk around the spaceship. When the technology was turned on, this disk was stretched out, as made of rubber, so that it produced a cone, with the tip being the spaceship. The spaceship was therefore teleported 10 parsec away (if I remember correctly), but retained all the connections to the original position. If the spaceship moved, the cone moved as well. This allowed to move in position among enemy ships completely unnoticed, by stretching while afar, then moving in the proper position 10 parsecs away, then destretching.  Despite this technology, the empire lost the war because of delays. It's a perfect example of how having a disruptive technology does not guarantee to win against the competitors.  I am trying to find out the author and name of this novel, hopefully with the date of publication and in which journal/magazine. I'd like to know whether, given a system, there's a way to obtain all the conserved quantities. For instance if the system consists of electric and magnetic fields, the fields must satisfy Maxwell's equations. These equations are invariant under many transformations (Lorentz transformation, rotations, spatial and temporal translations, etc. By the way is there a way, maybe from group theory, to find all the possible transformations that leaves the equation(s) invariant?) which imply as many conserved quantities thanks to Noether's theorem. In wikipedia I can see an equation that seems to give all the conserved quantities () but it involves the Lagrangian and I'm not sure whether the formula is valid for all systems whose Lagrangian is possible to obtain. How to exclude files from Visual Studio compile? I'm in the process of refactoring a project.  I've got an entire subfolder which is known to be broken.  Is there any declarative way to exclude that folder from the compile temporarily while I test the refactoring thus far?  I realize I could delete the folder, but I'd like to do this through configuration if possible. Prove $\int_0^\infty \frac{\sin^4x}{x^4}dx = \frac{\pi}{3}$ I left them (at) home Consider this question:  Where are they (things or people)?  Would the following answer be with (at), without it or either one?  I left them (at) home  I have done a quick Google search and found quotes for both cases, with and without:  This Widow's 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home Alone. Leaving Your Child Home Alone - KidsHealth Gerry said, &quot;I left them at home.&quot; Gerry sat down and turned on the TV set just as Mark would have done.  I read about &quot;home&quot; being an adverb but also know &quot;stay at home moms&quot; for example. So you see I need definite answers. Cannot remove JDK – /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory When I try to remove Java with sudo apt-get remove jdk1.8.0-40 I get this:    Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED:   jdk1.8.0-40 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 245 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 231488 files and directories currently installed.) Removing jdk1.8.0-40 (1.8.040-1) ... find: `/usr/java/*': No such file or directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 586: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 598: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package jdk1.8.0-40 (--remove):  subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing:  jdk1.8.0-40 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)   Output of  ls -1 /var/cache/apt/archives/*jdk*:  openjdk-7-jre_7u75-2.5.4-1~trusty1_amd64.deb openjdk-7-jre-headless_7u75-2.5.4-1~trusty1_amd64.deb   Output of sudo dpkg --purge --force-all jdk1.8.0-40:  (Reading database ... 231488 files and directories currently installed.) removing jdk1.8.0-40 (1.8.040-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 586: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 598: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package jdk1.8.0-40 (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing:  jdk1.8.0-40   When trying the edit I get this:  (Reading database ... 231488 files and directories currently installed.) Removing jdk1.8.0-40 (1.8.040-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 586: /usr/sbin/alternatives: Permission denied /var/lib/dpkg/info/jdk1.8.0-40.postrm: line 598: /usr/sbin/alternatives: Permission denied dpkg: error processing package jdk1.8.0-40 (--remove):  subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 126 Errors were encountered while processing:  jdk1.8.0-40 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How do I make animations a steady speed? When I make an animation, it always starts out slow, then speeds up, then slows down at the end.  I cannot figure out how to fix this. How to install Windows 7 after Ubuntu and dual boot? I just installed Ubuntu, a full install removing the prior OS. I was forced to remove  from my  because of the max four partitions already being there. I didn't lose anything, all backed up. However, now I am looking to create another partition and install Windows&nbsp;7 on it.   Do I also need some sort of boot loader that lets me choose which to boot? There is an experimental timeline view for questions now available on meta ONLY! (Now working on SO, SF, and SU as well)  This is partially motivated by comments about how difficult it is to follow very active questions which have a lot of activity, and also the feedback on the API which was heavily dominated by "we need to know what happened in this time range" type responses.  It can only be accessed through URL hackery at the moment. To get to it, enter question URLs like so:  https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/{id}/timeline  This is a chronological timeline of everything that happened on a question, including   initial question ask answers  revisions comments closure, deletion, reopen, undelete, etc votes   all based on when they happened in chronological order.  We are thinking about making this a fourth tab on the question, like so:  Timeline | Oldest | Newest | Votes  Please try it out and provide feedback. It is still a little rough, so we are not looking for highly detailed bug reports, just more general feedback.  Timeline view for this question: Evaluate this power series Evaluate the sum  $$x+\frac{2}{3}x^3+\frac{2}{3}\cdot\frac{4}{5}x^5+\frac{2}{3}\cdot\frac{4}{5}\cdot\frac{6}{7}x^7+\dots$$  Totally no idea. I think this series may related to the $\sin x$ series because of those missing even powers. Another way of writing this series:  $$\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(2k)!!}{(2k+1)!!}x^{2k+1}.$$ What is the standard error of the sample standard deviation? I read from  that the standard error of the sample variance is  $$SE_{s^2} = \sqrt{\frac{2 \sigma^4}{N-1}}$$  What is the standard error of the sample standard deviation?  I'd be tempted to guess and say that $SE_{s} = \sqrt{SE_{s^2}}$ but I am not sure. Why do we need both the Suffrage and Vox Populi badges? The Suffrage badge is awarded for using 30 votes in the day, and the Vox Populi for using 40.  I understand from  that the idea of Vox Populi is to incentivise voting on questions, but is there any evidence that having two badges does so better than just having Vox Populi? Using Regular Expressions to Extract a Value in Java I have several strings in the rough form:  [some text] [some number] [some more text]   I want to extract the text in [some number] using the Java Regex classes.  I know roughly what regular expression I want to use (though all suggestions are welcome). What I'm really interested in are the Java calls to take the regex string and use it on the source data to produce the value of [some number].  EDIT: I should add that I'm only interested in a single [some number] (basically, the first instance). The source strings are short and I'm not going to be looking for multiple occurrences of [some number]. I am moving from Egypt to the Netherlands and I need to take my PC with me. I won't be taking the monitor, just the case, but I'm wondering what the best way would be.  Am considering taking it as carry-on because I'm allowed 8kg and at least then I can handle it myself. Has anyone done this before and can give me tips or warn me that this doesn't work? Would putting it in my normal suitcase as checked baggage be a better idea? What dried food can I take across the American border from Canada? We will be driving from Banff to Glacier National Park while on our camping trip and I was told to be careful with taking food across the border. We don't eat meat so that's one less issue and I already know that many fresh fruits/veggies can get complicated so I'm only thinking of taking dry stuff across (mostly grains but possibly also dried veggies).  My plan at first was to stock up at BulkBarn in Calgary since they have tons of stuff and you can just take what you need but I'm afraid that since the packaging is generic and unsealed that it might cause more problems. What are the criteria to be able to take dried food across the border? What is the fate of the Asgardians at the start of Avengers: Infinity War? Thor: Ragnarok ends with the remaining people of Asgard aboard a refugee ship that meets Thanos' ship. Avengers: Infinity War opens with      Thanos and his minions having commandeered the ship and several bodies can be seen on the floor.   This begs the question, what happened to these characters:   Korg Miek Asguardian extra #3 Valkyrie right now   I have setup /etc/fstab like this:  //192.168.5.167/H /mnt/ssd cifs credentials=/root/.smbreds,noauto,x- systemd.automount 0 0   I want to set it up like first network should be connected and then fstab mount should get mounted. What mode does the terminal go into when I type a single quote? Here is a DOM-based XSS flaw reported by SalesForce Security Review team in our code:   RootComponent  &lt;aura:component extensible="true" abstract="true" access="global"                 description="Root template component"&gt;     &lt;!-- ... lot of other code ... --&gt;     &lt;aura:attribute name="label"                     type="String"                     access="global"                     description="Label of the form input element" /&gt;     &lt;!-- ... lot of other code ... --&gt;  &lt;/aura:component&gt;   SubComponent  &lt;aura:component access="global" extends="c:RootComponent"                  description="Child extension of RootComponent"&gt;     &lt;!-- ... lot of other code ... --&gt;     &lt;label&gt;{!v.label}&lt;/label&gt;     &lt;!-- ... lot of other code --&gt;  &lt;/aura:component&gt;   According to SFDC, "any app can extend SubComponent component and pass in  as a label and trigger a DOM-based XSS attack." The solution would be to "sanitize" label global attribute to avoid such attack. What is meant by sanitization of global attribute?  I tried to reproduce the so-called security flaw , but as label attribute is of type "String" , when we send it HTML, it is displayed as a string, not as interpreted HTML ... so I don't see where the security flaw could be :/  &lt;aura:application &gt;     &lt;aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.doInit}" /&gt;      &lt;c:SubComponent aura:id="TestXSS" label="DOM-based XSS attacks" /&gt;  &lt;/aura:application &gt;   JS Controller  ({     doInit: function(component, event, helper) {         var XssAttack = '&lt;img src=x onerror=alert(1) /&gt;';        component.find('TestXSS').set('v.label',XssAttack);     } })   Output    We have global attributes everywhere. Our components are packaged and meant to be extended by client implementation. Do we actually need to sanitize them?