A week ago I bought Lenovo E531 with Windows 8, but I don't like this operating system. I used to use Win XP. I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10, followed all the instruction how to create an bootable USB stick, but my laptop can't boot Ubuntu yet. Can You help me please!
I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?
Initial connection to SQL Server Connection Is Slow. Why? I have been racking my brain to understand the solutions of constrained stars and bars problems like:  $a+b+c+d = 19$;  $a,b,c,d \in \{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7\}$  Finding the total number of solutions is really simple $\dbinom{22}{3}$.   What to do after that? I want to understand the entire procedure step by step.   Please do not mark it as a duplicate of .  Reasons:   The accepted answer's trick doesn't always work.   Another person (the answer with two upvotes) has just listed out the binomial coefficients and I can't even remotely understand what he has tried to do.   The second answer isn't my cup of tea. What causes close votes to be annotated with "(deleted)"? In the "Votes Cast" section of my profile, my vote to close  is annotated with "(deleted)":    However, the close vote does not appear to have been deleted: it successfully closed the question:    Why was this vote marked as "(deleted)"?    If the vote was deleted my some internal process after the question was closed and the closers were recorded, I call that a . Regardless of what happens internally, it's irrelevant to users if close votes are deleted after they have taken effect. youtube-dl failed to extract signature It is considered very useful to utilize youtube-dl software for downloading youtubes.  A message is seen and it stopped working, which is following.  ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 479, in _decrypt_signature     video_id, player_url, s   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 383, in _extract_signature_function     res = self._parse_sig_js(code)   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 454, in _parse_sig_js     u'Initial JS player signature function name')   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 391, in _search_regex     raise RegexNotFoundError(u'Unable to extract %s' % _name) RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract Initial JS player signature function name; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. ; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update.   What should I do to proceed? mkfs on raw software raid device or partition I am making a huge RAID10 device (8 TB) for storage on CentOS. I have created the 4 partitions on my 4 physical hard disks and have created the raid device /dev/md2 out of those 4 partitions.  Now it's time to put a filesystem on it. I am wondering whether I should do just:  mkfs.ext4 /dev/md2   which totally works (I tried it), or I should first create a single partition on that device (with fdisk, gdisk or parted?), that takes up all the space, and then do the mkfs stuff on that partition.  Googling the Web, I found another person asking the very same question here:  but, although a responder said:      Partitions go on the array members.   Filesystem goes on the array.   they didn't give him a definitive, non-ambiguous answer or an explanation when one approach should be preferred over the other. Real world uses of hyperbolic trigonometric functions I covered hyperbolic trigonometric functions in a recent maths course. However I was never presented with any reasons as to why (or even if) they are useful.  Is there any good examples of their uses outside academia? Equation mode, labelling equations I have the following   \[K^{-1}\left\|\sum\limits_{n=1}^N a_ny_n\right\|    \leq \left\|\sum\limits_{n=1}^N a_nx_n\right\|    \leq K\left\|\sum\limits_{n=1}^N a_ny_n\right\| (\dagger)\]   But the dagger doesn't appear at the right hand end of the page. How can I Get it so that it does appear on the end of the page? the \hfill command doesn't seem to work. Thank you. I installed the  on my Ubuntu&nbsp;11.04 (Natty Narwhal) with   sudo apt-get install lamp-server^   Now I navigate to /var/www and use   wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.x-dev.tar.gz   I get the following error.   --2011-08-03 13:59:00--   http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.x-dev.tar.gz Resolving  ftp.drupal.org... 64.50.233.100, 64.50.236.52 Connecting to  ftp.drupal.org|64.50.233.100|:80... connected. HTTP request sent,  awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2757101 (2.6M)  [application/x-gzip] drupal-7.x-dev.tar.gz: Permission denied   Cannot write to `drupal-7.x-dev.tar.gz' (Permission denied).   How do I resolve this error?  I tried to download the same file in the downloads folder, and it went on without an issue. So it seems to be some permission error, but I'm not sure about that or how to solve it. Using single quote by curly braces in String.format in Dynamic SOQL I'm struggling to use String.format to replace a token with a value when the token is within single quotes:  Example:  String query = String.format('SELECT Id FROM Availability WHERE Person__c = \'{0}\'', personId);   String query is equal to:  SELECT Id FROM Availability WHERE Person__c = {0}   Rather than:  SELECT Id FROM Availability WHERE Person__c = '234567890' Size in bytes is significantly less ( half the size) then size in MB in get info window In the get info window it says 387,037,139 bytes which is 387 MB whereas the size on disk is 716.9MB which is 716,900,000 bytes.   du -sh paramgen  result (in MiB) 684M    paramgen  Why is there such a large difference? I often read outputs in the terminal that get wrapped as they are too long. Since there is no way that I can modify the printed output, I need to let the Terminal allow for horizontal scrolling.  Is there a modification I can make to the default OS X Terminal to disable line wrapping and allow for horizontal scrolling?  Or do you know another alternative I can use? Faster language/keyboard swapping I like making a habit to use the different languages I study, to keep that knowledge fresh. So I like typing in those languages when I get the chance. But swapping keyboards under OSX is just a little too cumbersome.  For example, I was just typing the name of one of my co-workers in its original 汉子 form instead of as an English transliteration. It's nice. It reminds me to pronounce her name properly, with tone, etc., which otherwise doesn't come naturally. The transliteration of her name is especially misleading. Everyone at the company is pronouncing it wrong.   But to swap into writing 汉子 I have to mouse up to the top menu bar, select a new keyboard, type, mouse back up to the top bar, and then select back into English. I know there's a keyboard shortcut, but with 5 different keyboards active in my menu, cycling through 5 to get to the one I want feels just as cumbersome.  Is there a way to attach a hotkey to a specific keyboard, or some other way to make swapping character sets lighter? What do the colors mean in htop? Input field value - remove leading zeros I have a textbox in Javascript. When I enter '0000.00' in the textbox, I want to know how to convert that to only having one leading zero, such as '0.00'. How do I determine how many spell slots I have if I multiclass into more than one spellcasting class? For example, I have a character that is a level 3 Wizard, a level 5 Eldritch Knight Fighter, a level 4 Arcane Trickster Rogue, a level 4 Paladin, and a 4 Warlock. How many spell slots do I have and how do I determine this? Krull dimension of this local ring I want to know what the Krull dimension of this ring $\mathbb C[x,y]_p/(y^2-x^7,y^5-x^3)$ is, where $p\neq (0,0)$. I know the dimension of it in the origin point, but I don't know other cases. Install windows 7 through virtual box Maximum likelihood when usual procedure doesn't work I am trying to get the maximum likelihood estimate for the parameter $p$. The distribution is the following:   $$ f(x\mid p) = \begin{cases} \frac{p}{x^2} &amp;\text{for} \ p\leq x &lt; \infty  \ \\ 0 &amp;\text{if not} \end{cases} $$  The sample has size $n$.  The problem is, when I try to estimate it by the procedure I know, I would have to estimate the likelihood function and obtain the derivative of the log-likelihood. We'd have:   $$ L(p; x) = \frac{p^n}{\prod_{i=1}^{n} x^2_i}$$  $$ \ln L(p;x) = n \ln(p) - \sum_{i=1}^{n} \ln(x_i^2) $$   For the derivative:  $$ l'(p;x) = \frac{n}{p} = 0$$   And I am stuck because it has no solution for $p$. How do I evaluate this?  Thanks!   EDIT:  So in this case I can use the indicator variable to write:   $$ L(p;x) = \frac{p^n}{\prod_{i=1}^{n}x_i^2} I_{(x_i \geq p)}$$   for $i = 1,2, \ldots n$ in the indicator variable. So the "closest" non-null value of $x \in X$ to $p$ is $min(X_1, \ldots X_n)$. Is that the point? I am wondering what the difference between a definition and an axiom.  Isn't an axiom something what we define to be true?  For example, one of the axioms of Peano Arithmetic states that $\forall n:0\neq S(n)$, or in English, that zero isn't the successor of any natural number. Why can't we define 0 to be the natural number such that it isn't the successor of any natural number?  In general, why is an axiom not a definition?   Are there cases where we can formulate definitions as axioms or vice versa? List of tables, db schema, dump etc using the Python sqlite3 API