I recently bought a Lenovo Z51-70 which has 5yh Gen i7 and 8GB RAM with 4GB AMD Tropo X2 Graphics. With this configuration it should play almost every high end game but it only happens when I connect a charger. As soon as I disconnect it the Games start lagging. I've contacted Lenovo support regarding this and they've asked me to install some drivers which  didn't work. Finally I've decided to go it's service center this Saturday but just want to know if anyone else had this issue lately and what can I do to solve it.
Can anyone explain how Windows effectively limits the CPU?  Last time I tried some tricks to let my laptop not overheat, so I tried limiting the CPU to 70%.   As for my suprise it stopped my laptop from overheating - even when launching CPU intensive applications which caused my laptop to overheat and shut down, didn't overheat my laptop anymore!  I looked at task manager but the "CPU intensive" application still uses ~95% of CPU and the windows task manager shows a total of 100% CPU usage.  I have limited the CPU usage here ("plugged in" option was on 70% [both min and max] when testing the CPU intensive application):    How does Windows do this magic?   I see 100% CPU usage yet my CPU does not overheat. And I do not see any performance differences.  Does Windows limit the CPU speed? Like, if I have a 2.4 GHz processor, on 70% it will only have 1.68 GHz when limited? How is this possible (changing the CPU speed)? I thought you can only underclock when in BIOS?  If not, how does Windows accomplish this if not by changing the speed?    Side question: If it's about the speed, is there a way to set the CPU max state to 200% ?
Adding popup message box before tool execution with ArcPy and ArcMap I want to add a box message to pop up before execution of a button tool. When I click a button which will do geoprocessing, I want a box to appear on view before processing with message that I am about to do xxx processing. How do I do it? Propane gas fireplace pilot won't light I've asked this question before. Now I've posted some pictures as I can't figure out where I should clean. I don't smell propane. I tired lighting manually with a lighter and nothing. I know to turn the valve on,  rotate the wheel to pilot. Push in and try igniter. It worked fine 6 months ago.   Any suggestions? Fourier transform of $\exp(-t^2)$ using contour integration. This is similar to , but I believe it's a bit different*.  Sites like GMail support a preference that pushes all traffic through the SSL edition of the site rather than the plain-text protocol.   For sites that don't offer such preferences (or ones that may, but I have been unable to find, like facebook), is there a way using only the browser (perhaps with a plugin or addon) to always try SSL first, and fall-back to plain-text iff SSL fails?  Is that solution available on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux? Just one?     * The previous question was looking for external applications that would accomplish this goal. When is a cellular automaton "bidirectional"? From .   "A (bi-directional, deterministic) cellular automaton is a triplet $A = (S;N;\delta)$, where $S$ is an non-empty state set, $N$ is the neighborhood system, and $\delta$ is the local transition function (rule). This function deﬁnes the rule of calculating the cell’s state at $t +1$ time step, given the states of the neighborhood cells at previous time step $t$"  I haven't found other "bidirectional" CA via Google, so I wonder what does the term say about this automaton's properties. Does it mean that the state $t+1$ can be used to find out the state t? How to check if windows has automatic updates waiting from the command line? If a Windows server (2k3/2k8) is set to "download but not install" updates, is there a way to check from the command line.. perhaps a log file or something I can check with powershell, to see if there are any updates actually waiting to be installed? I'm trying to prevent having to manually log on to each server to check, even though they want the "trigger" pulled manually. We have an automation system in place I can use (CA Autosys) - just not sure what to have it look for. Boot drops to a (initramfs) prompts/busybox I am running an HP pavilion dv6000 dual boot win7 and Ubuntu 12.04. (well, up until today).  After a reboot, the boot process drops to the BusyBox shell and I end up at the prompt:  BusyBox v1.18.5 (Ubuntu 1:1.18.5-1ubuntu4) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.  (initramfs)   I've been researching others who have had this same problem, but haven't been able to find any of those solutions to work for me.  I tried the method described , and after the final command   mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /root -o force   it does nothing and gives me another (initramfs) prompt.  I can boot to a live CD (USB) and get to a terminal, but it doesn't seem to do much good, as I can see the /dev/sda1 in the ls command, but it doesn't recognize it when I try to cd to it.  One more question: using the command fdisk -l how can I tell which mount point (sda1/sda2) is my windows partition and which one is Ubuntu? How can I prevent system clipboard image data being pasted into a WPF RichTextBox Is there a utility to replace one block type with another within a region? I'd like to be able to select a region (either with a graphical utility or command line) and be able to switch one block type with another, e.g. change all cobblestone in the region to stone. Does a program/mod exist that can do this? "The thing is, is that..." There are a lot of software in Windows to merge PDF files but how can we do the same in Ubuntu? I'd like to find a Windows batch counterpart to Bash's $@ that holds a list of all arguments passed into a script.   Or I have to bother with shift? Is there a simple command for the available height in a beamer slide? If there is one noble left in line and you play "fled to England" to discard it (thus, ending the day) do you collect a noble from the new day? What happens when the Runner stack is empty? When the corporation R&amp;D is empty the corporation loses.  What happens when the Runner's stack is empty?    I think that: He must finish the game with only the cards on the table.  or  I doubt that: He reshuffles the heap into a new stack. The special linear group $\text{SL}_n(\mathbb{R})$ is its own commutator Let $SL_n(\mathbb{R})$ be the set of $n\times n$ matrix with determinant one. Where can I find a proof that $[SL_n(\mathbb{R}),SL_n(\mathbb{R})]=SL_n(\mathbb{R})$? I've seen this result mentioned in several places, but couldn't find a proof.  For reference, the commutator $[SL_n(\mathbb{R}),SL_n(\mathbb{R})]$ is defined as the group generated by the set of all elements of the form $a^{-1}b^{-1}ab$, with $a,b\in SL_n(\mathbb{R})$. Complex Collision Boxes I'm trying to get a ball to go through in between the cup gear things shown in the screenshot below.   It seems that the collision box does not consider the cups. Yes, the ball fits and they are rotating in the right direction.  If there is already an answer to this, please link it.       If you have any questions about what is going on/ what the project is, feel free to ask. I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu &amp; Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.  What I want to achieve is data replication on HDD while keeping SSD performance: Something like this:  For read case it would be ideal for procedure to go like this:   read from SSD check checksum if it verifies.. awesome, give me the data if not, fetch data from HDD and perform error correction through duplicate data   I'd manually run (some tool I'm not sure which one... btrfs check --repair perhaps?) every month or so to check HDD checksums and correct them via SSD data against bitrot.  For write case:   write to SSD sync to HDD when write requirements are low, thus not slowing down the system.   Is this possible and how would I do it?  Bottom line is, I like btrfs and would like it to duplicate data across HDD &amp; SSD drive automatically while keeping SSD excellent performance.   Using SSD as write cache is not an option since it's missing data duplication and security. Why do we need multiple approvers for suggested edits? I already have the "Edit Questions And Answers" privilege. Yet, if I approve someone else's edit, I'm told that more votes will be required before the edit is accepted.  This seems a bit peculiar to me, since I could just copy the edited version and paste it myself. When should we use proximity rule in "either/or", and "neither/nor"? According to this , if at least one of the nouns involved is plural then it should take the plural form of the verb. Otherwise, it should take the singular form of the verb. But in the last part it says not all grammars agree to those rules thus proximity rule applies. However, it doesn't explain when to apply the proximity rule and when not to use the former rules.