I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 on a new Dell XPS 15, 16gb Ram, i7 7700 CPU, 512gb SSD.  Windows is already preinstalled which I want to keep for the odd admin task so I added a partition of 220gb for my main Ubuntu machine. I have tried installing using the same boot drive I used on my new PC about 2 weeks ago which worked fine on there but I am just getting numerous errors when trying to install on this new machine.     I also tried installing the latest elementary OS with similar issues.  As the console was mentioning CPU I downloaded and ran the intel processor test and everything came out fine. Windows is also running well, or as well as it does so hardware seems fine.  Any ideas on how to resolve this?  I have tried three different usb drives all with the same result and also multiple ports on the machine itself.
I get this error message   NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 23s! [plymouthd:305]    on the startup of my system (even with live-cd).  My PC is a dell inspiron 7559 with intel graphic and nvidia.  UPDATE - this issue also happens when attempting to install ubuntu 18.10 using LiveUSB
How do I install Geforce GTX 660 in 13.10 Just bought a Geforce GTX 660 and replaced my Radeon HD 5870 (it finally died after 3 years). I'm having terrible problems getting the video card to work. As I only had command line options so far I've ran:  (purged fglrx*)  then  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-331  and then I started getting low graphics mode errors. did some searching on my tablet, and I tried several things but what finally worked better was:   sudo apt-get install bumblebee bumblebee-nvidia  However now that I'm logged into my computer finally, I have no access to terminal, no access to the top bar, and hitting Super Key does nothing, alt-f2 does nothing, and I only can post because I tried running WoW and it had an error and the error report opened a link.   All I can see on my desktop is my wallpaper and desktop icons. I can CTRL+ALT+F1, and navigate to the downloaded official nvidia driver, however that won't run because of x-server, and I can't run it from my desktop.   Can anyone help me? InDesign: How to restore text-frame position/size to be managed by the master page instead of the actual page? I have some designer that moved slightly a text-frame and in order to be managed again by the master page we need to remove the page and create a new one inserting the content in it.  Is there any different way to do it?  I would like to be able to restore the "power" of positioning/size to the master page because now we need to change the master-page to position the text-frame a little bit to the right and in the case above mentioned will not be updated.  Thanks What is the "Bootable flag" option when installing a distro? Is the "bootable flag" needed in today's distributions? If not, then why is it still in the installers? What is it exactly? Default constructor with empty brackets Name for the center amplitude of a sine wave I am trying to find the name for the value at the center of a sine wave $$ y(t) = A\sin (kx \pm \omega t+\varphi) + D $$ i.e. the offset $D$ of the wave in the $y$-direction.  calls it Center Amplitude, but further googling this name is difficult and does not provide any further sources. I also found the expression , but I'm not sure that it refers to the same thing. Is there a commonly used name for the $y$-direction-offset of a sine wave? Show that when $BA = I$, the solution of $Ax=b$ is unique I'm just getting back into having to do linear algebra and I am having some trouble with some elementary questions, any help is much appreciated.  Suppose that $A = [a_{ij}]$ is an $m\times n$ matrix and $B = [b_{ij}]$ and is an $n\times m$ matrix and $BA = I$ the identity matrix that is $n \times n$.  Show that if for some $b \in \Bbb{R}^m$ the equation $Ax = b$ has a solution, then the solution is unique. Do tag edits count for Archaeologist? My port of entry and exit is Frankfurt, Germany. However i will only be spending a day or two there. I am visiting Spain and Portugal for a week each. So should I be applying to Spain embassy or German embassy? I am an Indian citizen. Occasionally, the Unicode character sequence U+200C U+200B (ZWNJ ZWSP) is inserted into comments In     ... the number "5000" does not paste as such but instead as  5 0 U+200C U+200B 0 0   The HTML source looks like this:  perhaps the easiest would be &lt;code&gt;\edef\tmp{\everypar{\widowpenalty\the\widowpenalty\relax}}\tmp\widowpenalty=-50&amp;zwnj;&amp;#8203;00&lt;/code&gt; that may reset   Or (smaller snippet):  \widowpenalty=-50&amp;zwnj;&amp;#8203;00&lt;/code&gt; that   So in the HTML, we have extraneous &amp;zwnj; and &amp;#8203; in between the two middle digits of 5000.  Upon pasting and trying out this code, this first led to a mysterious compiler error. The same issue happened within a (now deleted) comment thread below ; there, these or similar two characters were inserted after the letter "r" within the string \ref ("\ref").  Note that not all browsers wrap the same way. The above screenshot was for Firefox 19.0.2, in which it breaks between \relax}} and \tmp, with 5000 insidiously left intact on the second line but with the two special characters remaining in the middle. So that is why this took me completely by surprise. Other browsers might indeed only break on the invisible Unicode characters, such as Chrome 25:    Or on a smaller screen with the mobile site, multiple line breaks might show, possibly still leaving the Unicode characters unused: A nice user suggested  to . The edit, though very good and desirable, was rejected. I do not understand the reasons, and I did not find a way to contact those people who rejected it. What can I do to re-approve the edit? How do you overlay an image on a shader in Cycles? What is the difference between can and could in 'Can/could you please explain this to me?' How is the classical twin paradox resolved? I read a lot about the classical twin paradox recently. What confuses me is that some authors claim that it can be resolved within , others say that you need . Now, what is true (and why)? Moderator actions on items in the review queues don't count towards the review totals What do the numbers in a man page mean? How to loop over the lines of a file? Say I have this file:  hello world hello world   This program  #!/bin/bash  for i in $(cat $1); do     echo "tester: $i" done   outputs  tester: hello tester: world tester: hello tester: world   I'd like to have the for iterate over each line individually ignoring whitespaces though, i.e. the last two lines should be replaced by  tester: hello world   Using quotes for i in "$(cat $1)"; results in i being assigned the whole file at once. What should I change? My recipe for hummus says to cook the garbanzo beans with a little baking soda to soften them. Does this work with other legumes?   I've often seen the advice against salting the cooking water for beans, as it supposedly toughens them. Will a different sodium compound, bicarbonate, have the opposite effect?   Would love to know the science of this issue. Wired connection not working Ubuntu 12.04 Prove $0! = 1$ from first principles How can I prove  from first principles that $0!$ is equal to $1$? $\frac{1}{99989999} = 1.00010002000300050008001300210034005500890144... \times 10^{-8}$    (), which includes the Fibonacci sequence $(1\ 1\ 2\ 3\ 5\ 8\ 13\ 21\ 55\ 89\ 144\ldots )$.  This is fascinating to me but I can't figure out how this works, and a Google search doesn't seem to reveal anything.