Installed Ubuntu on a machine with Windows 8.1. Failed to create dual-booting. Is my data on another partition permanently lost?
How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu?
Proving which QM interpretation is correct Let's assume that the existence of gravitons is theoretically proven or they are detected by LHC could one interpretaion be proven correct? I understand that for resistors in series we need to add R for each resistor to get the equivalent resistance, where R is resistance. I also understand the mathematical manipulations that show that for resistors in parallel we need to add the 1/R for each resistor to get the equivalent resistance. However I have a couple of questions that have to do with the physical interpretation of the mathematical manipulations involved.   First, I am trying to understand why in the case of parallel resistors we have to add 1/R's instead of adding R's as in the case of resistors in series i.e. could it be thought that the current in the wire is like a sort of water flow in the pipe that has two horizontal parallel pipes positioned one on top of the other and in between connected by a number of vertical pipes that have a tap each that could be adjusted to represent different resistances. Then at the top of each vertical pipe the water pressure P exists and at the bottom the pressure will be reduced by P*R.   For example, suppose we have three vertical pipes, so then the pressure at the bottom of each (after the tap) is P*R for the total of 3*P*R so why is the equivalent resistance not 3*R*P but 1/R = (1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3) and how can I be able to visualize this relation? Prove that the equation $x^4+(2k^2)x^2+2k^4$ is not a perfect square How do I show that $\sum_{cyc} \frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2?$ Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers, show that  $$\frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} + \frac {b^6}{c^2 + a^2} + \frac {c^6}{a^2 + b^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2.$$  I think this is likely to turn out to be proved by Hölder, but I can't see how. Any hints will be appreciated. What's the difference between $(stuff) and `stuff`? Converting case of all values in all fields of table using ArcPy & Python? MPPT charging a li-ion battery I just designed this MPPT solar charge controller which outputs 4.2 V regulated via MPPT, it uses the SPV1040 IC. This will be used on a satellite with 4 side panels, each with 8 solar cells in parallel outputting 2.6 V at approximately 122 Ma. Each panel will have this exact circuit and all the outputs will be connected in parallel to a 3.7 V lithium ion camera battery.  When active only 1 solar panel will be active and the other MPPT circuits will be offline or providing a very low amount of current. How should I connect the 4.2v to the battery, just directly or using some sort of controller to stop charging at 4.2v? Keep in mind the battery will always have a load and it will charge for around 50m in a 90m cycle due to being eclipsed. I would obviously like the battery to last as long as possible so I am not sure what are the implications of constantly having a battery connected to 4.2 V during 50m. Thanks.   The schematic was made based off a simulation made using the ST Edesignsuite directly from the provider.  Excuse my previous question about this, wasn't properly worded. I have a few satellites and stations orbiting my planets, but I'd like to add onto them. I've seen numerous videos on using docking clamps to attach my new ship to the existing station, but can I do that on a part-by-part basis? For example, I take an extra fuel tank up there, can I attach just the tank to my station, then send my vessel back to Kerbin? I'm not talking about refueling, but rather transferring individual parts from my ship to the station in orbit.  I'd prefer to not have to use an unmanned probe and jettison everything but the desired part in space after docking if possible, but if that's the only way I guess I don't have a choice. Can I install Python 3.x and 2.x on the same Windows computer? Show that every prime $p>3$ is either of the form $6n+1$ or of the form $6n+5$ Show that every prime $p&gt;3$ is either of the form $6n+1$ or of the form $6n+5$, where $n=0,1,2, \dots$ I installed Ubuntu 17.10. Now I am having trouble with gksu:  $ gksu -dg synaptic No ask_pass set, using default! xauth: /tmp/libgksu-HgUjgQ/.Xauthority STARTUP_ID: gksu/synaptic/8760-0-alex-XPS-15-9530_TIME4974977 cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo cmd[1]: -H cmd[2]: -S cmd[3]: -p cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS cmd[5]: -u cmd[6]: root cmd[7]: -- cmd[8]: synaptic buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS- brute force GNOME_SUDO_PASS ended... Yeah, we're in... Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (synaptic:8767): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1 xauth: /tmp/libgksu-HgUjgQ/.Xauthority xauth_env: (null) dir: /tmp/libgksu-HgUjgQ   If I don't use -g, the password dialog is disabled. So looks like a problem with creating a tty for root.  Any advice? Is the EmDrive, or "Relativity Drive" possible? In 2006, New Scientist magazine published an article titled 1 [] about the  [] which stirred up a fair degree of controversy and  that New Scientist was engaging in pseudo-science.   Since the original article the inventor claims that a "Technology Transfer contract with a major US aerospace company was successfully completed", and that papers have been published by Professor Yang Juan of The North Western Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. 2   Furthermore, it was  that the Chinese were going to attempt to build the device.  Assuming that the inventor is operating in good faith and that the device actually works, is there another explanation of the claimed resulting propulsion?  Notes:  1. Direct links to the article may not work as it seems to have been archived. 2. The abstracts provided on the  website claim that they are Chinese language journals which makes them very difficult to chase down and verify. The bijection between homogeneous prime ideals of $S_f$ and prime ideals of $(S_f)_0$ It is well-known that if $S$ is a graded ring, and $f$ is a homogeneous element of positive degree, then there is a bijection between the homogeneous prime ideals of the localization $S_f$ and the prime ideals of $S_{(f)}$, the subring of $S_f$ comprising the homogeneous elements of degree $0$.    This is proposition II.2.5b in Hartshorne, exercise 5.5B in Ravi Vakil's notes $[1]$ (p. $130$ of the February $24$, $2012$ version), and proposition 8.1.21 of Akhil Mathew's notes $[2]$ (p. $136$). Unfortunately I cannot follow any of those proofs to my own satisfaction, perhaps because I'm not well-versed in commutative algebra.  The crux of the proof appears to be to show that, given a homogeneous prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ of $S$ not containing $f$, the construction used to obtain a prime ideal $\Psi (\mathfrak{q})$ of $S$ from a prime ideal $\mathfrak{q}$ of $S_{(f)}$ will recover $\mathfrak{p}$ when $\mathfrak{q} = S_f  \mathfrak{p} \cap S_{(f)}$. To be precise, let $\Psi (\mathfrak{q})$ be the homogeneous ideal of $S$ generated by $$\bigcup_{d \in \mathbb{N}} \{ s \in S_d : s / f^d \in \mathfrak{q} \}$$ and let $\Phi (\mathfrak{p}) = S_f \mathfrak{p} \cap S_{(f)}$. It's easy to see that $\Phi \circ \Psi$ acts as the identity on $\operatorname{Spec} A$ (or, for that matter, the set of all ideals of $A$), but I cannot see any obvious reason why $\Psi \circ \Phi$ should act as the identity on the set of prime ideals of $S$ not containing $f$. A detailed proof of this point would be much appreciated.  References  $[1]$ .  $[2]$ Algebraic geometry notes (covers material at the level of the first and second volume of EGA): , and . I have been struggling for one hour with this simple problem (QGIS 1.8.0-Lisboa, Windows 7) :  I have a raster layer. I would like to display the label and not only the band value when I use the Identify Features button. Is it possible? Should I disable google maps scroll wheel zoom? In most applications of google maps the scroll wheel will zoom the map instead of scrolling it.  Personally I find this confusing, and after years of using google maps, both on the google maps web site and embedded google maps, I still often make the mistake of trying to scroll the map with scroll wheel and end up zooming it instead.  The google maps API allows me to disable scrollwheel zoom when I embed a map in my page.  The question is should I disable it?  On the one hand scroll wheel zoom is unconventional in the context of the web as a whole - in the vast majority of cases the scroll wheel scrolls things.  On the other hand scroll wheel zoom is established convention for maps.  It definitely would be a better experience for me if scroll wheel zooming was disabled, but what about the web browsing population in general?  I did some searching on whether I should disable scroll zoom and couldn't find any guidelines. So, to scroll zoom or not to scroll zoom? Can I run an HTTP GET directly in SQL under MySQL? I'd love to do this:  UPDATE table SET blobCol = HTTPGET(urlCol) WHERE whatever LIMIT n;   Is there code available to do this? I known this should be possible as the  include an example of adding a function that does a DNS lookup.  MySQL / windows / Preferably without having to compile stuff, but I can.  (If you haven't heard of anything like this but you would expect that you would have if it did exist, A "proly not" would be nice.)  EDIT: I known this would open a whole can-o-worms re security, however in my cases, the only access to the DB is via the mysql console app. Its is not a world accessible system. It is not a web back end. It is only a local data logging system Sort order in Windows Explorer The behaviour described below occurs on Windows-7 systems and on Windows XP. We operate in a dual-language environment - English and Hebrew.  When in Windows Explorer we sort files by name, the order in which they are listed is not what we would expect. Here is a list of file names as sorted by Windows Explorer (all of the files have a .pdf suffix):   1G110033H-PP 19C050G-PP-ORB 19C050H-PPRM 19C100H-PPRM 19C-MBPS-PP 19C-MBPS-PP-1 29AAC050-PP 29AAC100-PP 29AAC100-PPUL   29B004064-PP 101AC050-PP 101AC100-PP 101B100-PPE 1091003G-PPFSUL 10108033G-PPSA 10125033H-PPM     It looks to me that first the items are sorted according to the position of the first alphabetic character in the name, and then, within those groups, they are sorted in "normal" alpha-numeric order.  That is, all the files with an alpha character in the first position are on top of the list, followed by those with the first alpha character in the second position, followed by those with the first alpha character in the third position, and so on.  An alternate way of looking at this is that, in a file name composed of numbers and letters, the sort treats the first group of numbers in the name as the major sort node, with the rest of the name being the secondary sort node.  Now that I understand the sequencing logic, it's not a big problem, but I was wondering why this happens? The number of labelled graphs with all vertices of even degree I have a graph exam tomorrow, and there is a problem that said number of graph with labeled vertices and all of them of even degree is $ 2^{n-1 \choose 2} $.  According to that topic, it means the number of cut spaces is $ 2^{n-1} $. Well, I don't understand what is cut space yet, and why its count is $ 2^{n-1} $ And don't  know why we should divide the total number of graphs by this! Are all limits solvable without L'Hôpital Rule or Series Expansion Is it always possible to find the limit of a function without using  or ?  For example,   $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\tan x-x}{x^3}$$  $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin x-x}{x^3}$$  $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\ln(1+x)-x}{x^2}$$  $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{e^x-x-1}{x^2}$$  $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\sin^{-1}x-x}{x^3}$$  $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac{\tan^{-1}x-x}{x^3}$$ Why are tar archive formats switching to xz compression to replace bzip2 and what about gzip?