Ubuntu Installation Issues - ACPI PCC Probe Failed
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Is there a way to make sure that a deleted file can not be recovered?   As you know, deleting a file by pressing shift-del or using trash doesn't mean that file is gone forever. It resides somewhere in the computer.  In day to day life, law enforcement or thieves use recovery programs to reveal our private data or something else.   They can recover all data that resides on hard disk, in RAM, and even USB.  To protect us from these people, what should one do? Which program should one use?  Note: I don't want an answer like first use a recovery program then erase that file with shred. With just one program, I want to erase all unused/deleted files on my computer. We know for a metallic conductor   Current $\frac{I}{enA} = v$ where $v$ is drift velocity , $e$ is the charge of an electron, $n$ is no of electrons per unit volume and $A$ is area of cross section.  Ok my questions that I am struggling with:   Does it depend on length of wire? (let's say if the current is the same and area is also the same but one wire is longer and one wire is shorter then is the drift velocity for both wires the same?) Does it depend on the cross sectional area of the wire? (Yes, according to the relation, if the area is greater, drift velocity is lower, correct?)   I have digged university physics still I couldn't get my answer :( . Does any particle ever reach any singularity inside the black hole? My task is to write a precise mathematical statement that "the sequence $(a_n)$ does not converge to a number $\mathscr l$"  So, I have my definition of a convergent sequence: "$\forall\varepsilon&gt;0$ $\exists N\in\Bbb R$ such that $|x_n -\mathscr l|&lt;\varepsilon$ $\forall n \in \Bbb N$ with $n&gt;N$"  Would the correct negation of this be "$\forall\varepsilon&gt;0$ $\exists N\in\Bbb R$ such that $|x_n -\mathscr l|&gt;\varepsilon$ $\forall n \in \Bbb N$ with $n&gt;N$"?  It doesn't seem that this is the answer as the next part of my task is to prove that a sequence is divergent using my formed proof, but it'd be difficult to do since it's a general proof of divergence and not just a proof that $(a_n)$ doesn't converge a specific number $\mathscr l$  Perhaps I should find a prove that $(a_n)$ tends to $\pm\infty$? This is more simple but it does not include monotone sequences such as $x_n:=(-1)^n$.  Can someone assist me with this task? All comments and answers are appreciated. Could it be that Goldbach conjecture is undecidable? Old fantasy book with a party finding coloured stones having powers over fire, water, mood I'm trying to remember the name of a book series of which I remember only the following, with Google yielding no results.   the name of the author starts with a Z   the main character is a knight in an household with a name sounding like Malachai who goes on a quest with six others guys and girls (a bard, another knight, a priest, etc.) and each of them finds a stone of colour which has a power on various things (like fire, their mood or water) and then they set toward a quest to beat some ancient evil. I used to find the book at the local library 10 years ago in France (but it was translated). Prove that $n^3=n \text{ mod }6$ for every integer $n$. Prove that for every integer $n$ , $n^3=n \text{ mod }6$  I was having no clue how to do this, then I thought of case-by-case analysis and obviously it worked. The problem is that there were six case and together they are long.   Is there any shorter method of proving this. Kindly provide some hints. I understand that assuming light is quantized implies that if a lower energy interacts with  metal, it is possible that that quanta will not have enough energy to eject the electron. What prevents two quanta from interacting with the electron at the same time, though, and summing to have enough energy to release the particle. Indeed, what if two separate light rays of the same frequency impact the electron, why can't that free it? Hey guys I found one or two papers which use ridge regression (for basketball data). I was always told to standardize my variables if I ran a ridge regression, but I was simply told to do this because ridge was scale variant (ridge regression wasn't really part of our course, so our lecturer skimmed through it).  These papers I read didn't standardize their variables, which I found a bit surprising. They also ended up with large values of lambda (around the 2000-4000 level) via cross-validation, and I was told that this is due to not standardizing the variables.  How exactly does leaving the variable(s) unstandardised lead to high lambda values and also, what are the consequences of not standardizing the variables in general? Is it really such a big deal?  Any help is much appreciated. how to represent geography or zip code in machine learning model or recommender system? I am building a model and I think that geographic location is likely to be very good at predicting my target variable.  I have the zip code of each of my users. I am not entirely sure about the best way to include zip code as a predictor feature in my model though.  Although zip code is a number, it doesn't mean anything if the number goes up or down.   I could binarize all 30,000 zip codes and then include them as features or new columns (e.g., {user_1: {61822: 1, 62118: 0, 62444: 0, etc.}}.  However, this seems like it would add a ton of features to my model.   Any thoughts on the best way to handle this situation? Lightning Cancel Enqueued Server Side Action Installation of Miktex just after the Big Bang and before inflation the currently observable universe was the size of a coin. One millionth of a second later the universe was the size of the Solar System, which is an expansion much much faster than speed of light. Can space expand with unlimited speed? Old usernames stick to Community Wiki posts On a whim the other day, I changed my meta name from Lord Torgamus to Popular Demand.  I just noticed that the old name has "stuck" to the author tag of ; everywhere else on meta, my new name displays as expected.  Is this a feature?  Is it a bug?  Mostly I'm just curious, as I can't think of a strong reason in favor of keeping this behavior or a strong reason for changing it.  A question somewhat like this has been raised before as , but the previous poster implied that the issue had something to do with migration, which my situation shows is not the case. Prove $133\mid \left(11^{n+2}+12^{2n+1}\right)$ Prove $133\mid \left(11^{n+2}+12^{2n+1}\right)$, where $n$ is a non-negative integer.  So, I went about proving this using Fermat's theorem.  So I had $11^{n}\cdot 11^2+(12^2)^n= 0\ (\mod 133)$ then $11^n\cdot 11^2+1728^n=0\ (\mod133)$  and finally $1^n+132^n=0\ (\mod 133)$.  Then I said $133^n=0\ (\mod133)$ because $133$ raised to any power will have a remainder of $0$. Did I apply Fermat's theorem correctly? Sound of a next scene starts one moment earlier than video I saw this several times in different movies, but I don't understand what is this supposed to mean. The main idea is when the scene is about to change, for one second or so we still see the picture from the old scene, but the sound is already coming from from the upcoming scene. Why do they do this? What's the purpose of this technique? In Oracle, I can re-create a view with a single statement, as shown here:  CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW MY_VIEW AS SELECT SOME_FIELD FROM SOME_TABLE WHERE SOME_CONDITIONS   As the syntax implies, this will drop the old view and re-create it with whatever definition I've given.  Is there an equivalent in MSSQL (SQL Server 2005 or later) that will do the same thing? Splash Screen waiting until thread finishes I still have a problem with the splash screen. I don't want to use the property SC.TopMost=true.  Now my application scenario is as follows:  in progeram.cs:  [STAThread] static void Main() {     new SplashScreen(_tempAL);// where _tempAL is an arrayList     Application.Run(new Form1(_tempAL)); }   in SplashScreen class:  public SplashScreen(ArrayList _Data) {     DisplaySplash() }  private void DisplaySplash() {     this.Show();     this.TopMost = true;     this.CenterToScreen();     this.SetTopLevel(true);      _allServerNarrators = new string[10];     for (int i = 0; i &lt; _allServerNarrators.Length; i++)         _allServerNarrators[i] = null;      GetFromServer();      this.Hide();     _serverData = new ArrayList();     _thisData.Add(_allServerNarrators);     _thisData.Add(_serverNarrators);  } private void GetFromServer() {     _serverNarrators = new ArrayList();     string _file = "Suras.serverNar";      if (!Directory.Exists("c:\\ASGAQuraan"))         Directory.CreateDirectory("c:\\ASGAQuraan");      while (counter &lt; 4 &amp;&amp; _serverFiles == null)     {         if (Download("c:\\ASGAQuraan", _ftpServerIP, _file))         {             StreamReader _strReader = new StreamReader                          ("c:\\ASGAQuraan\\"+_file,System.Text.Encoding.Default);             string _line = _strReader.ReadLine();             string _word;              while (true)             {                 while (_line != null)                 {                     _word = _line.Substring(0, _line.IndexOf("*"));                     int _narId = Convert.ToInt32(_word);                     _line = _line.Substring(2);                     int k = 0;                     _serverNarratorNode = new ArrayList();                     while (true)                     {                         int ind = _line.IndexOf("*");                         if (ind &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; ind &lt; _line.Length)                         {                             string str = _line.Substring(0, (ind));                             if (k == 0)                             {                                 _allServerNarrators[_narId] = str;                                 _serverNarratorNode.Add(str);                             }                             else                             {                                 _serverNarratorNode.Add(str);                             }                             _line = _line.Substring(ind + 1);                             k++;                         }                         else                         {                             _line = null;                             break;                         }                     }                     _serverNarrators.Add(_serverNarratorNode);                     _serverFiles = "added";                 }                 _line = _strReader.ReadLine();                 if (_line == null)                 {                     break;                 }             }         }         else             counter++;     } }   What I want is something in the splash screen class which waits until the thread finishes.  For more details, please tell me what I need to tell you. Which objects can I use in a finalizer method? Sorry for the title, its hard to put the problem into proper words.  Basically, in Firefox or Chrome, I try to navigate to stackoverflow.com.  The request fails and the URL I see in the navigation bar is:  http://d2e24t2jgcnor2.webhostoid.com/Secure/Error?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2F&amp;ResponseCode=504&amp;user_id=5b5033d3-3543-4b7c-9844-055afde93841&amp;uc=20140915&amp;subid=20140915&amp;source=browsersafeguard-rockettab-spigot&amp;version=1.0.5370.12627&amp;implementation_id=browsersafeguard-rockettab-spigot%20&amp;block_host=False&amp;reg=False&amp;redirectms=True   This looks shady and my internet seems slower lately. I have a few questions:   Why is my request going through this strange URL? Do the query parameters reveal my identity? How can I stop this?   I use my cell phone’s 3G network and tether it to my laptop.