I have an Asus laptop that I got over the summer which came with Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu so I could dual-boot, but something happened (I cannot say what it was, for I really don't know) and I have not been able to boot into Ubuntu since. Because of this, I deleted the Ubuntu partition, and then tried booting from my Windows 8 recovery USB. When I tried this, I followed instructions that said I would have to use the command prompt to write in bootrec.exe /fixmbr. Doing this was supposed to delete the rest of Ubuntu that was left on my computer after I deleted the partition.   However, I restarted my computer after entering that into the command prompt, and the bootloader brought up the option to boot into Ubuntu. Still!  Now, I don't know if this matters or not, but I want to get rid of Ubuntu and replace it with a version that isn't missing components or what have you, so that way I can use it again. Because, as we know, Windows 8 is the worst!  I tried looking through old answers to see if there was something that could help me, but so far, everything I've read has been the same thing. Is there anyone out there that might be able to help me? I just want to eliminate the old, broken version, and reinstall a new, working version.
I have absolutely no experience with Linux, and I desperately need to get my computer back up and running again with Windows.  How do I remove Ubuntu and reinstall Windows?    Editor's note: many of the answers are about removing Ubuntu from dual-boot but keeping Windows (which is a bit complicated), while other answers are about removing Ubuntu from single-boot (which is easy: basically just format the disk while installing Windows). The question as written is ambiguous between dual-boot or single-boot.
Numbering of appendices in the backmatter of a book I'm using the standard book class. If I write  \documentclass{book}  \begin{document}  \frontmatter \tableofcontents  \mainmatter \chapter{foo} \section{Donald}  \backmatter \chapter{bar} \section{Mickey}  \end{document}   I expect to have chapter bar numbered as appendix A and section Mickey as A.1. Instead chapter bar is not numbered and section Mickey is 1.2, following section Donald. If I insert the appendix command to obtain  \documentclass{book}  \begin{document}  \frontmatter \tableofcontents  \mainmatter \chapter{foo} \section{Donald}  \backmatter \appendix \chapter{bar} \section{Mickey}  \end{document}   then chapter bar is unnumbered and section Mickey is numbered as .1.  What am I doing wrong? Gmail, how to forward email to group using a filter PHP "header (location)" inside IFRAME, to load in _top location? Breaking an equation cluster that does not fit on the rest of page across two pages Why can a function modify some arguments as perceived by the caller, but not others? Outlook autocleaning my line breaks and screwing up my email format I'm sending an email using the dotnet framework. Here is the template that I'm using to create the message:  Date of Hire: %HireDate% Annual Salary: %AnnualIncome% Reason for Request: %ReasonForRequest%  Name of Voluntary Employee: %FirstName% %LastName% Total Coverage Applied For:  %EECoverageAmount% Guaranteed Coverage Portion: %GICoveragePortion% Amount Subject to Medical Evident: %GIOverage%   When the messages is received in outlook, outlook tells me "Extra line breaks in this message were removed". And the message displays like this:  Date of Hire: 9/28/2001 Annual Salary: $100,000 Reason for Request: New Hire  Name of Voluntary Employee: Ronald Weasley Total Coverage Applied For:  $500,000 Guaranteed Coverage Portion: $300,000.00 Amount Subject to Medical Evident: $200,000   Note how Outlook incorrectly removes needed line breaks after the name, EECoverageAmount, etc...  It's important for the email recepients to get a correctly formatted email, and I have to assume that some of them use outlook 2003. I also can't assume they will know enough to shutoff the autoclean feature to get the message to format properly.   I have viewed these messages in other mail clients and they display correctly  some more information:   I am using UTF-8 BodyEncoding (msg.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) The msg.Body is being read from a UTF-8 encoded text file, and each line is terminated with a crlf.   Question: How do I change the format of the message to avoid this problem? What's going on with "compact implies sequentially compact"? I've seen both counterexamples and proofs to &quot;compact implies sequentially compact&quot;, and I'm not sure what's going on. Apparently there are compact spaces which are not sequentially compact; quick googling and wikipedia checks will turn up examples floating around; they tend to be variants of $[0,1]^{[0,1]}$ with the product topology.  Here's a demonstration(?):  $[0,1]^{[0,1]}$ is compact by Tychonoff's theorem.  So, we demonstrate failure of sequential compactness. Choose a unique binary representation for each $x\in [0,1]$. For each $n\in\mathbb{N}$, let $f_n : [0,1]\to[0,1]$ (an element of $[0,1]^{[0,1]}$) be the function which maps each $x$ to its $n$-th place digit in its binary expansion. Let $f_{n_k}$ be a subsequence of this sequence. Let $x'\in [0,1]$ be such that the $n_{2m}$-th digit is $0$ and the $n_{2m+1}$-th digit is $1$, for all $m\in\mathbb{N}$. Then $f_{n_k} (x')$ does not converge (it alternates between $0$ and $1$), and hence $f_{n_k}$ cannot converge. Thus we have found a sequence in $[0,1]^{[0,1]}$ without any convergent subsequence and so it is not sequentially compact.  (Aside: this is apparently based off of an example in Steen's Counterexamples in Topology, according to  ) Nevertheless, there's also some proofs(?) floating around that compactness of a space implies sequential compactness, along these lines (this proof(?) is of the contrapositive):  Suppose $X$ is not sequentially compact. By definition, this means there is some sequence $(x_n)$ over $X$ with no convergent subsequence. If any $x\in X$ had for each of its neighborhood $U$ infinitely many $n$ for which $x_n \in U$, then we could define a convergent subsequence of $(x_n)$, contradicting our assumption.  (Presumably this is done by choosing for each neighborhood a sufficiently-large-indexed term in that neighborhood.) Thus, for each $x \in X$ we can select an open set $U_x$ such that $x\in U_x$ but with $x_n \in U_x$ for only finitely many $n$. The collection $\mathcal{U}=\{U_x : x\in X\}$ is clearly an open cover of $X$. If $\mathcal{U}$ had a finite subcover $\{U_1, \dots, U_k\}$ then the union $U_1 \cup \cdots \cup U_k$ would contain all of $X$ but only contain $x_n$ for finitely many $n$, which is impossible. Thus $X$ is not compact, since we have found an open cover without a finite subcover.  (Aside: this proof is essentially the same as the proof appearing in Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis for Thm 2.37 that infinite subsets of compact spaces have limit points.) So, what's going on here?  It can't be that what both the counterexample and the proof are telling us is correct.  Is there some subtle (or more embarassingly for me -- glaring) flaw in the proof? For an infinite line charge, $E$ falls off with $1/r$; for an infinite sheet of charge it's independent of r! The infinitesimal contributions to $E$ fall off with $1/r^2$, so why doesn't the total $E$ fall off the same way for the infinite line and sheet charges? is it problematic to cluster across two datacenters w/aag? In general is it problematic to cluster across two datacenters that are up to 15-miles apart?  For this one particular project the approach is the following?   2-Node Failover Cluster across two datacenters, one node per datacenter local SAN disks, no shared disks 'Node and FileShare Majority' at third location on-campus employ AAG, failover will be manual; asynchronous mode   Is anyone implementing something like this with success??!?  Thanks so much for the help!! From : In calculus and other branches of mathematical analysis, an indeterminate form is an algebraic expression obtained in the context of limits. Limits involving algebraic operations are often performed by replacing subexpressions by their limits; if the expression obtained after this substitution does not give enough information to determine the original limit, it is known as an indeterminate form.    The indeterminate forms include $0^{0},\frac{0}{0},(\infty - \infty),1^{\infty}, \ \text{etc}\cdots$   My question is can anyone give me a nice explanation of why $1^{\infty}$ is considered to be an indeterminate form? Because, i don't see any justification of this fact. I am still perplexed. Scale-dependent displaying of a layer using OpenLayers plugin? When I am creating a layer in QGIS the layer position/lines does not stay the same when I zoom in closer than, it seems like 1: 1000. I am adding 2 images to explain the problem. The moment I zoom in closer than 1: 1 000 then the original layer does not display correctly anymore.  Please, can you assist in this matter? 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Implications of parity violation for molecular biology In biology, the concept of parity emerges in the context of chiral molecules, where two molecules exist with the same structure but opposite parity. Interestingly, one enantiomer often strongly predominates over the other in natural biological systems (e.g. D-glucose is ubiquitous, L-glucose is rare in nature).  In physics, it has been established that weak interactions violate parity, which (if I understand correctly) implies a physical difference between left- and right-handed systems.  This suggests to me the following questions: Does parity violation in physics affect the physical or chemical properties of chiral molecules? And does this have any implications for our understanding of biological homochirality? My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue? Your situation   You have successfully installed Ubuntu.  You have just downloaded and booted Ubuntu live media.  The latest LTS (see also ) or latest non-LTS release are preferred. See the list of  that are currently supported.) You upgraded your Ubuntu installation to the latest release that the software updater offered you. WiFi worked before, but not now on the new release. You  to new hardware.   Your problem   The wireless of your laptop or desktop is not working. You tried switching the wireless switch off and on and you tried rebooting several times, but you don't see any WiFi access points. You can see your wireless access point, but you cannot establish a connection. You want to analyze the problem, but you don't know where to start or what information you can provide.   This question and answer was written to give people the wireless script that will provide the information needed in most cases to diagnose their wireless issue's.   Related questions I have some files with different extensions such as *.pdf, *.mp3, *.jpg and a few others. All of them are stored in a parent directory.  How can I get a list of all extensions, create some folders based on these  extensions and then move all files into their relevant folders? My wife has several files and folders that somehow ended up having filenames that have caused them to be undeleteable (can't be deleted) by normal means or via the command line. I believe the filenames are too long due to the depth of the folder structures. Does anyone know of a good utility for cleaning up files like this? As in the title I have to evaluate this triple integral: $$\iiint_{[0,1]^3}\frac{dx\,dy\,dz}{(1+x^2+y^2+z^2)^2}$$ I've been trying to solve this since a week ago. The first thing I've done was understand the meaning of the integral. I think this integral represents the mass (as an example) of a unitary cube which contains materials of different density. The values of the materials density are, point for point, the inverse of the square of spheres centered in the origin plus one. The max value of the density is $1$ in the origin of the cube and the min value is $\frac{1}{16}$ on the opposite vertex. I suppose that the value of the integral is $\frac{\pi^2}{32}$ I've tried to use simple substitutions without any results, so I tried to change the coordinates with spherical and cylindrical systems. The spherical coordinates give me an incredibly long sum of integrals and I doubt that they're all integrable as elementary functions. The cylindrical gives me the following result $$\frac{\pi^2}{16}-\int_0^\frac{\sqrt2}{2}{\frac{\arctan{\sqrt{\frac{u^2-1}{u^2-2}}}}{\sqrt{2-u^2}}du},$$ which I'm not able to solve. My instinct tells me that there is a trick in some steps where I can observe that a difficult integral actually is exactly half of another one simpler but I can't figure out where. I'll appreciate any kind of suggestions. How do I install the Nvidia drivers? I just ordered the Nvidia GTX card. I have a dilemma, though. 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