I'm attempting to replace an existing Mint installation with Ubuntu on a UEFI system. The complication is that I'm dual-booting with Windows, and I'm very wary of messing that up in the process.  In the installer, I'm choosing to do "something else" as the installation type. I am then presented with the following (I've stitched multiple screens together to make this a bit easier to understand):    I'm unsure on exactly what I need to do here to ensure my Ubuntu replaces my Mint. I'm particularly concerned about the following:   Will Grub show me only Ubuntu and remove the current Mint entry? The "Device for boot loader installation" has me concerned. Should I leave this as /dev/sda? Do I need to manually delete the partitions currently used for Mint?   Can anyone tell me the exact procedure I should follow here?
This question has been answered before in many places but I just need some confirmation with my specific setup. I have Linux Mint installed and I just want a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install to completely replace Mint. It's dual booted with Windows 7 and I want that to remain completely in tact.  Anyway, I'm currently running the Live CD installer. I've said I want to specify my own partitions and I'm at the following screen:     The list at the bottom expanded:     I confused by all the different partitions. Seems like I should just check the box beside sda5. But what about sda6? Do I just leave that alone?  Also just for confirmation, is the "right" way to replace Mint, or should I be deleting it first?
Is it possible to find out reason of suspension for another user? A user on Stack Overflow was recently temporarily suspended.  Out of curiosity I read through their posts (both questions and answers) and found them to be of decent quality.  They answer far more than they ask (about a 10 to 1 ratio) and always provides lots of sample code in their replies.  They're polite too.  I can't see a reason for suspension.  So, now I'm curious, and maybe I can even learn something from their experience.  Can I find out why they were suspended or is that strictly between the moderator and the user? Compare using Thread.Sleep and Timer for delayed execution I have a method which should be delayed running for a specified amount of time.  Should I use  Thread thread = new Thread(() =&gt; {     Thread.Sleep(millisecond);     action(); }); thread.IsBackground = true; thread.Start();   Or  Timer timer = new Timer(o =&gt; action(), null, millisecond, -1);   I had read some  about using Thread.Sleep is bad design. But I don't really understand why.  But for using Timer, Timer has dispose method. Since the execution is delayed, I don't know how to dispose Timer. Do you have any suggestions?  Or if you have alternative codes for delayed execution are also appreciate. Correcting projection of 360° content onto a sphere - distortion at the poles I'm using the Autopano Giga 4.4 and Autopano Video Pro 2.6 to stitch and create spherical content, but I've recently moved into wanting to create 360° tours via Unity. I know this is partly a developers question, but if anyone out there can help me with the right specs for exporting a spherical image or video from Giga to use to create the image for the inside of the sphere on Unity, I'd appreciate it!  Experimenting with Premiere and FCPX to edit highlight reels of spherical content, I've had seamless experiences created. For some reason in Unity, the images appear to be stretched around the sphere wrong and it's creates issues on the top and bottom of the image:    The image shown is the bottom of the sphere. I'm using the Android platform to hopefully turn these tours into apps when completed. Thank you for any help! $f,g$ continuous from $X$ to $Y$. if they are agree on a dense set $A$ of $X$ then they agree on $X$ Problem:      Suppose $f$ and $g$ are two continuous functions such that $f: X \to Y  $ and $g : X \to Y $. $Y$ is a a Hausdorff space. Suppose $f(x) = g(x)  $ for all $x \in A \subseteq X $ where $A$ is dense in $X$, then $f(x)  = g(x) $ for all $x \in  X $.   Attempt at a solution:  Put $h(x) = f - g $. Therefore, $h: X \to Y $ is continuous and $Y$ is Hausdorff by hypothesis. Also we know $h(x) = 0 $ for all $x \in A $ such that $A$ is dense in $X$. I want to show that $h(x)$ vanishes everywhere in $X$. We can show $h(x) = 0 $ for all $x \in X \setminus A $. Suppose $h(x) &gt; 0 $ on $X \setminus A$. Pick points $y_1,y_2 \in Y $. Since $Y$ is Hausdorff, can find open set $O_1, O_2 \subseteq Y $ which are disjoint such that $y_1 \in O_1$ and $y_2 \in O_2$. By continuity, $f^{-1}(O_1), f^{-1}(O_2)$ are open in $X$.   I know that if I can show that one of the $f^{-1}(O_i)$ lies in $X \setminus A $, then we would have a contradiction since we have non-empty open set in $X \setminus A$ and this implies $A$ cannot be dense in $X$. But this is the part I am stuck. Any help would greatly be appreciated.  Also, Would be be possible to prove this without using the Hausdorff condition on $Y$? Creating A Bootable USB Of Windows 8.1 On OS X? Reasons for wanting create such a usb include:   PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on your external hard drive. to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp.   What are the necessary steps to create such a Windows 8.1 bootable usb on a Mac ? var/log/syslog growing indefinitely in size The disk that contains Ubuntu on my computer is 115GB in size.  When the disk was 114.7GBfull.  I started deleting some files here and there to free up around 5GB.  But I noticed the disk was 114GB filled again. I thought it was some cache or swap thingy so didn't give it much thought and went ahead and freed around 40GBby shifting some media files out of the disk.  I have a notification in an hour or so that the disk is full yet again!! 40GB!!! All gone!  So I debugged the problem down to the /var/log/syslog file which was initially definitely less than 20GB. I know this because /var folder was 17GB before I cleared the memory.  /var/log/syslog file is currently 55.9GB!  Could someone be so gracious to explain this anomaly? Is this a bug? Or am I affected with some malware or virus? I think the term "back and forth" gets thrown around a lot without much thought.  From Dictionary.com:         [fawrth, fohrth]      adverb    1.  onward or outward in place or space; forward: to come forth; go forth.   Wouldn't the term be more meaningful if "forth" was used first since you have to have a starting place before you can go "back"?  Examples:        I've been going back and forth from Houston to New York.   I've been going forth and back from Houston to New York.      Which is more correct? Can we have a perfect field of characteristic $p$ with a non-archimedean valuation? Format string dynamically The "I Get It" Reputation Problem I wrote a question about blocking certain characters in passwords. It became tremendously unpopular, and it seemed like everyone wanted to rain on my parade every day.  Eventually, I "got it," agreed completely with what people were saying to me, and just wanted to withdraw my question so that my reputation didn't slide even further downhill.  Unfortunately, the system is designed such that I can't withdraw my question or redeem myself. Instead, I just get daily reputation attacks. That's a terrible system, and it needs to be changed. What is the simplest way to prove the Earth is round? Assume you've come in contact with a tribe of people cut off from the rest of the world, or you've gone back in time several thousand years, or (more likely) you've got a numbskull cousin.  How would you prove that the Earth is, in fact, round? In superluminal phase velocities, what is it that is traveling faster than light? I understand that information cannot be transmitted at a velocity greater than speed of light. I think of this in terms of the radio broadcast: the station sends out carrier frequencies $\omega_c$ but the actual content is carried in the modulated wave, the sidebands $\omega_c\pm\omega_m$. The modulation envelop has its group velocity and this is the speed at which information is being transmitted. We also know, for example, that x-rays in glass have a phase velocity which is greater than the speed of light in vacuum.   My question is, what exactly is it that is travelling faster than the speed of light?    EDIT: I know it couldn't be anything physical as its superluminal. My problem is, what is it that has absolutely no information content yet we associate a velocity with it. How to send email from MySQL 5.1 Finding and removing duplicate files in osx with a script From:  How do I modify this to only delete the first version of the file it sees.  Open Terminal from Spotlight or the Utilities folder Change to the directory (folder) you want to search from (including sub-folders) using the cd command. At the command prompt type cd  for example cd ~/Documents to change directory to your home Documents folder At the command prompt, type the following command:   find . -size 20 \! -type d -exec cksum {} \; | sort | tee /tmp/f.tmp | cut -f 1,2 -d ' ' | uniq -d | grep -hif – /tmp/f.tmp &gt; duplicates.txt   This method uses a simple checksum to determine whether files are identical. The names of duplicate items will be listed in a file named duplicates.txt in the current directory. Open this to view the names of identical files There are now various ways to delete the duplicates. To delete all the files in the text file, at the command prompt type:   while read file; do rm "$file"; done &lt; duplicates.txt Is it ok to leave a slow cooker unattended? "It is to be discussed", what is the infinitive doing in this sentence? It is to be discussed.   Is be + infinitive forming the future tense here?      You are to be dressed and ready by 8:00.   I was thinking it's almost commanding (or speaking of a command) but this doesn't seem to be the case, as sentences like this are commanding without this structure:     You will be dressed and ready by 8:00.   or      You are going to be dressed and ready by 8:00.   And there's sentences like this that don't imply commandment in any way:     I am to go home tomorrow!   or     I am to be home tomorrow!   (Slightly different meaning, same general sentiment)  So what's going on with the be + infinitive structure? Can you attach a UIGestureRecognizer to multiple views? Why are there non-visible objects in my final render? In Assa Auerbach's book (Ref. 1), he gave an argument saying that in the normal process of path integral, we lose information about ordering of operators by ignoring the discontinuous path.   What did he want to say? I don't think there is any problem related to the ordering of operators.  References:   Assa Auerbach, Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism, p.102, just below eq. (10.6). Copy every 512 bytes and skip next 8 bytes from Input file to a Output file I have an input file which is always a multiple of 520 bytes . i,e Input file 1- 1040 bytes Input file 2- 5200 bytes   I need to copy every 512 bytes from input file and skip the next 8 bytes from input files to output file i.e Output file data = Copy first 512 bytes of input file - Skip 8 bytes - Copy second 512 bytes of input file- Skip 8 bytes --.. Therefore, my output file should always be multiple of 512 bytes Input file 1- 1040 bytes        Output file 1 - 1024 bytes Input file 2- 5200 bytes        Output file 2 - 5120 bytes  I need to do this in shell script, any help here please.