Will Windows 8.1 reset tool erase all the partitions or only the one on which windows 8.1 is located? In case if there is data on one partition and windows 8.1 is on the other partition? Thank you!
In Windows 8 I can reset everything and reinstall Windows. I assume this will clear my drive and start from scratch? Is that right? Does this create a Windows.old folder?  I see this dialog, but aren't my settings and preferences saved in the cloud? If I screw up my settings and reset like this, are my settings also refreshed back to defaults?  Since I use SkyDrive to sync my files, my personal files are safe, right?    Also, in Windows 8 I can refresh my PC without affecting files. Are my desktop and/or Windows store apps uninstalled when I refresh my PC?  I see this dialog, but I still am not sure. For example, when it says apps are "kept" does that mean I don't have to buy them again or are they installed after the refresh is over for me? I assume "from disk" means desktop apps? Or maybe corp apps?    What would motivate a user to choose between these two?
Bird flying in a cage Assume that you are holding a cage containing a bird.  Do you have to make less effort if the bird flies from its position in the cage and manages to stay in the middle without touching the walls of the cage? Does it make a difference whether the cage is completely closed or it has rods to let air pass? Has anyone successfully embedded their  on a WordPress.com-hosted blog?  The free hosted version of  (not )  from all posts before publishing. So they to strip out just about anything I can add to embed my Stack Overflow flair.  Note: I'll be switching to a paid, hosted site in the future (fixing the problem), but I'm looking for a quick, short-term solution. How do I share a private YouTube video with someone? I have uploaded a YouTube video and marked it as private.  Now I want to share it with someone. I have tried to share it a few times, but they have not received any email notification.  What is the proper way of sharing the video? The dissolve tool (vector>geoprocessing tools>dissolve) renders some artifacts on shapes with high number of polygons. I’m using a  with 3222 polygons and I’m trying to dissolve it using the field “municipio”, but when the dissolve tool ends calculating the new shape has some artifacts     Does anyone had a similar problem? How to work around it?  I’ve also used v.dissolve from GRASS and the dissolve polygon from SAGA, but the problem persists. I’ve used the same shapefile on ArcGIS 9.3 with the dissolve tool. None artifact/error was produced.  Edit 1  I'm trying to use the v.clean tool as sugested by WhiteboxDev. However I'm getting this error:     An error has occured while executing Python code:      Traceback (most recent call last):   File   "C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\gui\ProcessingToolbox.py",   line 181, in executeAlgorithm   File   "C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\algs\grass7\Grass7Algorithm.py",   line 511, in checkBeforeOpeningParametersDialog   File   "C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing\algs\grass7\Grass7Utils.py",   line 361, in checkGrass7IsInstalled   File   "C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 96, in join   TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()      Python version:   2.7.4 (default, Apr  6 2013, 19:54:46) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]      QGIS version:   2.4.0-Chugiak Chugiak, 8fdd08a      Python path:   ['C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins\processing',   'C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python',   u'C:/Users/CERCOTRICHAS/.qgis2/python',   u'C:/Users/CERCOTRICHAS/.qgis2/python/plugins',   'C:/PROGRA~1/QGISCH~1/apps/qgis/./python/plugins',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\bin\python27.zip',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\DLLs',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\plat-win',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\lib-tk',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\bin',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\GDAL-1.11.0-py2.7-win32.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\PIL',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\jinja2-2.7.2-py2.7.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\markupsafe-0.23-py2.7-win32.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\python_dateutil-2.2-py2.7.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\pytz-2014.2-py2.7.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\win32\lib',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\Shapely-1.2.18-py2.7-win32.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\six-1.6.1-py2.7.egg',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\Python27\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode',   'C:\PROGRA~1\QGISCH~1\apps\qgis\python\plugins\fTools\tools',   'C:\Program Files\SpiderOak\shell_extension_lib\shared.zip']   Not entirely sure if this error is QGIS related... Any idea why I'm getting this error and how can I solve it? Show that $\sqrt{n^2+1}-n$ converges to 0 I want to use the definition of the limit to show that $\sqrt{n^2+1}-n$ converges to 0.  The definition is as follows: if $\sqrt{n^2+1}-n$ converges to 0, then $\forall \epsilon&gt;0$, there exists an $N&gt;0$ such that $n\ge N \implies \mid\sqrt{n^2+1}-n\mid&lt;\epsilon$.  Now I want to start backwords in order to figure out how to pick N. I know:   $\mid\sqrt{n^2+1}-n\mid=\sqrt{n^2+1}-n$   since $n$ is a natural number and $\sqrt{n^2+1}&gt;n$. So I need to pick an N such that $\sqrt{n^2+1}-n&lt;\epsilon$. I tried multiplying $\sqrt{n^2+1}-n$ by $\frac{\sqrt{n^2+1}+n}{\sqrt{n^2+1}+n}$ but that didn't really seem to help.   Do you have any ideas on how to find this N?  Thanks Where does the name of these two famous types of sequences come from?  The article  of Wikipedia says that the geometric sequence is called like this because every term is the geometric mean of its two adjacent terms. Though it is true, it only reduces the question to: why is the geometric mean geometric (in opposition to the arithmetic mean).   Continuing my investigation on , I was told that a square with the same area than a rectangle with sides $a$ and $b$ has their geometric mean $\sqrt{ab}$ for side. That's again totally true, but a square with same perimeter than this rectangle of sides $a$ and $b$ has their arithmetic mean $\frac{a+b}{2}$ for side!  Thus, my question: Who coined these names? And why? Why is the geometric mean more geometric than the arithmetic mean? How to prove that you have significant ties with family in your home country? After discussion with colleagues regarding the use of the 'var' keyword in C# 3 I wondered what people's opinions were on the appropriate uses of type inference via var?  For example I rather lazily used var in questionable circumstances, e.g.:-  foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } // Type of 'item' not clear. var something = someObject.SomeProperty; // Type of 'something' not clear. var something = someMethod(); // Type of 'something' not clear.   More legitimate uses of var are as follows:-  var l = new List&lt;string&gt;(); // Obvious what l will be. var s = new SomeClass(); // Obvious what s will be.   Interestingly LINQ seems to be a bit of a grey area, e.g.:-  var results = from r in dataContext.SomeTable               select r; // Not *entirely clear* what results will be here.   It's clear what results will be in that it will be a type which implements IEnumerable, however it isn't entirely obvious in the same way a var declaring a new object is.  It's even worse when it comes to LINQ to objects, e.g.:-  var results = from item in someList               where item != 3               select item;   This is no better than the equivilent foreach(var item in someList) { // ... } equivilent.  There is a real concern about type safety here - for example if we were to place the results of that query into an overloaded method that accepted IEnumerable&lt;int&gt; and IEnumerable&lt;double&gt; the caller might inadvertently pass in the wrong type.  var does maintain strong typing but the question is really whether it's dangerous for the type to not be immediately apparent on definition, something which is magnified when overloads mean compiler errors might not be issued when you unintentionally pass the wrong type to a method. This is from a problem seminar and I need help figuring out the solution.  Four bugs, $A,B,C,D$ are initially placed at the corners of a unit square. From a given initial moment, all four crawl simultaneously at one and the same speed $s&gt;0$, $A$ towards $B$, $B$ towards $C$, $C$ towards $D$, and $D$ towards $A$, with each heading at every instant along the line joining it with its target.  Find a system of differential equations describing the trajectory of $A$.  Do the bugs eventually all meet at the center of the square? If so, how long did it take?  My attempt so far: $\def\grad{\mathbf\nabla}$ $\newcommand{\norm}[1]{\left\Vert #1 \right\Vert}$ Call ${\vec x}_1,{\vec x}_2,{\vec x}_3,{\vec x}_4$  the positions in the plane of $A,B,C,D$ respectively. Then $$\grad {\vec x}_1 = \frac{{\vec x}_2-{\vec x}_1}{\norm{{\vec x}_2-{\vec x}_1}}s$$ $$\grad {\vec x}_2 = \frac{{\vec x}_3-{\vec x}_2}{\norm{{\vec x}_3-{\vec x}_2}}s$$  $$\grad {\vec x}_3 = \frac{{\vec x}_4-{\vec x}_3}{\norm{{\vec x}_4-{\vec x}_3}}s$$  $$\grad {\vec x}_4 = \frac{{\vec x}_1-{\vec x}_4}{\norm{{\vec x}_1-{\vec x}_4}}s$$  with ${\vec x}_1(0) = (0,0),\  {\vec x}_2(0) = (0,1),\ {\vec x}_3(0) = (1,1),\ {\vec x}_4(0) = (1,0)$.  I have noticed that the sum of the gradients is 0, but I don't know if that is helpful or not. Can someone help me figure this problem out? How is Faulhaber's formula derived? My sketch exports seem to be pixelated even when am exporting it to 1x I remember that the main character is trying to find the group that destroyed his home planet while he was on a mission. His planet was very difficult to live on and the people became expert in martial arts and were the best soldiers in the galaxy. They were mercenaries and often helped against tyrants. There was a very memorable section in at least one book about an initiation task that the main character had to do in that he had to survive in their wilderness for days. He was at some point surrounded in a old building by thousands of poisonous worm/snake creatures that he managed to survive until rescued by the leaders. JPA and Hibernate - Criteria vs. JPQL or HQL What are the pros and cons of using  or ? The Criteria API is a nice object-oriented way to express queries in Hibernate, but sometimes Criteria Queries are more difficult to understand/build than HQL.   When do you use Criteria and when HQL? What do you prefer in which use cases? Or is it just a matter of taste? When you are performing time consuming operations in bash like installing new software, is it possible to write text that will appear at the prompt when the operation has finished.  E.g   Imagine running:  apt-get install eclipse-platform   Then it will use quite a while to finish while you see the installation log, meanwhile I want to create new folders (workspaces) which Eclipse later will use.  Is this possible without opening a new terminal (or tab)? If i entered "name" in my text box while it saved it must be saved like "Name"   Capital letters in the first letter of Alphabet  It must not show any error messages it must directly save How to debug an unmet dependencies problem? sudo credential caching on by default Just installed a minimal ubuntu 12.04, then installed xfce4 and xinit from the command line after first boot.  Totally vanilla installation afaik.  I'm noticing that sudo caches the password until I issue sudo -k to clear it.  This is unexpected behavior in my mind.  I've run xfce4 before and don't recall credential caching being on, nor have I experienced it in the many previous ubuntu installs I've had over the years.  Is this a new feature of Ubuntu?  Is this something that's the result of the minimal install?  Is this an xfce default that's been added recently? Let $G$ be a group, $H\subseteq G$ a subgroup and $a\in G$ an element of the group. Is it possible that $aHa^{-1} \subset H$, but $aHa^{-1} \neq H$?   If $H$ has finite index or finite order, this is not possible. In my rebuilding project I have counted 18 outlets and lights on one bedroom circuit that travels through 3 rooms. Is that ok? Is it necessary to dispose System.Timers.Timer if you use one in your application? I am using System.Timers.Timer class in one of the classes in my application. I know that Timer class has Dispose method inherited from the parent Component class that implements IDisposable interface. Instances of the class below are created many times during my application lifecycle; each of them has an instance of Timer class that generates Elapsed events continuously during the class's lifecycle. Should I implement IDisposable interface in the class that uses Timer class to dispose the timer object? (I have seen code that doesn't do this at all). I am afraid that some unmanaged resources will not be freed if I use the class below like this:  SomeClass someClass = new SomeClass(); someClass.DoSomething(); someClass = null;   The class:  using System.Timers;  public class SomeClass {     private Timer m_timer;      public SomeClass()     {                    m_timer = new Timer();         m_timer.Interval = 1000;         m_timer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(m_timer_Elapsed);         m_timer.AutoReset = false;         m_timer.Start();                            }      public void DoSomething()     {      }      private void m_timer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)     {         try         {             //Do some task         }         catch (Exception ex)         {             //Ignore         }         finally         {             if (m_timer != null)             {                 //Restart the timer                 m_timer.Enabled = true;             }         }     } }