I have a Dell Inspiron 17-5767 Laptop with Windows 10 home edition. I am trying to make it a Dual-Boot with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Desktop. I installed Ubuntu using Rufus on a 32 GB USB.  When I plug in the USB and start with F12 option, it works fine and recognizes and runs Ubuntu from the USB drive. Then I installed Ubuntu on the hard disk letting Ubuntu split the hard disk and install alongside Windows 10.  Installation shows as successful, and hard disk space is broken up almost equally between two OS's.  When I reboot after installing by hitting power button, a screen pops up (Magenta colored offering Ubuntu, advanced Ubuntu and Windows Server as options).  Select Ubuntu, it starts up.  Shut down, then restart with power, and the Magenta screen comes up again.  Shutdown, select Windows, and Windows 10 pops up.  Shutdown, Startup again, and this time you get no magenta screen offering options, only Windows 10 startup.  If you restart using F12 repeatedly to activate BIOS settings, etc., only Windows 10 shows up as Boot system option.  Run with Ubuntu USB drive in, and rerun F12 option, and it will recognize both Ubuntu and Windows.  If I use Disk Manager to review partitioning, it shows 16 GB  swap and 868 GB other as main region for files under Ubuntu. If you reinstall Ubuntu, it seems to recognizes these partitions as previous Ubuntu installation, and will remove and reinstall at these locations successfully.  So, problem seems to be after installation and startup with Windows, it no longer recognizes Ubuntu installation.  This is with UEFI and Secure Boot disabled, including throughout installation.  What else can I do or what might be the problem?
I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu.   How can I get Ubuntu back?
What packages do people load by default in LaTeX? Today I was told a tale by a Unix trainer where the root password got leaked to the students, and one of the fellas removed the execute permission from /usr/bin/chmod itself. How do you recover chmod in this case and make it executable again? Let's say getting it from an external source or recompiling it is not a preferable option, is there some smart hack that can recover this chmod itself?   Note that this happened a long time ago and I'm not looking for a solution for some current problem, just curious about what ways Unix provides us around such an issue. Object appears smoothed after rendering but not in viewport "along the river" vs "alongside the river"? In a question on "along" vs "alongside", I have seen this question and the correct answer on the web site makes me confused.      The question is: I enjoyed my walk _________________ the river.  a) along b) alongside  I selected "...along the river" as the correct answer, but on the web site it is shown as wrong and the correct answer is "alongside".  How can that be? I still do not agree, because I have studied the difference between the two. "along" is just the right preposition for thin and long places like road, path, street, beach etc".   So, why would the correct answer be "alongside" which simply means "next to"? Do you not think "along" seems to be better fitting?  Regards,  Note: I would be more than gratefull, if somebody show it to me in a video, like "a walk along the river" and "a walk alongside the river". Maybe I can understand the how "a walk along the river" and "a walk alongside the river" would take place. Undo git pull, how to bring repos to old state I've seen many boads with weird zig-zag shaped tracks just like the one below. Why are they designed like that? Anonymous user feedback now in testing Anonymous and unregistered users with &lt; 15 reputation (the amount required to earn the upvote privilege) will now see       feedback   on every post in the area that a logged in user would see "add comment":    When the post area is moused over, the area expands to:     Was this post useful to you? [Yes] [No]     once clicked it will say     sending feedback...   and eventually     Thank you for your feedback.   The goal is to offer the 90% of our traffic that is anonymous users a way to provide more meaningful feedback on posts rather than passively incrementing a view counter.  This click data is currently being evaluated to see what we can do with it. Ideas welcome! Some people (me) would prefer the straight GNOME experience as opposed to the Unity style desktop offered in Ubuntu 17.10.  How can I get the standard GNOME desktop and interface? Can I insert elements to the beginning of an element using .appendChild()? If the user selects an option in a dropdown box, there must be added a label and a textbox. Using appendChild, these elements get added to the end of the container.  var newFreeformLabel = document.createElement('label'); newFreeformLabel.innerHTML = 'Omschrijving:';  var newFreeformField = document.createElement('input'); newFreeformField.className = 'textfield'; newFreeformField.name = 'factuur_orderregel[]';  var newFreeformSpacer = document.createElement('div'); newFreeformSpacer.className = 'spacer';  container.appendChild(newFreeformLabel); container.appendChild(newFreeformField); container.appendChild(newFreeformSpacer);   The issue is that these elements should be inserted at the beginning of container, not at the end.  Is there a solution to this in PrototypeJS? Recursive feature elimination and one-hot & dummy encoding? When using RFE in linear regression and logistic regression, do we one-hot encode the features (K levels and K dummy features) or dummy-encode the features (K levels and K-1 dummy features leaving one out).   As per a comment by @Matthew Drury in an answer (URL below), one hot encoding is applied for a regularized linear model and for unregularized linear model dummy encoding. My doubt is what type of encoding when using RFE without any L1/L2 penalties.    My understanding is since in RFE some features gets eliminated so if for a categorical variable with say 4 levels we do dummy encoding and have 3 features/levels in model &amp; RFE eliminated 1, we will only have 2 features/levels left and the interpretation of its coefficient would not make sense in absence of the one level which was left out as reference.  Whereas if we have done one-hot encoding and RFE considers 2 features as important and eliminates other 2 then we can very well judge/interpret the coefficients or importance of 2 features RFE keeps.  So question which type of encoding is needed to be done when using RFE with linear and logistic regression? I am travelling to Calgary from Delhi. I have an Air India flight from Delhi to Dubai then British Airways flight from Dubai to London and Air Canada flight from London to Calgary. My query is "Do I require a transit visa." Plz help as I am travelling in four days Computing $\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\int_{\pi k}^{\infty}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx$ I was asked to evaluate the following sum: $$\sum_{k=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\int_{\pi k}^{\infty}\frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx$$  I'm trying to use $$\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\sin(x)}{x}dx=\frac{\pi}{2}$$ However, it doesn't seem to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. Operation 'Split, All The Metas!' Shall Commence On April 16, 2014 Update 2014-04-17 04:47 UTC: Stable, with some odds and ends to clean up      The main MSO/MSE sites are stable, but there are plenty of corners left to sweep. For details, see:    Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange.  I'll have you know, factually, that we really did believe this would take place in six-to-eight weeks when it was , but we've finally got a tentative date established.  If things go according to plan, we'll begin the operation shortly after 8:30 PM EDT on the 16th, completing everything within a few hour window. Ideally, all service disrupting endeavors will be completed within the first hour, which include:   The availability of Meta Stack Overflow The availability of Stack Overflow (more on this shortly) The availability of Chat on Meta Stack Overflow   As you know, we'll be bolting on a standard issue per-site meta on Stack Overflow, while breaking the link between what will have become Meta Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow. There's some irritable innards in that particular region, so we'll be asking folks to expect the unexpected during the maintenance window. Affected sites will be in and out of read-only mode, or quite possibly just down for maintenance while we're doing the actual break.  I'll be posting a system message on both Meta Stack Overflow as well as Stack Overflow itself 24 hours before we begin the actual work.   Did I say tentative in a six-to-eight-something time frame again? Why yes, I did - we're currently running some tests on the dev tier to simulate the split as closely as possible, so that we can better anticipate quirks that we need to address prior to actually doing it.  Once the sites have actually been stood up functionally on the production tier, we're going to get to work on finishing touches. This will include things like site settings (which determine bits of text you see in the question prompts, rep thresholds, etc) and all sorts of other fine tuning.  Once we're done:   Stack Overflow will have a blank, empty child meta site just like every other site The new Meta Stack Exchange will be up and running All rooms on Chat Meta Stack Overflow will be moved to Chat Meta Stack Exchange  I'll send over about 150 - 200 questions from MSE to MSO, most of which will be tag or SO-specific feature related posts that got buried by the network stuff without resolution.   If the tentative date moves, I'll update this post with the new date. However, we do not anticipate this happening any later than Saturday, April 19 - in the case that we see down time we can't mitigate and need to do it on a weekend.  The ground work is basically done, we're finishing up sanity now with a great deal of confidence, and we're pretty certain that we'll hit between those dates, if not directly on the tentative 16th.  Questions? Kvetch? Anonymous confessions? Answer below, and I'll address each in comments. Windows 8.1 missing font files after restart Some days ago I rebooted my windows 8.1 system. After the reboot all my system texts were very cryptic - showing only some strange symbols. After some investigation I discovered that my c:\windows\fonts folder was nearly empty. So I copied the font files from another windows 8.1 installation to the nearly empty folder. As soon as I had copied the files the system texts were readable again.  But after another reboot the problem occured again - the systems font folder was empty again. Does anyone know why windows deletes my font files during a restart? How to export / dump a MySql table into a text file including the field names (aka headers or column names) $(x^3+xy^2-y)dx+(y^3+x^2y+x)dy=0$ I tried to find on Wolfram Alpha but it showed only the solution not in step-by-step, I know that the factor is $\frac{1}{x^2+y^2}$ but how to find it? Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and let $N$ be a manifold with boundary. If $dF_{p}$ is an isomorphism, then $F\left(p\right)\in\mbox{int}M $. How do I create a list of Python lambdas (in a list comprehension/for loop)? I want to create a list of lambda objects from a list of constants in Python; for instance:  listOfNumbers = [1,2,3,4,5] square = lambda x: x * x listOfLambdas = [lambda: square(i) for i in listOfNumbers]   This will create a list of lambda objects, however, when I run them:  for f in listOfLambdas:     print f(),   I would expect that it would print  1 4 9 16 25   Instead, it prints:  25 25 25 25 25   It seems as though the lambdas have all been given the wrong parameter. Have I done something wrong, and is there a way to fix it? I'm in Python 2.4 I think.  EDIT: a bit more of trying things and such came up with this:  listOfLambdas = [] for num in listOfNumbers:     action = lambda: square(num)     listOfLambdas.append(action)     print action()   Prints the expected squares from 1 to 25, but then using the earlier print statement:  for f in listOfLambdas:     print f(),   still gives me all 25s. How did the existing lambda objects change between those two print calls?  Related question: (a) Determine which Fibonacci numbers are even. Use a form of mathematical induction to prove your conjecture. (b) Determine which Fibonacci numbers are divisible by 3. Use a form of mathematical induction to prove your conjecture  I understand that for part a that all multiples of 3 of n are even. So F(0),F(3),F(6)... I just don't understand how to prove it.  For part B it is the same thing except multiples of 4  Please help, thank you! Is gcc 4.8 or earlier buggy about regular expressions?