I have a Dell Inspiron 14R laptop, and I have tried almost everything to install Ubuntu.     Bootable USB drive  PLOP   Regular installation    I'm currently on Windows 8.1.  I want to install Ubuntu on my laptop and remove Windows 8 completely.  My problem is that I never got to the Ubuntu installation screen. I always failed to boot from the USB drive. When I use the special restart the only option available is the Windows 8 "Startup Settings".
I'm absolutely new to Linux. I would like to know how to install Ubuntu alongside the pre-installed Windows 8+ OS.  Should I do it with Wubi, or through the Live USB/DVD?  What steps do I need to take to correctly install Ubuntu?
I use a very custom style (not mine) and very frequently I get a heading  on the bottom of a page and the next paragraph on the top of the next page. Sometimes this paragraph may be a list or similar. The same is true for listings and the listing description.   Is there a general way how I can adjust the "badness" of these events? Or can I adjust when a section heading would be on the last, say, 3cm of a page it should go to the next page? Or can I say, if a *listing description" is on the top 3cm of a page pull 5 more listing lines from the last page onto this page?   The style I use does not use standard structure tags and environments. But lets call them section, subsection, listing and I will try to migrate them to my lingo. Code in beamer presentation Good day! So, I need to present my disertation code to my thesis advisors, but I'm quite unsure how to actually do it in a proper way. I found  showing some ideas.  Is there a way of making the slides 48-67 in beamer without using tikz? Any ideas to implement the whole ideas the author propose?  Thanks in advance. Object not visible in render I have a model which you can see here (camera perspective).    In the second image, you can see how the render turned out.    I'm at my wit's end trying to figure our why it's not showing up in the render. If anyone needs more information, just ask and I'll get it to you. I've already checked the normals and they're not the cause. What are LiDAR returns? Can someone help with an explanation and some references, in order to understand the nature of return pulses within a LiDAR system. Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate What is meant by a "random variable"? What do they mean when they say "random variable"? Where to get the full offline-capable installer for macOS Mojave (.1 update)? Find count of all combination of numbers whose sum is x How to pass parameters to function in a bash script? I'd like to write a function that I can call from a script with many different variables. For some reasons I'm having a lot of trouble doing this. Examples I've read always just use a global variable but that wouldn't make my code much more readable as far as I can see.  Intended usage example:  #!/bin/bash #myscript.sh var1=$1 var2=$2 var3=$3 var4=$4  add(){ result=$para1 + $para2 }  add $var1 $var2 add $var3 $var4 # end of the script  ./myscript.sh 1 2 3 4   I tried using $1 and such in the function, but then it just takes the global one the whole script was called from. Basically what I'm looking for is something like $1, $2 and so on but in the local context of a function. Like you know, functions work in any proper language. What is the correct name to use with /give for Lapis Lazuli? UTF-8 all the way through How can I disable "Are you sure you want to leave this page" popups in Chrome? Delete from uitableview + write to plist not working Moving status bar in iOS 7 Is it possible to reconstruct the Hamiltonian from knowledge of its ground state wave function? Is it possible to "construct" the Hamiltonian of a system if its ground state wave function (or functional) is known? I understand one should not expect this to be generically true since the Hamiltonian contains more information (the full spectrum) than a single state vector. But are there any special cases where it's possible to obtain the Hamiltonian? Some examples would be really helpful. I dont understand the following very simple statement:  If $\tau \in S_n$ has order $m$, then $\sigma \tau\sigma^{-1}$ has also order $m$.  The proof is:  Suppose $\tau$ has order $m$.   $(\sigma \tau \sigma^{-1})^{m} = \sigma \tau^{m}\sigma^{-1}= (1)$  Then (using  exercise 17) they say that the order of $\sigma\tau\sigma^{-1}$ cannot be less than $n$ (remember we are in $S_n$), since $(\sigma\tau\sigma^{-1})^k=1 $ implies $\sigma\tau^k\sigma^{-1} =(1)$, and then $\tau^k=\sigma^{-1} \sigma = (1)$  I don't understand the last part.... Who can help me? Why does the symbol for the multiplication operation change shape? Why does the "$\times$" used in arithmetic change to a "$\cdot$" as we progress through education? The symbol seems to only be ambiguous because of the variable $x$; however, we wouldn't have chosen the variable $x$ unless we were already removing $\times$ as the symbol for multiplication. So why do we? I am very curious. It seems like $\times$ is already quite sufficient as a descriptive symbol. How to fight off Google Analytics referrer spammers? Last months I have lots of referrer spammers in my GA statistics. Their count is ~10x higher than count of legit visitors (my site is not very popular yet). I've turned on an option to hide known spammers in GA settings, but it didn't help at all. It seems these spammers are using scripts to spam directly to GA (i.e. they are not logged in my IIS).  Is there anything I can do to stop these spammers?    UPD 10 months later, and they started spamming using fake target page names... and Google is still doing nothing about it. CakePHP View including other views I have a CakePHP application that in some moment will show a view with product media (pictures or videos) I want to know if, there is someway to include another view that threats the video or threats the pictures, depending on a flag. I want to use those "small views" to several other purposes, so It should be "like" a cake component, for reutilization.  What you guys suggest to use to be in Cake conventions (and not using a raw include('') command) Which answer do I accept if I have multiple correct answers?