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[Zanzetkuken The Great]

It means that whatever you're trying to boot from either:
Isn't done properly
Isn't readable by the BIOS

What could be the problems that could cause this?

[Graknorke]

Some BIOSs just don't support booting from sources other than the hard drive.
From a quick search this might help you if it's a USB. If it's a CD then apparently changing what port your CD/DVD drive is connected to might help.

[Bauglir]

I have a graphics card problem. Or, perhaps it's a CUDA problem. The system is Kali Linux 1.1.0. The graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960. My goal is to get the CUDA toolset installed so that I can do other things.

There is no CUDA toolkit available from NVIDIA. However, there is one available in the repos through apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit. This installation requires the NVIDIA driver to be installed through apt as well, and this installs version 340.65. Version 340.65, however, does not seem to support the card - the NVIDIA Kernel throws out a message, "The NVIDIA GPU installed in this system is not supported by the 340.65 NVIDIA Linux driver release.  Please see 'Appendix A - Supported NVIDIA GPU Products' in this release's README, available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com." And, indeed, the relevant page does not list it. Attempting to use it anyway causes xorg to barf and go to the standard black screen with a useless blinking cursor.

Version 352.30, however, works just fine with the graphics card, but attempting to install the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package results in the first thing that happens being a message asking me to uninstall that driver. So, I'm in a bit of a bad spot. Anybody know where I might find the relevant toolkit? I'm comfortable running experimental or beta versions, and with compiling from source or whatever if I have to (although I might wind up needing help). Provided I brick none of the hardware, I don't particularly need this installation to survive, so risks are acceptable. Worst case I might even risk bricking the card; I can probably get it replaced (might have been too long to get it refunded, though; warranties wheeeee).

This is what I would like to do, but of course there's no CUDA version for Kali (or even for Debian, which is what I'd use in a pinch) available from NVIDIA.

EDIT: Eh, fuck it, technically there's nothing I absolutely need Kali for. It'll be faster at this point to just start over and install everything I need on Ubuntu.

[gimlet]

Do I need an existing operating system to install Linux?  I'm getting 'No Boot Device Available' when I try to boot from it, yet on the computer I burned it, the files show up just fine.

OK some more detail would help here - what did you burn it to?  A USB stick?  A hard drive?  How exactly did you "burn it"?   And what's the brand and model of the computer you're trying to run it on that gives the error?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Do I need an existing operating system to install Linux?  I'm getting 'No Boot Device Available' when I try to boot from it, yet on the computer I burned it, the files show up just fine.

OK some more detail would help here - what did you burn it to?  A USB stick?  A hard drive?  How exactly did you "burn it"?   And what's the brand and model of the computer you're trying to run it on that gives the error?

Turns out it was apparently either something to do with the disk I wrote it to.  Granted, now I'm in the problem of always running into a black screen after having 'Unknown Kepler Chipset' show up, as well as when I try to use the repair packages option in the recovery menu, I get a bunch of failed to fetch errors from archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com. (Turns out you have to enable networking before you can use the repair packages option...)

[SirQuiamus]

RRRRRRRGGGGHHHH... Windows 7 is refusing to install updates again!

I googled the error code, and the Microsoft support page recommended reinstalling .NET framework, so I did. And of course that did absolutely nothing, as can be expected.

I've regularly had similar problems with Windows Update in the past, but so far they have always resolved themselves as mysteriously as they appeared. I do have the Windows DVD somewhere, but it's an OEM version so I'm not sure if I can reinstall it just like that. There's some kind of repair option in the Windows installer, isn't there?

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

On my Linux computer, it is defaulting to opening .jar files with the archive manager.  That's not my problem.  My problem is that I can't find the Java Runtime Environment anywhere so that I can run .jar files as an executable when I need to.  Running Linux Mint 17.2.

[Aklyon]

Use this for java.

[Bohandas]

I just got a Windows 8 tablet. Is it possible to upgrade it to Windows 10 for free and if so, how is Windows 10 on mobile devices? Is it still identical to the desktop OS as in post-RT windows 8; does it still run desktop programs and does it still have a desktop mode like Windows 8 did, or has it regressed into a piece of shit like the OSes on other mobile devices?

Related Question:
Is there a version of Classic Shell out for Windows 10 yet?

[miauw62]

The answer to your second question could easily be solved by a bit of googling, but yes.

[Thief^]

For the first question - not if it's a WinRT tablet, otherwise yes. It's the same OS as the desktop version, though it may default to a maximised start menu and metro apps due to the small screen.

[Rose]

There's a button for tablet mode that changes the layout between desktop and tablet (duh) but if you were able to run any normal windows exe before, you can do so now.

[Arx]

Further to my previous complaint: Blizzard's Battle.net has a similar problem to Steam. Any thoughts? The context is the same, i.e. I can't seem to find anything that could possibly cause the issue.

[Thief^]

If it's not a problem with a firewall of yours, it must be a problem with a firewall of your isp. The standard protocol for avoiding problem firewalls is to get a VPN to somewhere else, and use that.

[Arx]

If it's not a problem with a firewall of yours, it must be a problem with a firewall of your isp. The standard protocol for avoiding problem firewalls is to get a VPN to somewhere else, and use that.

The bizarre thing is I could swear my sister got this working on the same network. If it continues to not work, though, I'll consider that.