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I need to know how to make good pictures in Inkscape. I'm doing a Stan Marsh picture, but it's coming out horrible. FictionH 00:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
A number of Google services, such as Google Page Creator and Blogger do not carry adverts but are free to use. What is the commercial motivation behind the provision of services such as these? Tom Phil 00:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Pretty certainly a completely useless question, but I am puzzled. For no reason, I clicked the link in New England boiled dinner that gave pages that linked to it. Now, for no reasonable reason, I went to some of those pages and tried to find the link to New Wngland boiled dinner. Specifically, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Food and drink articles by quality, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Food and drink articles by quality log, and Eggs Benedict. I guess the only one I was interested in, other than 'what is this' was the eggs Benedict. But on all of those pages I could find no link to New England boiled dinner. Is it there, hidden is some way, or what does all this mean? -- Dumarest 00:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Unknown
Hi, I would like to know how I can schedule tasks to run on MS Windows XP/Vista (preferably using the windows task scheduler or windows configuration, but if not possible then a 3rd party application, preferably freeware/opensource) , so that if the scheduled time passes and the PC is powered down, it will run at the next available opportunity, in a similar way to Anacron. I need to assume the PC cannot wake itself up using ACPI or APM.
Thank you in advance.
Glover 03:22, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
My new download of Firefox 2.0 knows how to import bookmarks from MSIE, but not Opera. Is there any way to make Firefox recognize Opera, so I can import things in? 71.226.60.137 05:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I usually run Azureus overnight on my computer. Unfortunately, my DSL service has a habit of kicking out every so often when it's under a higher load like that. I'm pretty sure that's the cause of this, but... well, I guess I should just state my problem.
In the morning, I'll wake up and nine times out of ten my connection doesn't work. It'll work for the other computers in the house (usually) but not mine. It'll work again if I disable the connection in the "network connections" panel and then re-enable it, but I want it to be able to run at night, without me getting up every time it screws up. Looking around a bit, I THINK it might be because of that bit of windows that cuts out the connection if you have to many incompleted connections or whatever. I know it's supposed to slow down worms that just randomly poll IP addresses and such. So is there a way to test if that's my problem? and if it is, is there a way to shut that off? or even just knowing the limit so I can try screwing around with Azureus' settings would help immensely.
Also one other theory that I've heard from asking some friends of mine is that the modem itself is kicking out just because the NAT service is overloading (it's a netopia modem/router combo) and a fix would be to disable the NAT on the router and just buy a router to put between the modem and the rest of my network. Is there any credibility to that?
Sorry if that ran a bit long... anyways, I'm grateful for any help that anyone can give me in this. Koriar 06:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Another possibility is that you are getting static or interference in the network wire going to your computer. I'd check out the wire thoroughly for places it might be broken or have poor connections, and where you might have routed it near other wires or devices which put out an EMF field. StuRat 15:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, I can indeed do a DMZ on my router, though it calls it something else. Any recommendations for a firewall? I was just going to go with ZoneAlarm, as I've heard some good things about that one. As for static or interference, I don't think there should be any... the only real device that it runs by is a furnace... though to get it upstairs I did have to run it right by the cable tv line, would that do it? The line looks pretty heavily shielded... but I really really don't want to look for shorts, because most of it runs through the crawlspace... and with the rain we've been getting lately... well it'd be cold, wet, cramped, and spidery. Sooooo, no. As for the number of simultaneous connections I have put it pretty low in the past, though it does this with less than 100 peers connected (I only download one thing at a time) ... and actually now that I look at it my max is only 100... I'll lower it to 50 though, but that seems like it should be able to handle 100. Koriar 01:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Downstream Upstream ---------- ---------- SNR Margin: 25.50 20.00 dB Line Attenuation: 33.00 16.50 dB Output Power: 18.09 11.32 dB Errored Seconds: 0 0 Loss of Signal: 0 0 Loss of Frame: 0 0 CRC Errors: 0 1 Data Rate: 1472 256 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Handshake Success 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Connect Success: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Certificate Verify Success: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 TR-069: Post Inform - reason 4 VALUE CHANGE 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 TR-069: Closing connection 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 SSL: Closing Connection: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 HTTPC: No context found for closed socket 0 4/12/07 10:15:30 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:25:27 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:35:34 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:45:21 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:55:29 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:00:18 AM L3 LHD: IP 192.168.1.4, MAC 00-03-93-c1-ed-90 4/12/07 11:00:18 AM L3 LHD: Interface N/A, State online 4/12/07 11:05:36 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:15:33 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:25:40 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 01:50:32 PM L4 HTTP: "admin" completed login from 192.168.1.1
Those lines seem to be at the beginning of every time I'm disconnected. (192.168.1.1 is me) EDIT: So uhh... I guess it's not liking my line breaks for some reason... sorry about the formatting there, I don't know how to make stuff look good in wikipedia. Koriar 13:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... well, I seem to have entirely missed the suggestion about DHT. I'd really like that to stay on because I'm getting some things now where the tracker is down, but I'll try turning that off tonight to see if that's the problem. Also thanks to whoever formatted that for me! Koriar 15:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
What is this technology i keep hearing about
Who composed the soundtrack to the NES game Megaman 2?-- Sonjaaa 09:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could someone give me the step by step procedure for using VB in excel to add up two columns and put the sum in another column? Zain Ebrahim 12:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, My question is, why is it when I attempt to copy the information at " censorship " is it that on the screen shows printing processing. All the times I have accessed wikipedia.org and copyed information without any problem. Now, and only now problem, that, I cannot print the information under censorship. Would you please, identify the difference in the information at censorhip, veses other information on or at wikipedia.org.
Thank You,
for you time and attention
Allen Walker [Email redacted]
I don't have any trouble printing the censorship page. StuRat 02:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Are there kits to build gaming computers at home (as I understand, this would be cheaper), or do I have to look for parts separatly? Would it be possible to purchase an unbuilt model of a normally build computer and put it together? If so, do all brands do this, or just some? I looked in amazon, but they don't appear to have them... Thanks in advance, whether you know the answers to my questions or not. · AO Talk 17:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Can an indoor television antenna using a coaxial cable be plugged into and used with a wireless networking card? -- Seans Potato Business 17:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I had a small program from the Internet that made continuous clicks (left or right clicks) by holding the middle button, but I lost it. Does anyone know where to find it or how to program it (in Visual C++ if possible)? Thanks. -- Taraborn 17:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I want to the know what the number(232)indicates in RS232 and what it means anandkumar 18:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
It's just the document number of the
technical standard that defines that particular
interface. "RS" stands for "Recommended Standard", so it's "Recommended Standard No. 232". In short, it means nothing. --
TotoBaggins
19:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to connect to more than one wireless network at the same time using a) one wireless networking card or b) two wireless networking cards? Ethics and legality aside, should it theoretically be possible to connect to one's own wireless network and that or those of neighbours to gain an increase in internet connection speed? -- Seans Potato Business 19:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Or could it exist? Is it possible/feasible to port QEMU to a Java applet?
You go to a certain website from any Internet connection, and log in. You then have access to a virtual machine using AJAX or just a Java applet. You can then run any program inside the virtual computer, accessing files which are stored on the server. Duomillia 20:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I.E not a motherboard that explicitly states it'll work with a Pentium M processor.
If not, why not?
Thanks in advance... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fred.frederick ( talk • contribs).
Thanks Johnny. After a bit of research, it seems it'll be much easier to make a cool, quiet and energy efficient desktop machine using either a mobile Sempron or Turion processor, as these are well supported by a good number of motherboards.
I know it's a ghz world, but I do despair for the state of processing today(speed at any cost). Once you've sat at a desk with a noisy PC for any length of time it becomes a mental drain.
Surely there's a market for quiet, unintrusive PC's that don't cost the earth, isn't this what a lot, even most users really want addressed?. I'm suprised Intel etc can't see it. Fred.frederick 11:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
In PowerPoint, how do I make six different pictures fly in at the same timebut from different directions? 68.193.147.179 21:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way I could just take the audio from a streaming video? 68.193.147.179 21:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Computing desk | ||
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< April 10 | << Mar | April | May >> | April 12 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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I need to know how to make good pictures in Inkscape. I'm doing a Stan Marsh picture, but it's coming out horrible. FictionH 00:07, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
A number of Google services, such as Google Page Creator and Blogger do not carry adverts but are free to use. What is the commercial motivation behind the provision of services such as these? Tom Phil 00:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Pretty certainly a completely useless question, but I am puzzled. For no reason, I clicked the link in New England boiled dinner that gave pages that linked to it. Now, for no reasonable reason, I went to some of those pages and tried to find the link to New Wngland boiled dinner. Specifically, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Food and drink articles by quality, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Food and drink articles by quality log, and Eggs Benedict. I guess the only one I was interested in, other than 'what is this' was the eggs Benedict. But on all of those pages I could find no link to New England boiled dinner. Is it there, hidden is some way, or what does all this mean? -- Dumarest 00:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Unknown
Hi, I would like to know how I can schedule tasks to run on MS Windows XP/Vista (preferably using the windows task scheduler or windows configuration, but if not possible then a 3rd party application, preferably freeware/opensource) , so that if the scheduled time passes and the PC is powered down, it will run at the next available opportunity, in a similar way to Anacron. I need to assume the PC cannot wake itself up using ACPI or APM.
Thank you in advance.
Glover 03:22, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
My new download of Firefox 2.0 knows how to import bookmarks from MSIE, but not Opera. Is there any way to make Firefox recognize Opera, so I can import things in? 71.226.60.137 05:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I usually run Azureus overnight on my computer. Unfortunately, my DSL service has a habit of kicking out every so often when it's under a higher load like that. I'm pretty sure that's the cause of this, but... well, I guess I should just state my problem.
In the morning, I'll wake up and nine times out of ten my connection doesn't work. It'll work for the other computers in the house (usually) but not mine. It'll work again if I disable the connection in the "network connections" panel and then re-enable it, but I want it to be able to run at night, without me getting up every time it screws up. Looking around a bit, I THINK it might be because of that bit of windows that cuts out the connection if you have to many incompleted connections or whatever. I know it's supposed to slow down worms that just randomly poll IP addresses and such. So is there a way to test if that's my problem? and if it is, is there a way to shut that off? or even just knowing the limit so I can try screwing around with Azureus' settings would help immensely.
Also one other theory that I've heard from asking some friends of mine is that the modem itself is kicking out just because the NAT service is overloading (it's a netopia modem/router combo) and a fix would be to disable the NAT on the router and just buy a router to put between the modem and the rest of my network. Is there any credibility to that?
Sorry if that ran a bit long... anyways, I'm grateful for any help that anyone can give me in this. Koriar 06:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Another possibility is that you are getting static or interference in the network wire going to your computer. I'd check out the wire thoroughly for places it might be broken or have poor connections, and where you might have routed it near other wires or devices which put out an EMF field. StuRat 15:43, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, I can indeed do a DMZ on my router, though it calls it something else. Any recommendations for a firewall? I was just going to go with ZoneAlarm, as I've heard some good things about that one. As for static or interference, I don't think there should be any... the only real device that it runs by is a furnace... though to get it upstairs I did have to run it right by the cable tv line, would that do it? The line looks pretty heavily shielded... but I really really don't want to look for shorts, because most of it runs through the crawlspace... and with the rain we've been getting lately... well it'd be cold, wet, cramped, and spidery. Sooooo, no. As for the number of simultaneous connections I have put it pretty low in the past, though it does this with less than 100 peers connected (I only download one thing at a time) ... and actually now that I look at it my max is only 100... I'll lower it to 50 though, but that seems like it should be able to handle 100. Koriar 01:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Downstream Upstream ---------- ---------- SNR Margin: 25.50 20.00 dB Line Attenuation: 33.00 16.50 dB Output Power: 18.09 11.32 dB Errored Seconds: 0 0 Loss of Signal: 0 0 Loss of Frame: 0 0 CRC Errors: 0 1 Data Rate: 1472 256 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Handshake Success 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Connect Success: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 SSL: Certificate Verify Success: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:58 AM L3 TR-069: Post Inform - reason 4 VALUE CHANGE 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 TR-069: Closing connection 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 SSL: Closing Connection: s1.netopiatr069.net 4/12/07 10:14:59 AM L3 HTTPC: No context found for closed socket 0 4/12/07 10:15:30 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:25:27 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:35:34 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:45:21 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 10:55:29 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:00:18 AM L3 LHD: IP 192.168.1.4, MAC 00-03-93-c1-ed-90 4/12/07 11:00:18 AM L3 LHD: Interface N/A, State online 4/12/07 11:05:36 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:15:33 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 11:25:40 AM L4 HTTP: "" host 192.168.1.1 logging out (timing out) 4/12/07 01:50:32 PM L4 HTTP: "admin" completed login from 192.168.1.1
Those lines seem to be at the beginning of every time I'm disconnected. (192.168.1.1 is me) EDIT: So uhh... I guess it's not liking my line breaks for some reason... sorry about the formatting there, I don't know how to make stuff look good in wikipedia. Koriar 13:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm... well, I seem to have entirely missed the suggestion about DHT. I'd really like that to stay on because I'm getting some things now where the tracker is down, but I'll try turning that off tonight to see if that's the problem. Also thanks to whoever formatted that for me! Koriar 15:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
What is this technology i keep hearing about
Who composed the soundtrack to the NES game Megaman 2?-- Sonjaaa 09:20, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Could someone give me the step by step procedure for using VB in excel to add up two columns and put the sum in another column? Zain Ebrahim 12:57, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi, My question is, why is it when I attempt to copy the information at " censorship " is it that on the screen shows printing processing. All the times I have accessed wikipedia.org and copyed information without any problem. Now, and only now problem, that, I cannot print the information under censorship. Would you please, identify the difference in the information at censorhip, veses other information on or at wikipedia.org.
Thank You,
for you time and attention
Allen Walker [Email redacted]
I don't have any trouble printing the censorship page. StuRat 02:48, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Are there kits to build gaming computers at home (as I understand, this would be cheaper), or do I have to look for parts separatly? Would it be possible to purchase an unbuilt model of a normally build computer and put it together? If so, do all brands do this, or just some? I looked in amazon, but they don't appear to have them... Thanks in advance, whether you know the answers to my questions or not. · AO Talk 17:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Can an indoor television antenna using a coaxial cable be plugged into and used with a wireless networking card? -- Seans Potato Business 17:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I had a small program from the Internet that made continuous clicks (left or right clicks) by holding the middle button, but I lost it. Does anyone know where to find it or how to program it (in Visual C++ if possible)? Thanks. -- Taraborn 17:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I want to the know what the number(232)indicates in RS232 and what it means anandkumar 18:56, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
It's just the document number of the
technical standard that defines that particular
interface. "RS" stands for "Recommended Standard", so it's "Recommended Standard No. 232". In short, it means nothing. --
TotoBaggins
19:18, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to connect to more than one wireless network at the same time using a) one wireless networking card or b) two wireless networking cards? Ethics and legality aside, should it theoretically be possible to connect to one's own wireless network and that or those of neighbours to gain an increase in internet connection speed? -- Seans Potato Business 19:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Or could it exist? Is it possible/feasible to port QEMU to a Java applet?
You go to a certain website from any Internet connection, and log in. You then have access to a virtual machine using AJAX or just a Java applet. You can then run any program inside the virtual computer, accessing files which are stored on the server. Duomillia 20:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
I.E not a motherboard that explicitly states it'll work with a Pentium M processor.
If not, why not?
Thanks in advance... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fred.frederick ( talk • contribs).
Thanks Johnny. After a bit of research, it seems it'll be much easier to make a cool, quiet and energy efficient desktop machine using either a mobile Sempron or Turion processor, as these are well supported by a good number of motherboards.
I know it's a ghz world, but I do despair for the state of processing today(speed at any cost). Once you've sat at a desk with a noisy PC for any length of time it becomes a mental drain.
Surely there's a market for quiet, unintrusive PC's that don't cost the earth, isn't this what a lot, even most users really want addressed?. I'm suprised Intel etc can't see it. Fred.frederick 11:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
In PowerPoint, how do I make six different pictures fly in at the same timebut from different directions? 68.193.147.179 21:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there a way I could just take the audio from a streaming video? 68.193.147.179 21:39, 11 April 2007 (UTC)