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If I have a fast server computer A and a slower client computer B connected by VPN, can I play a game using A's processor (or, better yet, both processors in parallel) off a CD that's in B's drive? Neon Merlin 03:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear sirs,
There appears to be adware on my computer, and there is a isamini.exe in my task bar which I cannot terminate. How do I get rid of this. Thank you very much. 70.48.255.209 04:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm trying (on a wiki outside WMF) to make a template based on a template from Wikibooks. The problem is, however, that the HTML stuff (<table>, <td> etc.) doesn't seem to work, and as so I have to convert it to wiki-coding.
I used a HTMLtoWiki converter from the internets and the result became pretty weird. Now, the whole template seems screwed up and I don't know how to get it to work.
Can anyone help (btw, feel free to edit the template directly, I can learn from the history)? -- Lhademmor 06:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
When I hook up my mp3 player to my XP PC, it recognizes it as an MP3 player and tries to use Windows Media Player to transfer files to it.
However, on a friend's XP PC, it recognizes the mp3 player as just a flash USB drive, making files transfers infinitely easier. How can I get my PC to recognize my mp3 player as just another USB flash drive? (without some overly complex solution e.g. installing new firmware or something) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.199.8.98 ( talk) 07:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
My mp3 player (Archos GMini xs100) has an option in its setup to appear as a hard disk or Windows Media device
How do floppy disk drives (specifically, the 5.25 and 3.5-inch disk drives) detect disk changes? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.94.148.218 ( talk) 10:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
drivers/block/floppy.c
):DPRINT("checking disk change line for drive %d\n", drive); DPRINT("jiffies=%lu\n", jiffies); DPRINT("disk change line=%x\n", fd_inb(FD_DIR) & 0x80); DPRINT("flags=%lx\n", UDRS->flags);
fd_inb(FD_DIR)
" reads a byte from the controller's registers, and the "& 0x80
" chooses the "Disk Change"
bit. I think the green light is just for reads/writes. I don't know how the drives do it mechanically, but it's easy to imagine there being a little switch in there somewhere. --
TotoBaggins
12:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)What is philosophy? Identify the basic concept of idealism and state its contribution to educative process —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.204.224.10 ( talk) 13:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
How does Linux figure out which USB volume is mounted through which device descriptor? If I have a USB hard drive and an SD memory card connected through a USB card reader, and have both plugged in at the same time, how does Linux figure out which is /dev/sda and which is /dev/sdb? Does it have to do with the types of the devices, which physical USB ports they are plugged in, or the order in which they are plugged in? Is there a way to always give the same mount point to the same volume, regardless of which device descriptor it is mounted through? JIP | Talk 17:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I happily run rtorrent with Screen by typing "screen rtorrent". I can then happily detach and reattach and everything in rtorrent works fine. I'd like to be able to start it by typing "screen -d -m rtorrent" so it immediately detaches without interaction. Currently when I do this, rtorrent will not respond to my "Ctrl-q" which I would normally use to quit, which is a pain. Any ideas? -- 87.194.21.177 18:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
ok well where i am at we have a shared network of course. me and some friends want to know if the websites we go to can be monitored by the techs. (of course we know they can do it by checking the main network) but we are asking if they can still find out if they use our computers to do so After we have deleted all cookies and files and everything. i know once it goes by the ISP it can be tracked but since its shared they only see 1 IP. now if they were to go computer by computer will they ever find out? thanks in advance Maverick423 20:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
no no no definatly not inappropiate sites just basicly sites like cnn and stuff like that. now on a second note though will they be able to tell which computer is sending that data and reciveing it? Maverick423 20:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Where my wife works, every new young male employee starts surfing the porn sites. They are always 'shocked - shocked' when the report instantly comes back. If you can randomly plug into any jack, or you use wireless, you have a better chance, but any company with half a brain can deal with this. -- Zeizmic 01:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
When I download torrent files it doesnt recognize file type. So i need to convert the same to Mp3 format type.... How do i do the same? Is it possible?
Second question is regarding MS Excel How to remove automatic page breaks? 20:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
@-13T05:37Z
I've recently installed a BFG 8800 GTS 640MB and have been having problems setting up DualView.
My previous card was an ATI x550 and I ran a dualscreen set up with a 19" BENQ FP91G+ LCD monitor as my Primary Display and a 23" Phillips 23PF4321 LCD TV as my secondary. The monitor supported 1280x1024 while the TV only supports 1024x768.
After installing the new card I've been unable to get DualView to work on the TV. I've set it up using the same resolution and refresh rate as I used with my previous card and the TV displays a message about not supporting the video mode, the same message it would bring up if the resolution was increased beyond the level it could support with my previous card. I've tried to lower the resolution on the second screen down as low as 800x600 but it still is unable to display anything. As the TV is working fine otherwise and was able to function as a second screen with my previous card I can only assume that the problem is with the 8800 GTS.
I've connected each display individually and with the right resolution and refresh rate they were able to function as single displays and I've made sure that both ports are functioning properly but I've noticed that in addition to Dualview not working properly, if I have both displays connected and try to use the TV as a single display it doesn't work.
I've contacted BFG about this by E-Mail and after a couple of weeks of routine suggestions of upgrading drivers (now on 4th version and the problem remains) and asking me to check the ports are working properly they went silent and now four weeks later don't even respond to my E-Mails, which I'm taking as a sign that they've run out of ideas.
I've E-Mailed the shop who sold me the card and they focused on compatibility. I've contacted ASRock, who manufacture my motherboard and they've tested an ASUS 8800 GTS and that worked fine so it seems unlikely that's the problem.
After calling the shop's technical support line the guy on the phone seemed hesitant about taking the card in for testing and suggested I try and find a solution on the internet. Does anybody have any suggestions of how I may fix the problem? -- Kiltman67 20:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Correction... The problem seems to have returned. Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix it or even where the problem may lie. I'm wondering now if it could be a problem with the drivers, but I don't know what to do about that since I've never encountered anyone else with the same problem and as I said, I've gone through 4 versions of the driver and they all had the same problem. -- Kiltman67 23:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
These were all green screen games for the Apple ][ or somethign from the Choplifter era. One was this game where you were on a boat in a side scrolling river and you had avoid obstacles and also pick up people and bonuses from islands (but you could lose a life by landing on an island with a lion say). I think the game was called "Congo" or something like that but am not sure. it was fun/ Another one was this maze game, sort of like pacman but with money symbols and these snapping monsters. this was also fun and i remember i liked it a lot better than pacman. If you someone knows where to look up these games like this (the green screen games, Im not that interested in teh colour games) and maybe play them online or download a emulated version or remake that would be great =)
I have Windows XP, and I keep getting this empty folder in " My Documents" called "Updater 5." Whenever I delete it, it always comes back in a week or so. Does anyone know what the purpose for this empty folder is? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.163.64 ( talk) 22:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
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If I have a fast server computer A and a slower client computer B connected by VPN, can I play a game using A's processor (or, better yet, both processors in parallel) off a CD that's in B's drive? Neon Merlin 03:13, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Dear sirs,
There appears to be adware on my computer, and there is a isamini.exe in my task bar which I cannot terminate. How do I get rid of this. Thank you very much. 70.48.255.209 04:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi all. I'm trying (on a wiki outside WMF) to make a template based on a template from Wikibooks. The problem is, however, that the HTML stuff (<table>, <td> etc.) doesn't seem to work, and as so I have to convert it to wiki-coding.
I used a HTMLtoWiki converter from the internets and the result became pretty weird. Now, the whole template seems screwed up and I don't know how to get it to work.
Can anyone help (btw, feel free to edit the template directly, I can learn from the history)? -- Lhademmor 06:52, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
When I hook up my mp3 player to my XP PC, it recognizes it as an MP3 player and tries to use Windows Media Player to transfer files to it.
However, on a friend's XP PC, it recognizes the mp3 player as just a flash USB drive, making files transfers infinitely easier. How can I get my PC to recognize my mp3 player as just another USB flash drive? (without some overly complex solution e.g. installing new firmware or something) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.199.8.98 ( talk) 07:01, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
My mp3 player (Archos GMini xs100) has an option in its setup to appear as a hard disk or Windows Media device
How do floppy disk drives (specifically, the 5.25 and 3.5-inch disk drives) detect disk changes? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.94.148.218 ( talk) 10:22, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
drivers/block/floppy.c
):DPRINT("checking disk change line for drive %d\n", drive); DPRINT("jiffies=%lu\n", jiffies); DPRINT("disk change line=%x\n", fd_inb(FD_DIR) & 0x80); DPRINT("flags=%lx\n", UDRS->flags);
fd_inb(FD_DIR)
" reads a byte from the controller's registers, and the "& 0x80
" chooses the "Disk Change"
bit. I think the green light is just for reads/writes. I don't know how the drives do it mechanically, but it's easy to imagine there being a little switch in there somewhere. --
TotoBaggins
12:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)What is philosophy? Identify the basic concept of idealism and state its contribution to educative process —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.204.224.10 ( talk) 13:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC).
How does Linux figure out which USB volume is mounted through which device descriptor? If I have a USB hard drive and an SD memory card connected through a USB card reader, and have both plugged in at the same time, how does Linux figure out which is /dev/sda and which is /dev/sdb? Does it have to do with the types of the devices, which physical USB ports they are plugged in, or the order in which they are plugged in? Is there a way to always give the same mount point to the same volume, regardless of which device descriptor it is mounted through? JIP | Talk 17:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I happily run rtorrent with Screen by typing "screen rtorrent". I can then happily detach and reattach and everything in rtorrent works fine. I'd like to be able to start it by typing "screen -d -m rtorrent" so it immediately detaches without interaction. Currently when I do this, rtorrent will not respond to my "Ctrl-q" which I would normally use to quit, which is a pain. Any ideas? -- 87.194.21.177 18:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
ok well where i am at we have a shared network of course. me and some friends want to know if the websites we go to can be monitored by the techs. (of course we know they can do it by checking the main network) but we are asking if they can still find out if they use our computers to do so After we have deleted all cookies and files and everything. i know once it goes by the ISP it can be tracked but since its shared they only see 1 IP. now if they were to go computer by computer will they ever find out? thanks in advance Maverick423 20:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
no no no definatly not inappropiate sites just basicly sites like cnn and stuff like that. now on a second note though will they be able to tell which computer is sending that data and reciveing it? Maverick423 20:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Where my wife works, every new young male employee starts surfing the porn sites. They are always 'shocked - shocked' when the report instantly comes back. If you can randomly plug into any jack, or you use wireless, you have a better chance, but any company with half a brain can deal with this. -- Zeizmic 01:23, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
When I download torrent files it doesnt recognize file type. So i need to convert the same to Mp3 format type.... How do i do the same? Is it possible?
Second question is regarding MS Excel How to remove automatic page breaks? 20:11, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
@-13T05:37Z
I've recently installed a BFG 8800 GTS 640MB and have been having problems setting up DualView.
My previous card was an ATI x550 and I ran a dualscreen set up with a 19" BENQ FP91G+ LCD monitor as my Primary Display and a 23" Phillips 23PF4321 LCD TV as my secondary. The monitor supported 1280x1024 while the TV only supports 1024x768.
After installing the new card I've been unable to get DualView to work on the TV. I've set it up using the same resolution and refresh rate as I used with my previous card and the TV displays a message about not supporting the video mode, the same message it would bring up if the resolution was increased beyond the level it could support with my previous card. I've tried to lower the resolution on the second screen down as low as 800x600 but it still is unable to display anything. As the TV is working fine otherwise and was able to function as a second screen with my previous card I can only assume that the problem is with the 8800 GTS.
I've connected each display individually and with the right resolution and refresh rate they were able to function as single displays and I've made sure that both ports are functioning properly but I've noticed that in addition to Dualview not working properly, if I have both displays connected and try to use the TV as a single display it doesn't work.
I've contacted BFG about this by E-Mail and after a couple of weeks of routine suggestions of upgrading drivers (now on 4th version and the problem remains) and asking me to check the ports are working properly they went silent and now four weeks later don't even respond to my E-Mails, which I'm taking as a sign that they've run out of ideas.
I've E-Mailed the shop who sold me the card and they focused on compatibility. I've contacted ASRock, who manufacture my motherboard and they've tested an ASUS 8800 GTS and that worked fine so it seems unlikely that's the problem.
After calling the shop's technical support line the guy on the phone seemed hesitant about taking the card in for testing and suggested I try and find a solution on the internet. Does anybody have any suggestions of how I may fix the problem? -- Kiltman67 20:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Correction... The problem seems to have returned. Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix it or even where the problem may lie. I'm wondering now if it could be a problem with the drivers, but I don't know what to do about that since I've never encountered anyone else with the same problem and as I said, I've gone through 4 versions of the driver and they all had the same problem. -- Kiltman67 23:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
These were all green screen games for the Apple ][ or somethign from the Choplifter era. One was this game where you were on a boat in a side scrolling river and you had avoid obstacles and also pick up people and bonuses from islands (but you could lose a life by landing on an island with a lion say). I think the game was called "Congo" or something like that but am not sure. it was fun/ Another one was this maze game, sort of like pacman but with money symbols and these snapping monsters. this was also fun and i remember i liked it a lot better than pacman. If you someone knows where to look up these games like this (the green screen games, Im not that interested in teh colour games) and maybe play them online or download a emulated version or remake that would be great =)
I have Windows XP, and I keep getting this empty folder in " My Documents" called "Updater 5." Whenever I delete it, it always comes back in a week or so. Does anyone know what the purpose for this empty folder is? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.107.163.64 ( talk) 22:43, 12 April 2007 (UTC).