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I'm confused about DVD burner specifications including all the writing and reading speeds and what they actually mean.
Appreciate your help.
Mmorfe 00:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
About 8 years ago, I bought a computer which had several games installed in it. One of them was named japanese.exe. In that game, a Japanese girl has to whack squid-like things with a hammer. Where can I find that game again?
I have this CD that plays on a CD player but when I try to play it on my laptop it first registers as a blank CD, then when I try to access the CD drive it asks me to insert a disk. All other CDs work, but not this one. There isn't supposed to be any protection on the disk. What could be the problem? LCecere 06:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I downloaded the PNGout and I don't know how to install it and how to use it. -- Jackl 11:34, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
for %%f in (*.png) do pngout.exe "%%f" "optimized\%%f"
Get a .bat file with this and pngout.exe in the same folder, along with a bunch of png files. Then just run the bat file, and pngout will throw the optimized versions in the "optimized" folder that will be created. — Kieff | Talk 06:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, my 2 newsgroups that i look at are now subject to lots of spam.
1) is it possible to set up a kill file with "google groups?"
2) if not , is there a FREE safe newsreader (free agent has been cancelled)
3) (unrelated) how i do get my name to come up when i post rather than my email (yes i'm that good!)
TIA
I occasionally download 720p versions of television shows (that's right, I'm bad to the bone!), and are encoded in H.264 in a Matroska container. I'm thinking of getting an Apple TV and I know that plays HD H.264 videos in whatever container apple uses (mov, is it?) Here's my question: to reencode such a video would take a ginourmous amount of time, but since it is already encoded in H.264, is there any easy way to just simply change the container so that it would work on an Apple TV? I imagine that would be MUCH quicker. -- Oskar 13:42, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the danger of revealing one's IP Adress? When I do a WHOIS search on many, all I get is their ISP's adress and info.
Perfect Proposal Speak out loud! 15:02, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking for a way to connect a laptop hard drive to my PC. For this, I must know the connector on it and get the necessary adapter. Unfortunately, I can't detect what type of connector it is (Wikipedia is rather lacking images of connector types). I don't think it's either IDE or SATA. In the picture to the right is the hard drive in question and its connector (apparently wafer-like, with 44 pins), taken from a SCENIC 510 Mobile AGP laptop computer, somewhat old, fabricated before the year 2000. The initial problem was that it didn't boot from the hard disk (a "NTLDR missing" error), and since the laptop won't boot from anything else, even though the BIOS settings instruct it to, I want to see whether I can save some of the files on it by connecting it to my desktop computer.
My desktop computer has internal IDE cables, but I have the possibility to attach a SATA drive to the PC by using a rack connected to it by USB already holding a SATA hard drive. So, I would need an adapter for whatever connector type my laptop drive has to either IDE of SATA.
If anybody has any advice on how to fix the drive and make it bootable (it won't boot from the Windows boot diskette), or if somebody knows the connector type on the drive, it would be of immense help. Thank you in advance, Danielsavoiu 15:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Before SATA arrived, 2.5" drives used a 44-pin connector that was electrically compatible with ordinary 40-pin PATA (IDE) connectors but physically smaller. It also contains the power connection so there's no big honking 4-pin Molex connector that's practically as big as the rest of the drive.
Computer shops can sell you an adapter that will let you plug a 2.5" drive onto an ordinary 40-pin PATA cable and its associated 4-pin power connector.
Atlant 11:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
You can try this . Feel free to ask me further questions, I'm a freelance pc professional-- Doktor Who 12:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I currently own an Xbox360 and am considering buying an Elite for the HDMI and larger hard drive. How can I transfer my game saves and purchased Live Arcade games from my old HD to the new one? -- 72.202.150.92 15:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
What's the term for unnecessarily calling echo in a shell script when you can equivalently use the < operator? -- froth t 17:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
echo EXAMPLE | filename filename<EXAMPLE
echo text | command
command <<<text
Why does the maximum value of a floating-point number have to be cut in half just to accommodate infinities and NaNs? Why not declare that (a) NaN occurs only when the exponent is 2e – 1 and the fraction 2f – 1, and (b) infinity occurs only when the exponent is 2e – 1 and the fraction 2f – 2? Are there any alternative floating-point standards that do this? Neon Merlin 23:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'm confused about DVD burner specifications including all the writing and reading speeds and what they actually mean.
Appreciate your help.
Mmorfe 00:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
About 8 years ago, I bought a computer which had several games installed in it. One of them was named japanese.exe. In that game, a Japanese girl has to whack squid-like things with a hammer. Where can I find that game again?
I have this CD that plays on a CD player but when I try to play it on my laptop it first registers as a blank CD, then when I try to access the CD drive it asks me to insert a disk. All other CDs work, but not this one. There isn't supposed to be any protection on the disk. What could be the problem? LCecere 06:09, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi. I downloaded the PNGout and I don't know how to install it and how to use it. -- Jackl 11:34, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
for %%f in (*.png) do pngout.exe "%%f" "optimized\%%f"
Get a .bat file with this and pngout.exe in the same folder, along with a bunch of png files. Then just run the bat file, and pngout will throw the optimized versions in the "optimized" folder that will be created. — Kieff | Talk 06:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, my 2 newsgroups that i look at are now subject to lots of spam.
1) is it possible to set up a kill file with "google groups?"
2) if not , is there a FREE safe newsreader (free agent has been cancelled)
3) (unrelated) how i do get my name to come up when i post rather than my email (yes i'm that good!)
TIA
I occasionally download 720p versions of television shows (that's right, I'm bad to the bone!), and are encoded in H.264 in a Matroska container. I'm thinking of getting an Apple TV and I know that plays HD H.264 videos in whatever container apple uses (mov, is it?) Here's my question: to reencode such a video would take a ginourmous amount of time, but since it is already encoded in H.264, is there any easy way to just simply change the container so that it would work on an Apple TV? I imagine that would be MUCH quicker. -- Oskar 13:42, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
What is the danger of revealing one's IP Adress? When I do a WHOIS search on many, all I get is their ISP's adress and info.
Perfect Proposal Speak out loud! 15:02, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking for a way to connect a laptop hard drive to my PC. For this, I must know the connector on it and get the necessary adapter. Unfortunately, I can't detect what type of connector it is (Wikipedia is rather lacking images of connector types). I don't think it's either IDE or SATA. In the picture to the right is the hard drive in question and its connector (apparently wafer-like, with 44 pins), taken from a SCENIC 510 Mobile AGP laptop computer, somewhat old, fabricated before the year 2000. The initial problem was that it didn't boot from the hard disk (a "NTLDR missing" error), and since the laptop won't boot from anything else, even though the BIOS settings instruct it to, I want to see whether I can save some of the files on it by connecting it to my desktop computer.
My desktop computer has internal IDE cables, but I have the possibility to attach a SATA drive to the PC by using a rack connected to it by USB already holding a SATA hard drive. So, I would need an adapter for whatever connector type my laptop drive has to either IDE of SATA.
If anybody has any advice on how to fix the drive and make it bootable (it won't boot from the Windows boot diskette), or if somebody knows the connector type on the drive, it would be of immense help. Thank you in advance, Danielsavoiu 15:04, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
Before SATA arrived, 2.5" drives used a 44-pin connector that was electrically compatible with ordinary 40-pin PATA (IDE) connectors but physically smaller. It also contains the power connection so there's no big honking 4-pin Molex connector that's practically as big as the rest of the drive.
Computer shops can sell you an adapter that will let you plug a 2.5" drive onto an ordinary 40-pin PATA cable and its associated 4-pin power connector.
Atlant 11:34, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
You can try this . Feel free to ask me further questions, I'm a freelance pc professional-- Doktor Who 12:42, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
I currently own an Xbox360 and am considering buying an Elite for the HDMI and larger hard drive. How can I transfer my game saves and purchased Live Arcade games from my old HD to the new one? -- 72.202.150.92 15:14, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
What's the term for unnecessarily calling echo in a shell script when you can equivalently use the < operator? -- froth t 17:08, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
echo EXAMPLE | filename filename<EXAMPLE
echo text | command
command <<<text
Why does the maximum value of a floating-point number have to be cut in half just to accommodate infinities and NaNs? Why not declare that (a) NaN occurs only when the exponent is 2e – 1 and the fraction 2f – 1, and (b) infinity occurs only when the exponent is 2e – 1 and the fraction 2f – 2? Are there any alternative floating-point standards that do this? Neon Merlin 23:05, 25 August 2007 (UTC)