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Isn't firefox, where loads of people not working together, all make their own extensions that can be downloaded and interfere with each other, a sure fire way to end up with a crashy browser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seans Potato Business ( talk • contribs) 00:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
F11 is the de facto standard way to get full-screen display of a browser. But this won't work in default Mac OS X, as the system uses this key to minimize all windows. (And this is just one example of how OS X key assignment seems to compete with software-specific key assignment.) The obvious way around this is to change the OS settings so that what was F11 is now something else, or (since there's anyway Shift-F11 for a trivially slower alternative) just to disable the function. However, while I could easily do this with my own computer [I'm not using it right now and forget the OS version number; it's the version before the present one], the option isn't available for the higher-numbered function keys in a slightly older version [the version before mine] in th' missus' computer.
Am I overlooking some other option? Is there perhaps some escape key combination that means "Please pass the next keystroke to the active application just as you'd pass a regular keystroke (letter A–Z, etc.): don't clear the desktop, reduce the volume level, show all the windows in miniaturized form, etc." -- Hoary ( talk) 10:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
How do you get symbols for chess pieces in Microsoft Word? Bubba73 (talk), 03:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
ok im just starting to learn about computers, and one of the problems i have is with telnet. i use windows vista and i already have the telnet client active. lets say i want to check my email from gmail (i don't use outlook or anything btw, only webmail). i would open up a command prompt, and then what would i type? and on my older computers when i type telnet, it comes up with a white terminal telnet window, but on vista it just appears inside the black dos window with microsfot telnet. any ideas on this? any help is appreciated, thanx! 63.24.154.141 ( talk) 03:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
telnet en.wikipedia.org 80
, and then another cursor pops up, there you can type
HTTP commands. To get the main page, you can type GET /
, and telnet will spill the HTML source code of the main page down your screen. Telnet only allows you to directly talk to servers, but you have to know how to talk to the servers yourself. Read up on the protocol you're trying to use and experiment. --
antilived
T |
C |
G
05:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)ok so it allows a direct connection to servers but only if the servers allow it. the code above worked, but i couldn't see what i typed when i tryed to type get /. is this normal? and so telnet doesn't work with gmail. but would it work with something like ssh? and would telnet work on other mail servers (yahoo, msn, hotmail etc...) or do they requre encryption too? (btw this is the same person just with a differnt comp) 63.28.158.210 ( talk) 23:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
when i type in 'telnet en.wikipedia.org 80', it shows 'Connecting To en.wikipedia.org 80' for about 2 seconds, then teh screen clears and nothing is left except a blinking curser. if i type immediately thereafter i can't see what i type, ie. if type 'get /' i just see the cursor moving but not actual characters. after that i press enter and it 'spills the source code' as you said, then the connection is lost. if i don't type anything on the blank screen and wait for a minute it eventually kicks me back to c:\ 63.28.135.93 ( talk) 02:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I asked my doubt listed in 5.7 that if more ram is needed for getting good FPS, I still have this doubt. As steve baker mentioned a detailed explanation about the stuff, I looked into his article/essay on the real bottleneck for getting good gaming results. I could well understand those facts but I'm not clear with one point steve and that is about Virtual memory.If I have say 1GB RAM and the game I play demand 1.5GB as recommended config, then whilst playing my pc may try to write data into HDD due to insufficient ram and this may add time delay overhead while playing.Wouldn't this delay might cause drag or drop in FPS?, since the transfer rate for HDD is very slow compared to RAM!. Also please answer me this that if 512 MB of RAM is demanded for a game, then does it mean I should have 512 MB free memory out of 1GB or exclusive 512 MB physical RAM chip?. Sorry for a delay in posting...Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 06:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm unclear of the fact that some I heard saying that the graphics cards frame rate is restricted by monitors refresh rate. For example say if a monitor like an 15 inch CRT can make 60Hz of refresh rate at 1024 by 768 pixel resolution then wouldn't my gpu card be able to send data beyond 60FPS when VSYNC is turned to on?. Esp I heard this problem on LCD where the refresh rate is only 60Hz.also does VSYNC have some other meaning?...please anybody try to post your reply anything you know about this. Thanks a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 07:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks but if this is the case,then what's the use and advantage of running games at very high frame rate say above 100 or so while we can't go beyond the actual refresh rate?..And what is the purpose of VSYNC here?.Enabling it seems to reduce performance in terms of FPS.I do not understand this,but not all games have this option. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 08:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I have been working in VB 6 so far, and now I have got VB 2005(.NET Framework 2.0). I'm thinking of using both of these application software since I have previous programs and some new projects to be done in VB6 whereas I need to run VB 2005 also for some client's projects. So I'm now unclear that if I can run these two installed onto the same OS.Also by installing VB 2005, will VB2005 affect the VB6 tools such as "package and deployment" in anyway?...Please help me. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 07:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
My user agent information shows the following in the website whatsmyuseragent.com
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.6;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0
Will this be the same for everyone using Firefox 2.0.0.11? Any idea why I am getting that 'MEGAUPLOAD 1.0'? What does rv:1.8.1.11 and Gecko/20071127 say? Once upon a time, I installed Megaupload toolbar, but uninstalled later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.112.197 ( talk) 08:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
(From the asker of the question) Thanks for the reply. If anyone of you know how to get rid of that MEGAUPLOAD 1.0 from my user agent, please tell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.119.195 ( talk) 18:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I neeeded to download a *.JAR file as I need it to use it on Template:Image label begin, but, how do you run such a file? -- 41.201.169.19 ( talk) 13:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia contributors,
Can Photoshop CS open up all of Canon's RAW extensions? Thank you 71.18.216.110 ( talk) 15:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
How does the Kindle access the Internet? Does the owner need to supply his/her own WiFi? If so what does it mean by free access to Wikipedia included? Am I missing something? Is Amazon offering its own Wireless subscription service? -- Kushal t 16:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Kushal t 17:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have read both separately but not the side by side comparison. Could you link us please? Thanks -- Kushal t 04:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Neither the critics of the Kindle, nor (oddly) Amazon themselves seem to mention two CRUCIAL facts:
So getting your own content onto Kindle is a breeze and doing it that way costs you nothing. So - with a suitably large memory card, you can immediately dump Project Gutenburg (22,000 books!) onto the thing for starters - cost $0...and any other eBook format that you can convert to PDF or something can also be read on Kindle. What you can't do is read Amazon-supplied material on anything other than your, personal Kindle...that's not really much different from the iPod/iTunes setup.
The reason you can't get to the general internet through the thing is that Amazon are paying your phone bill and they'd go bust VERY quickly if people used it a lot. Also the display (being a weird ePaper thing) doesn't update fast enough for interactive types of usage - you certainly couldn't watch movies or even GIF animations on the thing...and without flash/Javascript/Java/etc, it would be a pretty poor Internet experience anyway. But that's NOT what it's for. It's a book/Wikipedia/magazine/news-blog reader - and for that, it's not half bad. For me, it's worth $400 just to be able to comfortably read Project Gutenberg+Wikipedia+Slashdot+email without needing an Internet connection or a crappy backlit 320 pixel display.
SteveBaker ( talk) 15:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
You have got that one. I have tried to read a plain text e-book from PG on the Nokia 6600. I would not recommend that to anyone. -- Kushal t 18:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hold on, I read the whole of Great Expectations and all but the last chapter of Anna Karenina on a desktop computer (a lowly 1024 x 768!)
But that was not my point. Does not the Kindle have technical restrictions on how large an SD card it can hold? I am pretty sure it is capped below 4 GB. PG is already past 4 GB. -- Kushal t 21:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
It certainly takes a little getting used to to read books on a computer screen, but I don't have much of a problem with it. I read almost all of His Dark Materials, all but one of the Ringworld books, and 3 or 4 Robert A. Heinlein books in microsoft reader. I've got better places to spend it if I had $400 to burn ($400 for a little e-paper display that displays text files?!) -- ffroth 23:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I tend to copy and paste things off of the internet and into Microsoft Word or Notepad. The only problem with that is that my computer is too heavy to carry around. This means I don't have to go on the internet and look something up, or wait for it to download, which my computer seems to be extra slow at. There are dozens of ways of reading, and this Kindle thing seems to be the worst.~ ~ ~ ~
Does anyone know if there are any open-source Java programs/libraries that can use the voices built into Windows XP/Vista?
Thanks!
Sam 18:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Moved from Entertainment Desk. Rockpocke t 19:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I installed the Caesar IV game in my pc and started it. The game started but all I see is white screen though I can hear the music running in the background. When the music stops the Caesar IV cursor appears but the white screen is still there. I can move around the cursor and could even blindly press the menu buttons of the game. But I cannot see anything. What could be wrong? The total display memory of my pc is 64 MB (I got this info from the DirectX diagnostic tool that one gets by typing "dxdiag" in the "run" program in start menu). I got the same problem previously with harry potter 3 but when i modified certain settings like color depth in the .ini file I could see everything again. I tried this with Caesar IV too. But it didn't work. Can you help me out? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.89.21.98 ( talk) 09:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
See the related posts on Sierra's forum: [1] --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 21:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I get some music via Limewire and upload it from there to the Itunes music folder (File, Add Folder to Libary (the folder my Limewire tunes are in)). The songs all display in the main Itunes music folder. My question is, can I transfer these tunes to an Ipod without any problem? I want an Ipod but don't want to spend a few hundred on something that doesn't work for me. (Note: I'm not talking about the Shared Limewire tab that comes up in like the middle of the sidebar, I mean I have uploaded them into the main music folder). Thanks! Dooms Day349 22:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Second that -- Kushal t 16:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
how would i type in unicode characters if i didn't have a numeric keypad? is it the same if you typed it in using the number row? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.28.158.210 ( talk) 23:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently using Windows Xp opearating stystem.Whenever i turn on the computer a lot of "unwanted programs" start up automatically.My question is :Where are instructions to start up these programs are located? Can I customize edit which programs to start and which programs not to start? 202.70.74.161 ( talk) 23:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Can anyone point me to a comparison of memory speeds (approximate read/write speeds in MB/s) which includes a standard 7,200RPM HDD, a 10,000RPM HDD, RAM (something similar to say Corsair 8500 C5D), a USB key (reasonably good one - USB 2.0 obviously) and a 16x DVD. Thanks! --
Fir0002
23:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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Isn't firefox, where loads of people not working together, all make their own extensions that can be downloaded and interfere with each other, a sure fire way to end up with a crashy browser? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seans Potato Business ( talk • contribs) 00:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
F11 is the de facto standard way to get full-screen display of a browser. But this won't work in default Mac OS X, as the system uses this key to minimize all windows. (And this is just one example of how OS X key assignment seems to compete with software-specific key assignment.) The obvious way around this is to change the OS settings so that what was F11 is now something else, or (since there's anyway Shift-F11 for a trivially slower alternative) just to disable the function. However, while I could easily do this with my own computer [I'm not using it right now and forget the OS version number; it's the version before the present one], the option isn't available for the higher-numbered function keys in a slightly older version [the version before mine] in th' missus' computer.
Am I overlooking some other option? Is there perhaps some escape key combination that means "Please pass the next keystroke to the active application just as you'd pass a regular keystroke (letter A–Z, etc.): don't clear the desktop, reduce the volume level, show all the windows in miniaturized form, etc." -- Hoary ( talk) 10:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
How do you get symbols for chess pieces in Microsoft Word? Bubba73 (talk), 03:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
ok im just starting to learn about computers, and one of the problems i have is with telnet. i use windows vista and i already have the telnet client active. lets say i want to check my email from gmail (i don't use outlook or anything btw, only webmail). i would open up a command prompt, and then what would i type? and on my older computers when i type telnet, it comes up with a white terminal telnet window, but on vista it just appears inside the black dos window with microsfot telnet. any ideas on this? any help is appreciated, thanx! 63.24.154.141 ( talk) 03:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
telnet en.wikipedia.org 80
, and then another cursor pops up, there you can type
HTTP commands. To get the main page, you can type GET /
, and telnet will spill the HTML source code of the main page down your screen. Telnet only allows you to directly talk to servers, but you have to know how to talk to the servers yourself. Read up on the protocol you're trying to use and experiment. --
antilived
T |
C |
G
05:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)ok so it allows a direct connection to servers but only if the servers allow it. the code above worked, but i couldn't see what i typed when i tryed to type get /. is this normal? and so telnet doesn't work with gmail. but would it work with something like ssh? and would telnet work on other mail servers (yahoo, msn, hotmail etc...) or do they requre encryption too? (btw this is the same person just with a differnt comp) 63.28.158.210 ( talk) 23:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
when i type in 'telnet en.wikipedia.org 80', it shows 'Connecting To en.wikipedia.org 80' for about 2 seconds, then teh screen clears and nothing is left except a blinking curser. if i type immediately thereafter i can't see what i type, ie. if type 'get /' i just see the cursor moving but not actual characters. after that i press enter and it 'spills the source code' as you said, then the connection is lost. if i don't type anything on the blank screen and wait for a minute it eventually kicks me back to c:\ 63.28.135.93 ( talk) 02:05, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I asked my doubt listed in 5.7 that if more ram is needed for getting good FPS, I still have this doubt. As steve baker mentioned a detailed explanation about the stuff, I looked into his article/essay on the real bottleneck for getting good gaming results. I could well understand those facts but I'm not clear with one point steve and that is about Virtual memory.If I have say 1GB RAM and the game I play demand 1.5GB as recommended config, then whilst playing my pc may try to write data into HDD due to insufficient ram and this may add time delay overhead while playing.Wouldn't this delay might cause drag or drop in FPS?, since the transfer rate for HDD is very slow compared to RAM!. Also please answer me this that if 512 MB of RAM is demanded for a game, then does it mean I should have 512 MB free memory out of 1GB or exclusive 512 MB physical RAM chip?. Sorry for a delay in posting...Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 06:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm unclear of the fact that some I heard saying that the graphics cards frame rate is restricted by monitors refresh rate. For example say if a monitor like an 15 inch CRT can make 60Hz of refresh rate at 1024 by 768 pixel resolution then wouldn't my gpu card be able to send data beyond 60FPS when VSYNC is turned to on?. Esp I heard this problem on LCD where the refresh rate is only 60Hz.also does VSYNC have some other meaning?...please anybody try to post your reply anything you know about this. Thanks a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 07:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks but if this is the case,then what's the use and advantage of running games at very high frame rate say above 100 or so while we can't go beyond the actual refresh rate?..And what is the purpose of VSYNC here?.Enabling it seems to reduce performance in terms of FPS.I do not understand this,but not all games have this option. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 08:40, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I have been working in VB 6 so far, and now I have got VB 2005(.NET Framework 2.0). I'm thinking of using both of these application software since I have previous programs and some new projects to be done in VB6 whereas I need to run VB 2005 also for some client's projects. So I'm now unclear that if I can run these two installed onto the same OS.Also by installing VB 2005, will VB2005 affect the VB6 tools such as "package and deployment" in anyway?...Please help me. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balan rajan ( talk • contribs) 07:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
My user agent information shows the following in the website whatsmyuseragent.com
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.6;MEGAUPLOAD 1.0
Will this be the same for everyone using Firefox 2.0.0.11? Any idea why I am getting that 'MEGAUPLOAD 1.0'? What does rv:1.8.1.11 and Gecko/20071127 say? Once upon a time, I installed Megaupload toolbar, but uninstalled later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.112.197 ( talk) 08:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
(From the asker of the question) Thanks for the reply. If anyone of you know how to get rid of that MEGAUPLOAD 1.0 from my user agent, please tell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.92.119.195 ( talk) 18:34, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I neeeded to download a *.JAR file as I need it to use it on Template:Image label begin, but, how do you run such a file? -- 41.201.169.19 ( talk) 13:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia contributors,
Can Photoshop CS open up all of Canon's RAW extensions? Thank you 71.18.216.110 ( talk) 15:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
How does the Kindle access the Internet? Does the owner need to supply his/her own WiFi? If so what does it mean by free access to Wikipedia included? Am I missing something? Is Amazon offering its own Wireless subscription service? -- Kushal t 16:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Kushal t 17:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I have read both separately but not the side by side comparison. Could you link us please? Thanks -- Kushal t 04:32, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Neither the critics of the Kindle, nor (oddly) Amazon themselves seem to mention two CRUCIAL facts:
So getting your own content onto Kindle is a breeze and doing it that way costs you nothing. So - with a suitably large memory card, you can immediately dump Project Gutenburg (22,000 books!) onto the thing for starters - cost $0...and any other eBook format that you can convert to PDF or something can also be read on Kindle. What you can't do is read Amazon-supplied material on anything other than your, personal Kindle...that's not really much different from the iPod/iTunes setup.
The reason you can't get to the general internet through the thing is that Amazon are paying your phone bill and they'd go bust VERY quickly if people used it a lot. Also the display (being a weird ePaper thing) doesn't update fast enough for interactive types of usage - you certainly couldn't watch movies or even GIF animations on the thing...and without flash/Javascript/Java/etc, it would be a pretty poor Internet experience anyway. But that's NOT what it's for. It's a book/Wikipedia/magazine/news-blog reader - and for that, it's not half bad. For me, it's worth $400 just to be able to comfortably read Project Gutenberg+Wikipedia+Slashdot+email without needing an Internet connection or a crappy backlit 320 pixel display.
SteveBaker ( talk) 15:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
You have got that one. I have tried to read a plain text e-book from PG on the Nokia 6600. I would not recommend that to anyone. -- Kushal t 18:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Hold on, I read the whole of Great Expectations and all but the last chapter of Anna Karenina on a desktop computer (a lowly 1024 x 768!)
But that was not my point. Does not the Kindle have technical restrictions on how large an SD card it can hold? I am pretty sure it is capped below 4 GB. PG is already past 4 GB. -- Kushal t 21:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
It certainly takes a little getting used to to read books on a computer screen, but I don't have much of a problem with it. I read almost all of His Dark Materials, all but one of the Ringworld books, and 3 or 4 Robert A. Heinlein books in microsoft reader. I've got better places to spend it if I had $400 to burn ($400 for a little e-paper display that displays text files?!) -- ffroth 23:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I tend to copy and paste things off of the internet and into Microsoft Word or Notepad. The only problem with that is that my computer is too heavy to carry around. This means I don't have to go on the internet and look something up, or wait for it to download, which my computer seems to be extra slow at. There are dozens of ways of reading, and this Kindle thing seems to be the worst.~ ~ ~ ~
Does anyone know if there are any open-source Java programs/libraries that can use the voices built into Windows XP/Vista?
Thanks!
Sam 18:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Moved from Entertainment Desk. Rockpocke t 19:21, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I installed the Caesar IV game in my pc and started it. The game started but all I see is white screen though I can hear the music running in the background. When the music stops the Caesar IV cursor appears but the white screen is still there. I can move around the cursor and could even blindly press the menu buttons of the game. But I cannot see anything. What could be wrong? The total display memory of my pc is 64 MB (I got this info from the DirectX diagnostic tool that one gets by typing "dxdiag" in the "run" program in start menu). I got the same problem previously with harry potter 3 but when i modified certain settings like color depth in the .ini file I could see everything again. I tried this with Caesar IV too. But it didn't work. Can you help me out? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.89.21.98 ( talk) 09:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
See the related posts on Sierra's forum: [1] --— Gadget850 (Ed) talk - 21:59, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
I get some music via Limewire and upload it from there to the Itunes music folder (File, Add Folder to Libary (the folder my Limewire tunes are in)). The songs all display in the main Itunes music folder. My question is, can I transfer these tunes to an Ipod without any problem? I want an Ipod but don't want to spend a few hundred on something that doesn't work for me. (Note: I'm not talking about the Shared Limewire tab that comes up in like the middle of the sidebar, I mean I have uploaded them into the main music folder). Thanks! Dooms Day349 22:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Second that -- Kushal t 16:17, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
how would i type in unicode characters if i didn't have a numeric keypad? is it the same if you typed it in using the number row? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.28.158.210 ( talk) 23:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am currently using Windows Xp opearating stystem.Whenever i turn on the computer a lot of "unwanted programs" start up automatically.My question is :Where are instructions to start up these programs are located? Can I customize edit which programs to start and which programs not to start? 202.70.74.161 ( talk) 23:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
Can anyone point me to a comparison of memory speeds (approximate read/write speeds in MB/s) which includes a standard 7,200RPM HDD, a 10,000RPM HDD, RAM (something similar to say Corsair 8500 C5D), a USB key (reasonably good one - USB 2.0 obviously) and a 16x DVD. Thanks! --
Fir0002
23:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)