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I've reached the brink of insanity trying to get my Wifi card to work under Ubuntu. Now I'd just like to buy a card that is known to work well on a PC running Ubuntu. Can you recommend a card or chipset that will be the most straightforward to get working? ike9898 00:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I read a great webpage a little while ago telling the tale of the development of Apple's calculator's UI for the very first Macintosh (?), and about how it morphed into a 'calculator construction kit' because the lead developer was unhappy with any of his underlings' offerings, so he had to make the UI himself. However, googling for some terms I was fairly sure were in the article yields either far too many irrelevant results ("apple calculator 'construction kit' interface grey" - try it for yourself!) or miss out the article I wanted (""calculator construction kit" apple" - ditto). Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and have the capacity to point me in the correct direction? 88.111.210.179 01:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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Update: By the_creative_one.
There was a program not by Apple Called Calculator Construction Kit .
CCK was produced by Dubl-Click.
Its products were: ArtRoundup; Calculator Construction Kit; ClickChange; ClickTrax; Icon Mania; Menu Fonts; WetPaint [also Newton]. The company no longer exist.
The developer was Clifton Claude Joyce.
You can find information about him at Brown Family History part 1 (Half way down the page.)
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/b1.htm
[1]
CCK ran on Mac System 5.x to 7.x (I believe this to be right?)
You could build a calculator using pre-built parts or provide your own programming using the built-in language.
I created several useful calculators for special needs. I sure wish Cliff's company was still around. I would love to have a new version of CCK.
Monday 10 November 2008 01:03:51 CST
When I look at pages for your site much of the text like quotations, etc., appear to be scrammbled like
24.18.95.190
02:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)qwvufg"qh"wu"dq{u.
talic text
Colleen Stewart <e-mail removed>
Hey there I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can download a program that lets me type in Japanese or Korean characters (and quickly switch back to Roman letters)? -- Candy-Panda 04:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I (think I) heard a while back that a certain e-mail service could un-send your e-mail under certain conditions; if the recipient hadn't read the e-mail yet, you would be able to take it back. Is this possible, and if so, what service might do that?-- the ninth bright shiner talk 15:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Outlook/Exchange allows you to do this as long as the recipient is an account on the same Exchange server. - lethe talk + 16:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
We use Novell Groupwise at work. It has an option for you to "Retract mail", which will automatically remove it from the inbox of any recipients who haven't opened the mail yet. Obviously this only applies to "internal email" sent to colleagues within the company (i.e. the message is still on our company's servers), messages sent outside of our own mail servers cannot be retracted. Zun aid © ® 12:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
how can i pause a gif picture at some scene and resume it again ? and thanks in advance..
thank you Toto.. I did it.. with photoshop..
I just spent long hours preparing a web page on freewebspace ( its free ) , and - gradually - the text - which was originally written in Arabic - Began to look like scribbles !! I assume the problem is related to encoding and multilingual support , but I don't know if this problem can be resolved somehow without losing all the informaton I've saved ... Please help me anyone ?! 212.138.47.17 16:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
@ 2007-02-20T15:06Z
Why is it that AMD stock has been on a horrible skid recently, at least the past year? Don't they make highly demanded chips, and have good future prospects? Thanks, 128.112.149.76 18:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to figure out how I can make the background color of a sidebar, which is assigned float left, expand the whole length of the container div. For example, look at [3]. If I apply a background-color attribute to either "leftnav" or "rightnav", the color stops right under the padding of the text. What I want to do is have the background-color extend all the way to the footer. Am I going to have to do this with an image placed in the container div?- Andrew c 18:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
What is the oldest web site still in continuous operation? Edison 20:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me what software works with Vista
using namespace Windows_Vista Can you tell me what software works with Vista
If your loking for games try Games for Windows A lot of companys will start putting small vista logos on the side of there boxes Partnershope this helps -- Nerdd 16:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Which do you all think is better? The comparison articles on wiki are absolutely useless for anyone who isn't a majore computer guy. Thanks, 66.234.239.238 22:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
What I mean is that AVG 7.5 complete or whatever comes with its own firewall. It says, upon installation, that either the Windows firewall or the AVG one can run, not both. Which, I was wondering, works better? Also, unrelated, you can't be affected by a viral email you dont open, right? Do you have to download anything from the email to get the virus? Doesn't gmail protect against most viruses? Sorry for the lack of clarification earlier on. And what I mean by the comparison article is that there are articles comparing various firewalls that are just a series of technical charts--completely obstruse stuff. This is the same for the media player comparison sites and other stuff. I expect that the majority of people who need to turn to wikipedia for information on firewalls and media players etc aren't knowledgable enough about computers to know a quarter of what those charts are quantifying. Thanks, at any rate, for all your help, and if any of my clarifications help you answer the original question, I'd love to have a better picture of whether I should keep Windows firewall or go with AVG. Thanks, everybody, 66.234.239.238 03:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, says the same guy actually logged in on a computer with a different IP address. And does anybody have an answer to the second question I snuck in there? This one: "Also, unrelated, you can't be affected by a viral email you dont open, right? Do you have to download anything from the email to get the virus? Doesn't gmail protect against most viruses?" Thanks for any further answers. Sashafklein 05:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
can i get adobe photoshop anywhere for free?
well what i am trying to do is make a lightsaber. i know how, i just need adobe photoshop. will GIMP work too?
yeah thats funny, but i really want serious help for this. don't post dumb comments. i don't know how to get it illegaly anyway.
you can get adobe photoshop starter edition for free from adobe's website, they email you an unlock code it Jackacon 10:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Is GIMP for windows? because every time i try to download it somewhere it says that it failed. Can someone give me a link or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.157.9.230 ( talk • contribs)
thanx a lot for the help, and thanx for the link woot.
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I've reached the brink of insanity trying to get my Wifi card to work under Ubuntu. Now I'd just like to buy a card that is known to work well on a PC running Ubuntu. Can you recommend a card or chipset that will be the most straightforward to get working? ike9898 00:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I read a great webpage a little while ago telling the tale of the development of Apple's calculator's UI for the very first Macintosh (?), and about how it morphed into a 'calculator construction kit' because the lead developer was unhappy with any of his underlings' offerings, so he had to make the UI himself. However, googling for some terms I was fairly sure were in the article yields either far too many irrelevant results ("apple calculator 'construction kit' interface grey" - try it for yourself!) or miss out the article I wanted (""calculator construction kit" apple" - ditto). Does anyone know what I'm talking about, and have the capacity to point me in the correct direction? 88.111.210.179 01:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
———————————————————————————
Update: By the_creative_one.
There was a program not by Apple Called Calculator Construction Kit .
CCK was produced by Dubl-Click.
Its products were: ArtRoundup; Calculator Construction Kit; ClickChange; ClickTrax; Icon Mania; Menu Fonts; WetPaint [also Newton]. The company no longer exist.
The developer was Clifton Claude Joyce.
You can find information about him at Brown Family History part 1 (Half way down the page.)
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cchouk/oregon_trail/b1.htm
[1]
CCK ran on Mac System 5.x to 7.x (I believe this to be right?)
You could build a calculator using pre-built parts or provide your own programming using the built-in language.
I created several useful calculators for special needs. I sure wish Cliff's company was still around. I would love to have a new version of CCK.
Monday 10 November 2008 01:03:51 CST
When I look at pages for your site much of the text like quotations, etc., appear to be scrammbled like
24.18.95.190
02:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)qwvufg"qh"wu"dq{u.
talic text
Colleen Stewart <e-mail removed>
Hey there I was just wondering if anyone knows where I can download a program that lets me type in Japanese or Korean characters (and quickly switch back to Roman letters)? -- Candy-Panda 04:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I (think I) heard a while back that a certain e-mail service could un-send your e-mail under certain conditions; if the recipient hadn't read the e-mail yet, you would be able to take it back. Is this possible, and if so, what service might do that?-- the ninth bright shiner talk 15:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Outlook/Exchange allows you to do this as long as the recipient is an account on the same Exchange server. - lethe talk + 16:52, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
We use Novell Groupwise at work. It has an option for you to "Retract mail", which will automatically remove it from the inbox of any recipients who haven't opened the mail yet. Obviously this only applies to "internal email" sent to colleagues within the company (i.e. the message is still on our company's servers), messages sent outside of our own mail servers cannot be retracted. Zun aid © ® 12:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
how can i pause a gif picture at some scene and resume it again ? and thanks in advance..
thank you Toto.. I did it.. with photoshop..
I just spent long hours preparing a web page on freewebspace ( its free ) , and - gradually - the text - which was originally written in Arabic - Began to look like scribbles !! I assume the problem is related to encoding and multilingual support , but I don't know if this problem can be resolved somehow without losing all the informaton I've saved ... Please help me anyone ?! 212.138.47.17 16:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
@ 2007-02-20T15:06Z
Why is it that AMD stock has been on a horrible skid recently, at least the past year? Don't they make highly demanded chips, and have good future prospects? Thanks, 128.112.149.76 18:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to figure out how I can make the background color of a sidebar, which is assigned float left, expand the whole length of the container div. For example, look at [3]. If I apply a background-color attribute to either "leftnav" or "rightnav", the color stops right under the padding of the text. What I want to do is have the background-color extend all the way to the footer. Am I going to have to do this with an image placed in the container div?- Andrew c 18:41, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
What is the oldest web site still in continuous operation? Edison 20:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me what software works with Vista
using namespace Windows_Vista Can you tell me what software works with Vista
If your loking for games try Games for Windows A lot of companys will start putting small vista logos on the side of there boxes Partnershope this helps -- Nerdd 16:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Which do you all think is better? The comparison articles on wiki are absolutely useless for anyone who isn't a majore computer guy. Thanks, 66.234.239.238 22:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
What I mean is that AVG 7.5 complete or whatever comes with its own firewall. It says, upon installation, that either the Windows firewall or the AVG one can run, not both. Which, I was wondering, works better? Also, unrelated, you can't be affected by a viral email you dont open, right? Do you have to download anything from the email to get the virus? Doesn't gmail protect against most viruses? Sorry for the lack of clarification earlier on. And what I mean by the comparison article is that there are articles comparing various firewalls that are just a series of technical charts--completely obstruse stuff. This is the same for the media player comparison sites and other stuff. I expect that the majority of people who need to turn to wikipedia for information on firewalls and media players etc aren't knowledgable enough about computers to know a quarter of what those charts are quantifying. Thanks, at any rate, for all your help, and if any of my clarifications help you answer the original question, I'd love to have a better picture of whether I should keep Windows firewall or go with AVG. Thanks, everybody, 66.234.239.238 03:47, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, says the same guy actually logged in on a computer with a different IP address. And does anybody have an answer to the second question I snuck in there? This one: "Also, unrelated, you can't be affected by a viral email you dont open, right? Do you have to download anything from the email to get the virus? Doesn't gmail protect against most viruses?" Thanks for any further answers. Sashafklein 05:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
can i get adobe photoshop anywhere for free?
well what i am trying to do is make a lightsaber. i know how, i just need adobe photoshop. will GIMP work too?
yeah thats funny, but i really want serious help for this. don't post dumb comments. i don't know how to get it illegaly anyway.
you can get adobe photoshop starter edition for free from adobe's website, they email you an unlock code it Jackacon 10:26, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Is GIMP for windows? because every time i try to download it somewhere it says that it failed. Can someone give me a link or something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.157.9.230 ( talk • contribs)
thanx a lot for the help, and thanx for the link woot.