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Hello. I am an 84 year old man who has recently acquired a computer. I am currently having some trouble with it and thought I'd ask some of you young people who seem to have a lot of knowledge on computers and the Internet.
Yesterday, I talked to my grandson on the phone, and he told me that I could create a free e-mail address for myself by visiting the Web site "hotmales.com". However, when I do this, homosexual pornography is displayed on my computer. I have two questions: 1. Is there something I must do differently in order to create the free e-mail address? 2. If creating a free e-mail address is not possible, is there some way I can have heterosexual pornography displayed instead of the homosexual one?
I am looking forward to your help. Cargodemonstration 00:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
It is hotmail.com. it is easy to use and has enough space to use.
I would like to thank everyone for the help. After quite a few tries, I have now managed to successfully set up an e-mail address at hotmail.com. I also asked my neighbours' teenage son about the pornography issue, and he showed me some Websites I could use for that purpose. This means that both of my problems have been solved. These computers are really a most useful resource. Cargodemonstration 23:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
This is not conclusively computery enough for this section, but whatever. Looking up anything on LimeWire brings up lots of things including 'Steven Spielberg gets a hilarious prank phone call', 'Britney_Spears_gets_pranked', 'Track 9', '01 Track 1', etc. All of these have the comment 'not related to: (whatever I searched for)'. I know these are likely to be maleficent, but what exactly are they? I should probably use something else... Vitriol 00:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Limewire sucks real bad. try switching to imesh instead.
I have been using VNC for remote connections. The only problem I faced with this is that if a user knows the VNC password of a remote machine, he can connect to that without the local user of the machine having to accept the session. Of course, there is an option to Prompt local user to accept incoming session but this can be changed either by the local user or the remote user. Is there a way in which this can be disabled? (The local user should ALWAYS be prompted). Alternatively, is there any other software which does the work of VNC but ALWAYS prompts the local user? -- WikiCheng | Talk 05:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
But remote desktop will log off the local user! I was looking for something like VNC -- WikiCheng | Talk 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
A mix of Win2k (prof / server) and XP -- WikiCheng | Talk 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Provider uk's solution seems to work for me. I added a REG_DWORD with the name 'DisableOptions' with the value 1 and it disabled the 'options' menu in VNC. My users are no so very familiar with windows to change the registry values. Now I can just enable 'prompt local user' and disable the options so that it can't be changed. Thanks a lot everyone :-) -- WikiCheng | Talk 05:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to add a paid section to my site, that requires a username and password to enter. What kind of software does that? Or is it something I could type in myself? Also, what would be the easiest way to link that up with the usernames and passwords in a forum system like phpBB? Black Carrot 06:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, i want to buy a PS2, but the TV i want to use it with only has a UK aeriel socket i.e. 1/2-inch diameter round hole with one pin in the middle. will i be able to connect a PS2 to this tv by way of some sort of adapter or would it be a total waste of money? thank you, -- 194.176.105.39 08:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC) if you have a PS1 you can use the TV lead from that Jackacon 10:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
really? oh that is good news. is the socket in the back of the ps2 the same as that in the ps1 then? many thanks for your answer -- 194.176.105.39 10:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
yes it is Jackacon 14:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
My registered domain name (call it mydomain.com) allows me to receive e-mail with any prefix, e.g. info@mydomain.com. Recently I've been receiving a large number of failed delivery notifications addressed to random addresses, for example, idfgu@mydomain.com. Obviously some spammer is creating FROM: addresses by generating fake e-mail addresses using mydomain.com. If the e-mail then sent can't be delivered, the notification comes back to me.
How might this have happened? Is there anything I can do about it now?
Thanks for your advice. -- Halcatalyst 15:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
@ 2007-02-20T16:35Z
@ 2007-02-20T16:45Z
When USB and ethernet ports of a PC is used for ADSL-Broadband and local intranet repectrively,(when both lan are enabled)
Explorer trying for a internet site times out. Why? Any solution ?
The following code picks a letter from char value[] based on the probability weightings in int probability[], which as you can see total to 100. I beleive this is what is known as a 0th-Order Markov Chain. I would like to expand the probability matrix to two dimensions so that I could have a 1st-Order chain. Could anyone provide some way to expand the code to achieve this, or provide suggestions on how I can perhaps generalise / improve the current code even further?
The RNG is simple but adequate enough for my needs (i.e. the weightings are pretty balanced).
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> float getrand(void); int main(void) { srand(time(NULL)); int probability[3] = {25, 25, 50}; char value[3] = {'A', 'B', 'C'}; int count[3] = {0, 0, 0}; char b; int r; while(getch() != 'q') { r = (int)getrand(); printf("Random number: %i\n", r); if (r < probability[0]) { b = value[0]; ++count[0]; } else if (r >= probability[1] && r < probability[2]) { b = value[1]; ++count[1]; } else { b = value[2]; ++count[2]; } printf("Value: %c\n", b); } printf("\nDistribution: %i %i %i\n", count[0], count[1], count[2]); return 0; } // getrand() returns a random number float between 0 and 100 float getrand(void) { int i; float rnum; for (i = 0; i < 20; ++i) rnum = (float)rand() / RAND_MAX * 100; return(rnum); }
int probability[3][3] = {{25, 25, 50}, {0, 0, 100}, {100, 0, 0}}; //look, a nice loop!
int *current_probability=probability[b];
int b=0; //index into `value'
current_probability
, which is a
slice of your overall array, where you now use probability
to check r (by the way, you really want to use a loop for this: just test for r<current_probability[i]
for increasing i). Then, since b is an integer now, you don't sayb=value[...]; //... printf(...,b);
b=...; //... printf(...,value[b]);
I'm trying to get a number of images appearing in the following page but no matter what combination (of upper/lower case), which for the image name is case-sensitive, they don't seem to appear:
Any help would be appreciated (I'm sorry, but you will need to create a login to see the wiki code behind the page).
Thanks for any help! 80.200.139.245 17:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
That was it! Invisible characters in the image name!! When I clicked "delete" on the place between the ":" and the image name, the cursor did not move (hey, suspicious, if I'd thought to do that). Thanks a lot for your help. I would NEVER have sorted this out without you. 80.201.175.225 20:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Windows Media Player stores various pieces of information about the music you listen to, such has the play count and the most recent play date. Is there any way to get at this data (preferably in a format which can be manipulated in such a way as to use it in a spreadsheet or database)? I've tried typing it in manually from Media Player, but I've got well over 500 songs, which would take far too long to copy by hand. Laïka 17:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I saved a text file on my USB key using Ubuntu (Linux). The file is called ubuntu.txt and is 5kB in size. Why is there also a 3kB file called ubuntu.txt~ ? I think it has something to do with backing stuff up. Why does Linux need to do this? -- Seans Potato Business 19:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering what the difference between UAC and sudo is. I hear a lot of complaining about UAC, but I'm not sure how it differs from sudo. For example, with both Vista and Kubuntu, the user is prompted for a password to change the time. So why the complaints about UAC? By the way, I have never used Vista, only read about it. Thanks - Akamad 21:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
This started yesterday. I can sign in, but after that, Wikipedia's pages wont load completely anymore: they get stuck somewhere in the middle. I can see that the login was successful, when I hit stop, but that's about all I can see. I tried signing in as a non-abusive sockpuppet, and also tried accounts on other wikipedias. Same result. I'm using an iBook G4, Mac OS X, and Internet Explorer. What could this be, and what can I do? (Please bear in mind, that I don't know very much about my (or any) computer). --- 84.75.111.138 23:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC) ( Sluzzelin)
Correct me if I'm wrong...
The Web programmer or Web developer does the PHP, ASP, RoR and database work to make a dynamic website work the way the client wants it.
The Web designer makes the outside look good, graphics, fonts, layout, etc. Is it also the designer who does the basic HTML and CSS?
Then there's the writer, who writes the content. The entrepreneur is the visionary who wants to launch a website for a specific purpose. Even if it's non-profit service, is she still called entrepreneur?
What's the name for a Web specialist who excels at the world of ideas, i.e. the person who can take an existing website and rewrite the content to make it much more clear and succinct and suggest how to reorganize the way it functions from the user's point of view and interface to make it more intuitive and friendly? Is that a "usability specialist" or something like that? It's almost the opposite of the web programmer, because the programmer makes the back-end work, but this person makes the front-end make sense to a human and the most intuitive way a human would want to find the information they need or use it. Would I say "writer and usability expert" or is there a more common term for this kind of conceptual role?
-- Sonjaaa 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Who usually writes the spec document? The person who thinks of how everything should function in a usable way and explains exactly how it will work and interact, detail by detail, page by page. explaining it all in english. but then passes it on to the web programmer to do the actual coding and backend.-- Sonjaaa 03:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Computing desk | ||
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< February 19 | << Jan | February | Mar >> | February 21 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
Hello. I am an 84 year old man who has recently acquired a computer. I am currently having some trouble with it and thought I'd ask some of you young people who seem to have a lot of knowledge on computers and the Internet.
Yesterday, I talked to my grandson on the phone, and he told me that I could create a free e-mail address for myself by visiting the Web site "hotmales.com". However, when I do this, homosexual pornography is displayed on my computer. I have two questions: 1. Is there something I must do differently in order to create the free e-mail address? 2. If creating a free e-mail address is not possible, is there some way I can have heterosexual pornography displayed instead of the homosexual one?
I am looking forward to your help. Cargodemonstration 00:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
It is hotmail.com. it is easy to use and has enough space to use.
I would like to thank everyone for the help. After quite a few tries, I have now managed to successfully set up an e-mail address at hotmail.com. I also asked my neighbours' teenage son about the pornography issue, and he showed me some Websites I could use for that purpose. This means that both of my problems have been solved. These computers are really a most useful resource. Cargodemonstration 23:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
This is not conclusively computery enough for this section, but whatever. Looking up anything on LimeWire brings up lots of things including 'Steven Spielberg gets a hilarious prank phone call', 'Britney_Spears_gets_pranked', 'Track 9', '01 Track 1', etc. All of these have the comment 'not related to: (whatever I searched for)'. I know these are likely to be maleficent, but what exactly are they? I should probably use something else... Vitriol 00:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Limewire sucks real bad. try switching to imesh instead.
I have been using VNC for remote connections. The only problem I faced with this is that if a user knows the VNC password of a remote machine, he can connect to that without the local user of the machine having to accept the session. Of course, there is an option to Prompt local user to accept incoming session but this can be changed either by the local user or the remote user. Is there a way in which this can be disabled? (The local user should ALWAYS be prompted). Alternatively, is there any other software which does the work of VNC but ALWAYS prompts the local user? -- WikiCheng | Talk 05:36, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
But remote desktop will log off the local user! I was looking for something like VNC -- WikiCheng | Talk 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
A mix of Win2k (prof / server) and XP -- WikiCheng | Talk 14:38, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Provider uk's solution seems to work for me. I added a REG_DWORD with the name 'DisableOptions' with the value 1 and it disabled the 'options' menu in VNC. My users are no so very familiar with windows to change the registry values. Now I can just enable 'prompt local user' and disable the options so that it can't be changed. Thanks a lot everyone :-) -- WikiCheng | Talk 05:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
I'd like to add a paid section to my site, that requires a username and password to enter. What kind of software does that? Or is it something I could type in myself? Also, what would be the easiest way to link that up with the usernames and passwords in a forum system like phpBB? Black Carrot 06:13, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, i want to buy a PS2, but the TV i want to use it with only has a UK aeriel socket i.e. 1/2-inch diameter round hole with one pin in the middle. will i be able to connect a PS2 to this tv by way of some sort of adapter or would it be a total waste of money? thank you, -- 194.176.105.39 08:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC) if you have a PS1 you can use the TV lead from that Jackacon 10:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
really? oh that is good news. is the socket in the back of the ps2 the same as that in the ps1 then? many thanks for your answer -- 194.176.105.39 10:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
yes it is Jackacon 14:21, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
My registered domain name (call it mydomain.com) allows me to receive e-mail with any prefix, e.g. info@mydomain.com. Recently I've been receiving a large number of failed delivery notifications addressed to random addresses, for example, idfgu@mydomain.com. Obviously some spammer is creating FROM: addresses by generating fake e-mail addresses using mydomain.com. If the e-mail then sent can't be delivered, the notification comes back to me.
How might this have happened? Is there anything I can do about it now?
Thanks for your advice. -- Halcatalyst 15:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
@ 2007-02-20T16:35Z
@ 2007-02-20T16:45Z
When USB and ethernet ports of a PC is used for ADSL-Broadband and local intranet repectrively,(when both lan are enabled)
Explorer trying for a internet site times out. Why? Any solution ?
The following code picks a letter from char value[] based on the probability weightings in int probability[], which as you can see total to 100. I beleive this is what is known as a 0th-Order Markov Chain. I would like to expand the probability matrix to two dimensions so that I could have a 1st-Order chain. Could anyone provide some way to expand the code to achieve this, or provide suggestions on how I can perhaps generalise / improve the current code even further?
The RNG is simple but adequate enough for my needs (i.e. the weightings are pretty balanced).
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> float getrand(void); int main(void) { srand(time(NULL)); int probability[3] = {25, 25, 50}; char value[3] = {'A', 'B', 'C'}; int count[3] = {0, 0, 0}; char b; int r; while(getch() != 'q') { r = (int)getrand(); printf("Random number: %i\n", r); if (r < probability[0]) { b = value[0]; ++count[0]; } else if (r >= probability[1] && r < probability[2]) { b = value[1]; ++count[1]; } else { b = value[2]; ++count[2]; } printf("Value: %c\n", b); } printf("\nDistribution: %i %i %i\n", count[0], count[1], count[2]); return 0; } // getrand() returns a random number float between 0 and 100 float getrand(void) { int i; float rnum; for (i = 0; i < 20; ++i) rnum = (float)rand() / RAND_MAX * 100; return(rnum); }
int probability[3][3] = {{25, 25, 50}, {0, 0, 100}, {100, 0, 0}}; //look, a nice loop!
int *current_probability=probability[b];
int b=0; //index into `value'
current_probability
, which is a
slice of your overall array, where you now use probability
to check r (by the way, you really want to use a loop for this: just test for r<current_probability[i]
for increasing i). Then, since b is an integer now, you don't sayb=value[...]; //... printf(...,b);
b=...; //... printf(...,value[b]);
I'm trying to get a number of images appearing in the following page but no matter what combination (of upper/lower case), which for the image name is case-sensitive, they don't seem to appear:
Any help would be appreciated (I'm sorry, but you will need to create a login to see the wiki code behind the page).
Thanks for any help! 80.200.139.245 17:16, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
That was it! Invisible characters in the image name!! When I clicked "delete" on the place between the ":" and the image name, the cursor did not move (hey, suspicious, if I'd thought to do that). Thanks a lot for your help. I would NEVER have sorted this out without you. 80.201.175.225 20:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Windows Media Player stores various pieces of information about the music you listen to, such has the play count and the most recent play date. Is there any way to get at this data (preferably in a format which can be manipulated in such a way as to use it in a spreadsheet or database)? I've tried typing it in manually from Media Player, but I've got well over 500 songs, which would take far too long to copy by hand. Laïka 17:18, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I saved a text file on my USB key using Ubuntu (Linux). The file is called ubuntu.txt and is 5kB in size. Why is there also a 3kB file called ubuntu.txt~ ? I think it has something to do with backing stuff up. Why does Linux need to do this? -- Seans Potato Business 19:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering what the difference between UAC and sudo is. I hear a lot of complaining about UAC, but I'm not sure how it differs from sudo. For example, with both Vista and Kubuntu, the user is prompted for a password to change the time. So why the complaints about UAC? By the way, I have never used Vista, only read about it. Thanks - Akamad 21:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
This started yesterday. I can sign in, but after that, Wikipedia's pages wont load completely anymore: they get stuck somewhere in the middle. I can see that the login was successful, when I hit stop, but that's about all I can see. I tried signing in as a non-abusive sockpuppet, and also tried accounts on other wikipedias. Same result. I'm using an iBook G4, Mac OS X, and Internet Explorer. What could this be, and what can I do? (Please bear in mind, that I don't know very much about my (or any) computer). --- 84.75.111.138 23:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC) ( Sluzzelin)
Correct me if I'm wrong...
The Web programmer or Web developer does the PHP, ASP, RoR and database work to make a dynamic website work the way the client wants it.
The Web designer makes the outside look good, graphics, fonts, layout, etc. Is it also the designer who does the basic HTML and CSS?
Then there's the writer, who writes the content. The entrepreneur is the visionary who wants to launch a website for a specific purpose. Even if it's non-profit service, is she still called entrepreneur?
What's the name for a Web specialist who excels at the world of ideas, i.e. the person who can take an existing website and rewrite the content to make it much more clear and succinct and suggest how to reorganize the way it functions from the user's point of view and interface to make it more intuitive and friendly? Is that a "usability specialist" or something like that? It's almost the opposite of the web programmer, because the programmer makes the back-end work, but this person makes the front-end make sense to a human and the most intuitive way a human would want to find the information they need or use it. Would I say "writer and usability expert" or is there a more common term for this kind of conceptual role?
-- Sonjaaa 23:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Who usually writes the spec document? The person who thinks of how everything should function in a usable way and explains exactly how it will work and interact, detail by detail, page by page. explaining it all in english. but then passes it on to the web programmer to do the actual coding and backend.-- Sonjaaa 03:13, 21 February 2007 (UTC)