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Does anybody know of a graphics card that will plug right into a laptop expresscard/34 slot? I don't care how powerful it is, it only needs to support Mac OS X. And will the OS utilize the built in card and the new expresscard one at the same time? Thanks in advance. ryan 03:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I want to run two monitors as an extended desktop aswell as a TV as a mirror of either of these screens. I have a 17" Relysis TE770 on my VGA output, a 19" Proview PX-986N on the DVA output (through a VGA converter) and a TV on the S-Video cable.
In the: Display properties - Settings - Advanced - "ATi" Displays: I find a screen with four panels, each of which have an on (green) off (red) switch. When I turn on the second monitor, the TV turns off and vice versa. So I'm confused?
Is there any way to use all three screens? Aaron 04:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I've been unable to exit the X server in Kubuntu Edgy. It seems to have an over-zealous auto-recovery feature that prevents even manual exit. Does anyone know how I can do this? Superm401 - Talk 05:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 X
. --
wj32
talk |
contribs 06:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 Xorg
still just restarts it. That's the issue.
Superm401 -
Talk 23:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 gdm
. Then try killing X. --
wj32
talk |
contribs 03:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 Xorg
. This just freezes completely, still within X and KDE and everything. Then, I restarted, did sudo killall -9 Xorg
again, then did Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. That exits X Server and doesn't restart, but it just gives me a black screen. There's no terminal.
Superm401 -
Talk 05:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt bash
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt -c 3
VT 3 is in use; command aborted
use `openvt -f' to force
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt -f -c 20
I have a folder on my hdd named 'C:\Program Files\Ark'. I call is Ark because anything there gets moved to my laptop. When I put additional folders in there containing files, I am usually able to access them. Why shouldn't I? But, the problem is that sometimes, certain folders instantly stop working. Windows sees them as empty, 0 bytes, 0 files, yet I clearly have files in there. When I try to open these folders, I get an error "C:\Program Files\Ark\name" is not accessible. Access is denied. I cannot open them, I cannot delete them, I cannot copy them. It's very frustrating to know that there are files there, but I can't get to them. My computer is a year old this month, running Windows XP Home, and is therefore in need of a reformatting. I'd like to get these files out if possible --
Russoc4 17:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Problem solved! I was able to cut and paste the entire Ark folder to my desktop, where it works fine. Go figure. I'll be reformatting soon to prevent such a problem in the future. Thanks all. -- Russoc4 21:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I am curious how a slide show email I received contained snapshots of websites I visit...and new shap snots would be shown here and there while others repeated. What is going on here? I'm told Boolean algebra bla bla bla. Creepy-cool if you ask me. Jelizbeth 20:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm using the Mozilla Firefox browser, and a lot of special characters show up on my screen as question marks (?). I've looked online for character set extensions, but everything I found was... Greek to me, as it were. Can anybody here help me modify my browser to see these special characters? - GTBacchus( talk) 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi guys... I can program in several languages (self-taught) but after these years I still don't know how to program what I really would like to. What I would like to be able to program is something to automatize tasks and increase my productivity. This may sound somewhat weird, but my problem is that I haven't found any source about this topic. Actually, I mean something as simple but as hard to program for me such as a random article opener. For example, I'd like to have a process that, when I press E+left click in "Random article" say 5-6 windows will pop-up (in tabs if possible). A possible improvement for this would be to avoid stubs or articles about towns in the USA... How can I learn to do all this kind of things? Sorry but I couldn't be more specific for my question. Thanks in advance. -- Taraborn 23:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
6 times. See if the HTML for a stub is in the code, and if it is, download another random page. Then, if it passes the test, open it up in your browser (find out the title of the page first). --
wj32
talk |
contribs 00:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)function checkRandomKey(e) { var code = e.keyCode; var char = String.fromCharCode(code); if(char.toUpperCase() == "E") randomKeyDown = !randomKeyDown; return true; }
function openRandomPages(e) { if(randomKeyDown) { var fullPath = wgServer + wgArticlePath; var randomPage = fullPath.replace(/\$1/, "Special:Random"); for(var i = 0; i < 6; i++) window.open(randomPage); e.preventDefault(); randomKeyDown = false; } } var randomKeyDown; function setupRandomPages() { randomKeyDown = false; var randomLink = document.getElementById("n-randompage").firstChild; window.addEventListener("keydown", checkRandomKey, false); window.addEventListener("keyup", checkRandomKey, false); randomLink.addEventListener("click",openRandomPages,false); }
addOnloadHook(setupRandomPages);
I want to upluad text only and cannot find which format is acceptable beside JPEG —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrheine ( talk • contribs) 23:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
Well, recently, i have taken up the habit of learning web programing. i have Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript down pat, and working on learning DOM.
but I'm not satisfied with these. what i want to do is create a page that could be Wikied. Like have the client type something into an input form, and when submitted, affects the page for the rest of the world. it seems that i can't do that with the Languages i have learned thusfar, so... what language should i learn, and if possible, what would be a good site for learning it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xiaden ( talk • contribs) 23:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
PHP can be learned from php.net, although you might want to consider buying a book on it. A beginner's book on PHP should also have a few chapters on MySQL; the online mysql docs tend to be highly technical, I don't recommend using them for learning -- froth T C 20:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there a name for the set of languages that are recognized by deterministic pushdown automata (DPDAs)? I know that DPDAs are strictly more powerful than finite automata (FAs), so the languages they recognize must be a strict superset of the regular languages. I also know that DPDAs are strictly less powerful than the nondeterministic pushdown automata (NPDAs), so the languages they recognize must be a strict subset of the context-free languages. But I haven't seen the name of any set of languages that fits between regular and context-free. -- Spoon! 00:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't find any information on this. Is it possible to lock a graphics card from being overclocked, such as one can do to a cpu? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.231.205.94 ( talk) 03:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC).
This is new, I think. On firefox, whenever I used to click on a link to a music file, for instance on allmusic.com, it'd transfer me to a blank page (annoying but ok) and open the file. Now, it just transfers me to the blank page, and I can't figure out how to get the damn music clip to play. any suggestions? I tried messing around with my settings in this extension I've had for a while, Tab Mix Plus, because I thought that it might be responsible, but no setting seems to be anything that'd make a difference. This is annoying, because I'm trying to figure out whether to buy cds, and I can't here samples of the music. Only sites with their own players work (except amazon.com). If something needs wmp or realplayer, it just won't load. Thanks for any help, 70.108.219.115 05:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Could it have something to do with having recently installed VLC media player? I'm trying to figure out when the change occured. I don't think it's a problem with either wmd or realplayer, but rather firefox trying to open them. Because when I click on one of these links, it opens the blank page quickly, says "done" in the bottom left quickly, and then doesn't have any sign that anything is loading at all. Maybe I should reinstall firefox or delete tab mix plus, which I think i downloaded around the time this stuff stopped working. Good ideas? Bad? Part of the trouble with uninstalling and reinstalling both players is that each new version comes with new professional spyware type crap I have to delete. Anything I could try before that is preferable, and I think might actually work better. 70.108.219.115 06:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll give that a try. 70.108.219.115 07:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Yaaaayy! Uninstalling VLC did it. Thanks for talking me through this. 70.108.219.115 07:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there an easy and free way to save matlab figures in the svg format? deeptrivia ( talk) 05:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
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< January 7 | << Dec | January | Feb >> | January 9 > |
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. |
Does anybody know of a graphics card that will plug right into a laptop expresscard/34 slot? I don't care how powerful it is, it only needs to support Mac OS X. And will the OS utilize the built in card and the new expresscard one at the same time? Thanks in advance. ryan 03:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I want to run two monitors as an extended desktop aswell as a TV as a mirror of either of these screens. I have a 17" Relysis TE770 on my VGA output, a 19" Proview PX-986N on the DVA output (through a VGA converter) and a TV on the S-Video cable.
In the: Display properties - Settings - Advanced - "ATi" Displays: I find a screen with four panels, each of which have an on (green) off (red) switch. When I turn on the second monitor, the TV turns off and vice versa. So I'm confused?
Is there any way to use all three screens? Aaron 04:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I've been unable to exit the X server in Kubuntu Edgy. It seems to have an over-zealous auto-recovery feature that prevents even manual exit. Does anyone know how I can do this? Superm401 - Talk 05:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 X
. --
wj32
talk |
contribs 06:53, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 Xorg
still just restarts it. That's the issue.
Superm401 -
Talk 23:39, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 gdm
. Then try killing X. --
wj32
talk |
contribs 03:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
sudo killall -9 Xorg
. This just freezes completely, still within X and KDE and everything. Then, I restarted, did sudo killall -9 Xorg
again, then did Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. That exits X Server and doesn't restart, but it just gives me a black screen. There's no terminal.
Superm401 -
Talk 05:00, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt bash
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt -c 3
VT 3 is in use; command aborted
use `openvt -f' to force
root@matthew-e1505:/data# openvt -f -c 20
I have a folder on my hdd named 'C:\Program Files\Ark'. I call is Ark because anything there gets moved to my laptop. When I put additional folders in there containing files, I am usually able to access them. Why shouldn't I? But, the problem is that sometimes, certain folders instantly stop working. Windows sees them as empty, 0 bytes, 0 files, yet I clearly have files in there. When I try to open these folders, I get an error "C:\Program Files\Ark\name" is not accessible. Access is denied. I cannot open them, I cannot delete them, I cannot copy them. It's very frustrating to know that there are files there, but I can't get to them. My computer is a year old this month, running Windows XP Home, and is therefore in need of a reformatting. I'd like to get these files out if possible --
Russoc4 17:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Problem solved! I was able to cut and paste the entire Ark folder to my desktop, where it works fine. Go figure. I'll be reformatting soon to prevent such a problem in the future. Thanks all. -- Russoc4 21:56, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I am curious how a slide show email I received contained snapshots of websites I visit...and new shap snots would be shown here and there while others repeated. What is going on here? I'm told Boolean algebra bla bla bla. Creepy-cool if you ask me. Jelizbeth 20:15, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm using the Mozilla Firefox browser, and a lot of special characters show up on my screen as question marks (?). I've looked online for character set extensions, but everything I found was... Greek to me, as it were. Can anybody here help me modify my browser to see these special characters? - GTBacchus( talk) 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi guys... I can program in several languages (self-taught) but after these years I still don't know how to program what I really would like to. What I would like to be able to program is something to automatize tasks and increase my productivity. This may sound somewhat weird, but my problem is that I haven't found any source about this topic. Actually, I mean something as simple but as hard to program for me such as a random article opener. For example, I'd like to have a process that, when I press E+left click in "Random article" say 5-6 windows will pop-up (in tabs if possible). A possible improvement for this would be to avoid stubs or articles about towns in the USA... How can I learn to do all this kind of things? Sorry but I couldn't be more specific for my question. Thanks in advance. -- Taraborn 23:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
6 times. See if the HTML for a stub is in the code, and if it is, download another random page. Then, if it passes the test, open it up in your browser (find out the title of the page first). --
wj32
talk |
contribs 00:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)function checkRandomKey(e) { var code = e.keyCode; var char = String.fromCharCode(code); if(char.toUpperCase() == "E") randomKeyDown = !randomKeyDown; return true; }
function openRandomPages(e) { if(randomKeyDown) { var fullPath = wgServer + wgArticlePath; var randomPage = fullPath.replace(/\$1/, "Special:Random"); for(var i = 0; i < 6; i++) window.open(randomPage); e.preventDefault(); randomKeyDown = false; } } var randomKeyDown; function setupRandomPages() { randomKeyDown = false; var randomLink = document.getElementById("n-randompage").firstChild; window.addEventListener("keydown", checkRandomKey, false); window.addEventListener("keyup", checkRandomKey, false); randomLink.addEventListener("click",openRandomPages,false); }
addOnloadHook(setupRandomPages);
I want to upluad text only and cannot find which format is acceptable beside JPEG —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrheine ( talk • contribs) 23:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
Well, recently, i have taken up the habit of learning web programing. i have Learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript down pat, and working on learning DOM.
but I'm not satisfied with these. what i want to do is create a page that could be Wikied. Like have the client type something into an input form, and when submitted, affects the page for the rest of the world. it seems that i can't do that with the Languages i have learned thusfar, so... what language should i learn, and if possible, what would be a good site for learning it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xiaden ( talk • contribs) 23:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
PHP can be learned from php.net, although you might want to consider buying a book on it. A beginner's book on PHP should also have a few chapters on MySQL; the online mysql docs tend to be highly technical, I don't recommend using them for learning -- froth T C 20:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there a name for the set of languages that are recognized by deterministic pushdown automata (DPDAs)? I know that DPDAs are strictly more powerful than finite automata (FAs), so the languages they recognize must be a strict superset of the regular languages. I also know that DPDAs are strictly less powerful than the nondeterministic pushdown automata (NPDAs), so the languages they recognize must be a strict subset of the context-free languages. But I haven't seen the name of any set of languages that fits between regular and context-free. -- Spoon! 00:28, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
I couldn't find any information on this. Is it possible to lock a graphics card from being overclocked, such as one can do to a cpu? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.231.205.94 ( talk) 03:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC).
This is new, I think. On firefox, whenever I used to click on a link to a music file, for instance on allmusic.com, it'd transfer me to a blank page (annoying but ok) and open the file. Now, it just transfers me to the blank page, and I can't figure out how to get the damn music clip to play. any suggestions? I tried messing around with my settings in this extension I've had for a while, Tab Mix Plus, because I thought that it might be responsible, but no setting seems to be anything that'd make a difference. This is annoying, because I'm trying to figure out whether to buy cds, and I can't here samples of the music. Only sites with their own players work (except amazon.com). If something needs wmp or realplayer, it just won't load. Thanks for any help, 70.108.219.115 05:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Could it have something to do with having recently installed VLC media player? I'm trying to figure out when the change occured. I don't think it's a problem with either wmd or realplayer, but rather firefox trying to open them. Because when I click on one of these links, it opens the blank page quickly, says "done" in the bottom left quickly, and then doesn't have any sign that anything is loading at all. Maybe I should reinstall firefox or delete tab mix plus, which I think i downloaded around the time this stuff stopped working. Good ideas? Bad? Part of the trouble with uninstalling and reinstalling both players is that each new version comes with new professional spyware type crap I have to delete. Anything I could try before that is preferable, and I think might actually work better. 70.108.219.115 06:15, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll give that a try. 70.108.219.115 07:14, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Yaaaayy! Uninstalling VLC did it. Thanks for talking me through this. 70.108.219.115 07:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Is there an easy and free way to save matlab figures in the svg format? deeptrivia ( talk) 05:50, 9 January 2007 (UTC)