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Most Magic: The Gathering cards have one name, one mana cost, and so on. But some, such as "Dead // Gone", have two, so in my PostgreSQL database I need to be able to split each over two table rows one way or another. There are several ways I could handle split cards, and each has pros and cons.
What are the reference deskers' opinions on the best option? Can they propose other options than these three? BTW, this is going up on Sourceforge under GPL once I get my own data entered in and a few details worked out, so you'll be helping build a database for all MTGers, not just for me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NeonMerlin ( talk • contribs) 01:30, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
how do i fix —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.168.247.148 ( talk) 02:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Out of curiousity, How are you typing your message now? XD
♥ ECH3LON ♥ 02:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
PLEASE HELP! WHENEVER I CHOOSE TO USE THE WELCOME SCREEN A BORING MSG. APPEARS SAYING "CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE HAS DISABLED THE WELCOME SCREEN AND FAST USER SWITCHING.TO RESTORE THIS FEATURE,YOU MUST UNINSTALL CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE" I CAN'T FIND THIS FILE(CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE). WHAT SHALL I DO? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.99.30.197 ( talk) 13:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Go to Start>> Control Panel
Select Network and Internet Connections
Click Network Connections
Right click on Properties and select the Network/Internet connection you use
Check each one individually by right clicking and selecting Properties
When you see the client services on Netware in the list of properties, click on it to remove the small 'X' Click nothing else at this point.
Now, scroll down and select Uninstall
Your PC should reboot with the old Netware logon. After it does, go back to Control Panel and click User Accounts and change how users logon.
You should now be able to re-establish the Welcome screen that Netware disabled.
Andy reply 15:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I hope someone can help me with this. Whenever, I edit any big pages on Wikipedia, a message comes up which states that the Connection was reset. The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise, click Cancel. The browser which I am using is Firefox and the processing power of my PC is a Pentium II 300Mhz. This problem does not appear when I use a different PC. It takes about 30 seconds for the error message to appear. Moreover, I have also increased the length of timeout in my browser but this problem still persists. Will the problem be gone if I re-install Firefox to my PC? What should I do to remedy this problem? -- S iva1979 Talk to me 15:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
How do you stop speakers on computers picking up foreign radio stations? Simply south 18:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, you are my very last try before I shut Vista into the trashbin and return to XP. Live messenger simply doesn't work. I have Vista Home Premium, and for two days after the prchase of the laptop that came with vista installed already, messenger was wrking fine. Then suddenly it gave me the error code 80070005 telling me the service is unavailable, whernever I want to log in. I sent two long nights on google figuring out what to do, registered on several forums like vista and live messenger developers forums but nobody's advice could get messenger work on my comp... Tried reinstalling the messenger, deleting all messenger-related files after uninstalling, downloaded newer and oder versions, checked the firewall setups and did certain cmd tricks people advised me to do, but NOTHING works. Anyone has any idea why my vista just wont let lve messenger work??? I use trillian and miranda to connect but hate them, i want my lil msn back :((( Thanks in advance -- Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 18:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to write a script in PHP that will use the convert binary command-line tool from ImageMagick to convert individual PDF pages into PNG files (rasterize them). I understand that to do this I will also need to have a ghostscript binary at hand as well?
My goal is to execute this with a system command in PHP.
I'm a bit confused as to how the Unix-based filesystem works. In an ideal world I would just be able to grab the few binaries I needed and upload them and execute them (assuming I have the right permissions set, etc.). I can do similar things without too much difficulty on a Windows box, but my server is Unix-based.
I'm trying to code it on my OS X using its built-in Apache server and it just doesn't seem to be trying to execute the "convert" program (I keep getting a "file not found" response from the system command). Here is the kind of command I'm trying to run: ~/Sites/PDFConverter/convert -size 700 "pdf/152511.pdf[2]" "png/152511.pdf.0002.png"
Clearly I'm not thinking about this correctly. Can someone who groks this stuff tell me exactly what I'm going to need to do? I don't want to compile things. I don't want to do anything complicated that I'm not going to be able to do on my server box. I just want to use this command-line program to convert stuff. This is driving me a bit crazy. -- 24.147.86.187 18:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't get why the string functions in C work like they do. For example, an obvious string concatenation function would work something like this (no error handling, I know, and I haven't even tested it):
char* stringconcat(const char* str1, const char* str2){ size_t len1 = strlen(str1); size_t len2 = strlen(str2); char* ret = (char*) malloc(len1 + len2 + 1); strcpy(ret, str1); strcpy(ret + len1, str2); return ret; }
I can't find such a function, is there one? — Bromskloss 20:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
char *c = malloc ( strlen(a)+strlen(b)+1 ) ; strcpy ( c, a ) ; strcat ( c, b ) ;
I have recently purchased a new macbook. I learned how to install hebrew on it, and the hebrew works fine in Word, online, or in other contexts. However, I communicate with friends and family through ICQ and therefore need to be able to type hebrew in ICQ. I have tried to, yet I can not figure out how to get hebrew to work on icq. It just comes up as gibberish and I can not type nor read things in hebrwe. If anyone has any knoweldge as to how to use hebrew, or other languages, on the Mac version of ICQ please let me know. Thanks you
Tammazaf 21:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)Tammazaf
IfI have a Mac running Leopard, could I use Boot Camp (and a Windows OS) to play Neverwinter Nights with it's Aurora toolset? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuesday42 ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you could. Using Boot Camp, Leopard transforms into a full Windows XP or Vista. So you can do anything you can do on a windows. -- 76.87.166.143 04:10, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across a website that my friend gave to me [www.internetisseriousbusiness.com] (PLEASE DON"T CLICK ON IT YET). When I went on the site, my firefox browser window shrunk and began to warp around my monitor, all the while a video was playing on the website. When I attempted to close it, repeated pop-ups began to appear. My question is, how does one make a website so that when someone lands on it, it shrinks the user's browser and makes it dance around the screen? Thanks. Acceptable 22:10, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I've got a problem that has been bugging myself and a colleage of mine for a while. When he opens Internet Explorer (v6 I think), the IE window is always really small and in a corner of the screen. I thought that maximising the window then closing all the IE windows would cause it to start maximised next time but that doesn't work. I then tried dragging the edges of the window so it fills the screen, all well and good but when you exit IE and start it up again, it's back to its usual small self. Why on earth does it do this? Surely it is not that difficult to 'remember' the size of the window when it was closed like a lot of other apps do? GaryReggae 22:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, getting window the right size then holding down CTRL and going to File and Close seems to have cracked it. GaryReggae 12:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I often see very expensive HDMI cables touting that they meet the "1.3a" spec. It smells of a marketing ploy much like how some USB cables are marketed for faster USB 2.0 connections. Are 1.3a cables physically different than earlier (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) cables? A digital cable is a digital cable, right? -- 24.249.108.133 22:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
How can I get a random stream of typeable characters from /dev/random. things like cat /dev/random | uuencode
only gives me a subset of the typeable characters. I am using this for password generation so I don't want things like linefeeds, accented characters, etc. --
Diletante
23:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
cat /dev/random | tr -cd "a-zA-Z0-9-_~\!@#$%^&*()=\$\?"
. It seems to work like I want.--
Diletante
00:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)Computing desk | ||
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< November 11 | << Oct | November | Dec >> | November 13 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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Most Magic: The Gathering cards have one name, one mana cost, and so on. But some, such as "Dead // Gone", have two, so in my PostgreSQL database I need to be able to split each over two table rows one way or another. There are several ways I could handle split cards, and each has pros and cons.
What are the reference deskers' opinions on the best option? Can they propose other options than these three? BTW, this is going up on Sourceforge under GPL once I get my own data entered in and a few details worked out, so you'll be helping build a database for all MTGers, not just for me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NeonMerlin ( talk • contribs) 01:30, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
how do i fix —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.168.247.148 ( talk) 02:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Out of curiousity, How are you typing your message now? XD
♥ ECH3LON ♥ 02:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
PLEASE HELP! WHENEVER I CHOOSE TO USE THE WELCOME SCREEN A BORING MSG. APPEARS SAYING "CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE HAS DISABLED THE WELCOME SCREEN AND FAST USER SWITCHING.TO RESTORE THIS FEATURE,YOU MUST UNINSTALL CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE" I CAN'T FIND THIS FILE(CLIENT SERVICES FOR NETWARE). WHAT SHALL I DO? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.99.30.197 ( talk) 13:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Go to Start>> Control Panel
Select Network and Internet Connections
Click Network Connections
Right click on Properties and select the Network/Internet connection you use
Check each one individually by right clicking and selecting Properties
When you see the client services on Netware in the list of properties, click on it to remove the small 'X' Click nothing else at this point.
Now, scroll down and select Uninstall
Your PC should reboot with the old Netware logon. After it does, go back to Control Panel and click User Accounts and change how users logon.
You should now be able to re-establish the Welcome screen that Netware disabled.
Andy reply 15:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I hope someone can help me with this. Whenever, I edit any big pages on Wikipedia, a message comes up which states that the Connection was reset. The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click OK. Otherwise, click Cancel. The browser which I am using is Firefox and the processing power of my PC is a Pentium II 300Mhz. This problem does not appear when I use a different PC. It takes about 30 seconds for the error message to appear. Moreover, I have also increased the length of timeout in my browser but this problem still persists. Will the problem be gone if I re-install Firefox to my PC? What should I do to remedy this problem? -- S iva1979 Talk to me 15:14, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
How do you stop speakers on computers picking up foreign radio stations? Simply south 18:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, you are my very last try before I shut Vista into the trashbin and return to XP. Live messenger simply doesn't work. I have Vista Home Premium, and for two days after the prchase of the laptop that came with vista installed already, messenger was wrking fine. Then suddenly it gave me the error code 80070005 telling me the service is unavailable, whernever I want to log in. I sent two long nights on google figuring out what to do, registered on several forums like vista and live messenger developers forums but nobody's advice could get messenger work on my comp... Tried reinstalling the messenger, deleting all messenger-related files after uninstalling, downloaded newer and oder versions, checked the firewall setups and did certain cmd tricks people advised me to do, but NOTHING works. Anyone has any idea why my vista just wont let lve messenger work??? I use trillian and miranda to connect but hate them, i want my lil msn back :((( Thanks in advance -- Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 18:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm trying to write a script in PHP that will use the convert binary command-line tool from ImageMagick to convert individual PDF pages into PNG files (rasterize them). I understand that to do this I will also need to have a ghostscript binary at hand as well?
My goal is to execute this with a system command in PHP.
I'm a bit confused as to how the Unix-based filesystem works. In an ideal world I would just be able to grab the few binaries I needed and upload them and execute them (assuming I have the right permissions set, etc.). I can do similar things without too much difficulty on a Windows box, but my server is Unix-based.
I'm trying to code it on my OS X using its built-in Apache server and it just doesn't seem to be trying to execute the "convert" program (I keep getting a "file not found" response from the system command). Here is the kind of command I'm trying to run: ~/Sites/PDFConverter/convert -size 700 "pdf/152511.pdf[2]" "png/152511.pdf.0002.png"
Clearly I'm not thinking about this correctly. Can someone who groks this stuff tell me exactly what I'm going to need to do? I don't want to compile things. I don't want to do anything complicated that I'm not going to be able to do on my server box. I just want to use this command-line program to convert stuff. This is driving me a bit crazy. -- 24.147.86.187 18:59, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
I don't get why the string functions in C work like they do. For example, an obvious string concatenation function would work something like this (no error handling, I know, and I haven't even tested it):
char* stringconcat(const char* str1, const char* str2){ size_t len1 = strlen(str1); size_t len2 = strlen(str2); char* ret = (char*) malloc(len1 + len2 + 1); strcpy(ret, str1); strcpy(ret + len1, str2); return ret; }
I can't find such a function, is there one? — Bromskloss 20:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
char *c = malloc ( strlen(a)+strlen(b)+1 ) ; strcpy ( c, a ) ; strcat ( c, b ) ;
I have recently purchased a new macbook. I learned how to install hebrew on it, and the hebrew works fine in Word, online, or in other contexts. However, I communicate with friends and family through ICQ and therefore need to be able to type hebrew in ICQ. I have tried to, yet I can not figure out how to get hebrew to work on icq. It just comes up as gibberish and I can not type nor read things in hebrwe. If anyone has any knoweldge as to how to use hebrew, or other languages, on the Mac version of ICQ please let me know. Thanks you
Tammazaf 21:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)Tammazaf
IfI have a Mac running Leopard, could I use Boot Camp (and a Windows OS) to play Neverwinter Nights with it's Aurora toolset? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tuesday42 ( talk • contribs) 22:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes, you could. Using Boot Camp, Leopard transforms into a full Windows XP or Vista. So you can do anything you can do on a windows. -- 76.87.166.143 04:10, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I recently came across a website that my friend gave to me [www.internetisseriousbusiness.com] (PLEASE DON"T CLICK ON IT YET). When I went on the site, my firefox browser window shrunk and began to warp around my monitor, all the while a video was playing on the website. When I attempted to close it, repeated pop-ups began to appear. My question is, how does one make a website so that when someone lands on it, it shrinks the user's browser and makes it dance around the screen? Thanks. Acceptable 22:10, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
OK, I've got a problem that has been bugging myself and a colleage of mine for a while. When he opens Internet Explorer (v6 I think), the IE window is always really small and in a corner of the screen. I thought that maximising the window then closing all the IE windows would cause it to start maximised next time but that doesn't work. I then tried dragging the edges of the window so it fills the screen, all well and good but when you exit IE and start it up again, it's back to its usual small self. Why on earth does it do this? Surely it is not that difficult to 'remember' the size of the window when it was closed like a lot of other apps do? GaryReggae 22:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, getting window the right size then holding down CTRL and going to File and Close seems to have cracked it. GaryReggae 12:50, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
I often see very expensive HDMI cables touting that they meet the "1.3a" spec. It smells of a marketing ploy much like how some USB cables are marketed for faster USB 2.0 connections. Are 1.3a cables physically different than earlier (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) cables? A digital cable is a digital cable, right? -- 24.249.108.133 22:49, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
How can I get a random stream of typeable characters from /dev/random. things like cat /dev/random | uuencode
only gives me a subset of the typeable characters. I am using this for password generation so I don't want things like linefeeds, accented characters, etc. --
Diletante
23:00, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
cat /dev/random | tr -cd "a-zA-Z0-9-_~\!@#$%^&*()=\$\?"
. It seems to work like I want.--
Diletante
00:17, 13 November 2007 (UTC)