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Im completely clueless-what do i need to know in order to update my video card drivers? My computer is messed up and its stuck on 640x480 with 4-bit color. theres no way to change it, even in the adapter settings, so i want to try updating the drivers. please, give me a demonstration. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 00:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I will try both of those. PLEASE- stick around...i will be back the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 01:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
there is a chip attached to the motherboard, running up and down(raised from the surface). [1] does this look like the right one? the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 03:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
aw crap. [2] heres a better pic. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 03:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
aw crap...again. Well, it hooks in on this big, pink thing. i assume its a chipset...but its not labeled or anything. do you think i can find the model number somewhere? theres a bunch of nmbers on the bottom of the computer. like s/n number, MB, Cpu, ram, HD, FD, OS, and whql. i dont know if any of this helps. also, everything inside is intel, if that helps. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 04:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Very hard, considering the fact that i dont have one. it was bought used. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 17:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
AHA! i tried the DirectX Diagnostic thing and it says there is no device. The driver is vga.dll, which i assume is the default. anything else you need to know just say so. the juggresurection (>-.-(Vಠ_ಠ) 19:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Let's say a real spammer (of the penis extension ilk) has my address in mailing list database, and is regularly sending me his crap. Will I probably receive spam from this particular spammer as long as he is in business? Or does the spammer have some incentive to eventually stop sending to addresses he gathered years ago, many of which are probably inactive? ike9898 ( talk) 02:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Spammers also sell email addresses to other spammers.. - Abhishek ( talk) 06:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Having a little trouble with a Macbook Pro. My friend's 15 inch macbook will just spontanesouly freeze programs and start the spinning pinwheel of death thing. When ever we try and force quit the application the force quite menu freezes and shows the pinwheel of death too so the only option is to press and hold the power button to do a hard restart. It doesn't seem to occur when and particular program is running and has happened maybe three or four times in the past day or so. If it means anything, the macbook is also connected to a Time Capsule backup thing and there was some trouble getting that set up to work with the Macbook but everything appeared to be fine with it when the freezing things started. Any way someone could help would be great. RedStateV ( talk) 06:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Whats the main language of computer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.49.35.12 ( talk) 07:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Answer: Your current question is too vague to be answered. Please be more descriptive on what exactly you are looking for. Like how a computer works, what programming languages are, how components inside computers communicate with eachother, etc. -- mboverload @ 00:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been going crazy trying to figure this out. I've written a class that defines some behavior that I want an image of a ball to exhibit:
package nicstuff {
import mx.core.BitmapAsset;
public class Ball extends BitmapAsset {
private var velocity = 0,0,0];
private var HALFBALLSIZE = 25;
public function setstats(initvelocity, newlocation) {
velocity = initvelocity;
this.x = newlocation0];
this.y = newlocation1];
}
public function update() {
this.x = this.x + (velocity0 * velocity2]);
this.y = this.y + (velocity1 * velocity2]);
if ( (this.x > 550) || (this.x < 0)) {
velocity0 = -velocity0];
}
if ((this.y > 400) || (this.y < 0)) {
velocity1 = -velocity1];
}
}
}
}
But for the life of me, I can't figure out how the correct way to apply this class to an embedded asset. This DOESN'T work:
package nicstuff {
import mx.core.UIComponent;
import mx.controls.Image;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.media.*;
import nicstuff.Ball;
public class Gamestage extends UIComponent {
Embed(source="blueball.png")]
Bindable
private var BlueBallSprite:Class;
public function main():void {
var channel;
//var BlueBall = new BlueBallSprite(); //when uncommented along with next two lines
//BlueBall.x = 150;
//BlueBall.y = 150; //shows an unmoving blue ball
var BlueBall:Ball = new BlueBallSprite() as Ball;
BlueBall.setstats([2,2,2, 150,150]);
addChild(BlueBall);
}
}
}
I know that I don't have any calls to update() at this point. Could someone please clue me in to what the right way to do this is? - RedWordSmith ( talk) 07:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
var BlueBall:Ball = new Ball(new BlueBallSprite() as BitmapAsset);
BlueBall.setstats([2,2,2, 150,160]);
addChild(BlueBall);
//...
public function Ball(theball) {
super(theball.bitmapData);
}
- RedWordSmith ( talk) 22:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Two questions: Thought it would be easier asking here than in a forum.
1> I'm trying to write a script to store values entered in the degree-minutes-second format to individual variables in Perl.
For example: $longitude values can be in the following ways: (note the spacings and symbols)
I need a Regex code to store values for $degree $minute and $second. Can this be done? If not how can I do this?
2> Is there a better way of ignoring casing? This is the code:
... @files = grep (((/\.jpg$/) || (/\.JPG$/) || (/\.jpeg$/) || (/\.JPEG$/)),readdir(DIR)); closedir(DIR); ...
Thanks, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
/^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/
@files = grep (/\.jpe?g$/i, readdir(DIR));
#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $latitude; $latitude = "22 15 23.33"; $latitude = /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/; print $1; print $2; print $3;
I get the error: " "Use of uninitialized value in print at..." Any idea what is wrong here? =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:49, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
$latitude =~ /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/;
-00 30 00.00
$latitude =~ /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/ or die "No match";
I had an Ubuntu Live CD (actually a Live Pen Drive) that was working fine. Then I decided to repartition my HDD. After that the Live CD is not working anymore. It tries to boot and freezes with the word Ubuntu and a thing moving to the left and right below it.
What parameter can be used in this case?
I tried to boot with "Live acpi=off" and it was working. It is a laptop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.58.205.37 ( talk) 10:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Can someone please help me and kindly explain how can I uninstall my Windows Messenger "MSN", because I cannot find it in the control panel to uninstall it.
T.Cauchi 80.254.93.170 ( talk) 11:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I removed it
T.Cauchi 80.254.93.170 ( talk) 12:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
what is the differences among these gadgets? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.212.81 ( talk) 11:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia archives are so hard to use. how do I see something that was answered on 13 August? I go to Archives (or My Contributions) and click on the link and it brings me back here.-- ChokinBako ( talk) 13:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
What is a good free replacement for the wireless control in windows? Something I can download. Thank you. 79.75.211.94 ( talk) 14:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I want to know what I should convert my videos to before burning them to disk. Anthrcer (click to talk to me) 15:10, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I have tried about 10 times installing service pack 3 by downloading from the Microsoft website. When it gets about half way through, I get a message box saying 'Access denied' and then it says SP3 failed to install and it proceeds to undo the installation. Any clues as to what could be wrong gratefully received.-- 79.76.142.253 ( talk) 15:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Go to Start Menu>Control Panel>Security Center>Check for updates. That's a more efficent way. 81.154.105.0 ( talk) 18:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Make sure you are logged on as an admin to install SP3. Access denied issues are usually caused by lack of permissions. - Sish ( talk) 15:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I am a big fan of ebuyer.com - they sell computer parts, laptops, TVs etc. at fairly reasonable prices to UK homes. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a similar site (or sites!!) which delivered similar sorts of items in the US (primarily North Eastern states). Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.187.24 ( talk) 15:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Why are most programmes written in C++ or C# ? What are the limitations of writing programmes in php? Clover345 ( talk) 15:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
C++ is MUCH faster than PHP - perhaps 50 to 100 times faster in many cases. For applications that need speed and don't need to run on the web - C++ is a vastly better choice. SteveBaker ( talk) 04:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Every 20 minutes or so my computer will pop up a box informing me that:
The web page you requested is not available offline. To try to connect, click try again. Otherwise, click "Work Offline" to see offline web content on your computer.
If i click try again, my computer tries to dial 425-555-5555 on my modem. Now, i have not used a dial-up modem in 10 or more years and my current one is sitting in a landfill. If i click Work Offline, the message pops up again 20 minutes later. Is this a spyware problem or is this a sign of a dying computer? 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Oh nuts. my XP recovery disk is not working... it claims that the XP disk is a "Non-system disk" and won't boot from the disk. I know the CD is bootable cuz i've had to do it 3 or 4 times before and this is the first time it hasn't worked. Now what? PS I am not on my computer right now; i dont want the spyware actually doing what its supposed to do... 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 13:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Its not a the original XP Disk, its an emachines recovery disk. It uses a program on a recovery partition, which my blu-ray drive somehow replaced. And my computer gives me a STOP c000021a error when i shut down so system restore does not work. God my computer sucks! 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
In an unrelated to me incident, my parents got a virus/spyware on their computer from a greetingcards.com e-mail. After their computer loads ZoneAlarm (Firewall) and Norton AntiVirus, the computer BSODs with a STOP 0x08E error. What is the problem here? PS Please don't refer me to microsoft KB or MSDN; they never help us that much. 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all your help, but nothing worked. We've ordered a new version of XP and are waiting for it now. Thanks anyway. 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 13:25, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I have copied the Ubuntu alternate CD to a separate partition, configurated the Grub loader and I am able to boot from it. However, after the first settings, the installer is not able to mount my partitions, no matter what I do (different fs, different tool, reformat).
What can I do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.K. ( talk • contribs) 16:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
sudo mount
). But I don't really get why you'd be looking at grub in that case. --
h2g2bob (
talk) 23:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)I know the Refdesk is not meant to be a forum so I'll try to keep my questions targeted. Excluding server editions and specialised versions such as DSL,
In summary, when it comes to a desktop distro, things should be kept simple. Have one distro that everybody works on and supports massively, make it scalable for older PCs by disabling certain features of the standard install set. Specialised distros for specific applications will of course always have their place. Am I missing something? Why can't it be that simple? Zun aid © ® 16:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
So, obviously, this diversity is a mixed blessing. Development efforts are spread across many distros and GUIs instead of one. Bugs are more prevalent than in Windows and OS X. Linux is also less intuitive to use than Windows.
But regardless of your opinion of it, Linux diversity is here to stay. Developers have already spent many hours polishing their own distros, and they're not too keen on abandoning their work. Us end users, too, would not appreciate giving up our favorite distros for whatever's popular. For example, if we had a vote, Ubuntu might win, even though it's buggier than openSUSE and Debian. A lot of people like it for trivial political reasons and claim it's easy to use, but it isn't. I wouldn't sign on to a plan like that and I hope people start exploring more stable distros in the future.-- Birdsusing nnn ( talk) 03:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm reading some weird shinola here. Not only the implication that Linux should be designed for "the average user" (an odd notion, particularly as it's obvious that Windows NT and beyond, certainly including Vaster, has not been designed for "the average user" but rather for the average user's corporate configuration-setters). ¶ In Windows, you don't get a choice. It just does what Windows does and if you don't like it, you just have to suck it up and do it the Windows way. Oh. Right now, here, I'm using Win2k. (It's my one old computer that refuses to die.) So for a start I've ignored Microsoft's entreaties to "upgrade" (and pay them more). Thanks to Firefox, Becky, Take Command, OpenOffice, and a pile of GNU utilities, I'm definitely not doing it the Microsoft way. ¶ There are a million browsers out there in the world. In reality there are really about four that matter. I don't care that Shiira "doesn't matter"; I do appreciate the way that its kiosk mode works better for a presentation using Dave Raggett's HTML Slidy than does any screen mode of Safari or Firefox (though Opera may now be as good). ¶ Debian and Slack are for old-timers. Er, what's old-timey about Debian? It looks pretty slick to me. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:18, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians!
I have GnuPG and GPG Shell installed on my system. I have been sent a key (like myPrivateKey.asc) and a couple of encrypted files that also require a passphrase. I can decrypt the files just fine with the gui, but I was wondering how i can accomplish the same using the gpg commandline version (am interested in doing it in a batch file)...
I did a search and found this batchfile (by someone named frank)..:
@rem Script wrapper for GNU PGP utility function: Decrypt a file encrypted
with password-based encryption
@rem Arguments: 1 - password that file was encrypted with
@rem 2 - path to EFTS keystore
@rem 3 - fully qualified name of decrypted file to create
@rem 4 - fully qualified name of encrypted file to decrypt
@rem Watch it! - on Windows do NOT include space between %1 and the pipe
(|) - will get bad
@rem passphrase error
echo %1| gpg --homedir %2 --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --output %3 --decrypt %4
I cant seem to see where the keyfile.asc that i have would go here... and what the 'EFTS keystore' is referring to (running it with gpgBatch my_passwd_here key.asc a.mp3 a.mp3.gpg fails (i path to c:\program files\gnu\gnupg\ before this, the batchfile, key.asc, and encrypted file are in the same dir)
Thanks a lot in advance
119.111.70.146 (
talk) 18:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
gpg --import key.asc
.OK, I'm a real html noob. I'm trying to add a caption to an image but I'm having problems. I typed:
<TR>
<TD><IMG src="EXAMPLE IMAGE" align=right></TD>
<TR>
<TD align=right><FONT size=-1>EXAMPE CAPTION</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
The caption under the image is fine but the whole lot is on the left hand side even thought the image is set to align right. What am I doing wrong? Is there an easier way to add captions?-- 217.227.94.48 ( talk) 18:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.227.94.48 ( talk) 18:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
<div class="image">
<img src=whatever>
<p>Caption.</p>
</div>
Then you use CSS to make the .image class do what you want it to (e.g. float: right;), and to make all paragraph elements within the .image class into the size you want for captions, etc. (Note that the downside here is that the captions won't automatically wrap unless you hard-code the DIV size.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 19:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
style="border: 1px red solid"
) to the elements, like this:is there a place where records of my instant messages are saved on my computer? i use xp. Jwb6466 ( talk) 20:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I have been trying to learn OpenGL, but now when the 3.0 is coming out, I got a new computer (vista preinstalled, heh) and wlan card doesn't yet work on Ubuntu I thought it would be nice to see how things are done in Direct3d. So is the "fixed function pipeline" removed entirely from direct3d 10? Is there no default lighting/transformation or should it all be done with shaders? All the tutorials I have found use shaders only. Also, it would be nice if you could point me to a good book. -- 194.197.235.221 ( talk) 20:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
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Im completely clueless-what do i need to know in order to update my video card drivers? My computer is messed up and its stuck on 640x480 with 4-bit color. theres no way to change it, even in the adapter settings, so i want to try updating the drivers. please, give me a demonstration. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 00:53, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I will try both of those. PLEASE- stick around...i will be back the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 01:55, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
there is a chip attached to the motherboard, running up and down(raised from the surface). [1] does this look like the right one? the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 03:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
aw crap. [2] heres a better pic. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 03:43, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
aw crap...again. Well, it hooks in on this big, pink thing. i assume its a chipset...but its not labeled or anything. do you think i can find the model number somewhere? theres a bunch of nmbers on the bottom of the computer. like s/n number, MB, Cpu, ram, HD, FD, OS, and whql. i dont know if any of this helps. also, everything inside is intel, if that helps. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 04:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Very hard, considering the fact that i dont have one. it was bought used. the juggresurection ಠ_ಠ 17:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
AHA! i tried the DirectX Diagnostic thing and it says there is no device. The driver is vga.dll, which i assume is the default. anything else you need to know just say so. the juggresurection (>-.-(Vಠ_ಠ) 19:28, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Let's say a real spammer (of the penis extension ilk) has my address in mailing list database, and is regularly sending me his crap. Will I probably receive spam from this particular spammer as long as he is in business? Or does the spammer have some incentive to eventually stop sending to addresses he gathered years ago, many of which are probably inactive? ike9898 ( talk) 02:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Spammers also sell email addresses to other spammers.. - Abhishek ( talk) 06:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Having a little trouble with a Macbook Pro. My friend's 15 inch macbook will just spontanesouly freeze programs and start the spinning pinwheel of death thing. When ever we try and force quit the application the force quite menu freezes and shows the pinwheel of death too so the only option is to press and hold the power button to do a hard restart. It doesn't seem to occur when and particular program is running and has happened maybe three or four times in the past day or so. If it means anything, the macbook is also connected to a Time Capsule backup thing and there was some trouble getting that set up to work with the Macbook but everything appeared to be fine with it when the freezing things started. Any way someone could help would be great. RedStateV ( talk) 06:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Whats the main language of computer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.49.35.12 ( talk) 07:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Answer: Your current question is too vague to be answered. Please be more descriptive on what exactly you are looking for. Like how a computer works, what programming languages are, how components inside computers communicate with eachother, etc. -- mboverload @ 00:43, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I've been going crazy trying to figure this out. I've written a class that defines some behavior that I want an image of a ball to exhibit:
package nicstuff {
import mx.core.BitmapAsset;
public class Ball extends BitmapAsset {
private var velocity = 0,0,0];
private var HALFBALLSIZE = 25;
public function setstats(initvelocity, newlocation) {
velocity = initvelocity;
this.x = newlocation0];
this.y = newlocation1];
}
public function update() {
this.x = this.x + (velocity0 * velocity2]);
this.y = this.y + (velocity1 * velocity2]);
if ( (this.x > 550) || (this.x < 0)) {
velocity0 = -velocity0];
}
if ((this.y > 400) || (this.y < 0)) {
velocity1 = -velocity1];
}
}
}
}
But for the life of me, I can't figure out how the correct way to apply this class to an embedded asset. This DOESN'T work:
package nicstuff {
import mx.core.UIComponent;
import mx.controls.Image;
import mx.controls.Alert;
import flash.events.*;
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.media.*;
import nicstuff.Ball;
public class Gamestage extends UIComponent {
Embed(source="blueball.png")]
Bindable
private var BlueBallSprite:Class;
public function main():void {
var channel;
//var BlueBall = new BlueBallSprite(); //when uncommented along with next two lines
//BlueBall.x = 150;
//BlueBall.y = 150; //shows an unmoving blue ball
var BlueBall:Ball = new BlueBallSprite() as Ball;
BlueBall.setstats([2,2,2, 150,150]);
addChild(BlueBall);
}
}
}
I know that I don't have any calls to update() at this point. Could someone please clue me in to what the right way to do this is? - RedWordSmith ( talk) 07:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
var BlueBall:Ball = new Ball(new BlueBallSprite() as BitmapAsset);
BlueBall.setstats([2,2,2, 150,160]);
addChild(BlueBall);
//...
public function Ball(theball) {
super(theball.bitmapData);
}
- RedWordSmith ( talk) 22:10, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Two questions: Thought it would be easier asking here than in a forum.
1> I'm trying to write a script to store values entered in the degree-minutes-second format to individual variables in Perl.
For example: $longitude values can be in the following ways: (note the spacings and symbols)
I need a Regex code to store values for $degree $minute and $second. Can this be done? If not how can I do this?
2> Is there a better way of ignoring casing? This is the code:
... @files = grep (((/\.jpg$/) || (/\.JPG$/) || (/\.jpeg$/) || (/\.JPEG$/)),readdir(DIR)); closedir(DIR); ...
Thanks, =Nichalp «Talk»= 10:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
/^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/
@files = grep (/\.jpe?g$/i, readdir(DIR));
#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $latitude; $latitude = "22 15 23.33"; $latitude = /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/; print $1; print $2; print $3;
I get the error: " "Use of uninitialized value in print at..." Any idea what is wrong here? =Nichalp «Talk»= 11:49, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
$latitude =~ /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/;
-00 30 00.00
$latitude =~ /^(-?\d+)°?\s*(\d+)'?\s*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)"?$/ or die "No match";
I had an Ubuntu Live CD (actually a Live Pen Drive) that was working fine. Then I decided to repartition my HDD. After that the Live CD is not working anymore. It tries to boot and freezes with the word Ubuntu and a thing moving to the left and right below it.
What parameter can be used in this case?
I tried to boot with "Live acpi=off" and it was working. It is a laptop. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.58.205.37 ( talk) 10:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Can someone please help me and kindly explain how can I uninstall my Windows Messenger "MSN", because I cannot find it in the control panel to uninstall it.
T.Cauchi 80.254.93.170 ( talk) 11:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your help. I removed it
T.Cauchi 80.254.93.170 ( talk) 12:36, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
what is the differences among these gadgets? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.212.81 ( talk) 11:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia archives are so hard to use. how do I see something that was answered on 13 August? I go to Archives (or My Contributions) and click on the link and it brings me back here.-- ChokinBako ( talk) 13:35, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
What is a good free replacement for the wireless control in windows? Something I can download. Thank you. 79.75.211.94 ( talk) 14:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I want to know what I should convert my videos to before burning them to disk. Anthrcer (click to talk to me) 15:10, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I have tried about 10 times installing service pack 3 by downloading from the Microsoft website. When it gets about half way through, I get a message box saying 'Access denied' and then it says SP3 failed to install and it proceeds to undo the installation. Any clues as to what could be wrong gratefully received.-- 79.76.142.253 ( talk) 15:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Go to Start Menu>Control Panel>Security Center>Check for updates. That's a more efficent way. 81.154.105.0 ( talk) 18:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Make sure you are logged on as an admin to install SP3. Access denied issues are usually caused by lack of permissions. - Sish ( talk) 15:05, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I am a big fan of ebuyer.com - they sell computer parts, laptops, TVs etc. at fairly reasonable prices to UK homes. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for a similar site (or sites!!) which delivered similar sorts of items in the US (primarily North Eastern states). Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.187.24 ( talk) 15:19, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Why are most programmes written in C++ or C# ? What are the limitations of writing programmes in php? Clover345 ( talk) 15:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
C++ is MUCH faster than PHP - perhaps 50 to 100 times faster in many cases. For applications that need speed and don't need to run on the web - C++ is a vastly better choice. SteveBaker ( talk) 04:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Every 20 minutes or so my computer will pop up a box informing me that:
The web page you requested is not available offline. To try to connect, click try again. Otherwise, click "Work Offline" to see offline web content on your computer.
If i click try again, my computer tries to dial 425-555-5555 on my modem. Now, i have not used a dial-up modem in 10 or more years and my current one is sitting in a landfill. If i click Work Offline, the message pops up again 20 minutes later. Is this a spyware problem or is this a sign of a dying computer? 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Oh nuts. my XP recovery disk is not working... it claims that the XP disk is a "Non-system disk" and won't boot from the disk. I know the CD is bootable cuz i've had to do it 3 or 4 times before and this is the first time it hasn't worked. Now what? PS I am not on my computer right now; i dont want the spyware actually doing what its supposed to do... 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 13:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Its not a the original XP Disk, its an emachines recovery disk. It uses a program on a recovery partition, which my blu-ray drive somehow replaced. And my computer gives me a STOP c000021a error when i shut down so system restore does not work. God my computer sucks! 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
In an unrelated to me incident, my parents got a virus/spyware on their computer from a greetingcards.com e-mail. After their computer loads ZoneAlarm (Firewall) and Norton AntiVirus, the computer BSODs with a STOP 0x08E error. What is the problem here? PS Please don't refer me to microsoft KB or MSDN; they never help us that much. 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 16:12, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for all your help, but nothing worked. We've ordered a new version of XP and are waiting for it now. Thanks anyway. 31306D696E6E69636B6D ( talk) 13:25, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I have copied the Ubuntu alternate CD to a separate partition, configurated the Grub loader and I am able to boot from it. However, after the first settings, the installer is not able to mount my partitions, no matter what I do (different fs, different tool, reformat).
What can I do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.K. ( talk • contribs) 16:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
sudo mount
). But I don't really get why you'd be looking at grub in that case. --
h2g2bob (
talk) 23:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)I know the Refdesk is not meant to be a forum so I'll try to keep my questions targeted. Excluding server editions and specialised versions such as DSL,
In summary, when it comes to a desktop distro, things should be kept simple. Have one distro that everybody works on and supports massively, make it scalable for older PCs by disabling certain features of the standard install set. Specialised distros for specific applications will of course always have their place. Am I missing something? Why can't it be that simple? Zun aid © ® 16:59, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
So, obviously, this diversity is a mixed blessing. Development efforts are spread across many distros and GUIs instead of one. Bugs are more prevalent than in Windows and OS X. Linux is also less intuitive to use than Windows.
But regardless of your opinion of it, Linux diversity is here to stay. Developers have already spent many hours polishing their own distros, and they're not too keen on abandoning their work. Us end users, too, would not appreciate giving up our favorite distros for whatever's popular. For example, if we had a vote, Ubuntu might win, even though it's buggier than openSUSE and Debian. A lot of people like it for trivial political reasons and claim it's easy to use, but it isn't. I wouldn't sign on to a plan like that and I hope people start exploring more stable distros in the future.-- Birdsusing nnn ( talk) 03:17, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm reading some weird shinola here. Not only the implication that Linux should be designed for "the average user" (an odd notion, particularly as it's obvious that Windows NT and beyond, certainly including Vaster, has not been designed for "the average user" but rather for the average user's corporate configuration-setters). ¶ In Windows, you don't get a choice. It just does what Windows does and if you don't like it, you just have to suck it up and do it the Windows way. Oh. Right now, here, I'm using Win2k. (It's my one old computer that refuses to die.) So for a start I've ignored Microsoft's entreaties to "upgrade" (and pay them more). Thanks to Firefox, Becky, Take Command, OpenOffice, and a pile of GNU utilities, I'm definitely not doing it the Microsoft way. ¶ There are a million browsers out there in the world. In reality there are really about four that matter. I don't care that Shiira "doesn't matter"; I do appreciate the way that its kiosk mode works better for a presentation using Dave Raggett's HTML Slidy than does any screen mode of Safari or Firefox (though Opera may now be as good). ¶ Debian and Slack are for old-timers. Er, what's old-timey about Debian? It looks pretty slick to me. -- Hoary ( talk) 02:18, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Wikipedians!
I have GnuPG and GPG Shell installed on my system. I have been sent a key (like myPrivateKey.asc) and a couple of encrypted files that also require a passphrase. I can decrypt the files just fine with the gui, but I was wondering how i can accomplish the same using the gpg commandline version (am interested in doing it in a batch file)...
I did a search and found this batchfile (by someone named frank)..:
@rem Script wrapper for GNU PGP utility function: Decrypt a file encrypted
with password-based encryption
@rem Arguments: 1 - password that file was encrypted with
@rem 2 - path to EFTS keystore
@rem 3 - fully qualified name of decrypted file to create
@rem 4 - fully qualified name of encrypted file to decrypt
@rem Watch it! - on Windows do NOT include space between %1 and the pipe
(|) - will get bad
@rem passphrase error
echo %1| gpg --homedir %2 --batch --yes --passphrase-fd 0 --output %3 --decrypt %4
I cant seem to see where the keyfile.asc that i have would go here... and what the 'EFTS keystore' is referring to (running it with gpgBatch my_passwd_here key.asc a.mp3 a.mp3.gpg fails (i path to c:\program files\gnu\gnupg\ before this, the batchfile, key.asc, and encrypted file are in the same dir)
Thanks a lot in advance
119.111.70.146 (
talk) 18:11, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
gpg --import key.asc
.OK, I'm a real html noob. I'm trying to add a caption to an image but I'm having problems. I typed:
<TR>
<TD><IMG src="EXAMPLE IMAGE" align=right></TD>
<TR>
<TD align=right><FONT size=-1>EXAMPE CAPTION</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
The caption under the image is fine but the whole lot is on the left hand side even thought the image is set to align right. What am I doing wrong? Is there an easier way to add captions?-- 217.227.94.48 ( talk) 18:57, 27 August 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.227.94.48 ( talk) 18:56, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
<div class="image">
<img src=whatever>
<p>Caption.</p>
</div>
Then you use CSS to make the .image class do what you want it to (e.g. float: right;), and to make all paragraph elements within the .image class into the size you want for captions, etc. (Note that the downside here is that the captions won't automatically wrap unless you hard-code the DIV size.) -- 98.217.8.46 ( talk) 19:07, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
style="border: 1px red solid"
) to the elements, like this:is there a place where records of my instant messages are saved on my computer? i use xp. Jwb6466 ( talk) 20:08, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I have been trying to learn OpenGL, but now when the 3.0 is coming out, I got a new computer (vista preinstalled, heh) and wlan card doesn't yet work on Ubuntu I thought it would be nice to see how things are done in Direct3d. So is the "fixed function pipeline" removed entirely from direct3d 10? Is there no default lighting/transformation or should it all be done with shaders? All the tutorials I have found use shaders only. Also, it would be nice if you could point me to a good book. -- 194.197.235.221 ( talk) 20:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)