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Does anyone know of a high-quality free library for Java Swing that provides similar functionality to Visual Studio's docking windows (and its clone, the .NET-based DockPanel suite) or Eclipse's SWT views and editors? I see a lot of them from a quick Google search, but does anyone have specific experience with one of them? « Aaron Rotenberg « Talk « 00:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I tried the www page, but I couldn't find anything. sometimes you see addresses with WWW2.xxxx.xx instead of WWW. why is that? / Marxmax ( talk) 01:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I've got a 2d image showing the silhouettes of buildings in a city (much like this one of Moscow). What program would easiest allow me to select shapes from such an image and extrude them in order to create a simple "block model" somewhat like this or this? I don't need anything as complicated as the columns at this point; simple blocks that are more or less the right shape are fine. 96.231.47.19 ( talk) 04:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I am running a 32 bit OEM version of Windows Vista Home Premium on a new Dell desktop. One of the system utilities I use semi-regularly is Easy Cleaner by Toni-Arts: http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm.
It has always successfully deleted all the bad registry entries it found and has never flagged any entries that should not be removed. Now, however it will not remove all bad registry entries. I've run it twice just now. The first time it left 68 entries. The second time it left 64. Here is a compressed folder containing a jpg screenshot from the second trial and 4 versions of a print-to-file from the first trial (try the web page version first-probably easiest to read and open): http://www.box.net/shared/n1f4vcdycs
What do I need to do to restore Easy Cleaners full functionality?
Thank you for any help.
Chrissekely ( talk) 04:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Basically Im just looking to make a button whereby I can open a file on my HDD, however I want to do it so that when I'm in flash and you view it as an SWF you can open the file by clicking onthis button, I know how to open up a web page using this action script: on(release) { getURL(" http://www.flash-here.com", "_blank"); }
But I need to really open up a file, any help would be much obliged.
PS I have tried googling this, but perhaps Im using the wrong search terms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.96.7 ( talk) 07:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Regards Nmak3000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.96.7 ( talk) 07:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Update!!!!!
Ok I have the code to open it,
on(release) { loadMovie ("ff.swf", 1);; }
However it opens inside the same flash window that Im using, I need it to open a new window so that basically if you were to click this button, it opens another flash swf file in a new window. Basically thats all I need to do, any help on that again would be great.
Cheers Nmak3000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmak3000 ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
C:\WINDOWS -> file://C:/WINDOWS/ /etc -> file://etc/
is pendrive is consumable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ravimupi ( talk • contribs) 12:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I've just brought a Maxtor external hard drive. I can read the drive but not write to it, which is a shame because a drive I cant write to is next to useless. I'm sure it's because it is NTFS and all I need to do is reformat it as FAT32 but I don't know how to actually do it in Linux. I'm using Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Can anyone help? Theresa Knott | The otter sank 14:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
df
will not only show you what is mounted. It also shows how much disk space is free. Once you know the dev (assume it is /dev/usb1), run fdisk /dev/usb1
to remove the partition and replace it with a blank one. Then, run mkfs -t vfat /dev/usb1
to format the drive using vfat (which is fat32). --
kainaw
™
14:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Thank you both. I went with gparted and it worked. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 15:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
how do we define a memoryless channel and a channel with memory in information theory? 117.198.99.171 ( talk) 15:18, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a free screen reader, or one that I can use for a trial, which will read out the Long Description (<longdesc>) tags in an image? If should preferably work on a Mac, although I can do Windows, and should preferably work with Firefox.
Thanks a lot!
Sam 15:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Fire Vox works on Firefox. Please give it a look. Kushal 14:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC) PS: If it does not have the specific feature you are looking for, please send them a feature request. Kushal 14:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I have a lot of music which I ripped from a CD in mp3 format, however, I am informed that there are legal issues with using the LAME encoder [2]. I am distraught because, as I have stated in a post above here, I wanted to do some mp3 conversion with BladeEnc on my private machine for my mp3s because I don't like the bitrate. Is this legal in the United States for non-commercial purposes? It is impossible to rip any CDs using an ogg format, and it's not like my mp3 player will recognize it anyway. 64.178.97.27 ( talk) 19:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
just do it, no one has ever been prosecuted for that...or even copying their CDs for friends...what your doing is less illegal than xeroxing a copyrighted book at the library. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NewAtThis ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC) [this reply was moved from the 'Communications channels' section, where it obviously did not belong] -- Heron ( talk) 15:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Astronaut - I am 95% sure it is legal in the US to make a backup copy of software and music, despite what the RIAA might say. If you can show me otherwise, please do. However, I have heard this from various sources: [3] [4]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.178.97.27 ( talk) 22:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I just inherited a laptop from my company. They are very security conscious and I only have "user" rights on the laptop. I can't even change the time! Anyway, is there any way to change my access to "administrator" rights so I can actually use the computer? It has Windows XP Professional. Any suggestions? Tex ( talk) 19:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Depending on what he means when he says "inherited", maybe? If he has it for himself and does not need to return it, why can he not have admin access to it? Kushal 14:16, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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Does anyone know of a high-quality free library for Java Swing that provides similar functionality to Visual Studio's docking windows (and its clone, the .NET-based DockPanel suite) or Eclipse's SWT views and editors? I see a lot of them from a quick Google search, but does anyone have specific experience with one of them? « Aaron Rotenberg « Talk « 00:15, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I tried the www page, but I couldn't find anything. sometimes you see addresses with WWW2.xxxx.xx instead of WWW. why is that? / Marxmax ( talk) 01:39, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I've got a 2d image showing the silhouettes of buildings in a city (much like this one of Moscow). What program would easiest allow me to select shapes from such an image and extrude them in order to create a simple "block model" somewhat like this or this? I don't need anything as complicated as the columns at this point; simple blocks that are more or less the right shape are fine. 96.231.47.19 ( talk) 04:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I am running a 32 bit OEM version of Windows Vista Home Premium on a new Dell desktop. One of the system utilities I use semi-regularly is Easy Cleaner by Toni-Arts: http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm.
It has always successfully deleted all the bad registry entries it found and has never flagged any entries that should not be removed. Now, however it will not remove all bad registry entries. I've run it twice just now. The first time it left 68 entries. The second time it left 64. Here is a compressed folder containing a jpg screenshot from the second trial and 4 versions of a print-to-file from the first trial (try the web page version first-probably easiest to read and open): http://www.box.net/shared/n1f4vcdycs
What do I need to do to restore Easy Cleaners full functionality?
Thank you for any help.
Chrissekely ( talk) 04:57, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Basically Im just looking to make a button whereby I can open a file on my HDD, however I want to do it so that when I'm in flash and you view it as an SWF you can open the file by clicking onthis button, I know how to open up a web page using this action script: on(release) { getURL(" http://www.flash-here.com", "_blank"); }
But I need to really open up a file, any help would be much obliged.
PS I have tried googling this, but perhaps Im using the wrong search terms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.96.7 ( talk) 07:42, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Regards Nmak3000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.96.7 ( talk) 07:41, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Update!!!!!
Ok I have the code to open it,
on(release) { loadMovie ("ff.swf", 1);; }
However it opens inside the same flash window that Im using, I need it to open a new window so that basically if you were to click this button, it opens another flash swf file in a new window. Basically thats all I need to do, any help on that again would be great.
Cheers Nmak3000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nmak3000 ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
C:\WINDOWS -> file://C:/WINDOWS/ /etc -> file://etc/
is pendrive is consumable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ravimupi ( talk • contribs) 12:51, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I've just brought a Maxtor external hard drive. I can read the drive but not write to it, which is a shame because a drive I cant write to is next to useless. I'm sure it's because it is NTFS and all I need to do is reformat it as FAT32 but I don't know how to actually do it in Linux. I'm using Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Can anyone help? Theresa Knott | The otter sank 14:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
df
will not only show you what is mounted. It also shows how much disk space is free. Once you know the dev (assume it is /dev/usb1), run fdisk /dev/usb1
to remove the partition and replace it with a blank one. Then, run mkfs -t vfat /dev/usb1
to format the drive using vfat (which is fat32). --
kainaw
™
14:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)Thank you both. I went with gparted and it worked. Theresa Knott | The otter sank 15:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
how do we define a memoryless channel and a channel with memory in information theory? 117.198.99.171 ( talk) 15:18, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
Does anyone know of a free screen reader, or one that I can use for a trial, which will read out the Long Description (<longdesc>) tags in an image? If should preferably work on a Mac, although I can do Windows, and should preferably work with Firefox.
Thanks a lot!
Sam 15:21, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Fire Vox works on Firefox. Please give it a look. Kushal 14:17, 30 March 2008 (UTC) PS: If it does not have the specific feature you are looking for, please send them a feature request. Kushal 14:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I have a lot of music which I ripped from a CD in mp3 format, however, I am informed that there are legal issues with using the LAME encoder [2]. I am distraught because, as I have stated in a post above here, I wanted to do some mp3 conversion with BladeEnc on my private machine for my mp3s because I don't like the bitrate. Is this legal in the United States for non-commercial purposes? It is impossible to rip any CDs using an ogg format, and it's not like my mp3 player will recognize it anyway. 64.178.97.27 ( talk) 19:32, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
just do it, no one has ever been prosecuted for that...or even copying their CDs for friends...what your doing is less illegal than xeroxing a copyrighted book at the library. —Preceding unsigned comment added by NewAtThis ( talk • contribs) 21:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC) [this reply was moved from the 'Communications channels' section, where it obviously did not belong] -- Heron ( talk) 15:31, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
Astronaut - I am 95% sure it is legal in the US to make a backup copy of software and music, despite what the RIAA might say. If you can show me otherwise, please do. However, I have heard this from various sources: [3] [4]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.178.97.27 ( talk) 22:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I just inherited a laptop from my company. They are very security conscious and I only have "user" rights on the laptop. I can't even change the time! Anyway, is there any way to change my access to "administrator" rights so I can actually use the computer? It has Windows XP Professional. Any suggestions? Tex ( talk) 19:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Depending on what he means when he says "inherited", maybe? If he has it for himself and does not need to return it, why can he not have admin access to it? Kushal 14:16, 30 March 2008 (UTC)