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I run a presario with a partition of xp and one of ubuntu. If I don't select xp then ubuntu automatically loads, but I primarily run windows so that my audigy won't give me problems. Sometimes I come home and my screen is on ubuntu because of usually some kind of automatic update that required a restart. No problem, I restart and select xp. Today I come home, same situation at first, but when I restart ubuntu loads without a boot screen. I restart again a couple times, same thing. I shut down and wait a couple minutes, turn it on and it goes directly to ubuntu with no boot screen. I'm not sure if I have a windows boot disk around anywhere, but I might, but I'm hoping the solution involves something else. I'm a sort of a novice on linux, so I can go to the terminal but if it's complicated I need one of those walk-throughs that holds my hand. Thanks. - Lamba jan 01:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
That's everything that came up. I hope it's helpful, thanks. - Lamba jan 13:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
What is the most widely used library in C (not C++) for doing hash tables and automatically resized arrays (that supports push, pop, shift, and unshift functions)? I think Gnome library has these, but what are my options? what is the most widely used? -- 24.188.247.12 ( talk) 02:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
It is possible to have an image on a computer screen that shows one’s reflection? A digital mirror so to speak. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.202.144.223 ( talk) 03:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden, the audio isn't working when I try to play videos in Firefox 3.0.1. My iTunes works fine. I closed and reopened the browser, but that didn't fix it. I restarted my computer, but that didn't fix it. I checked all sounds setting in my volume control, but everything is OK. Any suggestions about what might be causing this would be appreciated! — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 03:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I am using Microsoft Window XP Professional and Word-2003.
Most of my Microsoft-Word documents contain both English and Chinese fonts. I never type in Chinese fonts with Ping-Ying. They are always copied from other documents and pasted into my files. Whenever I type in, I want them to be English.
Problem#1: Whenever I open a word document, its input is always Chinese Ping-Ying by default.
Question#1: How do I set English as the default language although documents contain some Chinese characters? I tried
but it never works.
Problem#2: This is independent of the above situation. Files with extension .htm are open correctly by Firefox but the icon on every htm-document is NOT identified by Firefox.
Question#2: How do I attach the Firefox-icon to files with externsion-htm?
Problem#3: I view some video online via internet.
Question#3: Are these video files stored in some temporary folders of Window-XP-Professional? Can I take them out and save them for viewing later?
Thank you in advance for your help. twma 09:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help.
1) Menu/Tools/Language/Set Language/(abc)-English (Australia)/default
It did not work. Every time when I opened a new or old file I had to change manually from Chinese into English at the selector located at the lower right hand corner of the bottom bar.
2) Following your instructions again, I managed to get a window of lots of icon-pictures but I could not find the icon of Firefox. I do not know how to copy one from other computer or download it from somewhere.
3) I managed to find a web-site of Firefox Add-ons. Will ask my local friends to work together. Thank you again. twma 09:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey guys I've narrowed my options down. Please take a look at this comparison. http://direct.tesco.com/compare/?c=204-4693+204-5811&f=%2Fq%2FN.1999033%24264%2FNr.99.aspx
Not sure which is best, as a Gamer, the laptops perfomance in games is important but not the only thing I will take into consideration. It troubles me that battery life is not included in the specification of the HP dv6907. Does anyone here own one of these laptops or be able to find out how long battery life is? Or perhaps maybe you know of a better deal than either of these two.
Thanks a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.19.46.67 ( talk) 10:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The 8400M is an abysmal card for games. If you want to play ames at all you're going to want an 8600M minimum 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 12:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry I wasn't aware he just wanted to play counterstrike source. The card will be fine for that but you'll be running at medium to low settings. And yes, there is an 8600M. It is one of the standard cards on the Dell XPS series of laptops. And to the poster of the question, gaming shouldn't be done unless you're plugged into the power as running 3d graphics presents a massive strain on the computer so it uses more power. Anything other than that and possibly video and you're going to get at least 4 hours probably more on a fully charged battery if you're careful. 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC) Edit: Oh by the way since you're asking for a comparison get the first one. The A200 has a graphics card that isn't even going to be particularly good at running Vista on its own let alone Source. It's also a really old model and it has awful speakers according to a CNet review I found. So to reiterate if those are your 2 choices go for the HP. 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I just want to try plan 9, inferno and other things, but I don't want to partition my hard drive any further. I don't know which virtual machine to choose, there are simply too many options. I am ready to clean up everything and install everything fresh, if required. I have AMD Athlon x2, x86-64 system. Any help regarding this would really be appreciated. -- V4vijayakumar ( talk) 18:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Uh, this is kinda weird, but suddenly today the text in webpages in firefox turned italicized and in some other program windows as well (Trend Micro for example). I restarted twice and now the text in firefox is bold while the text in the Trend Micro control box is still italic. Can anyone help and tell me what's going on? Much thanks for any help. -- RedStateV ( talk) 19:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Now the text in IE is italicized too. What the heck?! RedStateV ( talk) 19:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok new update. It's not all web pages that do it. The Google home page, gmail, the ref desk page, any Wikipedia page is along with most other web pages. Facebook and TG Daily seem fine. It's still bold in FF and italics in IE. Plus, when I go into MS Word 2008 and select Arial, it comes out italicized and the selection box for italics isn't checked. Also, when I copy say, some bold text in FF off of the ref desk and into word or notepad, it shows up fine (i.e. clear formatted Times New Roman). RedStateV ( talk) 21:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Why the bloody fsck does Windows Live HotMail claim that "This version works better under your browser. For the full version, you need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 6. The full version also works with FireFox 2.0" when I am using it under FireFox 3.0? Is Windows Live HotMail simply too stupid to realise FireFox 3.0 is more advanced than FireFox 2.0, or is this a clever ploy to finally get me to install Windows? JIP | Talk 21:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
You can always get your browser to identify as something else. My guess is that it could work perfectly well under Ff3/Ie<6, they are just to stupid not only to have not released it yet, but perhaps not even confirmed if they need to. 78.149.67.250 ( talk) 23:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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I run a presario with a partition of xp and one of ubuntu. If I don't select xp then ubuntu automatically loads, but I primarily run windows so that my audigy won't give me problems. Sometimes I come home and my screen is on ubuntu because of usually some kind of automatic update that required a restart. No problem, I restart and select xp. Today I come home, same situation at first, but when I restart ubuntu loads without a boot screen. I restart again a couple times, same thing. I shut down and wait a couple minutes, turn it on and it goes directly to ubuntu with no boot screen. I'm not sure if I have a windows boot disk around anywhere, but I might, but I'm hoping the solution involves something else. I'm a sort of a novice on linux, so I can go to the terminal but if it's complicated I need one of those walk-throughs that holds my hand. Thanks. - Lamba jan 01:52, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
That's everything that came up. I hope it's helpful, thanks. - Lamba jan 13:20, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
What is the most widely used library in C (not C++) for doing hash tables and automatically resized arrays (that supports push, pop, shift, and unshift functions)? I think Gnome library has these, but what are my options? what is the most widely used? -- 24.188.247.12 ( talk) 02:16, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
It is possible to have an image on a computer screen that shows one’s reflection? A digital mirror so to speak. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.202.144.223 ( talk) 03:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
All of a sudden, the audio isn't working when I try to play videos in Firefox 3.0.1. My iTunes works fine. I closed and reopened the browser, but that didn't fix it. I restarted my computer, but that didn't fix it. I checked all sounds setting in my volume control, but everything is OK. Any suggestions about what might be causing this would be appreciated! — Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 03:36, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I am using Microsoft Window XP Professional and Word-2003.
Most of my Microsoft-Word documents contain both English and Chinese fonts. I never type in Chinese fonts with Ping-Ying. They are always copied from other documents and pasted into my files. Whenever I type in, I want them to be English.
Problem#1: Whenever I open a word document, its input is always Chinese Ping-Ying by default.
Question#1: How do I set English as the default language although documents contain some Chinese characters? I tried
but it never works.
Problem#2: This is independent of the above situation. Files with extension .htm are open correctly by Firefox but the icon on every htm-document is NOT identified by Firefox.
Question#2: How do I attach the Firefox-icon to files with externsion-htm?
Problem#3: I view some video online via internet.
Question#3: Are these video files stored in some temporary folders of Window-XP-Professional? Can I take them out and save them for viewing later?
Thank you in advance for your help. twma 09:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for your help.
1) Menu/Tools/Language/Set Language/(abc)-English (Australia)/default
It did not work. Every time when I opened a new or old file I had to change manually from Chinese into English at the selector located at the lower right hand corner of the bottom bar.
2) Following your instructions again, I managed to get a window of lots of icon-pictures but I could not find the icon of Firefox. I do not know how to copy one from other computer or download it from somewhere.
3) I managed to find a web-site of Firefox Add-ons. Will ask my local friends to work together. Thank you again. twma 09:49, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey guys I've narrowed my options down. Please take a look at this comparison. http://direct.tesco.com/compare/?c=204-4693+204-5811&f=%2Fq%2FN.1999033%24264%2FNr.99.aspx
Not sure which is best, as a Gamer, the laptops perfomance in games is important but not the only thing I will take into consideration. It troubles me that battery life is not included in the specification of the HP dv6907. Does anyone here own one of these laptops or be able to find out how long battery life is? Or perhaps maybe you know of a better deal than either of these two.
Thanks a lot —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.19.46.67 ( talk) 10:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
The 8400M is an abysmal card for games. If you want to play ames at all you're going to want an 8600M minimum 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 12:11, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry I wasn't aware he just wanted to play counterstrike source. The card will be fine for that but you'll be running at medium to low settings. And yes, there is an 8600M. It is one of the standard cards on the Dell XPS series of laptops. And to the poster of the question, gaming shouldn't be done unless you're plugged into the power as running 3d graphics presents a massive strain on the computer so it uses more power. Anything other than that and possibly video and you're going to get at least 4 hours probably more on a fully charged battery if you're careful. 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:31, 11 September 2008 (UTC) Edit: Oh by the way since you're asking for a comparison get the first one. The A200 has a graphics card that isn't even going to be particularly good at running Vista on its own let alone Source. It's also a really old model and it has awful speakers according to a CNet review I found. So to reiterate if those are your 2 choices go for the HP. 88.211.96.3 ( talk) 14:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
I just want to try plan 9, inferno and other things, but I don't want to partition my hard drive any further. I don't know which virtual machine to choose, there are simply too many options. I am ready to clean up everything and install everything fresh, if required. I have AMD Athlon x2, x86-64 system. Any help regarding this would really be appreciated. -- V4vijayakumar ( talk) 18:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Uh, this is kinda weird, but suddenly today the text in webpages in firefox turned italicized and in some other program windows as well (Trend Micro for example). I restarted twice and now the text in firefox is bold while the text in the Trend Micro control box is still italic. Can anyone help and tell me what's going on? Much thanks for any help. -- RedStateV ( talk) 19:15, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Now the text in IE is italicized too. What the heck?! RedStateV ( talk) 19:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Ok new update. It's not all web pages that do it. The Google home page, gmail, the ref desk page, any Wikipedia page is along with most other web pages. Facebook and TG Daily seem fine. It's still bold in FF and italics in IE. Plus, when I go into MS Word 2008 and select Arial, it comes out italicized and the selection box for italics isn't checked. Also, when I copy say, some bold text in FF off of the ref desk and into word or notepad, it shows up fine (i.e. clear formatted Times New Roman). RedStateV ( talk) 21:24, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Why the bloody fsck does Windows Live HotMail claim that "This version works better under your browser. For the full version, you need to upgrade to Internet Explorer 6. The full version also works with FireFox 2.0" when I am using it under FireFox 3.0? Is Windows Live HotMail simply too stupid to realise FireFox 3.0 is more advanced than FireFox 2.0, or is this a clever ploy to finally get me to install Windows? JIP | Talk 21:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
You can always get your browser to identify as something else. My guess is that it could work perfectly well under Ff3/Ie<6, they are just to stupid not only to have not released it yet, but perhaps not even confirmed if they need to. 78.149.67.250 ( talk) 23:49, 11 September 2008 (UTC)