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Alright, I suck at programing tests and quizzes, and the equation/math part of the programming, and flowcharts (this is Qbasic), so I need some help with this problem.
2. Reserved words are words that are used by Qbasic and we can not use them for variable names (True/False)____.
Now give an example of a reserved word ____________
3. You are given an allowance of 20.00 dollars a week. Last week you spent it as follows : $3.50---Fast food, $8.00---Movies, $14.00---CD. You also won a wager with a friend for $5.00, and found another $5.00 in the parking lot of the Mall. Write a Qbasic program which displays your fund Balance on Sunday night (when you get your allowance), all of your transactions, and the amount you have left on next Sunday morning. DO A FLOWCHART!!!!!
Use this space for your work: —Preceding —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.57.167 ( talk) 00:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I've recently switched to a 16:9 1920×1080 monitor. While I am really happy about this at first since now I don't have to watch my videos with letterbox anymore, I find it kind of annoying also, because when viewing certain websites, Wikipedia included, the text is just stretched across the whole screen, making the shorter paragraphs (Four or five lines when viewed in 1024×768) feels like proseline. I am wondering if there's a way to force my web browser (Firefox), or just the Monobook skin (That'll help editing greatly), to adjust the resolution to perhaps something with a lower horizontal resolution. As for some reason it really does makes me feel frustrated to see proseline. -- クラ ウド 668 04:16, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
For the purposes of a theatrical production I need to have several normal telephones ringing on demand. Does anyone know of a method to send a signal to the phones to cause them to ring. My initial idea was to get a laptop and plug them in but I would have no idea what kind of software to use to send the signal. MHDIV ɪŋglɪʃnɜː(r)d( Suggestion?| wanna chat?) 11:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a free and easy way to update metadata on downloaded music files from P2P programs (ie not iTunes etc which already come with the correct metadata)? -- RMFan1 ( talk) 12:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Ill try that. If anyone knows of anything that actually updates the metadata automatically please let me know. Also I have a question about metadata: Why is it that on WMP there are so many different types of metadata (for example, theres an "album artist", "artist", "composed by" etc) but the files themselves seem to have less (usually just "title", "artist" and other basic tags)? -- RMFan1 ( talk) 12:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
The iGoogle personalised homepage used to give a summary of the last half a dozen gmail emails (who sent it and start of title). Today it has been upgraded so that it gives full access to gmail. Our company has a strict policy of blocking webmail. This means that we will have to block google if there is no way to disable email access.
I know that google provided a [ mechanism for disabling chat] on a network by blocking access to http://chatenabled.mail.google.com. Is there a similar way of disabling the access of gmail through iGoogle and the [ google mail gadget]? I really hope so because we all find google search, etc. very useful -- Q Chris ( talk) 13:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Q Chris, I have a solution. ALL you need to do is block *mail.google*. That should block all languages. The gadget just displays a few words from your most recent emails - practically no information at all. You can not compose or read email in it without going to the *mail.google* domain. Solved. * -- mboverload @ 20:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a CD that was not finalized. I want to rip the current data off it. I don't have the means of returning to the computer where it was made and finalizing the disk - or even figuring out what burner program was used to create it. Any suggestions? -- kainaw ™ 15:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso-- Reep ( talk) 23:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't get it. Can't discs be read without finalizing them? I mean, I used to leave my discs unfinalized all the time. (Never burned additional data though. Hah.) -- Kjoon lee 03:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have a Blogger account but want to post comments on WordPress blogs. Both are supposed to allow OpenID but I can't seem to log on WordPress using the OpenID. I can do it easily on LiveJournal though. Anyone knows how to log on WordPress with an Open ID? Thanks. 132.216.22.140 ( talk) 17:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
I often see very cool things done through CSS, and it seems to me like it's possible to add html/text around text through CSS alone. Is that right?
I'm trying to create a CSS tag that would automatically wrap a word in a table with the words "Important notice!" at the top. Is that possible? So if you type in
<div class="notice">Here's a big warning</div>
You would get something like
Important notice! |
---|
Here's a big warning |
Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks! — Sam 17:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Last night I saw some available updates in my fedora update manager. I said sweet, bug fixes, and installed all of them. Unfortunately there was an Xorg driver update that broke my system. The guys at Linux Forums tried to help but ultimately I gave up and reinstalled Fedora. So I want to know about safe updating. I have decided not to install kernel updates or X11 updates anymore because I don't want this to happen again.
Is there anyway to "rollback" or uninstall updates? I know in windows I can just go to control panel and remove updates there but in Fedora's (or any other Linux distribution's) update manager I didn't see any such option to downgrade. If there is a manual way of doing this from the terminal please tell me. When I used Ubuntu about an year ago, the GUI screwed itself often and took me into a command prompt, even without any updates -- this makes me wonder is the Linux GUI too fragile? How to avoid this? How do I know an update is safe or not? - Abhishek Talk 17:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
dpkg --force-downgrade -i xorg_oldversion.deb
--
wj32
t/
c
20:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Hi, I am on the talktalk isp in the uk and constantly (50% of the time) cannot get access to my google blogger to update my posts....is there a quick fix I can do? 89.241.84.64 ( talk) 18:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)andy
thx....going down those lines now. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
78.148.73.105 (
talk)
23:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and a Comp USA wireless router. Whenever I am accessing internet on my wireless, after every now and then I loose my connection and everytime I loose connection, I get a message "Acquiring network access" on bottom right corner of my laptop. Please note that it shows full strength of the wireless signal. Sometimes it is very frequent like every 5 mins or so and sometimes it goes on for 1-2 hours without this problem. Is this some internet connection or security settings issue? Please help.
Namit —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 ( talk) 21:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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Alright, I suck at programing tests and quizzes, and the equation/math part of the programming, and flowcharts (this is Qbasic), so I need some help with this problem.
2. Reserved words are words that are used by Qbasic and we can not use them for variable names (True/False)____.
Now give an example of a reserved word ____________
3. You are given an allowance of 20.00 dollars a week. Last week you spent it as follows : $3.50---Fast food, $8.00---Movies, $14.00---CD. You also won a wager with a friend for $5.00, and found another $5.00 in the parking lot of the Mall. Write a Qbasic program which displays your fund Balance on Sunday night (when you get your allowance), all of your transactions, and the amount you have left on next Sunday morning. DO A FLOWCHART!!!!!
Use this space for your work: —Preceding —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.57.167 ( talk) 00:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
I've recently switched to a 16:9 1920×1080 monitor. While I am really happy about this at first since now I don't have to watch my videos with letterbox anymore, I find it kind of annoying also, because when viewing certain websites, Wikipedia included, the text is just stretched across the whole screen, making the shorter paragraphs (Four or five lines when viewed in 1024×768) feels like proseline. I am wondering if there's a way to force my web browser (Firefox), or just the Monobook skin (That'll help editing greatly), to adjust the resolution to perhaps something with a lower horizontal resolution. As for some reason it really does makes me feel frustrated to see proseline. -- クラ ウド 668 04:16, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
For the purposes of a theatrical production I need to have several normal telephones ringing on demand. Does anyone know of a method to send a signal to the phones to cause them to ring. My initial idea was to get a laptop and plug them in but I would have no idea what kind of software to use to send the signal. MHDIV ɪŋglɪʃnɜː(r)d( Suggestion?| wanna chat?) 11:31, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Is there a free and easy way to update metadata on downloaded music files from P2P programs (ie not iTunes etc which already come with the correct metadata)? -- RMFan1 ( talk) 12:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Ill try that. If anyone knows of anything that actually updates the metadata automatically please let me know. Also I have a question about metadata: Why is it that on WMP there are so many different types of metadata (for example, theres an "album artist", "artist", "composed by" etc) but the files themselves seem to have less (usually just "title", "artist" and other basic tags)? -- RMFan1 ( talk) 12:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
The iGoogle personalised homepage used to give a summary of the last half a dozen gmail emails (who sent it and start of title). Today it has been upgraded so that it gives full access to gmail. Our company has a strict policy of blocking webmail. This means that we will have to block google if there is no way to disable email access.
I know that google provided a [ mechanism for disabling chat] on a network by blocking access to http://chatenabled.mail.google.com. Is there a similar way of disabling the access of gmail through iGoogle and the [ google mail gadget]? I really hope so because we all find google search, etc. very useful -- Q Chris ( talk) 13:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Q Chris, I have a solution. ALL you need to do is block *mail.google*. That should block all languages. The gadget just displays a few words from your most recent emails - practically no information at all. You can not compose or read email in it without going to the *mail.google* domain. Solved. * -- mboverload @ 20:19, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a CD that was not finalized. I want to rip the current data off it. I don't have the means of returning to the computer where it was made and finalizing the disk - or even figuring out what burner program was used to create it. Any suggestions? -- kainaw ™ 15:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.iso-- Reep ( talk) 23:55, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't get it. Can't discs be read without finalizing them? I mean, I used to leave my discs unfinalized all the time. (Never burned additional data though. Hah.) -- Kjoon lee 03:29, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I have a Blogger account but want to post comments on WordPress blogs. Both are supposed to allow OpenID but I can't seem to log on WordPress using the OpenID. I can do it easily on LiveJournal though. Anyone knows how to log on WordPress with an Open ID? Thanks. 132.216.22.140 ( talk) 17:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
I often see very cool things done through CSS, and it seems to me like it's possible to add html/text around text through CSS alone. Is that right?
I'm trying to create a CSS tag that would automatically wrap a word in a table with the words "Important notice!" at the top. Is that possible? So if you type in
<div class="notice">Here's a big warning</div>
You would get something like
Important notice! |
---|
Here's a big warning |
Any suggestions on how to do this?
Thanks! — Sam 17:30, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
Last night I saw some available updates in my fedora update manager. I said sweet, bug fixes, and installed all of them. Unfortunately there was an Xorg driver update that broke my system. The guys at Linux Forums tried to help but ultimately I gave up and reinstalled Fedora. So I want to know about safe updating. I have decided not to install kernel updates or X11 updates anymore because I don't want this to happen again.
Is there anyway to "rollback" or uninstall updates? I know in windows I can just go to control panel and remove updates there but in Fedora's (or any other Linux distribution's) update manager I didn't see any such option to downgrade. If there is a manual way of doing this from the terminal please tell me. When I used Ubuntu about an year ago, the GUI screwed itself often and took me into a command prompt, even without any updates -- this makes me wonder is the Linux GUI too fragile? How to avoid this? How do I know an update is safe or not? - Abhishek Talk 17:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
dpkg --force-downgrade -i xorg_oldversion.deb
--
wj32
t/
c
20:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)Hi, I am on the talktalk isp in the uk and constantly (50% of the time) cannot get access to my google blogger to update my posts....is there a quick fix I can do? 89.241.84.64 ( talk) 18:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)andy
thx....going down those lines now. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
78.148.73.105 (
talk)
23:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop and a Comp USA wireless router. Whenever I am accessing internet on my wireless, after every now and then I loose my connection and everytime I loose connection, I get a message "Acquiring network access" on bottom right corner of my laptop. Please note that it shows full strength of the wireless signal. Sometimes it is very frequent like every 5 mins or so and sometimes it goes on for 1-2 hours without this problem. Is this some internet connection or security settings issue? Please help.
Namit —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 ( talk) 21:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)