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Hi everyone,
Somewhere around half of the times that I unplug my AC plug from my laptop when it's turned on the computer completely freezes. Clock doesn't move, mouse stops, everything. The only way to fix it is to hold down the power for a few seconds until it turns off then turn it back on.
I can't think of anything I did that might have caused this, and I've ran numerous virus/spyware scans (ad-aware/avg/hijackthis). This leads me to believe something in the hardware is failing, or it's some setting I changed somehow without knowing.
The fact that it doesn't always happen bothers me, also rarely when I remove or plug in a USB device while the laptop is on, it does the same thing.
I have a Gateway M-6851, running Windows Vista SP1. Any ideas? Thanks!
Chris M. ( talk) 00:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I need some help with the Awesome window manager. I basically want it to look like this. I'm looking for the name of that font, what terminal/console that users is using and what the best file manager would be for Awesome. File managers always look horribly when I use them with Awesome. -- BiT ( talk) 00:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I've just downloaded MakeHuman, and extracted all the files from the zipped folder, now how do I actually install it? (I'm running Windows XP SP3). Thanks! 203.40.181.54 ( talk) 01:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I downloaded the visual basic thingy...from...somewhere (it was a long time ago). Is the in-built tutorial (which, from what I did, is pretty in-depth) a particularly good or bad way to learn my first programming language? I ask because I'm unable to learn anything from it. Vimescarrot ( talk) 12:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
I have a Creative SoundBlaster Live!, its not the one with the full chip, but the cut-down version. (I like the MIDI SoundBank manager better on this version.)
I have two problems with this sound card which cropped up last year. I was on XP SP2 and it worked fine, upgraded to SP3 and it was still fine for a while, but then these problems started appearing. Me being the type of person I am, I had to re-install Windows after fiddling with it. I am now using XP SP2 again and the problems are still here.
1.) If I have my sound volume very low, the sound card will actually turn its self off. i.e. nothing plays, not even the small buzzing that usually comes out of speakers. The only way to cure this is to move the main slider (called playback) on the Mixer up to a higher level, let go of the mouse and it plays the XP error noise (like it should) and then move it back low again.
2.) If I use certain programs then my P.C. after a little while, randomly each time between about 10 and 30 seconds, will pause with the sound jamming and playing the last "second" over and over again. The only way to get rid of this is to do a hard reboot.
Known programs that cause this error:
Audacity - version 1.2.6 (Recording or Playing), Notation Player - version 2.1.2
It might help to know this piece of information. Its a nightmare trying to find drivers from Creative. They have this soundcard in about 5 or 6 different varieties. It is possible I have the wrong drivers installed. I used Creative's Auto-Update service to determine what my soundcard was, and then manually downloaded the drivers from their website. I manually downloaded them because Creative seems to not Auto-Update everything like it claims to.
I have disabled the onboard audio, and as this sound card wasn't with the P.C. (Its basically been built from scratch, but with HDD and RAM from an older P.C. which used an onboard chip. The old sound drivers (C-Media) won't uninstall and that could be the problem. Everytime I go to uninstall them it says uninstalling and then asks to re-boot. When it boots its still there in the Control Panel. I have done this under my account, in safe mode using the Administrator account. and using TuneUp Utilities 2008 to try and remove it.
If anyone knows what could be the problem I would be grateful to know your thoughts. Thanks. Elven Spellmaker ( talk) 13:06, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Which one is the cheapest fm radio attachment for the iPod that just plugs into the bottom of it in a portable way, ie suitable for just carrying with you in your purse? 79.122.6.184 ( talk) 14:38, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to write a greasemonkey script that will replace a certain image on a webpage, say for example the Wikipedia Globe logo with another image of my choice. I'm still a n00b at userscripts, so any help would be awesome. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 15:08, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I need some help with writing a greasemonkey script. I thought I had it figured out, but I just can't seem to make it work. I'd like the script to replace any instance of a certain image on a webpage with another image of my choice. So for example, on this page I might like to replace this image and this image with this and this
From looking at other userscripts, I've come up with:
var findString = ['http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/mag_anom.GIF']; // array of image src var newString = ['http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/2_russian_street_cats-crop.jpg']; // array of new image src var findString = ['http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/curr2.JPG']; // array of image src var newString = ['http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Domestic_cat_cropped.jpg']; // array of new image src var allImages, thisImage; allImages = document.evaluate( '//img[@src]', document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); for (var i = 0; i < allImages.snapshotLength; i++) { thisImage = allImages.snapshotItem(i); for (var j = 0; j < findString.length; j++) { if (thisImage.src.match(findString)) { thisImage.src = thisImage.src.replace(findString[j], newString[j]); } } }
but it's not working. What do I need to do? Many, many thanks for any help with this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 18:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
// a hash table where the images we want to replace are the keys,
// and the replacement images are the values
var substitutions = {
'http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/mag_anom.GIF':
'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/2_russian_street_cats-crop.jpg',
'http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/curr2.JPG':
'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Domestic_cat_cropped.jpg'
};
var allImages = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var i = 0; i < allImages.length; i++) {
var thisImage = allImagesi];
var subst = substitutionsthisImage.src];
if (subst)
{
// we want to create a new image rather than modify the old
// one's src in order to get the width and height of the new image
var newImg = new Image();
newImg.src = subst;
thisImage.parentNode.replaceChild(newImg, thisImage);
}
}
Last question, I promise! I'd like to achieve something similar to this script, but instead of just google it could be modified to work on any image on any page. Say for example I wanted to replace the cnn logo with a selection of randomly changing images. Many thanks, not only for this question but to all those who helped with my other questions too! WP:RD rules! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 07:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
http://*/
" or "http://*.*/
" or something like that? --
Sean 13:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
if (document.URL.indexOf(" http://cnn.com") == 0) { // replace CNN's logo here } else if document.URL.indexOf(" http://google.com") == 0) { // replace Google's logo here }
I need some help reseting the code on my garage door i can't figure out how. thanks for your help, -Rob 64.198.92.180 ( talk) 21:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Garage door opener: Sears Craftsman 41a5021-2b Wireless outdoor keypad: Sears Craftsman 132b2171-2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.198.92.180 ( talk) 21:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
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Hi everyone,
Somewhere around half of the times that I unplug my AC plug from my laptop when it's turned on the computer completely freezes. Clock doesn't move, mouse stops, everything. The only way to fix it is to hold down the power for a few seconds until it turns off then turn it back on.
I can't think of anything I did that might have caused this, and I've ran numerous virus/spyware scans (ad-aware/avg/hijackthis). This leads me to believe something in the hardware is failing, or it's some setting I changed somehow without knowing.
The fact that it doesn't always happen bothers me, also rarely when I remove or plug in a USB device while the laptop is on, it does the same thing.
I have a Gateway M-6851, running Windows Vista SP1. Any ideas? Thanks!
Chris M. ( talk) 00:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I need some help with the Awesome window manager. I basically want it to look like this. I'm looking for the name of that font, what terminal/console that users is using and what the best file manager would be for Awesome. File managers always look horribly when I use them with Awesome. -- BiT ( talk) 00:51, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I've just downloaded MakeHuman, and extracted all the files from the zipped folder, now how do I actually install it? (I'm running Windows XP SP3). Thanks! 203.40.181.54 ( talk) 01:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I downloaded the visual basic thingy...from...somewhere (it was a long time ago). Is the in-built tutorial (which, from what I did, is pretty in-depth) a particularly good or bad way to learn my first programming language? I ask because I'm unable to learn anything from it. Vimescarrot ( talk) 12:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi.
I have a Creative SoundBlaster Live!, its not the one with the full chip, but the cut-down version. (I like the MIDI SoundBank manager better on this version.)
I have two problems with this sound card which cropped up last year. I was on XP SP2 and it worked fine, upgraded to SP3 and it was still fine for a while, but then these problems started appearing. Me being the type of person I am, I had to re-install Windows after fiddling with it. I am now using XP SP2 again and the problems are still here.
1.) If I have my sound volume very low, the sound card will actually turn its self off. i.e. nothing plays, not even the small buzzing that usually comes out of speakers. The only way to cure this is to move the main slider (called playback) on the Mixer up to a higher level, let go of the mouse and it plays the XP error noise (like it should) and then move it back low again.
2.) If I use certain programs then my P.C. after a little while, randomly each time between about 10 and 30 seconds, will pause with the sound jamming and playing the last "second" over and over again. The only way to get rid of this is to do a hard reboot.
Known programs that cause this error:
Audacity - version 1.2.6 (Recording or Playing), Notation Player - version 2.1.2
It might help to know this piece of information. Its a nightmare trying to find drivers from Creative. They have this soundcard in about 5 or 6 different varieties. It is possible I have the wrong drivers installed. I used Creative's Auto-Update service to determine what my soundcard was, and then manually downloaded the drivers from their website. I manually downloaded them because Creative seems to not Auto-Update everything like it claims to.
I have disabled the onboard audio, and as this sound card wasn't with the P.C. (Its basically been built from scratch, but with HDD and RAM from an older P.C. which used an onboard chip. The old sound drivers (C-Media) won't uninstall and that could be the problem. Everytime I go to uninstall them it says uninstalling and then asks to re-boot. When it boots its still there in the Control Panel. I have done this under my account, in safe mode using the Administrator account. and using TuneUp Utilities 2008 to try and remove it.
If anyone knows what could be the problem I would be grateful to know your thoughts. Thanks. Elven Spellmaker ( talk) 13:06, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Which one is the cheapest fm radio attachment for the iPod that just plugs into the bottom of it in a portable way, ie suitable for just carrying with you in your purse? 79.122.6.184 ( talk) 14:38, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to write a greasemonkey script that will replace a certain image on a webpage, say for example the Wikipedia Globe logo with another image of my choice. I'm still a n00b at userscripts, so any help would be awesome. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 15:08, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
I need some help with writing a greasemonkey script. I thought I had it figured out, but I just can't seem to make it work. I'd like the script to replace any instance of a certain image on a webpage with another image of my choice. So for example, on this page I might like to replace this image and this image with this and this
From looking at other userscripts, I've come up with:
var findString = ['http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/mag_anom.GIF']; // array of image src var newString = ['http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/2_russian_street_cats-crop.jpg']; // array of new image src var findString = ['http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/curr2.JPG']; // array of image src var newString = ['http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Domestic_cat_cropped.jpg']; // array of new image src var allImages, thisImage; allImages = document.evaluate( '//img[@src]', document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null); for (var i = 0; i < allImages.snapshotLength; i++) { thisImage = allImages.snapshotItem(i); for (var j = 0; j < findString.length; j++) { if (thisImage.src.match(findString)) { thisImage.src = thisImage.src.replace(findString[j], newString[j]); } } }
but it's not working. What do I need to do? Many, many thanks for any help with this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 18:52, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
// a hash table where the images we want to replace are the keys,
// and the replacement images are the values
var substitutions = {
'http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/mag_anom.GIF':
'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/2_russian_street_cats-crop.jpg',
'http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/curr2.JPG':
'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Domestic_cat_cropped.jpg'
};
var allImages = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
for (var i = 0; i < allImages.length; i++) {
var thisImage = allImagesi];
var subst = substitutionsthisImage.src];
if (subst)
{
// we want to create a new image rather than modify the old
// one's src in order to get the width and height of the new image
var newImg = new Image();
newImg.src = subst;
thisImage.parentNode.replaceChild(newImg, thisImage);
}
}
Last question, I promise! I'd like to achieve something similar to this script, but instead of just google it could be modified to work on any image on any page. Say for example I wanted to replace the cnn logo with a selection of randomly changing images. Many thanks, not only for this question but to all those who helped with my other questions too! WP:RD rules! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.54.169 ( talk) 07:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
http://*/
" or "http://*.*/
" or something like that? --
Sean 13:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
if (document.URL.indexOf(" http://cnn.com") == 0) { // replace CNN's logo here } else if document.URL.indexOf(" http://google.com") == 0) { // replace Google's logo here }
I need some help reseting the code on my garage door i can't figure out how. thanks for your help, -Rob 64.198.92.180 ( talk) 21:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Garage door opener: Sears Craftsman 41a5021-2b Wireless outdoor keypad: Sears Craftsman 132b2171-2 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.198.92.180 ( talk) 21:16, 19 April 2009 (UTC)