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If you have a DVD drive, do you have to have some sort of software or hardware to go with it? Is there anyway you can use it without these? --- Scarce |||| Talk - Contrib.--- 01:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
On message boards, I've seen users doing creative things like
.ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı. Boombox
°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· hello!
,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_SURPRISE!_)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸
What is this called? And where can I find some more examples? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 01:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm trying to better understand the Kasey Chambers/ Shane Nicholson song "Monkey on a Wire", which I heard for the first time today. So I googled "monkey on a wire" (with quotes). One of the results was our article on the psychologist Harry Harlow, which does not actually contain that phrase, though he did do some experiments involving surrogate-mother monkeys made of wire. So I clicked on Google's cached-page link, where the header informed me that "Monkey on a Wire" appears only in pages linking to our article. Naturally, I want to see the page that both contains the phrase "monkey on a wire" and links to Harry Harlow. Google obviously has this information; how do I coax it out? Thanks! -- Allen ( talk) 04:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi I "record" an MP3 stream off the internet with mplayer (on ubuntu linux). As things stand at the moment I get a big and ever growing MP3 and to keep the size of individual files down (and so I can delete bits I've listened to or don't want to listen to) I kill and restart the streaming process regularly.
To make things easier I want to chop chunks of the file off every few hours, or otherwise end up with mp3s each covering a few hours is there a way of doing that automatically? -- 203.22.236.14 ( talk) 06:27, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
mplayer -somelongoptions > foo.mpg
? The standard shell way of splitting things into chunks is
split
, but you can't split mp3s so easily (because all the subsequent chunks won't have valid mp3 headers). You should, however, be able to have mplayer emit raw streams (just samples), split those, and have another process compress those into mp3s. So the main command line would be mplayer -somelongoptions -optiontoemitraw | split
, and your encoder would run (say on a cronjob) that periodically found each file in output directory (but check that they're all old, otherwise you'll be encoding the one that's still being written), rename them (say to the date and time and channel they were recorded), mencoder them to mp3, and move them off somewhere else. If you tell us exactly what mplayer options you're passing, I'll have a go at actually doing this myself.
87.115.94.112 (
talk)
09:25, 11 July 2009 (UTC)mkfifo pipeline split -b 500M -a10 < pipeline & mplayer -ao pcm:nowaveheader:fast:file=pipeline -vo null -vc null -playlist http://site.net/stream.m3u
how do i download from google code, like this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.91.128 ( talk) 12:44, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
svn checkout http://drydock.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ drydock-read-only
that they describe.
87.115.94.112 (
talk)
12:52, 11 July 2009 (UTC)I know that if I use wikimark-up tables eg.
{|
|
|} and I have text in the braces, the table will automatically fix to the text.
Is it possible to get this auto fit to text affect when using <tr> and <td>'s? If so, could I have an example? The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to format
this page and am having trouble making the tables auto fit the text. Thanks--
penubag (
talk)
18:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I put my computer in hibernation mode yesterday, and now when I try to restart it, I get a message that says "The system could not be restarted from its previous location due to a read failure. Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu." I don't have a boot CD, so I don't want to proceed and lose everything! I'm panicking right now and I don't know what to do! This is the first time this has happened to me. I'm using Windows XP. Please, can someone explain this to me without using fancy computer slang? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! 69.122.188.52 ( talk) 22:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I have an old computer that I have installed Ubuntu on. I wanted to see if another video card was working, so I removed the existing card and replaced it. The computer started up Ok, with no Bios beeps, but the LCD monitor just had a black screen, (It did have a signal, because otherwise the monitor would have given its "No Signal" message). When I unplugged the monitor plug from the graphics card and plugged it into the mobo video socket, I did get video although it was rather faulty. But when I put the original video card back again, it was the same as with the other card - black screen, no video except rather faulty video direct from the mobo video socket. How can I force Ubuntu to use the graphics card rather than the onboard mobo video please? 78.151.124.180 ( talk) 23:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Just to re-iterate, the computer has a video output plug directly from the mobo AND also from whatever videocard is slotted in at the time if any. As I said above, ever since I removed the original videocard that came to me with the computer, I have only been able to get a blank black screen from either the original videocard, or another PCI video card I tried. The only video has been from the mobo output plug (only a max of 800xsomething resolution according to the Ubuntu display thing). What ever plug the monitor is plugged into, the computer starts up normally, but video can only be seen when the monitor is plugged into the mobo video socket, as the videocard sockets just gives a blank black screen. Even when the monitor is plugged into the videocards plugs, the computer still starts up.
The events after reading the two comments above: I now appreciate that the problem could have nothing to do with Ubuntu, but I would still very much appreciate some help. After some effort I got into the BIOS setup. The BIOS is EA81510A - this seems to relate to this mobo: http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d815eea/A3204910.pdf I then noticed that the AGP videocard could be pushed into the socket rather more, in other words it had been loose. When I restarted, the computer gave a beeping error signal, indicating a videocard fault. I removed the AGP card. (I think it must have been damaged when I tried it in another computer whose motherboard had in turn been damaged by an incompatible AGP videocard - but thats another story).
The bios only gives two options relating to video - AGP or PCI - nothing else. I changed the BIOS setting from the default AGP to PCI and inserted the PCI videocard. The computer started normally, but there was no video from the videocard, only directly from the mobo. Another point is - although the mobo manual indicates that you are offered the options of changing the priorities or whatever of the PCI slots, this option is MISSING from my bios setup menu. What can I try next please? 89.241.44.245 ( talk) 18:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. A few seconds ago I tried increasing the screen resolution on this working Windows computer, using an old monitor. When I did that, the screen went black. Until Windows reverted it after I did not confirm the new resolution. Could that be the problem - the old monitor I was using could not handle the resolution coming out of the video cards. How could I find out if that is the problem please? Thanks. 78.149.198.158 ( talk) 10:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I have tried another more recent monitor - the graphics card is still just black. When I restarted the computer it unexpectedly gave a higher resolution display. Regarding the BIOS: there is no option in the BIOS to turn off the on-motherboard graphics. There are no jumpers on the motherboard either. Maybe its got missing drivers and I should re-install Ubuntu from scratch? 78.146.166.2 ( talk) 19:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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If you have a DVD drive, do you have to have some sort of software or hardware to go with it? Is there anyway you can use it without these? --- Scarce |||| Talk - Contrib.--- 01:05, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
On message boards, I've seen users doing creative things like
.ılılıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llılılı. Boombox
°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸,ø¤°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸
(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.·(¯`·._.· hello!
,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸-(_SURPRISE!_)-,.-~*´¨¯¨`*·~-.¸
What is this called? And where can I find some more examples? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 01:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm trying to better understand the Kasey Chambers/ Shane Nicholson song "Monkey on a Wire", which I heard for the first time today. So I googled "monkey on a wire" (with quotes). One of the results was our article on the psychologist Harry Harlow, which does not actually contain that phrase, though he did do some experiments involving surrogate-mother monkeys made of wire. So I clicked on Google's cached-page link, where the header informed me that "Monkey on a Wire" appears only in pages linking to our article. Naturally, I want to see the page that both contains the phrase "monkey on a wire" and links to Harry Harlow. Google obviously has this information; how do I coax it out? Thanks! -- Allen ( talk) 04:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi I "record" an MP3 stream off the internet with mplayer (on ubuntu linux). As things stand at the moment I get a big and ever growing MP3 and to keep the size of individual files down (and so I can delete bits I've listened to or don't want to listen to) I kill and restart the streaming process regularly.
To make things easier I want to chop chunks of the file off every few hours, or otherwise end up with mp3s each covering a few hours is there a way of doing that automatically? -- 203.22.236.14 ( talk) 06:27, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
mplayer -somelongoptions > foo.mpg
? The standard shell way of splitting things into chunks is
split
, but you can't split mp3s so easily (because all the subsequent chunks won't have valid mp3 headers). You should, however, be able to have mplayer emit raw streams (just samples), split those, and have another process compress those into mp3s. So the main command line would be mplayer -somelongoptions -optiontoemitraw | split
, and your encoder would run (say on a cronjob) that periodically found each file in output directory (but check that they're all old, otherwise you'll be encoding the one that's still being written), rename them (say to the date and time and channel they were recorded), mencoder them to mp3, and move them off somewhere else. If you tell us exactly what mplayer options you're passing, I'll have a go at actually doing this myself.
87.115.94.112 (
talk)
09:25, 11 July 2009 (UTC)mkfifo pipeline split -b 500M -a10 < pipeline & mplayer -ao pcm:nowaveheader:fast:file=pipeline -vo null -vc null -playlist http://site.net/stream.m3u
how do i download from google code, like this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.91.128 ( talk) 12:44, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
svn checkout http://drydock.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ drydock-read-only
that they describe.
87.115.94.112 (
talk)
12:52, 11 July 2009 (UTC)I know that if I use wikimark-up tables eg.
{|
|
|} and I have text in the braces, the table will automatically fix to the text.
Is it possible to get this auto fit to text affect when using <tr> and <td>'s? If so, could I have an example? The reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to format
this page and am having trouble making the tables auto fit the text. Thanks--
penubag (
talk)
18:43, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I put my computer in hibernation mode yesterday, and now when I try to restart it, I get a message that says "The system could not be restarted from its previous location due to a read failure. Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu." I don't have a boot CD, so I don't want to proceed and lose everything! I'm panicking right now and I don't know what to do! This is the first time this has happened to me. I'm using Windows XP. Please, can someone explain this to me without using fancy computer slang? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! 69.122.188.52 ( talk) 22:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
I have an old computer that I have installed Ubuntu on. I wanted to see if another video card was working, so I removed the existing card and replaced it. The computer started up Ok, with no Bios beeps, but the LCD monitor just had a black screen, (It did have a signal, because otherwise the monitor would have given its "No Signal" message). When I unplugged the monitor plug from the graphics card and plugged it into the mobo video socket, I did get video although it was rather faulty. But when I put the original video card back again, it was the same as with the other card - black screen, no video except rather faulty video direct from the mobo video socket. How can I force Ubuntu to use the graphics card rather than the onboard mobo video please? 78.151.124.180 ( talk) 23:28, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Just to re-iterate, the computer has a video output plug directly from the mobo AND also from whatever videocard is slotted in at the time if any. As I said above, ever since I removed the original videocard that came to me with the computer, I have only been able to get a blank black screen from either the original videocard, or another PCI video card I tried. The only video has been from the mobo output plug (only a max of 800xsomething resolution according to the Ubuntu display thing). What ever plug the monitor is plugged into, the computer starts up normally, but video can only be seen when the monitor is plugged into the mobo video socket, as the videocard sockets just gives a blank black screen. Even when the monitor is plugged into the videocards plugs, the computer still starts up.
The events after reading the two comments above: I now appreciate that the problem could have nothing to do with Ubuntu, but I would still very much appreciate some help. After some effort I got into the BIOS setup. The BIOS is EA81510A - this seems to relate to this mobo: http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d815eea/A3204910.pdf I then noticed that the AGP videocard could be pushed into the socket rather more, in other words it had been loose. When I restarted, the computer gave a beeping error signal, indicating a videocard fault. I removed the AGP card. (I think it must have been damaged when I tried it in another computer whose motherboard had in turn been damaged by an incompatible AGP videocard - but thats another story).
The bios only gives two options relating to video - AGP or PCI - nothing else. I changed the BIOS setting from the default AGP to PCI and inserted the PCI videocard. The computer started normally, but there was no video from the videocard, only directly from the mobo. Another point is - although the mobo manual indicates that you are offered the options of changing the priorities or whatever of the PCI slots, this option is MISSING from my bios setup menu. What can I try next please? 89.241.44.245 ( talk) 18:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. A few seconds ago I tried increasing the screen resolution on this working Windows computer, using an old monitor. When I did that, the screen went black. Until Windows reverted it after I did not confirm the new resolution. Could that be the problem - the old monitor I was using could not handle the resolution coming out of the video cards. How could I find out if that is the problem please? Thanks. 78.149.198.158 ( talk) 10:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
I have tried another more recent monitor - the graphics card is still just black. When I restarted the computer it unexpectedly gave a higher resolution display. Regarding the BIOS: there is no option in the BIOS to turn off the on-motherboard graphics. There are no jumpers on the motherboard either. Maybe its got missing drivers and I should re-install Ubuntu from scratch? 78.146.166.2 ( talk) 19:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)