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If I am using BitTorrent (Azuereus client) to download movies, will someone, say an ISP or a hacker, be able to sniff or find out the content of my traffic and hence, know what movies I am downloading? Acceptable ( talk) 00:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
yes, this is very easy to do with each client. If you look at the piece graph/information of each torrent it will list your IP and anyone elses that is uploading/downloading. No need to packet sniff. it is public info Ivtv ( talk) 01:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Any user can see this data. It is clear on any client. I use BitComet and Under your tasks there are menu's you can click. One menu, I forget the name at the moment because I am at work you can see every IP attached to the torrent either uploading or downloading and how much of the torrent you have accumulated and your upload/download speed. It is out there in the open. Then, if you really wanted too you can take those IP's and do a whois to determine what ISP it is attached too. The short of it, when you download or upload via torrents, your IP is CLEARLY visible.
Ivtv ( talk) 04:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Kind of a dumb question... I recently bought a Playstation I game, and rather than drag out the Playstation my roommate has, I was hoping to play it on my PC. I run Ubuntu and have PCSX. However, my computer couldn't even mount the CD, quite possibly due to the black underside. Is there a way around this? I could just try to download the ROM from the internet I suppose, ha ha, suggestions? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 03:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys, I have not been here for a while now ... I guess things have changed ...
I have a question, I habe a 60 GB hard disk on my 2006 MacBook and I am considering getting a bigger alternative. How does this http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Drive-WD2500BEVS/dp/B000SIG5QW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1247714298&sr=8-3 look? I don't think I need to get much bigger than this ... any suggestions? How about the price? Please respond ... :) Kushal ( talk) 03:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001JSSDGU/ and unable to decide which one. :( Kushal ( talk) 21:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
i think my memory card reader is disabled (the thing that you put SD cards in). is there a way to re-enable it? it worked fine before I did a system restore, now it doesn't recognize any SD cards and doesn't show up in "My Computer".-- Drawngray19 ( talk) 12:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Go to the Device manager it may be that that piece of hardware has been disabled. Here's a guide on how to get to it if you don't know how to ( http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/f/finddevmngr.htm). ny156uk ( talk) 17:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
how do i find which network adapter i have in my computer (ie. wireless)?? and which driver do i install to make "airopeek" work on my computer??
sushil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 13:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
i run on win xp !! simply the best !! —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Sushil shenoy (
talk •
contribs) 15:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it true that if we had virtually zero latency across networks, we could send arbitrarily large files almost instantaneously? If we converted the binary value of the file into a number, x, and then sent two pings to another computer, x miliseconds apart, the other computer should be able to create the original file, right? (Idea from Dinosaur comics).
Even if x were very, very large, couldn't we compress it even further, by taking factors of that number and sending those factors all at the same time? Say for instance the factors of x were y and z. We could send the transmission like so:
ping!----[y]----ping! pong!--------[z]-------pong!
So we should be able to send any number, no matter how large, in a very short time, with enough factors, right?
Obviously, we don't have zero latency. But we could have some known time slice that was large enough that both computers could be sure they would both measure accurately, say "number of half-seconds" between the two pings. Two computers on the same network should at least get that kind of accuracy. Then if you broke down the factors so they were small enough, each one would only be a few "half-seconds."
Are people already using this kind of compression?
— Sam 14:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
63.138.152.238 ( talk) 15:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
can pointers be declared using different datatypes? can a float value be stored using *ptr? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srividhyaathreya ( talk • contribs) 14:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Pointer (computing) might answer any specifics. in C I think it's
float *peter to declare a variable called peter used as a pointer for/to floats
in Pascal I think it's
var peter: ^float different syntax, same effect
though you are obviously asking about something like C Pointers in this context are always pointing to memory locations so they are always integer types themselves - probably 32 or 64 bit. If you wanted the pointer itself to be a non-integer datatype that's a different question, and an odd thing to do. 83.100.250.79 ( talk) 01:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi All, the other day i inserted a flash drive in to my USB port and since i have open the drive, i can't see my "FOLDER OPTIONS" in "TOOLS" menu... and moreover i also can't use the "SEARCH" feature in "START MENU"...
Can anyone let me know how to overcome this problem?
How do i see the autorun.exe of any flash disk/pen drive??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
exactly ..... i hate autorun.exe! slows down everything !!! and at times can get infected also !!
You mean autorun.inf I think. 68.123.28.58 ( talk) 05:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I installed OpenCobol, which uses Visual C++'s cl command to make binaries from COBOL source files. So, I made a COBOL hello-world program (TEST.COB), and compiled it, but it just creates (1) test.dll, (2) test.dll.manifest, (3) test.exp, and (4) test.lib. Anyone know how to make a .exe or at least use those files to output the message to standard out? I tried running the .dll using rundll32, but nothing happened. Here's the source for TEST.COB:
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. "TEST".
000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000400 DATA DIVISION.
000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000600 DISPLAY "HELLO".
000700 STOP RUN.
Thanks for any help.-- H. Gutmans ( talk) 18:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Is there any way of checking that I am connected (broadband) to the ISP I expect, and that my broadband connection has not been hijacked and put through some expensive thing? I know my anti-virus software will check for diallers, but is there any more direct way of checking please? 78.145.23.157 ( talk) 19:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Does anybody know what algorithm Mathematica 6.0 (student edition) uses when the Sort[list] function is called? -- 72.197.202.36 ( talk) 20:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
What would be the easiest way of comparing two folders and checking that their subfolders and the names of the files within them are the same please? I just want to confirm they are the same, not move files around. The folders may be on different drives. I am using Windows XP. Thanks 78.145.23.157 ( talk) 21:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=2003
How secure is this, really? Someone was claiming people would "work around it", but if you had such a key I can think of no way, beyond physical theft, to compromise the security of someone else's account. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding it entirely. Is it possible to hack someone's RuneScape account if they've got one of these keys? Vimescarrot ( talk) 21:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I cannot access this page, but I am assuming that you order a physical device and through a random number generator every 10 seconds it matches the same number generator to your account. World of Warcraft does the same thing. if you implement this to your account it is next-to-impossible to crack it. each number generator is unique Ivtv ( talk) 22:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Say I have a GUI application running on Ubuntu, for example the tracker applet or the sound recorder or the screenshot application and I'd like to report a bug against it. The command ubuntu-bug <packagename> would take care of that but how would I know the name of the package in the first place? (This is also very useful if you would want to use killall <NameOfApplication> or simply want to know how to start the application with parameters from the commandline.)
Does it boil down to using top or htop to look through possible application names or asking at the forums or is there a smarter, better way? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jarl Arntzen ( talk) 23:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
`xwininfo` =~ /Window id:\s*(\S+)/ or die "could not find window";
$id = $1;
`xlsclients -l` =~ /^Window\s*$id:.*?Command:\s*([^\n]+)/sm
or die "could not find client";
print "$1\n";
RFC 4627 says that "A JSON text is a serialized object or array.", and that "A JSON value MUST be an object, array, number, or string, or [one of 'false'/'true'/'null'.]" What reason is there for requiring that the top level construct be an aggregate? My impulse would have been to make the text be a value so that there was only one concept to address. Is it perhaps related to XML's restriction that the top level be a (single) tag? -- Tardis ( talk) 23:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I have User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search installed in my monobook.js. It's supposed to put a google search box in the left menu column, which indeed it has done for ages. Today I found no such search box & am v.depressed since I make major use of google searches of wikipedia. Does anyone have a clue what's going wrong? thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
My PC with a Gigabyte motherboard and Windows Vista has an odd problem. It will not boot unless the Vista DVD is in my DVD drive. It then does not boot *off* the DVD — it just seems to need the DVD to get started, and then it proceeds to boot from the hard disk. I may have faulty recall here, but I think a similar problem occurred before I had installed the current hard disk and installed Vista — the old hard disk, with Windows 2000 on it, required a boot disc in the DVD drive in order to proceed to boot from the hard disk. Changing the boot device order in the BIOS does not seem to affect this issue, other than when the DVD drive is set to be the boot device, it boots from the DVD. Any suggestions? Tempshill ( talk) 23:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
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If I am using BitTorrent (Azuereus client) to download movies, will someone, say an ISP or a hacker, be able to sniff or find out the content of my traffic and hence, know what movies I am downloading? Acceptable ( talk) 00:35, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
yes, this is very easy to do with each client. If you look at the piece graph/information of each torrent it will list your IP and anyone elses that is uploading/downloading. No need to packet sniff. it is public info Ivtv ( talk) 01:43, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Any user can see this data. It is clear on any client. I use BitComet and Under your tasks there are menu's you can click. One menu, I forget the name at the moment because I am at work you can see every IP attached to the torrent either uploading or downloading and how much of the torrent you have accumulated and your upload/download speed. It is out there in the open. Then, if you really wanted too you can take those IP's and do a whois to determine what ISP it is attached too. The short of it, when you download or upload via torrents, your IP is CLEARLY visible.
Ivtv ( talk) 04:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Kind of a dumb question... I recently bought a Playstation I game, and rather than drag out the Playstation my roommate has, I was hoping to play it on my PC. I run Ubuntu and have PCSX. However, my computer couldn't even mount the CD, quite possibly due to the black underside. Is there a way around this? I could just try to download the ROM from the internet I suppose, ha ha, suggestions? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 03:07, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Hey guys, I have not been here for a while now ... I guess things have changed ...
I have a question, I habe a 60 GB hard disk on my 2006 MacBook and I am considering getting a bigger alternative. How does this http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Scorpio-Drive-WD2500BEVS/dp/B000SIG5QW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1247714298&sr=8-3 look? I don't think I need to get much bigger than this ... any suggestions? How about the price? Please respond ... :) Kushal ( talk) 03:25, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001JSSDGU/ and unable to decide which one. :( Kushal ( talk) 21:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
i think my memory card reader is disabled (the thing that you put SD cards in). is there a way to re-enable it? it worked fine before I did a system restore, now it doesn't recognize any SD cards and doesn't show up in "My Computer".-- Drawngray19 ( talk) 12:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Go to the Device manager it may be that that piece of hardware has been disabled. Here's a guide on how to get to it if you don't know how to ( http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/f/finddevmngr.htm). ny156uk ( talk) 17:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
how do i find which network adapter i have in my computer (ie. wireless)?? and which driver do i install to make "airopeek" work on my computer??
sushil —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 13:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
i run on win xp !! simply the best !! —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Sushil shenoy (
talk •
contribs) 15:51, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Is it true that if we had virtually zero latency across networks, we could send arbitrarily large files almost instantaneously? If we converted the binary value of the file into a number, x, and then sent two pings to another computer, x miliseconds apart, the other computer should be able to create the original file, right? (Idea from Dinosaur comics).
Even if x were very, very large, couldn't we compress it even further, by taking factors of that number and sending those factors all at the same time? Say for instance the factors of x were y and z. We could send the transmission like so:
ping!----[y]----ping! pong!--------[z]-------pong!
So we should be able to send any number, no matter how large, in a very short time, with enough factors, right?
Obviously, we don't have zero latency. But we could have some known time slice that was large enough that both computers could be sure they would both measure accurately, say "number of half-seconds" between the two pings. Two computers on the same network should at least get that kind of accuracy. Then if you broke down the factors so they were small enough, each one would only be a few "half-seconds."
Are people already using this kind of compression?
— Sam 14:00, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
63.138.152.238 ( talk) 15:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
can pointers be declared using different datatypes? can a float value be stored using *ptr? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Srividhyaathreya ( talk • contribs) 14:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Pointer (computing) might answer any specifics. in C I think it's
float *peter to declare a variable called peter used as a pointer for/to floats
in Pascal I think it's
var peter: ^float different syntax, same effect
though you are obviously asking about something like C Pointers in this context are always pointing to memory locations so they are always integer types themselves - probably 32 or 64 bit. If you wanted the pointer itself to be a non-integer datatype that's a different question, and an odd thing to do. 83.100.250.79 ( talk) 01:03, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi All, the other day i inserted a flash drive in to my USB port and since i have open the drive, i can't see my "FOLDER OPTIONS" in "TOOLS" menu... and moreover i also can't use the "SEARCH" feature in "START MENU"...
Can anyone let me know how to overcome this problem?
How do i see the autorun.exe of any flash disk/pen drive??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 15:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
exactly ..... i hate autorun.exe! slows down everything !!! and at times can get infected also !!
You mean autorun.inf I think. 68.123.28.58 ( talk) 05:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I installed OpenCobol, which uses Visual C++'s cl command to make binaries from COBOL source files. So, I made a COBOL hello-world program (TEST.COB), and compiled it, but it just creates (1) test.dll, (2) test.dll.manifest, (3) test.exp, and (4) test.lib. Anyone know how to make a .exe or at least use those files to output the message to standard out? I tried running the .dll using rundll32, but nothing happened. Here's the source for TEST.COB:
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. "TEST".
000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000400 DATA DIVISION.
000500 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000600 DISPLAY "HELLO".
000700 STOP RUN.
Thanks for any help.-- H. Gutmans ( talk) 18:53, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Is there any way of checking that I am connected (broadband) to the ISP I expect, and that my broadband connection has not been hijacked and put through some expensive thing? I know my anti-virus software will check for diallers, but is there any more direct way of checking please? 78.145.23.157 ( talk) 19:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Does anybody know what algorithm Mathematica 6.0 (student edition) uses when the Sort[list] function is called? -- 72.197.202.36 ( talk) 20:34, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
What would be the easiest way of comparing two folders and checking that their subfolders and the names of the files within them are the same please? I just want to confirm they are the same, not move files around. The folders may be on different drives. I am using Windows XP. Thanks 78.145.23.157 ( talk) 21:29, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
http://news.runescape.com/newsitem.ws?id=2003
How secure is this, really? Someone was claiming people would "work around it", but if you had such a key I can think of no way, beyond physical theft, to compromise the security of someone else's account. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding it entirely. Is it possible to hack someone's RuneScape account if they've got one of these keys? Vimescarrot ( talk) 21:47, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I cannot access this page, but I am assuming that you order a physical device and through a random number generator every 10 seconds it matches the same number generator to your account. World of Warcraft does the same thing. if you implement this to your account it is next-to-impossible to crack it. each number generator is unique Ivtv ( talk) 22:21, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
Say I have a GUI application running on Ubuntu, for example the tracker applet or the sound recorder or the screenshot application and I'd like to report a bug against it. The command ubuntu-bug <packagename> would take care of that but how would I know the name of the package in the first place? (This is also very useful if you would want to use killall <NameOfApplication> or simply want to know how to start the application with parameters from the commandline.)
Does it boil down to using top or htop to look through possible application names or asking at the forums or is there a smarter, better way? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jarl Arntzen ( talk) 23:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
`xwininfo` =~ /Window id:\s*(\S+)/ or die "could not find window";
$id = $1;
`xlsclients -l` =~ /^Window\s*$id:.*?Command:\s*([^\n]+)/sm
or die "could not find client";
print "$1\n";
RFC 4627 says that "A JSON text is a serialized object or array.", and that "A JSON value MUST be an object, array, number, or string, or [one of 'false'/'true'/'null'.]" What reason is there for requiring that the top level construct be an aggregate? My impulse would have been to make the text be a value so that there was only one concept to address. Is it perhaps related to XML's restriction that the top level be a (single) tag? -- Tardis ( talk) 23:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
I have User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search installed in my monobook.js. It's supposed to put a google search box in the left menu column, which indeed it has done for ages. Today I found no such search box & am v.depressed since I make major use of google searches of wikipedia. Does anyone have a clue what's going wrong? thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 23:20, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
My PC with a Gigabyte motherboard and Windows Vista has an odd problem. It will not boot unless the Vista DVD is in my DVD drive. It then does not boot *off* the DVD — it just seems to need the DVD to get started, and then it proceeds to boot from the hard disk. I may have faulty recall here, but I think a similar problem occurred before I had installed the current hard disk and installed Vista — the old hard disk, with Windows 2000 on it, required a boot disc in the DVD drive in order to proceed to boot from the hard disk. Changing the boot device order in the BIOS does not seem to affect this issue, other than when the DVD drive is set to be the boot device, it boots from the DVD. Any suggestions? Tempshill ( talk) 23:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)