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How Wiki came up with the idiom Wiki is not a crystal ball meaning Wiki does not calculate futue events. Crystal is just a gem, so what does crystal have anything to do with guestimating?-- 69.228.145.50 ( talk) 00:29, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I am looking for a program that can raw dump an entire USB memory stick to a single file - without adding any of its own crap to the image. As there any software that does it? I also want to be able to write the image back.-- 155.144.40.31 ( talk) 01:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
WinImage can do this / / 14:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi All,
When it comes to optimizing urls, does it HAVE to be the page name containing the keywords, or will something in the path be just as effective? Example
www.mysite.com/somecategory/file-name-with-keywords.htm
as opposed to:
www.mysite.com/key-words-here/2.htm
Will it make a substantial difference going from one to the other?
Thanks in advance PrinzPH ( talk) 03:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I see. My question really revolves around assuming that search engines do use the URL (the string itself), does really matter at what point in the string it occurs?
PrinzPH (
talk) 17:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
EDIT: I just noticed my question is redundant (Search Engine Optimization Optimization? lol) :p
PrinzPH (
talk) 17:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
So I'm visiting my parents' place for a couple of days and they had their internet cancelled for the summer. A neighbor has kindly allowed me to use their wireless next door, and the last time I used it I could access it from over half the rooms in the house.
This time around I could barely access it at all. For about 5 minutes, I could access google.com, and it was quite fast and responsive, but NO other sites would work at all. Meanwhile I could do Google searches to my heart's content, so I simply gave up.
Then I disabled 802.11n and connected with 802.11g. A little better, but most sites still don't work most of the time. google.com doesn't work anymore, so my previous success must have been a coincidence right? Well... I ssh'd into my work machine and tunneled VNC through that. The VNC is nice and responsive (as much as VNC typically is), in fact I'm typing this question into Firefox on my work computer through my VNC-over-SSH session.
I left a ping -t (in Windows) running for about 10 minutes to the machine I ssh'd into and got a 95% packet loss. Meanwhile the VNC session has been perfectly responsive the whole time, including various other things I had going on in my little Putty SSH session at the command line.
Can anyone explain this behavior, why I'm getting such a poor ping response while my VNC session remains perfectly fine (from what I can tell)? If the wireless is spotty, wouldn't that trigger wireless retransmits that are invisible to the ICMP layer? If these retransmits are taking too long and the ping is timing out anyways, why is my VNC session still so responsive? If it's a QoS thing where my SSH stuff is getting through at the expense of ICMP stuff, then why is most of my web traffic getting blocked when no VNC is running? These should hopefully give you an idea of my network knowledge--or lack thereof. Generally speaking, why is there such a huge reliability gap (perfect.....abysmal) between my VNC-over-SSH to my work computer and everything else I've tried?
I also tried OpenDNS with virtually identical results (not that that would explain the ping/VNC disparity).
Thanks. -- Silvaran ( talk) 03:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
what is the ping response with URL vs IP? use yahoo and not google as they have blocked pinging their servers. you can also try to uninstall and reinstall the network driver for your wireless. Then check the connection. Ivtv ( talk) 05:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I know that with system("ping machinename") I can ping a machine in C. i'd like to save that output to a char array variable if possible. How would I do that? (if you could write up/copy paste some quick code, I'd appreciate it). Also, this isn't homework :). Chris M. ( talk) 14:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
system("ping machinename > pingResult.log");
FILE* f = fopen("pingResult.log", "r");
// ... read and parse log file
FILE* f = popen("ping machinename", "r");
// ... read and parse output
is there a way to ged rid of that bloody pic every user gets assigned in windows since xp to vista ??? i mean that there was no pic at all —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.47.159 ( talk) 14:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
A while ago my laptop began to have a problem where after being off for a while and then turning it on, the screen image would be flickery and then often go out. Once it went out there would still be an image on the screen, but with no illumination so it was almost impossible to see. This led me to believe there was a problem with the monitor's backlight. The only way to get it to work again would be to turn the monitor off and back on (the quickest way was to put it in stand by mode). The problem seemed to go away as the monitor was on for longer, so after a few tries it would work better, and then once it was on for a few minutes straight it would be fine until the next time I turned it off. Over a few weeks this issue got worse and worse until it became unusable. I connected it to an external monitor, which worked with no problem. I've been using it like that for a few months since I've been too lazy to do anything about it. Then yesterday I suddenly started having the same issue with the external monitor. The external monitor is an LCD as well. Is this a common enough problem that it's conceivable I'm having the same issue with two different monitors in the span of 6 months or is there something with the computer that could cause this? Rckrone ( talk) 17:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I think I know the answer to the question I am going to ask, but I'm gonna ask it anyway, just to confirm.
What is the worst that could happen to an external HDD (or the data on it) if it is connected simultaneously to two computers? The HDD in question has two connections (USB and eSATA)—if the drive is connected to a running PC via USB and also to another running PC via eSATA, what could the consequences be? The HDD contains a repository of data both PCs need to access, and neither PC is expected to update the data (not often anyway).
And yes, I know I can just share the drive over the network, so both PCs would have access to it no problem. I am just curious about this alternative approach (if only for access speed reasons). Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 17:58, July 31, 2009 (UTC)
I know that in MediaWiki, they have two variable expansions, {{PAGENAME}} and {{PAGENAMEE}}, where the second one is the first one with special characters URL-encoded, and spaces turned into underscores. However, suppose I want to make a template that allows people to link to an external wiki outside of the Wikipedia family using a direct URL link (since it's a wiki using MediaWiki, I need to URL-encode page names in the URL when I link it), but I want to allow people to specify the page name as a normal page name (i.e. with spaces and special characters). So my question is: is there some special MediaWiki function that performs the exact same transformation as {{PAGENAME}} to {{PAGENAMEE}}, but on a custom string. Thanks, -- 71.106.173.110 ( talk) 18:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I have a Sony Ericsson W595 phone which I very often use with a bluetooth headset, and the first thing I did after buying it, was to try out the voice recognition feature for making calls. I recorded commands such as "Call Erik", "Call Ellen", etc. (I used the Norwegian word for call - Ring - and these are not the actual names). I did this for about ten or fifteen of my contacts. It worked beautifully. Beautifully, that is, in the quiet room where I was when I did the exercise. When I need the feature, however, it's a disaster. Outdoors, on the metro, when I'm running -- it hardly ever works. My question is - what should I do to make the feature usable?. My first thoughts are: don't say "Call" before the name of the contact, and keep the number of contacts that I use the feature for to a minimum. Any other suggestions? -- NorwegianBlue talk 18:45, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
On what social networking sites, if any, can I create a list of friends who can share my private profile with people I don't know, without allowing those friends to share the right to share the profile? Neon Merlin 20:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
How can I save the video clip here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8173285.stm to hard disk? My normal method of finding the .flv file in the cache does not work. 89.243.180.82 ( talk) 20:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I downloaded Get iplayer. But so far I have been unable to download the video clip linked to above - here's what I got:
"C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer --get --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashh igh,iphone,flashnormal --type=tv --url=' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8173 285.stm'
get_iplayer v2.14, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details.
INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv INFO: pid not found in tv cache ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
INFO: No versions exist for this programme"
What command should I use please? 78.146.243.101 ( talk) 19:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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How Wiki came up with the idiom Wiki is not a crystal ball meaning Wiki does not calculate futue events. Crystal is just a gem, so what does crystal have anything to do with guestimating?-- 69.228.145.50 ( talk) 00:29, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I am looking for a program that can raw dump an entire USB memory stick to a single file - without adding any of its own crap to the image. As there any software that does it? I also want to be able to write the image back.-- 155.144.40.31 ( talk) 01:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
WinImage can do this / / 14:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi All,
When it comes to optimizing urls, does it HAVE to be the page name containing the keywords, or will something in the path be just as effective? Example
www.mysite.com/somecategory/file-name-with-keywords.htm
as opposed to:
www.mysite.com/key-words-here/2.htm
Will it make a substantial difference going from one to the other?
Thanks in advance PrinzPH ( talk) 03:03, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I see. My question really revolves around assuming that search engines do use the URL (the string itself), does really matter at what point in the string it occurs?
PrinzPH (
talk) 17:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
EDIT: I just noticed my question is redundant (Search Engine Optimization Optimization? lol) :p
PrinzPH (
talk) 17:05, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
So I'm visiting my parents' place for a couple of days and they had their internet cancelled for the summer. A neighbor has kindly allowed me to use their wireless next door, and the last time I used it I could access it from over half the rooms in the house.
This time around I could barely access it at all. For about 5 minutes, I could access google.com, and it was quite fast and responsive, but NO other sites would work at all. Meanwhile I could do Google searches to my heart's content, so I simply gave up.
Then I disabled 802.11n and connected with 802.11g. A little better, but most sites still don't work most of the time. google.com doesn't work anymore, so my previous success must have been a coincidence right? Well... I ssh'd into my work machine and tunneled VNC through that. The VNC is nice and responsive (as much as VNC typically is), in fact I'm typing this question into Firefox on my work computer through my VNC-over-SSH session.
I left a ping -t (in Windows) running for about 10 minutes to the machine I ssh'd into and got a 95% packet loss. Meanwhile the VNC session has been perfectly responsive the whole time, including various other things I had going on in my little Putty SSH session at the command line.
Can anyone explain this behavior, why I'm getting such a poor ping response while my VNC session remains perfectly fine (from what I can tell)? If the wireless is spotty, wouldn't that trigger wireless retransmits that are invisible to the ICMP layer? If these retransmits are taking too long and the ping is timing out anyways, why is my VNC session still so responsive? If it's a QoS thing where my SSH stuff is getting through at the expense of ICMP stuff, then why is most of my web traffic getting blocked when no VNC is running? These should hopefully give you an idea of my network knowledge--or lack thereof. Generally speaking, why is there such a huge reliability gap (perfect.....abysmal) between my VNC-over-SSH to my work computer and everything else I've tried?
I also tried OpenDNS with virtually identical results (not that that would explain the ping/VNC disparity).
Thanks. -- Silvaran ( talk) 03:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
what is the ping response with URL vs IP? use yahoo and not google as they have blocked pinging their servers. you can also try to uninstall and reinstall the network driver for your wireless. Then check the connection. Ivtv ( talk) 05:19, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I know that with system("ping machinename") I can ping a machine in C. i'd like to save that output to a char array variable if possible. How would I do that? (if you could write up/copy paste some quick code, I'd appreciate it). Also, this isn't homework :). Chris M. ( talk) 14:24, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
system("ping machinename > pingResult.log");
FILE* f = fopen("pingResult.log", "r");
// ... read and parse log file
FILE* f = popen("ping machinename", "r");
// ... read and parse output
is there a way to ged rid of that bloody pic every user gets assigned in windows since xp to vista ??? i mean that there was no pic at all —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.47.159 ( talk) 14:36, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
A while ago my laptop began to have a problem where after being off for a while and then turning it on, the screen image would be flickery and then often go out. Once it went out there would still be an image on the screen, but with no illumination so it was almost impossible to see. This led me to believe there was a problem with the monitor's backlight. The only way to get it to work again would be to turn the monitor off and back on (the quickest way was to put it in stand by mode). The problem seemed to go away as the monitor was on for longer, so after a few tries it would work better, and then once it was on for a few minutes straight it would be fine until the next time I turned it off. Over a few weeks this issue got worse and worse until it became unusable. I connected it to an external monitor, which worked with no problem. I've been using it like that for a few months since I've been too lazy to do anything about it. Then yesterday I suddenly started having the same issue with the external monitor. The external monitor is an LCD as well. Is this a common enough problem that it's conceivable I'm having the same issue with two different monitors in the span of 6 months or is there something with the computer that could cause this? Rckrone ( talk) 17:57, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I think I know the answer to the question I am going to ask, but I'm gonna ask it anyway, just to confirm.
What is the worst that could happen to an external HDD (or the data on it) if it is connected simultaneously to two computers? The HDD in question has two connections (USB and eSATA)—if the drive is connected to a running PC via USB and also to another running PC via eSATA, what could the consequences be? The HDD contains a repository of data both PCs need to access, and neither PC is expected to update the data (not often anyway).
And yes, I know I can just share the drive over the network, so both PCs would have access to it no problem. I am just curious about this alternative approach (if only for access speed reasons). Thanks.— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); 17:58, July 31, 2009 (UTC)
I know that in MediaWiki, they have two variable expansions, {{PAGENAME}} and {{PAGENAMEE}}, where the second one is the first one with special characters URL-encoded, and spaces turned into underscores. However, suppose I want to make a template that allows people to link to an external wiki outside of the Wikipedia family using a direct URL link (since it's a wiki using MediaWiki, I need to URL-encode page names in the URL when I link it), but I want to allow people to specify the page name as a normal page name (i.e. with spaces and special characters). So my question is: is there some special MediaWiki function that performs the exact same transformation as {{PAGENAME}} to {{PAGENAMEE}}, but on a custom string. Thanks, -- 71.106.173.110 ( talk) 18:21, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
I have a Sony Ericsson W595 phone which I very often use with a bluetooth headset, and the first thing I did after buying it, was to try out the voice recognition feature for making calls. I recorded commands such as "Call Erik", "Call Ellen", etc. (I used the Norwegian word for call - Ring - and these are not the actual names). I did this for about ten or fifteen of my contacts. It worked beautifully. Beautifully, that is, in the quiet room where I was when I did the exercise. When I need the feature, however, it's a disaster. Outdoors, on the metro, when I'm running -- it hardly ever works. My question is - what should I do to make the feature usable?. My first thoughts are: don't say "Call" before the name of the contact, and keep the number of contacts that I use the feature for to a minimum. Any other suggestions? -- NorwegianBlue talk 18:45, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
On what social networking sites, if any, can I create a list of friends who can share my private profile with people I don't know, without allowing those friends to share the right to share the profile? Neon Merlin 20:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
How can I save the video clip here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8173285.stm to hard disk? My normal method of finding the .flv file in the cache does not work. 89.243.180.82 ( talk) 20:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, I downloaded Get iplayer. But so far I have been unable to download the video clip linked to above - here's what I got:
"C:\Program Files\get_iplayer>get_iplayer --get --modes=flashhd,flashvhigh,flashh igh,iphone,flashnormal --type=tv --url=' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8173 285.stm'
get_iplayer v2.14, Copyright (C) 2009 Phil Lewis This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; use --conditions for details.
INFO Trying to stream pid using type tv INFO: pid not found in tv cache ERROR: Failed to get version pid metadata from iplayer site
INFO: No versions exist for this programme"
What command should I use please? 78.146.243.101 ( talk) 19:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)