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Reading through Template talk:User committed identity, I realized it isn't what I was looking for. Namely, I would like to post on Wikipedia and elsewhere using my real-life name. However, what stops me from doing so is the risk that someone could impersonate me elsewhere on the Internet using my name and post ugly things under that name. Then any time someone googles my name, they would find those posts.
Are there any schemes that would ensure that postings using my name can be independently verified that they come from me and no one else?
My initial very crude idea would be a website where you could download a "scratch pad" with a list of one-time codes, similar to the transaction numbers used in online banking. Every code could be used only once. For every post I make anywhere on the Web, I would copy one code from the list into the post and then strike it off my list. A reader could then click on the code, which would lead to the repository and allow verification.
It sounds cumbersome and it is. My question is, would it be workable at all? Has it been implemented anywhere yet? And is there a less cumbersome method to accomplish the same goal?
There are other concerns besides identity theft when posting under a real-life name. For example, verification would not protect against stalkers harrassing me in real life, but I would be wiling to take that chance.-- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 02:35, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
My Vista PC wants me to create some recovery disks. Should I use DVD-R or DVD+R or does it not really matter? Clarityfiend ( talk) 04:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
How do you set up JDBC to work with SQL Server 2008? Black Carrot ( talk) 06:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hiya , I'm looking for a good isp to go with in the uk. i currently do not have the internet at home, or a bt landline phone. I've been looking at Tiscali broadband and it seems to offer what i want, especially their fair use policy of 100GB a month.
My question is, for a heavy internet downloader such as myself, what is the best isp to choose in england? Is it Tiscali? I don't want cable television or phone calls, just the internet. Thanks for your help and any suggestions you may have for me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.80.240.66 ( talk) 09:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I use 'Freedom2surf' and find they are good, they offer it without a 12-month contract and the prices are quite reasonable: around £16 for unlimited 'up to 16mb' downloads (1mb uploads) or around £23 for their '50kbps download guaranteed, up to 16mb' product. Both of which state usage is 'unlimited'. Personally From a really quick scan I don't see anything in the T&Cs about a cap on that 'unlimited' but in reality i'd be amazed if there isn't. Honestly though 100gb? Do you just spend the entire month seeding/leeching on Torrent files? It always amazes me - what do people do that uses that much per month! I feel like a heavy internet user and I get through maybe 20gb a month. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 11:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Out of interest...what do you download? I just can't imagine downloading that much stuff and actually ever using the stuff. Anyhoo as I noted Freedom2Surf don't offer an upper-limit on their account, you could probably contact them to see whether or not they have a 'fair use' policy. To be honest the amount of bandwidth you're using i'd expect is getting towards business-lines usage from a ISPs perspective. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 12:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
So does anyone have some suggestions of ISPs in England that would be good for me?? 194.80.240.66 ( talk) 12:38, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Be might work for you. They have a fair usage limit but they're very cheap for their speeds. It MIGHT not be avalible in your area but you can check on their site. Also I have a friend who works for them and has told me they have hardly ever acted on the fair usage thing and they don't block ports or anything like that. Gunrun ( talk) 10:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I seem to be getting not one but two black bars, either side my youtube videos. I assume one is by youtube the other by windows movie maker, but how can I avoid one (or both!) of these black bars. When saving it with wmv I clicked Widescreen which said suitable for 16:9 which in turn is suitable for youtube (or so I was told)... I'd be really grateful for any help on the matter! ; - ) -- 217.227.121.117 ( talk) 18:15, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
If I want to run a count, is "select count(col1) from table2 where col2='x'" the quickest way of doing things? I've now got access to a very large read-only table, and this seems to be grinding to a halt. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 18:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
" before the query, or you can add "WITH(NOLOCK)
" after the table name. Normally, database management systems are very careful to use various locking mechanisms to ensure the accuracy and consistency results. This generally means locking the records or tables being accessed so that nothing changes in the middle of a query. If some other process has a lock (such as an uncommitted insert) your query may wait. All this has some degree of lock-management overhead and causes delays (and in some cases
deadlocks) when other processes are manipulating the same data. Disabling locking effectively says "I don't care what else is going on, just give me what you have as fast as you can, even if it's changing." It also prevents you from unnecessarily delaying other processes. For example, if you actually ended up calling 1,000,000 phone numbers, it would be unreasonable to demand that nobody change their phone number during your three-year survey.Will windows programs written in the .net framework run on a mac with Mono installed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.88.87 ( talk) 18:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I am creating a complex logic system, part of that system takes an 8 bit boolean value stored in 8 D type flip flops.
The Q gate of each flip flop is linked to an AND gate. Each of the eight AND gates are also linked (in parallel) to another trigger (which i will refer to as a button), the AND gates output into the 'set' inputs of another 8 D types, which are aranged to count down.
The system is designed to take the 8 bit number, move it to the seperate D flip flops, and subtract another number from it, as the flip flops are aranged to count down, and then replace the origional 8 bit figure in the first 8 flip flops.
The flip flops count down as they are aranged as displayed in this image: http://www.softwareforeducation.com/electronics/notes/AS/ttl/binary-down-counter.gif
However, when I set the second set of flip flops, the set causes pin Q to be taken high in relevent flip flops, which is counted as a clock pulse by the next flip flop in the counting set, causing unwanted bit generaton.
I cannot fathom a way in which to stop this happening and retain the ability to reduce the value stored in the second set. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.1.217 ( talk) 20:34, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
The following 2 responses were originally added to the WP:RD/S and were moved here as the question was cross posted. Nil Einne ( talk) 10:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
(The terms that the OP uses are comprehensible to any electronic designer.) You mention 16 flip-flops and you show a diagram of 3 flip-flops connected as a ripple-through binary counter. In the counter the S and R (set and reset) inputs can overide the other inputs (D and CLK) so you can force the counter to any state you want by controlling all the S and R's You will need some gates and inverters to drive high only the right S and R's. Catalogs of standard logic integrated circuits are a source of diagrams of many varieties of presettable counters, which seems to be what you want to construct. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 21:46, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I have removed your post to the science desk. Please do not post the same question in two different places. If you are unsure which desk is the best, just choose one at random or whatever Nil Einne ( talk) 10:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
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Reading through Template talk:User committed identity, I realized it isn't what I was looking for. Namely, I would like to post on Wikipedia and elsewhere using my real-life name. However, what stops me from doing so is the risk that someone could impersonate me elsewhere on the Internet using my name and post ugly things under that name. Then any time someone googles my name, they would find those posts.
Are there any schemes that would ensure that postings using my name can be independently verified that they come from me and no one else?
My initial very crude idea would be a website where you could download a "scratch pad" with a list of one-time codes, similar to the transaction numbers used in online banking. Every code could be used only once. For every post I make anywhere on the Web, I would copy one code from the list into the post and then strike it off my list. A reader could then click on the code, which would lead to the repository and allow verification.
It sounds cumbersome and it is. My question is, would it be workable at all? Has it been implemented anywhere yet? And is there a less cumbersome method to accomplish the same goal?
There are other concerns besides identity theft when posting under a real-life name. For example, verification would not protect against stalkers harrassing me in real life, but I would be wiling to take that chance.-- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 02:35, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
My Vista PC wants me to create some recovery disks. Should I use DVD-R or DVD+R or does it not really matter? Clarityfiend ( talk) 04:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
How do you set up JDBC to work with SQL Server 2008? Black Carrot ( talk) 06:17, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Hiya , I'm looking for a good isp to go with in the uk. i currently do not have the internet at home, or a bt landline phone. I've been looking at Tiscali broadband and it seems to offer what i want, especially their fair use policy of 100GB a month.
My question is, for a heavy internet downloader such as myself, what is the best isp to choose in england? Is it Tiscali? I don't want cable television or phone calls, just the internet. Thanks for your help and any suggestions you may have for me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.80.240.66 ( talk) 09:08, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I use 'Freedom2surf' and find they are good, they offer it without a 12-month contract and the prices are quite reasonable: around £16 for unlimited 'up to 16mb' downloads (1mb uploads) or around £23 for their '50kbps download guaranteed, up to 16mb' product. Both of which state usage is 'unlimited'. Personally From a really quick scan I don't see anything in the T&Cs about a cap on that 'unlimited' but in reality i'd be amazed if there isn't. Honestly though 100gb? Do you just spend the entire month seeding/leeching on Torrent files? It always amazes me - what do people do that uses that much per month! I feel like a heavy internet user and I get through maybe 20gb a month. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 11:01, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Out of interest...what do you download? I just can't imagine downloading that much stuff and actually ever using the stuff. Anyhoo as I noted Freedom2Surf don't offer an upper-limit on their account, you could probably contact them to see whether or not they have a 'fair use' policy. To be honest the amount of bandwidth you're using i'd expect is getting towards business-lines usage from a ISPs perspective. 194.221.133.226 ( talk) 12:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
So does anyone have some suggestions of ISPs in England that would be good for me?? 194.80.240.66 ( talk) 12:38, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Be might work for you. They have a fair usage limit but they're very cheap for their speeds. It MIGHT not be avalible in your area but you can check on their site. Also I have a friend who works for them and has told me they have hardly ever acted on the fair usage thing and they don't block ports or anything like that. Gunrun ( talk) 10:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I seem to be getting not one but two black bars, either side my youtube videos. I assume one is by youtube the other by windows movie maker, but how can I avoid one (or both!) of these black bars. When saving it with wmv I clicked Widescreen which said suitable for 16:9 which in turn is suitable for youtube (or so I was told)... I'd be really grateful for any help on the matter! ; - ) -- 217.227.121.117 ( talk) 18:15, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
If I want to run a count, is "select count(col1) from table2 where col2='x'" the quickest way of doing things? I've now got access to a very large read-only table, and this seems to be grinding to a halt. Thanks! - Jarry1250 ( t, c) 18:23, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
" before the query, or you can add "WITH(NOLOCK)
" after the table name. Normally, database management systems are very careful to use various locking mechanisms to ensure the accuracy and consistency results. This generally means locking the records or tables being accessed so that nothing changes in the middle of a query. If some other process has a lock (such as an uncommitted insert) your query may wait. All this has some degree of lock-management overhead and causes delays (and in some cases
deadlocks) when other processes are manipulating the same data. Disabling locking effectively says "I don't care what else is going on, just give me what you have as fast as you can, even if it's changing." It also prevents you from unnecessarily delaying other processes. For example, if you actually ended up calling 1,000,000 phone numbers, it would be unreasonable to demand that nobody change their phone number during your three-year survey.Will windows programs written in the .net framework run on a mac with Mono installed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.88.87 ( talk) 18:48, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I am creating a complex logic system, part of that system takes an 8 bit boolean value stored in 8 D type flip flops.
The Q gate of each flip flop is linked to an AND gate. Each of the eight AND gates are also linked (in parallel) to another trigger (which i will refer to as a button), the AND gates output into the 'set' inputs of another 8 D types, which are aranged to count down.
The system is designed to take the 8 bit number, move it to the seperate D flip flops, and subtract another number from it, as the flip flops are aranged to count down, and then replace the origional 8 bit figure in the first 8 flip flops.
The flip flops count down as they are aranged as displayed in this image: http://www.softwareforeducation.com/electronics/notes/AS/ttl/binary-down-counter.gif
However, when I set the second set of flip flops, the set causes pin Q to be taken high in relevent flip flops, which is counted as a clock pulse by the next flip flop in the counting set, causing unwanted bit generaton.
I cannot fathom a way in which to stop this happening and retain the ability to reduce the value stored in the second set. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.45.1.217 ( talk) 20:34, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
The following 2 responses were originally added to the WP:RD/S and were moved here as the question was cross posted. Nil Einne ( talk) 10:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
(The terms that the OP uses are comprehensible to any electronic designer.) You mention 16 flip-flops and you show a diagram of 3 flip-flops connected as a ripple-through binary counter. In the counter the S and R (set and reset) inputs can overide the other inputs (D and CLK) so you can force the counter to any state you want by controlling all the S and R's You will need some gates and inverters to drive high only the right S and R's. Catalogs of standard logic integrated circuits are a source of diagrams of many varieties of presettable counters, which seems to be what you want to construct. Cuddlyable3 ( talk) 21:46, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
I have removed your post to the science desk. Please do not post the same question in two different places. If you are unsure which desk is the best, just choose one at random or whatever Nil Einne ( talk) 10:01, 28 March 2009 (UTC)