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Is it true that anything that is posted on the Internet stays there forever? What about posts on messageboards deleted by site moderators, or pictures taken down on Facebook? ExitRight ( talk) 05:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
No, not always. On some sites like forums things are deleted after a certain amount of time, or they are archived. Facebook and sites that are moderated are cleaned out sometimes by users. On Wikipedia stuff stays here, for example on the reference desks old questions are archived after a certain amount of time. Chevymontecarlo. 07:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
(—
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
In particular, I'm curious how Google indexes redirects.
Hypothetical 1: For whatever reason, Euler's formula ranks #1 in a google search. e to the i pi exists as a redirect and gives Euler's formula a high search result, whereas e raised to pi i does not exist as a redirect and Euler's theorem is nowhere to be found. What happens when we create the redirect?
Hypothetical 2: suppose someone creates a redirect to George W. Bush based on an insulting epithet that has no appearance on the web; fuddlefucktard is an example. Would George W. Bush show up for that search?
Hypothetical 3: suppose someone edits Shmuck (which is a redirect to Schmuck) so that it points to George W. Bush. When someone does a search for "Shmuck", how will Schmuck compare in the rankings to George W. Bush?
Hypothetical 4: Someone moves motherfucker (where all the wikilinks currently point) to MotherFucker, and then changes the redirect at motherfucker to point to George W. Bush. Assuming nobody notices the apparent typo in the title, What result?
JD Caselaw ( talk) 06:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I have a 2007 Macbook, and there's a somewhat rapid scratchy ticking noise (maybe 2-4 beats per second) coming from underneath the upper left part of the keyboard. It becomes faster and louder during periods of activity. Anyone know of the cause or remedy? -- Lazar Taxon ( talk) 08:09, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Sounds like the hard drive. I don't think it's the disc drive because it's located in the upper right part of the MacBook, at least for the 2009 model. You might want to try the [ Apple Discussions forums] if no one here can give you a good answer. It's a user to user forum and there's plenty of knowledgeable people on there. Hope this helps. Chevymontecarlo. 08:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Try your local Apple store if it's bothering you. Even if you're out of warranty they might be able to give you a clue as to what is causing it and help you, without you having to pay. Chevymontecarlo. 09:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
How many times a day on average is the Google UK site accessed? Are there any sites which document this? Thanks for any help. Chevymontecarlo. 08:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently installed Subversion and the Windows client TortoiseSVN on my Windows Vista PC., and both work pretty well. However, there is one thing which I have found really irritating. Whenever I want to upload an image to Imageshack, I keep getting a pop-up box from "Internet Explorer Security" saying "A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer" (as seen in this screenshot). The folder with the image to upload is not an SVN repository or a working copy known to SVN. Is this due to the nature of TortoiseSVN as a Windows Explorer shell extension, and is there a simple fix? Astronaut ( talk) 08:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I have seen some kits to transform a common laptop screen into a touchscreen, but no one really make me think that is what I want. It looks strange and clumsy, but do they work correctly? Have anyone had good experiences with this kind of kits? -- Quest09 ( talk) 18:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
At GoogleMaps, on my computer at least (Win 7; Firefox 3.6 but also in IE8), the map scale is overlapped by some copyright crap, making the metric portion of the scale unusable. I would like to report this to Google but, in their minuscule wisdom, they decided to only allow 'report a problem' to US residents. Thus, I ask any willing US residents to please go to GoogleMaps and right click on the map, select 'report a problem', and file the report. Don't hold back on the profanity. If one or two people from Google actually used their own software, this feedback wouldn't even be necessary. Maybe the metric portion of the scale doesn't appear on US maps. ALTAVISTA!! I mean it! -- 84.13.110.251 ( talk) 21:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
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Is it true that anything that is posted on the Internet stays there forever? What about posts on messageboards deleted by site moderators, or pictures taken down on Facebook? ExitRight ( talk) 05:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
No, not always. On some sites like forums things are deleted after a certain amount of time, or they are archived. Facebook and sites that are moderated are cleaned out sometimes by users. On Wikipedia stuff stays here, for example on the reference desks old questions are archived after a certain amount of time. Chevymontecarlo. 07:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
"The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
(—
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
In particular, I'm curious how Google indexes redirects.
Hypothetical 1: For whatever reason, Euler's formula ranks #1 in a google search. e to the i pi exists as a redirect and gives Euler's formula a high search result, whereas e raised to pi i does not exist as a redirect and Euler's theorem is nowhere to be found. What happens when we create the redirect?
Hypothetical 2: suppose someone creates a redirect to George W. Bush based on an insulting epithet that has no appearance on the web; fuddlefucktard is an example. Would George W. Bush show up for that search?
Hypothetical 3: suppose someone edits Shmuck (which is a redirect to Schmuck) so that it points to George W. Bush. When someone does a search for "Shmuck", how will Schmuck compare in the rankings to George W. Bush?
Hypothetical 4: Someone moves motherfucker (where all the wikilinks currently point) to MotherFucker, and then changes the redirect at motherfucker to point to George W. Bush. Assuming nobody notices the apparent typo in the title, What result?
JD Caselaw ( talk) 06:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I have a 2007 Macbook, and there's a somewhat rapid scratchy ticking noise (maybe 2-4 beats per second) coming from underneath the upper left part of the keyboard. It becomes faster and louder during periods of activity. Anyone know of the cause or remedy? -- Lazar Taxon ( talk) 08:09, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Sounds like the hard drive. I don't think it's the disc drive because it's located in the upper right part of the MacBook, at least for the 2009 model. You might want to try the [ Apple Discussions forums] if no one here can give you a good answer. It's a user to user forum and there's plenty of knowledgeable people on there. Hope this helps. Chevymontecarlo. 08:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Try your local Apple store if it's bothering you. Even if you're out of warranty they might be able to give you a clue as to what is causing it and help you, without you having to pay. Chevymontecarlo. 09:33, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
How many times a day on average is the Google UK site accessed? Are there any sites which document this? Thanks for any help. Chevymontecarlo. 08:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I recently installed Subversion and the Windows client TortoiseSVN on my Windows Vista PC., and both work pretty well. However, there is one thing which I have found really irritating. Whenever I want to upload an image to Imageshack, I keep getting a pop-up box from "Internet Explorer Security" saying "A website wants to open web content using this program on your computer" (as seen in this screenshot). The folder with the image to upload is not an SVN repository or a working copy known to SVN. Is this due to the nature of TortoiseSVN as a Windows Explorer shell extension, and is there a simple fix? Astronaut ( talk) 08:48, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
I have seen some kits to transform a common laptop screen into a touchscreen, but no one really make me think that is what I want. It looks strange and clumsy, but do they work correctly? Have anyone had good experiences with this kind of kits? -- Quest09 ( talk) 18:36, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
At GoogleMaps, on my computer at least (Win 7; Firefox 3.6 but also in IE8), the map scale is overlapped by some copyright crap, making the metric portion of the scale unusable. I would like to report this to Google but, in their minuscule wisdom, they decided to only allow 'report a problem' to US residents. Thus, I ask any willing US residents to please go to GoogleMaps and right click on the map, select 'report a problem', and file the report. Don't hold back on the profanity. If one or two people from Google actually used their own software, this feedback wouldn't even be necessary. Maybe the metric portion of the scale doesn't appear on US maps. ALTAVISTA!! I mean it! -- 84.13.110.251 ( talk) 21:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)