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I have a HP dv5 laptop that's seen about one year of use now and for quite a while I have been having a problem booting up. It will usually take a couple of tries, when turned on, the splash screen appears, after this, sometimes the grub menu will load if is booting correctly, otherwise the screen just stays blank and it hangs there (no beep sequence). I don't know if it's just wishfull thinking but it does seem to boot more easily when it has only been hibernated as opposed to turning it off completely, and loading the BIOS and simply going to Exit>Saving changes seems to yield better results. As I said, thats probably just wishfull thinking. Especially since some googling suggested that it's probably a hardware related problem.. Any ideas? Benjamint 01:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
My first ever computer was a Windows 3.1 portable "lunchbox" computer (similar to the one in this pic but bigger, less advanced and with a garish orange monochrome screen) which I bough for £1 at a jumble sale. At first I thought it didn't work because when I turned it on always froze at the start of the boot sequence, exactly like the problem you're having. Presumably the sellers thought this too which is why they sold it so cheep (although it was way outdated even then and wasn't worth more then £1 anyway). Long story short, I discovered that quickly turning it on then off before turning it on for a second time made it boot normally. I have no idea why it did this, I only know that unless you did the special on then off then on again trick, the thing simply would not boot. 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 10:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm looking for a spreadsheet where the columns are easily sortable. This means that the normal convention of refering to cells by their row and column position will not work. Therefore, are there any free spreadsheets where the cells are named instead? Thanks 92.29.122.159 ( talk) 12:35, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I think Quantrix and the other spreadsheets linked from that article do not use the row/column naming convention. I would like to be able to sort any column, not just the first one. 92.15.0.178 ( talk) 20:23, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone recommend some free software to reduce the file size of PDFs please? Including changing from colour to monochrome. Thanks 92.29.122.159 ( talk) 12:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
What is this and what is one meant to do with it? 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 13:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 13:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've changed the title of your post from "Question" to "Question (Quick Response Code)", so that it is more meaningful.
Is there a way to make wget download all the html files first when mirroring a site, before downloading the images? 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 17:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
--reject gif,png,jpg,jpeg
so that it doesn't download files with these extensions, and the second time using --no-clobber
so it doesn't redownload files it got the first time. —
Korath (
Talk) 17:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Seems simple in concept: say I have 8 JPEGs and want to join 1.jpg through 4.jpg horizontally, then "add a new row" by joining 5-8 below them. I have searched for software (preferably command-line) that will perform this, without luck so far. I'm not looking for fancy algorithms involving stitching, but simply want to produce one large graphic canvas by joining a variety of smaller files horizontally. Any recommendations? I prefer command-line because ideally I'll be automating this as much as possible. Thanks, Riggr Mortis ( talk) 21:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
montage -tile 4x -geometry +1+1 *.jpg OUTPUT.jpg
montage -tile 4x -geometry +1+1 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg 7.jpg 8.jpg OUTPUT.jpg
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I have a HP dv5 laptop that's seen about one year of use now and for quite a while I have been having a problem booting up. It will usually take a couple of tries, when turned on, the splash screen appears, after this, sometimes the grub menu will load if is booting correctly, otherwise the screen just stays blank and it hangs there (no beep sequence). I don't know if it's just wishfull thinking but it does seem to boot more easily when it has only been hibernated as opposed to turning it off completely, and loading the BIOS and simply going to Exit>Saving changes seems to yield better results. As I said, thats probably just wishfull thinking. Especially since some googling suggested that it's probably a hardware related problem.. Any ideas? Benjamint 01:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
My first ever computer was a Windows 3.1 portable "lunchbox" computer (similar to the one in this pic but bigger, less advanced and with a garish orange monochrome screen) which I bough for £1 at a jumble sale. At first I thought it didn't work because when I turned it on always froze at the start of the boot sequence, exactly like the problem you're having. Presumably the sellers thought this too which is why they sold it so cheep (although it was way outdated even then and wasn't worth more then £1 anyway). Long story short, I discovered that quickly turning it on then off before turning it on for a second time made it boot normally. I have no idea why it did this, I only know that unless you did the special on then off then on again trick, the thing simply would not boot. 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 10:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm looking for a spreadsheet where the columns are easily sortable. This means that the normal convention of refering to cells by their row and column position will not work. Therefore, are there any free spreadsheets where the cells are named instead? Thanks 92.29.122.159 ( talk) 12:35, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I think Quantrix and the other spreadsheets linked from that article do not use the row/column naming convention. I would like to be able to sort any column, not just the first one. 92.15.0.178 ( talk) 20:23, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone recommend some free software to reduce the file size of PDFs please? Including changing from colour to monochrome. Thanks 92.29.122.159 ( talk) 12:40, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
What is this and what is one meant to do with it? 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 13:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 13:41, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I've changed the title of your post from "Question" to "Question (Quick Response Code)", so that it is more meaningful.
Is there a way to make wget download all the html files first when mirroring a site, before downloading the images? 82.43.90.93 ( talk) 17:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
--reject gif,png,jpg,jpeg
so that it doesn't download files with these extensions, and the second time using --no-clobber
so it doesn't redownload files it got the first time. —
Korath (
Talk) 17:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Seems simple in concept: say I have 8 JPEGs and want to join 1.jpg through 4.jpg horizontally, then "add a new row" by joining 5-8 below them. I have searched for software (preferably command-line) that will perform this, without luck so far. I'm not looking for fancy algorithms involving stitching, but simply want to produce one large graphic canvas by joining a variety of smaller files horizontally. Any recommendations? I prefer command-line because ideally I'll be automating this as much as possible. Thanks, Riggr Mortis ( talk) 21:44, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
montage -tile 4x -geometry +1+1 *.jpg OUTPUT.jpg
montage -tile 4x -geometry +1+1 1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg 7.jpg 8.jpg OUTPUT.jpg