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See this:
http://www.hoopsandyoyo.co.uk/pages/ecards.php?action=view&code=43&history=5
Out of curiosity, I decided to measure how many thank you's are coming out per second. I got:
12.00 +- 0.01 per second 11.970 +- 0.001 per second 11.983 +- 0.001 per second
Why would the rate vary? I used the computer clock for time, so if it's synced with the computer's clock, the rate should stay constant within experimental error. -- Bowlhover ( talk) 02:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Where do I report a bug in the Google search engine? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
A game I want to play requires a 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. My laptop has an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU at 2.16 GHz and 2.17 GHz.
My laptop meets all other requirements about operating system, RAM, ROM and video card memory.
•• Fly by Night ( talk) 12:37, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I have a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family. I have 128 MB System Video Memory and 230 MB of Shared System Memory; giving 358 MB of Total Available Graphics Memory. The game asks for 128 MB of Video Card Memory. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1525. •• Fly by Night ( talk) 14:36, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Come to think of it; I have managed to play Spore perfectly on my laptop, and it too asks for 128 MB of Video Card Memory. (But only a 2 GHz processor). •• Fly by Night ( talk) 14:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I use XP. I would like to be able to put a writeable CD in the drive, click on something, and have the program backup to that without any further bother. Is there any free software that can do that, that people would recommend please? Thanks 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 12:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
My important stuff like letters and documents is only a few MB. My less important stuff is 10GB - more than I thought. I had expected to spend some time copying what I wanted, but after doing that, I had thought I would be able to only back-up new material, which would not be much. Backing up is regarded as important thing to do, its odd that the software does not exist to make it easy. Another option would be to install an old HD as a secondary drive and backup to that, but that would not protect me from my computer being stolen. 92.24.185.225 ( talk) 13:11, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
This freeware should do the backing up with two clicks: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp The problem is then getting it to copy to a writeable CD. Any ideas anyone? I have not done any writing to a CD for a long time. Will just telling the software to copy it to the CD drive work?
Regarding the InCD above, is it freeware please? I do not seem to have Nero installed on this computer, although I've got an old instalation disk somewhere. The discussion page for the InCD page says it was very buggy. Are there any alternatives? Thanks. Thanks 92.15.12.171 ( talk) 18:02, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Oooooh! Well done Microsoft. That means that perhaps just a simple .bat file will be enough to do my backups. Thanks. 92.24.182.110 ( talk) 11:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Are there any very brief online guides that describe the differences between Windows and Linux please? I use XP, I'm thinking of migrating to Ubuntu. Thanks. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 12:48, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Interesting, and I will read it thanks, but I was thinking more of what the fundamental system differences are about file organisation and so on. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 13:10, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the hard drive file system the same? If you for example took a second drive out of a Windows XP computer and put it inside a Linux computer, would it be accessable, or would you have to reformat it? I remember reading that you had to "mount" drives in Linux, what was all that about? Thanks 92.24.182.48 ( talk) 16:08, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
YouTube used to have star ratings by users for all its videos, which I found interested and useful. Some time ago they disapeared - at least for me. I cannot see any, either using Internet Explorer or using Firefox with everything disabled. Why cannot I see them please? The approve or disaprove buttons are still there, but not the red star ratings anymore. I run XP. Thanks. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 13:27, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I've installed the Firefox addon that shows them. I prefer the earlier version of YouTube, and I prefer the earlier version of Wikipedia too. 92.24.182.48 ( talk) 16:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Since last night, Vista has been playing up. For around 2 hours the CPU started going crazy, jumping between 0% and 100% and any point in between very randomly. I looked at the processes, and everything was 'normal'. Only the CPU had gone haywire. Then, for some reason, my HDD space magically went down to 2.6GB. TreeSize told me there was 7.1GB left, and something else said there was 6GB. In actual fact there should be around 18GB left (there was last time I looked). Anyway, I uninstalled a few programs (all games), and - as very often happens with Vista - I got one which refused to finish uninstalling. Basically, after everything is done uninstalling the entry remains in my list of programs and when I try to uninstall another program I just get the message 'Wait until the last program has finished uninstalling'. I left it on and went to bed. Waking up this morning, I still got the same message, so I switched off Vista and went into Ubuntu. After trying to go back into Vista this afternoon, I have been unable to. After the Microsoft loading bar, I get an extremely brief flash of the blue screen of death (so brief I can only just make out the colour), and I am sent back to the menu to choose my OS. I have tried the StartUp Repair option, and it didn't fix anything. I have booted from my RepairDisk Partition (whatever it's called - this computer didn't come with a disk, just a partition with some repair options on it), to no avail. I tried System Restore, but for some reason I don't have a restore point (I alwys have one - but now I don't....). I am back in Ubuntu now. I am wondering what there is I can do. Backing Up is not an option - no disk space and no external HD to put everything, and no disk to get Windows off anyway - plus I don't want to reinstall, I want to fix the problem. Any ideas? TIA! (PS A look at my recent earlier posts will reveal what I have been planning to do, i.e. get Ubuntu and Vista working together, but please do not misunderstand - I haven't even had the chance to start trying this yet, so this problem is unrelated to that.) -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 13:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
find --set-root /boot/grub/grub.cfg configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg
What are the benefits of using open source software in an office? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freddie ashlee ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
What is LAN ip ?? What role does it play in comparision to your actual ip address?? How do we find out our Lan IP ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 17:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot .... Was getting real confused regarding these two types of ip Addresses ... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
115.178.97.80 (
talk) 18:09, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
How do i make my Laptop (TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO A100) a Wifi Hotspot so as to be able to browse the net on my mobile (NOKIA N 97) ?? I tried AD-HOC, and it didn't work ..... Is there any other method ???
Details OS : Windows XP Professional SP2
Wireless Card: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Specs: 2.00 GHz, 2.50 GB RAM
Is there any other information you need ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 17:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
In an Excel spreadsheet, is there a formula to put at the bottom of a column (or at the end of a row) to tell how many cells in that column are greater than 0. For example, the "Places with fruit" row in the sample I created below. (I can't just count the rows that are >0 in my actual project, because there are a couple hundred rows.)
Apples | Berries | Cumquats | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alpha | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Beta | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Gamma | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Delta | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Total | 10 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
Places with fruit | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
Thank you. — Michael J 18:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
So my home is setup with a Wifi router. Everything works perfectly. In my shop in the backyard, I have plugged several wired devices into another wifi router. How/Can I get the remote router to connect to my main router in the house? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 22:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
YOUR_ROUTER_NAME "access point" OR bridge
Somewhat related to the post above. My wifi router has 4 wired Ethernet ports. Naturally, I have 6 devices that need a wired connection and need to get out to the internet. How can I "add ports" to my router? Connect an Ethernet switch? a hub? another router? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 22:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Computing desk | ||
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< June 4 | << May | June | Jul >> | June 6 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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The page you are currently viewing is an archive page. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
See this:
http://www.hoopsandyoyo.co.uk/pages/ecards.php?action=view&code=43&history=5
Out of curiosity, I decided to measure how many thank you's are coming out per second. I got:
12.00 +- 0.01 per second 11.970 +- 0.001 per second 11.983 +- 0.001 per second
Why would the rate vary? I used the computer clock for time, so if it's synced with the computer's clock, the rate should stay constant within experimental error. -- Bowlhover ( talk) 02:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Where do I report a bug in the Google search engine? Michael Hardy ( talk) 04:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
A game I want to play requires a 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor. My laptop has an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU at 2.16 GHz and 2.17 GHz.
My laptop meets all other requirements about operating system, RAM, ROM and video card memory.
•• Fly by Night ( talk) 12:37, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I have a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset Family. I have 128 MB System Video Memory and 230 MB of Shared System Memory; giving 358 MB of Total Available Graphics Memory. The game asks for 128 MB of Video Card Memory. I am using a Dell Inspiron 1525. •• Fly by Night ( talk) 14:36, 5 June 2010 (UTC) Come to think of it; I have managed to play Spore perfectly on my laptop, and it too asks for 128 MB of Video Card Memory. (But only a 2 GHz processor). •• Fly by Night ( talk) 14:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I use XP. I would like to be able to put a writeable CD in the drive, click on something, and have the program backup to that without any further bother. Is there any free software that can do that, that people would recommend please? Thanks 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 12:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
My important stuff like letters and documents is only a few MB. My less important stuff is 10GB - more than I thought. I had expected to spend some time copying what I wanted, but after doing that, I had thought I would be able to only back-up new material, which would not be much. Backing up is regarded as important thing to do, its odd that the software does not exist to make it easy. Another option would be to install an old HD as a secondary drive and backup to that, but that would not protect me from my computer being stolen. 92.24.185.225 ( talk) 13:11, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
This freeware should do the backing up with two clicks: http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp The problem is then getting it to copy to a writeable CD. Any ideas anyone? I have not done any writing to a CD for a long time. Will just telling the software to copy it to the CD drive work?
Regarding the InCD above, is it freeware please? I do not seem to have Nero installed on this computer, although I've got an old instalation disk somewhere. The discussion page for the InCD page says it was very buggy. Are there any alternatives? Thanks. Thanks 92.15.12.171 ( talk) 18:02, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
Oooooh! Well done Microsoft. That means that perhaps just a simple .bat file will be enough to do my backups. Thanks. 92.24.182.110 ( talk) 11:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
Are there any very brief online guides that describe the differences between Windows and Linux please? I use XP, I'm thinking of migrating to Ubuntu. Thanks. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 12:48, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Interesting, and I will read it thanks, but I was thinking more of what the fundamental system differences are about file organisation and so on. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 13:10, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Is the hard drive file system the same? If you for example took a second drive out of a Windows XP computer and put it inside a Linux computer, would it be accessable, or would you have to reformat it? I remember reading that you had to "mount" drives in Linux, what was all that about? Thanks 92.24.182.48 ( talk) 16:08, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
YouTube used to have star ratings by users for all its videos, which I found interested and useful. Some time ago they disapeared - at least for me. I cannot see any, either using Internet Explorer or using Firefox with everything disabled. Why cannot I see them please? The approve or disaprove buttons are still there, but not the red star ratings anymore. I run XP. Thanks. 92.15.0.59 ( talk) 13:27, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I've installed the Firefox addon that shows them. I prefer the earlier version of YouTube, and I prefer the earlier version of Wikipedia too. 92.24.182.48 ( talk) 16:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Since last night, Vista has been playing up. For around 2 hours the CPU started going crazy, jumping between 0% and 100% and any point in between very randomly. I looked at the processes, and everything was 'normal'. Only the CPU had gone haywire. Then, for some reason, my HDD space magically went down to 2.6GB. TreeSize told me there was 7.1GB left, and something else said there was 6GB. In actual fact there should be around 18GB left (there was last time I looked). Anyway, I uninstalled a few programs (all games), and - as very often happens with Vista - I got one which refused to finish uninstalling. Basically, after everything is done uninstalling the entry remains in my list of programs and when I try to uninstall another program I just get the message 'Wait until the last program has finished uninstalling'. I left it on and went to bed. Waking up this morning, I still got the same message, so I switched off Vista and went into Ubuntu. After trying to go back into Vista this afternoon, I have been unable to. After the Microsoft loading bar, I get an extremely brief flash of the blue screen of death (so brief I can only just make out the colour), and I am sent back to the menu to choose my OS. I have tried the StartUp Repair option, and it didn't fix anything. I have booted from my RepairDisk Partition (whatever it's called - this computer didn't come with a disk, just a partition with some repair options on it), to no avail. I tried System Restore, but for some reason I don't have a restore point (I alwys have one - but now I don't....). I am back in Ubuntu now. I am wondering what there is I can do. Backing Up is not an option - no disk space and no external HD to put everything, and no disk to get Windows off anyway - plus I don't want to reinstall, I want to fix the problem. Any ideas? TIA! (PS A look at my recent earlier posts will reveal what I have been planning to do, i.e. get Ubuntu and Vista working together, but please do not misunderstand - I haven't even had the chance to start trying this yet, so this problem is unrelated to that.) -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 13:53, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
find --set-root /boot/grub/grub.cfg configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfg
What are the benefits of using open source software in an office? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freddie ashlee ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
What is LAN ip ?? What role does it play in comparision to your actual ip address?? How do we find out our Lan IP ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 17:18, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot .... Was getting real confused regarding these two types of ip Addresses ... —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
115.178.97.80 (
talk) 18:09, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
How do i make my Laptop (TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO A100) a Wifi Hotspot so as to be able to browse the net on my mobile (NOKIA N 97) ?? I tried AD-HOC, and it didn't work ..... Is there any other method ???
Details OS : Windows XP Professional SP2
Wireless Card: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
Specs: 2.00 GHz, 2.50 GB RAM
Is there any other information you need ?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sushil shenoy ( talk • contribs) 17:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
In an Excel spreadsheet, is there a formula to put at the bottom of a column (or at the end of a row) to tell how many cells in that column are greater than 0. For example, the "Places with fruit" row in the sample I created below. (I can't just count the rows that are >0 in my actual project, because there are a couple hundred rows.)
Apples | Berries | Cumquats | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Alpha | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Beta | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Gamma | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Delta | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Total | 10 | 3 | 7 | 20 |
Places with fruit | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
Thank you. — Michael J 18:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
So my home is setup with a Wifi router. Everything works perfectly. In my shop in the backyard, I have plugged several wired devices into another wifi router. How/Can I get the remote router to connect to my main router in the house? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 22:50, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
YOUR_ROUTER_NAME "access point" OR bridge
Somewhat related to the post above. My wifi router has 4 wired Ethernet ports. Naturally, I have 6 devices that need a wired connection and need to get out to the internet. How can I "add ports" to my router? Connect an Ethernet switch? a hub? another router? -- 70.167.58.6 ( talk) 22:55, 5 June 2010 (UTC)