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So someone saw fit to make me the web-master of an organization's website. The site itself is up and running and they just want me to update the site regularly.
How do I do this?
Sorry for sounding like an ignoramus, but it's only because I have no idea how to do this. Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.50.242 ( talk) 02:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I am using Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0) middle eastern version to design Urdu-Arabic documents. I want urdu fonts, of type Nastaliq script. Where can i get some nice Nastaliq fonts? (truetype\opentype) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umar1996 ( talk • contribs) 07:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This follows on from the thread above. I'm working on MS Windows Vista and have a copy of SINGULAR. This includes a "bundled" copy of Emacs. It was an old version, so I downloaded version 23.2 for MS Windows. In this section of the SINGULAR manual it describes how to run SINGULAR in an already up-and-running, stand-alone version of Emacs. It tells me to add the following "lisp code" to my .emacs file:
(setq load-path (cons "<singular-emacs-home-directory>" load-path)) (autoload 'singular "singular" "Start Singular using default values." t) (autoload 'singular-other "singular" "Ask for arguments and start Singular." t)
Now, this code looks like Linux code and not MS Windows. It talks about the singular-emacs-home-directory. Isn't that a directory in Linux? Besides that problem, I can't find my .emacs file. I have gone to the lisp folder, but there are 20 subfolders and maybe 100 EL and ELC files (whatever they are). Nothing ends in .emacs. I;ve run a search and nothing turns up.
Hopefully someone will be able to help me. This is starting to annoy me! Thanks in advance. — Fly by Night ( talk) 12:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
. But see the link to the FAQ above (
[1], section 3.5) on how to find and how to name your config file (in particular, I'd try the last line of 3.5). --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
13:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
file is only evaluated on startup, or when explicitly requested. Have you restarted Emacs after creating the config file? If you want to go the more interesting route, navigate to the buffer with your .emacs
and type M-x eval-buffer
. Also, I strongly suspect that the <singular-emacs-home-directory>
should be replaced by the path to your Singular installation.--
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
13:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
:(setq load-path (cons "/Users/schulz/SOURCES/ELISP/" load-path))
singular.el
in it, as far as I can make out. I don't know how Emacs works under Windows, but under UNIX file names are case sensitive. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
21:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)I have two nVidia graphics cards (in two different machines, one of which runs Windows 7 and the other Ubuntu Linux). One is an older (but at the time rather expensive) GeForce 9800 GT, the other is a newer (but cheap) GeForce 210. Right now the 9800 is in the Windows machine, where it's used for games (e.g. Bioshock 2, Starcraft 2); the 210 in the Linux box doesn't have much real work to do (a bit of Google Earth is probably the limit of its labours). It occurred to me that the 210 would be the better gaming card. I'm having some difficulty reading the complicated tables in the two articles for them: if I understand correctly, the 9800 has a much higher texel fill rate than the 210. I can't find an online benchmark that reviews both cards (not surprising, as they're from more than a year apart). Some sites quote Futuremark scores for the 210 that are incredibly low, but I don't know if they're comparing like-for-like (as there are so many versions of Futuremark). I'd happily just run a benchmark myself, and swap the 210 in to see if it scores better or worse, but I don't know what benchmark to run. Futuremark now costs money (and frankly I'm reluctant to pay for something I'll run exactly twice) - can anyone recommend a worthwhile Windows graphics benchmark program? It doesn't have to be terribly accurate: I don't care about numbers, or about rating my card against others I don't own, I just want to know which card is the faster. Thanks. 87.115.213.248 ( talk) 13:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
For storing thousands of txt files, what is the best format? .zip has limits —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.120.33.249 ( talk) 14:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I need help on recording sounds. I have Windows 7 and I pressed the record button in my Windows Sound Recorder, it picked up sound from my microphone on my headphones, but it didn't pick up sound on the monitor. When I play back the file, the sound from the microphone is there, but the sound from the monitor was really low, I could barely hear it. I checked the recording devices and saw the microphone ready, the stereo mix ready, but the Line In was not plugged in. My sister said that it might be because of the Line-In not plugged in. I want to record both the sound from the microphone and the sound from the monitor. Is there a solution to fix this problem. Please answer. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sirdrink13309622 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
How do you delete old yahoo posts? I clicked on my link when I posted a comment to a news story and I saw my old posts and I was wondering how to delete those? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.147.4.245 ( talk) 18:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
So I have a USB pen drive and a laptop with windows 7. recently I gave the pen drive to someone, I know they read some of what was on it, but is there any way of finding out what? I mean by finding out when each file was last opened, can that be done? Is there any other way? The files are all on microsoft works, if that helps.
148.197.121.205 ( talk) 18:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for your help. I'm sure it would have worked, but it seems at some point I picked the wrong one up, so now, I have lost all my saved files, which are lying around somewhere waiting for someone else to read them. 148.197.121.205 ( talk) 20:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I (read: the Windows Live system) just updated Windows Live Messenger to the latest version. I guess a lot of Windows users have done this lately. The new version is OK (I have never really liked MSN); is is a more well-integrated application in Windows 7 (we all know the old msnmsgr.exe was't working well with respect to its taskbar button). However, there is one thing that really, really annoys me: If you press the X button of the main window, the msnmsgr.exe isn't closed, but only minimized. But if you press Alt+F4 (or Alt+Space, Arrow up, Enter), msnmsgr.exe is closed, and you have to restart it. Is there a known solution? -- Andreas Rejbrand ( talk) 21:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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So someone saw fit to make me the web-master of an organization's website. The site itself is up and running and they just want me to update the site regularly.
How do I do this?
Sorry for sounding like an ignoramus, but it's only because I have no idea how to do this. Thanks in advance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.50.242 ( talk) 02:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I am using Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0) middle eastern version to design Urdu-Arabic documents. I want urdu fonts, of type Nastaliq script. Where can i get some nice Nastaliq fonts? (truetype\opentype) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Umar1996 ( talk • contribs) 07:32, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
This follows on from the thread above. I'm working on MS Windows Vista and have a copy of SINGULAR. This includes a "bundled" copy of Emacs. It was an old version, so I downloaded version 23.2 for MS Windows. In this section of the SINGULAR manual it describes how to run SINGULAR in an already up-and-running, stand-alone version of Emacs. It tells me to add the following "lisp code" to my .emacs file:
(setq load-path (cons "<singular-emacs-home-directory>" load-path)) (autoload 'singular "singular" "Start Singular using default values." t) (autoload 'singular-other "singular" "Ask for arguments and start Singular." t)
Now, this code looks like Linux code and not MS Windows. It talks about the singular-emacs-home-directory. Isn't that a directory in Linux? Besides that problem, I can't find my .emacs file. I have gone to the lisp folder, but there are 20 subfolders and maybe 100 EL and ELC files (whatever they are). Nothing ends in .emacs. I;ve run a search and nothing turns up.
Hopefully someone will be able to help me. This is starting to annoy me! Thanks in advance. — Fly by Night ( talk) 12:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
. But see the link to the FAQ above (
[1], section 3.5) on how to find and how to name your config file (in particular, I'd try the last line of 3.5). --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
13:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
file is only evaluated on startup, or when explicitly requested. Have you restarted Emacs after creating the config file? If you want to go the more interesting route, navigate to the buffer with your .emacs
and type M-x eval-buffer
. Also, I strongly suspect that the <singular-emacs-home-directory>
should be replaced by the path to your Singular installation.--
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
13:50, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
.emacs
:(setq load-path (cons "/Users/schulz/SOURCES/ELISP/" load-path))
singular.el
in it, as far as I can make out. I don't know how Emacs works under Windows, but under UNIX file names are case sensitive. --
Stephan Schulz (
talk)
21:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)I have two nVidia graphics cards (in two different machines, one of which runs Windows 7 and the other Ubuntu Linux). One is an older (but at the time rather expensive) GeForce 9800 GT, the other is a newer (but cheap) GeForce 210. Right now the 9800 is in the Windows machine, where it's used for games (e.g. Bioshock 2, Starcraft 2); the 210 in the Linux box doesn't have much real work to do (a bit of Google Earth is probably the limit of its labours). It occurred to me that the 210 would be the better gaming card. I'm having some difficulty reading the complicated tables in the two articles for them: if I understand correctly, the 9800 has a much higher texel fill rate than the 210. I can't find an online benchmark that reviews both cards (not surprising, as they're from more than a year apart). Some sites quote Futuremark scores for the 210 that are incredibly low, but I don't know if they're comparing like-for-like (as there are so many versions of Futuremark). I'd happily just run a benchmark myself, and swap the 210 in to see if it scores better or worse, but I don't know what benchmark to run. Futuremark now costs money (and frankly I'm reluctant to pay for something I'll run exactly twice) - can anyone recommend a worthwhile Windows graphics benchmark program? It doesn't have to be terribly accurate: I don't care about numbers, or about rating my card against others I don't own, I just want to know which card is the faster. Thanks. 87.115.213.248 ( talk) 13:12, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
For storing thousands of txt files, what is the best format? .zip has limits —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.120.33.249 ( talk) 14:10, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I need help on recording sounds. I have Windows 7 and I pressed the record button in my Windows Sound Recorder, it picked up sound from my microphone on my headphones, but it didn't pick up sound on the monitor. When I play back the file, the sound from the microphone is there, but the sound from the monitor was really low, I could barely hear it. I checked the recording devices and saw the microphone ready, the stereo mix ready, but the Line In was not plugged in. My sister said that it might be because of the Line-In not plugged in. I want to record both the sound from the microphone and the sound from the monitor. Is there a solution to fix this problem. Please answer. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sirdrink13309622 ( talk • contribs) 17:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
How do you delete old yahoo posts? I clicked on my link when I posted a comment to a news story and I saw my old posts and I was wondering how to delete those? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.147.4.245 ( talk) 18:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
So I have a USB pen drive and a laptop with windows 7. recently I gave the pen drive to someone, I know they read some of what was on it, but is there any way of finding out what? I mean by finding out when each file was last opened, can that be done? Is there any other way? The files are all on microsoft works, if that helps.
148.197.121.205 ( talk) 18:05, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for your help. I'm sure it would have worked, but it seems at some point I picked the wrong one up, so now, I have lost all my saved files, which are lying around somewhere waiting for someone else to read them. 148.197.121.205 ( talk) 20:00, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
I (read: the Windows Live system) just updated Windows Live Messenger to the latest version. I guess a lot of Windows users have done this lately. The new version is OK (I have never really liked MSN); is is a more well-integrated application in Windows 7 (we all know the old msnmsgr.exe was't working well with respect to its taskbar button). However, there is one thing that really, really annoys me: If you press the X button of the main window, the msnmsgr.exe isn't closed, but only minimized. But if you press Alt+F4 (or Alt+Space, Arrow up, Enter), msnmsgr.exe is closed, and you have to restart it. Is there a known solution? -- Andreas Rejbrand ( talk) 21:02, 24 October 2010 (UTC)