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A similar question has been asked before but wasn't really answered.
How does the blu-ray specification handle aspect ratios wider than 16:9?
E.g., can blu-ray store a 1.85:1 video anamorphically (horizontally squeezed, resp. vertically stretched) as 16:9 rather than with native letterboxing? And which of these is the industry standard?
This info appears to be missing from Anamorphic widescreen#Blu-ray video. -- 195.14.223.157 ( talk) 00:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
My desktop connects to the internet, but my laptop won't. I have checked and the IP address is correct, but still won't connect. I connected router directly to laptop and it connected to google when I tried....but won't on it's own. Can anyone advise me please? I'm out of options at this point. Kendra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kendra52 ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Are you sure it's a router and not actually a cable modem? Some cable modems lock onto the mac address of your computer and will only accept connections from that mac address, so when you switch it over to the laptop it will detect the different mac address and refuse connections from it. The solution is to power off the cable modem for a little while and make sure it's connected to the laptop when you turn it on again. You will need to do this every time you switch it from the desktop to laptop and when you switch it back again. AvrillirvA ( talk) 17:32, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I have difficulties extracting the text from this pdf. I'd appreciate if somebody could extract the text and either upload it somewhere or drop it in my sandbox or teach me how to do it myself. The text is written vertically and starts at the top right. I'd need it in plain text in order to more easily translate it with a computer. Information will go into this articl I am working on. Thanks. bamse ( talk) 11:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I have just come into possession of a second-hand Apple PowerBook G4 and charger. I have located a User's Guide Here. However the PowerBook I have does not have the six connectors on the right side (as on page 9). Instead it has them on the back edge of the G4, under a spring loaded cover. On the right hand side it has only a security slot (and what looks like a vent). The left side has what I think is a PC card slot, another vent and a headphone socket. The "Power adapter port" is on the right back corner (not the left side). It does have the "Slot-loading optical drive" on the front edge, right of the "display release button". It has a 667 MHz processor and 256MB of memory, and from the WP page detals I suspect that it may be a Titanium PowerBook G4 'Onyx'or 'Ivory'.
Can anyone identify the exact model? and perhaps advise me, as although the machine seems to be charging, it won't start up when I press the 'power' button.- 220.101 talk \Contribs 11:17, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Can anyone tell why Gmail has these two folders when surely they are the same thing? I have been told that it has something to do with the chat but I have never used the chat facility and yet some of the emails I have sent have gone into Sent Mail and some into Sent messages. I find this somewhat confusing and would welcome any advice anyone has. There seems no way to configure Gmail to remove this. (I thought of adding this as a comment on the Talk Page of the Gmail article but it seems more appropriate here.) Thanks in advance. Smokey TheCat 12:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
It was a glitch in that the symbol does not normally appear and stay there, but it is a feature of Firefox and not a bug or incompatibility issue or extension. Check it out: Open up a few tabs in Firefox and then grab one of the tabs itself with your mouse and try to move it to a new place on your tab bar; you'll see that this symbol appeared in between other tabs to mark the spot where you are going to drop the tab you are dragging! I discovered it this morning by accident.-- 108.46.103.142 ( talk) 12:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
In many elevators in Germany, there are nine-segment displays, which differ from seven-segment displays by having two diagonal segments, that are needed to display the letter “K”, which stands for Keller(geschoss). My question: Which letters can be displayed with such nine-segment displays? -- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 13:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
What about <|>, >|<, and ⍾? -- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 16:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
|/| |\|
If so, I get the these letters.
| | | | = A
| | | = B
| | = C
| | | = D
| | = E
| | = F
| | | | = H
| | = I
| | | = J
|/ |\ = K
| | = L
|\| = N
| | | | = O
| | | = P
| | |\| = Q
| | |\ = R
| | = S
| | | | = U
| | \| = V
|/ | = Y
/ | = Z
And finally:
| | | = G
| | | | = O
-- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 17:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
| | = O
Hi, I'm looking for something like the new macbook air, but in a pc from a reputable brand. It should be a small notebook (like a thinkpad) with an i5 or i7 and 4 or 8 gb ram, and definitely ssd perhaps in addition to normal hd. doesn' thave to be quite as light, beautiful as a macbook air, need it for development work. what fits this description best? good battery life too. 145.236.215.77 ( talk) 14:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Is it possible to draw polygons on Google Earth in order to calculate the area within these polygons? How about finding the highest and lowest elevations within the shapes? How do I do this? Thanks. ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 17:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I WANT TO DEVELOP A PROJECT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RSA ALGORITHM ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION , PLEASE SUGGEST ME THE ESSENTIAL START UPS TO WORK — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kullaanilkumar ( talk • contribs)
hi, our organization uses Google apps (ie. google.com/a and click "sign in" on top-right). if our domain is xyz (so I first type xyz.com into the "sign in" on top-right of google.com/a then I type in "me" and my password) how do I get my iPhone to do the same thing? It seems very similar to gmail, but what are the pop and smtp servers, etc? Thanks... 89.135.188.193 ( talk) 20:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Computing desk | ||
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< July 31 | << Jul | August | Sep >> | August 2 > |
Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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A similar question has been asked before but wasn't really answered.
How does the blu-ray specification handle aspect ratios wider than 16:9?
E.g., can blu-ray store a 1.85:1 video anamorphically (horizontally squeezed, resp. vertically stretched) as 16:9 rather than with native letterboxing? And which of these is the industry standard?
This info appears to be missing from Anamorphic widescreen#Blu-ray video. -- 195.14.223.157 ( talk) 00:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
My desktop connects to the internet, but my laptop won't. I have checked and the IP address is correct, but still won't connect. I connected router directly to laptop and it connected to google when I tried....but won't on it's own. Can anyone advise me please? I'm out of options at this point. Kendra — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kendra52 ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Are you sure it's a router and not actually a cable modem? Some cable modems lock onto the mac address of your computer and will only accept connections from that mac address, so when you switch it over to the laptop it will detect the different mac address and refuse connections from it. The solution is to power off the cable modem for a little while and make sure it's connected to the laptop when you turn it on again. You will need to do this every time you switch it from the desktop to laptop and when you switch it back again. AvrillirvA ( talk) 17:32, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I have difficulties extracting the text from this pdf. I'd appreciate if somebody could extract the text and either upload it somewhere or drop it in my sandbox or teach me how to do it myself. The text is written vertically and starts at the top right. I'd need it in plain text in order to more easily translate it with a computer. Information will go into this articl I am working on. Thanks. bamse ( talk) 11:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I have just come into possession of a second-hand Apple PowerBook G4 and charger. I have located a User's Guide Here. However the PowerBook I have does not have the six connectors on the right side (as on page 9). Instead it has them on the back edge of the G4, under a spring loaded cover. On the right hand side it has only a security slot (and what looks like a vent). The left side has what I think is a PC card slot, another vent and a headphone socket. The "Power adapter port" is on the right back corner (not the left side). It does have the "Slot-loading optical drive" on the front edge, right of the "display release button". It has a 667 MHz processor and 256MB of memory, and from the WP page detals I suspect that it may be a Titanium PowerBook G4 'Onyx'or 'Ivory'.
Can anyone identify the exact model? and perhaps advise me, as although the machine seems to be charging, it won't start up when I press the 'power' button.- 220.101 talk \Contribs 11:17, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Can anyone tell why Gmail has these two folders when surely they are the same thing? I have been told that it has something to do with the chat but I have never used the chat facility and yet some of the emails I have sent have gone into Sent Mail and some into Sent messages. I find this somewhat confusing and would welcome any advice anyone has. There seems no way to configure Gmail to remove this. (I thought of adding this as a comment on the Talk Page of the Gmail article but it seems more appropriate here.) Thanks in advance. Smokey TheCat 12:06, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
It was a glitch in that the symbol does not normally appear and stay there, but it is a feature of Firefox and not a bug or incompatibility issue or extension. Check it out: Open up a few tabs in Firefox and then grab one of the tabs itself with your mouse and try to move it to a new place on your tab bar; you'll see that this symbol appeared in between other tabs to mark the spot where you are going to drop the tab you are dragging! I discovered it this morning by accident.-- 108.46.103.142 ( talk) 12:40, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
In many elevators in Germany, there are nine-segment displays, which differ from seven-segment displays by having two diagonal segments, that are needed to display the letter “K”, which stands for Keller(geschoss). My question: Which letters can be displayed with such nine-segment displays? -- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 13:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
What about <|>, >|<, and ⍾? -- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 16:35, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
|/| |\|
If so, I get the these letters.
| | | | = A
| | | = B
| | = C
| | | = D
| | = E
| | = F
| | | | = H
| | = I
| | | = J
|/ |\ = K
| | = L
|\| = N
| | | | = O
| | | = P
| | |\| = Q
| | |\ = R
| | = S
| | | | = U
| | \| = V
|/ | = Y
/ | = Z
And finally:
| | | = G
| | | | = O
-- 84.61.147.210 ( talk) 17:13, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
| | = O
Hi, I'm looking for something like the new macbook air, but in a pc from a reputable brand. It should be a small notebook (like a thinkpad) with an i5 or i7 and 4 or 8 gb ram, and definitely ssd perhaps in addition to normal hd. doesn' thave to be quite as light, beautiful as a macbook air, need it for development work. what fits this description best? good battery life too. 145.236.215.77 ( talk) 14:34, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Is it possible to draw polygons on Google Earth in order to calculate the area within these polygons? How about finding the highest and lowest elevations within the shapes? How do I do this? Thanks. ~ AH1 ( discuss!) 17:04, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
I WANT TO DEVELOP A PROJECT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RSA ALGORITHM ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION , PLEASE SUGGEST ME THE ESSENTIAL START UPS TO WORK — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kullaanilkumar ( talk • contribs)
hi, our organization uses Google apps (ie. google.com/a and click "sign in" on top-right). if our domain is xyz (so I first type xyz.com into the "sign in" on top-right of google.com/a then I type in "me" and my password) how do I get my iPhone to do the same thing? It seems very similar to gmail, but what are the pop and smtp servers, etc? Thanks... 89.135.188.193 ( talk) 20:22, 1 August 2011 (UTC)