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Florian Mueller ( FOSS Patents) thinks that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility is more than just about defending Android and some commenters on sites like Facebook and CNET on saying things like "no more locked bootlaoders, plz" and "googlephone yeah" (misspelling intentional). The articles I have been reading have brought up the question of whether this will distance other Android device manufacturers like Samsung and HTC now that Google might become a manufacturer of Android devices and take advantage of being the owner of Android. Also, some analysts are saying this might be a big mistake on Google's part. Isn't this similar, though, to what Nokia had going with Symbian? Nokia owned Symbian and manufactured Symbian devices, while also licensing it to other manufacturers? Did that lead to Nokia's flop or was that something else? -- Melab±1 ☎ 01:07, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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i used brake cleaner on my keyboard and all my keys are stuck together I am using on screen keyboard to type this please help me ????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.112.39 ( talk) 05:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Brake cleaner can contain both acetone and toluene - both of which will dissolve most plastics. Toluene is especially nasty, I would actually advise against using brake cleaner indoors at all due to the dangers of inhaling it. On your keyboard it will have probably partially dissolved the plastic on the keys, which then fused as the plastic resolidified when the solvents evaporated. As suggested above there is probably not much more you can do at this point except buy a new keyboard (and some keyboard cleaning wipes!) Equisetum ( talk | email | contributions) 10:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC) ![]()
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This question was originally posted on the English Wikipedia Helpdesk [2], and I moved it here. Chzz ► 15:55, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
omanual - freeware need (container)or Program to open it.
hello My Name is Nathan L King I'm trying to find more Info on a new file ext.(?). I down lodead a omanual from internet archive.org on several ifixits to repair Sony Playstation 3's,Canon cameras and there in a omanual format witch is a xml and something else. I'm not sure how to do what im recomending so im just doing something in hopes it gets to the right person to get things asked the right people. I use your en.wikipedia all the time and try to use freeware in the hope that someday will be able to DONATE someday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.135.163.250 ( talk) 15:49, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Can you be more specific about where you got it from? There's a lot of stuff on the internet archive. Emeraldemon ( talk) 19:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Does it hurt a laptop battery to have it plugged in and on most of the time (24 hours most days). My wife insists that this hurts the life and rechargability of the battery. I just had to replace one, so is that right? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
As part of my endless effort to subvert university IT (don't ask, long story, lots of existing posts on here about it over the course of a few years now), one thing I'd been playing with was creating what I am calling a poor-man's proxy.
Essentially it is a PHP script that scrapes content from another server and displays it as its own. So if you went to http://edserver.edu/program/events/, it would really display content from http://myserver.org/events/. This is accomplished by some mod_rewrite rules that send all queries to http://edserver.edu/program/ to a PHP script that then scrapes the end off of the URL (in this case, events/) and then plops that onto the end of the source URL (in this case, http://myserver.org).
It's a pretty simple script, in the end, and the site does not require any complicated user interactions (no form submissions).
The IT people are mulling this over. I think they'll be most concerned with the potential security issues. I'm hard pressed to think of any that are serious — the PHP script does not allow any modification of the .edu server whatsoever. There are no passwords being sent anywhere or anything like that. There is no user interaction at all other than static browsing. Worst-case scenario, the security on the .org server is compromised, and the .edu server displays false information for awhile? That seems rather minor. The PHP script just accesses the source (.org) server through regular HTTP requests — it doesn't have FTP access or anything special.
Am I missing anything obvious? Or unobvious? What's the worst you could imagine doing in such a situation? -- Mr.98 ( talk) 23:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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Florian Mueller ( FOSS Patents) thinks that Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility is more than just about defending Android and some commenters on sites like Facebook and CNET on saying things like "no more locked bootlaoders, plz" and "googlephone yeah" (misspelling intentional). The articles I have been reading have brought up the question of whether this will distance other Android device manufacturers like Samsung and HTC now that Google might become a manufacturer of Android devices and take advantage of being the owner of Android. Also, some analysts are saying this might be a big mistake on Google's part. Isn't this similar, though, to what Nokia had going with Symbian? Nokia owned Symbian and manufactured Symbian devices, while also licensing it to other manufacturers? Did that lead to Nokia's flop or was that something else? -- Melab±1 ☎ 01:07, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
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i used brake cleaner on my keyboard and all my keys are stuck together I am using on screen keyboard to type this please help me ????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.83.112.39 ( talk) 05:20, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Brake cleaner can contain both acetone and toluene - both of which will dissolve most plastics. Toluene is especially nasty, I would actually advise against using brake cleaner indoors at all due to the dangers of inhaling it. On your keyboard it will have probably partially dissolved the plastic on the keys, which then fused as the plastic resolidified when the solvents evaporated. As suggested above there is probably not much more you can do at this point except buy a new keyboard (and some keyboard cleaning wipes!) Equisetum ( talk | email | contributions) 10:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC) ![]()
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This question was originally posted on the English Wikipedia Helpdesk [2], and I moved it here. Chzz ► 15:55, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
omanual - freeware need (container)or Program to open it.
hello My Name is Nathan L King I'm trying to find more Info on a new file ext.(?). I down lodead a omanual from internet archive.org on several ifixits to repair Sony Playstation 3's,Canon cameras and there in a omanual format witch is a xml and something else. I'm not sure how to do what im recomending so im just doing something in hopes it gets to the right person to get things asked the right people. I use your en.wikipedia all the time and try to use freeware in the hope that someday will be able to DONATE someday. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.135.163.250 ( talk) 15:49, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Can you be more specific about where you got it from? There's a lot of stuff on the internet archive. Emeraldemon ( talk) 19:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
Does it hurt a laptop battery to have it plugged in and on most of the time (24 hours most days). My wife insists that this hurts the life and rechargability of the battery. I just had to replace one, so is that right? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 22:32, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
As part of my endless effort to subvert university IT (don't ask, long story, lots of existing posts on here about it over the course of a few years now), one thing I'd been playing with was creating what I am calling a poor-man's proxy.
Essentially it is a PHP script that scrapes content from another server and displays it as its own. So if you went to http://edserver.edu/program/events/, it would really display content from http://myserver.org/events/. This is accomplished by some mod_rewrite rules that send all queries to http://edserver.edu/program/ to a PHP script that then scrapes the end off of the URL (in this case, events/) and then plops that onto the end of the source URL (in this case, http://myserver.org).
It's a pretty simple script, in the end, and the site does not require any complicated user interactions (no form submissions).
The IT people are mulling this over. I think they'll be most concerned with the potential security issues. I'm hard pressed to think of any that are serious — the PHP script does not allow any modification of the .edu server whatsoever. There are no passwords being sent anywhere or anything like that. There is no user interaction at all other than static browsing. Worst-case scenario, the security on the .org server is compromised, and the .edu server displays false information for awhile? That seems rather minor. The PHP script just accesses the source (.org) server through regular HTTP requests — it doesn't have FTP access or anything special.
Am I missing anything obvious? Or unobvious? What's the worst you could imagine doing in such a situation? -- Mr.98 ( talk) 23:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)