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One of my many areas of total ignorance is map creation/alteration. The Google Maps article rather baffles me, though I do notice that commercial applications are a no-no, so anyway Google Maps is/are out, for what I want to do -- which is something like what we see at File:Maginot Line ln-en.jpg but (without wishing to offend its creator) cleaner. Ideally, I'd start off with a copyleft or PD outline of a nation, and choose a couple of dozen towns to add to it. The software (whether web- or hard-drive-based) would know where these were and add the little blobs for these towns and their names next to or near them so that these wouldn't overlap and would be legible. And the result would be copyleft or PD. Like most of us, I'm a cheapskate, and want "free as in beer"; but if it's cheap I might be persuaded to shell out. If it's computer-based then Debian would be best; but failing that, Mac OS X or Windows would be OK too. I'm sure that all of this is explained excellently on the interwebs; Google [search] is my friend, but what should I be asking it? -- Hoary ( talk) 01:39, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorta in charge of helping my Sister-in-Law with her computer, and she knows even less than me. She's in another country, so I help her by using Logmein. (We both have XP)
She's been having a problem with having to log in when she starts her computer, and didn't have any idea how to do that, but sometimes she's managed to get it going. I looked up how to bypass the log-in, and found several sites that recommended using START, RUN, "control userpasswords2", and unchecking the "Users must enter a username and password" box.
Before trying it with her computer, I tried it with mine, and it seemed to work, that is until I re-booted, and the screen froze while starting Windows. I tried several times, and no luck. I was able to start it in safe mode, but, as it had been a couple of years, I decided to do a clean install, and copy all my files to a new drive. That worked ok, but, several days later, she still has the problem. Obviously, given the problem I had, I'm loath to try it on hers, unless y'all can tell me where I went horribly wrong.
Also, for extra credit, if I blow it again, how can I undo it?
Thanks. Bunthorne ( talk) 04:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
One of my friends was able to edit his Facebook profile to include what train station he lives near. Under his name on his profile where things like ones hometown and current city, job, etc. appear it also includes Lives near "X" Station beside a picture of a mass transit train. Clicking on the name of the station links to pages similar to the hometown ones on Facebook where it took the info from Wikipedia, but insead its about the train station. How do I find this useful option?-- 98.112.224.106 ( talk) 05:53, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'll be visiting London in a few weeks time. I really want to try out a head-mounted display before I buy one; where in South-London can I do this? 83.154.156.210 ( talk) 09:49, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
My bittorrent client window got sluggish. The torrents are downloading fine. Any information that I get online is about sluggish torrent streams, but that's not what I want. Any idea what could have caused that? Other programs are working OK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.8.67.40 ( talk) 12:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I am looking at the PNY VCQ450NVS-X16-PB Quadro NVS 450. It says it does not support VGA. So, does that mean that if I buy DisplayPort to VGA converters, I won't get a display? I am looking at connecting 4 old SVGA monitors to one card. It is really coming down to the Quadro NVS or Matrox. -- kainaw ™ 13:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
There's a website called 'Can you run it?', which analyses your PC to see if it can run the software or game you specify. Is there a website like this which allows you to specify the specs, rather than have it only analyse your PC, like 'Can the PC you have not bought yet but you are thinking about buying run it?'? Cheers. -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 14:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
-- Inspector ( talk) 14:54, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I had asked the question before and someone suggest using task manager, but I wonder if there is a way to cancel the saving without killing the other tabs?-- Inspector ( talk) 15:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
My Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop has both a wired Ethernet connection and a WiFi connection and both are active. Is there a log somewhere on my computer where I can get an idea of how much traffic is going through each of the adapters? Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:57, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm porting over some PHP files from Mac OS X to Windows 7. This means a ton of stupid Mac resource fork files being ported over as well, which are gumming up my PHP execution for some reason.
The file names are all of the format "._filename.ext". They exist in many embedded directories.
What's a simple wildcard command that I can use to delete all of these? I've tried experimenting with just displaying them all with something like dir ._* but that doesn't come up with anything. There's got to be a way to do this, but I'm not finding it with Google.
Any thoughts? My DOS prompt fu is a bit out of date. I don't want to try to delete them all manually. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 16:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
The Droid 3 is shipping with a locked bootloader, enforced by signature checks performed by the hardware. Texas Instruments is distributing PandaBoards that come with OMAP4430 chips, the same kind the Droid 3 uses. A solution to get around this signature checking nonsense would be to swap out the processor in the Droid 3 with one from a PandaBoard. How hard would this be? -- Melab±1 ☎ 23:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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One of my many areas of total ignorance is map creation/alteration. The Google Maps article rather baffles me, though I do notice that commercial applications are a no-no, so anyway Google Maps is/are out, for what I want to do -- which is something like what we see at File:Maginot Line ln-en.jpg but (without wishing to offend its creator) cleaner. Ideally, I'd start off with a copyleft or PD outline of a nation, and choose a couple of dozen towns to add to it. The software (whether web- or hard-drive-based) would know where these were and add the little blobs for these towns and their names next to or near them so that these wouldn't overlap and would be legible. And the result would be copyleft or PD. Like most of us, I'm a cheapskate, and want "free as in beer"; but if it's cheap I might be persuaded to shell out. If it's computer-based then Debian would be best; but failing that, Mac OS X or Windows would be OK too. I'm sure that all of this is explained excellently on the interwebs; Google [search] is my friend, but what should I be asking it? -- Hoary ( talk) 01:39, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm sorta in charge of helping my Sister-in-Law with her computer, and she knows even less than me. She's in another country, so I help her by using Logmein. (We both have XP)
She's been having a problem with having to log in when she starts her computer, and didn't have any idea how to do that, but sometimes she's managed to get it going. I looked up how to bypass the log-in, and found several sites that recommended using START, RUN, "control userpasswords2", and unchecking the "Users must enter a username and password" box.
Before trying it with her computer, I tried it with mine, and it seemed to work, that is until I re-booted, and the screen froze while starting Windows. I tried several times, and no luck. I was able to start it in safe mode, but, as it had been a couple of years, I decided to do a clean install, and copy all my files to a new drive. That worked ok, but, several days later, she still has the problem. Obviously, given the problem I had, I'm loath to try it on hers, unless y'all can tell me where I went horribly wrong.
Also, for extra credit, if I blow it again, how can I undo it?
Thanks. Bunthorne ( talk) 04:56, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
One of my friends was able to edit his Facebook profile to include what train station he lives near. Under his name on his profile where things like ones hometown and current city, job, etc. appear it also includes Lives near "X" Station beside a picture of a mass transit train. Clicking on the name of the station links to pages similar to the hometown ones on Facebook where it took the info from Wikipedia, but insead its about the train station. How do I find this useful option?-- 98.112.224.106 ( talk) 05:53, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'll be visiting London in a few weeks time. I really want to try out a head-mounted display before I buy one; where in South-London can I do this? 83.154.156.210 ( talk) 09:49, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
My bittorrent client window got sluggish. The torrents are downloading fine. Any information that I get online is about sluggish torrent streams, but that's not what I want. Any idea what could have caused that? Other programs are working OK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.8.67.40 ( talk) 12:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I am looking at the PNY VCQ450NVS-X16-PB Quadro NVS 450. It says it does not support VGA. So, does that mean that if I buy DisplayPort to VGA converters, I won't get a display? I am looking at connecting 4 old SVGA monitors to one card. It is really coming down to the Quadro NVS or Matrox. -- kainaw ™ 13:43, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
There's a website called 'Can you run it?', which analyses your PC to see if it can run the software or game you specify. Is there a website like this which allows you to specify the specs, rather than have it only analyse your PC, like 'Can the PC you have not bought yet but you are thinking about buying run it?'? Cheers. -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 14:41, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
-- Inspector ( talk) 14:54, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I had asked the question before and someone suggest using task manager, but I wonder if there is a way to cancel the saving without killing the other tabs?-- Inspector ( talk) 15:00, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
My Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop has both a wired Ethernet connection and a WiFi connection and both are active. Is there a log somewhere on my computer where I can get an idea of how much traffic is going through each of the adapters? Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:57, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm porting over some PHP files from Mac OS X to Windows 7. This means a ton of stupid Mac resource fork files being ported over as well, which are gumming up my PHP execution for some reason.
The file names are all of the format "._filename.ext". They exist in many embedded directories.
What's a simple wildcard command that I can use to delete all of these? I've tried experimenting with just displaying them all with something like dir ._* but that doesn't come up with anything. There's got to be a way to do this, but I'm not finding it with Google.
Any thoughts? My DOS prompt fu is a bit out of date. I don't want to try to delete them all manually. -- Mr.98 ( talk) 16:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
The Droid 3 is shipping with a locked bootloader, enforced by signature checks performed by the hardware. Texas Instruments is distributing PandaBoards that come with OMAP4430 chips, the same kind the Droid 3 uses. A solution to get around this signature checking nonsense would be to swap out the processor in the Droid 3 with one from a PandaBoard. How hard would this be? -- Melab±1 ☎ 23:31, 2 August 2011 (UTC)