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But, I'm desperate, so here goes: there's an old joke, involving a king who calls upon an engineer and a software developer to design what becomes a toaster. The engineer comes up with your standard 1960's toaster (dial for darkness control, for example); the software guy determines it's way more than that, and it needs an object-oriented design, and a graphical user interface, and an operating system, etc, etc . . . and the punch line is something along the lines of "Wisely, the king took the software developer out back and had him shot."
Believe it or not, the joke perfectly illustrates a point I'd really like to make at a city council meeting Monday night.
I need a link to the (or an) original; you can post it on my talk page if you want to avoid polluting this desk. I've tried Google, and rec.humor.funny (yes, I'm that old), and all the other joke sites I can find; nothing so far. It's a computing joke (hence RD/C), it's gotta be out there somewhere. Anybody? -- DaHorsesMouth ( talk) 00:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like my Android phone to sound an alarm exactly once every six hours and fifteen minutes. It can deviate by only about seven minutes in either direction. Unfortunately, Android only gives a maximum of ten alarms that can be set to sound throughout the day, so I can't just create, say, a system where I set 27 different alarms throughout the week at an average interval of 6 hrs 13 1/3 mins (which would perfectly cycle after seven days).
Is there an app where I could do this? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
You could probably setup your alarms in a calendar and sync/import to your android device, might be the simplest, short of having an app handed to you on a silver platter. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 19:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I have an .svg image created using Inkscape. If I upload this image into Wikimedia Commons, the image appears incorrectly. It may be that some of the layers are missing. Is there any way to correct this without abandoning the .svg format? ike9898 ( talk) 01:27, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
So i have a website where you can send text messages to other people, and i want to copy all the information from it....
The problem is that the site has links to each message... So the main screen is a list of links with a "view next 20" or etc button...
So is there a way to copy the text on each page that each link points to without doing it manually? Ive googled for such things, but the nearest thing i can find is a Firefox plugin that copies the link text itself, and not text on the page the link goes to. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
74.117.245.62 ( talk) 03:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
hmmmm, seems close to what i need... but if i understand correctly Httrack will basically download all the pages so i can view them offline. This would basically create the same issue i have already, which is that i only want certain text from each page, not a bunch of links where i have to click them to see the text in each. In other words, this texting site im at stores each message of a conversation as a separate link on the main page. What i want is to be able to make a text file with the entire conversation on it. If Httrack downloaded the whole site into http files to a specific folder though, i might be able to write a script to open each file and get the required text based on certain info that is the same in each page?
I hope i have been clear here, i feel that what im looking for isnt exactly routine. 74.117.245.62 ( talk) 11:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
An additional reason i dont think this will work: You have to log in to view the list of text messages, and the httrack thing says it doesnt do dynamic links, which these are i believe, because the messages are for my account and you cant just get them from going to the texting site.
74.117.245.62 (
talk) 11:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday in yahoo chat, i was invited to join a site BuddyChatCams for live webcam chat. I have no prior experience in sites like this and want to know is sites like this safe and keep privacy of its members? Asking here to get serious answer. -- Goblin 224 ( talk) 03:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I am replacing a laptop for another person. I want to move all of his photos, music, and programs to the new one. He only has two programs installed beyond Windows 7: Microsoft Office and Nero. Does Windows Easy Transfer transfer the programs as well as the other files? I see that I can do a system backup instead. Will that allow me to restore Office and Nero to the new laptop? -- kainaw ™ 13:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows#HardDiskSupport
http://mark.koli.ch/2009/05/howto-whole-disk-backups-with-dd-gzip-and-p7zip.html
Or take this opportunity to switch to open source alternatives. ¦
Reisio (
talk) 18:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
how come the mouse pointer can go off the right and bottom sides of the screen but not the top and left?
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But, I'm desperate, so here goes: there's an old joke, involving a king who calls upon an engineer and a software developer to design what becomes a toaster. The engineer comes up with your standard 1960's toaster (dial for darkness control, for example); the software guy determines it's way more than that, and it needs an object-oriented design, and a graphical user interface, and an operating system, etc, etc . . . and the punch line is something along the lines of "Wisely, the king took the software developer out back and had him shot."
Believe it or not, the joke perfectly illustrates a point I'd really like to make at a city council meeting Monday night.
I need a link to the (or an) original; you can post it on my talk page if you want to avoid polluting this desk. I've tried Google, and rec.humor.funny (yes, I'm that old), and all the other joke sites I can find; nothing so far. It's a computing joke (hence RD/C), it's gotta be out there somewhere. Anybody? -- DaHorsesMouth ( talk) 00:00, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I would like my Android phone to sound an alarm exactly once every six hours and fifteen minutes. It can deviate by only about seven minutes in either direction. Unfortunately, Android only gives a maximum of ten alarms that can be set to sound throughout the day, so I can't just create, say, a system where I set 27 different alarms throughout the week at an average interval of 6 hrs 13 1/3 mins (which would perfectly cycle after seven days).
Is there an app where I could do this? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
You could probably setup your alarms in a calendar and sync/import to your android device, might be the simplest, short of having an app handed to you on a silver platter. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 19:24, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I have an .svg image created using Inkscape. If I upload this image into Wikimedia Commons, the image appears incorrectly. It may be that some of the layers are missing. Is there any way to correct this without abandoning the .svg format? ike9898 ( talk) 01:27, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
So i have a website where you can send text messages to other people, and i want to copy all the information from it....
The problem is that the site has links to each message... So the main screen is a list of links with a "view next 20" or etc button...
So is there a way to copy the text on each page that each link points to without doing it manually? Ive googled for such things, but the nearest thing i can find is a Firefox plugin that copies the link text itself, and not text on the page the link goes to. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
74.117.245.62 ( talk) 03:17, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
hmmmm, seems close to what i need... but if i understand correctly Httrack will basically download all the pages so i can view them offline. This would basically create the same issue i have already, which is that i only want certain text from each page, not a bunch of links where i have to click them to see the text in each. In other words, this texting site im at stores each message of a conversation as a separate link on the main page. What i want is to be able to make a text file with the entire conversation on it. If Httrack downloaded the whole site into http files to a specific folder though, i might be able to write a script to open each file and get the required text based on certain info that is the same in each page?
I hope i have been clear here, i feel that what im looking for isnt exactly routine. 74.117.245.62 ( talk) 11:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
An additional reason i dont think this will work: You have to log in to view the list of text messages, and the httrack thing says it doesnt do dynamic links, which these are i believe, because the messages are for my account and you cant just get them from going to the texting site.
74.117.245.62 (
talk) 11:10, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday in yahoo chat, i was invited to join a site BuddyChatCams for live webcam chat. I have no prior experience in sites like this and want to know is sites like this safe and keep privacy of its members? Asking here to get serious answer. -- Goblin 224 ( talk) 03:47, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I am replacing a laptop for another person. I want to move all of his photos, music, and programs to the new one. He only has two programs installed beyond Windows 7: Microsoft Office and Nero. Does Windows Easy Transfer transfer the programs as well as the other files? I see that I can do a system backup instead. Will that allow me to restore Office and Nero to the new laptop? -- kainaw ™ 13:59, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows#HardDiskSupport
http://mark.koli.ch/2009/05/howto-whole-disk-backups-with-dd-gzip-and-p7zip.html
Or take this opportunity to switch to open source alternatives. ¦
Reisio (
talk) 18:40, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
how come the mouse pointer can go off the right and bottom sides of the screen but not the top and left?