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Google pulled an unthinkable Jar-Jar with their products and userbase by DISCONTINUING Google Desktop. It was a perfectly-working desktop application; there was no need to discontinue it.
I still want to see information on the side of my desktop.
Therefore, what other desktop sidebar app is still available (and gets updated as regularly as Google Desktop used to), with a wide widget selection to choose from to add to said sidebar? Thanks for helping me find a suitable replacement. -- 70.179.174.101 ( talk) 08:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know, if there is program for Windows/Linux that can read Aztec barcodes? I know there are many mobile phone programs that can do that, but I do not have smartphone, so I can´t use them. -- 91.156.175.33 ( talk) 15:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been using vi on my Ubuntu (10.04 LTS?) system at work for many months now. Even though I hate vi as an editor, I use it because it is ubiquitous across *nix platforms. Sometime in the last couple of weeks, the behaviour on Ubuntu has changed in a most annoying way: When in insert mode, I used to be able to use the arrow keys to steer round the file to wherever I wanted to enter text. However, since the change, the arrow keys now drop uppercase "A", "B", "C" or "D" on a new line in the file. This leads to much frustration as I exit insert mode, and enter "dd" repeatedly to get rid of these extra lines. I strongly suspect one of the last two system updates did something. What happened and how do I change vi's behaviour back to how it was? Astronaut ( talk) 15:22, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. The supplied link, led to other pages on the same site which suggested a fix. It also hinted at a bug in newer versions of Vim. I created a .vimrc file containing set nocompatible and the problem is now fixed. Astronaut ( talk) 12:31, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm trying to install a wireless USB adapter under Linux. The device is connected (checked with lsusb), the driver is installed (with ndiswrapper, the hardware is recognized), but I don' t manage to connect through this adapter. The output of iwconfig is just lo, eth0, eth1 (like before). I expected to see something like wlan0 after executing iwconfig. What am I missing? 88.8.76.138 ( talk) 16:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
88.8.76.138 ( talk) 16:55, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Check with http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB a lot of people use ndiswrapper despite there being a proper native driver because all they find initially are old howtos. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 21:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
please, can a smart 7' android 2.2, work as a computer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.206.13.3 ( talk) 19:34, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
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Google pulled an unthinkable Jar-Jar with their products and userbase by DISCONTINUING Google Desktop. It was a perfectly-working desktop application; there was no need to discontinue it.
I still want to see information on the side of my desktop.
Therefore, what other desktop sidebar app is still available (and gets updated as regularly as Google Desktop used to), with a wide widget selection to choose from to add to said sidebar? Thanks for helping me find a suitable replacement. -- 70.179.174.101 ( talk) 08:33, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Does anyone know, if there is program for Windows/Linux that can read Aztec barcodes? I know there are many mobile phone programs that can do that, but I do not have smartphone, so I can´t use them. -- 91.156.175.33 ( talk) 15:16, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
I've been using vi on my Ubuntu (10.04 LTS?) system at work for many months now. Even though I hate vi as an editor, I use it because it is ubiquitous across *nix platforms. Sometime in the last couple of weeks, the behaviour on Ubuntu has changed in a most annoying way: When in insert mode, I used to be able to use the arrow keys to steer round the file to wherever I wanted to enter text. However, since the change, the arrow keys now drop uppercase "A", "B", "C" or "D" on a new line in the file. This leads to much frustration as I exit insert mode, and enter "dd" repeatedly to get rid of these extra lines. I strongly suspect one of the last two system updates did something. What happened and how do I change vi's behaviour back to how it was? Astronaut ( talk) 15:22, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. The supplied link, led to other pages on the same site which suggested a fix. It also hinted at a bug in newer versions of Vim. I created a .vimrc file containing set nocompatible and the problem is now fixed. Astronaut ( talk) 12:31, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
I'm trying to install a wireless USB adapter under Linux. The device is connected (checked with lsusb), the driver is installed (with ndiswrapper, the hardware is recognized), but I don' t manage to connect through this adapter. The output of iwconfig is just lo, eth0, eth1 (like before). I expected to see something like wlan0 after executing iwconfig. What am I missing? 88.8.76.138 ( talk) 16:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
88.8.76.138 ( talk) 16:55, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
Check with http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB a lot of people use ndiswrapper despite there being a proper native driver because all they find initially are old howtos. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 21:53, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
please, can a smart 7' android 2.2, work as a computer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.206.13.3 ( talk) 19:34, 8 December 2011 (UTC)