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How do I spoof user agent string in Internet Explorer 9? 123.24.106.106 ( talk) 00:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello all, I have a 2 TB external hard drive from Seagate, a FreeAgent. This drive is a tertiary hard drive that is only used for file storage (two others are a 60 GB primary with XP, and a 1 TB Seagate). Yesterday it wouldn't let me do anything with it, XP popping up a systray bubble saying something about $MFT being corrupt and unreadable, and to try chkdsk. I set it to run and fix errors. I left it running overnight, and it was on 23% of Stage 2 when I left early this morning. When I got back home (~12 hours later) it was still at 23% on Stage 2. I decided to exit chkdsk and try again, but now chkdsk tells me:
C:\Documents and Settings\[censored]>chkdsk F: /F The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is FreeAgent Drive. Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
It had detected some errors before I exited chkdsk but unfortunately I didn't copy them down.
Any ideas? -- MegaGuy ( talk) 01:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm trying to install Windows XP (Pro, 32 bits) on one of the partitions of my main HDD (Hitachi 5450 something). However, the boot CD crashes because I apparently don't have the required SATA drivers. I tried incorporating the XP version chipset drivers with nLite to no avail. My Samsung laptop's mobo is a RF711.
I want to do this to troubleshoot my two iPods who have started freezing during sync at specifc points. HD Tune shows bad sectors but it seems odd that this happened so suddently. CHKDSK doesn't find anything, neither does CopyTrans Doctor. Since I heard iTunes has problems with Windows 7 64 bits, this is pretty much what I haven't tried. Reset, restore, quick format (low-level doesn't work, drive is protected), can't do in-built HDD scan because some dimwit removed the feature for the iPod classics, tried shutting down Zone Alarm and all other security thingies, aso tried downgrading iTunes (reinstalled/uninstalled as well) and trying other .mp3 files and putting the devices on cooling pads during sync, without forgetting compatibility mode and running as administrator, disabling UAC. Tried using Winamp and Media Monkey for sync too.
Sorry for formatting I'm writing on my Kindle. Things I haven't tried include running with everything disabled except required Apple services and processes, CHKDSK during boot through O&O defrag, opening the devices and playing with the HDD wires and shooting both iPods with my Glock, but I'm at work ATM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.18.145.160 ( talk) 06:39, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Suppose i have class named Vehicle. whats the difference between the following two:
Vehicle scooter;
and
Vehicle bike = new Vehicle();
117.201.249.207 ( talk) 08:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, that was helpful. I have another question :D:
Do i need to always define the main method as static. if yes, why?
117.201.249.207 (
talk) 10:04, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Just a few months ago, I read that many home routers had poor support for IPv6 despite being advertised as supporting it. Has the situation changed lately? Are there home routers that are known to have good IPv6 support (and performs well in other respects)? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.11.217 ( talk) 09:44, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I have an external HDD, and I am wanting to put a new partition on it and put Win7 on there as a bootable backup/recovery (in addition to the Ubuntu I am currently using for the same reason). The HDD is used alternately between two laptops - one already with Win7 on it, and the other with Vista. Now, I have a couple of questions:
The tools I currently have at my disposal are Vista and Ubuntu (as the Win7 laptop is upstairs being used). Cheers! -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 11:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
My cat has just walked across my keyboard and now I can't scroll using the arrow keys. I don't have a scroll lock button. Any ideas how to fix this (the cat is of no help)? Bradley0110 ( talk) 11:57, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts
URLs containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20
.
sp | " | , | ' | ; | < | > | ? | ] | |
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%20 | %22 | %2c | %3a | %3b | %3c | %3e | %3f | %5b | %5d |
Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Good afternoon, I have a problem (I don't know if you can help me here). I have put a message on the guestbook of somebody with the help of my e-mail adres. Everytime now I go to goggle and I write my name (my name entirely), the beginning of the page and the beginning of the message I have sent appears because I have used my name in my e-mail adres that I needed to send the message. Now everybody can read my message. It attacks my private life. I would like to remove it by my own but it doens't work. Must I wait until (with the years) due to others messages on the guestbook I 'll be put backward (in the last page) and then disappear but it can take years. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.70.217 ( talk) 13:47, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
:Try clearing your history and cache. You will find that this is actually your browser auto-completing. Use a different browser, if you want to test this. Ignore me. --
KägeTorä - (影虎) (
TALK) 15:43, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I am at a loss. I am in Singapore, and I want to watch shows on websites that do not let me, e.g. formula 1 from the BBC iplayer and Daria from the MTV USA website. Both tell me that I cannot watch in my country/zone. So I hear about proxies, and how people use them to watch whatever they want from whatever website. So I read about them, follow the instructions, and paste in the URL. I try again and again with a bunch of the most popular proxies, but instead of the video playing, no player appears on the screen at all. The rest of the BBC or MTV page is present, but no video player. Can someone please explain how to use these cursed proxies!?! Also in case it's relevant I have a macbook OSX 10.6.4 using safari (I have tried with chrome also to no avail)
Cheers Ballchef ( talk) 14:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, it is much cheaper (on a 1:2 relation) to buy a disk enclosure and a HDD to build your external HDD (instead of buying a ready to go external HDD). Is there any recommendation against doing it? Any details to consider? I already know I have to check the type of connection (SATA, IDE, ...) and the size (1T, 2T) of the HDD that the controller can handle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiweek ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
It's not really cheaper, I'd only do it if I already had the drive (ask Gadget said) or wanted a very particular setup. With an external that comes with its own enclosure, someone has already (potentially) considered the problem of heat and various other things for you. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 23:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
It might be that I got the prices wrong, and that simply at different places, the DIY version was cheaper. Gadget850 must know something about gadgets. Wikiweek ( talk) 01:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday, I created a file folder and placed a few images into it, and slightly more than an hour ago, I changed the names of the images in the folder. Just now, I tried to look at the images, only to receive the following message:
[path from C: to the folder] is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Figuring that there's no point to keeping a corrupted folder and images that I can't access, I tried to delete it, but was greeted by the following message:
An unexpected error is preventing the operation.
"Error 0x80070091: The directory is not empty"
Any ideas how I can delete the folder or uncorrupt the images? I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium; to my surprise, I can't figure out how to find what edition of Windows I'm running — my customisations to restore the look of previous Windows editions means that the Windows Help features tell me to try features whose functions I've changed. Nyttend ( talk) 16:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
If something like that happens again, Unlocker might be able to fix it without having to restart. AvrillirvA ( talk) 17:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
why defence depatment is not using advance technology for storing ammunitation as land are becoming costlier and less day by day and away from civil socities ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.245.134.7 ( talk) 17:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I have an SFTP (and SSH) machine that I use a lot. However, it isn't connected to the Internet. So, I have to SSH into another machine which is connected to it and then SSH into the machine I want to use. I often open SFTP sessions with servers like this one, but I cannot do it with this particular one because I have to SSH to one server and then SFTP to the one I want. Is there some trick to get a double-hop for SFTP - tell it so ssh to one machine and then sftp to the next? -- kainaw ™ 20:10, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
ssh -f kainaw@A -L 9999:C:22 -N
sftp -P 9999 B
In the formal definitional of pushdown automota it describes the transition function as a mapping from the Cartesian product of the set of states, the set of the input alphabet and the set of the stack alphabet. In my textbook it says the this is because it will pick the next state and new stack based on the current state, input and what's at the top of the stack. But why do we just have to input the value at the top of the stack, surely it should be a function from a list of elements of the stack alphabet, otherwise how does it know what else is on the stack (e.g. when it pop's, how does it know what's below, if that wasn't an input). — Preceding unsigned comment added by SlakaJ ( talk • contribs) 23:35, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
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How do I spoof user agent string in Internet Explorer 9? 123.24.106.106 ( talk) 00:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello all, I have a 2 TB external hard drive from Seagate, a FreeAgent. This drive is a tertiary hard drive that is only used for file storage (two others are a 60 GB primary with XP, and a 1 TB Seagate). Yesterday it wouldn't let me do anything with it, XP popping up a systray bubble saying something about $MFT being corrupt and unreadable, and to try chkdsk. I set it to run and fix errors. I left it running overnight, and it was on 23% of Stage 2 when I left early this morning. When I got back home (~12 hours later) it was still at 23% on Stage 2. I decided to exit chkdsk and try again, but now chkdsk tells me:
C:\Documents and Settings\[censored]>chkdsk F: /F The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is FreeAgent Drive. Corrupt master file table. CHKDSK aborted.
It had detected some errors before I exited chkdsk but unfortunately I didn't copy them down.
Any ideas? -- MegaGuy ( talk) 01:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm trying to install Windows XP (Pro, 32 bits) on one of the partitions of my main HDD (Hitachi 5450 something). However, the boot CD crashes because I apparently don't have the required SATA drivers. I tried incorporating the XP version chipset drivers with nLite to no avail. My Samsung laptop's mobo is a RF711.
I want to do this to troubleshoot my two iPods who have started freezing during sync at specifc points. HD Tune shows bad sectors but it seems odd that this happened so suddently. CHKDSK doesn't find anything, neither does CopyTrans Doctor. Since I heard iTunes has problems with Windows 7 64 bits, this is pretty much what I haven't tried. Reset, restore, quick format (low-level doesn't work, drive is protected), can't do in-built HDD scan because some dimwit removed the feature for the iPod classics, tried shutting down Zone Alarm and all other security thingies, aso tried downgrading iTunes (reinstalled/uninstalled as well) and trying other .mp3 files and putting the devices on cooling pads during sync, without forgetting compatibility mode and running as administrator, disabling UAC. Tried using Winamp and Media Monkey for sync too.
Sorry for formatting I'm writing on my Kindle. Things I haven't tried include running with everything disabled except required Apple services and processes, CHKDSK during boot through O&O defrag, opening the devices and playing with the HDD wires and shooting both iPods with my Glock, but I'm at work ATM. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.18.145.160 ( talk) 06:39, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Suppose i have class named Vehicle. whats the difference between the following two:
Vehicle scooter;
and
Vehicle bike = new Vehicle();
117.201.249.207 ( talk) 08:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, that was helpful. I have another question :D:
Do i need to always define the main method as static. if yes, why?
117.201.249.207 (
talk) 10:04, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Just a few months ago, I read that many home routers had poor support for IPv6 despite being advertised as supporting it. Has the situation changed lately? Are there home routers that are known to have good IPv6 support (and performs well in other respects)? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.11.217 ( talk) 09:44, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I have an external HDD, and I am wanting to put a new partition on it and put Win7 on there as a bootable backup/recovery (in addition to the Ubuntu I am currently using for the same reason). The HDD is used alternately between two laptops - one already with Win7 on it, and the other with Vista. Now, I have a couple of questions:
The tools I currently have at my disposal are Vista and Ubuntu (as the Win7 laptop is upstairs being used). Cheers! -- KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 11:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
My cat has just walked across my keyboard and now I can't scroll using the arrow keys. I don't have a scroll lock button. Any ideas how to fix this (the cat is of no help)? Bradley0110 ( talk) 11:57, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts
URLs containing certain characters will display and link incorrectly unless those characters are encoded. For example, a space must be replaced by
%20
.
sp | " | , | ' | ; | < | > | ? | ] | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
%20 | %22 | %2c | %3a | %3b | %3c | %3e | %3f | %5b | %5d |
Single apostrophes do not need to be encoded; multiples will be parsed as italic or bold markup ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Good afternoon, I have a problem (I don't know if you can help me here). I have put a message on the guestbook of somebody with the help of my e-mail adres. Everytime now I go to goggle and I write my name (my name entirely), the beginning of the page and the beginning of the message I have sent appears because I have used my name in my e-mail adres that I needed to send the message. Now everybody can read my message. It attacks my private life. I would like to remove it by my own but it doens't work. Must I wait until (with the years) due to others messages on the guestbook I 'll be put backward (in the last page) and then disappear but it can take years. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.70.217 ( talk) 13:47, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
:Try clearing your history and cache. You will find that this is actually your browser auto-completing. Use a different browser, if you want to test this. Ignore me. --
KägeTorä - (影虎) (
TALK) 15:43, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I am at a loss. I am in Singapore, and I want to watch shows on websites that do not let me, e.g. formula 1 from the BBC iplayer and Daria from the MTV USA website. Both tell me that I cannot watch in my country/zone. So I hear about proxies, and how people use them to watch whatever they want from whatever website. So I read about them, follow the instructions, and paste in the URL. I try again and again with a bunch of the most popular proxies, but instead of the video playing, no player appears on the screen at all. The rest of the BBC or MTV page is present, but no video player. Can someone please explain how to use these cursed proxies!?! Also in case it's relevant I have a macbook OSX 10.6.4 using safari (I have tried with chrome also to no avail)
Cheers Ballchef ( talk) 14:34, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
Apparently, it is much cheaper (on a 1:2 relation) to buy a disk enclosure and a HDD to build your external HDD (instead of buying a ready to go external HDD). Is there any recommendation against doing it? Any details to consider? I already know I have to check the type of connection (SATA, IDE, ...) and the size (1T, 2T) of the HDD that the controller can handle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiweek ( talk • contribs) 16:08, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
It's not really cheaper, I'd only do it if I already had the drive (ask Gadget said) or wanted a very particular setup. With an external that comes with its own enclosure, someone has already (potentially) considered the problem of heat and various other things for you. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 23:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
It might be that I got the prices wrong, and that simply at different places, the DIY version was cheaper. Gadget850 must know something about gadgets. Wikiweek ( talk) 01:35, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Yesterday, I created a file folder and placed a few images into it, and slightly more than an hour ago, I changed the names of the images in the folder. Just now, I tried to look at the images, only to receive the following message:
[path from C: to the folder] is not accessible.
The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.
Figuring that there's no point to keeping a corrupted folder and images that I can't access, I tried to delete it, but was greeted by the following message:
An unexpected error is preventing the operation.
"Error 0x80070091: The directory is not empty"
Any ideas how I can delete the folder or uncorrupt the images? I'm running Windows Vista Home Premium; to my surprise, I can't figure out how to find what edition of Windows I'm running — my customisations to restore the look of previous Windows editions means that the Windows Help features tell me to try features whose functions I've changed. Nyttend ( talk) 16:18, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
If something like that happens again, Unlocker might be able to fix it without having to restart. AvrillirvA ( talk) 17:54, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
why defence depatment is not using advance technology for storing ammunitation as land are becoming costlier and less day by day and away from civil socities ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.245.134.7 ( talk) 17:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
I have an SFTP (and SSH) machine that I use a lot. However, it isn't connected to the Internet. So, I have to SSH into another machine which is connected to it and then SSH into the machine I want to use. I often open SFTP sessions with servers like this one, but I cannot do it with this particular one because I have to SSH to one server and then SFTP to the one I want. Is there some trick to get a double-hop for SFTP - tell it so ssh to one machine and then sftp to the next? -- kainaw ™ 20:10, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
ssh -f kainaw@A -L 9999:C:22 -N
sftp -P 9999 B
In the formal definitional of pushdown automota it describes the transition function as a mapping from the Cartesian product of the set of states, the set of the input alphabet and the set of the stack alphabet. In my textbook it says the this is because it will pick the next state and new stack based on the current state, input and what's at the top of the stack. But why do we just have to input the value at the top of the stack, surely it should be a function from a list of elements of the stack alphabet, otherwise how does it know what else is on the stack (e.g. when it pop's, how does it know what's below, if that wasn't an input). — Preceding unsigned comment added by SlakaJ ( talk • contribs) 23:35, 10 July 2011 (UTC)