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Hi, Many Android devices have some diffrent scales. So how in the largest devices you cannot see pixels? When Google launched Android, I am sure that it didn't know about the futuristic scales. Exx8 ( talk) 00:07, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
A colleague is delivering a presentation and has produced it in PowerPoint. What would be the best way to present this on a website? The assumption being that PowerPoint as such is not an appropriate format for the web. The site uses Drupal, if that's of ay relevance. -- rossb ( talk)
I was hoping to have it in HTML, as i don't like to create PDFs when there's a reasonable alternative. I tried the direct conversion from PowerPoint to HTML (had to use an old version of PowerPoint as the feature's disabled in the current version) but the resulting HTML was really horrid with lots of frame stuff and JavaScript - hence useless as a basis for incorporating into Drupal - so in the end I used a PDF after all. -- rossb ( talk) 18:06, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
You Could Do Google Docs. It automatically converts it. Cjc811 ( talk) 01:47, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
how the hacking of websites work? in the movie swordfish, hero is asked to hack FBI website and he did some coding.I mean where he write thee code and where he compile it.-- nijil ( talk) 09:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Keep in mind that a lot of it is just script kiddies, people applying known exploits to easily found targets, and not necessarily a person doing personal investigation and "hacking" or cracking. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 21:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
So, one of my films uploaded to youtube was just banned for no clear reason. Whilst trying to find out more, I happened upon discussions in the forums that suggest this is an increasongly common problem and that large numbers of people are leaving youtube to upload things at other sites that are a little less strict, however the poster of that comment didn't think to say where they were going, anyone have any ideas?
Meanwhile, whilst I'm here, any ideas on how to go about finding out the reason for the ban, the notice I recieved from the site was rather vague, and the terms and conditions even more so.
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 13:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not asking you to tell me why it was banned, I am asking where on that site I could go to ask the people that made the decision why they thought it should be, since they are the only ones that could really know. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 16:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I can't see anything in the rules, it was a film I recorded myself, in my bedroom, with no music, there was nothing like the things they say not to include, racism, nudity, inciting people to commit crime, that sort of thing. Anyway, just as an update, I thought I had found a few things that were slightly controversial, removed them and refilmed it much shorter and simpler, with almost nothing happening, and that got banned as well, even though I do little more than sit on my bed juggling with a bunch of tennis balls. I can only assume someone has deliberately targeted my account, or that there is something barely visible on the edge of the shot which looks almost like something that is not allowed. Or perhaps it is because there is a child's toy visible in the shot, and you are no longer allowed to have an adult and anything child-related in the same image any more. I have appealed against this decision, and fully expect them to completely ignore me again. Perhaps I can write them a letter asking for an explanation? 148.197.80.214 ( talk) 18:15, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Today one of our customers reported they were getting an error "ORA-01036: Invalid variable name/number" in one of our products. It turned out that the reason was that the code was creating an Oracle DbCommand
with SQL such as "select name from record where id=:id
" and then adding a DbParameter
to the SQL with the name ":ID
". Changing the name of the DbParameter
to ":id
" seemed to fix the problem. I thought SQL was supposed to be case insensitive, when it comes to the language itself (values of string type columns are case sensitive, natch). Why is this? Is it somehow specific to Oracle, and if so, is it specific to a particular version?
JIP |
Talk
21:52, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
DbParameter
. Its value is a string literal. It is used something like this:DbParameter param = new DbParameter(); param.ParameterName = ":id"; param.Value = "foo";
select name from record where id=:id
" becomes "select name from record where id='foo'
". Now I know that string literals are case sensitive in SQL. I am fully aware that "select name from record where id='foo'
" and "select name from record where id='FOO'
" might return different results. My question is, if I replace the above code with this:DbParameter param = new DbParameter(); param.ParameterName = ":ID"; param.Value = "foo";
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Hi, Many Android devices have some diffrent scales. So how in the largest devices you cannot see pixels? When Google launched Android, I am sure that it didn't know about the futuristic scales. Exx8 ( talk) 00:07, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
A colleague is delivering a presentation and has produced it in PowerPoint. What would be the best way to present this on a website? The assumption being that PowerPoint as such is not an appropriate format for the web. The site uses Drupal, if that's of ay relevance. -- rossb ( talk)
I was hoping to have it in HTML, as i don't like to create PDFs when there's a reasonable alternative. I tried the direct conversion from PowerPoint to HTML (had to use an old version of PowerPoint as the feature's disabled in the current version) but the resulting HTML was really horrid with lots of frame stuff and JavaScript - hence useless as a basis for incorporating into Drupal - so in the end I used a PDF after all. -- rossb ( talk) 18:06, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
You Could Do Google Docs. It automatically converts it. Cjc811 ( talk) 01:47, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
how the hacking of websites work? in the movie swordfish, hero is asked to hack FBI website and he did some coding.I mean where he write thee code and where he compile it.-- nijil ( talk) 09:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Keep in mind that a lot of it is just script kiddies, people applying known exploits to easily found targets, and not necessarily a person doing personal investigation and "hacking" or cracking. ¦ Reisio ( talk) 21:28, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
So, one of my films uploaded to youtube was just banned for no clear reason. Whilst trying to find out more, I happened upon discussions in the forums that suggest this is an increasongly common problem and that large numbers of people are leaving youtube to upload things at other sites that are a little less strict, however the poster of that comment didn't think to say where they were going, anyone have any ideas?
Meanwhile, whilst I'm here, any ideas on how to go about finding out the reason for the ban, the notice I recieved from the site was rather vague, and the terms and conditions even more so.
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 13:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm not asking you to tell me why it was banned, I am asking where on that site I could go to ask the people that made the decision why they thought it should be, since they are the only ones that could really know. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 16:34, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
I can't see anything in the rules, it was a film I recorded myself, in my bedroom, with no music, there was nothing like the things they say not to include, racism, nudity, inciting people to commit crime, that sort of thing. Anyway, just as an update, I thought I had found a few things that were slightly controversial, removed them and refilmed it much shorter and simpler, with almost nothing happening, and that got banned as well, even though I do little more than sit on my bed juggling with a bunch of tennis balls. I can only assume someone has deliberately targeted my account, or that there is something barely visible on the edge of the shot which looks almost like something that is not allowed. Or perhaps it is because there is a child's toy visible in the shot, and you are no longer allowed to have an adult and anything child-related in the same image any more. I have appealed against this decision, and fully expect them to completely ignore me again. Perhaps I can write them a letter asking for an explanation? 148.197.80.214 ( talk) 18:15, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
Today one of our customers reported they were getting an error "ORA-01036: Invalid variable name/number" in one of our products. It turned out that the reason was that the code was creating an Oracle DbCommand
with SQL such as "select name from record where id=:id
" and then adding a DbParameter
to the SQL with the name ":ID
". Changing the name of the DbParameter
to ":id
" seemed to fix the problem. I thought SQL was supposed to be case insensitive, when it comes to the language itself (values of string type columns are case sensitive, natch). Why is this? Is it somehow specific to Oracle, and if so, is it specific to a particular version?
JIP |
Talk
21:52, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
DbParameter
. Its value is a string literal. It is used something like this:DbParameter param = new DbParameter(); param.ParameterName = ":id"; param.Value = "foo";
select name from record where id=:id
" becomes "select name from record where id='foo'
". Now I know that string literals are case sensitive in SQL. I am fully aware that "select name from record where id='foo'
" and "select name from record where id='FOO'
" might return different results. My question is, if I replace the above code with this:DbParameter param = new DbParameter(); param.ParameterName = ":ID"; param.Value = "foo";