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I can't figure out from [1] whether there were any companies offering X.25-style data communications prior to 1976. Can anyone find a history that says when such commercial datacom services were available? Did the "Joint Working Party on New Data Networks, which was created by the IVth Plenary Assembly of the CCITT in 1968" result in anything commercial? 71.215.74.243 ( talk) 06:10, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Everytime I look at Facebook, I frequently see these sad and touching images that people ask to share. For example, one says "This baby has cancer. Like of you wished cancer didn't exist ! :(" while another says "this is so sad giving drugs to babys :'( 1 Like = 1 prayer for each baby that died from drug abuse. :'/" which is a picture of a picture of a baby in pink clothes in a coffin, which is found on a celebrity's Facebook page (I am not subscribed to him, but some of my friends are). But, are these pictures real, are the people really sharing them, or is this just some chain post stuff? If they are real, I'm sure their sharing intentions are good, but are their good intentions being abused? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 06:43, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way that I can check, and clean if necessary, my Macs for the Flashback trojan without having to install any anti-virus software? Will updating Java and the OS with the latest patches sanitize an infected system? Dismas| (talk) 09:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
If Terminal tells you that the stuff you queried doesn't exist, then you're good to go. As for updates, well, yeah, you should do that especially if you determined that your Mac's clean. And you should install an antivirus, as, well, you'll never know. Blake Gripling ( talk) 13:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been using bittorent software and torrents for several years, but have never tried creating my own. I need to create a torrent in order to share a single large private file with a friend. I've followed a number of tutorials and each time I have the same problem. I select the file, add a public tracker, create and save, and then the torrent is added to my queue. It says "downloading" and does nothing. I stop it, change the download location to the same location as the file, and then restart it. According to the advice I've read, it should then recognise the file and build it, say download is complete, and start seeding. Why won't it get to this seeding stage? It doesn't get past "downloading", where it stays stuck at 0. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm on a Mac, Lion OS, and am using BitTorrent. Katherine.J.W. ( talk) 13:39, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
I have a simple USB light which draws power from a USB port. There is no software for it, simply plug it and it lights up. I would like to be able to turn it on and off via the Windows 7 command line (for use in a batch script). I figure the only way to do this would be to selectively disable the USB port it is connected to, but I do not know how to do this. The other USB ports must remain on and unaffected. Is this possible? How would it be done? Operating system is Windows 7. Thank you 82.45.62.107 ( talk) 16:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
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I can't figure out from [1] whether there were any companies offering X.25-style data communications prior to 1976. Can anyone find a history that says when such commercial datacom services were available? Did the "Joint Working Party on New Data Networks, which was created by the IVth Plenary Assembly of the CCITT in 1968" result in anything commercial? 71.215.74.243 ( talk) 06:10, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Everytime I look at Facebook, I frequently see these sad and touching images that people ask to share. For example, one says "This baby has cancer. Like of you wished cancer didn't exist ! :(" while another says "this is so sad giving drugs to babys :'( 1 Like = 1 prayer for each baby that died from drug abuse. :'/" which is a picture of a picture of a baby in pink clothes in a coffin, which is found on a celebrity's Facebook page (I am not subscribed to him, but some of my friends are). But, are these pictures real, are the people really sharing them, or is this just some chain post stuff? If they are real, I'm sure their sharing intentions are good, but are their good intentions being abused? Narutolovehinata5 t c csd new 06:43, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Is there any way that I can check, and clean if necessary, my Macs for the Flashback trojan without having to install any anti-virus software? Will updating Java and the OS with the latest patches sanitize an infected system? Dismas| (talk) 09:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
defaults read ~/.MacOSX/environment DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
defaults read /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/Info LSEnvironment
If Terminal tells you that the stuff you queried doesn't exist, then you're good to go. As for updates, well, yeah, you should do that especially if you determined that your Mac's clean. And you should install an antivirus, as, well, you'll never know. Blake Gripling ( talk) 13:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
I've been using bittorent software and torrents for several years, but have never tried creating my own. I need to create a torrent in order to share a single large private file with a friend. I've followed a number of tutorials and each time I have the same problem. I select the file, add a public tracker, create and save, and then the torrent is added to my queue. It says "downloading" and does nothing. I stop it, change the download location to the same location as the file, and then restart it. According to the advice I've read, it should then recognise the file and build it, say download is complete, and start seeding. Why won't it get to this seeding stage? It doesn't get past "downloading", where it stays stuck at 0. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm on a Mac, Lion OS, and am using BitTorrent. Katherine.J.W. ( talk) 13:39, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
I have a simple USB light which draws power from a USB port. There is no software for it, simply plug it and it lights up. I would like to be able to turn it on and off via the Windows 7 command line (for use in a batch script). I figure the only way to do this would be to selectively disable the USB port it is connected to, but I do not know how to do this. The other USB ports must remain on and unaffected. Is this possible? How would it be done? Operating system is Windows 7. Thank you 82.45.62.107 ( talk) 16:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)