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A while back I asked a question about battery life and safe charging practices. One of the things I learned was that it is unsafe to leave the batteries at 0% for too long. In my case, I have quite the collection of such devices (most of them being hand-held game systems) so many in fact that I go very long periods of time without using some of them. So it got me thinking: how should I be storing these devices if I know I won't be using them for a long time? Periodically taking them all out and recharging them (my first thought) seems wasteful. So is there a better way? Thanks! -- Yellow1996 ( talk) 00:57, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
All right. It's too bad that they need "maintenance", but I guess routine recharging is my only option. Thanks, everyone! :) -- Yellow1996 ( talk) 00:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
How far in advance can we generally anticipate having firm specs, prices, and a release date for the next generation Intel Xeon processors? The rumor is that they will be released in September, but for a number of them Intel hasn't yet even released information on the number of cores to expect (and the rumored values that have come out are contradictory). How many weeks in advance do they tend to convey official information on upcoming CPUs? Dragons flight ( talk) 01:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I got a new small computer that has a vertical optical disc drive. The markings are all for the box being vertical, but there are foot pads on the bottom and one side. When the box is vertical, the optical disc drive is vertical. It seems to me that the drive should not be used in the vertical position, but the manual doesn't say anything about it. Can an optical disc drive be used vertically? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
.srf redirects to Raw image format, and I don't think that's what I'm looking for. It appears, for example, when I type "hotmail.com", but now that I'm signed in it's not staying onscreen long enough to copy.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 15:29, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I know 4.x (nt4) and (5.x) but I don't know the entries on 6.x.
Thanks in advance 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA ( talk) 17:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Lately I've had short episodes where I click on the screen and nothing happens. It doesn't matter where I click. Usually the problem goes away in less than a minute, but today it lasted more than five minutes and so I shut down the computer and rebooted.
It's an HP 2000 laptop running Windows 7. Any advice? Thanks. -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 18:32, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I have AVG 2013 with which I am quite happy. I also have McAfee for free for a year from March 2013. Is there any reason one would use both, or am I correct to suspect I should just deinstall McAfee according to authoritative sources? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 19:09, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm returning to the real world now, but Wikipedia does not satisfactorily answer this question. Someone complained on Talk:Facebook features four years ago and the problem still hasn't been entirely solved. I added something today that I found doing a Google search and picking out what I felt Wikipedia might accept, but their basic description of the concept is very basic and seems to assume people know what tagging is. So do the mentions of tagging that were already in Facebook features. Actually, one of the sources I used just says when tagging began, and I'm not even entirely sure that person is right. And I'm sort of guilty of WP:OR since if the date is correct, there were no Timelines, whereas the source for the defintion I used does use Timelines (and for some odd reason, the newspaper's web site didn't give a date for the article).— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Specially bloggers use it, you go to read content and a Facebook/Twitter like request comes up (for example see this page). Sometimes they don't go even you press [esc] or click on [x]. How to disable all these? Browser: Firefox and Chrome (Greasemonkey installed in Firefox)? -- Tito☸ Dutta 22:12, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Computing Reference Desk Archives |
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A while back I asked a question about battery life and safe charging practices. One of the things I learned was that it is unsafe to leave the batteries at 0% for too long. In my case, I have quite the collection of such devices (most of them being hand-held game systems) so many in fact that I go very long periods of time without using some of them. So it got me thinking: how should I be storing these devices if I know I won't be using them for a long time? Periodically taking them all out and recharging them (my first thought) seems wasteful. So is there a better way? Thanks! -- Yellow1996 ( talk) 00:57, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
All right. It's too bad that they need "maintenance", but I guess routine recharging is my only option. Thanks, everyone! :) -- Yellow1996 ( talk) 00:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
How far in advance can we generally anticipate having firm specs, prices, and a release date for the next generation Intel Xeon processors? The rumor is that they will be released in September, but for a number of them Intel hasn't yet even released information on the number of cores to expect (and the rumored values that have come out are contradictory). How many weeks in advance do they tend to convey official information on upcoming CPUs? Dragons flight ( talk) 01:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I got a new small computer that has a vertical optical disc drive. The markings are all for the box being vertical, but there are foot pads on the bottom and one side. When the box is vertical, the optical disc drive is vertical. It seems to me that the drive should not be used in the vertical position, but the manual doesn't say anything about it. Can an optical disc drive be used vertically? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:25, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
.srf redirects to Raw image format, and I don't think that's what I'm looking for. It appears, for example, when I type "hotmail.com", but now that I'm signed in it's not staying onscreen long enough to copy.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 15:29, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I know 4.x (nt4) and (5.x) but I don't know the entries on 6.x.
Thanks in advance 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA ( talk) 17:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Lately I've had short episodes where I click on the screen and nothing happens. It doesn't matter where I click. Usually the problem goes away in less than a minute, but today it lasted more than five minutes and so I shut down the computer and rebooted.
It's an HP 2000 laptop running Windows 7. Any advice? Thanks. -- Halcatalyst ( talk) 18:32, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I have AVG 2013 with which I am quite happy. I also have McAfee for free for a year from March 2013. Is there any reason one would use both, or am I correct to suspect I should just deinstall McAfee according to authoritative sources? Thanks. μηδείς ( talk) 19:09, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
I'm returning to the real world now, but Wikipedia does not satisfactorily answer this question. Someone complained on Talk:Facebook features four years ago and the problem still hasn't been entirely solved. I added something today that I found doing a Google search and picking out what I felt Wikipedia might accept, but their basic description of the concept is very basic and seems to assume people know what tagging is. So do the mentions of tagging that were already in Facebook features. Actually, one of the sources I used just says when tagging began, and I'm not even entirely sure that person is right. And I'm sort of guilty of WP:OR since if the date is correct, there were no Timelines, whereas the source for the defintion I used does use Timelines (and for some odd reason, the newspaper's web site didn't give a date for the article).— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Specially bloggers use it, you go to read content and a Facebook/Twitter like request comes up (for example see this page). Sometimes they don't go even you press [esc] or click on [x]. How to disable all these? Browser: Firefox and Chrome (Greasemonkey installed in Firefox)? -- Tito☸ Dutta 22:12, 2 August 2013 (UTC)