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I have a new "small form factor" PC which lives in a cupboard under my desk (my room is extremely small, so it would be awkward to have it out in the open). The case is a positive pressure design which pushes cool room air in from the front (I leave the cupboard door open when the computer is in use). The cupboard has an open back half an inch from the wall and lots of space on top of the PC. The CPU and GPU temps seem fine so far in use (this bit is to reassure the people who will inevitably say "your PC shouldn't be in a cupboard").
I am however a little wary of using sleep as opposed to hibernate. I have found plenty of websites that say that you don't need active cooling during sleep as the passive cooling is sufficient, but will I run into problems with the RAM overheating if passive cooling is significantly reduced (i.e. with the cupboard door closed)? Thanks in advance Equisetum ( talk | contributions) 16:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, I will be presenting a group skit/play for a competition sometime in January. Last year, my team won in part by including a "live Twitter feed" of characters in the play that was really a collection of Photoshopped images in a powerpoint presentation. Looking to take it to the next level this year, I was hoping for something that could serve as an "information dashboard", hopefully including a couple modules, like the stock price of the fictional company in which the play is set, a news ticker, maybe some video, and if possible a way to live poll the audience from their smartphones and laptops (I know this is probably too much to ask, but hey, why not try?). Can anyone think of a way to do this? I'm considering building a webpage to run locally off of my laptop connected to a projector, but I'm not sure if I could do it, or if it's even possible.
Tl;dr: Anyone know a way to make a presentation to run during a skit that supports updating images, text, and video? Thanks, 99.224.140.65 ( talk) 16:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I told someone about this but it seemed unlikely she would investigate. Maybe the problem will happen to someone else.
At home I don't even use search engines. I limit myself to a few trusted websites which have either a link or a button. Some of the others don't even work when I got to them from home but the college library has been closed for the holidays.
But at libraries my usual routine is to type the topic into the place where the URL would go, and whatever search engine the computer uses gives me a list of results. The one I want is often first. Yesterday after the Google results came up, I clicked on the appropriate link and found myself redirected to a page which looked sort of like search engine results; this type page most often comes up after a typo in the abbreviated URL (i.e., just "wikipedia.org"). Whatever page this was, the URL looked like they wanted me to buy something. I tried again and got a similar page, and I did notice something funny about the URL of this page--it had numbers of the form XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX in place of the usual address (such as en.wikipedia.org"). The first "XXX" actually had a 2-digit number, 62 or 67, and some of the others had 2 digits.
Sorry there's not more detail but I was working with a time limit. Including the need for time to do "real world" stuff.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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I have a new "small form factor" PC which lives in a cupboard under my desk (my room is extremely small, so it would be awkward to have it out in the open). The case is a positive pressure design which pushes cool room air in from the front (I leave the cupboard door open when the computer is in use). The cupboard has an open back half an inch from the wall and lots of space on top of the PC. The CPU and GPU temps seem fine so far in use (this bit is to reassure the people who will inevitably say "your PC shouldn't be in a cupboard").
I am however a little wary of using sleep as opposed to hibernate. I have found plenty of websites that say that you don't need active cooling during sleep as the passive cooling is sufficient, but will I run into problems with the RAM overheating if passive cooling is significantly reduced (i.e. with the cupboard door closed)? Thanks in advance Equisetum ( talk | contributions) 16:36, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, I will be presenting a group skit/play for a competition sometime in January. Last year, my team won in part by including a "live Twitter feed" of characters in the play that was really a collection of Photoshopped images in a powerpoint presentation. Looking to take it to the next level this year, I was hoping for something that could serve as an "information dashboard", hopefully including a couple modules, like the stock price of the fictional company in which the play is set, a news ticker, maybe some video, and if possible a way to live poll the audience from their smartphones and laptops (I know this is probably too much to ask, but hey, why not try?). Can anyone think of a way to do this? I'm considering building a webpage to run locally off of my laptop connected to a projector, but I'm not sure if I could do it, or if it's even possible.
Tl;dr: Anyone know a way to make a presentation to run during a skit that supports updating images, text, and video? Thanks, 99.224.140.65 ( talk) 16:39, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I told someone about this but it seemed unlikely she would investigate. Maybe the problem will happen to someone else.
At home I don't even use search engines. I limit myself to a few trusted websites which have either a link or a button. Some of the others don't even work when I got to them from home but the college library has been closed for the holidays.
But at libraries my usual routine is to type the topic into the place where the URL would go, and whatever search engine the computer uses gives me a list of results. The one I want is often first. Yesterday after the Google results came up, I clicked on the appropriate link and found myself redirected to a page which looked sort of like search engine results; this type page most often comes up after a typo in the abbreviated URL (i.e., just "wikipedia.org"). Whatever page this was, the URL looked like they wanted me to buy something. I tried again and got a similar page, and I did notice something funny about the URL of this page--it had numbers of the form XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX in place of the usual address (such as en.wikipedia.org"). The first "XXX" actually had a 2-digit number, 62 or 67, and some of the others had 2 digits.
Sorry there's not more detail but I was working with a time limit. Including the need for time to do "real world" stuff.— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:58, 3 January 2013 (UTC)