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Have an old Acer that works great except that its monitor is broken, is there a shortcut key that I can use to use an external monitor on it? Thanks. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 10:16, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone recommend a good QBASIC decompiler? Also, is it a little naive of me to expect to get usable source code from such a process? I'm trying to rewrite an ancient piece of software that runs a custom-built (scientific) instrument. Essentially, I'm wondering if it's worth the effort of locating the original floppy disc that the source code is on. Thanks (+)H3N- Protein\Chemist- CO2(-) 10:51, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I am trying to set up a masm615 assembler to compile some code. The code relies on the Irvine32 libraries. I used to be able to get all of this from a university class i was in, but it is no longer available. Because of this, i have had to search the internet for some of the Irvine files, such as Irvine32.inc. Although my search for this specific file was successful, i could not find a working proper copy of SmallWin.inc anywhere. Does anyone have a resource where i can get this from? This is very frustrating.
Update: it may be my Irvine32.inc which is broken, not the smallwin. These are the errors i get:
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_RandomRange@0' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_Crlf@0' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_ExitProcess@4' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_WriteInt@0' : unresolved external
216.173.145.47 ( talk) 14:25, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I am not using Visual studio at the moment. I'm JUST using MASM615 (whereby to compile you go to the directory and type "ml example.asm" ..... but i will try this resource anyway, thanks!
UPDATE: I have tried the libraries from this resource, and i still get the above 4 unresolved externals.
216.173.145.47 (
talk) 14:58, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
ExitProcess
is a Windows API call and will probably be in kernel32.lib
. I don't recognize the other three; they may be part of the Irvine32 library. The leading underscore and trailing @ and number are a
name mangling scheme used with the
stdcall convention. It's possible that the linker does have the correct library but the names are mangled differently or not at all, which would be more of a hassle to fix. -- BenRG 02:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)I have a new website set-up - we ask people to create an account there, they supply an email address and password - and we email a message asking then to click on a link to confirm that they are "real".
Out of a few hundred people who subscribed in the first week or so, about 20% of them claim that they didn't get the confirmation email. I told them to check their "junk" folders - and about half of them found the email there. Some users (notably people who use Time Warner RoadRunner "@rr.com" email addresses - but others too) were not getting the emails at all. It seems that by default, RoadRunner deletes spam without putting it in a "junk" folder (eeekk!) - and perhaps other ISP's do the same.
So for some reason, my perfectly legitimate email seems "spammy" to 20% of my customers email systems.
I've checked with several online services that let you submit your IP address to all of the 50 or so email blacklists - and my server doesn't show up on any of them. These are plain-text emails, no attachments, no rich text, no HTML - so they can't be infected with malware...and I've examined what I'm sending myself and I can't see any problems.
Here is an example of the entire message that we send (I've changed the http link address in the message body and hidden my true destination email with XXX's):
Return-Path: <sjbaker@randall.dreamhost.com> X-Original-To: steve@XXX.org Delivered-To: x12164791@homiemail-mx20.g.dreamhost.com Received: from alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com (alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com [208.113.189.5]) by homiemail-mx20.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2BE401D751A for <steve@XXX.org>; Wed, 29 May 2013 06:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from randall.dreamhost.com (randall.dreamhost.com [173.236.128.103]) by alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8F17800DD for <steve@XXX.org>; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by randall.dreamhost.com (Postfix, from userid 944589) id 2807B10C524; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:08:03 -0700 (PDT) To: steve@XXX.org Subject: Activate your Renaissance Miniatures Account! Message-Id: <20130529140803.2807B10C524@randall.dreamhost.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:08:03 -0700 (PDT) From: sjbaker@randall.dreamhost.com (Stephen Baker)
Hello Steve, Welcome to Renaissance Miniatures! Use the link below to activate your account!
http://www.renaissanceminiatures.com/webstore/login.php?request=activate&user=e0a7d530012357&email=steve@XXX.org
So I'm left wondering whether some baysian filter is being tickled by the content of my messages?
It seems unlikely that other sites that use this means for having people create accounts (like Wikipedia!) have 20% of their account-creators unable to confirm like this. What the heck am I doing wrong?
TIA SteveBaker ( talk) 14:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Suppose I want to create a pop-up debug window that displays the values of certain variables on a page in the DOM model as you browse through Wikipedia. I can do this easily as long as I have a new pop-up window for every Wikipedia page I go to --- but that gets annoying.
What I'd like to do is set xxx=window.open(etc) and be able to access that value again and again no matter what window I go to. Likewise I want to be able to set up an object of carefully sorted data keys that I can look things up in on every page. But xxx doesn't stay the same from one window to the next, nor does window.xxx. I had the notion to look up window.parent.xxx - but it turns out that window.parent seems to be the window itself for any given article when I try. I even tried a this.xxx assignment, thinking at least my script might be the same, but that doesn't work either. And I don't see any kind of "getWindowByTitle()" to magic up where my window went.
Now, I know I could try writing a cookie, or using the localStorage construct, but the former is often disabled and the latter isn't in all browsers. Besides... these store text, and what kind of text is going to hold a magic password to find me the window I made before I clicked a Wikilink to a new page?
So how do you do it? Wnt ( talk) 19:17, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Excluding those that are meant to deal with the OS itself obviously. OsmanRF34 ( talk) 20:23, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm aware that "3d printing" actually means an additive process. But is there a home machine that would subtract from a block of plastic (or whatever), and generate 3d figures? OsmanRF34 ( talk) 20:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
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Have an old Acer that works great except that its monitor is broken, is there a shortcut key that I can use to use an external monitor on it? Thanks. Market St.⧏ ⧐ Diamond Way 10:16, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Can anyone recommend a good QBASIC decompiler? Also, is it a little naive of me to expect to get usable source code from such a process? I'm trying to rewrite an ancient piece of software that runs a custom-built (scientific) instrument. Essentially, I'm wondering if it's worth the effort of locating the original floppy disc that the source code is on. Thanks (+)H3N- Protein\Chemist- CO2(-) 10:51, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I am trying to set up a masm615 assembler to compile some code. The code relies on the Irvine32 libraries. I used to be able to get all of this from a university class i was in, but it is no longer available. Because of this, i have had to search the internet for some of the Irvine files, such as Irvine32.inc. Although my search for this specific file was successful, i could not find a working proper copy of SmallWin.inc anywhere. Does anyone have a resource where i can get this from? This is very frustrating.
Update: it may be my Irvine32.inc which is broken, not the smallwin. These are the errors i get:
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_RandomRange@0' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_Crlf@0' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_ExitProcess@4' : unresolved external
Hw 2_1.obj(Hw 2_1.asm) : error L2029: '_WriteInt@0' : unresolved external
216.173.145.47 ( talk) 14:25, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I am not using Visual studio at the moment. I'm JUST using MASM615 (whereby to compile you go to the directory and type "ml example.asm" ..... but i will try this resource anyway, thanks!
UPDATE: I have tried the libraries from this resource, and i still get the above 4 unresolved externals.
216.173.145.47 (
talk) 14:58, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
ExitProcess
is a Windows API call and will probably be in kernel32.lib
. I don't recognize the other three; they may be part of the Irvine32 library. The leading underscore and trailing @ and number are a
name mangling scheme used with the
stdcall convention. It's possible that the linker does have the correct library but the names are mangled differently or not at all, which would be more of a hassle to fix. -- BenRG 02:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)I have a new website set-up - we ask people to create an account there, they supply an email address and password - and we email a message asking then to click on a link to confirm that they are "real".
Out of a few hundred people who subscribed in the first week or so, about 20% of them claim that they didn't get the confirmation email. I told them to check their "junk" folders - and about half of them found the email there. Some users (notably people who use Time Warner RoadRunner "@rr.com" email addresses - but others too) were not getting the emails at all. It seems that by default, RoadRunner deletes spam without putting it in a "junk" folder (eeekk!) - and perhaps other ISP's do the same.
So for some reason, my perfectly legitimate email seems "spammy" to 20% of my customers email systems.
I've checked with several online services that let you submit your IP address to all of the 50 or so email blacklists - and my server doesn't show up on any of them. These are plain-text emails, no attachments, no rich text, no HTML - so they can't be infected with malware...and I've examined what I'm sending myself and I can't see any problems.
Here is an example of the entire message that we send (I've changed the http link address in the message body and hidden my true destination email with XXX's):
Return-Path: <sjbaker@randall.dreamhost.com> X-Original-To: steve@XXX.org Delivered-To: x12164791@homiemail-mx20.g.dreamhost.com Received: from alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com (alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com [208.113.189.5]) by homiemail-mx20.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2BE401D751A for <steve@XXX.org>; Wed, 29 May 2013 06:53:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from randall.dreamhost.com (randall.dreamhost.com [173.236.128.103]) by alc-shared-relay1.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8F17800DD for <steve@XXX.org>; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by randall.dreamhost.com (Postfix, from userid 944589) id 2807B10C524; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:08:03 -0700 (PDT) To: steve@XXX.org Subject: Activate your Renaissance Miniatures Account! Message-Id: <20130529140803.2807B10C524@randall.dreamhost.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:08:03 -0700 (PDT) From: sjbaker@randall.dreamhost.com (Stephen Baker)
Hello Steve, Welcome to Renaissance Miniatures! Use the link below to activate your account!
http://www.renaissanceminiatures.com/webstore/login.php?request=activate&user=e0a7d530012357&email=steve@XXX.org
So I'm left wondering whether some baysian filter is being tickled by the content of my messages?
It seems unlikely that other sites that use this means for having people create accounts (like Wikipedia!) have 20% of their account-creators unable to confirm like this. What the heck am I doing wrong?
TIA SteveBaker ( talk) 14:50, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Suppose I want to create a pop-up debug window that displays the values of certain variables on a page in the DOM model as you browse through Wikipedia. I can do this easily as long as I have a new pop-up window for every Wikipedia page I go to --- but that gets annoying.
What I'd like to do is set xxx=window.open(etc) and be able to access that value again and again no matter what window I go to. Likewise I want to be able to set up an object of carefully sorted data keys that I can look things up in on every page. But xxx doesn't stay the same from one window to the next, nor does window.xxx. I had the notion to look up window.parent.xxx - but it turns out that window.parent seems to be the window itself for any given article when I try. I even tried a this.xxx assignment, thinking at least my script might be the same, but that doesn't work either. And I don't see any kind of "getWindowByTitle()" to magic up where my window went.
Now, I know I could try writing a cookie, or using the localStorage construct, but the former is often disabled and the latter isn't in all browsers. Besides... these store text, and what kind of text is going to hold a magic password to find me the window I made before I clicked a Wikilink to a new page?
So how do you do it? Wnt ( talk) 19:17, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Excluding those that are meant to deal with the OS itself obviously. OsmanRF34 ( talk) 20:23, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I'm aware that "3d printing" actually means an additive process. But is there a home machine that would subtract from a block of plastic (or whatever), and generate 3d figures? OsmanRF34 ( talk) 20:39, 29 May 2013 (UTC)