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I posted the following request for help at WP:VPT, but it got archived without any suggestions on how to resolve it.
IE8, Windows 7, Monobook. In the last few days, occasional pages have started not to appear: I go to a page, the elements appear as they're downloaded, but as soon as everything's downloaded, the screen goes white. Completely white, as if the page had no code on it at all! At the same time, I know that things are downloading and not simply cached, since the little bar at the bottom right of the browser says "Downloading imagenamehere.png", "Accessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagenamehere", etc., until it displays "Done" once completed. I can view the history page and the edit page fine (although I have to go directly to the URLs, since the tabs don't appear), but if I preview an edit, the screen goes completely white. I have no clue what's causing this, because it's rare — I've only encountered this on four pages, and all of them are just in the last few days:
- Commons:COM:ADMIN
- Commons:COM:VP
- Norway
- CAT:CSD
- Japanese yen Added at 02:26, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
At first, I thought it was something weird at Commons, so I asked for help at their VP (using Firefox, which didn't have a problem with either Commons page) but was given a snarky response and nothing that helped to resolve the problem. Now that I've encountered it on two vastly different pages here, I have no clue at all what's happening. Nyttend ( talk) 23:57, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
- These are the typical effects of a document.write statement being used somewhere in an async executed Javascript. You hardly have any JS installed on this wiki as far as I can tell, so my suspicion is a broken browser extension (which are also JS normally). — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 08:48, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Other pages have started not appearing, such as mouse (computing), train station, and France. Whenever I try to load one of these three pages, I get a long message at the bottom (where the browser tells me what it's loading) immediately before the screen goes blank. With France, I first get Downloading picture data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA4AAAAgCAMAAAAVMLmlAAAAA3NCSVQICAjb4U/gAAAACXBIWXMAAA3X [the string is longer, but it gets truncated here because it's too long to fit in the bar], and after that I get Downloading picture https://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.22wmf16/extensions/TimedMediaHandler/MwEmbedModules/EmbedPlayer/resources/skins/kskin/i [again, truncated for length]. Any idea what I should do to fix the situation? Changing to a later edition of IE isn't possible for various reasons. As far as I know, since this started happening, I've not upgraded my browser in any way, except for installing any routine updates from Microsoft that might have come along. Nyttend ( talk) 06:25, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
It used to display the time, but I've lost it somehow. How can I get it back? Clarityfiend ( talk) 08:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
when i try to write a new dvd it fails and shows Invalid block address F: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20L. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.99.144.221 ( talk) 08:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I have a PC running Vista Home Premium, with 1 admin login and 2 user login accounts. Today it refused to allow users to logins, reporting "Windows could not connect to the system event notification service service". The admin login still works, but without Aero. How can I fix this? I googled this error and found sites that tell you to use netsh via a command line to winsock reset. However this returns "This command requires elevation", whatever that means. Looking in the event log shows no errors that are unique to today. 121.215.151.4 ( talk) 10:10, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
UPDATE: I have since realised that "elevation" means elevate in privilege level, ie requires admin level. I forgot that when you invoke the command line when logged in as admin does not automatically mean the command line has admin rights. You have to explicitly tell it (right click). I fixed the problem by running sfc /scannow. Thanks. 121.215.151.4 ( talk) 12:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I was reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization.
Anyway, lets imagine someone made a big picture with every colour from 24-bit pallete, each colour having just one pixel and then reduced it to a 256 colours pallete how this pallete would be? And the 16 colours one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.78.138.193 ( talk) 14:07, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
How can you access browser history on Chrome in Android (4.1.2)? Entering "chrome:history" or "chrome://history" in the address box as suggested by various websites just opens a page of Google search for the term which is essentially identical to the search results that told me to do so in the first place. And yes I am being very careful to type it into the address box not the search box. 70.91.135.89 ( talk) 16:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
FF23 here. Basically there's a few sites that I check every time I'm on my laptop. I'd like it so that as soon as I start up Firefox, these sites open in separate tabs automatically. I'm sure I used to know how to do this but now I can't remember. Thanks! -- .Yellow1996.( ЬMИED¡) 22:30, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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I posted the following request for help at WP:VPT, but it got archived without any suggestions on how to resolve it.
IE8, Windows 7, Monobook. In the last few days, occasional pages have started not to appear: I go to a page, the elements appear as they're downloaded, but as soon as everything's downloaded, the screen goes white. Completely white, as if the page had no code on it at all! At the same time, I know that things are downloading and not simply cached, since the little bar at the bottom right of the browser says "Downloading imagenamehere.png", "Accessing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagenamehere", etc., until it displays "Done" once completed. I can view the history page and the edit page fine (although I have to go directly to the URLs, since the tabs don't appear), but if I preview an edit, the screen goes completely white. I have no clue what's causing this, because it's rare — I've only encountered this on four pages, and all of them are just in the last few days:
- Commons:COM:ADMIN
- Commons:COM:VP
- Norway
- CAT:CSD
- Japanese yen Added at 02:26, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
At first, I thought it was something weird at Commons, so I asked for help at their VP (using Firefox, which didn't have a problem with either Commons page) but was given a snarky response and nothing that helped to resolve the problem. Now that I've encountered it on two vastly different pages here, I have no clue at all what's happening. Nyttend ( talk) 23:57, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
- These are the typical effects of a document.write statement being used somewhere in an async executed Javascript. You hardly have any JS installed on this wiki as far as I can tell, so my suspicion is a broken browser extension (which are also JS normally). — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 08:48, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
Other pages have started not appearing, such as mouse (computing), train station, and France. Whenever I try to load one of these three pages, I get a long message at the bottom (where the browser tells me what it's loading) immediately before the screen goes blank. With France, I first get Downloading picture data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA4AAAAgCAMAAAAVMLmlAAAAA3NCSVQICAjb4U/gAAAACXBIWXMAAA3X [the string is longer, but it gets truncated here because it's too long to fit in the bar], and after that I get Downloading picture https://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.22wmf16/extensions/TimedMediaHandler/MwEmbedModules/EmbedPlayer/resources/skins/kskin/i [again, truncated for length]. Any idea what I should do to fix the situation? Changing to a later edition of IE isn't possible for various reasons. As far as I know, since this started happening, I've not upgraded my browser in any way, except for installing any routine updates from Microsoft that might have come along. Nyttend ( talk) 06:25, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
It used to display the time, but I've lost it somehow. How can I get it back? Clarityfiend ( talk) 08:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
when i try to write a new dvd it fails and shows Invalid block address F: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20L. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.99.144.221 ( talk) 08:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I have a PC running Vista Home Premium, with 1 admin login and 2 user login accounts. Today it refused to allow users to logins, reporting "Windows could not connect to the system event notification service service". The admin login still works, but without Aero. How can I fix this? I googled this error and found sites that tell you to use netsh via a command line to winsock reset. However this returns "This command requires elevation", whatever that means. Looking in the event log shows no errors that are unique to today. 121.215.151.4 ( talk) 10:10, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
UPDATE: I have since realised that "elevation" means elevate in privilege level, ie requires admin level. I forgot that when you invoke the command line when logged in as admin does not automatically mean the command line has admin rights. You have to explicitly tell it (right click). I fixed the problem by running sfc /scannow. Thanks. 121.215.151.4 ( talk) 12:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
I was reading about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization.
Anyway, lets imagine someone made a big picture with every colour from 24-bit pallete, each colour having just one pixel and then reduced it to a 256 colours pallete how this pallete would be? And the 16 colours one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.78.138.193 ( talk) 14:07, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
How can you access browser history on Chrome in Android (4.1.2)? Entering "chrome:history" or "chrome://history" in the address box as suggested by various websites just opens a page of Google search for the term which is essentially identical to the search results that told me to do so in the first place. And yes I am being very careful to type it into the address box not the search box. 70.91.135.89 ( talk) 16:09, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
FF23 here. Basically there's a few sites that I check every time I'm on my laptop. I'd like it so that as soon as I start up Firefox, these sites open in separate tabs automatically. I'm sure I used to know how to do this but now I can't remember. Thanks! -- .Yellow1996.( ЬMИED¡) 22:30, 19 September 2013 (UTC)