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Since I've been taking a lot of Beta Carotene my eyes have been playing strange tricks. Whenever I look at my monitor and move my head real quick or say slap a mosquito on my forehead the monitor resolution seems for an split second to be real course. Does this mean my eyes are able to operate faster than the monitor can create the next screen or what? Seems to only happen with my 60 hz LCD monitor. Adaptron 00:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
60Hz is the bare minimum for a CRT display but should be OK for an LCD. StuRat 01:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there a freeware program to convert area code to latitude and longitude? 71.100.6.152 01:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Note that area codes cover many combos of latitude and longitude. You can't just specify a range for each, either, as that would only work if the area code covered a rectangular region with boundaries parallel to the equator and prime meridian. StuRat 00:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I really really like Macs, but the thing is, I like gaming more. Is a new Intel-Mac that can dual-boot to windows truly the best of both worlds? Or is dual-booting somehow not all its cracked up to be and are there other barriers to gaming on a Mac?
Thanks!
-- Wedgeoli 03:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I have never used BibTex before and I'm trying to. In the body of my document, I have the commands
\bibliographystyle{h-physrev3.bst}
\bibliography{references}
and I have the file h-physref3.bst and references.bib in the folder along with my document, which is creatively named "document." At command line, I type:
latex document
bibtex document
and get back the error message: I couldn't open filename `document.aux'
Anyone know why it could be having this trouble? I never actually installed BibTex; I vaguely recall something when I upgraded to LaTex2e about a year ago, but I'm assuming by the fact that it recognized the command "bibtex" that it must be installed at least. Thanks.
Registrar 04:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
latex document.tex
or something? And from which program does the error message come from? --
wj32
talk |
contribs 08:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Is there anyway to zoom a Realplayer window in such away that it crops out part of the video? Specifically, I’m using the latest free version (10) of Realplayer for a G5 Mac. When I watch a 4:3 letterboxed video clip (like videos from CBS’s innertube), my widescreen screen can never take advantage of the wide video (unless, of course I force my screen resolution to stretch everything, which isn’t what I want to do at all). So, in full screen mode I get black boxes on all sides (like when you watch and a widescreen HD ready TV with a non-enhanced 4:3 letterboxed video). Also, manually resizing the window doesn’t work, since Realplayer adjusts to the limiting dimension (in this case height). Any suggestions? Any setting I can mess with? -- Cody.Pope 06:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Lately I've been having a problem with my relatively new laptop (running Windows XP Media Center). The pattern: A program freezes or acts strangely, I press ctr-alt-del, send the error report, the program closes. I reopen the program, it freezes/acts funny again... So I do the same thing, then press ctr-alt-del again. It's not in the Applications tab, but under the Processes tab...sure enough, two (e.g.) GoogleVideoPlayer.exe's, neither of which closes when I press "End Process" (or "End Process Tree").
I just tried opening Google Video Player again, then going to the Applications tab and trying to close one of the past copies of it. The program closed, but nothing in the Applications list disappeared. What's going on? -- zenohockey 06:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way to download videos from YouTube? Battle Ape 07:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Ronaldh 12:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is any good way to convert text in Open Office draw to vector format. I'm producting a bunch of physics notes for my classes and having text that can scale with my diagrams would be very handy. Currently though, if I select a block of text and do Modify -> Convert to Curve, the result look awful. Any suggestions?
Origional text on left, converted on right.
Thanks,
-- CGP 11:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody have access to a specification of just what parts of CSS2 NetFront V 3.3 supports?
I am trying to tailor a website for handheld browsers, and had naively assumed that the browser on my Sony Ericsson phone - which is NetFront 3.3 - would implement the 'handheld' media, but it seems that it doesn't. This doesn't affect my using 'handheld' in my CSS of course, but it means I can't test it on my phone.
Does anybody know if the browser uses a different media type, or whether it just ignores media? And what else in CSS2 it doesn't implement?
The Access website http://www.access-company.com/products/netfrontmobile/browser/33_symbian.html (which is the only one I can find on 3.3) says 'CSS2 (partial)' but gives no more detail.
Alternatively, is it possible to upgrade the browser on a K510i to 3.4? (and does 3.4 support media - the website says it supports CSS2 without mention of 'partial')?
-- ColinFine 13:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, that's very much what I was looking for. However... it doesn't actually say anywhere (that I can find) which media types it actually implements. It does say 'Paged media - not supported', and the same for 'Aural media', but apart from classifying the CSS properties by 'media group' (almost all 'visual') it doesn't discuss the specific media types it implements. Given that it has that support, I would have expected it to match '@media handheld', but there's no reference to that in the document. -- ColinFine 23:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Ive been unable to find a map of Thailand I can download for use on my pocketpc. i had no trouble finding similar maps for europe. can anyone help?
I'm a writer, I've used Microsoft Word '97 since it came out, and this morning I went to edit a simple file and I get this Macro warning. Beyond ordinary text, the file contains some hypertext, but I've been doing this for a long time and have never encountered this warning. When I try to save the file, I'm told it's read-only, so I do a "save as" and the whole thing starts over again. How on earth could these Macros have gotten into this document? I haven't opened the document without disabling the Macros. Should I be worried about this? Can it somehow infect other docs, or the whole computer? I read Wikipedia's Macro page and learned -- culled at least -- nothing. Wolfgangus 16:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Done, and problem solved. Thank you very much; I'm grateful. Wolfgangus 16:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
now the pc doesn't turn off by itself, I gotta switch off manually! Besides xp doesn't find xmnt2002 at the boot.. xp always starts the checkdisk but it hangs when it find a file with crossed references and I gotta reboot skipping checkdisk.. Can you help me? -- Ulisse0 18:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I partitioned with Partition Magic, but I did 3 years ago and these problems had never shown up before. I can get to windows, but I have to skip the checkdisk at every boot, otherwise the PC hangs.. -- Ulisse0 13:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
(Separating from my above question) I live in Canada, where it is legal to download but not upload most copyrighted material. I'm trying to download two torrents that include both free and unfree material. Are there any clients I can set to download the full torrents, but share only the free material (which I can manually identify)? It seems to me this somewhat resembles superseeding in the sense that you're only sharing specific parts of what you've got, so there should be a way to do it. Neon Merlin 18:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I want to install ubuntu on an old computer. Does the ubuntu install cd lack anything, such as drivers that I will need to install the OS? I am asking because in its current state, the computer which is running windows is terribly buggy. I'd like to wipe the hard drive clean before installing ubuntu, but I don't know if I'll be wiping out something the new OS needs. ike9898 18:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
When I open the internet explorer and start typing a certain website name, the list of previous visited pages starting with the letters already typed appears. Is there a way I can stop this list from appearing ??
Thx in advance
thx mysid, it worked
Are there any (Windows) programs that will record the sound that your computer makes, i.e. that come out of your speakers? By which I mean, say there was a game playing on your computer that had some background noise - are there any programs that would "tape record" the sounds the game makes? zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Morning everyone(it's morning here). I asked a question on RD:Misc. about a faulty amplifier and it's not there anymore, so I'll try here. I had a 4-channel Realistic amplifier from about the 80's, running with all 4 audio channels bridged into a subwoofer. It worked perfectly until I adjusted the balance control, which blew the fuse. I replaced the fuse but now it's not working at all. Does anyone know what would be wrong with it and if I would be able to fix it? Thanks Mix Lord 23:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
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Since I've been taking a lot of Beta Carotene my eyes have been playing strange tricks. Whenever I look at my monitor and move my head real quick or say slap a mosquito on my forehead the monitor resolution seems for an split second to be real course. Does this mean my eyes are able to operate faster than the monitor can create the next screen or what? Seems to only happen with my 60 hz LCD monitor. Adaptron 00:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
60Hz is the bare minimum for a CRT display but should be OK for an LCD. StuRat 01:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there a freeware program to convert area code to latitude and longitude? 71.100.6.152 01:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Note that area codes cover many combos of latitude and longitude. You can't just specify a range for each, either, as that would only work if the area code covered a rectangular region with boundaries parallel to the equator and prime meridian. StuRat 00:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
I really really like Macs, but the thing is, I like gaming more. Is a new Intel-Mac that can dual-boot to windows truly the best of both worlds? Or is dual-booting somehow not all its cracked up to be and are there other barriers to gaming on a Mac?
Thanks!
-- Wedgeoli 03:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I have never used BibTex before and I'm trying to. In the body of my document, I have the commands
\bibliographystyle{h-physrev3.bst}
\bibliography{references}
and I have the file h-physref3.bst and references.bib in the folder along with my document, which is creatively named "document." At command line, I type:
latex document
bibtex document
and get back the error message: I couldn't open filename `document.aux'
Anyone know why it could be having this trouble? I never actually installed BibTex; I vaguely recall something when I upgraded to LaTex2e about a year ago, but I'm assuming by the fact that it recognized the command "bibtex" that it must be installed at least. Thanks.
Registrar 04:48, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
latex document.tex
or something? And from which program does the error message come from? --
wj32
talk |
contribs 08:10, 26 November 2006 (UTC)Is there anyway to zoom a Realplayer window in such away that it crops out part of the video? Specifically, I’m using the latest free version (10) of Realplayer for a G5 Mac. When I watch a 4:3 letterboxed video clip (like videos from CBS’s innertube), my widescreen screen can never take advantage of the wide video (unless, of course I force my screen resolution to stretch everything, which isn’t what I want to do at all). So, in full screen mode I get black boxes on all sides (like when you watch and a widescreen HD ready TV with a non-enhanced 4:3 letterboxed video). Also, manually resizing the window doesn’t work, since Realplayer adjusts to the limiting dimension (in this case height). Any suggestions? Any setting I can mess with? -- Cody.Pope 06:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Lately I've been having a problem with my relatively new laptop (running Windows XP Media Center). The pattern: A program freezes or acts strangely, I press ctr-alt-del, send the error report, the program closes. I reopen the program, it freezes/acts funny again... So I do the same thing, then press ctr-alt-del again. It's not in the Applications tab, but under the Processes tab...sure enough, two (e.g.) GoogleVideoPlayer.exe's, neither of which closes when I press "End Process" (or "End Process Tree").
I just tried opening Google Video Player again, then going to the Applications tab and trying to close one of the past copies of it. The program closed, but nothing in the Applications list disappeared. What's going on? -- zenohockey 06:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Is there any way to download videos from YouTube? Battle Ape 07:01, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Ronaldh 12:54, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering if there is any good way to convert text in Open Office draw to vector format. I'm producting a bunch of physics notes for my classes and having text that can scale with my diagrams would be very handy. Currently though, if I select a block of text and do Modify -> Convert to Curve, the result look awful. Any suggestions?
Origional text on left, converted on right.
Thanks,
-- CGP 11:18, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody have access to a specification of just what parts of CSS2 NetFront V 3.3 supports?
I am trying to tailor a website for handheld browsers, and had naively assumed that the browser on my Sony Ericsson phone - which is NetFront 3.3 - would implement the 'handheld' media, but it seems that it doesn't. This doesn't affect my using 'handheld' in my CSS of course, but it means I can't test it on my phone.
Does anybody know if the browser uses a different media type, or whether it just ignores media? And what else in CSS2 it doesn't implement?
The Access website http://www.access-company.com/products/netfrontmobile/browser/33_symbian.html (which is the only one I can find on 3.3) says 'CSS2 (partial)' but gives no more detail.
Alternatively, is it possible to upgrade the browser on a K510i to 3.4? (and does 3.4 support media - the website says it supports CSS2 without mention of 'partial')?
-- ColinFine 13:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, that's very much what I was looking for. However... it doesn't actually say anywhere (that I can find) which media types it actually implements. It does say 'Paged media - not supported', and the same for 'Aural media', but apart from classifying the CSS properties by 'media group' (almost all 'visual') it doesn't discuss the specific media types it implements. Given that it has that support, I would have expected it to match '@media handheld', but there's no reference to that in the document. -- ColinFine 23:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Ive been unable to find a map of Thailand I can download for use on my pocketpc. i had no trouble finding similar maps for europe. can anyone help?
I'm a writer, I've used Microsoft Word '97 since it came out, and this morning I went to edit a simple file and I get this Macro warning. Beyond ordinary text, the file contains some hypertext, but I've been doing this for a long time and have never encountered this warning. When I try to save the file, I'm told it's read-only, so I do a "save as" and the whole thing starts over again. How on earth could these Macros have gotten into this document? I haven't opened the document without disabling the Macros. Should I be worried about this? Can it somehow infect other docs, or the whole computer? I read Wikipedia's Macro page and learned -- culled at least -- nothing. Wolfgangus 16:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Done, and problem solved. Thank you very much; I'm grateful. Wolfgangus 16:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
now the pc doesn't turn off by itself, I gotta switch off manually! Besides xp doesn't find xmnt2002 at the boot.. xp always starts the checkdisk but it hangs when it find a file with crossed references and I gotta reboot skipping checkdisk.. Can you help me? -- Ulisse0 18:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I partitioned with Partition Magic, but I did 3 years ago and these problems had never shown up before. I can get to windows, but I have to skip the checkdisk at every boot, otherwise the PC hangs.. -- Ulisse0 13:06, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
(Separating from my above question) I live in Canada, where it is legal to download but not upload most copyrighted material. I'm trying to download two torrents that include both free and unfree material. Are there any clients I can set to download the full torrents, but share only the free material (which I can manually identify)? It seems to me this somewhat resembles superseeding in the sense that you're only sharing specific parts of what you've got, so there should be a way to do it. Neon Merlin 18:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I want to install ubuntu on an old computer. Does the ubuntu install cd lack anything, such as drivers that I will need to install the OS? I am asking because in its current state, the computer which is running windows is terribly buggy. I'd like to wipe the hard drive clean before installing ubuntu, but I don't know if I'll be wiping out something the new OS needs. ike9898 18:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
When I open the internet explorer and start typing a certain website name, the list of previous visited pages starting with the letters already typed appears. Is there a way I can stop this list from appearing ??
Thx in advance
thx mysid, it worked
Are there any (Windows) programs that will record the sound that your computer makes, i.e. that come out of your speakers? By which I mean, say there was a game playing on your computer that had some background noise - are there any programs that would "tape record" the sounds the game makes? zafiroblue05 | Talk 20:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Morning everyone(it's morning here). I asked a question on RD:Misc. about a faulty amplifier and it's not there anymore, so I'll try here. I had a 4-channel Realistic amplifier from about the 80's, running with all 4 audio channels bridged into a subwoofer. It worked perfectly until I adjusted the balance control, which blew the fuse. I replaced the fuse but now it's not working at all. Does anyone know what would be wrong with it and if I would be able to fix it? Thanks Mix Lord 23:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)