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Why are many modern SAS HDDs dual-ported; what precisely is the meaning and function of dual-domain in this regard, and what are the differences and advantages/disadvantages between dual-domain and single-domain?
Thank you in advance in all respondents. Rocketshiporion Sunday 8-August-2010, 12:34am GMT
Hello. Is there a reliable way to upload a file (of any kind, a document, an executable etc.) somewhere on the Internet, and know the exact date such file was uploaded? The idea is that anyone could prove reliably and easily that the file existed and was uploaded at an exact moment in time. Is there a website that specializes in this sort of thing? Or is there at least some website (file host, etc.) that happens to do this in a clear and visible way? Or is there a way to do this other than with a website, like FTP or something? I have no idea! Sorry if my question sounds dumb... Thanks in advance. -.-; Kreachure ( talk) 00:34, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I last built a PC in 2002, so things have changed a bit and I'm not 100% confident I still know what's what anymore. Could you please look at this parts list and let me know if I left out any key components or if something in here is grossly inadequate/inappropriate? The objective is to build a mid/upper-mid range desktop that I can expand upon in the coming years...
I figure network and sound cards are fully on-board these days (yes, it's been that long since I last built a PC!). I was always annoyed by these questions before, but now I find myself forced to ask one. So, thank you for your patience. 61.189.63.176 ( talk) 03:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
My internet comes via a router with an ethernet cable, which is plugged directly into the computer. I have two computers and I used to sometimes transfer the cable to the other computer so it could have the internet, which needed the router to be unplugged and reset otherwise it wouldn't work on the second computer. However in the last week or so when I've done this, the internet has become unusable on both computers for up to three hours. I've tried resetting the router, resetting the computers, running all the troubbleshooting things on Windows which said the problem was "Local Area Connection 2 doesn't have a valid IP configuration". Why is this happening? There is obviously nothing wrong with either computer or the connections, since after three hours it comes back on its own, and it was working perfectly before I transferred the cable, and this method has worked for 2 years until now. 82.44.54.25 ( talk) 10:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
After returning from holiday,on switching on my computer,it asked for a password to enter Windows.As it has never done this before,I have absolutely no idea what this is.Trying 'Guest' and blank password tells there is a restriction on and to contact the system administrator.Trying 'Administrator' and a blank password tells me there are restrictions on this account.
Going into safe mode doesn't help as it still asks me for this password before I can do anything,as it does for 'Last Known Good'. The only thing that seems to work is leaving both fields blank-it then comes up with the message 'Loading personal settings..' before very quickly coming up with 'Logging off' and taking me straight back to the password field.
Any ideas as to how to get past this-nothing will come up even with Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The only buttons available are OK,Cancel(which is grayed out),Shut Down and Options.All that happens when you press options is the Shut Down button appears or disappears.
Many thanks... Lemon martini ( talk) 14:15, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
In China_Railways_DFH_shunting_locomotives#cite_note-6 the reference contains odd looking latin characters - what are they and how ??? (also I copied them from the title - since it's the reference title should I or should I not change them to standard latin chars ??) Sf5xeplus ( talk) 16:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been searching fruitlessly for a couple of hours now. Can someone please post some code that would resize and convert a whole bunch of JPG files in a folder to 800px width GIFs? Windows XP. FWIW I have IM 6.6.3Q16. As a bonus, how would I right-crop the input images by 120 pixels (equivalently crop the input images to 3336x2304) before processing the above. I'm at the point of tearing my hair out, I just can't find a clear example that indicates what I should do. The help files are also a bit cryptic. Thanks very much, I'll upload the fruits of my labour soon as I can do this process. Zunaid 16:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
The fruits of my labour, behold the mighty Athlone Power Station cooling towers reduced to dust earlier today. Zunaid 18:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I am having extreme difficulty finding this. I know that all the big search engines cache popular queries. I am looking for some reference that backs the claim. I am not referring to the cache in your web browser. I am referring to caching popular queries on the search engine's server. For example, if 10% of all queries are for "Egg Recall", the search engine will process that query once and then store those results in cache. The following queries will pull from cache instead of searching through all the websites yet again. -- kainaw ™ 17:12, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Is their any way I can get this link to work properly as a reference - it seems to be bugging wikipedia..
"ERION Mantenimiento ferroviarro, S.A. , Presentation" (PDF). www.erion.es. Febuary 2008. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
the problem is this I think
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb[1].2008.pdf and the ]
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb[1].2008.pdf
.. Sf5xeplus ( talk) 19:11, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb%5B1%5D.2008.pdf
This works:
"ERION Mantenimiento ferroviarro, S.A. , Presentation" (PDF). www.erion.es. Febuary 2008. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
77.86.82.70 ( talk) 20:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi all,
I've written a Matlab program for a work project which, to cut a long story short, inputs a prime number and outputs a column vector. I need to display the output column vectors one after the other (one for each prime in the range I choose) in a series of columns so they don't take up too much space, but the issue is, the column vectors output vary in length (typically less than 10 elements, but in certain cases it may be more) - normally, I'd simply make a matrix by running the program then adding one column vector after another, but since the length varies I can't simply add one vector after the next in sequential columns, and since there is no 'fixed maximum' for the length of the vectors, and I can't preempt the largest vector in the range of primes I'm looking at in advance, I can't just make a zero matrix with a fixed number of rows and then add in the vectors from the first row down to wherever they happen to stop either.
I've considered writing a loop which changes the number of rows of the matrix every time an output vector arrives which is larger than the current number of rows, before adding the new vector to the matrix, but this seems like a messy option to me, and I'm sure for the more experienced user there's probably a much nicer way to approach the issue. Could anyone suggest anything? What I really want is just a list of column vectors, one after the other, varying in length and preferably without lots of 'zeros' at the end of every vector to fill the space (though any good suggestions would be appreciated) - I tried to draw an ASCII diagram but Wikipedia wasn't happy with the formatting! Thankyou all :) 86.30.204.236 ( talk) 22:20, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
k k k k k k | k k k k | k k | PAGE EDGE k k | k | ------------------- (NEW LINE) k k k k k k | k k k k k | k k k | PAGE EDGE k k | |
result = ''; while <NOT DONE CONDITION> V = <NEW COLUMN VECTOR>; A = num2str(V); s = size(A); result( 1:s(1), end+1 + (1:s(2)) ) = A; end display( result );
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Hi.
Why are many modern SAS HDDs dual-ported; what precisely is the meaning and function of dual-domain in this regard, and what are the differences and advantages/disadvantages between dual-domain and single-domain?
Thank you in advance in all respondents. Rocketshiporion Sunday 8-August-2010, 12:34am GMT
Hello. Is there a reliable way to upload a file (of any kind, a document, an executable etc.) somewhere on the Internet, and know the exact date such file was uploaded? The idea is that anyone could prove reliably and easily that the file existed and was uploaded at an exact moment in time. Is there a website that specializes in this sort of thing? Or is there at least some website (file host, etc.) that happens to do this in a clear and visible way? Or is there a way to do this other than with a website, like FTP or something? I have no idea! Sorry if my question sounds dumb... Thanks in advance. -.-; Kreachure ( talk) 00:34, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I last built a PC in 2002, so things have changed a bit and I'm not 100% confident I still know what's what anymore. Could you please look at this parts list and let me know if I left out any key components or if something in here is grossly inadequate/inappropriate? The objective is to build a mid/upper-mid range desktop that I can expand upon in the coming years...
I figure network and sound cards are fully on-board these days (yes, it's been that long since I last built a PC!). I was always annoyed by these questions before, but now I find myself forced to ask one. So, thank you for your patience. 61.189.63.176 ( talk) 03:51, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
My internet comes via a router with an ethernet cable, which is plugged directly into the computer. I have two computers and I used to sometimes transfer the cable to the other computer so it could have the internet, which needed the router to be unplugged and reset otherwise it wouldn't work on the second computer. However in the last week or so when I've done this, the internet has become unusable on both computers for up to three hours. I've tried resetting the router, resetting the computers, running all the troubbleshooting things on Windows which said the problem was "Local Area Connection 2 doesn't have a valid IP configuration". Why is this happening? There is obviously nothing wrong with either computer or the connections, since after three hours it comes back on its own, and it was working perfectly before I transferred the cable, and this method has worked for 2 years until now. 82.44.54.25 ( talk) 10:27, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
After returning from holiday,on switching on my computer,it asked for a password to enter Windows.As it has never done this before,I have absolutely no idea what this is.Trying 'Guest' and blank password tells there is a restriction on and to contact the system administrator.Trying 'Administrator' and a blank password tells me there are restrictions on this account.
Going into safe mode doesn't help as it still asks me for this password before I can do anything,as it does for 'Last Known Good'. The only thing that seems to work is leaving both fields blank-it then comes up with the message 'Loading personal settings..' before very quickly coming up with 'Logging off' and taking me straight back to the password field.
Any ideas as to how to get past this-nothing will come up even with Ctrl-Alt-Delete. The only buttons available are OK,Cancel(which is grayed out),Shut Down and Options.All that happens when you press options is the Shut Down button appears or disappears.
Many thanks... Lemon martini ( talk) 14:15, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
In China_Railways_DFH_shunting_locomotives#cite_note-6 the reference contains odd looking latin characters - what are they and how ??? (also I copied them from the title - since it's the reference title should I or should I not change them to standard latin chars ??) Sf5xeplus ( talk) 16:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been searching fruitlessly for a couple of hours now. Can someone please post some code that would resize and convert a whole bunch of JPG files in a folder to 800px width GIFs? Windows XP. FWIW I have IM 6.6.3Q16. As a bonus, how would I right-crop the input images by 120 pixels (equivalently crop the input images to 3336x2304) before processing the above. I'm at the point of tearing my hair out, I just can't find a clear example that indicates what I should do. The help files are also a bit cryptic. Thanks very much, I'll upload the fruits of my labour soon as I can do this process. Zunaid 16:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
The fruits of my labour, behold the mighty Athlone Power Station cooling towers reduced to dust earlier today. Zunaid 18:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I am having extreme difficulty finding this. I know that all the big search engines cache popular queries. I am looking for some reference that backs the claim. I am not referring to the cache in your web browser. I am referring to caching popular queries on the search engine's server. For example, if 10% of all queries are for "Egg Recall", the search engine will process that query once and then store those results in cache. The following queries will pull from cache instead of searching through all the websites yet again. -- kainaw ™ 17:12, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Is their any way I can get this link to work properly as a reference - it seems to be bugging wikipedia..
"ERION Mantenimiento ferroviarro, S.A. , Presentation" (PDF). www.erion.es. Febuary 2008. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
the problem is this I think
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb[1].2008.pdf and the ]
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb[1].2008.pdf
.. Sf5xeplus ( talk) 19:11, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
http://www.erion.es/2%20Presentacin%20de%20ERION%20Feb%5B1%5D.2008.pdf
This works:
"ERION Mantenimiento ferroviarro, S.A. , Presentation" (PDF). www.erion.es. Febuary 2008. {{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help)
77.86.82.70 ( talk) 20:14, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi all,
I've written a Matlab program for a work project which, to cut a long story short, inputs a prime number and outputs a column vector. I need to display the output column vectors one after the other (one for each prime in the range I choose) in a series of columns so they don't take up too much space, but the issue is, the column vectors output vary in length (typically less than 10 elements, but in certain cases it may be more) - normally, I'd simply make a matrix by running the program then adding one column vector after another, but since the length varies I can't simply add one vector after the next in sequential columns, and since there is no 'fixed maximum' for the length of the vectors, and I can't preempt the largest vector in the range of primes I'm looking at in advance, I can't just make a zero matrix with a fixed number of rows and then add in the vectors from the first row down to wherever they happen to stop either.
I've considered writing a loop which changes the number of rows of the matrix every time an output vector arrives which is larger than the current number of rows, before adding the new vector to the matrix, but this seems like a messy option to me, and I'm sure for the more experienced user there's probably a much nicer way to approach the issue. Could anyone suggest anything? What I really want is just a list of column vectors, one after the other, varying in length and preferably without lots of 'zeros' at the end of every vector to fill the space (though any good suggestions would be appreciated) - I tried to draw an ASCII diagram but Wikipedia wasn't happy with the formatting! Thankyou all :) 86.30.204.236 ( talk) 22:20, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
k k k k k k | k k k k | k k | PAGE EDGE k k | k | ------------------- (NEW LINE) k k k k k k | k k k k k | k k k | PAGE EDGE k k | |
result = ''; while <NOT DONE CONDITION> V = <NEW COLUMN VECTOR>; A = num2str(V); s = size(A); result( 1:s(1), end+1 + (1:s(2)) ) = A; end display( result );