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March 15 Information

Aspect Ratio Problem (ShotCut)

I have an mp4 file of something that was originally widescreen but has been reformatted to fit an old-fashioned TV. That is to say, it has gone from (I think) 16:9 to 4:3. The effect is that all the characters in the clip appear taller and thinner than they really were in the original.

Does anyone know if there is a filter (in ShotCut, ideally) which could correct that problem and return the file to its original aspect ratio? Or another way to address the problem? AndyJones ( talk) 12:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

VLC-player for example offers under its tab "Video" options to format-per-view. -- 46.114.5.149 ( talk) 15:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Thank you. ShotCut doesn't have a option called that, or indeed called anything that sounds to me like it would be the place to look! However FWIW I have found a workaround, which is that if you open the clip in isolation in ShotCut (as distinct from adding it to the playlist), then you go into its properties and amend the aspect ratio there to 1600 x 900, then you export the result, you get what I was hoping for. AndyJones ( talk) 17:22, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

When I am typing the words stop appearing

This happens on several sites when I am typing in a box like this. It doesn't happen on Wikipedia because there are no ads. I don't know if there is a fix even if I can get through to the people who can fix the software.

I'm not sure how I figured it out but it seems to happen when an ad appears on the screen. Not all ads, though. And I don't notice right away that what I typed stopped appearing because I look at the keyboard, something my typing teacher told me not to do, then I don't realize the words didn't show up.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

A totally non-expert reply from someone who experiences the same phenomenon – it may be that your device is either quite old or quite small in memory terms by current ever-advancing standards, and is unable to allocate sufficient resources to running everything in complete parallel. In the long term, applications get more numerous and more resource hungry (which in part drives the need to update hardware). I also seem to notice more frequent updates of OS and security systems these days, which in combination slow my ageing PC for a significant proportion of my usage. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.186.221 ( talk) 00:12, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
I do get high memory usage warnings but the computer is quite new. Well, two years old. Wow, times passes quickly. Anyway, I made a note of that on my user page.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The fact that it's exacerbated by ads probably means it's a graphical rendering issue, where your browser neglects updating the text box because it has to focus on rendering the ad, which is much more resource intensive. This definitely shouldn't be happening on a computer made in 2022, even if it is low end, so it sounds like your browser is not taking full advantage of your hardware. As a start, make sure hardware/graphic acceleration is enabled on your browser. If it isn't, all the work of rendering has to go to the CPU, which can bog down and possibly cause graphical errors like what you're experiencing. Pinguinn  🐧 07:50, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply

When did electronic computers first allow input in base 8+ instead of just manual binary?

With a button to load your machine instruction or tell it you want it in this address, after you've entered it by physical binary toggle switches. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 23:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I think you are asking about compilers which turn human-readable source code into machine code. You may find answers at History of compiler construction. The first implemented proto-compiler was written by Grace Hopper of blessed memory, with her A-0 System of 1951/52. The first compiler in the modern sense was for the Manchester Mark 1 in 1952, written by Alick Glennie who worked at Manchester with St. Alan Turing. MinorProphet ( talk) 13:52, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Wasn't there a time when you could only input raw machine code but had a keyboard with all the octal or maybe hexadecimal or decimal numerals? And before that you had to flick switches one way or the other (one switch per bit) then press something? Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 14:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
From the BINAC manual, 1949: [1]
"KEYBOARD: A device for translating manual key strokes into "computer language". There are eight keys, representing the octal numbers zero thru seven, each of which when depressed, produces a unique set of binary pulse codes (3 pulse combination). Keyboard is used to introduce either the "program" or quantitative data into the computer and memory."
AndyTheGrump ( talk) 15:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
By " 8+", do you mean binary-coded decimal? Typically, numerical input was by means of peripheral input devices reading prepared punch cards or punched tape in which numbers were represented in the form of a sequence of codes for the decimal digits and possibly the sign and the decimal point (or comma). Even if the internal arithmetic was binary, as for the Z3, the input and output used decimal representation. Assuming you mean a form of inputting data, one word at a time, through a row of toggle switches on the computer's console that are manually set by the operator, another question is, when were electronic computers first equipped with such switches?  -- Lambiam 16:01, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Fascinating stuff about BINAC. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:04, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply
( edit conflict) Looks good. But I think that BINAC's approach of interfacing with the hardware directly in this way was already being superseded. See Manchester Mark 1#Programming: "In 1948 Alan Turing devised an encoding scheme based on the standard ITA2 5-bit teleprinter code, which allowed programs and data to be written to and read from punched tape." This included a keyboard which controlled the punching mechanism. The concept of using a keyboard goes back at least to Émile Baudot's printing telegraph of 1874, on which ITA2 was based. MinorProphet ( talk) 16:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The 1943 Colossus computer used punched tape for data input, though it was 'programmed' through hardware settings rather than any sort of input device. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 17:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The Z4 (computer) was like a sophisticated programmable calculator. It had a special program construction unit for programming it and used decimal floating point for the external world though it worked in binary. No need to work in binary or even octal or to toggle switches. But then again it was mechanical not electonic. NadVolum ( talk) 18:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The PDP-11 I worked on around 1979 had toggle switches that could be used to enter machine code in binary. You toggle in a value, then press a LOAD button and it would store that value in memory. Then toggle in the next value, press LOAD again and it stores it in the next memory location, etc. But this was usually only used for entering the bootstrap program; there was no non-volatile memory so you had to key in the bootstrap program every time the computer was powered on. After it was booted, it ran Unix and you could write programs in a high-level language, run a compiler, etc. So this machine did allow only binary input for the bootstrap program, but acted more like a modern computer after it was booted. CodeTalker ( talk) 22:13, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
( edit conflict) Lambiam asked, "...when were electronic computers first equipped with such switches? You mean, after
this type of thing? (ENIAC)
According to Z3 (computer)#Relation to other work "The ENIAC computer, completed after the war, used vacuum tubes to implement switches and used decimal representation for numbers. Until 1948 programming was, as with Colossus [1943], by patch leads and switches."..."The Manchester Baby of 1948 along with the Manchester Mark 1 and EDSAC (both of 1949) were the world's earliest working computers that stored program instructions and data in the same space. In this they implemented the stored-program concept which is frequently (but erroneously) attributed to a 1945 paper by John von Neumann and colleagues." MinorProphet ( talk) 22:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
I assume the expression "physical binary toggle switches" in the OP refers to manually set switches, as seen in the fourth image here for the console of an EL-X8, and here for an IBM System/360 Model 40.  -- Lambiam 00:25, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
So, Edsger Dijkstra of the eponymous algorithm is the guilty party. Fab pix of the System/360, beautiful in their own way... The Propellorheads knew all about knobs and switches. [2] MinorProphet ( talk) 15:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Teletypes pre-dated computers, so the concept of a single key that transmitted a whole letter (or any value more complex than 0 or 1) already existed. -- Verbarson   talk edits 22:59, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 16 Information

REVISIONTIMESTAMP

Hi. In Magic words on "MediaWiki" about the Variable REVISIONTIMESTAMP you can read "Viewed revision of current page (latest revision or selected older revision)". Does anybody know how can you select with this variable an older revision, for example the first revision of any article? 46.114.107.163 ( talk) 06:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I doubt this can be done with magic words. If you want to softlink to the first revision of, e.g. History of paleontology, you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=History_of_paleontology&action=history&dir=prev&limit=1. To get to the actual first revision, you still have to click on the date field.  -- Lambiam 16:18, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Wrong forum, this belongs to mw:Help talk:Magic words. Thanks to user "Lambiam" for the useful hint. Indeed you cannot select by means of magic words to gather the details about any other revision than the one that is being viewed at the moment. Taylor 49 ( talk) 15:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 18 Information

Limits of silicon-based computation

I remember there being some sort of theory or law about the limit of the performance of silicon-based computing hardware, but I can't remember what it was called for the life of me. Anyone know what this is called? I hope I explained it well. vghfr (✉ Talk) (✏ Contribs) 02:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Moore's law mentions other related "laws". -- Error ( talk) 02:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
That's it, thanks. vghfr (✉ Talk) (✏ Contribs) 02:13, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 19 Information

Direct URL adresse not found

Hi, in this website https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern.html I want to find the URL for these two links (they are at the bottom of the page):

100. Wettkämpfe – Rudern
101. Wettkämpfe – Leichtgewicht

to be able to use it as a link. However, when I click on these two links, the information I need opens, but the URL doesn't change. What trick can be used to find the direct URL of these two links? Thank you very much. 46.114.181.185 ( talk) 19:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

There seems to be a typo in your ifosta.de URL. It gives a 404 error. CodeTalker ( talk) 22:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply
There may not be a direct link. The content display may be controlled by Javascript or other tricks. RudolfRed ( talk) 00:16, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The URLs appear to be:
However, these will not show their own content when opened in a separate window but replace it by the content of ../Europameister-Rudern.html.  -- Lambiam 00:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks @ RudolfRed:, ok, but can you tell me what are those tricks that can be used to display directly the content? 46.114.181.185 ( talk) 00:28, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

If the content is generated by Javascript, via an Ajax query or something like that, then there may be no way to directly display it. CodeTalker ( talk) 00:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply
However in this case that turns out to not be the case. I was able to examine the HTML, and the links you want are
https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern-Dateien/sheet100.html
and
https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern-Dateien/sheet100.html
EDIT: Unfortunately as Lambian noted above, it doesn't appear that the web server lets you access those URLs directly. CodeTalker ( talk) 00:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply




March 26 Information

How to "get rid of" Google Cloud?

A month ago or so, I advised my father to buy storage space at Google so that all photos on his Android phone are automatically backed up to the cloud. Google offers 100 GB of space for a very small monthly fee, and I use this myself and am very happy with it.

I think the service is called Google Drive, or maybe Google One. I find it hard to understand what things are actually called.

We did manage to set up a 100 GB subscription, and it works great!

But unfortunately, before we succeeded in setting this up, I think we accidentally started a free trial of something known as Google Cloud, which apparently is not the same thing as Google Drive/One/the consumer-friendly 100 GB photo cloud storage thing.

Today, he received an email from Google telling him that his Google Cloud trial was about to end:

Your free trial has ended.
Take action now to keep what you built.
Time has run out, and your free trial is over. After 30 days, your work may be deleted. Activate your full account now to keep what you built and gain full access to Google Cloud.

Then there was a big button named "Active your full account", and my father clicked this (which he really should not have done).

Apparently he did really activate something, because then he got a new mail:

Thanks for activating your full account.
You now have full access to Google Cloud products, including monthly usage of services in the Free Tier program.
You can set up budget alerts to track charges on your billing account.

Of course, my father has no idea what this is all about. Actually, the same goes for me. I have no idea what this is. All I can tell is that this is not the consumer-friendly photo cloud storage my father wants to use.

So, the question is how to get rid of this. Obviously, he does not want to pay a monthly fee for something he will not use. (Is there a monthly fee for Google Cloud? Even I have no idea.) But he also doesn't want to remove his credit card entirely from Google, since it is used to pay for the cheap monthly 100 GB photo storage thing.

Any advice?

-- Andreas Rejbrand ( talk) 14:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC) reply


March 28 Information

UBASIC @

In UBASIC, in the line "130 IF ((3*L^2+L)\2)@K=(-N)@K", is @ mod? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply

It is the remainder of integer division: 12345@678 = 141. I assume you have figured out that \ denotes integer division. I'm not sure though what happens when the operands can be negative.  -- Lambiam 13:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Thanks, yes I had figured out "\". Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 15:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Resolved

March 29 Information

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Welcome to the computing section
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March 15 Information

Aspect Ratio Problem (ShotCut)

I have an mp4 file of something that was originally widescreen but has been reformatted to fit an old-fashioned TV. That is to say, it has gone from (I think) 16:9 to 4:3. The effect is that all the characters in the clip appear taller and thinner than they really were in the original.

Does anyone know if there is a filter (in ShotCut, ideally) which could correct that problem and return the file to its original aspect ratio? Or another way to address the problem? AndyJones ( talk) 12:31, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

VLC-player for example offers under its tab "Video" options to format-per-view. -- 46.114.5.149 ( talk) 15:06, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Thank you. ShotCut doesn't have a option called that, or indeed called anything that sounds to me like it would be the place to look! However FWIW I have found a workaround, which is that if you open the clip in isolation in ShotCut (as distinct from adding it to the playlist), then you go into its properties and amend the aspect ratio there to 1600 x 900, then you export the result, you get what I was hoping for. AndyJones ( talk) 17:22, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

When I am typing the words stop appearing

This happens on several sites when I am typing in a box like this. It doesn't happen on Wikipedia because there are no ads. I don't know if there is a fix even if I can get through to the people who can fix the software.

I'm not sure how I figured it out but it seems to happen when an ad appears on the screen. Not all ads, though. And I don't notice right away that what I typed stopped appearing because I look at the keyboard, something my typing teacher told me not to do, then I don't realize the words didn't show up.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 23:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

A totally non-expert reply from someone who experiences the same phenomenon – it may be that your device is either quite old or quite small in memory terms by current ever-advancing standards, and is unable to allocate sufficient resources to running everything in complete parallel. In the long term, applications get more numerous and more resource hungry (which in part drives the need to update hardware). I also seem to notice more frequent updates of OS and security systems these days, which in combination slow my ageing PC for a significant proportion of my usage. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.186.221 ( talk) 00:12, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
I do get high memory usage warnings but the computer is quite new. Well, two years old. Wow, times passes quickly. Anyway, I made a note of that on my user page.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 15:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The fact that it's exacerbated by ads probably means it's a graphical rendering issue, where your browser neglects updating the text box because it has to focus on rendering the ad, which is much more resource intensive. This definitely shouldn't be happening on a computer made in 2022, even if it is low end, so it sounds like your browser is not taking full advantage of your hardware. As a start, make sure hardware/graphic acceleration is enabled on your browser. If it isn't, all the work of rendering has to go to the CPU, which can bog down and possibly cause graphical errors like what you're experiencing. Pinguinn  🐧 07:50, 22 March 2024 (UTC) reply

When did electronic computers first allow input in base 8+ instead of just manual binary?

With a button to load your machine instruction or tell it you want it in this address, after you've entered it by physical binary toggle switches. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 23:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I think you are asking about compilers which turn human-readable source code into machine code. You may find answers at History of compiler construction. The first implemented proto-compiler was written by Grace Hopper of blessed memory, with her A-0 System of 1951/52. The first compiler in the modern sense was for the Manchester Mark 1 in 1952, written by Alick Glennie who worked at Manchester with St. Alan Turing. MinorProphet ( talk) 13:52, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Wasn't there a time when you could only input raw machine code but had a keyboard with all the octal or maybe hexadecimal or decimal numerals? And before that you had to flick switches one way or the other (one switch per bit) then press something? Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 14:23, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
From the BINAC manual, 1949: [1]
"KEYBOARD: A device for translating manual key strokes into "computer language". There are eight keys, representing the octal numbers zero thru seven, each of which when depressed, produces a unique set of binary pulse codes (3 pulse combination). Keyboard is used to introduce either the "program" or quantitative data into the computer and memory."
AndyTheGrump ( talk) 15:25, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
By " 8+", do you mean binary-coded decimal? Typically, numerical input was by means of peripheral input devices reading prepared punch cards or punched tape in which numbers were represented in the form of a sequence of codes for the decimal digits and possibly the sign and the decimal point (or comma). Even if the internal arithmetic was binary, as for the Z3, the input and output used decimal representation. Assuming you mean a form of inputting data, one word at a time, through a row of toggle switches on the computer's console that are manually set by the operator, another question is, when were electronic computers first equipped with such switches?  -- Lambiam 16:01, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Fascinating stuff about BINAC. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:04, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply
( edit conflict) Looks good. But I think that BINAC's approach of interfacing with the hardware directly in this way was already being superseded. See Manchester Mark 1#Programming: "In 1948 Alan Turing devised an encoding scheme based on the standard ITA2 5-bit teleprinter code, which allowed programs and data to be written to and read from punched tape." This included a keyboard which controlled the punching mechanism. The concept of using a keyboard goes back at least to Émile Baudot's printing telegraph of 1874, on which ITA2 was based. MinorProphet ( talk) 16:40, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The 1943 Colossus computer used punched tape for data input, though it was 'programmed' through hardware settings rather than any sort of input device. AndyTheGrump ( talk) 17:27, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The Z4 (computer) was like a sophisticated programmable calculator. It had a special program construction unit for programming it and used decimal floating point for the external world though it worked in binary. No need to work in binary or even octal or to toggle switches. But then again it was mechanical not electonic. NadVolum ( talk) 18:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The PDP-11 I worked on around 1979 had toggle switches that could be used to enter machine code in binary. You toggle in a value, then press a LOAD button and it would store that value in memory. Then toggle in the next value, press LOAD again and it stores it in the next memory location, etc. But this was usually only used for entering the bootstrap program; there was no non-volatile memory so you had to key in the bootstrap program every time the computer was powered on. After it was booted, it ran Unix and you could write programs in a high-level language, run a compiler, etc. So this machine did allow only binary input for the bootstrap program, but acted more like a modern computer after it was booted. CodeTalker ( talk) 22:13, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
( edit conflict) Lambiam asked, "...when were electronic computers first equipped with such switches? You mean, after
this type of thing? (ENIAC)
According to Z3 (computer)#Relation to other work "The ENIAC computer, completed after the war, used vacuum tubes to implement switches and used decimal representation for numbers. Until 1948 programming was, as with Colossus [1943], by patch leads and switches."..."The Manchester Baby of 1948 along with the Manchester Mark 1 and EDSAC (both of 1949) were the world's earliest working computers that stored program instructions and data in the same space. In this they implemented the stored-program concept which is frequently (but erroneously) attributed to a 1945 paper by John von Neumann and colleagues." MinorProphet ( talk) 22:39, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
I assume the expression "physical binary toggle switches" in the OP refers to manually set switches, as seen in the fourth image here for the console of an EL-X8, and here for an IBM System/360 Model 40.  -- Lambiam 00:25, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
So, Edsger Dijkstra of the eponymous algorithm is the guilty party. Fab pix of the System/360, beautiful in their own way... The Propellorheads knew all about knobs and switches. [2] MinorProphet ( talk) 15:14, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Teletypes pre-dated computers, so the concept of a single key that transmitted a whole letter (or any value more complex than 0 or 1) already existed. -- Verbarson   talk edits 22:59, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 16 Information

REVISIONTIMESTAMP

Hi. In Magic words on "MediaWiki" about the Variable REVISIONTIMESTAMP you can read "Viewed revision of current page (latest revision or selected older revision)". Does anybody know how can you select with this variable an older revision, for example the first revision of any article? 46.114.107.163 ( talk) 06:00, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply

I doubt this can be done with magic words. If you want to softlink to the first revision of, e.g. History of paleontology, you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=History_of_paleontology&action=history&dir=prev&limit=1. To get to the actual first revision, you still have to click on the date field.  -- Lambiam 16:18, 16 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Wrong forum, this belongs to mw:Help talk:Magic words. Thanks to user "Lambiam" for the useful hint. Indeed you cannot select by means of magic words to gather the details about any other revision than the one that is being viewed at the moment. Taylor 49 ( talk) 15:17, 17 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 18 Information

Limits of silicon-based computation

I remember there being some sort of theory or law about the limit of the performance of silicon-based computing hardware, but I can't remember what it was called for the life of me. Anyone know what this is called? I hope I explained it well. vghfr (✉ Talk) (✏ Contribs) 02:03, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Moore's law mentions other related "laws". -- Error ( talk) 02:11, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply
That's it, thanks. vghfr (✉ Talk) (✏ Contribs) 02:13, 18 March 2024 (UTC) reply

March 19 Information

Direct URL adresse not found

Hi, in this website https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern.html I want to find the URL for these two links (they are at the bottom of the page):

100. Wettkämpfe – Rudern
101. Wettkämpfe – Leichtgewicht

to be able to use it as a link. However, when I click on these two links, the information I need opens, but the URL doesn't change. What trick can be used to find the direct URL of these two links? Thank you very much. 46.114.181.185 ( talk) 19:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply

There seems to be a typo in your ifosta.de URL. It gives a 404 error. CodeTalker ( talk) 22:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC) reply
There may not be a direct link. The content display may be controlled by Javascript or other tricks. RudolfRed ( talk) 00:16, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply
The URLs appear to be:
However, these will not show their own content when opened in a separate window but replace it by the content of ../Europameister-Rudern.html.  -- Lambiam 00:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks @ RudolfRed:, ok, but can you tell me what are those tricks that can be used to display directly the content? 46.114.181.185 ( talk) 00:28, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply

If the content is generated by Javascript, via an Ajax query or something like that, then there may be no way to directly display it. CodeTalker ( talk) 00:39, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply
However in this case that turns out to not be the case. I was able to examine the HTML, and the links you want are
https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern-Dateien/sheet100.html
and
https://www.ifosta.de/Sport/Rudern/11-InternationaleTiteltraeger/Europameister-Rudern-Dateien/sheet100.html
EDIT: Unfortunately as Lambian noted above, it doesn't appear that the web server lets you access those URLs directly. CodeTalker ( talk) 00:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC) reply




March 26 Information

How to "get rid of" Google Cloud?

A month ago or so, I advised my father to buy storage space at Google so that all photos on his Android phone are automatically backed up to the cloud. Google offers 100 GB of space for a very small monthly fee, and I use this myself and am very happy with it.

I think the service is called Google Drive, or maybe Google One. I find it hard to understand what things are actually called.

We did manage to set up a 100 GB subscription, and it works great!

But unfortunately, before we succeeded in setting this up, I think we accidentally started a free trial of something known as Google Cloud, which apparently is not the same thing as Google Drive/One/the consumer-friendly 100 GB photo cloud storage thing.

Today, he received an email from Google telling him that his Google Cloud trial was about to end:

Your free trial has ended.
Take action now to keep what you built.
Time has run out, and your free trial is over. After 30 days, your work may be deleted. Activate your full account now to keep what you built and gain full access to Google Cloud.

Then there was a big button named "Active your full account", and my father clicked this (which he really should not have done).

Apparently he did really activate something, because then he got a new mail:

Thanks for activating your full account.
You now have full access to Google Cloud products, including monthly usage of services in the Free Tier program.
You can set up budget alerts to track charges on your billing account.

Of course, my father has no idea what this is all about. Actually, the same goes for me. I have no idea what this is. All I can tell is that this is not the consumer-friendly photo cloud storage my father wants to use.

So, the question is how to get rid of this. Obviously, he does not want to pay a monthly fee for something he will not use. (Is there a monthly fee for Google Cloud? Even I have no idea.) But he also doesn't want to remove his credit card entirely from Google, since it is used to pay for the cheap monthly 100 GB photo storage thing.

Any advice?

-- Andreas Rejbrand ( talk) 14:49, 26 March 2024 (UTC) reply


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In UBASIC, in the line "130 IF ((3*L^2+L)\2)@K=(-N)@K", is @ mod? Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 05:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply

It is the remainder of integer division: 12345@678 = 141. I assume you have figured out that \ denotes integer division. I'm not sure though what happens when the operands can be negative.  -- Lambiam 13:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply
Thanks, yes I had figured out "\". Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 15:09, 28 March 2024 (UTC) reply
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