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How can you copy a moving GIF image? When I tried to copy one it became a normal image.
203.88.224.110 06:19, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
What if you're copying it from the internet?
Dudforreal 06:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
How can you create a moving GIF image and put it on powerpoint?
Dudforreal 06:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Dudforreal 06:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)How can you use your own image/s as a design template for the slide design for the slide?
How can I send e-mail from my alternate e-mail address to Google Groups? Currently, Google Groups accepts e-mail only from my GMail address. --Masatran 06:50, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I'm writing a windows command-line utility for deleting duplicate files within directory trees, and have a problem with excel files. Microsoft excel appears to change a time/date stamp within the file whenever it opens a spreadsheet. Here's sample output of a binary comparison of files that I believe were identical, except for having been opened at different times:
E:\SomeDirectory>for %d in (*.*) do fc /b %d ..\OtherDirectory\%d Comparing A.xls and ..\OtherDirectory\A.xls 00008E6C: B0 30 00008E6D: 0A 3C 00008E6E: 22 04 00008E6F: 35 29 Comparing B.xls and ..\OtherDirectory\B.xls 0000A26C: 50 30 0000A26D: FA F2 0000A26E: 10 16 0000A26F: 93 97 Comparing C.xls and ..\OtherDirectory\C.xls 00008C6C: 60 C0 00008C6D: 25 81 00008C6E: B0 86 00008C6F: A9 AD E:\SomeDirectory>
In the example, the time stamp appears to occupy four consecutive bytes, but at different offsets within the files. I've noticed previously that the time stamp somtimes occupes more than four bytes (six?). Does anyone know how to locate and interpret this time stamp? --NorwegianBlue talk 07:15, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello wise wikipeople, is there some way of taking a screenshot of the contents of an Internet Explorer 7 window (ideally without downloading new programs). thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am new to sap Bw. I have some doubts about Performance tuning. So please explain about this topic.
I would like to set up my own server. I have a server hosting at present but I'm dissatisfied with price/yeild. I have no experience setting up servers - I have only made programs/applications in the past so this is new to me.
My needs: I have an application with some 500 users with the potential to go up to 2000-3000. The application is text based, interspersed with medium-sized (30-40 kb) images. It needs to run a rather extensive database as well - MySQL - and do so swiftly. The whole thing is .NET (C#) based.
- What issues should I consider when I invest in hardware for this purpose?
- What hardware is important for this purpose?
- Is Linux the best sollution when I need the .NET framework?
Regards Stan
Hi, I've probably built a couple of hundred servers in my time, and basically it's all about what you want that server to do. From you description, it sounds like your key considerations are I/O. Modern CPUs are now so fast they are rarely a performance problem (particularly Dual-Core). I normally favour 1GB RAM per CPU. The real nuts and bolts are your connectivity and I/O throughput to your database. You need to consider how users are going to connect (ie over a LAN or ADSL etc) and whether you require two adaptors (a for failover and b for throughput). On a database server your hard disks are the key. Firstly do the disks need to be fast SCSI or can you use SATA? This is bascially a question of cost, as the real performance benefit comes from the disk layout. For best performance use RAID1 or RAID1/0, the downside is these layouts only give you 50% total disk capacity as usable space. If your I/O is mainly reads and not writes I would go for RAID5, which provides good protection and performance, and allows 75-80% usable space from the total capacity. Obviously to run this system you need a RAID controller. So another thing to consider is how many PCI slots your server has and how fast the bus speeds are.
Hmmm. When a broadband internet speed is expressed as something like "2048kb/384kb" - which are the download and the upload speeds? Thanks!
I'm trying to remember a game i used to play on 3.11 (though it may be very early windows 95, it's certainly from 1st half of the 90s), which was set in the future and involved racing around sort of floating tracks in futuristic metropolises in very fast cars. each race was like it was televised, and before each race there was a sort of build-up with a presenter called Lance something, but that's all i can remember. it may even have been like a game-show format where Lance was the host and you had to win the race to stay in it. can anyone help me? --Alex16z 13:42, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
MegaRace"! oh my god, thank you so much! that has been bugging me on and off for years!¬ --Alex16z 08:16, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to send an email from php in html. The email looks fine in thunderbird but it comes up in code when viewed in outlook express. What could the problem be? Thanks, 89.127.160.227 13:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
<?php $body="<em>HTML</em> formatted <strong>Message</strong"; $headers = "From: info@example.com \r\n"; $headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 "; $headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 "; /*notice there aren't any \r\n after the second two header additions. This is what made this version work correctly*/ mail("john@example.com", "An HTML Message", $body, $headers); ?>
I have an old MS-DOS pc, 386sx circa 1993, with a Paradise VGA card. It is an early Paradise VGA model, I think, with only 256k memory, I think. The VGA has 4 different selectable horizontal frequencies. Two of the 4 are the standard IBM-VGA-compatible 25 MHz and and 28 MHz clocks. These correspond to bit values 00b and 01b in the VGA's miscellaneous register. The other two are Paradise specific. I want to know the frequencies of these two. The pc has a VGA monitor which is *not* multi-sync, so to compute the correct values for setting the VGA chip registers to generate the correct timings for the VGA monitor I need those frequencies. Can't find it through Google. (I am experimenting with this old system as a hobby, doing some assembly programming etc.)
195.35.160.133 13:51, 22 May 2007 (UTC) - Martin -
P.s.: pun intended in the title of this question.
Martin responds: if you feed the wrong frequency to a *non*-multisync monitor, the monitor will not sync, or if the frequency is close it may sync, but overstress/overheat(?) the hardware after prolonged use. It could damage the monitor permanently. I did some trial and error, and I have rough values for the VGA registers, but I would like the precise values to minimise the risk of damaging the hardware. Also just out of curiousity. And I don't have access to an oscilloscope. 195.35.160.133 15:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC) - Martin -
Addendum by Martin: good idea using a multisync monitor to read both the scanline and pixel frequencies. In fact knowing only the scanline frequency that a particular VGA setting produces should be enough to compute the selected pixel frequency. Because my MS-DOS PC and my multisync monitor are 5 miles apart I could not put it to practice yet. So I still have no precise figures for the pixel frequencies. However based on trial and error and working backwards fom the BIOS mode for 132 columns (which uses the 4th pixel frequency) I now have some fairly good guesstimates.
I estimate the 3rd frequency (bit code 10b in the miscellaneous register) to be 44 MHz (give or take maybe two MHz).
And the 4th (bit code 11b) seems to be 35.2 MHz (give or take maybe a half MHz).
195.35.160.133 10:09, 29 May 2007 (UTC)- Martin -
Second addendum by Martin: I have managed to compute the frequencies by looking at a status bit at VGA port 03dah which indicates vertical retrace. By counting Vretraces in real time I can compute the screen refresh rate. Multiplying that by the "vertical total" (1based=register+1) and the "horizontal total" (1based=register+6) and the pixels per character width (8 or 9) I get the pixel clocks.
The four values I got were 25.2 28.4 44.9 and 36.4. The second value (theoretically) should be 28.3, but still pretty accurate.
195.35.160.133 12:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)- Martin -
The Problem:
A good friend of mine recently acquired a brand new 400GB external Seagate harddrive and filled it with his film's clips for editing!
Last night someone pulled out its power without realising and this morning the Mac wanted to "re initiate" the hard drive.
My friend stupidly took it back to the seller who "couldn't see anything" on the drive and very stupidly reformatted it!
The Reaction:
I have obtained two different data recovery programs ("Recover My Files" and "Nucleas Kernel Macintosh"), and quite suprisingly the one manages to slowly see the lost files!
The problem is it takes freakin AGES. It took about 3 hours to get to 0.7% completion of scanning the drive!!
The other problem is that it doesn't know the names of the files! So it starts to rename things like "Recovered_Mpeg_203.MPG" - which doesn't really help.
Your expertise needed:
(The Solution):
If I could do either of those all our work will not be lost!
Thanking you in advance
Rfwoolf 14:31, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi,
can anyone suggest/recommend some free (or very cheap) software which I could use to automatically check my broadband (adsl) speeds at regular intervals throughout the day? ie to run for 24 hours - or more - so the speed can still be checked even though I'll be at work.
I'm currently with virgin media on their broadband only package. I'm supposed to be getting at least 1MB but over the last few evenings, when I've checked, the various speed checker websites I use have been giving a result of 70-80k (little better than dial up!!)
I think I read somewhere that some virgin customers have concerns that perhaps virgin are over subscribed and their infrastructure can't cope - making everyone's speeds really slow.
I'm running windows xp on a 6 month old pc, with a speedtouch modem router.
thanks Spiggy 83.104.131.135 14:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
OK. thanks for that. I might actually post a screen shot of my test results - in case I am misreading them. However, my broadband is really quite slow!! spiggy 83.104.131.135 15:52, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I have been having trouble uploading a jpeg image to go with my article under reporter's notebook. I have figured out the image locater coding, which should read
but I cannot get my scanned jpeg file to load to the wikipedia website. It is waiting on my desktop. I am using mozilla firefox2. thank you. Rejoyce99 17:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)rejoyce99
what is SMART DRIVE? what is the use of it?
can anybody help me to under stand in a very simple way not in a bookish way that how i can find the external path length and internal path length of a binary search tree.
My girlfriend's Acer Aspire 5000's power jack is broken. It looks perfectly normal, but it just doesn't work. How can i fix it? --Shanedidona 20:25, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
What is the best way to fit/compress 2 GB of video (MPEG, but I don't know which) in such a way that it can fit on a standard 700 MB CD and still be opened on another computer without any special programs? By special program I mean anything that wouldn't usually come with Windows XP. --The Dark Side 23:49, 22 May 2007 (UTC)