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I just downloaded and installed Office 2010 Professional (don't worry, as an IU student, I'm allowed to download it free from http://iuware.iu.edu), and it came with Microsoft Silverlight. Not being a tech savvy person — I can't use Excel or Access beyond putting data into the cells, and I'm hopeless with Powerpoint — I don't foresee a use for this program. Any ideas if I'm likely to encounter situations in which I'd find this program useful, or would it be more helpful for me simply to uninstall it? Nyttend (talk) 02:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
During the Olympics, I need Silverlight to view videos on nbcolympics.com. The Hero of This Nation (talk) 18:50, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi How does Facebook suggest people you may know? When a person displays my profile, does it mean that later Facebook will suggest me adding this person to my friends? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.181.131.108 (talk) 13:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
how do i watch this
You download all of the component files. Then you have to combine them. Google ".001 joiner" or "file splitter/joiner" and you'll find lots of programs that can do this. Then you open the resulting .AVI file with a movie viewer. --Mr.98 (talk) 15:09, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
This message pops up on the screen at the end of the Windows boot process (after it is populated with icons);
Windows - No Disk Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c
There are buttons to Cancel, Try Again, and Continue, but clicking on them is rejected with a loud buzzer. The same with the X delete at the upper right of the information box.
Ordinary applications at first glance seem to work okay. System functions: I was able to free up disk space but defrag and backup are not responsive.
Any ideas what's happening and what I might do? --Halcatalyst (talk) 16:59, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Clicks Agent is a company said to have been developed by a teenager in his bedroom and sold for $40million. 1) Am I correct in thinking that its business model is that you pay it some money, and it gets traffic to your website? 2) Why was someone willing to pay $40M for it rather than replicating it themselves? I mean, it was created by a teenager in their bedroom so it can't be too difficult. 3) Where does the traffic come from? Thanks 92.15.27.119 (talk) 17:56, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi I have a Samsung R510 and I've had to remove the default Vista and install Windows 7 64-bit on it. Now everything works except the dvd writer... it cannot be seen in devices and cannot be seen by Nero 10. Samsung official website does not have drivers for it. Any ideas please? Sandman30s (talk) 18:36, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
I know that you can start a program or execute a command within Python with (stream = os.popen('myprogram or command with parameters'). The result of that is a wrapper object stream. However, if I want to interact with the program, (for example, get information from this wrapper object), how do I proceed? Mr.K. (talk) 21:30, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
os.popen
has been deprecated in favor of subprocess.Popen
(which is a class). Once you have a Popen object, you can use communicate()
on it. Paul (Stansifer) 22:22, 20 November 2010 (UTC)I am trying:
import subprocess stream = subprocess.Popen("klipper", stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) stream.communicate() ???
And then? How can I interact with a concrete program, (Klipper in this case). Mr.K. (talk) 23:36, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
import subprocess stream = subprocess.Popen("xclip", stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) stream.communicate() ???
Normally, xclip outputs what I have in the clipboard. But stream.communicate() does not output this information... :( Mr.K. (talk) 01:40, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
Popen(["xclip", "-o"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
instead. That is, Popen requires that you give it a list whose first item is the program name and whose subsequent arguments are the arguments to the program (but as a special case, if you don't want any arguments, it lets you give it just a string instead.) This makes it look a little different than what you'd enter at the shell, but it saves you from having to worry about escaping issues in some cases. Paul (Stansifer) 18:52, 21 November 2010 (UTC)This seems like a very silly question, but I cannot make it work. I have a macro that apparently is saved in Normal.dotm. It is accessible from every Microsoft Word document I create. However, I only need it in one particular document, Document.docx, say. Is it possible to move the macro from Normal.dotm to Document.docx, so that the yellow warning message doesn't appear for every Microsoft Word document I create/open?
I have tried to open "Mallhanteraren", as it is called in my Swedish copy of Microsoft Word 2010. ("Template Manager" is a direct translation. This dialog box can be opened using a push button in the Macros dialog box.) In "Template Manager", under the tab sheet called "Macros", there are two list boxes, called "In Document.docx" and "In Normal.dotm". Between these list boxes, there are three buttons: "Copy", "Remove", and "Change name...". One would expect to be able to use this dialog to copy the macro from Normal.dotm to Document.docx, but the problem is that the Normal.dotm list box is empty, even though Microsoft Word itself tells me that my macro is indeed stored in this very document/template file (when looking in the "Macros" dialog box, for instance)!
What can I do? --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 21:40, 20 November 2010 (UTC)