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I should start by saying that I'm not particularly familiar with the technicalities of e-mail; please bear this in mind in your responses!
I have registered a web domain (URL?), because I needed an e-mail address. The domain registrar provides a web-based interface that allows me to send and pick up e-mails and generally manage several inboxes for the domain. This interface also provides various other supporting functionality, including a contact list and a calendar. Separately, I have a Windows mobile phone, which includes an app that allows me to read and send e-mails from the various domain inboxes. My Windows phone also allows me to read and send e-mails from various g-mail accounts, each of which also has a contact list and calendar.
The g-mail accounts all seem to synchronise contact lists and calendars with the apps on my Windows phone. I have spoken to the domain registrar, and have been told that they don't have any way to synchronise a contact list or calendar on their web-based interface with my mobile phone. My question is, would this be possible if I set up an e-mail client on my PC? I know that there are e-mail clients that have contact list and calendar functionality, but I don't know what is going on in the "plumbing" of the system.
What I really want is to maintain a master contact list and calendar from my PC, whilst being able to read and send e-mails from my phone, using the contact list and calendar as necessary. I'd appreciate any suggestions or guidance you can give. Thank you. RomanSpa (talk) 00:05, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
It seems another of my memory modules has developed a fault. They are over six years old. Is it not possible to simply mark down somewhere the bad part of the ram and just not use it like with hard disks? --Seans Potato Business 00:17, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
I have a perfectly good Canon laser printer (LBP5200) which I have had for many years and it was working well on Windows 7 until I upgraded to Windows 10. Now nothing. Contacted Canon and they sent me a driver to install after removing the old driver. Still no good. In the troubleshooting data it is suggested to open Notepad, type something and then print it. It printed OK which indicates that the printer is alright. I have an old laptop which is running XP. I loaded the program from the original LBP5200 installation disk but it still will not print. Perhaps my 20 kilogram printer is destined to become an anchor for my boat.05:05, 4 August 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.166.226.87 (talk)
Well I don't think either of the comments are that helpful, but to be fair if it did work on Windows 7, switching back is an option which at least is a solution to the particular problem. I don't see that telling someone to swtich to Debian "because it is much better" is helpful at all, when it's probably not going to easily help them with the problem they're having [5] [6] [7] [8]. (I'm sure you can get it work somehow, but it doesn't sounds like it's going to be easier than Windows 10 x64.)
Anyway, it sounds like this problem is mostly because Canon never released a x64 driver on Windows for the LBP5200 for whatever reason. So unless you want to be stuck on x32 for ever, which doesn't make much sense if you ever plan to get a new computer with more than 2 GB of RAM, sticking with Windows 7 isn't a long term solution even for the support period of Windows 7.
The advice by Ruslik0 and me above will probably help. Alternatively Windows 10 x64 seems to have drivers for a number of Canon printers. It's possible one of these will work with the 5200 but I can't say which one. You'd want to look for one which uses Canon CAPT [9] [10]. Failing all that, these printers seem to be CAPT and with Windows 10 x64 drivers [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] although I would strongly recommend you try the 5000 one first. You could also run Windows XP or something in a VM although I can't help with licencing issues for that.
(Macmini4,1; OS X Yosemite 10.10.5)
For some reason, just today, my dock is showing an icon for downloads. I have not made any changes that I know of, though of course there could have been an automatic update.
Anyway, I want to remove it. For most items in the dock, I can remove them simply by dragging them to the desktop--they then show a little animated puff of smoke and disappear from the dock. Another way is to click on them and hold down--I get a small menu with options, and in the option dropdown I can choose "remove from dock".
When I do the former for downloads (drag to the desktop) it does nothing. When I do the latter (click and hold down for a menu), I don't get any menu but rather the downloads "expand" to show what's in my downloads. I also tried going to system preferences → dock. There's no option in there to manage them (just size options and like matters).
Any Ideas? Thanks in advance--108.54.152.77 (talk) 17:46, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
Doesn't the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs need some updating? Would a computer science student benefit from it in the same way as the original readers back then when it was published for the first time? --Hofhof (talk) 18:47, 4 August 2016 (UTC)