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:::::Yeah I've seen delta search before - thankfully not on my laptop. It's certainly malware of a very annoying type. IIRC it appears in the add/remove programs menu (or whatever it's called in windows 7 - programs and features?) and all I had to do was click "remove" and it removed delta search from the computer (which btw was also windows 7.) If that doesn't work than you'll have to use some type of malware remover. --[[User:Yellow1996 |.Yellow1996.]]<sup><small>([[User talk:Yellow1996 |ЬMИED¡]])</small></sup> 16:18, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
:::::Yeah I've seen delta search before - thankfully not on my laptop. It's certainly malware of a very annoying type. IIRC it appears in the add/remove programs menu (or whatever it's called in windows 7 - programs and features?) and all I had to do was click "remove" and it removed delta search from the computer (which btw was also windows 7.) If that doesn't work than you'll have to use some type of malware remover. --[[User:Yellow1996 |.Yellow1996.]]<sup><small>([[User talk:Yellow1996 |ЬMИED¡]])</small></sup> 16:18, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
::::Use SysInternal's Process Monitor. It is free and creates a log of everything every process on the system does. Load Chrome and get to the menu to change the search engine. Tell Process Monitor to start logging, then click the button to make the change, and tell it to stop loggin again. Apply a filter in ProcMon to show only actions by chrome.exe, and look through the log to see what it changes. Once you have figured out where the setting is saved, start logging and do whatever it is you need to do to get infected again. Filter the log for changes to the file or registry setting you identified earlier and see what changed it. [[Special:Contributions/209.131.76.183|209.131.76.183]] ([[User talk:209.131.76.183|talk]]) 12:38, 9 August 2013 (UTC)


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August 4

Proxy servers

What is the easiest and most virus/malware free way of using a proxy to access a web site? I'm looking for something that a not very technically minded person would be able to use. Dismas|(talk) 10:12, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you'll need to tell us what practical problem you're hoping this will solve. Is it privacy, ad blocking, national firewall circumvention, corporate firewall circumvention, pretending to be in another country, or something else? -- Finlay McWalterTalk 13:25, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Probably the easiest thing to do is to set up a SOCKS proxy over an ssh session. If you're on Windows, PuTTY can be used as a SOCKS proxy; all you need is a suitable SSH server (e.g. any *nix computer for which you have an account) to connect to - that will become your proxy server. Then you just point your browser to use your localhost as the proxy; and PuTTY and SSH take care of the plumbing. This encrypts traffic from your client to the proxy-server, so it meets at least a minimum threshold of security; and I will vouch that PuTTY is not malware (though its author, Simon Tatham, seems to have changed web hosts since I last recall. The ultra-paranoid should take heed!) SOCKS is very simple; it forwards individual TCP packets, not application-layer protocols; it doesn't have any performance optimizing tricks like a dedicated caching proxy (e.g. squid); but it's much easier to set up the client and the server.
If you're on *nix on your client, you can do the same without PuTTY: OpenSSH and dropbear both support SOCKS tunneling. Update: after trying it myself, and verifying in our list of SSH software technical features, dropbear (when used as the client) does not support SOCKS proxy. Nimur (talk) 15:56, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's for some people who are in Hong Kong to use to reach a site here in the US. I am not in HK, so I need something that I can walk them through at a distance. The users are getting server time out errors (from a couple different locations within HK) but that's all I have as far as what is keeping them from getting to the site. I've spoken to the US host and they claim that going through a proxy will solve the problem. Dismas|(talk) 19:22, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Tor is just one download away: https://www.torproject.org/ . Be aware that many Tor exit nodes (free proxies in general) snoop your traffic. --81.175.225.92 (talk) 23:16, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a coda symbol to my signature

I would like to replace the ichthys symbol at the end of my signature with a coda symbol, but it doesn't seem to be rendering the unicode. Anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks! Ditch 15:25, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it seems that only three obscure fonts support this symbol, so it's unlikely that it can be supported on the client side. CSS3, however, has support for WebFonts, which allows a font to be stored on the server and retrieved and displayed on the browser. Maybe if a 'music' script is added to the list of MW-supported WebFonts, it will be possible to use WebFonts for this, but not at the moment. There might be other ways to display it that I'm not aware of, though. ;) Kayau (talk · contribs) 15:35, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Disabling autoplay videos?

While I'm here: Is there an app or browser setting that will disable videos from auto-playing when the window launches? Short of keeping my system volume on mute, my current method is to keep a mental list of websites that do this, and avoid them. But that's not really practical. Local news affiliates seem particular egregious in doing this. I need to have the volume on for work, as keeping up with current news reports is part of my job, but it's very annoying and embarrassing in the office when I click to a story, and get a loud TMZ report about Kim Cardasian, rather than the health care reform story I am researching. PS- I am not particular about what browser I use while at work, so any will do if they have this functionality. Thanks! Ditch 15:38, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There used to be an autoplay blocker for Firefox but it got canceled and isn't usable anymore. Apparently NoScript can do this (though I've never tried it out); and there still exists one for YouTube only here. Hope this helps! --Yellow1996 (talk) 16:59, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes indeed. Thanks! The one for YouTube alone will cut down more than half of the offenders. A friend offline said that certain OSes feature a way to set your security settings to prompt with an "allow" button before running some video scripts, so I'm looking into that now as well. Small soapbox comment here: If comments are available on a webpage that runs an autoplay video, I often comment something like "Did not read due to autoplay video." I mean, they still got my click, which is probably all they care about, but it makes me feel better :) Ditch 17:27, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. :) Hmmm... I've never heard of that feature (must be something unixy! ;)) --Yellow1996 (talk) 01:26, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
iOS blocks autoplay for web content, and requires a click first. It's not configruable though, as far as I know. Unilynx (talk) 19:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I know for certain that Chrome can be set to require a click to load a plugin, and I think Firefox and IE can as well. 209.131.76.183 (talk) 11:57, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, NoScript will help you out here. I use it an like it, though it does serve as a reminder of how much (or how little!) of modern the web functions properly without javascript. SemanticMantis (talk) 00:38, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wish I could just detect when clicking a link will send me to an autoplay video, so I could avoid picking those links. Just happened an hour ago, when I wanted a list of the baseball players suspended in the Biogenesis scandal, but instead kept getting annoying videos. I eventually found the Wikipedia article, which had the list and no annoyances.
As a practical suggestion for you, how about wearing headphones ? Even if you are listening to the proper work-related sites, I'm sure your neighbors would prefer silence. StuRat (talk) 00:46, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Google Chrome

Hello. I am an Arab and I was using Google Chrome in Arabic, but it turned to English automatically, and I do not know how it returned to Arab --ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 17:08, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, if you are on Chrome, go to the "preferences" icon (the three black bars at the top right). Go to "settings -> advanced settings" (a link near the bottom of the settings page). Select language, and click on the "add language" button to select your preference. Ditch 20:15, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]


August 5

Completely web-based free source code repositories?

I'm wondering if there are any free repositories out there that don't require a client (eg: Git, SVN, Mercurial)? As in a site that I could just upload files directly from my browser. Cheers! 70.112.97.77 (talk) 17:11, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, so it turns out that you can, at least, copy and paste a file in GitHub, so I'll just go with that then. 70.112.97.77 (talk) 18:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Market/exchange program

I'd like to have a full-featured resource exchange (as in "stock exchange") in a multiplayer game that I'm writing. Is there a free program/library/server that would help with that? It turns out 'exchange' is used in a lot of different contexts so googling is ineffective. --81.175.225.92 (talk) 23:06, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if this would help, I found a couple of good options in the top results on Google searching "stock exchange simulator open source" Jdphenix (talk) 01:14, 10 August 2013 (UTC) Edited Jdphenix (talk) 01:44, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]


August 6

Windows 8.1

Does anyone know when Windows 8.1 will be available to the general public? I checked the Wikipedia article; it does not say. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 13:21, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can already download it for free on Mirosoft. 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 16:02, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I think I heard about Sept. 1. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 14:24, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According to this it is coming out "in Autumn." --Yellow1996 (talk) 16:42, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
[This] says by the end of August to OEM companies and late September to the general public. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:49, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to all! Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 14:21, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Youtube loading slowly

Whenever I go to Youtube to watch a video it loads very slowly. This just started today and other websites load quickly so I don't think my internet connection is the problem. I did just update Adobe Flash Player and Reader so maybe those might be the problem? I'm using Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated. 2001:5B0:25FF:1CF0:0:0:0:39 (talk) 23:31, 6 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is actually a common problem with Adobe Updates. Follow the instructions on this page to uninstall Flash; then, reinstall it and the problem should be gone (if that was what was causing the slowdown in the first place.) Good luck! --Yellow1996 (talk) 01:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 7

2-step dynamic ssh tunnel

So, say I've got three linux machines, a b and c, and wish to visit a web server "s". The first (a) is behind a strict firewall and can see neither c nor s, but can see b. B is in the wrong country to access s, but can see c which is able to access s. Is it a reasonably simple thing to browse the web a->b->c->s?

In the real world I use /ssh -D nnnn b/ to talk as b to the world.

--Psud (talk) 11:17, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article may be helpful. Horselover Frost (talk · edits) 21:02, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The difficult part isn't the non-dynamic tunnels, which you could use all the way until you got to s. It's the dynamic tunnel you'll need between a and s. I've always had trouble getting those to work and ended up resorting to proxy solutions like SOCKS (see something like squid). It sounds like you've made that work though. Just use non-dynamic tunnels to create a path to s, then have a connect its dynamic tunnel to a local port that exits at s. Command line ssh uses the -L command. You'd so something like ssh -L 1234:192.168.1.3:22 192.168.1.2. Shadowjams (talk) 05:26, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Horselover and Shadowjams :) I shall try something based on your advice and suggestions and see how it goes :D --Psud (talk) 08:07, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What is the purpose of this aspect of Google's search results page?

After typing some search keywords into Google's search engine and getting to the page at which the results were, with the Google logo at the top left of the screen with the search bar at its right, I inadvertently held the left mouse button down while the cursor was over the Google logo and dragged it to the search bar. I noticed that there was a small box icon now attached to my cursor, indicating that there was text to be dropped into the search bar, so I let go of the mouse button, and the following text was dropped: "https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww". No matter what search I do, on the search results page, the logo confers this text. Why make the logo hold that text? 20.137.2.50 (talk) 16:08, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't work for me in IE9 but works in Firefox 22. As for why it does this, I would assume since the logo links back to the main page, dragging it into the search field yields the link that clicking the picture takes you to. It never changes because clicking the google logo always takes you to the main page. --.Yellow1996.(ЬMИED¡) 16:27, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Right. This is a browser feature and not something done by Google. Try the same here: Drag the Wikipedia logo on this page to the search box or edit box. The logo links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page so that's what you get. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It is fairly standard to make the logo on a page link to the home page. Dmcq (talk) 18:07, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, so it's just that the browser takes the text of a hyperlinked image when you click and drag in Firefox. 75.75.42.89 (talk) 00:53, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Create a company page

Hi, My name is Mathieu Hernandez and I'm contacting you because I would like to create a wikipedia page for my company but every time I try to do it, it's automatically deleted.

I have read all the article about how to create a company page, what I should not write, what I need to write... I tried a couple of time to write only the introduction but it's never good enough.

I really respect all the non-promotion principles and it's absolutely not the point of my article. We just started an internet company called MonaBar: "MonaBar is a money-saving website that provides its users with cash back deals, online earning opportunities, coupons and contests." (this is the text of my introduction)

I want to create a Wikipedia page because we are a serious company with a lot of ambition but we are in an industry full of bad competition like scams, cash back pop-ups, ads... Our problem is that this industry has a bad reputation for now, even if the Cash Back becomes more popular with credit cards, banks, etc.. Having a Wikipedia page would bring us a lot of credibility, I don't want to promote my company saying we are the best in what we do but just describe it and show that we are a serious company. Please give me advices about how could I do to create this page.

Regards,

Mathieu HERNANDEZ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hernandez Mathieu (talkcontribs) 18:09, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Companies that have just started should not have Wikipedia articles. The notability criteria have been linked from your talk page since December; your company doesn't remotely meet those standards. Make a success of your company and then, maybe, it can have an article. Not until then. 87.113.212.132 (talk) 19:51, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a business directory, ask yourself why would your company have an article in an encyclopedia, like Britannica? If you can see why an encyclopedia like Britannica would not have an article about your company, then the same reason applies to Wikipedia. You say promotion is definitely not the point of you wanting an article but then you admit you want to create the Wikipedia article because it would bring your company credibility. This is obviously for no other purpose then promotion, is there any other reason why anyone on earth would want or need to know anything about your company? Vespine (talk) 00:28, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Even the opening line you wrote is promotional -- written in PR speak. It's not neutral. It would get slapped with a Template:Advert at least. --157.254.178.140 (talk) 21:50, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
WP:DENY
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Just keep trying. Eventually it'll get through. Try different times of the day, different accounts, etc. If this is notable then I'm sure your "business" is, too.—Best Dog Ever (talk) 05:46, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 8

Virus Removal

There's a search engine (delta search) that makes itself default on google chrome browser, I wanted to know what google chrome file you have to edit to change the search engine, it's possible I can find what programs are writting the file google chrome uses to know what is the default search engine, so what file is it, or where can I find that information?

Using Windows-7 probably last version of chrome. 181.50.178.92 (talk) 03:12, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Its rather simpler to do than that, no direct file editing needed. Instructions are here at support.google.com.
  1. Click the Chrome menu (three bars in top right corner) on the browser toolbar.
  2. Select Settings
  3. In the "Search" section, select the search engine you want to use from the menu. If the search engine you want to use doesn't appear in the menu, click Manage search engines.
  4. In the Search Engines dialog that appears, select the search engine that you'd like to use from the list.
  5. Click the Make Default button that appears in the row.
    But, why is this section headed "Virus Removal", rather confusing. :-s --220 of Borg 06:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@220 ...because Delta Search is malware.--Shantavira|feed me 07:52, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes thanks Shatavira. Having Googled it now there's quite a bit on the net about it. I have not come across it before. ---220 of Borg 11:17, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
(I didn't ask how to change default search engine on Google Chome) Each time Google Chrome is closed - opened, the default search engine file has been edited, and delta search becomes the new default search engine again, thanks for trying anyway.
PD: I forgot to mention that the reason why I need to know the file, is to track all the processes that may access the fille while chrome is closed, and probably guiding me to the removal of the executables. 190.60.93.218 (talk) 12:20, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Try instructions here at malwaretips.com. This includes using AdwCleaner, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and HitmanPro. --220 of Borg 13:10, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I've seen delta search before - thankfully not on my laptop. It's certainly malware of a very annoying type. IIRC it appears in the add/remove programs menu (or whatever it's called in windows 7 - programs and features?) and all I had to do was click "remove" and it removed delta search from the computer (which btw was also windows 7.) If that doesn't work than you'll have to use some type of malware remover. --.Yellow1996.(ЬMИED¡) 16:18, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Use SysInternal's Process Monitor. It is free and creates a log of everything every process on the system does. Load Chrome and get to the menu to change the search engine. Tell Process Monitor to start logging, then click the button to make the change, and tell it to stop loggin again. Apply a filter in ProcMon to show only actions by chrome.exe, and look through the log to see what it changes. Once you have figured out where the setting is saved, start logging and do whatever it is you need to do to get infected again. Filter the log for changes to the file or registry setting you identified earlier and see what changed it. 209.131.76.183 (talk) 12:38, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook question

I have lately noticed that whenever I click on a link to a specific Facebook page from outside Facebook, the page shows up completely empty. This happens with FireFox both at home (Linux) and at work (Windows). I have to go to the main Facebook page and click on a link from there for the page to show up. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is it a bug or a feature? JIP | Talk 11:47, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say it's a bug - and after some searching it doesn't appear to be a common one (a lot of people having the problem within facebook, but not links coming in...) Since you're using Firefox my first reaction is that there's an extension causing this. Try disabling them one by one until the problem stops (or not.) You could also try using a different browser and see if it still happens. Good luck! --.Yellow1996.(ЬMИED¡) 16:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Making a multi-language site crawlable

I have a multi-language website (Polish, English, German). Language preference is stored in a cookie. The language cookie is set by URL parameters, adding "?lang=en_US" (for English) to the URL. Unfortunately URL for different languages are identical, which language version to present is determined only by the value of the language cookie. So a URL www.mydomain.com will be either English, German or Polish depending on the cookie value. For human users this works fine, but apparently it is a problem for googlebot and other search engine bots which don't understand cookies. Because of this google is only indexing 1/3 of my pages (of default language Polish), even though I added all pages to my sitemap file. So, because of this, I would like to make my website crawlable. I can see the following two options:

1. Adding "?lang=..." (with language equal to the current language) to all internal links except for the language-switching links

2. Restructuring the whole website to use for instance sub-domains or directories for different languages.

"1" would be easiest, but I am wondering whether there is any issue concerning SEO (ugly URL) or performance (re-setting cookies whenever clicking a link) or any other problem with it? "2" would be a lot more work. bamse (talk) 12:12, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think you can implement 2 And 1, for example you can use mod_rewrite (Assuming you're using Apache, in the case that you're not using it, try finding a rewriting module, or an 'option' that allows you to do that) to rewrite urls, so when someone types example.com/english/intro.html it gets rewritten (not redirected) internally to example.com/intro.html?lang=english, However I do not know if this is the standard way of adding multiple languages, or if it helps SEO engines (But certainly using cookies is not, I ALWAYS disable cookies), Hope that helps! 190.60.93.218 (talk) 12:31, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Chroot for offline windows

Chroot is often assimiled to be a kind sandbox. But in Unix, it also allow use of programs on certain non-bootable installation. When I search chroot for windows: I see things like sandbox. I don't want security, I want a way to rescue the system. By example, if I disabled syskey with ntpasswd, running C:\windows\system32\syskey.exe with a such utility would modify the registry entries of the of the offline installation, not the current one

What it means for windows? Well, there is winre which allow having the same drive letters of your windows installation. There is an example: compact.exe is not present on winre installs. if you cd to \%Windir%\system32 (the directory of the offline install) and run compact, it won't work(except if you use it with /?). If you run

   X:\sources\>path C:\Windows\System32\

You now use the files present in your offline windows. Base dlls such as ntdll.dll or eventually gdi.dll are those from C:\Windows\System32 instead of X:\%windir%\system32 and running compact will work.

But Programs runned by this way will use the current registry. The main keys (HKLM; HKCC; HKCR; HKCU; HKU; HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA) with their contents, are those of the current winre/pe installation, not those you have when you booted in your windows. So, if a program want to modify some registry entries, it will modify the Hives of X:\windows\system32\config not those of located in the C:\ systemdrive.

It is possible to mount the Hives of your offline windows under HKLM and edit them, but the programs which have their informations in HKLM\Software would still look at HKLM\Software and not at the name you mounted it.

The utility I am looking for would (partially?) hide the registry of winpe/re in favour of the one present in the offline install. The expected effect is that if you launch the registry editor with the utility, you will see the keys as if you would have booted into windows. (Maybe with some exceptions?)

The application would still use the Microsoft services of the current windows. I'd like launching services installed on the offline windows that are not installed on the current one. It would be nice to do this even for kernel ones. By this way, you would have the same behaviour when you launch sysv daemons in unix. Except here some mechanism for avoiding dual instances could be necessary, because the problems would be more critical on windows

The user access rights are an important part in the Microsoft systems. Specifying a user name and password in the parameters of the command line could be necessary. Some problems occurs with a bad User database configuration and prevent windows to boot. If want to enable Syskey again, It would need to have the authentication informations which couldn't be used. But in some case like syskey problems, it make windows in endless reboots. I think one possibility would be to find a way to mount the user Hives by providing their path instead of login informations. Or if it is impossible, try to keep the user keys/informations of the current booted windows.

I don't know if a utility like this exist. I'd like help for programming it with mingw from linux (I can't have Visual Studio) . It would be good if it don't need to be installed. I would like it don't use .NET or the full windows API, because I would like to see it working under winre. I write for C/C++ under linux, but I never done it for windows. The only experience I have is provided by the fact I managed to build 7-Zip with winebuilder. I just know that the main function is called "main" for console programs and "WinMain" for windows ones. I am not familiar with WINAPI nor nt API. I just know there are not real equivalent to the chroot() of the Unix API.

I hope this is possible, thanks in advance. 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 12:51, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

August 9

Images that have pixels of nearly every color of the spectrum

I am doing some independant research, and i need to find out if there are any images out there that have nearly every RGB color expressible with r,g,b being from 0 to 255 as you see in modern computers. Obviously, a perfect match would be any image which contains 256^3 pixels, each with their own color, so that indeed, every pixel color is in there. However, i need this picture to be something that isn't just any pixels. It should be a real photograph if possible. I can write a java program to test whether or not there are pixels within 10 values of every possible color, but i would have to test it on some large amount of input images. So i was wondering if this is an already described property of an image, or if someone knows some great images to start off with.

Thanks!

216.173.145.47 (talk) 07:21, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]


I know that what i am looking for has links to high color variance, where variance is a type of analysis done on images. I tried to google for such images and the only ideas i have thus far are perhaps images of differently colored rugs with lots of patterns or depictions on them, or images with many things in them. I guess i would like to add that the point is subtlety. The image shouldn't look like its terribly obvious that almost every color is there. Therefore, an image of a color wheel is not a good candidate. ;)

216.173.145.47 (talk) 07:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weird PC speaker problem

I have them for about 6 years (some model of Alteclansing). for some reason, every 10 seconds (approximately), there is a weird noise coming from both speakers equally. it lasts beteewn 3 to 7 seconds each time. reinstalling drivers didn't help, the cables seems to be connected fine, and i have win7, any ideas? before i pay a stiff for new speakers? Thank you, blessings. 09:06, 9 August 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben-Natan (talkcontribs)

If you have a cell phone near your computer try moving it further away. There is a pretty characteristic intermittent pulsing buzz/hum kind of sound (i know, terrible description) that comes over poorly shielded speakers when a cell phone communicates with the cell network nearby. Every 10 seconds sounds too frequent for that too me, but I haven't had speakers that pick up the sound since smartphones and constant data use have become more common. You could also try borrowing a different pair of speakers to see if it is just your set. Plugging in headphones to the headphone jack on the PC would confirm that the sound isn't coming from software. 209.131.76.183 (talk) 12:33, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

hey beotches

I have TWO facebook accounts to one email,, I MEAN, how is that even POSSIBLE , SEEING THAT THAT FORBID THAT KIND OF thing ???? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.6.72 (talk) 11:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]