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February 17

Printer Has Stopped Working

I have a Brother 2360 printer connected to a Dell desktop computer that is running Windows 10. After working properly for a long time, it suddenly stopped working yesterday, meaning that files to be printed began queuing and not printing. I tried cancelling the print jobs, and all that did was to cancel the print jobs. I tried unplugging the printer and plugging it back in. The printer will print a test page on command from the front, but won't do anything else. Finally I uninstalled the printer driver from the Control Panel. I mean I uninstalled the printer driver from the Device Manager. (I still think of the Control Panel, even though that term has been superseded by the Settings options with the gear wheel icon.) Now I can't find a way to get Windows to find the printer and re-install the printer.

What are reasonable next steps to regain my previous functionality of printing to this device? I don't think that I still have the CD. Can I, for instance, download the driver from the Brother web site? Should Windows 10 be able to detect and install the device?

Please do not give stupid advice.
Any completely stupid advice, such as buying an Apple, or copying print images to a thumb drive and taking the images to a public library, may be ridiculed or may be copied to the editor's talk page.

Robert McClenon (talk) 06:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried the 'Add a printer or scanner' option (in the 'System settings') and then clicking 'refresh' if needed? Also how is the printer connected? Nil Einne (talk) 16:01, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Nil Einne - It didn't detect the printer and doesn't want to add it. It does offer to add an HP Envy 4520. I understand that. The 4520 is in a different part of the house and is a wireless printer. I think that I will add it later, but at this point that isn't what I want. The 2360 is supposedly connected by USB between the printer and the Dell. It occurs to me that the next obvious step is to check the USB at both ends, the back of the printer and the back of the Dell. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:41, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If it's connected by USB and is on then it should show up in Device Manager if it's detected in any way by Windows, no matter if there are driver or any other problem. If it doesn't, this likely indicates either a cable problem or something wrong with the printer or USB port. Nil Einne (talk) 18:18, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Brother website recognizes model HL-L2360 (picture) and offers troubleshooting questions, manual, specifications and support contact by form or telephone. Downloads of drivers and a "repair tool" are available. DroneB (talk) 19:15, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Try to connect it to a different usb port and/or to a different computer. Ruslik_Zero 20:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you to everybody. I uninstalled the printer, and my efforts to reinstall it were apparently unsuccessful. I checked the USB connections, and was considering buying a new USB cable, since the cable is the cheapest thing to replace. Then I did a power-off restart. The printer is now working. I am not sure what solved the problem, but if this happens again, I will try a power-off restart first rather than last, because it is relatively straightforward anyway. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question about the advice to try to connect it to a different computer. I assume that referred to the USB cable. Was that intended to check the cable, or to check the port? I didn't do that, but just want to understand in case I try it again some other time. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was an advice to check that USB interface generally works. USB can sometimes suffer from weird problems. Ruslik_Zero 20:51, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For clarity, did you try powering off the printer after you started having problems but before you mentioned above? If not, FWIW, turning off the device and turning it back it on again is often one of the first trouble shooting steps that should be tried with any device depending on various factors like the difficulty and risk of doing so. If two devices are involved, trying it for both devices is generally better. (So e.g. if it's a computer connected to another self powered device, try it for both. If the device isn't self powered, disconnecting it would have the same effect.) If at all possible, it's better to turn it off or disconnect it at the wall, since any standby power modes of the built in power button probably means the device isn't properly reset. (Powering it off at the wall is generally not so important for modern computers for various reasons.) Nil Einne (talk) 18:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox and caching rate

I know that Firefox has a parameter for adjusting the rate at which the cache of open tabs are updated in "about:config", but I can't remember what it's called. There are so many of them, hard to find the one you want. Basically, the problem is that if you have a lot of tabs open Firefox caching almost completely takes over all the processor resource. Can anyone help me out with a name? SpinningSpark 19:20, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorting in Excel

When we alphabetize a book or film title like The Godfather, we eliminate the word "The" (or "A" or "An") and we alphabetize by the "G" of "Godfather". So, let's say that I have a very long list (of titles) ... and I want to simplify the task of alphabetizing them all by sorting with Excel. Does Microsoft Excel have any easy way of doing this? Or do they have some complex way of handling it? Or is the Excel program not capable of handling this problem at all? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 22:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have never seen a way to do that easily. I make a second column that converts all letters to lower case, replaces "^the " with an empty string, replaced "^a " with an empty string and replaced "^an " with an empty string. Then, if I wanted, I could get rid of similar words I want to ignore. I then sort the entire table by the column I created. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 12:51, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This works. I know because I've done it:

Search and replace "The and space" with "The;#". Then "The Godfather" will appear "The#;Godfather".

Copy paste the column to a notepad.

Paste it back into a column with ";" as the delimiter. That will put "The" into column 1 and "Moviename" into column 2.

Sort by column 2.

To combine the two columns again there are a few options. One is to copy paste the two columns to a notepad and replace "#" with ";" and paste back into the same place with ";" as the delimiter. (If the notepad paste suddenly contains "#+tab" then replace "#+tab" with ";".)

Done.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:09, 18 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It really depends on what you want the end result to look like. For example, I have an Excel file with a list of movie titles (my DVD collection) and I have the titles written as "Godfather, The". If that's the result you're looking for and you don't want to do it all by hand, you could set up a nested IF statement with MIDs and CONCATENATEs to rearrange the titles. For example, if the title is in A1, try this: =IF(LEFT(A1,4)="The ",CONCATENATE(MID(A1,5,99),", The"),IF(LEFT(A1,3)="An ",CONCATENATE(MID(A1,4,99),", An"),IF(LEFT(A1,2)="A ",CONCATENATE(MID(A1,3,99),", A"),A1))) That covers the "A", "An", and "The" initial words; you can see how to add more if you'd like. Matt Deres (talk) 02:52, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's not so easy to do that automatically since there are so many different cases to handle. In practice you'll typically make a column with the title the way you want it displayed ("The Godfather"), and another column (manually curated) giving the sorting key ("Godfather, The") if it's not the same as the display title. See WP:SORTKEY for how Wikipedia handles this: there are metadata tags in the articles saying how the titles should be sorted. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 06:51, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. And just to show how tricky this is, the best sorting key for The Godfather is more likely to be "godfather", with no capital letters and no "the". Also no diacritical marks, if you're working in English. Whether or not spaces should be preserved in the middle of the sorting key (for example, whether the sorting key for A Christmas Carol is "christmascarol" or "christmas carol") depends on whose sorting rules you're using. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 07:29, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. Anyhow, if you do it the way I do, be careful about Lord of the Rings, because there is "the and space", so you'd have to shove a symbol at the beginning of the title to make sure "the", when first in the title, is all that is affected. Also, really, all that code baffles me. What I do is easy. Problematic titles start with "the" or "A" or "An" and not much else. The whole thing takes like 1 minute. It seems like the easiest way. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:14, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Except for the part where you have to go through every title anyway to make sure that you don't hit movies that have "a" or "an" or "the" somewhere inside the title, of which there is no shortage. Excel IF statements are notoriously convoluted looking, but the logic simply says "If the first word of the title is "a/an/the", grab the rest of the title after that word, and stick the trimmed word at the end." Matt Deres (talk) 19:14, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, my friend. For simpletons like me, :) I'll just use my method and start with a symbol at the beginning to prevent the problem you describe. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:26, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just prefixes like a/an. You might want to alphabetize 1984 (1956 film) as "nineteen eighty four" etc. There is a table in Knuth vol 3 giving a bunch of examples like that. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 10:06, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

True. I only dealt with the question as asked, but you're correct that sorting is a complicated process with many hidden questions to stumble over. Matt Deres (talk) 16:05, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Annoying iPhone banner

When I double tap the home button on my iPhone, it displays all the tabs I have open. But it often also brings up a small banner at the bottom of the screen, usually for the podcast app, telling me 'Good Morning' and suggesting I use the app. I find this annoying. Is there any way I can turn off this function? I have an iPhone 5s, iOS 12.1.4

Try going to Settings > General > Spotlight Search and turning off "Siri Suggestions". --Canley (talk) 11:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 19

Description for OML (Q11794389)

Hello all,

I would like to add a description to the Wikidata object OML (Q11794389). The linked polish Wikipedia article pl:OML says something like "language used when creating bindings to an external programming" which is not really clear to me. In addition, Object Manipulation Language is already an alias. Not sure if the definition "programming language" fits here. Any recommendations? Many thanks in advance. Best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 07:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Hundsrose. Your translation lacks one word – it should read "language used when creating bindings to an external programming language". Alas, even though Polish is my language, I don't understand that, either. I have asked the creator of the plwiki's stub to expand it a bit (pl:User talk:Durski#OML), but got no reply yet. --CiaPan (talk) 15:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@CiaPan: Thank you so much for your answer and your action. Very kind of you. --Hundsrose (talk) 17:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Solve cubic equations

In one of my programs I need to solve a large number of cubic equations with integer coefficients. I'm only interested in positive real solutions. I have code for the analytic solution of cubit equations, but it executes too slowly. Right now I'm trying Newton's method, but a significant amount of the time it gets into a loop alternating between two values (I think that means that there are no real roots).

When I took numerical analysis about 40 years ago, I remember that one of the first things we did was a very simple, non-iterative method to get roots of polynomials. (Has rational roots if integer coefficients.) I can't remember the method or its name, and I haven't been able to find it in searches and reading articles.

Can someone point me to that method (or perhaps a better one)? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 08:34, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A cubic equation with integer coefficients must always have at least one real root. The ones that don't converge are probably because the initial value you are feeding in is in a region of the curve that does not monotonically lead to the root, or else you are closing on a point of inflection. The way to proceed is to first find the two extrema (which involves solving a quadratic only). If the function at one extremum has a positive value and the other negative, then there are three real roots, otherwise there is only one. If there are three roots, one is above the higher (x-value) extremum, one below the lower, and one between the two. If there is only one, the sign of the function at the the extrema and the sign of the cubic term tells you which "end" of the function the root is at. Alternative methods for finding a root at root-finding algorithm of which the conceptually most simple is probably the bracketing method. SpinningSpark 13:19, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73: I'm not quite sure what kind of problem you describe. But, if it is lots of independent cubic equations, each with a single variable, isn't Cubic function#Algebraic solution appropriate? --CiaPan (talk) 13:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't that what he's tried already? That is the analytic solution. Although, I agree, it's hard to believe that anything else is going to be any faster. SpinningSpark 13:59, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@User:Spinningspark I really doubt it. The algebraic solution is IMHO the fastest possible way (provided we're talking about separate, independent equations with one variable each, as I clearly assumed above). Iterative methods like Newton are slower and can be divergent. If the 'analytic' method 'executes too slowly', as Bubba73 said, so that OP chose to switch from the 'analytic' method to Newton's, their 'analytic' method must have not been the algebraic one. --CiaPan (talk) 15:30, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have my old code for the exact solution, but it uses a lot of trig functions, so wouldn't be very fast. However, they are depressed cubic equations (no

x^{2}

term, so the link to cubic equation should work fine, thanks for that. And yes, you are right about the iteration bouncing between two values - it is where there is a valley in the real function that doesn't cross the x-axis, related to a complex root. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 16:27, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The code for solving a cubic equation I have is based on "Numerical Recipes" by Press, Flannery, Teukolsky and Vetterling. I takes several roots and four trig functions, beside a lot of arithmetic. But it is designed to avoid trouble with round-off errors. It does about 10,000,000/sec on my computer, and I need to do trillions of them. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 19:39, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, as I've implemented them, Cardano's method is only about 25% faster. The time-consuming part is taking the cube root using log and exponential. Is there a faster way for cube root? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 20:17, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bubba73: As far as I know there exist some approximations for elementary functions with polynomial and rational functions, alas I do not know them... Please see the page about the cube root — the Cube root#Numerical methods section contains quite fast iterative method for approximating the function. I'm not a mathematician and have not used mathematics at this level for a long time, but hopefully Halley's method page will let you derive a necessary approximation of the iterations' convergence. May be it will turn out faster than exp(log()) ...? --CiaPan (talk) 21:25, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I thought of what is probably a better approach. Since I am looking only for positive integer solutions, and the last step is the cube root, I can tabulate the cubes of integers and search on that table rather than doing the cube root calculation. That should be a lot faster, but I haven't tested it yet. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:01, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rational root theorem is the one I was thinking of but couldn't remember. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 06:39, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think more than algorithms you have to ask about constant factors here, and note that if you really are going to be solving these cubics on a massive scale ("trillions" by itself isn't much) you probably want to use a GPU. So asking yourself how you can parallelize the algorithm can be important in algorithm selection. The algebraic solutions IIRC involve classifying the equations into different branches which might get in the way of a SIMD solution. Also, decide how much accuracy you need: a lookup table might beat a numerical root finder if you don't need much. If you have AVX-512 hardware, look at the Intel SPMD compiler: https://ispc.github.io/ . Again though, the next thing after that is probably a GPU. I also wonder if a second-order Newtons' method would be faster than the usual first-order one in this specific case. It might depend on whether you have some info about the equations that lets you pick a good initial guess. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 21:34, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I was planning to parallel the calculations, but I don't know about the GPU and other hardware. But I'm looking for integer solutions, so I don't know how appropriate that would be, I'll just stick to integer arithmetic. I think I can get it to take only a few days to execute in parallel on an i7 or Xeon. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 21:46, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You can do integer calculations on AVX or GPUs. Also, meant to mention another reason to beware of algebra: computer division and exponentiation (cube roots, nth roots, trig etc.) are much slower than multiplication or addition (square roots are about the same as division). So it's faster to do a calculation with several multiplications than a cube root. Integer solutions sound like low precision so maybe a rough numerical method can suffice. AVX and GPU programming with OpenCL or Cuda look like C or C++ with a few changes to facilitate vector processing. Whether it's worth it again depends on just how much of this calculation you want to do. Yeah if it's a one-time thing that you can do in a few days on an i7, then that's probably easiest. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 23:21, 20 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to use AVX or GPU. These aren't exactly low-precision integers - they will be 64-bit integers and on a similar problem I did limited multiprecision integers. I might need to do that again. (Integers have to be exact.) Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 06:32, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

AVX can handle int64, not sure about current gpus. Programming them isn't that much different from ordinary C programming but there is still some ramp up, new tooling to get used to, etc. It's not worth it if you can finish in a few days without it. It's probably worth looking into if you have years worth of these calculations to do. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 10:02, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 21

Where Is Normal.dot?

If I am using Windows 10 and Office 365, where does Microsoft Word look for the normal.dot template? Just how do I look for it starting down from the root of the C: drive? Robert McClenon (talk) 21:26, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure whether it changed in O365, but for 2010-2016 it was in

C:\users\[username]\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

for a roaming profile. I'd assume that it is in

C:\users\[username]\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Templates

for the non-roaming version but I can't check. Note that Appdata is usually a hidden folder. Rmvandijk (talk) 12:22, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rmvandijk - Yes, there it is. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:56, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What is the difference between a local profile and a roaming profile? I can't find the Templates folder for a local profile. I found the template for a roaming profile, but the date on it isn't a recent date, but the date when I set up the machine. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:14, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See Roaming user profile.Thomprod (talk) 14:08, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notes App on Android Phone

I was asked whether there is a Notes app on an Android phone. That is, an application where I can just write notes to myself. I know that I can send a text message to myself, but that isn't exactly what I want, and relies also on the carrier. Is there a Notes application, or something equivalent? (Something like using Word as a scratchpad on a Windows laptop.) Robert McClenon (talk) 21:29, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The most popular are probably Google Keep and Evernote; both are the kind that store your notes "in the cloud" (which may or may not appeal to you). -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 21:43, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have two questions about cloud storage. The first one, which is well known, and where I know that there is a party-line answer, is how secure the cloud is. I know that the official answer is that the cloud is secure. I trust the management of Google more than the management of Facebook, which says nothing, given that we know that Facebook is a rogue operation that peddles your data. The second is whether cloud storage is retrievable if, for any reason, I am out of wireless communication with cell towers. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1) Who knows. Don't count on it. 2) the note app caches a copy locally. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:30, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just searching for "Notes app" on the Google Play store finds a number of options. I use Evernote myself but if all you're looking to do is to store a digital Post-it note on your phone, then Evernote would be overkill. †dismas†|^(talk) 00:07, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Incoming and Outgoing Text Messages

That brings up a question, which is whether my text conversations are stored physically on my cell phone, in the cloud, or both. Robert McClenon (talk) 22:41, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Both. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:30, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming by text conversations you mean SMS, then it depends on the phone and the app used for SMS. For example the Messaging app that is common on a lot of Android phones doesn't generally store SMS on the cloud, although there are various backup apps you can install to do this for you. Hangouts which Google has made various attempts to make the default SMS app but which is not being transitioned, normally does. (I haven't paid that much attention to what the plan is with Hangouts replacement re: SMS.) Also, if you backup your phone to the cloud, this will often include SMS. Prior to the SMS being retrieved, it will be stored on some server. It's possible it will stay around even after being sent to your for various reasons. But I wouldn't really call that stored on the cloud. Nil Einne (talk) 06:57, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I use the Editor app from f<droid.org. I'm sure there are fancier ones but I tend to prefer f-droid apps for privacy and similar reasons. 2602:24A:DE47:BA60:5433:429A:DFBA:C818 (talk) 06:31, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 22

Mac OS x

Please can someone help me work out he i can remove Mac OS X on my iPhone 7 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.181.147.131 (talk) 02:52, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly are you asking? iPhones don't run OS X, they run iOS. Eman 235/talk 03:15, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Content explanation of Flow Java (Q5462069)

Hello,

Could someone please explain me the purpose of the Wikidata element Flow Java (Q5462069)? The Wikipedia page only redirects to Java (programming language) . The instance is programming language, but the only thing I could think of would be the Java class Flow. Any ideas? Thanks in advance and best regards --Hundsrose (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Flow Java was an extension of Java to add declarative concurrency. For further information, look for Frej Drejhammer's papers on Flow Java. They will be about 20 years old. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 17:36, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! :) -- Hundsrose (talk) 07:12, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 23

The first right response gets the beer

Are there Wikipedia articles which are not found on the first or the first two pages of Google search? I needed probably five examples in each category for my research... The first to get me at least two examples in each category (or more) gets a beer with me and an autographed pic :) Lourdes 09:15, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your research is based upon a false premise. You seem to be under the impression that Google gives everybody who searches on a phrase the same search results. That ship sailed years ago. The results can change based upon your search history, where you live, which Google data center you end up connecting to, even your operating system and whether you are using a smart phone or a desktop. The algorithm randomly changes the order of results with similar ranking so that something that is 1% more relevant gets seen at the top 1% more often rather than being at the top every time. In addition, there are a bunch of unknown factors that are part of Google's ongoing arms race with people selling SEO services. If Google thinks that you are one of the SEO services or have hired one, they often give you and you alone wildly different results in an effort to mislead you about what SEO techniques are effective. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:08, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok Guy Macon; thanks for the input. So as per you, there would be results for some people which might show the article Drug class not in the first page, and results for some people which would show Fentanyl in the first page? (Does it for you? Where do these results come for you? Just curious). Lourdes 18:35, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fentanyl: Wikipedia page is the fifth result. Drug class: Wikipedia page is the third result. Viagra: The actual Wikipedia Viagra page (which is a redirect) not in the Google results. The Wikipedia Sildenafil page is is the eighth result. Cockcroft–Walton generator: Wikipedia page is the first result. SpaceX: Wikipedia page is the ninth result. "Aspidura desilvai" (with the quotes): Wikipedia Aspidura desilvai page not in the Google results. Wikipedia Aspidura page is the second result. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:11, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. Thanks. Lourdes 01:29, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How did your Google searches compare? --Guy Macon (talk) 12:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Web Pages Keeping Windows Awake ?

I have Windows 10 set to turn off the screen (when plugged in, but this is a desktop machine) in 10 minutes, and to go to sleep (when plugged in, but this is a desktop machine) in 1 hour. The former feature works fine. If I walk away from the screen for 15 minutes, it is off, but if I move the mouse or tap a key, it comes back on-line. However, if I walk away from the screen or get into bed for several hours, the screen is dark, and when I move the mouse or tap a key, it comes back on-line. I think that is because the Opera browser is refreshing/diddling with the display in the background. If I kill it first, Windows will go to sleep in an hour. Is there a way, short of killing the browser, that I can it to stop playing in the dark? Robert McClenon (talk) 23:26, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Have you tried minimising the browser? If that doesn't work, have you tried opening a new tab with a static webpage (probably the new tab page is fine, but if not, try something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RDC ) and minimising the browser? Nil Einne (talk) 06:49, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Or Bad Puns?

Alternatively, can we have a contest for double-entendre expressions for what it is doing, or even for openly naughty expressions? After all, it is doing its thing in the dark when no one is watching, and we know at least one human activity that is often done in the dark when no one else is watching. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:26, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 24

What makes a website act this way?

I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop. When I log into a certain website, the "home page" of the website appears different on the desktop than it appears on the laptop. This happens even after I hit "refresh the page" on the website. Why is this? The only thing that I can think of is that the website is automatically "detecting" some of my computer settings (for example, the screen resolution of that specific computer). But, even that doesn't make too much sense, in the end. If it matters, the website is one that contains a wide selection of desktop "wallpapers", if you want to change the "wallpaper" on your computer. This is the website: [1]. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 14:54, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to disable Firefox quantum auto refresh

I used have this problem for some time until I googled and found this solution. But after a week of using smoothly, the problem has come back again. I checked about:config and all values are set to "true". But the problem still persists. How to overcome this ? Thank you--103.231.162.134 (talk) 15:20, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]