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June 11

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Cloud-client interfacing problems with Linux configured router

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Hi all, I’m having problems properly interfacing cloud-client over bidirectional user protocols on Linux. Obviously I tried running a virtual network to reduce cloud interference over the router framework, but I think there is a problem with modem RAM that’s preventing me from accessing a more compatible data relay. I’m using a 327 GHz processor configured to a nested cloud-client interface utilizing firewall encryption. Camuscurve (talk) 00:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'm pretty sure this is trolling, but on the off chance that it isn't, can you explain in more detail what your problem is? What is "a more compatible data relay" and what does modem RAM have to do with it? And please tell the aliens from whom you obtained a 327 GHz processor that I want one too. CodeTalker (talk) 01:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
There is no chance (check out their posting history), and please do not feed the trolls. Assume good faith? I used to, but trit-trot, trit-trot over the bridge is more and more prevalent these days. Please, nurse, Camuscurve hasn't been taking their medication, best prepare the straightjacket and alert the white-coated assistants. MinorProphet (talk) 02:19, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Unsurprisingly, OP has been indefinitely blocked as a sockpuppet. CodeTalker (talk) 05:28, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

June 12

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Any recent usage statistics on the .zip top-level domain?

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  Courtesy link: Draft:.zip

Hi, are there any sources or recent publications that show how the TLD is being used, or by whom its being registered (i.e.: percentage of personal vs registered corporations, or location of registration according to WHOIS information)? There was of course a lot of ink spilled regarding the potential for misuse when the registry was created, but I'm looking to see if anyone came back and did a study or research after the fact.

Thanks, microbiologyMarcus [petri dish·growths] 15:47, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Easy way of generating "mylist.txt" files from a folder?

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I have a bunch of folders consisting of mp3 files, which I would like to concatenate via ffmpeg. I am using the method described here, in which the full paths of all the files one wishes to concatenate are named in a text folder using the format of file '[file path]'. It's very tedious having to copy and paste the paths of every single file in a folder, so I'm wondering if there's any program that can scan a folder and output this kind of text file. Cheers, Mach61 17:07, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

On what system? On Windows, taking a lazy approach (rather than writing a script), you could open a command prompt in the folder (right-click somewhere that isn't on a file and choose "open in terminal"), and then dir/B gives you all the file names. Since they're all in the same folder, copy and paste the list to a text editor and paste file ' and the path of the folder in front of each line, then put ' after each line. Repeat with next folder. Still effort, but less effort, and gets the job done.  Card Zero  (talk) 19:39, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
When I required a list of all files within a folder structure, I found that doing it with DOS ("Command Prompt" these days) was the simplest, though there was a bit of work to deal with the resultant file. In DOS, I went to the base folder I wanted to harvest and used DIR to fetch the filenames and paths. Something like DIR /S >OUTPUT.TXT (The /s command tells it to bring back the sub-directories and the > tells it to input to a (text) file. I then imported the result into Excel and was able to get what I wanted. Matt Deres (talk) 19:40, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Just to build on that a bit: the trickiest part was getting the pathways to correctly get matched up with the filenames. Most of the problem came from the way Excel would split the text into columns: the rules for what you want it to do for the files is not the same as what you want it to do with the folder information. There's probably a clever way around that, but I ended up using some really kludge-y formulas and then correcting. It's not something I'd want to have to do every day, but as a one-time thing it was okay. Matt Deres (talk) 19:46, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Try https://www.karenware.com/powertools/karens-directory-printer and then running a macro or using search&replace in Notepad++ Polygnotus (talk) 02:32, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
On Linux I do ls -1 | awk '{ print("file \x27"ENVIRON["PWD"]"/"$0"\x27")}' > /tmp/mylist.txt You might be able to do the same on Windows using Cygwin. You will need to rename if the filename has a single quote in it, eg Return to Castle De'ath Track 01.mp3 which I had to deal with recently. TrogWoolley (talk) 08:35, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
A slightly simpler way to do it on Linux would be
for f in *; do echo "file '$PWD/$f'"; done >/tmp/mylist.txt CodeTalker (talk) 05:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

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June 13

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Microsoft Word: page numbering folios

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Hello. Is there a way to get Microsoft Word to number pages not 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... but instead 1r, 1v, 2r, 2v, 3r...? As in folio numbering? Thanks Amisom (talk) 13:46, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I don't believe that's possible, at least as of Office 2016. There's no option anything like that as far as I can tell. It's hard to prove a negative from Google, but nothing useful is coming up when I search for word page numbering "folio". Keep in mind, Word is a word processing program; it has only rudimentary printing capabilities. What you likely need is Microsoft Publisher, which is a desktop publisher. From our article: "Microsoft Publisher is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and graphic design rather than text composition and proofreading. It's going to be discontinued in a few years, with its functionality moved to other applications in the 365 suite. Matt Deres (talk) 14:51, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Possibly by using a header or footer - "To show the document title, author’s name, or some other text with the page number, or to hide the page number on the first page, start by using Insert > Header & Footer instead of Insert > Page Numbers."  Card Zero  (talk) 15:14, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Redirect

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I’m using Firefox, and after the last upgrade, I get the message below when I click a bookmark. Not all bookmarks, but almost all. Any ideas how to get rid of it? “The previous page is sending you to http://www … (the url where I want to go). If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.” (the last five words are a url back to where I was.). DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 16:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Is that the exact phrasing, or is it this message?
=> yes, that is the exact phrasing. DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Redirect Notice

The page you were on is trying to send you to [...].

If you do not want to visit that page, you can return to the previous page.

I found it on a thread on Mozilla support, where a moderator thinks Firefox is not responsible for the notice and that it's "likely a feature of the website that redirect[ed] the link you entered". But this is a typical software support reaction. I saw nothing on Bugzilla under bookmarks though it might be under some other component. You could open a ticket if you feel public-spirited.
What distinguishes the bookmarks that do load? Is this perhaps an issue about http vs. https? If you create new bookmarks, do those work OK?  Card Zero  (talk) 18:12, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
=> http vs. https has no bearing. Nothing I can determine distinguishes redirects from non-redirects. More, the redirects began all at once (but, as noted, not all websites). DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
If you want a quick fix, entering about:config in the address bar and setting accessibility.blockautorefresh = false will turn off the notice. But then you will have turned off the notice. (Worth trying anyway, because if it doesn't work, the mystery deepens - or it might somehow reveal a clue.)  Card Zero  (talk) 17:47, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Does the bookmarked URL look like, say,
https://www.google.com/imgres?q=%22Zeng%20Shan%22&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F9%2F9d%2FZeng_Shan.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FZeng_Shan&docid=Harrumph666oid&tbnid=qWeRtY_uIoP&vet=1L1k3_8008s ,
instead of just
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Zeng_Shan.jpg ?
Google is tracking when its search results are followed.  --Lambiam 18:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
=> the simple version. DOR (ex-HK) (talk) 16:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Follow-Up on Windows Storage Questions

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Thank you for the various advice on my Windows storage question. Here are some follow-up comments and a follow-up question.

The Pagefile and other things

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I think I know why the pagefile is starting at 12 Gb and expanding to up to 26 Gb, and it is all right with me. I am keeping an enormous number of tabs open in multiple windows with both Chrome and Firefox. I know that it is using a lot of RAM, and then using a lot of paging storage, and Windows 11 handles it fine as long as it has the disk storage to page to. That doesn't bother me, and is fine with me, as long as I am not about to run out of storage (secondary memory).

So what I want is to be sure that I have enough free space on my C: drive to accommodate the growth of my pagefile. That gets me to the question.

Utility to display disk usage

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The comment was made that: There will be an app/utility which will find your biggest files.. Yes. What I specifically want is a utility that will show the total disk utilization of each directory on a drive, or each subdirectory in a directory. I can sort a listing of files by size, but File Explorer doesn't show the size of each of the directories in a directory. I can query the size of a directory manually from the Properties command, but that is time-consuming. Is there a utility on Windows 11 (not an older version of Windows) that displays the disk utilization of each directory? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:38, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

By the way, if I have any MP4 files or other three-dimensional monsters, I would like to be able to see and unload them. So a utility that searches for particular extensions such as .mp4 would also be useful. I know that video clips are three-dimensional and so are larger than two-dimensional things like .PDFs. I know that. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:38, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

The Unix utility 'du' will do this, and there are Windows versions of it (to be run on the command line). I use cygwin, which includes many such Unix programmes, but there's a standalone version produced by Microsoft available at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/du.-Gadfium (talk) 20:58, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Produced by Sysinternals really, along with other handy utilities such as Autoruns. Microsoft's role in this was to buy them.  Card Zero  (talk) 21:45, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I use WinDirStat do to this. It shows the amount of storage each subdirectory uses, and what percentage this is of the parent directory. It also has a really cool treemap to represent a drive, with rectangles representing each file with the size depending on how much storage it uses, which are colour coded by file type. I'm not sure if it works for Windows 11, but it works fine for Windows 10. ―Panamitsu (talk) 23:28, 13 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
WinDirStat is really useful, only problem is that it takes a while to analyse. Rmvandijk (talk) 13:23, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Do you mean that it doesn't give the answer immediately because it is doing the arithmetic? That is the same as the Properties command on a single directory at a time. I am willing to wait while the utility does the arithmetic on all of the subdirectories in a directory. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Sorry for the late reply, but yes. Windistat "scans" the directory/drive to get the file size for every file (and to build it's statistics based on that) Rmvandijk (talk) 07:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

June 14

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Turning a PNG into a PSP-readable vector

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I'm trying to turn a PNG into a vector graphic or vector object that I can open in Corel Paint Shop Pro, in order to add it into an existing vector composition inside a .pspimage file. The point is that I need it to be a vector in order to make it infinitely scalable inside PSP.

It's basically just a rectangle with two triangles attached that I've originally drawn as a vector in PSP, but because I'm physically and mentally incapable of using weird stuff like beziers or nodes, I've had to rasterize the two triangles in order to cut off two corners, ever since which I'm trying to find a way to turn the result back into a vector that PSP can actually open without rasterizing it.

NOTE: Just turning it into an SVG doesn't cut it, as once I open an SVG inside PSP, it automatically rasterizes it. Same goes for .eps and .ai, they all get immediately rasterized upon opening. 2003:DA:CF04:944:F0DB:9B1A:5CDC:69E5 (talk) 21:34, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Start again, and stay purely in vectors. It'll be quicker, and it'll look better. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:37, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Well, that's exactly the problem: I *CAN'T*, because I can't cut anything off of the triangles without turning it into raster. --2003:DA:CF04:944:F0DB:9B1A:5CDC:69E5 (talk) 22:54, 14 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
If it doesn't import vector files as vectors, perhaps it can be fooled into loading them as "preset shapes". What type of files are in your preset shapes folder (if you have at least one preset shape saved)?
Or, try WMF files. WMFs can be opened and edited as vector objects with the right options setting. "Mark the Import vector data check box." Inkscape can trace a raster image and save as WMF, in theory.  Card Zero  (talk) 02:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Nope, nothing doing. WMF is the very same as SVG, EPS, and AI: Once I open them, it immediately slaps me with a rasterizing dialogue. I can't export the PNG as a shape either, that option is greyed out. --2003:DA:CF04:968:C09D:B5DC:CAB5:C30D (talk) 05:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
OMG, I *FINALLY* got to make it work! With a lot of fiddling and trial-and-error, I got to learn how to use the vector-cutting (slicing?) tool in PSP. I got it the way I wanted, but I'm so glad I don't have to use that tool again in the next few years. It's almost as terrible as beziers and nodes. --2003:DA:CF04:968:C09D:B5DC:CAB5:C30D (talk) 06:13, 15 June 2024 (UTC)Reply


June 16

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Phone app for decoding Morse code

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Last night I had a dream about an Android phone app that listened to Morse code on the phone's microphone and attempted to decode it into human-readable text. Does such an app actually exist? JIP | Talk 19:05, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

A search for "Morse Code Decoder" in Google Play immediately provides an app to do that. I haven't tried the app to see if it actually works.-Gadfium (talk) 19:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)Reply


June 18

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Python input integer

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Consider this simple Python 3 input and calculation example:

 n = input("?")
 print(n*10)

On one computer, I input 7 and I get a response 7777777777. On another computer, I input 7 and I get 70. I believe that there is an issue with the input function. On the first computer, it stores 7 as a string. On the second, it stores 7 as an integer. Is one of those the correct way it should work? Is it purposely vague? 12.116.29.106 (talk) 12:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

input always returns a (stripped) string. So the 7777777777 behaviour is correct. If you wanted an integer, you'd have to call int on the result. I don't know where you're getting the 70 behaviour, and I can't reproduce that behaviour on python3.12 on Linux or 3.11 on Windows. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 13:47, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I figured out that the machine producing the 70 result has both Python 2 and Python 3. I assumed that typing "python" would use the latest version (3), but it uses the older version (2). So, it is perhaps an issue with Python 2 auto-casting the value to an integer. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 14:36, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I checked and input in Python 3 is raw_input in Python 2. If I change the function and run it in Python 2, I get the expected 7777777777 output. 12.116.29.106 (talk) 14:39, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I expected as much (but I couldn't find an online repl with python2 to allow me to check it). You should almost certainly uninstall the python2 installation, as it hasn't had a security patch since January 1st, 2020. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 14:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Download image from website

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I found this scan of an old map and would like to download it completely in high resolution, but there seems to be no option to do that. I tried searching the source text of the page, I installed JDownloader, but I just cannot get the image file onto my computer. The only way I see is to make screenshots of tiny portions of the map, which would be quite tedious to begin with, and then somehow put them together, but I have no idea with what program to do even that. Is there a simple solution? --Abderitestatos (talk) 19:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I use this website a lot. Click on Image at the top center. Then, click on the name of the image on the upper right. Sign in and you can export the full resolution map image as a tiff. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 19:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, but I tried this last night, and now, about 12 hours later, the export is somehow still being processed. Is it normal that it takes that long? --Abderitestatos (talk) 12:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
If the download is not working, most images have "Website" listed under the view panel (under the Compare button). That takes you to the website that is the source of the image. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 13:31, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
With that link I get only the low resolution version, where almost nothing is readable. --Abderitestatos (talk) 23:16, 20 June 2024 (UTC)Reply


June 22

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Android app

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Is there a rootless app or USB cable to use one of your Android smartphones as an in-out device/terminal for another of your Android smartphones when they're next to each other? Only one is new USB. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 18:49, 22 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Can you explain what you mean by "in-out device/terminal"? Do you mean that you want to copy data from one phone to the other? CodeTalker (talk) 07:20, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Remote desktop except phones instead of PCs. Should I trust such apps? (if from the Play store) Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply


June 25

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MTVNews.com archives gone

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Now that the MTVNews.com archives are gone, and there are quite a few links to it, do we ask the InternetArchiveBot people to run their bot on all pages that contain that url? How does that work? Polygnotus (talk) 06:20, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Either someone already did so or no one ever cited it to begin with. 2603:8001:4542:28FB:8DF1:8D96:7CF0:D084 (talk) 14:11, 25 June 2024 (UTC) (Send talk messages here)Reply

June 26

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