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September 28

Computer keyboard on the laptop is not working

My computer keyboard on the laptop is not working good. What should I do? Jet (talk) 00:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean by not working good? Not working well? Do keys stick? Do some keys only function if you press on them really hard? Do some keys not work at all? --Mdwyer 01:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Most laptops have a PS/2 connector and USB, so if you have a keyboard for a PC, you can plug that in and use that. --h2g2bob (talk) 01:25, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

computer fraud

what is computer fraud,what forms does it take, how does it affect the society and what measures are there to prevent them?217.20.240.19 00:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

It is fraud that takes place via computer. --Mdwyer 01:14, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Asking the Wikipedia reference desk a home work question and then passing the answer as your own is a form of computer fraud. Vespine 02:29, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, that would be a better example of plagiarism than computer fraud, but Vespine has a very good point: Do your own homework. It says that at the top of the page, just in case you want a source for that :P —Akrabbim^talk 02:53, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

And if you need a source for that, someone just decided it was a good idea. Our RD rules are so random -_- --froth^t 18:19, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

.flv converting

I am trying to find the best way to convert .flv files (from YouTube, etc.) into .mov or .m4v for my iPod, but all the software I can find seems to use a very lossy technique (if I'm using the term correctly). The converted videos are always much lesser quality. Is there a (preferably free) software that would provide a lossless conversion into one of those formats? Thanks —Akrabbim^talk 02:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Use a brilliant little program by Erightsoft called SUPER. Google it, and have fun. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 08:44, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

ffmpeg, iSquint, etc., can convert them under various settings. --24.147.86.187 13:10, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

flv is a container format typically holding a variant of H.263, which is supported by mp4. Container formats are nasty though.. you could maybe try FLV Extract to get the video into an avi container, but you're on your own from there. Should be simpler from there though than from flv. --froth^t 18:03, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Is this possible...?

I'm asking this for interest... I've downloaded some video game emulators and downloaded a few video game ROMs. And then I thought of blank CDs. So, it made me to ask this: is it possible to burn a video game ROM you downloaded to a blank CD? And just wondering...what type of CD do I need to burn video game ROMs to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.238.155.66 (talk) 03:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

You can burn the ROMs as data and play the games off there using the emu. You can't burn the games and use them in a console unless the consoles are mod-chipped, and those take different methods of burning. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 03:50, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Deletion

How can I delete photos from "my photos" in my yahoo account?218.248.2.51 06:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)(talk)

Yahoo! Photos would be closed down on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9 p.m. PDT. Shouldn't they be gone already? Or is there another section of Yahoo! you are talking about? Lanfear's Bane 11:04, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

This will teach me not to read the whole thing. October 18th, 2007: Yahoo photos will, ostensibly, shut down even transfer access, apparently deleting all remaining accounts entirely. So if you wait, problem should disappear in a bit. Lanfear's Bane 11:05, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

halo 3

where can I download a hi-def video of someone actually playing halo 3? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.217.195.89 (talk) 15:40, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Here? There are plenty of user videos, but not many of them are HD (since it would be huge). --antilived^{T | C | G} 10:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Xbox Emulators

Hi..i in a little problem here...i downloaded fifa street 2 the game, which is an xbox game, i got the ISO file. Now how d i make it work on the PC? i got xiso software, extracted everything to a directory, and then got a default.xbe file.......now i had 2 emulators-Cxbx-0.7.8c, and Xeon, and i tried both. Xeon gives an error saying that it could not find main function......and the other one, i installed and then say open xbe file...it opens and there comes a message- Fifa Street 2 loaded!....but then wat do i do? i say emulation and start and then for one second a window pops out...a black windo..looks like command prompt or something...and vanishes after a second....wat do i do? and how do i run fifa street 2: the iso file of the xbox onto my laptop? Thanks.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.31.2 (talk) 18:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, we can't give you help on breaking the law. However, I can advise you to stop vandalizing Wikipedia, if you want to stop appearing incredibly lame. --Sean 18:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh! i m very very sorry sir, i didnt know that i was vandalising the law.....i just wanted to play the game and i downloaded an iso file for the first time, and tried to make it work according to the readme file...i had absolutely no idea that what i did was illegal. so sorry fo it, i'll make sure it never happens again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.227.31.2 (talk) 03:54, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Anything past emulating N64 titles or such is best accomplished by actually buying the console in question. Xboxes are rather cheap, and emulation software for even sixth-generation consoles is weak at best. -Wooty [Woot?] [Spam! Spam! Wonderful spam!] 11:03, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

But a Xbox is a PC, just with some modification. --antilived^{T | C | G} 23:36, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Regular expressions

I need to create a regular expression for replacement in AWB. I want to replace filename.ext with [[:Image:filname.ext]] where ext is one of several file extentions (jpg, pdf, svg...) Help? – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

 Done Never mind. – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 23:17, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Would you care to share your solution?

Extremely annoying login problem

Hi, I recently noticed about the same time I switched to IE 7 (or the current version, the last one rocked...) I started noticing that occasionally I tried logging in, and the internet would freeze once a week, then it became every other day, then everyday, then every other time, and I'm starting to worry. Anyone else have this? Or got a clue? Thnx! Yamakiri^T_C 09-28-2007•23:45:07 23:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and when I attempted to purge this, it froze, and now I'm getting only several articles, this means I'm slowly being forced to use Firefox as an alternative browser (which I hate, no offense to most of my fellow .JS and .html buddies), and I'm getting rubbed the wrong way! User:Yamakiri 23:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

NO HELP FOR YOU. --froth^t 17:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

(Honestly though this is obviously a problem with the browser; switch to firefox or opera. that's seriously my advice) --froth^t 17:47, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok then, well I really love IE, so this'll be hard... Yamakiri^T_C 09-30-2007•16:45:07 16:27, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

*arches an eyebrow* --froth^t 04:35, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

URL Syntax

I'm looking this up at W3C now, but I thought I'd ask here and see which works quicker... You may have #xxx in a URL to make an in-page jump. You may have ?yyy to form a query srting. If you have both, which comes first? Should it be #xxx?yyy or ?yyy#xxx? Does it matter? -- kainaw™ 23:49, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I think you can have both - pretty sure you can. In any case, the ? should come first, because that partly defines the content of the page. The # will come second, as that then defines where on the page to jump to without actually changing any content. — Timotab ^{Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!)} 23:54, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Yep - found it in RFC2396. The URL is split first on the #, treating everything after the # as the named anchor in the document. Everything before it is the URL. Then, the URL is split on ?. Thanks. -- kainaw™ 00:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)