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February 11

Keyboard for Nexus 10

Hi. I've been looking for a keyboard suitable for a Nexus 10. My fussy demands are not too expensive and good customer ratings. Amazon finds lot of keyboards that meet those demands, but all the ones I can check seem to have American keyboard layouts, and I really would prefer a UK version.

Can anyone help find such an item? Particularly helpful if it's available on Amazon prime!

Cheers me dears --Dweller (talk) 00:34, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Anyone? --Dweller (talk) 16:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Why do antiviruses do this?

I had the free McAfee antivirus on my Windows 8 computer for a while, but being more familiar with AVG (I had it on several different computers in the past), I decided to download and install it; a day passed before I got around to uninstalling McAfee. During that time, IE11 would continually log out of gmail after about one minute of inactivity, but it wasn't doing this before I installed AVG, and it's not done it since I uninstalled McAfee, so it must have been some weird interaction between the two. Why do antiviruses cause chaos when more than one is installed? I could imagine this resulting from something of "beat the competition", but that's not something I'd expect to see in this kind of situation. Nyttend (talk) 03:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Well, anti-virus programs look very much like some viruses, in that they lurk in the background, examine all incoming data, resist being closed by other applications, etc. So, unless an anti-virus program specifically adds exceptions for other anti-virus programs, a conflict can be expected. StuRat (talk) 03:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

In the worst case scenario, two antivirus programs will go to war against each other, each accusing their rival of being infested with every virus known. Simply put, do not attempt to run two at the same time. Astronaut (talk) 17:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

What is the clunk sound I am hearing?

Twice tonight I have heard the same "clunk" sound I normally hear when I receive a message using google gmail chat. have otherwise never heard this before. didn't have google open, or any email program. There was nothin being downloaded, so no sound announcing the end of a download. Is it possible the vidcam was activated? I am using an ASUS running Windows 7. I had IE and Safari open, IE to watch youtube and Safari to edit wikipedia. VLC open from playing back videos downloaded from youtube, and RealDownloader open, but not active. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 05:14, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Did you have any other tab or window open in IE or Safari besides the one/ones with Youtube and wikipedia.? Some advertising may play such sounds for a variety of reasons so it always makes sense to close all other browser tabs and windows if getting funny sounds. Wikipedia and Youtube should be safe and there are other things, but if you don't know enough to evaluate just try closing everything. Secondly were you actually watching a Youtube video? If it's a home video it's isn't unheard of it for it to have such sounds and even some other videos may have. Nil Einne (talk) 12:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

You say you heard a clunk sound coming from the computer. Try to remember, if at the same moment you felt an impact to your forehead. If so, that would be indicative of a collision between you and the computer. You may want to adjust the distance between yourself and the computing device, or at least to remain calm while editing Wikipedia and using g mail chat. 66.87.129.174 (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

That's actually funny, although it should have been smalled as a joke. μηδείς (talk) 18:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

"Smalled" ? Meaning it should have undergone smallification, of course. Speaking of which, your response, also not being an answer to the Q, should also have been smallitized. StuRat (talk) 18:48, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I just like how matter-of-fact it is, as if it were a serious response: polite, simple, and easily understood, but not talking down to you as an idiot either :-) Nyttend (talk) 00:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

• I think the source must have been the specific video I was watching. It only happened during playback, and hasn't happened since. Yes, I did close everything I wasn't using the first time I heard the clunk. μηδείς (talk) 18:02, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

FYI: The latest version of Chrome has a little icon it flashes up next to any tabs that are playing sounds so you can figure out who is the culprit! SteveBaker (talk) 18:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Recent versions of Firefox have a play icon (sideways pointing triangle) that shows up in the tab when playing a YouTube video. I haven't seen it do anything similar with other sites that play videos. Dismas|^(talk) 01:52, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, guys. Now who do I write to get them to update Safari for Windows similarly? μηδείς (talk) 02:09, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html SteveBaker (talk) 15:23, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the GF effort, Steve, but my bad, that was a trick question, since Sfafari no longer supports or updates for Windows. μηδείς (talk) 01:21, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Question on livestream.

Hey. I was in a livestream at livestream.com, with a person drawing. her name was "mel" in the chat. Her full name on another site, was there posting, which was NOT her. and it didn't say anyone changed the name to that. and it said the full name was a moderator. yet it wasn't her. and like she has "mel" and was a "User" as she was posting under that in the livestream. then later that creep POSTED AS MY NAME! I didn't say anything but it normally if someone changes her/his name on Livestream it says "xxxx changed name to xxxx" but it didn't say anything like that when it changed to my name and posted under it, while at the same time I had it. What was going on? how did he post as an moderator? and the person livestream didn't find it funny when he was using her full name on another site. so it deff wasn't a person she knew.. and how did it change to MY name without showing anything? and posting under it at the same time? Was it hacked? or wtf!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.209.159.215 (talk) 18:49, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with livestream, but if names on there are as simple as "mel", this implies to me that they don't require names to be unique, or you'd expect "mel" to have been taken on day 1, and now be up to "mel2968" or some such thing. StuRat (talk) 21:37, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

How to force font size and language when pasting formatted text in LibreOfficeWriter?

(I use Windows7, Internet Explorer v.10 and LibreOffice v.3.5.6).
My Question:
Is there some way to keep the formatting settings for: normal/italic/bold, underscore, superscript/subscript and font colour — the way they appear on the web page — While at the same time forcing the font size into: 10pt and paragraph language into: <some language>?
(Or even better: to force the font size and paragraph language into those of the currently active paragraph style in LibreOfficeWriter)?
What I have tried:
When I cut text from a web page, using Internet Explorer, and then use LibreOfficeWriter «paste special» (Ctrl+Shift+V) choosing: «Selection»-«Formatted Text [RTF]», (I do not want «HTML»!), then the text always ends up with font size:12pt and paragraph language: Norwegian, which I then have to spend a lot of time correcting manually.
Could you please help me? --46.15.220.77 (talk) 22:42, 11 February 2014 (UTC)