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October 16

MS Outlook question

This is probably right in front of me, so I'm sorry if this is simple.

In MS Outlook, I have my sent mail set up to go to a folder called "Sent 2015" folder. But when it does that, it shows as being unread. Obviously, it was read since I sent it. So, how do I fix it so that it doesn't automatically show as unread? This is MS Outlook ver. 14. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 14:16, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Sounds like it sends a copy rather than the original, and correctly reports that the copy is unread. Is there a choice to send the original rather than making a copy ? StuRat (talk) 02:14, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

If I'm understanding the account settings pane correctly, I am sending the original to that folder. Dismas|^(talk) 03:18, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

OK, one other thought, is the target folder on a different physical disk ? I've seen a problem before where it can't move a document to another disk, but instead considers it a copy. This seems to have to do with each disk having it's own index, so you can't just change the index to point to a new location, but actually have to create a new index entry on the new disk. StuRat (talk) 19:08, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Nope. Same disk. This is just a laptop with a single drive. Dismas|^(talk) 12:49, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

how to calculate number of ipv6 addresses in a range

example:182.48. or FFF.DE.AB. so onMahfuzur rahman shourov (talk) 17:02, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

See Classless Inter-Domain Routing. Tevildo (talk) 21:57, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

which windows registry entries define which font to be used for a particular plane of unicode

example:font a for latin, font b for arabic, font c for hangul so onMahfuzur rahman shourov (talk) 17:21, 16 October 2015 (UTC) @StuRat, Bavi H, Tamfang, SemanticMantis, BenRG, and Nimur:mentioning as many users i can because NEED ANSWER, NOT silence.103.245.205.158 (talk) 06:15, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

• Since you ask: I know as much about Windows registry as my cat knows about Persian literature. —Tamfang (talk) 06:25, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

problem scenerio:default font choice of windows as per unicode plane is unsatisfactory, OP found software that can change default font for devnagari plane ->https://www.omicronlab.com/tools/font-fixer.html OP seek way to manually edit for all planesMahfuzur rahman shourov (talk) 06:42, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

I think Windows programs like Notepad use some system setting to choose the font if a character isn't available in the current font the program is using. I found some discussion about how Windows 7 does that in this Super User question:

• Q: "What Font does Notepad use to display e.g. Hebrew, when it claims to use Lucida Console but Lucida Console doesn't have those characters?"
• A: "Windows 7 has a technology called composite font [...]"

The answers talk about looking in a text file c:\windows\fonts\GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont (or GlobalMonospace, GlobalSansSerif, or GlobalSerif), searching for a matching Unicode codepoint number range in that file, getting the list of fonts specified, then using a font viewer like Character Map or BabelMap to find the first font in the list that actually has the character you want. If you want to change the fonts used, maybe you can back up the text file, then try editing it. Note: Windows sometimes protects certain operating system files from being changed. I didn't try editing my CompositeFont file, so I don't know if it actually works. --Bavi H (talk) 15:09, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

User:Mahfuzur rahman shourov:

With respect, it doesn't seem like you are putting any effort into searching for answers; and I fear that even if we provide proper answers, they may be beyond your comprehension. Windows Registry entries do not have anything to do with fonts and character sets. See, for example, Character Sets Used By Fonts for an introduction. You seem to totally misunderstand how text and fonts work on Windows (or any other common system).

While calling out individual contributors by name may draw our attention - at least, the first few times you do it - if you continue this trend (and continue to demonstrate that you're not putting forth any constructive effort), many editors (including myself) will begin to simply ignore you. If you believe that you are entitled to an answer, you've come to the wrong place; and if you think you can mask your identity by hopping between IPs or user-names, you underestimate our perceptive abilities.

We volunteer our time because we find these topics interesting, and because we enjoy finding resources and helping others. If you ask ill-considered questions and then demand our attention, you decrease the probability that any of us will volunteer our efforts to help you. Eventually, your contributions will be considered "disruptive," and you will be blocked. Consider this the first, last, and friendliest warning that you will receive. Nimur (talk) 17:11, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

@Nimur:it your choice answer or not. veiled threat along "if you think....ip username hop" bad form, bad behave. not want mention, say nice, do not mention suffice. OP think strong on AGF. people not forced to answer, never said shouldMahfuzur rahman shourov (talk) 17:22, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

• What's "veiled" about Nimur's "threat"? —Tamfang (talk) 03:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Javascript date object

This short codepiece:

var month = new Date;

document.write("This month is" + " " + month.getMonth() + "
");

Brings me the result "This month is 9". I guess it's because in JS we start to count from 0 instead of 1... Well I tried to write +1 right after getMonth() but then I got 91; I also tried to right +1 before month.getMonth and than I got 19... :| Well, Is there any way, without using arguments, to make the result 10?... Because indeed we are in the ten month of this year... :) Ben, Ben-Yeudith (talk) 18:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Order of operations. String+Number = String. So, you are trying String+Number+Number, which turns into String+Number. You can use parenthesis to force the order you want as String+(Number+Number). 199.15.144.250 (talk) 18:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

(ec)It's happening because the various elements you're collecting together with + in the argument to document.write are evaluated left-to-right. So first you take a string "This month is" and add a space to it, making another string. Then you're taking that string and adding the integer 9 (produced by month.getMonth()) to it. Javascript "promotes" that integer 9 to a string "9", and appends it, producing the string "This month is 9". Then you're adding another integer 1 to that; again using + with a string and an integer promotes both arguments to strings, so 1 becomes "1". So the resulting string is "This month is 91" - the result you're getting. To fix this, you want to do integer arithmetic on the 9 and 1, which means you want to to that before the 9 gets turned into a string. Use parentheses for this. So say document.write("This month is" + " " + (month.getMonth()+1)); and you'll get the 10 you want. -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 18:38, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Book reader

I'm looking for a USB camera on a stand that is capable of displaying book pages (real, printed books), or other documents, on a screen. Something like a USB microscope [1] would be ideal, but all the ones I've looked at start at something too big like 20X magnification or something, much too much X to get a whole page in the frame. SpinningSpark 23:32, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Try searching on "document camera". -- ToE 23:57, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

I knew they had a name! They use them all the time in schools, but until you provided that link I couldn't remember that it is "visualiser". Thanks. Old age really stuffs up the memory. SpinningSpark 00:21, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

They make a version that displays an entire page at a time at low magnification, but they are rather expensive. My local library for the blind (and, in this case, visually impaired) has one, so you might look for one near you. StuRat (talk) 02:12, 17 October 2015 (UTC)