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November 27

Logon to yahoo mail

For the last week I haven't been able to read my yahoo mail. I have tried with the yahoo mail app on Android, EMail app on Andriod, Mail on MacOS and through uk.yahoo.com in Safari and FireFox. On the yahoo home page I can hover over the mail link and it brings up the 5 most recent e-mails I've received and the subject, but when I click to read the message it takes me to the login page. I enter my username and password and then it just loops round. I've tried to reset the account and yahoo send a recovery code which I enter and then it takes me bacl to the login screen and the whole thing starts again. I cannot access yahoo forms as I need to login before I can post anything. I have also tried clearing the cookies from my browsers and tried other peoples computer using macOS, Ubuntu, and Windows 8. I do have other e-mail accounts so can tell people to use that but I've had my yahoo account for 19 years so don't want to loose it. Does anyone have an idea on how I can read my e-mail?Dja1979 (talk) 16:18, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

What you stated was unclear; are you successfully logging in on the other computers you've tried? If not, then it sounds like the problem is on Yahoo's end. You'll probably need to contact their support. --47.138.163.230 (talk) 10:09, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I cannot log into mail on any computer. Their support requires me to login. Dja1979 (talk) 14:30, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Sorting algorithm

Is there a name for this (extremely inefficient) sorting algorithm?

dThisMinimum = 9E99
For i = 0 to Count - 1
    For j = 0 To Count - 1
        If adInput(j) < dThisMinimum Then
            dThisMinimum = adInput(j)
        End If
    Next j
    adOutput(i) = dThisMinimum
Next i

Just asking out of curiosity, of course. Tevildo (talk) 19:34, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

That looks like a select sort implantation. LongHairedFop (talk) 19:52, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Well, it's an incorrect implementation of selection sort. It fills the output array with repetitions of the lowest value in the input. --76.71.5.45 (talk) 20:51, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

That's true, of course - this (fortunately) doesn't represent any real code. But the select sort is what I was looking for, thanks. Tevildo (talk) 21:07, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Red USB port

Is it considered USB 2.0 or 3.0? 103.230.104.4 (talk) 20:54, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

USB3 is labelled blue. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:18, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

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I'm guessing the three IQ ports of this hub is the red colour one, question is:

1) Is it USB 3.0?

2) Can you use it normally, or is it just for charging?

103.230.106.16 (talk) 12:08, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

• Did you even read the page from which the image you linked to is located? There are blue and black ports, no red, on this image, and the text says "It has seven USB 3.0 data ports that offer transfer speeds of 5Gbps, so all your connections are as fast as possible. Plus, it also has three dedicated ports for charging..." Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:30, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I did. Other researches (and the english) are confusing.

I'm looking for USB 3.0 ports, along with dedicated ports for charging (which I'm guessing now that, you can also use normally just like the other available ports in a hub) - all USB 3.0 ports. Any example would be of help. 103.230.105.7 (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

The 3 charging ports labelled IQ would only be for charging, and not for connecting to the hub. Use the blue ports if you want USB 3.0 connection to the hub. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:51, 28 November 2016 (UTC)