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July 1[edit]

svn problem[edit]

Hi. I am trying to get to grips with svn but have a peculiar problem:

$ svn diff -r 52 BACCO
Index: BACCO/inst/doc/both_papers.Rnw
===================================================================
[snip]

that is, it works as desired. But watch:

$ svn diff -r 51 BACCO
svn: Unable to find repository location for 'BACCO' in revision 51
$

that is, it seems to have forgotten where the repository is. Why might this be? Robinh (talk) 01:32, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Probably that part of the tree was created in r52 and therefore did not exist in r51. You can do an "svn log -v http://your/svn/tree" (the top of the tree) to see when BACCO was created. --Sean 14:38, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

yes, that's it! Looks like I did indeed create BACCO at revision 52. Which is certainly not my recollection, but I guess memory is less reliable than svn.

Resolved

Robinh (talk) 20:11, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Compiling PureDarwin[edit]

After downloading the source for PureDarwin and applying pd_fetch and pd_thin I tried to use pd_setup but it runs without a dialogue and goes back to user@home:$ (I did use sudo like I was supposed to). There was no change, no files created, nothing happened. What gives? --Melab±1 ☎ 05:06, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=compileProblem&channels=#puredarwin ¦ Reisio (talk) 06:54, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Full form of 'i' in 'intel i series of processors'[edit]

What does the letter 'i' in 'intel's i series of processors' stands for?? I've searched over the internet bt unable to get any useful answers... So i'm at wiki's door to know the answer.. Plz explain if anybody knows abt it.. Thank you in advance --Simranjeet2310 (talk) 13:22, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In all the Intel related articles I cared to look at (see Template:Intel processors for a convenient start point), and external sources such as: here, here and here, I couldn't find an explanation. However, if I was to guess, I suppose the i might stand for "intel". Astronaut (talk) 15:28, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can be sure that it has no official expansion, since, if it did, it would be mentioned in the promotional materials. But it's easy to guess what was going through the mind of the marketer that invented it. The i in the Intel logo has always been lower case. They've used the i prefix in chip names before, as far back as 1981 with the iAPX 432 and later with the i960, i860 and i486. (iAPX allegedly stands for "intel Advanced Processor arΧitecture".) And Apple has recently had success marketing their products with iNames, which is all the more reason for Intel to revive the custom. -- BenRG (talk) 23:24, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

But as far i'm concerned i guess i stands for 'itanium' as the letter 'p' in earlier processors stands for 'pentium'... any suggestions???? coz m still not sure....--Simranjeet2310 (talk) 11:45, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm 99.999% sure it isn't Itanium as that's a completely different processor architecture so it wouldn't really make any sense. I believe it's just Intel like Astronaut suggested. 78.25.234.1 (talk) 03:06, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to Intel rep Bill Calder on this page (see comments), it actually doesn't stand for anything in particular -- the name was just used in hopes of being memorable to consumers. Looie496 (talk) 03:29, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thnku vry mch frnds... i appreciate ur help... thnx for being dere... :) --Simranjeet2310 (talk) 12:21, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Firefox font messed up?[edit]

Picture of the offense!

Hey guys, anyone know what's going on with my laptop/Firefox at the moment? Happened today and I can't think of anything I've done that would have caused it. As you can see, all the font seems bold. On other sites like Facebook the font seems small and somewhat fuzzy, but most sites show the font as bold. Firefox's font settings are all normal. Any help would be much appreciated :) Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat 19:30, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It could be that one or more of your font files has become corrupted. Have you noticed whether sites which use sans-serif fonts display differently from ones with serif fonts? You could also check whether the same problem occurs in other browsers, and whether text in other applications (like office software or maybe even things like menus) looks weird as well. You could test by changing Firefox's default font settings to something unusual and see if you lose the bolding.

If you're using Windows, you could try replacing the copies of Microsoft Core Fonts on your laptop with fresh files, perhaps starting with Arial and Times New Roman, which are the standard fall-back fonts. Getting hold of the font files may be a bit tricky; if you have a OS disk, you can copy them from it (some Windows 7 instructions towards the bottom of this page). There are also some external links in the MCF article, although I can't vouch for their authenticity. --Kateshortforbob _talk 23:10, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I find it unlikely that my font sets have been corrupted because everything appears fine on other browsers; to me it seems like a firefox problem. If I start it in safe mode, the problem disappears leading me to believe it may be an add-on problem. However, if I disable all my add-ons in normal mode, the problem persists. I am baffled. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat 13:13, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hrrm, that is weird. Does the problem persist if you create a new profile in FF (Run > firefox -p)? Other things I would check (if you haven't done so already) would be:

Character encoding changed to something strange
"Allow pages to choose their own fonts.." in Preferences >Content >Fonts >Advanced unchecked?
about:config font preferences, such as font.language.group, all the font settings for whatever language code you use (probably Western?) and any user-defined font settings
contents of the usercontent.css file, if you have one.

This post seems to describe a not-entirely dissimilar problem (using FF5). I may be worth trying some of the suggestions there.--Kateshortforbob _talk 16:44, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Recommended antivirus/antimalware[edit]

I was just curious about which antivirus/antimalware programs you guys recommend/use. Thanks. 141.153.214.125 (talk) 19:48, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There's a list of antivirus programs available here. I like Avira AvrillirvA (talk) 20:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Spybot – Search & Destroy. See also Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing/Viruses. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:54, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Back in the dark days (when I was a Windows user) I used AVG free and Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. Malwarebytes is really great, but AVG makes things really slow. But now I use Linux so I have no need for any of them. --T H F S W (T · C · E) 21:14, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I second that. Switching to Linux is the best "anti-virus", but if you have to use Windows for some reason, then AVG works and is free (it's been a few years since I last used Windows though, so I can't speak to how fast/slow AVG is nowadays). ~ Mesoderm (talk) 21:25, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I went up against Zeus recently and AVG was of no use— it got attacked and would not run. I used all four in my list to finally kill it. MSE is free, surprisingly light and is getting very good ratings. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 22:35, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It depends on what PC your running it on. I've found Avast! is good for most PCs, but tends to bog down older machines. Currently, I use ClamWin, as they are the only antivirus program I've found that runs on Windows Server OSes without a paid license. ^Avic _ennasis @ 09:55, 30 Sivan 5771 / 2 July 2011 (UTC)

I have MSE running on Windows 2008 Server. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:41, 2 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps I forgot the "non-microsoft" part. :-) ^Avic _ennasis @ 03:48, 1 Tamuz 5771 / 3 July 2011 (UTC)

I have Avast! and SpywareBlaster installed. I also ocassionally scan with MalwareBytes, SuperAntiSpyware, and Spybot. 92.28.244.187 (talk) 19:42, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

userscript[edit]

I have an example greasemonkey script as follows;

document.title = document.title + '1234'

This takes the title of a page and appends "1234" to the end. It works on every site except Twitter since they changed to their new javascript heavy version. How can I make it work on Twitter? 82.43.90.27 (talk) 20:51, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]