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Hmmm...I was just going to say, I'm also having this problem. Switched to Firefox and it's still ridiculously slow.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I was hoping this would be you!

Sadly you've denied me the pleasure of giving you useless advice.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I have. How?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I already gave the proper advice! Otherwise I would have told you to slip a little cocaine into the keyboard or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Because I have seen your haircut, and I know you have access to cocaine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you okay?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh I see, that was a joke at my haircut's expense? You're saying I have a "cocaine haircut"?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That only someone so self-deluded that they were probably on cocaine would have a haircut like the one on my head?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that what you're saying?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Because really I'm very sober and humble, I'm just afraid of going bald.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, well I'm pleased that's settled.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

And posted to ILX for posterity.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, now I have a novel to get back to. Good night.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Enjoy "Less Than Zero"!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My start menu (win98se) is wreaking havoc! Whenever I access it for programs, documents or bookmarks, it freezes explorer+taskbar, though whatever other apps I have running are not interrupted. Even if I avoid using the start menu in a session, when I shut down, I'm given the "Program not yet shut down -- End/Wait" prompt. I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary on the program manager, and I've run a virus scan twice: nothing up.

But the most troubling thing is that Zonealarm has alerted me that Explorer and WMPlayer is trying to access the internet, and once, some program called abetterinternet.com or somesuch tried to connect to the internet, too. I'll have to run adaware/spyware blaster, but what in heck is going on??

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It was "The Black Dahlia", Chris.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

For OS X general maintenance, I highly recommend this article:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 22:29 (twenty-two years ago)

ooohhh a better internet!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah on you Macists, answer my question!

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I give you Bellucci pubic hair and this is my thanks?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm on a computer whose resolution is poopy so I couldn't make it out.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, you know, you're not on a Mac, so...

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 28 May 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Spyware. Here's more info:
http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/library/abetterinternet/index.phtml

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I just did a fairly thorough search for that particular spyware. Nothing turned up in AdAware, and I only found one key in the registry that matched the string, though it was in a different place specified. Didn't turn up at all in the Add/Remove Programs, searched for the dll and exe files, nothing.

However, I noticed that Windows Media Player is running in the background, which seems to be in middle of things. Is it usually supposed to do that?

― eeeLastica (Leee), Saturday, 29 May 2004 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to save myself some boring data entry. I want to find a way of automating entries of share prices from the yahoo finance website into an Excel spreadsheet.

For each example, I would like to enter the Last Trade value into a certain cell in Excel. This has to be done once a week at the end of the week. There is an example here:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ate.

The html code for each Last Trade value seems to be the same i.e. for this example:

<td class="yfnc_tablehead1" width="48%">Last Trade:</td><td class="yfnc_tabledata1"><big><b>17.43</b></big></td>

all of the yahoo finance web pages I need to input data from also have the same kind of format i.e. the URL mentioned above with just the code at the end (after the equals sign) changing. Also, the spreadsheet entry will involve entering the Last trade value into columns B through to BE each week, and for each of these columns the contents of row 2 corresponds to the value after the equals sign in the URL.

Please help!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 07:47 (twenty-two years ago)

perl

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

um, that's not too helpful but then you are using excel 8)

i'd write a script that used wget or curl to get the html pages, sucked out and chopped up the relevant line using perl or sed or grep, wrote the output as comma separated file which i could then import into excel. how you'd do this using windows is left as an exercise for the reader. (cygwin? activestate perl?)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

koogs, otm!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

mark

wrote a little something in php (because it's portable and easy enough to install) and sent it to your hotmail account. don't know how useful it'll be as i've no idea what formats excel will import but it should make it a little easier.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

hi andy,
thanks for that - will look out for it.

cheers.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

How to simulate rolls of a die using the windows calculator?

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

just search roll playing on versiontracker, you should turn up any number of dice simulators.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm asking because maybe I have an idea for an ilx game. It would be too much trouble to ask everyone to download and install a program so I'm looking for a way most users could do this easily, like, to generate random numbers between 0 - 9: 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,4...
Or between 10 and 99: 31, 41, 59,...
Or between 100 and 999: 314, 159, 265 etc
I figure windows is the most popular os around here, so I'm searching for a way to do this with it's scientific calculator, or I guess it could be doable via the command prompt.

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

how about using javascript? everybody has a browser available to them and it gets around the tricky platform specific stuff...

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, Sebastien - don't do anything you need to install. Many people are on office compute setups that block any installations.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

well i think that's seb's point

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah right, sorry. I was kind of bigging up the javascript idea I think, without really reading properly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to render a wav file from a mix I made in Acid Pro 3. I do this all the time but this time it's saying "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low" and crashing out. This never used to happen, so why now? I tried doing it with a much smaller Acid file and it happened again. WTF?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

this seems to coincide with having downloaded a recnet windows update i think

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

mr latin, is that a disk space problem?

mark, i had another thought about your thing last night. instead of lots of individual pages can't you set up a yahoo portfolio that contains all the prices for the companies you're interested in? this would just mean downloading one page (let their database do the collating of info) but would mean the parsing of the file to extract the price you wanted is a bit more complicated. or maybe there are too many companies.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

well, I was running low on disk space and I think that's when the initial problem occured. However since then I have freed up a good two gig of space on both of my hard drives so it shouldn't be so bad should it?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

have you rebooted? the virtual memory is actually disk space and if the disk space was full it may have impinged on your swap space (although theat depends on the sytem you're running). so reboot and / or kill off some processes and see if it improves (there should be a tool - top on linux f'rinstance, task manager on windows - that'll tell you what's using what space)

(ah, windows update probably means you're running windows.
My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced -> Performance -> Virtual Memory is where you change it on win2k systems. typically this should be about twice your RAM. we have a 3G partition here at work that we use for nothing but the page file)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i rebooted. I'm totally unsure how much RAM I have but when I went to that screen the initial was "2" and the max was "2". This sounds wrong non?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

yup that sounds wrong, should be three times your RAM at least.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

without wanting to sound like a total spaz, but how do i know for sure what my RAM is. When my computer boots up, it says a really low number but I have been assured that it is a lot more than this and that there is a reason why it gives out this low number on the login readout.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

right click on my computer click properties. It will tell you there.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Everytime I startup my computer, my wireless connection (which I admit I leach off of a neighbor) doesn't work until I go into Properties>Support>Repair. Meanwhile, I can connect to other wireless networks around (at a coffee shop or from the school across the street) without issue. Any thoughts?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, is 128mb of ram normal?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

it is less than average, but ram size isn't everything.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I ask:
I have a 5 year old iMac running OS9.2.1. Flashing ? indicates problem finding startup disk. Do the double startup, no success. Zap the Pram, no success.
Startup iMac from system install CD-Rom. (and even try system - restore, which is hopeless). It appears to boot, BUT, then when the CD icon comes up, the cursor icon disappears, so that I can't click on the intall disk to start.
All the USB cables etc are fine. Any ideas?

I think my hardware is fucked somehow. I've got another computer (that I'm writing this on) but would love to get back into it to retrieve info etc. (300 rare Wu-tang songs!)

Thanks to anyone kind and clever.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

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