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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)

Sounds like a dodgy disk or disk controller. Open it up check the connections inside. See if you can borrow a copy of disk warrior from somewhere. Boot up with the disk warrior disk with all periferals unplugged bar keyboard and mouse. Try repairing the disk with diskwarrior. It may be completelyfucked though.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 4 June 2004 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

paulh if it is the hardware and not the disc, you could theoretically save your data by removing the hard drive and placing it in an OK machine. Some tech stores should be able to do this for you as well.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 4 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

This may sound a little bit odd, but without my doing anything that I know of, the font size in IE just keeps getting bigger and bigger (and bigger) every few days, to the point of becoming a considerable irritation. Anyone any suggestions?

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dearie me, forget I ever said that...

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

this is driving me nuts. I have a dell machine with a firewire card installed. I just bought a lacie 160GB firewire drive. It works fine, except when I plug in my ipod to the other firewire port, at which time, the drive ummounts. Sometimes it unmounts completely and disappears, sometimes it appears to remain there, and I can click through the directories, but not see any files; sometimes it comes back if I turn it on and off, but most of the time I have to reboot, and windows does a disk check, and all is well. Lacie support have been no help. I suspect this has something to do with windows' driver and assigning drive numbers to the ipod and the drive. Has anyone else experience this? (I'm using WindowsXP. All drivers appear to be up to date). Everytime I want to add anything to my ipod now requires at least one reboot which kind of kills the convenience.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

One thought; does the LaCie drive have another firewire port on the back, and if so, what happens when you chain the iPod through it instead of plugging it into the Dell?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried that thinking that would solve the problem, but it kept happening. well, it reassigned different drive letters to things at that point (the drive had been I, the Ipod J; then when I chained them, the iPod became I, the drive J, and the drive dismounted itself).

The drive works fine on my Mac at work, so I don't think it's a problem with the drive itself. It must be a windows problem. It's just odd that I can't seem to find anyone else who has had this issue.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you tried doing a hard assign on the drive so that it's like N: or P: drive or something like that? Just to get it away from all of the other drives. Windows can be a real pain with assignment of drive letters, especially if a device keeps trying to reclaim the same letter every time you plug it in. Moving the hard drive up the alphabet will at least keep it safe if the iPod's being pushy. (or vice versa)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If you don't know how to do that, it's in Disk Management; I think with both Win2K and WinXP you go to the control panel, select Administrative Tools, double-click "computer management" icon, then look for the "disk management" option on the left-hand-side. When you click on it, all of the attached disks should pop up. If you have your external drive attached, it should appear there, and you can right-click the drive and reassign the drive letter using the "change drive letter and paths" option.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, I will try that out when I get home. thanks!

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Help! I have been getting error messages saying either a common control component is not correctly registered, or one of its dependencies is missing or invalid. It's happening when i try to complete installing a new prog.
I have an awful suspicion that some essential regsistry thing might have been taken away by my anti-virus programme when it 'repaired' a worm it found.
Any ideas on how I might be able to correct this ?

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

My eMac, running OS 10.2.8, occasionally (twice, I think - both in the last month or so) suddenly flips to a blue screen and the login screen. I log in again and all seems fine. I supposed I would lose unsaved work if I ever did any work.

Should I be worried? Is this a bad sign of something? I repair permissions and run MacJanitor regularly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, my firewire drive doesn't show up in disk management for some reason. Only my internal drives, my cd-rom, and internal zip drive show up. it does show up under disk drives in the device manager though, but I can't seem to assign drive letters there.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

That's very strange...if its not showing up in your disk management, it shouldn't be showing up on your My Computer. But: when it's not showing up in the disk management section, IS it showing up under My Computer? (and don't forget to scroll down on the disk management window wither, if there's a scroll bar there...it may be hidden at the bottom.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yep! could this have something to do with the removable storage part of Computer Management? The libraries directory under Removable Storage has entries for my zip and my CD/DVD drive, but nothing for this drive. Maybe I need to add a library for this drive? If so, shouldn't the driver do this or something? One thing that is odd is that if I check the properties of the drive, it says Device Type: disk drives, Manufacturer: (standard disk drives), location: LUN 0 . The (standard disk drives) thing makes me think that XP is not recognizing the correct driver or something.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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