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January 7[edit]

Wikitable default border color[edit]

What is the border color for a default wikitable ? Also please provide me the coding. Thanks. — Arteyu (talk) 03:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does Help:Table answer your questions? —Bkell (talk)

No. Arteyu (talk) 12:00, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

well, 10 points for conciseness. I would think that primary to that display would be the individual computers' / browsers' defaults. Secondary being the preferences set if it's a wiki-user. and third if anything is defined or declared ex: ({| style="background-color:#F5FFFA;.) But you asked "default" so... a print screen and paint program reveals the following: shadow area (right and btm.) r=0, b=0, g=0 ...aka black. foreground shadow (top and left) r=178, g=178 b=178 ... sort of a lt.blue gray. top of table border: r=248 g=252 b=255 ... almost white. Is that what you're looking for? Ched (talk) 13:29, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Common.css's CSS rule for "table.wikitable" says "border: 1px #aaa solid;"

Ergo, the border color for a wikitable is 63% gray, or #a0a0a0, or rgb(160, 160, 160). -- Fullstop (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

cool. I learned something about something I didn't even know that I wanted to know about. (huh?) ;) ...Ched (talk) 16:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, #aaa corresponds to #aaaaaa, which is 67% gray, or rgb(170, 170, 170). [1] —Bkell (talk) 18:01, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

studiVZ[edit]

studiQG, studiLN, estudiLN and studentIX are closing at the 20th January 2009. meinVZ you can find now also in english ([2]). Can somebody write it into the article studiVZ!--79.210.207.179 (talk) 15:40, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You could update the article yourself, but it will need to cite a source. Until then, I have added a comment to Talk:studiVZ (which is where this question should have been put). Hopefully, someone who has heard of studiVZ and reads German will be able to confirm what you are asking and make the necessary change. Astronaut (talk) 08:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is QBasic in public domain?[edit]

Does anyone know if Microsoft's QBasic has been released into the public domain? 216.239.234.196 (talk) 17:26, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Our article on QBasic states that it's licensed under MS-EULA, so I'd say that's pretty unlikely. In general, Microsoft isn't in the habit of releasing its old software into the public domain. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 18:33, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's FreeBASIC though. I don't think it has that nice DOS GUI, but it'll compile and run most QBasic programs. Belisarius (talk) 19:13, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As you probably already know, a version of QBasic can be found on any (I believe) Windows 95 installation CD, in the directory "oldmsdos", if I remember correctly. (By the way, to me, there is nothing more nostalgic than the Interactive CD Sampler on that very same disc.) --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 21:01, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft has posted it online if you want it. I seem to recall it being easy to find QuickBasic 4.5 as well, which allows you to compile the programs into EXEs (and can do some more complicated things). I was a total QB4.5 freak when I was in middle school. ;-) --98.217.8.46 (talk) 21:22, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! --Andreas Rejbrand (talk) 01:25, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've found this : http://groups.google.com.au/group/alt.comp.freeware/browse_thread/thread/77dffaefd1a8929d/fb0ec01043483004?#fb0ec01043483004

Draw, pardner[edit]

Is there a program (hopefully free) that lets you draw something, e.g. a freehand diagram, and have it appear on another PC's screen as well? Clarityfiend (talk) 21:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Do you want something like this? --LarryMac | Talk 21:54, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Programs like this allow whatever is on the screen to show on any number of attached computers, but I'm not sure if there are free alternatives to this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.88.87 (talk) 00:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Try iTALC (its free!) Buffered Input Output 17:41, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ipod touch - Album art question[edit]

When I download song from iTunes I can view the album cover on my iPod touch and yet if I rip music from a CD I cannot. Is there a way I can change this, it's rather ugly when in cover flow mode. Thanks, --87.113.36.255 (talk) 23:49, 7 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After you rip a CD and the music is in your library, highlight all the songs from that CD and right click. Select "Find Album Artwork" or some option to that effect. If you have the proper information about the songs (Song title, Artist name, album title, etc.) entered into your library it should then find the correct artwork and put it in there for you. Killiondude (talk) 00:18, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Itunes does not always recognize every album properly, especially of you have some obscure or lesser known artist in your collection. It may be necessary to manually update your artwork for each album by going into the info section and adding the proper picture. Of course, you will have to have the album cover as a file on your computer somewhere first. Amazon [3] is a great place to look up albums and save the artwork. cheers, 10draftsdeep (talk) 17:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are also a few 3rd-party tools that search Amazon etc for artwork and add them directly to the files in your iTunes library. TuneSleeve looks pretty nifty, particularly if you have lots of albums you need to deal with, but it costs £12; if you only need a few albums, I've had good experience with the simpler iTunes Art Importer 0.9.3 once I got the hang of its rather minimal interface! - IMSoP (talk) 18:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]