User talk:MaxEnt/Archive 1

Cell person
Greetings and much praise. Fantasticly well composed Cell microprocessor article. I am very familiar with much of the article. But not associated with it. I'm a details person to. At some point in the near future I hope to add without bruising your work. Details about the SPU and the PPE. Such as the PPE is binary compatible with anything PPC 970 (Apple G5) would process. Added commands refer to the SPU. The SPU single and double units, take 7 cycles for single precision and 11 cycles for double. The Broadband Engine that was envisioned is a Multi-Chip Module (MCM). The kernal is up to 2.6.14 I'll compose some stuff in a week or two and add it to the discussion page or sqyeeze it in.

Superscripts
As you may know there are a number of ways of doing superscripts, particularly squares x² x&sup2; x2, x&#0178; and $$x^2$$, that I know of. There are pros and cons for them all, but How_to_edit_a_page suggests using the unicode for 1,2,3 (also there is a redirect sitting at km², for example). When you are editing a page you can select these from the box of funny characters just under the Save/Show/Show buttons. You can also cut and paste them into the Firefox search box, they will seach and highlight in the same way as other characters. Regards, Rich Farmbrough 19:25 18  April 2006 (UTC).

My Own MediaWiki
Progress so far: Installed 1.5.8 under FC4. Inline LaTeX is working. Image upload is working, but MIME types are foobared. Made cool little search enhancement for the Firefox search bar. Weird behaviours with categories, probably because I used them strangely at first (a few C++ style double colons crept in). Customized the background pattern and site logo (used the Arabesque pattern from the Arabic Wiki and a green avocado as my logo as it was the first not-too-ugly image I found already sized to 135x135.) Haven't enabled any page caching yet, it runs rather slow on my crap-box Athlon 800 server with 1GB DDR plus new Seagate drive (3 seconds to revisit a static portal page). Have no content in my help pages. Where does the standard help content (such as editing help) come from? Need a backup procedure soon. MaxEnt 07:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Found the problem with PNG uploads which I documented here:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Documentation:Security#Problems_with_PNg_Upload

MaxEnt 15:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Help text, make an admin account then go to Special Pages -> System messages. Rich Farmbrough 20:51 28  April 2006 (UTC).

Correction to Multiple AGP ports
In case you haven't seen my response yet, I have found at least one dual-AGP board from several years ago. Correction to Multiple AGP ports

They seem to be damn rare though, and I don't know about OS or driver support. Imroy 16:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Mackenzie Valley Pipeline copyedit
Well, I do a fair amount of copyediting around here. I saw your copyedit tag and got my pen out. After puzzling over it for awhile, I couldn't figure out what you were talking about. One phrase seemed a bit awkward, but it wasn't ungrammatical and I couldn't see how it could be improved. It is always helpful to give a brief explanation as to why one puts a tag on an article. I encourage people to do that. Otherwise, unless it is blatantly obvious, we are left in the dark. Sunray 00:37, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I liked your suggested revision to that last sentence in the article. I edited it a bit and added it. See what you think. Sunray 15:55, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

support deletion prefixitis
Thanks for the input. It wouldn't hurt if you added prod2 to the article to help out in the deletion process. Amalas  =^_^=  19:26, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Intrusive (disambiguation)
Hi - I reverted your change to Intrusive and created Intrusive (disambiguation). The reason was that all links to intrusive were geological in nature and I saw no effort on your part to fix the resulting inconvenience on those articles. I also modified the disamb note at the top of Intrusion to link to the new disambiguation page for intrusive. Cheers, Vsmith 00:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

re: inuse
The inuse template is only to be used for a single edit session to avoid edit conflicts. It may be removed after 2 hours without an edit. Leaving it on longer to try to reserve articles, it was established through consensus, is too close to article ownership. Sorry, you're just going to have to deal with other people editting these articles (as you agreed to when you submitted them). --W.marsh 13:51, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It's all covered on Template:Inuse. There's instruction everywhere so I'll change Template messages/Maintenance to reflect this. --W.marsh 14:23, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually it says right on the template... "If this article has not been edited recently, please remove this template." --W.marsh 14:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It says on the template instructions that two hours is what is meant by recently. Consensus was established here: . Seriously... just make your edits, revert clueless stuff people add. You seem to have a great job with the main article in question, and I don't see why you need to freeze everyone else out from editting to work on the other articles. I think you'll find you can do a fine job without this template. --W.marsh 14:49, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for understanding... I realize I might come off the wrong way in removing the template, I'll try to work on that. It does serve some purposes... like with creating new articles that might otherwise get speedy deleted before improvements are made, or doing work on articles/templates that could get really messed up if someone editted them, for whatever reason. So don't feel like you have to stop using it entirely. --W.marsh 18:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

testing the new message bar
Lifted with gratitude from User talk:GTBacchus. MaxEnt 10:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Mark McKeon
This recent IP user with very few edits has added a link to three different articles referring to Mark McKeon as a "Leading author on work-life balance".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/143.238.24.89

First time I've encountered this kind of thing. Is there an appropriate warning for this user's talk page? Do we just delete the spamish adjectives? What's the policy here?
 * In this case, you could have warned the user with templates like spam, spam2, and if they continued, reported them to Administrator intervention against vandalism. (And removed the spam links too, of course). However, this user's editors were all back in November, so it's a little late now. Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 06:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You can try the template messages at Template messages--that page has a comprehensive directory of tags you can place on articles. That having been said, the preferred way of dealing with problems on articles is to fix it yourself ;) Cheers, Tangotango (talk) 06:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Trying to install on pair.com
I found your contribution at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Installation#Added_passage_about_missing_table_prefix and thought you might be willing to point me in the right direction.

I've been very happy with pair.com for my own and my freelance sites, but several weeks ago when I needed to set up a hosting account for my RealJob, I went with someone else 'cause I was installing and testing a package that needed PHP 5. Since then I've (a) concluded my experiments with that first package, (b) installed and determined to stay with MediaWiki, and (c) discovered that the host I chose is not really able to provide good enough service and support for us to stay there. I'm trying to get us moved over to pair instead, but first I need to get MediaWiki working on pair. And since real Apache-module PHP5 isn't due for at least several weeks yet, that leaves me with either CGIwrap or downgrading MediaWiki.

I'm fine with the theory of using CGIwrap but I can't get it to work, and the pair.com support folks haven't helped yet. I'm thinking this is probably an easy enough question that someone else could set me straight?

When I follow the instructions for editing .htaccess to allow PHP5, my little phpinfo test file goes from happily reporting that my PHP version is 4.3.10 to not recognizing any handler and asking whether I want to save the file to disk. (Same behavior on Firefox and IE, both winXP.)

I find someone else asking this question but no responses.

Thanks for any advice. Lydia413 16:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

update
After a call to pair.com support, it looks like I may be all set. We trimmed down the .htaccess file to even fewer lines than their FAQ specified. It now has only

Lydia413 16:54, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

AMT
Dear Maximal Entropy, I read your informative old message on WP:AMT. As I know it, templates are for sharing codes, and hence simplifying writing and maintenance. What I cannot understand in the adovates of AMT's position is where they draw the lines. For example, if we want the refined structures of wikipages, such as infobox, we are bound to use several layers of codes. Either I missed the point, or else some have misunderstood something.user:hillgentleman|user talk:hillgentleman|Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:23:07 +05:23 05:23, 10 June 2007 (UTC) P.S. I reached that page through the deletion page of foreach. Originally I thought it was obsoleted by template:for. Now I see that there are other reasons.user:hillgentleman|user talk:hillgentleman|Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:25:37 +05:25 05:25, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * No, I have not a specificific question. The example of your boss explains the issue.  Looking at that page again, I see it as one of those sweeping proposals for fixing a local discomfort (flag templates).  Thanks again for your comment on complexity leakage.  user:hillgentleman|user talk:hillgentleman|Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:20:23 +03:20 03:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Radafaxine
DO you have a reference that radafaxine development was discontinued?Paul gene 00:35, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

DSPS, PRC
Hallo MaxEnt. I'm a newbie, and uncertain about both Wiki, ~pedia and much computer stuff! I think I've now enabled e-mail here. Thanks for your interest and response; I'll go back and read it properly now. Hordaland 13:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Ht-//dig
A template has been added to the article Ht-//dig, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you endorse deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please tag it with db-author. mms 18:59, 22 July 2007 (UTC)