Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 30

= January 30 =

Wikipedia cybersquatting by yeah.com
Anyone else hate it when you type in a Wikipedia URL and it takes you to yeah.com. It's an illegal website with malware on it. You could try typing in the Wikipedia URL a DOZEN times and it will take you there. I've checked time and time again, even if you spell the URL right, it will still take you there sometimes. Anyone else experience this? I looked online and many others have experienced this problem.--68.186.160.22 (talk) 01:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If you spell the URL correctly, and still go to the site, then either (A) you really didn't spell the name correctly, (B) your computer is compromised with malware, or (C) the DNS server which you are using is compromised. The far most likely option is (A). Pay attention to what LordRM said at the end of the conversation you linked to, and when it happens, check carefully what it says in the address bar after the page loads. I can almost assure you that the address won't be for a valid Wikipedia site (remember that even one character off is a different site). -- 174.21.236.191 (talk) 01:17, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't had this problem at all when I've visited Wikipedia. Did you try the suggestions in the thread you linked too?  If you did and it didn't work, My recommendation  would be to check your computer for any sort of add-on illigally on your computer, as well as malware.  I just had to clear 132 viruses off of my friends computer.  One of the things they were doing were to take over and direct his browser to advertising.  Of course, if you still run into this problem, you always could access Wikipedia by visiting "http://enwp.org."  It redirects to Wikipedia.  ~  Matthewrbowker  Say hi! 01:28, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

This could solve your problem if you are using IE. General Rommel (talk) 10:26, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow. I don't even know if thats "slimy but clever", or "clever but slimy"... --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:31, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I know what the problem is. You are typing en.wikipedia.org and then instead of hitting the Enter key alone, you're hitting Shift-Enter.  A browser standard is to interpret shift-Enter as meaning "please add .net to the end of the URL that I am typing and go there", so your browser thinks you want to go to en.wikipedia.org.net and the org.net URL points to yeah.com.  Comet Tuttle (talk) 18:30, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

How to enable the speakers
How to enable the speakers on the laptop when using Window vista Home edition? Right now I am using the HDMI volume mixer, not the regular one. Please help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.153.39 (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * You should probably seek real-time help: http://webchat.freenode.net/?nick=hdmiOhMy&channels=##windows ¦ Reisio (talk) 19:05, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Depends on your laptop's configuration. On my Dell, I can choose which output device the audio is sent to - the built-in audio card (and connected speakers or headphones), or the HDMI port.  IIRC, the control for this is in the audio/sounds section of 'control panel'.  Astronaut (talk) 17:35, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Blender 3D Particle System
If I make a sphere in Blender 3D with a given material, and then want the sphere´s particle system to have another. How can I do that if I put the sphere´s particle system to "Render Emitter"? 83.183.172.203 (talk) 19:18, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

The Blender 3D Wikibook has a whole chapter on Particle Systems, including this section called Changing the material of the particles. Does it help? Nimur (talk) 21:09, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Windows command shell stops responding, sort of
Hi, sometimes in the Windows command shell (cmd.exe), when I've been using the same instance for a while, the shell will stop interfacing with the file system, or so it seems. For example, typing the name of a .bat file does nothing - only returns two linefeeds and returns to the prompt - even though I could run the bat file just before. This may happen more often when I've run Windows applications (like write.exe) from the shell. Sometimes the dir command will not list all files either (after the shell has been used some time). I've seen this on several different computers, using both XP and Vista, and I think I've malware checked at least most of them. Is this a known issue? Any work-arounds? Thanks a lot! Jørgen (talk) 19:21, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I've never heard of, or seen, this problem. For your batch file problem, try typing "echo" from the command line and then running the batch file, to see what the batch file is actually feeding the shell to run.  Comet Tuttle (talk) 18:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I could look at that, but as I said the batch file is fine (it usually runs but after the shell has been active for a while it does nothing - not even the "echos" in the batch file). In any case, thanks, I'll do some more malware scanning and then probably live with it - not too much of an active nuisance. Jørgen (talk) 09:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

burning dvd
I have burnt a movie clip on to a disc. It plays the video and sound OK If I look at the properties of the disc, it shows;-

DVD-RW (E)............(disc drive) CDROM

Why does it show as a DVD and CDROM? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.184.228 (talk) 22:29, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Wild stab in the dark - have you created a Video CD instead of a DVD? Exxolon (talk) 01:08, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Could also have burnt an ordinary data CD, or data CD filesystem onto a DVD. ¦ Reisio (talk) 23:30, 31 January 2011 (UTC)