Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2014 October 30

= October 30 =

accenture company projects
what are the current ongoing and nearly in future projets that will be done under accenture in india..i will be highly thankful to you if you can provide me a listing of all projects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.244.148.203 (talk) 02:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Two points, 1) We are not Accenture so it's difficult to answer this. Perhaps there's a website or other source somewhere which lists their projects, but it's probably easier for you to ask them. 2) It's fairly unlikely Accenture will give you a listing of all projects nor can you easily find such a listing. Some may be somewhat secret for a variety of reasons (e.g. non disclosure agreements, competition risks) and aren't something they're going to tell to random people. I presume you aren't senior management of Accenture or you wouldn't be asking here (edit: not that I'm suggesting all senior management would necessarily be allowed to know all projects). It's also likely some near future (as I think you mean) projects are unknown. While most major projects would have some degree of advance planning, it's likely some end up having very little for a variety of reasons such as the project being urgent. In other words, Accenture couldn't tell you about all near future projects even if they were perfectyly willing. Nil Einne (talk) 21:08, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Business Basic, most advanced implementation
Hello everyone, i was surfing the web and i ended up on this page: http://www.basis.com/sites/basis.com/advantage/mag-v2n2/beginner.html, that shows that some complex projects are done with business basic (BB) and then i searched on wikipedia (i love it), ending up on the page https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Business_Basic. The page has a reference to a manual describing the MAI4 business basic dialect, from 1986. Is it possible that since then no one released public documentation describing more advanced version for BB interpreters? For example overcoming the limitation of "every variable should have at maximum 8 chars". In other words, do you know sites where i can find the documentation of more advanced BB interpreter? (the interpreter could be commercial, but at least the documentation could be free, to get an overview of the improvements) Pier4r (talk) 11:18, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * My experience is with the Data General Business Basic language and its clones. As far as I know, the only product in this family still being sold is Transoft's Universal Business Language, which appears to have last been updated in 2013. I didn't find the links in that page particularly useful, but there are useful links at their knowledgebase including a downloadable manual (in the obsolete Windows CHM help file format).- gadfium 21:53, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * As current versions of Windows cannot open CHM files, I've translated the manual to PDF format using an online service. It is available for the next 24 hours at zamzar.com.- gadfium 22:13, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, current versions of Windows can open CHM files. -- BenRG (talk) 22:25, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I was confusing CHM with WinHelp. In any case, my 64-bit Windows 7 system could open the CHM file and display the table of contents, but not the content pages themselves.- gadfium 22:45, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Right-click on the file, and select Properties > Unblock. Tevildo (talk) 03:03, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you, that worked.- gadfium 03:10, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Archive of Whatsapp IPAs
Hi,

I would like to get a previous version of whatsapp for Iphones.

From where can I download a historical .ipas of previous versions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.127.25.110 (talk) 12:45, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * As far as I'm aware, iOS .ipas don't normally get saved by people, if you haven't synced your iOS device to your computer in a while, you probably have an older .ipa stored on your computer somewhere. Other than that, only Android .apks get indexed/stored mainly for illegal downloads as far as I know. - Kiwuser   (talk)  01:56, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

rotating plane game
So, it's an old arcade or maybe 8 bit computer game, it's got a plane as the central character, flying over oceans and shooting other planes, I at first thought this may be 1942 or 1943 but they are vertical scrolling only, this plane rotates through 360 degrees as it goes, I guess a bit like Asteroids but with a plane, does anyone know what this is? Horatio Snickers (talk) 20:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Time Pilot ? -- Finlay McWalterᚠTalk 21:02, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Time Pilot looks like it's the exact same game as Space Pilot. Why are the names different? If they're the exact same game, shouldn't the articles be merged? J I P  &#124; Talk 06:44, 1 November 2014 (UTC)