Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 January 24

= January 24 =

Font descenders cut off
I have a font which has its descenders cut off in font viewer (Windows), Word etc.: But the descenders are definitely there because in Inkscape they show up. And the font doesn't appear in Photoshop at all. ANy suggestions? Amisom (talk) 00:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I've seen descenders cut off in Word before. In that case, the line spacing was manually set too small relative to the font and the font size. Maybe you can do this as an experiment -- increase the line spacing by a large amount and see if the descenders are still cut off. If they aren't, then line spacing is part of the problem. --100.34.204.4 (talk) 13:42, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

HP 6830s Windows 7 Corrupted, help!
Here's what happened. A user tried hibernating the machine (no idea why) and subsequently it got stuck in a boot loop where the machine wouldn't progress past the bios logo and the hit X to enter setup. I literally couldn't even hold down F8 before it would reboot and the loop would start again.

So I used the inbuilt system utilities to run a HDD diagnostic, and after 2 hours of that it checked out fine.

I grabbed hirens boot USB, loaded into that and changed the windows folder to windowsX. Rebooted, Lo and behold, the boot progressed this time to windows recovery. I let the recovery do its auto repair and I was back in windows.

Suprisingly, it wasn't smart enough to name windowsX to back to windows. It just created another windows folder with some rubbish in it.

So I went back into my boot USB. Changed it back manually to windows and rebooted. Unfortunately, windows is still confused and I get a boot menu now with two Windows 7 (recovered) options. One is from a previous install, which I don't use. Although it's hard to distingish which is which.

But anyway, when it boots I now get put on to a temporary profile. Any idea how I can get out of this mess, please?

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.52.181.184 (talk) 00:15, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I guess des SID of the user profile does not fit the machine's common part. Is suggest to backup all data and clean reininstall the machine. This will kill also malware. Aware to restore without propper and uptodate antivirus software. -- Hans Haase (有问题吗) 21:20, 26 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Press the key combination Winkey + R. Type "Sysdm.cpl" (without quotes) in the box and press Enter. The System Properties dialog should open. Click the "Advanced" tab. Click the "Settings" button in the section named "Startup and Recovery". There you can chose the default operating system and the amount of time to display the list of operating systems. &#40;&#40;&#40;The Quixotic Potato&#41;&#41;&#41; (talk) 10:57, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

The Colorful Pins of the Asus Pi Clone

 * http://www.pcworld.com/article/3160097/computers/the-asus-tinker-board-is-a-powerful-raspberry-pi-rival-that-plays-4k-video.html

As can be seen in these pictures, the 40 GPIO pins of the Asus Tinker Board are color coded according to their own functions.

Sometimes, I use colored pins on my own boards to make it easier to locate +5V, GND and other pins. However, it's very time consuming to do this job. You have to insert colored pins one by one.

How do they mass-manufacture boards with colored pins? -- Toytoy (talk) 09:56, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Looking at that photo, the whole insulator blocks aren't coloured. There's just a printed label that's been put across the insulator blocks (or maybe the colours are screenprinted directly onto the blocks). Coloured labelling for jumper headers is fairly common on motherboards (example), for both the case connectors (pwr/reset/driveLED etc.) and case usb connectors. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 11:56, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * I think you're right. The colors are printed on the black plastic base. -- 180.217.167.66 (talk) 13:39, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * They don't look like they are printed to me, they look more like a piece of thin plastic tape that is pushed down over the pins. It looks to me like cut lines were probably put on the strip where the pins go rather than the pins just being pushed through to make the holes. Perhaps there is some machine on the web to do it if one can get the search terms right. Dmcq (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * →http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/2197507.pdf -- Hans Haase (有问题吗) 21:14, 26 January 2017 (UTC)