Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2018 October 4

= October 4 =

Autocomplete/ in PowerShell when running Java programs
If I try to type the following using the autocomplete/ function:

java HelloWorld

PowerShell will autocomplete it to .\HelloWorld.class, which does not work.

Is there a way around this (at least the .\ as I can then remove the .class quite easily myself)? --Polyknot (talk) 19:07, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Gmail old look
Since it looks like the switch to Gmail's classic appearance is no longer available, I wonder if there's any backdoor option to restore it. The grievances are there, but to no avail it seems. Brandmeistertalk  20:14, 4 October 2018 (UTC)


 * The page you linked to recommends (among other things) the css code you can get from https://userstyles.org/styles/159308/the-return-of-old-gmail-2010-design --Shantavira|feed me 15:04, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

WDR paper computer
I recently ran across our WDR paper computer article, and one line stood out:

"The operation is to register machines ajar, but is more to the approach of Shepherdson and Sturgis."

I have absolutely no idea what the above means.

I am pretty sure that it is a mangled translation from de:Know-how-Computer. The machine translation is:

"The method of operation is based on register machines (the article of MC refers to Elmar Cohors-Fresenborg), but more in line with the approach of Shepherdson and Sturgis."

which is better, but I still don't understand the "the article of MC" language. Does anyone reading this understand German? If so can you give us a better translation? --Guy Macon (talk) 22:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)


 * If you look earlier in the article, you'll see that mc is linked to de:mc (Zeitschrift). The corresponding article in English is MC die microcomputer-zeitschrift (magazine).  In other words, the article in question was published in that magazine. --76.69.47.223 (talk) 04:37, 5 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Precisely the same translation was in the very first version of the article (Special:PermanentLink/848601532) but has been shortened soon by its author (Special:Diff/848602969). However, that doesn't explain the meaning, either. --CiaPan (talk) 05:43, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Fixed the translation a bit (Special:Diff/862563532) based on Google's translation --CiaPan (talk) 05:52, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKnow-how-Computer


 * This was a TV series. This format would be on YouTube today. It is a predecessor of similar YouTube channel formats. On 24 July 2006, it was continued by the by the former hosts Wolfgang Rudolph and Wolfgang Back. -- Hans Haase (有问题吗) 17:23, 6 October 2018 (UTC)