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Jumping Vs. Gravity

PhaDaPhunk — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:19 EST

Hi i'm working on my first XNA 2D game and I have a little problem. If I jump, my sprite jumps but does not fall down. And I also have another problem, the user can hold spacebar to jump as high as he wants and I don't know how to keep him from doing...

Continuous Physics Engine's Collision Detection Techniques

Griffin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:17 EST

I'm working on a purely continuous physics engine, and I need to choose algorithms for broad and narrow phase collision detection. "Purely continuous" means I never do intersection tests, but instead want to find ways to catch every collision before...

Which cloud hosting should I use? [closed]

Alyssa Marie Isk — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:14 EST

Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? If anyone wants to get some real life karma by giving a tiny non-profit pointers, please advise! I posted a thread about our website with highly variable traffic (www...

siteground hosting forwarding

Oleg Videnov — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:08 EST

I would like to ask (maybe simple) question for you. I have a website which is called let's say www.website1.com on different hosting provider(siteground) I have www.website2.com Now,www.website1.com is the old website and the boss wants .. IF...

Google search question, front page not showing

user5746 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:07 EST

I know this is probably a dumb question but I hope someone can give me some insight; I was ranked on Google first page of search results for "funny st patricks day shirts" but I was third from the bottom and not familiar enough with SEO, so I signed...

Mobile redirect strategy

Kevin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:04 EST

Looking for help on deciding how to redirect users to a mobile optimized version of my site (m.mysite.com). Looking at two methods: Server configuration (.htaccess or even varnish) Webapp (php) The problem I see with #1 is with the "view full...

Meaning of Crawl errors

com — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:03 EST

My question is about definition of Crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools. Crawl errors is devided into few sections. Let's first consider HTTP section. I assume that all broken links in this section was somehow found by crawler, this is not the...

Godaddy multiple domain problem

user6182 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:01 EST

I have godaddy deluxe plan and here is my problem: I have two domains for example: e1.com and e2.com. Both are hosted in same hosting plan. First I created a folder for each domain in the root folder and uploaded two web site but when I'm trying to...

How much a website like bytes.com earn

robin das — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:25:00 EST

i am running a website similar to bytes.com (IT QnA site) my site attract 600 unique visitors daily. we are planning our self as bytes.com. Atleast any one can tell me that whether we can earn some serious money with this kind of website. websiteoutlook...

What happened to HTML table tags?

John — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:59 EST

I started to code HTML in 1998, and in that time I was used to code a lot table tags, playing with tr and td, I learned many things analysing the source code of many portals on the internet with notepad and Microsoft FrontPage, the latter, aw, how...

trouble setting up dns for vps

Zenph — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:56 EST

I had registered a domain at namecheap and forwarded the dns to my host at vps.net. The strange thing is, when I did that the site was showing up. I even uploaded files and everything was displaying correctly on my new domain. Now, it is just the...

Are copyright notices really required?

Alasdair — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:54 EST

Ever since I made my first web page 13 years ago I have followed the pattern of showing a copyright notice in the footer of each page. Over the years the format of this notice has changed in the following way; Copyright © <NAME> yyyy. All...

Why is Google not indexing my forum?

jsoldi — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:51 EST

I have this web site that as you can see on the top right has is a "Forums" button that links to my forums. My problem is that if, for instance, I make a Google search "site:heliumscraper.com answers" I don't get any result, even though the word...

How much a website like bytes.com earning

robin das — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:45 EST

The new Google Analytics - what new useful features have you found?

Rob — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:41 EST

If you don't know already a new version of Google Analytics has just come out. On first initial views it doesn't seem like much of an improvement on the previous version. There's lot's linking to Google's social stats but I'm yet to see the value...

Diagnosing xmodmap errors

intuited — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:27 EST

I'm getting this error when trying to use xmodmap to get rid of caps lock: $ xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 118 (X_SetModifierMapping) ...

11.10 7600gt display error

Justin Ray — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:14 EST

So i used to use Ubuntu back when it was 8 and it never gave me any problems but recently i did a fresh install of 11.10. But now when i install the N-Vidia restricted drivers i cant change my screen resolution from 640x480, the display menu says "can...

Broadcom 4313 Signal strength very low on an HP Pavilion dv4

thegreyspot — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:24:00 EST

I have a HP pavilion dv4 4141US laptop running fresh ubuntu 11.10. This laptop has a broadcom 4313gn chipset for the network card. The network card is using the brcmsmac driver. Which, I heard else where on askUbuntu that its the best driver to be...

ROOT_MISMATCH error after following FAQ directions

Adko — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:23:57 EST

While using Ubuntu One in 11.04 I am unable to change my account info. When I made the switch to 11.04 I forgot that I already had an Ubuntu One account so, I made a new one. However, upon going through one of my email accounts I found my old Ubuntu...

How to change tooltip background color in Unity?

kayahr — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:23:43 EST

In a lot of applications the tooltips are just plain ugly (White text on black background, way too much contrast) or even unreadable (black or dark blue text (Hyperlinks) on black background). I want to change the background color of the tooltips to...

Is there a quick way to enter uppercase accented characters?

agnul — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:23:41 EST

I know I can enter any character I need using the character-map applet, but that means grabbing the mouse/opening the "run" dialog, switching to another window, selecting the character, copying... you get the idea. Is there a quicker way to enter characters...

One click access to bookmarked files?

dunderhead — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:23:36 EST

On my Windows machine with just one click I can launch favourite or bookmarked files that I use on a daily basis, which is a great time-saver. Is there any way to do this with 11.10 Unity? Ideally I would like to right-click on an icon in the launcher...

Bluetooth on my laptop

ashwani — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:23:09 EST

I have a HCL laptop on which I had previously windows XP installed in which I was able to use my bluetooth. It is of P1 utility type built-in bluetooth stak. After installing that driver I used to instal bluetooth driver after pressing p1 key on keyboard...

Wecam not detected

Richard — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:53 EST

after much research ang googling, my web cam is still not recognized. In the time of Ubuntu 11.04 it was working fine. I did a fresh install of 11.10 and not more web cam. All the cheese and camera monotor and V4L tests and all failes with "cannot...

Pause and Resume and get the value of a countdown timer by savedInstanceState [closed]

Catherine grace Balauro — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:43 EST

I have developed a countdown timer and I am not sure how to pause and resume the timer as the TextView for the timer is being clicked. Click to start then click again to pause and to resume, click again the timer's text view. This is my code: Timer...

C++ program...overshoots? [migrated]

Zdrok — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:39 EST

I'm decent at C++, but I may have missed some nuance that applies here. Or maybe I completely missed a giant concept, I have no idea. My program was instantly crashing ("blah.exe is not responding") about 1/5 times it was run (other times it ran...

Is it reasonable to expect knowing the whole stack bottom up?

Vaibhav Garg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:19 EST

I am an Sr. developer/architect/Product Manager for embedded systems. The systems that I have had experience with have typically been small to medium size codebases - typically close to 25-30K LOC in C, using 8-16 and 32 bit low end microcontrollers...

Why are PHP function signatures so inconsistent?

Shamim Hafiz — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:13 EST

I was going through some PHP functions and I could not help notice the following: <?php function foo(&$var) { } foo($a); // $a is "created" and assigned to null $b = array(); foo($b['b']); var_dump(array_key_exists('b', $b)); // bool(true) $c...

Django as Python extension?

NoobDev4iPhone — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:07 EST

I come from php community and just started learning Python. I have to create server-side scripts that manipulate databases, files, and send emails. Some of it I found hard to do in python, comparing to php, like sending emails and querying databases...

A good substitute for ASMX web service methods, but not a general handler

Saeed Neamati — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:21:45 EST

The best thing I like about ASP.NET MVC, is that you can directly call a server method (called action), from the client. This is so convenient, and so straightforward, that I really like to implement such a model in ASP.NET WebForms too. However,...

Freelancers do you have a surcharge for going to client site to work?

user35072 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:21:37 EST

I'm currently new to freelancing as a programmer and need to work what some of the "norms" are without making myself look like an amateur. I've already won some work from a local company doing C# development and quoting an hourly rate for work that...

Web to Print system - which client side technology should I use

mr null — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:21:33 EST

I'm getting started to develop Web to Print system. My main concern is which client-side techology should I use: jQuery/CSS Flex/ActionScript or something else? For now, idea is that user/customer choose Product eg: Business card Attributes:...

Count a row VS Save the Row count after each update

SAFAD — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:21:28 EST

I want to know whether saving row count in a table is better than counting it each time of the proccess. Quick Example : A visitor goes to Group Clan, the page displays clan information and Members who have joined the group,Should the page look for...

CSS and HTML incoherences when declaring multiple classes

Cesco — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:21:26 EST

I'm learning CSS "seriously" for the first time, but I found the way you deal with multiple CSS classes in CSS and HTML quite incoherent. For example I learned that if I want to declare multiple CSS classes with a common style applied to them, I...

Do you work with Visual Studio?

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:17:11 EST

Red Gate is doing some research into Visual Studio add-ins for SQL development. If you can spare a moment to complete a short survey, or are interested in being part of the early access program (linked from the end of the survey), please click here...

Loosely Coupled Tabs in Java Editor

Geertjan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:52 EST

One of the NetBeans Platform 7.1 API enhancements is the @MultiViewElement.Registration annotation. That lets you add a new tab to any existing NetBeans editor. Really powerful since I didn't need to change the sources (or even look at the sources)...

The JavaServer Faces 2.2 viewAction Component

Janice J. Heiss — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:33 EST

Life just got easier for users of JavaServer Faces. In a new article, now up on otn/java, titled “New JavaServer Faces 2.2 Feature: The viewAction Component,” Tom McGinn, Oracle’s Principal Curriculum Developer for Oracle Server Technologies, explores...

on coding style

user12607414 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:30 EST

I vastly prefer coding to discussing coding style, just as I would prefer to write poetry instead of talking about how it should be written. Sometimes the topic cannot be put off, either because some individual coder is messing up a shared code base...

Predicting Likelihood of Click with Multiple Presentations

Michel Adar — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:28 EST

When using predictive models to predict the likelihood of an ad or a banner to be clicked on it is common to ignore the fact that the same content may have been presented in the past to the same visitor. While the error may be small if the visitors...

AIIM, Oracle and Keste - Talking Social Business in LA

Brian Dirking — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:27 EST

We had a great event today in Los Angeles - AIIM, Oracle and Keste presented on how organizations are making social business work. Atle Skjekkeland of AIIM presented How Social Business Is Driving Innovation. Atle talked about a number of fascinating...

Fusion Middleware 11gR1 : 2011?12??????

Hiro — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:12:24 EST

2011 ?12? (2011/12/06 ??)?Fusion Middleware 11gR1 ?????????????? ? ????????????4??????? 1. FatWire FatWire Software???????????????????????? FatWire Content Server Suite 7.5-7.6FatWire Content Server Suite 7.5 Language PacksFatWire...

Utiliser des polices partagées avec Starling Framework à partir d'une image png ! Par The Pretender

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:07:58 EST

Salut tout le monde, Continuons notre apprentissage des possibilités de Starling Framework avec l'utilisation des polices de caractères partagées ! Dans ce tutoriel vidéo, vous apprendrez à stocker les caractères de votre police dans une image...

The Best How-To Geek Articles for November 2011

Asian Angel — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:06:10 EST

It has been a busy month here at HTG where we covered topics such as how to see which websites your computer is secretly connecting to, reviewed the new Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet, learned how to improve your Google search skills, and more. Join us...

Eee PC - Create USB Recovery Drive w/ Files Copied From Recovery Partition

nedm — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:05:49 EST

I have an Eee PC 1005HAB whose hard disk has failed. I have no recovery CD/DVD, but I did previously back up the contents of the recovery partition, and would like to use them to create a bootable USB to reinstall the factory settings on the new hard...

Barcode scanner work in browser

JP Hellemons — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:05:27 EST

I have a Manhattan Barcode scanner Contact CCD Handheld 80mm scan width, USB. I have connected it to Windows 7 x64. I managed to get it to scan several barcodes by configuring it to USB Mode. If I open up Notepad it scans and displays the barcodes...

Problem with network after malware attack

Cruelio — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:05:10 EST

Im trying to help some friends with a Win XP machine. I got rid of the malware using Malware Bytes, and HiJackThis. But now they(I) have another problem. When the computer boot into Windows it seems fine. When I start Internet Explorer the browser...

Sysinternal's Process Explorer v14 doesn't show network activity

MikMik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:05:01 EST

The new version of Process Explorer shows network activity history, but it doesn't in one of my computers. This particular PC runs Windows XP SP3 and it has just been reformatted so everything is "fresh". I have even installed WinPCap and Microsoft...

http://localhost:8080 is not working on running apacher Server through XAMPP

Dinesh Kumar — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:04:50 EST

I am unable to configure a PHP/MySQL/Apache environment on my local machine using XAMPP. In my xampp control panel the Apache and MySQL status is as started, but localhost is not working. I have tried the following method but still i am unable to...

Creating stereo file from two mono files with sox

haimg — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:04:29 EST

I'm using sox 14.2.0 on Centos 6.0. I have two mono wav files, left.wav and right.wav. I need to combine them into one stereo.ogg file, with left.wav pan 80% to the left, and right.wav pan 80% to the right. I was unable to come up with the sox options...

External-Harddisk drive couldn't run unless in safe mode

zfm — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:04:19 EST

This is the strangest thing ever happened to me... I have an external harddisk drive (ext-HDD), bought around 2 years ago (don't know whether this is an important issue or not). Here, I have a video file (.avi) in my internal harddisk dive (HDD)...