Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

[aimeeandbeatles]

Could someone with Acrobat please flip this PDF the right way up? I'll give you a virtual cookie if you do!

Here's a link. (Please ignore the subject manner although it's SFW as far as I can tell... reading it upside down.)
http://www.mediafire.com/?qrd1zt0nw1mrnvu

Thanks ahead of time.

I figured out how to do this in the GhostScript viewer

 

[IglooDame]

Can the magnet inside a computer speaker damage an external hard drive?

Not unless the speaker magnet is used as a projectile in an electric railgun and shot at the hard drive at speeds approaching one thousand feet per second.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Not really cutting it, but thanks for the suggestion.

I know this is old and sort of a longshit, but heres another free charting software
http://www.freewarefiles.com/TeeChart-Office_program_1136.html

I've just tried it out, the interface is clumsy but its pretty versatile.

 

[LucyDuke]

Thanks for the suggestion, Aimee! I'll check it out.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just got an email with "No sender" "No subject" and it was blank. I looked at the headers and didnt see any email addresses in that. Could the email header corrupted?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I have some TIF/TIFF (they use both extensions) files. If I were to upload it to my site, would it work ok, or should I change it to a PNG or something first? When I googled it I got something from 2006 and if I opened it in my browser it wouldnt say if it works in most of the major browsers.

 

[GoodGame]

Apparently Tiff isn't supported in IE without an ActiveX script. But you probably want to show it in JPG or BMP type to improve the webpage loading, at the cost of compression and pixel loss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression Tiff is a lossless compression, but it doesn't display well in webpages usually, so it tends not to be used.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Some may recall my post a while back asking for plane models. Would it be possible to export a Microsoft Flight Simulator airplane to a specific format, such as a .3ds file complete with texture files, or would that be considered piracy?

If it is considered piracy, are there any options or routes I can take to acquire .3ds files complete with textures?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

It would be considered piracy, but if its for very personal use .... I don't think anyone would notice.

There's an open-source game (Stranded II) with a model of a plane. But unless I remembered incorrectly it's a B3D. Might be worth a look at.

 

[GoodGame]

Safest bet would be to look for open source models, especially if you were going to re-distribute later on. There are also some sites where authors load up 3D models and artwork which can be licensed affordably ($0 to $100).

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Question: Theoricatally, is there a limit onto the number of files a computer can have? I thought of this because I'm downloading a bunch of newspaper pages and it's something like 15,000 files (which I know won't cause any havoc).

 

[Cutlass]

No. It's a matter of how much room you have. No matter how many files you may have, it's trivial compared to the number of files many professionally used computers have.

 

[Samson]

No. It's a matter of how much room you have. No matter how many files you may have, it's trivial compared to the number of files many professionally used computers have.

Are you sure? I thought there was a limit imposed by the file system structure (though it is a LOT more than 15,000). This may be out of date though.

 

[Cutlass]

This is what Wiki says is the limits on the NTFS files:

The following are a few limitations of NTFS:

File Names
File names are limited to 255 UTF-16 code points. Certain names are reserved in the volume root directory and cannot be used for files. These are: $MFT, $MFTMirr, $LogFile, $Volume, $AttrDef, . (dot), $Bitmap, $Boot, $BadClus, $Secure, $Upcase, and $Extend;.[3] (dot) and $Extend are both directories; the others are files. The NT kernel limits full paths to 32,767 UTF-16 code points.

Maximum Volume Size
In theory, the maximum NTFS volume size is 264−1 clusters. However, the maximum NTFS volume size as implemented in Windows XP Professional is 232−1 clusters. For example, using 64 kB clusters, the maximum Windows XP NTFS volume size is 256 TB minus 64 kB. Using the default cluster size of 4 kB, the maximum NTFS volume size is 16 TB minus 4 kB. (Both of these are vastly higher than the 128 GB limit lifted in Windows XP SP1.) Because partition tables on master boot record (MBR) disks only support partition sizes up to 2 TB, dynamic or GPT volumes must be used to create NTFS volumes over 2 TB. Booting from a GPT volume to a Windows environment requires a system with EFI and 64-bit support.[52]

Maximum File Size
As designed, the maximum NTFS file size is 16 EB (16 × 10246 bytes) minus 1 KB or 18,446,744,073,709,550,592 bytes. As implemented, the maximum NTFS file size is 16 TB minus 64 kB or 17,592,185,978,880 bytes.

Alternate Data Streams
Windows system calls may handle alternate data streams.[3] Depending on the operating system, utility and remote file system, a file transfer might silently strip data streams.[3] A safe way of copying or moving files is to use the BackupRead and BackupWrite system calls, which allow programs to enumerate streams, to verify whether each stream should be written to the destination volume and to knowingly skip unwanted streams.[3]

So I see some, very large, limits on what the file system can address for physical memory. But I don't see any limits on the numbers of individual files. Maybe some other, older, file systems have lower limits.

 

[Samson]

This is what Wiki says is the limits on the NTFS files:

So I see some, very large, limits on what the file system can address for physical memory. But I don't see any limits on the numbers of individual files. Maybe some other, older, file systems have lower limits.

ntfs.com seems to say that Max Files on Volume is 4,294,967,295 ((2^32)-1). FAT32 is only 4,194,304, and FAT16 is only 65,536.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well I doubt I'm going to download 4,294,967,295 ((2^32)-1) newspaper scans, so it doesn't concern me for now

 

[Cutlass]

Yeah, I don't see reaching 4 billion files any time soon either. I think that's close enough to unlimited for a personal user.

 

[CivCube]

Just had a power outage for a brief moment. Everything on Windows 7 seems fine except for the mouse, which is really irregular in movement and will barely move at all in Half Life 2. Are the mouse drivers corrupted or do I need to do something else?

 

[Cutlass]

That's possible. Try another reboot. And if that doesn't work, try getting fresh drivers.

 

[CivCube]

Uninstalling the drivers and rebooting seemed to work.