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[edit] September 14

[edit] boosting search engine results

Hello Wikipedia users,

I was wondering if any user knows some tips on how to boost ratings for webpages within a website? it is part of my job to make the product pages on my company's site turn up in the top results on three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN), how can i do this? I already have organized html coding, used the key words of the products in the search tags, and included these key words in the actual text of the page. I have also read the "Help" sections of the search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) and have done my best to follow some of their tips. Nevertheless, this has not seemed to boost the individual webpage's ratings, what else can I do?

Is spnsoring on the search engine my best bet? or are there other tricks?

thank you

Tylercos 00:06, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
A quick 5 second Google search gave me 3 myths about boosting search engine results. This doesn't answer your question, but it shows you what not to do, so hopefully it helps. I'm sure if you do Google searches, you will find what you need to do to boost your ratings. I came across software that costs like $300, so depending on your budget, you can either do something along those lines or see what else you can find by searching the Web. Good luck. (by the way, I googled the header of your question without quotes) —EdGl 00:13, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
  • There's scores of info out there on search engine optimization. What I want to know is how you got the job, when you've clearly got no idea what to do. - Mgm|(talk) 12:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Most likely because the person who gave him the job has no idea what's involved either, so has no basis for deciding who should do it. StuRat 16:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Or, like i said in my question, this is only PART of my job. thanks again to those who actually helped. Tylercos 17:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IE Page Flashing

I was asked if I could figure out a web design problem, but it looks like a Flash/IE problem and I don't use Flash or Windows, so it is outside my realm. If you go to http://rawdoggentertainment.com/3/index.php and scroll down to the bottom of the page (in IE of course), the page periodically flashes. Why? It doesn't do it in Firefox, Konqueror, or Safari. --Kainaw (talk) 02:05, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MEPIS deleted my files (part 2)

A while ago I posted here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Computing/2006_September_4 about loosing alot of my files under mepis by failing to unmount my hard drive. I thought I would post a follow-up in case any of my fellow wikipedians would like to know the aftermath. After recieving some advice i decided to run scandisk (which btw took about a day) or my drive to no avail. I had given up hope until today where I stumbled upon the fact that my files had simply been shifted to the my videos folder of the my documents folder on the root of my drive. It appears that the folders got moved around and whatnot but I lost little or no data. I leave this here as a thanks to everyone who gave me suggestions and as a reminder to always back-up your data. Since this is supposed to be a question I will end this sentence with one? - Ridge Racer 05:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New itunes 7

heyy

With the new ituns 7 i have realised that it has a pretty cool feature that automaticly gets tha album art for you, but to do this you need to have an account...... when i went to go make an account it asked for a credit card number... is this so that if you want to buy any music then it uses this or is this because you need to pay for the album art?.......... summerised: is the album art FREE???? pulo 05:51, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

The album art is free as in beer. The reason for the CC # is so that if you buy songs, it charges the card. Dismas|(talk) 06:07, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Serious Audio CD Problems!

Sorry for the annoying title, but I've been experiencing this problem for quite a while now and I have no idea how to fix it. Basically, whenever an audio CD is entered into a DVD and/or CD drive, the computer resets itself; i.e. it immediately restarts without any notification whatsoever. When Windows XP restarts, the Error Reporting window pops up claiming "Your system has recovered from a serious error" or something like that. This is true for any audio CD (regardless of whether it is copy-protected or not) and CDs with audio tracks before the data track. I have a generic internal DVD-Rom drive, and a generic internal CD-RW drive, both of which are affected. Please assist me if possible; I'll refresh this page every so often, and I will provide more information if requested. Thank you very much in advance. --Ppk01 11:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Sound like you have malware on you computer. Start by downloading and installing and running Ad-Aware. Do you have any virus protection? Jon513 11:58, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure it's not a malware thing; neither NOD32 nor Windows Defender's realtime scanner found anything wrong. Nonetheless, we'll see what Ad-Aware has to say when it's done. --Ppk01 12:09, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
you can try disabling autoplay using Tweak UI a windows powertoy. it can be found [here]. (the option can be found in "my computer"-->"autoplay"). However, it might still have a problem when you try to load the CD. Jon513 12:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Holding Shift (which disables autoplay) often helps, but whenever the disc is accessed by the system (i.e. an audio CD-compatible program) the crash occurs. Interestingly though, this doesn't happen with Exact Audio Copy, a program with which I can rip audio files. But that's the only exception: Windows refuses to read audio CDs. I think I read somewhere about some form of copy protection that can effect this, but I can't think of anything that could have caused this. I remember a website with a list of PC games that carried this particular form of copy protection, but the only major PC games I have on this machine are Civilization IV and The Sims 2. --Ppk01 13:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Well, the Ad-Aware scan proved one thing: it's not malware. --Ppk01 15:25, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Not necessarily, it just means Ad-Aware didn't spot it. Heck, it could be a malfunction in one of those odd DRM things that a few CDs include. Not saying that it is or that it's more likely than not -- I have no idea. -- Consumed Crustacean (talk) 15:33, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
You can tell it not to automatically restart on a system fail. Right click on my computer, properties, advanced, startup and recovery settings and uncheck the box that says Automatically restart. You should then get a blue screen with an error message instead of just restarting. That might give you some clues as to the problem.
From you description, it sounds like this problem does NOT happen if a data CD is used, is that correct? If so, I would first check to see what automatic action is being performed when a CD with audio tracks is inserted. In "My Computer" right-click on each drive and select "Properties", then select the AutoPlay tab. It should show a list of various types of content, and the action that is assigned for each, e.g. for a music CD, it might show "play all tracks with Windows Media Player." Whatever program is being used to play music CDs is probably the one that is causing the serious error. Try running that program from the start menu and seeing what happens. Maybe it needs to be re-installed, or perhaps you want to choose some other action. You might even want to select "prompt me each time to choose an action" in that AutoPlay menu so that you can stop the rebooting. --LarryMac 18:50, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
The problem lies not with any individual program. This is a system-wide problem that occurs when Windows acknowledges a CD as an audio CD. As you have guessed, the problem only occurs with audio CDs, not data CDs (unless the data CDs have audio tracks preceeding the data track; if the data track comes first, the error does not occur). The Autoplay for audio CDs is set to "prompt me each time". I'll turn off the automatically restart option and note the error message, at which point I'll report back. Thank you all for your help so far. --Ppk01 12:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PPP and IPv6

Does PPP support IPv6? -Yyy 12:38, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes. In principle, you can run any protocol you like over PPP; to identify what protocol you're running there is a "protocol" field in the PPP data frame, and IANA maintains a list of assigned protocol numbers, which includes pretty much anything you're likely to want to run (and some that you aren't.) -- AJR | Talk 19:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] how do i simulate the vc++ program that i had created for dc motor control?

i had asked like:

i had created a program in vc++.this program is used to control the speed as well as direction of dc motor(12v) .Now i want to simulate the program for realization.... how to simulate it?..is there any software to simulate it? refer complete details of program ...etc in "http://www.multyremotes.com/DC-motor-control-in-VC++.htm"


reply from wikipedia :
I'm afraid I don't understand the question -- define "simulate the program for realization". If you want to run the program, but have precise control over how fast it runs and what it runs, and be able to see its internal state, you're talking about running the program under a debugger; VC++ has one integrated that probably does everything you want in that regard. If you're talking about simulating the operation of the motor, you probably want to write a separate program that reads and interprets the output of the existing program to check its validity. Does that help? --Tardis 15:27, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

my reply:

sorry i had asked the question wrongly!

tardis said that "simulating the operation of motor"....how it will be?.. can anyone help me?

i had clicked the link "Tardis" for help...but it is not reachable!...help me!

I clicked on your link, and must say it's full of spelling and grammar errors. Do you know a native English speaker who can proofread it for you ? StuRat 10:05, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Do you want to A) create a real motor that runs with your program or B) only simulate (pretend) a real situation, so there is no real motor?  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  07:40, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Samba Alternative

I have a Linux fileserver that users need to store files on. Some users are using linux. Some are using windows. Some use both. I very easily set up NFS so the linux users can access the files. I've tried to set up Samba, but it doesn't work. I've tried to use Samba repeatedly for many years. Never, ever, have I been able to get Samba to work. Is there an alternative that will allow Windows users to seamlessly open, edit, save files on a linux fileserver? --Kainaw (talk) 16:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

You can get an NFS client for Windows from (gasp) Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/default.mspx But really Samba isn't that hard - the folks on the samba newsgroup should be able to get you a basic smb.conf or fix whatever is wrong with your current, broken, one. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 17:04, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
As an experiment, I just took a fresh Ubuntu install (which comes with a rather sensible smb.conf and stuff already set up). I gave my user account there a samba passwd (sudo smbpasswd fin) and started the smb server (sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart). I made sure the XP clients shared the same workgroup (cleverly the default is WORKGROUP) and browsed their network neighbourhood, and there's the server. Opening that and it prompts for my samba username and passwd (I give it the one I just set with smbpasswd) and it shows the "justtesting" share (the default one that Ubuntu ships with). If you give me an email addr I'll email you the smb.conf, but I'd imagine any modern Linux's samba-server package will ship with something equivalent. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 17:34, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I seriously doubt a smb.conf file will help. I let all the professors and grad students in the Computer Science dept take a whack at it today. They reformatted the whole drive and reinstalled Debian, Redhat, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Absolutely nothing they did would get samba working. They did the same thing on their own computers - worked fine. On mine, it won't work. As I said, no computer I've ever owned has been able to run samba. --Kainaw (talk) 19:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Sounds like you need an exorcist, not a computer tech. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 19:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm cracking up laughing here, but I think you could give AFS (Andrew File System) a swing, too.