I bought something on the internet. The store I bought it from seemed (after I placed the order) shady, didn't ship the item, wouldn't cancel the order. I went to my bank and filled out a form thing, my bank refunded the money for me. Today I got a shipping notice about the thing that I ordered. What now?
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posted by hapticactionnetwork
on Feb 28, 2008 -
11 answers
CarFilter: identify this
part from my car (highlighted in red) -- It started smoking on the way home, and I'm wondering how scared my wallet is feeling.
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posted by Static Vagabond
on Feb 27, 2008 -
15 answers
I can no longer open a number of raw and jpg files in a single folder on an external harddrive. What's going on? Is my harddrive about to die?
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posted by msbrauer
on Feb 16, 2008 -
5 answers
How can I deal with a person at work who seems to be publicly shunning me? (She is not my direct supervisor, but she does hold some control over the funding for my department, and therefore, my job.)
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 30, 2008 -
20 answers
The scrollwheel-click has suddenly stopped working in Firefox. I don't recall making any changes in preferences, but all of a sudden, what used to open up links in new tabs, no longer does so. Instead wheel-clicking on a link does nothing. Any idea how to fix this problem? I feel like I'm browsing with one less finger! (Mac OSX.4.11, Firefox 2.0.0.11, Safari is unaffected by the problem.)
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posted by ruwan
on Dec 13, 2007 -
6 answers
I'd like to learn about SVM, HMM and wavelet algorithms in their usage in bioinformatics. I have a somewhat rudimentary understanding of the underlying mathematics from Wikipedia and a couple other sources, but I find that a concrete demonstration of their application fleshes it out.
Are there texts, software packages (preferably free) or papers you'd recommend that: 1) includes good starter problem sets, or; 2) demonstrates how these techniques are used in research applications (beyond "we used
xyz here"). Thanks!
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Nov 24, 2007 -
7 answers
My 2Gb SD card stopped working under Windows, works with the camera and Ubuntu, what's the problem?
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posted by tseo
on Sep 13, 2007 -
15 answers
The website
toysrus.ca won't load any images on my computer, it's the only site I could find that does this. Even stranger, if I access the site through a proxy, the site loads fine. I also asked friends online to check for me, and the site loads fine for them too. What is going on?
posted by exolstice
on Sep 9, 2007 -
11 answers
This morning, my wacom tablet (graphire 2) sytlus stopped working, and I would like to fix it until I can buy a new tablet
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posted by Iananan
on Aug 23, 2007 -
5 answers
Succour for Aged Computers Filter: I've got an old computer that is having two problems. 1) When it boots up, it always asks to go into safemode. This is an old problem. 2) when it boots up, I can use the kb to select safemode (or not) or make selections in the bios, but when XP loads up, mouse and kb aren't working!
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posted by By The Grace of God
on Jul 19, 2007 -
7 answers
Nowhere else to ask this filter:
I have a xbox Debian (Xebian) xbox and it has (had) a raid drive of two 300GB drives. But now for some reason it got a bunch of errors and I can't get it up and running again.
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posted by Napierzaza
on Jul 16, 2007 -
1 answer
I live on a street where the houses are not on the same ground level and so there are retaining walls between the properties. The house on my uphill side was built in the 1920’s and my house was built on a vacant lot between two houses from that era in 1961. Thanks to a brochure of the development in the 20’s, I have a picture of these two neighboring houses when my lot was vacant. The picture clearly shows the walls, or in actuality, the walls that are visible above ground level. These walls were built on top of the real retaining walls and were wood frame inside with chicken wire and plaster over the outside.
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posted by Leeman
on Jul 9, 2007 -
5 answers
Map geeks: can I generate a polygon shapefile from the outline of a large collection of points? There's more detail, of course.
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posted by genghis
on Jun 26, 2007 -
17 answers
CreativeProblemSolvingAdventureFilter: If you were moving overseas for a period of 2 years via 4 air trips, spaced 1.5-2 months apart, what stuff would you bring when?
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posted by sdis
on Jun 14, 2007 -
8 answers
Our new digital television just started showing red highlights on dark colours. What's wrong?
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posted by jacalata
on Jun 13, 2007 -
5 answers
A month or so ago, I became unable to add new tracks to Itunes. Whether I try to add via clicking on the track, dragging into iTunes, or adding the track from the file menu, the result is the same. I have also tried changing my preferences so that the track does not copy to the iTunes library when it is added; still the same. When I try to add a track, my hard drive just spins and makes a little clicking noise and iTunes goes into "not responding" mode, with the spinning pinwheel.
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posted by fastbacker
on Jun 6, 2007 -
7 answers
How do I deal with a boss who dislikes me personally and says no to all of my ideas unless my direct supervisor is in the room "pleading my case" as well?
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posted by ollyoop
on May 9, 2007 -
23 answers
Imagine a cube-shaped building, with ten cube-shaped rooms along each side (10 rooms long, 10 high & 10 deep). Each cubular room has 4 walls, 1 ceiling and 1 floor. Each of the 6
interior surfaces in all 1000 cubular rooms is decorated with a different piece of art.
The rooms can be moved around the building, as if it were an enormous Rubik's cube, but they can also be spun on their axes, so all 6 walls of all 1000 cubes is capable of touching all the others (if the cube is so arranged).
How many combinations of art within the 'Cube Gallery' are possible? If you can run me through the workings of the maths I would be extra grateful. Also, what technical words/phrases/language are useful/interesting in expressing this concept?
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posted by 0bvious
on Apr 24, 2007 -
25 answers
My wife cannot get online with her Mac. The problem has been persistent ever since she got back from Central America. Any suggestions?
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posted by rare_g
on Apr 3, 2007 -
8 answers
Generally in most states, especially Oregon, if one person claims another has "personal property," do the police deal with this in an immediate sense or is this a case for small claims?
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 20, 2007 -
11 answers
I recently noticed that some video downloads were failing because the video files were `in use'. Then I noticed that for very brief moments, an icon which turned out to be `Ogg Direct show filter' was flashing on and off in my toolbar. How can I stop it?
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posted by tomble
on Feb 2, 2007 -
4 answers
What is going on with my display? Some kind of "pan-and-scan" effect has been switched on and it's making me seasick.
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posted by lekvar
on Jan 12, 2007 -
5 answers
What is going on with my computer? Black flashes, weird picture artifacts, screen freezing. It's not the monitor (swapped that out already). Is it the video card? Weird pictures inside!
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posted by radiosig
on Jan 7, 2007 -
13 answers
The problem: I'm subscribed to 20-30 high volume mailing lists (e.g., Ubuntu, Python) and the gmail account I'm using is now 80% full! I subscribed to them to ask a question once in a while, but I really have no interest in following every post to the lists. My question is how do others handle this situation? Is there a solution to mailing lists that I'm missing?
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posted by GregX3
on Dec 31, 2006 -
28 answers
[Fixmumscomputerfilter] I recently upgraded my mum to firefox 2.0. And now she cant open links from outlook express. Theres
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posted by gergtreble
on Dec 6, 2006 -
11 answers
Within the last year, I read about a particular problem with a model or line of tea presses. Now, I can't find which model or line was the problem one, and I'm afraid I'll end up buying that one.
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posted by daisyace
on Dec 4, 2006 -
5 answers
We keep getting kicked out of Yahoo mail (asking us to log back in again). We've set it to "ask every 24 hours"; we accept cookies. We've cleared cookies. We remain logged into other cookie-lovin' sites (i.e., Amazon). This happens in IE and Firefox. This happens on three different computers. What gives?
posted by stevil
on Nov 28, 2006 -
12 answers
How to learn to break a problem down into manageable pieces and analyze a challenge logically and think under pressures?
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posted by cluelessguru
on Nov 20, 2006 -
12 answers
Laptop hardware question: My laptop takes a couple minutes to "warm up" before it will boot... details inside.
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posted by knave
on Nov 4, 2006 -
5 answers
My kitchen is systematically going on strike. Last week, my kitchen faucet stopped working. The sprayer thingee still works when the water is on. All other water appliances still work. Just no water from the kitchen sink.
The next day, my roommate tells me that the garbage disposal isn't running. Everything else on that circuit is running fine.
What to do? How do I fix this? Do I call an electrician, a plumber?
posted by donmayo
on Oct 26, 2006 -
7 answers
