/users/recently_answered/50 Questions Recently Answered by Dave Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:24:03 -0800 http://guruza.com/question/489/reward-10.00/887 I am using Microsoft Excel and I want to plot a line through multiple series of data accurately without using the drawing tool. Preferably i want to choose the 3 points the line runs through on the 3 sets of data. I already have 3 line graphs on the same axis and this is the axis where i want the line to be placed. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. p.s to be more precise the data is on indifference curve analysis. Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:13:39 -0800 http://guruza.com/question/429/reward-5.00/752 I am using SBC DSL Elite package, the speed is supposed to be up to 6MPS. But mine is only around 900KPS. Tech support people says it is because of my LINKSYS wireless router. He recommends a different router (2wire) only available from sbcdslstore.com. Does anybody had the similar experience and found a solution instead of buying a SBC router? Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:28:59 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/424/reward-1.00/748 How can i test? Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:54:42 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/423/reward-50.00/740 If a variable is set to 0 and they try to exit the webpage I want it to let them leave unimpeded but if the variable is set to 1 I want a function to confirm that they want to leave and if they click OK they go on their way, but if they click Cancel they stay on the page. This is the simple function that I expected would work: window.onload = function() { if(!confirm("Cancel the file transfer in progress?")) {return false} } But it lets them leave either way. I looked toward gMail's code for a guidance or a clue but found nothing that made sense to me. A solution would have to avoid leaving the page even for a moment or file transfers will be interrupted. Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:13:20 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/420/reward-1.00/730 How does everyone like the new design? Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:29:55 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/410/reward-50.00/705 We own a 2000 Grand Caravan. While driving, the aBS light will pop on, and we lose our overhead computer readout, our speedometer, tachometer, tempereature guage, gear indicator, and sometimes our directionals, but we do not lose cruise control, if it is on, and we notice no change in the engine or transmission. Two years ago, we had to replace the A/C heater control module and the motherboard behind the dash. We replaced the A/C heater control module when this problem started, but it did not cure the problem. Help! Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:22:02 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/409/reward-10.00/704 I need to write an excel macro that operates starting from the first cell of a pasted block of data. How do I get the macro to dynamically start from that cell? Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:08:15 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/273/reward-0.00/570 Do games like chess give an unfair advantage to the person who moves first or second? Wed, 26 Jul 2006 19:09:16 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/274/reward-10.00/569 I'm pretty new to development for mobile devices (ie: cell phones) and bluetooth so please bear with me. I'd like to know if this is currently technically possible. I'd like a certain device (lets say a computer) to send a bluetooth signal to a nearby cell phone (or any similar device). When the phone receives the signal, a Java app would take over the screen and display some information (based on what was sent from the computer). This would most likely imply that the Java app would always be running in background on the phone. Am I 20 years ahead of my time or this is already possible? Thanks! Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:27:25 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/254/reward-10.00/538 What is this **Guruza** thing? Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:52:04 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/249/reward-0.00/535 In 2000 I purchased a brand new 6-cylinder automatic Toyota Camry. Over the years, I have rarely driven it and the current mileage is 50,335 miles. The car has performed fine over the years with regular oil changes – no problems at all. Within the past month, the car was towed (parked in incorrect parking spot, no signs posted anywhere; anyway…) The following day when I retrieved the car, issues seemed to appear. That day, I had shifted the car into reverse from park, and the car wouldn’t shift gears. I pressed the gas and nothing happened – the car seemed like it was stuck or in neutral. Luckily, I was able to drive forward instead and leave my parking spot. A day or so later, I shifted the car into reverse from park, and again, nothing happened. I pressed the accelerator for a couple of seconds, and the car suddenly lurched into reverse. Since then, when I am pressing the accelerator when stopped at a red light, sometime the car “pops” into drive, similar to someone driving a stick shift shakily and the car “lurching” into drive. A few nights later, I shifted my car into reverse and all the sudden, the car started making a terrible grinding sound when I would accelerate. Since that time, the grinding sound is both heard and felt when accelerating from a stopped position or from low RPMs. The sound goes away once the car reaches higher RPMs, such as leaving 1st gear. The dealer examined the car and found metal particles in the transmission pan and low pressure when looking at the transmission – he believes something is ground up in my transmission. His solution is to install a brand new transmission, for the low low price of $4,085. I am very surprised, as my car has such low mileage! I’m currently getting a 2nd opinion (and plan for a 3rd). Mr. 2nd opinion’s original idea is to rebuild the existing transmission and install. What do you think? Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:47:57 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/246/reward-14.00/527 Here's my story. I finished my M.S. in Computer Science last year. I've started full time employment. It's going pretty good, but I've found myself not knowing what to do with myself when I don't have the deadlines and pressures that come with school. Also, I find myself missing the sense of working towards something. I've been thinking that I need to go back to school and have been leaning heavily towards law school. I've been interested in this for a long time. I find myself following much that the EFF does and would like to be able to do technology law along those lines. 1. Explain to me why I should or should not follow this line of reasoning any further. 2. What are some good ways to discover for myself if this is a good idea? 3. If I do decide this is right for me, where do I get started on the process? 4. If not law school, what should I do to keep myself from becoming another white collar burnout? Sun, 16 Jul 2006 17:08:19 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/245/reward-10.00/526 Can someone please help with this odd error? It appears that rails is not parsing the url correctly. However, browsing to the url http://guruza.com/question/244/0.0/523#comment_537 does not replicate the error A ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid occurred in question#index: PGError: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "523#comment_537" : SELECT * FROM conversations WHERE (conversations."id" = '523#comment_537' ) LIMIT 1 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:120:in `log' ------------------------------- Request: ------------------------------- * URL: http://guruza.com/question/244/0.0/523#comment_537 * Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "reward"=>"0.0", "conversation_id"=>"523#comment_537", "id"=>"244", "controller"=>"question"} * Rails root: /var/www/guruza ------------------------------- Session: ------------------------------- * @write_lock: true * @session_id: **HIDDEN** * @new_session: false * @data: {:request_data=> {:request_uri=>"/question/244/0.0/523#comment_537", :raw_post=>nil}, "flash"=>{}} ------------------------------- Environment: ------------------------------- * DOCUMENT_ROOT : **HIDDEN** * FCGI_ROLE : RESPONDER * GATEWAY_INTERFACE : CGI/1.1 * HTTP_ACCEPT : text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 * HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET : ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 * HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip * HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: es * HTTP_COOKIE : **HIDDEN** * HTTP_HOST : guruza.com * HTTP_REFERER : http://guruza.com/ * HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4 * HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: 83.41.203.33 * HTTP_X_MOZ : prefetch * PATH_INFO : * QUERY_STRING : * REDIRECT_STATUS : 200 * REDIRECT_URI : /dispatch.fcgi * REMOTE_ADDR : **HIDDEN** * REMOTE_PORT : 48682 * REQUEST_METHOD : GET * REQUEST_URI : /question/244/0.0/523#comment_537 * SCRIPT_FILENAME : /var/www/guruza/public/dispatch.fcgi * SCRIPT_NAME : /dispatch.fcgi * SERVER_ADDR : 66.220.26.12 * SERVER_NAME : guruza.com * SERVER_PORT : 80 * SERVER_PROTOCOL : HTTP/1.1 * SERVER_SOFTWARE : lighttpd/1.4.10 * Process: 15875 * Server : ------------------------------- Backtrace: ------------------------------- /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:120:in `log' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:148:in `execute' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:362:in `select' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb:129:in `select_all' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:390:in `find_by_sql' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:924:in `find_every' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:918:in `find_initial' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1103:in `method_missing' [RAILS_ROOT]/app/controllers/question_controller.rb:21:in `index' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:910:in `perform_action' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:368:in `perform_action_with_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_with_benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_with_benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform_action_with_rescue' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:381:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in `process_with_filters' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in `process_with_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in `dispatch' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:150:in `process_request' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:54:in `process!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/fcgi.rb:600:in `each_cgi' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/fcgi.rb:597:in `each_cgi' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:53:in `process!' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/fcgi_handler.rb:23:in `process!' [RAILS_ROOT]/public/dispatch.fcgi:24 Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:09:06 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/242/reward-5.00/524 Am I able to use this image http://www.channel4.com/learning/microsites/E/essentials/history/imagebank/tudorexpl/treasure_chest.gif in part of my own image? If not, I would like to find other pictures of treasure chests that I can use/modify. Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:42:07 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/244/reward-0.00/523 what does the "E" imprinted under the valve cover mean? I have a 69 Mustang with a 302 engine but I must identify if its a 2v or 4v. Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:10:42 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/236/reward-5.00/517 My girl friend's birthday is coming up and I have a $200 budget. But I am not sure what is the best gift for girls these days. Anyone has a good idea? Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:31:57 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/238/reward-10.00/516 I have the following table: posts id votes id type (either 'up' or 'down') created_at I want to do things like this: order the posts by up votes - down votes order the posts by up votes - down votes in the last hour I would like to use SQL that will work cross platform I could do something like this: select posts.* from posts order by (select count(*) from votes where type = 'up' and post_id = posts.id) - (select count(*) from votes where type = 'down' and post_id = posts.id) but that seems pretty ugly and unlikely to work cross platform Any suggestions? Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:17:26 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/233/reward-25.00/515 What is the most important thing that we can do to improve Guruza? I will select the 5 "best" answers and then pick one at random for the reward! rich-collins-computer:~ rcollins$ irb irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):002:0> require 'facet/array/at_rand' => true irb(main):003:0> "Dave | nerkles | AgeKay | Jake McArthur | funnyguilly | larry | jer | bryce".split(' | ').at_rand => "Dave" irb(main):004:0> Congrats Dave and thanks for all of the suggestions from everyone! Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:32:22 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/230/reward-3.00/480 I'm creating a very simple Rails app that will become my online phone book. I just want to scaffold the whole thing as much as possible since I don't need anything fancy. I have a People table, and a Phone_Numbers table in my db. Phone_Numbers has a person_id field. Here's my Person class: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :phone_numbers end and my PhoneNumber class: class PhoneNumber < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person end However, when I run the scaffolding, I cannot add/edit phone numbers when I edit a Person. Is this normal? I thought scaffolding would do this automatically, but maybe I was expecting too much from this. Thanks! Sat, 08 Jul 2006 17:21:10 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/200/reward-3.00/473 I'm looking to hire a contractor (elance, craigslist, scriptlance...) to design and build a new website of come up with. What is the best way to protect my idea & application code from being resold or stolen after the site has been completed. Especially if the coders are overseas. Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:43:06 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/224/reward-50.00/472 We need a performance monitoring solution that will tell us if something is amiss with the site. The answer that provides the most comprehensive discussion of various solutions and which one is recommended (and why) will win the reward. Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:49:44 -0700 http://guruza.com/question/100/reward-0.50/101 which laptop should i buy? Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:34:46 -0700