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List of Major LC-LC Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturers

  I'm now in need of LC-LC Fiber-Optic Cable, and am looking for a list of all major manufacturers. Do we have such a list on Wikipedia - if yes, what name is it under? If not, who are the major manufacturers? Thanks as always. Rocketshiporion♫ 11:24, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm looking particularly for OM3 multimode optical fiber (with LC connectors at both ends) for 8Gb Fibre Channel application. 01:07, 4 May 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rocketshiporion (talk • contribs)

Scanner issue

Good day all. I recently bought a new computer (a Win7) and now my printer/scanner/fax all in one is attached to it. On my Vista I was able to scan documents directly to PDF using the default interface but now with the 7 I can only scan them to tif, jpg, bmp, or png. Why might this be, and how can I fix it? I know I can convert these file type to pdf for free online but I'd much rather just scan directly to pdf. Thanks. 72.128.95.0 (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

What make/model scanner? ¦ Reisio (talk) 07:42, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Did you reinstall all the drivers that came with your scanner? I don't see why the software for Win7 should have less functionality than that for Vista, but there might be some reason. Meanwhile, you can convert your scanned picture files to pdf using free software (such as CutePDF, or others mentioned at List of PDF software), but the result will be just an image in pdf format. To create a PDF containing genuine text, you need OCR software as part of your scanner interface. Dbfirs 07:58, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Live Virus/Trojan - anyone feel like investigating?

I was reading about the Sony/Anonymous war[1] and happened across a site DANGERhttp://thapsakae*net/images/img*php?u=harry-stringerDANGER (convert * to .) which made Avast sound a "threat detected", but the window never came up, and Avast now displays in an odd small font. It's not labeled in the Google search (www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22stringer+-+6%273%22+-+Cardiff%2C+Wales%22&btnG=Search) as a "site that can harm your computer". Spybot-Search and Destroy didn't find anything. Is anyone with a real (i.e. non-Windows...) computer minded to investigate what the exploit is? And what the odds are that Avast actually stopped it? Wnt (talk) 03:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5456462/what-does-this-php-code-do#answer-5456545 (via). If you weren't redirected or offered a download, AIUI it either didn't work or Avast! may have blocked it. ¦ Reisio (talk) 07:41, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Sinister script?

While browsing with Firefox 4, and using it in a normal manner, I had a pop up box saying that a script may be slowing down my computer and asking if I would like to terminate it. I get these requests now and again.

The script was "resource://gre/components/nsPrivateBrowingService.js:443". Searching on Google has not found anything that explains what it is. I was not using any kind of private browsing as far as I am aware.

So is this Google yet again "accidently" snooping on people, or is it something else? Thanks 92.15.8.107 (talk) 20:38, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Nothing to do with Google. A variety of scripts could "slow down your computer" (giving you that warning) depending on what you're visiting; it's not a sign that they're sinister. This script is part of Firefox itself however. The first thing I'd do is check that the "Start Private Browsing" entry is on your Firefox Tools menu; if it says "Stop Private Browsing", then you're in private browsing mode, and if you don't care about private browsing, then select Stop. Some other problem is obviously leading to the warning message, but it's probably a moot point if you were in Private Browsing, stopped it, and don't plan to use it again. Riggr Mortis (talk) 21:16, 2 May 2011 (UTC)