User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions

Looking for Wikipedia pages

(from the Village Pump) I'm looking for the page that directs the "Did You Know?" section on the front page. Who decides what we see there?

I also want to know if there's a New pages patrol, just like the RC patrol.

Anyone with info please contact me hear or at my talk page. MGM 10:20, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

Template:Did you know is shown in the main page, and Wikipedia:Recent additions is the history thereof. The rules are in the corresponding talk page MediaWiki talk:Did you know. Wikipedia:New pages patrol is for the new pages patrol, but it's rather quiet over there. -- Chris 73 | Talk 02:01, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Lipoproteins

User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions/Lipoproteins

School

User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions/School

Egyptian cat

It's probably an odd question, but I'd really like to know. Ancient Egyptian could simply use the drawing of a cat to represent the word cat, but suppose they used the hieroglyphs to represent the sounds of the ancient word for cat, what glyphs would they use? Mgm|^(talk) 11:28, Mar 11, 2005 (UTC)

The hieroglyphs for cat, miw, combine the glyphs for m, i and w with a picture of a cat. For a picture, see here (search for "picture of a cat"). - Nunh-huh 01:58, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Thank you. Much appreciated! Mgm|^(talk) 10:07, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

I thought I'd chip in that Wikipedia can deal with Egyptian hieroglyphs: the word for cat is:

<hiero>mi-i-w-E13</hiero> which must have sounded remarkably like 'miaow'! --Gareth Hughes 23:32, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Peer review discussions

{{Wikipedia:Peer review/Mummy/archive1}}

Dalek modulation

What kind of program do I need to use the plugin on? I think I can dig up a microphone to use... - Mgm|^(talk) 13:34, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

That's probably where you are going to have to experiment a little. The straightforward answer is pretty much any version of Cubase, but they can get expensive. Cubase VST is available on a demo license. However, although the VST plugin protocol was developed by Steinberg its now quite widely supported on Mac and PC music software. According to the VST article there are even Linux based VST hosts now, but I don't know whether plugins always work accross platforms.

Basically all you should need is a simple recording environment that supports VST plugins. Record your voice, then experiment with applying the ring-mod plugin to it. A search for 'free VST host' leads me to MiniHost which might do the job - it appears to have the right features, but the screenshot doesn't look like anything I would expect though it might be showing an example of hosting a synth plugin.

There must be other alternatives too. You could probably find a free Ring Modulator for other plugin standards like DirectSound that should work with Windows sound programs such as MediaPlayer. -- Solipsist 15:07, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Yup, a Combination of MiniHost and the BJ Ringmodulation plugin works quite well. I had to also download the ASIO4All drivers mentioned in the MiniHost documentation to get my weird DSP microphone to work, and for some reason I only get a bunch of sliders instead of the pretty control panel for the Ring-mod, but it gets the job done. Now I can sound like a dalek in real-time and also record the results. To be honest I'm not sure whether I sound more like a dalek or a cylon, but with a reference sample, a bit of tweaking and a bit of acting you can probably get quite close. -- Solipsist 18:01, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I've got the program up, but it doesn't see any input channels. I've got an ancient mic that's labelled "MDE Uni-directional Dynamic Mic Impedence 600 Ohm DM - 202". Do you know of any drivers for the thing, or is it too old to be computer compatible. (No I don't have any manuals for the thing anymore). Thanks for the help so far! :) (Once we're done, please copy this to my discussions archive page (User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions), or leave it for a while so I can do it). - Mgm|^(talk) 20:15, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure. The mic itself probably doesn't matter so much. I guess you are plugging it in to the mic input on your sound card. So you really need the ASIO driver for that make of sound card. If it is a hi-tech sound card the manufacturers might produce their own ASIO drivers, but if it is a SoundBlaster or generic motherboard soundcard the ASIO4All driver will probably do it. There is a link to ASIO4All in the MiniHost documentation. Although even then it didn't work at first for me - I think I had to select the right input and output driver on the ASIO menu of MiniHost.

I also downloaded a simple VST instrument plugin so that I could generate sounds from inside MiniHost, which made it a little easier to tell when I had got the sound card/driver settings right. -- Solipsist 20:28, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

User:MacGyverMagic/monobook.js

Could someone check my monobook skin and tell me why the "changes since I last edited" and "purge tab" aren't showing up when the "edit section 0" does? Also, clicking my vfd tab tags the article, but fails to open additional screens for the nomination process and I'm not made aware of any popup blocks. Last time I checked, block tabs had no problem, so popups should be fine anyway. Can anyone enlighten me as to why things aren't working properly? I'm currently working with IE and unfortunately, that the browser I have most access to (so using Firefox would not be a solution to the problem). Thanks in advance. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:15, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

• I'd also like to know on what type of pages the tabs should show up. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:47, August 16, 2005 (UTC)
  • The addPurgeTab() and addSinceTab() functions use a different version of addlilink() than do_blockip_stuff() and add_blocktab() do. (I'm not sure if they both use the same version, since I'm too lazy to look at the referenced user scripts.) You need to copy the other version of addlilink() in, and rename one or the other (both in the function declaration and where it's called).

    I don't know why autovfd doesn't work in IE, but User talk:Korath/autovfd.js does warn you about it right at the top. —Cryptic (talk) 14:36, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Thanks, that was a lot of help to me. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:47, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

Plant identification

• Macro look of plant
  Macro look of plant
• The plant's leaves
  The plant's leaves

I'm posting this for someone who sent me this question through a mailing list. They want to know the name of this plant. You guys seem to be good at identification, so surprise me! :) - Mgm|^(talk) 20:12, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

It might be helpful if the second pic had the apical bud in focus. Guettarda 20:17, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Possibly a fig of some sort. Exact identification may well be impossible without flowers or fruit, though. - MPF 11:04, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions/Film Q

The text below is a personal copy of a mass image deletion request I posted on June 20, 2006.
User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions/CL8

Streaming video capture

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 May 13#Streaming video capture

Identifying child stage actor

Who starred as the Artful Dodger alongside Gwion Jones and Jodie Prenger in Children in Need 2008? - Mgm|^(talk) 19:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

This link seems to suggest it was Robert Madge (a Google search of "Robert Madge" Oliver brings up a load of stuff). I was browsing the Reference Desk roughly ten minutes ago and saw this question, but couldn't answer it. I went onto the other (linked) site and suddenly saw the post! Booglamay (talk) - 20:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Stunt kids

I'm not sure if it's even legal. Occasionally, kids perform their own stunts when they appear in a tv show or a feature film, but are there any kids employed as professional stunt performers anywhere in the world? And if so, who is the youngest one? - Mgm|^(talk) 19:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

This link says that there's an 11-year-old in Australia who does stunt work. This claims that there was a 3-year-old stunt performer in the 40s and 50s in the US named Thom Bresh. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 21:51, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Children in dangerous acts

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Entertainment/2009_March_26#Children_in_dangerous_acts