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  • Question about beginner model car kits?

    I got this new model car kit, will be my first one. Thought it might be an interesting hobby. Anyway, I got to step one and have a question. It tells me what color I should paint it (aluminum) but do I paint THEN cement the two pieces together or do I cement the two pieces THEN paint. They both are the same color btw. Thank You

    1 AnswerHobbies & Crafts7 years ago
  • Communicating that you care?

    My girlfriend and I have been going through a really rough patch. We've been together for almost two years and I don't want to see this get ruined. I have never been one to be able to communicate well.

    So heres a little of the back story. Sunday my girlfriend was talking to me about how she was upset that I was nice to someone that had hurt her. I tried to be there for her but one thing let to another and it was just a series of arguments that night. The last one being the worst because at that point I didn't really have much to say at all. The arguments were pretty much just about how I dont show her I care. I just always feel like I can't communicate to her that I do care. I just end up saying series of "You're right, I am soo sorry...I should have did x, y, and z and I know to change that and be there for you more in that way you need me too" She is sick of hearing me say that and wants me to just be there for her and carrying her hurt with her.

    I really want that and it does break my heart to see her upset, I just can not communicate that to her at all. She agreed to go to lunch with me today and as we were getting to the restraunt she mentioned that her eyes hurt from crying all night. Again, I feel like a deer caught in the headlights. Shes sick of hearing me say I am sorry and that I shouldnt have treated her this way. Its obvious why she was cry and I know it was cause of what I had done. I didn't know what to say to her though. I couldn't say "whats wrong" because its completely obvious why. I couldnt just sit there saying sorry. What should I have done in that situation? I need to learn to show her that I do truly care about her and for her. My heart breaks everytime shes upset and I want nothing more than to be there for her but I just never have words to say. I am going to ruin my relationship with her just because I can't manage to get words out of my mouth to show I care.

    1 AnswerSingles & Dating8 years ago
  • Getting an associates after a bachelors?

    Hello, I've been interested in knowing once you graduate with your BS/BA, if you want to go back and start over can you transfer credits from your BS/BA program (as in you've already graduated with the BS/BA).

    I am graduating with a physics degree and have been getting really into electronics and am considering going to my community college and taking a few classes with it (Electronics engineering). Would I be able to opt out of a lot of the classes and get my associates that way? Like would I really need to take the intro physics classes again and retake my gen eds like writing classes or would I be able to just take the classes I haven't taken yet?

    I know I could try for masters instead, this is more just a question of concept, wondering if that is even possible to do it that way or if you have to truly start all over. Because in my case there is probably only about a semester or two worth of classes that I haven't taken towards an A.S. in electronics engineering.

  • Help with small Spanish translation?

    This is what Im trying to say

    I will be working in Information Technology. I want to have two children but I do not want to have two boys. I will be married to my current girlfriend. I want to live in the United States and I would prefer to live in New York. I will be playing the guitar for my church.

    This is what I came up with

    Yo seré trabajar en tecnología de la información. Yo querría tener dos niños pero no querría tener dos chicos. Yo seré casado a mi novia de corriente. Yo querría vivir en los estado unidos y yo preferiría vivir en Nueva York. Yo seré tocar el guitara para mi iglesia.

    Can somebody help guide me in the right direction. I have a test tomorrow that has a writing portion and want to start brain storming potential sentences since she gave us the topic (us in 2021). Any helpful tips or corrections would be nice. She really wants us to be using the future and conditional tense

    2 AnswersLanguages8 years ago
  • College major question?

    I am in a bit of a dilemma with my college major (undergrad). Well I was originally going for physics and Mechanical Engineering because I wanted to become a mechanical engineer. But after failing a lot of classes and starting to not like it I discovered that I really want to work with computers (specifically IT networking).

    Anyway, So I am a senior now and am looking to graduate in May, I go to a private school so its pretty pricey. I can't major in Comp Sci or anything like that because I don't have enough time to meet the requirements and don't want to go into more debt. Or simply put, I want to finish this year. The dilemma is, should I finish up with a physics degree or would a cross disciplinary study be better (W/ Physics, Math, and Computer Science).

    I can take as many computer classes as I can which is what I did last semester so the cross disciplinary works out fine, but I run into problems with the physics degree because I would need to take two upper level physics classes next semester to finish and I can't even imagine having to take two upper level physics classes at a time. Plus I kind of feel like its better to say I cross disciplinary studied in computers then to say I have a physics degree but took as many computer classes as I can. Any advice? I'm going to talk to my adviser tomorrow but want to get as many opinions as I can

  • Wake on LAN server question?

    I am having the hardest time getting Wake on LAN to work. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 that is running windows server 2008 R2 Datacenter (thank you dreamspark!). Anyways, I don't use the server enough where I want it running 24/7 so I want to be able to sleep it or hibernate it and wake it up remotely when I need to. The server is connected to a cisco 2900 switch and then to a 2651XM router. I am able to remote into the server and I am sure the networking side is working because I use it all the time.

    I put the server into hibernate and I don't know if this makes a difference but the server disappears from the mac address table of the switch while it's in hibernation.

    I tried using this program: http://magicpacket.free.fr/

    And when I go to receive I can send the wake on LAN packet from my computer and the server does reconize it (while its turned on and running that program), but then once I shutdown or hibernate my server it will not wake up unless I physically turn it on. I can't ping it when it is asleep either. The orange NIC led does blink while its off. Any ideas, what am I doing wrong.

    I also did check the box to "allow this device to wake the computer" and I didn't see wake on LAN as a bios setting but I read about pressing CTRL-S on the bootup and that took me to another menu where I enabled wake on LAN.

    1 AnswerComputer Networking8 years ago
  • Having trouble in a relationship?

    I could really use some help in my relationship. We've been together for almost 2 years and she is the love of my life so I don't want to lose her. We've been going through a tough time recently.

    For some reason I have the hardest time giving her the attention she needs. We are very coupely in terms of hand holding and cuddling and physical stuff, I tell her all the time that she is beautiful. But I still do not show her the attention she needs. She says I should be making her feel like she is the only girl in the world and that I have never been good at making her feel that way. I don't know what to do though. How do I make her feel like that. What have I been doing wrong. I think she is absolutely the hottest and sexiest girl in the world and I always find myself drooling over her but for some reason it never comes across to her and I don't articulate it good to her. She often finds herself wondering if she is pretty to me. I know she struggles from self esteem but I dont know what to do.

    For example, last night she was wearing very revealing clothes and I was so excited to tell her about something that happened to me that she just sat there the whole time wondering "I'm practically naked and he isnt being distracted by me." I did tell her she looked beautiful and that she looked soo good. I feel like a horrible boyfriend. How can I focus more on her and show her that attention she needs. Like I said, its in my head and my heart, I think she is amazing. But for some reason she doesn't get that from me and doesn't believe I feel that way.

    1 AnswerSingles & Dating8 years ago
  • Asking parents for blessing?

    To start, I know she wants me to get her parents blessing, we've talked about that already, anyway, here's the situation.

    I asked my girlfriends parents for their blessing about 6 months ago, it wasn't a good time and they basically said no. Well her birthday is coming up Saturday and I wanted to ask her to marry me then. I asked her parents again and mentioned how I already have a ring and all and her mom (who is basically the dominant one) said she needed to take some time to get back to me and pray about it. So I waited and waited and finally she got back to me this morning and said she has not had time to get back to me but she has some concerns that we wouldn't be able to talk about before this upcoming weekend, however she said she would not be against us getting engaged at this time.

    I had my heart set on asking her this weekend and already started planning ideas but I dont know what to do now. I know she wants her parents blessing, she has a very good relationship with them. It sounds like her mom is ok with it, Do you think it's appropriate to continue on and get engaged this weekend or should I wait to talk to her parents more. Keep in mind, it is very hard to talk to her parents without my girlfriend knowing. I live 2 hrs away and my girlfriend is usually at home with her family or if she's not, usually her mom is out busy. Any ideas or advice?

    3 AnswersMarriage & Divorce8 years ago
  • A good file hosting site?

    Anyone know of a good file hosting site? I have aquired a lot of networking and computer gear (routers, switches, servers) and I want to set up a little inventory for myself. I want to be able to scan a QR code and have it take me to the PDF I post relating to that piece of equipment, only thing is, I want to be able to view it, not have to download it. Cause if I use it a lot i dont want to have a million files on my phone from each time I view it. I tried my dropbox but that wants me to download the file first

    2 AnswersSoftware8 years ago
  • Physics question about reference frames?

    If you blast a rocket up at a ridiculously slow speed, like 1ft/hr, would the rocket land back in the same spot (if it was in flight for ~50 hrs so 50 ft high)? Assuming it is in a vacuum so theres no effects from wind. Since it is in an inertial reference frame, but i guess it seems weird to imagine that since the earth is rotating underneath it.

    3 AnswersPhysics8 years ago
  • Question about instagram?

    How private is instagram? I've been dying for a way to share videos with my girlfriend but before it was always a hassle because the only option was to take it on phone, transfer it to computer, upload it privately to youtube, and send her the link. But now with all these new video sharing apps coming out it seems like it could be a solution. I know instagram just recently rolled out an update with video sharing. I don't have and instagram or a facebook, do i need facebook for instagram? Is instagram private where only me and her would be able to see them, I just dont want everyone to be able to see our videos. My girlfriend has facebook though, would it automatically post to her facebook wall?

    1 AnswerCell Phones & Plans8 years ago
  • Shifting car out of park?

    My sisters car died in the drive way. It's a one person drive way so there is no way of getting a second car in there. The only thing to do would be to push it on to the street. So I got in her car to begin doing that but I couldnt get the car out of park. I would turn the key to on, press down on the break but it wouldn't go. It feels like she was stepping on the break a lot or something because it had that built up pressure feeling. Any hope for getting the into neutral? If it matters its a 2001 Chevy Prism

    1 AnswerMaintenance & Repairs8 years ago
  • Beginner Server question?

    I got a used server for next to nothing to start learning on but I can't get it to show a video. It is a dell poweredge 1950. There is an error message that the redundant power supply is bad. Is there anyway to use the server with just the one power supply or do I need the second one? I'm just using this for learning so downtime obviously doesnt matter. The server turns on but I see the error roll across the display on the server and I never get any VGA output at all.

    3 AnswersDesktops8 years ago
  • Python code vs Java code?

    I am taking an object oriented programming class and the first reading we had to do was talking about the difference between how you would do things in Java vs how you would do them in python (we learned python in a different class). How come these two produce different outputs:

    #PYTHON

    def main():

    items = {"Bill", "Frank", "Tim", "Peter"}

    for name in items:

    print (name)

    main()

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    OUTPUT:

    >>>

    Tim

    Peter

    Bill

    Frank

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // JAVA

    public class forLoopExample

    {

    public static void main(String[] args)

    {

    //This is an array of Strings

    String[] items = {"Bill", "Frank", "Tim", "Peter" };

    for (String name :items)

    {

    System.out.println(name);

    }

    }

    }

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    OUTPUT

    Bill

    Frank

    Tim

    Peter

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    My question is basically why does the java for loop but the list in the correct order but the python version put list in a little different version than entered?

    3 AnswersProgramming & Design8 years ago
  • IP addressing question?

    I am trying to do this lab in packet tracer that is suppose to work on your subnetting skills but I am having the hardest time.

    It says the IP address range 192.168.0.0 /27 has been given for the network behind our routers, then you have to: Enable interface FastEthernet 0/0 and set IP address/Subnet Mask to be the last IP of this subnet that has 10 hosts.

    I have no idea what to do.

    I figure the subnet mask is going to be 255.255.255.224

    11111111.11111111.11111111.111|00000 (Subnet Mask)

    11000000.10101000.00000000.000|00000 (Network)

    So that subnet would allow me for 16 hosts right (since 8 would be too small for 10 hosts)

    So I was figuring the IP address would have to be 192.168.0.31 (total of the remaining bits on network). I keep getting an error that its a bad IP for that subnet or vice verse, cant remeber.

    Anyone give me a hand? I am just starting to learn subnetting. I have been watching tutorials on this but I just need to practice practice practice this and I cant get over this lab step

    2 AnswersComputer Networking8 years ago
  • Differential Equation LaPlace transform?

    Please use the Laplace transform to solve the initial value problem:

    x' = x + 2y, y' = x+e^-t, x(0) = y(0) = 0

    Can somebody help me with this including steps

    1 AnswerMathematics8 years ago
  • How to get over hurtful comments?

    My girlfriend and I got into a big fight and she ended up saying something hurtful to me that I can't shake off. I had recently been going through a little depression (though I wouldn't exactly call it depressed) where I have been struggling thinking I am only a burden to people, as opposed to people being happy to be around me. So we got into a fight about something and out of hurt she told me she didn't like me. It wasn't like a joking around like a "haha I don't like you". This comment seems small but I don't know, I just can't shake it off. We are usually pretty good with fighting and don't take shots at each other like that but that one just hurt. I forgive her, I know she only said it because she was hurt, but sometimes I just keep thinking about it and it makes me more reserve to show love to her. How do i get over this? We've been going out for almost two years so this isn't something I'm giving up on and she is not a mean person at all by any means, this was more of a one time isolated incident.

    It's hard for me to bring this up to her because she is so mad at herself for saying it that she ends up being really sad too. I hate seeing her sad so we end up getting no where with it so I haven't really brought it up after that night.

    1 AnswerSingles & Dating8 years ago
  • Having hard drive problems?

    My girlfriend has had some problems with her Dell Laptop. It would start locking up randomly a few times a day. It wasn't getting hot so I don't think it was an overheating issue. Now after being away from it for a few days she turned it on tonight and it was like a recovered version of windows. All of her stuff was erased and it looked like a clean install, there were a few programs (skype and oovoo) which don't normally come with windows but were installed. Any ideas? Were the lockups the hard drive failing or something? How would it automatically restore windows like that

    2 AnswersLaptops & Notebooks8 years ago
  • Messed up situation with my major?

    I really could use some advice. I started going to school for Engineering but I wasn't making the grades at all and have decided my true calling was in computers. I now am trying to pursuit a career in the information technology field (ultimately in Networking type work). The only problem is I am carrying a lot of baggage. I am finishing up my Junior year now and am declared a physics major (cause I naturally am almost done with physics). I only need one more physics class and I will have the requirements for a physics BA. Only problem is I need a lot more credits to reach 124 which is the minimum required at my school to graduate. That adds three more semesters or so of classes which are just what ever classes I would want. I have talked to the Computer science director and he recommends I finish up with physics and do a minor in information systems management. He said a double major in Computer science will add too much time on which I could do if I wanted but it would be another 3 years pretty much for me to finish with that. Another problem is I pretty much failed a lot of my upper level engineering classes so it bumped my GPA down pretty close to 2.0 and I don't want to fail out. I know I'll do a lot better with computers cause computers and programming always came more naturally to me than math and engineering.

    My Fiance and her family believe I should just transfer out to a community college and get an associates in Information Technology (which I could do in one year). This has all just been so stressful for me. I feel like there is only one right way and its impossible to find. I think the four year degree would be better even though it is not as specialized, however, money comes into play. My current school is a private school so tuition is pretty high. I currently have ~28,000 in loans and to finish up with a Physics BA and minor in information systems management, which is the quickest most efficient four year track for me, I would add another 13,000 of loans bringing me closer to 41,000 in loans. Should I just cut my losses? My community college where I could get an associates degree is only about 1,500 a semester for in state students but I'd be getting aid so it would probably end up costing not much at all for me. Is the 13,000 worth it for the four year degree? I want to start thinking about raising a family in the coming years once school is done and I worry with an associates I wouldn't be able to. I know IT is a little more forgiving with degrees but any advice?

    I wish things would have gone differently but this is what I am stuck with and I REALLY need help.

  • Question on multiple access points?

    I am starting to learn about networking and there was something I was wondering about. How does a college or business set up there wireless networking? I know it's too broad of a question but maybe you could start to point me in the right direction

    The main point that interest me is how do you stay connected to wifi across campus? Obviously it's not because of a single wireless router. Is it a bunch of access points wired into a switch? I haven't done much with access points so I am not sure how they work fully, but how would you not have to reconnect every time you get out of range of that specific one you were on.

    If this doesn't make sense let me give an example, lets say I am in the library of the school using WiFi. I then pack my bags and go to the science building and I still have WiFi, I'm not still getting the WiFi from the library anymore but I also didn't need to reconnect. Does it matter that the different wireless devices have separate MAC addresses?

    1 AnswerComputer Networking8 years ago