Greetings, does someone know how to find "GRUNDER, A., KLEMETTI, E., GILES, D., FEELEY, T. & MCKEE1, C. 2004. Compositional changes during 11 m.y. of crustal magmatism at the Aucanquilcha Volcanic Complex, northern Chilean Andes. Proccedings IAVCEI General Assembly, Pucón, Chile" in this ZIP file? I need it for Aucanquilcha Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:59, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that's some inaccessible design there. Here's what you have to do:

• Extract the outer archive
• Extract symp_07.zip inside it
• Now open 7a/oral_7a/s07a_o_10.pdf

After all that, it's still just a two-paragraph abstract. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 20:05, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[before edit conflict] Wow, an immense number of files in there. [after edit conflict] User:Finlay McWalter, how did you do that? (BTW, you have a typo; it's symp_07.zip, not symp_01.zip.) Did you extract every zip file within every zip file, and then search them all? I spent some minutes looking at everything within the first two symposia. Nyttend (talk) 20:12, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I unzipped them all (with find (Unix)), and then searched the result with pdfgrep. As the audience for that is presumably geologists (not people who know to install pdfgrep), this seems like an unreasonably hard task. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 20:19, 22 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the effort, anyway. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:19, 24 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This title is not included in the list of publications on Anita Grunder's homepage at Oregon State, but some others with "Aucanquilcha" in the title are, including a Ph.D. thesis.  ​‑‑Lambiam 21:40, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I ran across a guide to using C#, published in 2002. I see from C Sharp (programming language)#Versions that it's been modified many times since then. If you're trying to understand the current version of the language, would this book be at all useful, or is it useful only for people looking into the history of the language? I know nothing of programming languages, whether this one or others. Nyttend (talk) 23:51, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Someone asked the exact same question in 2010! https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/21260/is-it-ok-to-learn-from-c-2002-materials and 2019! https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/ccf1md/seeing_if_a_book_holds_up/ Seems to be a resounding "No."

Willing to share what book this is, for posterity? :) In solidarity, Aaron Liu (talk) 02:46, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I can do that, but not right now. I'm a librarian, and I ran across this at work; now I'm on the train heading home, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow :-) Nyttend (talk) 07:44, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Aaron Liu, this is Advanced C♯ programming, ISBN 0072224177 — it even predates ISBN13s :-) Nyttend (talk) 00:09, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot think of a reason why this title might be of interest to people looking into the history of C#. The successive versions are well documented. Some historians may be more interested in examining the sources of inspiration for and driving forces behind the changes, but will not find answers in this text, whose author is not a C# specialist but more of a generalist having authored dozens of such books on a wide variety of software tools and frameworks.  ​‑‑Lambiam 21:58, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'm just curious what book is this popular :). In solidarity, Aaron Liu (talk) 01:45, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[hey, this might sound impatient, but I'm sorry; I didn't mean to sound that way.] User:Lambiam, we're a research university; we might have researchers looking at the history of computing manuals, whether from a computer science perspective or a sociological/publishing-history perspective, and this one wouldn't be exactly replaceable with contemporary or later books by other authors. And User:Aaron Liu, I just ran across it on the shelf as part of a project to identify outdated works, which I'll be proposing to move to our offsite storage area; we combine a just-in-time and just-in-case approach with lesser-used materials, keeping them just in case they're needed, but reserving the publicly accessible shelving for the materials that are more likely to be useful. I already knew that I'd propose moving things like the 2002 edition of an Excel manual and the guide to Windows 8's new features, but I didn't know enough about C# to decide whether it ought to be on my list. Nyttend (talk) 20:22, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

For every book there is probably some reason for it to be useful to someone for some purpose. I tried to address the specific issue whether it is it useful for people looking into the history of C# and came up blank. This is a different issue than the history of hefty how-to manuals for application programming.  ​‑‑Lambiam 21:13, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry if this is too vague, but does anyone remember a GIF phone wallpaper (there were several) where a scantily clad woman or man "washes" the screen? ~2026-22534-68 (talk) 17:45, 30 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How can coding on the Internet, and editing wikis, be similar to each other? ~2026-33106-46 (talk) 23:25, 3 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How could they not be similar? Wikipedia uses markup-language (e.g. html), which is a version of code/programming language. It's not particularly noticeable when doing simple text as much of the heavy lifting is done in the back, which is where the actual code lives. Without an editor (or the WYSIWYG editor) you'd have to make all the text, table and image boxes yourself, which is already closer to writing a program (or at least defining the Graphical user interface). Rmvandijk (talk) 06:57, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Albeit as a more soft-core version (in the sense that bugs are less of a nightmare to fix and syntax not as rigid). But still, one can say that Python is a soft-core version of C++, too. And Wiki editing can get more hardcore if one starts to e.g., creating templates. 海盐沙冰 _{/ aka irisChronomia / Talk} 09:51, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]