Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2009

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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 1

1. Computer beep when notebook is off
2. Player which can play with maximum Sound
3. <video>
4. intermittent monitor problem
5. Excel IF/AND problem
6. Microsoft.com windows support

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 2

1. Boolean as tinyint(1)
2. 400 bad request
3. New tab problems in IE8
4. Internet Connections and Topology
5. USB flash drive/pen drive/stick drive failures
6. Ajax with Scripted Content
7. Data transmission speeds
8. SQL Server 2000 & 2005 Residing on the same server
9. Linux keyboard issue

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 3

1. Does anyone know of a good macro program?
2. Morphing
3. Attempts to access TCP port 445 and 135
4. editing firefox add-ons
5. help regarding the asteganography project
6. Facebook's insides
7. What happened to my Copy Response Body option in Firebug's Net tab?
8. Turning off DEP
9. Delphi Debugging Tips?
10. Spider Web Evolution Program
11. Use PSP for both music playback and GPS?
12. LCD vs CRT VGA ouput

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 4

1. Neurotypical computer scientists/programmers
2. Unable to Login Into Wireless Router Configuration Page (Using Firefox)
3. geforce gt220
4. YTMND audio loop problem
5. VPN w/o tweaking router
6. Steve Ballmer - lifestyles of the rich and famous
7. Edits
8. Unicode - Related Characters

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 5

1. How do i play the games stored on the hard drive of my chipped Xbox?
2. Play speed
3. Jsp custom tags
4. running a c-programm
5. WiFi, iPod and Email

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 6

1. ActiveX on Wikipedia
2. Question on size of English Wikipedia
3. Missing file: NTDETECT
4. Laptop battery life
5. WinTV Software Alternatives
6. Hibernation
7. Outlook 2003 IMAP warning
8. context free grammar and regular expressions
9. Ubuntu operating system?
10. M4A conversion software
11. question about library programs for solving partial differential equations
12. gnuplot
13. comp
14. Adding MP3 durations
15. BEAV for Windows 98 ?

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 7

1. 1000 ft Ethernet Cable
2. pspwxp(wobzip)
3. Hard drive space
4. Chipset flashing?
5. InstantAtlas Error
6. malloc and structs
7. Accessing Wikipedia through my iPhone
8. Mouse totally f....d up
9. Choose a topic
10. SImple MySql question
11. Service Packs for Linux distros exist?

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 8

1. Troubleshooting Mac OS networking
2. Two computers behind NAT talking to same sever
3. Windows Vista question
4. external hard drive stopped spinning.
5. Using Psiphon to access Facebook
6. Windows 7 and applications dependent on browser control
7. site
8. mySQL flat files
9. Stolen laptop
10. gnuplot 2-d
11. internet issues
12. MySQL: sproc each row of a select
13. Compatability between WYSIWIG HTML editors
14. Any point in updating chipset drivers before converting from Win2K to Linux Ubuntu?
15. MySQL Custom LDML Collations
16. Wolfram 1D CA
17. How deep does the MyIsam Database hole go?
18. SATA Adapters

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 9

1. Certified Ethical Hacker
2. Expansion of information on the internet
3. connecting to my server
4. DVD closed captioning?
5. "Router", "network switch", "ethernet hub"
6. Windows explorer icon
7. Freeview (UK) - software updates?
8. GetTextExtentPoint32

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 10

1. How to evaluate social networking sites
2. Yeah.com site
3. Computer won't start - only beeps, no video
4. Computer problems
5. Zamzar
6. Tor vs other proxies
7. Stolen laptop (again)
8. IP info
9. Help!
10. Archiving old e-mails on Microsoft Outlook
11. Programming contests
12. Is my computer good enough to run a game?
13. Looking for a paper
14. Created another user account, but it does not have MSWord

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 11

1. DVD drives
2. Decorative 1 line ASCII art
3. How to find web pages that contain a given phrase and link to some other given page?
4. Cut up an MP3 stream
5. google code
6. text fitting boxes with html
7. My computer won't restart!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!
8. How to change video cards in Linux Ubuntu?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 12

1. red alert 2 yuri's revenge
2. Safety of online RPGs
3. Video games with background eye candy
4. Stolen Music
5. Name of simple one- screen game (Japanese)
6. MHz - Help
7. Best way to do graphics cards diagnostics in Linux?

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 13

1. Internet Explorer opacity support
2. Open source Flash
3. doubt!!
4. First computer language
5. Hard drive failure?
6. How to enter comands in Linux Ubuntu
7. HP laptop quick buttons with VLC media player
8. Why was download so slow?
9. Recognising wireless cards by "noise"
10. perl script
11. MS Excell (also star/open office)
12. DIV with relative position still taking space
13. Trojan

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 14

1. Priority queue with same priority
2. speech recognition for mutiple voices
3. A stupid question about moving a window off the screen in Windows
4. Apple Disk Image file
5. I'm looking for excellent headphones for listening to music WITH a microphone
6. Slightly more advanced database
7. Finding ip address in php
8. weather radar netherlands android G1 phones

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 15

1. Linux server. How To.
2. SSH for mobile phones
3. Best Way to Protect File
4. Custom animation in powerpoint
5. Internet connection farts out
6. Computer chassis of sisal?
7. Cell phone recharging contact erosion
8. Existence+

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 16

1. Sniffing BitTorrent Traffic
2. Playstation/PC
3. SATA hard disk for a 2006 MacBook
4. i think my memory card reader is disabled
5. network adapters??
6. Sending huge files as time intervals
7. regarding pointers
8. Folder Option
9. HELP NEEDED
10. autorun.exe
11. COBOL Help
12. Who am I connected to?
13. Mathematica 6.0
14. How to compare two folders?
15. Security
16. How to identify a running application in Ubuntu?
17. JSON texts versus values
18. What's wrong with this javascript widget?
19. Windows needs disc to boot

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 17

1. Using PC power supply for scanner
2. Kristin ITC font
3. Database (MS Acess)
4. Comparing zip file to directory in Ubuntu
5. banning ip ranges in php
6. Preventing background tabs from playing YouTube movies automatically?
7. NooB wireless LAN question
8. Decisions on pyramid of images
9. Reformatting my Compaq Notebook
10. Freeware Calendar
11. Need help setting up a FTP server
12. How to find out what kind of broadband I'm using?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 18

1. Framerate problems
2. How to take screenshots of Mac OS X applications's windows
3. GIF2APNG
4. MHZ - Help (Again)
5. DNS settings sensitive?

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 19

1. Power Supply Problem?
2. Java
3. How can I increase My blog's Page Rank
4. Setting up DNS server to allow access of stored files
5. Free domain names
6. Ebook readers
7. Telnet over OpenVPN
8. Is perfect character encoding possible?

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 20

1. IT certifications
2. How to merge or update two large folders
3. Indexing and Dictionary based compression
4. Which easy-to-use languages allow file copying, folder creation, and altering file names?
5. 2-way merging of music libraries?
6. TI-Nspire and Mirage OS
7. CD Key in old Setup
8. Duplicate Network Connection

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 21

1. Unfreeze KDE
2. Internet causing computer crashes.
3. Limit the servers upload speed to ips
4. DOS
5. Removing or reducing reverberation
6. Direct weblink

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 22

1. Red channel on data projectors broken?
2. Need help with document.body.style.cursor!
3. Where can I find a good Ghostscript tutorial?
4. print screen
5. Computer shutting down
6. Calender files
7. Running a site from my home computer
8. carelessly using an USB stick
9. [Perl] I hate this nasty animal
10. Creative SB Audigy 2 (WDM) SPDIF
11. Restoring an iPod 3G Clickwheel
12. Caches, and proxies, and cgis, oh my
13. Back button was no longer blue
14. unable to show hidden folders
15. Jailbreak
16. Linux (wasn't he from Charlie Brown?)

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 23

1. How to create a PDF file for free?
2. LaTex and “smart quotes”
3. Hypercam
4. Running a server from within Virtualbox
5. Books
6. Auto script
7. Best quality way to edit Flashvideo .flv files, for free?
8. Windows 7 IE Europe How?
9. DHCP problem
10. Firefox equivalent of Safari's .webarchive?
11. I T knowledge.
12. Wii OS
13. What are the most active discussion forums on the web?
14. Quality control with AdSense Competitive Ad Filter
15. Disable Firefox 3.5's top bar slide effect?
16. Painting in Java

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 24

1. Wireless G & N
2. How do I remove colored backgrounds when viewing websites? On Firefox
3. MS Vista's compatibility
4. Mathematical equations in a document
5. Running a perl script on a web server
6. How to find out duplicate lines?
7. A PROGRAM NEEDED
8. Linux chmod, chown, chgrp
9. Extending wireless range
10. Internet on two computers
11. My question wasn't answered
12. Computer sputters and dies

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 25

1. Internet causing computer crashes 2
2. transferring files - tricky
3. Jobs-for-life in the computer industry
4. Tracing of an email address
5. Man day in software
6. Hooking speakers up to laptop
7. server blocked by nat
8. What is this system called?
9. Subscriptions to a blog
10. converting raw fils
11. Broken link
12. Core 2 Quade 9400 and Vista 64 SP 1
13. any way to delete iPod content from WITHIN iPhone?
14. Fixed /dev/ path for external USB drive

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 26

1. latest version of IE
2. J2EE programing
3. Annoying Freeze
4. Windows 7 Torrent
5. Is this the end of my Nintendo DS?
6. Resources for a beginning teenage programmer
7. Parallel Port Programming
8. Equivalents of pointers and/or dereferencing in scheme ?
9. How can I extract individual images from video-slideshow?
10. Elevator logic control

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 27

1. AI database
2. Python "for x in y" operator overload
3. Download albums from Shutterfly?
4. Bellinis Bikini
5. What is window vista ultimate??
6. Bitdefender Rescue cd
7. seeking identification of an icon
8. Windows/Mac comparison
9. Game bot/ai
10. Colour schemes in GUIs

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 28

1. downloading all torrents with wget
2. Problems with MSN Audio
3. Problem with CLASSPATH
4. call related material required
5. java programming
6. XP SP 2 OR SP 3 (SP2 is not updating)
7. Fujitsu laptop...possibly dead
8. Programming mouse buttons
9. Plucker and Ebook readers
10. Proxy
11. When a computer was first activated

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 29

1. Game
2. How many wikis are out threre?
3. SQL Noob needs help
4. Windows XP Hibernate Mode
5. Shell script issue
6. Bluetooth mice
7. Updating system software on a PSP 2003
8. imaginary vbScript
9. trackboard
10. linux backup/restore
11. MATLAB string analysis
12. Time Machine on a Mac
13. Apples ownership of adobe systems
14. Switching from GPL to closed source
15. Video Conversion
16. Downloading flash-based video
17. USB flash drive size conventions

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 30

1. Compressed HTTP
2. difference between core 2 duo and dual core
3. Lenovo Laptop
4. Vista and USB flash drive
5. Advantages and Disadvantages of Window Vista Ultimate
6. A freeware suite for Windows XP
7. Solaris Operating System
8. Cost of video streaming

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 July 31

1. WP:CRYSTAL
2. Image a usb memory stick
3. SEO Optimization: URLs
4. Strange network behavior
5. Saving response for ping command in C
6. vista user pic
7. diagnosing monitor trouble
8. External HDD question
9. How to use MediaWiki PAGENAMEE for custom page name?
10. Mobile phone, voice recognition for calling
11. Indirect sharing of contact info
12. How to save a video clip to hard disk