Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2007

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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 1

1. Movie Freezes with Laptop Movement
2. C++
3. Tutorials on making gnome-panel applets?
4. Python newbie question
5. Variables in Ruby
6. Identified by Email
7. Hello and welcome....
8. help me find a venue to buy socket 478 motherboard please!?
9. Classic code & magic constants
10. NAT network bridging
11. .NET question
12. how can I...?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 2

1. computer vb.net
2. Windows XP
3. CSS style for paragraph break size
4. "Word Attachment" Article
5. 2000 again
6. choosing the wright language
7. Mouse

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 3

1. this is about TCP ports
2. Automating the list creation process in Python
3. which website for checking the following tracking number?
4. Signature Help
5. DDR2 backwards compatibility
6. Watermark on Output
7. Graphics cards
8. Scanner Driver

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 4

1. Safari
2. Backup
3. Java Virtual Machine/API
4. New nVidia GPU power consumptions.
5. Posting a picture online
6. mp3 players with radios
7. patitioning a hard drive
8. glgears

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 5

1. Buying a Computer Server..
2. Recording Onto CD.
3. "Total" row in PostgreSQL
4. What's the on-screen arrow called?
5. Making Windows 98 printer drivers work on XP
6. Recover photos from wonky flashcard
7. Help with internet connection
8. Why do magnets render disks unredaable, and do they do the same w/DVDs?
9. Cellular/wireless "bars"

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 6

1. Odd website
2. Firefox "restore session"
3. Haywire - a new virus?
4. HDTV mpeg2 bit rate
5. Setting up a LAN
6. Search & replace => keep some of the text found
7. Restore copied over files
8. Windows 2000
9. Mouse droppings?
10. How would I network a computer using Windows 3.1.1
11. Forcing firefox to open

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 7

1. HTML keys?
2. 4 x NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500 512MB, Stereo 3D (2 x dual-link DVI)
3. Second Life and Vista
4. System requirements for installation of Visual Studio.NET on Windows XP Service Pack 2
5. win98SE USB webcam
6. Roving Broadband in UK
7. My document are ruined, and changed into another file-type by itself...
8. Accessing images on website that are not used in pages

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 8

1. Problem making hyperlinks
2. Setting up a LAN 2
3. fonts for CoCo2
4. Kill the Neighbours
5. Virus Help!
6. Viewing Chinese and Japanese text in Firefox - probably a really easy question

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 9

1. Computer crash
2. Hard drive reformat
3. MSN 7.5 no longer supported?
4. Excel printing
5. Control-Alt-Delete
6. mpeg to avi
7. ^ in C++
8. Limited hard drive space with Windows Vista
9. Album Art

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 10

1. Buffering/streeming
2. writing one's own implementation of JRE/JAVA Virtual Machine
3. windows xp security
4. Posting GFDL photo from wikipedia to facebook
5. Modifications

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 11

1. JRE/DOS
2. Mac OSX
3. Using python to get / input information on webpages
4. Domain is not available...wait...what?
5. Novel system file organizational structure in Linux
6. MTG and computers
7. I Pods & MP3 Players
8. Printing Small Fractions
9. c programming

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 12

1. Split M:TG cards: a database trilemma
2. my computer is blue screen on death
3. CHANGE THE WAY USER LOGS ON AND LOGS OFF
4. I am experiencing a major problem with Firefox
5. Speakers
6. Live Messenger down under Vista
7. Unix executables and PHP
8. Concatenating strings in C
9. Hebrew on ICQ on a Mac
10. Boot Camp and Neverwinter Nights
11. Odd website
12. Window sizes and locations
13. HDMI 1.3a cables vs. earlier versions
14. using /dev/random to generate typeable characters

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 13

1. MUSIC DOWNLOADING
2. Question about RDO Queries.
3. pics.zip virus?
4. Printing Library
5. Convert a text file with NAD 83 waypoint data to a .gpx file
6. English language Wikipedia usage stats
7. dead weight (sitting on a server)
8. WD external hard drive replacement
9. In what programming language is Wikipedia:Reference Desk is written?
10. HTML "classes"
11. directory-style url parameters

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 14

1. Firefox cache
2. How did the spammers find my gmail account?
3. Name of a data structure
4. Dedicated Laptop Video RAM

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 15

1. Domplayer
2. computer ram,specifically dual channel
3. Photoshop 7.0 Help
4. Get Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 to recognize folders in email account
5. region-free DVD player (laptop)
6. Issue with MS excel file
7. C help: Why two gets() in this program?
8. Regular Expressions
9. program in c language
10. Power supply question
11. Microsoft's documentation for compilers

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 16

1. Newsgroups & Music
2. Sizes of USB flash drives
3. Mac Advantage?
4. Ranked list of Wiki visitor user-agent strings available?
5. Saving a page in Internet Explorer

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 17

1. Importing DVDs into iTunes
2. Deezer down?
3. Splitting 1 audio into instrumental music, human voices and something.
4. Lower screen resolution for speed?
5. Converting Matlab code to PHP/Actionscript/Javascript/whatever
6. Jetman Cheats
7. Firefox's Wikipedia search function

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 18

1. Building gnu coreutils-6.9 on Mac OS X 10.5
2. Algorithm for finding cycles on directed graphs
3. I have a problem?
4. search and replace in 1000 .txt files
5. Standby → Shutdown
6. Family Tree software
7. Macbook video editing

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 19

1. Cryptography: Which is more secure for authentication: RSA or DSA?
2. PCI video cards
3. Windows XP: File | Save As
4. multimedia
5. Books about Web 2.0
6. Finding authors of deleted youtube videos
7. Unix batch renaming of files to remove illegal Linux characters
8. Stripping an MP4

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 20

1. word virus
2. PostgreSQL: Denormalized input
3. excel problems
4. MediaWiki, JavaScript and PHP
5. "Bunu kimse Yapmaz" vanishing email
6. Advertising new store online.
7. Republic Commando Soundtrack
8. Origin of h.264 name?
9. Windows 95 platform with the 'newest new'
10. Excel
11. Excel Question
12. Unidentified Malicious Software.. "Thumb.exe"?!!

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 21

1. information technology in 21st century
2. uninstall
3. linux 2
4. sql
5. Linux keyboard problems
6. Different sizes
7. Gtype and Sample Triggering Software
8. coldfusion applications -- disable server-side caching per-page

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 22

1. what does a speed of 54 kb/s means?
2. Ubuntu exim4 TLS problem
3. HOW IS WEIQI RELATED TO CHESS
4. IC's :What does 74(series) temperature range mean ?a
5. software programs
6. computer
7. When running DOS programs(Clipper program) in windows xp screen shrinked to half why?
8. Text size problem
9. Laptop memory upgrade
10. Microsoft Sam

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 23

1. Sony Ericsson K800i owners
2. name a website or database
3. Software for editing big text files?
4. MS Excel: Lookup tables and conditional formulas
5. Faulty graphics card card!!!!! (So I'm told) technophobe pensioner

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 24

1. Restructuring GOTO programs
2. Time loop
3. collaboration
4. I need a bigger screen
5. Using an AOL proxy to hide bittorrent activity? Possible?

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 25

1. spyware removal
2. Getting cookies earmarked for another domain
3. Fine print question
4. Unix question: Getting specific lines from a text file
5. Keyboard + Trackball
6. Wine on Leopard
7. Python Console Focus
8. There is a full pvp mmorpg???
9. Facebook over HTTPS?

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 26

1. A problem with the Windows Sound Recorder (on Windows Vista)...
2. Windows XP: File | Save As
3. programming
4. Web --> unix terminal interface
5. Megaupload safe?
6. NFS CARBON problem
7. Searching google with 51 words,How?
8. 32-bit vs 64-bit time

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 27

1. Chords in Turing
2. 700mb/80 mins
3. Properties Summary Tab...
4. Why can't I print in color?
5. Creative Zen Vision W on Linux?
6. Fedora 8 questions
7. Anyone earning through digitalpoint.com's forums
8. 20 Pin ATX PSU Modification...
9. playing .flv files
10. How do you remove macfuse from a macbook
11. Largest CompactFlash card for camera?

November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 28

1. Sony Erricsson P1i
2. Saving Wikipedia in my computer
3. Autopause video playback
4. configuration of modem for UMTS
5. Programming advice
6. Firefox keystroke shortcut to return to select page(s)
7. unreadable CD
8. comparing ddr ram and ddr2 ram

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 29

1. Palm Programming
2. Firefox Backspace
3. Dual license software
4. Blackberry metronome application
5. Poor image resolution in webpage
6. Play .avi video clips in reverse
7. laptop
8. Windows XP font problem — newly-installed fonts disappear after reboot
9. Difference between VMWare Fusion and Parallels?

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 November 30

1. Where is the Icon stored in an exe file
2. Quoting the result of a preprocessor directive in C
3. A problem with my MP4/WMA/REC/AMV player..
4. Disabling Keystroke Loggers
5. Power supply question
6. Wikipedia Programming Info