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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 1

1. Browsers loading blank pages
2. Capturing music.
3. How to turn off automatic numbering of lists of paragraphs in Open Office Writer
4. GUI Design
5. What is the current gold-standard text for Windows C programming?
6. Flash player on IE
7. Setting background picture in Windows
8. Mobile Phone Security
9. Visual C++ Runtime Library Error

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 2

1. Question (Hacking, legality, private_website)
2. Annoying browser issue
3. Cheapest cell-phone/PDA with keyboard, mp3 player, UMTS and wi-fi
4. Changing video resolution under programmatic control (C/C++) via Windows API
5. mobilephonebased learning
6. using cassettes for data?
7. If I click on the X in the upper right corner can I get my work back?
8. How to determine a website's service provider
9. USB over ethernet, or other soultion that will work as a window service.
10. Manipulating the console in Python...

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 3

1. iPod launching iTunes
2. I didn't send these emails.
3. XFX Nvidia Geforce or XFX ATI Radeon
4. Testing something on IE6
5. Languages of the Internet
6. Freeware to manually sort a large group of photos
7. 3g mobile dongle top up...hidden costs in uk?
8. Slow loading websites

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 4

1. Alpha on Mac OS X keyboard
2. RTMP streams and VLC
3. Debian Kernel Help
4. how to make the best of out of USB stick?
5. Graphics card choice
6. Post-fuse insertion?
7. Static discharge and electronic devices
8. Minesweeper
9. AT&T ad
10. Converting Win98 program to Windows Vista 64-bit compatibility
11. Graphics card on motherboard

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 5

1. E-mail
2. Importing bookmarks from Firefox into Opera
3. Excel 2007 being absolutely dense
4. Importing sound files to Scratch
5. Windows Problems
6. Linux cp of home directories
7. three way merge sort
8. Tracing travel route on map
9. home networking, what equipment do i need?
10. Writing Guidelines
11. Searching in Google - what is "clients1.google.co.uk"?

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 6

1. SQL server problem
2. Intel E4300 vs. Intel T3400
3. What redirects here?
4. Copying text from an Acrobat Reader PDF document
5. Microsoft Excel Mode function
6. MPEG-2 and AVCHD Video Files
7. Sites - copyright

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 7

1. Fonts
2. Mac on PC
3. int in C++
4. DV handycam
5. Can Wikipedia please add a 'share' facility for Facebook and myspace users etc?
6. Binding application window to a particular monitor
7. GIMP/PSD text layer problem
8. powerpoint
9. System freezes with nvidia geforce 9800
10. Symptoms of processor overheating
11. Ubuntu
12. External drives that appear to be internal

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 8

1. Algorithmns to measure how closely two short sections of text match
2. Wikipedia
3. Turn the Windows search index off
4. Vision client
5. php html
6. Screenshots From Games
7. Processor comparison

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 9

1. help me make my keyboard quiet please?
2. Installing Minitab
3. Software to make image of contours from grid of data
4. Overlaying semi-transparantly on another image to make final image
5. Archive request script
6. Live Player
7. Make a touch screen using a webcam.
8. Delete file - access denied windows XP
9. Torrent problem
10. Blue area moving
11. Boolean addition/subtraction in C++
12. Replacing a macbook hard drive
13. Mac v. PC
14. Web emails
15. Back up my computer

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 10

1. Youtube
2. realistic images
3. Mobile dictionary
4. Website Hosting Provider
5. Looking for a paper forms designer
6. Which side of printer paper best to print on - shiny side or matt side?
7. BASIC-like languages to use on a PDA and a PC
8. Cheap and safe batteries for my TI_89 Titanium
9. PC problems
10. TVs as Monitors
11. Darkening a PDF file
12. Partitioning and dual-booting
13. Software diversity and the spread of malware
14. Spinning and spinning

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 11

1. Camera Angles on Company Of Heroes
2. Win on Mac is ok, Mac on PC = lawsuit, why?
3. Yahoo homepage
4. DNS servers needed
5. Mobile phone colour
6. cmmi level 3
7. Matlab function input query
8. Excel printing problem
9. MIDs, tablets, android...
10. All Keys
11. about absolute decoding technique
12. Is there anyway to get Google to do a literal search?
13. CAD-TV channels
14. Intel Pentium Dual Core compared to Intel Core 2 ?
15. BIOS Password
16. Windows 7
17. Copying large files without overloading the processor

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 12

1. Producing an optimal route on Google Maps
2. Country Specific Versions of MSN
3. MIDI playback in Python with real time MIDI events?
4. What does writing 'this' mean?
5. Disc CleanUp

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 13

1. Combat Flight Simulator
2. Make a sound play every time a key is pressed.
3. Easy Itertive Fractals For Windows
4. MacBook Pro Charging
5. MyWebSearch - how to get rid of it?
6. Displaying sound
7. Name of PCB material?
8. Financial functions in excel
9. CSS Image Fade

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 14

1. FRACTALS
2. Is a really old Webroot Spy Sweeper of any use?
3. Printing Hotmail emails: tiny text, no word wrapping
4. Single character key doesn't work
5. Cursor turns into spinning circle on top of Geejo's name
6. Java References

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 15

1. Scalability of two-tier versus three-tier architectures
2. Installing Pygame on Ubuntu Hardy Heron
3. Escrow for virtual items either items from games or computer code?
4. Converting between SVY21 and WGS84 Coordination system
5. db2 and sql
6. The history and architecture of the ARM microprocessors
7. History glitch in Internet Explorer 8?
8. JAVA repaint problem
9. Websites That Will Translate Letters -- Not Just Text From The Internet

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 16

1. Quick Java question
2. Google Chrome: Recent Bookmarks bar
3. Remote Desktop Server
4. norton vs avast
5. Computerisation of the Nigerian Judicial System
6. Learning the R statistical language - any statistical textbooks that use R?
7. System freezing because of RAM ?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 17

1. Editing MIMEs in Firefox 3.5?
2. Mouse Focus & Installing Software Under Security Measures
3. Firefox Plug to Download Every Web Page Visited?
4. Automatic switch on
5. Browser 3d
6. memtest86 on CD
7. Command promt
8. document.getElementsBy
9. Minitab Learning?
10. RAM question
11. How much does it cost to start a wiki?
12. AJAX vs. jQuery?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 18

1. Where did my question go?
2. CAESAR piping software
3. Reference desk talk page
4. Itunes
5. Telephone/Voice Mail Oddity
6. Why is C++ faster than MATLAB?
7. Appscene
8. Contributors sued, assaulted?
9. Problem sending e-mails after Verizon blocked port 25
10. 4 gb ram but showing 3 gb ram
11. Compatible Board(s) for Processor "Q9400"
12. Diagrams on TCP/IP and IMPs/TIPs
13. Geejo strikes again!
14. Downloading fonts

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 19

1. Hacking a registry that isn't running
2. BIOS password
3. No. of notebooks in Pakistan (How Many?)
4. Tiled images
5. Pingler
6. Algorithmn to space cars along road segments?
7. Facebook moble texts
8. Ship of Theseus
9. "Beep" command makes my computer case beep!

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 20

1. Visual basic express edition coundown program
2. Problem with external hard drive
3. Interet keeps crashing...
4. Java hacking book?
5. Add a new application
6. The Bank of England has got MUMPS
7. Very easy to learn english-like and other computer languages
8. Programming Lanuage Selection
9. Using the speed of USB 2.0 to record several audio tracks separately
10. Is my University using a NAT network

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 21

1. Vista sidebar and a blue tint
2. Trouble with Java
3. Many windows opening very fast, screen flickering very fast
4. Change the page title in firefox, with greasemonkey
5. Extract WAV sound from AVI video
6. Windows Vista hijacks my programs
7. File times changes when copying between hard drives
8. S3 as file backup
9. PS2 to USB adapter for keyboard
10. Direct communication between PCs

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 22

1. twilight/ vampire tales in byron bay refuge?
2. Mozilla Firefox
3. Lockerz.com, what's the deal?
4. GPGPU and integer performance

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 23

1. How do you quickly familiarize yourself with code written by someone else?
2. Charging Li-on batteries
3. HELP with my rogers phone to a new one im supposed to get!!
4. MathML support in Mozilla Firefox
5. EasyCap 2.0 USB problem
6. Charging my laptop
7. Is this code unbreakable?
8. Commodore 64 to a modern TV?
9. VPN, certificates, and CAs
10. open modem
11. On the economics of free software
12. Removing "Personal Antivirus" trojan

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 24

1. Does Microsoft Office 2007 product activation keep track of uninstallations?
2. UNIX dd command
3. Password vault for OS X
4. Apple filing system; changing search sort parameters from last opened to date modified
5. How To Find Out When A User Last Logged In To A PC On Win XP?
6. Choise of motherboard (ASUS P5Q-EM Motherboard)
7. Download some pages, links and content from Wikipedia
8. Espon P-4000 and Linux?
9. Processor failure or something more benign?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 25

1. Dual Quad Core i7 possible?
2. True Crime nyc ps2 - editing
3. Macbook broken screen, please help
4. recovery shutdown
5. Recovering Last Session After a Crash on Firefox and a Dumb Mistake
6. replace only new and updated files
7. Inkspace
8. How did they disable the back button?
9. UDP and throttling
10. More about accessing a 1541 from a modern PC

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 26

1. Strange things happening to Windows XP clock.
2. Two fold laptop question - struggling m9750 Alienware laptop
3. How to stop OpenOffice writer from splitting words at the ends of lines?
4. Best way to create small simple single-user no-frills database by non-programmer?
5. Looking for imageSorter2004V1.3.zip

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 27

1. Emulator for running Windows Mobile apps on PC
2. MIDI interface
3. Google tracking my web visits
4. Windows Resetting Defaults
5. New speakers
6. Internet
7. Bridge connection question
8. Vista sidebar gadget
9. "Wirelessness" with Dell Inspiron 1545
10. Basic Java Question
11. Adobe Flash Player/Firefox timeout setting
12. Update script
13. Study Question
14. indenting on word 2002

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 28

1. Safari vs. Google Chrome
2. Old Microsoft Attempt At Making Their Products More Reliable
3. Window/ Dialog box cut off at right side and bottom
4. Recording Yahoo Messenger Voice calls / conversations
5. There is any web search engine that let me search more than 32 words??
6. Software for side notes
7. Turing test for virtual reality
8. Search term request
9. History glitch in Internet Explorer 8?
10. Purchasing an Ethernet cable
11. Making a video
12. Studies of WP vandalism
13. My Yahoo email nightmare continues
14. String as linked list in .NET
15. A good web-application builder?
16. computer -- suggestion
17. Look for a FIRST-GLANCE CLEAR SET bytes CONVERTING TABLE KB-MB-GB-TB [computer -- suggestion]
18. share of CMOS in computer booting119.152.28.135 (talk) 22:46, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
19. Can Python do database things easily?
20. Which mainstream languages are the most compact?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 29

1. Cannot edit in K-Meleon?
2. Be it resolved...
3. How To Get Google Search Results To Only Show Results Which Include Every Word In The Search Terms....
4. Flaming
5. Video of computer monitor
6. Memtest working too fast
7. Other messengers?
8. iPod Touch Current Location Malfunction

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 September 30

1. Mindspark search engine
2. Quick C question
3. Why is license agreement popping up every time I start Photoshop or other adobe programs???
4. Update script, part 2
5. ln -s not supported
6. Parallel ports and Linux kernel drivers
7. Software To Find Out What's Hogging All The Space On My Disk.
8. memorex mini traveldrive MS-DOS boot problem
9. Blackberry Daylight Saving Time problem
10. XFX or Gigabyte (motherboard)