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September 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 1

  1. 'Transcluding' forum posts, possibly through RSS?
  2. Spam emails from myself
  3. Disk usage differences between ext3 and ext4?
  4. Full version of MS Office or Starter for Netbook?

September 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 2

  1. Inverting the Multimedia and F keys on Asus netbook
  2. weird computer problem featuring //@
  3. You Tube player problems
  4. GIMP 2.8 takes a lot of memory?
  5. MIS (Managing Information System)
  6. Python: from list of strings, to list of integers

September 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 3

  1. Stupid Twitter question
  2. Facebook
  3. Outlook 2010 display
  4. 2d car movment
  5. Mac OS X Lion: Inbuilt PHP

September 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 4

  1. Router
  2. How to access a WPS wirelessly?
  3. starting a new internet forum
  4. Share internet connection with ad hoc network
  5. Learning C# after Java / C++
  6. Strange delimiters in HTTP?

September 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 5

  1. Bluetooth
  2. Hard Disk Docking Station vs 'Portable' HDD
  3. Suggestion for reader-controlled highlighting in Wikipedia articles
  4. What's the point of LaTex?
  5. JPG not working in a WIki
  6. Tech help
  7. Shadows on green screens

September 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 6

  1. Laptop cooling pads
  2. iPhone apps exit immediately after opening.
  3. CloudFlare: how big is the cache per free account?
  4. 4G LTE = simultaneous voice + data?
  5. Downloading website
  6. Image processing question
  7. How do I post a link on Facebook?
  8. Recovering deleted songs on iPod

September 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 7

  1. Domain name pricing
  2. Computer keyboards with brightly colored keys used for video editing
  3. Parsing guides.
  4. Most comfortable NC headphones
  5. Problems playing a Windows 98 game on a Vista computer
  6. What is the oldest web site still in continuous operation but that has not been updated since it started?
  7. Favorites in Order
  8. iMac is generally slow
  9. List/notification mail reevaluation and filtering
  10. Creating a "pretty" ASCII PPM file
  11. Web animations/games
  12. Basic webdesign tutorial
  13. Video effect that mimics something being recorded off of a TV screen with a video camera?

September 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 8

  1. i want tcs current details
  2. Which is the actual benefit of a Tesla card in rendering?
  3. Rotate Google Map?
  4. Sagemath in LaTex
  5. Turing test for human scoring
  6. Java
  7. What's the point of LaTex? II
  8. Reduction (complexity)

September 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 9

  1. LG TV that can turn all 2D images into 3D ?
  2. Which CD/DVD?
  3. Video streaming is slow, especially in youtube

September 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 10

  1. constructor inheritence in c++
  2. 'Transcluding' forum posts, possibly through RSS?
  3. Keeping external hard drive in case of a fire?

September 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 11

  1. processing power vs clock speed
  2. 7z and wikimedia dumps
  3. How to activate the text to-speech voice: "Hazel" in Microsoft Narrator?
  4. Someone texting and calling using my number?
  5. Linux commands: Unzipping selectively bunch of files in linux, deleting all but two types of file
  6. Power Control Center ?

September 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 12

  1. Google is being rude to me
  2. Device Names in a Computer with 48 HDDs
  3. Improving WINE compatibility
  4. Struggling to display images (showing broken links)

September 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 13

  1. OpenDNS disable?
  2. Can I do this in Microsoft Word?
  3. Problem with attachments
  4. Most versatile laptop backpack?
  5. Head First Java
  6. Star Control II on Linux via emulator?
  7. 34-Pin FDD to 40-Pin IDE

September 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 14

  1. How do you use Dia?
  2. please how can i compile a kernel which can be used in the cdrom:/isolinux
  3. Google Reader not working with Google Alerts feeds
  4. Can I disable double-click on title bar ?
  5. How to download a video from a website to then upload it onto YouTube?
  6. Downloading Torrents on Wi-Fi
  7. Using Siri with other languages

September 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 15

  1. Dictation
  2. Memory leak in lsass.exe, windows xp SP3
  3. RealPlayer Downloader - works in IE, but not in Chrome

September 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 16

  1. Windows 7 logbook?
  2. buying internet
  3. Uk electricity
  4. Android, Linux and Windows security
  5. Playing DVDs on Fedora 17 Linux
  6. MS-DOS Browsers

September 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 17

  1. windows XP serial number and license key
  2. How to disallow others from adding me in groups in Facebook?
  3. Strange problem with MediaWiki's edit toolbar.
  4. Apple's Magic Mouse
  5. Folder 'Temp'
  6. Free Trials
  7. Bad blocks on drive, reducing timeout length; why weren't bad blocks marked as bad at write time
  8. duckduckgo not working?
  9. Understanding clincher at staple

September 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 18

  1. Clean Python code [APT/Ubuntu]
  2. Microsoft Outlook Scroll Bar
  3. Animated weather radar maps
  4. Screencasting software

September 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 19

  1. Trip planning software
  2. Laptop
  3. http://www.pca.state.mn.us/
  4. Making columns uncopyable in Excel
  5. Is GNU an OS?

September 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 20

  1. Will iOS 5.1.1 -> iOS 6 upgrade strip all my apps and make me manually reinstall them?
  2. Learning Java
  3. Variable within a python loop
  4. Constructor Calls in Java
  5. Battery Voltage
  6. Powerpoint

September 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 21

  1. What algorithm or method is used to split color and bw?
  2. Selecting/clearing current cell's contents in Excel
  3. Default program of same name won't stick
  4. Adding image file name in excel
  5. Google News blanks my search terms out
  6. Which part of the computer governs/instructs the monitor?

September 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 22

  1. Apple maps
  2. Spotty East Asian Character Support
  3. Wi-Fi Connection
  4. Setting the clock in linux
  5. How may I externally choke the bit rate on streaming web-TV?
  6. Desktop recording programs

September 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 23

  1. about files in c
  2. Polymorphism
  3. Guest account on private wiki
  4. How to enable turn-by-turn navigation with voice on iOS 6 running on iPad 3?
  5. Game name wanted
  6. Why are Android smartphones are so popular in Spain (and iPhones so unpopular)?

September 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 24

  1. Google book text
  2. Sending large data files
  3. Fixing history errors in svn repository
  4. Changing a value in Excel in the same cell
  5. No internet access
  6. In Windows (7), how do I ensure that I always have enough resources to pull up the task manager and kill a process?
  7. Compaq Evo Thin Client T30

September 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 25

  1. PDF formats
  2. DosBox questions
  3. 8-level flash
  4. Programming and Video Editing
  5. Understanding Unicode UTF-8 and such

September 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 26

  1. Particle Simulation in Parallel using MPI
  2. Encryption of RFID chips
  3. nvidia 9800 GT 1024 on Windows 7 crashes
  4. Windows 7 Title Bar Grabbing with Excel
  5. Third party incompatibilities
  6. Yes, some people still want to use videocassettes

September 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 27

  1. check-sum
  2. screen capture
  3. python mode
  4. Calender
  5. DLP technology history
  6. Quantum cloud computing
  7. Extracting information of a pdf file with python
  8. Wait-free allocator for 2 processes
  9. Computer will not start
  10. Need an Online Reference Map for "Open-Access" Wifi networks listed in Europe, Esp. G.B.

September 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 28

  1. Graphing Calculator
  2. Now you can, now you can't (find a server)
  3. E-mail content - further use
  4. Live Twitter updates on mobile
  5. Bash Shell Options

September 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 29

  1. CD and DVD player laptop not working and cause
  2. Camera lens not fully open
  3. Where are the math symbols ?
  4. Compiling GFortran external subroutines
  5. Big fish in a small pond
  6. Multiple PCs on one home hub
  7. redirect not appropriate observation
  8. Files and directories: could it be different

September 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 September 30

  1. Preventing websites from displaying annoying Appstore popups to their respective iOS apps
  2. Disabling certain ads
  3. Free HTML editor
  4. my domain being used by a spammer
  5. Playing Star Control II
  6. Microsoft Excel help
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