Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/April 2010

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 1


 * 1) Seeing entire Facebook wall at once
 * 2) Large Text File Viewer
 * 3) Has Firefox split into two versions?
 * 4) Virus-free, except not!
 * 5) How login super user
 * 6) Distributed computing projects
 * 7) php
 * 8) Connection detection in Windows 7
 * 9) Can I send people a URL that will cause a google doc to be downloaded as a pdf?
 * 10) No smoking
 * 11) Downloading videos off of YouTube

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 2


 * 1) ripping from cd
 * 2) Saving files in Firefox
 * 3) Are these download sites legit?
 * 4) Using the Statistical Test Suite from NIST
 * 5) Free Flash Clone
 * 6) Another php question
 * 7) Computer language for text documents
 * 8) How do i type the infinity symbol? It's not num lock, hold alt 236 on my computer
 * 9) moving video taken with Ipod mini from ipod to computer
 * 10) Scanning old B&W photographs
 * 11) Uploading PDF/Word Files With HTTPUnit
 * 12) Need Windows API opinion

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 3


 * 1) Repair Of a Laptop Screen
 * 2) RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
 * 3) What's the term for a code file?
 * 4) Network issues
 * 5) Scan specific folder
 * 6) Alternatives to "solid compression"
 * 7) Office with frontpage
 * 8) Password-only Joomla resources
 * 9) Firefox will not print all of webpage
 * 10) can't burn file to CD-R

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 4


 * 1) Semi-unresponsive key
 * 2) Ugly DOS charset
 * 3) Making a laptop a wi-fi hotspot
 * 4) Finding accurate phone numbers online
 * 5) VirtualDubMod (abandonware)
 * 6) Changing colours to a standard grey
 * 7) Bluetooth and WiFi
 * 8) My CRT monitor has gone green.
 * 9) Domino toppling in Blender
 * 10) Mechanicaal engg
 * 11) Lost Picture

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 5


 * 1) Converting formula into Javascript... help.
 * 2) Windows XP activation
 * 3) Building a new box
 * 4) KDE sftp
 * 5) Print screen
 * 6) Limiting SSL/TLS chain-of-trust length
 * 7) Video Encoding issue
 * 8) USA customs rates

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 6


 * 1) Does information posted on the Internet remain forever?
 * 2) Are there any websites that explain how google indexes wikipedia?
 * 3) Macbook rapid ticking noise
 * 4) Google UK
 * 5) Subversion wanting access
 * 6) From normal laptop into touchscreen
 * 7) GoogleMaps - scale overlaps copyright notice and is therefore unreadable

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 7


 * 1) HandyRecovery Help
 * 2) Wrongful Article Content Change.
 * 3) Placing captions beside figures in LaTeX (beamer)
 * 4) Internet
 * 5) KDE on Windows--Plasma Desktop won't launch apps
 * 6) Copying from a pdf file
 * 7) Why must ads cause so much misery?

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 8


 * 1) USB 3.0
 * 2) Signal a program when Internet connection made
 * 3) do Huawei wireless broadband dongles support voice?
 * 4) How to merge bookmarks files in Firefox?
 * 5) Firefox does not load websites after computer left unattended for a long time
 * 6) atanfull
 * 7) Quantum Computer Data Transfers
 * 8) gmail vs yahoo mail
 * 9) Enforcing strong passwords in Active Directory
 * 10) Consequences of misusing Mac OS X Terminal
 * 11) iPhone question...

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 9


 * 1) Hard Drive Cleaner
 * 2) laptop power brick going eeeeeeeeeee
 * 3) Question About Artificial Intelligence Programs
 * 4) I want to have my own bussines but i don't have much money, which is easier and cheaper?
 * 5) Wanting to run a Servlet locally with little prior experience
 * 6) Online computer
 * 7) iPhone OS 4.0 with multitasking
 * 8) Wiki edit tags
 * 9) I couldn't edit
 * 10) What's still running?
 * 11) Bioshock stability issue

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 10


 * 1) Excel
 * 2) Google Street View
 * 3) Memory leak (or something similar)
 * 4) iTunes is sentient?
 * 5) transfer files from old to new computer
 * 6) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8600493.stm - What computer?

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 11


 * 1) Make your own movie by hacking
 * 2) c program
 * 3) My 1440x900 has decided it's a 1280x720
 * 4) Gmail in Mail (Mac)
 * 5) VB v6, Excel reference and components, server-side program
 * 6) "Floating server"
 * 7) Adobe Reader

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 12


 * 1) Touchscreen technology and human health
 * 2) Whats the best website where i can learn Javascript language fully?
 * 3) non profit association / donations
 * 4) Is there something like snapshot.debian.org for Ubuntu releases?
 * 5) Thoes Small Icons What Are In Line With The Title
 * 6) Disappearing Ink(jet)
 * 7) Config file keeps "vanishing"
 * 8) Benchmarking AWB's typo fixing
 * 9) Excel to VBA to VBScript

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 13


 * 1) Traveling salesman problem and taxicab geometry
 * 2) Windows XP Pro doesn't boot
 * 3) information technology
 * 4) Question about editing PHP and javascript files
 * 5) Opera Mini proxy for other browsers?
 * 6) XP Pro SP2  Blue screen

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 14


 * 1) Setting up an external image editor
 * 2) Latex: 2 Questions
 * 3) Disown child processes without forking
 * 4) Python: Filtering with inequalities
 * 5) Can using a laptop on a bumpy road damage it?
 * 6) VBScript and JavaScript
 * 7) Cryptography: Password entry method
 * 8) Internet Connections window crashes
 * 9) Getting Quicktime onto my Mac
 * 10) Linux group root?
 * 11) vpython related error
 * 12) Python/TI-BASIC: indirections
 * 13) Purchasing a Motherboard
 * 14) Misplaced Wikipedia Logo
 * 15) Pings
 * 16) Download  games on iPad?

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 15


 * 1) Serial port?
 * 2) Computer problem
 * 3) Robozzle
 * 4) Symbol
 * 5) Media program
 * 6) Monitor: no signal?

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 16


 * 1) Previously selected links
 * 2) Internet searches for non-linear notations
 * 3) Quality loss in rotated compressed images
 * 4) External hard drives
 * 5) dvd/vcr recorder
 * 6) Laptop trouble (part 4)
 * 7) PATH in Ubuntu
 * 8) Firefox live bookmarks
 * 9) WMV to MP4 converter
 * 10) Font display issue in Word
 * 11) Formatting your hard disk
 * 12) .txt mess
 * 13) can any netbooks continue running while shut?

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 17


 * 1) Touchpad
 * 2) What determines if something is saved in the cache?
 * 3) email bounce
 * 4) Zaped.info
 * 5) Printer problem
 * 6) c program
 * 7) Internet
 * 8) Setting up an online casino in the UK
 * 9) printout of  output of a c program

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 18


 * 1) P4SD Motherboard
 * 2) JVM memory allocation
 * 3) DOS (running on windows XP)
 * 4) Using a SOCKS proxy in Windows Live Messenger ("Version 2009 (Build 14.0.8089.726)")
 * 5) Router/Internet Problems
 * 6) Netbeans tutorial
 * 7) sockscap
 * 8) Symbols to identify
 * 9) samba share

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 19


 * 1) Choice of calculator
 * 2) advanced format
 * 3) How to improve this ERD for a Mysql database
 * 4) What makes a CD bootable?
 * 5) bug fixing
 * 6) Mediawiki - automatic content for a new page
 * 7) NES/SNES
 * 8) delete irc channel?
 * 9) Malicious popups

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 20


 * 1) Laptop hard drives
 * 2) Regular expressions to manipulate a text file
 * 3) E-mail account not retrieving mail
 * 4) Is Facebook or wikipedia an example of cloud computing?
 * 5) www
 * 6) PDF exploits -- is there a non-vulnerable reader?
 * 7) DOS
 * 8) posting information
 * 9) Virtual Harvard architecture and the C language
 * 10) Lag/Ping/Latency, Online Gaming, & Graphics Settings
 * 11) Arrays
 * 12) Can't scroll .svgs
 * 13) Laptop hardware upgrade or new laptop

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 21


 * 1) how does apple keep flash from running?
 * 2) Googlebot indexing
 * 3) Editing MS Word dictionary
 * 4) Win XP language and keyboard
 * 5) Is there a way to determine the default gateway in JavaScript, similar to myIpAddress for the IP?
 * 6) torrent proxy
 * 7) What happened to Yahoo mail?
 * 8) Create CD-Audio from DVD soundtrack

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 22


 * 1) Running Mac OS X software on Windows
 * 2) wiki markup
 * 3) server services
 * 4) Learning to write a compiler (or at least a language parser)?
 * 5) c program (English dictionary)
 * 6) Shortcut
 * 7) GraphViz + Doxygen
 * 8) Download countdown timer
 * 9) Some TLDs are valid DNS names by themselves, but Mozilla Firefox doesn't know it
 * 10) What do you call the yellow triangle?
 * 11) Kenny Kerr

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 23


 * 1) Writing my own programs for iPhone
 * 2) lossless ogg vorbis editing?
 * 3) Mac OS X Updates Download
 * 4) Deploying software through Active directory
 * 5) Motorola Milestone and Android 2.1 update
 * 6) Does this exist?
 * 7) MSN plugin Logitech G-19  keyboard

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 24


 * 1) Forget password and not getting E-mail
 * 2) How's my motherboard look?
 * 3) HDTV stuck blue pixel
 * 4) Mr. Do's Wild Ride
 * 5) fast xml processing?
 * 6) removing grub from Windows machine
 * 7) Saving only the Google cookie when exiting Firefox
 * 8) Layers in PDFs
 * 9) Defining a vague business project
 * 10) What is Rapport (Internet Explorer)?
 * 11) Dolphin emulator
 * 12) Turn off/limit drag and drop of links

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 25


 * 1) Impossible hashes
 * 2) Rainbow table size
 * 3) AES and multiple encrypted copies
 * 4) Weakness of overly long hashes?
 * 5) Edit gzipped file without decompressing?
 * 6) Geographical Information software: OS OpenData
 * 7) A problem with Facebook
 * 8) PHP
 * 9) Computer math operations

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 26


 * 1) ripping
 * 2) Bluetooth headset and skype
 * 3) php question
 * 4) Deleting entry history in Safari for Mac
 * 5) Workplace internet question
 * 6) Start program hidden
 * 7) Computer Science
 * 8) /dev/random security for servers
 * 9) Non-admin-rights accounts
 * 10) How does my computer know the time?
 * 11) How do you momentarily exclude certain labels from being visible while in your gmail inbox

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 27


 * 1) TI Nspire CAS - Clickpad vs Touchpad
 * 2) A course for learning coding and similar (UK)
 * 3) Do actual people still work at yahoo (apart from in accounting)
 * 4) Which software was used to draw this diagram?
 * 5) email
 * 6) Virus infection in GPS Data Logger
 * 7) Styling HTML definition lists to deal with wrapping
 * 8) Polipo
 * 9) Influence diagrams, causal diagrams, mind maps, or similar?
 * 10) Ethical implications of encoding YouTube videos in DivX vs Xvid?
 * 11) Problem With Internet Explorer

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 28


 * 1) Program updates
 * 2) Adaptive Huffman coding with variable symbol length
 * 3) +99
 * 4) The weakest hyperlink...
 * 5) Mozilla Firefox unable to use an external XSL stylesheet?
 * 6) Having a different from address in an email
 * 7) Apple iWeb problem

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 29


 * 1) IRC Aggregator Bot?
 * 2) Wikipedia use ontologies for manage the knowledge and the relations between them?
 * 3) Firefox SSL warning
 * 4) My pen drive.
 * 5) jit compilers
 * 6) Outlook / Outlook Express / Windows Mail / Windows Live Mail

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 April 30


 * 1) How do I connect my PC to both my monitor and TV: particularly with a splitter?
 * 2) Shallow Depth of Field - optimum focal length
 * 3) Using Janusvm on Mac OS
 * 4) Should firefox have 5 vesions of Java Console installed
 * 5) schedule web crawler
 * 6) TightVNC, Ubuntu, and the Shift key