Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/April 2011

= April 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 1


 * 1) how to fix a flashlight
 * 2) Offline world map software
 * 3) Youtube 1911 mode
 * 4) no-ip
 * 5) Firefox 4 - do not like the large buttons on the 'Navigation Toolbar'
 * 6) BIOS password reset
 * 7) Creating .pdf files
 * 8) Legal status of the GUID Partition Table layout ..?
 * 9) Rackmount SSI MEB Chassis Manufacturers

= April 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 2


 * 1) Reading/copying Unix floppy on Windows XP system
 * 2) Microsoft Comfort Mouse 4500 in Ubuntu
 * 3) Duplicate file detection
 * 4) Similar file detection
 * 5) Laptop
 * 6) RAR for mac

= April 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 3


 * 1) SeaMicro SM1000-64 System
 * 2) W3C standards as a source for browsers, or vice-versa?
 * 3) DVD world "Zones" - How to increase the allotment?
 * 4) DOS in laptops
 * 5) Home Wi-fi networking question
 * 6) Limits of lossless data compression
 * 7) random numbers and the system clock
 * 8) Sound Card and Microphone Questions
 * 9) RAID 1 and Subversion questions
 * 10) A tablet computer question

= April 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 4


 * 1) PAM
 * 2) jdbc insert query problem
 * 3) Thunderbird and Archiving
 * 4) Searching Twitter feeds
 * 5) Does Verisign have a domain registrar for verisign.com?

= April 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 5


 * 1) GNU Octave - GUI with Autocompletion & Tooltips
 * 2) Stopping retweets flooding my feed
 * 3) are these 2 queries equivalent?
 * 4) php
 * 5) Firefox 4 - how to prevent the white dot appearing

= April 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 6


 * 1) please help
 * 2) Disable interpretation of tipping on the pad as click
 * 3) Problem with SQL outer joins
 * 4) igoogle side tabs

= April 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 7


 * 1) Intel Xeon E7-x870 Processors = Three Identical Models?
 * 2) Samsung Champ GT-C3303 Mobile-Phone
 * 3) Wanted: Content management system
 * 4) Advice on buying new PC
 * 5) Changing window manager on Fedora 12?
 * 6) Gmail attachment
 * 7) audio
 * 8) Horizontal scrolling with scroll wheel on USB mouse  in Windows XP

= April 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 8


 * 1) Antivirus software policy
 * 2) DS catridge data onto computer
 * 3) Pieces of a URL
 * 4) PCI-E graphics cards lanes
 * 5) Symbolic links to directories, trailing slash
 * 6) .iso files
 * 7) Out of memory in XXX

= April 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 9


 * 1) personal cloud (continued from here.)
 * 2) Java GUI: manipulating (add/remove/setVisible true or false etc) JPanels during runtime?
 * 3) Book scanning services in Toronto

= April 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 10


 * 1) PCI-Express Standard - Missing Widths
 * 2) Inconsistency between different calculators
 * 3) Nehalem multipliers
 * 4) SSD as C:

= April 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 11


 * 1) proxy Servers
 * 2) Firefox 4: Green clockwise rotating circle means it's working; black counterclockwise "electron orbit" means it's not
 * 3) Is the Amiga 16-bit or 32-bit?
 * 4) Give a natural condition in which having ads would make the application faster
 * 5) iOS app development in Windows or Linux

= April 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 12


 * 1) Linux packets
 * 2) Capturing webpages
 * 3) broadband in Altona, Vic, Australia?
 * 4) Platform for new system
 * 5) Re: SSD as C:
 * 6) Downloading google books
 * 7) Desktop wallpaper is always stretched
 * 8) C# expression parsing

= April 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 13


 * 1) How do I find my WEP key without any acces to the router?
 * 2) Dalvik open source? Then where is the source?
 * 3) iPhone

= April 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 14


 * 1) Latex Problem
 * 2) Embedded System
 * 3) User missing on windows 7
 * 4) Is there anything that can be done using I movie that simply cannot be done using Movie Maker ?
 * 5) Deformation of WP pages in Google Chrome
 * 6) BT Broadband
 * 7) Worm: folders become .exe
 * 8) Formating Harddrive
 * 9) Fake RPG
 * 10) Display more sites in Internet Explorer

= April 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 15


 * 1) Laptop specifications
 * 2) Font ID
 * 3) Screen Width Problem
 * 4) Forwarding lots of e-mails

= April 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 16


 * 1) "Blue screen of death"
 * 2) Picasa web video download problem solution failure help request
 * 3) Art of Computer Programming
 * 4) How does AT&T ban third party apps on the Android?
 * 5) 1 connection per second
 * 6) Whizz with vector files?
 * 7) C# compiling
 * 8) Firefox Sync

= April 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 17


 * 1) AOC Slot
 * 2) hi-speed internet service that does NOT involve a fixed IP address (but not using a proxy)
 * 3) video resolution; crt vs lcd?
 * 4) DHL Indian premier league
 * 5) Connecting computer to TV via HDMI - screen resolution problem
 * 6) "Address of property" in C#?
 * 7) Hardware random number generators

= April 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 18


 * 1) Email Client
 * 2) Cookies and Google Chrome
 * 3) Visual Studio 2010 not installing
 * 4) Blue line suggestion in MS Office 2010
 * 5) Extra Rams For Computers
 * 6) Adobe Acrobat and Data Execution Prevention
 * 7) Hotmail emails all deleted - why?
 * 8) harddisk size, is it real

= April 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 19


 * 1) Gmail for BlackBerry
 * 2) Windows 7
 * 3) MediaWiki
 * 4) Automatic mounting (udev?) and filename case in Linux
 * 5) microsoft error

= April 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 20


 * 1) do people get their emails
 * 2) Firefox 4 Navigation Bar
 * 3) Blender 3D Rendering Problems
 * 4) The mysteries of .NET appdomains
 * 5) 49 7/8' cable
 * 6) Facebook info page

= April 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 21


 * 1) Font fallback
 * 2) Making a function that returns a dynamic array in C++
 * 3) Do the high level chess AI programs use Bayesian networks?
 * 4) Where does Firefox 4 store its bookmarks?
 * 5) Backing Up A Computer
 * 6) how to monitor cumulative bandwidth - windows vista
 * 7) Custom Cursors in HTML5
 * 8) research question related to Apple product history?
 * 9) StartManSvc.exe

= April 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 22


 * 1) Shared internet connection bandwidth management problem
 * 2) Upgrading laptop hard drive
 * 3) Starflight
 * 4) Sikuli
 * 5) education
 * 6) Cannot save in Microsoft Word
 * 7) internet street cabinets
 * 8) Firefox 4 URL popup

= April 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 23


 * 1) Bash - deleting recursively
 * 2) Wordprocessing - universal archiving standard?
 * 3) Archiving Hotmail with Thunderbird
 * 4) Cannot print in MS Word
 * 5) Making an animated GIF

= April 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 24


 * 1) MS Word footnote
 * 2) Disk Space
 * 3) Dual monitor system
 * 4) IP addresses
 * 5) What would cause this? Can sync Dropbox, download iTunes, but can't load webpages.
 * 6) StarCraft II framerate issue
 * 7) Rooting my own tablet?!
 * 8) Virus questions
 * 9) XML regular expressions syntax
 * 10) Save chats

= April 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 25


 * 1) How long is a bit?
 * 2) Is Firefox getting spacey?
 * 3) Please hook me up with donation brokers for old hardware.
 * 4) Is there computer assistance in modern-day aircraft traffic control?
 * 5) Gigabit Ethernet Jumbo Frames — performance and switches
 * 6) Server?

= April 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 26


 * 1) 2006 Honda civic hybrid
 * 2) Building a DOS command containing the current directory.
 * 3) Quality problem with animated GIF.
 * 4) Legality of deep linking
 * 5) HTM page in "www.south-pole.com" brings down the browser
 * 6) Google and its web of lies!
 * 7) Edit
 * 8) Where does gcc literally write binary to the .o file?

= April 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 27


 * 1) Blackberry .REM Files
 * 2) Samba share-level logging options
 * 3) computer field
 * 4) SQLite on Ubuntu
 * 5) What is downloading?
 * 6) Verizon iPhone in China
 * 7) My friend is going blind and needs help with her computer

= April 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 28


 * 1) Registry Repair
 * 2) Inabilty to maintain my focus
 * 3) Configure custom certificate validator declaratively?
 * 4) Mp4 player
 * 5) Free software production
 * 6) My computer doesn't understand Google Chrome?

= April 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 29


 * 1) Detecting click on cubic curve.
 * 2) Droid X and Droid 2
 * 3) Video Chat plus pan/tilt/zoom
 * 4) bios refuses to reset in my old pc
 * 5) cannot sign in to mail or post at this forum
 * 6) Encrypting a database file
 * 7) Wifi antenna
 * 8) When good electricity meters go bad
 * 9) eFuse programming

= April 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 April 30


 * 1) Services not available in Netbeans
 * 2) mac sound problem
 * 3) Two .NET questions
 * 4) XML regular expressions syntax (2)
 * 5) Notebook doesn't start at first but then start later problem.