Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2010

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 1


 * 1) History data
 * 2) LaTeX and Flashcards
 * 3) Programs
 * 4) Trendnet router Status blinking slowly, WLAN blinking rapidly
 * 5) Replace image

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 2


 * 1) Eight-Socket (64-Core) 1TB RAM Server
 * 2) Dosbox
 * 3) Wireless All-in-One devices... but wireless fax?
 * 4) Mobile phone in Europe
 * 5) Scribus vs. InDesign
 * 6) sqlcmd
 * 7) Excel sorts A- higher than A+
 * 8) Force needed to press a keyboard key?
 * 9) Lwavuc.exe
 * 10) S.O.S.
 * 11) Session expired
 * 12) Is there free software (for Windows) creating Searchable PDF with hidden text layer?
 * 13) Google Images
 * 14) Nikon Camera/Computer File Saving Format

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 3


 * 1) Excel trendline angle
 * 2) Is there a Wiki anywhere that lets us make biographies & autobiographies of common people and ourselves?
 * 3) Desktop icons on main window unavailable on one of three log-on accounts in windows XP?
 * 4) no visual songs
 * 5) errata sqlcmd
 * 6) In C++/CLI
 * 7) there mihgt exist a garbage collected language that is directly compiled in machine language?
 * 8) Software transfer
 * 9) Menu Items Remaining After Clicking
 * 10) My printer doesn't work
 * 11) can a jailbroken and unlocked iPhone sync music with iTunes the same as before?
 * 12) Backup
 * 13) Is there a name for this type of data
 * 14) Cisco Valet M10

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 4


 * 1) Shady Facebook Group
 * 2) What is this image process called, and how can I do it?
 * 3) Whatever happened to pump and dump spam?
 * 4) raw to png
 * 5) DVD Ripping
 * 6) Apple Travel Adapters
 * 7) E-mail postage system
 * 8) Button on taskbar disappeared
 * 9) Google Wave killed, any Wave like replacements?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 5


 * 1) Intel vs AMD: Has Intel achieved a decisive victory?
 * 2) Colorado will not load on Internet Explore 8, but other articles will
 * 3) Finding a MAC Code/wireless dongles/uninstalling browsers
 * 4) Recovering data from a bad latptop harddisk
 * 5) Lost XP file
 * 6) Safari
 * 7) Slow Blender interface

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 6


 * 1) 3D GPS or similar
 * 2) Laptop's battery behaves strangely and reviving it
 * 3) html
 * 4) XP DLLs
 * 5) Upgrading graphics card
 * 6) How do I upload a photo to a page I just submitted

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 7


 * 1) Nested Virtualization
 * 2) RAID 6+5
 * 3) Copying External Hard Disk Drives in OS X
 * 4) Computers infected with malicious software/files
 * 5) Wikipedia animation thumbnail inconsistency

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 8


 * 1) Adobe Flash Player
 * 2) HP 564 Refill Ink
 * 3) Connecting E-Mail with iPod Touch
 * 4) Disabling Your NAT (Network Address Translation) firewall. Pros and cons

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 9


 * 1) Mobile phone apps
 * 2) merging one image from multiple video frames
 * 3) Is it called a command-line interpreter, a command-line interface, a terminal editor or a shell?
 * 4) Windows 7 Administrator Problem
 * 5) What are some alternatives to Google Voice in the UK?
 * 6) internet
 * 7) problems with DTS/WAV audio
 * 8) How is it possible?!
 * 9) IRC
 * 10) Why Ctrl + H?
 * 11) Easiest way to remove a disc from a dead Wii?
 * 12) Active Desktop (HTML content) on Desktop

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 10


 * 1) LAN authentication
 * 2) Flag problem
 * 3) Unpacking Microsoft Outlook folders
 * 4) Does anyone know how to figure out this MD5?
 * 5) Uptime
 * 6) Netgear DG834G V3 wireless router
 * 7) Put similar named files into sub-folders

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 11


 * 1) Best Way of Automating Getting Information from Website?
 * 2) Structure Declaration
 * 3) MySQL table wildcard
 * 4) Copying and uploading .ogg files
 * 5) FutuRe CouRses
 * 6) Firefox
 * 7) Solid state hard drive
 * 8) Hard drive diagnostic software

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 12


 * 1) Getting the Images
 * 2) Encrypting the contents of a folder
 * 3) "C" Language
 * 4) Leave USB pendrive stick in computer all the time?
 * 5) Immediate termination
 * 6) Facebook - contacting all those who Like a page
 * 7) Fake Chase Bank Email
 * 8) Movie making software for beginner?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 13


 * 1) C Storage
 * 2) Shell for Windows
 * 3) How to disable auto download feature in safari?
 * 4) TOC's in Category page
 * 5) Alt-Tab didn't work
 * 6) Files
 * 7) Any free online backup?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 14


 * 1) RSS
 * 2) Identical
 * 3) Activating OpenType Features
 * 4) Defaulting Australian English in Word 2007?
 * 5) McGill Email
 * 6) Changing default printer does not stick
 * 7) UDP
 * 8) Windows Movie Maker

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 15


 * 1) Online back up services
 * 2) Call to improve password security?
 * 3) wget
 * 4) What font you are viewing?
 * 5) Device drivers and hard disk data recovery
 * 6) echo time
 * 7) network cards
 * 8) Weird PDF

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 16


 * 1) How much information on web browsing habits is accessible from the main node in a home network?
 * 2) SAP
 * 3) Haskell functions - instances of the Eq class?
 * 4) Maximum # of Cores (i.e. Logical Processors) & Amount of RAM in various Linux Operating-Systems
 * 5) wget
 * 6) Problem with Google Chrome
 * 7) RAM
 * 8) Firefox links problem
 * 9) Automated text input program
 * 10) random number generator problem?
 * 11) date
 * 12) Trying to get iPhone 3G to connect to home WiFi unsuccessfully
 * 13) Color saturation on television sets.
 * 14) FIPS

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 17


 * 1) Hardware Accelerated AES Encryption
 * 2) Computer -> TV
 * 3) computer file with pdb extension
 * 4) 2 anti virus software running together
 * 5) Need input - writing a basic referrer tracking script
 * 6) Wikia's poor quality of service

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 18


 * 1) Surprising SEGV from read(2)
 * 2) wget
 * 3) Mutation in Genetic Algorithms (optimization)
 * 4) Reinstalled OSes, regedit, and Star Wars
 * 5) Trying to install an MSDOS program on Vista
 * 6) Latest version of Netscape (and how to speed up netscape)
 * 7) Wikipedia has a problem

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 19


 * 1) X-Root
 * 2) Key Stroke Logger
 * 3) Message digests
 * 4) IP addressing and correct program instance
 * 5) SP6a
 * 6) Virus embeds?
 * 7) What are the two types of pop-up ads?
 * 8) Computer Tech Associate
 * 9) Locating mobile phones internationally
 * 10) are laptop fans interchangeable?
 * 11) Certifications/ASP

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 20


 * 1) Burning FLV straight to DVD
 * 2) Flickr
 * 3) 64 bit
 * 4) Button on taskbar disappeared, the sequel
 * 5) Registry access from a different OS
 * 6) Program to compare drives/folders

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 21


 * 1) Would this power supply be sufficient for this build?
 * 2) want to edit the boot.ini
 * 3) php functions
 * 4) Ubuntu home directory and settings in kde
 * 5) Date modified in vista
 * 6) Fake email address
 * 7) Ipone 4 Apps
 * 8) Malware through video codec?
 * 9) Student laptop webcam surveillance
 * 10) Doubling up router cables

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 22


 * 1) Dual-Domain (Hard Disk Drives)
 * 2) Exact upload date for a file?
 * 3) Building a desktop PC - am I missing anything?
 * 4) Internet
 * 5) Problems with Windows XP password
 * 6) What utf char ??
 * 7) ImageMagick help!
 * 8) search engine query cache
 * 9) Wiki link to odd page
 * 10) Matlab - simple column vector formatting question

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 23


 * 1) Installation & Setup of XRDP/rdesktop
 * 2) How do you call the paint function at any point in the code
 * 3) MacOS: num keys gone dead
 * 4) Wireless router.
 * 5) How to add a shortcut from the Programs menu in WinXP?
 * 6) How can I stop the sentences from appearing one on top of another when I spellcheck?
 * 7) Amplifying brightness of LCD monitor beyond scale
 * 8) BBC IPLAYER LIVE
 * 9) Custom JPEG Quantization matrix
 * 10) Wii SD card trouble
 * 11) Using public computers
 * 12) Pay Pal asking for my details
 * 13) cam4

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 24


 * 1) Trackmania
 * 2) Spindle servo failure
 * 3) Flock "Search" bar option
 * 4) Matlab on a Mac
 * 5) Page view limit
 * 6) mp3
 * 7) Are these unneeded adware?
 * 8) Question about URL formatting

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 25


 * 1) Installed GIMP 2.6.10 and GhostScript - still can't open EPS
 * 2) Sending a big file
 * 3) Disk recovery
 * 4) File Sharing b/tween Vista and Win 7 - Problem
 * 5) I hate a dialog box.
 * 6) There is any Web crawler program that is very easy to use and free?
 * 7) #1 Google hit

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 26


 * 1) iWork Serial Number
 * 2) Improving reliability of Wikipedia bot
 * 3) Disk recovery (part two)
 * 4) Java applet issues.....
 * 5) Google
 * 6) New laptop battery
 * 7) Downloading a clean copy of wininit.exe
 * 8) Watch
 * 9) Wrong Screws = Laptop failure?

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 27


 * 1) Compile error in hidden module: AutoExec?
 * 2) Built in Anti-virus programs
 * 3) Error Box when Googling
 * 4) Implementing a lock for a socket stream
 * 5) AJAX/JavaScript problem.
 * 6) XP Spanned Volumes
 * 7) Nuclear Physics-Package Simulation Software
 * 8) What is 32kb of "used space" on an empty USB pendrive?
 * 9) About this theme
 * 10) Printing multiple slides per page in powerpoint (Office 2010)
 * 11) Can't log into facebook!!
 * 12) Flash video (in embedded player) restarting computer
 * 13) Batch download
 * 14) Merge PDFs?
 * 15) Download trouble

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 28


 * 1) Origin of level numbers in Cobol
 * 2) Sony Bravia TV time display
 * 3) "Internet not connected" messages when internet works fine...
 * 4) DHCP irritations
 * 5) Vista copy paste problem
 * 6) Excel Graph
 * 7) Screen
 * 8) Firewalled download
 * 9) Splitcam open source equivalent

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 29


 * 1) Dissolving Exclamation Point
 * 2) Getting windows key from an old HD
 * 3) IRC help
 * 4) Roadrunner
 * 5) Cheap software
 * 6) iPad and editing Wikipedia
 * 7) Internet (part 2)
 * 8) Frontpage dying
 * 9) Old computer upstairs wants Internet
 * 10) google web accelerator
 * 11) Factory Reset
 * 12) Lavabit
 * 13) Computer does not recognize DVDs

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 30


 * 1) Add-ons
 * 2) Hebrew font identification
 * 3) VB.net
 * 4) Compare code
 * 5) High x16 PCIe 2.0 Slot-Count Barebone System
 * 6) country ip masking
 * 7) usb peripheral switch
 * 8) Arcade Fire's Wilderness Downtown
 * 9) Hard Drive

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 August 31


 * 1) CD ripping -- byte perfect?
 * 2) Opening image in new tab in same window in Internet Explorer by middle mouse
 * 3) Motherboard: The new 'chairman'?
 * 4) Preventing Windows Mail from marking email as phishing
 * 5) Problem on saving DDS images with alpha
 * 6) Must I retain Acrobat update files?
 * 7) Error message on XBox
 * 8) spam filter "throwing out" political messages
 * 9) Processing-Core Price Disparity
 * 10) Google Mail
 * 11) SSD Roadmap
 * 12) Buying a kindle edition book from amazon