Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2011

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 1


 * 1) Blu-ray anamorphic widescreen
 * 2) Internet connection
 * 3) Extract text from pdf
 * 4) Identifying model of PowerBook G4 & Nil Startup
 * 5) Gmail Sent Mail/Sent Messages
 * 6) Follow-up post from a month ago - found it!
 * 7) Nine-segment displays in elevators in Germany
 * 8) cheap small-ish i5 or i7 pc with 4 or 8 gb ram and solid state?
 * 9) Google Earth polygons
 * 10) PROJECT ON RSA ALGORITHM
 * 11) smtp for Google apps

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 2


 * 1) Maps for dummies
 * 2) Where did I go wrong? (XP password bypass)
 * 3) Facebook profile train station option?
 * 4) head-mounted display
 * 5) Sluggish bittorrent window in Ubuntu
 * 6) PNY VCQ450NVS-X16-PB Quadro NVS 450
 * 7) 'Can You Run It?'
 * 8) How to check which program created a file in my computer (Windows)?
 * 9) How can I cancel saving a web page in IE?
 * 10) Monitoring network adapters on my computer
 * 11) DOS command prompt command to get rid of Mac resource forks
 * 12) Droid 3 processor swap

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 3


 * 1) Broken Computer
 * 2) nostradamus's best and worst predictions?
 * 3) Windows Vista behavior copying CDs
 * 4) Voice Memo app for Android 3G MyTouch T-Mobile?
 * 5) Creating New Word Document + Content from Macro
 * 6) further question on c++ objects deleting themselves
 * 7) name of city
 * 8) Searching for a computer part
 * 9) Contacting an IP
 * 10) mac os x time machine
 * 11) PC problems with running programmes from icons

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 4


 * 1) Full HD backup and recover for a Windows 7 PC
 * 2) Please help in finding a jigsaw creating program...
 * 3) Nexus S vs LG Optimus 2X

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 5


 * 1) convert jpg to text
 * 2) Dueling monitors
 * 3) Can't save my Tiddlywiki
 * 4) Extensible compilers & languages, compiler-compilers, metaprogramming, extensible syntax, domain specific languages, language-oriented programming
 * 5) FORTRAN
 * 6) My computer has gone mute

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 6


 * 1) Battery charger
 * 2) Again, sata drives are being strange
 * 3) Dell loves to nickel-and-dime us. What computer manufacturer gives us a better customer experience?
 * 4) LAN - WIRELESS CONNECTION
 * 5) AntiSec's law enforcement hack
 * 6) OpenSSL API

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 7


 * 1) Lappy keeps shutting down
 * 2) "Go to a web site" displayed in Firefox address slot rather than the URL
 * 3) MS Word - Highlighting
 * 4) Batch renaming in Linux

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 8


 * 1) I need an old computing joke
 * 2) Android - ability to sound alarm at regular intervals
 * 3) SVG image appears incorrectly after uploading into Commons
 * 4) Copying text from website with LOTS of links
 * 5) Chat site
 * 6) Windows easy transfer
 * 7) mouse pointers

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 9


 * 1) Cell phone without a baseband processor
 * 2) Identify a satellite-view or bird's-eye-view image?
 * 3) Starting programs via Run
 * 4) Name of open internet group?
 * 5) functions of a function
 * 6) Router gives wrong location

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 10


 * 1) Cannot access Windows Update
 * 2) computers?
 * 3) MS Office on a tablet
 * 4) Hi-Grade ftp site for laptop drivers
 * 5) undefined reference to vtable
 * 6) Different Voltage slower computers?
 * 7) explicitly forbid a Windows 7 process from consuming more than 95% of the CPU
 * 8) Where to find certificates in Windows 7?

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 11


 * 1) Does lowering the volume on an MP3 player increase battery life?
 * 2) What? A METAL DETECTOR APP? (Android Marketplace)
 * 3) Android device with a USB Host port
 * 4) Cheapo Android tablet battery life
 * 5) Unable to create an Yahoo account.
 * 6) JDK, JRE, x86, x64
 * 7) Linux Keyring prompt fix
 * 8) What computer manufacturer gives better warranty deals?
 * 9) Why would a toolbar disappear?
 * 10) Networked printer problems
 * 11) Using VLC to add video effects/adjustments to vids
 * 12) Tr0ub4dor&3 vs. correcthorsebatterystaple

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 12


 * 1) "Temporarily" installing software
 * 2) Mouseover pop-up CHN-ENG translator for Internet Explorer?
 * 3) cropping jpg images
 * 4) Google forces its localized domain on me
 * 5) Google problem
 * 6) Screen Quality with Video Question/Concern
 * 7) flickr
 * 8) PS2 .STR Audio Files
 * 9) Where's the security weakness?

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 13


 * 1) Video Enhancement and Programming
 * 2) Help with MS Access 2007 (VBA) to open a new instance of excel 2007 instead of excel 2003
 * 3) How to make each excel files open in a same instance of excel 2007
 * 4) databases
 * 5) Obsolete or backdated website
 * 6) How to find a lost iPhone
 * 7) Parallels desktop

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 14


 * 1) How would a website/network know that it's you, even if your IP address is changed?
 * 2) disable keyboard on laptop
 * 3) solution of computer problem
 * 4) Stretch screen resolution
 * 5) How do I install language support without Microsoft Office?
 * 6) My MS office program is now in windows.old folders, but how do I get it to work again?
 * 7) Stopping Firefox from flashing a page and then changing it
 * 8) Is defragmenting pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys worth it?
 * 9) Microsoft Word preferences

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 15


 * 1) HP 6310 all-in-one printer
 * 2) Web-page problem
 * 3) Wireless internet provision in a large building such as a hotel
 * 4) Program Files Folder x2
 * 5) Identify software for plotting stories
 * 6) Find and Replace expression: Change 3rd colon to a period?
 * 7) Looking for nice boxes and arrows FOSS
 * 8) twitter

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 16


 * 1) Google's purchase of Motorola
 * 2) need help
 * 3) omanual file format
 * 4) Laptop battery - left plugged in and running
 * 5) Security implications of a poor-man's proxy?

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 17


 * 1) Most likely thing to die in a PC from a power surge
 * 2) Someone sending emails from my Outlook
 * 3) Reversi Bug
 * 4) A computer without a chassis?
 * 5) Finding and configuring certain hotkeys

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 18


 * 1) changing name of wireless router
 * 2) Geomedia Professional
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 18#Problem_with_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheie9countdown.com.5D|Problem with ]]
 * 4) parchive
 * 5) Cannot stream video from A&E family of websites
 * 6) Zip file
 * 7) Can't install Windows XP x86 on Windows 7 x64 as a second partition
 * 8) Power Supplies for laptops
 * 9) how can pypy work?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 19


 * 1) Google Street View privacy concerns
 * 2) Download special video from youtube?
 * 3) accurate shut down
 * 4) Excel number display format
 * 5) Firesheep for Linux
 * 6) Powerpoint Open Side-by-Side?
 * 7) Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Bridging Device
 * 8) PS2 .STR Audio Files

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 20


 * 1) Permutation identification
 * 2) Javascript program writing
 * 3) Firefox source code
 * 4) Where does Chrome keep its bookmarks?
 * 5) Windows 7 file explorer and all internet browsers jump back a page
 * 6) How to send an old computer system to schools in Africa?
 * 7) CSS normal text style
 * 8) Can most computers type diacritics?
 * 9) MS Excel - Elapsed time calculations
 * 10) Router settings

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 21


 * 1) Burning time differences
 * 2) best proxy to avoid detection
 * 3) Adobe InDesign favour

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 22


 * 1) Layout Diagrams of Computer Hardware Standards
 * 2) How can I batch process convert MP3s into mono?
 * 3) Diagnosing intermittent crashing
 * 4) Reporting facebook abuse
 * 5) Tor Proxy error..please help (Q moved from misc desk)

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 23


 * 1) Firefox: Is this a problem for anybody else?
 * 2) Looking up Chrome's history file
 * 3) Learning Print Conversion to Web
 * 4) Firefox keyboard shortcut
 * 5) Why www and http?
 * 6) Changes in BootCamp 4.0
 * 7) Any NLE that can natively edit MKV files?
 * 8) QR codes for Wikipedians

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 24


 * 1) Making an FTP connection secure
 * 2) History of computers
 * 3) Reloading without re-caching

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 25


 * 1) NLB Browsers in Windows 7
 * 2) What happens to files and programs when you install linux over windows?
 * 3) Windows Media Player 11 - Resizing
 * 4) How involved was Steve Jobs in technical design/architecture?
 * 5) school lab a little lost
 * 6) I'm not used to new windows installs (formatting etc)
 * 7) Phone calculator

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 26


 * 1) A little help please with new windows install/getting my hardware to work?
 * 2) Missing audio channel?
 * 3) extracting 3d coordiantes from 2d images of face

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 27


 * 1) Reading PDFs that have columns
 * 2) Secret Facebook Group
 * 3) Are hex codes, CMYK, and RGB equivalent, or does one have greater color range than the rest?
 * 4) What irc channel has the most people in it?
 * 5) Why is idling in irc channels considered bad?
 * 6) How to sync a Palm Tungsten E with a Dell Studio XPS with windows 7 ?
 * 7) Free PDF software
 * 8) Maximum RAM capacity for a Compaq presario CM2050 1456VQL1N laptop
 * 9) "Additional logon information required" error message Windows 7
 * 10) Mozilla support forums - few messages since August 18
 * 11) select count vs. mysql_num_rows

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 28


 * 1) New technology info
 * 2) Stellarium
 * 3) NLB Browsers in Windows 7
 * 4) API usage to view deleted file
 * 5) Chrome IDN whitelist
 * 6) Internet explorer first to use domain greying out in address bar?
 * 7) Symantec Norton Ghost 15.0 - Tape Drive Support

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 29


 * 1) First stage bootloader larger than 512 bytes
 * 2) CSS Full-Height Scrollable Columns
 * 3) hibernate a single program

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 30


 * 1) Mozila reloading previous sessions
 * 2) Editing .bashrc
 * 3) wikipedia mirror on my local network.
 * 4) Deleting many files
 * 5) Digital Pens
 * 6) Microsoft Word length
 * 7) Second most popular non-commercial site
 * 8) Automatically getting a file's parent directory in Windows 7?
 * 9) Home directory physical location when running a Linux Live CD

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 August 31


 * 1) Do I have Bitcoin straight in my head?
 * 2) Does the browser or the server look for "index.html"?
 * 3) Digitise my life: step one - acquire a scanner
 * 4) Net Access
 * 5) pcie half card with Wimax and WiFI
 * 6) Telecommuting programming job boards?