Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2012

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 1


 * 1) Google + Opt Out
 * 2) Risk of sharing a wi-fi network
 * 3) Does logging in through the secure server stop my workmates on the same network from also being logged in under my account?
 * 4) dreamincode.net - compromised?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 2


 * 1) What does pvc does?
 * 2) ASPNET Account password
 * 3) Java in Xcode
 * 4) ArcGIS
 * 5) Android tablet
 * 6) Create a website
 * 7) Internet speeds
 * 8) How to increase the contrast (color) of only the scroll bar "handle" in Windows7 ?

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 3


 * 1) Is There a Free, Open-Source Program Similar to Visual Basic?
 * 2) php myadmin
 * 3) mounting with nounix, noserverino
 * 4) Online shopping

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 4


 * 1) which dac is the better one
 * 2) IRC always timing out
 * 3) What does it mean to open a file?
 * 4) 3D Bluray Ripping
 * 5) USB Flash Drive vs USB External Hard Drive
 * 6) Case-sensitive searches?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 5


 * 1) laptop versus Ipad
 * 2) How many bits?

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 6


 * 1) upgrade android
 * 2) Forcing a timeout with Google cdn
 * 3) how can I submit a review on Rotten Tomatoes?
 * 4) Virtualization of existing OS?
 * 5) I would really like a new desktop sidebar
 * 6) CS without programming
 * 7) Video to GIF in Ubuntu

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 7


 * 1) Cannot access internet on laptop
 * 2) Standards for device-side of AC adapters
 * 3) Videogames
 * 4) Firefox tabs on Ubuntu
 * 5) Wikipedia Featured Article RSS Feed (Google Reader)
 * 6) Windows screen grab
 * 7) Pretty print database

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 8


 * 1) Guitar Controller USB Utility
 * 2) Up and down arrows at bottom of scroll bar in Word
 * 3) Internet reply
 * 4) Space in file names
 * 5) Drivers in linux
 * 6) TV "brightness"
 * 7) Changing processor name

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 9


 * 1) PHP processing time per function
 * 2) Why does mass-pinging an IRC channel produce the (near-)worst of humanity?
 * 3) laptop switching off itself
 * 4) What were the dates of connections for the ARPANET nodes?
 * 5) Free web hosting in the Arab States
 * 6) Max my pc speed on the internet.
 * 7) Getting a programming job without academic credentials

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 10


 * 1) Audio-only video on iPhone
 * 2) Tweeting on a phone
 * 3) HDMI to monitor
 * 4) Hotmail Code
 * 5) oldest website
 * 6) Clothing android app?

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 11


 * 1) WebDAV
 * 2) What OS are computers running on LAN
 * 3) Encrypted .dmg
 * 4) Was my Gmail account hacked ?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 12


 * 1) Brother driver installation error message
 * 2) Print screen and scroll lock key
 * 3) Relay server?
 * 4) learning python: for in loops
 * 5) Inequality Involving Kolmogorov Complexity.
 * 6) Is it possible to handle errors of file_get_contents in PHP?
 * 7) proxie
 * 8) Need help with infobox
 * 9) kubuntu screen refresh problem

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 13


 * 1) Force http (unsecure) connection.
 * 2) Demonoid
 * 3) Glade Interface Designer and Python with PyGTK~(or whatever)
 * 4) Best way of passing text/html to JavaScript from php
 * 5) How can I back up my mp3 collection to an external harddrive?
 * 6) Problem with serialising time stamps to XML in C#

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 14


 * 1) Audio file creation
 * 2) Remote pinging
 * 3) Will this RAM fit (and work) in this motherboard?
 * 4) nVIdia Output Specification
 * 5) Not enough room to copy onto a hard drive ... but there IS enough room.
 * 6) traceroute
 * 7) Help me find a FB app: Matches me to a list of users with the most mutual interests.

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 15


 * 1) I am Naveen Ganesan
 * 2) Regex and sed
 * 3) zero indexing of arrays
 * 4) Variables in wikipedia
 * 5) Address bar search (email id)
 * 6) Audio file on facebook
 * 7) PHP, Replacing Arrays
 * 8) Monitor problems
 * 9) Help with Changing Youtube Email
 * 10) How much would this storage server cost?
 * 11) Why doesn't Firefox automatically update on Linux?
 * 12) Google Drive
 * 13) ZFS, heterogeneous storage media and heterogeneous access patterns

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 16


 * 1) MediaWiki: get URL params
 * 2) SATA III hard drive in a SATA II interface?
 * 3) Plotting ping results on a graph
 * 4) Windows task bar disappearing
 * 5) loop 128 PNG files at 15 fps onto a 10 minute youtube video

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 17


 * 1) is the human brain a Turing Machine?
 * 2) Concurrency
 * 3) .gif files do not animate on my browser
 * 4) Ubuntu 12.04 1) Delete Icons from taskbar and 2) Minimize all open windows
 * 5) is the linux is an flatform independent or not?
 * 6) who is the best seo company chairman in india?
 * 7) New folders in Windows
 * 8) Market research, solar power, battery to USB
 * 9) Adobe_Flash#Alternatives is rather incomplete. What alternatives are there?
 * 10) Scared straight for kids on the Internet
 * 11) Norton Security Suite
 * 12) Inadvertent reinstallation of Windows XP
 * 13) OSX 10.4/5/6 - Override "interactive" login and switch to textbox, username/password domain-enabled login
 * 14) stripping a video of red and green, keeping blue channel only

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 18


 * 1) Cantenna
 * 2) Network components
 * 3) Django + jQuery
 * 4) fights on a sim

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 19


 * 1) where am I getting the glyphs?
 * 2) Illegal copies online
 * 3) Drawpad
 * 4) UK shops- camera charger
 * 5) surely there is a more pythonic way to do this generation of pandigital numbers?
 * 6) Blogging and social networking

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 20


 * 1) The Ubuntu interface along with Kubuntu and toggle back and forth without rebooting?
 * 2) Looking for an architectural model for a typical home Wi-Fi router
 * 3) Convert OST to PST File
 * 4) Microsoft vs. Netscape
 * 5) canon 650d, Magic Lantern
 * 6) What, specifically, is wrong with this PDF file?
 * 7) Glitching/skipping CD

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 21


 * 1) Tandy Color Computer Emulators & .ccc files
 * 2) commandline arguements in c
 * 3) Where do Web Fonts live in the latest Firefox
 * 4) Google Spreadsheet question
 * 5) All my locally stored e-mail is gone in Evolution after upgrading to Fedora 17
 * 6) Further problems with Fedora 17
 * 7) Install VICE and E-UAE on Fedora 17?
 * 8) Printing ink usage
 * 9) Dots and slashes in internet addresses
 * 10) Tibetan characters in Firefox under linux

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 22


 * 1) IPsec server question
 * 2) All Audio out of sync
 * 3) FTP Desktop Shortcut
 * 4) Java Question
 * 5) UTF confusion
 * 6) HTML page break control
 * 7) GIMP 2.8 questions
 * 8) Old PC game from the '90s
 * 9) Xine question
 * 10) Varicode ambiguity
 * 11) Question about incorrect song size information

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 23


 * 1) Getting/ripping songs from a java web game.
 * 2) Emacs basics

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 24


 * 1) Use Android 802.11x EAP settings on Windows
 * 2) web based 2D CAD
 * 3) Moving parts
 * 4) Displaying bitmaps
 * 5) Simple javascript
 * 6) Learning programming languages.
 * 7) Learning a computer language just for the sake of it

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 25


 * 1) Revision control for OS
 * 2) MSIL on Wine
 * 3) S.M.A.R.T. Warning message
 * 4) Programming for mobile/embedded devices
 * 5) Legality of redistributing software available for free download

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 26


 * 1) Counter Strike Global Off.
 * 2) Samsung Series 5 17.3 inch laptop
 * 3) Fast output of plots in MATLAB
 * 4) Location based reminders in Android
 * 5) Does Playbook's security swipe really work?
 * 6) Question about mounting hard disks on Fedora 17
 * 7) Move from hotmail to Outlook
 * 8) Transfer entire Linux system to a new hard drive?
 * 9) rsync --delete question
 * 10) Java Book
 * 11) HTTP space between headers and body..

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 27


 * 1) Difficulty finding page related to "Order of Operations" in Mathematics.
 * 2) how long does it take to overwrite hard drive using system recovery disc
 * 3) Django simple button + field + saving
 * 4) Has anyone got The Ur-Quan Masters to work?
 * 5) Facebook question

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 28


 * 1) Options request by firefox.
 * 2) Is a GPU Required in a Computer?
 * 3) Play Ogg Theora and Vorbis files directly on iPad
 * 4) DNS not working, but only for browsers
 * 5) Googling vs. typing URLs
 * 6) Google Image Search slows computer down on Fedora 17
 * 7) A better window list applet for Cinnamon?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 29


 * 1) Determining PDF page size programatically
 * 2) Integration of Intel Fortran 11.1 compiler with the Visual Studio 2008
 * 3) Idea to transfer entire Fedora 17 Linux system to new 2 terabyte hard disk
 * 4) whois
 * 5) Hard disk storage in the future
 * 6) IE8 new version opening PDFs in Acrobat
 * 7) Operating systems

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 30


 * 1) Smart TV software updates
 * 2) Popups
 * 3) iOS's Safari cannot upload files
 * 4) Is a hard disk drive a type of RAM?
 * 5) Google Doesn't Work

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 August 31


 * 1) Encoding in Command Prompt
 * 2) Java Question
 * 3) Unix Command Syntax
 * 4) Automatic Update Failing
 * 5) Removing "Live Security Platform" malware
 * 6) can a microsite be under a different person's control?