Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/August 2013

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 1


 * 1) What's the most powerful fully open source CPU design showing where every transistor goes?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 2


 * 1) Safe storage of devices with rechargeable batteries
 * 2) Future Intel Processor Specs
 * 3) vertical disc drive
 * 4) What is srf in a URL?
 * 5) Syskey registry entries on nt 6.x (post-vista)
 * 6) I click and nothing happens
 * 7) AVG and McAfee? anti-virus
 * 8) How do you tag someone on Facebook?
 * 9) Disable Facebook like popup box

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 3


 * 1) headphone comparison

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 4


 * 1) Proxy servers
 * 2) Adding a coda symbol to my signature
 * 3) Disabling autoplay videos?
 * 4) Google Chrome

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 5


 * 1) Completely web-based free source code repositories?
 * 2) Market/exchange program

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 6


 * 1) Windows 8.1
 * 2) Youtube loading slowly

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 7


 * 1) 2-step dynamic ssh tunnel
 * 2) What is the purpose of this aspect of Google's search results page?
 * 3) Create a company page

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 8


 * 1) Virus Removal
 * 2) Facebook question
 * 3) Making a multi-language site crawlable
 * 4) Chroot for offline windows

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 9


 * 1) Images that have pixels of nearly every color of the spectrum
 * 2) Weird PC speaker problem
 * 3) hey  beotches
 * 4) Committing an edit with javascript:void(0)

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 10


 * 1) problem in installing sound driver
 * 2) iPhone
 * 3) Intel Core manufacturing
 * 4) Affine Transformations in java

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 11


 * 1) Dos command or c++ code to register a certain program for a protocol....
 * 2) When does support for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 end?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 12


 * 1) I have more free disk space than when I started?!
 * 2) iPod battery
 * 3) Help find the cursor

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 13


 * 1) WhatsApp
 * 2) Simultaneous copies to USB thumbdrive very slow
 * 3) Firefox and Software versioning
 * 4) references to fiction versus non-fiction in search results
 * 5) SPSS v. 21: Python Will Not Run in Syntax Block
 * 6) LaTeX question

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 14


 * 1) Samsung Galaxy Tab Storage
 * 2) Firefox 23

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 15


 * 1) Smarter page breaks in Word
 * 2) 2-left hashing references
 * 3) Looking for a blu ray player for Vista laptop
 * 4) More on batteries...

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 16


 * 1) Windows Update (may have) messed up my display...
 * 2) reset firefox
 * 3) Web server performance evaluation
 * 4) Audio not synched with video
 * 5) 64 bit mobile
 * 6) blocking faces from video
 * 7) youtube not working
 * 8) Extracting Google Books images
 * 9) New PC...

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 17


 * 1) terabyte thumb drives
 * 2) Steps using V - Look up and H - look up functions in MS Excel . Explain with example
 * 3) Laptop washing
 * 4) Google serach didn't help - Microsoft Word 2007/2010
 * 5) Firefox

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 18


 * 1) p2p
 * 2) why do speakers have different sensitivities to different frequencies?
 * 3) recording a tv
 * 4) Google blocking thehackernews.com from Comcast customers?
 * 5) Actual URL of a PDF file
 * 6) How the hell I use  unicode with python 2.5???

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 19


 * 1) Why isn't my image caption showing up?
 * 2) free genealogy software
 * 3) What is the first modern programming language in which everything is an expression?
 * 4) TV Channels
 * 5) Thinkpad

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 20


 * 1) Windows 8.1 question
 * 2) Library hygiene for child processes
 * 3) RJ Cables
 * 4) Returns
 * 5) RedHat 5 - gdb & pstack
 * 6) Encoding files by adding random data to binary files

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 21


 * 1) updating Firefox
 * 2) itunes
 * 3) I wanna boot my PC (in more ways than one)

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 22


 * 1) Yahoo or Firefox
 * 2) "Fragility" of disks

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 23


 * 1) Firefox
 * 2) Firefox bookmarks
 * 3) Thunderbird on Ubuntu
 * 4) After returning from sleep mode, iTunes needs me to unplug and replug my iPod in order to recognize it
 * 5) mp4

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 24


 * 1) Getting a specific value of a variable that is a list on phyton
 * 2) program to turn Intel TurboBoost on/off

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 25


 * 1) mplayer
 * 2) four-channel internet
 * 3) Adding a space before  "/>" in tags
 * 4) Windows will not start up
 * 5) Internet Download Rate Control
 * 6) Question on hacking a smartphone's G.P.S. data.

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 26


 * 1) Connecting Securely
 * 2) Why does printf in C use const char * instead of char *?
 * 3) Bit arrays in JavaScript
 * 4) router log
 * 5) Laptop video card upgrade
 * 6) Java and immutable strings
 * 7) Same URL, Different Behaviour
 * 8) I want to buy this
 * 9) Haswell benefits for desktop computers.
 * 10) Perl: Creating a hash that contains two lists
 * 11) my acer laptop overheats how to fix it

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 27


 * 1) How many Bitcoins have
 * 2) Separate youtube, twitter and google webmaster account

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 28


 * 1) Windows XP style file search
 * 2) RealDownloader YouTube VLC
 * 3) Difference between webpage "updated" and "copyright"
 * 4) Limit to Devices on Router
 * 5) Do I need the extra specs?
 * 6) how practical is it to keep multiple facebooks? (under pseudonyms)

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 29


 * 1) wireless repeating laptop with one card on fedora
 * 2) Does someone recognize this font?
 * 3) Picture zoom on Sony Walkman (Digital Media Player)...
 * 4) Safe Firefox Download

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 30


 * 1) Can I plug and unplug smartphone for power too many times?
 * 2) Windows saves to itunes folder for no reason
 * 3) web development
 * 4) How computer hardware works
 * 5) Accused vs Culprit
 * 6) Another question about  iPod batteries

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 August 31


 * 1) replace the motherboard on old computer
 * 2) Reason for difference of location of X11 include directory
 * 3) Web browser engines of TVs with Internet functionality
 * 4) How to make a searchable online database.
 * 5) Text files/documents on my PSP?
 * 6) Monitor Connection Problem