Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2006

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 1


 * 1) reseting admin password in xp
 * 2) How to connect a doorbell to a laptop
 * 3) Playstation2
 * 4) Pci speed
 * 5) Open source Linux OS
 * 6) Determining the character set of a file (created by cURLing wikipedia)
 * 7) install windows 98
 * 8) software
 * 9) testing my own wlan
 * 10) Program in USB
 * 11) Another problem with javascript
 * 12) rdesktop resize
 * 13) making money
 * 14) how much bits does a chip have?
 * 15) Forums/Places to ask computer questions
 * 16) Internet
 * 17) That's Bots' Work!
 * 18) Want to download wikipedia

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 2


 * 1) Good Audio Players
 * 2) Similar Media Players to Windows Media Player
 * 3) GFX Card Upgrade
 * 4) protecter
 * 5) Creative Labs Sound Cards
 * 6) x86 and x64
 * 7) XML converter
 * 8) Should i be concerned?
 * 9) dead PSU fan: epilogue..
 * 10) DVD Ripper
 * 11)  Looking for automated way to define a list of words.
 * 12) Outgoing UDP to port 0
 * 13) First dual-processor motherboard?
 * 14) P2P optimized for LAN with churn
 * 15) youtube video insertion
 * 16) omponent/vga compatabilty

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 3


 * 1) Freeware Audio Recording
 * 2) parallel processing
 * 3) 3D Molecules
 * 4) Online Translations
 * 5) Bittorrent question.
 * 6) ame of type of computer architecture
 * 7) HELP? Windows Movie Maker Question
 * 8) Accessing a Linux Network Remotely
 * 9) Installing fonts with CMD
 * 10) DHT
 * 11) Running Multiple Anti-spyeware programs

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 4


 * 1) Ext. hard drive question
 * 2) How to know which video card I have?
 * 3) Monitor display
 * 4) Dual Layer
 * 5) Spam dated in the future
 * 6) Asking about processor
 * 7) Performance "stutter" on PC
 * 8) VB6 Object Expressions

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 5


 * 1) Any European users here?
 * 2) Render video faster
 * 3) Networking 2 Wireless Routers?
 * 4) install windows 98
 * 5)  propagation delay
 * 6) why larry page and sergey brin wont leave google?
 * 7) Would you ever use a free cellphone?
 * 8) Outgoing Email Issue
 * 9) Custom Webpage
 * 10) MP3 and MPEG
 * 11) The origins of the Ruggedized PDA
 * 12) Synchronizing two computers
 * 13) multiple screens.

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 6


 * 1) Computer Drive Full?
 * 2) Athlon 64 X2 65W
 * 3) RA-OLSR
 * 4) Torrents with multiple trackers
 * 5) Trogan Horse (Problimatic)
 * 6) Windows Media Player inverted color playback
 * 7) Flash/AVI
 * 8) ultiple Sheets to PDF (Macro)
 * 9) A switch in another switch?
 * 10) Remote desktop.
 * 11) xml
 * 12) Google crawling
 * 13) How do I Block Programs
 * 14) Overheating Computer Cabinets
 * 15) sudo
 * 16) lightsaber
 * 17) cell phone service

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 7


 * 1) ADOBE ACROBAT .pdf files
 * 2) Windows Updates
 * 3) printer ink
 * 4) How do I change or delete the "User Profile" / "Registered to: " name on my PC?
 * 5) TI-86 program
 * 6) Dock
 * 7) Viruses
 * 8) new job
 * 9) .pcb file (I think it is Altium, not sure)
 * 10) Slow computer
 * 11) signal phase
 * 12) taking screenshots from dvds
 * 13) TCP/IP?
 * 14) SQL database - defined transactional tables
 * 15) Thought experiment: other name for 'window'?
 * 16) Getting into my router
 * 17) modem for dial up for networking
 * 18) "a constant-amplitude, constant-frequency sinusoid in  channel k should have identical analysis phases in all nearby channels."
 * 19) Because even those who answer have questions(aka: the question about my computer)

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 8


 * 1) Windows Media PLayer 11
 * 2) vi - moving about
 * 3) MSIE 6 on Win2000
 * 4) Window completely off the screen
 * 5) viewing image galleries in wiki-sites
 * 6) How to make a Graph in MS Excel ?
 * 7) Tiny, battery-operated webcams?
 * 8) A little scripting challenge
 * 9) hosts file for Firefox
 * 10) WRK54G
 * 11) Net Framework
 * 12) Circular spiral traversal of 2D arrays

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 9


 * 1) How do I choose the best vfm and most reliable home PC - as a none IT guru.
 * 2) 5mm Digital Drop In
 * 3) Folding@home
 * 4)  Re-phrased Question
 * 5) quicktime
 * 6) Internet Explorer Version 7...
 * 7) GOOGLE EARTH

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 10


 * 1) Windows 3.1 colour schemes
 * 2) Writing a batch file
 * 3) mail spam
 * 4) help!!!!!!!
 * 5) torage capacity of CD and DVD
 * 6) Troubles with Linux.
 * 7) MAKING YOUR OWN MAPPING
 * 8) A transformer program
 * 9) NTSC
 * 10) Uploading plain wikitext to Wikipedia using Wget or CURL
 * 11) Browser won't display some flash, mpeg, and mp3 files

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 11


 * 1) X box 360 live
 * 2) Size of Windows XP temp directory
 * 3) system perspective
 * 4) pc memory
 * 5) Open Street Mapping
 * 6) Way to bond cable modems?
 * 7) Excel question
 * 8) Associating a gamertag with an Xbox forum account
 * 9) TP-T9 Mp3 player from samsung Firmwire

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 12


 * 1) How to make a link.
 * 2) High density cluster server
 * 3) Native XML Database
 * 4) Painful error.
 * 5) OSM
 * 6) Fatal error
 * 7) etter Linux distribution?
 * 8) haring printer
 * 9) rogramming macro keys in XP?
 * 10) Photoshop Elements problem
 * 11) Wikipedia Editing Tool
 * 1) Photoshop Elements problem
 * 2) Wikipedia Editing Tool

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 13


 * 1) PSP Memory Stick
 * 2) Primary master hard disk fail.
 * 3) LED article does not print for me
 * 4) Weird URL in spam

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 14


 * 1) Fireworks MX 2004
 * 2) Image Format Conversion
 * 3) Help writing a bot for external wiki
 * 4) Extracting tracks from DVD
 * 5) XML Parser
 * 6) MSN Messenger
 * 7) Javscript(ugh) again
 * 8) Cellular Phone --> Computer
 * 9) How do I dispute the content of a page?
 * 10) Problems with MS Installer - constant pop-ups
 * 11) Leisure Suit Larry 7 Cocktail
 * 12) Page back button in web browser
 * 13) The most annoying problem!!!
 * 14) Firefox problem (!)
 * 15) GOOGLE
 * 16) Changing .m4a to .mp3
 * 17) ES chip music
 * 18) TI-84

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 15


 * 1) Serial and parallel connections
 * 2) Music Skipping On Computer
 * 3) Mac and PC
 * 4) lash ad blocker
 * 5) How hard is it to connect two computers?
 * 6) autocomplete
 * 7) Why doesn't this stupid thing compile??
 * 8) omplicated upper-bound runtime complexity calculation

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 16


 * 1) PowerPoint and VBA
 * 2) Song Information Plugins for Various Media Players
 * 3) Get a Mac campaign
 * 4) My CD not readable by DVD-rom
 * 5) 2.5mm/3.5mm M/M jack
 * 6) atiric wikipedia
 * 7) Phex IP blocking
 * 8) Creative commons and GFDL compatability

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 17


 * 1) free movies?
 * 2) Official nomenclature for DC power connectors?
 * 3)  More trouble
 * 4) AC adapters?
 * 5) Networking
 * 6) Transfer an archived web site to my own web pages
 * 7) rapidshare
 * 8) AXEL.DAV
 * 9) SQL in Biomedical Databases
 * 10) Wireless Security Overrated?
 * 11) Can I UnRAID My Drives, Keeping The System (Smaller) Partition Intact?
 * 12) formatting flash drive
 * 13) laptop login password
 * 14) CompactFlash to SD Cards and other Transfers
 * 15) Corrupted .avi
 * 16) Rebooting in safe mode
 * 17) Playing a sound and flash in C# 2005

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 18


 * 1) Converting .EXE to .SWF
 * 2) font
 * 3) What does it mean by Single Shared Platforming in IT
 * 4) udio analysis question
 * 5) Xcode, Universal Binary, & Multiprocessing

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 20


 * 1) File System Compatability
 * 2) Some help with HTML
 * 3) No-op microprocessors
 * 4) True or Myth: Can websites view a person's MAC Address?
 * 5) rahhh!! ready to shoot(problem with DOM)
 * 6) iMac 17in vs 20in

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 21


 * 1) Creating a programming environment in CYGWIN
 * 2) Wii or XBox, which has better hardware
 * 3) Network neutrality?
 * 4) Viewing hidden folders on WinXP

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 23


 * 1) Decompile Microsoft Code For Interoperability
 * 2) FTP website
 * 3) Countdown Circuit
 * 4) Final Fantasy VII Linux
 * 5) Dreamweaver/HTML help
 * 6) Ripping video from NASA

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 24


 * 1) wikipedia user boxes
 * 2) user identification suggestion - good idea or bad?
 * 3) metavariables
 * 4) Is my HD dying?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 25


 * 1) GOOGLE EARTH
 * 2) Using a Memory Card
 * 3) forming archive
 * 4) Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and computer input
 * 5) Ink jet cartridge models
 * 6) Every Wikipedia page requires fonts to be temporarily installed?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 26


 * 1) Facebook Tricks
 * 2) Nvidia Geforce 7600GS AGP
 * 3) HELP ME
 * 4) Settling for a DVD format
 * 5) Saving Streaming Sound Files as MP3s
 * 6) Keyboard Q

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 27


 * 1) axel.dav
 * 2) Does a Wiki-game exist?
 * 3) Accessing Wikipedia from Java?
 * 4) DVD sound problems
 * 5) Medion MD9717/Philips SAA7134 & Debian
 * 6) question about business and software
 * 7) dvd-r cd-r

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 28


 * 1) moving data from excel to access
 * 2) Fair use of images
 * 3) relationship between i.c.t  and public relation
 * 4) New MS Office for Mac
 * 5) Core 2 Duo software optimization
 * 6) CELLULAR VOIP SERVICE
 * 7) Python method access
 * 8) Laptop purchasing

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 29


 * 1) iTunes/online music uploading to vox blogs
 * 2) isual Basic 2005 — Security requirements
 * 3) artPE
 * 4) Two iPods on one computer
 * 5) Excel help!
 * 6) what percentage of the total typing work does the left hand perform?
 * 7) Converter needed
 * 8) Creative commons and GFDL compatability (2)
 * 9) cell phone reusage as prepaid
 * 10) MSW German SPAG issues
 * 11) Paperwork" computer game
 * 12) HP mailing list script
 * 13) ow can i see how much ram my accept??

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 30


 * 1) irefox annoyance
 * 2) I want to buy a video card
 * 3) Registry Corruption
 * 4) guild wiki
 * 5) 4gb ram questions
 * 6) ow do I check RAM speed?
 * 7) Computer games that delete files as a punishment for losing
 * 8) Web pages
 * 9) ISP connectivity
 * 10) Is the Parental Control Program 'Hoopaa' safe?
 * 11) usic files' pictures
 * 12) VD recorder to PC
 * 13) Slashdot trolling phenomenon: Hello World
 * 14) what is trojan spyware?
 * 15) How do you find out

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 December 31


 * 1) Shell
 * 2) Help! CD Drive automatically uninstalled!
 * 3) Canon PowerShot A620
 * 4) phpBB dates
 * 5) e systems e214 fan noise
 * 6) Multiple monitor problems.
 * 7) CD Drive
 * 8) ard drive
 * 9) Computer Virus problem
 * 10) The video card I'm planning to buy says it needs