Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2007

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 1


 * 1) Table width
 * 2) synchronize firefox bookmarks
 * 3) Oregon Trail
 * 4) Port 666
 * 5) Thunderbid attachment problems
 * 6) How can I import bookmarks to Firefox from Navigator 9.0.0.1 ?
 * 7) Something like Wikipedia that you can download onto your computer...
 * 8) Does PS3 memory slot support SDHC?
 * 9) 3D Modeling Software Using Human or Humanlike Scanned Images

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 2


 * 1) LaTeX figure captions
 * 2) Japanese IME input
 * 3) Fedora 8 problem: Picture spontaneously disappears
 * 4) A  network prompt problem
 * 5) Java plugin for Mozilla Firefox installs, but doesn't work (once again)
 * 6) Help finding a game

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 3


 * 1) tight and square autoshapes in word
 * 2) Proxy
 * 3) Cell phone info - Razr
 * 4) using .gzip, .gz, and .tar
 * 5) Outlook express error 0x800ccc79
 * 6) stopping websites
 * 7) Free animation software
 * 8) C++ library for an http server
 * 9) Google search help
 * 10) itunes is irritating

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 4


 * 1) Auto Power On
 * 2) Power supply for VGA card
 * 3) download wikipedia
 * 4) Google always telling me there's no results. Nothing but lies!
 * 5) Win XP Installation/Startup Question
 * 6) Blogging as a character in fanfic
 * 7) Calculator Password Program Code
 * 8) Initializing an array of non-PODS?
 * 9) cangjie

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 5


 * 1) Do web hosting accounts have bandwidth caps?
 * 2) radio auction
 * 3) Runescape
 * 4) Freeware video converter.
 * 5) How to select particular columns of a particular row in VBA Excel
 * 6) Computer memory related to hard disk
 * 7) Recovery of hard disk
 * 8) Difficulty booting Linux in VirtualBox
 * 9) Overnight
 * 10) downloading directory tree from Apache autoindex
 * 11) WinZip
 * 12) Software installer
 * 13) Why is my PC running so SLOW?
 * 14) Resolution in HDTV
 * 15) Hard disk partitioning question

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 6


 * 1) Desktop icons in Mac OS X
 * 2) top-level domain I can't find in directory
 * 3) md5 as password
 * 4) Help me get rid of an "Open With" function
 * 5) Forum administrators and privacy
 * 6) Unicode composition ...
 * 7) Reverse DNS = (random).phx.gbl
 * 8) No more my documents
 * 9) Convert IFF ILBM to PNG/GIF?
 * 10) computer questions
 * 11) FIPS codes?
 * 12) "(talk)" appears now (sometimes!)  in WP signatures
 * 13) .albm file extension/format - How to convert ?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 7


 * 1) compiling python source code to an executable file
 * 2) Virus
 * 3) RTC modem - where RTC is...
 * 4) Virus
 * 5) Moving location of My Documents and the like
 * 6) Re: Unicode composition ...
 * 7) Symbain for Pc--Linux for mobiles
 * 8) Firefox URL bar
 * 9) quick and straightforward path to a small-scale ecommerce site selling PDFs?

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 8


 * 1) Coloured text in console mode
 * 2) DSL 10-day warmup?
 * 3) Card Making Program
 * 4) Space of hard disk consume by operating system
 * 5) Video Encoding
 * 6) Photoshop pixelation effect
 * 7) Is huge amount of physical RAM necessary for getting better FPS in games?
 * 8) 2D designer program
 * 9) MKV problems in Win Vista
 * 10) JPEG, web spiders and the wonderful Avril Lavigne
 * 11) Shell script - Windows/DOS or Unix/Bash
 * 12) Installing python modules, windows
 * 13) Laptop choice
 * 14) Word.docx
 * 15) Crashing of  windows explorer
 * 16) LAN
 * 17) Ipod Video Converter

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 9


 * 1) svchost.exe
 * 2) Ipod
 * 3) School tracking program
 * 4) Graphics Cards
 * 5) WHOIS error
 * 6) Pixelating SVG?
 * 7) Beep
 * 8) b&
 * 9) PSP VIDEO PROBLEM

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 10


 * 1) Opera = Firefox + 20+ extensions
 * 2) Function keys in Mac OS X
 * 3) Chess symbols in MS Word
 * 4) using telnet
 * 5) About ram requirement for getting good FPS
 * 6) What is the difference between Monitor refresh rate and FPS?
 * 7) can I instal and work on VB 2005 and VB 6.0 simulatneously ?
 * 8) User Agent Information
 * 9) How do you use a jar file?
 * 10) Canon RAW in Photoshop CS
 * 11) Kindle
 * 12) Text-to-speech on Java using Microsoft voices?
 * 13) Caesar IV
 * 14) Ipod + Limewire
 * 15) unicode characters
 * 16) Computer start up process
 * 17) Memory Speeds

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 11


 * 1) Sansa C140 MP3 player Frozen
 * 2) Function Key not Working after Hibernation
 * 3) ram software
 * 4) .ogg
 * 5) Image watermarks
 * 6) Open Source software - source code only
 * 7) Graphical file search utility for Linux
 * 8) CPU Question from a newb

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 12


 * 1) MacBook
 * 2) Translation
 * 3) What are the hot keys for HTML of web page on Mac
 * 4) Search engines indexing
 * 5) Random crashes, "bad pixels" leaving trails on moving windows
 * 6) Subfloats and prooftrees in LaTeX.
 * 7) SATA and PATA ??
 * 8) Uninstalling GRUB bootloader
 * 9) The computer as general purpose tool and the internet as general purpose network and slices of salami
 * 10) How do I clean my notebook screen??
 * 11) Java Chat rooms
 * 12) Apache server redirection...
 * 13) FTP Client for windows needed
 * 14) So-and-so has added to your FunWall!!! Really?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 13


 * 1) Ubuntu networking question
 * 2) **FATAL** String Manager Failed to Initialize Properly
 * 3) PSP
 * 4) Linux webcam drivers
 * 5) Handwriting translation / reading program?
 * 6) Printing issue in Excel.
 * 7) Pasting "Unformatted Text" into a MS Word document
 * 8) How do I type Unicode?
 * 9) Web color translation
 * 10) rogue developer
 * 11) Typing problem

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 14


 * 1) IP address not from here
 * 2) PSPICE 9.1
 * 3) Flip book
 * 4) Coding issue
 * 5) Cannot connect to internet through wireless network connection.

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 15


 * 1) What is the name the computer we (most of users) use??
 * 2) OpenOffice 1.1 > .doc files: conversion en masse
 * 3) can linux run windows programs?
 * 4) IPX on Vista
 * 5) Easyjet and Payapl are spamming me
 * 6) Downloading problem
 * 7) WinXP Display Properties - Desktop tab freezing
 * 8) Firefox plugin idea
 * 9) UDF ?
 * 10) What software to use? InfoGraphical  document
 * 11) Printing off  Googlebooks
 * 12) Proxy
 * 13) DIV and SPAN question
 * 14) SVG Images
 * 15) installing windows XP onto a computer with Windows vista

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 16


 * 1) Need to read my Mac OS 9 cdrom on a Windows XP computer
 * 2) zapgrab not working properly
 * 3) telephone receiver symbol in MS Word
 * 4) Sony NWZ-S616F mp3 player
 * 5) Not being able to see the progress of some downloads, why?
 * 6) AVI to RMVB
 * 7) Windows explorer error
 * 8) (Windows XP Pro, SP2) PIDs over 28000
 * 9) Open-source alternative to .NET
 * 10) SQL Server Service Manager?
 * 11) Measuring Angles of a Triangle
 * 12) Is it possible to open and edit a MS Outlook msg file?
 * 13) PC game suggestions
 * 14) Google searches
 * 15) Screenshots
 * 16) Accessories in WinXP
 * 17) Restricting login times on OS X

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 17


 * 1) Why do some kinds of malware, especially trojans, have weird names?
 * 2) Music file editing
 * 3) mediacoder
 * 4) Making a digital disk of jpeg pics and background music.

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 18


 * 1) What specs are needed to run the game crysis with every single thing on max ???
 * 2) CON
 * 3) .Mac Web Page
 * 4) Hard disk compatibility
 * 5) i'm sure there's a name for this, tell me it
 * 6) Playstation 3 hardrive upgrade
 * 7) Using a Wireless router as a network card...
 * 8) Unix question: * with spaces in it
 * 9) Further Unix question: How to get rid of the extension
 * 10) What is a "channel business"?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 19


 * 1) Finding a specific file with cmd.exe
 * 2) Hacking into runescape.
 * 3) Firefox three
 * 4) sue linux
 * 5) Mediawiki systems and reversion of multiple article edits by same user
 * 6) Playstation 1 Emulation
 * 7) Java, C++, C# or Python??
 * 8) Scaling up low-res images
 * 9) Anyone wanna help us by setting up a bot?
 * 10) AIFF vs WAV
 * 11) Picking a motherboard and CPU

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 20


 * 1) Suggestion for Wikipedia software.
 * 2) hardware or software?
 * 3) Can I use avast! and ClamWin on the same computer?
 * 4) Understanding problem
 * 5) AceText alternative for Linux
 * 6) DNS Privacy
 * 7) Freeware solution for accepting 48-bit scans from an image scanner?
 * 8) Laptop Charger
 * 9) Pedagogical cfront
 * 10) COPY vs XCOPY
 * 11) Make executable from Python code

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 21


 * 1) Which free MMORPG is the best?
 * 2) Weird Website
 * 3) Help
 * 4) sim theme park patch for windows 2000
 * 5) Can't see partitions
 * 6) Is this possible with CSS?
 * 7) Raid 5 + 1 spare drive   VS   Raid 6
 * 8) Poser and daz 3d
 * 9) Regarding Online Jobs

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 22


 * 1) iPod Touch to iPhone
 * 2) Itunes Video + PSP Questions
 * 3) game deletion problem
 * 4) Bare bones linux
 * 5) HDD performance or lifetime quality?
 * 6) Deleted file/folder recovery
 * 7) Pop ups for real?
 * 8) iTunes/WMP
 * 9) installing software in linux
 * 10) Mobile phone
 * 11) Dell computer configuration
 * 12) facebook Safari problem, mac os leopard,
 * 13) Building a new computer from scratch
 * 14) Nintendo DS - "The Golden Compass"

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 23


 * 1) Whois
 * 2) Grabbing data
 * 3) Keeping an HTA window on top
 * 4) winners of super bowls and national championships
 * 5) dancer/sometime actress
 * 6) Stdout in C
 * 7) components of verbs
 * 8) Computer price difference
 * 9) Safely remove hardware
 * 10) Partitioning USB flashdrives
 * 11) FCC Rules Part 15
 * 12) Scanning on Windows Vista
 * 13) Name that Bioshock tune
 * 14) Georges Bizet.

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 24


 * 1) First words e-mailed/posted/etc. - famous?
 * 2) Copy-and-paste in Microsoft Excel
 * 3) Install GNUCash on Mac OS X
 * 4) DVD playback software
 * 5) Using the quadrature signal of the Digital Down Converter
 * 6) php/apache
 * 7) Home Recording
 * 8) Mystery image
 * 9) DVD Remixing
 * 10) The World Is Flat
 * 11) Vista Question

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 25


 * 1) .ivr format
 * 2) Nokia 2610 USB port?
 * 3) Graphics Card
 * 4) Optimising Euler Project 5 in Ruby
 * 5) USB Hard drive structure

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 26


 * 1) Blackberry Pearl Input
 * 2) Windows media player 10
 * 3) "Animor8"
 * 4) Operating System not supported
 * 5) Camera as Web cam
 * 6) Do monitors affect computer performance?
 * 7) RAM Speed Vs Quantity
 * 8) Display problems with new computer
 * 9) How to access files from another partition.
 * 10) Like, omigosh, 2 CPUs???
 * 11) My computer screen

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 27


 * 1) CompactFlash vs SecureDigital
 * 2) Another Blackberry Pearl Question
 * 3) Microsoft Word documents as RTF
 * 4) L2 Cache
 * 5) cache problem using Wikipedia
 * 6) Firefox 3
 * 7) Hard disk partition question
 * 8) No Mozilla x86_64 plugin for Sun Java?
 * 9) Ton_Roosendaal
 * 10) Google ranking of specialised directory websites
 * 11) msdos batch file to choose from a long list of options?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 28


 * 1) encrypting a single file or stream with a password
 * 2) free dvd to ipod video
 * 3) Digital camera as a mass storage device
 * 4) Difference between CF cards
 * 5) SETI@HOME Screen saver-- It makes me seasick
 * 6) Source File --> Executable File
 * 7) Need help with using MEncoder
 * 8) Linux Dependency Hell
 * 9) Firefox
 * 10) Human-Computer
 * 11) GT4
 * 12) network speed vs. firewire speed
 * 13) Facebook safari problem, mac os leopard,
 * 14) Gaming Problem
 * 15) Microsoft Live Search Books problem
 * 16) Capturing USB audio stream
 * 17) capturing preview images and multiple print of web pages
 * 18) picasa to iphoto
 * 19) keyboard question
 * 20) Mac on a PC?
 * 21) Maximum file size: FAT32 vs. NTFS
 * 22) time machine

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 29


 * 1) DVD ripper recommendations?
 * 2) Non-widescreen laptop?
 * 3) Formatting a hard drive
 * 4) How to convert this format
 * 5) Boot question

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 30


 * 1) Multiple versions of warcraft3 - frozenthrone
 * 2) to cut away a part of an image
 * 3) Which language is used
 * 4) An idea for a bot
 * 5) Sandisk Sansa c250
 * 6) Can Inkscape speed up development by copying code?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 December 31


 * 1) Python error message
 * 2) Wii: 16:9 progressive w/component, what's the resolution?
 * 3) My computer screen goes dark
 * 4) Designation at the top of the product
 * 5) Programming
 * 6) Bug reporting
 * 7) Embed code
 * 8) Robot voice has taken over my Mac!?