Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2008

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 1


 * 1) Midtown Madness 2 Free?
 * 2) Converting sound files
 * 3) a good antivirus that dont need windows installer
 * 4) Dictionary/Spell Checker Problems in OpenOffice.Org
 * 5) Uninstalling from Ubuntu
 * 6) Mac: software update needs to quit before restart
 * 7) Blackberry applications
 * 8) lan problem
 * 9) Max Headroom intrusion incident
 * 10) Why are object files necessary?
 * 11) How do I get Google to search on an exact string?
 * 12) no skype feedback???
 * 13) uTorrent woes
 * 14) if i upload a video on google video does the video shows on youtube??
 * 15) PHP include
 * 16) Mac: Xgrid distributed computing - called without first being authenticated

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 2


 * 1) DeviantArt's Drop Shadow
 * 2) Decompile PDF to LaTeX
 * 3) Sharing an internet connection between a windows box and an ubuntu box
 * 4) firefox and excel
 * 5) VirtualBox with Windows 98 problems
 * 6) Setting up wireless but have different laptop/router brands
 * 7) Which would be better?
 * 8) Really simple bash(?) script
 * 9) Character encoding question
 * 10) Memory for a 2006 Macbook Pro
 * 11) what is the best degree for making money in computing (UK) ?
 * 12) Defragging
 * 13) Poor USB HD performance on Mac

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 3


 * 1) No interface to Parse method in C#
 * 2) DIAS
 * 3) cheapest ICANN registrar
 * 4) turing machine and ucon model
 * 5) A suitable wiki for an Insurance company's internal manuals?
 * 6) Javascript checkbox, input text, text area
 * 7) Reading in XML in Google Maps
 * 8) Total win/loss records
 * 9) Unfair bandwidth distribution?

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 4


 * 1) Port Assignment reg,
 * 2) pc not being able to use internet
 * 3) Low-level protocol for international Internet connections
 * 4) Downloading an ISO without it taking 2 days
 * 5) Using USB flash drive in win98SE
 * 6) Translating code from one programming language into another programming language
 * 7) Something is wrong with my iPod
 * 8) Don't make me kick my Puppy....
 * 9) actionscript question
 * 10) Proxy
 * 11) C++

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 5


 * 1) Firefox forcing re-enter of password
 * 2) Youtube
 * 3) How do I install winxp
 * 4) In SNMPv3, what's the relation between contexts and views?
 * 5) asm/semaphore.h
 * 6) Is a MacBook Air better than a MacBook Pro?
 * 7) The RapidShare servers
 * 8) MSN Live Messenger
 * 9) Picture upload
 * 10) Device not shown in device manager
 * 11) Estimating Associated Content traffic
 * 12) Mac terminal/Unix: how did I overwrite my directory?
 * 13) What's going on here?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 6


 * 1) Forcing Google to recognize punctuation
 * 2) anything I can buy for an 80 gig iPod classic that puts a headphone out on the bottom (from the "dock" connector)
 * 3) Video to audio transcoder.
 * 4) Why are Blue-Ray recorders so freakin' expensive ?
 * 5) telephone calls over the internet: Recommendations?
 * 6) Youtube (2)
 * 7) Criticism of UTF-8
 * 8) Multiprocessing without Registered RAM
 * 9) DNS lookup
 * 10) Web books
 * 11) Own Wiki
 * 12) fake antiviris software
 * 13) c compiler
 * 14) Storing DVD-R/CD-Rs in sleeves safe?
 * 15) Setting up password for website
 * 16) remote monitor shutoff

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 7


 * 1) Xbox
 * 2) Word: Tracking changes though I toggled it off
 * 3) TI 89 Titanium
 * 4) Text messages onto computer

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 8


 * 1) What's this charcter?
 * 2) WW2 Colossus versus modern laptop
 * 3) Read/Write rating of CF card
 * 4) Question
 * 5) That reminds me...
 * 6) Question 2
 * 7) User:Topology Expert computer help
 * 8) Choosing web-hosting
 * 9) Question
 * 10) Installing software on Ubuntu
 * 11) Copy whole IMAP repository to GMail

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 9


 * 1) FTP Passive Mode behind NAT
 * 2) Defeating Rhapsody
 * 3) sending big files
 * 4) Website
 * 5) Need to automate listbox in MS ACCESS 2003 like the one in MS EXCEL when we go to Menu: Format..Cells
 * 6) Converting Indeo AVIs into something current

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 10


 * 1) I need to see a comparison of Mobile Phones Operating Systems
 * 2) Clipboard catastrophe
 * 3) jpeg file format
 * 4) Windows starts in safe-mode, won't start from system restore or in normal-mode
 * 5) About  worm in the coputer
 * 6) Daily Build for Ubuntu?
 * 7) Internet speed + XNA Game studio
 * 8) Switch off "urgent updates/restarts" in Windows
 * 9) Rapidshare auto download
 * 10) Amazon S3 as virtual disc
 * 11) LCS-type algorithm

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 11


 * 1) table borders
 * 2) How to keep Command Prompt open?
 * 3) Adobe Illustrator question
 * 4) ProDesktop
 * 5) low bandwidth web-based email
 * 6) step and repeat - postscript, HPGL, or gerbers
 * 7) Inheritance problem
 * 8) Anyone know what's going on with all the new computer keyboards?
 * 9) Enforcing whitespace
 * 10) jobs for an engineer in the field of networking
 * 11) Laptop disaster.
 * 12) Open file with Python
 * 13) changing windows xp boot screen
 * 14) Quick Time 7 Pro--MPEG 1 Muxed????
 * 15) MSN: alternative webcam compatible clients for Windows/VMware Fusion

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 12


 * 1) What's the largest wikipedia disambiguation page and how many entries does it have?
 * 2) Regular expression to extract urls from link
 * 3) C++ question!
 * 4) Sal ex
 * 5) Xbox 360 Arcade Bundle
 * 6) Building a PC
 * 7) online guitar auto tuner
 * 8) OS X language oops
 * 9) Debian package manager: Manually installed packages

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 13


 * 1) Yahoo! Mail Chat
 * 2) Nvidia GeForce 9800 vs ATI Radeon HD 4830 graphics processors
 * 3) Which is the best operating system?
 * 4) Command Prompt unable to delete folder
 * 5) Question
 * 6) Blue screen of death error report
 * 7) My problem with a C program
 * 8) How can I implement this feature in a database
 * 9) www.a.com
 * 10) Google sites
 * 11) Homer Simpson's big blue pants
 * 12) Uncheck "Read-Only" Globally; Windows98

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 14


 * 1) Persistent shift/ctrl/alt/win keypress popups in Vista
 * 2) Is this idea taken (meta-music account)?
 * 3) SoundEdit 16 files
 * 4) Booting into Mac System 7.5 & 8...
 * 5) creating a string in PHP
 * 6) Keyboard Layout
 * 7) Puppy Linux manual install
 * 8) Multiple interfaces and ambiguous method calls
 * 9) .swf
 * 10) Adjusting the size of the pages i download
 * 11) Graph union in Excel

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 15


 * 1) Problem
 * 2) "Bookmarks" menu item in Firefox 3 upgrade
 * 3) Internet problem
 * 4) Video cards/S-Video
 * 5) Convert .cab to .exe
 * 6) Using a TV for Computer, Xbox and movies
 * 7) Widescreen (large) CRT's?
 * 8) Can we update offline in Kasersky 2009 as in Kaspersky 7?
 * 9) My problem with a C program PART 2
 * 10) Game has resources in a .cat file
 * 11) Plugin required?
 * 12) Transferring an article in WORD into a new Wikipedia entry.
 * 13) thunderbird w/ msn
 * 14) Web Photo Portfolio

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 16


 * 1) Windows XP driver for caching index of removable drives
 * 2) Conway's Game of Life
 * 3) Suggestions for a good printer...
 * 4) Game programming
 * 5) Google Chrome as Default Browser
 * 6) Thumbs
 * 7) Difference between a "method" and "function" (in context of C#)?
 * 8) x86 assembly programming
 * 9) data storage
 * 10) How do I clear a Yahoo toolbar?
 * 11) Windows games
 * 12) Wrong Disc Inserted error after patching SWBattlefront 2

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 17


 * 1) Remote Linux options
 * 2) computer
 * 3) Next Upgrade for my Computer?
 * 4) Procedure to connect wirless gsm modem into allean brady plc controllers??
 * 5) Apple Mac 2.4
 * 6) JSP Code
 * 7) FTP Mirror
 * 8) GIMP:  Need a palette file to change boot screen
 * 9) WMM question
 * 10) youtube video download
 * 11) Monitor Display Problem

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 18


 * 1) Video Card
 * 2) domain register-ing
 * 3) Windows Explorer needs to close
 * 4) do new hard drives fit old cases (a Dell Dimension 4100 = Pentiun III 900 mhz)
 * 5) Mez screensaver?
 * 6) Changing directory on XP command line
 * 7) New laptop
 * 8) Torrent woes

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 19


 * 1) How to download video from Adobe Flash Player 10
 * 2) BIOS
 * 3) Speech recognition software
 * 4) How to password protect a folder in Windows
 * 5) dB to V or mV conversion
 * 6) What is the spec for Inter component level inequality
 * 7) Question about XP popularity
 * 8) Linux problem, Ubuntu x86_64
 * 9) Navigation Columns in Dreamweaver CS3
 * 10) How Big is a BIT on a Hard Drive Platter?
 * 11) Virgin ISP
 * 12) Inuktitut
 * 13) Hibernation Option Absent
 * 14) Learning
 * 15) VLC Christmas hat
 * 16) jpeg
 * 17) what's the name of this computer part?
 * 18) Firefox broken downloads notify??
 * 19) nameservers
 * 20) Extra (multimedia) keys on Acer Aspire 6530G

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 20


 * 1) Remote camera
 * 2) Oh no
 * 3) Texture file in games
 * 4) Internet
 * 5) Question
 * 6) Using a Sony Ericsson phone on Mac OSX
 * 7) Printing all possible k-subsets of a n-set
 * 8) Apple Script Script Editor
 * 9) portable disk corrupted
 * 10) PS3 controller for NXT mindstormers robot
 * 11) Spam solutions critique template author
 * 12) battery life: monitor or sound output?
 * 13) Utorrent check
 * 14) Minefield → Shiretoko
 * 15) Images in Safari, Firefox

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 21


 * 1) Quantum GIS question
 * 2) Mass audio file data edit

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 22


 * 1) Playstation emulation glitch
 * 2) Webcam/digital camera
 * 3) Digital camera 'hack'..........
 * 4) .ogg files
 * 5) PSP EMULATOR
 * 6) XNA ignorace
 * 7) Getting rid of backdoor.tidserv
 * 8) Caches
 * 9) Skpjack & the Clipper Chip
 * 10) DDR2 memory
 * 11) Upgrading Laptop Graphics Card
 * 12) Auto forwarding past and future mail
 * 13) Image search

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 23


 * 1) I have a bash script I distribute to
 * 2) network traffic by process (Windows)
 * 3) uwdg
 * 4) Curly brackets
 * 5) Youtube
 * 6) Deleting a 'friend' on Facebook
 * 7) Cheap media player for home theatre
 * 8) Program to show how to fold a origami
 * 9) Bypassing IE Active X for Lightbox JS
 * 10) Circumvent geoblocking
 * 11) Dosbox

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 24


 * 1) cross-browser display issues... :(
 * 2) Fusk
 * 3) expansion of QED
 * 4) Why did Bell Labs quit Multics?
 * 5) Anti-spyware
 * 6) Delphi 2009 Resources
 * 7) Google word distance
 * 8) Google verification
 * 9) Virus
 * 10) Overheating laptop while encoding DVD
 * 11) I seem to be a Digg Popularity Jinx. Why?
 * 12) Why did a new modem not fix the problem?
 * 13) Drive letter

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 25


 * 1) Full form of PMT
 * 2) Laptop video driver problem
 * 3) Proprietary Programming Language
 * 4) Camera review
 * 5) Computer Problem

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 26


 * 1) http://mydomainname to ghs.google.com
 * 2) Video Card RAM
 * 3) iPod and iTunes
 * 4) USB in XP within VirtualBox
 * 5) Pronunciation of "punycode"
 * 6) Setting up danted with proper auth

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 27


 * 1) What percentage of the WP database is devoted to articles and what to all the rest? And has this percentage changed over the years?
 * 2) Wikipedia copy
 * 3) How Many US Businesses currently have a website
 * 4) Convert DVD video to AVI (or mpeg)
 * 5) Motherboard recognition
 * 6) DVD audio
 * 7) Simple and accurate way of retrieving the size (in bytes) of a dynamic array in Delphi
 * 8) Coordinates and GPRS
 * 9) playing .avi files in powerpoint
 * 10) RCA to Digital Media Port
 * 11) One handed Dvorak keyboard and Mac OSX

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 28


 * 1) Girlfriend crashed her Mac 24.7GHz
 * 2) Checking system time in batch file
 * 3) Deleting option from Windows boot loader
 * 4) GPRS/GSM tracking
 * 5) New SATA HD for laptop
 * 6) NNTP server software for small group message exchange
 * 7) virtual hdd images
 * 8) Upgrading laptop hard drive
 * 9) history deleted ,page visited are not available offline
 * 10) no sound

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 29


 * 1) Borland C++
 * 2) Taskbar disappeared
 * 3) A simple configuration for processing received emails
 * 4) UVa online judge runtime error
 * 5) Missing font support
 * 6) Album/Cover Art
 * 7) Slow rotation
 * 8) Composite video & audio cables for component video connection?
 * 9) Calculating CPU usage (Solved)
 * 10) Backdoor Again

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 30


 * 1) Help with Picture of the Year? :(
 * 2) What's this doing at google's site ?
 * 3) Xbox 360 Arcade HDMI cable...
 * 4) Crosstalk between audio and video
 * 5) PAINT IN C++
 * 6) RDP From windows to linux
 * 7) Light on new modem not working
 * 8) how to stop skype spam
 * 9) making a download link
 * 10) archives
 * 11) Virus Question
 * 12) RSA Generator
 * 13) Internet watch
 * 14) GNU Apps

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 December 31


 * 1) Any modern dot matrix printers?
 * 2) OpenGL and GLSL book suggestions
 * 3) Easily modifying a stylesheet with Javascript
 * 4) Why can't I do an Internet search on hkcmd.exe?
 * 5) Does anyone know what xwc7f8.exe is?
 * 6) key combo (like Alt-Tab) for next/prev window in TASKBAR ORDER?
 * 7) Auto Refresh
 * 8) Virus question 2
 * 9) Network discovery conundrum
 * 10) selling PDFs on the web