Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2011

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 1


 * 1) Carrier IQ - Verizon / Motorola Droid phones
 * 2) Geolocating an IP
 * 3) Slumber party

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 2


 * 1) Writing a program in C programming
 * 2) Adjustable mouse/keyboard macro
 * 3) FaIied Sound card
 * 4) Is there a Chrome Extension that keeps count of my keystrokes, etc.?
 * 5) Bootable USB drive (DOS) is C: and does not see my hard drive.

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 3


 * 1) IPhone Text Message History to PC
 * 2) Lost file

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 4


 * 1) trouble editing blog
 * 2) Musical note software
 * 3) How can you make a network IPv6 capable?
 * 4) How do I find Google Chrome's bookmarks in a recovered data directory?
 * 5) Why are shotgun microphones so expensive ?
 * 6) Internet utility to project the horizon

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 5


 * 1) for loop / actionlisteners (Java)
 * 2) Backwards E: no final verdict
 * 3) Copying and pasting from a web site into an email that is not plain text
 * 4) Searching for satellite images
 * 5) Kaspersky backup quirk
 * 6) Computer keeps losing track of file

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 6


 * 1) What the Cluster spacecraft needed.
 * 2) Finding free images of Megawati Sukarnoputri
 * 3) Firefox's elephant-like memory
 * 4) Remote Desktop Connection
 * 5) Deluge of spamming users on a wiki

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 7


 * 1) Question : want to create own .dic and .aff files without unicode ie is in ASCII codes
 * 2) need computer of hijet 2003 in pakistan
 * 3) Billycharge email scam
 * 4) Acrobat reader problem
 * 5) Windows media center gone crazy?!
 * 6) Recover Ubuntu Server Install

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 8


 * 1) PLEASE help me find a new Desktop sidebar!
 * 2) Aztec code reder for computer
 * 3) Editor vi changed somehow... how do I change it back?
 * 4) Wireless USB adapter in Linux
 * 5) android

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 9


 * 1) Latex Table
 * 2) Web hosting and third level domains
 * 3) recovering from forgetting password
 * 4) Bright and efficient lights ?
 * 5) AIM

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 10


 * 1) Adaptive 3D Y / C Comb Filter
 * 2) scanning objects on a flatbed scanner
 * 3) Network layers
 * 4) Web site opening trouble
 * 5) Why do browsers not tend to render text first?
 * 6) vandals
 * 7) "TCB" and "SYN-RCVD state"?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 11


 * 1) Desktop link not showing up after I mount Truecrypt volume
 * 2) Apache on AWS/ what am I doing wrong?
 * 3) Tablet PCs Christmas sales
 * 4) Previewing Large Libraries

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 12


 * 1) Perl pie
 * 2) PRoblem with System Restore
 * 3) Graph theory

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 13


 * 1) reboot?
 * 2) ssh problem
 * 3) MCA or MCS
 * 4) MediaWiki extension for drop-down search suggestions
 * 5) open source prohibited in app stores?
 * 6) MATLAB Question

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 14


 * 1) Need some ideas
 * 2) Deleting  previously-visited sites from search bar in Firefox
 * 3) Dumb memory
 * 4) Report bug in Windows 7
 * 5) Open a variable URL with HTML without Javascript

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 15


 * 1) Kernel headers
 * 2) Where are the cheapest electronics?
 * 3) Speeding up Windows XP
 * 4) Logged out of facebook on my PC ,GRAND SON LOGGED IN
 * 5) Do "find your phone" services work?
 * 6) Huffington Post and sign on with Google

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 16


 * 1) Quicktime media soundfile
 * 2) Can the government find who is behind my username?
 * 3) Question about upgrading from XP 32 bit OEM to Windows 7 64 bit in entirely new system
 * 4) How can I download 40,000 web pages while re-pooling open connections?
 * 5) Passwords?
 * 6) wii ip?
 * 7) Jumbo frames and non-jumbo frame devices together?
 * 8) bsddb with regards to Unix and Python

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 17


 * 1) Apps
 * 2) Accesing the screen's pixels from a C or C++ program
 * 3) Image licencing
 * 4) Sortable html table
 * 5) Opening Two Excel 2007 Files
 * 6) problem with flv files
 * 7) skype works but not add contacts

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 18


 * 1) Forcing www on a domain
 * 2) Android app permissions
 * 3) Screen Resolution
 * 4) macros/scripts
 * 5) HOW TO SAVE A PRINTER OUTPUT FROM A TASK MACHINE INTO A FILE
 * 6) Why ./ needed to run a compiled C programs
 * 7) a.out

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 19


 * 1) Display is cut off
 * 2) Apache, MySQL and PHP
 * 3) Writing stories by computer
 * 4) Difficult-to-remove folders with random names, Windows 7
 * 5) Is there a Facebook app that matches me up to users with the most common interests?
 * 6) Local Apache/MySql/PHP access
 * 7) Move similar programs in the taskbar independently
 * 8) Converting an FLV to an MPEG-4 Pt. 10 AVI using mencoder: audio out of sync
 * 9) WORM (write once read many)

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 20


 * 1) Should I give up trying RegExp?
 * 2) On OSX 10.4.11, the iPhoto has been corrupted. How do I get a free restoration? ("Updates" won't work.)
 * 3) How to select the GPU card for my PC spec?
 * 4) wikicommons
 * 5) Publishing my "decay" program
 * 6) CUPS-PDF and real printers
 * 7) no recovery email came to my email address
 * 8) 20% of the time developing own new ideas
 * 9) Broken graphics card?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 21


 * 1) How do I download a YouTube song ?
 * 2) DVD player sound issue
 * 3) Dell
 * 4) Best programming language  to write a class-based text based adventure game
 * 5) Freezing Internet Explorer in Vista
 * 6) Itunes and legality
 * 7) Using GNOME 3 without the GNOME Shell

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 22


 * 1) Video chat between android device and iOS device
 * 2) How to Embed a Random Page from a Category on a Wiki?
 * 3) Offline GPS laptop tracking + a few more
 * 4) My GPU card displays freaky lines after some time
 * 5) Failure of Thunderbird 9.0.exe to execute
 * 6) Changing the format of ls -l?
 * 7) How can I play chess online with specific person
 * 8) Mapping Software
 * 9) Can't start X programs as root

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 23


 * 1) Link quality, signal level in a  wireless connection
 * 2) Hard drive
 * 3) problem with installation

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 24


 * 1) Speeding up Windows XP
 * 2) Gantt charts, etc, simply
 * 3) Is there a free product for PCs similar to Garage Band on a Mac?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 25


 * 1) Looking at night sky from Earth's surface in Celestia
 * 2) Is there an English <-> Middle English translator anywhere?
 * 3) In Multiplayer games
 * 4) DDR3 in a computer with DDR2 motherboard
 * 5) Is there an English <-> Shakespearean English translator anywhere?
 * 6) Configuring texvc in MediaWiki

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 26


 * 1) PC laptop that looks as good as a MacBook Pro
 * 2) RAGE 128 PRO AGP 4X TMDS
 * 3) Reducing file size of JPG's

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 27


 * 1) Issues with Flash Games in Firefox - help, please!
 * 2) Mobile phone
 * 3) iPad2 Messenger
 * 4) Scroll bar when there is NOT suppose to be one
 * 5) Class design in web application
 * 6) Using HTTPS in an ASP.NET web application under IIS

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 28


 * 1) I've had enough of this bullshit
 * 2) Where else is startup stuff?
 * 3) Renaming Tabs in Excel 2007
 * 4) Speed up XP
 * 5) Mobile Telecommunication ( IMSI / MSISDN )
 * 6) IM contacts
 * 7) Listen to cell phone/MP3 on radio
 * 8) Arabian hacker group
 * 9) Kindle Restart Problem
 * 10) Sum of digits of 2^1000
 * 11) Hard Drive Performance Planning

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 29


 * 1) Is there a way to send a two-way anonymous email?
 * 2) locate an iPod
 * 3) Project Gutenberg and google books
 * 4) Mouse audio sound missing
 * 5) Reusing an old wired router to get more Ethernet ports in the home network
 * 6) spider
 * 7) getting started with paypal
 * 8) my pc swaps always on the hd
 * 9) FoxTabPDF Converter

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 30


 * 1) follow up: my pc swaps always on the hd
 * 2) Transistor_count Article - Transistor count for Mux 4 input is 24?
 * 3) blender 3D modeling software
 * 4) How safe is being without antivirus software while downloading antivirus software?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 December 31


 * 1) "find" in firefox browsers
 * 2) Is this fast enough to run Battlefield 3?
 * 3) Helping MS SQL 2000 trying to understand how to do this
 * 4) Flash drive
 * 5) Running on the battery
 * 6) Ad-ID
 * 7) mymax wireless router not turning on.
 * 8) C won't compile