Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/December 2017

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 1


 * 1) What files to search for lost bitcoin?
 * 2) Tool to check for zip file compress level

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 2


 * 1) Android map apps that work near the poles?
 * 2) Influence of MINIX on Linux?
 * 3) What To Do If i Want To Play Homescapes Android Game On My Mac PC?
 * 4) Blockchain

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 3


 * 1) RGBA hex interpretation
 * 2) Another level of 3D experience

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 4


 * 1) Word Labels Question - Specifying Vendor
 * 2) nVidia Quadro 2000 graphics card

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 5


 * 1) GoogleBot and such.
 * 2) Vector field visualization apps: free, configurable, pretty?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 6


 * 1) PowerPoint animation on click

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 7


 * 1) Streaming video display ratio

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 8


 * 1) how to delete files on my phone
 * 2) VHDL is Sequential or Concurrent/Parallel?
 * 3) Security question

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 9


 * 1) USB Hub
 * 2) Optimum number of threads on BOINC Primegrid LLR

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 10


 * 1) Programming vs. designing electronic circuits

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 11


 * 1) Font Designing Software
 * 2) MS Outlook 2010
 * 3) MS OneNote 2010
 * 4) Duplicate Installations
 * 5) Encryption help
 * 6) Android Phone softwares

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 12


 * 1) Is there an Internet forum thread with ≥100,000 posts?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 13


 * 1) Regex for Linux ifconfig
 * 2) Use Microsoft Word 'manage sources' feature to automate Chicago footnotes
 * 3) Bing and Google Problems?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 14


 * 1) Computerized ordering of Chinese characters
 * 2) Using undefined variables
 * 3) Resetting default PDF reader in Windows 10?

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 15


 * 1) Alexa / Echo gadgets

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 17


 * 1) IBM z/OS and other mainframe operating system

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 19


 * 1) A firefox/chrome addon for translating words?
 * 2) Arabic encoding
 * 3) How to get rid of malware?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 20


 * 1) Do I need to worry about this?
 * 2) Placeholder text to use in Python function that will receive a list as the argument
 * 3) 3D printer
 * 4) kanjis

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 21


 * 1) How to populate an online poll with options from an Excel spreadsheet
 * 2) Why you need an operator like ++ or --
 * 3) Overwriting a list in Python with a slice taken from that list

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 22


 * 1) Android web traffic

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 23


 * 1) Optimising compilers
 * 2) AMD or Intel: does it matter?
 * 3) Lots of files slow down saving from GUI on Linux

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 24


 * 1) Electrical contacts on bottom of Intel Core CPU

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 25


 * 1) 2-in-1 Software
 * 2) Clogged websites

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 27


 * 1) Help Translating Phone Specs Into Quality Of Experience For VR
 * 2) 😂

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 28


 * 1) I have 2 questions about 2 different websites
 * 2) Problems with Windows 10
 * 3) Regarding IMDB
 * 4) In Wikia, searching all pages that are in two categories

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 30


 * 1) LED screens for portable electronic devices that are not OLED
 * 2) GUI ambiguity
 * 3) Privacy violation (or) Missing Terms of Service - what action to be taken?

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2017 December 31


 * 1) C programming — how do I view the 8, 32, or 64 bits of binary information at a known memory address?
 * 2) Who or what can fix corrupted and unplayable video files?
 * 3) iPhone and Android smartphone