Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/February 2009

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 1


 * 1) how do you type in a filepath and other stuff on a mac
 * 2) Issue with sending/receiving text over UDP connection in Java
 * 3) Javascript and 'onMouseMove' events.
 * 4) Google maps
 * 5) Hide active programs
 * 6) Regarding tracking of information
 * 7) Mouse decision

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 2


 * 1) Getting wikipedia's version of tex running on my computer
 * 2) Give root powers to me (Ubuntu)
 * 3) Dell laptop screen fading (resolved)
 * 4) TFT monitor flickering
 * 5) Open Office tutorial
 * 6) perl convert date to readable value
 * 7) Google images
 * 8) Computer sporadically turning on
 * 9) Canon Pixma MP220 printer problems!
 * 10) Adding A Shopping Cart to a .asp Photo Website
 * 11) Graphics upgrade possible?

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 3


 * 1) Problems with iTunes
 * 2) Spyware
 * 3) How often is Launchpad updated and what is the criteria for including a language in the installer?
 * 4) Image search engine
 * 5) PHP safe mode
 * 6) What file types can one import into Blender?
 * 7) What are "stand-alone, unattached server side processes/deamons"?
 * 8) MediaWiki question
 * 9) WordPerfect table to text

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 4


 * 1) Youtube
 * 2) ... (Windows XP)
 * 3) Wireless router/hub
 * 4) How to make .png images visible again on my Internet Explorer 7?
 * 5) Making Animated Flowcharts
 * 6) GIF
 * 7) Amount of dvorak users
 * 8) Implementing structures at a lower level
 * 9) Ubuntu Question
 * 10) Importing whole iTunes Library
 * 11) Hacking Challenge
 * 12) Need Help with A Shell Script
 * 13) Keeping a hard drive in a fridge on a permanent baisis
 * 14) Startup sound copyright

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 5


 * 1) Elysium MIDI Sequencer on the PC?
 * 2) nameserver questions
 * 3) HTTPS and Hotmail
 * 4) Receiving a web-page through email
 * 5) Having problems installing Microsoft office communicator 2007
 * 6) PC keeps restarting
 * 7) Web really slow
 * 8) Problem installing Linux

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 6


 * 1) Switching keyboards in Windows Vista
 * 2) Voip
 * 3) ymmetrical face
 * 4) Dial-up speed
 * 5) adobe flash player
 * 6) Windows' emulation
 * 7) Legitimate and legal FREE photo editing software download?
 * 8) ASP alternatives

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 7


 * 1) Multichannel audio from computer to amp
 * 2) What's the best way to share files between computers?
 * 3) GIMP (zooming into selection)
 * 4) Desktop Auto-Refresh in Vista
 * 5) Database question
 * 6) Photoshop layers
 * 7) America's Army
 * 8) Mater to Energy conversion (Moved)
 * 9) how good is pentium 4 at 3 ghz?
 * 10) transparent fill in Paint.NET
 * 11) would a pentium 4 era motherboard would have USB 1 or USB 2
 * 12) Virulent?
 * 13) uTorrent Download Location

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 8


 * 1) mozilla firefox
 * 2) white text-ifying...
 * 3) Limewire Alternative?
 * 4) Excel and negative exponential functions
 * 5) XP desktop icons
 * 6) OPENGL
 * 7) Twinkle and Rollback
 * 8) Strange device arrived with new TV
 * 9) Twitter...I don't get it!
 * 10) Is it possible to remove all "search term highlighting"?
 * 11) Connection speed
 * 12) Emerging computer technologies

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 9


 * 1) Failed hdd, is there a way to salvage files?
 * 2) How much RAM is there in Microsoft Word/Office
 * 3) Vista must die!
 * 4) Maxima/gnuplot issue
 * 5) Ubuntu Networking
 * 6) Relationship between compilers and OSes
 * 7) Laptop or netbook
 * 8) dwight cavendish
 * 9) VRML editors
 * 10) Seemingly random underlining of letters in computer programs
 * 11) Hiding my screen with VNC
 * 12) CPU test
 * 13) Verizon Phones
 * 14) How to use Process Explorer and Logparser?

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 10


 * 1) e-books - free download sources -
 * 2) ADI Soundmax driver
 * 3) Internet Explorer 8
 * 4) Doing green screen in Blender
 * 5) More on Basic Linux / Ubuntu Administration
 * 6) First mobile phone launched in india
 * 7) MediaWiki look-alike
 * 8) Creating links in a channel design on YouTube
 * 9) Create a cross in 3ds max
 * 10) XP Install from USB
 * 11) Make XP like Gnome/KDE
 * 12) acer 1 wireless
 * 13) Photo Organizer

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 11


 * 1) Programs on Linux (advanced question)
 * 2) Disable Auto-Paragraph
 * 3) Tracing a virus to an IP
 * 4) Dwight Cavendish versus Macrovision
 * 5) Javascript pull down menus
 * 6) Array of array
 * 7) firefox
 * 8) When in the software development life cycle are you supposed to create estimates?
 * 9) Alternatives to VMware Workstation
 * 10) Javascript for detecting the browser's language
 * 11) UK map on a US keyboard
 * 12) Google Cash
 * 13) Keyboard bug
 * 14) VirtualBox video drivers
 * 15) C: putc is missing characters
 * 16) Appointments in Outlook
 * 17) Image scaleup question

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 12


 * 1) Skiplist search complexity
 * 2) Nokia 5800 problem
 * 3) Internet on C/C++
 * 4) tab characters in Safari
 * 5) Cannot Open Pendrive Folder
 * 6) how to uninstall windows xp and install a fresh windows 2000 professional
 * 7) any way to color gmail letters sent to a different mailbox?
 * 8) Alternative to Windows Briefcase
 * 9) Sudden Strike 3

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 13


 * 1) Bizzare SQL
 * 2) good PCI GPU
 * 3) Keyboard shortcut to switch tabs in Firefox?
 * 4) CDMA card in ubuntu
 * 5) How to make battery last?
 * 6) 3D Support in xp running as a guest
 * 7) Tractive effort curve
 * 8) I am trying to learn assembly and I am LOST
 * 9) possible to construct 'binary' joke with the word neither?
 * 10) Capture video/audio output
 * 11) Computer Virus
 * 12) PDF > DOC Converter
 * 13) 1.6GHz
 * 14) subject line "another option" in Apple Mail
 * 15) VB.net: extra point for football program
 * 16) Bluetooth, WiMAX and Wi-Fi - are they Communications protocols?
 * 17) I need help
 * 18) Playstation 3 and F.E.A.R. Surround Sound is Wonky

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 14


 * 1) USB cords
 * 2) Viewing 'hidden files' on Vista
 * 3) programming in 3 dimensions
 * 4) Avoiding Element overlap in IE
 * 5) Concatenating pdf files in LaTeX
 * 6) Cyrillic typing
 * 7) Unable to access my watchlist or my preference
 * 8) Algorithm for computing biconnected components
 * 9) What is a good software application for keeping an address book, from a data portability standpoint?
 * 10) how do I do this to Paint Shop Pro?

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 15


 * 1) What computer language(s) is wikipeda coded in
 * 2) Safely Remove Hardware
 * 3) On Line Photographs
 * 4) Any non-Apple device playback Apple Lossless audio files?
 * 5) Google Translate oddity
 * 6) New Graphics Card
 * 7) Abbreviated form of terabyte?
 * 8) Spreadsheet - automatic date incrementation: 14 days
 * 9) Tables in MS Word 2007
 * 10) Perl, Regex, Capturing groups
 * 11) AM2+ cpu
 * 12) Web hosting
 * 13) Space between lines on Word 2007
 * 14) How to extract URLs from a Wikipedia article?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 16


 * 1) Strange error with norwegian characters!
 * 2) Merge contacts in WM6
 * 3) unistalling programmes
 * 4) opening files
 * 5) linux!
 * 6) Cutting the junk in Mac OS 10.4
 * 7) iBook battery retention
 * 8) Self-taught programmers
 * 9) Loud buzz from computer while hard drive very busy
 * 10) Suggestion for a small web-browser?
 * 11) How to selectively download Windows Updates?
 * 12) HVAC administration software for Linux?
 * 13) cad software

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 17


 * 1) Communication software
 * 2) Marketing Research survey software
 * 3) 32 -> 16
 * 4) Conveting numbers into telephone letters
 * 5) word 07 amd figure numbering
 * 6) HTML Help
 * 7) GIF Question
 * 8) Microsoft Office Live Workplace for Linux users
 * 9) Creating DVD menus
 * 10) pixels on computer screens
 * 11) Recover ICQ6 password
 * 12) Graphics card upgrade part 2
 * 13) MS Word Equation Editor
 * 14) Looking for a bookmarking site that can organize like Wikipedia

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 18


 * 1) berel is good?
 * 2) GAME MAKING
 * 3) Re-Size Pictures Program
 * 4) How do I convert .rm to .wmv in MediaCoder?
 * 5) Visual Basic application installation shortcuts
 * 6) Web download
 * 7) Word 2007 Spell Checker
 * 8) Downloadable JavaScript Tutorial
 * 9) Add gui search to Excel file
 * 10) Autofilling of song metadata
 * 11) Easy way to see # of RAM modules installed
 * 12) OpenSSL

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 19


 * 1) Dell Inspiron 5100 Processor
 * 2) protecting online images
 * 3) Copying a website
 * 4) Video  conversion software
 * 5) Toshiba Satellite L350 laptop -- Is the memory dual-channel?
 * 6) MATLAB: is it possible to selectively save only one output variable from a multi-output function?
 * 7) Algorithm Wanted
 * 8) Firefox issue, probably me being an idiot
 * 9) Acer Aspire One
 * 10) In Windows Vista, say you're downloading a file from a filesharing service, one click hosting...
 * 11) Printing excel spreadsheet page: want guide marks for ring-binder hole-punch
 * 12) Sound file conversion
 * 13) Users
 * 14) No bullshit, free program that converts .flv to .wmv with good quality and no setbacks?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 20


 * 1) Screencasting software
 * 2) free virus scan
 * 3) Video Editing Software
 * 4) VBScripting and HTML
 * 5) JavaScript
 * 6) onclick
 * 7) Troubleshooting old software

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 21


 * 1) CD/DVD drive not reading a disk...
 * 2) whats the number one wikipedia article
 * 3) Skype wireless headsets
 * 4) Oregon Trail on Which Exact Model of Apple II
 * 5) Word 2003

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 22


 * 1) Firefox 3.06 add-on
 * 2) 3G/GSM/CDMA confusion
 * 3) Asking Questions on Wikipedia
 * 4) Links from Thunderbird
 * 5) What are these two icons in Firefox?
 * 6) Images won't display on Ript
 * 7) FlightGear 1.9
 * 8) CRON and .htaccess pasword protection
 * 9) Social Bookmarking Website
 * 10) Value of old laptop
 * 11) Archiving old hard drives.

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 23


 * 1) 3D graphics software
 * 2) Sisoftware Sandra - where is systemreport.txt hiding?
 * 3) Wireless Messaging API hardware
 * 4) Windows
 * 5) a way to find max memory consumption of a quick program?
 * 6) Add/remove icons on systray - win98se
 * 7) Matlab Particle in a Box  Simulation
 * 8) Preventing software from resizing the window
 * 9) .pdf file size
 * 10) Small freeware game?
 * 11) Goforapproval.com
 * 12) YouTube periodically not available
 * 13) Getting Rid Of Windows Mediaplayer

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 24


 * 1) Proxy question
 * 2) Online cryptography tool
 * 3) gmail explosion
 * 4) C++ - pointer to a class function
 * 5) Rocket Dock Stack Docklet
 * 6) Instant messaging program for server
 * 7) Another program that can read MS Backup format
 * 8) MediaWiki Extension on Wikipedia for Editbox

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 25


 * 1) Windows (2)
 * 2) Floppies
 * 3) Moving Firefox Settings/History/Bookmarks Between Computers...
 * 4) RECORDING ON COMPUTER
 * 5) HDD recovery tools
 * 6) Net connections log
 * 7) Hard drive for videos
 * 8) HD TV
 * 9) NoScript add-on
 * 10) Wolfram Rule 120
 * 11) uTorrent limit

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 26


 * 1) Cell phone tracking
 * 2) identify the '80s video game
 * 3) Can any Windows XP Home Edition Cd-rom be used with any XP Home computer?
 * 4) Installing GNOME in FreeBSD
 * 5) Running .iso directly from HD
 * 6) Map Network printer using a .bat file
 * 7) Wireless connection problem
 * 8) Really annoying noise
 * 9) Internet volume control
 * 10) Disabling autorun under XP
 * 11) If the universe is a computer, can it be hacked?
 * 12) Problem in Windows XP SP2,
 * 13) …
 * 14) Malware in Lisp
 * 15) C standard

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 27


 * 1) Typo redirect in Firefox
 * 2) Mac Voice recording software
 * 3) Installing 2nd hard drive
 * 4) Interact with an X session remotely
 * 5) DLL error
 * 6) How to put an upper limit on the size of webpage a browser will load?
 * 7) Cannot install Yahoo messenger
 * 8) WHY ISN'T MY .MKV CONVERTING PROPERLY?!?!!!!!!!!11@@!
 * 9) error message on football website

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 February 28


 * 1) Complexity Class/Average Time
 * 2) Windows XP wireless trouble
 * 3) Font used by Westboro Baptish Church
 * 4) Replacing thumbnails with original image
 * 5) Laptop Head to Head
 * 6) Freeware utility: Screenshots with Alpha Transparency