Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/February 2010

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 1


 * 1) What file compression format has the smallest minimum size?
 * 2) minimum qualification for post of lecturer in degree colleges
 * 3) DjVu file download
 * 4) Java to retrieve webpage source
 * 5) Scan cancelled; no items to scan
 * 6) Mac Program Similar to Notepad++ (Not XCode)

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 2


 * 1) Removing an overlay
 * 2) Windows 2000 Virtual Machine
 * 3) How to export/import a specific Windows 7 firewall rule?
 * 4) a gimp question
 * 5) an unexpected error is keeping you from deleting the folder
 * 6) Free file sharing service needed: Multiple uploads AND downloads at once
 * 7) I wanna e-book. But which one?
 * 8) Automatically updating chart in OpenOffice Calc

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 3


 * 1) Tux Picture Vs Windows Logo
 * 2) Automatic Logoff at Login in Vista
 * 3) How to use HD video in flash, or put flash animation over HD
 * 4) Choosing a "Favorites" Link Opens a New Window
 * 5) Quad core Q
 * 6) interested in computers

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 4


 * 1) emergency! need a math library for Java
 * 2) Booting Issue from USB Flash Drive
 * 3) www0.?
 * 4) Qualified Dublin Core in XHTML
 * 5) Excel LOOKUP function
 * 6) Slideshow software
 * 7) Stolen account / username
 * 8) How do I stop a major privacy invasion by Google?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 5


 * 1) print at..
 * 2) Graph representation of Wiki
 * 3) steam
 * 4) Durr...RSS?
 * 5) Firefox's quick find?
 * 6) electronics
 * 7) rss
 * 8) Malware warning
 * 9) Exporting .SWF movies to h264?
 * 10) Nature of HTTP 400 errors
 * 11) data recovery
 * 12) Auto refresher
 * 13) GTA 4 and Windows 7
 * 14) Dummie question about configuring new things to a router
 * 15) Yahoo messenger problem
 * 16) Watermark Problem in Word 2007

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 6


 * 1) Help with Python
 * 2) Python Equivalent
 * 3) Power adapter cables
 * 4) Computational complexity of applying numbered permutation
 * 5) Orkut
 * 6) List of BASIC dialects than can run under both Windows or Ubuntu?
 * 7) Languages most similar to BASIC
 * 8) Confused by fancy variable names
 * 9) Selling financial software
 * 10) Record 2 speeches simultaneously on a single pc
 * 11) Graphics tablet trainer
 * 12) Administrative rights in Windows XP Media Center Edition
 * 13) Google redirect virus -- how does it work?
 * 14) Simple computer vision for linux to crop sheets of paper out of a photograph
 * 15) Object and Instance
 * 16) Languages that have very high level commands
 * 17) Batch processing folder full of images?
 * 18) "Open with GIMP" still shows up even after GIMP is uninstalled

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 7


 * 1) MacBook volume control doesn't beep
 * 2) How to record a streaming video from screen?
 * 3) C99 and // comments after #include
 * 4) Word 2007 Table Alignment
 * 5) Powering Computer during powercut - was Question
 * 6) Would a stripped-down Python equal Basic?
 * 7) how does the size of an HP pavilion dv 9700 17" compare with an Apple MacBook 17"?
 * 8) Wikitable
 * 9) Building netbooks
 * 10) ITV Player
 * 11) Personal wiki recommendations

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 8


 * 1) Pointers and local variables
 * 2) Type casting an assignment target in C
 * 3) Short term internet service in a rural area?
 * 4) SMS files into text files
 * 5) Two versions of Firefox?
 * 6) Generating sound of specified pitch and duration in browser.
 * 7) PDA or phone plan with only internet?
 * 8) Ubuntu boot problem

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 9


 * 1) polymorphism and its types
 * 2) Password protected IRC channels
 * 3) Core i7 vs. Centrino Core 2 Duo --- which is better?
 * 4) Laptop screen banding
 * 5) Browsing Wikipedia on a PSP-2003
 * 6) Make a text file with clickable links?
 * 7) Is this true?
 * 8) Macros for both Windows and Ubuntu
 * 9) ebuddy MSN sounds
 * 10) Free OCR software for Windows
 * 11) would my painfully slow windows 7 netbook improve if I booted windows xp?

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 10


 * 1) Firefox - disabling / uninstalling addons to make the browser faster
 * 2) What's the fastest browser for the internet?
 * 3) Extensions for Chrome - Clicking on a tab switches to another tab
 * 4) Laptop brightness
 * 5) P2P filesharing behind a firewall - Alternatives for Fileai.com
 * 6) How secure is Dropbox?
 * 7) Water simulations
 * 8) Excepting certain cookies - Firefox
 * 9) Preserving timestamps of folders when moving folders and files
 * 10) Firefox tabs
 * 11) Choosing MS Word print range
 * 12) How To Find Out When I Started My Current Ubuntu Session?
 * 13) Problems using Firefox
 * 14) Mac OS X keyboard backlight drivers
 * 15) VBA Outlook

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 11


 * 1) Manipulating photos with fractal generating software
 * 2) TomTom and GLONASS
 * 3) HP 5940 printer info
 * 4) Double-clicking with Firefox
 * 5) Killer graphics card drivers & Ubuntu recovery
 * 6) Photo gallery plugin for Wordpress
 * 7) multiple files with awk

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 12


 * 1) What is this anti-pattern re pointers called?
 * 2) Looking for a program/software
 * 3) ffmpeg question
 * 4) Richard Stallman and Proprietary Software Keywords
 * 5) Probably not the place but...
 * 6) Analysis of Quicksort
 * 7) Quake 3 Arena
 * 8) power efficiency of 27" iMac processor options (core2 duo @ 3.06 GHz vs. quad core i5 @ 2.66 GHz vs. quad Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz)
 * 9) can someone explain what the i7's hyperthreading (HT) means in practice?
 * 10) Thre is any program that  i can use to get the average Amplitude of a song?
 * 11) can I force windiows 7 into a VERY low resolution (e.g. 640x480)
 * 12) Scan cancelled; no items to scan
 * 13) Check when a folder was last accessed in Mac OS X 10.6
 * 14) is there a thunderbird add-on for better split-file downloads from Usenet?
 * 15) MIDI on modern computers

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 13


 * 1) Ubuntu format taking forever
 * 2) Google Buzz
 * 3) Make server think I'm a browser
 * 4) Better performance tracking than htop
 * 5) Seeing the URL of an unclicked hyperlink in Firefox?
 * 6) TalkTalk ISP and eMail timeout.
 * 7) Software Question
 * 8) Article in TFA, ITN, OTD and DYK?
 * 9) Windows Media Player: removing the delay between repeated playings of a file
 * 10) Connecting a DVD player into a computer
 * 11) awk problem

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 14


 * 1) Booting from USB when it's not a BIOS option
 * 2) Google Books previews
 * 3) Why doesn't abs return unsigned?
 * 4) Apple problem
 * 5) mapquest location
 * 6) How do I skip (or automatically avoid) the MS Windows XP startup delay?
 * 7) How to get Mplayer to work?
 * 8) would a full hd screen look better than one with 33% better more pixels in each direction both vertically and horizontally?
 * 9) Automatically set formatting options when pipelining
 * 10) CRT vs LCD

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 15


 * 1) How do I programmatically determine whether a Wikipedia article is disputed?
 * 2) Spell check problem in google chrome.
 * 3) Inbox privacy
 * 4) screen-recorded theora wikipedia tutorials
 * 5) XP bootable system image
 * 6) Second Apple Problem
 * 7) Automatically chown setuid programs named a.out
 * 8) Removing very large white margins from a PDF
 * 9) Got valid XP on a hard drive, but motherboard kaput, use in another computer?
 * 10) adobe illustrator

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 16


 * 1) Internet Connection Problem
 * 2) DDR2 RAM - PC2-6400 vs PC2-5300
 * 3) Cleaning Up iTunes Playlist
 * 4) 4Gb SDHC Card
 * 5) editing google chrome's extensions?
 * 6) Firefox old history site folders will not delete - where is folder?
 * 7) Is my iPhone defective?

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 17


 * 1) Getting unblocked from TV Tropes
 * 2) Noisy server
 * 3) CD Protection
 * 4) Simple regular expression.
 * 5) Need an excel macro
 * 6) CPU performance
 * 7) Windows Registry
 * 8) Copy protect
 * 9) Unstable WLAN over Ubuntu
 * 10) Average daily Google searches per user
 * 11) How does he do it?
 * 12) LaTeX: Adding the bibliography to the table of contents with a section number when using fancyhdr

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 18


 * 1) Stop Google searching for wrong spelling
 * 2) Sine wave
 * 3) hard drive connectors
 * 4) Windows appearance
 * 5) Noise of LCD screen when scrolling mouse
 * 6) How to interrogate a website?
 * 7) Customize autoconf script options in apt-get
 * 8) ITunes and External Hard drive
 * 9) flatironbuildingnewyork
 * 10) Ubuntu installer issue

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 19


 * 1) List of English Words
 * 2) Google Search Results
 * 3) chemistry
 * 4) Converting svg to swf
 * 5) Windows Explorer launches on startup
 * 6) laptop keyboard
 * 7) Chrome (browser) Flashblock Privacy thing
 * 8) Hiding "Hidden formatting" in Word 2003
 * 9) Internet security blockage
 * 10) Video editing software, open source or at least free?
 * 11) Are links to news articles truly anonymous?
 * 12) Does there exist a simulator for the game of 8 ball pool?
 * 13) adobe reader
 * 14) Trojan removal
 * 15) Blender Grass Texturing

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 20


 * 1) Installing Windows 7 on a HDD with files on it?
 * 2) How to revert (back out) Flash plugin update
 * 3) is it possible to remove just one URL from Chrome's autocomplete?
 * 4) vu meter
 * 5) Infinite type hierarchy
 * 6) How do the public rate the different web domain suffixes in terms of trustworthiness?
 * 7) 2.5" ATA: 4 additional pins on devices
 * 8) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 20#Installing_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Flinuxgenuineadvantage.org.2F_Linux_Genuine_Advantage.5D|Installing Linux Genuine Advantage]]
 * 9) How to turn off the pop-up minature image of page in Acrobat while viewing PDFs?
 * 10) Routing packets from my computer.

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 21


 * 1) active  passive elements
 * 2) Opera tabs
 * 3) Mac OS
 * 4) Firefox does not save page name, but Internet Explorer does
 * 5) Buying a new laptop

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 22


 * 1) Double directorys
 * 2) Sega Master System cartridges
 * 3) daily/weekly PHP code problems?
 * 4) Hardware Diagnostics
 * 5) videogame processor design idiocy
 * 6) Internet service after power cut
 * 7) "Hex-based"?
 * 8) Make clickable links to HD in a text file or similar?
 * 9) Strange Internet problem
 * 10) Windows 7 screen saver issue
 * 11) The internet thinks my computer is a mac
 * 12) Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
 * 13) Bondi Reader convert to epub?
 * 14) Rolling Stone website
 * 15) Running Pocket PC software on a Windows XP computer
 * 16) Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Kernel 2.6.24-27-server, trying to get module snd-pcsp to work

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 23


 * 1) Tabs help with latest version of firefox?
 * 2) The Troublesome Ubuntu Netbook: Two Cases of a Linux Newbie Flailing Around
 * 3) Breaking an Easy Cipher
 * 4) PS3 component cable with second stereo audio outpht
 * 5) Good hosting for static files?
 * 6) Mp3 to MIDI converter
 * 7) Playing a sound in C/C++
 * 8) Faster than Gigabit, cheaper than Fibre Channel?
 * 9) What is the metric measurements for a 1/2" CMOS HD sensor?
 * 10) how do I get to a different iPhone app store?  (nationalized)
 * 11) cameras that take 720p or 1080p photographs
 * 12) Monitor resolution stuck at 640x480

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 24


 * 1) Color of computer case
 * 2) PC is running on battery but it's still plugged in
 * 3) Database integration
 * 4) Issue with debootstrap and preseeding wrt/ non-us keyboard layouts?
 * 5) Internet 1995
 * 6) ISO image...
 * 7) Curious google result
 * 8) java.lang.IllegalStateException: getOutputStream has already been called for this response
 * 9) Three copy/paste problems
 * 10) can one iPhone concurrently run apps from different App store account users?

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 25


 * 1) Disabling mobile facebook site on iPhone
 * 2) Dell Inspiron keyboard from hell
 * 3) Why does Wikipedia keep thinking I'm "Doughnuthead"?
 * 4) Hard drive size discrepancy part 2
 * 5) Which language was used for this?
 * 6) High-available internet service
 * 7) Python Code Issues
 * 8) Files might be missing- ExFAT Flash Drive
 * 9) How does my browser remember what links I've clicked?
 * 10) Safe to delete Microsoft Office?

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 26


 * 1) Clearing the history of Internet explorer without starting the program
 * 2) MPI
 * 3) Angles in computers trivia
 * 4) Pocket device to watch old films on?
 * 5) mcods.exe
 * 6) Japanese and similar characters in Firefox
 * 7) RAR vs. 7z

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 27


 * 1) Freeware app like Camfrog?
 * 2) VirtualBox RDP
 * 3) PrtSc (Print Screen)
 * 4) Shortwave 6
 * 5) PC to Home stereo

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 February 28


 * 1) File transfer from Drive C to Drive D—is that OK?
 * 2) 320GB Hard Disk Drive space—inaccurate?
 * 3) How do I change the user agent on iPhone?
 * 4) IRC funding
 * 5) Insidious MSN messenger startup
 * 6) Hypervisor
 * 7) Page orientation in Microsoft Word
 * 8) Youtube insights for other people's videos
 * 9) Getting imagemap codes from archived websites
 * 10) HTML card file
 * 11) How do websites that don't advertise make money?