Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/January 2012

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 1


 * 1) fuses that can be attached to a printed resistive heating device so as to maintain a temperature range ie: 100 degrees F
 * 2) malfunctioning header and footer in HTML file
 * 3) Laptop Purchase
 * 4) Keyboard layout defaults to English/US on Fedora 14 Linux

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 2


 * 1) Research design for IT PhDs
 * 2) rsync not working as expected
 * 3) Green and blue look fine on my laptop.

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 3


 * 1) Wikipedia-related blog aggregators
 * 2) Pop up blocker for specific site?
 * 3) What's wrong with the external link check?
 * 4) MySQL5 password brute force
 * 5) Firefox Stopping & Starting
 * 6) Mercury (element)
 * 7) MySQL fuzzy select field name
 * 8) Latin characters in Unicode
 * 9) User Limit on Software Installation

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 4


 * 1) Can't access external hard drive
 * 2) Clicking scroll wheel to go to full-screen mode?
 * 3) How to select proper PSU for my PC with new GPU card upgrade
 * 4) Two sets of earbuds in one iPhone 3GS
 * 5) Is face detection involves matching faces
 * 6) C# cannot convert from char[] to string
 * 7) Delete facebook
 * 8) Multithreaded Apartment in Visual Basic Application

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 5


 * 1) Computers that degrade with age
 * 2) Does Video card affect video playback performance?
 * 3) What's the best way to restore a computer to its factory state?
 * 4) Free MS-DOS games?
 * 5) VPN in other countries
 * 6) Website prices
 * 7) Norwegian letter

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 6


 * 1) How do I install "F22 Lightning II" on my W7 system?
 * 2) Folder COM
 * 3) Table of Contents Greasemonkey userscript

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 7


 * 1) Is redstone Turing complete?
 * 2) Forcing internet access to require a user name and password (Win XP and DSL modem)
 * 3) Win 7 flaky on system resume
 * 4) Strange "WUDFHost.exe" process - Please help
 * 5) SearchIndexer.exe & SearchProtocolHost.exe keeping computer busy
 * 6) Oversized display area for hidden systray icons
 * 7) Really good virtual reality
 * 8) The Wikipedia search facility is seriously broken
 * 9) Synthesizer voice
 * 10) Google search
 * 11) Question about destructors in C++
 * 12) How to raise an IOI kid?
 * 13) problem with networking
 * 14) Identifying people on Twitter
 * 15) Do Android developers dream of owning lots of physical Android phones?
 * 16) Typing password twice in Windows 7

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 8


 * 1) Average amount of time for two-qubit entanglement.
 * 2) laser toner compostable?
 * 3) 8GB of RAM, but OS only seeing 7?
 * 4) MatLab help
 * 5)    tag margins and displaytitle
 * 6) Google Account

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 9


 * 1) Alternatives to texvc in MediaWiki
 * 2) facebook
 * 3) Smartphones and apps that run everywhere
 * 4) Connecting an Atari standard joystick to a modern PC?
 * 5) Boosting WiFi with aluminum foil
 * 6) Issue with java and thread halting.....

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 10


 * 1) iPad charging
 * 2) Amateur architectural design programs
 * 3) DOWN LOAD SOFT WARE OF BENZ ACTRESS COMPUTER SYSYTEM
 * 4) C# getting the amplitude of the sound read by the microphone
 * 5) 15 inch cheap thin ssd like zenbook?
 * 6) ASP.NET session expiring

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 11


 * 1) regex problem
 * 2) report of censoring by Wikipedia Chinese web site
 * 3) How do I use phpMyAdmin
 * 4) pagefile
 * 5) Columns in EPUB
 * 6) Skype on smartphones: 3G or wifi
 * 7) How can a web crawler see what we can't?
 * 8) Best program for a text-based shooter game

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 12


 * 1) "Can't extract MFC42.DLL"
 * 2) Upgrading RAM while hibernated
 * 3) Average amount of time for two-qubit entanglement.
 * 4) Looking for a 3d First Person Shooter/Engine/Game Making System that Allows Tinkering with Enemy AI
 * 5) every time i search the web my internet explorer stops working what can i do to fix this problem?
 * 6) The difference of TouchWiz and Android?
 * 7) Embedding a video into PPT 2003

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 13


 * 1) Split files unrecognized
 * 2) Quantum OpenCL?
 * 3) Can you blackout jan 18 to protest the SOPA act?
 * 4) Finding names of Flash files/Associated flash content

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 14


 * 1) Microsoft Office problems
 * 2) livejournal

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 15


 * 1) What is PCle versus PCIe
 * 2) going rate for used macbook pro

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 16


 * 1) 3G Wifi Router

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 17


 * 1) Is machine translation really a CS topic or a linguistics one?
 * 2) I need help with a TV remote!!!
 * 3) Opening download.
 * 4) Is it possible for a Photoshop tool's effect to "wrap around" an image?
 * 5) "multiple networks" on a Windows 7 home network
 * 6) Good wikipedia mirror?
 * 7) When does the blackout start

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 19


 * 1) Xbox 360 emulator
 * 2) Tor Proxy
 * 3) Weird letter characters
 * 4) One question about SOPA.
 * 5) Is there some way to look up the non-toll free number that a toll free number goes to?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 20


 * 1) What is filling up my Harddrive? (After installing Windows7Ultimate from DVD)
 * 2) another networking problem
 * 3) Platform-dependent C++ problem regarding standard out
 * 4) Word styles
 * 5) IPv6 transitioning

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 21


 * 1) USB Using Processing Power
 * 2) Word 2007 Error
 * 3) Recognizing Counterfeit Credit Cards
 * 4) Download an on-line video?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 22


 * 1) Timer limit on Digital video recorders
 * 2) New monitor flickers only while gaming
 * 3) How to speed up the floppy drive in VICE?
 * 4) Subtraction?
 * 5) iPad bookmarks

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 23


 * 1) Sharing big files
 * 2) seizing websites: how does it technically work?
 * 3) Hot CPU?
 * 4) Referrer spam possible in non-bot traffic?
 * 5) "expert" user-generated content
 * 6) Some files missing - TestDisk didn't help
 * 7) service providers and passwords
 * 8) Sophos and Spyware  Quarantines
 * 9) Free certificate authorities?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 24


 * 1) One computer, several network connections
 * 2) "Unblowing" eFuses using a focused ion beam

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 25


 * 1) Can a JavaScript alert appear when browser is minimised?
 * 2) Keyboarding Pro 4, Pro 5, Pro 6 and Keyboading Course 1-25 w/Keyboarding 6
 * 3) SQL query
 * 4) Image Processing using Fourier Transforms in MATLAB
 * 5) Patent for content downloads
 * 6) Is there a way to call a toll free number without them seeing your number that doesn't cost a fortune?
 * 7) Brute-force attacks against Gmail passwords

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 26


 * 1) Where can I learn to build my own mobile apps?
 * 2) why is my sparkle nvidia geforce 210 512mb graphics card not working?
 * 3) Information Technology Foundations
 * 4) Making a New Word Doc from An Existing doc
 * 5) drop-in code for a survey on my web page
 * 6) So what happenswhen you divide by zero?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 27


 * 1) Hard drive prices -- am I missing something?
 * 2) Video from iTunes on Windows computer
 * 3) http://www.htc.com/in/smartphones/htc-sensation-xl/ link does not work.
 * 4) "Are you sure you want to leave the page?"
 * 5) Restart problem ........ Motherboard or software?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 28


 * 1) Ordering a single Tegra 3 SoC
 * 2) Importance of checksums
 * 3) Key loggers on smart phones
 * 4) wifi printer setup problem
 * 5) Software writer?
 * 6) How come Windows applications sometimes keep running after they "crash"?
 * 7) YIM emoticons
 * 8) Wikipedia competition

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 29


 * 1) sending bin like a txt
 * 2) high speed video
 * 3) Speeding a Media file but also saving it speeded
 * 4) Frames to gif
 * 5) Home networks and printers

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 30


 * 1) 32-bit Vista to 64-bit
 * 2) Webseeding torrents
 * 3) Ipod touch
 * 4) Printing favorites
 * 5) need help destroying computer
 * 6) source code for a javascript text adventure game
 * 7) sarcasm from computers

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 January 31


 * 1) How to load a mouse driver without a mouse driver ?
 * 2) Refresh webpage continuously
 * 3) Onion
 * 4) google
 * 5) Meta machine learning
 * 6) Running installers on Windows 7
 * 7) Changing interfaces' colour
 * 8) Vertical bar!
 * 9) Windows media center tv guide listings die at 6pm tonight? D;
 * 10) floating point types in Windows programming languages