Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2007

= July 1 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 1


 * 1) RAM compatibility
 * 2) Can a .pdf file be infested with a virus?
 * 3) Unable to access Modem config page from behind M0n0wall
 * 4) Youtube Burning
 * 5) Microsoft Word Problem! Please Help!

= July 2 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 2


 * 1) calculator
 * 2) Windows Media Player DRM
 * 3) Political boundary shape files
 * 4) My Favorites

= July 3 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 3


 * 1) Macintosh boot process
 * 2) Driver Problems
 * 3) Hard Disk Formatting
 * 4) Should I take this threat seriously?
 * 5) Macintosh problems
 * 6) php (or other) as a "standalone web-app"
 * 7) dreamweaver MX feature
 * 8) Mult-mode or single mode optic fibre?
 * 9) Checking a computer battery

= July 4 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 4


 * 1) Webpage question
 * 2) Drive-detection problems
 * 3) Instant messenger with internet forum structure
 * 4) Influence of domain name on Google rankings
 * 5) xbox 360 dvd capacity
 * 6) Inputting sound through a SB Audigy 2 ZS sound card

= July 5 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 5


 * 1) Which phone is a better buy?
 * 2) Building a simple computer
 * 3) Excel goal seek
 * 4) Improving PC performance
 * 5) Windows Media Player
 * 6) One for the academics (endnote question)

= July 6 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 6


 * 1) Amplifier Volume Control
 * 2) BSOD/black screen error
 * 3) Weird Image
 * 4) File transfer
 * 5) N 95 syncronisation with the lap top
 * 6) Function overloading in 'c' (copied from help desk)
 * 7) Quick Networking/IP Address Question!
 * 8) Removing images from hacked Windows installation
 * 9) Another quicker yet networking question.
 * 10) .MOV
 * 11) Query on MS Excel
 * 12) Does Blackle really save significant amounts of energy?

= July 7 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 7
 * 1) How can I connect both of these computers to the Internet?
 * 2) what was the first wikipedia article?
 * 3) Vista and Libertad
 * 4) I.T
 * 5) Virus!!!!!!!! Alert
 * 6) Installing Operating Systems on Different Hardware
 * 7) Computer cooling
 * 8) Firefox Browser
 * 9) Computer screen
 * 10) Logic optimization
 * 11) List of colours
 * 12) XMP and PNG
 * 13) nested VMs
 * 14) Problem with USB
 * 15) Best disk defragger
 * 16) C# regexp
 * 17) Zone Alarms

= July 8 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 8
 * 1) Line Noise / Dial-Up / ADSL
 * 2) Font in &lt;math&gt; formulae?
 * 3) Is there any reason I shouldn't switch to Vista?
 * 4) How can some malicious web pages live for so long?
 * 5) Java / Flash / Youtube
 * 6) what does "give us diffs" mean
 * 7) CPU Socket Question
 * 8) Website development

= July 9 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 9
 * 1) HDTV LCD Backlight life
 * 2) Losing information in the edit window
 * 3) A networking error in my pc
 * 4) Graphics card
 * 5) "No bootable sector on hard drive"
 * 6) Codecs and protocols for online games
 * 7) Windows 98 needs to become windows 98 SE... Or Debian

= July 10 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 10
 * 1) Firefox Add-ons
 * 2) Watermark
 * 3) python self.__class__.__name__
 * 4) fix broken laptop display
 * 5) Creating a bot to insert conservation status of North American organims
 * 6) IP Address
 * 7) George F. Heinrich MD

= July 11 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 11
 * 1) Audio Device problem
 * 2) Subversion and permissions
 * 3) Windows mobile 6.0
 * 4) comp help
 * 5) Wikipedia slow?
 * 6) holograms?
 * 7) no page break within para in latex
 * 8) Download a directory listing
 * 9) Transferring phone pics to my laptop
 * 10) Apple Macs
 * 11) Word macro to extract chapter preserving chapter and page numbering
 * 12) Software for playing with generative grammars

= July 12 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 12
 * 1) .bat file help
 * 2) alarm clock
 * 3) Computer mathematics question
 * 4) Urgh
 * 5) Floppy Disks & XP
 * 6) Looking for a program or something
 * 7) i feel i am decieved while i purchased Licensed Norton Antivirus
 * 8) Question about Java generics
 * 9) Perl Programming
 * 10) Ipod Nano Shutting Off
 * 11) Quicktime issues
 * 12) Vectorizing
 * 13) You have new messages

= July 13 = Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 13
 * 1) Connection to my pc
 * 2) More Firefox Stuff
 * 3) Accidents when e-mailing private information?
 * 4) Looking for a good MUD...
 * 5) When My Internet Crashes
 * 6) Monitor aspect ratio
 * 7) music players
 * 8) Technical Job Spam
 * 9) Why is my wireless mouse signal being disrupted?
 * 10) WEBCAM
 * 11) Relative referencing of file names
 * 12) Firewalls
 * 13) Running a .JAR file

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 14


 * 1) Trojan.Vundo
 * 2) Wireless Network Connection Problems...
 * 3) Freeware OS
 * 4) Wikipedia user compare
 * 5) emergency calls
 * 6) Content advisor
 * 7) Keyring?
 * 8) Weird graphics problem in FF
 * 9) windows 98 and Linux-again-

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 15


 * 1) Hidden Data Occupies My Disk
 * 2) Connection between desktop and ADSL modem
 * 3) two antivirus
 * 4) Internet Explorer 7 Search Bar
 * 5) help me
 * 6) mail.com
 * 7) New tab
 * 8) EIDE hard drive with IDE connectors
 * 9) Music download service questions
 * 10) Smallest digital camera that shoots RAW?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 16


 * 1) Online Subscription
 * 2) firefox
 * 3) Outlook
 * 4) Slave drive
 * 5) Moto Ming A1200 Internet Browsing
 * 6) Weird Add/Remove Program List
 * 7) -12V in motherboard
 * 8) Possible to obtain latest version of DX9 from 3rd party?
 * 9) what is "moz-screenshot.jpg" ?
 * 10) Is this true?
 * 11) Changing permissions on a read only filesystem
 * 12) Hard disk size

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 17


 * 1) PowerPoint Presentation
 * 2) Can cell phones be used for eavesdropping ?
 * 3) XP SP2
 * 4) GLUT question on OS X
 * 5) Switching to another network port ("NIC") on W2K and XP
 * 6) Problems with ubuntu fiesty fawn, screen resolution, on a Dell monitor.
 * 7) Safari, OS X and sortable tables
 * 8) Total RAM replacement
 * 9) good antivirus software
 * 10) Hard drive space

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 18


 * So, backslashing doesn't allow you to save edits, but...
 * 1) No POST! No POST!
 * 2) Layout
 * 3) HELP with a network?
 * 4) Oh boy...
 * 5) DVD/TV question for Japan
 * 6) osi layers.
 * 7) Screenshot with its Alpha channel?
 * 8) Difficult SD card recovery
 * 9) Confusion with LCD resolutions and 720p/1080i
 * 10) MySQL setup help
 * 11) Using computer as a sound recorder

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 19


 * 1) Way to tell age of an AIM account?
 * 2) do iPods know what color they are?
 * 3) Thunderbird and IMAP
 * 4) cant use bit torrent
 * 5) Delete corrupt file
 * 6) Google
 * 7) vista vs xp
 * 8) Problem with hibernation
 * 9) What is the best way to use Python under both Windows and Cygwin?
 * 10) Java linking FORTRAN
 * 11) 21" or 22" LCD Monitor
 * 12) Editing Linux
 * 13) untitled question

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 20


 * 1) DVD to youtube
 * 2) WinXP SP2 object block when downloading
 * 3) Digital Camera Lens Lens
 * 4) ASCII compression?
 * 5) Why no $2 computers?
 * 6) Bandwidth of wikipedia
 * 7) Google's (and Yahoo's) descriptions of Wikipedia pages
 * 8) Linux and Razr
 * 9) Java Complex Matrix Class

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 21


 * 1) TRR 2: Electric Boogaloo!
 * 2) Faking a real Bsod
 * 3) Why NAND and NOR and not AND, OR and NOT?
 * 4) Mame
 * 5) Fonts in firefox
 * 6) Windows Media Player 10 - 1 song, 2 albums
 * 7) AIM screen name problems

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 22


 * 1) Excel copy and paste
 * 2) Halo Aimbot
 * 3) Making a fake Bsod (continued)
 * 4) Mounting partitions after the system has started
 * 5) Another problem...
 * 6) Help me transfer my Outlook Address Book to my new computer
 * 7) bit torrent files from www.piratebay.com
 * 8) System full (Suse 10.2)
 * 9) Video Editing Program?
 * 10) while im at it....
 * 11) Cancel the Bugzilla account

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 23


 * 1) Linux software
 * 2) Chapter Splitting in Handbrake.
 * 3) SD cards and whatnot
 * 4) Perl Code
 * 5) Mame play
 * 6) 有没有华文的 LexisNexis?
 * 7) List of OS' while booting How do I change this?
 * 8) having trouble with microsoft window popping up.
 * 9) Recycle Bin
 * 10) bit torrent files
 * 11) Chess by email viewer?
 * 12) Torrents
 * 13) Problem with Java
 * 14) A5 printing.
 * 15) SQL query
 * 16) pentium M 715
 * 17) Audio/Video
 * 18) Router Stuff
 * 19) Bold and italics in plain text: a suggested use for the other Unicode planes

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 24


 * 1) Linux software
 * 2) Aim account
 * 3) Does DDR2 memory need a different motherboard slot from DDR?
 * 4) VMWare vs KVM
 * 5) Ink colour
 * 6) Access/VBA question relating to Collection objects
 * 7) System tray in Windows XP

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 25


 * 1) Windows Media Player woes
 * 2) Huffman tree implementation?
 * 3) Alternate DNS
 * 4) USB flash drive as RAM
 * 5) briefcase
 * 6) Dark web
 * 7) ls replacement for tree
 * 8) uploading clip to refrence desk

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 26


 * 1) Websites and money
 * 2) Proprietary software vs free software
 * 3) Date format in MS Excel
 * 4) IP Address v6
 * 5) Video formats
 * 6) Do you suppose a Pentium III @ 1 GHz can run any VM?

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 27


 * 1) Norton Confidential error
 * 2) RAM
 * 3) Linux and Network Connection Sharing
 * 4) Saving laptop power.
 * 5) Outlook Express
 * 6) English-like programming languages
 * 7) Sony DSC-S500 (digital camera)
 * 8) Website growth
 * 9) Nintendo Why?!-Fi Connection
 * 10) eBay.com.au tripping Opera's Fraud Protection

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 28


 * 1) Looking for a very specific firefox plugin
 * 2) Visual Basic to Python converter
 * 3) How to set up eth1 to get a connection with an encrypted network?
 * 4) Checking 64-bit processor
 * 5) QoS on Thompson SpeedTouch 585
 * 6) Web programming languages
 * 7) AVI to DVD
 * 8) Resizing partition
 * 9) Verizon vs. Cable
 * 10) beginning networking question

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 29


 * 1) Where can I find linux code?
 * 2) Difference between 2 and 2&3 in a shift operation.
 * 3) System Memory on Mac OS X
 * 4) Router IP assignment
 * 5) mother of computer
 * 6) Cannot apt-get update in Debian
 * 7) Office 2007 Save As glitch
 * 8) ActionScript 3 question
 * 9) DirectX 10
 * 10) Picking A GPS

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 30


 * 1) Finding where an IP is...
 * 2) Slideshow questions
 * 3) vista
 * 4) help
 * 5) JPEG to PDF
 * 6) PS3 price drop
 * 7) voice-activated web browser
 * 8) Virus that makes computer/hardware explode
 * 9) Algorithm for solving f(x) = x
 * 10) Way to speed up wikipedia load times?
 * 11) Free web hosts
 * 12) It's all about the gigbytes, baby!

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 July 31


 * 1) a home printer for business cards?
 * 2) Web browser switching problems
 * 3) GFX laptop in Asia
 * 4) Cantralized Wikipedia geographic database?
 * 5) Problem with WMM / downloading YouTube videos
 * 6) Overwriting of geographic coordinates
 * 7) Enquire about computer projects
 * 8) to convert a pdf file to word/excel file
 * 9) Safari Flash Problem
 * 10) free graphics program
 * 11) Automatic Computer Power On
 * 12) Flash CS3 question
 * 13) hardware
 * 14) CAN bus
 * 15) Wikipedia Page Traffic
 * 16) access from alternate locations