Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2008

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 1


 * 1) Hard Disk Miracle Challenge
 * 2) websites
 * 3) FILEZILLA
 * 4) Mouse
 * 5) iPod artwork
 * 6) How many articles/revisions are added to the whole Wikipedia project per day (not only the English Wikipedia)
 * 7) Compiling code
 * 8) Help with electronics
 * 9) most maths in x86 instruction
 * 10) Turning my TV on and off
 * 11) lost ability to save JPEG from IE6
 * 12) Listening to radio

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 2


 * 1) What's that port?
 * 2) Adding entries to the registry using .reg files
 * 3) FireFox 3
 * 4) Java Swing: How to get pixel values from components?
 * 5) video conferencing
 * 6) Copying hard drive
 * 7) VGA connector pin 9
 * 8) filename.ext in Windows
 * 9) escape from Iphoto
 * 10) Stupid question about smart antenna
 * 11) security in the properties window
 * 12) Sharing a monitor but not its display
 * 13) Google definitions
 * 14) Domain squatting
 * 15) CGI
 * 16) Memory compiler
 * 17) Videos on iPod
 * 18) ?Query??

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 3


 * 1) Flash CS3 actionscript: button to next scene
 * 2) iPhone roaming
 * 3) Burning CDs into USB Flash Drive
 * 4) How do I dismantle a computer?
 * 5) iPod help please
 * 6) Industry bias
 * 7) Javascript: getTimeout on a method of a specific object
 * 8) In what part of a system...
 * 9) .docx
 * 10) Solution to PHP in safe mode

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 4


 * 1) Contact software
 * 2) IP logging of dynamic addresses
 * 3) Powefu
 * 4) Free Domain Names
 * 5) French keyboard emulator
 * 6) sharing internet
 * 7) (state of) computer games industry in Germany
 * 8) Snapter like software
 * 9) Only one computer work with a wired connection to my cable modem
 * 10) Semi-awesome bar for FireFox 3?
 * 11) Windows Meeting Space, Windows Netmeeting and you
 * 12) repair windows xp professional
 * 13) C++

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 5


 * 1) Japan mobile phone web markup language alphabet soup nightmare
 * 2) Differences of software
 * 3) Ubuntu Linux
 * 4) DVB-T question
 * 5) Lost Windows XP admin password
 * 6) Remote Access

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 6


 * 1) Booting From a USB Flash Drive
 * 2) Phone as Clock
 * 3) Vista
 * 4) Impossible to enter my BIOS
 * 5) Wiki diff question
 * 6) Playing diablo2 on lan question

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 7


 * 1) Document-centric XML database
 * 2) Psi-Ops problems
 * 3) Converting an M4A file
 * 4) CSS em over px
 * 5) Windows XP Pro and Server 2003 Enterprise
 * 6) Live CD vs. live USB
 * 7) IRC shenanigans
 * 8) Double underscore (_)?
 * 9) Reinstall missing qt-mt.dll
 * 10) Wikis!
 * 11) How do you check cpu temperature?
 * 12) Website hosting and making.
 * 13) A file renamer
 * 14) Send email from command line without having to specify an SMTP server?
 * 15) When are we no longer at the mercy of our ISPs?
 * 16) Vista vs XP

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 8


 * 1) Image information utility
 * 2) Broken track ball on Blackberry Curve 8310
 * 3) From live CD to HDD
 * 4) Netgear
 * 5) Round buttons in web pages: FireFox 3.0 on a Mac

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 9


 * 1) Video Editing
 * 2) Reparing Windows XP quick and dirty
 * 3) Scandisk
 * 4) The Games Factory
 * 5) Free bin/cue CD burner??
 * 6) Modifying PDFs?
 * 7) GIMP layer stacking
 * 8) junk email
 * 9) linksys befvp41 mystery switch
 * 10) Installing Windows Xp in a laptop without cd-rom
 * 11) Outlook names / contacts.
 * 12) How to embed text file in a C program
 * 13) Ignoring floating-point underflow in Excel
 * 14) TI-84

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 10


 * 1) How does one save two versions of a file in VB.NET
 * 2) Searching for URLs
 * 3) YouTube
 * 4) ip & CCTV Camera
 * 5) Hiding WHOIS info
 * 6) Optical driver for laptops
 * 7) Burning .nrg without Nero...?
 * 8) Reverse Lookup on local network
 * 9) Very possibly, it's phishing ...
 * 10) Internet bot
 * 11) Efficient Programming
 * 12) sql
 * 13) Printer randomly prints the new tab screen of IE7
 * 14) Firefox 3.0

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 11


 * 1) How to transfer Favorites/Bookmarked Sites to an Email message?
 * 2) Source videos
 * 3) Turn off
 * 4) microsoft outlook won't open if  i'm offline..

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 12


 * 1) the catch with shutterfly
 * 2) Ubuntu - Audigy Platinum checklist
 * 3) CSS
 * 4) Google Apps location
 * 5) Free anti virus
 * 6) Unfaithful browsers
 * 7) Network administration question
 * 8) I'd like to plug the people who made my TV...
 * 9) Strange requests
 * 10) Portrait Mode Monitors
 * 11) Scipting with Visual Basic.NET

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 13


 * 1) Editing SVG files
 * 2) Admin. Password win. XP
 * 3) Merging iTunes Playlists
 * 4) Reshuffling the directory structure of a website
 * 5) Technology behind the PS3's on/off switch
 * 6) Getting rid of 3dsps.x3d trojans.
 * 7) Alternative firmware for Nokia 3220
 * 8) DVD drive
 * 9) LCD display commands
 * 10) Two television questions
 * 11) Java colorisation question
 * 12) How do I  fix a broken link?
 * 13) Wireless network security
 * 14) optimise
 * 15) Kaspersky conflicts with my game
 * 16) Team Fortress 2 crashes

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 14


 * 1) C++
 * 2) Windows XP and Core 2 Duo (E8400) - Can't get second core to work.
 * 3) how to determine format of a word processing file?
 * 4) iptables question
 * 5) Defragment HDD
 * 6) PS3 multizone DVD player?
 * 7) Excel on a Mac
 * 8) What time is it ?
 * 9) Jayski's Silly Season Site
 * 10) Implementing a flood fill more efficiently
 * 11) MP3 Players
 * 12) Spawn c++ processes in new console windows.
 * 13) Making partitions and losing data
 * 14) Bagle (computer worm)
 * 15) Problems with MAME32 and Nebula emulator
 * 16) Comodo firewall and McAfee security center
 * 17) Open mp3 in a new Winamp?

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 15


 * 1) What's wrong with this php
 * 2) Backup of Windows files using Linux
 * 3) A3 Printer / Scanner
 * 4) occlusion test for cube in directX/openGL ?
 * 5) MS Office - changes between versions
 * 6) SLI vs. CrossfireX
 * 7) why no browsers in app store
 * 8) More C++
 * 9) Word 2007 Combine Documents
 * 10) Info by Fingerprinting (a la Back to the Future II in 2015)
 * 11) Limitations of statically typed languages

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 16


 * 1) my xbox
 * 2) iPod touch and comcast
 * 3) itunes
 * 4) Websites, directories, subdirectories, and the like....
 * 5) Disable mouse shortcuts in Firefox
 * 6) Audio Files (eg WAV, AIFF, MP3) to MIDI converter?
 * 7) Audio hosting on the Internet

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 17


 * 1) Bluetooth headsets with USB charging
 * 2) How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
 * 3) Streaming/storing video
 * 4) Foreign character recognition
 * 5) Ubuntu Super Edition
 * 6) Printing circles
 * 7) Plug ins for Eclipse in Windows and Linux
 * 8) light tree
 * 9) Audio Files (eg WAV, AIFF, MP3) to MIDI converter?
 * 10) Garageband for PC?

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 18


 * 1) Photo Printers The Norm?
 * 2) System Volume Information
 * 3) Odd watches
 * 4) usenet
 * 5) generating pdfs
 * 6) Motion detection
 * 7) Scumware
 * 8) e mail
 * 9) Transatlantic Internet meltdown?
 * 10) Admin Rights

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 19


 * 1) Drilling holes in a circuit board
 * 2) code execution by kernel
 * 3) Buying a new Computer
 * 4) Firefox 3 & preview errors / edit conflicts
 * 5) Second-life rip off PS home
 * 6) WEP Key
 * 7) File organization on disk
 * 8) Internet use in non-English
 * 9) credit card security
 * 10) cd
 * 11) PDF from Scanner
 * 12) Date format in PHP: WHAT WAS WRONG?
 * 13) What's the easiest way for me to vertical sync in Windows (2D)?
 * 14) What is ADFU?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 21


 * 1) auto scanner
 * 2) XKCD on an iPhone or iPod Touch
 * 3) Comcast Voip  ?
 * 4) Hard drive enclosure
 * 5) How is SMS texting so fast?

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 22


 * 1) Installing .deb with dependencies
 * 2) linear and nonlinear Quantization?
 * 3) Graphical applications in chrooted terminal
 * 4) Automagically crop GIF files to remove blank pixels?
 * 5) Creating an XML-driven flash website

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 23


 * 1) Non-breaking tables in MS Word
 * 2) Firefox hit count
 * 3) USB keyboard doesn't work with bootloaders
 * 4) comparing two software implementations
 * 5) Programming: Windows Vista API (Folder Redirection)
 * 6) Linux on a USB drive
 * 7) HDRI in movie industry late 80`s
 * 8) Safari web browser
 * 9) files renamed
 * 10) I have an e-mail problem...
 * 11) Google ranking
 * 12) Best choice for a Laptop at college.
 * 13) Onboard Video + AGP
 * 14) safely remove hardware... or just pull the plug?
 * 15) Musician "Jam-with-a-friend-on-the-internet" Software
 * 16) sound card color ports
 * 17) how to integrate tomcat 6.x and iplanet 6.x versions
 * 18) Lyrics in iTunes
 * 19) Multi-page pdf
 * 20) Can I turn my PC into a universal remote?
 * 21) Mozilla Firefox 2 + 3?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 24


 * 1) computer software
 * 2) Disk Defragmention (moved from Misc Desk)
 * 3) A new device hampering our privacies
 * 4) Downloading & UK law
 * 5) Using computer during a thunderstorm
 * 6) Calling java from command line, want to run more commands
 * 7) Why aren't linear feedback shift registers' output the whole contents of the register?
 * 8) LC3 PROGRAMM IN COMPUTER
 * 9) The 2nd screen
 * 10) Can a virus infect the Linux OS?
 * 11) Creating audio cd's on Mac OS 10.4
 * 12) Format
 * 13) is it good

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 25


 * 1) Limiting Internet Access on a Network
 * 2) ATI SM BUS not working
 * 3) how did I just copy a copy-protected DVD?
 * 4) Game studio
 * 5) .spc to MIDI

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 26


 * 1) using a mobile Phone as a modem
 * 2) Quad-core question
 * 3) office productivity tool
 * 4) Seeking data compression code for short strings
 * 5) Relating to game development, what is a ‘.CCZ’ file?
 * 6) safety of phone line wiring
 * 7) Virus Issue
 * 8) Owner of ImageShack image
 * 9) Java

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 27


 * 1) PDF files
 * 2) Challenge
 * 3) Bash script
 * 4) Reading a BMP file
 * 5) best video database
 * 6) Help writing entry for my business website link to wikpedia
 * 7) Scorched Earth game
 * 8) XP Lang.
 * 9) Pronunciation
 * 10) Linux distribution for offline use - recommendations
 * 11) Javascript works in Firefox but not IE
 * 12) MSCE or A+ certification for helpdesk job?

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 28


 * 1) Partition
 * 2) A problem with wireless card
 * 3) SSH on the ASUS EeePC
 * 4) Security with broadband
 * 5) Hard drive issues.
 * 6) context sensitive
 * 7) Making Dvd compatible
 * 8) Make it go faster, damn it!
 * 9) Upgrading Computer?
 * 10) ai computational complexity
 * 11) Subfolders and AppleScript
 * 12) Raw (dd) copy of smaller to larger disk

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 29


 * 1) A critical Problem.
 * 2) Infinity in HTML
 * 3) Problem with toggling switches between laptop and Projector
 * 4) filesystem in a file, linux
 * 5) where should the "inline" specifier be placed in c++??
 * 6) Userpage woes
 * 7) cuil
 * 8) Defrag and partitioning NTFS from Linux live CD
 * 9) US cell phone in Europe
 * 10) word software
 * 11) C++ Program
 * 12) Bot Code
 * 13) Edit with Notepad
 * 14) How to use a chrooted environment?
 * 15) Holographic Versatile Discs
 * 16) Best Storage
 * 17) installing iATKOS on VMware Workstation
 * 18) two finger swipe and multi touch in windows xp
 * 19) Firefox Theme
 * 20) CMS without MySQL or Root Access
 * 21) Does FM degrade sound quality?

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 July 30


 * 1) Problem with computer screen
 * 2) Adding Images to Webpage
 * 3) Shift 3 on my computer?
 * 4) Less pixels
 * 5) Achingly slow speeds
 * 6) uninstalling winXP and win98
 * 7) Playlogic supermod
 * 8) Converting spreadsheets
 * 9) SPAM
 * 10) induced bouncy i solar chimney big help with fortran program
 * 11) Best way of storing my knowledge, tipps & tricks organized online?
 * 12) Merging hard drives
 * 13) bypass websense
 * 14) Custom HTML Tags
 * 15) Word
 * 16) Cutting it
 * 17) Video viewer program on Firefox
 * 18) oracle sql update using a with-clause
 * 19) Advantages of different radio frequencies.
 * 20) Cassette Adapter vs FM Transmitter
 * 21) CSS: Treating one HTML tag as another
 * 22) Java and C
 * 23) Monitor keep awake
 * 24) ca_setup.exe?
 * 25) Unable to see image of the City Hall of Buffalo in Art Deco article