Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/July 2011

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 1


 * 1) svn problem
 * 2) Compiling PureDarwin
 * 3) Full form of 'i' in 'intel i series of processors'
 * 4) Firefox font messed up?
 * 5) Recommended antivirus/antimalware
 * 6) userscript

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 2


 * 1) Windows 7 Backup disks
 * 2) Non google / bing search engines by marketshare?
 * 3) Laptop battery with built-in DC socket
 * 4) Printing port from laptop computer.
 * 5) no "advanced search"
 * 6) What is wrong with my computer?

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 3


 * 1) I need a reputable tool to end my PC errors. If ErrorEnd isn't one, what is?
 * 2) Running a 32-bit .dll on a 64-bit Windows system.
 * 3) scan& record
 * 4) implementing a subset of SQL

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 4


 * 1) Perpetual loop problem
 * 2) IBActions
 * 3) Archive
 * 4) Mathematical calculations in MS word.
 * 5) What musical instruments were used for the Windows Theme?
 * 6) How to view ppt. without bloatware?
 * 7) No games with pre-installed Windows 7 PC
 * 8) torrent file, already the right size when download starts?
 * 9) Converting .wpd files to .doc files
 * 10) PS3 Software updates
 * 11) How difficult is it to install Linux?

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 5


 * 1) Youtube app
 * 2) c++
 * 3) help
 * 4) How to avoid "credential storage password" prompts on Android phones
 * 5) Creating 366 Page .pdf

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 6


 * 1) 10-line C++ program that would change the world

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 7


 * 1) how to make Perl more random
 * 2) Focus follows mouse on a mac: how to do this?
 * 3) Struggling with Computer
 * 4) Online maps with heights
 * 5) Bizarre Problem with Gmail & Thunderbird
 * 6) USB Flash drive locks up laptop at bootup. Why?
 * 7) Preventing a reformat
 * 8) New Computer Programs
 * 9) Beginner's Question - Installing Windows 7

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 8


 * 1) Google Search
 * 2) Nokia N95 Battery Spare

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 9


 * 1) Unicode 6.0
 * 2) Dual video cards and gaming
 * 3) Can you identify the country location in mail addresses on the Internet?
 * 4) Modem Too Far
 * 5) Voice-picking program

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 10


 * 1) User agent string spoof
 * 2) Corrupt master file table
 * 3) SATA drivers
 * 4) Java Class
 * 5) Home routers with good IPv6 support
 * 6) New Partition On Ext HDD
 * 7) Scrolling
 * 8) Email address left on guestbook problem
 * 9) using a proxy
 * 10) Disk enclosure
 * 11) Can't delete a corrupted folder
 * 12) defence
 * 13) SFTP double hop
 * 14) Pushdown Automaton Formal Definition

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 11


 * 1) How do I get gtk working?
 * 2) Formalizing a rule
 * 3) Special help for access 2007
 * 4) single left click in e speaking software
 * 5) what is cloud computing?
 * 6) VBA unicode
 * 7) pipelinks
 * 8) how do i download a file online to itunes for free
 * 9) Laptop adapter
 * 10) Step by step explanation of internet processes

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 12


 * 1) backup firefox address bar search
 * 2) Text Converter
 * 3) Multiplication and addition of arrays using foreach loop in PHP
 * 4) Organizing music
 * 5) Math for hardware vs. math for software

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 13


 * 1) Output of Image
 * 2) 5,000 BTU air conditioner in a ~150 sq. ft. room
 * 3) How to use Queue with multiprocessing in python
 * 4) Blog for selling toys?
 * 5) 'Bad Mac Read' SSL Error
 * 6) how do people make web comics?
 * 7) URL bar
 * 8) Unreadable external harddrive; missing driver?
 * 9) called phone, heard dialup sound
 * 10) Alternatives to connecting to a router which is too far away

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 14


 * 1) sprint and text/sms costs?
 * 2) Macbook hardware diagnostics (memtest, disk drive)
 * 3) How do I forcibly move some stubborn Android apps onto the SD card?
 * 4) USB gamepad on Linux
 * 5) mod_rewrite and .htaccess help
 * 6) Fake PayPal email
 * 7) Phone hacking
 * 8) Computer memory

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 15


 * 1) Just installed IE9. I have a serious problem with it that seems to make it useless for me.
 * 2) Defaul video player; detecting which is playing and changing it
 * 3) Registry cleaning
 * 4) Samsung Infuse 4G
 * 5) Someone Help Me Please My PRograms Arent Working!
 * 6) Bridged Client Mode
 * 7) Power on/off on a single USB 2.0 port?
 * 8) Age of my computer?
 * 9) Steam problems

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 16


 * 1) JAVA,(J2EE),net or php
 * 2) Drag and Drop Won't Work in Book Creator Editing Area
 * 3) Automatically copy from Firefox cache to a folder
 * 4) How to copy and insert a "cookie" from a folder into Firefox?
 * 5) Manually activating an on button

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 17


 * 1) Web site for selling diamonds
 * 2) Command Prompt problem
 * 3) Malicious program in my computer
 * 4) Multiplication and addition of arrays using foreach loop in PHP
 * 5) Java functions

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 18


 * 1) Computers and ambient temperatures
 * 2) internet speed
 * 3) (Advanced networking) Bridging routers with multiple internet connections
 * 4) computer makes continuous beeps before loading the bootloader, but my hardware seems fine?
 * 5) converting mid to mp3 AND editing jpg photograph

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 19


 * 1) torrent speed
 * 2) Cheat sheet program
 * 3) Computer attempts to boot, fails, and repeats until unplugged.
 * 4) Program takes eons to load
 * 5) PHP
 * 6) PC to TV with HDMI/DVI-D
 * 7) Bytes free on a Commodore 64
 * 8) I want to keep bookmarks, but not have them pop up in Google chrome's autocomplete?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 20


 * 1) Programming in MS Visual Basic
 * 2) Is it possible to fool installer programs into thinking you have admin access?
 * 3) how does a computer decide to allocate computations to a graphics card?
 * 4) Missing burner registry entries
 * 5) "what was the last city you logged in from???"
 * 6) Question about a certain kind of URL
 * 7) User-friendly tools to change MAC addresses?
 * 8) Windows thinks my hardware has changed, but it has not.
 * 9) Wiping clean an iPhone
 * 10) iPad app, for only one system

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 21


 * 1) Backup autocorrect spelling Word 2010
 * 2) Sort files into date folders
 * 3) Python: sum of sets
 * 4) How to recover deleted SMS
 * 5) General Programming and access times
 * 6) Issue with flash security and a CD im using..........
 * 7) 802.11n technical question
 * 8) Firefox sync
 * 9) Updating information on the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Wikipedia site.
 * 10) Slow startup of PC

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 22


 * 1) restoring read-only files to read-write
 * 2) Radio on the ipad
 * 3) Are security requirements considered to be a Non-functional requirement
 * 4) Facebook down?
 * 5) what's the best computing language to learn?
 * 6) Norton Anti-Virus

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 23


 * 1) Sata power connector
 * 2) Facebook - Exporting list of page fans ('likes')
 * 3) relief map
 * 4) Connecting subwoofer to receiver
 * 5) Missing edit links in Reference Desks
 * 6) Should routers make faint noises?
 * 7) screen recording device

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 24


 * 1) Speech recognition
 * 2) Chances of tracking down attempted SQL injection
 * 3) A command for checking how much memory a program uses during its runtime (in Linux)...
 * 4) Games that spontaneously alt-tab
 * 5) laptop booting
 * 6) wget article history
 * 7) Linux distribution system requirements

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 25


 * 1) Does logging in enhance access to this desk?
 * 2) Ideal programming language(s) for beginning bioinformatics
 * 3) What is bioinformatics?
 * 4) Problem synching Google Calendar & Android phone
 * 5) After using Windows, Ubuntu cursor breaks
 * 6) IGMP and PIM

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 26


 * 1) privacy & google maps street view
 * 2) Reliable Power Supply Unit
 * 3) Pulling up a nickname history on IRC
 * 4) Webpage with multiple scrollbars and no frames
 * 5) Is this sentence correct?
 * 6) Matrix multiplication in php using foreach loop
 * 7) Update
 * 8) Another rsync question
 * 9) What could be causing wrong characters to appear?
 * 10) C# questions

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 27


 * 1) How to download from public FTP?
 * 2) Restoring Icons
 * 3) Steps to Post a Article
 * 4) Excel formula problem
 * 5) Appropriate usage of SSD term?
 * 6) Acid3 source code
 * 7) Vista's "Run..." doesn't save

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 28


 * 1) Windows XP moniter problem
 * 2) Is there an English <-> Archaic English translator anywhere?
 * 3) Name of an algorithm / problem
 * 4) First Programing Language
 * 5) C# and C++ libraries problem at work
 * 6) Hidden Files
 * 7) problems with a driving game called Blur.
 * 8) Mono/Moonlight/Chromium conflict? 3 different mscorlib.dll versions
 * 9) DVD Mystery

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 29


 * 1) Identi.ca and subscriptions
 * 2) preferred design for object-oriented aspects of c++
 * 3) USB
 * 4) Failing hard drive and silent data corruption
 * 5) Cannot download Greasemonkey
 * 6) C (graphics)

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 30


 * 1) Convert function
 * 2) Site not appearing in google search
 * 3) Malware cold calling
 * 4) Google Instant Search etc = Evil
 * 5) the 'size' of a bit
 * 6) Nokia C5-00 and e-mail

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 July 31


 * 1) Co-op Puzzle Games: are there any?!
 * 2) Antivirus updates
 * 3) Can VirtualBox use more than 4GB of physical memory of hosted on a 32-bit version of Windows?
 * 4) Must have your help! (appending sound tracks)
 * 5) why is counterstrike so popular?
 * 6) Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Node - Default # of VMs / CPU Core
 * 7) Is there a mapping application that computes distance given waypoints?
 * 8) HDMI PC to TV connection
 * 9) Strange sounds accompanying file operations on my MP3 player
 * 10) Blue lines on screen -- at my wit's end!