Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/June 2009

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 1


 * 1) Partition shift
 * 2) /dev/sda16 in Linux
 * 3) Compile interpretive language
 * 4) Restoring one PC with the restore disk of another
 * 5) Query String and Anchor in URL
 * 6) pasting from word 2003 into outlook 2003
 * 7) Anonymous delegate methods in C#
 * 8) Who is
 * 9) Difference between language itself and standard library
 * 10) How to get a new graphics card to work?

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 2


 * 1) Microsoft Excel
 * 2) Cost of Printing
 * 3) parallel processing..........
 * 4) Firewall problems
 * 5) Ubuntu script testing
 * 6) Fully automatic Aircrack-ng

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 3


 * 1) Cheap computer parts
 * 2) What is Kerberos used for?
 * 3) Junk Mail Sent by Me
 * 4) Z80 question
 * 5) Funny floats?
 * 6) Grand Celebration
 * 7) PRC Firewall Circumvention Tools
 * 8) Simple line matching in linux / bash

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 4


 * 1) Disabling CC On Magnavox TV
 * 2) Quick'n'Dirty CSS help
 * 3) removing a word
 * 4) Freeware DVD playing software?
 * 5) Change words color
 * 6) Freeware 'photocopier' software for WIA flatbed scanner using XP?
 * 7) Changing sea level

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 5


 * 1) force bash to expand arguments (Linux)
 * 2) Bit operators
 * 3) How to connect SQL database to matlab GUI????????
 * 4) watching TV on my laptop
 * 5) XML XSD Schema what is the namespace attribute of the import statement for
 * 6) Loadrunner - Vugen script explanation?
 * 7) Games that won't run on nVidia 7000-series graphics cards.
 * 8) Non-Existing Drives in Windows Vista
 * 9) Bash output errors
 * 10) Serif WebPlus User to User Help
 * 11) Searching IMDb
 * 12) Instance methods in Java
 * 13) IE history security
 * 14) Second internal hard drive on a laptop

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 6


 * 1) Portable VirtualBox for Linux?
 * 2) Sorting MSN contact list by e-mail address
 * 3) auto web crawler
 * 4) Reconstructing link from the href
 * 5) Linux like security in Windows?
 * 6) GPL DRM Kits

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 7


 * 1) Linux on older laptop: recommendations?
 * 2) Rainbow function
 * 3) Intelligence as absence of stupidity
 * 4) Epson R2880 Printing Onto Canvas
 * 5) Fuse.conf access denied (Linux security)

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 8


 * 1) VirtualBox and multiple users
 * 2) Email with pictures
 * 3) Add user to FUSE group (Linux - Ubuntu)?
 * 4) How to put icons on a Symbian desktop
 * 5) Alternative earphones with remote and microphone for iPod touch
 * 6) T2400
 * 7) keeping track of computer changes
 * 8) Flatbed scanner light moves back and forth several times before the full scan - normal?

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 9


 * 1) Undelete, and, searching the Reference Desk
 * 2) lsass.exe
 * 3) Asynchronous x86
 * 4) Google Street View UK
 * 5) UK vat on computer DVD etc
 * 6) using reconstructor withubuntu
 * 7) Winamp
 * 8) Redirecting yahoo mail
 * 9) Scripting language for image manipulation
 * 10) Power Converters

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 10


 * 1) Protective case for Toshiba NB 200
 * 2) Video Conversion
 * 3) Address book (email) quota/send to quota
 * 4) Mysql apache
 * 5) TiLP-II

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 11


 * 1) WinXP notebook throttling
 * 2) help with a userbox
 * 3) Download Wikipedia
 * 4) How to put save file on Wii
 * 5) Touchpad freezing
 * 6) Favicons in IE8's InPrivate mode
 * 7) Folders of JPEG to PDF
 * 8) Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
 * 9) EU, Antitrust, Browsers
 * 10) Emailing a file
 * 11) Querying an Access database for upcoming deadlines

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 12


 * 1) Externalize a video card
 * 2) Count lines in file (bash - Linux)?
 * 3) Supercomputer today, Desktop tomorrow
 * 4) imacros
 * 5) Windows 7 IE to Ship w/o IE in Europe
 * 6) A new laptop
 * 7) Images organized in folders to PDF (a freeware)?
 * 8) Excel API
 * 9) Best way to downgrade quality of .ogg files
 * 10) Using scanner software with different scanners?
 * 11) Where are they getting the (presumably cleared) private data from?
 * 12) Can't  start up my Sony Vaio laptop!
 * 13) Printing onto Canvas with an Inkjet Printer

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 13


 * 1) What can I do...
 * 2) What's the problem
 * 3) Another Strange Problem
 * 4) Downhill Jam
 * 5) Embedding Applets Online
 * 6) libticables2-2.dll
 * 7) Can I use a new flat TFT monitor screen with an old computer?
 * 8) Screen resolution of LCD - follow-up question
 * 9) Checklists

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 14


 * 1) Virtual memory
 * 2) Bittorrent play while download
 * 3) I can't read East Asian Languages
 * 4) Search whole site
 * 5) Norton Internet Security and Anti-Spam
 * 6) ATX SMPS question
 * 7) malloc and free
 * 8) bash question
 * 9) Change Network Card

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 15


 * 1) Track program in Linux?
 * 2) Time complexity of modified TSP
 * 3) C command to read next line
 * 4) What is a 1:1 Frame Rate?
 * 5) docx file
 * 6) Universal remotes
 * 7) Alternative to Movie Maker
 * 8) JavaScript mouse cursor
 * 9) iPhone, Podcasts and WiFi
 * 10) plot .dat files
 * 11) Scale pages in Scribus
 * 12) installing problems

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 16


 * 1) Determining origin of digital image
 * 2) What is Blogging?
 * 3) Blackberry Curve and the iPhone 3G S
 * 4) Vandal fighter
 * 5) proxy server
 * 6) Changing list of words
 * 7) Desktop soundsystem
 * 8) DDR2/DDR3
 * 9) Having trouble viewing some pages

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 17


 * 1) Toubleshooting in USB pen drive
 * 2) Streaming live video to a large audience?
 * 3) PDF TO WORD
 * 4) Chinese
 * 5) Using Krita (image editor) in Windows
 * 6) /usr/bin/nm-applet in Ubuntu Jaunty; other Jaunty concerns
 * 7) eah4870
 * 8) Replacing the motherboard in my old computer
 * 9) Telco Cylinders
 * 10) Reset Router
 * 11) Electromagnetic interference - 'stealthy shielding'

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 18


 * 1) HTML page shown as webpage
 * 2) Force to use proxy
 * 3) .svg file
 * 4) Power cycling to drain the capacitors
 * 5) Simple MIDI Software?
 * 6) Greasemonkey
 * 7) Java Programming: Dividing up and Image
 * 8) Confused about my graphics card resolution
 * 9) Two Vista issues

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 19


 * 1) Need MPEG to OGG converter for videos
 * 2) Simple regular expression
 * 3) MS Word 2003 has started checking spelling in American-English, not British-English
 * 4) Linux equivalent of Windows Update?

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 20


 * 1) Web Templates
 * 2) My edit to an article got changed back
 * 3) Reset
 * 4) searches within specific domains
 * 5) Are these photos likely not interpolated/coming from a 2MP native camera

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 21


 * 1) SWF innards
 * 2) Undelete
 * 3) Changing Disk thing's letter
 * 4) Automatic download of podcasts
 * 5) Typing chemical equations in MS word
 * 6) Programs to check out a computer from a pen drive?
 * 7) Cricket 07
 * 8) Grounding a multimeter
 * 9) McAfee blew up my computer
 * 10) Orange Livebox losing connection
 * 11) Mac Intel vs PC Intel
 * 12) Matlab to Adobe Illustrator

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 22


 * 1) Facebook imports gmail contacts without knowing the password. How?
 * 2) Copyright- Product images on review websites
 * 3) InstantAtlas
 * 4) Not shutting down programs can corrupt the hard drive?
 * 5) Joining together a modem, a Windows computer, and a Linux computer
 * 6) Processing Comma-separated values files
 * 7) Facebook unknown "friends" who only have 4 or 5 friends
 * 8) Recording sounds in Windows
 * 9) Mobile broadband disconnecting
 * 10) wireless card for Apple Power Mac G5
 * 11) directX function - openGL equivalent
 * 12) YouTube video ratio
 * 13) U+2308, U+2309, U+230A, and U+230B
 * 14) Characters after "z" in Mac OS X

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 23


 * 1) Hot pluggable SATA/eSATA
 * 2) NT CMD peculiarities
 * 3) Capitalizing a list
 * 4) Two messenger accounts,one i want hidden
 * 5) Preparing a square-pixel image for DV NTSC video
 * 6) Online translators
 * 7) Monitor problem

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 24


 * 1) Download Microsoft Security Essentials?
 * 2) What does ActivePython give over and above pywin32?
 * 3) Using fields in finalizers
 * 4) Using other people's image
 * 5) Internet Connection drops out...a lot
 * 6) Does Windows Mobile have updates?
 * 7) Recovering files "permanently" deleted in recycle bin
 * 8) Send me an email when a web page changes
 * 9) Image sizes changing when edited
 * 10) Upgrading windows 1.0 to vista. Is this possible?
 * 11) Common units for (semi)proffesional desktop publishing?
 * 12) How long can I submerge my keyboard in water before it's damaged (assuming damage is even possible)?

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 25


 * 1) RCA-to-Headphone converter
 * 2) IE* can't open wikipedia
 * 3) Macs and formatting
 * 4) Colour
 * 5) HP PDA is locked
 * 6) Editing Animated images
 * 7) Mobile internet
 * 8) Compare two files in Ubuntu
 * 9) Relationship between offset value format and 2's compliment format in DAC
 * 10) Tablet vs. normal notebook
 * 11) Cut help
 * 12) Alternatives to Paypal
 * 13) Safari Books
 * 14) regional font problem in windows
 * 15) Website builders
 * 16) OnLive
 * 17) Windows trivia
 * 18) Social networking sites that ask permission to snoop in your email account

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 26


 * 1) MPEG-4 encoder?
 * 2) Windows 7 Upgrade Option
 * 3) Diagonal lines/snow across display when running Windows 7 on iMac
 * 4) How are Push notification more battery saving?
 * 5) Extract each nth word of a string or text
 * 6) Handwritten notes
 * 7) Portable laptop charged
 * 8) Getting DSL and keeping screen name - how is it possible?
 * 9) Web profit
 * 10) java
 * 11) problem
 * 12) How can a question be contracted?

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 27


 * 1) Firefox Flash sound works only when running as root
 * 2) More of an FYI for Japanese character help
 * 3) Windows Vista color mod?
 * 4) Add joliet extension to ISO: good idea?
 * 5) Name that diagram
 * 6) New PC Seems to Turn On...Screen in Black...
 * 7) PS3 Question
 * 8) rundll32.exe
 * 9) Windows: Shortcut to shortcut?

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 28


 * 1) bat files
 * 2) retrieving data from sites
 * 3) electronic devices that were commercial failures
 * 4) Increase Upload Speed
 * 5) Location of files on computer
 * 6) Excel function/macro
 * 7) jpegs
 * 8) psplimewire
 * 9) Disappearing free space
 * 10) Tracking cookies?

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 29


 * 1) vista webpage
 * 2) Vista desktops
 * 3) CPUs
 * 4) Internet Radio Recorder
 * 5) Who uses Java servlets?
 * 6) Madden 07 Xbox 360 Controls
 * 7) My Computer is gone
 * 8) IBM POWER6 Decimal floating point
 * 9) Windows graphing program for excel spreadsheets
 * 10) Replacing PS3 HDD... clone first?
 * 11) Solaris 10 and open Solaris
 * 12) Ubuntu - still free after 18 months?
 * 13) Windows or Linux - which is technically better?

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 June 30


 * 1) Need help with chess
 * 2) Webmail and wifi security
 * 3) Problem
 * 4) How to replace an old url with the new url globally in all pages
 * 5) What product is this ?
 * 6) Firefox 3.5
 * 7) machine code question
 * 8) google question
 * 9) B/W
 * 10) Ogg