Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/June 2011

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 1


 * 1) Reconnecting a bash session
 * 2) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
 * 3) Recover images from formatted SD card
 * 4) Can a multi-monitor rig be achieved with different output modes?
 * 5) Network Printer
 * 6) HTML/CSS Table help
 * 7) Change from Gnome to LXDE

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 2


 * 1) how to hack a web or blog
 * 2) Sync program that works between Win 7 and XP and works with networked drives

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 3


 * 1) 128 bit gaming
 * 2) Multicolumn text flowing multipage sliding
 * 3) More MS Office Problems
 * 4) common practices request
 * 5) User DMCA report system
 * 6) Why does Internet Explorer alway's say, " Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage?"
 * 7) cable modem dropping and wired/wireless router
 * 8) Does it need to be 64-bit to use both cores?

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 4


 * 1) Hypervisor for GPU Virtualization
 * 2) Apple Iphone touchscreen sensitivity
 * 3) Facebook question
 * 4) Can a flashable BIOS be modified to start a bootloader larger than 512 bytes?
 * 5) How does VPN affect my Internet connection/privacy/security?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 5


 * 1) Link to a Facebook image
 * 2) lost office 2007 media, have key - where to download
 * 3) How to make sounds from the Windows Command Prompt ?
 * 4) Windows 95 Media
 * 5) Firefox 4: open new tabs at end
 * 6) How do you show categories as wiki markup?

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 6


 * 1) PDF: Searchable
 * 2) RAM card compatibility (DDR3-1333 instead of DDR3-1066. Will it work?)
 * 3) How to re-open a Firefox window in a full window?
 * 4) WinZip WinDows
 * 5) Outlook 2003 - Multiple Calendars - Intermittently stop syncing with Exchange
 * 6) Looking for a template-based, static CMS
 * 7) What happens when Flash games stall ?
 * 8) long-term media storage and compatability
 * 9) Oracle bug: Empty strings treated as null

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 7


 * 1) Local printer to internet printer
 * 2) MP3 tag editor for "genre" and "composer"
 * 3) Inkscape convert text
 * 4) IP Address

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 8


 * 1) cable provides telephone service
 * 2) World Mode G3
 * 3) Game programming languages?
 * 4) Breaking out of alert loops
 * 5) Looking for a Programming language
 * 6) Install DMG programme on Windows 7
 * 7) Best word to describe "Software which is run by an operating system"
 * 8) how do most php programmerse program the html part (mac)
 * 9) Using my choice of icon for each desktop shortcut, folder, or URL
 * 10) what might a beginner without formal training learn wrong about web design?
 * 11) USB Devices No Longer Working (Vista)

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 9


 * 1) Laptop wont recognize FAT32 Flash Drives
 * 2) Regarding archiving on CD/DVDs
 * 3) Knowledge Management System of an organization using RDF in Semantic Web
 * 4) Why THAT password?
 * 5) how does NAT traversal work? (or busting through a firewall)
 * 6) NSA and Cryptography
 * 7) Pop-up pictures in Firefox

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 10


 * 1) Back button
 * 2) Blogs
 * 3) Fastest mainstream computer language to learn?
 * 4) Adjusting sound

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 11


 * 1) Using unmanaged .dll with managed code
 * 2) TV rebroadcast
 * 3) Subtitling
 * 4) Referrer spam
 * 5) how much faster would it be if instead of normal SSD, the hard-drive was a little computer behaving like a hard-drive but going off of RAM?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 12


 * 1) New PC config question
 * 2) Streaming IMDB trailers
 * 3) formatted hex printing in C++
 * 4) Timing Music on PowerPoint
 * 5) google not indexing
 * 6) (Only one) Computer from the network weeks disconnecting from internet and network.
 * 7) Vista System Restore
 * 8) download vedio from utube

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 13


 * 1) can't access blogger
 * 2) Bit frame selection in differential Manchester encoding
 * 3) anti-spyware software for Macs
 * 4) cron.daily in Ubuntu

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 14


 * 1) Browser war
 * 2) Best Linux OS for File Transfer Protocol Server
 * 3) backup hardlinks
 * 4) Giant Mail Merge Question
 * 5) Learning game programming by reading open source code?
 * 6) worldwide visibility of jt3.com

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 15


 * 1) External Hard Drive
 * 2) How can I cancel saving a web page in IE?

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 16


 * 1) Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 LTS - Separate Partition Sizes
 * 2) Acquisition of home LED and LCD monitors, navigating marketing jargon
 * 3) Characters added to text file
 * 4) Problem with WLAN under Ubuntu
 * 5) If an IP is shared between multiple people in reality, could they be accused of sockpuppetry?
 * 6) list of -fu to practice to become an elite hacker?
 * 7) parody video of startup (full of buzzwords) on techcrunch?
 * 8) Remote Desktop from Linux to Windows?
 * 9) Does a device like this exist?
 * 10) Delete duplicate files
 * 11) Overwriting CD-Rs to destroy data

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 17


 * 1) Figure out what type of server a site is running
 * 2) Open source compability with powerpoint
 * 3) Animated JPG??
 * 4) Taking pictures without using my hands
 * 5) Ad problems

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 18


 * 1) 2 computer monitors
 * 2) ping and keyboards
 * 3) Question about references
 * 4) What's this character?
 * 5) Alt-C

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 19


 * 1) Wordpress MP3 plugin for dummies
 * 2) Uptodating drivers for Windows XP
 * 3) Search for files in Windows 7
 * 4) IPod formatted Mac/Windows
 * 5) Rename all subfolders by adding the same prefix
 * 6) Progress bar for auto-fsck (Ubuntu 10.04)
 * 7) Facebook question

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 20


 * 1) Help with switchboard (MS Access)
 * 2) Memory Stick question
 * 3) how is version control for a development team usually set up?

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 21


 * 1) Tracing MAC address over the Internet
 * 2) Administrator bullying situation - where to report it?
 * 3) Archiving a Polish report
 * 4) Best cloud desktop service
 * 5) Windows PE image restore
 * 6) Is there a charity that will send my old computer to the 3rd world?
 * 7) Web server on top level domain only?
 * 8) 'Monitor Program'?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 22


 * 1) Firefox Icon
 * 2) mouse single click e speaking software
 * 3) Elite question
 * 4) Simplified Chinese Music Notation software
 * 5) Having trouble with my computer
 * 6) Kenya WiFi Security
 * 7) Router logbook

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 23


 * 1) Running program for Unix-based OS
 * 2) Ubuntu: Command + ` OSX equivalent?
 * 3) Torrents
 * 4) MS Outlook 2007
 * 5) Secure VPN + Insecure (W)LAN
 * 6) BrowserChoice.eu  -  does it really work like this?
 * 7) Restarting the display in Linux
 * 8) Samsung Galaxy S II release date in China?
 * 9) Laptop design

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 24


 * 1) 2 x 500 GB (WD) or 1 x 1 TB (Toshiba)
 * 2) Onboard video card
 * 3) Looking for an audio media player SOFTWARE

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 25


 * 1) A Software which SEPERATES refrences from the main text of a scientific paper?
 * 2) disappearing link
 * 3) PHP regular expression
 * 4) Enquiry about purchase of Monitor Inverter
 * 5) Safe Mode in Windows XP
 * 6) remote processor networks
 * 7) If routers have 192.168.1.1 as IP...
 * 8) Economical side of torrent
 * 9) filesystem
 * 10) secure against file corruption
 * 11) parchive
 * 12) Storing 15GB of data in my garden for 50 years
 * 13) What is the weird little separator in my Firefox 5 tabs?
 * 14) A device doesn't "support" .txt files?
 * 15) Windows stable work
 * 16) Wireless
 * 17) Zero-byte files in WinXP
 * 18) Tooltips In System Tray
 * 19) Which top-level domains are limited as far as who can own them?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 26


 * 1) Saving passwords on Android apps
 * 2) adding automatic subtitles for VLC videos?
 * 3) Tracking down a group of hackers
 * 4) Cat5e crosstalk
 * 5) Most error correcting file compression?
 * 6) Right to left encoding

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 27


 * 1) Thermal efficiency of FPGAs vs. conventional CPUs
 * 2) Excel: Date Calculation
 * 3) Desktop speaker volume detection?
 * 4) Remote file system manipulation without FTP
 * 5) Robots.txt
 * 6) Swedish IPRED Law - keeping logs mandatory
 * 7) firefox
 * 8) Wikipedia content automatically posted on Facebook
 * 9) Transferring DVDs to computer

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 28


 * 1) Computing clouds
 * 2) Ubuntu keyboard restart
 * 3) Full access to an iPod's file system
 * 4) 'Run As Admin' Option Not Appearing
 * 5) what format are rackspace cloud images in?
 * 6) How do you get a PDF to work on Word 2010?
 * 7) PHP MyAdmin help

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 29


 * 1) Playing Downloaded .cue & .flac files
 * 2) Moderate (or just slight) network security for dummies
 * 3) How to creat a mobile phone app
 * 4) Ad problems, the sequel
 * 5) HFS+ drive backed up onto FAT32 drive
 * 6) Shell script help
 * 7) web designing tutions online for beginners [80 years old, Me]

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 June 30


 * 1) Creating a mobile phone app part 2
 * 2) Phone apps, business side
 * 3) Source of online topographic map
 * 4) Processor cloud
 * 5) Harvesting HDD from an external enclosure
 * 6) projected and non -projected visuals
 * 7) Finding out why my laptop rebooted
 * 8) firefox/ fedora 7 not behaving
 * 9) Difference between computers and humans
 * 10) Google search for "sex"