Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2009

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 1


 * 1) change camera drivers
 * 2) Manually backing up Hard Drive
 * 3) CSS hover
 * 4) Format a disk that refuses?
 * 5) Firefox bog
 * 6) Restoring deleted files
 * 7) 250W PSU and a new Video Card
 * 8) Konqueror, Firefox and openSUSE
 * 9) Blackberrys, Outlook and Exchange
 * 10) Time Zone Software for OS X For Scheduling Appointments
 * 11) MoWeS to Real Server
 * 12) What is the best web browswer for Windows?
 * 13) Looking for something that says "Ready" when startup finally finished, and requires entering a key code to allow computer use
 * 14) Transfer contributions list to new account

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 2


 * 1) What to look for in a media center PC?
 * 2) how would i... (in CSS)
 * 3) Saving in safe mode
 * 4) Vista Wireless Connections
 * 5) Address Book in Yahoo Messenger
 * 6) My own server at home - WWW/FTP/DNS? - possible?
 * 7) Slow Acer
 * 8) Machine translation of flash websites?
 * 9) Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 and Microsoft Office Professional 2007
 * 10) xp installation issues
 * 11) OS X DNS/DHCP settings forgotten
 * 12) stock website
 * 13) Capabilities of netbooks
 * 14) Change jpeg comments
 * 15) Access is Denied (Thumb Drive)
 * 16) thepiratebay.org

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 3


 * 1) IE 6.0: don't want to get forwarded to Dell
 * 2) NTLM vs LDAP
 * 3) PSX Emulator--Issues with Disc Spinning
 * 4) Flash in Web Pages
 * 5) (Moved from misc) 3gp code for Windows Movie Maker
 * 6) Why my wikipedia english pages so strange like this
 * 7) Standalone virus cleaner
 * 8) TI 89 assembly

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 4


 * 1) Drive overclocking
 * 2) Can I uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 after I have installed Visual C++ 2008?
 * 3) electroni signature
 * 4) what is computer?
 * 5) What is Windows Media Format Runtime?
 * 6) Virus infection
 * 7) C++
 * 8) Putting Two .jpg Files Into A Single .pdf

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 5


 * 1) Vista taskbar problem
 * 2) Find the Maximum of a Set
 * 3) Read from /dev/urandom and convert to binary
 * 4) Fire suppresor for computers/servers?
 * 5) Reverse a diff file
 * 6) mobile broadband (1)
 * 7) Applying column width changes to every sheet in Excel
 * 8) want to save HTML of current page from Firefox 3
 * 9) internet on the go
 * 10) serving SVG to FF and png to IE?
 * 11) excel macro help
 * 12) Spam using anothers address?

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 6


 * 1) skype to irc (or similar) gateway?
 * 2) Current processor offerings
 * 3) Sort order in Windows explorer
 * 4) Truely unlimited broadband
 * 5) MS Excel cross-reference help
 * 6) Ultramon Wallpaper (Vista)
 * 7) Question on ACID
 * 8) How do I capture live webcam from livejasmin
 * 9) Microsoft Word "bugs"
 * 10) Blogger layout 100%
 * 11) Vista Enterprise vs Windows 7 Beta
 * 12) OpenGL
 * 13) Layout Issues

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 7


 * 1) SSD comparable to Intel X25-M
 * 2) counting blocks in aurocad
 * 3) Music in PC
 * 4) Program refuses to completely uninstall
 * 5) Using Clonezilla
 * 6) Reload a web page every x seconds
 * 7) Computer programming for chatterbots.
 * 8) Using an existing sim card in a new iPhone?

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 8


 * 1) How do I update OpenOffice2.4 to version 3?
 * 2) What's that computer virus called that pops up "you have a virus" messages?
 * 3) rename files
 * 4) Touch pad turned off
 * 5) Motorola KRZR K1 Custom Ringtone

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 9


 * 1) Pointers/References C++
 * 2) How would you recommend organizing digital media (photos, videos, maybe audio in future)
 * 3) programming a physics engine?
 * 4) Hot pixels and Photoshop CS3
 * 5) Mac/G4 question
 * 6) Equipment found in a DNA Lab
 * 7) Firefox login window disappears and reappears
 * 8) Auto-complete function
 * 9) Bit Torrent

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 10


 * 1) Modular network security software?
 * 2) search engines and multiple domains
 * 3) Viewport area below BODY in Firefox
 * 4) Apache Tomcat and Apple
 * 5) Free Photoshop-Like Website?
 * 6) Name the font
 * 7) screenless display
 * 8) Authentication using Mobile Phone / Sim card

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 11


 * 1) Skype problems
 * 2) Gnome Sort
 * 3) /stalk for pidgin
 * 4) PNG in PHP problem
 * 5) Java programming - how do I do this...
 * 6) digital pen/stylus
 * 7) Incorrect behaivour or mailicious code?
 * 8) Sync Evolution and Collanos
 * 9) Finding the same text in two different files
 * 10) Google Currency Converter to Only Two Decimal Places?
 * 11) Speex audio from Adobe Flex / Flash Player 10 .flv via Red5 to .wav PCM?
 * 12) Access 2007 and autogenerated form fields
 * 13) iPhone and Blackberry
 * 14) When does a MAC Address Change?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 12


 * 1) Hibernation Mode
 * 2) Extract the constant term from a polynomial, with Maple9
 * 3) Security Software
 * 4) finding pixel with RGB in visual basic or visual C++
 * 5) Why does YouTube add black vertical black bars to my (windows movie maker) videos?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 13


 * 1) after burning a dvd-r
 * 2) What's really happening here?
 * 3) Gmail offline
 * 4) question
 * 5) I need a boot disk
 * 6) Linux and Torvalds original source code
 * 7) Google toolbar and Firefox 3.0.7
 * 8) Xlib fullscreen window sample
 * 9) How backwards compatible is Windows 7?
 * 10) Are stored procedures considered part of the data layer or data access layer?
 * 11) How games use CPU cycles
 * 12) Partition problems lead to extremely slow computer
 * 13) Program
 * 14) VNC client

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 14


 * 1) what is the best free antivirus program?
 * 2) Firefox URL window doesn't work
 * 3) Best way to upgrade a Windows Millenium computer
 * 4) Remote saving of pages
 * 5) Xubuntu Loading Problems...
 * 6) Windows XP question
 * 7) printer beeping
 * 8) Memory upgrade for a Dell
 * 9) Burning dvd's &cd's

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 15


 * 1) Cocoa Finder in 10.6
 * 2) Graphics cards
 * 3) DVD video creation
 * 4) I'm spacing out on this Q...
 * 5) 32-bit memory limits and GPUs
 * 6) Alan turing
 * 7) Ubuntu vs. Xubuntu
 * 8) Mobile photo sharing
 * 9) Using Opteron 2000 series in a 4 socket motherboard
 * 10) annotating pdf files
 * 11) Am I allowed to be using a pirated version of windows?
 * 12) Can this fax?
 * 13) Comparing variables in C++

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 16


 * 1) Saving output in a text file
 * 2) Preventing PLESK from disclosing my email address
 * 3) RAID with different sizes of disks
 * 4) Allowing blocked users to edit cetain pages
 * 5) Thunderbird reply quote header
 * 6) want to remove U3 from my pen drive
 * 7) Vista and Outlook
 * 8) Multiple live video on a single screen

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 17


 * 1) Creating a strong password, valid characters?
 * 2) Google print size
 * 3) Getting the commit charge limit
 * 4) Adding five more users to an existing 25 user Novell netware 4.2 version
 * 5) Screen quality
 * 6) irc help
 * 7) Windows Family Censorship - or whatever it's called

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 18


 * 1) C#.. how to show a tooltip anywhere on my screen?
 * 2) Effect on humans
 * 3) Problem with software requiring Adobe Reader
 * 4) wii mod chip
 * 5) Lahey compiler (FORTRAN programming)
 * 6) Databases
 * 7) Lookup table Excel
 * 8) computer - DVI-D and VGA
 * 9) Bluetooth and cell phone interraction
 * 10) How to enable net send
 * 11) SATA power supply
 * 12) Switching to Linux - some questions before I do
 * 13) Help! Excessive hard drive activity
 * 14) Any way to tunnel traffic from behind a GET-only (no CONNECT) HTTP proxy?
 * 15) Discrete Hard Drive Speeds

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 19


 * 1) Two questions in one
 * 2) Every Single Hardrive Fried?
 * 3) iPod touch jailbreaking
 * 4) How to identify SDRAM memory exactly for compatability reasons
 * 5) Odd connector
 * 6) Apostrophe
 * 7) DOS

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 20


 * 1) SLI in 8x?
 * 2) Turning off a computer on a network via dos
 * 3) Li-ion battery
 * 4) "Looking glass" for SMS routing
 * 5) Unbearable low screen resolution on Vista which is impossible to alter by normal methods. Help!
 * 6) Old-header (Windows 1.0 and 2.0) bitmaps

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 21


 * 1) net
 * 2) Slow Computer
 * 3) Fork bombs
 * 4) question
 * 5) XP windows update: how to start custom install
 * 6) Stickam.com
 * 7) Turning things off and on
 * 8) Solaris 9 in VMWare
 * 9) blocked mediawiki export, api.php - gfdl freedoms
 * 10) Is 10-to-1 still valid?
 * 11) Intel Core 2 Duo processors vs Centrino 2 Duo

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 22


 * 1) HD camcorder with emphasis on microphone jack (and budget)
 * 2) Skype Data Consumption
 * 3) Scheduling/alert application in Windows Vista
 * 4) IE8 vs. Chrome
 * 5) Where and How should I write this code?
 * 6) "New mail" notifier for IMAP
 * 7) Crysis sandbox2 Sound
 * 8) Inkjet Printing onto Canvas (Epson Stylus Photo R2880)

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 23


 * 1) Windows EXE's on Mac OS x x86
 * 2) Anyone else have one of these stupid things?
 * 3) recovering CD data
 * 4) Hidden files aren't shown
 * 5) Copy a binary file in C/C++
 * 6) Making a PDF of a Book
 * 7) Why are console games more expensive?
 * 8) Priority over wifi network
 * 9) WEP Key
 * 10) Online services request email password
 * 11) DVD audio selection
 * 12) Assembler syntax
 * 13) Translation
 * 14) Directory after remaming a user

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 24


 * 1) Network Adaptor
 * 2) Freeware software alerts
 * 3) Hourly check for updates on Ubuntu
 * 4) Oprea tabs
 * 5) MS Word tables

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 25


 * 1) Game Maker Help
 * 2) DVD drive woes
 * 3) Citing works from the Commons in a research paper
 * 4) Viewing the MFT
 * 5) Running Applications over a Network
 * 6) .NET HTML table problem
 * 7) About top university's in "MIS" Major
 * 8) Tunebite

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 26


 * 1) Floppy
 * 2) This Can't be Good can it?
 * 3) ls -tr | sh foo
 * 4) Transferring email adresses from cableone.net to aim mail .com or yahoo.com
 * 5) Convenient Contribs Lookup
 * 6) Audio on DVDs in Windows Media Player
 * 7) Sending e-mails and surfing the net anonymously
 * 8) iMovie HD
 * 9) Vista, firefox
 * 10) Ports and Sockets,   .logs and e-mail

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 27


 * 1) A way to guard against identity theft?
 * 2) Nag, nag, nag
 * 3) JDBC
 * 4) ISP
 * 5) Black bar appearing either side of you tube videos!
 * 6) SQL optimisation
 * 7) .net on mac
 * 8) Electronics: Logic processing: How to feed D type flip flops from parallel ...

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 28


 * 1) SolidWorks
 * 2) Dispose and Finalize
 * 3) Flash and Java on 64-bit Linux
 * 4) Installing Microsoft Office without a CD/DVD drive
 * 5) IIT
 * 6) TRS vs TS jacks for headphones and amplifiers
 * 7) Root access for brain in a vat
 * 8) Series of tubes
 * 9) Random intractable all-browser failure on non-infected machine

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 29


 * 1) Out-of-office auto-replies from people I've never emailed
 * 2) Sending SMS via the computer.
 * 3) Screen savers and tooltips don't work.
 * 4) PC Slowing down
 * 5) can my laptop write to dvds/cds
 * 6) Hibernate

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 30


 * 1) What's the most recommended ANSI/ISO C++ compiler for Windows Vista?
 * 2) InternetCalls Software
 * 3) convert text to numbers
 * 4) Help me with some download things?
 * 5) monochrome TV transmitter and reciever
 * 6) capital "I" in MS Word 2007
 * 7) remote desktop
 * 8) Simple OSS
 * 9) Need to set up a generic printer but I don't have a driver
 * 10) World Tour / Rock Band Instrument Compatibility
 * 11) Cloud Computing Confusion

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 March 31


 * 1) Quick 'n easy wireless router question
 * 2) downloading
 * 3) 3DS Max 9