Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2010

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 1


 * 1) Computer numbers
 * 2) How to turn a GIF image into a JPG image
 * 3) NORTON 360 or NORTON 2010?
 * 4) non-linear waveshaping
 * 5) Kodak Easy-share Picture Program Issue- Library Back up
 * 6) Requirements for watching videos using YouTube HD
 * 7) Odd CD-Burning Question

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 2


 * 1) Key exchange with no shared secret?
 * 2) Importing TiVo files into Windows Movie Maker
 * 3) Deleted E-mails
 * 4) Remove Security Tool
 * 5) Saving MS WindowsXP or MSOffice to CD for possible reuse before I delete them
 * 6) Can a website disconnect my wireless connection?
 * 7) GNU make issue
 * 8) CustomizeGoogle is broken, how do I fix it?
 * 9) IP address
 * 10) Pre-translated phrase libraries for command-line apps
 * 11) Ripping Music from a Gameboy ROM

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 3


 * 1) windows 7 file sharing
 * 2) Outlook Web Access attachments
 * 3) Windows 7 new Updates
 * 4) Vimeo stutter
 * 5) Unrefresh
 * 6) Recursive rootkits
 * 7) Date injection
 * 8) Opera Mini on Nokia E63
 * 9) QuickTime portable
 * 10) Virtual Disk
 * 11) Special Character Keyboard Shortcuts
 * 12) Flash and WMV Sometimes Doesn't Work
 * 13) Closing ports, monitoring internet activity
 * 14) Capture Video
 * 15) FedEx for large files?
 * 16) Life expectancy of Microsoft
 * 17) Overclocking
 * 18) Video
 * 19) Avoid opening an email client when clicking on an email address
 * 20) What makes pirated copies "unsafe"? Does it get worse or is that marketing?
 * 21) Windows 7 vs. Windows XP
 * 22) TV Tuners and recorded programs
 * 23) GigaQuads

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 4


 * 1) Janes combat simulation WWII fighters game
 * 2) Computer names?
 * 3) partition
 * 4) Average traffic
 * 5) Image Privacy/Protection
 * 6) Trajan:WinNT/Omega.D
 * 7) Computer problem
 * 8) Hard drives
 * 9) working copper
 * 10) uTorrent, wireless, Linksys, and RoadRunner
 * 11) Five networking questions
 * 12) Recurring problem with ExFAT flash drive

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 5


 * 1) seeds
 * 2) SpyArsenal Internet Spy, Malware?
 * 3) Computers
 * 4) Floppy Disk
 * 5) Alphabet used for non-latin-charset licence keys
 * 6) how much does putting together a beige desktop quad core intel i7 system cost?
 * 7) Hard Drives
 * 8) Soundcard synth programming
 * 9) Real Player memory hog?
 * 10) floating point representation.
 * 11) Am I protected?
 * 12) There is any PC emulator?
 * 13) Google search results
 * 14) Keyboards
 * 15) what external monitor resolutions (with its VGA out) can an EEE PC 1005h netbook drive?

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 6


 * 1) Retaining fonts across Word Documents
 * 2) Wikis and Version Control Software
 * 3) Q: Java bytecode from same USB-flash-disk on various OSs?
 * 4) force higher resolution in ubuntu
 * 5) Java
 * 6) right click taskbar
 * 7) Deepblue?
 * 8) CDROMS
 * 9) Replacing text in text editor.
 * 10) Altering the appearance of Firefox tabs
 * 11) Information Request
 * 12) Custom XML Functionality Restoration Plugin for Word 2007
 * 13) Vista (only!) computer not connecting to internet....
 * 14) educational learning games

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 7


 * 1) Contacting UEFA
 * 2) What would happen if I submitted forwarded domains to Google?
 * 3) Windows 7 Updates Problem
 * 4) Dell hard disk
 * 5) How to remove Skype logo and other annoyances.
 * 6) Chatzilla
 * 7) Threshold
 * 8) Google auto-suggest discriminating against lesbians
 * 9) Windows "calling home"
 * 10) Solid state hard drives
 * 11) Dell d520 Laptop
 * 12) Searching for raw graphics

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 8


 * 1) Problems Downloading with Firefox
 * 2) Properties
 * 3) Rewriting this for-each loop
 * 4) Recovery
 * 5) Typography Questions...
 * 6) temperature
 * 7) regular expression help
 * 8) MS Word track changes disabled
 * 9) Update vs. Upgrade
 * 10) Installing Linux when Windows won't do anything more than Safe Mode

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 9


 * 1) Recovery disk
 * 2) School computer help
 * 3)  javascript  color
 * 4) Duplicate Installations of Same Software
 * 5) Swedish letters in Facebook messages
 * 6) Deleting a desktop file that is there but windows says it cant be found?
 * 7) WMV file in Powerpoint, define 'where' opens
 * 8) Ubuntu 9.10 Update Manager Help
 * 9) Linux dialog command is driving me crazy
 * 10) Letting people on local network access a server on my computer
 * 11) Email - outlook - smtp
 * 12) Folder encryption
 * 13) Sort in Excel - blank cells first
 * 14) Convert to mhtml
 * 15) Major Google trouble
 * 16) Online forums/portals

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 10


 * 1) (Win XP) How to forbid XP from accessing one particular wireless network?
 * 2) Can't Install Windows XP from Within Windows 7
 * 3) network upgrade question
 * 4) Removing Atdmt Cookie
 * 5) Laptop Mousepad Mouswheel Not Working In Games
 * 6) is there a mobile device that takes a 3G sim and exposes it over local WIFI?
 * 7) Setting up a whitelist for email
 * 8) Quantifiers in bash shell expression?
 * 9) Software cheat prevention
 * 10) Windows 7 – sound keeps dropping
 * 11) Link checking
 * 12) Google search
 * 13) How to make an mp4 file
 * 14) Java 2d graphics
 * 15) Maps
 * 16) avi player for win mobile 6 on htc p4530 (herald)
 * 17) What a nifty connection problem.
 * 18) JPEG Image won't display in IE6
 * 19) Why are all my rar downloads corrupt?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 11


 * 1) "&" in command line
 * 2) RAID stripe data recovery
 * 3) Windows Vista
 * 4) Limiting Ubuntu Hardy Heron's use of CPUs / Cores
 * 5) Upload speed
 * 6) Were can I find Debian 5.0.0 CD/ISO?
 * 7) Secret Web Page

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 12


 * 1) Computer unable to renew IP Address
 * 2) best free fire-and-forget antivirus for Win 7 Home?
 * 3) Truecrypt error?
 * 4) Simple Python program
 * 5) Countering virus infection without antivirus program
 * 6) what is the name of the task manager executable on windows 7?  (I'd like to start it with a shortcut)

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 13


 * 1) Best inkjet printer for occasional use and refilling
 * 2) Hex line numbers
 * 3) MediaWiki LocalSettings.php -- setting up Guest read-only account.
 * 4) Dell function keys
 * 5) Single page PDFs > Online accessible format

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 14


 * 1) latex multicols
 * 2) My monitor won’t work with a splitter cable
 * 3) Handwritten Character database
 * 4) "Gothic" fonts
 * 5) Rotten Tomatoes webpage problem
 * 6) Banned torrent
 * 7) Photoshop problem
 * 8) Which files are the most difficult to compress?
 * 9) Intro to Computer Science
 * 10) Recommendations for a wireless router

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 15


 * 1) Cannot access admin account
 * 2) New SSD: clone or reinstall?
 * 3) SSD/Moore's Law
 * 4) to connect two wifi devices
 * 5) Promissory abstracts
 * 6) Want to keep text between two text strings and discard everything else
 * 7) Computer froze like it never froze before
 * 8) mp3 quality
 * 9) Sound problem

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 16


 * 1) Open office draw fit text to curve
 * 2) business
 * 3) Are any of the MS Windows  22 BrowserChoice options written in pure Java?
 * 4) anonymous
 * 5) Software for synchronising separately recorded sound to HD video?
 * 6) Message is driving me around the bend
 * 7) Shortcuts for Special Characters On a Mac
 * 8) find total number of results for a Google search string
 * 9) Blocking all incoming external email for certain addresses in Postfix
 * 10) Inkscape: import PDF
 * 11) Typing special characters on Windows?

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 17


 * 1) Important
 * 2) home network - slow speed for 1Gb
 * 3) "Ticking" HDD
 * 4) Keys suddenly not working
 * 5) Greasemonkey Question
 * 6) Windows networking / Samba and subnets
 * 7) One DVD won't play in laptop
 * 8) Google Earth
 * 9) .exe to .dmg
 * 10) Win 7 - opensource and/or free video editing software?

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 18


 * 1) Game development - relative profit now vs then?
 * 2) Dell Optiplex to upgrade
 * 3) Intel Core
 * 4) Specific keyboard key will not function
 * 5) fortran 90
 * 6) FrontPage site user registration
 * 7) Ubuntu 9.10 Hibernating without consent
 * 8) What happened to Hotmail?
 * 9) do I need to use a switch to segment, or if I have enough LAN plugs I dont need them?
 * 10) Copy/paste one partition's contents to the other partition in GParted
 * 11) Does an electronic paper word processor exist?
 * 12) Including gpus, new and used, printers, Playstations, etc, and mainframes and services too what is the best teraflops for the money?
 * 13) Connection reset by peer.. meaning?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 19


 * 1) Formatting
 * 2) Google Chrome
 * 3) Stop Excel Horizontal-scrolling in a document
 * 4) ISO Files
 * 5) .mdf and .mds files

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 20


 * 1) Editing Wikipedia from iPhone OS
 * 2) syscall # 3
 * 3) Error message in main screen every time my computer turned on
 * 4) Login page
 * 5) control breaks
 * 6) Delphi/AVG Issue

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 21


 * 1) Local Javascript pop-up with pop-up blocking on
 * 2) Installing MSYS on 64bit vista
 * 3) US federal government software
 * 4) GPU-assisted video transcoding on ATI?
 * 5) Fortran
 * 6) Updating to Norton 360 v.4 from v.3 for free --- is that possible?
 * 7) fortran
 * 8) Top ten websites
 * 9) Putting text into a database
 * 10) Clever AI
 * 11) Complete System restore for Medion Akoya
 * 12) TCP/IP weirdness.

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 22


 * 1) Microsoft Groove
 * 2) What are the future prospects for inserting highlights, annotations, and html anchors into other people's websites?
 * 3) lib to java class/.net il ?!
 * 4) How can I find out my first router's upstream IP when I'm behind several levels of NAT?
 * 5) Spell check's algorithm
 * 6) What is Smart Business?
 * 7) Linux, Multiple Monitors and CLI/Grub
 * 8) graph
 * 9) fortran
 * 10) Quantum computing

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 23


 * 1) World Book Cyclo-Teacher Learning Aid
 * 2) Lyrics display
 * 3) digital age classroom
 * 4) Verifiable donations to a ACLU/EFF/Wikimedia/Free Software Foundation sort of organization
 * 5) Mount a laptop hard drive in a desktop?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 24


 * 1) Is there a way to edit the html of a page while I'm viewing it?
 * 2) Looking for win 32 version of Apache httpd 2.0.64-dev
 * 3) Surds on the TI-84 Plus
 * 4) Plugging an PC's network cable into a Cat-5 PBX wall jack fried the ethernet card
 * 5) What is the future for SUN Microsystems
 * 6) fastest browser
 * 7) is there any software that can answer trivial questions about "is there any number that?"
 * 8) Ticker tape transmitter keyboards?
 * 9) Caret browsing
 * 10) Cloning a linux install, then using the hdd image on a different pc
 * 11) Firefox - Add-ons no longer shown in menus

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 25


 * 1) fortran 90
 * 2) How do I restore minimized windows ?
 * 3) PDF assistance required
 * 4) The nuts and bolts of quantum computing
 * 5) Linux filesystem problem?
 * 6) Access 2003 Question
 * 7) IE8 - default to display the "Find" tool
 * 8) Backups

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 26


 * 1) Converting from flv to image files
 * 2) Google Earth down?
 * 3) Shift+F10 not working in Opera
 * 4) partitioning a new laptop with preinstalled os
 * 5) vba to android?
 * 6) Insecurity through OS piracy?
 * 7) Looking for a web annotation program that does certain things
 * 8) Ubuntu 9.10 Monitor Hibernating without Consent (revisited)
 * 9) How is bookmarks.html read by Firefox?

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 27


 * 1) Using Twitter for business
 * 2) 16-bit Icons
 * 3) LocalSettings.php
 * 4) Cannot Page Down the reference desk pages
 * 5) What artilcles to begin?
 * 6) How do I fix "LUpdate MFC Application" and stop it from crashing?
 * 7) Caret navigation in Firefox
 * 8) Highlighting text with the mouse prior to copying

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 28


 * 1) Programming languages that are executed by a Virtual Machine
 * 2) Color management in Windows Vista
 * 3) Connecting to my ISP
 * 4) How much do tape drives cost?
 * 5) Small silent computer - no fan, keyboard, or display
 * 6) Mass download of Pdfs
 * 7) Graph editor?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 29


 * 1) Media Player mess
 * 2) Java Applet Problem
 * 3) Firefox tab placement
 * 4) software crossover
 * 5) USB networking
 * 6) Battlefield Bad Company 2
 * 7) Unicode graphic
 * 8) linux poster software
 * 9) CDG file to CD-R
 * 10) Couldn't access half the web sites I tried
 * 11) Important Resource Removed from Circuit Board page
 * 12) bash help requested
 * 13) exif

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 30


 * 1) PHP: Passing a variable between frames
 * 2) Error message every time the computer is turned on.
 * 3) Clearing logs
 * 4) Back-up options
 * 5) Electronic office
 * 6) How to burn a duplicate of a DVD with only one disk drive in Win 7?
 * 7) Do I want a bridge or something else.

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2010 March 31


 * 1) help identifying
 * 2) Exact time
 * 3) oracle
 * 4) iPhone, AT&T and Verizon
 * 5) JScript
 * 6) How can i create a portable "mini network" with my portable USB as a shared drive?
 * 7) PDF PECL shaded pie
 * 8) I'm looking for a speakeasy kinda wiki