Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2011

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 1


 * 1) Iomega external hard drive
 * 2) Migrating MS Outlook
 * 3) Map creation
 * 4) CSS box model
 * 5) Vandal's comeuppance
 * 6) Google Maps

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 2


 * 1) Trusted in the sense of Mozilla
 * 2) Using the datastore outside of CGI in Google App Engine
 * 3) URIs and URLs (terminology)
 * 4) Updating Adobe Flash Player
 * 5) DVD driver
 * 6) New Core i5's vs Core 2's

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 3


 * 1) Mostly downloaded video file
 * 2) how many gb is 5nb
 * 3) Difference between Fab site and Assembly site
 * 4) Youtube video view milestones
 * 5) Why do I hear a door closing?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 4


 * 1) OPTICAL FIBRE
 * 2) a freeware tool to zip files in batch one by one
 * 3) DNS not responding
 * 4) Printing or splitting a very large web page into parts
 * 5) Installing IE9 RC

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 5


 * 1) Computer start-up problem
 * 2) Endless Ocean:Blue World
 * 3) Website help
 * 4) Free Random Number Generator
 * 5) REBOL
 * 6) OpenOffice Calc autocorrection madness
 * 7) Random pool for encryption

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 6


 * 1) Question about Dell's early days
 * 2) Metasearch blogs for topic x
 * 3) Mixcraft Robotic Voice
 * 4) web cache
 * 5) Name of an old Windows game
 * 6) Actual pixel contents of RAW image files
 * 7) Doing mirror writing in Microsoft Word?

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 7


 * 1) file transfer
 * 2) Archiving google cache
 * 3) Uninstall the ICQ toolbar from Firefox?
 * 4) Convert KMZ file to a file that will play on a regular media player
 * 5) Problem mouting pen-drive in Linux
 * 6) Sending SMS from PC
 * 7) Excel (2003) Macro question
 * 8) W32 Blaster Worm

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 8


 * 1) Copypasting from Wikipedia into MS Word
 * 2) Perfect game in chess
 * 3) Microsoft Advertising cookie
 * 4) How to ensure a ksh script uses just one of two options?
 * 5) Any idea why Alorica shut down in Manhattan, KS?
 * 6) Server
 * 7) Pluging a 3.5mm headset with microphone for mobile phones into the earpone socket on a PC

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 9


 * 1) Windows XP Error Message
 * 2) Serialise/deserialise a dictionary in JavaScript
 * 3) Ancient Egyptian game on the Amiga
 * 4) What is software?
 * 5) Firefox told me to stop scripts; is there an IE solution?
 * 6) &lt;DOLPHINTEXT&gt;

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 10


 * 1) Regex gurus
 * 2) Android versions
 * 3) Additional UI packs
 * 4) What plugin is required for this web video, please?
 * 5) E-Com mobile TC-300
 * 6) Can I run Sims 3 on this system
 * 7) waererewraawer
 * 8) CascadingDropDown problem
 * 9) Parts of PDF print too pale to read

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 11


 * 1) email check with phone and encryption
 * 2) Windows audio error, speakers "Not plugged in".
 * 3) About SFA
 * 4) Annoying Ads
 * 5) How to draw a circle around a word(s) in Open Office?
 * 6) Macbook shuts off at 50% power

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 12


 * 1) RAM
 * 2) WPA2-PSK 802.11g
 * 3) Telephone Service Factor, How to do the calculation. Any formulae??
 * 4) logins across subdomains
 * 5) Keeping my unsecured wireless connection connected
 * 6) Perl, remove initial characters until string that matches argument is found
 * 7) javascript >>>
 * 8) What is the H Drive
 * 9) date
 * 10) DVD +RW
 * 11) Apple Keynote: how to split presentation into sections, with section titles in header
 * 12) Saving contents of an array to file (VB)
 * 13) settings for opening Web Page Blocked?
 * 14) Fast PCs in the $5000 price range

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 13


 * 1) Google searches
 * 2) Dell Latitude d620 CPU replacement
 * 3) php
 * 4) What am I doing?
 * 5) Erasing data on old laptop
 * 6) Facebook and Mediaplex
 * 7) Can cookies be blocked by name?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 14


 * 1) Time synchronization
 * 2) QVOD player
 * 3) Garageband playback help
 * 4) google books problem
 * 5) Group Policy settings
 * 6) ASP.NET problem with dynamically populated DropDownList
 * 7) Wikipedia edit conflict recovery

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 15


 * 1) [jQuery] select -> change
 * 2) iPod not appearing in iTunes
 * 3) Fortran and Real precision

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 16


 * 1) question about LCD screen backlighting
 * 2) Input-dependent flickering
 * 3) personal cloud
 * 4) Cray CX2
 * 5) Historical webpage
 * 6) What are "Transparent Huge Pages", and should we have an article
 * 7) Indian Highways Map in localised language
 * 8) Image splitting
 * 9) Sims 2 open for bussiness how to install
 * 10) lyx to tex bib problem

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 17


 * 1) Calculating Powers of 2 in Octave
 * 2) Sending an unidentifiable link
 * 3) Recording Flash 10 streaming sound
 * 4) Windows management on Macs
 * 5) Dual booting Vista and XP
 * 6) Running as administrator on Vista

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 18


 * 1) Running two devices from a single ethernet cable
 * 2) Unable to Install Adobe Flash Player
 * 3) How to make small frame by frame animation with transparent background (Apple)?
 * 4) battery prices
 * 5) What the world needs now is another blogger.
 * 6) Weird network problems

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 19


 * 1) GNU Octave Manual - PDF Format
 * 2) Filtering Strings
 * 3) IE8
 * 4) Parallel computing for on-stage audio processing
 * 5) Choice of CPUs

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 20


 * 1) reliability of UDP
 * 2) Has .gov.ly been hacked?
 * 3) Tracking Flickr images
 * 4) Evolutionary algorithm for music
 * 5) Computer self restores
 * 6) CMOS battery time of day
 * 7) Microsoft Excel 2007 linking automatic updating

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 21


 * 1) Safe file update (against power failure)
 * 2) What is this site up to?
 * 3) How do I view performance of individual cores ?
 * 4) Windows hosts file

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 22


 * 1) HP Pavilion Laptop DV1000  (An old but brill laptop that HP made but did not seem to produce for long!!!)
 * 2) Windows XP
 * 3) Excel questions
 * 4) How can I find out what programs are accessing the internet?
 * 5) Exiting Firefox
 * 6) GNU Octave -   Equivalent
 * 7) Conditional CSS
 * 8) 'Amazon Online Reader' does not work in my Firefox 3.6.15
 * 9) MSI CR410 laptop
 * 10) Video Joining Software
 * 11) Problem with search engines
 * 12) Windows 7
 * 13) Upgrading memory on my PC

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 23


 * 1) Mobile internet
 * 2) firefox on a mac
 * 3) Chain text messages
 * 4) The 'C' button don't work on my keyboard. why?
 * 5) Cross compilers
 * 6) Can J2ME Midlets be made to work on an iPhone 3Gs?
 * 7) Animated graph
 * 8) Internet in Uganda?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 24


 * 1) Projector light
 * 2) Help with Android Code
 * 3) playstation 3 music mood
 * 4) Severe Virus/Malware Problem
 * 5) Firefox 4 and the disappearing bottom toolbar
 * 6) Video Editing Software with Timeline View of Audio
 * 7) Forcing registry re-read in Windows 7

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 25


 * 1) Computer display
 * 2) Are there ANY penny auction sites without prepaid bid packages?
 * 3) Good, Business Web Design Company
 * 4) How do I start my own money-making website with the lowest possible start-up costs and overhead?
 * 5) Tyan 5086B-TRF Eight-Socket Server & Intel 80615 Series Nehalem-C Processors
 * 6) Untraceable IP
 * 7) Japanese fonts
 * 8) Point and name color
 * 9) Why is MySpace (reportedly) losing out to Facebook?
 * 10) Virus problem, help appreciated
 * 11) VoIP and 7/10 digit dialing

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 26


 * 1) Picture of a DIN 7/16 connector?
 * 2) Ubuntu installation error
 * 3) Hologram
 * 4) Database Transfer
 * 5) YouTube forcing people to have a Gmail account
 * 6) Cursor only focuses where I place it on second click when coming back to a window
 * 7) Mouse problems - Windows Vista
 * 8) Free Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 27


 * 1) Email clients supporting binary MIME
 * 2) Variable-sized tuple class in C# or other such language
 * 3) How do I read iPhone app code?
 * 4) Gtalk vs. Google Talk
 * 5) Samsung Wave Apps
 * 6) Intel PC Camera
 * 7) HP software in Chinese
 * 8) The ever growing tentacles of Google

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 28


 * 1) Using WebGL in Firefox 4
 * 2) Why computer manufacturers disable CPU virtualization capacity by default?
 * 3) 32GB DIMM
 * 4) what's the max proces name lenght on winxp
 * 5) Non recognition of D:Drive
 * 6) Saving a document in Microsoft Office Word 2007 as a "read only" file
 * 7) iOS SDK Standalone
 * 8) sfdisk input format

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 29


 * 1) Virtual VS. Augmented reality
 * 2) How to download this "spreadsheet"?
 * 3) Saving with Firefox: normal vs. scrapbook
 * 4) Question about article Digital Visual Interface
 * 5) Saving and Exporting in Snow Leopard
 * 6) New York Times limitation on the number of articles
 * 7) Epson TX 111
 * 8) slow shutdown (Windows XP)
 * 9) Capacitor colors
 * 10) Wiki spam
 * 11) Surveillance
 * 12) Yahoo/AT&T Display Name

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 30


 * 1) Core Duo processor
 * 2) Computes reset during boot.
 * 3) Going on vacation, need gmail autonotification
 * 4) ms PICTURE IT
 * 5) Wireless Sky TV
 * 6) php
 * 7) Apple Keynote: "Reapply Master to Selection" if object has been deleted?

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 March 31


 * 1) Weird Xcode Problem
 * 2) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition - Temporary Licensing Non-Compliance
 * 3) Upgrading to Firefox 4 from Firefox 3.6.16
 * 4) Firefox 4
 * 5) Algorithm used in Mega Millions POS computers