Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2012

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 1


 * 1) Android app paranoia
 * 2) Browser appearance off, can't remember changing settings
 * 3) Motorola RAZR V3i - Voicemail Problems
 * 4) DEP and CometBird
 * 5) Windows compression?
 * 6) Official looking Yahoo email

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 2


 * 1) Embedded that uses an Intel Atom E6xx that comes with a housing
 * 2) Chrome extensions
 * 3) Why would history disappear?
 * 4) Anonymous
 * 5) Virtual Private Network (VPN) and being anonymous

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 3


 * 1) Keyboard shortcut in Internet Explorer
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 3#How_to_read_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.naturalearthdata.com.2F_natural_earth.5D.27s_maps.3F|How to read natural earth's maps?]]
 * 3) Kindle Fire...not e-paper
 * 4) Wikispaces user rights
 * 5) Bash problem with single quotes
 * 6) .m2ts

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 4


 * 1) Anvil Studio: Scrolling the piano-roll
 * 2) google docs image problem
 * 3) From vector to coordinates, from coordinates to vector
 * 4) math question on program
 * 5) Skype: incredibly loud artificial background noise

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 5


 * 1) Migrating all SVN metadata into root directory of working copy
 * 2) Unable to play audio file
 * 3) movement of mouse (computer)
 * 4) Password Folder
 * 5) Can't search using Google in Firefox
 * 6) gluing images side by side

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 6


 * 1) Ethernet Ports' IP Addresses
 * 2) Vector animation
 * 3) Programming Languages
 * 4) Clocks inside my computer, changing time
 * 5) Free Web Based/Hosted Bug Tracker

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 7


 * 1) Factory settings
 * 2) Downloading jar file from webpage
 * 3) Allow program to make changes, no queastions asked
 * 4) mini screens
 * 5) How does a call to a cell phone find its destination?
 * 6) Digital Photo Frame

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 8


 * 1)  1=
 * 2) Question about Sales Receipt Templates in Quickbooks 2010
 * 3) "Delayed" page numbering in MS Word 2010
 * 4) What was the internet like...
 * 5) Best practices for application protocol and library API design
 * 6) Google ads
 * 7) User contribution pages
 * 8) MSN
 * 9) Another IM question

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 9


 * 1) I want the host to send PIO cmd only, how can I do it?
 * 2) Hypervisors or virtual machine software that can perform signature checks on the VM it is loading
 * 3) How are URLs containing semicolons handled by common web servers?
 * 4) Transferring HDD to new machine
 * 5) Cannot access one particular site (issue has persisted for months)
 * 6) Threat detected while sensitive information was visible - should I be scared?
 * 7) Can't compile wxWidgets on Ubuntu 11.10

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 10


 * 1) Forcing Windows to choose a static IP only on a certain wireless network
 * 2) Help me ID a former warez group member.
 * 3) RfC: What is the difference between information technology and computing?
 * 4) Compiling   statements with final booleans
 * 5) Advertising Malware on Wikipedia
 * 6) Discovering my password
 * 7) encryption
 * 8) Audio in/out
 * 9) Explicit instantiation
 * 10) How much for 13" MBP 2010?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 11


 * 1) Thick Margins
 * 2) Mozilla support newsgroups
 * 3) LaTeX font question
 * 4) Removing extraneous seconds from WAV file
 * 5) Debian installer preseeding issue
 * 6) Proxy servers

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 12


 * 1) Wireless fails at single hotspot
 * 2) Codes for a Universal Remote Control
 * 3) Email address or a P.O. box of Mike D’Antoni
 * 4) PHP and MySQL
 * 5) Exponential algorithms
 * 6) Force MinGW to install in Program Files
 * 7) Chiptunes
 * 8) Linux: why load environment variables when not using them?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 13


 * 1) SMS forwarding
 * 2) great firewall of china
 * 3) Secret Facebook group problem
 * 4) Interactive voice response recommendation ?
 * 5) Software/hardware/Safari conflict?
 * 6) open source or free video editing
 * 7) Problem with Pywikipedia

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 14


 * 1) mobile AIM/trillian
 * 2) Drawing with JavaScript
 * 3) CDC 6600 - which generation?
 * 4) cut and paste
 * 5) LGA1155 and graphics
 * 6) Word macro
 * 7) Animation3d PDN
 * 8) Article Jannie Viljoen
 * 9) OpenOffice, choice of dictionary
 * 10) Studying PHP, Ajax, jQuery, and MySQL.

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 15


 * 1) phone internet access
 * 2) "New Tab" button in multiple places in Firefox
 * 3) How to let VB2005 print a+b+c+d=24 ?
 * 4) Warning e-mail senders about unintended recipients
 * 5) Microsoft filing.
 * 6) iMovie
 * 7) Direct use of SSD within virtual memory

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 16


 * 1) Display problem with right to left encoding
 * 2) Google translate api
 * 3) MediaWiki Farmer not working
 * 4) why doesn't anyone
 * 5) Microsoft GIF Animator
 * 6) Hypervisor capable of performing a secure boot process
 * 7) How does a hidden link work?
 * 8) Firefox addon shortcut

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 17


 * 1) Counting email domains
 * 2) Looking for a simple self-hosted blogging solution for collaboration

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 18


 * 1) biggest p2p networks nowadays (besides bittorrent)
 * 2) Entire computer freezing when I click just about anything in IE 8?
 * 3) Overwriting backup partition by accident leads to Windows failure
 * 4) How accurate is Wolfram|Alpha?
 * 5) Not all mobile phones get their clock automatically kept on time?
 * 6) 5.25" floppy drives with a USB connector - find please?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 19


 * 1) Thin x86 tablet
 * 2) Internet Explorer cannot ...
 * 3) Victor adding- listing model 110  year 1921-1925
 * 4) What happened to this website?
 * 5) something that falls betwween twitter notifier and goole alert
 * 6) Finding index of substring in less than square time?

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 20


 * 1) Android on Playbook 2.0
 * 2) Which Wikipedia uses disclaimers the most?
 * 3) Engine game s2 or s3
 * 4) Raspberry pi

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 21


 * 1) Javascript crashing weird
 * 2) computer turning itself off
 * 3) Getting URL of video
 * 4) computer restarts
 * 5) Grabbing a frame from a video
 * 6) Getting formatted output from a web page

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 22


 * 1) 500 Internal Server Error
 * 2) Rogue antivirus... how to remove it fast?
 * 3) Are there implementations of C++ without system headers as text files?
 * 4) Keeping URL with an image
 * 5) Listing all non-subpages using regex
 * 6) clearing hard drive before i take it to the dump
 * 7) Relationships in Visio

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 23


 * 1) How do find a website on Alexa?
 * 2) Are proxy servers legal in the UK?
 * 3) How do I get a dynamic IP address
 * 4) Browsing history

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 24


 * 1) Google Voice Recovery Issue
 * 2) Strategies for buying computers
 * 3) draw something
 * 4) The Entry On Microsoft Dynamics Is Unclear-- Can Someone Fix It?
 * 5) PHP - getting data across pages without forms

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 25


 * 1) External hard drive problem
 * 2) Accessing a web page
 * 3) gif breaking
 * 4) curved writing
 * 5) Openoffice: Alignment in enumeration (within table)
 * 6) make a folder impossible to be opened
 * 7) system info
 * 8) World's longest URL?

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 26


 * 1) Blocking time-wasting sites in IE8?
 * 2) Windows 7 libraries?
 * 3) How do I register the domain ear.th?
 * 4) Movie image distortion
 * 5) Full virtualization of x86
 * 6) Wordpress Question!

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 27


 * 1) Important question regarding Google Voice
 * 2) strange behavior of facebook
 * 3) can SolidWorks 2011/2012 do video export?
 * 4) Problem with SOAP used from C#
 * 5) Alternative to Finder
 * 6) Looking for free Java editor
 * 7) Answering machine which requires hitting a button to save a message

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 28


 * 1) ps3 superwihte option
 * 2) TMP???.EXE issue
 * 3) name of deciding input for a logic gate
 * 4) Image processing- Applying a gradient of defocus through an image
 * 5) Is there a phone app that detects being inside polite areas, and auto-silence the phone?
 * 6) GNU/Linux: ln -s dereference "."

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 29


 * 1) Digital TV question
 * 2) Remembering logins in Firefox
 * 3) Cannot access Google groups when logged in
 * 4) Packet
 * 5) Odd compiler warnings.
 * 6) sketchup modelling
 * 7) SQL - Multiple joins
 * 8) older special effects graphics software

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 30


 * 1) Registry?
 * 2) Can't write to DVD in Windows XP
 * 3) Prevent applications from changing cursor
 * 4) so, how do I really turn the cookies back on?
 * 5) Download helper for Firefox that's customizable by filetype

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2012 March 31


 * 1) downloading a podcast
 * 2) Half/Fullwidth
 * 3) Audio on computer
 * 4) Borked USB drive