Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/March 2015

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 1


 * 1) Manual for maven
 * 2) Attempting to get best resolution
 * 3) How can you run Linux if you don't want graphics, guis and the like

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 2


 * 1) IPA characters representation in VM/CMS in 1986

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 3


 * 1) Simple program
 * 2) 3D building game
 * 3) How to edit a PNG pic ?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 4


 * 1) Disassemble code
 * 2) Skype logging in to Microsoft account
 * 3) Some software doesn't grasp my Windows 8 screen resolution.
 * 4) Chrome update
 * 5) Creating simple animations with .svg files and line drawings

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 5


 * 1) Excel tables
 * 2) When is a URL not a URL?
 * 3) How do I download certain movies directly?
 * 4) Analysis of Windows 7 Scheduled Tasks
 * 5) how to listen to the same sound through two 3.5mm ports on my pc

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 6


 * 1) Problem with motherboard supporting 5.1 channel sound
 * 2) Google Chrome issue
 * 3) Windows 7 (Ultimate) Logon screens icons
 * 4) Mouse pointers modifier(s)
 * 5) How to reposition an HTML background image ?
 * 6) Timing events with HTML
 * 7) AI and theory of mind

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 7


 * 1) Convert copy-protected VOB files to hi-res FLAC
 * 2) Javascript to change image transparency ?
 * 3) Javascript debug help needed
 * 4) More ram = longer battery running time?

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 8


 * 1) Any way to tweak the automatically generated PDF books from Wikibooks?
 * 2) programing in computer
 * 3) Web scripts and browsers

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 9


 * 1) Recovering data from a failing/bad sector'd hard drive?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 10


 * 1) How to automate running of a sequence of command line programs?
 * 2) External USB drive doesn't display in File Explorer
 * 3) Alternative PDF viewers with a good search function for Windows?
 * 4) Why are domain prices not all more or less the same?

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 11


 * 1) Autofill Win7 username
 * 2) The Great Wikiblizzard, or the NSA chilling effect
 * 3) Where to find free animation frames ?
 * 4) email

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 12


 * 1) Staying signed in on a website application
 * 2) GIMP export file formats
 * 3) Videos by email
 * 4) If you computer has 2 GB of ram, when does it start having problems dealing  with text files?
 * 5) Extracting photos from PDFs
 * 6) Samsung WB350F Camera haywire
 * 7) Are generic batteries evil?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 13


 * 1) PC rating in Window 7
 * 2) SHA-256

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 14


 * 1) Windows 7 Explorer view
 * 2) CHINEESE MALWARES
 * 3) HTML arrow key detection
 * 4) Software sought
 * 5) Inconsistent Google Search hit counts

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 15


 * 1) Computer speakers high-pitched noise upon connection

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 16


 * 1) What programming language did Punched cards  use?
 * 2) MS Sculpt Bluetooth mouse erratic pointer
 * 3) PHP reading a .txt file
 * 4) Help finding a game manual
 * 5) Scanning

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 17


 * 1) Extracting peaks from histogram data.
 * 2) Non-redirecting link
 * 3) Gmail and POP3
 * 4) .Jpeg software:

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 18


 * 1) Interest rate calculations in MS Excel: is the "help" incorrect?
 * 2) Barebone computers
 * 3) Call via wifi
 * 4) The CSS "Clear:;" attribute - A didactic explanation?

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 19


 * 1) Audio Incompetent
 * 2) Facebook Group administrator problem
 * 3) What does law enforcement target, when they want to put a site down?
 * 4) Hosting my own server
 * 5) Moore's Law
 * 6) Operator overloading in Java?
 * 7) Reliable, Versatile, free Duplicate File Finder?
 * 8) Domain names not in use
 * 9) Keyboard woes "è"
 * 10) Area all domains in the form word.com already taken?

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 20


 * 1) C follows B - inspired by music?
 * 2) Internet Interruption
 * 3) Chrome issues

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 21


 * 1) Transfer music from iPhone 4 to latest iPod
 * 2) Photo management software
 * 3) Firefox

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 22


 * 1) Apple TV
 * 2) e learning
 * 3) Securing a MediaWiki server

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 23


 * 1) Special magnification software wanted
 * 2) Formatting numbers in Java with Swing
 * 3) PHP function question

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 24


 * 1) Quest about jkflip flops and transition state diagramsg
 * 2) GPL
 * 3) All OSS software is free?
 * 4) Simple GPS module

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 25


 * 1) Software Sought
 * 2) Video downloader
 * 3) iTunes
 * 4) Bit logic and state diagrams homework (part 2)

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 26


 * 1) Dropbox String-Matching Algorithm

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 27


 * 1) TinyCore Linux
 * 2) Reboot Android to Safe Mode
 * 3) Deinstalled a game but I still lost 7GB of total space...
 * 4) power point
 * 5) Adding whitespace to pdfs in adobe
 * 6) One article redirecting to another one!

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 28


 * 1) Wireless Module Not Found at Workplace
 * 2) Internet infrastructure and nuclear war

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 29


 * 1) Why break backward compatibility, when developing new programming languages?
 * 2) Hard Disk Unformatted?
 * 3) Skype
 * 4) PDF direct from bitmap?
 * 5) Computing

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 30


 * 1) Major downloading problem
 * 2) Xforce
 * 3) Online converter for RAR
 * 4) Discover hosting, given a web-site
 * 5) Extended Unicode Characters in Serial Read of EEPROM
 * 6) What kind of right do you buy, when you buy a domain?
 * 7) USB port monitoring on Windows
 * 8) Tablet Coby Kyros Mid 8127
 * 9) ASP.NET compilation error: the same type is defined in two different DLLs

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2015 March 31


 * 1) LibreOffice / MS Office interoperability 101
 * 2) Leaning to manage a server on the cloud