Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2008

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 1


 * 1) Emulating Windows Xp on my Windows Vista to make the game work? How?
 * 2) Burning images
 * 3) Changing size of a particular font
 * 4) Error Reading Thumbdrive
 * 5) lost?
 * 6) Windows Movie Maker
 * 7) Any Mac apps that can read .UIF files?
 * 8) MSN Messenger
 * 9) Image snap
 * 10) Word 2007 switching language with the keyboard

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 2


 * 1) I have a problem signing up for AIM?
 * 2) IBM Kittyhawk vs Storm botnet
 * 3) Horizontal scrolling with touchpad
 * 4) html / js / css is holding back the web?!
 * 5) virus
 * 6) The world's first software program?
 * 7) choosing a laptop
 * 8) Downloading link in Flash: Avoid the innumerous scrappers on the web
 * 9) Excel if function text criteria difficulties
 * 10) Viruses
 * 11) Hot linking
 * 12) Can't boot computer after attempting to add RAM

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 3


 * 1) follow up to wireless broadband security
 * 2) Mac
 * 3) Youtube down?
 * 4) largest tv
 * 5) Printing software crashes when it encounters my files?
 * 6) is it possible to have Internet everywhere in the world?
 * 7) utest.com: scam?
 * 8) Google
 * 9) Safe alternative to scanf?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 4


 * 1) opengl program crash

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 5


 * 1) Playing foreign DVDs on a PC
 * 2) Name of a sorting algorithm?
 * 3) Computer beeps
 * 4) BLAST one sequence against database and return a hit for each sequence in the database

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 6


 * 1) The Sound of Thinking
 * 2) C File writing
 * 3) Why not have Enter, Backspace and Delete options on mouse or on Toolbar
 * 4) Soft spam: a golden business idea?
 * 5) wireless passwords
 * 6) Help in checking website fine print updates
 * 7) removing my email address from a webpage?
 * 8) Windows command line question
 * 9) GIMP question
 * 10) Taking an image grab of a movie file
 * 11) Disk Partition
 * 12) WMV to 3g2 converter

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 7


 * 1) Trying to edit a video
 * 2) MySpace Groups
 * 3) networking
 * 4) GNUCASH user experience
 * 5) Antifilter
 * 6) CD player woes
 * 7) Rayman sound
 * 8) 777 folders hacked
 * 9) Win XP SP3
 * 10) Increasing font size of a specific font
 * 11) Simple freeware Windows database for bibliographic details.
 * 12) AMD vs Intel: current mid-to-high range CPUs

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 8


 * 1) Mozilla Firefox: restoring sessions
 * 2) Browsing Internet using Adobe Acrobate Reader
 * 3) Youtube
 * 4) Fork bomb
 * 5) Image printer device driver
 * 6) PSP Help please
 * 7) Trying to recall but it's just not clicking...
 * 8) Desktop motherboard with on-board modem AND wireless capabilities
 * 9) Google Toolbar Find

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 9


 * 1) Strange HDD problem
 * 2) Bypassing difference?
 * 3) Geometry software
 * 4) Getting electric shocks through iMac headphone jack
 * 5) CPAN for Java
 * 6) Removing Ubuntu

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 10


 * 1) Router for PS3
 * 2) A question about Windows Paint...
 * 3) How to find IE Proxy Settings on a restricted computer
 * 4) Nvidia chip again
 * 5) Something
 * 6) Why don't these yahoo answers links work?
 * 7) Slow computerr
 * 8) Strange application
 * 9) new ram not working
 * 10) Joyfully interesting graphical glitch
 * 11) 3D modeling software
 * 12) Version Control System
 * 13) Processor Compare
 * 14) How can I make my computer run faster?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 11


 * 1) Privacy and email
 * 2) iTunes on new computer
 * 3) Just ONE file for flash
 * 4) C array and structure initialisation
 * 5) Automatically removing all line-breaks
 * 6) Metadata editor
 * 7) Windows Movie Maker
 * 8) Translate from Turkish
 * 9) Hidden pic (Internet Explorer only)
 * 10) Slow laptop

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 12


 * 1) KDE 4 questions
 * 2) internet radio in ipod touch
 * 3) Down Loading free e-books on Plam Top 5
 * 4) IP Address Question
 * 5) Registry
 * 6) Any substitute of CloneCD?
 * 7) Big Brother
 * 8) Spyware
 * 9) Compression
 * 10) Outlook error?
 * 11) Additional hard drives
 * 12) Google balls
 * 13) Firefox - force text/plain to view files instead of download?
 * 14) RSTP
 * 15) Simple graphics problem - make an Excel chart into an image
 * 16) Runtime errors
 * 17) HTML source
 * 18) Monitoring upload/download

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 13


 * 1) cgi proxies
 * 2) Need a good PC emulator
 * 3) Electronic dictionaries' added contents
 * 4) memory card
 * 5) software for keeping track of articles, ebooks, notes
 * 6) Windows not recognising partitioned flash drive
 * 7) Linux: multiple shells in text mode
 * 8) indexing software?
 * 9) GTK+: locales, download
 * 10) ENTIRE PARTITION GONE!!!
 * 11) Printer Ink Cartridges for Dell Printers
 * 12) Windows Movie Maker

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 14


 * 1) Debian openssl vulnerability
 * 2) C string scaning
 * 3) How they use Vmware and other virtual machines on business??
 * 4) CD player woes (reposted with updated question)
 * 5) CSS to wrap text around a center image?
 * 6) MediaWiki: operating system?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 15


 * 1) Help- SQL
 * 2) VCS with Visual Studio 2008 Express
 * 3) free MySQL hosting
 * 4) Free flash flex server
 * 5) Ebay
 * 6) Archive.org
 * 7) Visual Basic 2005 question re: images
 * 8) Using Mediawiki
 * 9) Photoshopping
 * 10) Coppermine Gallery
 * 11) Wiki Nested Tables
 * 12) Acer Aspire

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 16


 * 1) MS Word stops spell checking my files in the middle of a page – Why?
 * 2) Quick and dirty edge detection?
 * 3) MICROSOFT VISIO 2007
 * 4) Starcraft 2 is considering having their Creep Colonies to damage enemy buildings
 * 5) Windows XP compatibility
 * 6) Babelfish
 * 7) Printing out columns with css
 * 8) Font in LaTex documents
 * 9) IPV6 behaviour
 * 10) XP specs
 * 11) Decent font recognition freeware?
 * 12) Setting the time on a Linksys router

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 17


 * 1) DHCP automatic allocation override?
 * 2) Speech synthesizer
 * 3) What is Prestoserve?
 * 4) SELECT syntax
 * 5) Vista Headset
 * 6) Recording phone calls
 * 7) Resizing my home-partition on Ubuntu
 * 8) Clicks made by computer
 * 9) Vista/XP

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 18


 * 1) MS-DOS_Windows_Command_Prompt
 * 2) hardware problem
 * 3) photos in ipod touch
 * 4) CLI question?
 * 5) CD Audio, 700MB = 80 minutes. Why?
 * 6) Java: Method overloading

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 19


 * 1) for speed, put XP or Windows 2000 on an old PC??  (pentium 3, 667 MHZ, 256 MB RAM)
 * 2) Maximum dimensions for image files
 * 3) Can Windows Media Center record/pause RTSP streams?
 * 4) How does the Chinese Wikipedia interconvert between different flavors of Chinese?
 * 5) Cartoon Animation in Adobe/Macromedia Flash
 * 6) IE7 bug
 * 7) Misc Desk
 * 8) Wordlist generator or commandline dictionary attack program
 * 9) Slow internet problem?
 * 10) Visible polygon vertices algorithm?

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 20


 * 1) Help with files
 * 2) iPod storage
 * 3) shaddy contractor
 * 4) How do I split the tabs?
 * 5) What's wrong with my keyboard?
 * 6) CPU question
 * 7) free online soccer
 * 8) VoIP/IPKall: receiving incoming calls
 * 9) C variable string
 * 10) AMD board
 * 11) Disk image/operating system compatibility
 * 12) Real-world computational complexity

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 21


 * 1) how to sniff and play streaming mp3
 * 2) Mysterious page inclusions/deletions
 * 3) YouTube
 * 4) What Trusted timestamping service do you trust?
 * 5) Can an Adobe Flash plugin read a person's MAC Address or other hardware/personal information?
 * 6) Java parser implementation?
 * 7) link sharing.
 * 8) Anything better than Anisotropic filtering?
 * 9) Dotaing

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 22


 * 1) How can I use public domain materials?  Can I make money off of them?
 * 2) GIMP question
 * 3) Running many with &&
 * 4) ActionScript: make _rotate rotate smoothly
 * 5) Incredibly stupid Python question...
 * 6) Blu-Ray playback on Mac (non-copyrighted material)
 * 7) Different OS = different fonts?
 * 8) Sending e-mails without disclosing everyone copied into them.
 * 9) FreeHand to SVG
 * 10) More command prompt
 * 11) Writing DVDs
 * 12) Domains
 * 13) Excel question

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 23


 * 1) Computer restart problem - fix
 * 2) Request: OpenOffice.org macro
 * 3) securing my wifi
 * 4) Debian SSL/SSH vulnerability
 * 5) Home Server
 * 6) quality of Windows Live SkyDrive
 * 7) Exceptions to crossfading
 * 8) MS Word 2003 Question
 * 9) Restricted Surfing Zone
 * 10) iphone vs blackberry
 * 11) android
 * 12) Failed RAID mirror - both drives

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 24


 * 1) My new motherboard is making me sad
 * 2) Archive of flash site
 * 3) Transferring files to MP3 player
 * 4) Ipod Touch Downgrading
 * 5) Preserving quality of an image
 * 6) bittorrent situation in France
 * 7) CD player woes (reposted with updated question)
 * 8) Flash Drive
 * 9) Underclock macbook pro
 * 10) Chip fan failed
 * 11) Web page update alerts software for Mac
 * 12) What is a .VoMiT file?
 * 13) Fastest Internet

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 25


 * 1) Windows Vista Bit Editons
 * 2) Changing computer
 * 3) How to disable file locking in Windows XP?
 * 4) What archive type is "webpages.ez" ?
 * 5) flow chart and flow diagram
 * 6) totally confused about wireless service
 * 7) Passwords and such
 * 8) Call Centre setup
 * 9) VisionLab Studio crash

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 26


 * 1) SODIMMs in DIMM slots
 * 2) Meme
 * 3) Web Design Question
 * 4) The uses of computer in daily life
 * 5) Programming
 * 6) Database querying
 * 7) linking to an especific page in pdf file
 * 8) What programming language to use for websites?
 * 9) angle between two cities on Earth

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 27


 * 1) Firefox AutoComplete
 * 2) hashing  technique in DBMS
 * 3) .SRF File
 * 4) Schema drawing software
 * 5) Restart Windows to avoid driver-related crash?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 28


 * 1) Error Printing on MacOS 10.4.11
 * 2) Is bandwidth speed shaping legal?
 * 3) Ctrl Alt Del Box/Window
 * 4) bestselling macbook
 * 5) Audio streams
 * 6) computer buggage
 * 7) deleting google history
 * 8) How to extract the content from a wiki page and transfer the information to a database.
 * 9) computer sound

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 29


 * 1) Computers
 * 2) bandwidth of skype
 * 3) Firefox - link captions
 * 4) "Unavailable" Google video

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 30


 * 1) coding
 * 2) Help me find a good laptop?
 * 3) computer lore
 * 4) Music Software Titles And Music Making Software
 * 5) MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS
 * 6) telecoms
 * 7) What's this symbol called?
 * 8) Floppy disk of death! (no virus needed)
 * 9) watching TV in a computer monitor?
 * 10) phone security with voip and broadband
 * 11) Thumbnail cache
 * 12) A little bot job

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 May 31


 * 1) Multi-core motherboard
 * 2) Good Fonts to Use?
 * 3) Extra Tool Browser
 * 4) Adding videos to DeVeDe (software)
 * 5) Displaying the gradient when optimizing in R
 * 6) Explorer
 * 7) Concatenated SMS
 * 8) TV PC
 * 9) shell script
 * 10) error importing movie into iMovieHD 06
 * 11) wrong 'drive'
 * 12) Super NES question
 * 13) Javascript question
 * 14) Opera has problems with CSS at nearly every site
 * 15) C: Int to string
 * 16) PHP & socket_accept & annoying problem