Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2011

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 1


 * 1) migrating to a new PC

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 2


 * 1) List of Major LC-LC Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturers
 * 2) Scanner issue
 * 3) Live Virus/Trojan - anyone feel like investigating?
 * 4) Sinister script?

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 3


 * 1) Let's go right to the end of the story...
 * 2) Need help figuring out what a facebook spam app does
 * 3) Windows Task Manager
 * 4) Laptop Crashing
 * 5) #!
 * 6) Civilization V
 * 7) Strange email

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 4


 * 1) Repairing broken OCLC/WorldCat links
 * 2) smime doc?
 * 3) Tilde problems
 * 4) lpr with Cygwin
 * 5) Unheated storage of Electronics
 * 6) New iPod

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 5


 * 1) Signal distance in CPUs
 * 2) Headphones
 * 3) silent dispatcher
 * 4) Web platform benchmarking
 * 5) avg installer
 * 6) Gigabit Ethernet link aggregation
 * 7) How can I tell which USB ports I have? Ubuntu PC
 * 8) Memory and multi-core CPUs
 * 9) Where can i find tutorials on how to create discussion forum with Amaya or Kompozer
 * 10) Shutting down...

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 6


 * 1) About music instrumens
 * 2) What is the site that shows a comparison between the fair second hand price of items selling on Ebay?
 * 3) Bookmarking websites in Safari
 * 4) Image thumbnails from wikipedia, archived?
 * 5) Virtual machines for web surfing.
 * 6) How do LaTeX package makers do it?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 7


 * 1) Apple Cocoa NSImage Question
 * 2) Windows Live Messenger Error?
 * 3) how to manage add/remove programe on control pannel
 * 4) DVD movie file size
 * 5) Nvidia drivers
 * 6) Intel i7 and quad precision

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 8


 * 1) Repairing a broken pdf file
 * 2) Reformatting advice
 * 3) Where to obtain a HyperSim card?
 * 4) Accessing the entire Windows Phone 7 filesystem from a PC
 * 5) How to quickly change IP addresses
 * 6) Japanese radios
 * 7) Firefox 4
 * 8) Changing ASP.NET MaskedEditValidator error message in JavaScript?
 * 9) TR/Spy.ZBot.blxv attack

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 9


 * 1) Open Office Writer trouble
 * 2) Windows Live Mail
 * 3) Comcast speeds? / Bridging two internet connections?
 * 4) Centering Images in CSS without Floating?
 * 5) What does "033[1;1H033[2J" mean?
 * 6) Help
 * 7) Fedora 12 device automounting comes and goes randomly
 * 8) HP DV 100 Pavilion internal mic does not work after loading Win 7 Home premium.

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 10


 * 1) Installing Chameleon (the EFI emulator/bootloader) with Linux
 * 2) Max Theoretical Overclock speed
 * 3) Intel Core i7-2600 underclocking
 * 4) WebCite
 * 5) Powerpoint conversion
 * 6) Internet time not accurate
 * 7) Interpreting CGI to mean PHP?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 11


 * 1) Changing the code of Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit CascadingDropDown?
 * 2) Wanted: rubbish video chat client

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 12


 * 1) Wallpaper problem
 * 2) jpg
 * 3) please help
 * 4) What's the best online stock-trading application?
 * 5) Downloading Firefox 4
 * 6) [Question changed] Get a TV, or a projector w/ TV tuner?
 * 7) Free mac anti-virus software

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 13


 * 1) Are ribbons for dot matric printers still made?
 * 2) SONY ERICSSION K510I
 * 3) basics of communication
 * 4) excel 2007
 * 5) Upgrading to Windows 7 when don't have old version installed, only the COA
 * 6) Afternoon Wikipedians
 * 7) UV Light emitting diodes (LED) introduction year?
 * 8) How to convert a JPG image to PPM (ASCII) ?
 * 9) Video camera for lecturing
 * 10) Writing and designing a program
 * 11) Dead Live USB

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 14


 * 1) Free website links checker
 * 2) RAM
 * 3) Software to correct video color and exposure
 * 4) Will overheating power adapter shut down laptop?
 * 5) Wiki cookies
 * 6) How do I stay logged into Google Chrome?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 15


 * 1) Digital cable mystery
 * 2) A website displays my copyrighted material. What should I do?
 * 3) Mumble
 * 4) graph in excel
 * 5) Intel 82865G driver for Windows XP 64-bit edition

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 16


 * 1) Hardware piece on my laptop misbehaving
 * 2) Independent Publishing on iBookstore?
 * 3) Octave GUIs?
 * 4) Partitioning help when dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 17


 * 1) Dell PowerVault TL4000 Tape Library - Maximum Power Consumption
 * 2) Can anyone recommend any books about Gynoids which are female robots with a human appearance
 * 3) Laser mouse WITH a mini-trackball? Does it exist?
 * 4) Junk computers
 * 5) Redhat cluster suite alternative
 * 6) Asking a question at the Mozilla Thunderbird "Community" forum
 * 7) ACPI and sound when running Linux
 * 8) Google left navigation
 * 9) Is it possible to have and use two or more editions of IE or othern browsers in one OS?

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 18


 * 1) looking for a word that covers an action or task
 * 2) QAM vs ATSC tuner
 * 3) Hacktool message on website
 * 4) Diff b/w solid works and catia v5
 * 5) Anti-spyware and anti-adware tools
 * 6) Wireless External HDD
 * 7) Odd problem with sound icon in tray
 * 8) Laptop security
 * 9) Good alternatives to YouTube?
 * 10) Why does Google News Search return fewer hits when you expand the search?
 * 11) 320kbps MP3
 * 12) Word Being Stupid

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 19


 * 1) Non-compressed GIF image
 * 2) Mobile phones in proximity connect as walkie-talkies?
 * 3) Google Chrome inserts an extra line break when adding a comment to a talk page

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 20


 * 1) 16Gb Optical Multimode Fiber
 * 2) secure website (https) on a public network
 * 3) C++ make error
 * 4) USB to MIDI
 * 5) Tablets that will fit in the pocket of my lab coat
 * 6) GRUB legacy and multiple Linux partitions
 * 7) Managed Extensions for C++ arrays
 * 8) App security

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 21


 * 1) Emoji
 * 2) Printing a content list of a folder in Windows 7
 * 3) Four Anon Questions
 * 4) Folder on Desktop Refuses to Move (Vista)
 * 5) Types of boot sectors
 * 6) Windows Command Prompt window title

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 22


 * 1) COM port to PS/2 converter
 * 2) Purple links
 * 3) A problem with Windows Media...
 * 4) Connecting to the internet by using Samsung champ as modem.
 * 5) Chrome compared with Firefox
 * 6) fortran PURE functions
 * 7) bluetooth mic by plugin, not pairing
 * 8) sound emanating from data service center

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 23


 * 1) copy from one desktop to another?
 * 2) Can't copy EXE files to Windows 7 computer
 * 3) Network Neighborhood icon missing
 * 4) Command Prompt Commands
 * 5) color code for network connection between wimax adaptor and PC
 * 6) Are cell-phones soft-modems?
 * 7) iPhone 3Gs spontaneously deleted books in iBooks I hadn't read in quite a while

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 24


 * 1) Free Offline map software
 * 2) Simplest possible internet multi-player game
 * 3) Celestia
 * 4) Eye-Track Mind Reader
 * 5) Command to list all available shells
 * 6) Office Word 2007 Problem
 * 7) Capturing 802.11 traffic
 * 8) Image background from white becomes black
 * 9) License type of magazine code listings?
 * 10) Commercial distributed computing like SETI@home
 * 11) Sharing Vista & Win7
 * 12) Windows XP Command Prompt questions
 * 13) taking over a production environment
 * 14) Establishing a local subnet within a large organization

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 25


 * 1) Microsoft Word 2007 - Preventing Broken Table Rows
 * 2) How do I restart an animated gif when viewed in Firefox4?
 * 3) Lost edits
 * 4) Best loss-less compression graphic format ?
 * 5) Changing my ISP and e-mail address.
 * 6) About Computer
 * 7) Including passwords in a shell script in Linux
 * 8) Do we have an article about the current power stuggle between Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Adobe, etc.?
 * 9) RAM

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 26


 * 1) Existing API(s) to read from and write to web pages (from Fortran) ?
 * 2) DVD-R compared with DVD+R
 * 3) internet protection & security
 * 4) Fake images and computer graphics
 * 5) How to edit Wikipedia from my Windows XP Command Prompt ?
 * 6) Get old data with cURL

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 27


 * 1) Excel problem
 * 2) Ethernet link aggregation load balancing?
 * 3) Buying a new computer - advice
 * 4) Hathi Trust
 * 5) Twitter 'follow' button broken?
 * 6) Network and sharing centre Windows 7

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 28


 * 1) Single bad disk sector on a HD
 * 2) External Hardrive not Recognized by Vista
 * 3) Data matrix "bar codes"
 * 4) Regex gurus needed
 * 5) Half-life 2/Steam question
 * 6) Making copy of windows 7 disc
 * 7) Incorrect 'Password is Incorrect' Message in Thunderbird
 * 8) PC Game Dust Tale of the wired west
 * 9) Supressing output to the Windows XP Command  Prompt

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 29


 * 1) Global SIM card but also email
 * 2) low resolution image of Lincoln
 * 3) hiiiiiiiiii sir
 * 4) Recovering Lost Windows Password
 * 5) Windows 7 - Recursive Printing of Directory Hierarchy
 * 6) VBScript gurus
 * 7) Older Korean encodings
 * 8) Lag when updating Wikipedia using PyWikipedia bots ?
 * 9) What XML document processor software and methodology would you use for home use?
 * 10) Downloading all the images in a commons category

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 30


 * 1) Legally downloading System Shock 2
 * 2) Making Add-Ons for Firefox
 * 3) Date and time format in Numbers
 * 4) Computer related post on Misc Desk
 * 5) Chrome / Firefox plugins For Poor Connections?
 * 6) How to get max memory bandwidth throughput on a Tyan S4985-E
 * 7) Get toner levels on laser printer
 * 8) Mac Cocoa Multitouch
 * 9) software that will fix things in video
 * 10) Firefox problems
 * 11) Speech recording
 * 12) typing foreign characters
 * 13) .aspx?

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 May 31


 * 1) Extraction of Audio from   Video File
 * 2) vst plug-in
 * 3) how to remove old mobo/processor information from a WinXP installation?
 * 4) Specific URL problem
 * 5) Automatic mounting on Linux triggered by device being already mounted?