Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/May 2013

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 1


 * 1) Alcohol abuse and my netbook
 * 2) Windows Media Player not updating metadata properly?
 * 3) GPS-traces or elevations for European Highways
 * 4) Microsoft Word 2007 Problem

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 2


 * 1) Strange audio/video stuttering problems
 * 2) Graphics with Java: Applets and Applications
 * 3) is there software that can determine a person's race
 * 4) Making a single page of a section landscape in Word
 * 5) "SecuROM" in The Sims 2/3
 * 6) Pokemon, 3rd gen. celibi
 * 7) Checking my mac's memory usage
 * 8) On the accuracy of floating point

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 3


 * 1) Syncing files between home and work Win 7 computers including files on network via VPN
 * 2) Windows installation not finding new SSD
 * 3) make optical disk look as normal drive

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 4


 * 1) Signature pictures containing colored symmetric geometric shapes
 * 2) Partioning
 * 3) Switching users on Twitter
 * 4) Like button on banknote
 * 5) Turning client-server model into processes sharing memory boosts performance?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 5


 * 1) Copying a CD via iTunes
 * 2) What is The use of Thread class constructors?
 * 3) WINDOWS 7 - HIDDEN FUNCTIONS
 * 4) Battery life and charging
 * 5) Windows XP shutdown

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 6


 * 1) Newspaper App?
 * 2) what is the use of thread class constructors-2
 * 3) What is the origin of the second O in Revolution (TV series)?
 * 4) vandalism at Rediffmail?
 * 5) Replacing an HDD with Windows on it
 * 6) How to disable autocorrect/autocomplete on iPhone 5 ?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 7


 * 1) Weather forecast can be wrong??
 * 2) Chrome's auto form fill-in thingy
 * 3) What's the new security system of MS Office 2010?
 * 4) Spell-checking not working at the Commons
 * 5) Software terminology question
 * 6) Free software terminology/ apparent contradiction in articles
 * 7) (acting)?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 8


 * 1) Compatibility with MS Office - track changes

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 9


 * 1) iPad system requirements
 * 2) Checking grammar
 * 3) street fighter II for the mega drive

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 10


 * 1) MP4
 * 2) RetroUI problems
 * 3) Is there any good, easy way to do nominally GUI-oriented stuff in Windows?
 * 4) bokeh enhancement
 * 5) what is innermetrix?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 11


 * 1) Desktop backgrounds...(A more convenient way to switch them?)
 * 2) slow boot
 * 3) PHP geolocation consent on smartphones
 * 4) GMAIL SETTINGS

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 13


 * 1) E top-up and e-vouchers in the UK
 * 2) Pioneer DDJ Ergo?
 * 3) GIF images/IE9 Favorites
 * 4) pascal programming "menu" question

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 14


 * 1) Convertion of MNEMONICS
 * 2) Laptop will not boot

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 15


 * 1) Software for scanner
 * 2) software to crop PDFs
 * 3) Break havoc in Linux without admin password
 * 4) md5sum of installed program in Linux
 * 5) Learning Data digitization
 * 6) 3D maps

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 16


 * 1) Password Protecting an External Hard Drive

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 17


 * 1) Sharing of files in Nokia Lumia
 * 2) Seeding Ubuntu: A noble thing to do or a waste of disk space?

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 18


 * 1) Bell connection process loading slow
 * 2) studying MS in computerscience
 * 3) Windows 8
 * 4) Making city infobox montages?
 * 5) Blender reference images

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 19


 * 1) Where to find material for shared library programming?
 * 2) Current method I'm using to remove redlink entries in a set of lists - need faster method
 * 3) Game making...
 * 4) Spambot question
 * 5) Google translate worse now?
 * 6) Citrix weirdness

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 20


 * 1) How come a shared library could provide service?
 * 2) How to open a port under Slackware 14
 * 3) Non-proprietary GPS database schemas
 * 4) Is it possible to acceess different parts of a class by different threads?
 * 5) Fiddling with volume on Windows 7
 * 6) the md5 sum of an empty string

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 21


 * 1) computer stuff :3
 * 2) What is the threshold of date/time difference for certificate error?
 * 3) Google Webmaster tools - Search results URL removal tool
 * 4) project based question
 * 5) Graphics slow on ipad

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 22


 * 1) Registry Errors, Junk Files and Broken Shortcuts!
 * 2) Classification of computer language
 * 3) Suggestions/Comments on Material and Website
 * 4) Web Development Ideas
 * 5) GLEW
 * 6) Charging my phone via computer USB compared to wall socket USB plug
 * 7) edgers

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 23


 * 1) AutoCAD 3D Modelling
 * 2) Switch mode transformers
 * 3) Text emails and hyperlinks
 * 4) Privacy, js and Google
 * 5) Did users of the SCELBI and computers like it have to flip switch software in manually on each power-up?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 24


 * 1) OCR scan to a text file, no interpretation
 * 2) SHGetFolderPathA error on NT 4.0
 * 3) win7 taskbar in revolt

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 25


 * 1) Getting rid of the daemon & speeding up D-Bus without hacking the kernel?
 * 2) Alt + Tab doesn't work when some upstart of a program think it should have focus

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 26


 * 1) Media players controlling master volume
 * 2) What kind of hard drive is this?

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 27


 * 1) branch coverage
 * 2) What type/kind of charger is this?
 * 3) Annoying Drupal problem
 * 4) Citrix apps rental service

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 28


 * 1) Centering text and pictures
 * 2) Stopping repeated loading of content, stylesheets and javascript codes to fasten

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 29


 * 1) Switch to external monitor upon startup
 * 2) QBASIC Decompiler
 * 3) MASM615/Irvine32 Pains
 * 4) Mislabelled SPAM.
 * 5) Javascript: storing a reference to data or popups that lasts while you browse Wikipedia
 * 6) Is there any tool that only runs on Linux?
 * 7) Desktop subtractive "3d printing"

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 30


 * 1) Can't edit SVG file
 * 2) Deleting from gmail's spam folder
 * 3) Facebook redirecting to another site

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2013 May 31


 * 1) What does a Linux distribution mean?
 * 2) Aesthetics of Windows 8
 * 3) Software calculating the astrological position of planets