Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2006

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 1


 * 1) VPN & Security
 * 2) How to fix a microwaved iPod Mini.
 * 3) Slow Processor
 * 4) Software
 * 5) websites
 * 6) Future emulators of today's systems
 * 7) Outlook emails on 2 PCs
 * 8) creating a disambig category
 * 9) Creating a Zip Job
 * 10) Is it possible to link (using the hyperlink feature) a page in a word document with another page in the same document?
 * 11) Shared Folders Permissions
 * 12) Digital Signatures

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 2


 * 1) Getting a ST506/412 drive and controller card recognized in a newer machine.
 * 2) iTunes 7.0.2.16
 * 3) XPCOM
 * 4) Google already a monopoly
 * 5) Credit bureau software
 * 6) Accessing an unsecured wireless network (UK)
 * 7) firefox2 remembering passwords
 * 8) Computer Security
 * 9) Where can I buy very, very old PCs in Australia?
 * 10) Screenshot

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 3


 * 1) Windows 95/98 internet options
 * 2) CD-RW Versus CD+RW
 * 3) frost wire not working
 * 4) SB drive mounting problems in Fedora Core 5
 * 5) NTFS & Linux
 * 6) Pasting emails into Word - hard returns appear
 * 7) PDF Files
 * 8) User Account Drama
 * 9) Can I edit a cookie?
 * 10) Sound smearing and size hop of a vocoder
 * 11) Mail Merge
 * 12) Java: Server socket handoff between two processes
 * 13) Laptop Screen

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 4


 * 1) SVG host
 * 2) macintosh serial
 * 3) Earth 2025 terminology
 * 4) Reoccuring BSOD Message
 * 5) How to search for a specific string in a file and return the result as an expanding variable in a batch file
 * 6) Wikipedia default skin when not logged in has completely changed?
 * 7) Agonising router issues.

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 5


 * 1) Display Pictures
 * 2) How do I get my browser to display unicode and foreign language characters?
 * 3) Bittorrent Video Watching!
 * 4) Implants and Artificial Intelligence
 * 5) TI-89 auto-Data
 * 6) Windows video capture API function
 * 7) Vfat Volume Label (Linux)
 * 8) Transfering PDF bookmarks
 * 9) What is the minimum screen size of a laptop you would accept
 * 10) Two timezone display in a PC
 * 11) Web pages
 * 12) ikia
 * 13) DVI Compatibility
 * 14) Resuming Downloads

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 6


 * 1) Lost Router Password
 * 2) musicians death
 * 3) sleep versus shut down
 * 4) TI-BASIC Game
 * 5) Flaky Wireless Network/Internet Connection
 * 6) Bizarre behaviour of my keyboard
 * 7) procrastinating and catch-up mouse pointer
 * 8) PowerPoint Templates
 * 9) Converting Movie Files to GIFs
 * 10) WMP Playlists Doubled
 * 11) what is the time limit for 200mb download

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 7


 * 1) Video Processors
 * 2) Rogers throttling BitTorrent
 * 3) Extract strings from a set of text files ANSWERED
 * 4) web site
 * 5) Installing Downloads
 * 6) C++
 * 7) Some Websites Not Loading
 * 8) Old Macintosh software/games
 * 9) Blaster virus on Wikipedia-- how long?
 * 10) Site Meter
 * 11) mastercard
 * 12) Non Writable DVD+RWs
 * 13) omewhat urgent question about streaming live video
 * 14) internet speed is 256kbps,what time it will take to download 200mb ?
 * 15) Technology behind email hacking

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 8


 * 1) C++, Visual C++, Borland C++
 * 2) Adaptor
 * 3) Data as Files
 * 4) s>What 'file type' are MP3s? ANSWERED
 * 5) Breaking that goddamn itunes lock
 * 6) slowing down a gif file
 * 7) The very basics of Programming.
 * 8) Playing Videos
 * 9) indows drive letters - starting from C?
 * 10) Binary operations in c++
 * 11) comp wannabe
 * 12) Laptop advise
 * 13) Windows XP SP 2 problem
 * 14) Outlook's too slow
 * 15) extending a wireless network
 * 16) Hardwired
 * 17) MP4 -> DVD freeware/trial with no watermark or limit

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 9


 * 1) ser-Friendly guide
 * 2) Reverse karaoke effect
 * 3) Finding the syntax and code generation algorithms for programming languages
 * 4) Technology/IT
 * 5) Video cameras
 * 6) Converting cassettes into digital format
 * 7) Open Office Jumping Back to the Top
 * 8) Video Conversions
 * 9) Bluetooth Stacks and MAC addresses (especially dodgy ones)
 * 10) I am looking for technical advice on connecting an old Printer to a new PC. No, really, I'm not; read the bottom paragraph - I'm thanking people for helping me earlier. READ the bottom paragraph!!

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 10


 * 1) Wikipedia's servers
 * 2) Wired Computer Interfering With Wireless Connection
 * 3) SSIDs
 * 4) powerpoint 2003 animations
 * 5) Why I Can't Access A Website That Other People Can?
 * 6) Help
 * 7) how do you update a video driver?

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 11


 * 1) __divmod__ in Python language
 * 2) Which applications are necessary or recommended for maintaining a Windows XP system?
 * 3) iTunes video on Windows Media Center
 * 4) EVM
 * 5) Title of WIKI
 * 6) Transferring video to my laptop
 * 7) DVD formats
 * 8) Yahoo messenger 8.1
 * 9) are gmail conversations still secure?
 * 10) Blog post about old games now stickied with demos and intros and cracks.
 * 11) Video Card Compatibility
 * 12) What happened to all the game sites?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 12


 * 1) Ubuntu Questions
 * 2) Immediate Access Memory
 * 3) how to publish a website
 * 4) rogramming
 * 5) Can data deleted from a mobile phone be undeleted?
 * 6) Formula in Excel
 * 7) python bluetooth code not running in Fedora Core  5
 * 8) Home network / Internet security

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 13


 * 1) Tessellation Software
 * 2) Online Account Validation
 * 3) DVD
 * 4) Retaining personal Firefox settings
 * 5) Correct way of floating text to the top of a &lt;td&gt; element.
 * 6) google calculator

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 14


 * 1) Incompatible software?
 * 2) Waiting for Computers
 * 3) Shared hosting and torrents
 * 4) ebcam software with one broadcaster, many viewers
 * 5) demo files
 * 6) Superimposition
 * 7) Image data from abandonware game
 * 8) Solution of Travelling Salesman Problem using Hopfield nets
 * 9) Easy DVD ripper/encoder
 * 10) Run full-screen apps in a window
 * 11) Positioning a Choice box in Java

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 15


 * 1) firefox 2 change
 * 2) Firefox 2.0 buggy tabs
 * 3) Internet/Mobile advertising
 * 4) Management Information System
 * 5) cd rom
 * 6) Laptop docking station detection/profiles
 * 7) file.part1.zip
 * 8) macs question
 * 9) computer memory related problem
 * 10) request for an article
 * 11) the hierarchy of WIKIPEDIA
 * 12) Keyboard malfunction

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 16


 * 1) Installing MSN/WLM on a thumb drive?
 * 2) Was the thumb drive invented in Singapore?
 * 3) R licence question
 * 4) Confusion:
 * 5) Laptop keypad/keyboard
 * 6) can different windows xp users have software available only to them?
 * 7) one way satellite
 * 8) IRC drops out
 * 9) Cannot Copy X - The file parameter is incorrect.
 * 10) What is the closest Linux_distribution with windows xp ??
 * 11) program display changes
 * 12) imple question about "bash"

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 17


 * 1) Objective-C / Cocoa problem: object always nil
 * 2) Wikipedia demographics
 * 3) My syntax error in python-cgi-call
 * 4) Conversion from Double Byte to Single Byte
 * 5) Make and model
 * 6) Internet security
 * 7) Word isn't saving Autorecovery files
 * 8) 64-bit vs 32-bit CPUs -- inherently faster?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 18


 * 1) "Well known"
 * 2) Total number of web pages
 * 3) Simple free calendar software
 * 4) how much does it cost to create an ad network
 * 5) lock size of a Linux block device

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 19


 * 1) DVD to CD
 * 2) Inserting images into tables with Open Office.
 * 3) Could someone make a very simplistic app for me?
 * 4) What might cause my new PC to refuse to Boot when I switch it on?
 * 5) ii broadway IBM proc
 * 6) utomatic Calling of JavaScript Functions
 * 7) RealPlayer file from website not playing
 * 8) atabase in Latin
 * 9) Trouble opening zipped files

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 20


 * 1) Beginner C ++ question
 * 2) How do people read using these large and wide screens?
 * 3) computer psu which trips main fusebox
 * 4) Midsleading Google Results
 * 5) Click tracker
 * 6) Photoshop, games...
 * 7) RTFM
 * 8) Google searches
 * 9) Hard hyphen in LaTeX
 * 10) Fun with Google
 * 11) Which mobile would you prefer out of these?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 21


 * 1) Random Japanese Characters Appearing
 * 2) Wait for an Apple?
 * 3) Are keyloggers illegal?
 * 4) Windows Explorer weirdness
 * 5) bios boot up problem

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 24


 * 1)  Bypassing Australian Blocking Programs
 * 2) DVD Drive
 * 3) why do google and valueclick send only cheque and not thru paypal
 * 4) IDE SATA
 * 5) Web-based IRC client?
 * 6) 16-way system
 * 7) pci express 16
 * 8) Optical disc authoring 2
 * 9) Bill Gates in the years 1975-80
 * 10) unning multiple operating systems
 * 11) Dc620

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 22


 * 1) Bypassing blocked website
 * 2) Java: Finding invalid dates given a monthly pattern
 * 3) JCreator
 * 4) Stuck Memory Card
 * 5) Optical disc authoring
 * 6) Computer problem
 * 7) windows movie maker xml codes
 * 8) Identifying requirements from the product
 * 9) inatalling dos and win 98
 * 10) usb 45 and usb 67
 * 11) YouTube
 * 12) Slowing Computer
 * 13) windows movie maker xml codes
 * 14) uploading picture from flickr.com; need technical + copyright expertise
 * 15) XSL to replace element content with other content.

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 23


 * 1) Region free Nintendo 64
 * Re: The default order of Firefox's marvellous live bookmarks
 * 1) Text ads in email-Any agency?
 * 2) Difference between hosting in own country/another country
 * 3) SP game recommendation
 * 4) Trackback etiquette
 * 5) Blu-Ray or HD-DVD compatibility with standard DVD?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 25


 * 1) Mp3 player
 * 2) MyTunes Redux: Library not Registered?
 * 3) area code
 * 4) windows movie maker (version 5.1)
 * 5) GOOGLE EARTH :)
 * 6) My case fan is dead..
 * 7) Internet Business
 * 8) Dvorak translation
 * 9) Flippant Request for a pointer towards a Windows XP Desktop Theme Repository
 * 10) One-way BitTorrent?
 * 11) Linux: OpenSSL command to add/remove passwords from private keys

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 27


 * 1) a question about Dedicated servers
 * 2) Firefox tabs and the mouse wheel
 * 3) Developing Wikipedia Bot on Mac OS X
 * 4) Low level Network Programming
 * 5) Licensing primitive and evolving idea
 * 6) Certification For Assembly Language and Computer Graphics Design.
 * 7) Installing Mac OS X
 * 8) 3D Graphics/video card
 * 9) Wii Demos

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 28


 * 1) Free software licenses
 * 2) FTP program
 * 3) Problem with my mouse
 * 4) Javascript help
 * 5) Direct memory access
 * 6) XP error reports
 * 7) Way to boost graphics and resolution?
 * 8) SAM policy change

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 29


 * 1) SMART error message
 * 2) Custom MSN color
 * 3) Pods and mp3s
 * 4) ptimizing system performance
 * 5) Blocker or cleaner etc
 * 6) Linux Swap
 * 7) Publishing a Web Page
 * 8) IE7 and tabs?

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2006 November 30


 * 1) Web analytics mystery: why is my website's #1 page /nojavascript?
 * 2) Document on ISO/IEC 6592:2000 Guideline
 * 3) ermanium
 * 4) howto allocate the power of cpu and memory of ram to do job
 * 5) Mounting shared network drive on Linux
 * 6) How can I parse this JSON?
 * 7) Software for mailing newsletters?
 * 8) apple macbook - please help.
 * 9) Dirt on a mousepad
 * 10) does anybody know a good distrobution of linux for ethical (and non-ethical) hacking?
 * 11) QL query
 * 12) Wii Q#2
 * 13) en Kutaragi trivia
 * 14) Bittorrent. Halp!