Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2008

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 1


 * 1) php - where do i start?
 * 2) How do I create-protect titles in my wiki?
 * 3) Google Phrase
 * 4) Ubuntu - slow DNS lookups
 * 5) What can I make?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 2


 * 1) JavaScript Support in OS X
 * 2) Question about image to sound converter
 * 3) Can a USB drive survive after being in the washer?
 * 4) WinXP limited account and taskscheduler
 * 5) Mail (app) cache
 * 6) Missing wireless network?
 * 7) "This" and "first" memes on online forums?
 * 8) Excel and HTML tables
 * 9) TrueCrypt and Autoplay
 * 10) World of Warcraft: Treasure yield
 * 11) Copy home folder on Ubuntu?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 3


 * 1) Checking for user fonts
 * 2) Speaker blip blip blip buzz blip blip buzz noize
 * 3) Cannot associate files
 * 4) TI-84 Plus Silver Edition Screen Problem
 * 5) Grabbing that "CNNBC" video
 * 6) font size=1
 * 7) Android Eclipse setup
 * 8) Div and span attributes

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 4


 * 1) Adobe Media Player
 * 2) Status of Apache log for downlaod of a file
 * 3) REPOST: Stopping Excel from Minimizing sheets
 * 4) 0x80004005 error when I try to register vbscript.dll
 * 5) Microsoft big through illegal copies
 * 6) download
 * 7) AOL
 * 8) a gentle start to versioning....
 * 9) reset Keyboard
 * 10) Squid cache

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 5


 * 1) Google Reader shared items
 * 2) yay a happy topic name
 * 3) Download
 * 4) Question
 * 5) Reporting
 * 6) is there any open source webzine, ezine, online magazine software?
 * 7) Program Help
 * 8) Another in need of help!
 * 9) Standalone data entry system
 * 10) Bluetooth Caller ID
 * 11) Background change when locked

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 6


 * 1) OS X Binds
 * 2) TIGCC and C programming
 * 3) Turing test judging as a Turing test
 * 4) Connection problem
 * 5) Firefox problem
 * 6) Rapidshare
 * 7) Yahoo
 * 8) Some secure pages: Use of Back-button = 'page expired'...Why?
 * 9) More Program Help
 * 10) Collaboration in MS Excel. How?
 * 11) PHP Directory Listing Woes
 * 12) proxy server
 * 13) Norton Ghost 2003

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 7


 * 1) WTH?!?!
 * 2) "Do this when there's time" in C#
 * 3) How does Google limit searches to a specific country?
 * 4) Google Calendar bug?
 * 5) Asus Eee USB fault
 * 6) turbo c++
 * 7) TI-83+ malfunctioning buttons
 * 8) Windows registry shapshot and diff utility
 * 9) Remove my personal information from google search results
 * 10) dos games on xp
 * 11) What is a corrupt list and how do I prevent it from happening again?
 * 12) WM6 and different data connections

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 8


 * 1) why does VLC sound so much more AWESOME than winamp?
 * 2) Unicode weirdness / mystery
 * 3) Opening OpenOffice.org Math on Ubuntu?
 * 4) Feasibilty of buying a Cray CX1 for home use
 * 5) how do I allow XP to physically shut down my computer, instead of just almost doing so?

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 9


 * 1) 3D Graphics Library
 * 2) Converting XVid to DVD
 * 3) PS3 Maintenance Update
 * 4) Deleting previous Windows installation directory
 * 5) Wireless woes on Intel Macbook
 * 6) Spending $50,000 on a Computer
 * 7) Incredibly aggressive virus telling me I need to protect against viruses
 * 8) Linux problem and Hotmail problem
 * 9) XWIS online (Red Alert 2)
 * 10) higher-end graphics cards and PCI-Express versions
 * 11) rapidshare contradictions

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 10


 * 1) windows xp services
 * 2) PNG vs TIFF
 * 3) Youtube
 * 4) Information on CNC
 * 5) Using old printers on windows XP
 * 6) Switching between soundcards
 * 7) I can't sign in to MSN or get to msn.com
 * 8) Search for someone's MSN skydrive
 * 9) What company rates website builders
 * 10) Automated diagramming for Netware partitions/replicas
 * 11) windows games
 * 12) Need Excel fundtion help
 * 13) Numbering in NeoOffice
 * 14) Using someone else's unsecured wifi
 * 15) Paypal = credit card?
 * 16) Subset symbol doesn't render on Wikipedia

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 11


 * 1) Hacking into my hotmail account
 * 2) SQL Help
 * 3) Omitting multicharacter postfix in a regular expression
 * 4) Win XP: Sorting documents by page count
 * 5) audio electronics
 * 6) robots
 * 7) AVG deleted user32.dll!
 * 8) css bug fixes for ie6 and 7
 * 9) Torrent help needed
 * 10) Troublesome issue with a shell script
 * 11) Joomla, LAN, and WAN
 * 12) Checking E-mail with Public WiFi

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 12


 * 1) Reducing restrictive NAT on wireless router
 * 2) Dell Inspiron 1501 Powerpack issues
 * 3) IE6 "Active content" warnings, javascript permissions, blah
 * 4) Sharing the Program Counter
 * 5) Copy Protection
 * 6) Merging accounts on AOL
 * 7) Flash not cached
 * 8) Columns in HTML tables
 * 9) linking iphone to a different itunes account
 * 10) I would like to delete my Wikipedia URL

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 13


 * 1) Vista copy file missing "Do this for the next n conflicts"
 * 2) cross-vnc
 * 3) spontaneous connection combustion?
 * 4) Mac OS X: How Can I Stop Devices From waking sleep mode?
 * 5) iMovie 08 Fast and Slow Motion
 * 6) Turn off automatic loading
 * 7) help with seamonkey composer
 * 8) fastest, lowest-footprint version of Opera browser (no javascript)
 * 9) Recursive Functions in Matlab
 * 10) Pausing Youtube Buffering

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 14


 * 1) Batch File: File Tree
 * 2) Disabling Live Call Hyperlink
 * 3) bit storage
 * 4) How to sort all the processes running on my computer
 * 5) Open office.org question
 * 6) Siebel
 * 7) SIMple questions ?
 * 8) CSS standards
 * 9) Non-internet browser way to view locally hosted html files
 * 10) How do I get a list of files on WinXP using DIR command
 * 11) Time complexity of SortedList.Concat
 * 12) Pesky School Filter
 * 13) Downloading from YouTube

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 15


 * 1) are there any totally-lightweight "spreadsheets"?
 * 2) Poster of a flickr image
 * 3) PSP Inviso-files
 * 4) The Feeble Beep of Doom
 * 5) organising favorites across various comptuers with different OSes and browsers
 * 6) Can't reformat a drive
 * 7) Broadband connection problems
 * 8) TI 89 assembly language
 * 9) Free online music hosting

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 16


 * 1) Can WinXP access WPA2 WiFi networks?
 * 2) Virtual 3D Accelerator for Linux
 * 3) No Sound in Linux
 * 4) Programme to find chords?
 * 5) Send and receive Text Messages (SMS) from a computer
 * 6) ImageMagick coordinates after crop
 * 7) Any freeware to rotate a jpeg image n degrees?
 * 8) Building Electronics
 * 9) Free HTML template/gallery software
 * 10) "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area"

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 17


 * 1) Please help with viewing problem
 * 2) Problem Connecting to Internet
 * 3) Asymmetric Cryptosystem
 * 4) Font Editor
 * 5) Dell Inspirion 1300
 * 6) Portable Apps on Linux?
 * 7) batch things
 * 8) iMovie '08: Editing Slow Motion & Fast Motion
 * 9) Scaling PHP and MySQL
 * 10) Laptop Brands
 * 11) Personal abuse on YouTube
 * 12) download website using webripper
 * 13) Can I merge .debs?
 * 14) PC Upgrade
 * 15) Setting up LaTex
 * 16) Does anyone else use Google as a spell checker?
 * 17) Spyware redirecting my browser
 * 18) Hmm...I need a Laptop
 * 19) AES
 * 20) Wikipedia Usernames

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 18


 * 1) Firefox not viewing images
 * 2) How do I install VLC
 * 3) 'Build your own PC' - Help please
 * 4) laptop slowdown
 * 5) Blog with access control
 * 6) Limewire
 * 7) decidability
 * 8) How might I prevent websites from...

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 19


 * 1) 3 quesshuns in one
 * 2) Weird Internet problems
 * 3) Java Script Problem
 * 4) information about some Computing history
 * 5) HOW TO JOIN TWO EXE FILES!
 * 6) OPEN GL question.
 * 7) ReadyBoost good idea?
 * 8) HDR program
 * 9) Basic Linux Regex
 * 10) screencasting from your computer workstation directly to youtube
 * 11) Dreamweb
 * 12) Apple Keyboard malfunctioning as mouse
 * 13) The Brookings Institution on Twitter

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 20


 * 1) ANT build process.
 * 2) Amazingly Realistic Graphics
 * 3) Strict NAT on DSL modem?
 * 4) HP Compaq Presario
 * 5) Problem in starting Microsoft Age of Mythology Gold Edition.
 * 6) underline in spanish
 * 7) History of MATLAB's "why" function
 * 8) html/css future.
 * 9) Spyware won't let me access YouTube, Wikipedia, and Google Images

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 21


 * 1) System->Administration->Network does not appear in Ubuntu 8.10
 * 2) Free Antivirus
 * 3) CSS for the blind
 * 4) Printing a file into a bitmap or something
 * 5) Makes me want to set the fox on fire myself...
 * 6) BeautifulSoup
 * 7) Localhost offline in firefox
 * 8) Password Problems Windows XP Pro
 * 9) Set top box
 * 10) sudden shut-down of HP Pavillion laptop

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 22


 * 1) Zigbee or CAN
 * 2) One program, one/two file formats
 * 3) Converting standalone program into web-application
 * 4) Wiring an RCA-to-VGA adapter
 * 5) HP PSC 1350xi All-in-One

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 23


 * 1) php large num calculation woes
 * 2) NX/XD/DEP
 * 3) Comparative tests of 256Kb AAC vs. MP3 vs CD?
 * 4) on screen keyboard
 * 5) Different 'Drives'
 * 6) Sony Vegas text editing
 * 7) Running python scripts with Plain Old Webserver
 * 8) Three questions in one
 * 9) Curly brackets in Java

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 24


 * 1) bad sectors on hard disk
 * 2) Film scanner problems
 * 3) change in how wikipedia displays in my browser
 * 4) Interrupts in the human brain
 * 5) What is command use &mmo in foxpro?
 * 6) How to enabled ENUM in existing DNS.
 * 7) NAS+USB drive
 * 8) How would you secure OSPF on windows server 2003
 * 9) Weird TV colors

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 25


 * 1) Spybot is blocking me from connecting to my wireless router
 * 2) Laptop Overheating
 * 3) Google results being redirected
 * 4) Windows 9x on logical partitions?
 * 5) Irritating animated ad that won't go away
 * 6) Web-hosting with Perl and PHP, program in C++
 * 7) PDF built-in font set
 * 8) Networking for Dummies?
 * 9) Blackberry Storm/YouTube
 * 10) X11 in minimal Debian installation
 * 11) Powering down HDDs
 * 12) Microsoft Word

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 26


 * 1) Combining multiple files into a single executable
 * 2) Yahoo
 * 3) footnotes in Word: page breaks
 * 4) google maps
 * 5) Image size
 * 6) Buying advice for macbook hard disk drive
 * 7) Hamming distance
 * 8) gmail doesn't work with google chrome??
 * 9) Video Cards
 * 10) Soft reboot

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 27


 * 1) RCA DRC628 dvd player
 * 2) big number calculator software
 * 3) Reinstalling Ubuntu and extras in a new computer
 * 4) would the mac mini support some weight?
 * 5) Television and xbox 360 region encoding
 * 6) Algorithm

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 28


 * 1) SQL query from win32 command line
 * 2) AND, OR Gates
 * 3) Interactive Website
 * 4) TV Question
 * 5) Website Development
 * 6) Is Yahoo down?
 * 7) grep a file with lines from another file
 * 8) Scanning in UK
 * 9) Default font list for Ubuntu / Kubuntu Linux (+OpenOffice)
 * 10) Speeding up and slowing down audio

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 29


 * 1) OS X mail application
 * 2) Questions about /etc/init.d/network
 * 3) Auto complete data
 * 4) Relative vs. Absolute referencing
 * 5) Setiing up a lan with two Suse machines
 * 6) Cellphones in the United States
 * 7) Back button not there first time I open a page, is there after
 * 8) What is the easiest way to save Hotmail emails to hard disk?
 * 9) Help with .emp file format.

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2008 November 30


 * 1) Now whenever I want Google I get iGoogle - annoyed!
 * 2) trouble with slowdowns
 * 3) mysql query question, merging SELECT results
 * 4) Firegestures
 * 5) Program for determining primes
 * 6) Remote thread injection, weird failures
 * 7) Untitled
 * 8) binary packages on Linux: what am I missing?
 * 9) Coding in VB6 for Windows CE 2
 * 10) Coding Today screen applets in VB.NET
 * 11) router rebooting
 * 12) Java Exception Handling - logic error?
 * 13) Compaq ports