Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2009

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 1


 * 1) bad impacts of information system to an organisation
 * 2) Unknown website
 * 3) Vista Sidebar RSS Gadet Text-Rendering Anomaly
 * 4) pixel intensity??
 * 5) explorer.exe
 * 6) External hard drive blocked
 * 7) How to protect a picture?
 * 8) Google search

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 2


 * 1) blog-style website
 * 2) Xbox 360 backwards compatability
 * 3) Simple C question
 * 4) ffshrine (2)
 * 5) wavelength???
 * 6) Viceo converter
 * 7) diode snap-off
 * 8) bots
 * 9) rss
 * 10) twitter
 * 11) DOS printing
 * 12) Lossy compression
 * 13) Windows 7 64 bit and Alienware integrated webcam driver

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 3


 * 1) Windows 7 32-bit & 64-bit DVDs the same?
 * 2) Bit Torrent automatic quitting
 * 3) How to become a good (PHP)  programmer?
 * 4) Football Manager 2010
 * 5) How to protect a picture II
 * 6) How to download emails to HD from Windows Live Hotmail free account
 * 7) Do HP printers refuse to print when the HP ink cartridges are past a pre-set date?
 * 8) How do I transfer my computer's data when I get a new one?
 * 9) server adminstration under linux for beginners
 * 10) Frozen computer screens
 * 11) CD/DVD Tray not opening.
 * 12) File folder read as a file
 * 13) mod_wsgi not loading in Apache
 * 14) Logout/logoff folder or script or equiv?

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 4


 * 1) Valid hexadecimal HTML web colors invalidated by trademark
 * 2) Cheapest ethernet device?
 * 3) Menu with back arrows, etc. disappeared on AOL
 * 4) Wayback machine for TV programs
 * 5) usb is out of order
 * 6) BT Home Hub
 * 7) Netgear WGT624v3 wireless router keeps disconnecting
 * 8) Is it possible to release/cancel OpenMP barrier?
 * 9) RAM prices

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 5


 * 1) Mpeg vs .avi
 * 2) Help with javascript please? highlighting links in menus.
 * 3) iPhone v AppleMac Address Book
 * 4) How to get Wikipedia?
 * 5) Would an AM3 Quad Core AMD computer work OK with Ubuntu?
 * 6) vista ram
 * 7) Free advertising?
 * 8) Uncompressed image file formats other than .bmp files
 * 9) Linux 64 Assembler Error
 * 10) Mac/Unix: Open a file from a remote server on command line
 * 11) Help with java script (Part 2) Folding items?
 * 12) What's a good definition of a .NET assembly?
 * 13) Upgrading to 7

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 6


 * 1) what is the difference between router, hub and switch
 * 2) Missing math symbols.
 * 3) Why do we need to use DNS while connectiong to internet
 * 4) W7- Graff Digitiser and sound card
 * 5) Vista vs. 7
 * 6) What are the differences between interface and valuetype in CORBA IDL?
 * 7) Where did my CD window go?
 * 8) Is there a name for this bug?
 * 9) Shutdown Menu
 * 10) Installing Windows on another computer
 * 11) unLZ-GBA
 * 12) Video Either Too Big Or Too Little
 * 13) Need help overlaying an image
 * 14) Cell phone question
 * 15) Named nested references

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 7


 * 1) Collapsing JPGs into a video
 * 2) BSOD
 * 3) Javascript and windows handles?
 * 4) Game For ZX Spectrum
 * 5) Windows 7
 * 6) Microwave oven that blows my circuit breaker
 * 7) TCP/IP not enabled
 * 8) Game for Commodore 64?
 * 9) How to help a nincompoop?

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 8


 * 1) Show Desktop
 * 2) About Group Policy Client service...
 * 3) Algorithm request
 * 4) Windows 7 standby mode
 * 5) Booting Linux ISO Inside Virtual Box On Ubuntu
 * 6) Portable Apps & USB lifespan...
 * 7) How Linux could win in desktop OS war ?
 * 8) How to get a free webpage?
 * 9) "Mouse wiggler"
 * 10) WHAT ARE DIFFRENT TYPES OF AUDIO,VIEDO STREAMING IN JAVA
 * 11) How do I make an NPC for Garry's Mod 10?
 * 12) How do I make a custom texture in Source SDK apply like a decal?

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 9


 * 1) Visual Dictionary for OS X?
 * 2) Video problems with Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
 * 3) Netbeans or Eclipse
 * 4) Win7
 * 5) MS PowerPoint - startup macros
 * 6) Vista
 * 7) File, exported from evolution calendar
 * 8) Not the admin of a network
 * 9) Python wont work with glade
 * 10) Word (and VBA) in MS Works and MS Office
 * 11) Writing stock or pro-forma letters to a few addresses - freeware?
 * 12) Virtual LED vu meter
 * 13) executable decompiler
 * 14) Stupid Server Question
 * 15) Adding something to XP's right-click contextual menus
 * 16) Simple Java Counter
 * 17) How can I safely view a phishing scam site?
 * 18) linux's ping -M dont/want options
 * 19) Android and Linux

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 10


 * 1) Where is DOM Storage Located?
 * 2) Volatile vs Synchronize
 * 3) Deleting
 * 4) Copying a user's settings
 * 5) Madriva XP dual boot and compatibility question
 * 6) Does Microsoft have a record for every Windows computer on earth?
 * 7) Star Trek TOS, film quality, and HD re-release

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 11


 * 1) MS Excel help
 * 2) Serious error
 * 3) Resuming downloads
 * 4) Downscaling a 1280x720 video? To 854x480 or 720x480?
 * 5) Pendrive
 * 6) Simple FaceBook application
 * 7) I want to know the turnover,  the number of employees of quechup.com or idate corporation
 * 8) 'Find' feature in Mac OSX Leopard
 * 9) If you've got XP, is there much point in upgrading to Vista?
 * 10) Ubuntu v. Windows: reliability, speed, compactness, error recovery?
 * 11) Difference between property files and XML file in java
 * 12) Tuples
 * 13) Outlook email backup
 * 14) how to p[lay mission 7

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 12


 * 1) Mobile programming
 * 2) in my client-server network, i want to do that-user can use only notepad.sure that he can not use any other application.
 * 3) PHP & OOP, tutorials that actually DO something?
 * 4) Life cycle failure pattern of CPU-Fan
 * 5) is piracy of apps a problem for apple?
 * 6) Strange behaviour of Firefox
 * 7) Runescape classic cheat server
 * 8) Powerpoint slide is not opening
 * 9) Greasemonkey script

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 13


 * 1) Question about web searching
 * 2) mobile phones for businesses and multiple people
 * 3) Java Screenshot program
 * 4) Java websites
 * 5) Java with MYSQL or ORACLE
 * 6) USB device
 * 7) WP Essay about not calling wikipedia "wiki"
 * 8) Xubuntu 9.10 hosed - can't get past login screen
 * 9) What is wrong with this mIRC script please?
 * 10) Noisy monitor
 * 11) Simple ways of *measuring* the CPU frequency in ASM
 * 12) Viewing old Outlook Express files on new computer
 * 13) external hard drive enclosure failure
 * 14) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 14


 * 1) Diagnosing Inverter vs. Backlight Lamp
 * 2) Redundancy in volume knobs
 * 3) web site hosting
 * 4) Visual problem ATI card
 * 5) Updating drivers in Ubuntu - difficult?
 * 6) Any grammar checkers available for free?
 * 7) Linux Distros & Wi-Fi Compatibility
 * 8) publishing an application
 * 9) speakers with no plugs, only bare wires?!
 * 10) bittorrent client help
 * 11) A script language for doing things with blocks of text?
 * 12) Domain registry

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 15


 * 1) Dual-core optimized software player for 1080p movies
 * 2) Inner class polymorphism in Java
 * 3) information system
 * 4) php
 * 5) logos
 * 6) romaji
 * 7) Facebook a pay site?

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 16


 * 1) Quantum microprocessor
 * 2) Droid vs Blackberry Bold 9700
 * 3) Web design news sites
 * 4) Virgin Media broadband downtime

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 17


 * 1) Keep browsing private from network administrator?
 * 2) Very strange web domain
 * 3) Free small biz website design/host site?
 * 4) Redirect I/O error messages from a Linux Ctrl-Alt-Fkey console
 * 5) Online Image Editor w/Brushed Edges Effect
 * 6) Internet connection monitor
 * 7) cannot connect to wireless network
 * 8) html remote save php
 * 9) My Vista laptop has a default Administrator account with blank password?!

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 18


 * 1) Virteal microscope
 * 2) 2wire gateway/DSL modem "Excessive sessions warning"
 * 3) Locally run web applications
 * 4) iPhone on a PHS network
 * 5) Laws and precedences related to caching and proxying illegal content
 * 6) How can I emulate a screen resolution?.
 * 7) Where Are the Images Used for Icons on OS X?
 * 8) Email question regarding symbols, colors, fonts, etc.

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 19


 * 1) Utilities with an API?
 * 2) Can a "server" be used as a normal computer?
 * 3) Characters support
 * 4) Picture of the Day screensaver
 * 5) Open Excel files in "Page break preview" mode as default
 * 6) Meaning of leet?
 * 7) smoke stream
 * 8) Posting a python script in Wikipedia
 * 9) Model View Controller in ASP.NET
 * 10) Windows Media Player does not stop playing
 * 11) Vtable table
 * 12) Fakeroot

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 20


 * 1) Designing my own simple computer language
 * 2) Google cache
 * 3) Netbook performance
 * 4) Toolbar disappeared
 * 5) C download
 * 6) OCR software that supports Japanese
 * 7) Bandwidth of Video
 * 8) EULAs
 * 9) Dreamweb
 * 10) Tying special key on laptop to a script for closing programs
 * 11) With gray rectangles, the arrow keys don't work
 * 12) Keeping more digits in Excel
 * 13) Help deleting this folder
 * 14) Help Transferring Files

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 21


 * 1) Media player can play .iso images directly?
 * 2) Windows Mobile software compatibility issues
 * 3) Best way to calculate an ETA...
 * 4) -h emoticon
 * 5) Google email
 * 6) Dump password hashes on Mac
 * 7) Java Scanner
 * 8) producing DVD's that will play on television
 * 9) How to extract from .tar files on Vista 64-bit
 * 10) cracking fable

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 22


 * 1) Merge Sort Question
 * 2) Regions?
 * 3) Bash alias
 * 4) Mousepad Opens Start Menu
 * 5) Net access
 * 6) Two XP computers, one product key
 * 7) USB mouse for laptop
 * 8) Stop software from reinstalling
 * 9) Correct adaptor for old printer to new computer; totally stumped
 * 10) Windows ReadyBoost

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 23


 * 1) Regarding Sortware testing standards...
 * 2) Bot for adding category to Settlements listed in Domesday.
 * 3) String vs. Pattern for Scanner Delimiter in Java
 * 4) Perl Projects
 * 5) Replacing grub
 * 6) Strange codes in text, e.g. +ADs- or +ACoAKg-
 * 7) Detecting photoshopping/cloning in images
 * 8) Is upgrading a CPU easy?
 * 9) I was adding changes to the website for a Client and now my page has been deleted.

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 24


 * 1) Formatting Text in Java
 * 2) Getting only part of an integer with Mathematica
 * 3) mv command with three arguments
 * 4) Windows 9x
 * 5) What 'mainstream' applications use .NET?
 * 6) Symbols, colors, fonts won't copy into email
 * 7) Need another printer suitible for cartridge refilling, or renovate the old one

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 25


 * 1) Google Books results
 * 2) Why did my CD/DVD Drive Disappear from My Computer and Device Manager?
 * 3) Illegal content uploaded to website
 * 4) Best computer?
 * 5) Javascript: Resetting a Form
 * 6) My screwed up SVG file
 * 7) adobe digital editions

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 26


 * 1) How to burn .flv files to DVDs
 * 2) Computer troubles and open source questions
 * 3) Toolbar disappeared
 * 4) 60,000+ jpgs
 * 5) Excel List Problem
 * 6) Looking for the Ithkuil font available for download somewhere on the Internet
 * 7) rsync and non-regular files

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 27


 * 1) GPS-based alarm
 * 2) Difference/s with Suse, Ubuntu, etc along those lines
 * 3) Home server and net security
 * 4) What have I done to Firefox?
 * 5) Difference between Intel i7 CPUs
 * 6) Memory on the computer
 * 7) Closed Source and Open Source
 * 8) Cropping an image

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 28


 * 1) Possible to add WiFi "n" to PS3 via USB dongle?
 * 2) How to create a new website
 * 3) Cross-configure Ubuntu Server
 * 4) files and their shortcuts
 * 5) Can I play these Games with This computer?
 * 6) Google mail SMS account verification
 * 7) SMS memory premature ejaculation
 * 8) Switching from Windows (Microsoft) to Mac (Apple)

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 29


 * 1) .emacs and OS X
 * 2) Monitor
 * 3) What's the problem with DeviantArt?
 * 4) Any way to password protect an entire external hard drive?
 * 5) Other use of "Interstitial"
 * 6) How to compile GNU stuff

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2009 November 30


 * 1) How the algorithm to fade from one image to another is implemented
 * 2) Refilling an HP printer ink cartridge
 * 3) Chatzilla DCC automation
 * 4) Uniloc Patent
 * 5) Fractional bit of entropy from /dev/random
 * 6) Regarding SGML
 * 7) Where Do The Aquamacs .el Files Live?
 * 8) PHP - database to form
 * 9) C# abstract classes
 * 10) Use phone as bluetooth repeater from laptop to headphones?
 * 11) Is it good programming practice to use state variables?
 * 12) System admin blocks access to C: drive
 * 13) Google Earth
 * 14) C question
 * 15) Only using 50%
 * 16) Internet Explorer has stopped working
 * 17) Caps lock function like typewriters?
 * 18) Suspected Malware