Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2011

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 1


 * 1) Joining Firefox
 * 2) Questionable ways of improving code
 * 3) Adobe Photoshop CSS 5.1 crashes with every attempt to create GIF
 * 4) VBA for Microsoft Word help
 * 5) regex
 * 6) unable to chat - where do I type? (webchat.freenode.net)
 * 7) internet homepages

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 2


 * 1) PPT 2003 defaults
 * 2) ie6 privacy setting medium (default)
 * 3) Administrative distance
 * 4) How do I avoid spamming?
 * 5) HTML and CSS layout manager
 * 6) What does this error message mean?
 * 7) Windows time
 * 8) Web Fonts in Firefox

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 3


 * 1) Inherent Ambiguity in Context Free Grammars
 * 2) Backwards E, revisited
 * 3) Linux prints purple instead of blue
 * 4) Python book, full of pictures, not "for dummies"
 * 5) How to change screen mode in Personal Paint?
 * 6) Original image of "Lenna"?
 * 7) imagemagick

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 4


 * 1) Python 2.7 doesn't support xattr
 * 2) 1.5 TB WD MyBook won't show up on 2009 iMac
 * 3) Data remanence on an SD card
 * 4) My computer display and computer takes too much time to do somethiing.
 * 5) Emulating joystick input in Linux
 * 6) I wish to limit my upload bandwidth and am looking for a free program
 * 7) Virtual drive
 * 8) Folder renames by itself, part 2
 * 9) GUI for CentOS Server
 * 10) Android's kernel

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 5


 * 1) Firefox restoring old session
 * 2) transparent window?
 * 3) PowerPoint Compatibility
 * 4) Question about Android
 * 5) Free software for motion-compensated de-interlacing

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 6


 * 1) Variable signal quality in WLAN network
 * 2) Alphabetically sorting icons in Excel
 * 3) gmail - web browser only?
 * 4) iPod full - can't delete
 * 5) I'm reading emails from a Hotmail user.

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 7


 * 1) VLC seek bar
 * 2) 3d model evolution simulator program
 * 3) YouTube viewer statistics
 * 4) About Software development process
 * 5) Mozilla firefox
 * 6) Editable -> non-editable PDF
 * 7) Character representations in ASCII and hexadecimal
 * 8) Excel question

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 8


 * 1) Windows Media Player as default
 * 2) Linkedin invitations

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 9


 * 1) Android's pixels
 * 2) Converting a PowePint presentation for the web
 * 3) hacking
 * 4) video sharing questions
 * 5) Case sensitivity in Oracle DbCommand in C#?

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 10


 * 1) Harddisk Partition in Windows 7
 * 2) Apple Developer Account Question
 * 3) planck distribution function
 * 4) Sonic Heroes Blender 3d Answer!
 * 5) Sonic Game maker help

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 11


 * 1) MySQL
 * 2) When to change an HDD?
 * 3) Fax receiving app for Android
 * 4) LaTeX print number as a word

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 12


 * 1) Is there a chatroulette that is NOT 1-on-1?
 * 2) Camera picture card must format?
 * 3) Odd behavior in electronic device

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 13


 * 1) Tech support IRC
 * 2) SSH connection
 * 3) Inexplicable iTunes crashes
 * 4) Couple of website based questions
 * 5) Compile Ubuntu kernel for ARM, while adding modules
 * 6) Windows 8 ARM & x86

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 14


 * 1) Will tri-gate transistors be available outside Intel?
 * 2) Find on this page
 * 3) What other laptop manufacturers allow us to choose our own parts?
 * 4) Chrome requests plug-in
 * 5) E-mail account protection
 * 6) Do laptops get cheaper after Christmas?
 * 7) Two questions: 1) Splitting an avi file into smaller pieces 2) Any other software for burning to a format my dvd can play?

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 15


 * 1) Intel tablet that has EFI
 * 2) Permanent cloud storage solutions?
 * 3) What are some low-cost methods to recover data from a wiped hard drive?
 * 4) information of mac
 * 5) I need a session restorer like SessionBuddy on Chrome, but that can store my sessions in a cloud.
 * 6) Compositing Portraits
 * 7) Photo taken of backwards E
 * 8) Is there a way to (or a website that will) map possible destinations, given starting point and distance?
 * 9) gami.ng programming languages
 * 10) Uninstall Android Apps
 * 11) Dealing with video game lag
 * 12) Pie chart on users for an article

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 16


 * 1) Changing Bmp to jpg
 * 2) Browsers Usage Shares Among Web Developers
 * 3) Website's income and expenditures

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 17


 * 1) Standard deviation error bars in Microsoft Excel
 * 2) Sound not working on this machine
 * 3) Kindle
 * 4) Open-source software
 * 5) command prompt beep
 * 6) Factors affecting .svg rendering speed
 * 7) Executable over bittorrent = safe?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 18


 * 1) google redirect virus
 * 2) Microsoft Works Suite 2006
 * 3) where to buy the cheapest laptop online ?
 * 4) Remote access to an iMac over Verizon FiOS
 * 5) Window 7 ISO File Installation with Daemon Tool Lite !
 * 6) PNG geotag
 * 7) gzip wget
 * 8) Potential Security Risk
 * 9) Same password on different accounts

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 19


 * 1) Could a PC be used as a radio receiver/transmitter?
 * 2) Where can I get affordable Maytag Gas Wall Oven Parts?
 * 3) Iphone's bluetooth
 * 4) Overclocking and stability
 * 5) Windows colour editing
 * 6) Word 2007 - Two problems
 * 7) Kompozer
 * 8) ICT4D
 * 9) Why don't computers have money inserters, so we order online with physical cash?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 20


 * 1) How do I get Google's account services to keep track of my tabs & bookmarks online?
 * 2) RGB color values—linear or not?
 * 3) Ancient Egyptian game on the Amiga found
 * 4) Lego NXT and i2c/rs485 camera
 * 5) why do jvm/clr need bytecode?
 * 6) Search engine log file download
 * 7) How do I tab outlines on the Mobile Google Docs?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 21


 * 1) I think I have a trojan
 * 2) Purge everything related to the wifi connection in Ubuntu
 * 3) CompTIA certification
 * 4) Can SQL SELECT combine items from several rows?
 * 5) convert GIF to FLV

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 22


 * 1) wireless mouse
 * 2) Columns in Word 2007
 * 3) Connecting an external HDD to a computer
 * 4) Vista toolbar icon doesn't match internet connection?
 * 5) Too technical:  What readers NEED/want here
 * 6) Old equipment

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 23


 * 1) Remote desktop
 * 2) Telling Windows what part of my screen to use
 * 3) Server won't stay shutdown
 * 4) CAD help
 * 5) Java: Password storage and retrieval
 * 6) unzip a 7 G B

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 24


 * 1) Jpegs refusing to save as lower quality
 * 2) Apache OpenOffice.org website
 * 3) Problem with Word 2003
 * 4) GIMP: After entering manual parameters, then what?
 * 5) After wlan mal-function...

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 25


 * 1) User interfaces for stock trading?
 * 2) Help retrieving a deleted fanfiction
 * 3) Wget with proxies
 * 4) recording sounds
 * 5) Projected cloud-computing costs
 * 6) internet translation
 * 7) High Gain Wireless USB Adapters

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 26


 * 1) Internet Explorer 8 Freezes
 * 2) Using the search bar on Firefox
 * 3) How can a dictionary attack work?
 * 4) How does jailbreaking work?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 27


 * 1) HTML code for inuktitut short u (ᐅ)
 * 2) A story title written in code
 * 3) HTML/Javascript list sorting
 * 4) Folder Disappeared - Win7
 * 5) Theory: Skyrim's Creation Engine is the Gamebryo Engine.
 * 6) Seagate GoFlex cable for desktop eSATA
 * 7) Hashing IP addresses
 * 8) SSL verification
 * 9) matplotlib colorbar

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 28


 * 1) x86 tablet PC that uses EFI or a simple boot ROM
 * 2) How do you design a new database management for library??
 * 3) Scratch (programming language)
 * 4) Excel 2003: multiple password-protected spreadsheets feeding data to another
 * 5) Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7
 * 6) Larry Ellison: Ever a coder?

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 29


 * 1) Radio Transmittion
 * 2) The backwards E that will not go away
 * 3) LaTeX: Align matrices across lines

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 November 30


 * 1) Can't get on internet
 * 2) Exit values in Windows Command Prompt?
 * 3) business logic: when is it better in web server, when in appl server and when in db server?
 * 4) TV tuner ?