Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/November 2014

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 1


 * 1) Python3's: adding 1 + 1 wrong

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 2


 * 1) Smartphone alarms (most major vendors) and Daylight Saving Time
 * 2) How can you separate logic and data in Excel?
 * 3) KompoZer problem
 * 4) History of the impossibility of computing
 * 5) whatspad and whatsapp 2.11.12
 * 6) Google Earth: bidirectional network links?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 3


 * 1) re-create your Youtube account
 * 2) Linux software raid 5, 6 (with mdadm), stripe cache management and access to "updated" data
 * 3) Bookmarking someones profile page on facebook
 * 4) Basic things that every computer scientist should know

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 4


 * 1) Configuring capabilities on Ubuntu
 * 2) How and why did android and iphone defeat blackberry, symbian, windows mobile, and palm os?
 * 3) SAN Storage
 * 4) OS-X Yosemite and background windows
 * 5) Unicode for Microsoft Word

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 5


 * 1) Automatic loading of videos and other crap in Firefox
 * 2) Google Apps for Cyanogenmod

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 6


 * 1) Egerin Kurdish Keyboard
 * 2) Obscure Windows filesystem feature
 * 3) Kindle region restriction

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 7


 * 1) The IANA, port 456, macon-tcp, and macon-udp
 * 2) Plotting with matplotlib, problem with legend, how to use proxy artist
 * 3) ProBoards page numbers (the sequel)
 * 4) Operations on a range in Excel

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 8


 * 1) Contacting Information required
 * 2) Deleting Issue
 * 3) Help in seeking volunteer rewriter(s) requested
 * 4) Keyboard driver

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 10


 * 1) Flikr too big
 * 2) Bouvet email addresses?
 * 3) Are matplotlib, gnuplot, and latex connected at a lower level?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 12


 * 1) I just want to get this .avi to burn to a DVD
 * 2) Example of how to define a URI for an XHTML/XML Document
 * 3) SQL
 * 4) Audio cassette -> PC

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 13


 * 1) USB flash drive
 * 2) rarreg.key
 * 3) System's Graphics Card mitigation
 * 4) Computer games these days
 * 5) Why did my computer quit working?
 * 6) Links in LibreOffice Writer document

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 14


 * 1) Deleting Issue (pending)

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 15


 * 1) Blocking web mail traffic to a specific version of Outlook?
 * 2) Frequent Computer Sleep
 * 3) Removing & Inserting
 * 4) Speech recognition
 * 5) Flac to wav

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 16


 * 1) a = help(list.append) and help(list.append)

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 17


 * 1) Looking for an automatic exposure blending tool
 * 2) Google Chrome's sound tracker for noisy tabs

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 18


 * 1) Changing MediaWiki's version control mechanism.
 * 2) Trying to understand Python syntax

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 19


 * 1) WiFi hot spots
 * 2) Why isnt my Java repaint call actually changing the look of my window?

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 20


 * 1) Dates of 'Friend requests' in Facebook
 * 2) Looking for an IEEE paper
 * 3) In Python, where does the return output go, if you don't care about it?
 * 4) VCARD file syntax for obsolete and emergency contacts "not to be normally used"

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 21


 * 1) VPN Protocol
 * 2) List of numbers sorted by bit count
 * 3) URL and browser weirdness

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 22


 * 1) How to set Firefox's default zoom level
 * 2) Kindle vs. Kindle App
 * 3) Arm chips
 * 4) MediaWiki getting the user's name in a template.
 * 5) Printer is connected to the network but (I think) does not receive print requests
 * 6) Colors turn red after reboot  and MS Visual C++

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 23


 * 1) What games would a laptop with these specs run ?
 * 2) Question about Facebook spamming
 * 3) Regin spyware article?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 24


 * 1) Determine subtree height in a binary tree is O(n) or O(1)?
 * 2) finding files in Win 8.1
 * 3) What is the oldest activie linux distro when you count also forks?
 * 4) Website to block an ISP
 * 5) What can a .SCR file do?
 * 6) Is there a tool to translate messy HTML into a structured format?

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 25


 * 1) Running Windows via External Hard Drive

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 26


 * 1) AMD radeon to Catalyst
 * 2) How can I access  the Google Analytics for my web page?
 * 3) Looking for a good fairly recent reference for CASE: history and current status
 * 4) Recovering Windows XP file properties
 * 5) Moving a program from C: to E: drive?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 27


 * 1) L1 cache size question
 * 2) Computer Crashed and probably ruined. Seemingly due to driver install, believing I upgraded from AMD radeon to AMD Catalyst. It all went wrong.
 * 3) Random logout in mobile Gmail
 * 4) It won´t sign out
 * 5) Computer Studies
 * 6) ajax form dubmit
 * 7) How to stop Adobe Flash videos

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 28


 * 1) Two broadband connections for greater bandwidth?
 * 2) which cryptographic operations are "commital"
 * 3) returning computer to factory state
 * 4) Why my computer quit working

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 29


 * 1) giving people permission to see my Google photos
 * 2) Screenshot capture tool that supports Direct X
 * 3) Starting Execution of Java Program
 * 4) Is there a musical program that do this kind of thing?
 * 5) Exchanging Wallpaper
 * 6) Unconventional boot routines on x86 platforms
 * 7) Could they go after terrorists, pedophiles and the like by crunching big data?

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2014 November 30


 * 1) XFS Log Journal Write Ratio
 * 2) How to process data coming from sensors using C/C++