Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/October 2007

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 1


 * 1) "linking?" (header added by ⁪frotht)
 * 2) Comparison of CRM Software Solutions - and affiliated (fundraising/donor management)
 * 3) Internet
 * 4) Yahoo!
 * 5) Inputting Japanese kanji
 * 6) wikiscanner
 * 7) quesions?
 * 8) Problem with Russian characters (solved)
 * 9) Linux/Unix: command(s) to return the canonical path to a file
 * 10) Cross posted Microsoft and Google question
 * 11) Questions about virtual storage space
 * 12) SQL questions
 * 13) Best Java IDE
 * 14) Maya, 3Ds Max or SoftImage XSI
 * 15) Google earth elevation map
 * 16) Text To Speech Software Hunt
 * 17) Macromedia Shockwave player 10.1 in Mozilla Firefox Windows XP
 * 18) Windows Vista explorer error
 * 19) MS Word lists

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 2


 * 1) Pseudocode operator
 * 2) processor
 * 3) xp
 * 4) How much would the US government pay for this algorithm
 * 5) Antitrust laws: support for .odt
 * 6) How is schema definition referenced in an XML document?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 3


 * 1) CNET / IT's most influential?
 * 2) Finer intervals for Windows vista's parental control
 * 3) Is it Internet Explorer or is it Google...?
 * 4) Loop through XML
 * 5) Cheap printers
 * 6) Fuel pump cuts out
 * 7) Connecting my computer to my TV

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 4


 * 1) RAM thumbdrive?
 * 2) CAD thing
 * 3) Does this work for anyone?
 * 4) Resizing NTFS partitions....
 * 5) Minidisc player down
 * 6) How safe is it to put banking details on a website?
 * 7) Wich AMD?
 * 8) Internet Explorer versus Firefox
 * 9) dead pixels
 * 10) Bypassing DRM

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 5


 * 1) Stepmania
 * 2) how do you install a copy of msn/wlm on a thumb drive?
 * 3) registry
 * 4) Must have "www."
 * 5) Image upload site
 * 6) Java vs. C++
 * 7) Microsoft Publisher and Word Processing Sofware
 * 8) Device Presenter
 * 9) How do I create a scraper?
 * 10) Finding a font
 * 11) Easy alternatives to DOS window?
 * 12) SUPER
 * 13) installing xp on laptop with no cd or floppy
 * 14) HOW much does it cost?!

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 6


 * 1) Running IE
 * 2) Firefox 2 Spell check
 * 3) Richard Stallman and Wikipedia
 * 4) Image Scanner Upkeep
 * 5) Energy consumption of the Internet
 * 6) E-Mail ID
 * 7) Streaming music with wiki
 * 8) Hardisk Failure
 * 9) RAIDed external USB harddrive...
 * 10) problem of faint photos on internet viewing.
 * 11) microcontroller neuron
 * 12) Bluetooth Webcam
 * 13) python class method: does a function/method have a way to know it's own name?
 * 14) Removing lyrics from songs
 * 15) PSP Wifi
 * 16) is the psp or iphone a better media player (widescreen movies).
 * 17) Surfing web without web browsers

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 7


 * 1) On the verge of breaking...
 * 2) customising pie chart in MS Visio
 * 3) Reverting all Windows XP Display settings to default

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 8


 * 1) Python
 * 2) midi files
 * 3) EMail ID - 2nd post
 * 4) Ripping DVDs
 * 5) Solitaire
 * 6) hot swap able hard disk
 * 7) Windows Aero Problems
 * 8) Posting not showing up???
 * 9) Plasma TV break in period?
 * 10) ancestor to photocopier
 * 11) CAS programming on PC
 * 12) Who pays for Internet backbone? How much websites pay?
 * 13) Unix question: Getting file name if one exists
 * 14) rename
 * 15) Using a VPN for only SOME applications
 * 16) UK Television Graphics - Produced How?

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 9


 * 1) Nvidia GeForce 8300GS
 * 2) PS- Flattening a vector

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 10


 * 1) NTLDR and Vista
 * 2) Recovering older versions of photos?
 * 3) Intel Turbo Memory
 * 4) Nested RAID
 * 5) Faking a unix tape drive
 * 6) How to increase the time of timeouts?
 * 7) WikiMedia private pages
 * 8) Fixing the boot sector in WinXP.
 * 9) Is there a design pattern for taking a joined query result and getting it into a hierarchical data structure?
 * 10) how virgin mobile sugarmama works
 * 11) Visual Basic 6
 * 12) ls -l shows asterisks in filetype bit on Solaris 5.10

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 11


 * 1) C Code: Sorting list of pointers
 * 2) Why does Firefox take so bloody long to start downloading things?
 * 3) phd topic
 * 4) MP3 to WMA
 * 5) Bitrates when ripping from CD
 * 6) EMail ID - 3rd post
 * 7) Wireless connection: Offline even when online
 * 8) RAM question.
 * 9) Camcorder / Apple Mac
 * 10) Authentication through Flash webapps

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 12


 * 1) .hlp in windows vista
 * 2) Computing power
 * 3) installing Adobe shockwave as a nonadministrator
 * 4) Are you sure you want to change the file extension?
 * 5) Flash Memory
 * 6) Algorithm needed for depth of breath first traversal
 * 7) Suse 10.3 doesn't see IDE disks
 * 8) Automatic Call ending
 * 9) My own Website
 * 10) Matlab quits automatically on startup
 * 11) Gmail log in page
 * 12) IT (copied from Miscellaneous by User:Kushal one)
 * 13) Importance of clock speed on Intel Core 2 Duo processors
 * 14) MPEG to IPOD
 * 15) JSP tag library interfaces
 * 16) Linux even worse than Windows for an artist?!

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 13


 * 1) Rebuilding a TOR circuit on Ubuntu
 * 2) ray node traversal image
 * 3) "shopping cart" for ecommerce
 * 4) cURL Login?
 * 5) Content-Type and XHTML 1.1

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 14


 * 1) Component Video to DVI or VGA
 * 2) GNU Scientific Library question
 * 3) Soundclips not playing
 * 4) Laptop cameras
 * 5) GUI Programming reference?
 * 6) Prevent reaching BIOS
 * 7) Hard Drive question
 * 8) How much overclocking..
 * 9) is it safe????
 * 10) recovering deleted items

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 15


 * 1) OC question
 * 2) Are there wiki software that support structured records?
 * 3) K&N air filter
 * 4) multiple wireless profiles
 * 5) flash player
 * 6) Perl and XML

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 16


 * 1) SHA-512
 * 2) Routers
 * 3) information technology
 * 4) Faster Browsing
 * 5) Latest OSS Software
 * 6) CSS positioning with Safari
 * 7) Flash issue exporting to QuickTime
 * 8) 64-bit processors?
 * 9) CRW on Linux?
 * 10) Holding on to what I'm doing

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 17


 * 1) Clipboard
 * 2) windows vista sound problem
 * 3) "UNIQ", "QINU" and more in a MediaWiki section URL
 * 4) 2M Upload
 * 5) Factory Fit Modules in IT Products
 * 6) Firefox help needed
 * 7) vista
 * 8) hard disk errors
 * 9) easily embeddable interpreter language.
 * 10) Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby - which has a minimalist (< 1 MB) implementation you can embed?
 * 11) Websites Unknowingly Bookmarked
 * 12) mobile phones
 * 13) Yahoo Mail out of beta?
 * 14) Checking file size from the command line

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 18


 * 1) PowerPoint resolution
 * 2) Animated GIFs
 * 3) touchpad mouse
 * 4) population growth of india
 * 5) Software
 * 6) Firmware for K750i
 * 7) Excel — decimal alignment
 * 8) Windows XP instalation
 * 9) Portable Internet Exploder
 * 10) How to do a network update on a psp.
 * 11) List of most popular software applications
 * 12) Static noise
 * 13) Is it possible to purchase extremely outdated OSs?
 * 14) config.sys
 * 15) C Header files
 * 16) My Laptop
 * 17) Hacker
 * 18) Windows
 * 19) Wanted: a data structure
 * 20) Remapping MS Office Keyboard Shortcuts in Mac
 * 21) Biologically powered computer

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 19


 * 1) MSN spaces question
 * 2) Tagline diff
 * 3) Running Windows Vista and XP on the same machine
 * 4) Video Game Music
 * 5) Over the Air HD antenna confusion
 * 6) ActiveX Office Online Clipart
 * 7) How to make Windows XP Volume Control show recording & playback devices at the same time
 * 8) Copying a DVD
 * 9) What's the proper name for a "general warp map"?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 20


 * 1) hosts file
 * 2) How big is a "block" on a Wii?
 * 3) SSL Facebook
 * 4) Cables with ferrite cores
 * 5) Entering password into CGI proxy
 * 6) psu heating
 * 7) network
 * 8) Three questions, all on hard drives:
 * 9) Free DVD composition software
 * 10) computer search engine directories (email address removed)
 * 11) pfSense traffic shaper & Squid
 * 12) OpenOffice.org Calc question

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 21


 * 1) video bug
 * 2) Operating system breakdown?
 * 3) Perl and Python with Apache on Debian
 * 4) Possibilities
 * 5) Volume level, mute, etc....display on screen.
 * 6) Semantic book search
 * 7) Apple Mac G4 System x / TV
 * 8) Image conversion
 * 9) windows vista probs (E-Mail address removed)
 * 10) Semantic markup
 * 11) Hard disk
 * 12) airport express doesnt work
 * 13) Locked out of Word
 * 14) LCD screen failing

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 22


 * 1) iDVD question: menu music
 * 2) visual basic for applications
 * 3) Web/Tree building programs
 * 4) Page Fault in nonpaged area- stop 0x50
 * 5) Sub-dividing PDFs
 * 6) Cangjie character generator
 * 7) Backing up open files
 * 8) Blu-ray/HD DVD aspect ratios
 * 9) amr files
 * 10) Logout/Stop Script
 * 11) I want to defrag my computer the OLD FASHIONED WAY
 * 12) Antivirus Software

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 23


 * 1) Sleep Mode
 * 2) Computer Security Cost/Benefit
 * 3) Choosing a right video card!
 * 4) MediaWiki config problem
 * 5) nvidia-settings: Auto Detect button disabled
 * 6) Image Virus
 * 7) utorrent "Add Peer"
 * 8) Is my 'gamma' wrong?
 * 9) Programming for Symbian
 * 10) Windows Vista question
 * 11) Badly damaged VGA connector

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 24


 * 1) "Data Point" ?
 * 2) Picasa for Linux isn't symlink-aware
 * 3) computer line pics thingys
 * 4) Adding Ram = No Video?!
 * 5) Calendar software (open source) for team work
 * 6) How to disassemble the HTC Touch smart phone?
 * 7) Low Core Speed from T2080
 * 8) Line breaks in markup
 * 9) Baby computer OS

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 25


 * 1) MediaWiki admin.
 * 2) Moving two IDE hdds in RAID 0 to external enclosures.
 * 3) Plug and play HDD safety measures!
 * 4) Free Website Hosting and Building (not Subdomain)
 * 5) Padding files in uTorrent
 * 6) Software Project Ideas
 * 7) Help to create a table with MS Word
 * 8) Google news
 * 9) Registering a domain name & nameservers
 * 10) Internet DNS part 2
 * 11) transfering files to new pc

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 26


 * 1) Some YouTube stats
 * 2) Resetting a PC
 * 3) chatting
 * 4) Linux command line question
 * 5) Mac Mini restore CD with a macbook pro?

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 27


 * 1) Free scince mags ?
 * 2) windows media virus?
 * 3) Online chess frauds
 * 4) win xp sp2
 * 5) Removing duplicates in MS Office
 * 6) Router speed
 * 7) What kind of monitor connector is this?
 * 8) RuneScape:Internet Game
 * 9) Clearing my cache=frozen and another issue

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 28


 * 1) Partitioning and Booting
 * 2) Ripping/Converting VCDs with 2 Audio Channels
 * 3) Processor-memory clock-speed coordination
 * 4) RAM & wikipedia
 * 5) Visual Basic Express 2005
 * 6) Live CD to Live USB

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 29


 * 1) High level programming languages
 * 2) Home lan
 * 3) What is smart cursoring in MS Word?
 * 4) Customisations in Word and Firefox
 * 5) Channelize my RAM
 * 6) Vibrator Overclocking
 * 7) Scanned handwriting
 * 8) Windshield Wiper Animation
 * 9) Servers
 * 10) Recording

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 30


 * 1) Apapapapache redux
 * 2) Update AVG 7.5 free edition
 * 3) Blinking cursor in Firefox
 * 4) Computer memory
 * 5) Which files should I back up?
 * 6) US internet environment
 * 7) Internet Explorer Error
 * 8) Monobook language

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2007 October 31


 * 1) Weird IE6 vs. Firefox issue
 * 2) Booting stuff
 * 3) pfSense traffic shaping not (really) working
 * 4) Old hardware!
 * 5) Help with TLDs?
 * 6) can any one help ? with MB to
 * 7) UK Mobile Automated Texting Services on the cheap
 * 8) Example 3D art gallery?
 * 9) Low-level programming
 * 10) Photo timeline software
 * 11) Email fields
 * 12) HTTPS vs man in the middle
 * 13) Installing mac progams while on a PC
 * 14) Audacity as a dB meter